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  2. "TICKET SUSPENDED".

    She crawled over it almost as easily as a snake over a stick. There was nothing but a slow shudder that ran through her from stem to stern ...

    Article : 765 words
  3. THE MAGIC NORTH.

    Much as the advice that is dinned into the ears of intending emigrants to Canada is “Go West,” so I believe the cry of the future in ...

    Article : 676 words
  4. BANKERS AND MASONS.

    The Freemason, of course, is bound by solemn oaths—the terms of which must not be set down here—not to reveal the secrets of the craft, these ...

    Article : 482 words
  5. FATHER OF THE CINEMA.

    Considerable discussion has been going on for some time past as to who originated the cinema. Many claimants to the distinction have come ...

    Article : 363 words
  6. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

    I was at Bournemouth a few weeks ago, and while walking on the sands with my brother I was appealed to by a distracted mother who had lost ...

    Article : 242 words
  7. A CYCLING PREDICAMENT.

    During my holiday last year proved the veracity of the phrase: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” One morning, alone with a ...

    Article : 293 words
  8. THE PHANTOM SNAKE

    The following amusing incident happened many years ago to my parents, and was related to me by my father in after years. ...

    Article : 524 words
  9. THE PANAMA CANAL.

    Should the Panama Canal be fortified? Certainly the United States have a right to do it, since self defence is the first law of Nature; for ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. A MURDER TRIAL

    To the trained mind of the lawyer an intricate case, in which only civil interests are involved, provides perhaps the fullest opportunity for ...

    Article : 573 words
  11. THE VANISHING WALTZ.

    No one with any sense of humour can stand at the corner of a presentday ballroom and not be moved to mirth by the weird evolutions of the ...

    Article : 444 words
  12. A MEMORABLE SHOOT.

    One November day, when I was about eighteen, I met with an accident which I am not likely to forget. I had been out shooting early in the ...

    Article : 346 words
  13. KNOWS HOW HE LOOKS.

    A man, but lately married, went out to post a letter, and as the lamps had not been lit in the suburban road in which he dwelt, he ...

    Article : 323 words
  14. HANDED HIM THE LAUREL.

    The Prevaricators Society af Ballarat and Woolloomooloo was proceeding in peace and harmony, till the snake story man spoke. "Some ...

    Article : 188 words
  15. THE WORD "CROWD.”

    Do you know how many words in the English language mean 'crowd'? To a foreigner, anxious to master the language, it was explained that ...

    Article : 506 words
  16. ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE.

    William T. Lewis, the well-known automobilist, was talking lately about the 25,000-mile automobile trip, he had just made in Europe. ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. TOO REALISTIC MANOEUVRES.

    The following incident happened some years ago during manoeuvres in a Southern county. We were having a divisional field day on some ...

    Article : 452 words
  18. A REMEDY!

    Little four year old Billy was visiting his neighbour, Jerry. Billy showed every evidence of a bad cold. Jerry’s mother asked with grave ...

    Article : 115 words
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