A Corner in Ancestors
By ELEANOR LEXINGTON
Cumming Family
(Copyright by KeCltw Syndicate)
This Is a family which rose to great
power and eminence both In England
and Scotland.
Tha name Is derived from Comines,
a town of France, near Lille. Robert
Comine, a follower of the Conqueror,
became earl of Northumberland,
when William in 1060, or thereabouts,
was dealing out lands, manors and
titles, with a lavish hand. From Rob
art descended William Cumine, lord
chancellor of Scotland, 1124, time of
David I. The lord chancellor laid the
foundation of this powerful house, one
of the most powerful of Scotland.
Before the time of Robert, there
was an abbot of Icolmkill In the sixth
century, who was called Cummine,
and in the following century another
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fibbot, named Comlneas Albus. Sir
Kenneth Cumming was a knight er
rant of a later date.
| According to one story, the first of
Siote of the family was killed with
'Malcolm 111. In battle about 1093, and
lie left two sens, John and William,
and"from John all the Cumins of
Scotland descend."
Of this line, Sir John, the "Red
Cumin," or Comyn, was the first lord
of Badenoch, and In 1240 ambassador
to the court of France. His son,
John, called the "Black Lord of Bad
enoch, was inferior to no subject In
Scotland for wealth and power, and
Hamlin Family
Hamlin, at the time of Its birth as
a surname, was perhaps handicapped
as Haemhlynna. All along the ages It
has taken on a variety of forms, and
In records of the Hamlins we find that
Hamellnus (the Latin form) was one
of Its variants. And there were oth
ers: Harnmelln, Hamelln, Hamellne,
Hamllne, Hameln, Haemlyn, Hamlyn,
Hamlcn, Haiublin, and Hamblen.
Hamblen and Hamlin are the more
usual forms of the present day.
Hammellne is a name found in
Domesday Rook. One of William the
Conqueror's followers was called
Hamellnus, also Hamellne and Hame
lln. It was a custom, after the Con-
Quest, for persons who had come over
•with William to be called by the name
of the places they had come from, eith
er in Prance or other countries, and
to bestow those names upon the es
tates William so lavishly dealt out to
them Hamellnus may have been a
native of France or Germany. Hamra
is a town in Prussia, and was thus
called In the eleventh century, liamine
Is a place in Belgium. Hameln, or
Hamelin, in Hanover. Is famed as the
scene of the myth of the "Pied Piper
of Hameln." Although a myth, for a
considerable time the town dated its
public documents from that "event."
In the seventeenth century some one
writing of this myth, or "fact," us
he calls It, says: "No music is ever al
lowed to be played in this particular
street" —1. e., the street through which
the pied piper piped the children
Hameln or Hamelin is also called
Hameola and Hamelowe. Hamburg,
founded by Charlemagne in the ninth
century, Is a name having the same
derivation, that is, ham, hama, hainma,
or hanie, a word meaning house, or
dwelling or home. Prom the word
also comes hamlet, a collection of
houses I.ln, linn, llnne or llyn means
a pool, pond or lake. Hlynna is a sim
ilar Saxon word meaning a torrent.
Hammellyn. and its variations, there
fore, meant originally " a home by the
pool."
If Hamellnus, the follower of the
Conqueror, was a Frenchman born, his
native place wan undoubtedly Haia, a
email town und fortress on the river
Homme. This town was lu existence
as eurly as the ninth century.
Among seats of the (amity, dating
from that indefinite period known as
tlui<> Immemorial, may be named Lei
cesler; Kxi-ter; Hamllnstoii; Clovelly
('curt, Devonshire; also l.eawood,
HrldeMOwe, pusrhoe and Colebrook of
th>< tamn county. One name we find
in lb > records Is that of Thomas lluiu
it is. uldt MDMII of UrogbedH
was one who vowed to support Mar
garet, daughter of Alexander 111., In
her title to the crown." At her death
he became a competitor for the crown
of Scotland as the son and heir of
John, who was son of Donald, king of
Scotland.
"The great house of Comines" Is
the usual style, when speaking of the
family, but you can spell the name In
40, more or less, ways.
Here are a few samples for gratu
itous distribution: Beginning Comines,
the name of tho French town, the va
riations have been Cunmln, Cummin,
Cummins, Cumyn, Comin, Comyn,
Comines, Comynges, Comyns, Com
ings, Cummings, Cumlngs, Cumming.
