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# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Fort Worth

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FORT WORTH, a city of Texas, the county-seat of Tarrant co. It is on the Texas and Pacific, the International and Great Northern, the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, the Fort Worth and Denver City, the St. Louis and San Francisco, and other railroads. It is also on Trinity river. Fort Worth is the center of a large stock-raising and agricultural district and has a large jobbing trade in general commodities,
and in hogs, sheep and cattle, grain, fruit, and produce. It has large stock yards with a daily capacity of over 30,000 head of cattle, and large packing houses. It has several important industries, including flour and stock-feed mills, rolling mills, railroad repair shops, foundries, cotton and oil mills, clothing-factories, chemical works, etc. There has been built, at a cost of nearly $1,500,000 a large storage dam on the west fork of the Trinity river, 7 miles from the city, with a storage capacity of 30 billion gallons of water. Fort Worth is the seat of the Fort Worth University, the Texas Christian University, and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has a Masonic Orphans' Home and School, several academies, a number of denominational schools, and technical, art, and music schools. There are a public library and the Medical Library. The city is supplied with an excellent system of roads and has over 30 parks or park places; about 100 churches; and 10 hospitals. There were in 1920 5 National banks. Fort Worth was founded as a military post in 1849, becoming the county-seat in 1860, and was incorporated in 1873. Pop. (1910) 73,312; (1920) 106,482.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Fond du Lac

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FOND DU LAC, a city and county-seat of Fond du Lac co., Wis., on Winnebago lake, at the mouth of Fond du Lac river, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroads; 60 miles N. W. of Milwaukee. There is steamboat connection through Winnebago Lake and Fox river with all the Great Lakes. Here are a high school, St. Agnes Hospital and Sanatorium, a court house, Grafton Hall (Prot. Epis.), several banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of engines, machinery, flour, paper, carriages, lumber, leather, typewriters, drugs, candies, etc. Pop. (1910) 18,797; (1920) 23,427.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Fort Lee

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FORT LEE, a borough of New Jersey, in Bergen co. It is connected by ferry with New York City. Several important moving picture studios are located here. It has the Institute of the Holy Angels. During the Revolutionary War one of the forts defending the Hudson was situated here. Pop. (1910) 4,474; (1920) 5,761.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Fort Scott

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​ FORT SCOTT, a city of Kansas, the county-seat of Bourbon county. It is on the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and the Missouri Pacific railroads. It is also on the Marmaton river. It is the center of important deposits of coal, cement, clay, zinc, and lead. The industries include foundry and machine shops, flour mills, cement works, and manufactures of harness, medicines, etc. Pop. (1910) 10,463; (1920) 10,693.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Fortress

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FORTRESS, the development of modern ordnance has rendered fortification as exhibited in the construction of the fortresses of the past practically obsolete and useless. It is probable that no fortress in the world (with the exception, perhaps, of Gibraltar) would form a serious obstacle to a modern naval or land attack, if the assailants were provided with the most approved modern heavy guns. In view of this fact, the construction of fortresses has been directed almost entirely to enabling them to cause a ricochet of shots directed against them rather than to oppose the direct impact. Hence modern fortresses are usually small, and present nowhere a direct angle to the line of fire, being generally constructed on the turtle-back or spherical plan. They usually contain but few guns, and those of the heavier calibers, rendering them offensive, rather than great strongholds of defense, as formerly. Of this latter class the strongest fortress surviving in the United States is Fortress Monroe, on Hampton Roads in Virginia, erected for the defense of Norfolk navy yard and the Virginian coast at that point. It was planned and built by a French engineer, and was an important Federal stronghold during the Civil War. Other important historical fortresses are McHenry, Moultrie, Pickens, Webster, St. Augustine, and Sumter.
The greatest fortress in the world, from a strategical point of view, is the stronghold of Gibraltar, on the coast of Spain. It occupies a rocky peninsula jutting out into the sea, about one and a half miles in length and three-quarters of a mile in width. One central rock rises to a
height of 1,435 feet above the sea level. Its N. face is almost perpendicular, while its E. side is full of tremendous precipices. On the S. it terminates in what is called Europa Point. The W. side is less steep than the E., and between its base and the sea is the narrow, almost level, span on which the town of Gibraltar is built. The fortress is considered impregrnable to military assault. The regular garrison in time of peace numbers about 7,000. It belongs to England.
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/17

