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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

Names by Request: Barclay, Berks- ley Gibbs. Gibson. Owens. withsrs and
 Variants. etc: Berklsy. Bevan. Biv- ems. Bowen, Evan. Evans. Evanoe, Nvanson, Ewan. Even. Ewing. Glbert, Jevan, Jevons, MacCune. MacEwen, MacKeoghan, Owen. Owing, Wtther' Whitening. Witherwins. wyther. Tevan and Yewan.
 Owens, Evana, Jsvoas.
 The surname Owens is formed by ad- ding the English genitival sufix "s" to the Welsh personal name Owen, hence it is 6 patronymic meaning the 'Son of Owen" Owen. too. is used as sur- name and then has the same mean ing.
 Owens ls one of the most common surnamep in the principality but is more than thrice as frequent in North wales as in South Wales. It Is found in consfdarabIe numbers also in the border counties of Enaland. Shropshire. Herefordshirs and Cheshire. Smaller groups are found in Worcestershire. warwickshire. Lancashire and Stafford shire Tn these English shtres Owen claims the numerical precedence In Wales. Owens predoxnanates and this form seems to lead In America.
 The personal name has venerable antiquity. It finds its origin in the Cell tic Fog lanan. Gaelic Eoghann, old Irish Eogan. EoRMnan Mac Oengusa ia the form given Tn the Annals of Uls. ter" for the name of Pictish king, who reigned SSe to s3s, when he fell in battle with the Danes. In the "ChroD- ieIss of the Piets" he is Uuen hlius Un. uist. EoRhenan and ouenan are other variants of his name.
 Adamnan mentions a Pictash priest named Iogenanua EoRan or Eugenfus Caivus Cthe bald1 was an underking of the strathcEvde BriteRs in 1O7e Uwen and Owen are the fOrms of the name of a king of the 0wenti in S3S. ouuin. Ousn and Eusn are variants The Welsh bard Ansurin, in list of the chieftains slain in the battle of Cathraeth; near ef1s beginning of the sixth century. has ''Caradawc annadawc pyil sc yeuan"- that is. Caradog and Madoc, Pyll and Yevan (Owenl. Another Owen was king of the welsh in s5s. and anotheR in HIS Owen or oueRs was a tenant in Herefordshfre in the days before ths Domesday.
 On the Pspe Roll of ! Henry IT.. (i1ed1 we find Heel fil oeni The Hun ssrsd RoIfs of 12Ts have fl. 0wevn and dl Owen, also fl. Yevan.
 1t was Owain ap Gruhydd of GIend- wyrdy, Shaksspeare's Owen Glendow- CT, the uncCnquarable prince of the ff- L98UEu G8NEDkY Nu95 4ABt WGt1hau6ft No live and die free of the English yoiEe." that made this personai ra1ne the most common of all the native names of the prinoipa1ity Hundreds of children were named for the heroic prince and as the adoptlon Of hereditary patronynic sur names became common among the Wefsh In tfe next century, there were literally fhounands of owsns taking the nnFne from a fafher or grsnd-fa- ther that had borne it as a personal naYnss
 The name now has variant forms and derivations to the number of two score or more. Among those we may mention Bevan. Btvens. Bowen. Evan. Evans. Evance, Evanson, JevAn, Jevons. owing, Owins, YeVan. Yewan and the EcottIsh cognates Ewan, Ewen. Ewing, MacEwen, McCune. MAcKeoghsn. etc.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
MAKE AFRICAN LAW
CONVENTION IN SESSION IT
 DURHAM.
Some of the Problems Which Confront The Law Makers in Trannval.---
 Ia There stfll Slave Trade.
BY .. M. EnAN.


