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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03
ORIGIN OF SURNAMES
COME FROM ANGLo-SAxON AND
MORSE MYTHOLOGY.
Professor Weekley, In His Romance of
Names, Has Dealt With the Sub
ject in an Interesting and In
structive Manner.

The study as to the origin Of sur
names is more intricate than one
who has never engaged in this di-
version may suppose. The name of
the present president of France, M.
Poincare, appears to mean square
fist" which could hardly need coat
of arms to go with it. The greater
part of our English names ending in
ing are, according to Professor
Weekley, in his Romance of Names,
of Anglo-Saxon origin. Among these
are Browning, Benning, Dunning,
Kipling, Manning and Spalding.
Among Anglo-Saxon suffixes greatly
changed in their spelling and pro-
nunciation are beald (bold), beort
bright, cytel Ckettle), god (good).
heard (strong), here (army), man
(man), mund (protection), roed
(counseD, ric powerfully, weald
(ruling), weard (guard), and wine
| (friends).
The name Everett is from the
Saxon Eoforhead, which also takes
the form of Everhard; Gunter was
Gundhere. Redmond, the name Of
the great nationalist leader, is not
Irish, but is from the Saxon Raed-
mund; neither is the name Parnell
Irish. "Mand" and "Mund" were
often interchanged so that from
Eastmund came both Eastman and
Esmond. The name of the fat knight,
Falstaff, comes from the Saxon Fast
wulf, and Hubert Hubbard, Hobart
and HILBERT have as their ancestor
Herebeorth (army bright, and Regen-
mund came to be Raymond. The
name Cytel is connected with the
Kettle or Cauldron of Morse mythol-
ogy. 1t survives in such names as
Chettle, Kettle, Chell and Kell, whence
comes the name Kelsey, the "ey' tend
| ing to confirm the opinion that the
! original Kelsey was an islander. Many
names of common folk. the plain peo-
pie, have been ennobled. Prominent
among these is Stewart or Stuart.
which became royal with Walker, the
Steward of Scotland, who married Mar
jorie Bruce in 1915. 1t stands for sty-
ward, where sty means pen, but is not
necessarily limited to pigs
perhaps the most interesting group
of nicknames," says Professor Week
ley, SIS that of which we may take
Shakespeare as the type. Incidental
ly we should be thankful that our
greatest poet bore name so much
more picturesque than Cornaille
Grow and Racine (RooD. AS Bards.
ley we'll says, it is impossible to retah
all the nonsense that has been VIII
ten about the name of Shakespeare
never a name in English nomenclature
so simple or so certain in it's origin
it is exactly what it looks-ShaKe
speare"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03
The Great American Plumber.

A heroic statue to the first Ameri.
can plumber as a companion statue to
the figure of Liberty in New York mar
Dor is the suggestion of Barry PAM
the English short story writer, who
has been lecturing in this country
You have a magnificent supply Oh
bathrooms in America" he SAID re-
Gently. 81 never saw SO many IN my
life before. Who started your unlteo
States bath tub movement? l am 60
ing to try to find out, and think the
first American plumber should be
given recognition, Are there no
statues in his honor?'
Mr.. Pain, who is nearly fifty, is max.
ing his first visit to the United States.
He is famous in England as writer
of short stories and contributor to
Punch, but this year marks the first
American edition of his work-three
volumes of which have just been pub
lished.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03

