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# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 4/Gas Bombs to Check Forest Fires

Gas Bombs to Check Forest Fires
The devastation wrought by the Riviera forest fires has inspired French scientists to take a hand in checking this menace to its beautiful wooded districts.
Eugene Turpin, inventor of turpenite, the deadliest gas used in the world war, has submitted a list of chemicals to the ministry of war and agriculture, for fighting forest fires from aeroplanes.
The type of bomb which will probably be the most effective will contain tubes of sulphuric acid and liquefied ammonia. Bombs of this kind will be dropped by 'planes flying over the burning areas. When they explode the resulting fumes will spread over large spaces, extinguishing the flames.
It is expected that this invention will act as a potent check on any future forest fires which may occur in France.
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# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 4/New Mecca for Divorce Hunters

New Mecca for Divorce Hunters
YUCATAN, known as a bolshevik state, has become a popular place for American couples seeking divorce. Several dissatisfied American couples have obtained handy divorces throught the Yucatan courts after living in the state as residents for one month. The fees are fifty dollars for an uncontested divorce and seventy-five dollars for a contested divorce, with twenty-five dollars for the lawyers' fee in each case. After establishing their residence a married couple need only appear before the court and assert that they are unable to agree or live together, and a divorce will be granted without further question, although the support of their children must be shared equally by the parting parents.
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 4/Saved from Fiery Death by Locomotive Bell

SAVED FROM FIERY DEATH BY LOCOMOTIVE BELL
Max O. Knorr, a railroad worker, was awakened at night by a locomotive bell. He found his home in flames. Thirty seconds after he led the five members of his family from the burning building, the walls suddenly careened and the roof collapsed, enveloped in flames.
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 4/British Missionaries Slain by Chinese Bandits

British Missionaries Slain by Chinese Bandits
REV. W. A. WHITESIDE and Rev. F. G. Watt, British missionaries of the Church Missionary society, were shot and killed by bandits when traveling in the Szechwan province, according to dispatches received in Shanghai from Meinchow recently.
Meinchow, from which a report came that two British missionaries had been slain by bandits, is near the center of Szechwan, a province in Western China bordering on Tibet. There are numerous Protestant mission stations in the vicinity of Meinchow.
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 4/$600,000 for Study of Spiritualism

$600,000 FOR STUDY OF SPIRITUALISM
A BEQUEST of $400,000 has been made to Stanford university, San Francisco, for the study of spiritualism, according to a recent announcement. This gives the spiritualism and psychology departments a fund of more than $600,000, all derived from the estate of the late Thomas Welton Stanford of Melbourne, Australia, a brother of Senator Leland Stanford. The chair was originally founded by Thomas Welton, for many years a leading spiritualist. Trustees of the university accepted his first donation of $50,000 only on the understanding that investigations along "spirit" lines would be untrammeled, regardless of whether the case for or against spiritualism was shown to be true.
To date, Prof. John Edgar Coover, fellow in psychic phenomena, has been unable to find any scientific truth in the contentions of such eminent spiritualists as Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that communication with the dead is possible.
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 4/Girl, Gypsy All Her Life, Turns from Wilds

Girl, Gypsy All Her Life, Turns from Wilds
Fresh from the gypsy world, slim yet sinewy, brown as a berry, with oval face and slender shapely nose, with firm lips and luminous brown eyes, and with hair glistening in two braids that hung to the waist, Rosalia Bimbo strode into a Chicago court and announced that she wished to see Assistant State's Attorney William J. Grace. She had fled from wild gypsy life because she was weary of lying, stealing and telling fortunes. As far back as she could remember, the gypsies with whom she had been forced to travel had craftily schooled her in the devious ways of petty crime.
Drilled in the profession of picking pockets and telling persons things that were not true, she finally summoned courage to flee from the endless round of dusty, dirty travel in the old Packard motor car in which a thirteen-numbered band ranged over the United States and even into foreign countries insidiously filching sustenance in any available field. Rosalia had been told she was born in Africa, and other things she was afraid were not true, and now appealed to William Grace to give her a chance to realize a dream to enter better ways.
The wish was granted; before night her cherished dream had been realized, she was able to sit before a white-clothed table, eat with silverware, sleep in a clean-linened, snowy bed and thus begin a life sought for in her eighteen years of yoked youth.
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# Weird Tales/Volume 31/Issue 6/Farewell to Eros

