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# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/My Infundibuliform Hat

MY INFUNDIBULIFORM HAT.
    The scenes of my childhood, how oft I recall!
    The sports of my youth, with my kite, top, and ball;
    And that happy day when, with spirits elate,
    I took my first step towards manhood's estate,
    With a new coat and vest, bosom shirt and cravat,
    And début with my infundibuliform hat.
    How I stooped beneath awnings full seven feet high,
    To the no small delight of my friends passing by;
    And the sport that I made for the boys at the store
    When I "chalked" at the height of my "tile" on the door;
    One foot and two inches—I think it was that—
    My guess on that infundibuliform hat.
    Then my maiden attempt as a maiden's gallant
    When I proffered my elbow, with glances aslant;
    And the walk to her dwelling that evening so fair,
    Not to speak of the tete-a-tete when we got there,
    The forfeit I claimed, as together we sat,
    When she tried on my infundibuliform hat.
    Well! boys will be boys, and we men, after all,
    Would gladly be freed from Time's pitiless thrall,
    And live those days over, when, single and free—
    Zounds! wife's looking over my shoulder to see
    What I have been writing. . . . Well, we've had a spat,
    And she smashed my infundibuliform hat.
# Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/Prevalent Poetry

PREVALENT POETRY.
    A Wandering tribe, called the Siouxs,
    Wear moccasins, having no shiouxs;
       They are made of buckskin,
       With the fleshy side in,
    Embroidered with beads of bright hyiouxs.
    When out on the war-path, the Siouxs
    March single file — never by tiouxs—
       And by "blazing" the trees
       Can return at their ease,
    And their way through the forests ne'er liouxs.
    All new-fashioned boats he eschiouxs,
    And uses the birch-bark caniouxs;
       These are handy and light,
       And, inverted at night,
    Give shelter from storms and from diouxs.
    The principal food of the Siouxs
    Is Indian maize, which they briouxs,
       And hominy make,
       Or mix in a cake,
    And eat it with pork, as they chiouxs.
    Now, doesn't this spelling look cyiouxrious?
    'Tis enough to make any one fyiouxrious!
       So a word to the wise!—
       Pray our language revise
    With orthography not so injiouxrious.
# Woman of the Century/Alice Cunningham Fletcher

​ALICE C. FLETCHER. FLETCHER, Miss Alice Cunningham, ethnologist, born in Boston, Mass., in 1845. She received a thorough and liberal education. After studying the archaeological remains in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys she went, in 18S1, to live among the Omaha Indians, in Nebraska, to make an investigation of their customs and traditions, under the auspices of the Peabody Museum of American Archæology, of Harvard University. She became interested in the affairs of the Omahas and secured the passage of a law allotting lands to them. She was chosen to make the allotment in 1883 and 1884. She caused a number of the children of the Omahas to be sent to the Indian schools in Carlisle, Pa., and Hampton, Va., and she raised large sums of money to defray the expenses of the education of other ambitious Indians. Under the auspices of the Woman's National Indian Association she established a system of loaning money to Indians who wished to buy land and build homes of their own Her scientific researches have been of great value, covering Indian traditions, customs, religions, moneys, music and ceremonies, and many ethnographic and archaeological subjects. In 1884 and 1885 she sent an exhibit of the industries of civilived Indians to the New Orleans Exhibition, prepared on request by the Indian Bureau. Her abors and lectures on that occasion won her a diploma of honor. In answer to a Senate resolution of 23rd February, 1885, she prepared her valuable book, "Indian Civilization and Education" In 18S6 she was sent by the Commissioner of Education to visit Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, where she made a study of the conditions of the natives. In 1888 her reports were published in full. Acting for the government, she has allotted lands in severalty to the Winnebagoes, of Nebraska, and the Nez Perces, of Idaho. Her work in behalf of the Indians has been incessant and varied. She brought out the first Indian woman physician, Susan La Flesche, and induced other Indians to study law and other professions. Her work has been of the highest order, both scientific and philanthropic.
# Woman of the Century/Alice Dimmick Carpenter

