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  2. GENERALITIES.

    "I am inexpressibly sorry, Mr. Smithers," she said, "to learn that when you called the other day Tiger bit you." "Oh, that's all right," he said, with a forced effort to be ...

    Article : 831 words
  3. POETRY. FOR GREECE AND CRETE.

    Storm and shame and fraud and darkness fill the nations full with night; Hope and fear whose eyes yearn eastward have but fire and sword in sight; ...

    Article : 203 words
  4. THE HUMORIST. THE BOOTJACK CURE.

    It was a sad scene. The old man lay on his bed, and by him sat the faithful wife holding his worn hand in hers, and forcing back the tears to greet his wandering look with a smile. ...

    Article : 203 words
  5. THE STORY-TELLER.

    "No; I tell you candidly I have neither grudge nor prejudice against him; he is a steady, honest, young fellow, but shiftless, shiftless! There seems no go nor ambition ...

    Article : 1,505 words
  6. SPEAKING OF LONG AGO.

    TO-DAY, as I pen these lines, one picture from the long-vanished past rises in my memory as clearly as though it hung on a wall before my very eyes. It is of a boy about ...

    Article : 836 words
  7. BETSY WAS NO BEAUTY.

    An old Yorkshire collier, well known for his success in the coursing field, surprised his mates by marrying a very unprepossessing woman. He had always been reckoned a ...

    Article : 141 words
  8. ALL FOR LOVE.

    She is quite a little child. Whose gay laughter, undefiled, Cometh rippling with its joy-waves through the air. And the laughter wins my heart ...

    Article : 209 words
  9. TWO AMERICAN YARNS.

    At a recent dinner in New York Chauncey M. Depew, the well-known orator, told two good stories. Noah Webster, the great dictionary maker, ...

    Article : 171 words
  10. AN OLD PICTURE.

    Within a room in my cottage home, A picture hangs upon the wall; Of all the relics that I have, I love this one beyond them all. ...

    Article : 259 words
  11. HE WAS AN ARTIST.

    "There is a great difference between the seafaring man of to-day and of twenty years ago," said the man of many voyages. "Formerly the seafaring man was a sailor, ...

    Article : 164 words
  12. SATISFACTORY.

    The sort of sentiment which the French system of mariages de convinance, or, in plain English, of marriage for money, produces is well illustrated by a story which a French ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. THE BUTTERFLY.

    "Just think, Flo, I saw a butterfly, The first I have seen this year; Gladly I watched it fluttering by As I was coming down here." ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. A TIMETABLE OF THE COMMON VIRTUES.

    Godliness—Sunday. Righteousness—See Humility. Sobriety—Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday morning. ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. HE FORBAD THE BANNS.

    In a parish Church a precentor was reading out the proclamations of marriage, when a man got up in the middle of the Church and cried out—"I forbid the banns." "And what ...

    Article : 73 words
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  17. PAT'S NEW COLLAR BUTTON.

    A private soldier's washing at a home station is usually done by the married soldiers' wives, who are expected to sew on missing buttons and do general repairs. ...

    Article : 176 words
  18. Advertising

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    Advertising : 13 words
  19. THE LAWYER LET HIM ALONE.

    It is related of George Clark, the celebrated negro minstrel, that being examined as a witness, he was severely interrogated by the attorney, who wished to break down his ...

    Article : 124 words
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