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  2. SEEK UNKNOWN CONTINENT.

    Plans for the invasion of Crocker Land which was sighted by Peary from Cape Thomas Hubbard in 1906, are rapidly progressing. When the exploration party sails ...

    Article : 311 words
  3. Vengeance!

    Amongst such men discipline and order had to be maintained, and it was severer than ever was seen in any ship that flew the pendant. Men were flogged for the smallest fault that ...

    Article : 3,533 words
  4. A PERFECT VOICE.

    The classic school of English oratory, the decay of which under modern influences occasions the frequent lament of the scholar, is about to suffer a serious deprivation by the ...

    Article : 486 words
  5. DRAMA OF THE OCEAN.

    As thrilling a story of piracy on the high seas as was ever evolved from the fertile brain of the novelist is contained in a despatch from Captain H. H. Sandeman, ...

    Article : 702 words
  6. COUNTING THE STARS.

    Star-counting is no easy task. The enumeration of all visible stars, extending the term to cover those invisible suns that may be caught on the photographic plate, has not ...

    Article : 572 words
  7. VANISHING FORTUNE.

    Mr. Arthur Newton, the well-known London solicitor, who has been professionally engaged in many famous cases of late years, stood in the dock at Bow-street, to answer a charge of conspiracy with a land agent named ...

    Article : 480 words
  8. IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

    The problem of what force is needed for our national defence is still being discussed with vigor. The most helpful suggestion comes from Lord Curzon. He urged in the House of Lords that "there should be ...

    Article : 322 words
  9. DOCTORS AND COBBLERS.

    Does a physician practise medicine primarily for the good of the public, without regard to money reward, or is he in a business like that of cobbling or salesmanship, ...

    Article : 620 words
  10. COMPETITIVE COMMERCIALISM.

    "The heartbreaking accident at Neuilly by Which Isidora Duncan's children and their nurse were drowned was really an accident of competitive commercialism," says the ...

    Article : 158 words
  11. PROFESSIONALISING THE FRENCH ARMY.

    "The French Minister of War hoped to rush the Three Years' Service Bill through Parliament in a few days. He has been disappointed, and the first result of the ...

    Article : 176 words
  12. "OIKEIOMANIA."

    There is a form of insanity, so well recognised that wills have been broken on the strength of it, that takes the form of brutality to those of one's own family when ...

    Article : 247 words
  13. THE SECRET DRAWER.

    A woman's persistent efforts to find a secret drawer in an old-fashioned bureau her husband had bought at an auction sale have resulted in the solution of a mystery regarding the wealth of a Cardiff man who died six years ...

    Article : 172 words
  14. SURPRISE OF LONDON.

    According to Volume 6 of the report of the Census of 1911 London posses far fewer places of worship, fewer hotels (Including Inns and public houses), and fewer Government and municipal buildings per 100,000 ...

    Article : 199 words
  15. RACE OF TWO REGIMENTS.

    A One cross-country race of seven miles, in which over 1200 men of two battalions took part, from the colonels to the last-joined recruit, was run at Aldershot. The race was a sequel to one recently won by the Hampshire ...

    Article : 200 words
  16. SHOT FROM WINDOW.

    At the front gate of a house in Tredegar-road, Bow, a married woman named Harriet Lofthouse, aged about 38, was shot dead. It appears that she was just entering the ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. SIGN OF BLACK HAND.

    Messages left in raided premises intimating that a visit had been paid by "The Black Hand Gang" were read in a police court case at Bolton (England). Among the messages ...

    Article : 167 words
  18. A MAD BUSINESS.

    A severe criticism of the new policy of arming our merchantmen is made by a shipowner in the "Daily News." "So far as arming British liners to protect ...

    Article : 227 words
  19. A RICH MAN'S RELIGION.

    "The opening passages of Mr. Morgan's will ring with the notes of fierce challenge to the invasions of modern thought," says the "Nation," apropos of his statement on ...

    Article : 172 words
  20. "THE HOUND OF HEAVEN."

    Some astonishing facts are given about the sales of Francis Thompson's amazing poem, "The Hound of Heaven." His publishers write to the "Bookseller" about a statement ...

    Article : 152 words
  21. CHIEF SCOUT'S HEALTH.

    General Sir Robert Baden-Powell is about to take a rest care at his Sussex home, "Ewehurst," Robertsbridge. He has been suffering from severe nervous headaches and as he declares that next year is to be the great ...

    Article : 62 words
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  23. RE-TRIAL OF AN ACTION.

    A Divisional Court of King's Bench has ordered a retrial at the action by Mrs. Clement Scott, widow of the dramatic critic, to recover £2500 which she alleged was lent to the defendant, Mr. Henry Burton, managing ...

    Article : 86 words
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