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# Merry fairs of Falkirk

Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
The Merry Fairs of Falkirk.
To which are added,
The Happy Marriage.
Johnny Bluster's Wife
Lay thy loof in mine lass
The Broad Swords of
AULD SCOTLAND
The Caledonian Laddie.
A Hunting Song.
Stirling Printed and Sold by M. Randall.
* The merry fairs of Falkirk
* The happy marriage
* Johnny Bluster's wife
* Lay thy loof in mine lass
* The broad swords of auld Scotland
* The Caledonian laddie
* A hunting song
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Swenson v. Stidham

Supreme Court of the United States
409 U.S. 224
Swenson, Warden v. Stidham
Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
No. 71-224. Argued: October 11, 1972 --- Decided: December 7, 1972
During respondent's trial for murder he challenged the voluntariness of his confession. A full evidentiary hearing was held outside the jury's presence, following which the trial court held the confession admissible. After affirmance of respondent's conviction on appeal, respondent sought state post-conviction relief. The Missouri Supreme Court reversed the denial of respondent's motion to vacate, and an evidentiary hearing was held by the St. Louis Circuit Court on the voluntariness issue. That court concluded that the trial judge himself had found the confession voluntary and thus complied with Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368. The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed, and held additionally that respondent had been given a new evidentiary hearing by the St. Louis court and that his confession had again been found to be voluntary. Respondent then sought federal habeas corpus. The District Court determined that Jackson v. Denno had been satisfied. The Court of Appeals, concluding that the trial judge, as permitted by then-prevailing state law, had not made the voluntariness finding himself but had submitted the issue to the jury, reversed and held that respondent was entitled to a new hearing.
Held: The trial court's Jackson v. Denno error, if any, was remedied by the constitutionally adequate evidentiary hearing given respondent on the voluntariness issue by the St. Louis court, which the Missouri Supreme Court upheld after concluding from its independent examination of the record that the confession was voluntary. The Court of Appeals therefore erred in holding that respondent was entitled to still another voluntariness hearing in the state court. Pp. 228-231.
443 F.2d 1327, reversed and remanded.
WHITE, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
Kenneth M. Romines, Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was John C. Danforth, Attorney General.
Mark M. Hennelly, by appointment of the Court, 405 U.S. 913, argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.
# Notices by the Rev. T. Surridge ... of Roman Inscriptions Discovered at High Rochester, Risingham and Rudchester, in Northumberland

Drawn by John Bell. Lamberts Zinc$^y$, Newcastle
NOTICES
BY THE
REV. T. SURRIDGE, LL.D., T.C.D.,
OF
ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS
DISCOVERED AT
HIGH ROCHESTER, RISINGHAM, AND RUDCHESTER,
IN
NORTHUMBERLAND.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HIS GRACE ALGERNON, DUKE AND EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, &c., &c.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: PRINTED AT THE JOURNAL OFFICE, GREY STREET, BY JOHN HERNAMAN.
1853.
[Entered at Stationers' hall.]
* To His Grace the Duke of Northumberland
* Introduction
* High Rochester inscriptions
* Risingham
* Rutchester altars
* Errata
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Farsunds Avis/1914/08/24/Ole Pedersen Klungland

Ole Mattias Pedersen (1822-1914) death notice in Farsunds Avis on August 25, 1914.
Blessed be his Memory!
Farsund 24 August 1914.
Deceased's Survivors
The funeral takes place on Friday at 2 o'clock p.m.
# Statement from President Joe Biden on U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation

Briefing Room - WhiteHouse.gov
As Commander in Chief, I have one solemn responsibility: protect the American people from harm. That’s why, over the last four years, I made beating the opioid epidemic a central focus of my Unity Agenda at home—and my cooperation with world leaders abroad.
Earlier this week, we saw the impact: Mexican security forces seized more than twenty million doses of illicit fentanyl—enough to kill 15 percent of all Americans. I want to thank President Claudia Sheinbaum for her leadership and partnership that made this possible, and the many military and law enforcement officials on both sides of the border who have dedicated their lives to countering fentanyl, disrupting traffickers, and saving their fellow citizens. It matters.
And we won’t let up. Under my Administration, we have seized more fentanyl at our border in the last two years, than the previous five years combined. We’ve put dozens of major cartel leaders and money launderers behind bars. And latest data shows over a 14 percent drop in overdose deaths across the nation—that’s the largest decrease on record.
These aren’t just facts and figures. They are families. Families who don’t have to bear the loss of a child, or parent, or spouse. So today, with partners around the world—including Mexico—we vow to double down on our work to size more drugs. To stop more traffickers. To save more lives. And to we make it clear: enough is enough.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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# The United States and Bahrain Launch Geospatial Acceleration Initiative under C-SIPA

