HALE AND HAPPY AT 107Mrs, Samuel Decker, of Seneca

Falls, N. Y., is a living exampleat 107 Yearspfageof whata pure tonic stimulantand invigoratorwilldo for old people

Mr. Decker, her-"husband, in aiinterview on jauuary 24th with ou.corrcspondent, said; "I want to telyou that Mrs. Decker is using youiincdicine. She is 107 years of agcWe know that it has done her a greaideal of good. It is a wonderfumodicinc, and we could not gct alongwithbu't it. We will tcll all old peo¬ple to use it, and w'c want every oneto know what it has done for uslt is the only thing that keeps MrsDecker alive. We send you her pic-turc, and you can publish this letterin any paper you wish with her pic-turc."

Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskeyis an absolutely pure distillalion of nialted grain; great carc heingused to have every kernel thoroughly malted, thus destroying thegerm and producing a predigested liquid food in thc form of a maltessence, which is the most effectivc tonic-stinmlant and invigoratorknown to science; softened by wartnth and moisture, its palatabilityand freedom from injurious sttbstances render it so that it can beretained by the most sensitive stomach.

lf you wish to kcep young. strong and vigorous and have onyour cheeks the glow of perfect health, take Duffy's Pure Malt Whis¬key regnlarly, according todircctions. Tt tones and strengthens theheart action and purifies thc entire. system. It is recognized as aincdicine everywhere. **>

,. ./".J,'i.TI.0>',.;wl,t'n »'OH n"u v,,,lr dniKRlsl, Rrorer or dcnler for DufiV, r*nroMalt WhlsWry. ho sure you Kct the eeiiulnc. IPs the only nbsmliitelv nnremrdlrlnnl malt whUkcy. nnd is »<>ld In .enlcd bottlcs only, nrver ln hiiiw1 rtco 91.00. 1,00k for thc trndc iniirk, <|.c "Old Cliemlst," ou the labcl. nnd.

hoolViet'nnd^refao'v!,:: «*<*«""*' <\Y" '" «*. «»T of HlU.tr.teS ined.cni

ifBS, FAMl'L'l, DECKER.

SURNAMES OF PEOPLEBIG IN THE PUBLIC EYE

B\ SAMUEIi ORA.VT OJ.UMIAXT. A.31.. PII. D.

Tnft.An Interestlng varioty of surnamea

conslats nf thoae thnt aro expresslveof real or supposed mentHl or moralcharacterlstir*. temperitinent, efo.Theso began aa descrlptive nlcknameeapplled to those who flrat bore themby their nelghbors and consequentlythey Indlcate the hlgh or low esteen-in whlch their flrst ownera were held.To this class belonga the surname

Taft. orlginally Daft.Daft and deaf. though now f.-ir apart

ln meanlng, wero originally onev andthe F.ame, hut the meanlng wna qultrdlfferent from that of elther of themnow.The earllest reeorded meanlng of the

word ln Engilsh is "mpek, mild. gentlehumhle." Its first. cited occurrenre irth. llterature ip that of the Anglo-Sax-on Gospels. Matthew xxl. B, of aboulono a. li.

"Xtt thln cj-ning the cyinth to thtgedaefte." etc. (Btfhold thy klng thatcometh to thee. meek, etc.) Here la arepltbet of the Messiah Klng and

*a

rendering of the prnus nf the Ciroekorlginal whlch la the sam'e word flfin the serond Beatltude.

In the Ormulum, two centurlfls later.we flnd the aame meanlng. For in-Ftanca ln verse 4610 we haye:"And meoc. 'and* dnffte, and se'deful."Here the ff ls due to Orm'a rulo of

.wrlting a doublo ennsonnnt after ashort vowel. This ls curloualy repro-ducef] ln Teffte, an early Americanvarlant of the surnai.ie.

ln the Old English Bestiary of about1225 we flnd the term applled (v. 37 >to the Mother of Chrlst:

"In that defte fneldpn.Marle bl name

The hlm bar to manne frame" (I. e.

advantage).In very much thesameway aa "sllly"

and "slmple," both of whlch survlve aasurnames in their earller meanlng,havo nndergone great changes in theirtveanlng and connotation. has "daft"also changed Into a synonym for "sllly.foollsh, stupld."The flrst clted occurrenoe of tha

word In this later sense date8 fromnbout 1325 and ls applied to beasts.Not untll more than a rentury laterhas it beon found applled to persons.

