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# Chinese Fairy Book (Richard Wilhelm)/6

VI
THE FAVORITE OF FORTUNE AND THE CHILD OF ILL LUCK
ONCE upon a time there was a proud prince who had a daughter. But the daughter was a child of ill luck. When it came time for her to marry, she had all her suitors assemble before her father's palace. She was going to throw down a ball of red silk among them, and whoever caught it was to be her husband. Now there were many princes and counts gathered before the castle, and in their midst there was also a beggar. And the princess could see dragons crawling into his ears and crawling out again from his nostrils, for he was a child of luck. So she threw the ball to the beggar and he caught it.
Her father asked angrily: "Why did you throw the ball into the beggar's hands?"
"He is a favorite of Fortune," said the princess, "I will marry him, and then, perhaps, I will share in his good luck."
But her father would not hear of it, and since she insisted, he drove her from the castle in his rage. So the princess had to go off with the beggar. She dwelt ​with him in a little hut, and had to hunt for herbs and roots, and cook them herself, so that they might have something to eat; and often they both went hungry.
One day her husband said to her: "I will set out and seek my fortune. And when I have found it, I will come back again and fetch you." The princess was willing, and he went away, and was gone for eighteen years. Meanwhile the princess lived in want and affliction, for her father remained hard and merciless. If her mother had not secretly given her food and money, no doubt she would have starved to death during all that time.
But the beggar found his fortune, and at length became emperor. He returned and stood before his wife. She however, no longer recognized him: She only knew that he was the powerful emperor.
He asked her how she were getting along.
"Why do you ask me how I am getting along!" she replied. "I am too far beneath your notice."
"And who may your husband be?"
"My husband was a beggar. He went away to seek his fortune. That was eighteen years ago, and he has not yet returned."
"And what have you done during all those long years?"
"I have been waiting for him to return."
"Do you wish to marry some one else, seeing that he has been missing so long?"
"No, I will remain his wife until I die."
When the emperor saw how faithful his wife was, he told her who he was, had her clothed in magnificent garments, and took her with him to his imperial palace. And there they lived in splendor and happiness.
After a few days the emperor said to his wife: "We ​spend every day in festivities, as though every day were New Year."
"And why should we not celebrate," answered his wife, "since we have now become emperor and empress?"
Yet his wife was a child of ill luck. When she had been empress no more than eighteen days, she fell sick and died. But her husband lived for many a long year.
Note: "The Favorite of Fortune and the Child of ill Luck" is a traditionally narrated fairy-tale. The dragon is the symbol of imperial rule, and the New Year's feasts, which old and young celebrate for weeks, is the greatest of Chinese festivals.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Catskill

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CATSKILL, a village and county-seat of Greene co., N. Y., on the W. side of the Hudson river and on the West Shore and the Catskill Mountain railroads; also connected with the New York Central by a ferry crossing the Hudson, 30 miles S. of Albany. It is a noted mountain summer resort, and has a court house, opera house, free academy, banks, several public schools, weekly newspapers, manufactories and hotels. Pop. about 5,100.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cambridge (Ohio)

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CAMBRIDGE, a city of Ohio, the county-seat of Guernsey co. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania railroads. It is the center of an important mining region and is the shipping point for coal and oil. It has tin-plate mills, an earthenware plant, glove factories, and other industries; the division shops of the Pennsylvania railroad; a public library, hospital, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 11,327; (1920) 13,104.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Carmagnole

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CARMAGNOLE (kär-man-yō'la), a dance accompanied by singing. Many of the wildest excesses of the French revolution of 1792 were associated with this dance. It was afterward applied to the bombastic reports of the French successes in battle. The name was also given to a sort of jacket worn as a symbol of patriotism.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cambridge (Maryland)

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CAMBRIDGE, a city of Maryland, the county-seat of Dorchester co. It is on the Choptank river, and on the Cambridge and Seaford railroad. The city is an important meat-packing center, and has manufactures of underwear and lumber. It is the center of an extensive agricultural district. Pop. (1910) 6,407; (1920) 7,467.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cambridge (Massachusetts)

