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# Ashes on the Slide

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When Jim and Bill and I were boys a many years ago, How gayly did we use to hail the coming of the snow! Our sleds, fresh painted red and with their runners round and bright, Seemed to respond right briskly to our clamor of delight As we dragged them up the slippery road that climbed the rugged hill Where perched the old frame meetin'-house, so solemn-like and still.
Ah, coasting in those days---those good old days---was fun indeed! Sleds at that time I 'd have you know were paragons of speed! And if the hill got bare in spots, as hills will do, why then We 'd haul on ice and snow to patch those bald spots up again; But, oh! with what sad certainty our spirits would subside When Deacon Frisbee sprinkled ashes where we used to slide!
The deacon he would roll his eyes and gnash his toothless gums, And clear his skinny throat, and twirl his saintly, bony thumbs, And tell you: "When I wuz a boy, they taught me to eschew The godless, ribald vanities which modern youth pursue! The pathway that leads down to hell is slippery, straight, and wide; And Satan lurks for prey where little boys are wont to slide!"
Now, he who ever in his life has been a little boy Will not reprove me when he hears the language I employ To stigmatize as wickedness the deacon's zealous spite In interfering with the play wherein we found delight; And so I say, with confidence, not unalloyed of pride: "Gol durn the man who sprinkles ashes where the youngsters slide!"
But Deacon Frisbee long ago went to his lasting rest, His money well invested in farm mortgages out West; Bill, Jim, and I, no longer boys, have learned through years of strife That the troubles of the little boy pursue the man through life; That here and there along the course wherein we hoped to glide Some envious hand has sprinkled ashes just to spoil our slide!
And that malicious, envious hand is not the deacon's now. Grim, ruthless Fate, that evil sprite none other is than thou! Riches and honors, peace and care come at thy beck and go; The soul, elate with joy to-day, to-morrow writhes in woe; And till a man has turned his face unto the wall and died, He must expect to get his share of ashes on his slide!
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# Ashes of Roses

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* Ashes of Roses (~1890), a poem by Helen N. Packard
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# Ashland Oil Inc. v. Caryl

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United States Supreme Court
497 U.S. 916
Ashland Oil Inc. v. Caryl
No. 88-421
PER CURIAM.

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# Ashe v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
270 U.S. 424
Ashe v. United States
Argued: March 5, 1926. --- Decided: March 15, 1926
Mr. James O. Campbell, of Butler, Pa., for appellant.
Mr. George R. Wallace, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Asher v. Texas

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United States Supreme Court
128 U.S. 129
Asher v. Texas
Abel Crook, for plaintiff in error.
Jas. H. Hogg, Atty. Gen. of Texas, for defendant in error.
BRADLEY, J.

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# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Baker, James H.

Edition of 1900.
​BAKER, James H., soldier, b. in Monroe, Butler co., Ohio, 6 May, 1829. He was educated at Wesleyan university in Ohio. Subsequently he became a teacher, and took charge of a female seminary at Richmond, Ind. In 1853 he purchased the “Scioto Gazette”, and became its editor. He was elected secretary of state for Ohio in 1855, and afterward secretary of state for Minnesota. He served as a colonel in the army in 1862-'3, was appointed a provost-marshal for the department of Missouri, and served in this capacity until the close of the war, receiving the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers. After the war he was appointed register of public lands at Booneville, Missouri, and retained the office two years, after which he retired to his farm in Minnesota. From 1871 to 1875 he was commissioner of pensions.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse

Edition of 1900.
​BANDELIER, Adolph Francis Alphonse, archaeologist, b. in Bern, Switzerland, 6 Aug., 1840. His early education was very slight, and he never attended school after his eighth year. After settling in the United States, he became interested in several kinds of business, but without much success. His attention was then turned to archaeological pursuits, and his principal work has been performed under the direction of the Archaeological Institute of America. From 1880 to 1885 he ​was engaged in examining the ruins of the ancient Pueblos, and in studying the sedentary Indians of New Mexico. He visited Central America in 1881, and for a time during 1883-'84 was in northern Mexico and Arizona. His papers and reports of progress have been published in the “Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,” and among the “Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America.” He is the author of “Art of War and Mode of Warfare” (Boston, 1877); “Tenure of Lands, and Inheritances of Ancient Mexicans” (1878); “Social Organization and Government of Ancient Mexicans” (1878); and “An Archaeological Tour into Mexico” (1880).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bancroft, Hubert Howe

