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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt: ... REPORT. To the Senate and House of Representatives: The Board of Agriculture met at the Capitol in Augusta, January 16, 1861. Permanent organization was effected by the unanimous election of the following officers: Samuel F. Perley, President. Samuel Wasson, Vice President. S. L. Goodale, Secretary. Messrs. Wasson, Chamberlain and Goodale were appointed a Business Committee to present subjects for the consideration of the Board. Mr. Chamberlain presented a report on a subject assigned him at the previous session, as follows: What specific changes in the management of our agricultural societies would increase their usefulness? REPORT. This question is one that presents itself to the managers of all these associations, from that of a town, to that of the National Society, and recurs with each successive year's operations. Change, merely for the sake of change or novelty, is not without its effects. This is well understood by all who aim to move the masses either for good or for evil. There is now a waning interest in agricultural exhibitions. The changes that have been rung, "to draw the crowd," have ceased to be potent. The people tire, and tell us by their absence, that "the thing does not pay." The last exhibition of the United States Agricultural Society, from the small number of visitors, is reported as a failure. Thereason assigned is, that local exhibitions--County and State--detracted from it. There was not a concentration of local interest. Our own State Exhibition, though a reasonable success as a shoWjVifficiently full to interest and instruct any inquiring visitor, lacked" ip" patronage. It failed to pay its current expenses. Tk«-reports that have reached us, are almost unanimous in representing a great abatement in interest in sustaining c...

Publisher: The Macmillan company Publication date: 1915 Subjects: Plague California Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories History / General Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: New York, General Protestant Episcopal S.S. Union and Church Book Society; Publication date: 1859; Subjects: Music / Religious / Hymns; Religion / Christianity / Anglican; Religion / Christianity / Episcopalian; Religion / Prayerbooks / General;

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II. SCENE I—France. Before the Walls of Anglers. Enter on one side, the Archduke Of Austria, and Forces; on the other, Philip, King of France, and Forces; Lewis, Constance, Arthur, and Attendants. Lew. Before A ngiers well met, brave Austria.— "Arthur,' that great forerunner of thy blood, Richard, that robbed the lion of his heart, And fought the holy wars in Palestine, By this brave duke came early to his grave;2 And, for amends to his posterity, At our importance 3 hither is he come To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf, And to rebuke the usurpation Of thy unnatural uncle, English John: Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither. Arth. God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion s death Tin, rather that you give his offspring life, Shadowing their right under your wings of war. 1 Arthur.] This is a nominative of direct address. 2 By thin brave duke, $c. This is not true. Leopold V., archduke of Austria, discovered and seized the disguised Cceur-de-Lion in Vienna, and afterwards gave him tip to the Emperor Henry VI., by whom he was imprisoned in a fortress at Worms; but Leopold died five years before Richard. 3 Importance Importunity. I give you welcome with a powerless hand, But with a heart full of unstained love: Welcome before the gates of Anglers, duke. Lew. A noble boy ! who would not do thee right! Aust. Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss, As seal to this indenture of my love— That to my home I will no more return, Till Anglers, and the right thou hast in France, Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,'.— Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tidus, And coops from other lands her islanders, Even till that England, hedged in with the main, That water-walled bulwark, still secure2 And confident from foreign purposes, Eve...

