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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-04-06
ORIGINS OF NAMES
INTERESTING 70 TRACE PA
TRoNYMlcs TO SOURCE.
Many Derived from Trades Or Oecu-
pations-ToWns and Sections OF
Countries Have Been Respon.
sibie for Some Others.

There was appropriateness in the
Lincoln celebration in Lincoln. Eng
land: for undoubtedly Father Abra-
ham" was derived from some long.
forgotten mar who left that city bear
ing some such name as George or Wat
o. Lincoln.
London, York, Boston and Berlin or
Berliner appear Is family names in
the same way. Redfield and Oldfeld
are farm patronymics once used as the
names of Scottish farms are now for
their %proprietors. Titles of nobility
similarly come from q county like
Cumberland, a battle like Magdala
or a town like Ragusa.
Occupation names like Smith
(spelled in more than forty ways),
Webster and Fletcher are the most
common; they include some arts not
now practiced, as Lorimer, Balestier.
Archer. Others in this class had once
q humber sound, as Howard (hog-
ward) and Fitzpatrick (Padruig's SER
vant). And many are derived from
trade names in other languages than
English.
Gen. Baden Powell explained in a
Latin verse after Mafeking that his
name meant Ap-Joel; so Pughe Is APP
Hugh. Family names made by an
added IS" are often Welsh. The
Welsh names Hughes Tor Huws), Will
liams, Johns and Edwards mean
Hughson. Williamson. johnson and
Ed%wardson, the English termination
being son." the German 'sohn" and
the Morse "sen."
Emigration has supplied many
names. Hollander, Fleming, French
and Frank speak of national origin.
though the last may mean simply a
freeman. Other names Of characteri-
cation are Shakespeare, Breakspear.
Armstrong. Crook. Leonard Zion
heart) and some few names Of color,
as Black, when applied to a man Of
dark complexion, like Roderigh Dhu
or BLACK Jack" Logan; but most of
the early Greens, Whites and Browns
must have been SO named for varying
reasons.
Names of animals we're too obvious
to be ommitted: Bernard, Fox, Palfrey.
Elephant is turned into a proper name
In Italy; why not In England? Coon
Is hardly ever II ever an animal name;
it may be cut down from Colquhoon or
some other longer spelling as d'Uber-
vile in Hardy's Tess" was changed
into "Darbyfeld." Along u north
ern border French Canadian names
are spelled by sound, with queer re-
suits, hike "Lavake" for rEveque and
"Fobare" for Faubert. Napoleon
guessed that his name Buonaparte
came from the Greek Kalomeros. with
the same meaning Of good part"
The Fishes. Birds, Becks, Brooks
and Hollys show how names were
early given by observation. Traced
to their source, indeed, few names
have q less prosaic or fancifui origin
than the Indian Thunder Cloud or
Northumberland
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-04-06
Taken Up.

A dark bay horse on my place in .ae
Second ward. two miles west of Ridge.
Owner can have same by proving
property and paying cost.
4-3-3t. HORAS MEAUX.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-04-06
Notice.

No hunting or tresspassing allowed
OF my place in the First ward, of La
fayette parish, under penalty Of the
law. 3-23-t.-4t.
Mrs. VINCENT T. BERTRAND.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30

Ohio, with specific instructions to carry
out President Lincoln's plans for re-
lieving the East Tennesseeans from the
expressions and prosecutions of the
Confederates. He saw the difficulties
in providing transportation for his sup
plies into East Tennessee, and urged
that railroad be built: The War De-
partment answered him that there had
been difficulty in getting Congress to
act upon such proposition, but that
he, being commander of the Depart
ment. had the power to do whatever
he thought was necessary and that
building railroad would not be con-
sidered outside of his authority. Act
ing on this hint he began the construc-
ton of the railroad to which this look
refers, and gathered great gangs Of
negros for its prosecution. He was not
long in finding that the war would
probably be over long before he could
hope for a track laid across that rough
country, with its deep valleys and rapid
streams, and the work was abandoned.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
A NEW TREATY WITH JAPAN.