From Weird Tales Volume 31, Issue 6
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Farewell to Eros by Clark Ashton Smith
Lord of the many pangs, the single ecstasy!
From all my rose-red temple builded in thy name,
Pass dawnward with no blasphemies of praise or blame,
No whine of suppliant or moan of psaltery.
Not now the weary god deserts the worshipper,
The worshipper the god ... but in some cryptic room
A tocsin tells with arras-deadened tones of doom
That hour which veils the shrine and stills the chorister.
Others will make libation, chant thy litanies....
But, when the glamored moons on immost Stygia glare
And quenchlessly, the demon-calling altars flare,
I shall go forth to madder gods and mysteries.
And through Zothique and primal Thule wandering,
A pilgrim to the shrines where elder Shadows dwell,
Perhaps I shall behold such lusters visible
As turn to ash the living opal of thy wing.
Haply those islands where the sunsets sink in rest
Will yield, O Love, the slumber that thou hast not given;
Or the broad-bosomed flowers of some vermilion heaven
Will make my senses fail as on no mortal breast.
Perchance the wind, on Aquilonian marches blowing
From the low mountains isled in seaas of russet grass,
Will make among the reeds a sweeter shuddering pass
Than tremors through the chorded flesh of women flowing.
Perchance the fountains of the dolorous rivers four
In Dis, will quench the thirst thy wine assuages never;
And in my veins will mount a twice-infuriate fever
When the black, burning noons upon Cimmeria pour.
Yea, in those ultimate lands that will outlast the Earth,
Being but dream and fable, myth and fantasy,
I shall forget ... or find some image reared of thee,
Dreadful and radiant, far from death, remote from birth.
# Weird Tales/Volume 31/Issue 3/To Howard Phillips Lovecraft

From Weird Tales, Volume 31, Issue 3
* To Howard Phillips
* Lovecraft
Master-writer of the weird, essayist, poet, 1890-1937
He lived—and now is dead beyond all knowing Of life and death: the vast and formless scheme Behind the face of nature ever showing Has swallowed up the dreamer and the dream. But brief the hour he had upon the stream Of timeless time from past to future flowing To lift his sail and catch the luminous gleam Of stars that marked his coming and his going Before he vanished: yet the brilliant wake His passing left is vivid on the tide And for the countless centuries will abide: The genius that no death can ever take Crowns him immortal, though a man has died.
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# Weird Tales/Volume 31/Issue 6/Outlanders

From Weird Tales Volume 31, Issue 6
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Outlanders by Clark Ashton Smith
By desert-deepened wells and chasmed ways,
And noon-high passes of the crumbling nome
Where the fell sphinx and martichoras roam;
Over black mountains lit by meteor-blaze,
Through darkness ending not in solar days,
Beauty, the centauress, has brought us home
To shores where chaos climbs in starry foam,
And the white horses of Polaris graze.
We gather, upon those gulfward beaches rolled,
Driftage of worlds not shown by any chart;
And pluck the fabled moly from wild scaurs:
Though these are scorned by human wharf and mart—
And scorned alike the red, primeval gold
For which we fight the griffins in strange wars.
# Weird Tales/Volume 32/Issue 3/The Prophet Speaks

From Weird Tales Volume 32, Issue 3
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The Prophet Speaks by Clark Ashton Smith
City forbanned by seer and god and devil!
In glory less than Tyre or fabled Ys,
But more than they in mere, surpassing evil!
Yea, black Atlantis, fallen beneath dim seas
For sinful lore and rites to demons done,
Bore not the weight of such iniquities.
Your altars with a primal foulness run,
Where the worm hears the thousand-throated hymn....
And all the sunsets write your malison,
And all, the stars unrolled from heaven's rim
Declare the doom which I alone may read
In moving ciphers numberless and dim.
O city consecrate to crime and greed!
O scorner of the Muses' messenger!
Within your heart the hidden maggots breed.
Against your piers the nether seas confer;
Against your towers the typhons in their slumber
In sealed abysms darkly mutter and stir:
They dream the day when earth shall disencumber
Her bosom of your sprawled and beetling piles;
When tides that bore your vessels without number
Shall turn your hills to foam-enshrouded isles,
And, ebbing, leave but slime and desolation,
Ruin and rust, through all your riven miles.
On you shall fall a starker devastation
Than came upon Tuloom and Tarshish old,
In you shall dwell the last abomination.
The dust of all your mansions and the mould
Shall move in changing mounds and clouds disparted
About the wingless air, the footless wold.
The sea, withdrawn from littorals desert-hearted,
Shall leave you to the silence of the sky—
A place fordone, forlorn, unnamed, uncharted,
Where naught molests the sluggish crotali.
# Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009

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An Act To amend Section 114 of Title 17, United States Code, to provide for agreements for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings by webcasters.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

#### Section 1. Short Title.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009´´.

#### Sec. 2. Authorization of Agreements.

    Section 114(f)(5) of title 17, United States Code, is amended—
          (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``2008´´ and inserting ``2008, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009,´´;
          (2) in subparagraph (E)(iii), by striking ``to make eligible nonsubscription transmissions and ephemeral recordings´´; and
          (3) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``February 15, 2009´´ and inserting ``at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on the 30th day after the date of the enactment of the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009´´.
Approved June 30, 2009.

