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1528.] O'Connor. 'A letter from the King!' said the insolent chieftain when it was brought to him, 'what king? If I may live one year, I trust to see Ireland in that case that there shall be no more mention here of the King of England than of the King of Spain.' Still, however, it was thought inconvenient to venture extremities. Henry allowed himself to make use of Kildare' s assistance to soothe the immediate storm. An old desire of the Irish had been that some prince of the blood should govern them; he nominated, therefore, his natural son, the Duke of Richmond, as viceroy; and having no adequate force in Ireland to resist an insurrection, and no immediate means of despatching any such force, he was once more obliged to pardon and restore the traitorous Gferaldine; appointing, at the same time, Sir William Skeffington, a moderately able man, though too old for duty, as the Duke of Richmond's deputy, and directing him to govern with the advice and co-operation of the Earl of Kildare.

To this disastrous weakness there was but one counterpoise—that the English party in the council of Ireland was strengthened by the appointment of John Allen to the archbishopric of Dublin and the office of chancellor. Allen was one of the many men of talent who owed their elevation to Wolsey. He was now sent over to keep watch on Kildare, and to supply the


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164 with, accurate information which might be relied upon as a ground for action. Till this time (and the fact is one which ought to be borne in mind), the Government had been forced to depend for their knowledge of the state of the country either on the representations of the deputy, or the private accusations of his personal enemies; both of them exceedingly untrustworthy sources. Henceforward there runs a clear stream of light through the fog and night of confusion, furnished either by the Archbishop or by Allen, Master of the Rolls, who was most likely his kinsman.

The policy of conciliation, if conduct so feeble deserves to be called a policy at all, had now reached its limit; and it amounted to confessed imbecility. Twice deposed from power on clear evidence of high treason, Lord Kildare was once more restored. It cost him but a little time to deliver himself of the presence of Skeffmgton; and in 1532 he was again sole deputy. All which the Earl of Surrey had foretold came to pass. Archbishop Allen was deprived of the chancellorship, and the Archbishop of Armagh, a creature of the Geraldines, was substituted in his place. Those noblemen and gentlemen who had lent themselves to the interests of the English in the Earl's absence were persecuted, imprisoned, or murdered. They had ventured to be loyal from a belief in the assurances which had been made to them; but the Government was far off and Kildare was near; and such of them as he condescended to spare 'were now driven in self-defence, maugre their wills, to


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1533.] follow with the rest.' The wind which filled the sails of the ship in which Kildare returned, blew into flames the fires of insurrection; and in a very Saturnalia of Irish madness the whole people, with no object that could be discovered but for very delight in disorder itself, began to tear themselves to pieces. Lord Thomas Butler was murdered by the Geraldines; Kildare himself was shot through the body in a skirmish; Powerscourt was burnt by the O'Tooles; and Dublin Castle was sacked in a sudden foray by O'Brien Oge. O'Neil was out in the north; Desmond in the south; and the English pale was overrun by brigands. Ireland had found its way into its ideal condition that condition towards which its instincts perpetually tended, and which at length it had undisputedly reached. The Allens furnished the King with a very plain report of the effect of his leniency. They dwelt boldly on the mistakes which had been made. Re-echoing the words of the Report of 1515, they declared that the only hope for the country was to govern by English deputies; and that to grudge the cost seemed 'consonant to the nature of him that rather than he will depart with fourpence he will jeopard to lose twenty shillings—which fourpence, disbursed in time, might have saved the other.' They spoke well of the common Irish. 'If well governed,' they said, 'the Irish would be found as civil, politic, and active, as any other nation. But what subjects under any prince in the world,' they asked, 'would love or defend the rights of that prince


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166 who, notwithstanding their true hearts and obedience, would afterwards put them under the governance of such as would persecute and destroy them?' Faith must be kept with those to whom promises had been made, and the habit of rewarding treason with concessions must be brought to an end. 'Till great men suffer for their offences,' they added, significantly, 'your subjects within the English pale shall never live in quietness, nor stand sure of their goods and lives. Therefore, let your deputy have in commandment to do justice upon great thieves and malefactors, and to spare your pardons.'

These were but words, and such words had been already spoken too often to deaf ears; but the circumstances of the time were each day growing more perilous, and necessity, the true mother of statesmanship, was doing its work at last.

The winter months passed away, bringing only an increase of wretchedness. At length opened the eventful year of 1534, and Henry learnt that excommunication was hanging over him—that a struggle for life or death had commenced—and that the Imperial armies were preparing to strike in the quarrel. From that time onward the King of England became a new man. Hitherto he had hesitated, temporized, delayed—not with Ireland only, but with the manifold labours which were thrust upon him. At last he was awake. And, indeed, it was high time. With a religious war


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1534.] on the eve of explosion, he could ill tolerate a hotbed of sedition at his door; and Irish sedition was about to receive into itself a new element, which was to make it trebly dangerous.

Until that moment the disorders in Ireland had arisen out of a natural preference for anarchy. Every man's hand was against his neighbour, and the clans made war on each other only for revenge and plunder, and the wild delight of the game. These private quarrels were now to be merged in a single cause—a cause which was to lend a fresh stimulus to their hatred of England, and was at once to create and consecrate a national Irish spirit.