-W AHITI, the largest island of the
Society group, and by many
travellers believed the most
beautiful in any sea, lies nearly
south of Hawaii and about sew
enteen degrees south of the equator
writes E. T. Allen in American For.
estry. First touched by Portuguese
and Spanish navigators, it was de
scribed to Europe by Wallis (1767)
and Bougainville (176S). They gave
such lively account of the beauty OF
both island and people, and of what
they considered the idyllic perfection
of its semiwild, semideveloped society,
that much was written, especially in
philosophical France, to argue that
here was proof of the necessity for re-
turn to nature by the human race.
Bougainviile named it New Cy-
therea. His companion, the naturalist
Commerson, called 1t Utopia and wrote
extravagantly of the virtues which he
said fourished because the natives
had no conventional restraint.
Cook and Forster's visits soon fol
lowed 176e to 1774), bringing fuller
information, and in 1888 England sent
Lieutenant Bligh in the Bounty to get
breadfruit for introduction into her
tropical colonies. How his crew mu-
tinted later, put back to Tahiti, sailed
from there again with a party of ma
tive men and women, and disappeared
from the world until found long after
on Pitcairn island, where they found
ed an isolated colony that exists to-
day, is perhaps better known than
any other episode in Polynesian his
tory.
OF Aryan ancestry, practically or
wholly escaping Mongol or Negroid in
fusion by their exodus from the main
land in the remote past, the Tahitians
were and are still about what would
be expected of people much like
southern Europeans, but who have
been isolated for ages under all the
passionate influences of the tropics.
1.-THE Garden of Eden"
Rainbow colored fish play through
the coral along the sea wall at your
feet, the placid green lagoon meets a
skyline of palms on either hand, and
seaward, beyond tiny palm covered
islet where a queen once had heI
fortress, the surf rolls Dreaming on
the barrier reef from the blue trop-
ical ocean, ripping in the soft fresh
trades. Behind the town. itself hid.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03

are social. Feasting, dancing and sing
ing are always in progress, usually on
Wholesale scale. The entire village
participates on the slightest excuse.
Anything that can be done alone is I'M
popular Even in fishing, the single
venturer is regarded as a pothunter
and no sportsman, the gentiemanly way
being to set net in the lagoon and
invite the neighbors to drive, afford
ing much noise and frolic, or to or
ganize a deep-sea expedition for al
bicore
In several stays on the island the
writer was never allowed to fish with
hook and line from a single canoe be-
cause, while all right for a commoner
who needs fish, it is not the thing for
quality" to do. The visitor is struck
with the inyariable good nature of the
people. They rarely quarrel, drunk
or sober. Violence is practically I'M
known. Murders are so infrequent as
to be little more than traditional and
even fighting is extremely rare.
Like all Polynesians, they are won
derful swimmers, and probably excel
all others as canoemen. Whereas. in
Hawaii the canoes seen today are pure
ly unitarian. the Tahitian retains his
navigating ancestors love for naval
architecture. Racing canoes carrying
20 paddlers or more are built with
great ceremony and beating of drums
and carefully kept from the weather
in houses constructed by the district.
These canoes have beautiful lines
and are incredibly fast So are also
the sailing canoes, which carry tremen-
dous canvas and are trimmed by the
gymnastics of the crew, who balance
themselves on lateral spars extending
from the side. They also have out.
ringers, but in racing these are not
allowed to bury themselves and so i'm
pede progress.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03
IlIlIIll0 gIlIIuIll!llIl OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
FAR TAhlTlAN WOMEN

den in verdure, green slopes rise quick
ly to splintered volcanic peaks nearly
eight thousand feet high, carved by
precipitous valleys with countless
flashing waterfalls. Melville wrote
that the ineffable repose and beauty
of the Tahitian landscape was such
that every object struck him like
something seen in dream, and he
could scarcely believe such scenes had
real existence. Often" said Bou-
granville, Il thought l was walking in
the Garden of Eden"
Papeete is the only town, but the
fertile level shores of the island are
so thickly populated as to form almost
continuous village along the road
that skirts the beach for its circumfer-
ence of nearly one hundred miles. Yet
there is practically no open land ex-
cept in the uninhabited mountains
Houses and villages are beneath end
manages, oranges, banyans and bam-
boo, with occasional ornamental exot-
les from other tropical lands. Alligator
pears, native "chestnuts," mummy ap-
Piles and bananas, are in almost every
doorway. Except for two small sugar
plantations, few half-hearted cotton
patches, and small clearings for taro,
yams and other vegetables, there is
no farming as we know it. Copra and
vanilla are the island crops.
Work Is Not a Worry.
On the whole. however, industry has
small part in the daily life of the in
habitants. Very little work suffices
to procure all that is essential where
nature supplies food and shelter. The
writer once asked a native to bring
him some fish.
why don't you catch your own
fish," was the response.
That isn't the question. I'll give
you dollar for good string of fish,"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03
New Beadstrinq Fastener.