The Anglo-Paxon gedaefte Is con-nected with the verb gedafan. "to be-come. to heflt." whlch ls ln lurn con-nected wlth the Gothic gadaban of thesome meanlng; hence the prlmarymeanlng must have been becoming, flt,sultahle.''From the samp radlcal are also 1he

Old German names, Dabo, Tnbo. Tnpn,IDabicho, Tapljin. etc, nnd they lllus-jtrat.e the samc lnterchange of the Inl-Itial D Hnd T. whlch Is found in manyEnglish and Gernmn surnames and

Ipersonal names.Tlie earllest recorded ttse of the aur-

name In England, so far as the vrlterknows. ls the entry of one ¦WllllaniDaft, of Xottlnghampshlre, on the llun-dred Rolls of 127.1. One Daffe also.clearly a varlant form, Is found In thesame early record.Taft then means "the meek. the mlld,

the gentle." as this Is the only mean¬lng the word daft had at the tlme theHttrnnme arose.

Ilrynn.This Pttrnnme Is of the elass ralled

patronymlc nnd slgnlfles "the son ofBryan.'.'Tho personal name ls Celtlc and a

favorlte of greal anllquity, both in Ire-land and Brlttany. From the latter

However Scarce You Find Money,Your Home Need Lack No Comfort!

Even millionaires occasiona'lly find ihemselves short of read}-,iuoney, but they have an'es-tabiished credit and consequeMly- it does not inconvenience them.

You have thc samc privileges at this store as the wealthiest millionaire. We are glad tosell you when you want. thc goods, and you can pay us in weekly or monthly amounts that youcan spare without inconvenience.

Massive Solid Oak RollBedroom Suits,Heavy joiis head nnd foo't of bed,

shaptd front dresser. Flnest con-ftrudlon and (Inlsh; wcirth tullv$40.

$10.50, Solid Oak DresserLargf idato inliror; worth JU.OO.

PAY THIS WAY:$25 Worth, $1 Cash, 50c Week$50 Worth, $1 Cash, $1 Week

$100 Worth, $2 Cash, $2 Week

Iron Beds

We rarry the blgRest and bestatock of Iron B*ds ln the clty.Heavy White Enameled Beds, wlth

blg brass Knoba and ball-besrlngbraes cnittnr*. All Mzes. Regu-lar $5.00 value. Our spe- /fcn pvvcl»l nt . $J.5U

$0.2R Reds nt. $4,75810.35 Beds nt. $7,45$13,25 iinis Rt... . si>,4.-,$17.00 ttedi. nt.$n.im1510,00 llrn»« hed» nt.$20.00

50c a Week Will Pay for These

Refrigerators

$10.00 ones for. .fiil.nii$12.00 onen for... £7.011$115.00 ones for.$10.7.*$1H.Of> oric'a for.$tl.20$28,00 oiics for.$10,60

7 and 9 West Broad StreetThe Cheapest Cash or Credit Store in the City,

leoiintry, wh«ro II ln nllll n frequeniinine nniong the. ponanntry, Brlen wncnrrlod tnEnglttnd by thn Brntona WhAided ln tho Normon ConQiidBtiTho Dome.idny reoordn two undor

Ir.nnnts nf lands who bore the nameBrlen nnd Brlon, rospoctlvoly. Ottnext gront roglstry of nnmtw, thHtliKTrod Hollfl of 1273, rocortla th>r.nnn; In novornl countlea under thvarhtnt fnrms Brlen, Bryan, Bryon, flBrlnn, etc. It waa fnlrly popular forfew contiirlett nnd llngorod on In NortYorkshlre, AVcslinorelnud nnd Furnepaa n porsonnl nnmo untll the nnd otho eighleonth century. .So tho Bryanof England nre Bretona, not Trlah.Tho greatosl. nf tho Irlsli Brlans wn

tho renowned Brlan Bnrolmho (Borulthe I7fith monarch of Ireland, bovn li02B, nt Cennn-corndh (Klnkora), thrcyal soat nf hls nncostora. Tho regasplendor nnd tnngnltlcence of his rolgiwns equalod only by that fo Tara'soyerdign Corniuc Mnc Art, ln tho thlncentury.