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CAMBRIDGE, a city, and one of the county-seats of Middlesex co., Mass., on the Charles river and the Fitchburg railroad; opposite to and connected with Boston by four bridges. It was founded in 1630-1631, under the name of “Newe-Towne,” or “Newtown,” and did not receive its present name until several years later. In 1636 the General Court appropriated $2,000 to locate a school in Old Cambridge, which later became Harvard College, now Harvard University. In 1631 Cambridge was 35 miles long and only 1 mile wide, including the townships now incorporated as Billerica, Bedford, Lexington, Arlington, Brighton, and Newton, all of these having been gradually separated from it. The city was formerly divided into villages called Old Cambridge, Cambridgeport, East Cambridge, and North Cambridge, names which are still used. It has grown into a populous manufacturing center, where glass, furniture, organs, steam-engines, etc., are made. Here also is located the
massive stone court house of Middlesex co. The first printing office in the United States was located in Cambridge, and the “Bay Psalm-Book,” published by Stephen Day and printed in 1640, was the first book from this press. For historical and literary associations, Cambridge is one of the most famous cities in the United States. The venerable Washington elm, under which Washington took command of the American Army, July 3, 1775, stands at the corner of Mason and Garden streets. “Craigie House,” built by Col. John Vassall, in 1759, was Washington's headquarters in 1775-1776, and afterward became the home of the poet Henry W. Longfellow until his death. On Elm avenue is “Elmwood,” the birthplace and home of James Russell Lowell, who lived here 1819-1891. A part of this place has been bought by public subscription, to be preserved as a public park. This city has been the home of such distinguished men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Henry Channing, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Louis Agassiz, John Fiske, and Charles Eliot Norton. The fine city hall and land for a park was the gift of a former citizen, Frederick H. Rindge, who also presented the city with a public library, an institution now called the Rindge Manual Training School, and other benefactions which amounted to more than $1,000,000. The beautiful Mount Auburn Cemetery is partly in Cambridge and partly in Watertown. Pop. (1910) 104,839; (1920) 109,694. See Harvard University.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Carson City

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CARSON CITY, city, capital of the State of Nevada, and county-seat of Ormsby co.; on the Virginia and Truckee railroad, 32 miles S. E. of Reno. The city is located in a mining district and is the seat of a United States mint. It has several machine and railroad repair shops. State House, State Prison, an orphans' home, and an Indian school. It is only 10 miles from Lake Tahoe, and, on account of its beautiful scenery at the base of the Sierra Nevadas, is a popular summer resort. Pop. (1920) 1,685.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Caligula, Caius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus

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​CALIGULA, CAIUS CÆSAR, AUGUSTUS GERMANICUS (ka-lig′ū-lä) , a Roman emperor, son of Germanicus and Agrippina; born A. D. 12, in the camp at Antium. He received from the soldiers the surname of Caligula, on account of his wearing the caligæ, a kind of boots in use among them. He succeeded Tiberius, 37 A. D., and made himself very popular by his mildness and ostentatious generosity; but at the end of eight months he was seized with a disorder, caused by his irregular mode of living, which appears to have permanently deranged his intellect. After his recovery, he suddenly showed himself the most cruel and unnatural of tyrants. He was assassinated by a band of conspirators 41 A. D.
CALIGULA
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cardiff Giant

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CARDIFF GIANT, the name given to a rude statue 10½ feet high, dug up, in 1869, at Cardiff, N. Y., and exhibited for months as a petrification. The persons who thus deluded the public at last confessed that the “Giant” had been cut from a block of gypsum quarried at Fort Dodge, Ia., sculptured at Chicago, conveyed to Cardiff, and there buried and “accidently discovered.”
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Dennison University

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DENNISON UNIVERSITY, an educational institution in Granville, O.; founded in 1831, under the auspices of Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1899: Professors and instructors, 46, students, 900; president, C. W. Chamberlain, D. D.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Denney, Joseph Villiers

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DENNEY, JOSEPH VILLIERS, an American educator, born at Aurora, Ill., in 1862. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1885 and studied law in the law department of the same institution. After carrying on post-graduate studies in Germany and France he engaged in journalism for two years. He was then engaged in teaching in the high schools until 1891, when he was appointed assistant professor of rhetoric at the Ohio State University. He became successively professor of rhetoric and English literature, and dean of the College of Arts, Philosophy, and Science at that institution. He was a member of several learned societies and was the editor of many well-known works in English language and literature.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Dennison

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DENNISON, a village of Ohio, in Tuscarawas co. It is on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad and on the Panhandle Ohio Canal. The notable buildings include a hospital and a public library, and its industries include railway workshops and sewer-pipe works. Pop. (1910) 4,008; (1920) 5,524.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Detroit River

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DETROIT RIVER, or STRAIT of ST. CLAIR, a river or strait of North America, which runs from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie. It is 28 miles long, and of sufficient depth for the navigation of large vessels. It is about three-fourths of a mile wide opposite Detroit and enlarges as it descends.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Des Moines

