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# State Tax Commission of Mississippi v. Interstate Natural Gas Company

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United States Supreme Court
284 U.S. 41
State Tax Commission of Mississippi v. Interstate Natural Gas Company
Argued: Oct. 26, 1931. --- Decided: Nov 23, 1931
Mr. Edwin R. Holmes, Jr., of Jackson, Miss. (Mr. J. A. Lauderdale, of Jackson, Miss., on the brief), for appellants.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 41-43 intentionally omitted]
Mr. David Clay Bramlette, of Woodville, Miss., for appellee.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

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# State Tax Commission of Mississippi v. Interstate Natural Gas Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
284 U.S. 41
State Tax Commission of Mississippi v. Interstate Natural Gas Company
Argued: Oct. 26, 1931. --- Decided: Nov 23, 1931
This is an appeal from a decree of three judges sitting according to statute in the District Court, by which the tax commission of the state of Mississippi is permanently enjoined from enforcing a Privilege Tax Law of that state, being chapter 88 of the laws of 1930, against the Interstate Natural Gas Company, the plaintiff in this suit.
The facts are agreed. The plaintiff has a trunk line of pipe extending from gas fields in Louisiana through Mississippi and back to Louisiana; 72.42 miles having a diameter of 22 inches, 8.11 miles having a diameter of 12 inches, and 4.99 miles a diameter of 10 inches. It sells daily to distributors in Louisiana about 70,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas in summer, and about 75,000,000 feet in winter. In Mississippi, it sells as will be explained from 204,000 to 520,000 feet according to the season. The gas flows continuously from the gas fields in Louisiana and obviously, for much the greater part at least, in interstate commerce. But the appellants rely upon business done under two similar contracts made in New York to show that there was intrastate commerce in Mississippi that may be taxed without burdening the main activity that the state cannot touch. Ozark Pipe Line Corporation v. Monier, 266 U.S. 555, 563, 45 S.C.t. 184, 69 L. Ed. 439; East Ohio Gas Co. v. Tax Commission of Ohio, 283 U.S. 465, 470, 51 S.C.t. 499, 75 L. Ed. 1171. Distributing companies tap the plaintiff's pipes near Natchez and the town of Woodville. The gas withdrawn by the distributors is measured by a thermometer and a meter furnished by the plaintiff, which is the only way in which it can be measured. The pressure of the gas is reduced by the plaintiff before it passes into the purchaser's hands. The work done by the plaintiff is done upon the flowing gas to help the delivery, and seems to us plainly to be incident to the interstate commerce between Louisiana and Mississippi. The plaintiff simply transports the gas and delivers it wholesale, not otherwise worked over than to make it ready for delivery to the independent parties that dispose of it by retail. Missouri v. Kansas Gas Co., 265 U.S. 298, 44 S.C.t. 544, 68 L. Ed. 1027; Public Utilities Commission v. Landon, 249 U.S. 236, 245, 39 S.C.t. 268, 63 L. Ed. 577; Ozark Pipe Line Corporation v. Monier, 266 U.S. 555, 45 S.C.t. 184, 69 L. Ed. 439.
Decree affirmed.

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# State Railroad Tax Cases

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United States Supreme Court
92 U.S. 575
State Railroad Tax Cases

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# State Quincy Company v. Harris/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
144 U.S. 210
State Quincy Company v. Harris
The writ of error is dismissed because no federal question is involved, upon the authority, among other cases, of Railroad Co. v. Rock, 4 Wall. 177, 181; Water Co. v. Easton, 121 U.S. 388, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 916; New Orleans Water Works Co. v. Louisiana Sugar Refining Co., 125 U.S. 30, 8 Sup. Ct. Rep. 741; and St. Paul, M. & M. Ry. Co. v. Todd Co., 142 U.S. 282, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 281.
Writ of error dismissed.

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# Statute Law Revision Act 1893

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A general law repealing certain 'spent' (obsolete) laws, including 10 'spent' sections in the Constitution Act, 1867.
Schedules:
Notes: Only parts affecting the Constitution Acts are reproduced here.