| The Government of Japan is studying
a new treaty with the United States. to
be concluded two years hence. and set
tie the rights of the japanese who are
already living in America. The Japan
ese papers are discussing this quite
temperately and suggesting the features
| of the treaty. They first want to elimi-
nate from the present treaty the clause
which excludes from its operation the
| State laws ordinances and regulations
regarding the immigration of laborers
and others. This is not that the Japan
ese want to do away with any restric-
ton laid upon emigrants from that
| country to this. On the contrary, the
| Mikado's Government is doing its ut
most to restrict Japanese emigration
to Hawaii and the mainland of the
United States. for the simple reason
that it desires these valuable workers
to go to Korea and Manchuria and help
build that country up into Japanese
provinces. What the Japanese wish,
however is to restrain the Pacific Coast
States from legislation which is inimical
and insulting to the Japanese. 1t is
desired that Japanese who wish to en-
ter the United States and travel thru
the country for educational, business
and other purposes shall not be re-
strained or Disseminated against Sup
porting the contention that the Japan
ese Government is succeeding in re-
straining emigration to this country.
the ministerial organ gives statistics of
the past two years showing that the
number of laborers who have left for
the United States and also of nom
laborers has decreased more than one
half. In January. 1908, 413 Japanese
left for the United States. while in the
same month of 1909 there were only
los. In March,. 1908, there were $40
emigraHts, and in the same month of
1909 only 1866. On the other hand, the
Japanese are returning to Japan in
greater numbers every month.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
HISTORY as SHE is WROTE"

History as she is wrote receives a
new illustration in a very handsome
book issued by the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad. The text in this book is un-
usually well written, it is finely mus-
trated and gotten up in the best style
of the topographic art Most OF the
matter is above criticism. Therefore,
il is rather startling to read such Il
paragraph as this:
President Lincoln in his message to
Congress, December, 1861, strongly rec
commended Gen. Burnside's idea of a
military line from Nicholasville, Ky, to
Knoxville. Tenn. Gen. Burnside was
then in command of the Army of the
Cumberland, and under his supervision
Mr.. W. A. Gum, of Lexington, after
ward employed by the Trustees to
make the final surveys. made d survey
Of the line from Lexington to the Cum
berland River, and drafts of negros
were actually made to begin prepara-
ton OF the grade. 1t is quite likely that
Government ownership of railways
would have received a practical trial at
this early day, in the shape of a line
from Cincinnati south, had 1t not been
for the length of time IL takes to build
railroads and theLuncertainty OF mill
tary movements
1t seems hard to crowd more errors
into single paragraph. In December,
1861. Gen. Burnside, then only a re-
Gently created Brigadier-General of
Volunteers, probably had rs little idea
of a railroad to East Tennessee as he
had of getting signals to Mars. What
he was probably thinking about then
was the projected expedition to recover
possession of the North Carolina
Sounds. Gen Burnside was not then
in command of the Army of the Cum
berland. nor was he ever He COM
manded a brigade at Bull Run, then a
division in North Carolina, next the
Ninth Corps, then the Army Of the
Potomac. In March. 1853, he was put
in command of the Department of the
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
RAslLN AND WELLEs.

In the September atlantic Monthly
the Editor adds a fnotnote to the. diary
heG rSecrstary :Welles,. in which he, says
that Vice President Hamlin became in
l!dignanti With sthe Secretary because the
latter refused to. give Hamlins friends
a contract tosbuild some,gunboats. This
naturally excited the Indignation of
Gen. Charles Hamlln. who replies forci-
bly, and, aeenclusively to the aspersion.
He quotes from the Life and Times of
Hannibal Hainiin." by his grandson,
Charles, Eugene Hamlin. and certIfiss
to the correctness of the statement that
when the war broke. out the Navy De-
partment ordered the building of n
number of wooden gunboats. Maine
was then great ship building State,
and one of her leading builders was
Capt William McGilvery, patriotic
citizen of Searsport. Vice President
Hamlin, with Capt. McGilvery and Gen.
Samuel F. Hersey, his business. asso-
ciate, visited Secretary ,,Welles,. who at
once agreed to give them a contract,
and Capt. McGilvery and Gen. Hersey
went home and prepared for the work.
Later it was learned that the Secretary
did not control the giving of. the con-
tracts, but this was in the hands of cer-
tain Bureau officers, who awarded them
to a man who was in active sympathy
with the rebels and whose whole. idea
was to make out of the contract what
money he could. His bid was higher
who were active Union men and anxious
to help the Government. The Vice
President had short but stormy in
terview with the Secretary, who stam-
mered out that the promise had escaped
hth mind, and said that he was now
unable to carry it out. This aroused
the ire of the Vice President, who de-
clared that he would never have any
thing more to do with a man who broke
his plighted word. It was very CALLING
to him to have to see Copperhead
have, the opportunity to gouge money
cut of the Government.
The Maine papers will not believe
for an instant that Vice President Ham,
lin could ever have been aetuated by a
selfish motive in his official relations
They point out that he might have en-
riched himself by sharing in the Texas
land deal if he would have voted for
the Missouri Compromise, and that he
gave up the Boston Collectorship and
$4,000 a year rather than support An
drew Johnson. They say his place in
history is too secure to be affected
by filings from any source.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
MUNICIPAL REFORM.