 Cape Town, Dec 1o-The South Aeriean National Convention, which met at Durban to discuss the union of the four south African Colonies and adjourned somewhat suddenly a month ago. has now reassemblcd at Cape Town. The change of meeting place from Durban to Cape Town came as .a surprise since the original Intention had been to sit at Durban until the negotiations had either been completed or had definitely failed. There Is, however, no reason to sup pose that the decision was dictated by any other consideration than the con- veniehce of the delegates. Those of them who hailed from the Orange River Conlony were anxious to revisit Bloomfontein in order to ascertain and so far as possible repair the disloca- ton occasioned by the disastrous fire which recently destroyed a consider able part of the fine Government build ings that stood in the center of the Orange River capital {
 Another serious consideration was that several of the delegates were suffering from the heat, which Is often trying upon the east coast at this time of year, and seems to have told most severely upon Sir Henry de Vtlliers, the President, and Mir. Steyn, the Vice-President. of the Convention. Sir Henry de Villiers, the Chief Justice of Cape Colony. has brought a dignity and influence to the post of President which no other South African perhaps was sn we'll qualified to assert, and his absence would undoubtedly have prov. ed serious handicap to the work of the delegates.
 The proceedings of the Convention have from the outset been wrapped in more or less obscurity. The Iabors of the delegates had nothing to gain from. and might very easily have been shtpwrecked by, the interested com ment of this or that section Of the public or the Press upon their resolu- tions as these were being framed. To be Judged, fairly by the various shades Of South African opinion, their work must be judged as whole Fiecemeal criticism would almost certainly have proved for the most part unfavora blA: : but when the full proposals are known. the various conflicting interests wlIi be better able to realize that what they may have lost in one direction they will have gained In another and that none can profit In any direction except in compromise.
 Attitude of PpubIte.
 The attitude of the public in che various States, when the Convention produces It's scheme, is Indeed the chief enxiety which remains. since 1t is clear from the pace at whicvh the Conven. ton is concluding It's work, that no obstacle so far has proved insuper able. Telegraphing from Durban trn- mediately after the adjournment, n correspondent said that the drafting of the Constitution would in alI pro. bability be concluded a month after the sittings were resumed at Cape Town. If nothing occurs to mar thtS expectation, the draft should be sub- mitted to the various Pariiamenta in February. and another Convention would then perhaps be necessary in order to reconcile differences and give the Constitution its final form. So
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

Cormac's Slossss are the earliest na- tive authority for the meaning of the names. He explains it as equivalent to the Greek Eugenoia, which he cor- rectly explains as ''well-born." In the Latin Chronicles the name is uniform iy represented by the Latin Eugenius and zimHasr regards the Latin as the origin. by borrowing. of the Celtic name.
 Rhys. on the other hand. finds the origin in the Ga1lic Esugenus. ''son of Esus," the Gallic war-god. No other compound of Esus appears to have lost the medal As" and this view seems highly improbable.
 We should then prefer to follow Stokes and Macbain. who find the origin in q proto-ceItic Avigonos. we'll born"
 The prototheme. avi. good" is cog nate with the Latin averA, "to greet" ave vhail." Irish 60 and Cymric eui, both used in sense of good, friendly" :" but only in compounds. Greek enees, "weil-wishing, semitic" aitas friend. lover sanakrit avati, rejoice. help, protect"
 The deeferotheme Eonos or genos fs cognate with the Latin genus, Greek genos, Gothic kuni, Old High German chunni, old Morse kyn, Angio-Saxon cyn. English kin, Old Persian zanas sanskrit janas, all with the general meaning That which Is born. race, stock" etc
 There is also an apparent posstbii. ity that we have some Saxon Owens. One Owine was a prince in the house. hold of Queen AEthelthryth of East Anglia, about e7e. He was buried un- der a stone still preserved at Ely. An- other Divine is found in Berkshire, In 1033, another in Lincolnshire in 1OB3, another in Worcestershire in 1055 and another is mentioned in Domesday as tenant in Yorkshire In the time of Edward the C0nfessor. If this name survived 1t would naturally fuse with Owen. NichoIas fl. oweyn of Oxford n lx7s may have belonged to these
 This owine is but a variant of the more common oswine. a compound of wine. ''a friend" 1t thus means aa friend of God" ]. c.. of one of the old pagan pantheon. Compare Godwine, "a
 The prothotheme in this, case is that considered in full under Haskell in No. xxIV of this series and the deu- tsrothenne is explained under Baldwin in No. x of the series.
 Audoenus the Arohbishop of Rouen, s40-6s3, is occasionally called Ouen, but the writer finds no trace of the transmission of this shorter form. Ills name is the Old High German Audo- win. "a friend of wealth." ana survives in the French Audoin, the German Ot- win. and the English Edwin.
 Youmans.
 Youmans is an American variant of Yeomana, hence 1t signifies ''ths son of 6 yeomau."
 Thaname Yeonan. Yeannan has been given in No. xxx of this series and the small class of English patronymics formed from ooeupative names has been briefly under Parsons in No. XVIII of this series.
 Berkeley, Barclay.
 Berkeley is the name of a parish and market town in 9loueestershire. Eng land. In the Anglo-saxon Chronicles the local name is written Berclea and in the Domesday Book it is Berehe-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