The clasps or fastenings ordinarily
employed on strings of beads, such as
the popular pearl necklaces, are objec'
tionable not only for insecurity in
many instances, but also because they
make a break in the continuity, and
when they slip to the front of the
wearer detract from the appearance
1t has been suggested that possibly
some form of fastener might be de
vised which would include as its eie
ments bead structures corresponding
to the other units of the necklace
Scientific American.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03
GETTING UNDER COVER
HOW SOLDIERS ON FIRING LINE
"DIG THEMSELVES IN"
When the Least Exposure Means
Death Men Burrow into the Earth
in Record Time-Use All
Sorts of Tools.

In the reports of the war in Europe
1t is frequently stated that the ad-
vance lines of the armies threw up in
trenchments, and 1t is difficult for the
ordinary reader to understand how
this Is done, for to him anything like a
fertilization appears to be a matter Of
considerable time and labor, which
could not be accomplished with the
enemy raining shot and she'll What
these projections are and how they
are formed Is clearly explained In the
special war issue of the Scientific
American.
The advancing line may have suf-
fered great losses, or the ammunition
may be running low. At all events, 1t
finds itself unable to gain ground to
the front. To retreat would be fatal.
1t must remain where it is-some of
the men find natural cover, but many
must provide artificial protection from
the enemy's rifle fire. The men are
lying down as fatty as they can. To
rise, even to kneeling position,
The necessity for cover under these
circumstances caused men to devise
the lying-down trench, sometimes
called the skirmishers' trench. 1t gives
cover from rifle fire to a man lying
down, but is absolutely no protection
from shrapnel bullets. The height of
the parapet should not exceed one
foot. The trench itself is about two
and a half feet wide and about six feet
long. 1t can be constructed by one
man in soft ground, using the portable
intrenching tools, in about thirty min
utes. Under fire, as outlined in the
foregoing, the man being compelled to
remain in the prone position, he can
mask himself from view in from ten
to fifteen minutes and complete the
trench in 40 to 45 minutes. IN this
position, and in view of the small num-
Der of portable intrenching tools car
ried by the company, the man would
be obliged to use his knife bayonet to
loosen the earth and the cover of his
meat can to shovel 1t in front of him.
One of the methods of working sug-
gested by the text books is to dig a
trench Is inches wide as far back as
the knees; roll into it and dig IL
inches wide alongside of it and down
to the feet; then roll into the second
cut and extend the first one back to
the feet. This trench was seldom used
in the Manchurian war. The best that
can be said for it is that men can OBJ
tain slight cover under hot fire with
a minimum of casualties because 1t in
wolves less digging, and they are par
TALLY protected from the very begin
ming of the work.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1915-04-03
keiahborhood Melody.

please, ma'am," said the little girl
from next door, mother wants to
know if you will lend her your new
mechanical tune player this after
noon"
What an extraordinary idea! Is
she going to give a dancer"
mo, ma'am. We're tired of dane.
ing to it. She wants to keep it quiet
for couple of hours so that the baby
can Sleep"
The day book., 1915-03-19
TWO HURT IN RIOT WHEN SILK
WEAVERS WALK OUT

Summit, N. j., March 9.-In a riot
which followed waIkout of IT'S silk
weavers at the mills of the Summit
Silk Co. Bramley H. AbdnUr received
stab wound which will result in loss
of his left eye and Mugerdich Gulam-
erian was shot through the left leg.
The day book., 1915-03-19
RUSSIANS AROUSED BY THREAT
OF GERMAN OFFICIALS

Petrograd. - BerIin's official an
nouncement that Polish government
buildings, villages and estates are to
be burned by Germans has aroused
Russian people. ...
That Russia will counter with
equally drastic reprisals against East
Prussian towns is considered certain.
PetrOgrad papers today called upon
government to adopt strict "eye for
an eye" policy. They urged that the
grand dukes armies follow German
example and burn three villages or
estates for each one Ieveled by the
enemy"
In every section of Poland, except
at OssOwetz and around Gredno,
where no heavy fighting is going on,
Russians are on offensive. German
attempt against Przasnysz apparent
ly has been abandoned.
ConstantinopIe. - French battle
ship Bouvet, bombarding DardaneIles
forts, has been sunk by guns of TUr-
kish forts. No mention Of fate of the
crew. ~r-
The day book., 1915-03-19
MINE STRIKE AVERTED