Virginia and Maryland were early
homes of the Cumming family, and
there the name was usually spelled
Cummins. The marriage connections
of the southern branch include the
Polks, Dennys, Hydes, Holts, Jen
nings, Edmundsons, Herberts and
Langs.
In New England the more common
orthgraphy has been Cummings. Isaac
of Ipswich, Mass., is the forefather of
this line, and a valuable asset as an
ancestor for he was a man of mark,
holding many offices. In 1641, he was
constable, and his son Isaac was the
deputy, and he also held many offices
and was sergeant in an Indian war.
Isaac, the first, was a pillar of the
church, and none was more worthy
In the town than old Deacon Cum
mings.
The pilgrim had several children;
besides Isaac, there was John, who
married Sarah Howlet, daughter of
Sergt. Thomas and Alice French How
let of Woburn, Mass.
Heitman'e "Officers of the Amerl
can Revolution," records the names of
the following members of the Cum
mlng family—all thus spelled, with
the exception of Lieut. Alexander
"Cummins" of Virginia. The other
names are Lieutenants Thomas of
Massachusetts, '76 to '7B, and Thomaa
of the same state, '75; Lieutenant
Jotham of New Hampshire, his name
having the addition of "B; m ; Lieut
Col. John Noble Cumming of New
Jersey, '75 to 'B3. William Cumming,
born in Georgia, 1790, was in the war
of 1812, and his brother Alfred In the
Mexican war.
The coat-of-arms reproduced, la
blazoned: Azure; three garbs (or
wheat sheaves) within a bordure, or.
Crest: A garb, or.
Motto: Courage.
Another coat-armor, blazoned in
Burke's, is similar. Azure, an oval
buckle, between three garbs, within a
bordure, or.
In colonial times the more usual or>
thography of the name was Hamblen,
and many of those who now bear this
name, as well as many who are called
Hamlin, descend from James Hamb
len, who was one of the founders of
Cape Cod or Barnstable. Mass., where
liil
«■-
he settled In 163 a. Another immigrant
was Capt. Giles Hamlin, also called the
Honorable Giles. He settled at Mld
dletown, Conn.
The statesman of the family was
Hanulbal Hamltn, born In Maine I.*on-
Idas, who spelled the name Hamllne,
was lawyer, bishop, editor and author.
The coat-of-arnis Illustrated, for the
H&mllns of Leicester, Is blazoned by
Burke, gules (red), a Hon rampant,
ermine, crowned with an antique
crown, or, (gold).
Crest: Seven arrows, points upward,
proper (1.e., in proper or natural col
oring).
The Hamellns bears arms: Argent
(silver), three bulls passant, Mable.
' ''rest a hand plucking a rose from a
| bush, proper.
The arms Illustrated was granted to
' lohn ri< Hamollne, a knight of
! ter, lime of ISdward 1., or from 1272
to 1307. No date Is given for the
granting of the crest; nor do we know
upon whom it was bestowed While
! ormu may • xlst without crests, all
j treats bave their accompanying aruis.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1910.
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A Red Tag
By CLARISSA MACKIE
Copyright, igio, by Associated Literary Press
When Evelyn refused to mar
ry him, Dan Kennett quietly pulled
up stakes and got as far away from
New York as his limited supply of
money would take him. That Is how
he happened to be in charge of the
survey of the government tract near
Horse Lick Springs, Mont.
He had worked off the first bitter
sting of disappointment, but there
still remained the heartache and the
growing conviction that there never
could be another girl In the world for
him.
In May the surveying party was
within a stone's throw of the rail
road whose shining rails flashed from
east to west across the flat, gray
prairie. Each day at noon the steel
rails quivered under the thunder
ing burddn of the express train be
hind whose plate glass windows there
was a fleeting glimpse of faces before
the train became a mere speck in the
distance again.
Dan Kennett had learned to long
for its coming; there was always the
possibility—a foolish and vain one,
indeed —that some day It might come
flying out of the east bearing the girl
he loved to some other destination;
his dreams were always that he
might catch a glance of her eye or
see her face—just once. And yet it
never had happened, but there was al
ways the hope!
All things are probable when one
Is thousands of miles from home and
surrounded by flat stretches of gray
prairie. But several weeks ago he
had read in the society columns of a
Sunday paper a paragraph about
Evelyn Lane. She was preparing to
goto California to be gone a year
among friends.
So Kennett had watched the trains
now with some real hope that he
might see her passing, and he had
calculated to a pitiful nicety the
chances that she might, after all,
have a chair on the opposite side of
tlie train.