The Irish were eminently Catholic; not in the high sense of the word—for 'the noble folk' could 'oppress and spoil the prelates of the Church of Christ of their possessions and liberties' without particular scruple —but the country was covered with churches and monasteries in a proportion to the population far beyond what would have been found in any other country in Europe; and there are forms of superstition which can walk hand in hand with any depth of crime, when that superstition is provided with a talisman which will wash away the stains of guilt. The love of fighting was inherent, at the same time, in the Celtic nature. And such a people, when invited to indulge their humour in the cause of the Church, were an army of insurrection ready made to the hands of the popes, the value of which their


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168 were not slow to learn, as they have not been quick to forget.

Henry was aware of the correspondence of Desmond with the Emperor. He, perhaps, also expected that the fiction might be retorted upon him (as it actually was) which had been invented to justify the first conquest of the island. If Ireland was a fief of the Pope, the same power which had made a present of it to Henry II. might as justly take it away from Henry VIII.; and the peril of his position roused him at length to an effort. It was an effort still clogged by fatality, and less than the emergency required: but it was a beginning, and it was something.

In February, 1534, a month before Clement pronounced his sentence, the Earl of Kildare was required, for the third and last time, to appear and answer for his offences; and a third time he ventured to obey. But England had become a changed country in the four years which had passed since his last presence there, and the brazen face and fluent lips were to serve him no more. On his arrival in London he was sent to the Tower, and discovered that he had overstepped his limits at last. He was now shrewd enough to see that if a revolt was contemplated no time was to be lost. He must play his last card, or his influence was gone


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1534.] for ever. Lord Thomas Fitzgerald, his eldest son, who in his boyhood had resided in England, had been left as vice-deputy in his father's absence. The Earl before his departure had taken precautions to place the fortresses of the pale, with the arms and ammunition belonging to the Government, in the hands of dependents whom he could absolutely trust. No sooner was his arrest known than, in compliance with secret instructions which had been left with them, or were sent from England, his friends determined upon rebellion.

The opportunity was well chosen. The April. Government of Ireland was in disorder. Skeffington was designed for Kildare's successor, but he was not yet appointed; nor was he to cross the Channel till he had collected a strong body of troops, which was necessarily a work of time. The conditional excommunication of the King was then freshly published; and counsels, there is reason to think, were guiding the Irish movement, which had originated in a less distempered brain than that of an Irish chieftain. Rumours were flying in the southern counties in the middle of June that a Spanish invasion might be immediately looked for, and the Emperor's chaplain was with the Earl of Desmond. His mission, it was said, was to prepare the way for an Imperial army; and Desmond himself was fortifying Dungarvan, the port at which an


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170 invading force could most conveniently land. There is, therefore, a strong probability that Charles V., who had almost promised to execute the Papal sentence in the course of the summer, was looking for the most vulnerable point at which to strike; and, not venturing to invade England, was encouraging an Irish rebellion, with a view to following up his success if the commencement proved auspicious.


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1534.] Simultaneously with the arrival of these unwelcome news, the English Grovernment were informed by letters from Dublin, that Lord Thomas Fitzgerald had thrown off his allegiance, and had committed infinite murders, burnings, and robbings in the English pale; making 'his avaunt and boast that he was of the Pope's sect and band, and that him he would serve, against the King and all his partakers; that the King of England was accursed, and as many as took his part.' The signal for the explosion was given with a theatrical


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 156 this vast sovereignty, and had a population about the same as to-day. The wondrous tale of its wealth and grandeur and imposing magnificence has been often told; also how it was razed to the ground by the conquerors, and its canals filled with the debris of temple and palace. It was then rebuilt, and rose from its ashes exceeding its original splendor; and to-day—having withstood sieges, and witnessed the rise and fall of rulers, from the Spanish viceroys to the Habsburg—it stands in unrivaled beauty, the capital of the Mexican Republic.

Wonderful impressions present themselves to a thoughtful mind on entering for the first time this great metropolis, where every foot of ground is historic—the Rome of America, once the Venice. At the time of the conquest, in 1519, every street was a canal, thronged with Indians, peculiarly attired, paddling along in their canoes, conducting the entire commercial and agricultural business of the valley of Anahuac! "How gay and picturesque must have been the aspect of the lake in those days," says Prescott, "with its shining cities and flowering islets rocking, as it were at anchor, on the fair bosom of its waters!"

The ancient city had then three distinct avenues or causeways which connected it with the mainland, and to which is attached much historic interest.

