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"Broke," The Man Without the Dime"Broke," The Man Without the DimeI was born on the 28th day of April, 1857, in the village of Port Byron, Rock Island County, Illinois. The waves of the grand old Mississippi sang my lullaby through a long and joyful childhood. So near at...
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The Chimney-CornerThe Chimney-CornerMrs. Stowe's romances are among the most thoughtful, picturesque, and popular works of modern fiction. Indeed, they should hardly be called fictitious; for they treat inimitably, and with unfailing freshness, some of the deepest themes that engage the attention of earnest minds. They...
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Our English Towns and VillagesOur English Towns and Villages1. A little boy, who had been born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Canada, was taken by his father, when he was about eight years old, to the nearest settlement, for the first time in his life....
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Anno Domini 2071Anno Domini 2071 - Translated from the Dutch OriginalThe late Artemus Ward was in the habit of quotingeither from his own or another mans store of witNever prophesy unless you know for certain. There is, however, a particular mode of foretelling which is neither...
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Remarkable RoguesRemarkable Rogues - The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America; Second EditionThat interest in crime and the criminal is universal no one will deny. In a cruder age it was the custom to organize parties to witness the public execution of...
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An American Hobo in EuropeAn American Hobo in Europe - A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old CountryStranger, will you please permit me to give you an introduction to a particular friend of mine, little Billy. Little Billy and...
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The Argentine in the Twentieth CenturyThe Argentine in the Twentieth CenturyThis book, intended to make known in Europe the present situation and the economic future of the Argentine Republic, comes at an opportune moment to fulfil its mission of popularisation. During the last ten years of the nineteenth century...
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After Prison--What?After Prison--What?This message from my pen is not a work on criminology or penology. No gathering of statistics, nor comparative study of the works or theories of learned authorities on these subjects will be found within its pages. It is just a plea from...
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The International Development of ChinaThe International Development of ChinaAs soon as Armistice was declared in the recent World War, I began to take up the study of the International Development of China, and to form programs accordingly. I was prompted to do so by the desire to contribute...
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The Autobiography of a ThiefThe Autobiography of a Thief "There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?...
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The Post Office of India and Its StoryThe Post Office of India and Its StoryWhen I first decided to write a short account of the Post Office of India my intention was to close my story with the amalgamation of the Post Office and the Telegraph Department, which took place in...
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Mrs. Leary's Cow: A Legend of ChicagoMrs. Leary's Cow: A Legend of Chicago [Shortly after the Chicago fire, there appeared a dismal-looking photograph card of this celebrated bovine, on the reverse of which was printed this remarkable legend: "On the other side of this card will be found a life-like...
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Harmonies of Political EconomyHarmonies of Political Economy - Translated from the Third French Edition, with a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author The favour with which the English public has received the First Edition of this translation of Bastiats Harmonies conomiques, published originally in...
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That Last Waif or, Social QuarantineThat Last Waif; or, Social Quarantine The text of this appeal was furnished by the accidental observation of a waif of not more than four years of age, who was gathered into the meshes of the law, and then pushed back into a stifling...
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Craft GildsCraft Gilds There is, as I understand it, a double object in the work of this Society; it interests itself in the preservation of ancient buildings, partly because they are monuments which when once destroyed can never be replaced, and which bear record of...
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Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics CongressAbstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress - University of London, July, 1912The principal discussion concerns the different forms of the skull which are important as characteristics of race. Professor Sergi distinguishes in the human skull two principal and primordial forms:...
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Conway Memorial Lecture: 1922Free Thought and Official PropagandaI have come here to-night, partly because I want to hear Mr. Russell, and partly because of an old affection for South Place and its traditions. I myself have been for more than forty years a professional teacher; and it...
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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain LecturesMrs. Caudle's Curtain LecturesYOU ought to be very rich, Mr. Caudle. I wonder who'd lend you five pounds? But so it is: a wife may work and may slave! Ha, dear! the many things that might have been done with five pounds! As if...
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Coaching Days and WaysCoaching Days & WaysThe many boons conferred by Mr. John Palmer upon his generation faded before the advance of the railways; but he has deserved well of posterity, if only for that he altered the coach team from three horses to four. Until that...
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Letters from an Old Railway Official to His Son, a Division SuperintendentLetters from an Old Railway Official to His Son, a Division Superintendent My Dear Boy:The circular announcing your appointment as division superintendent has just been received, and it brings up a flood of thoughts of former years. I felt that you had made a...
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