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{   I _ V And has flown both far and near. ‘ I It I _ {_    
{   V It’s ’a grand old State which we call our own, . ss;_ r ‘ _  
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{   c {Kentucky! » I e { - .1  
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{   { That no other horses can beat; , cz _ YI,  
{ ; The Derbies can tell ot t*:e victories won, I   I ’-_`,  
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{   I I lust mention a· horse, and your mind will revert _ . ~ {  _,AI‘  
{   ‘ To the home of this wonderful brute— » v_ j_ eIs» I·  
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` · S 152 y THE KENTUCKIAN. _ *  
’ _ It this is not true ofother States,   _
It certainly is down here—  
T . - _ ., . _ t Kentucky I ~ ‘  
._ l S We’ve women down here in the Bluegrass State F  
1 i Who could wear any crown that’s made; · "   ·
' They’re queens in their homes, and their hearts are  
" - true, t  
And their beauty does not fade. ' . `   y
S We give them the homage that is their due, ·  
~- S To protect them we wonld die;  
T And _there’s no other State like the one they call  
~ ` home, t   _
V Beneath God’s shining sky—  
_ Kentucky! - O   ___. ____
V _ t —Courier-journ al .  
‘ A STUDY OF WORDS.  
Mus. M. A. Scovrmin.   .
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· F MAN’S first attempt at words .we know nothing.   '_-l T
® It is lost in that world of mist and conjecture where .  
` also are hidden most-or his beginnings. History’s S  
most remote trace is but an index pointing backward.  
The Hebrews have a legend that an angel came and  
· ‘ . ` taught man his first words. The Vedas deity language  {
D _ and teach that it was born of breath and mind. Modern f      
philologists generally agree, however, that it is born with l  
" ' us as is the effort to walk.   _
Language is that which most distinguished man from  
' the brute. The cock which crows today will utter the g   ‘
·~. sound that Peter heard, and which again was the same Q; Al
y · heard in the wild jungles of India before man domesti— A. ; -
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  _ _ cated him. Whether from Shetland Isles or Arabian   _
  Plains, or Kentucky Blue Grass the neighing of the horse  
  is the same. The Texas cow boy hears today the same  
  lowing of the herds that jacob did. .   . p
"   , Man’s language is his chief legacy from the past and t  
  his richest bequest to the future. It has become the most , i- Q  
  Q plenteous source of his knowledge. It is that which ~ ‘   _ 
·   _ ‘ touches nearest his soul, possesses the least of earthy clay  
  and its consequent mortality. It alone throws a glow of   ’
  life over the dead past. We travel far to visit scenes 01 A  
  human experience——battle grounds, buried cities, massive l  
  A ruins and ancient relics, but the vastest structure ofrnan’s  
  ‘ genius lies about us. It is like solid masonry built by ·  
~   hands, and yet has power to grow and die like a thing  I  ,
  ‘``` "·—· possessed ot life. It is labyrynthian in structure where  
  the great irmilies of language are ramihed and interlaced. .  
  There is the American Indian with its power of agglutina-   A
  tion or growing ofwords together, its beautiful metaphors  
  and soft euphoneous cadences. We have borrowed many S _  
  A place names from them and should have borrowed many ·  
  4 more. For example, Kentucky, dark and bloody ground ; _ »  
  lVIississippi, father of waters ; Missouri, big muddy ; Ohio,  
  beautiful ; Rappahannock, quick rising water ; l\‘linne—  
  V haha, laughing water ; Chicago, wild onion ; Chautauqua, ` t  
  foggy place; Saratoga, miraculous waters, and many  
  others. How much prettier Chatterawa, rippling over _
  rock, than our own. Big Sandy. S ‘_
if gf   There may be seen in this labyrynth the Semitic lan- _,
`     guage with its glorious coloring and rich learning whose n ij
  ‘ iridescence shines along the remotest past. `It embraces _ %
ii;. ` the ancient Egyptian, from which we derive our system of A =
 if . months and years, weights and measures, and which as A _ i
  * has been said Moses spoke but joseph had to have inter- A Y
 _` `_ preted to him. To the Semitic belongs the Hebrew, in _ ~
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   - . 154 I THE KENTUCKIAN. r ». t'   _·; 
  _ which have been preserved the Books of the Old Testa-— ~ -   _
  i I I ment, the language in which Solomon uttered his wisdom   ri ij 
  ‘ and David sang his psalms. It is the language of tha _  _’·‘ J
  I Jewish legendary store,,the Talmud. It embraces the g A »   r
  Armaic, peculiarly interesting to us because it was the   _
  tongue in which our Saviour spoke. It also includes the , i '  Q. .
