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# Royal Naval Biography/Mason, Henry Browne

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HENRY BROWNE MASON, Esq. [Commander.]
Is of an old Hertfordshire family, and connected with the late Earls of Winchelsea. He was born on the 26th April, 1792.
This officer entered into the royal navy as midshipman on board the Prince 98, Captain Richard Grindall, in Dec. 1803; and served under that officer at the glorious battle of Trafalgar. Subsequent to that great event, he was placed with ​Captain William Hoste, in the Amphion frigate, on the Mediterranean station. In Mar. 1809, while conducting a prize to Malta, he was taken prisoner by two French privateers, off the coast of Dalmatia, and placed under restraint at Zara. From thence he was transferred to Ancona, and after a subsequent confinement at Briançon, removed to Verdun-sur-Meuse. There he remained, on parole of honor, until Aug. 1810, when, in consequence of misconduct on the part of other midshipmen, we find him closely confined in the prison within the citadel. Being thus absolved from his parole, he considered it a point of duty to attempt escape; and after repeated trials and disappointments, during four months, he at length succeeded in reaching England, via Holland, disguised as a peasant, Jan. 1st, 1811. On the 2d of the following month, he was promoted; and subsequently appointed to the Dreadnought 98, and America and Kent 74’s; in which ships he served under Captains Samuel Hood Linzee, Josias Rowley, and Thomas Rogers, until the latter was put out of commission, on her return from the Mediterranean, in Jan. 1813. His last appointment was, June 28th in the same year, to the Forth frigate. Captain Sir William Bolton. He obtained the rank of commander on the 13th June, 1815.
# Root v. Railway Company

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United States Supreme Court
105 U.S. 189
Root v. Railway Company
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. Albert H. Walker for the appellant.
Mr. George Payson for the appellee.
MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Rootabaga Pigeons

Rag Bag Mammy brings out candy with red and white stripes wrapped around it
ROOTABAGA PIGEONS
BY
CARL SANDBURG
Author of "Rootabaga Stories" "Slabs of the Sunburnt West," "Smoke and Steel," "Chicago Poems," "Cornhuskers"
ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY. N. J
In compliance with current copyright law, LBS Archival Products produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48-1984 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original.
1992
To Three Illinois Pigeons
CONTENTS
1.
The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice3
Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After9
2.
Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House19
Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster's Hat27
3.
How Ragbag Mammy Kept Her Secret While the Wind Blew Away the Village of Hat Pins33
How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams41
How the Three Wild Babylonian Baboons Went Away in the Rain Eating Bread and Butter49
How Six Umbrellas Took Off Their Straw Hats to Show Respect to the One Big Umbrella55
How Bozo the Button Buster Busted All His Buttons When a Mouse Came63
4.
How Googler and Gaggler, the Two Christmas Babies, Came Home with Monkey Wrenches75
How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things87
5.
How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass97
How Pink Peony Sent Spuds, the Ballplayer, Up to Pick Four Moons105
6.
How Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz Came in the Moonshine Where the Potato Face Blind Man Sat with His Accordion115
How Hot Balloons and His Pigeon Daughters Crossed Over into the Rootabaga Country127
How Two Sweetheart Dippies Sat in the Moonlight on a Lumber Yard Fence and Heard About the Sooners and the Boomers139
7.
The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns153
Why the Big Ball Game Between Hot Grounders and the Grand Standers Was a Hot Game161
8.
The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back169
Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the Song of the Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose181
9.
How a Skyscraper and a Railroad Train Got Picked Up and Carried Away from Pig's Eye Valley Far in the Pickax Mountains191
10.
Pig Wisps201
Kiss Me207
Blue Silver215
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
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# Roosevelt v. Meyer/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
68 U.S. 512
Roosevelt v. Meyer
The suit was commenced in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in which the validity of the act of Congress, of the 25th February, 1862, to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption and funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States, was drawn in question, and the legal right and title of the defendant, who was plaintiff in the court below, depended upon that statute. [His honor here stated the facts.] The Supreme Court ruled the question in the negative, and judgment was rendered for the plaintiff in error. The defendant in error then carried the case to the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, and that court reversed the decision of the Supreme Court, by rendering its judgment in favor of the defendant in error, giving to him the right which he claimed by the statute to pay the bond and mortgage in the notes issued under it. From that judgment the plaintiff in error has brought the case to this court. I have been instructed by the court to announce it to be our conclusion, upon the examination of the record, that as the validity of the act of the 25th February, 1862, was drawn in question, and the decision was in favor of it and of the rights set up by the defendant, that this court has no jurisdiction to revise that judgment. We direct accordingly the dismission of the case.
Mr. Justice NELSON dissents.
DISMISSAL ACCORDINGLY.