## Legislative History

* H.R. 2344, (S. 1145)
   * HOUSE REPORTS:
   ** No. 111-139 (Comm. on the Judiciary)
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
   ** June 9, considered and passed House.
   ** June 17, considered and passed Senate.

## See Also

* Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002
* Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008
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# Webb v. United States

United States Supreme Court
249 U.S. 96
Webb v. United States
Argued: Jan. 16, 1919. --- Decided: March 3, 1919
Messrs. Ralph Davis and Ike W. Crabtree, both of Memphis, Tenn., for Webb and another.
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Porter, for the United States.
Mr. Justice DAY delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
## Concurring Opinion

    Blackmun

## Dissenting Opinion

    Rehnquist
Supreme Court of the United States
406 U.S. 164
Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. et al.
Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Louisiana
No. 70-5112. Argued: February 28, 1972 --- Decided: April 24, 1972
Decedent, who died as a result of injuries received during the course of his employment, had maintained a household with four legitimate minor children, one unacknowledged minor child, and petitioner, to whom he was not married. His wife had been committed to a mental hospital. A second illegitimate child was born posthumously. Under Louisiana's workmen's compensation law unacknowledged illegitimate children are not within the class of "children," but are relegated to the lesser status of "other dependents," and may recover only if there are not enough surviving dependents in the preceding classes to exhaust the maximum benefits. The four legitimate children were awarded the maximum allowable compensation and the two illegitimate children received nothing. The Louisiana courts sustained the statutory scheme, holding that Levy v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 68, was not controlling.
Held: Louisiana's denial of equal recovery rights to the dependent unacknowledged illegitimate children violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as the inferior classification of these dependent children bears no significant relationship to the recognized purposes of recovery that workmen's compensation statutes were designed to serve. Levy v. Louisiana, supra, followed; Labine v. Vincent, 401 U.S. 532, distinguished. Pp. 167-176.
257 La. 424, 242 So. 2d 567, reversed and remanded.
POWELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and DOUGLAS, BRENNAN, STEWART, WHITE, and MARSHALL, JJ., joined. BLACKMUN, J., filed an opinion concurring in the result, post, p. 176. REHNQUIST, J., filed a dissenting opinion, post, p. 177.
Vanue B. Lacour argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.
W. Henson Moore argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.
Norman Dorsen and Melvin L. Wulf filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union as amicus curiae urging reversal.
# Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company/Concurrence Blackmun

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* Dissenting Opinion Rehnquist
[p176] MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, concurring in the result.
For me, La. Civ. Code, Art. 204, is the provision in the State's statutory structure that proves fatal for this workmen's compensation case under the focus of constitutional measurement. The Article operated to deny Henry Stokes the ability even to acknowledge his illegitimates so that they might qualify as children within the definition provided by La. Rev. Stat. § 23:1021 (3). This is so because the decedent (inasmuch as he was then married to Adlay Jones Stokes and remained married to her the rest of his life) and the mother were incapable of contracting marriage at the time of conception and thereafter. This bar, indeed, under the Court's decided cases, denied equal protection to the illegitimates. Cf. Labine v. Vincent, 401 U.S. 532, 539 (1971).
I thus give primary emphasis to the presence of Art. 204 and, I believe, far more emphasis than does the Court. If that statute did not exist or were inapplicable, the case might be a different one. While the Court refers to Art. 204, and to a degree relies upon it, ante, at 171 n. 9, it seems to me that it does so only secondarily. I read the opinion as flatly granting dependent unacknowledged illegitimate children full equality with dependent legitimate children and therefore as striking down the [p177] Louisiana statutory scheme even for the situation where the father has the power to acknowledge his illegitimates but refrains from doing so. In other words, the Court holds the Louisiana system unconstitutional with respect to illegitimate dependent children wholly apart from the barrier of Art. 204. Certainly, the first paragraph of the opinion is to this effect.
In deciding this case, I need not, and would not, go that far. I would let the resolution of that issue await its appropriate presentation.
# Weber Electric Company v. E. H. Freeman Electric Company

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United States Supreme Court
256 U.S. 668
Weber Electric Company v. E. H. Freeman Electric Company
Argued: April 21, 1921. --- Decided: June 6, 1921
Mr. Charles Neave, of New York City, for petitioner.
Mr. Livingston Gifford, of New York City, for respondent.
Mr. Justice CLARKE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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