{ A Arabic, in which was written that splendid phantasy, the `    I
j K n _Arabian Knights and the Koran, a "specim=:n of linguistic ` K _  
_ ‘ art and philological beauty." From this language we ·’ _ ‘ ·
  have derived our whole system of decimal notation, the _ V  
  ’ . foundation words of chemistry and astronomy. ` Y  
l _»ii l ~ The clues that thread this old labyrynth lead our own __ I  gi A
l . English to the tablelands of Asia, to the great Aryan _ ._  
family of language. p It includes the Sanskrit, the lan- I r  .
  guage of ancient India, in which is preserved the Vedas, , t  
  . ` . books of mythological superstitious, but mines of precious ,  _— ···» rr,
  philological gems, and where are found the germs of all-  it
  modern European languages. It includes the Persian, `   ‘ `
_. p the language of Zaroaster and the Zend Avesta; the _  
in Greek, thelanguage of Aristotle and Plato; the Latin of. I  at -
  Cicero, the Keltic, the Gothic, the Slavic andothers. A  
{ I The great framework ofthe English was brought by  
.. the Teutonic hordes across Northern Europe, the sofiened g it
* ‘ r outlines were filled in by those ithat came by the classic . —  
Mediterranean. The first impelled by the great Aryan I. I
  _ ·_ A wave westward were the Kelts, who left the shore of the A c
  Black Sea about izoo 13. C. Despite the work of cen-   »
  turies they hold their own today with an enthusiastic per- N _ 7  
"   _ sistency in parts of Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Corn- I   g `
V ?f _ wall and vvaies. i -  j
  _ In the wake of the Kelis came another Aryan horde,   an
ji i ` the Goths, so—called from their battle cry, GOTH, mean- A
  " l ing soon or BRAVE. They took various names. GER- t i
p _ p IUANS were so called from GAR, DART and MAN, liter- t ` » ii I .
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Y  l ally DARTMAN; from the Franks we have the word     T
`_  _°»‘ l FRANK, implying the high moral virtues of the settlers of ‘ s  
  E France. The;Angles were so-called from settling in the   _
  =_  _ angles of the mountains, the Saxons from the curved "   _
  . sword or seax which they carried. From this race, which .  
 it conquered the Kelts or drove them to their fastnesses, we V _   _
  have received probably three-fifths of our words.  
 - The next great racial conflict that affected the lan- ,  
  guage was with the Danes, including the jutes and Nor-  
t i wegians, who belonged to the Scandinavian branch. l l '·,·  
  A They were blood#thirsty and intrepid sea kings, who for S  
 ” hundreds or years burned, fiayed and broke the bones of  
 . the Saxons. The last struggle, and that which aH`ected r   '
  most perceptibly the language, was with the brothers of V . ‘ "  .*
  _· --»» —~—, these vikings, who had conquered the Gauls in Normandy _ _ .  _“ ·
 iQ and had taken the name of Normans. Their language     V
  " ` was composed of Norse and bastard Latin. In England, J  
  after the conquest. it became the language of the court. . T i`  
 3. . the camp, the school—room by law; the fashionable lan- F , °  
 _ guage through polity. But fashion, and school-room,’ ·  
  and king, and army could not root fr0m the sturdy Saxon _ _   i
ij the beloved accents ot his mother tongue. He adopted ·  
  q the words of his conquerers, . but as grafts, merely. upon A `  
  S his own. From this union grew the language of Shake- l   ’
‘ _ speare and Milton and the English Bible—a language S  
  » peculiarly rich in synonyms and in capacity for growth.  
    A few of the words the Saxons have dropped are EYEBITE .  
  ` for FAc1NA;rE, [?’OD’S-SPELL for '].`ES'1`AMEN'l`, IN\ifIT for  
  CONSCIENCE, GOD’S-ACRE for cEME·rEnv, FLr·rTEn-Mousn A  
  for BAT, FonErAL1< for 1¤1zEFAcE, AFTERTHINK for RE- 5 t
l i>ENrANcE, STAR coNNEn for Asrnonoitnn, Bocimn for .