## Notes

* ↑ Gordon v. Caldcleugh, 3 Cranch, 268; Fulton v. McAffee, 16 Peters, 149; Strader v. Baldwin, 9 Howard, 261; Linton v. Stanton, 12 Id., 423.
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# Royal Naval Biography/Litchfield, Henry

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HENRY LITCHFIELD, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1826.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 29th of June, 1807 ; promoted to the command of the Mohawk sloop, July 12th, 1813; appointed to the Orestes of 18 guns (in which vessel he served for some time on the Halifax station), June 1st, 1824; and advanced to the rank of captain, Nov. 20th, 1326. He married, Jan. 1st, 1831, Louisa, only daughter of the late Henry Charles Litchfield, Esq.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude & Co.
# Royal Naval Biography/Livingston, Thomas

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SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTON, BART. Keeper of Linlithgow Palace. [Post-Captain of 1800.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant in 1790; commanded the Echo sloop of war at the Cape of Good Hope in 1796; and the Expedition, a 44-gun ship, armed en flute, employed conveying part of the Russian contingent from Revel to England, in 1799. His post commission bears date Jan. 13, 1800. During the remainder of the war, we find him in the Diadem and Athenienne 64’s; the former was employed as a troop-ship, and attached to the expedition against Quiberon and Belleisle, under Sir Edward Pellew; the latter accompanied Sir John Borlase Warren to the coast of Egypt, in quest of a French squadron under M. Gantheaume; and returned to England Sept. 11, 1802.
Sir Thomas Livingston’s next appointment was, we believe, to the Renommee frigate, in which ship he captured the Vigilante, a Spanish brig of war, mounting 18 guns, with a complement of 109 men, near Cape de Gatt, April 4, 1806. By the fire from this vessel, and Fort Callaretes, under the protection of which she had anchored, the Renommée had 2 men wounded. The Spaniards sustained a loss of 4 men killed and wounded.
In the course of the same year, the boats of the Renommee captured a Spanish schooner of 9 guns and 38 men; a tartan of 4 guns; two settees laden with grain, each mounting 3 guns, and another of 2 guns.
On the 7th Nov. 1807, a detachment sent by Sir Thomas from his own ship, and the Grasshopper sloop of war, carried two of the enemies’ vessels, lying under the protection of the ​Torre de Estacio, on the coast of Murcia; but unfortunately there was so little wind, and the current ran so strong, that they both got aground; and, notwithstanding every exertion was used for the purpose of getting them off, it was found impossible. Their destruction would of course have been easily effected, had not the commanding officer, Mr. Webster, an acting Lieutenant, been swayed by the nobler motive of humanity to abandon them, on finding they contained many helpless men, women, and children. Mr. Thomas Bastin, Purser of the Grasshopper, serving as a volunteer in the boats, and the coxswain of the Renommee’s pinnace, were the only persons hurt on this occasion; they were both very badly wounded.
Sir Thomas Livingston at present commands the Genoa of 74 guns: to which ship he was appointed Oct. 3, 1821. On the 12th Jan. preceding, the Sheriff Deputy and a jury of the county of Edinburgh, declared him nearest and lawful male heir in general, of James, first Earl of Calender, Lord Livingston, of Scotland. His lady is a daughter of Sir Gilbert Stirling, Bart.
Agent.– Isaac Clementson, Esq.
* ↑ See Vol. I, p. 219, et seq.
* ↑ See Memoir of Captain J. C. White.
* ↑ A party from the Nautilus sloop of war assisted on this occasion; see Memoir of Captain Sir William Parker, Bart.
# Royal Naval Biography/Locke, Walter

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WALTER LOCKE, Esq Rear-Admiral of the Red.
From the period of the Spanish armament, in 1790, to the commencement of the war with the French republic, this officer commanded the Cockatrice cutter, of 14 guns, stationed in the Channel. He served as Lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte, bearing the flag of Earl Howe, in the glorious battle of June 1, 1794; soon after which he was made a Commander in the Charon hospital-ship, attached to the Channel fleet; and in that vessel was present at the action off l’Orient, June 23, 1795. He obtained post rank on the 22d Sept. in the same year; and subsequently commanded the Ville de Paris, of 110 guns, and the Prince of Wales, a second-rate.
Early in the late war we find Captain Locke employed in the Sea Fencible service at Berwick, and afterwards in the Isle of Wight. At the beginning of the year 1811, he was appointed Agent for Prisoners of War at Portchester; and on the 4th June, 1814, he became a Rear-Admiral. Our officer has a numerous family; his son James, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, fell a victim to the climate of the West Indies, in 1808.
Residence.– Ryde, Isle of Wight.
* ↑ See note at p. 75, et seq.
* ↑ See p. 246.
# Royal Naval Biography/Lloyd, Robert