Brlnn owed hls surname, Borolmhf"of tho Trlbttte" to the trlhuto ho lmposetl upon Ulster. Ho defeated thiDnnes ln twenty-flvo bitltlos *and w-a.then slain In int-i In the great legendnry battle of Clontarf.

Tlic grent Irlsh sept of tho O'Brlensof Thotnond, deaccnded from hlm amfrom tljem ninny of the Brlans, BrlensBrlnes. Brlons. Brynna, Bryens, BryneaBrynoys, MoBrlnna. etc O'Brlnns, etc.of tho present <lny recelve their sur-name.Tho name may have its orlgln ln tht

root of the Old Irish brlg, "vnlorstrength, worth," and, as an adjoctlve"powerfnl. strong, mlghty," the Gaellthrlgh, "substunce, cssence, power,'tVelsh hrl, "esteom, dlgnlty, honor,"Cornlsh and Breton bry, "regard, re-opect."Theso are Indlcatlve of qualltieg that

loom up promlnently above the ordl-nnry mediocrlty as the mountalns andhills tower nbovo the surroundingplaln. So the words have been thotightto bo correspondlng metnphors fromthe Old Irlsh hrl. brog. Cymrlc, Cor-nish nnd Breton brs. "mountaln, hill,"bry. "hlgh." Old Gaellc bratg, Gacllchrae. "hill." Howover thnt may bo,the name is better connected wlth thissecond group. Here belong also thoCeltlo Brlgantes ("Hill folk-7 a rltlshtrlbe, the Irlsh Brlglt, whose name lathe same In meanlng as thn LatlnAugusta. Cymrlc breenhln "klng," CSal-llo Brlgiani. Arebrlglum and otherproper names nnd the Old PerslanBardlya. a royni name whlch theGreeks called fcmerdlsvAmong tho many cognates nre the

Gothlc balrgahel, "mountaln-rango."Old Hlgh German berg, "mountaln."Cdd Norse bjarg. "rork." Anglo-Saxonboorg. beorh, 'hill." Engllsh harrow,Teutonic Burgundlones "HIghlarvders,"whence^ Burgundy, Old Slavonlc. brezuand Russlan bereg, "bank" (of a rlv-er). Armenlan bardzr, "hlgh," berda,"helght," Ossetic barzond, "hlgh," Per¬slan baland, "hlgh," Ayestan berozant,"hlgh" and Sanskrlt hrlhant. "hlgh,great." also a man's name.Bryan then may be rcndered "strong,

great.'' and Is pptly descriptlve of thecharacter of "tho Commnner."

Iluglicn.Kew narnes have done more to enrlch

onnmalology' than the personal nameHugh, whlch. wlth "its Northern andSouthern varlants, Hew and How, re-spectlvely. has glven us some sovnntypalronymles. It.s compounds and theirderlvatives easlly swell the number tomore than 100.