Cincinnati, March 19-Operators
and representatives of $4,000 miners
in New River, West Virginia, cold
fields averted strike by signing four
year agreement. Longest peace pact
ever drawn by miners and operators.
CHILD CHoKED BY DOG; DEAD
New York-Thomas Santerano, 5,
choked to death by pet dog, which
playfuIy tugged at rope they were
playing with caught around child's
neck. .a-
The day book., 1915-03-19
PROTEST USE OF JOHN WORTHY
SCHOOL FOR DOPE FIENDS

A committee representing the Ill
Hospital Managers assn will appear
before the council finance. committee
today to protest against the county
going to the unnecessary expense of
transferring the boys in the John
Worthy school to the Oliver Gold
smith school to use the former for a
dope fends' hospital, when the
hospitals of Chicago could save the
taxpayers money by taking care of
the victims.
Here are the developments in the
drug situation.
Twenty victims sent to County hos
pitaI by Judge Scully.
DR.. Roger Vaughn, County hos
pital, surprised at small number of
"coke fiends'' brought in. Says they
must have large supply. cached.
DR.. A. L. Blunt, 9 w. Harrison. and
Joseph Langerman, SAG S. Dearborn,
subpoenaed' To- appear before U. S.
Com'r Mason to answer charge of
selling morphine to George Foster, a
negro.
The day book., 1915-03-19

She gave statistics showing that As
per cent of her trade suffered from
illness during the year.
Mary Anderson of the Women's
Trade Union league, a-shoe worker,
told of the horrible conditions which
prevailed because of the piecework
system which keeps the women
working at top speed for ten hours
day to earn enough to live.
Francis KildUff, pres. of the Ill. Re
tail Dry Goods assn, did not openly
oppose the bill. Instead he suggest,
ed several ways to delay it indefin-
itely. :.' s-- 81
He advocated a subcommittee
which would make an investigation
in Chicago and other cities. This
would take several weeks. He also
urged that if the eight-hour day was
established that it be done gradually
and pleaded against legislation which
would disorganize every concern in
the state which employed women.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-13
ILLUMINATED AUTO PARADE WILL
STRETCH OUT FOR SEVEN MILES
Automobile Dealers Concentrate Efforts on Big Feature
of Show Week; Southern Motor Company Arranges
for Special Display Souvenir Stunt Dropped;
Lots of Enthusiasm for Automobile Week.

q EVEN miles is the estimated length
Of the big parade which will take
- place on Friday evening. December
s, and be the big feature Of "El Paso
Automobile Week" according 10 H. K.
Bernard. chairman Of the parade COM
mittee- At Fridays luncheon OF the
automobile and accessory men, Mr..
Bernard reported that there would be
at least 1I2 decorated commercial
trucks in the division set aside for
such vehicles. There were 15S decor
ated pleasure cars already promised
be decorated With the army trucks
and pleasure cars and the dealers dis
plays. he looked for a parade that
would be at least seven miles long and
the biggest thing OF its kind ever
pulled off in the western states, out
side of California
Ben L Clements. who has been one
Of the chief prize hustlers, stated that
the prize list would be a big surprise
TO many local motorists and the an
nOuncement that a grand cash prize of
500 would be given for the best decor
ated car OF truck in the parade would
have the effect Of bringing out some
wonderfully good displays
Many Bands for Parade.
There are likely to be five or six
bands in the big parade and L. z. Gil
lette has been given power TO hire all
the good music he can obtain 1t is
the aim Of the dealers TO make the
parade the big thing" Of the show
week which opens on November % No
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-13

