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# Littell's Living Age/Volume 135/Issue 1748/Before the Winter

* BEFORE THE WINTER.
* The rain is making rings on the river,
* And the dead leaves in the black trees shiver;
* The desolate sparrows under the shed
* Are dreaming of summer and crumbs of bread.
* Thin, dirty children play in the gutter;
* A row of rogues by the wall-side utter
* Their daily curses, and "watch for a job,"
* And know they have something to earn or rob.
* O the rain, the rain, in cold winter-time!
* And the bitter bread that is bought by crime!
* The fog and the frost from morning till night,
* And no coal to burn or candle to light!
* It is coming, coming: summer is dead;
* The comfortless clouds are thick over head;
* And snow will soon come to whiten the moor,
* And the poor will remember that they are poor.
* St. James.GUY ROSLYN.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 135/Issue 1748/Miscellany

​A correspondent at Waterloo, N. Y., sends us a quotation from Littell's Living Age, No. 1741, page 182, where, in an article on Commodore Goodenough, the writer speaks of the ship sailing into port "with yards scandalized and flags at half mast." A ship's yards are "scandalized" when instead of being drawn shipshape they are, as a greenhorn expressed it, "every which way," or as a landsman had it, "all at sixes and sevens." It is a common practice for extreme Catholic nations, notably the Spanish and Italians, to scandalize (or as the French would say to dishevel) the ship's yards when lying in port on Good Friday. The object is to express extreme mourning, as an individual would have done it in the earlier days, with disevelled hair and disordered raiment. The ship puts on a distracted appearance, like an inconsolable mourner plunged in the depth of grief.N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 135/Issue 1747/Purgatory

* PURGATORY.
* FROM THE FRENCH OF MARIE JEUNA.
* If far from thee he pines in twilight dim,
* Mercy, just God! I pray thee on my knees;
* His hope in thee, thy tender love for him,
* Dear Lord, remember these!
* Our souls abide in tenements of clay,
* At every step we stumble as we go,
* Thou knowest, Lord, how difficult the way
* We travel here below.
* How hard, amidst the loves, and hopes, and fears
* Of this wide world, calmly to do our part,
* Nor give its thrilling joys and songs and tears
* Too much of our weak heart!
* But, oh, my God, I offer unto thee
* The blood of Jesus: that all bonds can break,
* And lift all burdens. Now, depart from me
* Awhile, to that dark lake,
* My angel guardian! stir with thy cool breath
* His fiery mantle; whisper, soft and low,
* Comfort to soothe that anguish worse than death
* Souls without God must know.
* Let thy fair aureole shine upon his night,
* Thy loving arms protect him from his fears;
* There all are weeping! let thy voice unite
* With those sad sighs and tears.
* Point from his prison to the heaven above,
* Tell him that thou, when all this pain is done,
* Will greet him there — that there the God of love
* Is longing for his son.
* Tell him no saint, in his ecstatic prayer,
* Musing upon the eternal loveliness,
* Has ever caught one glimpse of what is there,
* That unimagined bliss!
* Put thy arms round him, give him sweet relief,
* And then, if he should ask who bade thee fly
* To soothe his anguish and assuage his grief,
* O tell him it was I!
* Keep in thy breast, a sacred trust and dear,
* His loving pain, his longings and his cries;
* Then soar to heaven, and whisper in God’s ear
* The echo of his sighs;
* And then, from heaven to earth and earthly things,
* Come back, for, ah! God knows if I should be
* Faithful for long, without thy two white wings
* Between the world and me!
* Month.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 135/Issue 1748/Adrift

* ADRIFT.
* Drift, let it drift; the cords are snapped that curbed it;
* The rigid anchor holds that bark no more;
* Th' impatient sails whose fluttering so disturbed it
* No longer flap beside the sombre shore.
* Out of the haven, 'thwart the roadstead gleaming,
* Beyond the far bright offing hath it passed;
* Still of some golden goal a-dreaming, dreaming,
* O'er the wide deep that light bark drifts at last.
* Let it drift on, nor blast nor billow checking;
* No whirlpool to engulf, no rock to break;
* The sea a mirror smooth for its bedecking,
* The sky a blue pavilion for its sake.
* On let it drift, the laughing mermaids weaving
* Fantastic rings its devious course around;
* And the gay syrens mocking its believing
* With sweet, delusive ecstasies of sound.
* Yet bright skies change; Hope's refluent tides run widely,
* And Fortune wrecks great wonders with her wand.
* So on some wintry eve, while I am idly
* Counting the dusk waves on the sombre strand,
* Haply before me from the offing shaded
* A helmless bark shall drift in shattered state,
* Its golden name, "The Mary," blurred and faded,
* Tangle and bitter brine its only freight.
* Spectator.J.S.D.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ottumwa