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1855. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXI. THE LETTER REACHES SARATOGA IS FORWARDED TO ANNE IS LAID BEFORE HENRY B. NORTHUP THE STATUTE OF MAY 14, 1840 ITS PROVISIONS ANNE'S MEMORIAL TO THE GOVERNOR THE AFFIDAVITS ACCOMPANYING IT SENATOR SOULE's LETTER DEPARTURE OF THE AGENT APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR ARRIVAL AT MARKSVILLE THE HON. JOHN P. WADDLLL THE CONVERSATION ON NEW-YORK POLITICS IT SUGGESTS A FORTUNATE IDEA THE MEETING WITH BASS THE SECRET OUT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED DEPARTURE OF NORTHUP AND THE SHERIFF FROM MARKSVILLE FOR BAYOU BOIUF ARRANGEMENTS ON THE WAY REACH EPPs' PLANTATION DISCOVER HIS SLAVES IN THE COTTON FIELD THE MEETING THE FAREWELL. I Am indebted to Mr. Henry B. Northup and others for many of the particulars contained in this chapter. The letter written by Bass, directed to Parker and Perry, and which was deposited in the post-office in Marksville on the 15th day of August, 1852, arrived at Saratoga in the early part of September. Some time previous to this, Anne had removed. to Glens Falls, Warren county, where she had charge of the kitchen in Carpenter's Hotel. She kept house, however, lodging with our children, and was only absent from them during such time as the discharge of her duties in the hotel required. M 19 Messrs. Parker and Perry, on receipt of the letter, forwarded it immediately to Anne. On reading it the children were all excitement, and without delay hastened to the neighboring village of Sandy Hill, to consult Henry B. Northup, and obtain his advice and assistance in the matter. Upon examination, that gentleman found among the statutes of the State an act providing for the recovery of free citizens from slavery. It was passed May 14,1840, and is entitled "An act more effectually to protect the free citizens of this State from being kidnapped or reduced to slavery." It pro...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Boston : Lothrop Pub. Co.; Publication date: 1897; Subjects: Antiques

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1887. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OF ONE HANS PFAALL. With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. Tom O'Bedlam's Song. By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears. It appears that on the ―――day of ―――(I am not positive about the date), a vast crowd of people, for purposes not specifically mentioned, were assembled in the great square of the Exchange in the well-conditioned city of Rotterdam. The day was warm--unusually so for the season--there was hardly a breath of air stirring; and the multitude were in no bad humor at being now and then besprinkled with friendly showers of momentary duration, that fell from large white masses of cloud profusely distributed about the blue vault of the firmament. Nevertheless, about noon, a slight but remarkable agitation became apparent in the assembly; the clattering of ten thousand tongues succeeded; and, in an instant afterward, ten thousand faces were upturned toward the heavens, ten thousand pipes descended simultaneously from the corners of ten thousand mouths, and a shout, which could be compared to nothing but the roaring of Niagara, resounded long, loudly and furiously, through all the city and through all the environs of Rotterdam. The origin of this hubbub soon became sufficiently evident. From behind the huge bulk of one of those sharply defined masses of clou...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... He had lain so quiet for many hours that they thought he slept, but suddenly Rachel perceived that his eyes were wide open and that he was listening intently to the wind whistling in the space between the houses. Its rushing passage produced a last flicker in the fantastic mind. "The cars! We're whirlin' --" His mouth opened in astonishment. "Stop, look, listen!" he muttered faintly, turning his eyes to hers. Then the air ceased to undulate, grew quiet, above his still and amazed face. The first golden beams of the sun peeped in at the windows as old David's soul, in the majesty of its innocence, passed from earth. CHAPTER VIII A WOMAN'S CAPRICE A FATHER'S REPENTANCE A LOVER'S SELF-CONQUEST -- A Girl's PITY When Simon Hart agreed to his cousin's plan, and Rachel, despite her protests, was conveyed from the hospital to Julia Burgdorf's house, he did not experience the unpleasantness he had anticipated. The personality of his cousin was not agreeable to him. He had never liked her; partly, because he was jealous of a social prestige which he himself had never been able to attain; partly, because he disapproved of her dropping her family name, for Julia, when a child, had adopted the cognomen of a distant relahe announced that he hoped sometime to marry Miss Beckett, Julia's amazement was complete. Hoped! She gasped, then shrugged. What did he mean by taking that tone, a man of his position? It was mock humility -- hypocrisy more disgusting than any of which she had dreamed him capable. But she soon discovered that his lack of assurance was justified. At first she doubted. The "young person" (for it was thus Julia in thought designated Rachel) but cherished deep-laid plans, holding Simon the more securely by appearing not to desire to hold him. It was clever acting...