Edition of 1900.
​BANCROFT, Hubert Howe, historian, b. in Granville, Ohio, 5 May, 1832. He entered the book-store of his brother-in-law, in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1848, and in 1852 was sent to California to establish a branch of the business there. He soon began to collect and preserve all available books and documents relating to the history of the Pacific states. As his affairs prospered, Mr. Bancroft's library increased, and in 1868, resigning to his brother, A. L. Bancroft, the management of his business, he devoted himself to the arrangement and publication of the material he had gathered. This consisted of books, maps, and printed and manuscript documents, including a large number of narratives dictated to Mr. Bancroft or his assistants by pioneers, settlers, and statesmen. The indexing of this vast collection employed six persons for ten years. The library was removed in 1881 to a fire-proof building, and now numbers about 45,000 volumes. Mr. Bancroft's plan is to publish thirty-nine volumes, embracing the history of the whole Pacific coast, from Central America to Alaska, and about one third of these have already appeared. The last volume published is the fifth of the history of California (San Francisco, 1886). Mr. Bancroft employs collaborators for the preliminary work, revising it all, and writing the most important chapters himself. In 1886 the publishing establishment of A. L. Bancroft & Company was burned, and the sheets of seven volumes of the history were destroyed.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Baranoff, Alexander Andrevitch

Edition of 1900.
​BARANOFF, Alexander Andrevitch, governor of Russian America, b. in 1746; d. at sea, near Java, 28 April, 1819. In early life he was a merchant in Siberia, but in August, 1790, he went to the island of Kodiak and opened trade there with the natives. In 1796 he established a trading-post at Bering strait. In 1799 the Russian Company was formed, by the consolidation of all the companies in the territory, and established a line of forts and trading-posts on the coast. With its assistance, Baranoff, overcoming many natural obstacles, took possession of the largest of the Sitka group of islands, now known by his name, and the Emperor Alexander gave him a title of nobility. After losing, and again recovering, in October, 1804, the fortress at Sitka, he built a factory there, and traded with Canton, Manila, the Sandwich islands, New York, Boston, and California, and even founded a colony (of which no traces remain) near San Francisco, then a Spanish mission. As his life of hardship began to affect his health, he applied to the government for leave to return to Russia; but this was not granted him until 1818, and he died in the vessel that was carrying him home.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bandini, Juan

Edition of 1900.
​BANDINI, Juan, politician, b. in Lima, Peru, in 1800; d. in Los Angeles, Cal., in 1859. In 1831 he took part in a revolution against Gov. Victoria. In 1834 he was connected with a famous and disastrous Mexican scheme for a new colony in California, and in 1836-'38 he was leader of the southern opposition to Alvarado. These latter years were the culmination of his political activity, and with his failure in the conflict with Alvarado he retired from party leadership. But he continued to hold various minor offices, and early espoused the cause of the Americans in 1846.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bangs, Francis Cannon

Edition of 1900.
​BANGS, Francis Cannon, actor, b. in Alexandria, Va., 13 Oct., 1833. His first appearance on the stage was in 1852, in the Old National theatre, Washington, D. C. He played in New York for the first time, at Laura Keene's theatre, in the spring of 1858, at Wallack's in December of that year, and at the Winter Garden in 1860, after which he retired from the stage until 1865, when he appeared as William Tell at the National theatre, Washington. He played Old Tom in “After Dark” at Niblo's Garden in November, 1868, and in 1869 appeared as the Duke of Alva in “Patrie” at the Grand Opera-House. He took part in the Shakesperian revival at Booth's theatre in 1875, and afterward played with Charles Thorne in the “Corsican Brothers.” In 1884 he appeared in the role of Willie Denver in “The Silver King.”
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Banneker, Benjamin

Edition of 1900.
​BANNEKER, Benjamin, mathematician, b. at Ellicott's Mills, Md., 9 Nov., 1731; d. in Baltimore, in October, 1806. He was of African descent, and learned to read from his grandmother, a white woman who had freed and married one of her slaves. He studied mathematics and astronomy while working in the field, when past middle life, and prepared and published almanacs for Maryland and the adjoining states in 1792 and subsequent years until his death. He assisted Ellicott in surveying the site of Washington and the boundaries of the District of Columbia. His biography, by J. H. B. Latrobe, was published in 1845, and another by J. S. Norris in 1854.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Barca, Francisco