The Spaniards first entered the city at its southern extremity by the causeway of Iztapalapan. The Tepeyac is on the northern boundary, and is connected with the first-mentioned causeway by a long street. It was on the hill Tepeyac that the Virgin Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego. Owing to this, Tepeyac is also known as Guadalupe. It is three miles from the city. The third causeway, Tlacopan, is quite as memorably historic. The Calle de Tacuba is the ancient causeway of Tlacopan. It was here that the Spaniards were defeated by the Aztecs, and, as is related by all historians, here also Pedro Alvarado made his famous leap, on the terrible night of July 1, 1520—the Noche Triste. It must have been indeed a night of sorrow for the conquerors. A pitiless rain poured down upon the invaders. Neither starlight nor moonlight lent their gentle radiance to a scene


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 NOx deiices on automobiles; and also oversaw establishment of an interconnecting network of hiking, biking, and equestrian trails between state parks, California missions, and state and federal historic sites which is unique throughout the United States; and

WHEREAS, Senator Rains has been equally sensitile to the needs of California's business community and, as Chairman of the Select Committee on Golernment Regulation, has acted to identify regulatory abuses and has authored laws streamlining the State's cumbersome permit process, in addition to starting California down the road toward "zero-base" budgeting and establishing time tables for periodic review of state agencies (encompassing the "sunset" concept to eliminate programs whose existence can no longer be justified); and

WHEREAS, To further the creation of a healthy business climate, he also jointly authored the "Lockyer-Rains Economic Delelopment Act of 1977" which consolidated the economic planning functions of several agencies into one Department of Economic and Business Delelopment and established an Office of State Tourism; and

WHEREAS, As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Elections and Reapportionment and of the Select Committee on Political Reform, Senator Rains vigorously fought for the principles of full disclosure and open golernment, and authored far-reaching legislation which prohibited the use of false endorsements in political campaigns and banned the fraudulent solicitation of campaign funds; and

WHEREAS, Steeped in the civil rights movement, Orner Rains sefled as Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Legal Equality, the only legislative committee in the United States established to address legal inequality between the sexes, and in that capacity he deleloped a comprehensive package of 68 bills which allowed the cause of women's rights to successfully advance in California from one of discussion to one of action; and

WHEREAS, As a result of his efforts to amend and repeal various sections of the California Codes that discriminated on the basis of sex, California became the first state in the union to conform its law to the "Equal Rights Amendment" and in recognition of this fact, in 1976 the President of the National Women's Political Caucus stated that "Senator Orner Rains has done more to advance the cause of women's rights and equality under the law than any legislator in California history, " a fitting accolade for one who has always embraced the American ideal: "Equal Justice Under the Law"; and

WHEREAS, Senator Rains' excellence as a legislator has been complemented by an ongoing rapport with both his colleagues and constituents, and he will be greatly missed by all those who have had the pleasure of associating with him; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, That the Members express their appreciation to their colleague and good friend, the Honorable Orner L Rains, for his many invaluable contributions on behalf of the people of the state throughout his distinguished career in the California Legislature, and convey their best wishes for every success in his future endeavors; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a suitably prepared copy of this resolution to the Honorable Omer L. Rains."

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 CALIFORNIA STATE RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO COMMENDING SENATOR OMER L. RAINS

"WHEREAS, The Honorable Orner L. Rains, representative of the 18th Senatorial District, will be closing his tenure of service at the end of this session and in recognition of the outstanding record of leadership which he has displayed in office, is deserving of special honor and highest commendations; and

WHEREAS, First elected to the California Senate at the age of 32, Senator Rains is now completing his third term as Senator representing the Counties of Santa Barbara and Ventura; and

WHEREAS, During his three terms, Senator Rains has held the following leadership positions, among others: Chairman, Senate Majority Caucus; Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee; Chairman, Business and Professions Committee; Chairman, Elections and Reapportionment Committee; Chairman, Joint Committee on Legal Equality; Chairman, Joint Committee for Relision of the Penal Code; Chairman, Select Committee on Political Reform; Chairman, Select Committee on Government Regulation; Chairman, Subcommittee on the Administration of Justice; Chairman, Subcommittee on Board of Prison Terms; and Senate Representatile to both the California Law Relision Commission and the State Judicial Council; and

WHEREAS, Senator Rains, at 35, became the youngest person ever to hold the position of Chairman of the Senate Majority Caucus, being unanimously elected to that position during successive legislatile sessions (1977-1980); and

WHEREAS, In his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and of all other Committees which dealt with either the administration of criminal or civil justice, Senator Rains became the recognized leader with respect to matters pertaining to the Judiciary in the California Senate; and

WHEREAS, As the Legislature's representative on the California Law Relision Commission, he carried a series of bills that struck from the books innumerable outdated laws, and as the Legislature's representatile on the State Judicial Council, he acted to aid aggrieled parties and consumers by authoring landmark legislation allowing for the payment of prejudgment interest on court judgments for the first time in California history; and WHEREAS, His efforts in the area of criminal law produced in 1981-82 what has been referred to as "the most comprehensile anti-crime package in recent California history", and he did so without sacrificing the ligilant protection of constitutional guarantees for which he has always actively stood and fought; and

WHEREAS, Senator Rains, in recognition of the delastating effects of child molestation and child abuse, authored an historic six-part package of bills putting the needs of child lictims first while balancing the societal goal of protecting the family unit, and to further protect children Senator Rains authored legislation to insure that all school children are immunized against measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus; and

WHEREAS, To prolide part-time work for persons unable to work full-time, he authored legislation to establish California's first "Part-time Employment Act" and to help prelent a health care breakdown in California, he carried legislation during the 1975 Special Session designed to curtail skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates which had placed California's health care services in serious jeopardy; and

WHEREAS, Senator Rains, as one of the leading enlironmentalists in the California Legislature, is the principal architect of container deposit legislation, commonly known as the "Bottle Bill"; and