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Statute Law Revision Act, 1893
    1. Enactments in schedule repealed.
    4. Short title.
Schedule
56 & 57 Victoria, c. 14 (U.K.)
An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.
[Assented to 19th June, 1893.]
Whereas it is expedient that certain enactments, which may be regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express specific repeal by Parliament, or have, by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1. The enactments described in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, subject to the provisions of this Act and subject to the exceptions and qualifications in the schedule mentioned; and every part of a title, preamble, or recital specified after the words in part, namely, in connexion with an Act mentioned in the said schedule may be omitted from any revised edition of the statutes published by authority after the passing of this Act, and there may be added in the said edition such brief statement of the Acts, officers, persons, and things mentioned in the title, preamble, or recital, as may in consequence of such omission appear necessary:
4. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1893.
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# Statute Law Revision Act 1893/Schedule

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| Reign and Chapter | Title |
| 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3 | Constitution Act, 1867. In part; namely, From Be it therefore to same as follows. Section two. Section four to provisions where it last occurs. Section twenty-five. Sections forty-two and forty-three. Section fifty-one, from of the census to seventy-one and and the word subsequent. Section eighty-one. Section eighty-eight, from and the House to the end of the section. Sections eighty-nine and one hundred and twenty-seven. Section one hundred and forty-five. Repealed as to all Her Majesty's Dominions. |
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/Mustered Out

MUSTERED OUT.
BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
“A soldier of the Union mustered out,”
Is the inscription of an unknown grave
At Newport News, beside the salt sea wave,
Nameless and dateless ; sentinel or scout
Shot down in skirmish or disastrous rout
Of battle, when the loud artillery drave
Its iron wedges through the ranks of brave
And doomed battalions, storming the redoubt.
Thou unknown hero sleeping by the sea
In thy forgotten grave—with secret shame
I feel my pulses beat, my forehead burn,
When I remember thou hast given for me
All that thou hast, thy life, thy very name.
And I can give thee nothing in return!
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/Tribute to Old Glory

TRIBUTE TO OLD GLORY.
Benjamin Harrison.
I have recently returned from an extended tour of the states, and nothing so impressed and refreshed me as the universal display of this banner of beauty and glory. It waved over the school-houses; it was in the hands of the school children. As we speeded across the sandy wastes, at some solitary place, a man, a woman, a child, would come to the door and wave it in loyal greeting. Two years ago I saw a sight that has ever been present in my memory:—
As we were going out of the harbor of Newport, about midnight on a dark night, some of the officers of the torpedo station had prepared for us a beautiful surprise. The flag at the depot station was unseen in the darkness of the night, when suddenly electric search lights were turned on it, bathing it in a flood of light. All below the flag was hidden and it seemed to have no touch with earth, but to hang from the battlements of heaven. It was as if heaven was approving the human liberty and human equality typified by that flag.
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/Scatter the Flowers

SCATTER THE FLOWERS.
ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD.
[Air:—“Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.”]
We come with gifts of flowers sweet
For each dear soldier’s grave;
We’ll cover the mounds where they gently sleep,
Those boys so true and brave.
Chorus:—
Many are the boys who are sleeping for aye
Under the sod and dew;
Many are the hearts sending love today
To those brave boys in blue.
Scatter the flowers, scatter the flowers.
Over the soldiers’ graves.
Scatter the flowers, scatter the flowers.
Over the soldiers’ graves.
We’ll honor the graves of our soldiers dead,
Who heard their country’s cry.
Who left their homes and fought and bled
And died for liberty.
We’ll bring them today the violets blue,
And roses red and white.
Those colors bright they bore so true,
For God and home and right.
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/The Banner of the Union

THE BANNER OF THE UNION.
[Air: “ Marching Through Georgia ”]
Bring the good old banner, boys, the flag our fathers bore,
Let it float across the land and shimmer on the shore,
Liberty is marching on to many conquests more,
Bearing the banner of the Union.
Chorus.—Hurrah! hurrah! we’ll bring the jubilee;
Hurrah I hurrah! the flag that makes us free;
So we'll sing the chorus of truth and liberty,
Bearing the banner of the Union.
How the nation thundered when that flag was menaced long.
How the boys enlisted and the girls grew bold and strong.
How the hosts of victory triumphant swept along.
Bearing the banner of the Union.
Rally ’round the colors, boys, and keep them at the fore,
Take your stand for liberty and fight her battles o’er,
True to home and freedom, ever loyal to the core,
Bearing the banner of the Union.
Written for the Acme Haversack by Kate Brownlee Sherwood.
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/Our Loyal Women