St Joseph, Mo, has caught the fever
for government by commission, and
next April will begin operations under
a new charter which was voted for and
carried out at recent special election.
Under this a Mayor and City Council
of five members will be elected the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
April. The old wards, which were pro-
ductive of so much graft and dissen-
sion, have been abolished, and the five
Councflmen will be nominated at large
and elected at large. Each political
party will nominate five candidates, and
the five receiving the highest number
of votes will be declared elected All
of the appointive power will be lodged
in the hands of the Mayor, and he will
be responsible for the conduct of every
department. His nominations, how
ever. will be subject to confirmation by
the Council. but in rejecting the Coun-
ell will have to state its reasons in full
in writing. All franchises will be grant,
ed for % years. and submitted to popu-
lar vote for confirmation. The strong
est influence against the adoption of
the new charter was by the street car
ring, which has heretofore controlled
the politics of the city.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
PELLAGRA.

There has been scare, much exploit
ed by Sensationalists. over the appear-
ance ofTDeliagra in this country The
disease. which has always ragged in
Italy, has never before appeared here.
In Italy it is attributed to the UNMARRIED
diet of 'c6rnmeal, but it has been point
ed out, that a large proportion of the
people of the United States eat ccrn-
meal thruout the year ,g.rhnGi any evil
effects The physicians who have stud
led ting disease think that it is due to
eating meal v aich has been infected
with some of the corn fungi. Probably
Tie real feas6n Is that pellagra is some
hing akln ta the disease which carried
off so many thousands in Andersonville
and other reDel Prisons. 1t is due TO
he fact that the people eat nuthi a;s but
cUrnmcal without any variety ny a
mixture with Other rooistuG,s to FRO
dUce "balaneeI ration" The people
in the southern part of Italy are pov-
crty-stiicken To the last degree, and
eat cornmeal becaISe they cam get
nothing else, and have very little of
that 1t is said that us large Il propci- :
jon as from so to 50 Der cent of the
people in southern Italy are allicted 10y
the disease, with two per cent nf TIE
popula'lon in span ana more than 30,-
0O0 peilagrians in Kumania. One phys
ician says that he has seen over 500
cases in his wards in the hospitals at
Cairo. Where it has appeared in this
country its ravages have been very Sc
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
HALLS AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Better Accommodations There Than
We Have Ever Had.

Editor National Tribune: Comrade
Henry Fairback. of St Louis, makes
some excellent suggestions relative to
proper meeting rooms for the National
E;ncampment and the Auxiliary Asso-
Citations.
1t should be remembered. however. as
TO Salt Lake City, that the hall first
selected was measured by the attend
ance of representatives at Saratoga and
Toledo. and that the halI so selected
allowed for a larger number than at
tended either, but no one dreamed that
there would be over 200 more votes, as
was then stated.
However. there need be no fear of
that at Atlantic City. which is better
provided for halls on its magnificent
p ers than any other city in the United
States. The same may be said of its
hotels-their reception rooms in the
larger hotels are so well arranged and
of such size that the jam we usually
experience will be minimizeG.
In short, / believe. from my knowl-
edge of Atlantic City, that the COM
rades will fare better and enjoy more
for less money than any other place in
the country.
Comrade Fairback refers to the fact
that the CampfireS were short of speak,
ers-that several comrades were COM
PEELED to do more than their fun share
of that work. Several comrades as
IS gned to speak were delayed in reach
ing Salt Lake by railroad mishaps. and
there were others. noted as speakers,
who were compelled to absent them
selves notably Comrade Thos. j. Stew
art and Comrade ]. p. S. Goblin. of this
State. and no doubt there were others
equally good unable to make the trip
Robert B. Beath, Philadelphia, Pa.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30

