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La biche écraséeAprs avoir dn Brantes, aux Deux Couronnes, les trois hommes sapprtaient remonter dans leur automobile. Une petite bonne apparut tout coup: Bville avait oubli son appareil photographique dans la salle manger; elle le lui tendit sans un mot, et disparut. Comment, monsieur...

Short stories from Life: The 81 prize stories in "Life's" Shortest Story ContestIt was at a luncheon party that the idea of Lifes Short Story Contest was first suggested by Mr. Lincoln Steffens. He propounded this interesting query: It was thereupon determined to discover,...

Wild westWhere a long spur of Chase Hill pitched down to the broken land bordering on Birch Creek, Robin Tyler came on what he had been seeking since sunrise. He pulled up his horse, sat sidewise in his saddle to roll a cigarette, to...

A day at Happy Hollow School(Enter scholars, singly and in groups, talking and laughing until teacher again taps bell. They wear varied costumes, gingham aprons, etc. On entering remove coats, caps, shawls, hats and bonnetsin season and out of seasonhanging them on hooks in...

The blackest page in modern history: Events in Armenia in 1915 - the facts and the responsibilitiesTHE war that started on August 1, 1914, has gradually involved nations, large and small, not originally participants. Other nations, large and small, while still managing to maintain...

Address of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Boston, Mass., Saturday, April 27, 1912My friends and fellow citizens, men and women of Massachusetts, men and women of Boston, I am glad indeed to be in your old historic State, your old historic city, this evening...

Incidents of childhoodFictitious narratives, designed for the perusal of children, should (in the opinion of the Writer) be familiar in their subjects as well as in their style; and slight in their construction: They should hardly aim to excite more than a very transient...

MaximesZelden volgden hevig ontroerende gebeurtenissen elkander z onafgebroken op, als in Frankrijk gedurende de eeuw, na den dood van Koning Hendrik II. Het land was bezig zich tot een organisch geheel te vormen maar de omstandigheden waren daartoe niet gunstig. Een reeks onbekwame, krachtlooze...

Chambers's journal of popular literature, science, and art, fifth series, No. 116, Vol. III, March 20, 1886The time-honoured ceremony that is still observed when the gates of Her Majestys Tower of London are locked-up is probably not unfamiliar to the public. What actually occurs,...

Observations on the Operation and Use of Mercury in the Venereal DiseaseThe chief purpose of the study of medicine is to acquire the knowledge of a safe and effectual method of curing diseases. The attainment of this end is intimately connected with the public...

Trouble on TitanWhenever Von Zorn, chief of Nine Planets Films, ran into trouble he automatically started the televisors humming with calls for Anthony Quade. The televisors were humming now. In fact they were shrieking hysterically. Quades code number bellowed out through a startled and...

The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware IndiansIn that pleasant district of North America formerly known as Nova Caesarea or New Jersey, and latterly as New Jersey, there extended in ancient times a large forest covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and plains which...

Old Indian trailsIn the spring of 1896 I went into northwestern Montana as a member of a Government expedition which was appointed by President Cleveland to recommend a national policy for the United States Forest Reserves and to advise the Secretary of the Interior...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 115, Vol. III, March 13, 1886To those who associate the name of the great African continent only with visions of the steaming mangrove swamps of the west coast, the luxuriant flower-carpets and grasses...

Masks, with Jim's beast, Tides, Among the lions, The reason, The house - one act plays of contemporary lifeThe characters, scenes and situations are thoroughly up-to-date in this altogether delightful American comedy. The heroine is a woman of tremendous energy, who manages a businessas...

The Fir-Tree Fairy Book: Favorite Fairy TalesIN the volumes that make up this series of fairy books are to be found the favorite wonder tales of many nations in a version especially suited for the home fireside. The interest, the charm and all the...

Address of President Roosevelt at Canton, Ohio, September 30, 1907We have gathered together to-day to pay our meed of respect and affection to the memory of William McKinley, who as President won a place in the hearts of the American people such as but...

The principal girlThe Ne Plus Ultra had just achieved the feat of crossing from the Green Park in the charge of a quadruped of whom we are at a loss to furnish a description more explicit. How and why it had been allowed to...

Female affectionThere are certain properties of the female mind upon which doubt has existed, and may, possibly, long exist. 1. Women are said to be fond of ornamentan evil against which they were thus warned by St. PaulI will that women adorn themselves in...

Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam horse in the great American desert - or, The sandy trail of deathFor those of my readers who may never have read any of the accounts of his wonderful adventures, I will state that Frank Reade, Jr.,...