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# Yazoo Company v. Board of Levee Commissioners/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
132 U.S. 190
Yazoo Company v. Board of Levee Commissioners
This is an appeal by plaintiff in the suit from the decree of the circuit court for the southern district of Mississippi, dismissing its bill of complaint filed in that court against the appellees, the Board of Levee Commissioners and certain sheriffs and tax collectors, to enjoin the collection of taxes levied under an act of the legislature creating such board of commissioners, for the purpose of providing for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds authorized to be issued by the board, the proceeds of which were to be applied to the construction and repair of levees on the Mississippi river. The bill set up the same exemption relied on in Railroad Co. v. Thomas, ante, 68, and it was insisted that the taxes sought to be collected where unauthorized and illegal by reason of such exemption, and that the law imposing the taxes impaired the obligation of the alleged contract of exemption, and thus violated the constitution of the United States; the litigation therefore, making a controversy arising under that constitution. Without considering whether any other ground for affirming the decree exists, it is sufficient to say that this case is disposed of by the decision which has just been announced in that referred to. Decree affirmed.

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# Yazoo Company v. Mullins

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United States Supreme Court
249 U.S. 531
Yazoo Company v. Mullins
Argued: March 21, 1919. --- Decided: April 21, 1919
Mr. Charles N. Burch, of Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. Marion W. Reily, of Meridian, Miss., for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Washington, Alexandria, & Mt. Vernon Railway Company v. Downey

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United States Supreme Court
236 U.S. 190
Washington, Alexandria, & Mt. Vernon Railway Company v. Downey
Argued: January 21 and 22, 1915. --- Decided: February 23, 1915
Messrs. John S. Barbour, John C. Gittings, Basil D. Boteler, and Douglas S. Mackall for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Edmund Burke and Leo P. Harlow for defendant in error.
Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Steam Packet Company v. Sickles

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United States Supreme Court
51 U.S. 419
Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Steam Packet Company v. Sickles

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# Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51; 117th Congress)/Title II

117th congress (2021-2022)
    Subtitle A — Federal Property
    Subtitle B — Federal Courts
    Subtitle C — Federal Elections
# Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51; 117th Congress)

117th congress (2021-2022), Passed the House of Representatives April 22, 2021.
117th CONGRESS 1st Session
H.R. 51
AN ACT
To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

### SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Washington, D.C. Admission Act”.
    (b) Table Of Contents.—The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
       TITLE I − STATE OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
          Subtitle A — Procedures For Admission
          Subtitle B — Seat Of Government Of The United States
          Subtitle C — General Provisions Relating To Laws Of State
       TITLE II − INTERESTS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
          Subtitle A — Federal Property
          Subtitle B — Federal Courts
          Subtitle C — Federal Elections
       TITLE III − CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
          Subtitle A — Employee Benefits
          Subtitle B — Agencies
          Subtitle C — Other Programs And Authorities
       TITLE IV − GENERAL PROVISIONS
# Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51; 117th Congress)/Title I

117th congress (2021-2022)
    Subtitle A — Procedures For Admission
    Subtitle B — Seat Of Government Of The United States
    Subtitle C — General Provisions Relating To Laws Of State
# Ylst v. Nunnemaker/Dissent Blackmun

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Justice BLACKMUN, with whom Justice MARSHALL and Justice STEVENS join, dissenting.
For the reasons stated in the dissent in Coleman v. Thompson, --- U.S. ----, 111 ,S.Ct. 2546, --- L.Ed.2d ----, I also dissent in this case.

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# Yim Kim Lau v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
286 U.S. 531
Yim Kim Lau v. United States
Argued: May 16, 1932. ---
Mr. Chauncey F. Eldridge, of San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.
The Attorney General, for the United States.
PER CURIAM.