WhiteHouse.gov Briefing Room
The United States and the Kingdom of Bahrain are proud to unveil the Geospatial Acceleration Initiative, an ambitious step forward in one of the Middle East’s longest-standing and most valued strategic partnerships. This initiative stems from the advanced technology track of the Comprehensive Security Integration and Prosperity Agreement (C-SIPA), signed in 2023, which strengthened US-Bahraini collaboration in defense, security, and cutting-edge technology development.
Bahrain’s steadfast dedication to regional security is exemplified by its prominent role in supporting multinational efforts to ensure safe navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, countering threats to maritime trade, and upholding international law. Bahrain’s leadership in this effort underscores its ongoing commitment to advancing regional stability and protecting vital global trade corridors.
Through the Geospatial Acceleration Initiative and the advanced C-SIPA tech track, the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)—a global leader in geospatial intelligence—will collaborate with Bahraini stakeholders to produce and share hydrographic, aeronautical, and topographic geospatial foundation data. This partnership will enhance navigation safety for both military forces and bolster maritime security across the region.
The enduring U.S.-Bahrain partnership, rooted in decades of mutual trust and shared goals, is a testament to the power of collaboration. Together, through innovative initiatives like the Geospatial Acceleration Initiative, we reaffirm our resolve to confront today’s challenges with ingenuity and unity. This partnership continues to serve as a cornerstone of peace, security, and prosperity for both nations and beyond.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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# Readout of the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor Summit

WhiteHouse.gov Briefing Room
Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Angolan President João Lourenço co-hosted African leaders from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and Tanzania, as well as private sector CEOs, U.S. development and finance institutions, and the Africa Finance Corporation, to celebrate and highlight progress on the development of the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor and the partnership of the Lobito Corridor consortium. President Biden praised the progress made on the Corridor since its launch under the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGI) at the 2023 G7 Summit, and today announced more than $560 million in new funding, including commitments expected to generate at least $200 million in additional private sector capital, for infrastructure projects along the Corridor, bringing the total for U.S. investments to more than $4 billion. The Leaders discussed the transformative impact the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor has had on enhancing access to the critical minerals needed for the clean energy transition and digital connectivity, strengthening food security, boosting regional trade, and empowering communities all along the Corridor. To date, the United States regional development banks, and international partners have mobilized over $6 billion in high-standard, public and private investments along the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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# The Little Karoo/Chapter 3

​III: The Miller
ANDRIES LOMBARD, the miller in the mountains at Mijnheer van der Merwe's farm of Harmonie, was a stupid kindly man whom illness had turned into a morose and bitter one. He was a tall gaunt Dutchman from the Malgas district, with black hair, black eyes, and a thick, square, black beard. Round his neck he wore an eel-skin which his wife Mintje had tramped sixteen miles down the Aangenaam valley to borrow from old Tan' Betje Ferreira of Vetkuil. The eel-skin had cured many coughs in Tan' Betje's family, but God knows how it was, though Andries wore it day and night it did not cure him of spitting blood. And in the month of September, when, in the Aangenaam valley, other men planted their lands with sweet-potatoes and pumpkins and mealies, the miller said to his wife:
​"I will not plant my lands. If I plant me now my lands surely by the time that it comes for me to dig my potatoes and gather me my mealies I shall be dead of this cough that I have from the dust in the mill. And so surely as I am dead, the day that I am buried they will drive you out of this house in the rocks and to the man that comes after me they will give my potatoes and mealies. So I will not plant my lands. God help you, Mintje, when I am dead and they drive our children and you out in the veld the day that I am buried, but I will not plant my lands for the man that comes after me."
All this Andries had said on a cold, clear, spring morning, sitting out in front of the mill coughing in the sun. He did not, in fact, believe that his master, a just and generous man who even now sent help up to the mill when work there was heavy, would drive Mintje and her children like beasts out in the veld when he died, but it gave him a strange malicious pleasure to say it and to make ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/75 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/76 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/77 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/78 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/79 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/80 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/81 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/82 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/83 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/84 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/85 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/86 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/87 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/88
# The Little Karoo/Chapter 4