Today was hot and close; the sun
shone mercilessly down on the little
camp; the sagebrush crackled crisply
under foot and a great and undying
thirst seized the whole crew.
"We're going to give up for the rest
of the day, Dan," said one of the
boys about ten o'clock; "it's too
blamed hot to do another stroke of
work!"
"Very well," returned Dan, listless
ly; "I'm pretty well done up myself.
Guess I'll turn in for a while."
"We're going to ride over to the
Springs and load in some water —the
casks are getting low; it's lots cool
er fussing around the water than rus
tling around here. Better come
along."
"Perhaps I'll ride over a little
later," evaded Dan, turning into his
tent.
Browning smiled skeptically. "Wait
ing for the express, I'll bet a cookie!
If you were a girl, Dan, I'd say you
had a crush on the conductor of that
train, the hungry way you look at
it!"
"You'd be hungry looking, too, if
you were looking for your rich
uncle," retorted Dan, coolly.
"Get out!" sniffed Browning,
striding ofT. "We'll expect you after
your uncle arrives, eh?"
Dan did not reply. He stood In the
dooi way of the tent tingling with an
anticipation that he could not under
stand. Perhaps it was because Brown
ing had put some of his thoughts into
words or—well, nothing would happen
today. Probably Evelyn had gone by
another route —it would be just his
luck.
As noon drew near he wandered
about the deserted camp and along
the railroad, with his watch in his
hand. And then, just 011 time, he
heard the distant humming that an
nounced the coming of the train. It
grew louder and changed to a roar
and then to thunder.
He stepped back, the better to
watch the windows when they should
flash past, and then —wonder of won
ders —as it aproached the camp the
train slowed down almost to a stand
still. A man dropped down from the
engine and ran to the forward driv
ing wheels and the clank of a ham
mer on metal rang through the uoon
stillness.
Kennett walked eagerly along, look
ing up at the windows where stranger
faces peered curiously down at the
tall, strong ilgure clad 111 khaki with
a broad hat pulled over his forehead,
•o eagerly Inspecting the passengers.
When he reached the open door of
the baggage car the engine was ut
tering preliminary grunts and thick
black smoke drifted back, half ob
scuring the doorway. Thero was the
balking of several dugs and among
them a sharp Insistent yelp that
geetned vaguely familiar.
The smoke skirled aside and he
caught a glimpse of the Interior of
the car mid several crates containing
dogs In different degrees of content
ment. They seemed joined in pro
test against the liberty allowed a pret
ty fox terrier who danced delightedly
at the end of n long chain held by u
girl whose head was turned aside.
The train plunged forward, the fox
terrier uttered one shrill bark and
11 shed through the doorway, striking
Kennett fairly In the chest and
knocking hint over backward Then
tie express gathered speed and
thumb red away, leaving Keusetl sit
ting dazedly beside the track while
a crazy fox terrier leaped upon him
with velvet pink tongue and short,
excited yaps of joy. The chain dan
gling from the collar flapped in the
sagebrush and from a ring in the
collar hung a red tag.
It was all over and a miracle had
happened! Evelyn had been on that
train. She was the girl who had
stood in the baggage car and of
whose face he had had a fleeting
glimpse as the train dashed away!
This crazy fox terrier, who had rec
ognized in him a former master, was
none other than Evelyn's dog. Flip.
He gathered the wriggling little beast
in his arms and rocked him lovingly.
The red tag bore a number and a
most precious name—Evelyn's—aud
the destination, Loa Angeles. He
stored it away in his pocket.
He related the Incident, shorn of
its personal details, to the wondering
party of water carriers when they
came back to camp, and they accept
ed the addition of Flip with a hearty
good will.
Several days passed while Dan
marveled that no inquiry had been
putin motion by the railroad people
for the absconding bit of baggage.
Late one afternoon he rode over to
the Springs; there was no mail at the
postofflce, and when he had finished
his business he mounted his horsa
and rode slowly out of the town back
to the camp; Flip gamboled about
the heels of the horse.
The way led among sand dunes
standing like hooded monks along
the trail; he stopped once and, half
turning in his saddle, looked at the
sunset. It reddened his bronze face
and glinted on the damp rings of hair
on his forehead. He pushed back hla
hat from his head and listened.
