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# The Fables of Florian (tr. Phelps)/The Child and the Looking-Glass

FABLE X. THE CHILD AND THE LOOKING-GLASS.
Once on a time it came to pass,  A child by a poor woman rais'd, First saw at home a looking-glass,  In which it often fondly gazed.
At length, by a mere child's caprice,  But which the grown man often shows, Its raptures for the mirror cease,  At which it ugly glances throws.
These glances now his rage inflame,  At what he loved before; And as the image makes the same,  He's angered more and more.
Whene'er his angry fist he shakes, Or wry and hateful faces makes, The image, aping ev'ry whim, Repeats the same bad thoughts to him.
Enraged at insults so extreme, At last he bursts out in a scream.
His mother coming wiped his face, And gave her child a kind embrace; Consol'd his wrath and gently show'd How 'twas those insults were bestowed.
"For, if you smile," she said, "'tis plain, The image will smile back again. Extend your arms for an embrace, And 'twill not make an angry face. You see, whatever you may do, The image does the same to you."
So in the world at large 'twill be; 'Tis your own image there you'll see.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ochs, Adolph S.

Edition of 1920. See also Adolph Ochs on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
OCHS, ŏks, Adolph S., American publisher: b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 March 1858. His early life was that of a country lad, and he obtained a common school education at Knoxville, Tenn., where for a year he served as carrier and newsboy. In 1871 he was grocer's clerk at Providence, R. I., attending a night school meanwhile. He then returned to Knoxville, where he was a druggist's apprentice for a year. Later he learned the printing trade, and in 1876 he became assistant to the foreman in the composing room of the Knoxville Tribune. In 1877 he joined the staff of the Chattanooga Dispatch and became its editor-in-chief. In 1878 he acquired a half interest in the Chattanooga Times, which he developed into a leading newspaper of that State. Incidentally, he established The Tradesman, which is familiar to Southern business men, in which periodical he still owns a large interest. He also established the Southern Associated Press and became its president. In 1896 Mr. Ochs became publisher and controlling owner in the New York Times. In 1901 he purchased the Philadelphia Times, which was managed by his brother, George Washington Ochs. The next year he paid more than $2,500,000 for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and the two papers were consolidated. Just, considerate, resourceful, enlightened of view, undaunted by difficulties and unspoiled by success, preferring always the straight and open way to the path of indirection, as mindful of public responsibility as private duty, loyal to principle even at the cost of present advantage, one of the best and highest examples of the commercial publisher, Mr. Ochs is a recognized force of international importance.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberländer, Adolf

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OBERLÄNDER, ō-bėr-län'dėr, Adolf, German caricaturist and artist: b. Regensburg, 1 Oct. 1845. In 1861 he entered the Munich Art Academy and later became a pupil of Pilotys, making brilliant progress under his instruction. He found that historical painting did not suit his particular talent, which he early revealed in a humorous cartoon published in ‘Fliegende Blätter’ (1863). He subsequently abandoned painting and devoted his entire time to humorous and satirical designs, which showed such striking virtuosity that he became the leading artist on the staff of ‘Fliegende Blätter.’ He is strong as a caricaturist and exquisitely
delicate as a draughtsman, and his use of satire and ridicule is good-natured and avoids the coarseness and brutality sometimes too apparent in the pages of the comic papers. The majority of his cartoons have been collected and published in the ‘Oberländer Album’ (Munich 1879-1901). Oberländer's subjects are taken from mythology, fairy lore, fables, animal life and the customs and habits of the German middle class. He is also a painter of some note; and pictures of his are in the galleries of Munich, Berlin, Dresden and other cities of Germany and in private collections.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa (Vickers)