WHEREAS, As Vice Chairman of the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee, and as a Gubernatorial appointee to the State Geothermal Resources Task Force and the SolarCal Council, he has authored pioneering legislation encouraging the development and use of alternative energy sources, such as solar, geothermal, co generation, wind, and developing ocean technologies; and

WHEREAS, He also created the "Oil Spill Liability Act," authored legislation to purchase beach property for public use, secured passage of an historic measure to protect the California deserts by preventing the "piracy" of our State's native plants, and enacted legislation to prevent strip-mining in the Los Padres National Forest; and

WHEREAS, He authored legislation which ended the inequitable program that called for mandatory installation of

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 Rh so terrible. But to remain at that point was not possible; accordingly one of Cortez's most faithful soldiers, Sandoval, led the now dismayed Spaniards. Forty men carried a wooden bridge, by which the troops might cross the ditches and canals, otherwise impassable.

All crossed safely; the sentinels on duty were easily silenced, but the ever-wakeful priests in the temple, also on watch, were attracted by the unusual noise.

Instantly the cry "To arms!" was raised, the trumpets were sounded, and the inhabitants aroused from their peaceful slumbers. By the time the Spaniards had reached the second canal, they were entirely surrounded by water, and the groans of the dead and dying mingled strangely with the beating of the rain and the fury of the wind. The third canal was reached, but in attempting to cross, the few remaining soldiers were killed, and Alvarado the fearless was left alone.

Resting his lance in the bottom of the canal, he gave a spring and was landed safely on the opposite bank.

When the Indians beheld this feat, they ate handful after handful of dirt, and exclaimed: "Truly this man is the offspring of the sun!" Since that time the place has borne the name of "El Salto de Alvarado."

At Popotla, somewhat over two miles from the capital, still stands in reasonable preservation the celebrated "Arbol de la Noche Triste" ("Tree of the Sad Night"), against which Cortez leant and wept on the night of his defeat by the Aztecs. Only a short distance beyond Popotla is Atzcapotzalco. In Aztec days this town was their great slave market, and on each recurring sale-day the Indian maidens were decked out in all their bewitching adornments to dance and sing, in order to please those who might become purchasers.

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 158 is grand and massive rather than diversified and ornate. The monotony of solid walls and high-arched portals at first strikes the stranger with a feeling akin to disappointment, but familiarity brings only a deeper consciousness of the grandeur of the whole. A singular and impressive feature is the fact that not only is the site that of the ancient Aztec capital, but the general style of the buildings remains the same. The flat roof, the azotea, the square surrounding the patio, all belong to the past as to the present.

The Plaza Mayor, or Zócalo, is said to be unequaled anywhere. One entire side is covered by the cathedral, which occupies the site of the temple of the Aztec war-god. The National Palace, formerly the residence of the viceroys, covers another side, and stands on the veritable site of the Halls of the Montezumas. The other two sides are occupied by the shady portals.

The great causeways are still in use as leading highways, and the streets are laid out in symmetrical lines, running at right angles—north and south, east and west. Each side of a block has its individual name, but often the same is applied to three or four squares consecutively—as the three San Franciscos, the two Calles Plateros, "streets of the silversmiths," and the first, second, third, and fourth Providencias. A narrow street is called a callejon. An effort has recently been made to change this puzzling method by giving the same name to a street throughout its entire length.

I was much interested in the tradition of the "Calle del Indio Triste" ("Street of the Sad Indian"). A wealthy Indian cacique established his home there, and then became a spy upon his own tribe, steadily informing the viceroy of all their plans and intentions. He failed from some cause to make known to the latter a mutiny which was in process of execution. This gave the viceroy a pretext for the confiscation of his property. Poor and despised by his own people and held in contempt by the Spaniards, he took his seat on the corner of the street, weeping and distressed, refusing food or comfort, and finally, in this melancholy attitude, he breathed his last. His property passed to the crown, and with a view to teaching


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 sufficient to fulfil the intentions of the High Contracting Parties.

. IV. The union of the Ionian Islands to the Hellenic Kingdom shall not involve any change as to the advantages conceded to foreign commerce and navigation in virtue of Treaties and Conventions concluded by foreign Powers with the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, in her character of Protector of the United States of the Ionian Islands.

All the engagements which result from the said transactions, as well as from the regulations actually in force, shall be maintained and strictly observed as hitherto.

In consequence, it is expressly understood that foreign vessels and commerce in Ionian ports, and, reciprocally, Ionian vessels and commerce in foreign ports, as well as the navigation between Ionian ports and the ports of Greece, shall continue to be subject to the same treatment, and placed under the same conditions, as before the union of the Ionian Islands to Greece.

V. The union of the United States of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece shall in no wise invalidate the principles established by the existing legislation of those Islands with regard to freedom of worship and religious toleration; accordingly the rights and immunities established in matters of religion by Chapters 1 and 5 of the Constitutional Charter of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and specifically the recognition of the Orthodox Greek Church as the dominant religion in those Islands; the entire liberty of worship granted to the Established Church of the Protecting Power; and the perfect toleration promised to other Christian communions,—shall, after the union, be maintained in their full force and effect.