The steady beat, beat of hoofs
grew nearer; some one was coming
from the town—perhaps one of the
boys had been In —but he had left all
of them at camp. He waited for the
rider to catch up with him. The
horse was a strange one and the rider
did not resemble any of his friends.
A broad hat flapped up and down.
Dan Kennett's heart went up and
down, up and down, as a girl's lovely
face was revealed under the broad
brim of the flapping hat; it stopped
altogether when the rider resolved
into Evelyn Lane herself, coming
toward him with tremulous smile and
pleading eyes. Flip raced crazily
toward her.
"Dan!" she called, and it woke him
from his stupor of surprise. In an
instant he was on the ground and
holding out his arms, and she slipped
down from the saddle and Into hla
embrace with the happiest sigh of
content in the world.
Perched on a sand dune, after a
long period of bliss, she told him how
she came to be there.
She had loved him, but had doubted
her own heart; and he had gone
away so quickly. If he had waited a
little! Then things had been very
dull and she had decided to spend a
year with an aunt in Los Angeles.
She and Flip had started, and the day
the train had stopped she had been
visiting the terrier in the baggage
car. When the chain slipped from
her hand, she had caught an instant's
glimpse of her lover.
At the first stop she made use of
the Information gathered as to the
stopping place in the prairie; had
taken a local train to the nearest
point to Horse Lick Springs; had
taken a stage to the Springs and from
a hotel window had seen Dan Ken
nett.
She had called for a horse and
followed him and —here sho was!
Dan took her back to the Springs in
the afterglow, and the next day ho
accompanied her to a railroad sta
tion where she could resume her jour
ney westward; he would join her as
soon as his work was done and then
they could be married. Hefore they
parted, Dan solemnly tore Ilia red tag
In two pieces and gave one to his
sweetheart. "If it hadn't been for
that, Evelyn," he murmured, "thli
might not have happened."
Browning was relating a glimpse
he had had of Dan's meeting with his
sweetheart. "I say. fellows," he con
cluded, "I never saw a chap so glad
to see his rich uncle in my life!"
Some Dreams of Color.
The combination of two tones by
veiling has become a common device.
Therefore designers are always on
the alert for new color schemes, nor
are they content with two colors.
Below are it few combinations that
have been tried which may provo
suggestive to one-looking for new ef
fects.
Taupe tulle veils turquoise blue,
' which In turn shields delicately all-
I vered gauze.
Over brilliant red satin Is hung
' purple moussellne de solo covered
{ with pale blue net.
! Gold net Is effective laid over Nat-
Met blue, with palest tnauvo hung
I over that.
One of tho newest frocks shows an
openwork design of whllo euibroltler
d mull over a slip of rerlae nutlll,
with, over the whole, a drapery of
night blue motiKsellne tie sole.
Cannot Be Hidden.
True work Inexorably asctinda sooa
-1 er ur later Into tho llfht of the day.
IS GAY WITH FLOWERS
SEASON'S MODES CALL FOR
BRIGHT TRIMMINGS.
Roses and Poppies Divide Honors as
Favorites on Hats, Bodices and
Even Gowns—Other Flowers
Favored.
Paris said "fruits and flowers" this
fall, but it seems only flowers found a
responsive echo in the popular taste
of America. There are so many of
these, on hats, bodices and even on
gowns that the season is gay with
them. Roses and poppies have di
vided honors as favorites. The large
velvet poppy In red, and In all other
colors, has proved a strong feature
with the milliner. Roses both in vel
vet and silk as made by the manufac
turers are almost everywhere. They
v*.- ;U
are in rich colorings and lustrous sur
faces. A single velvet rose in a vivid
cerise sets off a hat or gown of royal
purple, and delights the eye as much
as music charms the car.
The zinnia, chrysanthemum and
DETAILS OF THE TOILETTE
Accessories Have Great Deal to Do
With Smartness of General
Effect.
The details and the accessories of a
toilette often mean Its smartness. Just
now there is a great tendency toward
the use of wide collars, and often
these collars are in sailor shape at the
back extended to form revers at the
front that reach quite to the belt. New
ones are made of black satin and de
signed to be worn over white or col
ored blouses.
Simulated boleros are among the
latest developments of dressy cos
tumes and numbers of new gowns are
made with trimming so manipulated
that it falls loosely over the high gir
dle giving the bolero suggestion. Smart
ones are edged with gold and bead
fringe not more than an inch in width
and the effect Is exceedingly attractlvo.
