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EVE OF ST., one of the most joyous festivals of Christendom during the Middle Ages, celebrated on Midsummer Eve. Fires were kindled chiefly in the streets and market places of the towns; sometimes they were blessed by the parish priest, but as a rule they were secular in their character. The young people leaped over the flames, or ver th threw flowers and garlands into them, rlanda int with merry songs, and dances. In Engdances. land the people on the Eve of St. John's Eve of went into the woods and gathered boughs which were placed over their doors, to 02 make good the prophecy respecting the Baptist, that many should rejoice in his ould birth. It was a lingering belief of the eri Irish peasantry that the souls of all the people on this night leave their bodies leave and wander to their ultimate place of ultizan death by land or sea.
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to be sure, has a rough manner: but no man alive has a better heart. He has nothing of the bear but the skin.--Oliver Goldsmith. The memory of other authors is kept alive by their works. But the memory of Johnson keeps many of his works alive. The old philosopher is still among us in the brown coat with the metal buttons and the shirt which ought to be at wash, blinking, puffing, rolling his head, drumming with his fingers, tearing his meat like a tiger, and swallowing his tea in oceans. No human being who has been more than seventy years in the grave is so well known to us. And it is but just to say that our intimate acquaintance with what he would himself have called the anfractuosities of his intellect and of his temper, serves only to strengthen our conviction that he was both a great and a good man.--Macaulay. There have been many broader and more scholarly Englishmen, but there never walked the streets of London a man who battled more courageously for what he thought was right.--Halleck.
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EDWIN S., Senator from South Dakota. Born in United States Indiana in 1857 he moved to South Dakota and became a successful farmer. Interesting himself in politics he was elected by the Democrats of the State to serve on the National mittee. Elected to the United States Democratic Com- Senate for the term 1915-1921.
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HIRAM WARREN, ing candidates for the nomination for nomination for See UNITED STATES, UNITED STATES, the Presidency. HISTORY.
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ALVIN SAUNDERS, an SAUNI American economist and writer; born and near Homer, Neb., in 1874. He gradu- 1874 ated, University of Nebraska, in 1897 and took post-graduate courses in Columbia. From 1902 to 1906 he was instructor and adjunct professor of economics at Columbia University. From professor of 1906 to 1908 he was economics at the University of Nebraska and in 1908 occupied the same chair at the University of Texas. In 1910 he was appointed associate professor of d Stanford University, becoming full professor in 1911. From fessor in 1911. From was professor of 1912 to 1916 he was professor of economics at Cornell University and nell University and from 1916 to 1918 at Leland Stanford 18 at Leland Stanford University. From 1917 he was one of 1917 he was one of the editors of the "New Republic" and "New Republic" and contributed much to encyclopedias on to encyclopedias on economic subjects and wrote "Rent in and wrote "Rent in Modern Economic Theory" (1903); "In- Thecry" (1908); "Introduction to Economics" (1909); "The mics" (1989); "The Petticoat" (1914). Professor and the Petticoat" (1914).
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BURGES, an American writer; born in Rutland, Vt., in 1877. He graduated, Amherst College, in 1899 and after several years of literary work he became literary adviser of G. P. Putnam's Sons. He later occupied the same position with Harper & Bros. He was managing editor of the "Outing" Magazine in 1907 and 1908. He entered the publishing business in 1908 as president of the Thompson, Brown Co., and in 1913 was manager of the educational department of E. P. Dutton & Co. From 1915 he was assistant professor of English at Vassar College. He wrote several humorous books of prose and verse, including "Yearbook of Humor" (1910); "The Well of English and the Bucket" (1917). He contributed many articles to magazines.
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2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) EASTMAN, an American painter; born in Lovell, Me., July 29, 1824. In 1849 he went to Düsseldorf, where he studied two years, and afterward resided for four years at The Hague, where, besides numerous portraits, he executed "The Savoyard" and the "Card Players." His favorite subjects are the American rustic and negro, and glimpses later he devoted himself almost excluof domestic life, though sively to portrait painting. He revisited Europe in 1885. Among his best works, many of which have been reproduced in chromo-lithography are "The Old Kentucky Home" (1859); "The Farmer's Sunday Blacksmith" (1864); "The Boyhood of Morning" (1860); "The Village Abraham Lincoln" Stage Coach" (1871); "The Wounded (1867); "The Old Drummer" (1872); "The Pedlar" (1873); "A Glass with the Squire" (1880) He painted portraits of Presidents ; and "The Funding Bill" (1881). Cleveland and Harrison. He died Apr. 6, 1906.
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BUSHROD RUST, an American military officer; born in Belmont co., O., Oct. 7, 1817. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1840. He saw service in the Florida and Mexican Wars, but resigned his commission in 1847, and was made professor in the Western Military Institution of Kentucky, at Georgetown. He entered the Confederate army as a Brigadier-General at the commencement of the Civil War, and in 1864 became a major-general. He commanded a division under General Lee till the surrender at Appomattox Court House. He was afterward appointed superintendent of the Military College in the University of portation," (1906); "Railroad Traffic Vol. V-Cyc-R Nashville, and chancellor of that institution. He died Sept. 11, 1880.
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