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# Ylst v. Nunnemaker/Concurrence White

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Justice WHITE, concurring.
I join the opinion and judgment of the Court but add these few words. Had the Court of Appeals stated that as a matter of state law, the State Supreme Court's summary, unexplained denial of an original petition for habeas corpus is a ruling on the merits, the presumption the Court's opinion articulates in this case would be rebutted unless we disagreed with the Court of Appeals with respect to state law. The Court of Appeals, however, did not so state but in effect said that the state court's order was ambiguous. Hence, the presumption governs.
I also note that Coleman v. Thompson, --- U.S. ----, ----, 111 S.Ct. 2546, ----, --- L.Ed.2d ---- (1991), stated that the presumption of Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255, 109 S.Ct. 1038, 103 L.Ed.2d 308 (1989), "applies only when it fairly appears that a state court judgment rested primarily on federal law or was interwoven with federal law, that is, in those cases where a federal court has good reason to question whether there is an independent and adequate state ground for the decision." In joining the Court's opinion in the case before us, I take it that the opinion's bobtailed quotation from Coleman, ante, --- U.S., at ----, 111 S.Ct., at 2554, is not intended to restrict the reach of the presumption.
Justice BLACKMUN, with whom Justice MARSHALL and Justice STEVENS join, dissenting.
For the reasons stated in the dissent in Coleman v. Thompson, --- U.S. ----, 111 ,S.Ct. 2546, --- L.Ed.2d ----, I also dissent in this case.

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# Yim Kim Lau v. United States/Opinion of the Court

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* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
286 U.S. 531
Yim Kim Lau v. United States
Argued: May 16, 1932. ---
The appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals having been dismissed by that court for the want of a bill of exceptions, and it appearing, and being conceded by the government, that the review of the Circuit Court of Appeals was by appeal according to the applicable practice prior to the act of January 31, 1928, as amended (45 Stat. 54, 466 (28 USCA § 861b)), and that no bill of exceptions was necessary, but that a duly authenticated record was required, the petition for writ of certiorari herein is granted, the judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals is reversed, and the cause is remanded to that court, with directions to consider the sufficiency of the authentication of the record, and, if the record be found defective in this respect, to exercise its discretion, if proper application be made, to determine whether an opportunity should be afforded for authentication of the record so that the decision of the District Court may be reviewed by the Circuit Court of Appeals.

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# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fox Without a Tail

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THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL
A FOX once fell into a trap, and after a struggle managed to get free, but with the loss of his brush. He was then so much ashamed of his appearance that he thought life was not worth living unless he could persuade the other Foxes to part with their tails also, and thus divert attention from his own loss. So he called a meeting of all the Foxes, and advised them to cut off their tails: “They’re ugly things anyhow,” he said, “and besides they’re heavy, and it’s tiresome to be always carrying them about with you.” But one of the other Foxes said, “My friend, if you hadn’t lost your own tail, you wouldn’t be so keen on getting us to cut off ours.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fir-tree and the Bramble

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THE FIR-TREE AND THE BRAMBLE
A FIR-TREE was boasting to a Bramble, and said, somewhat contemptuously, “You poor creature, you are of no use whatever. Now, look at me: I am useful for all sorts of things, particularly when men build houses; they can’t do without me then.” But the Bramble replied, “Ah, that’s all very well: but you wait till they come with axes and saws to cut you down, and then you’ll wish you were a Bramble and not a Fir.”
Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fisherman and the Sprat

THE FISHERMAN AND THE SPRAT
A FISHERMAN cast his net into the sea, and when he drew it up again it contained nothing but a single Sprat that begged to be put back into the water. “I’m only a little fish now,” it said, “but I shall grow big one day, and then if you come and catch me again I shall be of some use to you.” But the Fisherman replied, “Oh, no, I shall keep you now I’ve got you: if I put you back, should I ever see you again? Not likely!”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Flea and the Ox

THE FLEA AND THE OX
A FLEA once said to an Ox, “How comes it that a big strong fellow like you is content to serve mankind, and do all their hard work for them, while I, who am no bigger than you see, live on their bodies and drink my fill of their blood, and never do a stroke for it all?” To which the Ox replied, “Men are very kind to me, and so I am grateful to them: they feed and house me well, and every now and then they show their fondness for me by patting me on the head and neck.” “They’d pat me, too,” said the Flea, “if I let them: but I take good care they don’t, or there would be nothing left of me.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fly and the Draught-Mule

THE FLY AND THE DRAUGHT-MULE
A FLY sat on one of the shafts of a cart and said to the Mule who was pulling it, “How slow you are! Do mend your pace, or I shall have to use my sting as a goad.” The Mule was not in the least disturbed. “Behind me, in the cart,” said he, “sits my master. He holds the reins, and flicks me with his whip, and him I obey, but I don’t want any of your impertinence. I know when I may dawdle and when I may not.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fowler and the Lark

