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  2. THE HEROISM OF THE COMMON SOLDIER AS REVEALED BY THE WAR.

    THE heroism of the common man—man who was just food for powder or food for pikes in olden times—is, in the eyes of Sidney Low, the English writer, the distinguishing ...

    Article : 1,287 words
  3. STORYETIES.

    A professor at a western engineering college says that but for the occasional innovations in the applications of learning, such as the following, for, instance, he would find it ...

    Article : 76 words
  4. THE GREAT INVESTMENT.

    I AM a fair man, even to Huns! When Germany pays an indemnity of £2,000,000,000, I think we ought to knock off a tenner or so because the Kaiser has done so much to beautify ...

    Article : 532 words
  5. EIGHT LITTLE TALES.

    A famous, sculptor who had just completed a magnificent statue said to a friend who was admiring the masterpiece: "Alas, my power is declining." ...

    Article : 90 words
  6. HUMOR PARS.

    "Bomb voyage" is fast supplanting the phrase, "Bon voyage"—Deseret Next. [?] Spouse: You've been drinking again. Souse: I can't eat all the time.—Panther. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 799 words
  7. HOW WOMEN ARE REVLUTIONISING THE INDUSTRIES OF EUROPE.

    IT is estimated that more than million million, women in Germany are now working for a Jiving in factories, on farms and elsewhere, and that nearly two million women are doing ...

    Article : 708 words
  8. OF COURSE THEY DID.

    He was a very little fellow. His mother had brought him with her to the movie show, and straightway forgot all about him. But he didn't know that, and made bis presence ...

    Article : 193 words
  9. THE BIG LITTLE THING.

    A wealthy, man, whose whole life was engrossed in increasing his riches, went to a philosopher and complained that ho got no pleasure out of life and found the world a ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. A CRITICAL AUDIENCE.

    When the first "musical soloist" was added to the year's programme of the "Bushby, Entertainment Course," there were grave misgivings as to the way in which he would ...

    Article : 282 words
  11. THE LAW IN A NUTSHELL.

    A heathen went to one of the famous rabbis of old and asked to be taught the whole of the law while be rested upon ono foot. The rabbi was indignant, and turned him away ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. THE SEASON.

    The mistress of the bouse entered the butler's pantry quietly. "James!" she said severely. The butler looked up with a guilty flush. "James," she ...

    Article : 66 words
  13. THE ONLY WAY.

    An Eastern prince who was often remonstrated with by his father for his evil way of life invariably made tho excuse that, while he desired to do right, he did not know how ...

    Article : 173 words
  14. BAILING SOUP.

    An old captain and his mate, feeling hungry, went into a restaurant and ordered dinner. The waiter placed a plate, of thin, watery-looking liquid before each. ...

    Article : 74 words
  15. WHY HE CAME THERE.

    Doctor Hauteur gazed at the medicant curled up in ono of his office chairs. "What do you want?" he demanded, "I'd like a bottle of medicine," explained ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. IN A QUANDARY.

    A new regulation in a certain coal-mine required that each man mark with chalk, the number of every car of coal mined. One man named Rudolph, having filled the ...

    Article : 77 words
  17. MORE DISCIPLINE.

    "Yes, sir," said Sergeant Wally, accepting one of my cigarettes and readjusting his wounded leg, "yes, sir, discipline's the thing. It's only when a man moves on the word o' ...

    Article : 378 words
  18. A FINE DAY.

    A wag who was sitting opposite a very staal and severe-looking old gentelman in a railway carriage kept gazing out of the window and rubbing bis hands together, as ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. HALF-WAY.

    As a gentleman was having bis luncheon in the coffce-room of a certain largo hotel he was much annoyed by another visitor, who during the whole of the meal stood with his ...

    Article : 75 words
  20. THOSE AWFUL AUSTRALIANS.

    The following story concerning one of those "awful Australians" and one of Great Britain's crack regiments, the Guards, comes from the French front. The men of the ...

    Article : 264 words
  21. THE CONQUEROR.

    Room for me, greybeards, room, make room! Menace me not with your eyes of gloom; Jostle me not from the place I seek, For my arms are strong and your own are ...

    Article : 252 words
  22. THE MAN WITH A HOUSE TO SELL.

    A man wax anxious to Bell his house, and mentioned it to some other men in whoso company he happened to be. "What is the house like?" asked one. ...

    Article : 70 words
  23. CAPITAL AND EXPERIENCE.

    A man noted for his sharp practices announced that br was going into business. "But I thought you had no capital," said a listener. ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. AUSTRALIA IN THE WAS.

    ANXIETY was felt on our entrance into the war as to its effect on business and advertising. Fair of a halt in prosperity resulted in a hesitaney throughout the country, a feeling which ...

    Article : 392 words
  25. THE TWO POETS.

    A boastful youth, who thought he could write poetry, was one day bragging before a gathering of intelligent people, and explaining how much moro quickly ho could produce ...

    Article : 84 words
  26. NOTHING IN A NAME.

    "Look here, waiter," sold Mr. Grouch, scowling deeply over his plato, "I ordered turtle soup. Thoro ain't even a morsel of turtle flavor in this." ...

    Article : 76 words
  27. KEEP A COOL HEAD.

    There is always the possibility of a strike collapsing suddenly. The larger the ramifications the greater the possibility. Herein is the weak spot of the ono big union idea. ...

    Article : 211 words
  28. A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE.

    A RECENT issue of the Berlin Taglicha Rundschau prints a harrowing tale of street life in Berlin. "Before the Berlin Assize Court," states the news item, "four [?] women were ...

    Article : 285 words
  29. THE KAISER OVERLOOKS SOMETHING.

    THE Kaiser has given to the Hohenzoliern Museum in Berlin the gold pen with which he signed the mobilisation order of July, 1914. This is a good gift, as for as it goes; but ...

    Article : 259 words
  30. FOR THE GERMANS.

    General Sir O'Moore Creagh, V.C., tells a good story of a certain party of the Volunthe Whole of one sunday morning in learning the art of bridge-building. For the last hour ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. THE TREE OF MOURNING.

    Everybody knows that the cypress is a symbol of mourning, but this fact is seldom acted upon. In Italy, however, It is difficult to find a churchyard which dees not contain ...

    Article : 79 words
  32. THEORY AND PRACTICE.

    "James, dear, will you bring me up a scuttle of coals from the cellar?" said a buoy Newcastle wife to her husband a few nights ago. ...

    Article : 234 words
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