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  2. Ruined by Rats.

    A little while ago a Welsh grocer declared that he attributed his failure to the damage done to his stock by rats. The damage caused by rats is frequently ...

    Article : 332 words
  3. A Runaway Wedding.

    A romantic marriage took place at Bristol, Virginia, recently, when Miss Elizabeth Clark, a beautiful girl, became the bride of E. M. Tate, an employe of the Southern and ...

    Article : 281 words
  4. How Worry Hurts.

    Worry has come to be a question of hygene rather than of religion. Whether immoral not, it is certainly unhealthful; so the doctors tell us. Whatever its effects upon ...

    Article : 296 words
  5. Soldier Poets.

    The most notable poet who ever served in the ranks of the British Army is Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote, among other 'trifles'—which will lives as long as the ...

    Article : 721 words
  6. The Escape.

    When the late O'Donovan Rossa first went to America the Fenians were in pretty bad repute there. In a hotel lounge one day a man attacked ...

    Article : 133 words
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    Advertising : 1,256 words
  8. Reducing the Staff.

    An American sewing machine agent drifted into the Seminole dominion one day and set up a machine in Tiger Tail's cent. The old chief with great deliberation watched ...

    Article : 122 words
  9. Tobacco and Warfare.

    It is held by many distinguished military officers that whatever comfort the soldier on active service may be deprived, of he should on no account be stinted in the ...

    Article : 250 words
  10. Hit Buck.

    ' Well, if you don't like my furniture, at least you must admire that pretty little time piece on the mantel,' said. a newly married woman to an elderly 'and unprepossing ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. Killed by the Dead.

    Has a living man ever been killed by a dead one ? At first sight the question sounds absurd; and so, in a sense, it is. Yet there are two cases which might be fairly taken as ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. Disease Cured by Light.

    When rays of light fall upon the skin of our bodies, which is translucent, the greater part of them are arrested, some by one layer of the skin, some by another, and still others ...

    Article : 135 words
  13. Influence of Science on Disease in War.

    In all ware of any magnitude, other. than the one now in progress, the loss of life from disease has been considerably greater than that resulting from wounds. In the present ...

    Article : 435 words
  14. Russia's Gold.

    The largest board of gold in the world is that held in the vaults of the Russian State bank, amounting now to about £1.70.000,000 Ordinarily a visitor may travel from one ...

    Article : 162 words
  15. Cos They Have Never Seen.

    The following piquant verses were written by. an Australian who is doing his bit in the firing line— As I sit in a trench with me hands arf froze ...

    Article : 189 words
  16. To Much Cutting.

    He had bought himself a fashionable pair of trousers. On trying them on they proved considerably too long, so be took them to his wife and asked her to cut off two inches and ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. He Felt it Worst.

    They were a young country couple being married at the village church. When the ceremony was over the bride was found to be in tears, a proceeding which in some country ...

    Article : 187 words
  18. Let Them Do It.

    A farmer's wife who had no very romantic ideas about the opposite sex, and who, hurrying from churn, to sink, from sink to shed, and back to the kitchen stove, wail asked if ...

    Article : 87 words
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