‘ i Aurnon, RIEDDLER for MEnrALoR. llis simple BOARD . _ _
F _ A . became Norman TABLE, his ox Norman BEEF, his sw1NE   if; V
¥ Norman nonx, his nousn Norman MANOR or PALACE. y S   `
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IQ , 156 THE KENTUCKIAN. »  
  ‘ Some words may boast of a lineage which can be   °
QQ - traced to a hoary antiquity; again, others are but the  
L growth of yesterday. Our very early forefathers in In+ _  
  dia thought that the day was kindled as a fire every  L
ig. morning, hence the word DAY has that implied meaning.  
  We still use for the days ot the week» the old mythologi-   _
  cal gods which the Saxons brought from the East with -  
  them. Wednesday is WODEN,SDAY the highest god’s day;  
  Thursday, THORS or THUNDER’S day; Friday, FREYA, ,   A
  the highest goddess day; Saturday the day oi SEATER or   _
-   . . SATURN; Sunday, the sUN’s DAY; Monday; the MOON’S»  
= _ V ° DAY and Tuesday, TU’s the god of war’s day. The Ro- R g  
  · man names for the months have supplanted those of the  
., Saxon. Vile have JANUARY from the Roman ]anus god _   _
Y, of the year instead of the Saxon K\’OLF—l\IONTI-I, the Ro-  
  _ man February from the festival of puriiication, instead of `   Q `F  
  A l the Saxon S1-ROUTE-KAL12. Ancient usage places kale  
T · and jowl in high rank. l.\/[ARCH, god of war and hus— Qt
. bandry instead of SAXON LENcTE-MoNTH because it was  
‘ ~ ·j longer than the others. Al’RIL from Aprilis was the Sax- ,i
`; , on OSTEl{ Moxrru because then they celebrated Easter,  
_ the goddess of light and spring. Gay adornment and ii
»_ easter eggs are probably as old as the race. It corres—»
.° , ponded to the jewish passover. Both have been infused l _
. i with a higher meaning because of the promise to live V
  again through Christ’s resurrection. l\’[AY, the Roman   V
  ‘ goddess, mother of Mercury, was the Saxon TR1-M1Lc:1 °‘   -
"   MONTH because they then milked their cows three times a.     ,
_   _ t day. ]UNE, Roman juno, Saxon, l\/IEDE MONTH, because ij
  the cattle fed then on the meadows. JULY for Julius Cae-    
gf _ sar was the Saxon HEY MONTH, Auousr, Augustus Cae- F  
  sar was the BARN MONTH. As handed to the Romans, g
¥ March the twenty-ii-fth began the year so SEPTEMBER was ~
A n left the seventh month. It was the Saxon’s GI{IST MONTH,

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 g~— I Ocrroimn, eighth, was the Saxon’s WINE MONTH, No-  
if  TEMBERVWEIS the S.axon’s WINDE MONTH and DEcEMnER;   i
 l his WINTER MONTH. In this month was the old yule log,. I -  
  Santa Claus jollity which still mixes in with Christmas. I  
  YEs sm and NO sm are combinations of the Teutonic;   .
  ‘ JA and NAY, yes and no, and the Latin s1RE, elder person,.  
  -.,q r To say yes sire implied great reverence. So also we have: 1  
  _ come to use the second person plural YOU instead of the ‘ p   _
  singular Tuou. It was used first in addressing royalty to.  
  `· imply that there were more than one in so great a person-- —  
  age. Some of our verbs have come up from the battle   J
‘   with Time considerably maimed. It would seem that GO  
  had become terribly confused in some aiiray and had p -   ‘
  · picked up the past of XVEND. So the verb TO BE and  
  I. many others. They ever stand the mutilated forms of ` _ ` .   .
  what was. `   V
  SU1E1z  
  NAMES and SIRE NAMES and came into use after the con-  
  quest. The oldest pedigrees go no further back in sur- ‘—  
  _ names than the Early English period. i  
V We do not always preserve words as we receive   `
them. The Italian Eomo cA1·0 for instance meaning full.  
  sized sheet we call EooLs CAP. The French FRERE MA- _  
  soN, brother worker, we call FREE l`v{AsoN; the French   `
  DENT DE moo, lion’s tooth, we call DANDELIOTJ ; the Ger-  
’~-   ; I _ man XVEISSAGER, wise sayer, we call >v1sEAcRE. The  
  French taught us the polite reference of always drinking ` l
  the last cup to LE BON PERB, the good father, which we I
    have corrupted into the BUMPER. SIGNING oNE’s NAME
:"*" · points to a period of general illiteracy. GooD BYE was - ·
g once spoken Gon BE wxru YE. _ ·
’ _ _ With new introductions came new names. The first .