The climate in the cocoa plantations is very unhealthy and in the first year many die of hoine-sickness and misery. The death-rate is enormous. So far none Of the ';servicaes" (as they are -called) has ever returned. As MT. s,s 5sru says at the end of his report.
 this is not slavery, I know of no word in the English language which correctly charactixes it.
 representations have been made tA the Portuguese Government but hith- erto nothing but vague promises and continual delay has been the result call Tor strong measures to sup press the traffic Is now being made
 Au act for the reRuIatIon of ahon hours in the Ttansvaai has gone into efrect. If is thoroughgoinE measure, tn the framing of which the intersts of the general public do not seem to have been always the paramount cons aideration. Shopkeepers, for their part, can have little reason to complain Of an enactment which places all kindy of shops, large and smali, relatively on the same footing; and shop assist ants ought to be reasonably satisned with Legislation which secures a uni- versal weekly half-hoIiday, and pro. vides sthat under no circumstances or conditions shall they work for more than hfty.four hours per week. The new law applies to all areas under the Jurisdiction of municipal councils, vil- iaRe councils, or health committees, and te all places within i've mtfos of sucn areas.
 In Pretoria, Johannesburg. and six other large towns, shops must be clos cd at seven D. m. on Mondays, Tues days Thursdays and Fridays: at 1 D. m. on Wednesdays, and at 2 on Satur- days. This provision does not. how ever. apply to restaurants. eating houses. tea-roofns, railway bookstaIls, or dairies; nor to bakers. confection- ers' or florists shops. For other dis tricts the closing hour is ?. m. and o'clock on Saturday; and on one day of the week all business premises must close at ?. m. To meet public con venience there are certain exceptions applying to the country generally. Considerable latitude is allowed. for instance. in the case of drug stores, and medical requirements can be ob- tained practically at any hour. Except on haif-holiday. fruit and vegetables can be purchased up to 10 p. m. on week days; and tobacco and newspa- pers up to o'clock. and 10 o'clock on Saturdays. Hairdressers' premises re- main open until o'clock, end for two hours longer on the last day of the week.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
AS TO CARRYING BUNDLES.
Woman Prefers Many Small Pnckawe. to
 Ono Big OHe.

Woman Prefers Many Small Paohnwea ao
 One Big Oae.
 wrap them up separately" said the wo. man at the counter. ''and not in one biz package"
 And then, still speaking to the clerk. though obviously for the benefit of otherg within hearing, she went on:
 Tt looks better to carry a lot of MttI bundles than one biz one and it's easier too. You can pack them in handiIy between one arm and the body and leave the other arm free. Now, if all these things were ir one package I would have to use botf hands 10 carry 1t or run the risk of drop ping it."
 So saying. she slowed her purchases delft ly along her left side. keeping them ir place with her arm. and departed. 4 mar who hadJheard her looked ineredulous, and when his turn came at the counter came had all bis purchases made into one biz bundle and tied securely. As he slipped his fingers under the cord and lifted tho bundle off the counter he remarked:
 This Is my way. If ali these thIngs wer, in separate packages, I'd lose half of then before going . block
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

The deuterotheme is the Old High German beraht. bright" which has beeu fully considered under Roberts In No. xV. of thts series Copyright 1905 by Samuel Grant oli-
 phant.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

A woman can get even with a mar by marrying him or by refusing to dt SO
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
.Surnonaes Of The Southland
 Their Origin and Meaning
NUMBER XIV

nY sASxUEz GRANT OExPMANT, A. Ms PA. D.
 0lRvst, Michigan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20
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The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