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​OTTUMWA, a city and the county-seat of Wapello county, Iowa, U.S.A., on both sides of the Des Moines river, in the S.E. part of the state, about 85 m. S.E. of Des Moines. Pop. (1900) 18,197, of whom 1759 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 122,012. It is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Wabash railways. The site on which it is built forms a succession of terraces receding farther and farther from the river. In the city are a Carnegie library, a city hospital and St Joseph’s Academy. Ottumwa is the headquarters of the Ottumwa Division of the Southern Federal Judicial District of Iowa, and terms of United States District and Circuit courts are held there. The city is in one of the richest coal regions of the state, and ranks high as a manufacturing centre, pork-packing, and the manufacture of iron and steel, machinery and agricultural and mining implements being the leading industries. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $10,374,183, an increase of 19·5% since 1900. Ottumwa was first settled in 1843, was incorporated as a town in 1851, and first chartered as a city in 1857.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Otto of Nordheim

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​OTTO OF NORDHEIM (d. 1083), duke of Bavaria, belonged to the rich and influential Saxon family of the counts of Nordheim, and having distinguished himself in war and peace alike, received the duchy of Bavaria from Agnes, widow of the emperor Henry III., in 1061. In 1062 he assisted Anno, archbishop of Cologne, to seize the person of the German king, Henry IV.; led a successful expedition into Hungary in 1063; and took a prominent part in the government during the king’s minority. In 1064 he went to Italy to settle a papal schism, was largely instrumental in securing the banishment from court of Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen, and crossed the Alps in the royal interests on two other occasions. He neglected his duchy, but added to his personal possessions, and in 1069 shared in two expeditions in the east of Germany. In 1070 Otto was accused by a certain Egino of being privy to a plot to murder the king, and it was decided he should submit to the ordeal of battle with his accuser. The duke asked for a safe-conduct to and from the place of meeting, and when this was refused he declined to appear, and was consequently deprived of Bavaria, while his Saxon estates were plundered. He obtained no support in Bavaria, but raised an army among the Saxons and carried on a campaign of plunder against Henry until 1071, when he submitted; in the following year he received back his private estates. When the Saxon revolt broke out in 1073 Otto is represented by Bruno, the author of De bello Saxonico, as delivering an inspiring speech to the assembled Saxons at Wormsleben, after which he took command of the insurgents. By the peace of Gerstungen in 1074 Bavaria was restored to him; he shared in the Saxon rising of 1075, after which he was again pardoned and made administrator of Saxony. After the excommunication of Henry IV. in 1076 Otto attempted to mediate between Henry and the Saxons, but when these efforts failed he again placed himself at their head. He assented to the election of Rudolph, count of Rheinfelden, as German king, when his restoration to Bavaria was assured, and by his skill and bravery inflicted defeats on Henry’s forces at Mellrichstadt, Flarchheim and Hohenmölsen. He remained in arms against the king until his death on the 11th of January 1083. Otto is described as a noble, prudent and warlike man, and he possessed great abilities. His repeated pardon showed that Henry could not afford to neglect such a powerful personality, and his military talents were repeatedly displayed. By his wife Richenza, widow of Hermann, count of Werla, he left three sons and three daughters.
See W. von Giesebrecht, Geschichte der deutschen Kaiserzeit, Band iii. (Leipzig, 1881–1890); H. Mehmel, Otto von Nordheim, Herzog von Bayern (Göttingen, 1870); E. Neumann, De Ottone de Nordheim (Breslau, 1871); S. Riezler, Geschichte Bayerns (Gotha, 1878); and A. Vogeler, Otto von Nordheim (Göttingen, 1880).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ouch

