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# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/Dot Long-Handled Dippee

DOT LONG-HANDLED DIPPEE.
Der boet may sing off " Der Oldt Oaken
Bookit,"
Und in schveetest langvitch its virtues may tell,
Und how, vhen a poy, he mit eggsdasy dook it,
Vhen dripping mit coolness it rose vrom der
vell. I don'd take some schtock in dot manner off
trinking!
It vas too mooch like horses und cattle, I dink. Dhere vas more sadisfactions, in my vay of
dinking,
Mit dot long-handled dipper, dot hangs py der sink.
rHow schveet vrom der green mossy brim to
receive it"—
Dot vould soundt pooty goot—eef it only vas true—
Der vater schbills ofer, you petter pelieve it! Und runs down your schleeve, und schlep*
indo your shoe. Dhen down on your nose comes dot oldt iron
handle,
Und makes your eyes vater so gvick as a vink. I dells you dot bookit it don'd hold a candle To dot long-handled dipper, dot hangs py der sink.
How nice it musd been in der rough vinter
veddher, When it settles righdt down to a coldt, freezing
rain,
To haf dot rope coom oup so light as a feddher,
Und find dot der bookit vas proke off der chain,
Dhen down in der vell mit a pole you go fishing,
Vhile indo your back coonis an oldt-fashicmed
kink;
I pet you mine life all der time you vas vishing For dot long-handled dipper, dot hangs py der sink.
How handy it vas schust to turn on der faucet, Yhere der vater flows down vrom der schpring on der hill!
I schust vas der schap dot vill always indorse it, Oxsbecially nighdts vhen der veddher vas chill.
Vhen Pfeiffer's oldt veil mit der schnow ras all
cofered,
Und he vades droo der schnow-drift to get him a trink,
I schlips vrom der hearth, vhere der schiltren
vas hofered,
To dot long-handled dipper, dot hangs py der sink.
Dhen gife oup der bookits und pails to der horses, Off mikerobes und tadpoles schust gife dhem
dheir fill!
Gife me dot pure water dot all der time courses Droo dhose pipes dot run down vrom der
schpring on der hill.
Und eef der goot dings off dis vorld I gets rich in Und frendts all aroundt me dheir glasses schall
clink,
I schtill vill remember dot oldt country kitchen, Und dot long-handled dipper, dot hangs py der sink.
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/He Took a Header

HE TOOK A HEADER.
They met in a field, 'mid th» blooming heather; A punster, a ram and an old bell-wether.
No cry of alarm did the young man utter,
He simply murmured : "I'll pass the butter."
"And I'll butt the passer," observed the ram, "I ain't any Mary's little lamb."
" 'That tired feeling' I'll o'er him bring, So often caused by 'a forward spring.'
"I'll give him 'a header' he will not like." And he "cast sheep's eyes" at the youth and bike.
(W-h-i-s-h-! r-r-r-!-!-!)
Sheep, bike and punster lay mingled together; The youth was "a little under the wether."
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/Fritz Und I

FRITZ UND I.
    Mynheer, blease helb a boor oldt man
       Vot gomes vrom Sharmany,
    Mit Fritz, mine tog, und only freund,
       To geep me gompany.
    I haf no geld to puy mine pread,
       No blace to lay me down;
    For ve vas vanderers, Fritz und I,
       Und sdrangers in der town.
    Some beoples gife us dings to eadt,
       Und some dey kicks us oudt,
    Und say, "You don'd got peesnis here
       To sdroll der schtreets aboudt!"
    Vot's dot you say ? — you puy mine tog
       To gife me pread to eadt!
    I vas so boor as nefer vas,
       But I vas no "tead peat."
    Vot, sell mine tog, mine leedle tog,
       Dot vollows me aboudt,
    Und vags his dail like anydings
       Vene'er I dakes him oudt?
    Schust look at him, und see him schump!
       He likes me pooty vell;
    Und dere vas somedings 'bout dot tog,
       Mynheer, I vouldn't sell.
    "Der collar?" Nein: 'tvas someding else
       Vrom vich I gould not hart;
    Und, if dot ding vas dook avay,
       I dink it prakes mine heart.
    "Vot vas it, den, aboudt dot tog,"
       You ashk, "dot's not vor sale?"
    I dells you vot it ish, mine freund:
       Tish der vag off dot tog's dail!"
# Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Greenwood Grocery Company