ing sport a real scientist INDUCES in.
Inc japanese importation breeds rapidly
| and u he does his work az we'll in this
country az he does at home it will be all
of with the gypsy moth.
The luncheon to s. G. Cosgrove by the
King County Republican Club last Fri
day was the important happening politi
caily oi the past week. The attendance
was 80 great that there were not only a
large number who could not get seats
but the Rathskeller could not provide
standing room for all those who wanted
to hear Mr.. Cosgrove speak. The Pome
roy man was in splendid form. He has
entirely recovered from his recent illness
and never looked better than he does
now.
Members OF the Seattle Chamber OF
Commerce leave on their annual excur-
sion on September 21 They will visit
Portland, Pasco, WaIla WaIla, Lewiston,
Spokane, kennewick, Kiona, Prosser,
North Yakima and Ellensburg. They
will travel in special train.
SO thorough has been the policing at
the Meadows this summer that only one
tout has put in his appearance for some
time. He was promptly arrested as he
was trying to give a young man a good
thing and was fined $50 in the police
court. 1t has been a bad year for race
track hangers on and never before did
the Northwest enjoy such good sport.
Captain Frank H. Lord, an old Prince
ton man, has been appointed assistant
to President Kane of the State Uni
versity.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21
GREATEST NAVY YARD
IN WORLD MAY ARISE
C0mmandant at BremertOn Asks
for Expenditure of $4,000
OOOfOr improvements.
Professor kincaId Has Found Insect
That Will Put Gypsy Moth Out of
Sustness--lt Is From Japan.

Seattle, August 10, Especial Cores
pondence. The officials in the navy de
partment at Washington are beginning to
realize that "A really great navy ward
can be built at Bremerton. The com
mandant at the yard is now preparing
his annual report and in it asks for the
expenditure Of about $4,000, 900 for
improvements. Drydock No. 3 is asked
Tor among other things before the work
on drydock No. 2 has commenced
There is every reason to believe that the
next congress will make the appropria
tons asked for, as Rear Admiral John
+ Barton, one of the high officials in
the department, has Just finished an in
spection OF the yard and is quite enthusi-
astlc over its possibilities. He viii
endorse the cOmmandant's report. If
present plans are carried out the ward at
BremertOn will, within the next few
years, be the greatest navy yard in the
world.
Professor Trevor Kincaid, of the State
University, has returned from Japan
with the comforting information that he
has found an insect that will put the
gypsy moth out Of business. The new
bug that will be brought over here in
bulk reioices in the gighIy dignified
cognomen of GIytapanteles Japonicus
If ne is put down in the same county
with gypsy moth he hot foots it after
the latter and makes his breakfast, lunch
and dinner off him. The hypsy moth is
one Of the greatest enemies of the farmer
in this country and until Prof. kincaid
made his discovery there was no parasite
known to science that would dispose of
him. This proposition of putting a bug
TO catch a bug is about the most pxcit-
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21
FOUND DEAD IN BED,
Mrs. Anna PaIamountain Succumbs
to Appopiexy.

Mrs Anna Palamountain, mother OF
lDr. " b, Palamouutain. WAS found dead
II bed Monday morning about IL
o'clock, appopexy being given as the
cause Of death Mrs. Palamountain at
tended church Sunday, as was her Gus
tom, IN her usual health, and went to
bed apparently with no thought that
that was the last night on earth. Mrs
falhmGuntain, during the heated term.
had been sleeping in tent stretched in
the yard, and Sunday night retired to
tn the tent as usual. Monday morning
she did not appear at the table for
breakfast. The doctors wife looked in
the tent, and a. the elder Mrs. Pala-
mountain seemed TO be sleeping sOundly
the doctor remarked that they had bet
ter let her sleep. Finally at 10 O'Clock
Mrs. W. B. Palamountain looked again.
and reported to her husband by phone
at his office that the mother seemed to be
still sleeping. The doctor replied that
she had better go in and call his mother,
as she had slept enough. 1t was then
that the discovery was made that life
wac extinct, the heart just ceasing to
beat
Funeral services were held at the family
residence Tuesday afternoon at ! O'Clock
and the body was shipped on the even
ing train for Grass Valley, California, to
be buried beside that Of her husband.
Dr. and Mrs. PalamOuntain accompanied
the remains to California, and will not
return before the lst Of September
Mrs. Anna PalamOuntain was native
OF England. but came to this country
with her parents when an infant. She
was 56 years of age. Grass Valley was
the family home before coming here.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21
Total
Oregon
Id aho.