OUR LOYAL WOMEN.
PROF. LONG.
There were silent factors in that war—heroes whose fame it is not the custom to sing—soldiers outside the ranks who never bore arms and yet bore all the burdens of war, soldiers as much beloved by those in front, and more than the commander-in-chief himself, and whose sympathy and courage and work in the war was a strong support and aid in its successful issue—I allude to our loyal women. God only knows what they suffered and did it how nobly!
When the time of parting came, who can measure the anguish of that last good-by? Who can estimate the courage of the wife who held bravely back the feelings of grief as her trembling lips spoke to her loved companion her last words of cheer, and held aloft the babe to wave farewell—perhaps eternal, as he turned on the hill-top to take one more look—perhaps his last.
When the husbands and fathers and brothers were away in danger, down in the camp in wood and swamp and field, she, with a power of body and mind unthought of, raised the crops and cared for the family, laboring under the constant dread lest the next mail that came from the lines would tell of the death of her loved one. Their letters from home, full of tenderness, of love and cheer, nerved the arm and fired the heart to noble deeds. The sister that did the part of brothers, the wife that did the double duty of provider and protector, the “girl you left behind you,” whose white hands were nightly folded in prayer to the God of Battle for your safety and return, the mother who willingly, yet sadly, gave the boys on whom she looked with pride, — must be counted among our heroes and receive our homage.
I have heard men speak with pride of the Spartan mother who sent forth her son saying,—“Come back with your shield or upon it,” and who rejoiced when her son fell in battle; but I point with higher pride to the noble American mother who shed tears as she bade her boy good-bye, and who. all excited and pale, looked over the lists of killed and wounded after each battle and, finding her son’s name there, sank despairing to the floor. But womenrsquo;s work was not wholly at home. What soldier will forget the sanitary commission and Christian commission, of which the best eulogy is simply to name. What soldier will forget that the old grandmothers and the girls sat up all night to knit socks, and make shirts and mittens, and send them by carloads down to the boys in blue on Southern battle-fields, with a voiceless prayer and fervent “God bless you” in every one.
What power can conquer the nation where every man and boy, and every woman and girl will throw themselves between their flag and its enemy! Let the future come with its responsibility and its trial. With such men to fight our battles and build up national strength, and such women to support and build up home and its childhood, who or what can overthrow us, if we but hold to the Union?
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/The Soldiers kept in Remembrance

THE SOLDIERS KEPT IN REMEMBRANCE.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Ye that mourn, let gladness mingle with your tears. It was your son, but now he is the nation’s. He made your household bright: now his example inspires a thousand households. Dear to his brothers and sisters, he is now brother to every generous youth in the land. Before, he was narrowed, appropriated, shut up to you; now he is augmented, set free, given to all. Before he was yours; he is ours. He has died from the family that he might live to the nation. Not one name shall be forgotten or neglected: and it shall by and by be confessed of our modern heroes, as it is of an ancient hero, that he did more for his country by his death than by his whole life.
Neither are they less honored who shall bear through life the marks of wounds and sufferings. Neither epaulette nor badge is so honorable as wounds received in a good cause. Many a man shall envy him who henceforth limps. So strange is the transforming power of patriotic ardor, that men shall almost covet disfigurement. Crowds will give way to hobbling cripples. and uncover in the presence of feebleness and helplessness. And buoyant children shall pause in their noisy games and, with loving reverence, honor those whose hands can work no more and whose feet are no longer able to march except upon that journey which brings good men to honor and immortality.
Oh, mother of lost children! Sit not in darkness, nor sorrow, whom a nation honors. Oh, mourners of the early dead! They shall live again and live forever. Your sorrows are our gladness. The nation lives because you gave it men that loved it better than their own lives. And when a few more days shall have cleared the perils from around the Nation’s brow, and she shall sit in unsullied garments of liberty, with justice upon her forehead, love in her eyes, and truth upon her lips,—she shall not forget those whose blood gave vital currents to her heart, and whose life, given to her. shall live with her life till time shall be no more.
Every mountain and hill shall have its treasured name, every river shall keep some solemn title, every valley and every lake shall cherish its honored register; and till the mountains are worn out and the rivers forget to flow, till the clouds are weary of replenishing springs and the springs forget to gush and the rills to sing, shall their names be kept fresh with reverent honors which are inscribed upon the book of National Remembrance.
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/Training

PATRIOTIC TRAINING IN OUR SCHOOLS.
(From the Department)
All business should be suspended and the day devoted to commemorating the memory of the union soldiers living and dead. Let the citizens turn out and make the day one long to be remembered as it day of patriotic education
Let not the sacredness and solemnity of the occasion be marred by games and other sports, but let us all consecrate ourselves anew at a common shrine of patriotism. We believe with James W. Patterson that “If all our youth, springing up from whatever nationality, could be brought to know and reflect upon the origin, history and nature of our political institutions, and were early made to realize their cost in treasure and blood and the unspeakable benefits they have conferred upon the American people, we should have the unity and strength of public spirit, and the sensibility to the common reputation and interests that would be stronger than the pride of dominion and a surer defense than armies and navies.”
Let the rising generation be inspired with an ardent love for their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the Constitution and the Union. Let the American youth never forget that they possess a noble inheritance bought by the toils and suffer- ings and blood of their ancestors.
—Story.
​ Keep fresh in the hearts of the rising generation a reverence for the ’Stars and Stripes‘—— the only Flag. —Gen. John Palmer.
EVOLUTION OF THE FLAG.
By courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Goff, authors of “The United States and Her Neighbors.” (From School Education, 1895.)
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/We keep Memorial Day