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OBERHOLTZER, Sara Louisa (Vickers), poet, author and philanthropist: b. Uwchlan, Chester County, Pa., 20 May 1841. She was educated at Friends Boarding School, Millersville Normal, and by private tutors. From 1890 Mrs. Oberholtzer devoted much of her time to the introduction of the school savings banks system into the public schools of the United States and Canada. Mrs. Oberholtzer was one of the speakers at the first meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C., 1890; at the World's Congress of Women in Chicago in 1893; at the Geneva (Switzerland) meeting in 1903, etc. Her bulletin on ‘School Savings Banks,’ written for the United States Bureau of Education, and printed by the government in 1914, has been widely distributed. Files of her Thrift Tidings, the quarterly she issued regularly for the public since 1907, will be found in most of our State and public libraries. Mrs. Oberholtzer is the acknowledged leader of the school savings banks movement now established in public schools in nearly every State in the Union and some schools in Canada. Her published books are ‘Violet Lee,’ ‘Come for Arbutus,’ ‘Hope's Heart Bells,’ ‘Daisies of Verse,’ ‘Souvenirs of Occasions,’ ‘Dialogues,’ ‘Letters of Travel.’ Her songs and hymns set to music by different composers are in hymnals and many of them in sheet form.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberlin, Jean Frédéric

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OBERLIN, Jean Frédéric, ō-bĕr-lăṅ, Alsatian clergyman and philanthropist: b. Strassburg, 31 Aug. 1740; d. Ban-de-la-Roche, 1 June 1826. He was educated at Strassburg and in 1767 became pastor at Ban-de-la-Roche. There he spent the rest of his long life in labor for the material and spiritual improvement of his degraded parishioners. He practised medicine among them, founded a loan and savings bank, introduced cotton manufacture, helped the people build better roads, and brought in modern agricultural methods. His orphan asylums were the beginning of the many “Oberlinvereine” for the protection of children. Beside all this he was a man of rare spirituality, being frequently styled “a saint of the Protestant church,” and an excellent pastor, who preached each month three sermons in French and one in German. Oberlin College (q.v.), Ohio, was named in his honor. Consult the biographies by Butler (English, 1882); Lutteroth (French, 1826; a German version, 1890); and Hackenschmidt (German, 1902); and the life and works of Oberlin as edited by Hilpert and Stoeber (German, 1843).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberlin College

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OBERLIN COLLEGE, at Oberlin, Ohio; coeducational, founded in 1833 under the name of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute. In 1850 the name was changed to Oberlin College, although from the beginning the work offered was of college grade. The preparatory was the first department opened, but within two years the collegiate department and the theological school were organized and in operation. It was the first college in the United States to adopt coeducation, and in 1835 admitted students “without respect to color.” Oberlin College was a noted centre from which emanated strong anti-slavery sentiments, and in the vicinity was the
“Underground Railroad” (q.v.), so much used in slavery days by the Abolitionists (q.v.). In addition to the regular courses in the College of Arts and Sciences, there is a department of music and a graduate school of theology (undenominational). Courses are also given in physical education for both men and women. There is a summer school (offering work of college grade only). In 1918-19 there were 173 teachers and officers connected with the college, and the total student enrolment was 1,518. The attendance in the College of Arts and Sciences is limited to 1,000. The college has 5,280 living alumni. The library contains 185,985 bound volumes and 153,193 unbound volumes and pamphlets. The buildings and equipment of the college are valued at $2,266,650. The productive endowment amounts to $2,929,170.91, not including the Hall bequest, which will ultimately come into the possession of the college for endowment purposes, conservatively estimated at $3,000,000. For 1917-18 the total income of the institution was $642,799.89.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberon, or the Elf-King's Oath