The pttrnnme Hughes Is one oftheso patronyralca, formed by the ad-dlllon nf the genltlval suffix s. andconsequently slgnlfles "the son ofHugh."The personal iy. le Hugo was known

ln England cven prior to the C'onquest,but was conflnod chiefly to forelunecrlcsiastics. It became frequent Im-meriiatelv nfte:- the Conqvjojt. andtherc are scores of Instances ln theDomesday.On the continent the name had been

frequent Bince tho aeventh een-tury. Hug. Hugo. Hoge. Hucko. Ucke.etc. were found ln Germany; Hugttos,Hues, Huon, Huet, etc. have been fre¬quent ln Franca slnce tho days ofHugurs le Grand. the powerfnl Countof Parls. and hls great son and name-aake. founder of the Capetlan llne; Ugoand Ugollno, the latter immortallzed byDante, have for ccnturies been at homeln Italy, and Ougon was not unknownto the Byzanttne Greeks. Dutch hua itsHuig nnd Xorse has had Itsi Hugi eversinco the fatnous vlslt of Thor to Ut-gHrd. wlien only Hugi could outstripeven tho god ln the race. for Hugi lsThought. Htlglnn and Munninn

The Globe Clothing Co. The Globe Clothing Co. The Globe Clothing Co.

Innovation and OvationInnovation, because this sale is conducted on absolutely the most out-of-the-

ordinary plan of any ever presented to the Richmond public. The values are of suchan extraordinafy character that this is without an exception the greatest opportunityever offered to purchase HIGH-CLASS and DEPENDABLE CLOTHING atREMARKABLY LOW PRICES.

Ovation.Never in the history of this' or any other Richmond store has thepublic response been so overwhelmingly great as has attended this remarkable eventfrom the opening of the doors Saturday moming. - There is no other phrase which wecan think of in the English language so expressive of our gratitude to this mark of con-fidence as the old time-worn and honored saying.WE THANK YOU.

Men's and Young Men's FANCYSUITS, all sizes, 34 to 44, $10values, 54 off> -¦' - " " - $7.50

Men's and Young Men's Suits,BLACK, BLUE'and FANCY, sizes34 to 44, $12 value, % off, - - $9.00

Men's and Young Men's FANCYSUITS, all sizes, 34 to 44,$18 value, lA off, - - - $13.50

Men's and Young Men's FANCYSUITS, all sizes, 34 to 44,$25 value, *4 off, - - -

1,000 Pairs Men's Pure Worsted * ppTi-nncorc worth $2.50 to $7.50, made *-/£ iT\4-frir0USerS» in the most up-to-datestyles, ^J- £111of costliest Worsteds, Fancy Stripes and ' ^^* *

Checks; special price,.

All Children's Clothing 1in the "Whirlpool" at

No closing of doors, no preparation, but a spontaneous determinationto clear out our SPRING SUITS at a discount of 25 per cent.

We Say WhatWe Do

THE^.BROAD AND

LOBESBVENTH ST3

We DoWhat We Say

(Thought and Mernory) were the two

raVens that sat on Odin's shoulders lnValhalla. whence thoy flew forth eachday over tlie whole wbrld and reportedon their retut'u all the deeds of men.The name Hugo may be one of the

comparatively few monothematic Ger-manlo personal names, or, perhapsmore llkely, a hypororlstlc form or

kosename from tho. compound Hugu-hert, whlch is more frequent and isfound in the records as early as thesixth century. This ls tho later Hubertnnd is a compound of Hugu and beraht(.brlght, renowned"), henee meanlng,"Bright or renowned of thought."Whothor slmple or compound, lt lsaptly npproprlatc to the executtve whothinks rather than talks.The orlgin of the name ls the Old

Hlgh r.erraan hugu. "thought. under-standing." This is cognate wlth tho OldSaxon hugi. Anglo-Saxon hygo, Dutchlieugr, Mlddle Dutch hoghe. Old Norsehugr, Gothlc hugs, all of tlie generalmeanlng "thought. mind, sens", under-standl-ig." etc. The word has beenplatiaibly connocted wlth the Sans-krlt shocatl (palatal sh), "illumine,shlno, burn," :ind Avestan soachant"b'urnlng." In tliat cas.c hugu ls the"llluminatlng thought."

Jnlinaon.tt ls ohvious to the merest tyro in

onomatology that this surname ls a

paironymlc signifylng "the son ofJohn."Tho personal name John is from the

Htebre'w Jebolianan, meanlng "Jehovah(ls) gracJoua." The prototheme is fromthe divine name Jeho\ah or Jahv«*h.The rleuterotheme appears ln cngnntoPl'.oonlcian names. as Hanno. "grace"and Hahnibal, "the grace of Baal." Itnppeara also in tho names Hannah andAnna, both from the Hebrew andmeanlng "grace."

