The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-27

Name. Today by Request.
 Alexander, Bullock. Dave. Glass Sanders, Scott.
 Also the allied names: Dawkins. Dawson. Elshender. Elshie, Escot' sanderlin. Sanderson, Sandison, Sands, Saunders, Saunderson, Schott
 Alexander, Sanders
 Both these surnames are patrony- mics signifying the son of Aiexan- der"
 So fer as extant records show, Paris SSss .1roy. was the first to bear the name AIexandros. Tradition says that tnis title. meaning "a helper of men" was given him by the shepherds of Ida be- cause of the courage he displayed in repeliing the attacks of brfgands upon their focks.
 In the fullness of time there arose another Alexander, destined to give the name more fame than even Homer could give the Trojan. The mighty Afacedonian conoueror so impressed his name upon the Oriental mind that it lives today in proverb and song all through the East. Islander is so syn onymous with matchless prowess that in the sixteenth century the Turks could find no greater term to bostow upon Castriota, the gallant leader of their Albanian foemen than Skander Beg, or Lord Alexander. In the middle of the last century a na- tive of the Punjaub, the farthest land reached by the Macedonian advance, told Sir Herbert B. Edwardes that the Indus was an Alexander changing the Boundaries of States by the changes in its own course.
 The Macedonian founded fifteen ci- ties that he called by his name. Six of these are still On the map-Alex- andria, Alexandretta. Canadahar, ls- Henderson, Samarcand and Scandcria
 There are four Alexanders in the New Testament. and many Christian saints and martyrs bore the name. A Pope in the second century assumed the name. and In the form of Ales- sandro 1t soon became frequent In Italy and was often clipped to Sandro.
 The name was taken up in mediaevaI romance and spread as thoroughly over the West as 1t had long been over the East. So Chaucer tC. T. ss4s f.) was able to say:
 sThe storis of Aiisaundre is so com- That every wight that has discrecioun Hath herd somewhat or al of his for
 tune"
 Nowhere in the West. however. did the name become so thoroughly na- tfonal as in Scotland. Margaret Athel- ing had been born and brought up in the Hungarian court. Here she had studied Greek letters and acquired a fondness for the great names of Gre. elan history. She brought q number of these names with her to Scotland and her own son was the first of the three Scottish Kings to bear the name Alex ander. Scotland's palmiest days fell in their reigns. On the death of the last the long death-feud broke out between fhe northern and southern Kingdom and all the woes and miseries that followed in its train. swept upon the land.
 When Alysandre, our King, was deade,
 That Scotland led in love and lee, Ava was sonse of ale and bred.
 or wine and wax, of game and glee."
 Small wonder their namesakes be- come so numerous that Sandy becomes synonymous with Scotchman.
 The Middle English forms of Alexan- der include Alisaundre. Alysaunder. AL ysander and Allisander. Chaucer uses Alisaundre and Alisandre. Langland. uses Alisaundre exceut in one in-. stance where he has Alexandre. The Scotch almost always used the softer form in "s.''
 From the last two syllabies they made the hypocoristic forms Sander. Eaunder. Sandy. Sandie and Sawny.