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ROBERT LLOYD Esq [Post-Captain of 1799.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant about the year 1790; and, commanded the Racoon sloop of war on the North Sea Station, in 1797. On the llth Jan. 1798, he captured, after a short running fight, le Policrate, French privateer of 16, guns, and 72 men; the Racoon on this occasion had 1 killed -and 4 wounded. Eleven, days iafter, Captain Lloyd also intercepted la Peruke of 2 guns and 32 men; he, had some time previously taken les Amis, of similar force. On the 20th Oct. following, he destroyed le Vigilante, of 14 guns and 50 men.
Early in July 1799, during a dark and foggy night, the Benjamin and Elizabeth, West Indiaman, being about twelve miles from Dungeness, was suddenly boarded on the quarter ​by a French lugger. Mr. White, the master, with his mate and two men, defended their vessel with all the gallantry that characterises British seamen, and had actually beaten the enemy from their deck, when they were boarded on the beam by a second lugger, the crew of which behaved in a most inhuman manner. Fortunately, Captain Lloyd, who was at that time stretching out from under the land, heard the firing, and re-captured the ship a few minutes after the luggers had hauled off. In a short time he also got sight of them, and immediately opened his broadside upon the nearest. On the smoke clearing away, not a vestige of her was to be seen, she having gone to the bottom with all on board. The other, though at a much greater distance, was still plainly to be seen; but the fog increasing, she succeeded in effecting her escape.
On the 2d Dec. in the same year, Captain Lloyd captured le Vrai Decide, privateer, of 14 guns and 41 men. The next day, after a running fight of about forty minutes, he succeeded in coming up with a lugger, which he had discovered in the act of boarding an English merchant brig; and after a short action, compelled her to surrender. She proved to be l’Intrepide of 16 guns and 60 men, 13 of whom were killed and wounded. The Racoon had her commander and 1 seaman wounded.
Captain Lloyd was promoted to post rank Dec. 6, 1799; and in 1801, commanded the Mars, a third rate, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thornbrough, in the Channel fleet. During the late war with the United States, we find him commanding the Plantagenet 74, on the American station, where he captured a great number of coasting vessels. He has not been employed since the peace.
Agent.– Harry Cook, Esq.
# Royal Naval Biography/Loch, Francis Erskine

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FRANCIS ERSKINE LOCH, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
Was a midshipman of the Queen Charlotte, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, when that noble ship was destroyed by fire, near Leghorn, Mar. 17, 1800. He obtained the rank of lieutenant Jan. 22, 1 806, and subsequently served under the same distinguished officer in the San Josef 112.
On the 21st Oct. 1812, Mr. Loch, then acting commander of the Rover sloop, captured the American letter of marque Experiment, of 6 guns and 17 men, laden with cotton and rice, from Charlestown bound to Bourdeaux. His commission was confirmed by the Admiralty, Jan. 6, 1813; and in Aug. following, he received an appointment to the Sparrow brig, which vessel formed part of the squadron under Sir George R. Collier, and was very actively employed at the siege of St. Sebastian, On the 10th Nov. 1813, she sustained some slight damage in the hull and sails, while making a naval demonstration in ​the rear of Socoa, preparatory to the attack of the enemy’s lines by Lord Wellington. On the 26th Mar. 1814, her master was killed and one man wounded, in a partial action with two French frigates, afterwards taken by the Hebrus 36, and Hannibal 74.
Captain Loch was posted into the Minstrel of 26 guns, Sept. 29, 1814; and appointed to the Eden, a ship of similar force, fitting for the East Indies, Mar. 21, 1818. He returned to England from that station, Aug. 11, 1821; and was soon afterwards put out of commission.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ See Vol. II. Part I. p. 418, et seq.; and Nav. Chron. v. xxviii, p. 8.
* ↑ See Suppl. Part I. p. 215.
* ↑ See id. p. 429.
# Royal Naval Biography/Locke, Campbell

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CAMPBELL LOCKE, Esq. [Commander.]
A son of Vice Admiral Walter Locke, by a sister of Captain Michael Head, R.N.
This officer was made a lieutenant on the 30th May, 1814; and promoted to his present rank while serving in the Victory 104, flag-ship of the commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, July 17th, 1828.
# Royal Naval Biography/Lloyd, George

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GEORGE LLOYD, Esq. [Captain of 1828.]
Was made lieutenant into the Rattler sloop, Nov. 3d, 1812; appointed to the Trent 32, armed en flûte, at Cork, Dec, 7th, 1813; to act as commander of the same guard-ship, in Aug. 1815; confirmed “for rank” Nov. 8th following; appointed to the Victor sloop, fitting out for the Jamaica station, Aug. 22d, 1827; and promoted to the rank of captain Aug, 26th, 1828.
Agents.– Messrs. Goode & Clarke.
# Representative women of New England/Laura A. G. Mattoon