American cotton oil is making its
way in Europe and Asia Minor in spite
of the legislation against it. In Italy
the dealers are now selling the oil on
it's merits, as should be done in this
country. In order to protect the olive
growers the Italian Government passed
a pure-food law under which no cotton
oil could be mixed with olive oil, or if
it was done it had to be SO stated on
the label. The people in the meanwhile
had become accustomed to the oil and
liked it. 1t was much cheaper than the
pure olive oil and just as good, so the
dealers are putting up signs announcing
that they have it for sale 1t is found
that it is best to call it "cotton-seed OIL"
as. somehow, the people get the impress
cotton. and are prejudiced against it
for that reason. The French and ItaI-
ian Pure Food Commissions have an
nounced that the use of cotton oil is
healthful, and that no objection can be
made to its consumption when sold un-
der its own name. Last year Venice
bought more cotton oil than any other
European city. receiving from America
up to June 1 $1,000 barrels. Venice
was the first city to put the oil on sale
under its true name.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
The 61St Mass.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
me a brief sketch of the 6lst Mass,
and greatly obiige-Thos. L. L1yden.
PittSfield, Mass.
The 6Ist Mass. was organized for one
year during the Fall and Winter OF
1S64-65, and was the last regiment to
leave the State. The Colonel was Chas.
F. WaIcett. of Cambridge. The regi-
ment was assigned TO the Engineer
Brigade in front of Petersburg, but was
also required to perform camp and
picket duty, and frequently to hold the
lines when they We're vacated by other
troops. On April it was in support of
the Ninth Corps. and about O'Clock in
the afternoon was ordered to make
charge to recapture Fort Malone. 1t
succeeded in gaining and holding the
parapet of the fort. In this action it
lost five killed and 30 wounded. The
regiment engaged in the pursuit of
Lees army, and brought back the priS-
oners taken at Sailors Creek 1t was
mustered out Aug. 1, 1865. Altogether
it lost six killed in battle and 20 died
from Dissatisfaction National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
IETrUE STATES TAX.

In hisyeDes fAIoines speech the Presi-
tdent took theSposition which The Ma
tional Tribune has maintained for years
that the regulation of fortunes was a
State function. and should be confined
Exclusively to the states. we nave al
ways been opposed to an income tax
and espSfiallyto having that tax levied
by the government. If an income tax
| is necessary. IT should be imposed by
of revenue than the Government and
(which, being closer to the citizen, can
better levy and collect the tax. The
President said, what The National Trib-
une always said. that an inheritance
tax is much better than an income tax.
An income tax is primarily {, tax upon
the conscience, and will be honestly
paid only by those who have such active
Consciences that they will not defraud
1.-THE Government. From what we know
| of ordinary tax collecting, these form
| only small proportion of the popula-
ton. A surprisingly large number of
men who are ordinarily honest in every
|
scruple when they are dealing with the
Assessor. An inheritance tax avoids all
this. The property that a man leaves
| is the result of his income for all the
tyears of his life, and its value can be
readily ascertained by the public officers.
The wealth left by the deceased goes to
those who have not earned it, and con-
|sequentTy they have no just complaints
to make about any diminution that the
State may make. An inheritance tax is
already working very successfully in
several States. and.it should be extended
to all of them, and the Presidents sug-
gestien that the estate is divided equally
among all the natural heirs is a most
practical cure for over-swolieH fortunes.
Experience shows that one man gathers
and his heirs scatter. The old Greeks
made grandson" a synonym for
"spendthrift" A rich mans children
are likely to have had severe lessons in
economy as to the worth of money, but
their children are great deal farther
away from these lessons.
The Swiss have most admirable way
of collecting the income tax, which
might be considered with reference. to
such legislation in this country. They
let a man state his income without
each year, but when he dies
they assess his property and deduct
from 1t the differaHces between his own
annual declarations of income and the
reality as the inventory Of his estate
shows q.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
The Fctterman Massacre.

