The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-06

Goode gees and grys; gowe dyne gowe!"
 These are presumably the earliest recorded instances of the spellings that
 still survive in the surname. The quotation from Langland is of | additional interest as 1t shows tho wider meaning of cook at that time. The "cookes" not only prepared the | food, but kept shops or restaurants Tn which 1t was sold and eaten. In ad- | dition to the ''hote pies" for which | the English cooks have ever been | noted. the menu here includes geese
 and roasted young pige (grys). enough for a tempting appeal to an empty | stomach and enough to indicate the
 higher class restaurant of the time. Several tenants mentioned in the Domesday are called Coo or Cocus. and | one Is termed "Quidam Coquus 10 | Regis" The Hundred Rolls 127O show Coke and Cocus as the surnomi- l nal forms. There was also a special | feminine, for Emma Coca was record l ed in Cambridgeshire. Coke was the Yorkshire form a century later. This | orthography has persisted in that | ramtiy that gave Engsand a great | lawyer, e great agriculturist and great Earl of Leicester. Tt was the
 name of the great Methodist mission ary bishop and it has attained some distinction in our own Southland. Cook and Cooke are rare in tho far | North and in the Southwest of Eng land and most frequent in the south | central inland counties and on the
 eastern coast from Lincoln to Kent. The counties showing the largest proportions are Northampton, Suffolk, | Worcester, Bedford. Gloucester, Oxford
 and Norfolk. It is said that there is | a pronounced tendency for the Cooks | to become Cookies as they rise in the social scale. There are, however, bril-
 liant exceptions.
 The Latin coquus represents an earlier quequos, which Is cognate with the Creek arto-kopos "break-baker, pes
 so, "to cook.' Cornish peber, maker, Cymric popuryes. 'bakesterS Breton
 pober, "baker," old slavonic peka.
 Lithuanian kepu. Albanian pick, "to
 bake" Avestan pac and sansixrit pacati, | "coolI, bake, roast"
 Jasper, Gaspar, Casper Tradition began early to cluster about the lives and personality of the | three holy kings" the wise men that
 beheld Ills star in the East and had
 come to worship the infant King Of
 kings.
 A painting of the eleventh century as well as the Mersburg breviary of the same date, gives their traditional names as Meichior, Gaspar, and Bal thasar All three of these names came Into the nomenclature of Europe, but the first and third have had much more limited range than the second. The second name is the only ono of inc three that came to England In its
 English garb it is Jasper; in its French robe 1t is Gaspard and Gaspar; in It's German togs it Is Kaspar and Caspar.
 England and America have all of these
 as the French and Teutonic forms came
 in by immigration.
 Jasper once had considerable vogue as d Christian name in England The
 surname was never common and Is
 now rare except in Cornwall In Ger
 many Kaspar became great favorite and in time suffered the usual penalty
 of pou,iiarity It became synonymous
 with Jack Pudding or Hans Wurst" and also a conventional name for ser"
 want, "Der schwarze Kaspar" IS synonym of "der Teufel" and kasperle
 is the rouglsh. stupid clout In the pup pet show
 The personal name Is the parent of
 number of surnamea, Among these are
 Jasper, Jasperson, Caspar Caspare'
 caspari. Casper, Cacperina, Casperson. Gaspar, Gaspard, Gaspari, Casper, Kas+
 par, Kasper. etc.
 The name Gaspar was long an un-
 
 Old ToaYisian Vindafarna of the "Behis-
 tun Rock" inscriptions and the tradi- tionaI Csaspar there seems to pc vawninE chasm that might we'll give
 uause to any daring phlloloSical vault er. The chasm has. however, been
 bridged. na on.
 vindafarna. a Persian. was compan- ion of Darius in the overthrow or the Ms sian Csaumata, and another, Mede. was general of Darius. In the su- sisr trarslation the name Is Ftnda- narna. The first mentioned above IS Identified with the Intaphernes oi Herodotus.
 The third ef the name. SO far as known, was a Bactrian-1ndian king or Parthian origin, who is known espe-
 cially through his coins whien a,..s,.t aSse been found mainly in the district around Peschawar. These were coined about 30 A. D. On the obverse the Greek legends have the name. In the genitive case. Hyndopherrou. Condo
 nharou. Gondapharou and Gondopher- rou. On the reverse the Indian leg ends read Gudapharasa and Golophar- | asa.
 ir inc "Periodoi' of the Apostle Thomas. This word tells how the king merchants came to Jerusalem in
 quest of builders and carpenters 10 build a palace for Gundapahoros; now Thomas was sold as Q slave by Christ | Himself to Abbanes, the merchant, that he might spread the Gospel among the heather and how Thomas came to the court of this king and converted him and his brother Cad to Christianity.
 The Syrian Photographer Bar Bahlul
 mentions this king once as ,Gudophor- hum. once as Gudophor. Other vari- | ants that are preserved are Gunda-
 ferus, Goundaphoros and Gudanfar.
 In the "Excerpta Barbari' (schoens's
 EtAebius, Appendix p. 22s). which is
 our oldest source for the traditional names of the three Holy Kings. Gas | par is found as Gathaspar which Is | identified with Godaphar and so com
 pletes the bridge between the ancient | and the modern name, Jasper, Gaspar, | Gathaspar, Godaphar. Gudaphara, Gun
 daphart, Vindaparna and Vindafarns.
 Each step is easy. but to the uninitia- | ted the change from the initial "V" to "G" will seem the "crux" of the se- ries The original initial "V'' as seen
 in Sanskrit. Old Persian and Avestan
 regularly changes to "G" in the allied | Armenian and frequently so changes
 in later Persian dialects. especially
 before "I" or "u"; e.g.. Sanskrit, old 1 Persian and Avestan VI is in Pehlevi ve or gu, in New Persian gu; Avestan | vehrka is Pehlevi and New Persian gurR; Avestan and Old Persian Vish- l taspa Is New Persian Gushtasp, etc, etc.
 BarthoIomai is undoubtedly right iu l -J-.A A.