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My Disillusionment in RussiaThe decision to record my experiences, observations, and reactions during my stay in Russia I had made long before I thought of leaving that country. In fact, that was my main reason for departing from that tragically heroic land. The strongest...

The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 2, February, 1883John H. Washburn, Chairman; A.P. Foster, Secretary; Lyman Abbott, Alonzo S. Ball, A.S. Barnes, C.T. Christensen, Franklin Fairbanks, Clinton B. Fisk, S.B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Charles A. Hull, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Wm....

Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian InterpretationThe field of primitive economic activity has been largely left uncultivated by both economists and anthropologists. The present study by Mr. Gilbert L. Wilson is an attempt to add to the scanty knowledge already at hand on...

The Germ Growers: An Australian story of adventure and mysteryWhen I first heard the name of Kimberley[Footnote 1] it did not remind me of the strange things which I have here to record, and which I had witnessed somewhere in its neighbourhood years before....

Clipped WingsH.M.S. Baffin, light cruiser, of 9900 tons displacement, 30 knots speed, and armed with seven 7.5-inch and twelve 3-inch guns, was approaching Portsmouth. Already the Nab Tower bore broad on her port beam. Ahead lay the low-lying Portsea Island, upon which Portsmouth is...

Kitty CarstairsThrough the still summer dusk the night mail for London roared down the long declivity, clashed into a cutting and forth again, screamed, flashed past the deserted little station of Dunford, and thundered triumphantly along the level towards Kitty Carstairs. Leaning on the...

The Last VictoryHe had only two aims in life: first, to get what he wanted; and after that to enjoy it. But to achieve the one he'd have to give up the other ... or would he? The transport ship, bound for Capella with...

The Message and Mission of QuakerismThe two addresses which compose this book were delivered at the Five Years Meeting of the Society of Friends held in Indianapolis, Indiana, from October15th to 22nd, 1912. They were listened to with profound interest and appreciation, and were...

Returned EmptyAlong this path, on a warm September evening, swung a solitary figure; a man with sad eyes, feeling himself a blot upon the landscape, yet drinking in every tint of sunset glory, every wild wonder of snowy 16wings, every whiff of crushed fragrance....

Kurzgefaßte Deutsche StilistikDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1907 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Passagen wurden nicht korrigiert. Funoten wurden vom Bearbeiter an...

The Last Brave InvaderLauria Swept down the spiral staircase in regal dignity, and wished there were someone there to witness her entrance. She walked across the parlor to the gun-rack and strapped a holstered pistol to her hip, just above the rustling flare of...

FechsungDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1915 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Passagen wurden nicht korrigiert. Jeder Mann wei ganz genau, welche Art...

The BridgeTwo low flying interceptor jets screamed overhead, climbing for much needed altitude as they headed out to sea. The Captain took off his steel helmet and looked up at the thunderous roar just before he leaped from the still moving jeep. When his...

The Birds of Australia, Vol. 2 of 7This very interesting little Nightjar is subject to great variation in the colour and markings of its plumage, a circumstance which has tended to produce much confusion, and greatly to increase the list of synonyms. It possesses...

Irlantilaisia satuja"Et tiennyt? Kyll min sinut opetan. Mene hakemaan arkku", sanoi jttilinen toiselle palvelijoistaan, ja siin silmnrpyksess he olivat sitoneet poika paran kdet ja jalat karhealla kydell, pistneet hnet arkkuun ja heittneet arkun jokeen. Sen jlkeen he menivt kaikki tiehens, paitsi aasi parka. Mutta...

The New Jersey Law Journal, Volume XLV, No. 3, March 1922Happily it is not such a frequent occurrence as may be supposed that the Judges of our Court of Errors and Appeals split apart so curiously as they did in determining that the Van...

Team-MatesThe policeman on duty at the North Woodfield station turned from watching the train disappear westward along the track and gave his attention to the speaker. What he saw was a rather thin youth of fourteen with deeply tanned face from which a pair...

The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 1, January, 1883The Gospel in All Lands was commenced in February, 1880, and was continued during 1880 and 1881 as a 48 page monthly. The only numbers of these years that can now be furnished are as...

The World Above: A DuologueThe scene is laid in a shadowy and mystic place known to the dwellers there as The Darker Realm. It has been built and burrowed from time immemorial far down underneath some great, beautiful, sunny, human metropolis, called The World...

Tillicums of the Trail - Being Klondike Yarns Told to Canadian Soldiers Overseas by a Sourdough Padre Pte. Clarke of the Orderly Room staff told me how my coming as Chaplain to the 43rd in 1917 was announced to the men attached to Battalion...