Editor National Tribune: VIII you
kindly answer thru the columns of your
valuable paper the names of the Off
GERS who were massaered at Fort Phil
Kcarny in 1866. i think. but the date
makes no difference? | would also like
to know the name of the place; whether
it was Fort Phil Kearny or Fort Fet-
terman.-John A. Wauless. Federal
Soldiers Home. st. James. Mo.
The brief facts are that Dec. 81,
1866, so enlisted men of Cos. A. c, E,
r and III. 18th u. S. under Brevet Maj.
w. J. Fetterman, were sent out from
Fort Phil Kearny to the assistance of
a wood train which had been attacked
by some Indians. With Mai Fetterman
went Lieut. George ". Grummond and
Capt. F. Fl. Brown The attacking In
dams gave way before the advance, and
drew the party into a ravine. around
which some 5000 Indians lay in am
bush. They quickly massacred the
whole command, not one escaping. A
party was sent out from Fort Phil
kearny to the assistance of the de-
tachment. but before it could reach
the place the massacre had been COM
pIeted All the officers killed were vet
Grams of the civil War.-Editor National
Tribune
The National tribune., 1909-09-30

In spite of the foamfng opposition of
the British Tories to American ideas,
these are prevailing to an astonishing
extent in South Africa. Next year the
Prince of Wales will visit South Africa
to open the first parliament of United
South Africa, and then he will inaugu-
rate faithful copy of the Government
instituted by the convention at Phila-
delphia in 1887. The spirit of Alexan-
der Hamilton seemed to dominate the
convention which framed the Cunsti-
tuition. 1t also dominated the conven-
ton which framed the Constitution for
Canada. At that time our rebellion was
going on, and the Canadians made as
strong a central Government as HamiI-
ton could have wished. The worst crit
icism on the South African Constitution
is that it has followed our example and
shelved the problem of negro franchise
The Cape Colony retains its negro fran
chise. which may not be abolished ex-
cept by two-thirds majority of the to-
tai of both Houses. The Parliament
will be confined to British subjects of
European descent This, however it
is shown, will cover the son of an Eng
lishman by Bantu mother Yet all
parties agree that the white race must
be dominant in South Africa. The Con-
stitutien for South Africa turns over
the question of negro suffrage to the
Parliament of the new Union, and it is
feared that this will not work as well
as it does in the United States. since the
separate States are really not indie
pendent Commonwealth like in Amer
lea, but are subject to the authority of
the central Government. This means
trouble ahead. as South Africa has
variety of races, traditions and legal
institutions, which will have to be care
fully adjusted in welding the new EN-
pire into political homogeneity.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
The 18th Pn. Reserves t"BucktaiIs",

aShh hcSSfNtS -
Editor National Tribune: Please give
Ia sketch of the Old Pennsylvania
"Bucktails. WIN. weitzel, Grand Rap
ids. Mimi, Box 80.
The 18th Pa. Reserves. also known as
ist Pa Rifles. Kane Rifles and Buck
tails was one of the fighting regi-
ments. and was organized at Harris
burg June 81. 1861. and mustered out
June IL. 1864. II was commando by
Coils. Thomas l.. Kane. Chas. J. EidGle.
Hugh w. Mcneil Chas. F. Taylor ard
Maj. w. X. Hartshorn in succession
The 18th Pa Reserves was a splendid
regiment, recruited from the humber
men OF the Penns i.vania forests. each
man being line marksmaa and wear
ing g ouektah n his hat. from which
came the name t'f "BucLtailS" In tho
iSpring OF 1852 the regiment divided,
part of 1t serving in the Shenandoah
Valley and part on the Peninsula The
regiment was united at Ma uassas. where
! Col. Mcneil was L Iel. It Frederic; s.
| ourg II loSt - Allied, / Is wounded aud
! 20 missing. In the battle OF Gettys-
burg Col Taylor. who was 4 trOthcE uf
Bayard Taylor. was killed. II belonged
to Crawford's Division. Fifth Corps. and
lost 1872 killed and 90 from disease is
| total of killed and woIndei was 504.
and I6 of it's members died in ConfCd-
crate prisons.-Editor National Trib-
Iune.
The National tribune., 1909-09-30
MILITARY TRAINING IN CANADA

The National Tribune has no less
distinguished ally than Lord Strath-
coma, the Canadian High Commissioner,
as to the value of military training in
the public schools. He has recently
given $3.50, ,OG00 for the encouragement
of physical and military training in the
public schools of the Dominion. and
with it he says that he considers physi-
cal and military training. including rifle
practice, of the highest value in devel-
Oping the moral, physical and inteIIec-
tual qualities of children as well as the
valuable quality of patriotism. Nothing
contributes more to inculcate habits of
alertness. orderliness and prompt obe-
dience in both boys and girls, and these
qualities will contribute very largely to
their success in future life, no matter
what pursuit or duty may come to
them. The boys ought to be taught to
shoot rifles for their own good, as well
as that of the country which they may
be called upon to defend Every boy is
the better for many reasons who has
received careful instruction in the use
of firearms.