​CARPENTER, Mrs. Alice Dimmick, traveler, was born in Milford, Pa. She is descended from the English family of Dymokes. The founders of the American branch came to this country in 1635, and many members of the family have been conspicuous in the social, financial and political history - of Pennsylvania and New York. Her father, Milton Dimmick. was a prominent lawyer of Millord. Pa. Her mother was Elizabeth Allen, a daughter of Rev. Edward Allen. The early death of Mr. Dimmick left the widow with three young children. Alice was delicate and passed the ALICE DIMMICK CARPENTER. years of her childhood as an invalid, but she possessed a bright and cheerful disposition that made her life a pleasure despite her weakness. The family lived in various cities. For seven years Mrs. Carpenter lived in Chicago, where she was prominent in art. music and literature, and in club life. She has published one volume of verse. "Poems Original and Translated" (Chicago, 1882). One of her most important productions is a pamphlet entitled "The Han Material," which attempts to prove the doctrine of materialism. She has traveled extensively in this country, Canada and Europe. She passes her winters on the Pacific Coast.
# Woman of the Century/Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner

​TURNER, Mrs. Alice Bellvadore Sams, physician, born near Greencastle, Iowa, 13th March, 1859. She was the second of a family of four children. She attended country schools and assisted in household duties until 1873, when she ALICE BELLVADORE SAMS TURNER. entered college in Indianola, Iowa. From that time until 1878 she was alternately engaged as teacher and pupil. On 21st October, 1878, she became the wife of Lewis C. Turner, who was making a like struggle for education. The first year after their marriage they were engaged in teaching, and the next year they entered school. Her husband gave instruction in penmanship and drawing, which paid for their books and tuition. Mrs. Turner, besides her school work, superintended and did a great portion of the work herself for boarders among their classmates, thus helping further to defray expenses. In 1880, in their last year's work, the school building where they were studying, in Mitchellville, Iowa, was sold for a State industrial institution, and they had to relinquish the goal so nearly won. They at once entered the medical school in Keokuk, Iowa. There, in addition to their school work, they held the positions of steward and matron of the hospital for one year. In October, 1881, a daughter was born to them. Dr. Turner entered her class when her babe was a month old, and was graduated in February, 1884, with high rating. They went to Colfax, Iowa, where they located for the practice of their profession, in their native county, and where they enjoy a large and lucrative practice. Besides their general practice, they have established an infirmary or the cure of inebriety. Dr. Turner is a student, a conscientious physician, a frequent contributor to the public press, and a prime mover in every cause for the betterment of humanity.
# Woman of the Century/Alice Cordelia Morse

​MORSE, Miss Alice Cordelia, artist, born in Hammondsville, Jefferson county, Ohio, 1st June, ALICE CORDELIA MORSE. 1862. She removed with her parents to Brooklyn, N. Y., two years later, w here she has since resided. She traces her origin back on her father's side to the time of Edward III, of England. She is descended from Samuel Morse, one of seven brothers who came to America between 1635 and 1644, and settled in Dedham, Mass. Her ancestors on her mother's side, Perkins by name, were among the early settlers of Connecticut. Seven of her great-grandfather's brothers lost their lives in the assault on Fort Griswold by Benedict Arnold. Her great-grandfather, Caleb Perkins, afterwards removed to Susquehanna county, Pa., which was then a wilderness. Being a sturdy, fearless child, of great perseverance and determination, she was sent to school at the age of five years. After a common-school education she took' her first lesson in drawing in an evening class started by the Christian Endeavor Society of Dr. Eggleston's Church. Her drawing at that time has been described by a friend as conspicuously bad. Evidently no Hash of inspiration revealed her genius in her first attempt to immortalize a model. That little class of crude young people builded better than it knew, for a number of its members are to-day doing creditable work among the competitors in New York art circles. Miss Morse submitted a drawing from that class to the Woman's Art School, Cooper Union, and was admitted to a four years' course, which she completed. Entering the studio of John LaFarge, the foremost artist of stained-glass designing in this country, she studied and painted with great assiduity under his supervision. Later, she sent a study of a head, painted on glass, to Louis C Tiffany & Company, and went into the Tiffany studio to paint glass and study designing, and accomplished much in the time devoted to her work there. Having been the successful contestant in several designs for book covers, and the awakened aesthetic sense of the public requiring beauty, taste and some fitness to the subject in the covering of a book, she then decided to take up that field of designing. She made many covers of holiday editions and fine books for the Harper, Scribner, Putnam, Cassell, Dodd, Mead & Company and other publishing firms. That, with glass designing, a window in the Beecher Memorial Church of Brooklyn testifying to her skill, has made her name familiar to the designing fraternity, and the annual exhibits of her work in the New York Architectural League have called forth high praise from the press. She won the silver medal in the life class m Cooper Institute in 1891, and is now studying with a view to combine illustration with designing. She is a very clear, original thinker. with an earnestness relieved by a piquant sens° of humor, a fine critical estimate of literary style and a directness of purpose and energy which promise well for her future career.
# Woman of the Century/Alice D. Le Plongeon