Chapter XVII.—The Hen-pecked Husbands' Club. (正夫綱.)
THERE are many men who are afraid of their wives. Most of them are illtreated by their wives at their homes. One day they happened to meet together. Everyone had an opinion. They found a temple. They said: "We ten people will burn incense to-day before the Fuh-yeh (Joss) and declare ourselves to be sworn brothers." They determined to have a day of merry feasting. Everyone returned to his home and again suffered ill-treatment. After having made all arrangements, they bought wine and meat. Just when they were enjoying the feast at its height, unthought of the ten wives, though not by appointment, found their way to the temple. Nine of the brothers all tried to find a place of concealment, from whence they could peep. Only one man was left sitting there, who made no movement, and allowed all the women to create a tumult, but did not interfere with them. The women harangued for a half day, then dispersed. Several of the men said: "We are not so courageous as he is; let us appoint him as our chief." They ventured to have a look at him, then said: "Behold, our chief has been frightened to death and has become a saint while sitting there."
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/3

Chapter III.—The Easiest Way to Learn Chinese.
(Teaching a Son訓子.)
THERE was a wealthy old man who could not read or write. His friends advised him to engage a teacher to instruct his son. This student, when he had learned one character, made a stroke with his pen; two characters, he made two strokes; and three characters, three strokes. Then he laid down his pen and told his father that he already knows all the characters and what is the use of engaging a teacher. When his father heard of this, he felt quite happy, and at once dismissed the teacher. On that day his father determined to invite a friend named Man (萬 means ten thousand) to dinner. He told his son early in the morning to write out an invitation. Up to midday his son did not finish writing it. His father went to his study and asked why these few words has given him so much trouble. His son, with his mouth tightly closed, replied to his father, "Why do you not invite some one else instead of inviting a friend whose name is Man. Since early morning I have been writing till now, and I have made only 500 strokes. Do you think it is so easy to complete the ten thousand strokes?"
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/4

Chapter IV.—How Useful the Biggest Volumes May Be.
(Simple Books低書)
THERE was a scholar who studied in a monastery. On the first day after rising, he went out for a little recreation. After midday he returned to his quarters and immediately called his servant to bring his books to him. The servant brought him a volume of literature of the Liang Dynasty. The scholar said: "It is too simple for me." The servant again brought a book of the Han Dynasty. The scholar again said: "Too simple." Again a book of history was brought. He again said: "Too simple."
As his room was next to that of a monk, the latter hearing what he said, was surprised, and came over to question the scholar saying: "These three books, if a person could commit one of them to memory, he may consider himself learned. Why do you say that it is simple. What is your reason for saying that?" He replied: "I wish to take a nap and intended to pile up the books to form a pillow."
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/15

Chapter XV.—The Happiness of Blind Men. (被打.)
THERE were two blind men walking together and conversing. "Among the people of the whole world we blind people are the best. Those who have eyes are always busy, especially the farmers. Who has so much leisure and such an easy time as we have." When the farmers heard of their boast, they were exceedingly enraged. They secretly called together a few men, and impersonating the magistrate en route, shouted out to the two blind men: "Do you not know manners? Why do you not keep out of the road?" They immediately used their pick handles and gave them a beating. After the beating they ordered them to be gone. Then the blind men got up and went their way. One of the farmers followed the blind men and quietly listened to what the two had to say. One of the blind men said to the other: "After all we blind men are the best people. If it was a man not blind who obstructed the underlings of the magistrate, he would not only receive a beating but might be further punished."
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/16

Chapter XVI.—The Thirsty Dog. (犬症.)
THERE was a deaf man who went to see a friend. When he reached the residence, he knocked at the door. The dog barked continuously outside for a long time. It happened to rain. His friend opened the door fronting the street and shouted toward the house. He said to his friend: "Your respected dog must be affected with thirst. He must be very thirsty. If you do not believe it, you just look. His mouth is wide open, waiting to catch rain water."
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/2

Chapter II.— A Self-Sacrificing Neighbor.
(Borrowing An Ox 借牛)
A VILLAGER wrote a note to a wealthy man of the same village, asking for the loan of an ox. When the note arrived, the man of wealth had a friend dining with him. The ​rich man, although he possessed a great deal of worldly goods, had no education and, unwilling to show his ignorance by requesting his friend to read for him, he took up the note and made a pretence of reading it. He said to the messenger: "This affair is very easy to manage; you may go home first, in a little while I will follow."
Note.—As the rich man's friend asked for the loan of an ox, the illiterate wealthy goes himself; he is therefore taken for an ox.
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/18

Chapter XVIII.— Disputing about Etiquette. (爭坐位.)
ONE a blindman, a dwarf, and a humpback, three of them, while they were about to sit down to a feast, clamoured for a seat of honour. They said: "We will agree to this: the one who could tell the biggest lie, will be allowed to occupy the highest seat. Is that not a good plan?" The blindman said: "I will have the first say; the pupil of my eyes has no reflection (人 man)." (Also means, there is no one equal to himself) The dwarf said: "I cannot be compared with an ordinary man, therefore you two have to make room for me."
The humpback said: "You two need not dispute; you both are straight backed (Chi bai 姪輩 also means nephew, a lower generation); naturally I should have the seat of honor."
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/19

Chapter XIX.— Unlucky Words for a Student. (及第.)
A BACHELOR of arts went to Peking to attend an examination. His servant shouldered his baggage, and followed behind. When they reached a lonely spot, a sudden gust of strong wind blew to the ground the hat lying on top of the baggage. The servant shouted out: "The hat has fallen to the ground." His master hearing these words, was not at all pleased, and regarded them as unlucky words. He immediately instructed his servant thus: "Hereafter do not say 'fallen to the ground'; always say Chi Dee (及第)." (Means obtaining one of the degrees.) The servant said: "Sir, I will obey your orders." He then took the hat and tied it very tightly on the baggage, and said to his master: "We will now go. Now if you should ascend to heaven, your hat will not again fall to the ground" (不能及第) (Literally translated means "you will not obtain the degree".)
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/14

Chapter XIV.—Asking the Road. (問路.)
THERE was a near-sighted man who lost his way. He saw a stone post on the side of the road with a black crow perched on the top of it. When he saw these he thought it was a man standing there. Thrice he asked his way of this (supposed) man. Suddenly the crow flew away. The nearsighted man became angry. He then said to the stone post: "I questioned you for half a day and you have not answered me. Your hat has just been blown away by the wind, and I will not inform you of that."
# Chinese Merry Tales (1909)/5

Chapter V.—Where do you go? (何往)
THERE was a man, naturally sluggish of understanding and illiterate, met a well-bred friend on the way, who said: "Where do you go?" (何往.) This idiot, when he heard this question, could not understand it at all, nor answer the question. He then kept the two words "Ho Wan" in his mind. He asked other people what these words meant. As every one knew that he was an idiot, they wished to make a fool of him, and told him these two words form an insolent term. When he heard of this, he became very angry. The man who told him the above ran away as soon as they parted company. The next day he again met the friend, who again ​asked him the same question: "Brother, where do you go?" The idiot angrily replied: "I am not Ho Wan; you still want Ho Wan."
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Argenti, Augustin

Argenti, Augustin, a nobleman of Ferrara, died in 1576. He wrote a drama, in 1567, called "Lo Sfortunato," which was set to music by Alphonso de la Viola.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Argentilly, Carlo D'

Argentilly, Carlo D', a chapel-master at St. Peter's at Rome, composed some music, which was much esteemed, about the year 1543.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aretinian syllables

Aretinian syllables. Those syllables mentioned above, invented by Guido Aretina.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aretinus, Paolo

Aretinus, Paolo, of the Roman schools of musicians, published some sacred music at Venice, in 1567.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Argentini, Cesare

Argentini, Cesare. Chapel-master at Rimini, noticed by Walther, but probably the same person as the preceding.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Arezeto, A

Arezeto, A., leader of the band of the Spanish regiment Guadalaxara, composed some music for wind instruments.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aretina, Guido

Aretina, Guido, a native of Arezza, in Tuscany, celebrated for his improvements in music, flourished in the eleventh century. He became a monk of the order of St. Benedict, in Pomposa, near Ravenna, and was afterwards made abbot of the convent of the Holy Cross, at Avellano, in the neighborhood of his native city. His new mode of musical notation was suggested to him during the performance of the hymn to St. John, composed in 770 by Paul, a deacon of the church of Aquilia. The reiteration of the words of this hymn, and the frequent returns of ut, re, mi, fa, sal, in, made such an impression upon his mind that it suggested to him the thought of using these six syllables in perfecting an improvement, viz., that of converting the ancient tetrachords into hexachords. This new system, though opposed at its first promulgation, was soon universally introduced, and thus spread the fame of its inventor over all Europe. Aretina was invited to Rome by Benedict VIII., in 1022, and afterwards by Pope John XIX. He was received by this holy father with great kindness ; and upon showing him an antiphony, with the syllables marked according to the new notation, the pope was so much delighted with it, that he refused to stir from his seat till he had learned, by means of it, to sing a verse. On his return from Rome, Guido visited the Abbot of Pomposa, in the Duchy of Ferrara, who persuaded him to settle in the monastery of that place. There he composed a tract on music, entitled "Microlog," which was finished in the 34th year of his age. He published also another treatise, entitled "Antiphonarium ; " but it is in a work entitled, "Argumentum novi Cantus inveniendi" that he has explained his new system of notation. It was Guido Aretina who improved the ancient method of writing music. Formerly, all the notes were placed upon one line, and distinguished by the letters of the alphabet ; but Guido introduced the use of lines and spaces, upon which points were placed instead of the letters of the alphabet. These points were first disposed upon four lines, and afterwards upon five, and from them the term counterpoint is derived. The hymn which suggested to Guido his new method of notation was as follows : -
"UT queant laxis, Re-sonare fibris, MI-ra gestorum, FA-muli tuorum, SOL-ve pollutis, LA-biis reatum, Sancte Joannes."
Guido's method of solmization was preserved in Italy until about the end of the last century, and it is still used by some; but after the rest of the world had adopted a seventh monosyllable, called si, the Italians did the same; and hence the modern scales of the two modes, major and minor. This author had either some well-founded tradition, or some fragment of the Greek music, or else, by means of his studies, and of his labor and genius, he formed three hexachords into a system, which includes in sub-stance the true principle of the Greek music, and that of all ages, for there can be but one.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aretino, Giovanni Apolloni

Aretino, Giovanni Apolloni, published some madrigals at Venice, in 1607.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Arevalo, Faustino

Arevalo, Faustino, published some sacred music at Rome, in 1784.
# Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Argentini, Steffano

Argentini, Steffano, called also Filippini, chapel-master at St. Stephen's at Venice, published some sacred music there in 1638.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harris, Joel Chandler

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​ HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER, an American journalist and story writer; born in Eatonton, Ga., Dec. 8, 1848. He began life as a printer's apprentice, and afterward studied law, drifting finally into journalism. He had a thorough familiarity with the negro of the postbellum period, and while editing an Atlanta paper he produced for it the series of “Uncle Remus” sketches and songs which immediately made him known. “The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation” appeared in 1880, followed by “Nights with Uncle Remus” (1883); “Mingo and Other Sketches” (1883); “Daddy Jake, the Runaway" (1889); “On the Wings of Occasion” (1900); “Told by Uncle Remus" (1905); “Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit” (1907). He died in 1908.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harrisburg (Illinois)

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​ HARRISBURG, a city of Illinois, the county-seat of Saline co. It is on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis and the Southern Illinois Railway and Power Company railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and coal mining region. Its industries include flour mills, wagon shops, saw-mills, etc. It has a library, a post office, and other important public buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,309; (1920) 7,125.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harrison, Mrs. Burton

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HARRISON, MRS. BURTON (CONSTANCE CARY), an American novelist and miscellaneous writer; born in Vaucluse, Va., April 25, 1846. She wrote: “Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes” (1881); “Old-Fashioned Fairy-Book” (1884); “Bar Harbor Days” (1887); and the novels “The Anglomaniacs”; “An
Errant Wooing”; “A Bachelor Maid”; “A Son of the Old Dominion” (1897); “A Princess of the Hills” (1901); a play, “The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch” (1901); “Recollections Grave and Gay” (1911).
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harrison

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​ HARRISON, a city in Hudson co., N. J., on the Passaic river, opposite Newark, with which it is connected by several bridges; and on the Pennsylvania, the Lackawanna, and the Erie railroads. It has extensive manufactures of cotton, thread, electric supplies, wire cloth, harness, trunks, leather goods, steam launches, iron and steel ordnance, and furniture, foundries, breweries, slaughter houses, etc. There are electric lights, and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, public library, high school, and an assessed property valuation of $4,000,000. Harrison was settled in 1668, and incorporated in 1873. Pop. (1910) 14,498; (1920) 15,721.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harrison, Benjamin (patriot)

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HARRISON, BENJAMIN, an American patriot; born in Berkeley, Va., about 1740. He was elected to the House of Burgesses soon after attaining his majority. In 1773 he was chosen a member of the committee which united the colonies against Great Britain. Shortly afterward he was elected to Congress and five times re-elected. On July 4, 1776, he reported, as chairman of the committee of the whole House, the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. He opposed the ratification of the Federal Constitution, but, on its adoption, supported the National government. He died in April, 1791.
# Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Harrison, William Henry

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HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, an American statesman, 9th President of the United States; born in Berkeley, Va., Feb. 9, 1773. He served in the Indian War on General Wayne's staff, 1791-1792, and in 1797 was appointed captain
in command of Fort Washington, on the present site of Cincinnati, O. On the conclusion of the war, he became Secretary of the Northwest Territory (1798), resigning the next year to enter Congress as delegate from that Territory. In 1801 he was appointed governor of Indiana Territory, and made superintendent of Indian Affairs. He made important treaties with the Indians, and won considerable fame by a victory over a force of Indians, in the battle of Tippecanoe, in 1811. In 1812 he was intrusted with full military command on the Northwest frontier, with the rank of Brigadier-General, and the following year was promoted to Major-General. During this year he distinguished himself by his defense of Fort Meigs, and in the battle of the Thames. After the War of 1812, he was sent to Congress, 1816; to the Ohio State Senate, 1819; to to United States Senate, 1825; and as United States minister to Columbia, 1828. After a retirement of 12 years, he was nominated for the presidency by the Whig party, against Van Buren, in the famous “log-cabin” and “hard cider” campaign. Harrison was said by his opponents to live in a log cabin and to be given to the habit of drinking hard cider. These reproaches were turned into watch-words by the Whigs, and aroused unprecedented enthusiasm. He died April 4, 1841, just a month after his inauguration, leaving the presidency to the Vice-President, John Tyler.