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Hello. Thanks very much for your contributions, it is really appreciated! I would just like to point out that the Wikisource formatting rules say that although we try to match the formatting of texts as close to the original as possible, there are some exceptions. One of them is that we should remove spaces before colon, semicolons etc., see Style guide, point no. 7 Punctuation.

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Just FYI, in case this comes up again in that book: Scriptorium/Help WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:13, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
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LS#Latin seems to narrow it down to two options, but I don't know which one it means. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
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FRANCKE, August Hermann, a German preacher, founder of the orphan house at Halle, born in Lübeck, March 23, 1663, died June 8, 1727. He studied at the universities of Erfurt, Kiel, Gotha, and Leipsic, and founded in Leipsic a school for the interpretation of the Scriptures, which attracted a great number of students. Accused of pietism, he was obliged to renounce this employment in 1691, and passed to Halle, where he taught the Greek and oriental languages in the university, and also became pastor of the church of St. George. Here he founded a charitable institution for the educacation of poor children and orphans, which soon became one of the most considerable in Germany. A chemist, whom he had visited on his deathbed, bequeathed to him the recipe for compounding certain medicines, which afterward yielded an annual income of more than $20,000, and made the institution independent. It combines an orphan asylum, a pædagogium, a Latin school, a German school, and a printing press for issuing cheap copies of the Bible. It now contains 800 inmates.


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 and other island blacks, and so on from tribe to tribe all over the country, for the different tribes were generally connected by marriage, and the relatives thus invited each other. Those near at hand would all turn up, old and young, but the tribes from afar would leave the aged and the sick behind.

My father was present at one of these feasts when a boy for over a fortnight. He is the only free white man who has ever been present at a bon-yi feast. Two or three convicts in the old days, who escaped and lived afterwards with the blacks— James Davis ("Duramboi"), Bracefield ("Wandi"), and Fahey ("Gilbury"), of course, knew all about it, but they are dead now. Father met the two former after their return to civilization, and he has often had a yarn with the old blacks who belonged to the tribes they had lived with.

In those early days the Blackall Range was spoken of as the Bon-yi Mountains, and it was there that Duramboi and Bracefield joined in the feasts, and there also that Father saw it all. He was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, and travelled from Brisbane with a party of about one hundred, counting the women and children. They camped the first night at Bu-yu—ba (shin of leg), the native name for the creek crossing at what is now known as Enoggera.

After the camp fires were made and breakwinds of bushes put up as a protection from the night, the party all had something to eat, then gathered comfortably round the fires, and settled themselves ready for some good old yams, till sleep would claim them for his own. Tales were told of what forefathers did, how wonderful some of them were in hunting and killing game, also in fighting. The blacks have lively imaginations of what happened years ago, and some of the incidents they remembered of their big fights, etc., were truly marvellous! They are also born mimics, and my father has often felt sore with laughing at the way they would take off people, and strut about, and imitate all sorts of animals.

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 ''shall prepare, taking the conclusions of the Superior Commission of Inquiry as their point of departure, and without modifying the conditions of the Domains Loan, a draft of a law regulating the relations of the Government and of the Daïras Sanieh and Kassa with their creditors, and determining the conditions and formalities with which the liquidation of the non-consolidated debt shall he carried out. ''

Art. II. ''The Commission shall determine as to the resources which can be placed at the disposal of the creditors of the consolidated or non-consolidated debts, but they must in the first place, with the assent of the Council of Ministers and of the Controllers, keep in view the necessity of reserving to the Government the free disposal of the amount indispensable for securing the regular working of the public services. With this object the Budget of the year during which they will exercise their functions will he communicated to them, as well as those of the previous years which may he necessary to their forming a correct estimate of the needs of the Egyptian Treasury. ''

Art. III. ''The Controllers-General shall furnish the Commission at its request with additional documents and explanations of a nature to assist them in the fulfilment of their task. They shall transmit through them, either to ourselves or to our Ministers, the observations which they may wish to communicate to the Government.'' Art. IV. ''The Commission will have the right of superintending conjointly with the Controllers-General the carrying out of the provisions laid down by them, and the duration of their powers, after the publication of the Decree of Liquidation, can be prolonged for this purpose, during a period not exceeding three months. At the expiration of that period the Commission shall, in any case, be legally dissolved. ''

Art. V. ''The law drawn up by the Commission shall receive our sanction and be published by us. From the time of its publication this law shall be obligatory and without appeal, the Eegulations of Judicial Organization and Codes of the Reform notwithstanding. ''

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 ''Commissioner appointed by each of the Governments of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. The Egyptian Government shall be represented by a Delegate on this Commission.''

VII. The necessary account for the labours of the Commission shall be opened by us, in conformity with the Report which may he presented on this subject by the President of the Commission.

Our ministers are charged, each in his own department, with the execution of the present Decree.

No. XVII.

The Law of Liquidation, 17th July, 1880. , Khédive d'Égypte,

Vu nos Décrets en date des 31 mars et 5 avril, 1880,

Sur la proposition des Commissaires désignés par les Gouvernements d'Allemagne, d'Autriche-Hongrie, de France, de Grande Bretagne et d'Italie, et nommés par nous,

Notre Conseil des Ministres entendu,

Avons décreté et décrétons:— TITRE I. Dette Consolidée.