.Tohn ls by far tho most frequent anduntversal of n?mes. Ono .lehohananwas a porter In Solomon'n temple. Fourothers ara mentioned In-t-he Old Testa-ment and nlno more are thero calledJohanan. Hananlah ls tho name namewlth the themesreversed, and there areft-urtee.n nf thla name In the Old Testa-nisnt. Tho mascullne Joannes undCominlne .loanna were frequent inJutlea at tho beglnning of tho Chris-tinn ern.The groat forcrunner, the heloved

disriple and that other evangellst sur-

t-nniod Mark, all made the name tre-mendously popular wlth the earlyChristlans, In a few generatlons thoname heonme tho most frequent onein lho Kast.

It ls found In England ln the slxthoehttiry and horne afterward by severalcccleslnstlca of the Anglo-Saxon days.It did not yet. however, grow into pop-ular favor. In Oie Domesday there aro

among tho nnder-tennnts slxty-olghtWllliams. forty-eight, Boberts, twenty-elght YValters, but only ten Johns.Tlio Crusaders, however, ga,ve fi.

mlghty ImpotuH to tho name and lt.aoon becamo" nlmosl n» general ln theWest aa it hnd long boen.ln tho East.lt is now the most frequent name lnChrtstendom, Every tonguo ln Europoknou-'the nnroe In sonio form or other.The Greek had made Joannes from

¦lohtihonan, or perhaps, rathor, fromJohanan. l.atln retalnod the h andmade Johnnnes. From one or the oth¬er of theso forms tlie other longuesfashloned their form of the name. Theresults differ widoly from ono nnother.They ineiu.de. for instanoe, lho IrlshShftwn ajid Eoin, the Gaellc Inn. theWelsh. Breton, Dutch. Pollsh nnd CzochJan, the Ruesinn Ivan and Vankn, thoI,app Jofnn, tho Ksthonlan Hannus andAifts, the Uth'iianlan ,Tonae, Jonkusand Knael-ls, the lllyrlan Jovan, .Tvoand Jvir, the Dutch Hans. thn SpnnishJtun, Portugiie-so Jono, French Jeannt tl many others.The piipularily of tho name ln Ktig-

land durlng the surnume perlod is wellr.ttestod hy Its dorlvatlve patronypilcs,over 100 ln number, Johnson Use"(£

stands ln the tenth place amon? Eng-Uth surnames in polnt t>( numbers. ThoV.'elsh form .Ioncs. stands In the sec¬ond. Tbese two eomblned outnumherthe ubiquitous fimlth. Add further theother patronymlcs l'roni .lohn found inEngland and Anierica, and. changingthe flrst term in Macaulay's famousromparlson of (he Meeds ln tho race,we may truly hay "the sons of .lohnnre flrst nnd the resi nowhcrc."

Cannon.Thls surname has a two-fold origln,

ticmetimcs Engllsh, somctimea Irish.When Engliah it belontfK to the niiiu-

erous category of offlelal or occupa-the surnames. thoye derlved from thecccupation or talling. or from the of-fice, civil, milllary, eccleslastlcal, etc,er' those that flrst bore them. So. thlssurname indlcates that the flrat 30denomlnated nold lhe eccleslastlcaldlgnlty of canon, a eleric Uvlng withinthe close of a cathedral or colleglatechurch, "nnd ordering his Hfe accord-ir.g to the canons or rules nf thechurch.The ?urnnmp ls found in the Hun-

drod llolls (12731 for O.xfordshfre, as leCannon and 10 Canon. Eater Cannone,Canoun, Chanoii, Cranoun and Clmn-non appear.The term canie into Old Engllsh ns

oanonie from the Old Northern Fronchoanonie. and later into Mid.lle EnK-llsh from the Central French ohanoine.henca the oduble spelling with c orch.