See also Ouch and Brooch on Wikipedia; wiktionary:nouch; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.
​OUCH, a brooch, clasp or buckle, especially one ornamented with jewels, enamels, &c., and used to clasp a cope or other ecclesiastical vestment. It is also used, as in Exod. xxxix. 6, of the gold or silver setting of jewels. The word is an example of the misdivision of a substantive and the indefinite article, being properly “nouche,” “a nouche” being divided into “an ouche,” as a napron into an apron, a nadder into an adder, and, reversely, an ewt, i.e. eft, into a newt. “Nouche” was adapted into O. Fr., whence English took the word, from the Late Lat. nusca, brooch; probably the original is Celtic, cf. O. Irish nasc, ring, nasgaim, fasten.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ottoman

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​OTTOMAN, a form of couch which usually has a head but no back, though sometimes it has neither. It may have square or semicircular ends, and as a rule it is what upholsterers call “stuffed over”—that is to say no wood is visible. It belongs to the same order of ideas as the divan (q.v); its name indeed betokens its Oriental origin. It was one of the luxurious appointments which Europe imported from the East in the 18th century; the first mention that has been found of it is in France in 1729. In the course of a generation it made its way into every boudoir, but it appears originally to have been much larger than at present. The word is also applied to a small foot-stool covered with carpet, embroidery or beadwork.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Oubliette

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​OUBLIETTE, a French architectural term (from oublier, to forget), used in two senses of a dungeon or cell in a prison or castle which could only be reached by a trap-door from another dungeon, and of a concealed opening or passage leading from a dungeon to the moat or river, into which bodies of prisoners who were to be secretly disposed of might be dropped. Viollet le Duc (Dict. de l’architecture) gives a diagram of such an oubliette at the castle of Pierrefonds, France. Many so-called “oubliettes” in medieval castles were probably outlets for the disposal of drainage, refuse, &c., which at times may have served for the getting rid of prisoners.
# McClure's Magazine/Volume 32/Number 4/Ideals

From February 1909, p. 446
IDEALS
BY WINIFRED WEBB
Watch well the building of thy dream! However hopeless it may seem, The time will come when it shall be A prison or a home for thee.
# McClure's Magazine/Volume 32/Number 4/Premonition

From February 1909. p.366
So often we sit thus, long evening through,  Spendthrift of dream and silence from a store Of hopes and memories and love, so vast,  No want we know, no further boon implore.
Yet sometimes while in firelight revery  We draw to-morrow's strength from love at rest, All suddenly I dream thy face grows pale,  Remote as of some strange, celestial guest:
Then to my boding heart Fear breathes; mark well  This friendly hour, this dear, familiar place, For change will be: guard lest thy loneliness  Lack even remembrance of Joy's passing grace.
# Lutrin/Advert

Next Term will be publish'd,
Callipædia: A Poem in Four Books, written in Latin by Cl. Quilletus. With Two Copies of Verses of the same Author's. Translated into English Verse by N. Rowe Esq; Adorn'd with Cuts curiously engraven by Mr. Gribelin. Printed for E. Sanger and E. Curll.
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# Men-at-the-Bar/Austin, William

​Austin, William, M.A., Peterhouse, Camb., 1845 (7th wrangler 1842), chairman Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway Co., diiector of various railway and other public companies, a student of Lincoln's Inn 16 Feb., 1842 (then aged 21), called to the bar 1 May, 1846 (only son of Edward Austin, Esq., of Ellern Croft, Wootton-under-Edge); born 17 March, 1820; married 1st, 12 March, 1863, Mary Ann Jane, eldest dau. of Francis William Topham, Esq., of Hampstead; she died 21 May, 1868; he married 2ndly, 19 July, 1873, Gertrude Jane, only dau. of William C. T. Dobson, Esq., R.A.
    Ellern Mede, Totteridge, Herts.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ayers, Frank Richman

​Ayers, Frank Richman, practises before the supreme court at Adelaide, a student of the Inner Temple 21 Jan., 1865 (then aged 22), called to the bar 18 Nov., 1867 [eldest son of (Hon.) Sir Henry Ayers, K.C.M.G., of Adelaide, South Australia]; born , 1843.
    Adelaide, South Australia.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Austin, James Valentine

​Austin, James Valentine, B.A. Trin. Coll., Oxon, a member of the Western circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 18 April, 1873 (then aged 22), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1876 (eldest son of late Rev. John Valentine Austin, of London); born 26 June, 1850; married 17 July, 1877, Anna Christina, only dau. of Rev. Peter Lorimer, D.D., late principal of Presbyterian Coll., London, dec., and has issue.
    Acol Road, West Hampstead, N.W.; 1, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Avory, Horace Edmund