​IV: The Sinner
NIKLAAS DAMPERS, the bijwoner who worked Mijnheer van Reenen's lands near Platkops dorp, was fifty-six years old when his favourite daughter Saartje married and went to live with her husband in the Philip district. Niklaas had prayed that Saartje might never leave him, and the Lord's strange answer to his prayer filled his mind with an unreasoning hatred of his ten remaining children and of his wife Toontje. The bijwoner was a small, weak, religious man, with pale red-lidded eyes, arms that seemed too long for his body, and a heart that was full of bitterness and the fear of the Lord. Of all his children, it seemed to him now, Saartje alone had been dear to him, and if he had ever loved his wife he had long ago forgotten it. Toontje was a tall, patient, ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/90 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/91 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/92 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/93 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/94 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/95 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/96 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/97 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/98 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/99 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/100 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/101 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/102 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/103 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/104 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/105 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/106 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/107 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/108 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/109 ​Page:The Little Karoo (1925).djvu/110
# The Little Karoo

The Little Karoo
BY PAULINE SMITH
With an Introduction by ARNOLD BENNETT
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
CONTENTS
# An Angler at Large/Chapter 3

To-night the garden was delicious. The sky was covered with a film of cloud which diffused the light of the moon (in her first quarter) all over the heavens into a soft and radiant blue. She hung just above the greatest of that row of elms which burdens the western sky line. A high branch touched her. The big trees loomed imminent, rather terrible. The great one seemed to crouch there, huge, devilish. In two clear places among its branches there seemed the long slit eyes in the head of a bushy and shapeless demon. It must have been the immense and contrasting peace of the night that put this gruesome idea into my head. The elm-fiend was to the rest of my circumstances like that abominable anticipation of trouble which so often does its best to kill complete happiness. Low among the arms of the smaller, thinner elms to the south, lightning flickered, just above the down. The stars shone very faint, largely luminous. A sigh of breeze stirred rarely. Sounds are never absent in the ​country, whose silence is made up of a multitude of little noises. Distinct above the rest was the coo of a pigeon from the clump on the flank of the Beacon Down. A cow mooed. The starlings rustled in the thatch above our heads. Somewhere a nightjar sprung its stealthy rattle, and a river bird called once. And four miles away at the station the trains whistled and rolled and puffed, the sound coming loud, caught by the funnel which is this valley, across whose mouth from N.E. to S.W. the railway line runs. Let it run!
And the air, dear God! it seemed to fill one's whole body. We could not drink enough of it.
This is a good place. It always was. But it is better now.
# An Angler at Large/Chapter 10

These mornings I fish to slow music, for the wind sits ever in the N.W. As I near the island the breeze takes on a new kind of voice. Its sigh becomes melodious; faint breaths of harmony intermingle with its whisper; its very lulls are tuneful. Where, hitherto, the cuckoos and the larks, the sheep and the cattle, the reeds and the poplars alone have raised their untutored voices, the meadows are vocal with arpeggios. The Spring Song of Mendelssohn is distinguishable, sometimes above, sometimes below that of the valley.
It is at this time of the day that my wife practises.
Is there something in the harp which makes it more akin to Nature than any other instrument? In solitudes such as these one rarely hears any human music. A piano may tinkle in a cottage (for we are so excessively educated nowadays), a travelling gramophone may stutter and wheeze from the high road, a mouth-organ may go by at the march, a hurdy-gurdy clatter out with im​partial gusto a waltz or a hymn. These are the instruments of the countryside. Or a Flower Show may provide a brass band all the afternoon. And I have endured fiddling. This surely exhausts the list. Until I heard the harp thus, I denied the right of human beings to make music in chalk valleys. Let them keep to those rivers where men in starched collars punt girls under Japanese umbrellas. It does not matter to me that on such waters—more streets than streams—the banjo and the concertina, the mandolin, the cornet thump, wheeze, twang, and blare. I am not there. In this valley, however, I have always resented the intrusions of music—until now.
Whether the harp is really wilder than other instruments I cannot say. That it is this alleged savagery which renders it pleasing to my ear in this place I do not think. It may be so, but I have a suspicion that a 'cello or a flute, or a sackbut for that matter, under the same conditions, would be to me similarly agreeable. For when the harp sounds it sings to me of matters which lie entirely outside the scope of æsthetics. It is a new voice in the valley, and it carries messages to me which the old never reported. Perhaps to the wooing strains of Gounod's Serenade I seek to lure that four-pound trout which persists within the Island glide. Or, again, when I have risen ​and lost him, it is Consolation which celebrates the event. But whatever the music and whatever the fortune, I am assured, by the harp, that everything that was once good is now a thousandfold better, and that there is nothing bad anywhere at all.
# An Angler at Large/Chapter 11

