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The Padre Island StoryAs you read the following pages, we hope you can feel a bit of the primitive, swashbuckling history of Padre Island. Where once roamed savages, cavaliers, pirates, soldiers and pioneers, there now risesout of the sand dunesan isle which every man...

Henry Ford: Highlights of His LifeHenry Ford spent his early life on a farm. He was born in a small frame house that stood in a grove a few miles from Detroit, near the River Rouge. On each side of the river were the...

Illustrated Horse Breaking I offer this work to the favourable consideration of the public, as an attempt to describe a reasoned-out system of horse-breaking, which I have found, by practical experience, to be easy of execution, rapid in its effects, and requiring the possession...

Katinka Rabe: Kirja lapsesta tekij. Katinka Rabe syntyi Hovissa, isovanhempainsa kartanossa, hyvin isossa vuoteessa, jossa olivat syntyneet, rakastaneet ja kuolleet sek Rabet ett Fataburit. Alkujaan sen oli teettnyt hnen isnitins is, Friedrich Fatabur, itsen ja vaimoaan, inkerilist papintytrt varten, ja toden teolla, tmn vuoteen...

Vögelchen Etwa um das Jahr 1860 fand in Wien, im Hause einer adeligen Dame, eine Ausstellung von Miniaturen statt, in der besonders zwei Sammlungen, die Adalbert Mannsthals, des Besitzers oder Groaktionrs der Mannsthal-Werke, und die des Nervenarztes Dr. Clemens Urbacher, Aufmerksamkeit erregten. Mannsthals Sammlung...

Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great PrairieFar back as I can remember anything I can remember our cottage in Glencar. It was a small thatched house, with plenty of June roses and white jessamine trailing over two sides of it,...

The Loss of His Majesty's Frigate Anson - Which was Wrecked within Three Miles of Helston, December 28, 1807 ... Also, an Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the Sidney, Which Ran upon a Dangerous Rock or Shoal, May 20, 1808THE following account of...

Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)The testimony of the following witnesses is contained in volume XIII: L.C. Graves, James Robert Leavelle, L.D. Montgomery, Thomas Donald McMillon, and Forrest V. Sorrels, who participated in the arrest and questioning of Jack L....

David LivingstoneOn March 19th, 1913, a hundred years will have passed since David Livingstone was born. It is only forty years since his body was carried by faithful hands from the centre of Africa to the coast that he might be buried among his...

Unfailing Springs"JESUS answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of GOD, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water. "Whosoever drinketh of the...

The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, to Rev. James Powell, D.D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for The American Missionary,...

The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 8, August, 1887Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, to Rev. James Powell, D.D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for The American Missionary,...

The Charm of ScandinaviaWhile this book is largely based upon personal observation in the countries described, the authors have taken pains to consult many recent and some older authors who have written about Scandinavia, that they might become familiar with the history and customs...

Scipion unennäköVon des Lebens Gtern allen Ist der Ruhm das hchste doch; Wenn der Leib in Staub zerfallen, Lebt der grosse Name noch. Tapfrer, deines Ruhmes Schimmer Wird unsterblich sein im Lied; Denn das ird'sche Leben flieht, Und die Todten dauern immer. Vaan tytymyst'...

Pikku Lallin tähtimaailmaKymmenvuotias Lalli ja hnen kaksi vuotta nuorempi Maija-siskonsa olivat hiipineet lastenkamarista pimen ruokasalin ja eteisen kautta saliin. Maija piti kiinni veljens takinhihasta, ja hnen pikku ktsens vapisi, kun he tulivat suureen, pimen huoneeseen, miss vallitsi tydellinen hiljaisuus. Kaihtimet eivt olleet alasvedetyt, ja...

Iphigeneia i AulisGUBBEN. Jag har brdt. Ty mig smnls r lderdomen, Och i gonen skarp r blicken. 5 AGAMEMNON. Ej minsta kny af fglar hrs, Ej heller ur sjn, och vindarne tyst 10 Hr fver Euripos sig laggt. GUBBEN. Hvi skyndar du dig ur...

Songs of the Common Day, and, Ave!: An Ode for the Shelley CentenaryAN ODE FOR THE SHELLEY CENTENARY BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS Montreal: C. W. COATES. Halifax: S. F. HUESTIS 1893 {v}{iv} TO BLISS CARMAN FRIEND, KINSMAN, AND FELLOW CRAFTSMAN...

Mary Louise at DorfieldDorfield was trying to settle down into its prewar quiet, but no matter how conservative and sleepy a town has been, when once it is shaken up with war activities it finds it difficult to go to sleep again. It may...

The Clue of the Gold CoinSWIRLS OF HEAVY SNOWFLAKES, DRIVEN BY A BRISK wind that whistled across the vast expanse of concrete runways that is New York Citys Idlewild Airport, dashed against the big picture window in the Personnel Lounge and spiraled back into...

Miss CrespignyThese love stories were written for and printed in Petersons Ladies Magazine. Owing to the fact that this magazine was not copyrighted, a number of them have been issued in book-form without my consent, and representing the sketches to be my latest work....