horsedrawn vehicles. Of any description
viii be SLOWED in the big parade
If some Of the men who are talk
ing Of the biggest tire in the world
VIII get busy and show their big tires
in the automobile parade on December
3. I viii be tickled to have COMPETE
ton" said B. Bush Person. Mr.. Person
plans TO make the big 3SxS United
States tire a feature of the Quick Tire
Service exhibit in the parade. He is
now arranging for a big truck and
promises to have something novel TO
show the people Of FL Paso-
Batteries Already in Demand.
That FL Paso motorists are already
preparing for the illuminated parade is
shown by the heavy sales of batteries
during the past week." said Ben L.
Clements
we have our stunts for the parade
all mapped out" said ". h Marsh, but
I'm not yet prepared to make public
what the WintOn and Mitchell will
have, but you can count on il being
something out Of the usual run OF
Kings"
Many Models for show.
The Southern Motor company is ar
ranging for an elaborate display OF
Haynes and Jeffery models at its show
rooms during the big week Their dis
play will consist of a Haynes clover
lead "so-sha-belle" roadster painted
ivory white with white wire wheels;
wine colored five-passenger Haynes
touring car; a napier green seven-pas-
seuger Haynes touring car with cream
wheels; two light green Jeffrey tour
ms cars, one with cream wire wheels
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-13
VIII Electric Cars
Use More Current
Than House Lighting2

Some months ago it was published
throughout the United States. that
Thomas A. Edison. probably the best
known inventor in the world. made the
statement that within a short time.
there would be more electric current
sold for the charging Of storage bat
teries in electric vehicles than was now
being consumed for house lighting pur-
poses
Further, DR.. Chas. P. Steinmetz. the
electrical wizard, recently made the
statement that within the next ten
years over a millTOn electric cars would
be sold. These prophecies at the time
they were made, seemed impossible
even to many Of those who were closely
allied with the industry, as the char
acter Of the electric car as made at
the time these statements were offered
seemed to prohibit the realization OF
these prophecies However, the char
acter Of the electric car IS rapidly
changing Its mileage and speed have
been increased and its price greatly
reduced. while its general quality Of
excellence has been maintained.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-13

their work efficiently-at a low cost
per mile. Some tires-Our records
shOw-give 5000 miles-others half
that. or less. We find the difference
lies largely in the way the tires are
treated
Take overlooking. for instance
prolific source of trouble. II is gen
orally known that overlooking shortens
the life Of a truck. However, the big
gest expense due to overlooking is
in tire bills Overlooking weakens
tires so that they become more sus-
captible TO common injuries. For in
stance. any truck tire is bound to
sustain small cuts on the tread These
stretch and tear as the load on the
tire is increased. The enlargement will
be slight If the tire is properly loaded.
but IL overloaded. little cuts become
big gashes and finally the tire is ruined
Overlooking is bound to increase the
cost Of operating greatly. Our advice,
based on experience is-if IL is alb
solutely necessary 20 overload your
truck. equip il with oversize tires when
the old ones wear out They viii be
far more ecomieal in the long run"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-13
TRUCK TIRES NEED
CAREFUL WATCHING

Truck tires are getting better all
the time" says r :. Wilson. manager
Of the service department Of The Good
year Tire and Rubber company The
motor truck is only now really be-
ginning TO take the field that is 10 be
its own for the future. If one could now
predict the actual tonnage that trucks
viii sometime carry in these United
States, replacing other methods Of
transportation now generally used, the
prophet would probably be laughed at.
And all that tonnage must be supported
on rubber tires-rubber. which thou
sands Of inventors have sought IN
successfully to replace-and which is
coming to be more Indispensable in
the things that modern life develops.
Tire manufacturers realize how i'm
pOrtant the truck tire field has already
become. and how nightly il will grow,
year by year. And We realize too. that
If trucks are to be used successfully
and economically. truck tires must do
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-13

and the other with white wheels:
Jeffrey detachable sedan in black and
green and the usual stock models Of
both makes. The special shipment Of
these cars for show week will arrive
here within the next 10 days
soap, Is Named.
The arrangement committee for show
week held a meeting on Friday aft
ernoOn and decided to name Frank
Caplinger as special guide for the week
Mr. Caplinger will have his headquar-
tiers at Pioneer plaza and, in addi-
ton TO handing out information to
visitors. he will regulate traffic in the
district set aside for the automobile
dealers.
While the dealers are all unanimous
as TO the desirability of a souvenir
booklet giving the specifications Of all
the cars on display during the big
week. il is unlikely that such a booklet
Will be issued as the dealers desire to
concentrate their financial batteries on
the big parade and entertainment
stunts and there viii not be funds
available for side issues"