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United States Supreme Court
227 U.S. 1
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Greenwood Grocery Company
Argued: November 14, 1912. --- Decided: January 20, 1913
Messrs. Charles N. Burch, Edward Mayes, Blewett Lee, and H. D. Minor for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Harry Peyton for defendant in error.
Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Wright

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United States Supreme Court
235 U.S. 376
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Wright
Argued: December 2, 1914. --- Decided: December 14, 1914
Messrs. H. D. Minor and Charles N. Burch for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 376-378 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. R. M. Barton and McKinney Barton for defendant in error.
Memorandum opinion by direction of the court, by Mr. Chief Justice White:

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# Yazoo Company v. Board of Levee Commissioners

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United States Supreme Court
132 U.S. 190
Yazoo Company v. Board of Levee Commissioners
James Fentress and W. P. Harris, for appellant.
Marcellus Green, for appellees.
FULLER, C. J.

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# Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railway Company v. Adams

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United States Supreme Court
180 U.S. 26
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railway Company v. Adams
Argued: October 22, 23, 1900. --- Decided: January 7, 1901
Messrs. Wm. D. Guthrie, Edward Mayes, and Noel Gale for plaintiffs in error.
Messrs. R. C. Beckett and F. A. Critz for defendant in error.
Statement by Mr. Justice Brown:
This was an action against the Yazoo Company and the Illinois Central Company for state, county, municipal, and privilege taxes for the year 1898, upon the property of the Louisville, New Orleans, & Texas Company, which became the property of the Yazoo Company by virtue of the consolidation of October 24, 1892, and has since been operated by the defendants.
Mr. Justice Brown delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Jackson Vinegar Company

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United States Supreme Court
226 U.S. 217
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. Jackson Vinegar Company
Argued: December 2, 1912. ---
Messrs. Edward Mayes and Charles N. Burch for plaintiff in error.
Mr. William H. Watkins for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the opinion of the court:

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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ames, Oakes

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​AMES, OAKES (1804–1873), American manufacturer, capitalist and politician, was born in Easton, Massachusetts, on the 10th of January 1804. As a manufacturer of shovels, in association with his father and his brother Oliver (1807–1877), he amassed a large fortune. In 1860 he became a member of the executive council of Massachusetts, and from 1863 to 1873 was a republican member of the national House of Representatives. As a member of the committee on railroads he became interested in the project, greatly aided by the government, to build a trans-continental railway, connecting the eastern states with California. Others having failed, he was induced in 1865 to assume the direction of the work, and to him more than to any other one man the credit for the construction of the Union Pacific railway was due. The execution was effected largely through a construction company, the Crédit Mobilier Company of America. In disposing of some of the stock of this company, Ames in 1867–1871 sold a number of shares to members of Congress at a price much below what these shares eventually proved to be worth. This, on becoming known, gave rise in 1872–1873 to a great congressional scandal. After an investigation by a committee of the House, which recommended the expulsion of Ames, a resolution was passed on the 28th of February 1873, “that the House absolutely condemns the conduct of Oakes Ames . . . in seeking to secure congressional attention to the affairs of a corporation in which he was interested, and whose interest directly depended upon the legislation of Congress, by inducing members of Congress to invest in the stocks of said corporation.” Many have since attributed this resolution to partisanship, and the influence of popular clamour, and in 1883 the legislature of Massachusetts passed a resolution vindicating Ames. He died at North Easton, Mass., on the 8th of May 1873. His son, Oliver Ames (1831–1895), was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts from 1883 until 1887, and governor from 1887 to 1890.
See Crédit Mobilier of America and the references there given. For a defence of Oakes Ames, see Oakes Ames, A Memorial Volume (Cambridge, Mass., 1884).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amesbury (Massachusetts)