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... PRIVATE CLOTHES At half-past nine the crew of the Merman were buried in slumber, at nine thirty-two three of the members were awake with heads protruding out of their bunks, trying to peer through the gloom, while the fourth dreamt that a tea-tray was falling down a never-ending staircase. On the floor of the forecastle something was cursing prettily and rubbing itself. "Did you 'ear anything, Ted?" inquired a voice in an interval of silence. "Who is it?" demanded Ted, ignoring the question. "Wot d'yer want?" "I'll let you know who I am," said a thick and angry voice. "I've broke my blarsted back." "Light the lamp, Bill," said Ted. Bill struck a tandsticker match, and carefully nursing the tiny sulphurous flame with his hand, saw dimly some high-coloured object on the floor. He got out of his bunk and lit the lamp, and an angry and very drunken member of Her Majesty's foot forces became visible. "Wot are you doin' 'ere?" inquired Ted, sharply, "this ain't the guard-room." "Who knocked me over?" demanded the soldier sternly; "take your co--coat off lik' a man." He rose to his feet and swayed unsteadily to and fro. "If you keep your HT 'eads still," he said gravely, to Bill, "I'll punch 'em." By a stroke of good fortune he selected the real head, and gave it a blow which sent it crashing against the woodwork. For a moment the seaman stood gathering his scattered senses, then with an oath he sprang forward, and in the lightest of fighting trim waited until his adversary, who was by this time on the floor again, should have regained his feet. "He's drunk, Bill," said another voice, "don't 'urt 'im. He's a chap wot said 'e was coming aboard to see me--I met 'im in the Green Man this evening. You was coming to see me, mate, wasn't you?" The soldier looked up st...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1878 Excerpt: ... me of my great error in wishing to match you with wealth and position, unaccompanied by worth and manhood." "Your great and only wish, dear father, was to see me truly happy. You mistook the road which would lead to happiness, and willingly left it, when you found that you were wrong." "And in doing so strengthened the cords of love and affection which bind our family closely together, and learned a valuable lesson, that I would leave as a rich legacy to those who come after me," was her father's reply. "William," said his wife, "we were both in error. I thought that Susie should not know how to do the least thing about the house. Mother Waters convinced me of my error; took Susie, a simple girl, just out of a boardingschool, and not physically rugged, and in a few months, returns her to us improved in strength, and an accomplished house-keeper. Mother always took a commonsense view of every subject; and had she not been at sea with father, and been able to attend to my education, I should have had less to learn after we were married." "Well, Laura, as we have both been wrong, both seen and given up our errors, we can impart some lessons of wisdom to our children, which may assist them in their journey through life. Now let us say good evening." The parents and children separated, mutually pleased with the meeting and its results. CHAPTER XLIX. HARDEGRIP KILLS HIS HOGS AND LOSES HIS SAUSAGES. AFTER George Wilson and Susie Morton left the Waters Snug Harbor, those remaining on the farm, and especially the Captain and Bo'son, appeared for a few days very lonely. The captain used his horses on the road in pleasant weather, and was generally accompanied by Mrs. Waters. When the weather or roads were unsuited to riding, the Captain was occupied with reading, an...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... SINKING-FUND CASES. Union Pacific Railroad Company v. United States. Central Pacific Railroad Company v. Gallatin. (99 U. S., 700.) 1. So far as it establishes in the treasury of the United States a sinking-fund, the act of Congress approved May 7, 1878 (20 Stat. 56), entitled "An Act to alter and amend the act entitled 'An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes,' approved July 1,1862, and also to alter aud amend the act of Congress approved July 2, 1864, in amendment of said first-named act," is not unconstitutional. 2. The debt of the respective companies therein named to the United States is not paid by depositing and investing the fund in the manner prescribed by that act. 3. Retaining in the fund the one-half of the earnings for services rendered to the government by the respective companies, which, by the act of July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. 356), was to be paid, does not release the government from such payment. Although kept in the treasury, the fund is owned by them, and they will be entitled to the securities whereof it consists which remain undisposed of when the debts chargeable upon it shall bo paid. Under the circumstances, such retaining is, in law, a payment to them. 4. The establishment of the fuud is a reasonable regulation of the administration of the affairs of the companies, promotive alike of the interests of the public and of the corporators, and is warranted under the authority which Congress has, by way of amendment, to change or modify the rights, privileges, and immunities granted by it. 5. The right of amendment, alteration, or repeal reserved by Congress in said acts of 18...