THE FOWLER AND THE LARK
A FOWLER was setting his nets for little birds when a Lark came up to him and asked him what he was doing. “I am engaged in founding a city,” said he, and with that he withdrew to a short distance and concealed himself. The Lark examined the nets with great curiosity, and presently, catching sight of the bait, hopped on to them in order to secure it, and became entangled in the meshes. The Fowler then ran up quickly and captured her. “What a fool I was!” said she: “but at any rate, if that’s the kind of city you are founding, it’ll be a long time before you find fools enough to fill it.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fisherman Piping

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THE FISHERMAN PIPING
A FISHERMAN who could play the flute went down one day to the sea-shore with his nets and his flute; and, taking his stand on a projecting rock, began to play a tune, thinking that the music would bring the fish jumping out of the sea. He went on playing for some time, but not a fish appeared: so at last he threw down his flute and cast his net into the sea, and made a great haul of fish. When they were landed and he saw them leaping about on the shore, he cried, “You rascals! you wouldn’t dance when I piped: but now I’ve stopped, you can do nothing else!”
THE FISHERMAN PIPING
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Flea and the Man

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THE FLEA AND THE MAN
A FLEA bit a Man, and bit him again, and again, till he could stand it no longer, but made a thorough search for it, and at last succeeded in catching it. Holding ​it between his finger and thumb, he said—or rather shouted, so angry was he—“Who are you, pray, you wretched little creature, that you make so free with my person?” The Flea, terrified, whimpered in a weak little voice, “Oh, sir! pray let me go; don’t kill me! I am such a little thing that I can’t do you much harm.” But the Man laughed and said, “I am going to kill you now, at once: whatever is bad has got to be destroyed, no matter how slight the harm it does.”
Do not waste your pity on a scamp.
THE FLEA AND THE MAN
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fox Who Served a Lion

THE FOX WHO SERVED A LION
A LION had a Fox to attend on him, and whenever they went hunting the Fox found the prey and the Lion fell upon it and killed it, and then they divided it between them in certain proportions. But the Lion always got a very large share, and the Fox a very small one, which didn’t please the latter at all; so he determined to set up on his own account. He began by trying to steal a lamb from a flock of sheep: but the shepherd saw him and set his dogs on him. The hunter was now the hunted, and was very soon caught and despatched by the dogs.
Better servitude with safety than freedom with danger.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fowler, the Partridge, and the Cock

THE FOWLER, THE PARTRIDGE, AND THE COCK
ONE day, as a Fowler was sitting down to a scanty supper of herbs and bread, a friend dropped in unexpectedly. The larder was empty; so he went out and caught a tame Partridge, which he kept as a decoy, and was about to wring her neck when she cried, “Surely you won’t kill me? Why, what will you do without me next time you go fowling? How will you get the birds to come to your nets?” He let her go at this, and went to his hen-house, where he had a plump young Cock. When the Cock saw what he was after, he too pleaded for his life, and said, “If you kill me, how will you know the time of night? and who will wake you up in the morning when it is time to get to work?” The Fowler, however, replied, “You are useful for telling the time, I know; but, for all that, I can’t send my friend supperless to bed.” And therewith he caught him and wrung his neck.
# Weird Tales/Volume 39/Issue 1/The Sorcerer to His Love

From Weird Tales Volume 39, Issue 1
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The Sorceror to his Love by Clark Ashton Smith
Within your arms I will forget
The horror that Zimimar brings
Between his vast and vampire wings
From out his frozen oubliette.
The terror born of ultimate space
That gnaws with icy fang and fell,
The sucklings of the hag of hell,
Shall flee the enchantment of your face.
Ah, more than all my wizard art
The circle our delight has drawn:
What evil phantoms thence have gone,
What dreadful presences depart!
Your arms are white, your arms are warm
To hold me from the haunted air,
And you alone are firm and fair
Amid the darkly whirling storm.
# Weird Tales/Volume 4

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# Weird Tales/Volume 36/Issue 8/The Dead World