BAYONETS were from BAYoNNE, CAMBRICS from CAMBRAY, y ` _
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  y r T _ nA1vfAsK·from DAMASCUS, cUR1zAN·rs from Co1z1NTH. The p  T   `
  Q   . , first TARIFF from TARIFA. ‘ `  
  With the revival of learning came many Greek and   'iii-
  Q . Latin terms. Most ofthe general and abstract terms are -  
`Ei; from that source. .   _
  ‘ From nicknames we have quaker, puritan, round- _  is
  ‘ head, whig, tory,`lV[ethodist, Calvinist and many others. , »  
  ’ Every wordtcould we but interpret it bears the recordl i  
  ` r V of human experience. The power of words has been ob-   . l
il . . , served by the writers ofall times. Emerson calls them  
il _ "fossil poetry." French F‘concentrated poems." Math-  fi.
§y ews says "cannon shot are very harmless things when   »-_i V
  ‘ piled up for show; so are words when piled up in the T  
ill! _ · pages ofa dictionary with no mind to select them and I   »
<{Qj · send them home to the mark. But let them receive the _   s
r   V vitalizipg touch of genius and how they leap into life."  
P Macaulay speaking of Milton’s nicety of word arrange-}   ’ ‘
  ment says "substitute one synonym for another and the ’  
A r {t whole etlect is destroyed. The spell loses its power, and T   T
ji ` he who should hope to conjure with it would find himself r  
_ as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale when he   K
stood crying "Open Wheat," "Open Barley," to the _  
  door which obeyed no sound but "Open Sesame." Solo- n  
  mon says "Words litly spoken are like apples of gold in  
i"  pictures of silver." Some poet has written, T   v `
._   , T "A frivolous wordsa sharp retort,   °
  A (lash from a passing cloud, T T   i
i T ° Two hearts are scathed to their utmost core; ‘  if
  I Sweet love lies dead for evermore, _ »    
J.; g Two faces turn to the crowd, {Q
T   ` Masked by pride with as lite long lie Ft .
E   To hide the scars of that agony." A T A
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r    ` E L . Another has written, l l  
A  "I have known a word more gentle . . _ ;   ‘
   ‘‘'`» Than the breath of summer air  
  T In a listening heart to nestle ._ .  
  · And to live forever there. _'   · V
  Not the beating of its prison ` 4   L_
 jg — · Stirred it even night or day, .   ·
  Only with the heart’s last throbbing  
  - Could it ever fade away. _ L  
  . . THE OLD CHAPEL BELL. C  
    SYLVESTER Horicnws. l   E
  Q HE Turkomans sing of the glorious ring of  
  i C The bell that is king ofcafe and mosque, j_  
  Wlierever they wander they ever grow tonder   ·
ii? = _ Oi bells that swing under the Moslem kiosk. _   A
  But the old iron tongue in the bell that once hung in  
.   ‘ The belfry that swung in, the music it wrought  
  Was to me nearer and clearer and clearer ii _
3; _ Than cymbals with error Mohammedan fought. V  
  ’ An exile recalling the mellow tones falling  
  y L From minarets tall in theland of the Czar, T L  
  Sings of none sweeter in tone or in meter, j
  1; In Ottoman street or in Russian bazaar I y
  Than was the welling of melody swelling · i
r _ The old chapel bell in its ponderous glee, V  
i L L e That groaned with the burden of melody heard in
il The classical guerdon it Hung o’er the lea. ‘ ‘

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  _ I’ve heard the bells crashing and horribly clashing, ° .   V
  _ Through lurid waves lashing a midwinter storm ; l 3  
  Sinking and swelling, in thunder tones telling, g . ~ " 1,.
  Their terror indwelling their sudden alarm ; j
  But not all the clamor of the fire fiend’s hammer   .  °
  Could dispel the calm or the magical spell - I l
  That followedtunbroken, by whisper or token, _ V  .
  The slow midnight stroke of the old chapel bell. » ` t V
  I’ve heard the rich chiming ofother bells timing .  '-
  High mass sublime in the cathedral aisle.  1
  A E Aspirit could grant them no sweeter anthem  
—· From the silvery chant in the "Land o’ the Leal." L  _·
». _ But to me nearer, and by far clearer, l gt 
4,  A Than was its clearer voluptuous swell, L  
  · ls memory’s golden songs that the olclen , - Jp   
  Time long ago told in the old chapel bell.  