Edition of 1900.
​BARCA, Francisco, Spanish statesman, b. in Puerto Real, near Cádiz, in 1831; d. by his own hand in New York, 29 July, 1883. He had filled several public offices when elected deputy to the cortés, in 1858. He took high rank as a parliamentary orator, and in 1868 was appointed director-general of administration under Posada Herrera's government. When Alfonso XII. was proclaimed king, Barca took the office of sub-secretary of the interior, which he resigned a year and a half later on account of his sympathies with the liberal opposition. He accepted, in 1881, the office of Spanish minister at Washington. His published works include a “Diccionario de Política y Administración.”
# Back to Methuselah/Preface

Back to Methuselah
Preface—In the Beginning—The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas—The Thing Happens—Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman—As Far as Thought Can Reach
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# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Cary, Lott

Edition of 1900.
​CARY, Lott, negro slave, b. in Charles City co., Va., in 1780; d. in Monrovia, Africa, 8 Nov., 1828. In 1804 he was sent to Richmond, and hired out as a common laborer. Gifted with a high order of native intelligence, he soon taught himself, with slight assistance, to read and write, and, having a remarkable memory and sense of order, he became one of the best shipping-clerks in the Richmond tobacco warehouses. Until 1807 he was an unbeliever, but during that year became converted to Christianity, and was ever afterward a leader among the Baptists of his own color. In 1813 he purchased his own freedom and that of his two children for $850. As a freeman he maintained his habits of industry and economy, and when the colonization scheme was organized had accumulated a sum sufficiently large to enable him to pay his own expenses as a member of the colony sent out to the African coast in 1822. He was with the colony during its early wars with the barbarous natives, and rendered invaluable services as a counsellor, physician, and pator. He was elected vice-agent of the colonization society in 1826, and during the absence of Mr. Ashmun, the agent, acted in his place. On the evening of 8 Nov., 1828, he was making cartridges in anticipation of an attack from slave-traders, when an accidental explosion fatally injured him and seven of his companions.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Catenhusen, Ernst

Edition of 1900.
​CATENHUSEN, Ernst, musician, b. in Ratzeburg, duchy of Lauenburg, Germany, in 1841. He studied philosophy and history at Göttingen, and music under Ignaz Lachner. From 1862 till 1881 he was musical conductor at a number of German opera-houses successively. In the latter year he became musical conductor of the Thalia theatre in New York. In 1884 he accepted the place of conductor of the Milwaukee musical society.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Catesby, Mark

Edition of 1900.
​CATESBY, Mark, naturalist, b. in England about 1680; d. in London, England, 24 Dec., 1749. A taste for natural history induced him, after studying the natural sciences in London, to make a voyage to Virginia, where he arrived 23 April, 1712, and was occupied in collecting its various productions. He returned to England in 1719 with a rich collection of plants, but, at the suggestion of Sir Hans Sloane and other eminent naturalists, re-embarked for America with the professed purpose of describing, delineating, and collecting the most curious natural objects in this country. He arrived on 23 May, 1722, explored the lower part of South Carolina, and afterward lived for some time among the Indians at Fort Moore, on Savannah river, 300 miles from the sea. He made excursions into Georgia and Florida, and, after spending three years in this country, visited the Bahama islands. He returned to England in 1726, and published in numbers “The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands” (2 vols., folio, 1731-'48; new ed., 1754 and 1771). In this work were found the first descriptions of several plants now cultivated in all European gardens. The figures were etched by himself from his own paintings, and the colored copies executed under his inspection. Catesby was a fellow of the royal society, to whose transactions he contributed a paper on “Birds of Passage” (1747), asserting the migration of birds on his own observations. He wrote “Hortus Europæ Americanus” (published posthumously, 1767), and some other works have been attributed to him. A plant of the tetrandrous class has been called after him, Catesbea, by Gronovius.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Chadwick, George Whitfield

Edition of 1900. The 1891 edition gives 1877 as the year of his arrival in Germany.
​CHADWICK, George Whitfield, musician, b. in Lowell, Mass., 13 Nov., 1854. He went to Germany, where for two years he studied under Jadassohn and Reinecke. Then he settled in Munich and studied theory and organ-playing under Rhemberger for nearly a year. He now resides in Boston. His overture, “Rip Van Winkle,” was performed at the Handel and Haydn festival in Boston in May, 1880, and his symphony in C in 1882, at a concert of the Harvard musical association. He has composed several less important works.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Cary, John

Edition of 1900.
​CARY, John, colored servant of Gen. Washington, b. in Westmoreland co., Va., in August, 1729; d. in Washington, D. C., 2 June, 1843. He was with his master in the old French war at Braddock's defeat, and accompanied him through the revolutionary struggle.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Cañedo, Juan de Dios