I. Le service de la Dette Consolidée s'effectuera à l'avenir dans les conditions déterminées ci-après.

Dette Privilégiée.

II. Les revenus nets des chemins de fer de l'État, des télégraphes, et du port d'Alexandrie, sont spécialement affectés au service des intérêts et de l'amortissement de la Dette Privilégiée.

Le complément des ressources nécessaires pour ce service sera prélevé, comme première charge, sur les affectations de la Dette Unifiée.

Si, au contraire, les affectations spéciales de la Dette Privilégiée arrivent à présenter des excédants, ces excédants seront employés à l'amortissement de la Dette Unifiée.


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 Art. III. Les dépenses ordinaires d'entretien et d'exploitation, prévues au Budget ou régulièrement autorisées par decisions speciales, seront seules prélevées sur les recettes de ces Administrations. Les frais de transport, dus par les services de l'État, qui ne seraient pas payes au comptant, devront être rembourses mensuellement à l'Administration des chemins de fer.

Art. IV. Il sera pourvu sur les ressources générales du Trésor aux dépenses extraordinaires, telles que l'acquisition de terrains ou d'immeubles, la construction de lignes nouvelles et l'acquisition du matériel nécessaire à leur exploitation, le racbat de lignes concédées, la pose d'une seconde voie, la construction de bâtiments nouveaux, digues, quai, &c.

Les dites dépenses extraordinaires seront proposées par les Administrateurs et votées par le Conseil des Ministres.

S'il y a contestation entre le Gouvernement et l'Administration des chemins de fer, des télégraphes, et du port d'Alexandrie sur la question de savoir si une dépense doit ou non être considérée comme extraordinaire, le Gouvernement pourra, sur l'avis conforme de la Caisse de la Dette, autoriser la dite Administration a prélever cette depense sur ses recettes.

. V. L'intérêt annuel des obligations de la Dette Privilégiée est maintenu à 5 pour cent du capital nominal.

Il continuera a etre payé semestriellement aux échéances du 15 avril et du 15 octobre.

L'amortissement sera fait au pair en soixante-cinq ans, compter du 15 octobre, 1876, par tirages semestriels.

Les tirages s'effectueront en seance publique, par les soins des Commissaires-Directeurs, dans les mois de Janvier et de juillet.

Le remboursement des titres aura lieu à partir de l'échéance du coupon suivant.

Art. VI. Notre Ministre des Finances est autorisé à émettre pour £ E. nominales 5,600,205 5,743,800l.) d'obligations de la Dette Privilégiée, dont l'emploi sera fait conformément aux Articles 68 et suivants.

Ces titres seront emis, au fur et à mesure des besoins, jouissance du 15 avril, 1880, et aux mêmes conditions d'intérêt issue.


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 et d'amortissement que les obligations primitives auxquelles ils sont completement assimilés.

Les nouveaux titres seront compris dans le premier tirage d'amortissement qui suivra leur émission.

Art. VII. Au fur et à mesure de la liquidation des créances payables en obligations et pendant un délai de six mois à compter de la publication de la presente loi, il sera délivré aux interéssés des titres provisoires au porteur.

Les règlements ultérieurs seront faits directement en obligations définitives.

Les titres provisoires devront être échangés dans l'année qui suivra la publication de la présente loi.

Passé ce dernier terme, notre Ministre des Finances procédera d'office à remission des obligations dont les titres provisoires n'auront pas ete representes, et les déposera à la Caisse de la Dette Publique pour le compte de qui de droit.

Art. VIII. L'annuité necessaire au service des obligations privilégiées, en intérêts et amortissement, est fixé à ₤ E. 1,157,768 (1,187,404l.).

Dette Unifiée. Art. IX. Les revenus suivants demeureront affectés au service de la Dette Unifiée : — (i) Les revenus des Douanes et le produit des droits pergus pour notre Gouvernement à I'importation des tabacs, sous la déduction des dépenses d'administration.

(2) Les revenus des provinces de Garbieh, Menoufieh, Béhéra, et Siout, sous la déduction de 7 pour cent du montant brut des recouvrements à titre de frais de perception et d'administration.

Dans ces derniers revenus seront compris tons les impôts et droits divers actuellement en vigueur, ou créés dans I'avenir, à l'exception de la taxe des sels et de celle des tabacs indigènes.

Les autres affectations de revenus établies au profit de la Dette Unifiee par le Décret du 7 mai, 1876, sont supprimées. Art. X. L'intérêt annuel des obligations de la Dette Unifiée


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The American Cyclopædia (1879)/François, Jean Charles

'''FRANÇOIS. I. Jean Charles''', a French engraver, born in Nancy in 1717, died in Paris in 1769. He was among the first to introduce engravings representing crayon and chalk drawings, and was pensioned by Louis XV., who employed him extensively. His best known works represent that king and his queen, Bayle, Erasmus, Locke, and Malebranche. '''II. Charles Remy''' Jules, a French engraver, born in Paris, Dec. 24, 1809. He early produced, after the manner of his master Henriquel-Dupont, admirable engravings of pictures by Vandyke and Raphael, and subsequently was exclusively employed in reproducing the paintings of Delaroche. He has resided in Brussels since 1858. — His brother, born in Paris in 1811, excels in the same branch of art.