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OBERON, OR THE ELF-KING'S OATH, romantic English opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber, libretto by James R. Planché, first represented at Covent Garden, London, 12 April 1826. The libretto is founded on Villeneuve's romance, ‘Huon of Bordeaux’ and Sotheby's translation of Wieland's poem ‘Oberon.’ It was Weber's last work. The keynote of the whole is the picture of the mysteries of elf-land and the life of the spirits of air, earth and water, and through the hazy atmosphere of elves and spirits are discerned the outlines of two contrasting themes — Western chivalry and Oriental life.
Reiza's aria, ‘Ocean thou Mighty Monster,’ in the second act is frequently sung on the concert stage by dramatic sopranos. The charming overture beginning with a horn solo also has frequent independent performance. Mendelssohn, Gade, Schumann and Wagner have all drawn inspiration from this sublime and dreamy work.
The original autograph score is in the Royal Library, Petrograd, having been presented by Max von Weber to Alexander II in 1855.
The opera was translated into German by Theodor Hell and given in Leipzig in December 1826; in Vienna, 20 March 1827, and in Berlin, 2 July 1828. It was given in Paris in German without success in 1830 and in French with success in 1857. Oberon was first sung in New York, 9 Oct. 1829. It was given in Italian at Her Majesty's, London, 3 July 1860, with recitatives by Sir Julius Benedict, and this version was given in Philadelphia, 9 March 1870. ‘Oberon’ was revived in London, 7 Dec. 1878 and in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House, 28 Dec. 1918, in a new revision by Arthur Bodansky, who conducted the work. Consult Upton, Standard Operas (Chicago 1897), and Musical America (New York), 4 Jan. 1919.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson

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OBERHOLTZER, ō'bėr-hol-ser, Ellis Paxson, American historian; son of Mrs. S. L. Oberholtzer (q.v.): b. Philadelphia, 1868. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1893), and at Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris; was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (1889-96); editor of The Manufacturer (1896-1900), literary and dramatic editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger (1902-08). He has published ‘The Referendum in America’ (1893, 3d ed., 1908); ‘Die Beziehung zwischen dem Staat und der Zeitungspresse’ (1895); ‘The New Man’ (1897); ‘Robert Morris, Patriot and Financier’ (1903); ‘Abraham Lincoln’ (1904); ‘The Literary History of Philadelphia’ (1907); ‘Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War,’ (2 vols., 1907); ‘Henry Clay’ (1909); ‘Philadelphia, a History of the City and its People’ (4 vols., 1911), and edited ‘American Crisis Biographies’ (20 volumes).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberlin

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OBERLIN, Ohio, village in Lorain County; on southern division of New York Central main railway system, east and west; Lorain and Ashland and the Lorain and West Virginia north and south; also the Cleveland, Columbus and Southwestern interurban electric railway, 33 miles west by south of Cleveland, on the State highway. It was settled in 1833 as a college town, and Oberlin College was founded the same year, and has grown to be one of the largest colleges in the United States. Oberlin was incorporated as a village in 1846 and has always been noted for its beautiful shady streets and fine homes, it has never had any saloons, it is an ideal residence town. It is in a fertile agricultural region and its industries are chiefly connected with farm products. Besides the college and its fine system of public schools, there is a business college and a kindergarten training school. Pop. 4,365, without the students numbering 2,000.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberon

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OBERON. Of all the works of the once fashionable, facile and wildly piquant senior member of the poetical galaxy which made the court of Karl August of Saxe-Weimar the literary centre of Germany, his romatic epic ‘Oberon’ (1780), is the only one universally read to-day in Germany. However, it is difficult for our age to appreciate Goethe's enthusiastic reception of the poem with the prophecy that “as long as poetry remains poetry, gold gold and crystal crystal, ‘Oberon’ will be loved and admired as a masterpiece of poetic art.”
It transplanted the manner and form of Ariosto's ‘Orlando furioso,’ though the stanzas are not so regularly built as the Italian. Based on Count de Tressan's (1778) narration of the chanson de geste of “Huon de Bordeaux” (12th century) and influenced by Shakespeare's ‘Midsummernight's Dream’ and Pope's version of Chaucer's ‘The Marchantes Tale,’ it mingles the fairy lore of Brittany and of ‘The Arabian Nights’ to celebrate exploits of the king of the fairies, Oberon (Old French Alberon, derived from the German Alberich — ‘Elf-prince’). For the slaying of Karl the Great's despicable son, Charlot, Huon duke of Guienne, is condemned to go to Babylon (or Bagdad) and demand four molars and a tuft of the beard of the kalif after kissing the latter's daughter and slaying her intended. This feat is accomplished through the friendship of Oberon and the magic power of his horn, a blast of which causes all wicked persons to dance, and of a certain ring, which had been abstracted from its owner, Titania, and to which all the spirit world was subject. Commanded to go to the Pope at Rome before consummating marriage with the kalif's daughter, Huon yields to temptation and the couple are thrown on a desert isle by Oberon, who had deserted his Titania with the vow never to return to her unless a human couple should be found who were absolutely faithful, since she had championed the faithless girl wife of an aged dotard. About the invented quarrel of Oberon and his queen, Titania, is centred the whole conception of Wieland's poem. Thrown by the
instrumentality of Titania into captivity in Tunis, Huon and Rezia withstand the first test of temptation and, reunited, return to Paris and reconcile Karl. C. M. von Weber based his opera ‘Oberon’ on Wieland's poem. Consult Köhler, Reinhold, ‘Oberon’ (Leipzig 1868); Wieland, C. M., ‘Gesammelte Werke’ (Franz Muncker, Vol. I, Stuttgart and Berlin); id., ‘Werke’ (Prussian Academy of Sciences, Erich Schmidt and others, 1909; English trans., William Sotheby, London 1805).
# The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

ENGLISH HUMOURISTS
OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
THE
ENGLISH HUMOURISTS
OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
A Series of Lectures,
DELIVERED IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
BY
W. M. THACKERAY, Author of "Esmond," "Pendennis," "Vanity Fair," &c.
LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, & CO. 65, CORNHILL. BOMBAY: SMITH, TAYLOR, & CO.
1853.
[The author of this work reserves to himself the right of authorising a translation of it.]
LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
CONTENTS.
ERRATA.
Layout 2
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# The English Housekeeper/Chapter 9

CHAPTER IX.
BAKING.
Some joints of meat bake to advantage. It is convenient, occasionally, to send the dinner out to be cooked, and the meat which suffers least from such cookery ought to be selected; veal is good baked, so is pork, a sucking pig, a goose, and a duck; but not mutton. Some pieces of beef bake well, with peeled potatoes under to catch the gravy, and brown. Some sorts of fish also bake well. (See Fish in the Index.)
Breast, Loin, Fillet, or Shoulder of Veal.
The two last stuffed with forcemeat; put the joint on a stand in a deep baking dish, and stick bits of butter over the top. The heat of the oven strong, but not fierce. Baste often; when nearly done, sprinkle salt over, and ten minutes before it is taken out, dredge with flour.
Pig.
Put it in a shallow baking dish, wrap the ears and tail in buttered paper; send a good sized piece of butter tied in muslin, for the baker to rub over it frequently.
Goose and Duck.
Prepare as for roasting: put them on a stand, and turn ​them when half done.—Wild Goose the same, with a piece of suet inside.
Ham.
Boil it till half done, then cover it with a paste of flour and water, and set it in an oven, hot enough for bread, till you think it done.
Ox Cheek.
Cover with a strong seasoning of pepper, salt, and minced onion. Bake three or four hours, according to its size, then set it by till next day, take off the fat, and warm it as you want it. A Shin of beef in the same way.
Hare and Rabbit.
Prepare as for roasting, and baste it constantly with butter. The stuffing should be rich.
A Fawn.
Put a caul over and set it in the oven; about a quarter of an hour before it is done, take off the caul and baste well with butter. It will bake in the same time that a pig requires.
Meat pies require the oven to be as hot as for joints of meat, yet they should not be scorched. They also require time to soak through, or the meat will not be done.
Fish pies require half an hour less baking than the same sized meat pies.
Great nicety is required in baking fruit pies and light pastry. All these ought to be baked at home; when the precise heat of the oven, required, may be attained, which it rarely can be at the bakehouse. Pastry suffers, too, in being exposed to the air on its way to the oven; and it ought not to wait long before it is baked.
Pork.
Any joint will bake well. It must be scored. Rub it over with oil, or stick bits of butter all over it. Put it on a stand, and put peeled potatoes under it; also, you may put onions and apples. Sprinkle dry sage over, before you serve it. Stuff the pork, or not, as you choose.
# The Golden Net