From Weird Tales, Volume 36 Issue 8
The Dead World
By Clarence Edwin Flynn
Silent and blind, around the sun, Its cold, unconscious course is spun, Passive, by cosmic forces hurled —This dead thing that was once a world.
The grass was green upon its face. The flowers bloomed in every place. With song and labor it was gay In every field, on every way.
One day it yielded up its pride. Its hope and aspiration died. Then life, and love of life were gone. Now its pale corpse spins on and on.
# Weird Tales/Volume 37/Issue 1/Sea-Shell

Sea-Shell
By Leah Bodine Drake
Stranded upon the sand Here is a twisted shell: Lift it within your hand,
Press it against your ear; Listen! . . . and you will hear Echo of deep-sea bell Ringing in belfry beneath the brine, Where mermaidens, scaled with tourmaline, Toll a dolorous knell. Tis the voice of a city beneath the sea! Gold-eyed fishes stare endlessly At turrets and ramparts of porphyry Drowned in a gold-green well. Who built that city forlorn? What was its perilous fame That tymbal and gong and horn Blared from the torch-lit wall? When did its doom befall? What was the reason it came Crashing down over palace and keep, A sea that rose like a mountain steep, Quenching the living flame? Hark!. . . do the sea-shell's echoes tell The name of that city before she fell? Ah, no! I can hear its cry, its bell, But never its fabulous name!
# Woman of the Century/Helen Dauvray

​DAUVRAY, Helen, actor, born in San Francisco, Cal., 14th February, 1859. Her family name is Gibson. Her childhood was spent in Virginia City, Nev., and she made her first appearance on the stage in San Francisco, in 1864. playing Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." She attracted a good deal of attention and became known as "Little Nell, the California Diamond." Junius Brutus Booth, Frank Mayo and Charles Thome were members of the Uncle Tom Company in which she made her début at the age of five. In 1865 she played the part of the Duke of York in "Richard HELEN DAUVRAY. III." Her next role was as the child in the "Scarlet Letter," with Matilda Heron as Hester Prynne. Helen afterwards played in "Fidelia," "No Name " and "Katy Did," and she was a remarkably ​bright and successful actor. She appeared in New York City in June, 1870, placing in Wood's Museum in "Andy Blake" and "Popsy Wopsey." Returning to California, she sailed to Australia, where she played successfully. A successful investment in the Comstock mine made her wealthy, and she disappeared for a time from the stage. She went to Europe to complete her education. She studied vocal and instrumental music in Milan and French in Paris. She decided to play in French, before a French audience, in Paris, but had great difficulty to find a manager brave enough to back her. Finally, M. Gautier, of the Folies Dramatiques, introduced her to Paul Ferrier, the dramatist, who wrote "Nan, the Good-for-Nothing" for her. She appeared in that play 1st September. 1884, and scored a success. She broke down from over- work and returned to the United States. She made her re-entrance upon the American stage 27th April, 1885. in the title role of " Mona," in the Star Theater, New York City. Her next play was "One of Our Girls," in which she made a triumphant hit as Kate Stupley, an American girl in Paris. That play was the work of Bronson Howard. He then wrote for her "Met by Chance," in which she appeared nth January, 1887, but it was soon withdrawn. On 7th March, 1887, she played in "Walda Lamar," and in April, 1887, in The Love Chase." On 2nd June, 1890, she appeared in New York City in "The Whirlwind." She was married 12th October, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa., to John M. Ward.
# Woman of the Century/Helen Adelia Manville

​MANVILLE, Mrs. Helen Adelia, poet, born in New Berlin, N. Y., 3rd August, 1839. Her father was Col. Artemus Wood. She inherited literary talent from her mother, several members of whose family won local celebrity, and who were connected with the Carys, from whom Alice and Phebe were descended, and also the house of Douglas, whose distinguished representative was Stephen. HELEN ADELIA MANVILLE. Accompanying her father as Helen Wood, she removed to the West at an early day, where she became Mrs. Manville, and has since lived in La Crosse, Wis. For many years her pen-name was "Nellie A. Mann," under which she contributed to leading periodicals. Renouncing her pen-name, she assumed her own, and in 1875 published a collection of her poems entitled, "Heart Echoes," which contains but a small portion of her verse. She has one child, Marion, a poet of decided gfts. Mother and daughter possess unusual beauty. They are both high-minded, refined and essentially feminine. Mrs. Manville's life has been one of complete self-abnegation. She is wholly devoted to family and friends, while yet doing excellent literary work.