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Nacha RegulesThe Centennial festivities had been going on since May. Thousands of people had flocked in from every corner of the country, from neighboring states and even from Europe. During these great days of a nation's coming of age, the crowd, in one enormous,...

Rake Knitting PatternsWho does not remember the spool-knitter of his childhood, perhaps a home made affaira large empty spool with four wire brads driven in around the opening at one endon which one made an endless rope of colored yarns, to use, maybe, for...

Tom Slade on Overlook MountainIf so it chance that you live in the city of New York and should, let us say, stop for a cooling drink of water in the interval of a ball game, pause for a few moments and consider this...

Avoidance SituationCaptain Allen Hawkins stood quietly in the observation room of the Sunward looking out at subspace. He was a medium-sized man with a trim squareness to him that suggested he had been in the military most of his life. He had a good...

A Son at the FrontCampton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction. His son, his only boy, who was coming from America, must have landed in England that morning, and after a brief halt in London would join him the next...

Harper's Round Table, September 29, 1896The night is dark and cloudy, and a heavy mist hovers over the entrance to the highly fortified port of . Like gigantic aquatic ghosts a fleet of American men-of-war is cautiously and silently approaching this strong-hold of the...

PhaidrosPhaidros-dialogi tuntuu syntyneen niitten voimakkaitten vaikutelmien herttmn, jotka Platon on saanut opettajatoiminnastaan Akademiassa. Se on persoonallisen, suusanallisen opetuksen ylistyst kuollutta kirjatietoa vastaan, joka ei Platonin mielest voi antaa mitn uutta tietoa, vaan korkeintaan palauttaa muistiin, mit entuudestaan tiedmme. Ensi sijassa suuntautuu hykkys retoriikkaa vastaan,...

Tracked by WirelessMr. William Le Queux retains his position as The Master of Mystery.... He is far too skilful to allow pause for thought; he whirls his readers from incident to incident, holding their attention from the first page to the close of the...

The Catholic World, Vol. 27, April 1878 to September 1878The period of six centuries before Christ may be taken as the immediate period of preparation for Christianitynot in a precise numerical sense of exactly six hundred years, but as a general term denoting an...

PlaysScene: The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in orderunwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish-towel on the tableother signs of incompleted work. At the...

L'Île du LevantIl y a un an et demi environ mon pre m'annonait qu'il venait d'acheter de M. Philippart l'Ile du Levant, la dernire de l'Archipel des les d'Hyres, situ dans la Mditerrane. On peut juger de mon enthousiasme et de celui de mon...

Essays in IdlenessShe is sitting now on my desk, and I glance at her with deference, mutely begging permission to begin. But her back is turned to me, and expresses in every curve such fine and delicate disdain that I falter and lose courage...

Fighting Joe; Or, The Fortunes of a Staff Officer. A Story of the Great RebellionThis volume, the fifth of The Army and Navy Stories, is not a biography of the distinguished soldier whose sobriquet in the army has been chosen as its principal title,...

The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur DetectivesThe five illustrations contained in the following pages, and the jacket design, are the work of the new phenomenal black and white artist, Wallace Smith. In making the drawings Mr. Smith chose to illustrate the spirit of...

Gleanings in Bee Culture, Vol. III. No. 3We have just received an extra nice lot of Alsike Clover seed, new crop, raised in our own vicinity, so that we know it is pure and safe. Single pound by mail in cloth bag 45c.; by...

Young Sioux WarriorLittle Bear sat far back in the great wigwam. The warriors formed a circle around the council fire in front of him. Little Bear had listened to the long debate wishing he dared speak. Plainly two of the older warriors wanted this...

The Seaman's Medical Instructor - In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to SeamenIf we consider the many benefits that navigation contributes to commerce in general, and how much the prosperity of nations are indebted to its source, we must without...

The Railway Man and His ChildrenThe news that Miss Ferrars was going to marry Mr. Rowland the engineer, ran through the station like wildfire, producing a commotion and excitement which had rarely been equalled since the time of the Mutiny. Miss Ferrars! and Mr....

Famous Fighters of the Fleet - Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke in the Days of the Old Navy The lasses and the little ones, Jack Tars, they look to you; The despots over yonder, let 'em do whate'er they please, God bless the little...

Wisdom's Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed In bygone years the books She and Ayesha were dedicated to Andrew Lang. Now, when he is dead, this, the last romance that will be written concerning She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, is offered as a tribute to his...