​Avory, Horace Edmund, LL.B., Corpus Christi Coll., Camb., 1874, goes the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 23 Jan., 1872 (then aged 20), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1875 (2nd son of Henry Avory, of London, solicitor); born , 1852; married 18 April, 1877, Maria Louisa, only surviving dau. of late Henry Castle, Esq., of Wandsworth.
    4, Crown Office Row, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Ayers, Frederic

​Ayers, Frederic, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1875, practises before the supreme court at Adelaide, a student of the Inner Temple 17 April, 1866 (then aged 19), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1870 [3rd son of (Hon.) Sir Henry Ayers K.C.M.G., of Adelaide, South Australia]; born , 1847.
    Adelaide, South Australia.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Austin, Henry Evans

​Austin, Henry Evans, M.A., LL.B., Trin. Coll., Dublin, a member of the Western circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 2 Nov., 1880, called to the bar there 6 June, 1883, also to the bar at King's Inns, Dublin, Hilary, 1882 (eldest son of Thomas Kingston Austin, Esq., J.P., of Blackrock, Stillorgan, co. Dublin); born , .
    2, New Inn, W.G; 5, Pump Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Austin, Robert Cecil

​Austin, Robert Cecil, matric. King's Coll., London, deputy county court judge No. 45 since 18—, goes the South-eastern circuit, author of County Court Cases Circuit No. 45, Metropolitan Poor Law Act, Superannuation Act for Union and Parish Officers, etc., a student of Gray's Inn 6 Nov., 1856, called to the bar 10 June, 1859 (6th son of John Drewett Austin, Esq., late of H.M.'s ordnance department, dec.); born 29 April, 1828; married 1st, , , Anne, eldest dau. of Edward Robert Shepherd, Esq., of Newington, London; she died 18 Dec., 1870, leaving issue; he married 2ndly, 15 April, 1876, Mary Ellen, 3rd dau. of Charles L. Browning, Esq., of Chadmont, Edgbaston.
    Kingston-on-Thames.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Avetoom, Antony Aratoom

​Avetoom, Antony Aratoom, matric. King's Coll., London, a student of the Middle Temple 4 Nov., 1882, called to the bar 17 June, 1885 (2nd son of Chatick Thaddeus Avetoom, of Calcutta, merchant); born ,
# Men-at-the-Bar/Avice, Frederick Henry

​Avice, Frederick Henry, practises before the supreme court of the Mauritius, a student of the Middle Temple 6 June, 1864, called to the bar 30 April, 1867 (eldest son of Frederic Avice, of Mauritius); born .
    Mauritius.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Awdry, Charles

​Awdry, Charles, M.A. New Coll., Oxon, a student of the Inner Temple 28 Jan., 1870 (then aged 22), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1874 (4th son of Sir John Wither Awdry, Knt., of Notton, Wilts); born 12 Feb., 1847; married 20 April, 1876, Margaret Helen, 5th dau. of Rt. Rev. G. Moberley, bishop of Salisbury, and has issue.
    Care of, the Palace, Salisbury.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Bealey, Robert John

​Bealey, Robert John, B.A. Trin. Coll., Camb., a student of the Inner Temple 18 Nov., 1875 (then aged 20), called to the bar 21 June, 1882 (eldest son of Samuel Bealey, Esq., of London); born , 1855.
    30, Linden Gardens, W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beauclerk, Amelius Francis Ward

​Beauclerk, Amelius Francis Ward, late undergraduate Trin. Coll., Camb., a student of Lincoln's Inn 19 Nov., 1878 (then aged 21), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1885 (2nd son of late Lord Amelius Wentworth Beauclerk, dec.); born 22 March, 1857 (see Foster's Peerage, D. St. Albans).
    3, Bryanston, Square W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beard, Ernest

​Beard, Ernest, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 15 April, 1874, called to the bar 21 June, 1882 (3rd son of Thomas Beard, of London, attorney-at-law); born , .
    Fountain Court, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beard, Lewis

​Beard, Lewis, B.A. Trin. Coll., Camb., a member of the Northern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 7 Nov., 1879 (then aged 21), called to the bar 21 June, 1882 (only son of Rev. Charles Beard, of Liverpool); born 12 April, 1858.
    11, Lord Street, Liverpool.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beattie, John Labouchere