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​AMESBURY, a township of Essex county, in N.E. Massachusetts, U.S.A., situated on the Merrimac river, about 6 m. above its mouth. Pop. (1890) 9798; (1900) 9473, of whom 2448 were foreign-born; (1910, U. S. census), 9894. Amesbury is served by two divisions of the Boston & Maine railway, and is connected by electric line with Haverhill and Newburyport, Mass., and with Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, and Salisbury Beach, Mass., two summer resorts. The township covers a land area of about 13 sq. m. The surface is hilly. The Powow river, a small stream, passes through the centre of the township. There is a public library. Among Amesbury’s manufactures are hats, cotton goods, carriages, automobile bodies, carriage and automobile lamps, thermometers, brass castings and motor boats. In 1905 the factory products were valued at $3,614,692. Amesbury was settled about 1644 as a separate part of Salisbury, and in 1654, by mutual agreement of the old and new “towns," became practically independent, although not legally a township until 1666 (named Amesbury, from the English town in Wilts, in 1667). It suffered repeatedly in the course of the colonial Indian wars. Quakers settled here as early as 1701. Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born here, and is commemorated by a statue (1888) by Karl Gerhardt. Shipbuilding was an important industry in the 18th and especially the first quarter of the 19th century, and the U.S. frigate “Alliance” was built at Salisburypoint in 1778. A nail factory, one of the earliest in the country, was built on the Powow in 1796. The manufacture of iron began about 1710, of hats in 1769, of carriages in 1800 and of cotton goods in 1812. Paul Moody, who with F. C. Lowell constructed in 1814 at Waltham the first successful power-loom in America, was engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods in Amesbury. The township was the home of John G. Whittier from 1836 to 1892; here were written most of the poems of his middle and later life, many of which ​describe the surrounding country. In 1876 Merrimac township was created out of the territory of Amesbury; in 1886 the west part of the old township of Salisbury was united to Amesbury.
See Joseph Merrill, History of Amesbury (Haverhill, 1880); S. T. Pickard, Whittier-land, A Handbook of North Essex (Boston, New York, 1904).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, Earl

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​AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT AMHERST, Earl (1773–1857), governor-general of India, was the nephew of Jeffrey, Baron Amherst, and succeeded to his title in 1797 by the remainder provided when the patent of nobility was renewed in 1788. In 1816 he was sent as ambassador extraordinary to the court of China, with a view of establishing more satisfactory commercial relations between that country and Great Britain. On arriving in the Peiho he was given to understand that he could only be admitted to the emperor’s presence on condition of performing the ko-tou (kow-tow), a ceremony which Western nations consider degrading, and which is, indeed, a homage exacted by a Chinese sovereign from his tributaries. To this Lord Amherst, following the advice of Sir George T. Staunton, who accompanied him as second commissioner, refused to consent, as Lord Macartney had done in 1793, unless the admission was made that his sovereign was entitled to the same show of reverence from a mandarin of his rank. In consequence of this he was not allowed to enter Pekin, and the object of his mission was frustrated. His ship, the “Alceste,” after a cruise along the coast of Korea and to the Loo-Choo Islands, on proceeding homewards was totally wrecked on a sunken rock in Gaspar Strait. Lord Amherst and part of his shipwrecked companions escaped in the ship’s boats to Batavia, whence relief was sent to the rest. The ship in which he returned to England in 1817 having touched at St Helena, he had several interviews with the emperor Napoleon (see Ellis’s Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China, 1817; M‘Leod’s Narrative of a Voyage in H.M.S. “Alceste,” 1817). Lord Amherst held the office of governor-general of India from August 1823 to February 1828. The principal event of his government was the first Burmese war of 1824, resulting in the cession of Arakan and Tenasserim to Great Britain. He was created Earl Amherst of Arakan in 1826. On his return to England he lived in retirement till his death in March 1857.
See A. Thackeray and R. Evans, Lord Amherst (“Rulers of India” series), 1894.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amherst, Jeffrey Amherst, Baron

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​AMHERST, JEFFREY AMHERST, Baron (1717–1797), British soldier, was the son of Jeffrey Amherst of Riverhead, Kent, and by the interest of the duke of Dorset obtained an ensigncy in the Guards in 1731. He served in Germany and the Low Countries as aide-de-camp to General (Lord) Ligonier, and was present at Dettingen, Fontenoy and Roucoux. He then served on Cumberland’s staff, and took part with the duke in the later campaigns of the Austrian Succession war, in the battle of Val, and the North German campaign of 1757, including the battle of Hastenbeck. A year previously he had been promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy. In 1758 William Pitt caused Amherst to be made a major-general, and gave him command of an expedition to attack the French in North America. For the great plan of conquering Canada, Pitt chose young and ardent officers, with Amherst, distinguished for steadiness and self-control, as their commander-in-chief. The first victory of the expedition, the capture of Louisburg (July 26, 1758), was soon followed by other successes, and Amherst was given the chief command of all the forces in the theatre of war. In the campaign of 1759 Amherst’s own share was the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, while Fort Niagara fell to another column, and Quebec was taken by Wolfe. In 1760 a concentric march on Montreal was carried out with complete success. Amherst was immediately appointed governor-general of British North America, and in the following year was made a K.B. His conduct, of the operations against the Indians under Pontiac was, however, far from being as successful as his generalship against regular troops; and he returned to England in 1763, being made governor of Virginia and colonel of the 60th regiment in the same year. In 1768 the king, who had had a quarrel with Amherst, made amends by giving him another colonelcy; in 1770 he was made governor of Guernsey; and two years later, though not yet a full general, he was made lieutenant-general of the ordnance and acting commander-in-chief of the forces. In this capacity he was the chief adviser at headquarters during the American War of Independence. He was created a peer in 1776, was promoted general in 1778 and became colonel of the 2nd Horse Grenadiers (2nd Life Guards) two years later. He aided in suppressing the Gordon riots of 1780. The rest of his active life, with a short interval in 1782–1783, he spent at the Horse Guards as commander-in-chief, but he was no longer capable of good service, and in 1795 he was succeeded by the duke of York. In 1796 Lord Amherst was made field-marshal; and he died on the 3rd of August 1797 at “Montreal,” his residence in Kent.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ames, Joseph