In origin it is a late substantlveuse of tho Latln adjectlve canonl-cus, from canon "a rule," whlchin turn ls borrowed from theGreek kanon. In Homer this Isa deslgnatlon for elthor of the tworcds running across the hollow of ashlekl, through whicli the arm wasplaced to hold lt, and also for a rodused in weavlng. In classlcal Greek itIs a rule or llne used by niasona andcarpentera, and then, metaphorically,any standard or noi'rn used to regulateor determlne other things. So Lycur-gus spoaks of law .13 the kanon of

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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,

ifOAv/f/tinrThe Minutest Detailclocsn't escap.c 'our. notice whenwe repair a carriage. That iswhat makes our work so rlurablcand so pe'rfect in this line. Whenyou Avant your carriage put infirst-rclas.i-'orcler and made as

gooci as new, bring it to Bosher's.. All latest s'tyles'vv

R. H. BOSHER'S SONS,IS South Ninth Street.

wrongs and Arlstotle calls man th*kanon and meaaure of truth. The worrls akln to kanna. "a rced,'^ whlch Iisuppoaed to be borrowed from thePhoeniclan knoh, "reed." Comparo As-syrlan kann. Sumerlan gin. "reed."The Irlsh surname has a very differ-

ont orlpln and siory. It is a nlcknamefrom an orlglual Cannanan. a com-pound of ceann. "hcad." and fhionn"white." heneo a semantlc equivalrntof the Engllsh Whiiehead.Among Its vartant form* are Can-

nan, Canaan. Oannon. K>nnan, Kcnnonetc.

Its protothemo is the Irish ceann.Old Irlsh cenn. "head." This ls eog-nate with the Gaellc ceann. Manx cioneCornlsh pen. Welsh and Breton penn."head, summlt, polnt." The G.illtc pen-no occurs in tho name of tho PennlneAlps. Among the other coenates arethe Old Slavonlc Iskonl, "from the be-glnhlng," konlci, "end." Llttle Russiankin, "cornc-r angle." and Russlankinati, "to corner."

Its deuterotheme Is the Irish andOaellc flonn (fhionn in compounds). OldIrlsh find "white." eognato wlth theU'elsh gwyn, Cornlsh guyn, Brctongwenn. "fair, white." The Gallic vlndosshows thls Is a nasallr.ed form of tliiiroot vld, "aee," in I.atin vldeo "seo,"Greek eldon (for evldon). "saw" andolda (for bdlda); "know" (literally"have seen"), Ranswrlt veda. "know."vedas "holy hooks" (llterory), theseen." that ls. in revclatlons toIts 'authors). Avestan vaedha "know,"Old Slavonlc vldetl "see." vedetl"know." Lithuanian veizdetl "see,"Gothic witan "know" aiid Engllsh witand wisdom.

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Burglar's Harvest£ Betterjtoreyourlilver andvalua-

ble bric-a-bracult» whil-e you ate out

of the city. You can haveanea»y mina at a small coiU

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GreatGrocery BargainsFrom the 20th to the 27th

and without limit we will .sellthe following groceries at as-

tonishing prices24-lb. Bag Gold Medal Flour_75c21-11). B.-isr Dtinlop l-'lour.83oQuakqr Wh> at. Berry, pkg. 7cQuakcr Corn Flake, very he.-t. «<.Small Stigar Cured Hcina. lb..!- t--'cTi-lb Can Diamond Ijiird.55cBest Granulatod Sugar.5 l-2e3 Ibs. Good Whito Lard....... .25cEonghorno Cheese, 3 lbs. for....50cFiijesl North Carolina Roe Her-

ring. dozen .% .23cMesslna Lemons. dosen .12 i-2cI^argo New Potatoes, por half pk. I8cGoo<^ Jllxod Tca, per lb.25c¦1 )h». Whole Graln Rice....25c

Fruits, Vegetables, FreshMeats and Fish of all kindsand prices according to theabove list.

Every article and satisfac-tion guarantecd or money rc-iunded.Prompt delivery eYerywhere.

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