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 The most high Republic of the Venetians, in the reign of the, having been beseeched by the spokesmen of the Cephalonians that they should protect their most loyal allies from the ever-present danger of enemies, entrusted to Bartolomeo Moro, provveditore of the island, to Giovanni Mocenigo, returning from his second governorship of the realm of Crete, and to Vicenzo da Canal, provveditore and captain of Corfu that, taking consideration for the common safety, they should see to the fortification of a location on the island, such that they should no longer endure oppressive attacks. Wherefore, considering the fine location at Nasso, with God's favour they all decided to build here a town. The entirety of this work, indeed, the most grand senators assigned to Raffaele Rasponi, a diligent man, on the sixth day before the Ides of November (8 November) 1593, when Scipione Minio & Ambrogio Corner were consiglieri.

But after the death of Rasponi, the same Corner was appointed vice-provveditore of the town by the most excellent Senate, and under his command, by the enthusiasm and application of Count Pietro Gabuti, colonel, a man of the highest integrity in all matters, as successor to the same Rasponi, the fortifications were brought into a quite finished state with the addition of two necessary towers, in the year of the Lord 1595. la:Page:Kefalonia Fae51 text.pdf/1

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The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Francolin

FRANCOLIN, a gallinaceous bird of the grouse family, subfamily perdicinæ or partridges, and genus francolinus (Steph.). There are about 30 species found in the warm parts of the eastern hemisphere, especially in Africa; some prefer open plains, where they roost in trees, and others woody places; when alarmed, they conceal themselves in the brushwood, or run with considerable speed, taking wing only when hard pressed; their food consists of bulbous roots, grains, and insects, and they feed in early morning and at evening. The bill is longer than in the common partridge; the wings are moderate and rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth quills the longest; the tarsi are strong and spurred; the feet four-toed. The francolin of Europe (F. vulgaris, Steph.), in the male, has the plumage of a general yellowish brown color, each feather with a dark centre; the ear coverts white; circle round the eyes, cheeks, and sides of head, and the throat, deep black, below which is a broad chestnut collar extending around the neck; the rump and tail white barred with black, the outer feather of the latter entirely black; breast and lower parts

black; sides blotched with black and white; under tail coverts chestnut; bill black. The female is without the black markings and chestnut collar, and her bill is brown. This is the only species indigenous in Europe, where it is found in the southern parts; it also occurs in northern Africa and the greater part of Asia. The flesh is delicate, and much esteemed in India. According to Gould, this genus seems to form a connecting link between the brilliant pheasants and tragopans of the East and the sober-colored partridges of Europe; to the splendid colors of the former it unites the form and habits of the latter.


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lying late in bed made Beatrice very angry. The later it became, the more wrathful she grew. At half-past nine she had taken up his shaving-water. Then she proceeded to tidy the dining-room, leaving the breakfast spread in the kitchen.

Vera and Frank were gone up to town; they would both be home for dinner at two o’clock. Marjory was despatched on an errand, taking Gwen with her. The children had no need to return home immediately, therefore it was highly probable they would play in the field or in the lane for an hour or two. Beatrice was alone downstairs. It was a hot, still morning, when everything out-doors shone brightly, and all indoors was dusked with coolness and colour. But Beatrice was angry. She moved rapidly and determinedly about the dining-room, thrusting old newspapers and magazines between the cupboard and the wall, throwing the litter in the grate, which was clear, Friday having been charwoman’s day, passing swiftly, lightly over the front of the furniture with the duster. It was Saturday, when she did not spend much time over the work. In the afternoon she was going out with Vera. That was not, however, what occupied her mind as she brushed aside her work. She had determined to have a settlement with Siegmund, as


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Rh to how matters should continue. She was going to have no more of the past three years’ life; things had come to a crisis, and there must be an alteration. Beatrice was going to do battle, therefore she flew at her work, thus stirring herself up to a proper heat of blood. All the time, as she thrust things out of sight or straightened a cover, she listened for Siegmund to come downstairs.

He did not come, so her anger waxed.

“He can lie skulking in bed!” she said to herself. “Here I’ve been up since seven, broiling at it. I should think he’s pitying himself. He ought to have something else to do. He ought to have to go out to work every morning, like another man, as his son has to do. He has had too little work. He has had too much his own way. But it’s come to a stop now. I’ll servant-housekeeper him no longer.”

Beatrice went to clean the step of the front door. She clanged the bucket loudly, every minute becoming more and more angry. That piece of work finished, she went into the kitchen. It was twenty past ten. Her wrath was at ignition point. She cleared all the things from the table and washed them up. As she was so doing, her anger, having reached full intensity without bursting into flame, began to dissipate in uneasiness. She tried to imagine what Siegmund would do and say to her. As she was wiping a cup, she dropped it, and the smash so unnerved her that her hands trembled almost too much to finish drying the things and putting them away. At last it was done. Her next piece of work was to make the beds. She took her pail and went upstairs. Her heart was beating so heavily in her throat that she had to stop


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254 on the landing to recover breath. She dreaded the combat with him. Suddenly controlling herself, she said loudly at Siegmund’s door, her voice coldly hostile:

“Aren’t you going to get up?”