It has been said again and again that
the genuine boleros will make a fea
ture of mid-winter and early spring
and it is likely that these suggested
ones are forerunners of the Incoming
style, but in any case they are pretty
and attractive and very generally be
coming.
All sorts of new materials are used
for the making of blouses to wear with
tailored suits, but the latest is all
over cotton embroidery in cyolet de
sign, dyed to match the costume, made
over a soft silk which may bo In
matching color or of contrast ns best
suits the special costume. A lovely
gray oue seen recently Is made over
pale pink silk veiled with chiffon and
the result is fascinating in the ex
treme. •
Use of Turpentine.
There are few houses that are not
familiar with some uses of turpentine.
Turpentine und soap will remove Ink
stnlns; a few drops added to water,
In which clothes are boiled, will
whiten them. Pitch, wheel greaso and
tar can be quickly removed If the
spot is covered with lard and soaked
with turpentine: Ivory knife handles
that become yellow can be restored
to their whiteness by rubbing with
turpentine. An equal mixture of tur
pentine and linseed oil will remove
white murks on fvrnlture. Clean gilt
frames with a sponge moistened with
turpeutlne.
The Literary Man
When 1 g«'t home where I IH*' tit I ;
will r%?inov« my \*lf«*'»i new hut from
my and my d*H*hter'ii >oik» und
my wue bnby'w building blocks, three
H pools of thread. dome tutting frame*
it box or two of eut-out gamea, eouie
Rclamurs, unil my wife'* iu-w wulata, a
box of tuck* Hltd Homo tooth ptltr, u
conk book ttnd U NtiHlliK kit. *OlllO Ift
(< r» that my wile ban writ, WIM uv>-
|ilu corea the kid* put there, one or
two *;ul» of hand uintle hulr, u buttle
aster, are other flowers that are fa
vored. Pansles and violets were in
evitable as a result of the fancy fop
purple in gowns. They are lifelike and
very beautiful. Small silk flowers, set
in compact bouquets, and especially
the heliotrope, hydrongia and forget
me-not, appear in millinery of the
highest class.
But of all flower decorations, the
roses, made of satin and metal tissues
combined (cleverly fashioned by fold
ing the material about a form, or by
making separate petals) have proved
the most distinctive and beautiful.
They make one think of a brilliant
winter sunset. Gold, silver and cop
per tissues, in blight or oxidized fin
ish, plain or figured surfaces, are com
bined with satin in any rich color that
harmonizes best with them.
These made roses are not confined
to millinery at all. They are made in
effective bouquets for the corsage, and
in pompons or wreaths for the hair,
and appear on the shirt draperies
where these are caught up or fas
tened to the shirt. A bouquet of chif
fon roses and tiny buds of chiffon
make an exquisite garniture for the
bodice. The foliage for all these fab
ric flowers is also made of the fabric
(satin and metallic) and is usually
small and inconspicuous, stems are ot
wire wound with silk. Such rich ef
fects must be sparingly used.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
HOLDER FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
Novel Idea for Those Who Employ
Spare Time In Making Pretty
Trifles.
Something that will hold a number
of midget or carte-de-vlslte photo
graphs makes a pretty and, at the
same time, useful decoration for the
wall. The novel one we illustrate
will, I feel sure, be appreciated by
our readers, who employ their spare
tiiuc in making protty trilles to beau
tify their homes.
For this holder you must cut a largft
star out of stout cardboard; It would
be well after deciding on the size to
cut It out In paper to ensure getting
the points all the same size and
shape. When this is correct mark It
iu pencil on the cardboard, and you
can cut it out without difficulty. Cover
first with a piece of olive-green satin,
silk or linen, then line the back with
sateen, bind the edges with a pretty
galloou or with gold tinsel lace. Two
(■traps of ribbon at least six inches
wide are drawn lightly across the
star, and the ends are finished on op
posite sides with bows of narrower
ribbon. The straps of ribbon may be
tacked down here and there at the
lower edge, A loop of ribbon finished
with a bow is sewn at the back to
bang the star up by.
of sl.oo polish, too, a hair brush and
a baby shoo, »otno stockings that aro
worth a duru. a skelu or two of darn
liiK yarn, a picture book or two or
thioo, u picture tin bo has drawn for
uic. a rubber bull, it pleco of KUIU.
sumo picture postcards and a druiu.
1 1l do all that whun I K»t hoot* and
then write an Immortal |H>me that will
have Sw Inburne double croMMi d If all
uty pencils atw uut lw«l. Uuuatou
I'ost.