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  2. STORYETTRS.

    William White was a Tennessean and a lad of champion optimistic calibre, as a visitor to the hamlet discovered. It seems that William White's brother had killed a man in ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  3. CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.

    Dr Friedrich Naumann, a well-known member of the Beichstag, and a leader of the Radical Party, has been lecturing in Germany on the economics of the war (says the ...

    Article : 408 words
  4. THE TWELFTH CRIME.

    Stili, if it did nothing else, Olive's perplexing action went far to prove that his last theory wag correct, and that, so far from being forcibly ...

    Article : 2,032 words
  5. A MAN WHO SAW HIS HEART OPENED.

    War stirs a strange conflict of emotion in the human tragic. It is tragic and heroic, high and low, noble and mean. It brings out the most glorious and the moat sordid ...

    Article : 597 words
  6. SAYINGS OF THE WAR.

    The trage[?]y and the epie of Servia has been finely set out in a leading article in the New York "Trib[?]," which does honor to that great journal:— ...

    Article : 227 words
  7. 300 TEARS AGO.

    "Oddly enough, too, it is the second time that Servia, has held the gate against the enemy. Five hundred years and more ago there was a civilised Servia, with laws and courts, ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. WHAT NEXT

    "Recruiting Sergeant: 'Why haven't you joined" "Weedy Person: 'Cos I'm on war [?]vice "Rocruiting S[?]gtant: What are you ...

    Article : 40 words
  9. NOT IN VAIN.

    "Yet Servia's sacrifice was not in vain. The Osmanli host, although victorious, was [?]lted for a precious year by Servia's self-immolation. "More than that, thousands of Serbe left ...

    Article : 240 words
  10. A DAY OF JUDGMENT.

    "King George's appeal is the last opportunity offered to the shirker to 'find salvation,' and to make of himself a man. This is a, veritable Day of Judgment, and the ordeal of ...

    Article : 51 words
  11. MR. BELLOC'S ESTIMATE

    "If you weigh all the scales against the Allies, you arrive at the date when the eaemy's effectives will decline at somewhere about the turn of the New Year or very little later. Say ...

    Article : 49 words
  12. EFFECT OF "NO TREATING."

    Very remarkable and far-reaching has been the result in Greater London of the "no treating" order which has now been in operation for three weeks (says the "Daily News" ...

    Article : 356 words
  13. TOWARDS CONSTANTINOPLE.

    "Responsible citizens of both parties, whatever their previous views, must prepare them selves for the probability that within a short period from now German supplies of all kinds ...

    Article : 44 words
  14. A ZEPPELIN HIT.

    "It is not, I think, generally known that the Zeppelin which came here fire weeks ago was actually hit while over London, and that a piece of it, picked up by the police, is now ...

    Article : 56 words
  15. STORM AGAIN.

    "Now, after five centuries and a half, the storm has come again. A new Kossovo, like that for which for half a thousand years the Serb of the Black Mountain has worn a ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. WOMAN WITH WONDERFUL EYES.

    "I sha1l always remember Miss Cavell br her eyes,' said Miss Bennet Burleigh. 'I can recall, as vi[?]idly as if I had just seen them, how fearlessly they looked out at the world.' " ...

    Article : 41 words
  17. SIR EDWARD GREY.

    "We need no statesman whatever more than we need Sir Edward Grey, who still inspires more trust in the Balkans as a whole and more of the world's respect than any other ...

    Article : 122 words
  18. NO MORE LUMP.

    "Gone is the traditional question of your hostess, 'How many pieces ?' It has been replaced by a 'How many spoonfuls, please ?' which a really a much more awkward thing to ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. BOOKER WASHINGTON'S LIFE WORK.

    The death of Booker Wa[?]hington, at the age of 56, is a grievous blow to the negro community throughout America (says "The Times"). The loss of his influence and his ...

    Article : 299 words
  20. OVERHEARD.

    "Soldier, after trying hard to get slacker to join: 'Well, if I get them to fight with bladders will you got"—"Daily Sk[?]teh." ...

    Article : 26 words
  21. DEAR AUNTIE!

    "John: 'The French have gained 100 metres from the [?]nemy.' "Anntie: 'How splendid! That should help to put a stop to these dreadful gas attacksl" ...