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DES MOINES, a city, capital of the State of Iowa, and county-seat of Polk co.; at the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers, and on the Rock Island, the Northwestern, the Burlington Route, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and several other railroads. It is built on a plateau from 15 to 20 feet above the tidewater and is intersected by both rivers, which are spanned by eight bridges. The business portion lies near the rivers, and the residences are on the higher grounds beyond.
Public Parks and Buildings.— The city has an extensive park system. Among the notable buildings are the Capitol, erected at a cost of $3,000,000; the United States Building, containing the Postoffice and Federal Courts; the State Library; the State Historical Building, and Auditorium; Hospitals; Court House; the Grand Opera House; City Hall; State Arsenal; and about 75 churches.
Business interests.—The city is located in the center of a rich coal mining district. The principal industries, besides coal-mining, include pork-packing and the manufacture of starch, glass, pipe, brick and tile, foundry and machine shop products, engines, boilers, stove pipe, cements, furniture and brass goods. In 1919 there were 3 National banks.
Education.—The school system is maintained at a high standard. The annual expenditure for education is over $1,000,000. For higher instruction there were 5 public high schools, a private one, Des Moines College, Drake University, Highland Park College and Grand View College.
History.—Des Moines was first surveyed in 1846; incorporated as a town in 1853; and chartered as a city in 1857.
In the last year it was made the State capital. Pop. (1910) 86,368; (1920) 126,468.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Dickinson, Emily

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DICKINSON, EMILY, an American poet; born in Amherst, Mass., Dec. 10, 1830. Living the life of a recluse, she wrote much verse in forms peculiar to herself. In 1892 a collection of her poems was issued which received warm praise from competent critics. In all, three volumes of her verse and prose have appeared. She died in Amherst, May 15, 1886.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Denver, University of

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DENVER, UNIVERSITY OF, a co-educational institution in Denver, Colo.; founded in 1864 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1900: Professors and instructors, 131; students, 1,450; chancellor, H. A. Bucktel, D. D.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Dickens, Charles

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DICKENS, CHARLES, an English novelist; born in Landport, Portsea, Feb. 7, 1812. Early in life the law was selected as his future profession, but the drudgery of an attorney's office worried him, and removing to London he became a reporter of Parliamentary debates for the “Morning Chronicle” newspaper. To this journal he presently contributed a series of papers sketching off the social characteristics of English middle and low class life. In 1836, under the title of “Tales and Sketches by Boz” the papers were published in two volumes. The production of the celebrated “Pickwick Papers,” in the year following (1837), conclusively stamped him as an author of a peculiarly original cast of genius. A long and brilliant series of successes followed. His works include: “Sketches by Boz” (1835-1836); “Pickwick Papers” (1837); “Oliver Twist” (1838-1839);
“Nicholas Nickleby” (1839); “Master Humphrey's Clock” (1840-1841), a weekly issue in periodical form, comprising among others the installments of “Old Curiosity Shop” and “Barnaby Rudge”; “American Notes” (1842); “A Christmas Carol” (1843) ; “Martin Chuzzlewit” (1844); “The Chimes” (1844); “The Cricket on the Hearth” (1845); “Pictures from Italy” (1846); “The Battle of Life” (1846); “Dombey and Son” (1848); “The Haunted Man” (1848); “David Copperfield” (1850); “Bleak House” (1853); “A Child's History of England” (1854); “Hard Times” (1854); “Little Dorrit”
(1857); “A Tale of Two Cities” (1859); “Great Expectations” (1861); “Our Mutual Friend” (1865); “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” (1870), unfinished; and many short pieces and humorous essays, stories, and sketches. He died in Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester (England), June 9, 1870.
CHARLES DICKENS
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Lexington (Mass.)

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LEXINGTON, a town in Middlesex co., Mass., on the Boston and Maine railroad; 12 miles N. W. of Boston; contains the villages of Lexington, East Lexington and North Lexington; and is principally engaged in farming, dairying and market-gardening. There are a public high school, Hancock and Adams grammar schools, Tidd primary school, Cary library, electric light plant, savings bank and newspapers. Lexington was settled in 1642 and was long known as Cambridge Farm, and was incorporated as a town in 1713. It was the scene of the first conflict between the colonists and British troops in the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775. The British obtained the advantage and destroyed the stores of the colonists, but lost in the action 273 men killed and wounded. Pop. (1910) 4,918; (1920) 6,350.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Lincoln (Illinois)

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LINCOLN, a city and county-seat of Logan co., Ill.; on the Illinois Central, the Chicago and Alton, and the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville railroads; 28 miles N. E. of Springfield. It is in an agricultural, mining, and stock-raising region; and has four coal mines, grain elevators, planing mills, roller mills, and casket factories. It is the seat of Lincoln University (Cumb. Presb.), the State Asylum for the Feeble Minded, and Odd Fellows' Home for Children; and has a high school, electric and street railroad plants, waterworks, National banks, daily and weekly papers. Pop. (1910) 10,892; (1920) 11,882.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Liebknecht, Karl