otal. ....-...... ..-.. ....-.........4 "A, zoo QUO
The wheat yield throughout the North
west this year can perhaps best be de
scribed by the term spotted The old
reliable ioothiIl country in Waila Wala
county il good as usual and Umatila
except on the light lands is turning off
some good yields. In the Palouse there
are some excellant yields but along the
main line of the Northern Pacific, the
crop is in bad shape, especially in the
vicinity of Ri'zville and COnnell. The
Big Bend country taken as a whole seems
to indicate decrease Of at least 40 per
cent from last years crop. In the dis
tributiOn of climatic favOrs, Providence
was certainly partial to the O. K. < y
and to what is regarded as Portland ter
ritOry. In the PalOuse, Umatila and
Walla Walla, the best yields are along
the o. r. & N. and even in the Wash tue
ma district where good yields are decid-
edly rare, the Portland road seems to
be favored.
Reports from the Great Northern are
bad and along the Central Washington
there is considerable spring wheat that
W II not pay for the cutting.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21
WHITMAN COUNTY At
A.-Y.,P. EXPOSITION
Shall We Have Exhibit Equal to
Greatness and Richness
Of Our Resources ?
County Commissioners Will Decide
at Next Meeting Whether to Rp-
propriate Money or Not.

The county commissioners were in ReF :
sion this week, and took occasion Tues
day Afternoon to hear the pros and COZ o
in regard to an appropriation for a
Whitman county exhibit at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific Exposition. For con
venience sake the commissioners met in
the court room, and about 80 repre-
sentative business men and farmers
responded to express their views on the
matter. Nearly all had something to
say, and, as is usual in such cases, there
was considerable divergence Of opinion.
w. A. Halt eman, whose home is ct
Meteor, Ferry comfy, director Of the
mineral division Of the Washington ex-
hibit, who was present, was asked to
address the meeting and did 80 in very
intelligent and comprehensive manner,
urging the commissioners to make the
appropriation and pointing out the
advantages, if not the necessity, of this
county doing SO. He was followed by
ex-senator McCroskey of Garfield, James
A. Perkins, Senator McGregor, Martin J
MalOney, Colonel Dooling of Garfield and
Hugh c. Todd in favor Of making the
appropriation, and George w. Perrine,
Henry Hickman, Henry Rock, j. j.
Miller, Charles Moies and James S. Tay-
lOr who spoke in opposition. Charles n.
HiDchlff took middle ground, saying the
question OF dollars and cents, in his
opinion, should not enter into the mat
ter. Was it for the best interests OF the
county to have the exhibit? If 80, there
should be no hesitancy in making the
appropriation. He had not given the
matter much thought, but was willing
to defer to the judgement Of the commits
sOneTs, who would have to assume the
responsible any way.
At this iuncture q long Iat Of names Of
taxpayers from Pullman were handed in
Commissioner Ruply made a few re-
marks, seemingly to favor making the
appropriation Commissioner Mccoy
said personally he was opposed to vot-
ing TUG hlPhCtf hhL AliBub HIS
opinion upon fuller investigation,
The matter wac deferred until the next
meeting Of the board, which will be
Wednesday, September 9, when the
matter will be ditinitely settled.
The Gazette certainly hopes the com
missioners can see their way clear to
make an appropriation for q Whitman
county exhibit. Whitman county is the
only large, rich and populous county in
the state that has not already done so,
and for her to drop out Of sight in the
matter would be TO her disadvantage.
The exposition will be a great event,
visited by thousands and thousands Of
people, and will call attention to the
state Of Washington az probably no
single event in its history ever did. For
Whitman, the richest wheat county in
the world, to say nothing of it's other re-
sources, not to take part in this proceed
ing would show a lack Of public spirit.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21
Struck Il Rich.

}. Q. Johnston, formerly engaged in
the butchering business in Colfax, but
now OF Yakima county, where he is the
owner OF a small farm OF irrigated land,
will have 5000 sacks of potatoes to
throw on the market this fall. Owing TO
the drOuth and late frosts the potat O
crop in this part of the Inland Empire is
partial failure, and prices for tubers
are on the rise. Two cents per pound
are now asked. At this figure it is easy
to understand that JOhnston's 5000
sacks Of potatoes makes the butchering
business look silly.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21

Needles and supplies for all makes of
sewing machines. Shirley & CHASER,
jewelers. and opticians.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21

J. r. Good ( Co. of Colfax are now
quoting special prices on the famous
Extra STAR A STAR shingles,
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-08-21
Pacific Northwest Has a Good
Harvest Better Than in
1899 or 1904.
Wheat Fields of Washington, Oregon
and Idaho Will Soon Put $685.
100000 in Circulation

The Oregonian's estimate on the 1908
whcnt crop III the Pacific Northwest,
based ON reports received mp To August
10, il A ,05O, 900 bushels ~ follows: