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# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book I/Hymn 16

16. Against demons: with an amulet of lead.
[Cātana.—agnīndram, vāruṇam, dadhatyam. ānuṣṭubham: 4. kakummatī.]
Found in Pāipp. i. Kāuç. does not include the hymn among the cātanāni (8. 25), but a Pariç. (ib., note) reckons it to them (in accordance with the Anukr.). Kāuç. (47. 23) uses it once in a rite of sorcery (for the death of one's enemies: comm.), and its commentator (47. 13, note) in another.
Translated: Weber, iv. 409; Grill, 1, 75; Griffith, 1. 20; Bloomfield, 65, 256.
1. What devourers, on the night of new moon, have arisen troop-wise (?)—the fourth Agni is the demon-slayer; he shall bless us.
Vrājam in b is obscure; 'troopwise' is the conjecture of BR.; the comm. reads instead bhrājam, and absurdly explains it as bhrājamānām or -nam 'shining,' and qualifying either the night or the "hearty" man whom the demons have risen to injure! Ppp. has turyas for turīyas in c; what is meant by it is not clear; the comm. gives three different explanations: fourth after the death of his three brothers and predecessors (quoting for these TS. ii. 6. 6$^2$); as the house-fire apart from the three sacrificial; or as the ān̄girasa fire, as distinguished from the sacrificial, the household, and that of battle—thus teaching us nothing but his own ignorance and perplexity. Grill follows Weber in understanding the word to mean "powerful." For d, Ppp. has san naḥ pātu tebhyaḥ.
2. The lead Varuṇa blesses; the lead Agni favors; Indra bestowed on me the lead; it, surely, is a dispeller of familiar demons.
Ppp. combines māi 'ndra p- in c, and has for d amīvāyas tu cātam (for cātanam). The comm. ascribes the mention of Varuṇa to the fact that river-foam is one of the articles declared (Kāuç. 8. 18) equivalent to lead, and here intended by that name. ⌊Cf. Bloomfield, JAOS. xv. 158.⌋
3. This overpowers the víṣkandha; this drives off (bādh) the devourers; with this I overpower all the races (jātá) that are the piçācī́'s.
The first half-verse is nearly repeated below, as ii. 4. 3 a, b. The short a in the reduplication of sasahe in c, though against the meter and in part against usage, is read by all the mss., and in the comment to Prāt. iii. 13. Ppp. has in a viṣkandam (but compare ii. 4. 3, where -dham). The comm. explains the (more or less fully personified) disorder as a disturbance caused by rakṣas or piçāca and obstructing motion (gatipratibandhaka): cf. below ii. 4 and iii. 9.
​4. If our cow thou slayest, if [our] horse, if [our] man (púruṣa), we pierce thee there with lead, that thou be no slayer of our heroes.
Ppp. has for c sīsena vidhyāmas tvā.
The 5 hymns of this anuvāka ⌊3.⌋, as of the next, have just the norm, 20 verses, and the quotation from the old Anukr. (given at the end of hymn 21) is viṅçakāv ato 'nyāu. At the end of the present hymn is read viṅçatyā kuru, which is perhaps the statement as to the assumption of a norm.
The first prapāṭhaka ends here.
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book I/Hymn 13

13. Deterrent homage to lightning.
[Bhṛgvan̄giras.—vāidyutam. ānuṣṭubham: 3. 4-p. virāḍ jagatī; 4. triṣṭupparā bṛhatīgarbhā pan̄kti.]
The hymn occurs in Pāipp. xix., and vs. 1 also in xv. It is used by Kāuç. (38. 8, 9) in a charm against lightning, with vii. 11; and it also appears (139. 8), with i. 26 and vii. 11 and several other hymns, in the ceremony of introduction to Vedic study.
Translated: Weber, iv. 406; Griffith, i. 16.
1. Homage be to thy lightning, homage to thy thunder; homage be to thy bolt (áçman), with which thou hurlest at the impious one (dūḍáç).
The version of this verse in Ppp. xix. is like ours; in xv., d reads yenā dūrāt pradijassasi (pratyasyasi?). The first half-verse is found also in VS. (xxxvi. 21 a, b). The irregular combination dūḍā́çe (p. duḥ॰dā́çe) is noted by Prāt. ii. 60. The comm. regards Parjanya as addressed, but then proceeds to give another interpretation of the verse, based on the absurd assumption that namas = annam, which appears also in numerous other places. To him, also, áçman is a meghanāman. In our edition, an accent-mark is omitted over the -çma- of áçmane.
2. Homage to thee, child of the height (pravát), whence thou gatherest (sam-ūh) heat (tápas); be merciful to ourselves; do kindness (máyas) to our offspring (toká).
Ppp. has çaṁ nas for máyas in d. The first half-verse forms in VS. (xxxvi. 21 c, d) one verse with our 1 a, b; but VS. has ⌊for a námas te bhagavann astu; and⌋ for b yátaḣ svàḥ samī́hase 'from whence thou strivest after the sky,' which indicates that our reading is corrupt. ⌊Pischel discusses pravát (= 'stream') at length, Ved. Stud. ii. 63-76, see 68.⌋
3. Child of the height, be homage to thee; homage we pay to thy missile (hetí) and heat (tápus); we know thy highest abode (dhā́man) that is in secret; thou art set as navel within the [cloud-]ocean.
⌊The te in b is superfluous.⌋ Ppp. rectifies the meter of a by omitting eva; its other pādas are more or less corrupt: namas te hete tipuṣyāi in b (which ends there); gandharvo nāma par- in c; nihitāsa nābhiḥ at the end. The comm. takes tápus as adjective. The verse is scanned by the Anukr. as 12 + 12: 11 + 11 = 46 syllables.
​4. Thou whom all the gods did create, the bold one, ⌊[the gods]⌋ making an arrow for hurling—do thou, besung in the council (vidátha), be merciful to us; to thee as such be homage, O goddess.
Dhṛṣṇum in b might qualify íṣum directly. The comm. supplies he açane 'O thunderbolt' as addressed. He reads mṛla in c. Ppp. reads for a, b yaṁ tvā devā ajanayanta viçveṣāṁ kṛnvānā açanāya triṣvāi; and for d mitrasya varuṇasya prasṛṣṭāu. The Anukr. seems to scan as 10 + 11: 10 + 9 = 40 syllables. ⌊Read in c mṛḍaya and in d utá tásyāi?—For vidátha, see discussions of Bloomfield, JAOS. xix.$^2$ 17, and Geldner, ZDMG. lii. 757; and the literature cited by Foy, KZ. xxxiv. 226.⌋
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book I/Hymn 14

14. Imprecation of spinsterhood on a woman.
[Bhṛgvān̄giras.—vāruṇam vo 'ta yāmyaṁ vā. ānuṣṭubham: 1. kakummatī; 3. 4-p. virāj.]
Found in Pāipp. i. Used by Kāuç. (36. 15-18) in an incantation against a woman; the details of it cast no light on those of the hymn; and the comm. defines its purpose simply as striyāḥ puruṣasya vā dāurbhāgyakaraṇam.
Translated: Weber, iv. 408; Ludwig, p. 459; Zimmer, p. 314 (these misapprehend its character); Griffith, i. 17; Bloomfield, JAOS. xiii. p. cxv = PAOS. May, 1886; or AJP. vii. 473 ff.; or SBE. xlii. 107, 252.
1. Her portion (bhága), splendor have I taken to myself, as from off a tree a garland; like a mountain with great base, let her sit long with the Fathers.
Ppp. has for a ahaṁ te bhagam ā dade; its b is defaced; in c it gives mahāmūlāi 'va. The comm. renders bhagam by bhāgyam, here and in the other verse, recognizing no sexual meaning. Pitṛṣu he renders "in the later [2 c, d] to be specified houses of father, mother, etc.," and all the translators understand it in the same way; but it is questionable whether the plural of pitar would ever be used in this sense; and the repeated mention of Yama later indicates that there was at least a double meaning in the expression. Perhaps a girl remaining unmarried was called "bride of Yama," i.e. as good as dead, and her stay at home compared to that in the other world. ⌊Cf. Antigone, 816, "I shall be the bride of Acheron," Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω.⌋ The Anukr. appears to ratify the abbreviated reading -budhne 'va in c; it counts six syllables in d.
2. Let this girl, O king, be shaken down to thee [as] bride, O Yama; be she bound in her mother's house, also in her brother's, also in her father's.
Ppp. has yat for eṣā at the beginning. The comm. foolishly interprets rājan as indicating Soma, because Soma is first husband of a bride (he quotes RV. x. 85. 40: cf. AV. xiv. 2. 3 ff.), and takes yama as his epithet, as being her constrainer (niyāmaka). For ni-dhū compare iii. 11. 7; at TS. v. 2. 53 it is used with pitṛṣu. ⌊Does not ni-dhū covertly suggest nidhuvana, which, in its obscene sense, may be as old as the Veda?⌋
3. She is thy housekeeper, O king; we commit her to thee; she shall sit long with the Fathers, until the covering in of her head.
4. With the incantation (bráman) of Asita, of Kaçyapa, and of Gaya, I shut up (api-nah) thy portion (vulva?), as sisters do what is within a box (-kóça).
⌊For the names, see Bloomfield, 255, and AJP. xvii. 403.⌋ Bhaga perhaps has here a double meaning. Three of our mss. (E.I.H.) with one or two of SPP's, read in c antaṣkoçám, against Prāt. ii. 62, which expressly prescribes ḥ. The comm. treats antaḥ and koçam as two independent words; antáḥ kóçe would be a not unacceptable emendation. The Anukr. appears to sanction the abbreviation -koçaṁ 'va.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Blanchard, Thomas

Edition of 1900.
​BLANCHARD, Thomas, inventor, b. in Sutton, Mass., 24 June, 1788; d. in Boston, 10 April, 1864. He had a fondness for mechanical employment, and was associated with his brother in the manufacture of tacks by hand. This process was exceedingly slow and tedious, and in 1806 he invented a machine, which he subsequently so improved that five hundred tacks could be made in a minute, with heads and points more perfect than those made by the old-fashioned plan. This patent he sold for $5,000 to a company that afterward went extensively into the manufacture. After this he turned his attention to the manufacture of a machine for turning and finishing gun-barrels by a single operation; and this he accomplished, finishing the octagon portion of the barrel by changing the action of his lathe to vibratory motion. This invention, afterward extended to the turning of all kinds of irregular forms, was one of the most remarkable improvements made in the century. During the progress of its development he was employed at the Springfield armory, where he received nine cents allowance from the government for each musket made by his machines, and this was his only compensation during the first term of his patent, originally granted in 1820. In 1831 he received, a patent for an improved form of steamboat, so constructed as to ascend rapids or rivers having strong currents, which was used on the Connecticut river and in the west. He introduced several improvements in the construction of railroads and locomotives, and was the inventor of a steam wagon before any railroad had ever been built. In 1851 he devised a process for bending heavy timber. He also constructed machines for cutting and folding envelopes at a single operation, and several mortising machines. Mr. Blanchard was awarded more than twenty-five patents for his inventions, for some of which he received ample compensation.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Blake, William Rufus

Edition of 1900.
​BLAKE, William Rufus, actor, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1805; d. in Boston, Mass., 22 April, 1863. He was of Irish parentage. When only seventeen years old he went on the stage at Halifax, N. S., taking the part of the Prince of Wales, in “Richard the Third,” with a company of strolling players. His first appearance in New York was in 1824, at the old Chatham theatre, as Frederick, in “The Poor Gentleman,” and in “The Three Singles.” While playing at the Tremont theatre, Boston, in 1827, he received the first call before the curtain ever given to an actor in this country. In 1839 he visited England, making his first appearance there in the Haymarket theatre, London. On 21 April, 1863, while playing Sir Peter Teazle, in the Boston theatre, he was suddenly taken ill, and died the next day. Mr. Blake was a man of good education, and a fluent speaker. He excelled in the delineation of old men. One of his best characters was that of Jesse Rural in “Old Heads and Young Hearts.” He was, at different times, stage manager of the Tremont theatre, Boston, joint manager of the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia, and stage manager of the Broadway theatre, New York. He was the author of the plays “Nero”; “The Turned Head”; an adaptation of Theodore S. Fay's novel “Norman Leslie”; and “The Buggs,” a burlesque. — His wife, Caroline Placide, widow of Leigh Waring, was an actress.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna

Edition of 1900. The 1891 edition notes that she was a daughter of Col. Peter Hahn.
​BLAVATSKY, Helene Petrovna, theosophist, b. in Russia about 1831; d. in London, England, 8 May, 1891. She was the widow of Gen. Nicephore V. Blavatsky, some time governor of Armenia, and was prominent in the modern movement toward ​Buddhism or theosophy. Mme. Blavatsky, after spending seven years in a Himalayan retreat studying the mysteries of this subject, came to the United States and was naturalized. About 1875 she founded the Theosophical Society, with Col. Frederick P. Olcott as its president and herself as secretary. The objects of the organization are: 1. To form the nucleus of a universal brotherhood; 2. To study Aryan literature, religion, and science; 3. To indicate the importance of this inquiry; 4. To explore the hidden mysteries of nature and the latent powers of man. Branches of the society were founded in America and in England; and subsequently Mme. Blavatsky returned to India, there to establish the society among the natives. She was the author of "Isis Unveiled: a Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology" (New York, 1877), and was editor of "The Theosophist," published in India. See "The Occult World," by A. P. Sinnett (London, 1884), and "Memoirs of Mme. Blavatsky" by the same author (New York, 1886).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

Edition of 1900.
​BLEDSOE, Albert Taylor, educator, b. in Frankfort, Ky., 9 Nov., 1809; d. in Alexandria, Va., 8 Dec, 1877. He was appointed from Kentucky to the U. S. Military Academy, and was graduated in 1880, after which he served in the army at Fort Gibson, Indian territory, until 31 Aug., 1832, when he resigned. From 1833 till 1834 he was adjunct professor of mathematics and teacher of the French language at Kenyon, and in 183o-'6 professor of mathematics at Miami. After studying theology he was ordained a clergyman in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1835, and was connected with various churches in Ohio until 1838. Having previously studied law, he began its practice in Springfield, Ill., in 1838, and continued it there and in Washington, D. C., till 1848. During the years 1848-'54 he was professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Mississippi, and from 1854 till 1861 professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia. In 1861 he entered the confederate service as colonel, but was soon made chief of the war bureau and acting assistant secretary of war. In 1863 he went to England to collect material for his work on the constitution, which he published on his return in 1866. He then settled in Baltimore and began the publication of the "Southern Review," hitherto mainly of a political character, which under his editorship assumed a theological tone and became the recognized organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 1868 he became principal of the Louisa school, Baltimore, and in 1871 was ordained a minister in the Methodist church. In addition to numerous contributions to periodicals he published "An Examination of Edwards on the Will" (Philadelphia, 1845); "A Theodicy or Vindication of the Divine Glory" (New York, 1853); "Liberty and Slavery" (Philadelphia, 1857); "Is Davis a Traitor? or was Secession a Constitutional Right previous to the War of 1861?" (Baltimore, 1866); and "Philosophy of Mathematics" (Philadelphia, 1866).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bledsoe, Jesse

Edition of 1900.
​BLEDSOE, Jesse, senator, b. in Culpepper co., Va., 6 April, 1776; d. near Nacogdoches, Texas, 30 June, 1837. When a boy he emigrated to Kentucky and then studied at the Transylvania seminary, where he became a fine scholar. He afterward studied law and practised with great success. In 1808 he became secretary of state under Gov. Chas. Scott, and in 1813 was a member of the legislature. He was elected U. S. senator from Kentucky, and served from May, 1813, till 1815. From 1817 till 1820 he was state senator. In 1820 he was a presidential elector, and in 1822 was appointed circuit judge in the Lexington district. Accordingly he settled in Lexington, where he also became professor of law in Transylvania University. Later he returned to the practice of his profession, in 1833 removed to Mississippi, and in 1835 to Texas, where he was engaged collecting historical material at the time of his death.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Blake, Thomas Holdsworth

Edition of 1900.
​BLAKE, Thomas Holdsworth, politician, b. in Calvert co., Md., 14 June, 1792; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 28 Nov., 1849. He received a common-school education, and then studied law in Washington, D.C. In 1814 he served in the militia of the District of Columbia, and was present at the battle of Bladensburg. Subsequently he removed to Kentucky, and thence to Indiana, where he began the practice of law at Terre Haute, becoming prosecuting attorney and judge of the circuit courts. He then relinquished his profession and was engaged in business for several years, and also for some time a member of the Indiana legislature. In 1827 he was elected to congress as an Adams republican, but he was defeated as a candidate for reëlection. From May, 1842, till April, 1845, he was commissioner of the general land office, having received the appointment to that position from President Tyler. Later he was appointed president of the Wabash and Erie canal company, and also sent to Europe as the financial agent of the state of Indiana, where he made satisfactory arrangements with its public creditors.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Blake, William Phipps

Edition of 1900.
​BLAKE, William Phipps, mineralogist, b. in New York city, 1 June, 1826. He studied at the Yale scientific school, and in 1852 was one of the seven who received the newly created degree of Ph. B. In 1853 he became geologist and mineralogist for a U. S. Pacific railroad expedition. He edited the “Mining Magazine” from 1859 till 1860, and from 1861 till 1863 was employed as a mining engineer, and in connection with explorations in Japan, China, and Alaska. In 1864 he became professor of mineralogy and geology in the college of California. He has been connected with many industrial exhibitions, publishing professional reports, and numerous papers on scientific subjects, and has invented improvements in metallurgical machinery. His report on the precious metals, forming one of the government volumes on the Paris exposition of 1867, is full of valuable information. He was the first to recognize the tellurides among the products of California, and was also the first to draw attention to the platinum metals associated with the gold-washings of that state.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bleecker, Ann Eliza

Edition of 1900.
​BLEECKER, Ann Eliza, poet, b. in New York city in October, 1752; d. in Tomhannock, near Albany, N. Y., 23 Nov., 1783. She was the youngest daughter of Brandt Schuyler, of New York, and passed her early life in that city. In 1769 she married John J. Bleecker, of New Rochelle, and, after a year's residence in Poughkeepsie, settled in Tomhannock. Here her life was very happy until the arrival of Burgoyne's army in 1777, when she fled with her young children under conditions of great suffering, reaching Albany at first, and then Red Hook, where she remained until after the surrender of Burgoyne. Soon after returning to her home at Tomhannock she was taken sick and died. Her poems, devoted principally to domestic topics, were rather melancholy, and were written as the occasion suggested, without any intention of publication. A number of these, however, appeared in the "New York Magazine." Some years after her death her stories and poems were collected and published under the title of "Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker in Prose and Verse," with a memoir by her daughter, Margaretta V. Faugeres (new ed., New York, 1809).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Bleecker, Anthony

Edition of 1900.
​BLEECKER, Anthony, author, b. in New York city in October, 1770; d. there 13 March, 1827. He was the son of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, who resided on the estate through which Bleecker street now passes, and from which it has taken its name. He was graduated at Columbia in 1791 and studied law, but never was a successful practitioner on account of his unconquerable diffidence. His natural tastes led him to the pursuit of letters, and for thirty years he was a prolific contributor of both prose and verse to the periodical literature of New York and Philadelphia. The "Narrative of the Brig Commerce" is one of his best-known works. He was one of the founders of the New York Historical Society, and excelled all his associates, except Pintard, in devotion to the interests of the new institution; also a trustee of the New York Society Library from 1810 till 1826. The poet Bryant wrote in 1825: "Anthony Bleecker, who read everything that came out, and sometimes wrote for the magazines, was an amusing companion, always ready with his puns, of whom Miss Eliza Fenno, before her marriage to Verplanck in 1811, wrote that she had gone into the country to take refuge from Anthony Bleecker's puns."—His nephew, Richard Wade, b. in New York city, 27 Aug., 1821; d. there, 21 April, 1875. He was engaged in business in New York city, and for some time was president of the North American Fire Insurance Company. He was an active patron of the arts and sciences, and the literary receptions held at his residence were attended by prominent artists and authors. Mr. Bleecker was a member of the New York Historical Society, a fellow of the National Academy of Design, a member of the American Institute, and also of other art and historical societies both at home and abroad.
# Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross/Foreword

This is the story of how three brave American girls sacrificed the comforts and luxuries of home to go abroad and nurse the wounded soldiers of a foreign war.
I wish I might have depicted more gently the scenes in hospital and on battlefield, but it is well that my girl readers should realize something of the horrors of war, that they may unite with heart and soul in earnest appeal for universal, lasting Peace and the future abolition of all deadly strife.
Except to locate the scenes of my heroines' labors, no attempt has been made to describe tech nically or historically any phase of the great European war.
The character of Doctor Gys is not greatly exaggerated but had its counterpart in real life. As for the little Belgian who had no room for scruples in his active brain, his story was related to me by an American war correspondent who vouched for its truth. The other persons in the story are known to those who have followed their adventures in other books of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series.
Edith Van Dyne
# Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation

Book 7 in the Aunt Jane's Nieces series; by L. Frank Baum writing as Edith Van Dyne.
AUNT JANE'S NIECES ON VACATION
By EDITH VAN DYNE
AUTHOR OF AUNT JANE'S NIECES SERIES THE FLYING GIRL SERIES, ETC., ETC.
The Reilly & Lee Co. Chicago
Copyright, 1912 BY The Reilly & Britton Co.
AUNT JANE'S NIECES ON VACATION

### CONTENTS

CHAP.
* The Hobo at Chazy Junction
* The Invasion of Millville
* The Dawn of a Great Enterprise
* The Way into Print
* Dividing the Responsibilities
* Mr. Skeelty of the Mill
* The Sketch Artist
* The Millville Daily Tribune
* Trouble
* Thursday Smith
* The Honer'ble Ojoy Boglin
* Molly Sizer's Party
* Bob West Interferes
* The Danger Signal
* A Clever Idea
* Local Contributors
* The Penalties of Journalism
* Open Warfare
* A Mere Matter of Revenge
* Defending the Press
* The Coming of Fogerty
* Unmasked
* The Journalists Abdicate
* A Cheerful Blunder
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Ballads of Battle/Piou-Piou

PIOU-PIOU
The British Tommy Atkins to the French.
# Ballads of Battle/Pick and Spade

PICK AND SPADE
The Plaint of Tommy—aching.
Out here we call a spade a spade, and a shovel a shovel—with embellishment!
# Ballads of Battle/Marching

MARCHING