​LAURA A. GOODNOW MATTOON (Mrs. William P. Mattoon) was born in Boston, Mass., and comes of Puritan ancestry, being the daughter of Silas and Eliza (Pierce) Goodnow. Her mother was a well-known contralto singer. At the beginning of the Civil War her father was a manufactuter in the South; but, as he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate government, his property was confiscated and he was obliged to return North. At that time the daughter Laura A. Goodnow was attending school at the Oread Institute in Worcester. From early childhood she had shown talent for mimicry and the promise of a remarkable voice, and she now left school and became soloist in King's Chapel, Boston. Later she was soprano in a famous quartet of Springfield, Mass., and she afterward sang in Dr. Roilger's church on Fifth Avenue, New York. She was soloist in the first triennial celebration of the Handel and Haydn Society at Boston, in Music Hall, in 1865. She was also soloist for the Mendelssohn Quintet Club and for the Harvard symphony concerts. She was associated with Annie Louise Cary, Henry Clay Barnabee, Myron W. Whitney, Teresa Carrefio, and many other singers who have become famous.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, John B. Gough, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, personal friends of the family, advised her to go into opera, and she studied with this object in view, but was obliged to give up her ambition on account of the serious objections of her relatives. In 1870 she married William P. Mattoon, of Springfield, and took up her residence in that city. For years she has devoted her talents, strength, and time for charity, and, without compensation to herself, has rai,sed time after time substantial sums for the charities both of Springfield and the surrounding towns. She has sung and acted in numberless operas and plays, and has drilled the young people to put on smooth, artistic dramatic attractions. Coaching amateurs is one of her ilelights, and she is still able and willing to take part herself whenever rkecessary. Her clever work as Little Buttercup ("Pinafore") in the Springfield local opera company, of which she was manager, will never be forgotten by those who saw her in the role. She has played only for charities, and has earned for various worthy objects over twenty thousand dollars. She is a clever monologist, and her talents are shown to especial advantage in a monologue called "For Charity," written for her by Clyde Fitch.
Mr. and Mrs. Mattoon have one child, Laura Isabella Mattoon. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, has been a post-graduate ​student at Smith, and is now studying for her second degree at Columbia. She is at the head of the science department of the Veltin School for Girls in New York City.
# Representative women of New England/Lillian Norton

​LILLIAN NORTON (Madame Nordica) was born in Farmington, Me., December 12, 1857, the daughter of Edwin and Amanda E. (Allen) Norton. Her maternal grandfather, the Rev. John Allen, was known everywhere as "Camp-meeting John," such gatherings, in several hundred of which he took part, having a peculiar charm for him. He was an interesting and original preacher, and was distinguished for his wit and ready repartee. He served as chaplain in the Maine House of Representatives in 1879 and 1881. Madame Nordica's mother was a woman of broad intelligence and marked executive ability. Christian graces adorning her character.
As a bit of old New England history it is interesting to note that Nordica's great-grand-father, Nathaniel Hersey, was in 1777 taxed for his "faculty," with four other citizens of the town, who were regarded as possessing marked business capacity.
W'hen Lillian Norton was but a child, her parents removed to Boston. She inherited from both father and mother a talent for music, and at the age of fifteen she began the culture ​of her voice with Professor John O'Neil of Boston, continuing under his instruction until she went to Europe. In Milan, where she studied under San Giovanni, she was given her stage name of "Giglia Nordica," the Italian for "Northern lily." Under Giovanni's teaching she prepared herself for opera, making her debut as Violetta in the opera of "Traviata." Her first engagement of importance was at St. Petersburg, where she sang for two seasons, achieving a brilliant reputation. From that city she went to Paris, where she appeared as Marguerite in "Faust," at the Grand Opera House. After singing there several months, she married Mr. Frederick A. Gower, and soon retired from the stage.
After Mr. Gower's death in 1884, she appeared again in opera at Covent Garden, London, and in all the principal opera houses of Europe and America. Up to this time Nordica had confined herself to French and Italian roles, but during a visit to Bayreuth in 1893 she was asked to create the role of Elsa in "Lohengrin," and, learning the German language in five months, made her appearance at the end of that time. She elicited much enthusiasm, and it was a season of triumph. Her repertoire now embraces forty operas and all the standard oratorios. She is best known in Wagnerian parts. In the United States she has appeared in grand opera several seasons. She speaks fluently all the languages in which she sings. Personally she is a woman of much charm and magnetism, as well as beauty. She has a gracious manner, and is especially loyal to her old friends.
She married a few years ago Herr Zoltan Dome.
She takes an interest in her native State, and from time to time visits her birthplace.