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LIEBKNECHT, KARL, a German Socialist leader, born in Leipzig, in 1871. He was a son of William Liebknecht, the leader of the German Social Democratic Party. He was educated in the German universities and afterward studied law. He became prominent in the Socialist Party and was elected to the lower house of the Prussian Diet in 1908. Four years later he became a member of the Reichstag. At the outbreak of the war, and during its continuation, he opposed the war policy of Germany. Although he at once voted war credits, he soon refused to do so and was thrown into prison. He had previously suffered a term of imprisonment for the publication of an anti-militaristic pamphlet in 1907. In 1915 he was called to the colors and served in the Labor Battalion. Whenever opportunity afforded, he undertook to obstruct the course of business in the Reichstag. He was expelled from the Socialist Party in 1916 and was expelled from the Reichstag in the same year, following an attack on the Government's financial policy. A few weeks later he was seized on a charge of attempting high treason and was sentenced to four years penal servitude, expulsion from the army and loss of civil rights. After the end of the war he became the leader of the Spartacist group of agitators which opposed the new government. He was arrested and together with Rosa Luxemburg was being conveyed to Berlin in an automobile when both were shot and killed, Jan. 15, 1919.
Sources: “Liebknecht, Karl”, Collier's New Encyclopedia, V (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1921), pp. 477-8.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Lincoln, Robert Todd

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LINCOLN, ROBERT TODD, an American diplomatist; born in Springfield, Ill., Aug. 1, 1843; eldest son of Abraham Lincoln; was graduated at Harvard College in 1864; served on the staff of General Grant as assistant adjutant-general; was admitted to the bar in 1867; Secretary of War in 1881–1885; minister to Great Britain in 1889–1893; and became president of the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1897. Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1911.
Sources: “Lincoln, Robert Todd”, Collier's New Encyclopedia, V (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1921), p. 488.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Lewistown

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LEWISTOWN, a city of Pennsylvania, the county seat of Mifflin co. It is on the Juniata River and on the Pennsylvania railroad. It is the center of an important agricultural and mining region and its industries include foundries, furnaces, steel works, silk mills, hosiery mills, etc. It has a hospital and a public library. Pop. (1910) 8,166; (1920) 9,849.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Lexington (Ky.)

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LEXINGTON, a city and county-seat of Fayette co., Ky., on the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio, Louisville and Nashville and Southern railroads; 80 miles S. of Cincinnati, O. It is the trade, social, and political center of the famous “blue grass” region; is a noted horse-breeding, hemp and tobacco growing region; and manufactures flour, planing-mill products, saddlery, harness, carriages and wagons. It is the seat of Kentucky University, Transylvania University, State College, Hamilton College; and Sayre Institute; contains a Protestant Infirmary, Colored Industrial Home, St. Joseph's Hospital, National and State banks, public library, and court house. Lexington has wide and well-paved streets, electric light and street railroad plants, daily and weekly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 35,099; (1920) 41,634.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Lexington (Va.)

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LEXINGTON, a city and county-seat of Rockridge co., Va.; on James river, and the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads; 48 miles W. of Lynchburg. It is the seat of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military school; is engaged in agriculture and has deposits of sulphur ore, electric light plant, waterworks supplied by mountain streams, and National and State banks.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Liberal Republican Party

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LIBERAL REPUBLICAN PARTY, a party organized in 1872 by Republicans who were dissatisfied with General Grant's first administration as President. At a convention held by them in Cincinnati, in that year, Carl Schurz was elected its president, and a platform adopted demanding civil service reform, local self-government, and universal amnesty, recognizing the equality of all men, recommending the resumption of specie payment, etc. Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown were named for President and Vice-President. This platform and these nominations were adopted by the regular Democratic convention of that year, but dissensions arose, and other candidates were nominated, the result being that the Republican nominee, General Grant, was elected by an overwhelming majority and the Liberal Republican Party was thereafter practically dead.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Liebig, Justus, Baron von

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LIEBIG, JUSTUS, BARON VON (lē'big), a German chemist; born in Darmstadt, May 12, 1803. In 1826 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry in the University of Giessen, and there set up the first chemical laboratory for experimental instruction. His treatises and memoirs on theoretical and practical chemistry are very numerous, and are of exceptional value. Among his writings on the chemistry of agriculture are “Principles of Agricultural Chemistry” (1855); “Theory and Practice of Farming” (1856); “Scientific Letters on Modern Farming” (1859). He died in Munich, April 18, 1873.
BARON VON LIEBIG
Sources: “Liebig, Justus, Baron von”, Collier's New Encyclopedia, V (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1921), p. 477.