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​AMES, JOSEPH (1689–1759), English author, was born at Yarmouth on the 23rd of January 1689. He wrote an account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600, Typographical Antiquities (1749). Ames sent out circular letters with a list of two hundred and fifteen English printers with whose works he intended to deal, asking for any available information. He earned the gratitude of subsequent bibliographers by disregarding printed lists and consulting the title-pages of the books themselves. An interleaved copy of the work with many notes in the author’s hand is now in the British Museum. Editions of his works were published with added information by William Herbert (3 vols., 1785–1790), and T. F. Dibdin (4 vols., 1810–1819). Ames’s occupation is variously given. It is uncertain whether he was a ship-chandler, a patten-maker, a plane-iron maker or an ironmonger; but he led a prosperous life at Wapping, and amassed valuable collections of antiquities. He died on the 7th of October 1759. His other works are catalogues of English printers, of the collection of coins which belonged to the earl of Pembroke, of some two thousand English portraits, and Parentalia (1750), a memoir of the Wrens, undertaken in conjunction with Sir Christopher Wren’s grandson, Stephen Wren. Part of his correspondence in bibliography is included in Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes and Illustrations.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Amhara

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​AMHARA, the central province of Abyssinia. The chief town, Gondar (q.v.), by which name the province is also known, was the residence of the negus negusti, or emperor, of Abyssinia from the middle ages up to 1854. The speech of the inhabitants, Amharic, which differs in several features from the dialects spoken in Tigré and Shoa, is the official language of Abyssinia.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ames, Fisher

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​AMES, FISHER (1758–1808), American statesman, orator and political writer, son of Nathaniel Ames, a physician, was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, on the 9th of April 1758. He graduated at Harvard College in 1774, and began the practice of the law at Dedham in 1781, but eventually abandoned that profession for the more congenial pursuit of politics. He was a prominent member of the Massachusetts convention which (February 1788) ratified for that state the Federal Constitution, and in the same year, having entered the lower house in the state legislature, he distinguished himself greatly by his eloquence and readiness in debate. During the eight years of Washington’s administration (1789–1797) he was a prominent Federalist member of the national House of Representatives. On the 28th of April 1796, when the Republicans, hostile to the Jay Treaty, were on the point of holding up the appropriation necessary for its execution, Ames, who had just arisen from a sick-bed, made what has been considered the greatest speech of his life; before the delivery of his ​speech his opponents had claimed a majority of six, but the appropriation was finally passed, in the committee of the whole, by the casting vote of the chairman. When Washington retired from the presidency, Congress voted him an address and chose Ames to deliver it. In 1797 he returned to Dedham to resume the practice of the law, which the state of his health after a few years obliged him to relinquish. He published numerous essays, chiefly in relation to the contest between Great Britain and revolutionary France, as it might affect the liberty and prosperity of America. Ames was one of the group of New England ultra-Federalists known as the “Essex Junto,” who opposed the French policy of President John Adams in 1798, and were conspicuous for their British sympathies. Four years before his death he was chosen president of Harvard College, an honour which his broken state of health obliged him to decline. He died on the 4th of July 1808.
His writings and speeches, which abound in sparkling passages, displaying great fertility of imagination, were collected and published, with a memoir of the author, in 1809, by the Rev. Dr J. T. Kirkland, in one large octavo volume. A more complete edition in two volumes was published by his son, Seth Ames, at Boston, Mass., in 1854.