WE KEEP MEMORIAL DAY.
KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD.
When the May has culled her flowers for the summer waiting long.
And the breath of early roses woos the hedges into song.
Comes the throb of martial music and the banners in the street,
And the marching of the millions bearing garlands fair and sweet—
’Tis the Sabbath of the Nation, ’tis the floral feast of May!
In remembrance of our heroes
We keep Memorial Day.
They are sleeping in the valleys, they are sleeping neath the sea,
They are sleeping by the thousands till the royal reveille;
Let us know them, let us name them, let us honor one and all.
For they loved us and they saved us, springing at the bugle call;
Let us sound the song and cymbal, wreathe the immortelles and bay.
In the fervor of thanksgiving
We keep Memorial Day.
# Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/What can Children do

the "Journal of Education" is not the London publication: "American Journal of Education"
WHAT CAN CHILDREN DO?
BY LAURA F. ARMITAGE.
First child— What can the little children do,
When Decoration Day is here,
To show their love for soldiers brave
Who, fighting for their country, gave
The life that was to them so dear?
Second child—
We’ll bring the lovely flowers of spring
That in the fields and gardens grow,
And on the soldiers’ graves today
Our garlands we will gladly lay,
Our loving thoughts of them to show.
Third child—
We’ll raise aloft the “stars and stripes” On this Memorial Day, to show
We honor those who for it bled.
Some now are living, many dead,
For this was many years ago.
Fourth child—
We’ll sing our patriotic songs;
We’ll truly sing with heart and voice.
And to our country we’ll be true.
And honor our “red, white, and blue,”
And in our freedom we'll rejoice.
—Journal of Education
# Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham/Obituary

Obituary.
The following short list of local people of interest may not be an unacceptable addition to the many whose names appear in various parts of the preceding work:—
# Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham/Q

​ Quaint Customs.—The practice of "heaving" or "lifting" on Easter Monday and Tuesday was still kept up in some of the back streets of the town a few years back, and though it may have died out now with us those who enjoy such amusements will find the old custom observed in villages not far away.—At Handsworth, "clipping the church" was the curious "fad" at Easter-time, the children from the National Schools, with ladies and gentlemen too, joining hands till they had surrounded the old church with a leaping, laughing, linked, living ring of humanity, great fun being caused when some of the link loosed hands and let their companions fall over the graves.—On St. John's Days, when the ancient feast or "wake" of Deritend Chapel was kept, it was the custom to carry bulrushes to the church, and old inhabitants decorated their fireplaces with them.—In the prosperous days of the Holte family, when Aston Hall was the abode of fine old English gentlemen, instead of being the lumber-room of those Birmingham rogues the baronets abominated. Christmas Eve was celebrated with all the hospitalities usual in baronial halls, but the opening of the evening's performances was of so whimsical a character that it attracted attention even a hundred years ago, when queer and quaint customs were anything but strange. An old chronicler thus describes it:—"On this day, as soon as supper is over, a table is set in the hall; on it is set a brown loaf, with twenty silver threepences stuck on the top of it, a tankard of ale, with pipes and tobacco; and the two oldest servants have chairs behind it, to sit in as judges, if they please. The steward brings the servants, both men and women, by one at a time, covered with a winnow-sheet, and lays their right hand on the loaf, exposing no other part of the body. The oldest of the two judges guesses at the person, by naming a name; then the younger judge, and, lastly, the oldest again. If they hit upon the right name, the steward leads the person back again; but if they do not he takes off the winnow-sheet, and the person receives a threepence, makes low obeisance to the judges, but speaks not a word. When the second servant was brought the younger judge guessed first and third; and this they did alternately till all the money was given away. Whatever servant had not slept in the house the previous night forfeited his right to the money. No account is given of the origin of this strange custom, but it has been practised ever since the family lived there. When the money is gone the servants have full liberty to drink, dance, sing, and go to bed when they please."
# Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham/U

​ Union Passage, at first but a field path out of the yard of the Crown Tavern to the Cherry Orchard, after- wards a narrow entry as far as Crooked Lane, with a house only at each end, was opened up and widened in 1823 by Mr. Jones, who built the Pantechnetheca. Near the Bull Street end was the Old Bear Yard, the premises of a dealer in dogs, rabbits, pigeons, and other pets, who kept a big brown bear, which was taken out whenever the Black Country boys wanted a bear-baiting. The game was put a stop to in 1835, but the "cage" was there in 1841, about which time the Passage became built up on both sides throughout.