Test Oath (Prescribed by the United) (II)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

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) an oath prescribed by the United States Congress July 2, 1862, to be taken by persons in the former Confederate States appointed to office under the National government. The text was as follows: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenence, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in TESTUDINIDE hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended within the United States, hostile or inimical government, authority, power, or constitution thereto . And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or pur pose of evasion, and that I will well and faith- I am about to enter, so help me God." fully discharge the duties of the office on which made by dipping unsized paper into an TEST PAPERS, in chemistry, are alcoholic solution of a vegetable coloring matter which changes color when exposed to the action of an acid or alkaline solution. The paper, after being gently dried, is cut into slips of a suitable size. Hence, by dipping the appropriate test tain whether it is acid, alkaline, or neupapers into any solutio any solution, one can ascertral. Litmus and turmeric are most commonly used as the coloring matters; litmus for the detection of acids, and turmeric for that of alkalies. Test papers retted hydrogen, etc., and for such a are also employed for detecting sulphusolution of an appropriate substance. purpose the paper must be dipped in the Thus acetate of lead paper becomes black in presence of sulphuretted hydrogen, while starch paper becomes blue when touched with iodine. TESTUDINARIA (so named from the resemblance which the great, rugged, cracked root of the plant bears to the phant's foot or Hottentot's bread; a geshell of a tortoise), in botany, the elebut with the seeds winged only at the nus of Dioscoreaceæ, akin to Dioscorea , tip, instead of all round. Rootstock above ground sometimes four feet in diameter. Stems occasionally 40 feet long; flowers small, greenish-yellow. T. elephantipes tentot's bread. The rootstock is a large, is the common elephant's foot or fleshy mass, covered with a thick bark, Hottentots in time of scarcity made use cracked deeply in every direction. The of yam. of the fleshy inside of the root as a kind