​Beattie, John Labouchere, a student of Lincoln's Inn 20 Jan., 1879 (then aged 29), called to the bar 3 May, 1882 (3rd son of Alexander Beattie, Esq., of London); born 14 Aug., 1849.
    47, Redcliffe Square, South Kensington; 40, Chancery Lane, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beard, Richard Rideout

​Beard, Richard Rideout, late Bengal civil service, undergrad. Magdalen Coll., Camb., a student of Lincoln's Inn 20 Nov., 1876 (then aged 21), called to the bar 9 June, 1880 (eldest son of George Beard, Esq., of Hillfield Hall, Warwickshire); born , 1855.
    14, St. James' Place, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beasley, William Cole

​Beasley, William Cole, Q.C., M.A., Lincoln Coll., Oxon, 1838, recorder of Hull since 7 Dec., 1874, and of Warwick July to Dec., 1874, senior counsel to H.M.'s customs, was one of the counsel to the Treasury at Central Criminal Court 1859-77, a revising barrister 1864-80, and formerly one of the counsel to Board of Trade, a student of the Inner Temple 17 Nov., 1836 (then aged 21), called to the bar
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beaufort, Leicester Paul

​Beaufort, Leicester Paul, B.A. Queen's Coll., Oxon, goes Northern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 30 June, 1876 (then aged 26), called to the bar 7 May, 1879 (2nd son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort, M.A.); born , 1850.
    4, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beamish, Alfred

​Beamish, Alfred, B.A. Trin. Coll., Dublin, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Middle Temple 22 Jan., 1868, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1870 (3rd son of Charles Beamish, of Delacour Villa, co. Cork, landed proprietor); born , ; married 28 Oct., 1878, Selina Taylor, widow of Surgeon-Major White, 2nd dau. of late William Taylor Prichard, Esq., of London.
    2, Matson Villas, Richmond, Surrey; 1, Dr. Johnson's Buildings, Temple, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Beard, Charles Halman

​Beard, Charles Halman, a student of the Middle Temple 18 April, 1877, called to the bar 21 June, 1882 (2nd son of William Daniel Beard, of St. Kitts, practitioner of medicine and surgery); born , .
    St. Kitts, West Indies.
# Legion of Merit second award - John McCain

The Legion of Merit is a military decoration of the United States armed forces that is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.
| ​ THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D. C. 20350 The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the LEGION OF MERIT to CAPTAIN JOHN S. MC CAIN III UNITED STATES NAVY for service as set forth in the following CITATION: For exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as Director of the Senate Liaison Office of the Office of Legislative Affairs from August 1977 to March 1981. Captain McCain's unique talents, exceptional knowledge of politico-military matters, and keen and unusually perceptive insights into the interests and relationships between key members of the Congress provided Navy leadership with sage advice and sound judgment for enacting critical legislation during a period of severe fiscal constraint. His performance in this sensitive and critical position contributed directly and significantly to the success of Navy programs before the Congress, ensuring both readiness and modernization of the fleet. Captain McCain's outstanding professional leadership, perseverance, and inspiring devotion to duty reflected great credit upon himself and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. For the President, (MAR 16 1981) /s/John Lehman Secretary of the Navy Approved SECNAV(NDBDM) Ser 180 of 16 Mar 1981. | Legion of Merit |
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# Legion of Merit - John McCain

The Legion of Merit is a military decoration of the United States armed forces that is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.
| ​ THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D. C. 20350 The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the LEGION OF MERIT to COMMANDER JOHN S. MC CAIN III UNITED STATES NAVY for service as set forth in the following CITATION: For exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam from October 1967 to March 1973. Under the most adverse of conditions, he resisted all attempts by the North Vietnamese to use him in causes detrimental to the United States; never wavering in his devotion and loyalty to the United States. In an outstanding and tireless fashion, he served as Chaplain wherein he provided spiritual guidance, instilled constructive rehabilitative thinking and conducted religious services for the benefit of the other prisoners during their long internment. In addition, he served as an educator to provide diversion and constructive rehabilitative thinking to his fellow prisoners. Despite lack of material aids, he devoted long hours toward improving their morale and well-being. His extraordinary skill, resourcefulness, and dedication to duty throughout this lengthy confinement reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Naval Service and the United States Armed Forces. The Combat Distinguishing Device is authorized. For the President, Secretary of the Navy | Legion of Merit |
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