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  2. NOTES ON NEWS.

    America has produced another marvel. Mr. Emile Racholet, a French naturallsed American, has invented and demonstrated in London a flying train, which ...

    Article : 192 words
  3. OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

    It is impossible to say whether any man is happy. ...

    Article : 11 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 486 words
  5. MELBOURNE'S SAFETY VALVE.

    High above a thin haze of dust a flag was fluttering—a flag as red as a geranium petal, stained hero and there with long use, and made fast with cords to ...

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  6. THE CHOICE.

    Which institution would a democratic country more readily dispense with Parliament or its Press. ...

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  7. NOT A GOOD TEST.

    Any, man to-day who judges the religion of the people by Church attendance does not know much about the people. ...

    Article : 34 words
  8. NEWFOUNDLAND SEALERS.

    The deplorable calamity that overtook Newfoundland seal-fishers leads a recent writer to recall that, though cod-fishing had been an industry in Newfoundland ...

    Article : 402 words
  9. ROADS TO SUCCESS.

    There are two royal roads to success in the House of Commons. One is to abuse the lawyers and the other is to drop your "h's." ...

    Article : 32 words
  10. THE DEAD HAND.

    The causes of unemployment among dramatists are largely the competition of the dead, and, above all of the distant. ...

    Article : 24 words
  11. MUDDLE AND MISERY.

    It is my deepest conviction that 95 per cent. of the misery of the civilised world to absolutely due to muddle. ...

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  12. SUNDAY CLOSING REJECTED.

    A week or two ago the House of Lords passed without a division the second reading of a Bill for regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. The ...

    Article : 290 words
  13. RELIGION AND POLITICS.

    One cannot separate truce religion from polities—the politics which aims at the betterment of the people to-day. That is the teaching of Christ himself, Nations ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. NO POLITICS IN THE NAVY.

    The navy knows no politics. Neither the officers nor the men have any other duty to perform but to obey to the best of their ability the orders which they receive, no ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. THE POINT OF VIEW.

    This morning when I took up one newspaper I read in it that I had delivered a powerful and impressive statement in the House of Lords the previous day, and on ...

    Article : 53 words
  16. CONQUERING SENTIMENT.

    Sentiment appears to be dominating every other influence and to have obliterated from the minds of certain public men, clerical and lay, the virtue of truth. ...

    Article : 31 words
  17. THE ARMY CRISIS.

    The most detailed statement furnished by any member of the British Government on the recent army crisis was given by Colonel Seely, ex-Minister for War, ...

    Article : 503 words
  18. NOT NEGOTIABLE.

    Unfortunately artists are unable to raise money on the security of their acquiring well-deserved recognition 250 years hence. ...

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  19. RELIEF OF LOCAL RATES.

    The most interesting part of the Budget to these who are not called upon to pay the super-tax is the beginning made in tacking the reform of local taxation. A ...

    Article : 200 words
  20. THE LIFE OF A SAILOR.

    A sailor's lot nowadays is no enviable one, for in the event of war there are the aircraft to throw bombs from above, the submarines to fire missiles from below, ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. THE PATRIOT'S AIM.

    I want to put to you the duty which lies upon us as patriotic Englishmen. It is not that our country can get all that it can out of the world. The politicians ...

    Article : 80 words
  22. OUR GROWING WEALTH.

    There are so many croakers about that it is refreshing to hear of somebody who believes that things are about as right as they can be in this country of ours. ...

    Article : 204 words
  23. THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

    There appears to be a national tendency towards frivolity and pleasure-seeking, which has greatly increased during the last decade with a corresponding neglect ...

    Article : 48 words
  24. THE MARK OF A GENTLEMAN.

    I never met anyone who was a real gentleman in England who did not more or less love horses. ...

    Article : 26 words
  25. SUNDAY GAMES.

    There can be no objection to Sunday games on the ground of doctrine, and no theologian would contend that such games were a breach of duty. ...

    Article : 32 words
  26. ROSES IN THE THEATRE.

    For my own part, I go to the theatre not to pick holes, but to pluck roses. I go to the theatre to enjoy myself. ...

    Article : 32 words
  27. AN UNJUST SYSTEM.

    I have often thought our system, confining as it does, the opportunities for coming to the front in the battle of life to a comparative narrow class, withholding ...

    Article : 65 words
  28. VOTES AND INSURANCE.

    The chairman of the National Deposit Friendly Society has given some good advice to politicians who do their utmost to make political capital out of the ...

    Article : 234 words
  29. OUR MISTAKES.

    All the great mistakes in life are due not to deliberate calculation so much as to the carrying force of an hour's Impulse. ...

    Article : 27 words
  30. LORD MERSEY.

    Fearlessness is an attribute of Lancashire, and Lord Mersey, who figured as the head of the inquiry into the Titanic disaster in 1912, and will now take part ...

    Article : 475 words
  31. A NEWSPAPER HOLIDAY.

    Would the world be better off or would the world be worse off if for a limited time—say a fortnight or perhaps for a month—there was a complete and ...

    Article : 38 words
  32. ONLOOKERS.

    Onlookers proverbially see most of the game: but it would appear from the tone they adopt that they alone see and understand any of it while those who happen to ...

    Article : 45 words
  33. HUNGRY.

    Assistant teachers do not want the crumbs that fall from the table. What we want is the table. ...

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  34. GERMAN ESPIONAGE.

    It is reported that the British naval authorities are confronted with a position made peculiarly difficult by an unprincipled system of espionage on the part of ...

    Article : 294 words
  35. THE DIFFICULT PEOPLE.

    The most difficult people to deal with are Church-going people and teetotallers. ...

    Article : 19 words
  36. INFORMATION WANTED.

    I have not yet found anybody who has been able to tell me of any simple way in which the aeroplane has been of practical use. ...

    Article : 32 words
  37. THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

    The new Australian Navigation Act, if put into force, may probably cause further changes in the steamship services between Europe and Australia (remarks the ...

    Article : 307 words
  38. LAND CRABS YEARLY MARCH.

    It is said that land crabs of the West Indies once every year leave their native home in multitudes, and in regular order march down to the sea, passing over, and ...

    Article : 234 words
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