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Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know ThemThe buds, root tips, and cambium layer are the growing parts of the tree. Water containing a small quantity of minerals in solution is absorbed by the roots, carried up through the sapwood to the leaves and...

Hear Me, Pilate!The capricious flame spattered darts of thin yellow light on walls and floor as the doors swung gently closed. Claudia turned from her tall, deeply tanned, uniformed escort to address the servant who had let them in. I wont be needing you...

Traitor and True: A RomanceThe doors of the Taverne Gabrielle, in the Rue des Franc Bourgeois in the Marais, stood open to all passers-by, and also to the cool wind blowing from the south-east. This evening, perhaps because it was summer-time, and perhaps, also,...

The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian faithThe author of these sermons has had a feeling for a long time that the great need in our churches in this day is systematic indoctrination. He put his theory into practice last winter in his own church,...

Incidents in a Gipsy's LifeMy idea in writing this little pamphlet is to enlighten the minds of people as to the mode of living, and the customs of our tribe; and I think the reader will be convinced that we are not the desperadoes...

The Breadth, Freeness, and Yet Exclusiveness of the GospelThe subject has, I presume, been chosen for our discussion, in order to meet the aspersions of those who claim for their own system the merit of breadth, comprehensiveness, and large-heartedness, while they speak of our...

Compulsory Vaccination - Report of a Public Meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on Wednesday evening, October 19, 1870.On Wednesday Evening, October 19th, 1870, a Public Meeting, convened at the requisition, numerously signed, of the ratepayers of Marylebone, was held in the...

Who Was Paul Grayson? THE boys who attended Mr. Mortons Select School in the village of Laketon did not profess to know more than boys of the same age and advantages elsewhere; but of one thing they were absolutely certain, and that was that...

Das Heim und die WeltMutter, heute sehe ich wieder vor meinem Geiste dein rotes Stirnzeichen[1], den Sari[2], den du zu tragen pflegtest, mit seinem breiten, roten Saum, und deine wundervollen Augen voll Tiefe und Frieden. Sie kamen am Anfang meiner Lebensbahn wie das erste...

A Lear of the Steppes, etc.An examination of A Lear of the Steppes is of especial interest to authors, as the story is so exquisite in its structure, so overwhelming in its effects, that it exposes the artificiality of the great majority of the...

The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884 REAT YARMOUTH possesses a building of considerable antiquarian interest. This is known by the somewhat unsuggestive name of the Tolhouse. Its relation to the collection of tolls is referred to in many old documents; but...

A General's Letters to His Son on Minor TacticsIt has very forcibly been brought home to me that not only young officers joining their units from training establishments, but also those who have been in France and have come back wounded, are often very...

Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient HebrewsMinor punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Ditto typesetting errors: word spacing; lower for upper case; transposed, repeated or missing letters; b/d, u/n etc. The original text used long s (), rendered...

Archag, the Little ArmenianThis new story in our series is about a people whose name you heard often during the Great War; perhaps you even sent some of your own pennies across the ocean to help them; for no one, not gallant little Belgium...

The Dreadnought Boys on Aero ServiceThe formidable looking sea-fighter lay with half a dozen other smaller naval vesselsbattleships and cruisersin the stretch of water known as Hampton Roads, which, sheltered by rising ground, has, from time immemorial, formed an anchorage for our fighting-ships, and...

The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy TaleOnce upon a time a Queen sat in her garden. She was quite a young, young Queen; but that was a long while ago, so she would be older now. But, for all she was Queen over a...

Leurs ExcellencesVous voulez une longue lettre qui vous dira ce que je pense de Sauer-Apfel, ou plutt de ses habitants. Je suis arrive bien fatigue, n'ayant pu, comme le prince Adalbert, dormir tout le long[p. 2] de la route; l'approche du chteau est fort...

Women's WorkThe writers of the present volume have a purely practical object in view. They have no desire to discuss, theoretically, the duties, rights, and responsibilities of women. They consider that it would be unwise to give prominence to considerations affecting the political or...

J'accuse (Ich klage an): Zwei Jahre in französischer GefangenschaftEs war eine klgliche Rolle, die mir im Weltkriege 1914 zufiel, ich hatte mir alles so anders gedacht, als ich auf den ersten Kriegsruf hin von Malaga nach Barcelona fuhr, mich zu stellen. Zweimal machte ich...

The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate StoryTo the accompaniment of a pungent whiff of hot oil, a miniature cascade of coal dust and frozen snow, and the rasping sound of the derrick chain, the last of the cargo for No. 3 hold of the...