​LE PLONGEON, Mrs. Alice D., archaeologist, born in London, Eng., 21st December, 1851. Her maiden name was Dixon. Her father was bom in London and was one of a large family. Medicine, the church, literature and art were the callings of the family, more particularly art. ALICE D. LE PLONGEON. Mrs. Le Plongeon's mother was Sophia Cook, of Byfleet, in the very Saxon county of Surrey, and in her girlhood was called the " Lily of Byfleet." Mrs. Le Plongeon did not receive the high-school education now granted to girls, but only the usual English schooling and smattering of accomplishments. Her father was a very fine reader, and he trained her in that art. As a girl she was gay-hearted, restless, ambitious and fond of music. At seventeen she wished to become a singer and actress, but her parents did not encourage that wish. When nineteen years old, she became acquainted with Dr. Le Plongeon, who had journeyed from San Francisco, Cal., to London for the purpose of studying ancient Mexican and other manuscripts preserved in the British Museum. In listening to his enthusiastic accounts of travels and discoveries in Peru she became imbued with a desire to visit unfamiliar places and seek for unknown things. After marriage she accompanied Dr. Le Plongeon to the wilds of Yucatan. Their work there is known all over the world. Eleven years were passed by them in the study of the grand ruins existing in that country. It is difficult to speak of Mrs. Le Plongeon apart from her learned husband, for, as she says, she is but his pupil in archaeology. She has toiled by his side and endured many hardships and dangers. The work among the ruins was laborious, not only in the matter of exploring and excavating, but in making hundreds of photographs, in surveying and making molds, by means of which the old palaces of Yucatan can be built in any part of the world. Their greatest achievement has been the discovery of an alphabet, by which the American hieroglyphics may be read, something which had before Deen considered quite impossible. She is the only woman who has devoted her time and means to ancient American history, and that should certainly be sufficient to Americanize her. Brooklyn, L. I., has been her place of residence since her return from Yucatan. She has written for several magazines and papers and has published a small volume, " Here and There in Yucatan "(New York, 1886), which has a good sale. A larger work. "Yucatan, Its Ancient Palaces and Modern Cities," is not yet in print. With the object of making ancient America known to modern Americans, she took to the lecture platform, and seldom fails to ​spouse the enthusiasm of her hearers. In recognition of her labors the Geographical Society of Paris asked for her portrait to place in its album of celebrated travelers. Hitherto she has always refused to give her biography for publication, saying that she considers her work only begun, for she hopes to do much more. Socially, Mrs. Le Plongeon is a favorite, and she takes a lively interest in all the questions of the day.
# Woman of the Century/Alice Barbee Castleman

​CASTLEMAN, Mrs. Alice Barbee, philanthropist, born in Louisville, Ky., 5th December, 1843. She is the daughter of ex-mayor Barbee. of that city. Her father and mother were native Kentuckians and were numbered among the early pioneers. She was their oldest daughter. She became the wife of Gen. John B. Castleman on 24th November, 1S68. She is the mother of five children, three sons and two daughters. Mrs. Castleman was educated in the Last. Although she is a social leader, she finds much time for charitable
ALICE BARBEE CASTLEMAN. work and is a philanthropist in the broadest sense. Always on the alert to advance the cause of woman, she is progressive, cultured and liberal in her views. She is president of the board of the Louisville Training School for Nurses. She is a prominent member of the Woman's Club, a member of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Board of Missions, Foreign and Domestic, and a member of the National Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition. She is active in the affairs of the Filson Club of Louisville. In religion she is an Episcopalian and a member of Christ Church, of Louisville.
# Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events/Christopher Pivett

CHRISTOPHER PIVETT.
Christopher Pivett died at York, in 1796, at the advanced age of ninety-three years. He was by trade a carver and gilder, but in early life had served in the army, and been present in several battles—Fontenoy, Dettingen, and the siege of Carlisle.
After he settled at York, his house was accidentally burnt down; and he then formed the singular resolution never again to sleep in a bed, lest he should be burned to death whilst asleep, or not have sufficient time to remove his property, should an accident again occur. This resolution he strictly adhered to for the remaining forty years of his life.
His practice was to repose upon the floor, or on two chairs, or sitting in a chair, but always dressed.
During the whole period he dwelt alone he was his own cook, and seldom suffered anyone to enter the house. He would not tell anyone where he had been born or to whom he was related, and there can be little doubt that the name of Pivett was an assumed one. Among other singularities, he kept a human skull in his house, and strictly ordered that it should be buried with him.
# Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events