* "The Golden Net" in The Pickering Manuscript (c. 1801–3).
* "The Golden Net" in Life of William Blake, 1st ed. (1863).
* "The Golden Net" in Life of William Blake, 2nd ed. (1880).
# The Golden Pears

Extracted from Munseys, Feb 1917 pp. 128–176. A novella.
The Golden Pears
A Story of the
Dark Bend
Swamps
by
Raymond S. Spears
Complete in This Issue
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
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# The First Battle/Chapter 2

On February 9th, 1893, the House having under consideration the following resolution:
   Resolved, That immediately upon the adoption of this resolution the House proceed to consider H. R. 10143, "A bill to increase the circulation of national banks and for other purposes," and if such bill shall not be disposed of on said day, then the consideration thereof shall be continued during the next legislative day.
I made my first speech against unconditional repeal. It is given below:
This was the first effort made to secure unconditional repeal, and there was coupled with it a proposition to allow banks to issue notes up to the par value of their bonds and to reduce the tax on circulation. It is significant that in recent years the effort to degrade silver has gone hand in hand with the effort to increase the control of national banks over the issue of paper money.
A little later in the same month, February 27th, an effort was made to secure authority for the issue of short time, low rate bonds. This I believed to be a part of the general plan to secure a legislative declaration favorable to gold and I therefore opposed the measure.
From what had already taken place I felt sure that the great contest over the money question was approaching and after the adjournment of Congress devoted myself to preparation for it. I was not surprised, therefore, when the President called Congress together in extraordinary session on the 7th day of August, 1893. Mr. Wilson of West Virginia, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, introduced the Administration measure, to which I have heretofore referred, and the great parliamentary struggle began. I then asserted, and still believe, that the debate over the repeal bill was the most important economic discussion which ever took place in our Congress. On the 16th day of August, 1893, near the close of the debate, I delivered the following argument in opposition to unconditional repeal.
The bill passed the House by a considerable majority and after nearly two months of debate in the Senate, came back to the House with an amendment.
On Nov. 1st, 1893, I again spoke on this question:
I attempted to prevent a vote by making dilatory motions, not in the hope of preventing the passage of the bill but for the purpose of driving the majority to secure repeal without any concession, real or apparent, on the part of the friends of free silver. There were but few, however, who were willing to engage in obstruction and when action could be no longer delayed, I obtained the floor and placed on record the following:
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# The First Battle/Chapter 24

Early Saturday morning, in company with National Committeeman Wall and wife, ex-Governor Peck, Mr. F. W. Von Cotzhausen, and other members of the Milwaukee reception committee, I started for that city, speaking briefly at Waukegan, Kenosha and Racine. The afternoon meeting at the National Park was interrupted by rain, or, rather, would have been interrupted, but for the fact that the audience insisted on staying in spite of the rain. Hon. W. C. Silverthorne, the Democratic and fusion candidate for Governor, presided at this meeting. The evening meeting at Schlitz Park was presided over by ex-Governor peck. I quote at length from the speech delivered on this occasion because it discussed more fully than any other the financial policy of the administration.
Later I addressed a large overflow meeting held near by. Sunday was spent at the hospitable home of Chairman Wall, and it is remembered as one of the most restful Sabbaths of the campaign. Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago, was in Milwaukee on that day and I had the pleasure of listening to him at the morning service. The trip to Chicago Monday morning was made without special incident.
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