— Q AUNTIES TRIP TO COLLEGE.  .
  WILL.4 Bowman.  
  ELL, as I am alive and breathing !" exclaimed Mrs. · .5; 
    Reuben Stanley, as she stood at her window one  
  t afternoon in early January, "it` there ain’t Mr.  T;
5;; Raymond coming down the road. VVhat can the boy .7  _.,>  `,
~.   mean coming out in such weather? But I am very glad to —  
  see him coming, forl was growing mighty lonesome with -{,f  ll
L   ` L Reuben away and only the iire for company," and she » * `;
»a`. hurried out to meet the young minister, whose heart she —r.  
  had completely won by her motherly oilices.   _
  He was a bright—faced, boyislnlooking man of twen--  
T f ty-live, a former K. U. student who had taken charge of ` `  
ii, ‘ one of the churches in the town early that autumn, He  
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  was a great favorite and a frequent caller of the Stanleys,  
`4   V and had cheered many lonely hours for the old couple.  
  Leaving hat and overcoat in the hall, he followed t .  
" Mrs. Stanley into the sitting-room and was soom com-  
_ — fortably established before the glowing fire. r   _
  . "And inow you must tell me why I was refused ad-  
mittance when I came out to see you last week," Mr. Ray- r     ,
{ _ I mond said. "Some one told me later that you had been  
 · away. Did you have a pleasant visit?"  
.  l. ‘·Yes, indeed," l\Irs. Stanley replied. "But Reuben  
o . and I were happy just simply because we were with Louise. I I  
. My granddaughter? Oh, no, my niece. I took the little   L
.  · orphan child when she was only twelve years old, and a  
j 1 brighter, sweeter girl never grew up in Kentucky than . ‘   L
Jp   Louise Vi/vest. Her bonny face always wears a smile, and  
i  j ` as yet she has known no care. She was always ambitious —   -
`trr  I and ever since she was a little child had said she was   ,
:Q  going to college, and so four years ago, when she was  
  ready to enter. she decided upon the State College and  
  begged to go there. Reuben and I had always given in “  
  to her, so, of course, we did not say "no" now. Lgt
  "VVhen I was a girl we had a governess to teach us,. , ‘   ·
  anda boarding-school was selected for Anne, but Louise  
A Q;  was determined to go to college. So Reuben wrote to his  
  old friend Professor White, who is a teacher of arithmetic » ·   A
_  il there, and he promised to look after her. She went, and .  
  in a short while there was no place like the college with  
  her. She always was glad to get home for her holidays,  
    but this year ’long about Thanksgiving she began writing  
I   for Reuben and me to come down to Lexington and spend  
"'   Christmas with her. At tirst we didn’tmuch like the idea l r
Q ,‘_i   - of Louise not being home for Christmas, but as this is her ~ .
  senior year we just give in to her. Well, nothing would
  do but we must get there one day before the holidays V
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  if began, in order for us to see the school in working order, I  
  I and we got to Lexington at 9 o’clock Wednesday morn- » »  {
Ii   ` ing. Louise met us and she was for all the world like a A  
i . little child, she was so glad to see us. We went up to  
.   I 4 _ her boarding place, and in a little while on out to the I   p
  _ V college, and I must say that a prettier place than that col-  
  lege I never saw. When we got up to the Mainliuilding ·  
  l . we met the President, and a triendlier, inicer spoken old `  l ·
  gentleman I never had occasion to shake hands with,.   I
  - There was a lady there, too, to keep the girls company,  `'A
Ii ` and be nice to them, and Louise said, "to give them gen-  
~ gz _ eral good advice." We went up to the chapel exercises, r _ __,_ { ‘
; _ and a man with the best face I ever saw read a chapter ,  
ij; from the Bible and prayed. ,He turned out to be Reu- p  
  l .» ben’s old friend, and we stopped to speak to him. We l  
  ‘ older people all standing there kinder made Louise look  if,
  2 lonesome, I reckon, and a real handsome young man,  
.   _` dressed up for all the world like at sure enough soldier,  I
` x . ‘ came up and talked to her. But after a little while the L `-‘‘  _
  » young man went off and we went around to all the build-   »
Q 4 ings. We- stayed a long time over at the Mechanical .  I
  Hall, an