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Yorkshire Oddities INCIDENTS AND STRANGE EVENTS
BY S. BARING-GOULD, M.A. AUTHOR OF "MEHALAH," "ICELAND: ITS SCENES AND SAGAS," "OLD COUNTRY LIFE," ETC.
"There be such a company of wilful gentlemen within Yorkshire as there be not in all England besides."—Abbot of York to Cromwell, 1556, Rolls House MS.
FIFTH EDITION
London METHUEN AND CO. 18 BURY STREET, W.C. 1900
PREFACE.
A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.
A friend, when he heard that I was collecting such material, exclaimed, "What are you about? Every other Yorkshireman is a character!" Such is the case. No other county produces so much originality—and that originality, when carried to excess, is eccentricity.
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in ​Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life. I venture to offer this collection of memoirs of odd people, and narrative of strange events, as a humble contribution to the annals of the greatest, not perhaps only in extent, of our English counties, and a slight return for the pleasant welcome it afforded a migratory penman from the South.
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
This book was well received in Yorkshire and elsewhere when it first appeared, and as it preserved notices of strong characters, records of whom were passing away, and some taken from Chap Books already become scarce, a new edition (the 4th) is issued thoroughly revised and only very slightly curtailed.
    Lew Trenchard, 12th April, 1890.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
# Young Grigor's Ghost (1840s)

​No. 13.
YOUNG
GRIGOR'S GHOST,
AN
OLD SCOTCH SONG.
GLASGOW: PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS.
YOUNG GRIGOR’S GHOST.
PART I.
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# Zodiac Killer letter, July 31st 1969

Sent July 31, 1969, to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times, the cipher was eventually cracked by a highschool teacher who read it in the papers. Although his next letter said this cipher contained his name, it actually included the phrase "I will not give you my name".
* Zodiac Killer letter, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31st 1969
* Zodiac Killer letter, Vallejo Times-Herald, July 31st 1969
* Zodiac Killer letter, San Francisco Examiner, July 31st 1969
Translation of the cipher:
# Zodiac Killer letter, July 8th 1974

July 8th 1974
​Editor—
Put Marco back in the hell-hole from whence it came—he has a serious psychological disorder—always needs to feel superior. I suggest you refer him to a shrink. Meanwhile, cancel the Count Marco column. Since the Count can write anonymously, so can I—
the Red Phantom (red with rage)
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# Zodiac Killer letter, May 8th 1974

May 8th 1974
​Sirs—I would like to expression my consternt consternation concerning your poor taste & lack of sympathy for the public, as evidenced by your running of the ads for the movie "Badlands," featuring the blurb—"In 1959 most people were killing time. Kit & Holly were killing people." In light of recent events, this kind of murder-glorification can only be deplorable at best (not that glorification of violence was ever justifiable) why don't you show some concern for public sensibilities & cut the ad?
A citizen
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# Zodiac Killer letter, Feb 14th 1974

Feb 14th 1974
​Dear Mr. Editor,
Did you know that the initials SLAY (Symbionese Liberation Army) spell "sla," an old Norse word meaning "kill."
a friend
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# Zodiac Killer letter, June 26th 1970

June 26th 1970. Claims 12 victims. Sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, the cipher at the bottom was never decoded.
​This is the Zodiac speaking.
I have become very upset with the people of San Fran Bay Area. They have not complied with my wishes for them to wear some nice ⌖ buttons. I promiced to punish them if they did not comply, by anilating a full School Buss. But now school is out for the summer, so I punished them in another way. I shot a man sitting in a parked car with a .38.
12-⌖-12
The map coupled with this code will tell you where the bomb is set. You have untill next Fall to dig it up. ⌖
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# Zodiac Killer letter, March 13th 1971

March 13th 1971. Claims 17 victims. Sent to the Los Angeles Times, this was the first letter postmarked outside SF, in nearby Pleasanton.
​This is the Zodiac speaking
Like I have allways said, I am crack proof. If the Blue Meannies are evere going to catch me, they had best get off their fat asses & do something. Because the longer they fiddle & fart around, the more slaves I will collect for my after life. I do have to give them credit for stumbling across my riverside activity, but they are only finding the easy ones, there are a hell of a lot more down there. The reason I'm writing to the Times is this, They don't bury me on the back pages like some of the others.
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