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From MissouriWith jingling spurs a tall cowboy stalked out of the post-office to confront his three comrades crossing the wide street from the saloon opposite. Look heah, he said, shoving a letter under their noses. Which one of you long-horns has wrote her again?...

Hadrian the SeventhIn Obedience to the Decree of Urban P.M. VIII, I declare that I have no Intention of attributing any other than a purely human Authority to the Miracles, Revelations, Favours, & particular Cases, recorded in this Book; & the same as regards...

Sam in the SuburbsALL day long, New York, stewing in the rays of a late August sun, had been growing warmer and warmer; until now, at three oclock in the afternoon, its inhabitants, with the exception of a little group gathered together on the...

The Importance of Marking Historic Spots, an AddressProbably the first attempts at marking historic spots in Pennsylvania were made by the Indians many centuries ago. We of today are merely followers in their footsteps. Two of the most conspicuous examples are the hieroglyphic rocks...

The Cap and GownThe larger part of the material in this book was originally used in a number of addresses given in various colleges and universities reaching from Yale and Cornell in the East to Stanford and the University of California in the West....

A Personal ProblemSo-so. The fat man wiped his face and poured another drink. Youre a damned ironic brute, Cranshaw! How was I to know that the John Smith, our Raratonga agent, was yourself? You have nerve. I always said you had nerve. Well, what...

A Likely StoryThat was the damnedest December I ever saw in New York. Whatever the weather is, Manhattan always gets the worst of itfrying hot in summer, snow or slush up to your ankles in winterand all along the seaboard, it was a mean...

The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages.Or,...

Glow WormHe shone with a steady off-green aura that surrounded his body, radiated from the tips of his hair, crawled from his skin, and lit his way in the darkest night. It had been with him for two years now. Which was not entirely...

Bob Bowen Comes to TownThe drummer from San Francisco resented the diminutive and gave him a casual stare. The lean man said nothing. Then the drummer turned to the lean man and picked up a thread of conversation which had apparently been broken by...

Napoleón en ChamartínLevantbase tarde, y despus de dar cuerda a sus relojes, se pona a disposicin del peluquero, quien en poco ms de hora y media le arreglaba la cabeza por fuera, que por dentro solo Dios pudiera hacerlo. Luego daba al reloj de...

Comparison of Woods for Butter BoxesProduced by: Charlene Taylor, Chris Jordan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images from the Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS...

The Thousand Buddhas - Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-huang on the Western Frontier of ChinaThe purpose of this publication is to place before students interested in Eastern art reproductions of select specimens from among the great collection of ancient Buddhist paintings...

The Missionary Sheriff - Being incidents in the life of a plain man who tried to do his dutySheriff Wickliff leaned out of his office window, the better to watch the boy soldiers march down the street. The huge pile of stone that is...

The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration [1920 ed.]The United Empire Loyalists have suffered a strange fate at the hands of historians. It is not too much to say that for nearly a century their history was written by their enemies....

Ioläus: An Anthology of FriendshipThe degree to which Friendship, in the early history of the world, has been recognised as an institution, and the dignity ascribed to it, are things hardly realized to-day. Yet a very slight examination of the subject shows the important...

La Tosca: Drama trágico en cuatro actos divididos en cinco cuadrosp. 2Esta obra es propiedad de sus autores, y nadie podr, sin su permiso, reimprimirla ni representarla en Espaa ni en los pases con los cuales se hayan celebrado o se celebren en adelante...

Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United StatesIt has been said that our countrys national crime is lynching. We may be reluctant to admit our peculiarity in this respect and it may seem unpatriotic to do so, but the fact...

The Congressman’s Wife, a Story of American PoliticsIn this story my aim has not been primarily to depict conditions in American politics. This work has already been done far better than I could do it by several writers, among others, by Mr. Brand Whitlock,...

News from No Man's LandI am indebted to the Rev. James Green for the privilege of writing an introduction to his book, in which he gives a lucid and interesting description of the life of our gallant soldiers of the A.I.F. In his capacity...