    Article : 28 words
  22. WHY NOT OLDER MEN!

    "When recruits are urgently needed is this country it seems strange that we do not act as all the other belligerent countries are, I believe, acting, and call to the colours active ...

    Article : 46 words
  23. A NAVAL BATTLE.

    "The men of the British Fleet hare had their Toulon; and if the Potsdam pirates can master a tithe of the courage which inspired the Admiral of France, a second and more ...

    Article : 47 words
  24. OUR NAVY.

    "On every hand the enemy is encompassed by sea-power. It twines about him as the snakes about Lancoon and his sons"—"Standard." ...

    Article : 28 words
  25. GERMANY'S LARGE RESERVE IN MEN.

    Sir Eric Swayne, Director of Recruiting, North of England, is authority for the statement that German has still from nine to ten million men between the ages of eighteen and ...

    Article : 102 words
  26. CUBES FOR DEPRESSION.

    "Said a corporal in the Army Service Corps in a letter to his father: 'You at home can only watch and wait, and pray for our success.' That prescription, well mixed with ...

    Article : 47 words
  27. WOMEN AT THEIR KNITTING.

    "They go this winter to work again, not as last winter, in anxious ignorance of loss, but knowing well what loss is, and seeing all the more clearly that they must persevere till the ...

    Article : 41 words
  28. GERMAN LOOKS AHEAD.

    "Far from being short of anything that she requires, she is perfectly prepared to carry on the conflict for the next two years, and at this moment she is asiduously preparing ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. AFTER THE WAR.

    "You may think as you read the news of these days that the Hun will never dare show his cropped head in a civilised land. I know Mueller better than that. I know how thick ...

    Article : 56 words
  30. WORKS ITS OWN REMEDY.

    A New York judge has recently declared against the driving of automobiles by women. He says women are not up to the job—that they have not enough masculine steadiness. ...

    Article : 84 words
  31. NEW AT THE J0B!

    "A company of Territorials were practising communications. One message was: 'Hard pressed on left; send reinforcements at once.' To the amazement of the receiving officer, this ...

    Article : 50 words
  32. ENTER THE LANDLADY.

    "Mary Jane 'Yes, mum, you may well aniff, it's the lodgers that's started smokin' thick twist. The war's comin' 'ome to us now, ain't it' "—"Passing Show." ...

    Article : 32 words
  33. ONCE FOR A.I.

    "There is no doing this thing 'rather more or less-' Either we win out-and-out or our candlestick as a great and free nation will be removed from its place for ever."—" ...

    Article : 38 words
  34. ANOTHER GERMAN PLAN.

    "Hundreds of films for neutral countries, showing the Germans as tender-hearted and chivalrous, have been sent out. In such film plays the French girl always ends up by ...

    Article : 43 words
  35. TRULY FEMININE.

    "What do you know about women[?]" asked the first young husband. "Nothing," responded the second young ditto. I guns I don't, either," rejoined the ...

    Article : 112 words
  36. PROGRESS.

    The moving pictures baring at length totally eliminated the regular drama, it no longer became necessary for actors to know how to use their voices. As the stag was the only place ...

    Article : 137 words
  37. FERDINAND OF BULGARIA.

    "The face, with its little, crafty, halfclosed eyes, is that of a man whom you feel at once you would not care to trust. He has abominable habit of smothering himself ...

    Article : 42 words
  38. THE LADY MOTOR DRIVER.

    "The tactful girl will soon realise that an endless stock of good humour and a smiling face will do infinitely more than the affectation of masculine clothes and manners. To ...

    Article : 62 words
  39. HIS MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY.

    "A lady I know had a birthday cake sent to her by her son at the front. It was real Scotch shortbread, made by the captain's soldier serrant. It was baked in a petrol tin." ...

    Article : 42 words
  40. SHE LOSES LIFE.

    "If Service falls she does not lose independence merely. She does not lose provinces, economic independence or political liberties. She loses life. ...

    Article : 149 words
  41. TRUE!

    "What makes you think we'll have better times when the war is over" " 'Well, for one thing, all these men who do nothing but stand around discussing the ...

    Article : 47 words
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