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  2. VANDERBILT'S MILLIONS

    Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt, who perished so heroically on the ill-fated Lusitania, represented the fourth generation of the family of Commodore ...

    Article : 337 words
  3. PREPARING CASUALTY LISTS.

    The recording and reporting of casualties with the Army at its present size is not easy. It is rendered all the more difficult by the confusion ...

    Article : 342 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 970 words
  5. ABOUT BULGARIA.

    Bulgaria has an area of about 43,300 square miles—less than a third of the size of the United Kingdom—and a population of just over ...

    Article : 215 words
  6. NATIONAL DEBTS.

    One result of the war has been to send up the National Debts of the various countries engaged by leaps and bounds during the eight months ...

    Article : 215 words
  7. REST CURE FOR RAZORS.

    Barbers tell us the razor gets tired and is improved after a rest. This is true in a scientific sense. It is not exactly a rest that the razor needs, ...

    Article : 230 words
  8. TIMEKEEPING PECULIARITIES.

    People who wonder why their watches occasionally exhibit vagaries, may be interested in the paper which Mr. J. J. Shaw, who assisted the late ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. THE BURMESE SHERLOCK HOLMES.

    Possessed of the woodcraft of the American Indian, and an unerring sense of direction which amounts to almost a sixth sense, Shinebo Won, ...

    Article : 243 words
  10. OPPORTUNITY.

    Capacity seldom lacks opportunity. The mail who has anything in him creates opportunities for himself. Opportunity with ability makes ...

    Article : 135 words
  11. Much Too Safe.

    When young Trotter left school his father started him as an apprentice in a motor factory. After a couple of months, however, ...

    Article : 193 words
  12. Both Surprised.

    The church people planned a surprise for Mr. Hamilton, the town undertaker, on his fiftieth anniversary as a member of the Joyville Presbyterian ...

    Article : 162 words
  13. LESSON IN NEUTRALITY.

    There is a paper published in Minneapolis called the "Better Way." The following appeared in it the other day:— ...

    Article : 239 words
  14. SOME PROVERBS OF THE SERBIANS.

    Better in the grave than be a slave. Stride rather over my grave than my body. ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. High Stakes.

    In a certain town there once lived a couple of young fellows who had gone into partnership in a barber's business, and in order to pass the time ...

    Article : 145 words
  16. Told Her So Before.

    A marriage was taking place at a little country church, the couple being elderly people. The man was very deaf—so deaf, in fact, that he could ...

    Article : 122 words
  17. "G.K.C.'s Gentle Hint.

    Mr. G. K. Chesterton can be very witty in private life. Once, when he was at a dinnerparty, the hostess did not give the ...

    Article : 251 words
  18. So Far.

    An old darkey was taken ill, and called in a physician of his own race. After a time, as there were no signs of his improvement, he asked for a ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. The Straight Tip.

    A commercial traveller having arrived at a certain country station, a hungry-looking porter rushed up for his luggage. ...

    Article : 178 words
  20. Light and Shade.

    A smell of buns and cakes and newly-baked loaves pervaded the shop as Mrs. Maggins entered, a business-like old lady in cape and ...

    Article : 220 words
  21. Let Out.

    "A woman just can't keep a secret," he declared, opposing a statement. "Oh, I don't know," contradicted the fluttery lady. "I've kept my age a ...

    Article : 82 words
  22. Joseph's Real Vocation.

    "Joseph," said the grocer to his new boy, "what have you been doing in the back room so long?" "Pickin' the dead flies out of the ...

    Article : 74 words
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