Edition of 1900.
​CAÑEDO, Juan de Dios (cah-nya'-do), Mexican statesman, b. in Guadalajara, 18 Jan., 1786; d. in the city of Mexico, 28 March, 1850. He received a good education and was admitted to the bar in 1809. He was elected a deputy to the Spanish Cortés in 1813, and soon became prominent as a parliamentary orator. While in Madrid he published a manifesto to the Spanish nation in defence of the colonial interests, which was eagerly read both in Spain and her American possessions. On his return to Mexico in 1824, Cañedo took part in the debate relative to the new republican constitution. He was several times deputy and senator, minister of foreign affairs under Victoria's administration, represented his country as plenipotentiary in Brazil, Peru, and Chili, and was in charge of the foreign office and the department of the interior under Bustamante. Afterward he went to Europe, where he resided for some years, and had just returned to Mexico when he was killed by an unknown assassin.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Cary, Archibald

Edition of 1900.
​CARY, Archibald, patriot, b. in Virginia about 1730; d. at Ampthill, in September, 1786. He early became a member of the house of burgesses. Prior to 1760 he undertook to revive the iron-works on Falling creek, Va., established by Col. William Byrd, and operated them with pig-iron imported from Maryland; but the enterprise was abandoned as unprofitable. In 1764 he served on the committee that reported the address to the king, lords, and commons. In 1773 he was one of the committee of correspondence, and he was a member of the convention of 1776. As chairman of the committee of the whole he reported the resolutions instructing the Virginia delegates in congress to propose independence. On the organization of the state government he was returned to the senate, where he presided until his death. He was descended from Henry, Lord Hunsdon, and at the time of his death was heir-apparent of the barony. He was a man of singular courage and intrepidity, short in stature, but of remarkably prepossessing appearance. The title of “colonel” is commonly prefixed to his name.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Cesnola, Luigi Palma di

Edition of 1891. The 1900 edition omits all mention of the controversy surrounding his art collection, and differs in other details, among other things mentioning a Medal of Honor he received for bravery at the Battle of Aldie.
​CESNOLA, Luigi Palma di (ches-no'-la), archæologist, b. near Turin, Italy, 29 July, 1832. He was educated at the Royal military academy, and served in the Sardinian army during the war in 1849, and also was engaged in the Crimean war. In 1860 he came to the United States and volunteered in the military service, becoming colonel of the 4th New York cavalry. He was in the battle of Aldie, in June, 1862, where he was wounded and captured. Afterward he was appointed U.S. consul at Cyprus, where he made extensive archæological examinations and acquired a large collection of antiquities, which in 1873 became the property of the Metropolitan museum of art. During the latter part of 1873 he again visited Cyprus, and added much to the collections already gathered, and on his return to New York in 1877 was made director of the museum. About 1879 many adverse judgments by eminent art critics, reflecting on the integrity of his collections, appeared in the New York art journals and in the daily press. These charges were referred to a committee of five well-known gentlemen, who, after careful examination, declared them groundless. The matter was afterward brought into the courts, and a libel suit against Col. Cesnola was instituted by Gaston L. Feuardent, which, after a prolonged trial, resulted in a disagreement of the jury. This case attracted great attention on account of the extreme partisanship shown by the newspapers during the trial. He married a daughter of Capt. Samuel C. Reid, who repelled with great loss to the enemy the British attack on his ship, the “General Armstrong,” in the harbor of Fayal, in September, 1814. Columbia college conferred on Col. Cesnola the degree of LL. D. in 1880. he is the author of “Researches and Discoveries in Cyprus” (New York, 1878).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Chadwick, John White

Edition of 1900.
​CHADWICK, John White, clergyman, b. in Marblehead, Mass., 19 Oct., 1840. He was graduated at Harvard divinity school in 1864, and during the same year was called to the pastorate of the 2d Unitarian society in Brooklyn. His sermons have attracted attention, and he is known as a radical teacher of the doctrines of his church. Mr. Chadwick was elected Phi Beta Kippa poet at Harvard in 1885, and in the following year preached the alumni sermon at the Harvard divinity school. He has published many of his discourses, which for some time were issued serially, and is a frequent contributor to the Unitarian journals. His publications in book-form are: “Life of N. A. Staples” (Boston, 1870); “A Book of Poems” (1875); “The Bible of To-day” (New York, 1878); “The Faith of Reason” (Boston, 1879); “Some Aspects of Religion” (New York, 1879); “The Man Jesus” (Boston, 1881); “Belief and Life” (New York, 1881); “Origin and Destiny” (Boston, 1883); “In Nazareth Town: A Christmas Fantasy” (1884); and “A Daring Faith” (1885).