There was not the faintest sound in the house. Beatrice stood in the gloom of the landing, her heart thudding in her ears.

“It’s after half-past ten—aren’t you going to get up?”she called.

She waited again. Two letters lay unopened on a small table. Suddenly she put down her pail and went into the bathroom. The pot of shaving-water stood untouched on the shelf, just as she had left it. She returned and knocked swiftly at her husband’s door, not speaking. She waited, then she knocked again, loudly, a long time. Something in the sound of her knocking made her afraid to try again. The noise was dull and thudding: it did not resound through the house with a natural ring, so she thought. She ran downstairs in terror, fled out into the front garden, and there looked up at his room. The window-door was open—everything seemed quiet.

Beatrice stood vacillating. She picked up a few tiny pebbles and flung them in a handful at his door. Some spattered on the panes sharply; some dropped dully in the room. One clinked on the wash-hand bowl. There was no response. Beatrice was terribly excited. She ran, with her black eyes blazing, and wisps of her black hair flying about her thin temples, out on to the road. By a mercy she saw the window-cleaner just pushing his ladder out of the passage of a house a little further down the road. She hurried to him.


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Rh “Will you come and see if there’s anything wrong with my husband?” she asked wildly.

“Why, mum?” answered the window-cleaner, who knew her, and was humbly familiar. “Is he taken bad or something? Yes, I’ll come.”

He was a tall thin man with a brown beard. His clothes were all so loose, his trousers so baggy, that he gave one the impression his limbs must be bone, and his body a skeleton. He pushed at his ladders with a will.

“Where is he, mum?” he asked officiously, as they slowed down at the side passage.

“He’s in his bedroom, and I can’t get an answer from him.”

“Then Is’ll want a ladder,” said the window-cleaner, proceeding to lift one off his trolley. He was in a very great bustle. He knew which was Siegmund’s room: he had often seen Siegmund rise from some music he was studying and leave the drawing-room when the window-cleaning began, and afterwards he had found him in the small front bedroom. He also knew there were matrimonial troubles: Beatrice was not reserved.

“Is it the least of the front rooms he’s in?” asked the window-cleaner.

“Yes, over the porch,” replied Beatrice.

The man bustled with his ladder.

“It’s easy enough,” he said. “The door’s open, and we’re soon on the balcony.”

He set the ladder securely. Beatrice cursed him for a slow, officious fool. He tested the ladder, to see it was safe, then he cautiously clambered up. At the top he stood leaning sideways, bending over the


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256 ladder to peer into the room. He could see all sorts of things, for he was frightened.

“I say there!” he called loudly.

Beatrice stood below in horrible suspense.

“Go in!” she cried. “Go in! Is he there?”

The man stepped very cautiously with one foot on to the balcony, and peered forward. But the glass door reflected into his eyes. He followed slowly with the other foot, and crept forward, ready at any moment to take flight.

“Hie, hie!” he suddenly cried in terror, and he drew back.

Beatrice was opening her mouth to scream, when the window-cleaner exclaimed weakly, as if dubious:

“I believe ’e’s ’anged ’imself from the door-’ooks!”

“No!” cried Beatrice. “No, no, no!”

“I believe ’e ’as!” repeated the man.

“Go in and see if he’s dead!” cried Beatrice.

The man remained in the doorway, peering fixedly.

“I believe he is,” he said doubtfully.

“No—go and see!” screamed Beatrice.

The man went into the room, trembling, hesitating. He approached the body as if fascinated. Shivering, he took it round the loins and tried to lift it down. It was too heavy.

“I know!” he said to himself, once more bustling now he had something to do. He took his clasp-knife from his pocket, jammed the body between himself and the door so that it should not drop, and began to saw his way through the leathern strap. It gave. He started, and clutched the body, dropping his knife. Beatrice, below in the garden, hearing the scuffle and the clatter, began to scream in hysteria. The man


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Rh hauled the body of Siegmund, with much difficulty, on to the bed, and with trembling fingers tried to unloose the buckle in which the strap ran. It was bedded in Siegmund’s neck. The window-cleaner tugged at it frantically, till he got it loose. Then he looked at Siegmund. The dead man lay on the bed with swollen, discoloured face, with his sleeping-jacket pushed up in a bunch under his arm-pits, leaving his side naked. Beatrice was screaming below. The window-cleaner, quite unnerved, ran from the room and scrambled down the ladder. Siegmund lay heaped on the bed, his sleeping-suit twisted and bunched up about him, his face hardly recognizable.


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Franck, César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert

FRANCK, César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert, sā'zar ō-güst zhŏṅ gē-yōm übār, fränk, French composer: b. Liège 1822; d. Paris 1890. He studied in the conservatory of his

native town and at Paris, and in 1872 succeeded his master, Benoist, as teacher in the Metropolitan Conservatory. His talent as a composer was for a long time unrecognized, and in 1846 his oratorio ‘Ruth’ fell flat. Twenty years later it was revived and created a furore, and Franck found himself leader of a new school. The popularity which his works still enjoy at Paris has to some extent spread to the United States, where his oratorio ‘Les Beatitudes’ has been much appreciated.