The professional painter has returned my picture with a first lesson, and the compliments for which I pant. Among other things, he has given me a strong caution against the use of the following colours:—
Oxide of Chromium he admits to the palette. So my instinct was right. He has put me back on Vandyke Brown, Siennas, and other common old things. I expect I am not sufficiently adroit ​for really interesting paints. But I hanker after my Intense Blue. It cost me two shillings.
It appears (I quote from my lesson) that trees are not green. They are really Vandyke Brown and Yellow Ochre and Burnt Sienna and Cobalt Blue. I must verify this.
There is a thing called the Essential Characteristic which resides in every object and distinguishes it from everything else. Seize that, and nobody can mistake what you have drawn, say a cathedral, for what you have not drawn, say an orange. There is therefore something in a cathedral which is not in an orange, and something in an orange which is not in a cathedral. If these things be discovered and properly drawn there is no chance of your cathedral, however round and yellow, being taken for an orange, nor your orange, let it be as Gothic as it pleases, being admired as a cathedral. The task which I must set myself is to find these Essential Characteristics.
After trial (upon white poplars and elms) I make this assertion. Oranges and Cathedrals are undistinguishable from each other. It has been well said that the study of art opens the eyes to ​matters hitherto unsuspected. I can now believe that trees are Vandyke Brown and Cobalt Blue and all the other colours which my master mentions. If only there should be an Intense Blue kind! I must ask him.
My Vandyke Brown has given out. Query? Am I sufficiently adept to substitute for it my Scarlet Madder Alizarin?
I had always believed the cow to be a very nearly stationary beast. But a zoetrope is less active.
Tree roots are better painted, covered with long grass, especially the root of beeches. I wonder with what long grass would be better covered when one paints it.
It seems that if there is no red harp-string of the required thickness, purple lake applied to a yellow one does the trick.
# An Angler at Large/Dedicatory Letter

Dear H. T. S.,
It is a commonplace that there are too many books on angling.
My instinct, therefore, is to follow the established custom of authors who write on that subject, and hypocritically to apologise for what I have done.
But gratitude compels me to dedicate the Angler at Large to you, the man the most truly, though perhaps not the most conspicuously, responsible for its appearance. For lacking your encouragements (of which this book is the most direct fruit), very possibly I had been still floundering clueless in the labyrinth of Conveyancing Law, and employing my pen upon the infinitely discreditable labour of storing up trouble for the harmless unborn children of inoffensive clients. You have done more than any twenty men (though less than one woman) to save me from this misery and infamy, and I hold myself bound publicly to testify my obligation.
You are, then, the natural dedicatee of this book.
But if I follow the custom which I have mentioned—if, that is to say, I apologise for adding to ​our prodigious list of Angling books, what kind of a compliment do I pay you, upon whom responsibility must so seriously fall? I should be slighting your taste most villainously.
I decline, therefore, to follow that custom. I do not apologise for the Angler at Large, I prefer to say that the book is a good book, and that I congratulate the public on its appearance. I do not hesitate to own that it is a book which I am glad to possess; that I am sure it is one which a great number of people ought to buy—if only to give it instantly away. I will even declare that it is a book which should be translated into all polite languages.
I could develop this theme indefinitely, but I find that, while I am putting its proper valuation upon your judgment, I am almost losing sight of that modesty which it still behoves an author in some degree to preserve.
I think enough has been said to show that I am in a very embarrassing situation.
So here is the book for you.
Always yours, William Caine.
Hampstead, 1911.
# An Angler at Large/Note

I thank the proprietors of the Field, Macmillan's Magazine, and the Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette for their permission to use, in this book, articles which they have published. Those from the Field were originally entitled: The Friendship of the River, A Day with the Keeper, Some Dry-fly Refinements, A Blank Day, The Great Dry-fly Myth, The Purism of Flounder Fishing, The Crackling of Thorns, Fishing Trophies, The Patience of Anglers, The Perfect Thrill, The Trout at the Boundary, Then and Now, The Essential Falsity, Three Days on the Sea-Stream, and A Norwegian Interlude.
To Macmillan's Magazine I am indebted for Isaac on a Chalk Stream, and to the Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette for Mors Janua, in this book called Of Death.
# One Lot Emerald Cut Stones and One Ring v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States
409 U.S. 232
One Lot Emerald Cut Stones and One Ring v. United States
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
No. 72-376. Argued: N/A --- Decided: December 11, 1972
A forfeiture of imported merchandise not included in a declaration and entry pursuant to the tariff provision in 19 U.S.C. § 1497 is not barred by a prior acquittal under 18 U.S.C. § 545, which (unlike the civil forfeiture proceeding) requires proof of an intent to defraud; nor is the forfeiture action barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause, since Congress may impose both a criminal and civil sanction respecting the same act or omission.
Certiorari granted; 461 F.2d 1189, affirmed.
PER CURIAM.