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  2. THE MAN WHO DIDN'T GO BACK.

    Marvin had sent his card to Miss Robertson, and he, waited for her coming with a strange-sense of shame. He had come back from South Africa ...

    Article : 2,642 words
  3. HORTICULTURAL.

    Whether defoliating strawberries is desirable or not is a question which has given rise to much controversy. Moderate removal of the old green leaves is, I ...

    Article : 376 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOR.

    "How do you know he married her for her money?" "I've seen her." Teacher: What is the worst thing about riches? Pupil: Their scarcity. ...

    Article : 1,546 words
  5. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    They say if our beloved dead Should seek the old familiar place, Some stranger would he there instead, And they would find no welcome face. ...

    Article : 246 words
  6. FELL IN.

    During a recent examination in Bible knowledge a teacher asked the infants in her class: "What did Neah do when he came out of the Ark?" ...

    Article : 60 words
  7. THE RECORD TRAIN.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" has had an interesting conversation with the driver of the new express train which the Nord Railway Company ...

    Article : 596 words
  8. HE KNEW.

    Teacher (to scholar): How many does one from three leave? Scholar: Dinna ken, sir. Teacher: It there were three pigeons on your ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. NURSERY NOTES.

    Says an English paper:— When a young baby is troubled with constipation, it will have [?] and colletoo, indicated by violent evying, more or ...

    Article : 932 words
  10. NEVER!

    "Heave a copper to a shipwrecked mariner, governor. Help me to stow my timbers in a decent bunk to-night." "Give you a copper to get drunk with you ...

    Article : 59 words
  11. USEFUL HINTS.

    Melted alum can be used for unitin, metal to glass. Melt it in an iron spoon over the fire. Dry flour rubbed on a carpet and ...

    Article : 552 words
  12. TO OPEN IT.

    The mother of one of our soldiers in the present Boer war was busy packing a box containing food to send to him, and the servant was watching the operation. ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. THREADING THE NEEDLE.

    While a number of the Black Watch Volunteers who were selected for active service in South Africa were practising at Perth, one of them as a tailor to trade—surprised his ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. THE KITCHEN GARDEN.

    It is impossible to obtain good heads of celery unless water can be abundantly applied to the growing crops. When celery is required for use early in the ...

    Article : 266 words
  15. SO HE WAS!

    At the Old Bailey not long ago a man standing in the dock awaiting his trial took out a sandwich and commenced eating it. "Put that away, sir, at once," said the ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. HORSEY.

    Tennyson Brown: Ah, carriage horses are poetical creatures. Shakespeare Smith: You mean with their flowing manes and champing feet? ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. A GRAND WALK.

    Tammas: Surely, Donal', the Engleesh are verra intempereet. I hear tha' in London yonder they've enough publics tae stretch fra heer tae Glasgy! ...

    Article : 34 words
  18. A GOOD FIT.

    An English country dentist made a set of teeth for the bishop of his diocese. He anxiously watched the prelate as he examined himself and his new teeth in the pier-glass, and ...

    Article : 153 words
  19. HIGH HEELS.

    "It seems incredible," says an eminent doctor, "that a sensible woman would wear a shoe with a French heel. She loses freedom of movement and ...

    Article : 279 words
  20. THE FLOWER GARDEN.

    Old plants of pansies should be cut back, and as noon as the young growths appear they should be taken off and inserted under handlights, placed, in a ...

    Article : 335 words
  21. TWO ANSWERS.

    Not long ago a Boston clergyman received an evening call from an elderly man and woman, who expressed a wish to be joined in the bonds of matrimony then and there. ...

    Article : 144 words
  22. HEALTH HINTS.

    Says an English paper:— Bathing is so deliciously invigorating that it does not require much recommendation during the hot months. But it ...

    Article : 710 words
  23. CONVINCED.

    "There ain't no use talkin'," remarked the man with the sidewhiskers and the far-away look, "there is something in this thirteen superstition after all." ...

    Article : 142 words
  24. A PATHETIC STORY.

    At the Southampton Docks there waits, and has waited for nearly a year, a terrier dog. Out on the veldt, under a rough-hewn cross, lies the body of his ...

    Article : 433 words
  25. A DREAM.

    Papa (at the breakfast table): Willie, my boy, why are you looking so thoughtful? Are you not feeling wall? Willie (very seriously): Yes, papa, but I ...

    Article : 215 words
  26. THE CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    Pelargoniums which were cut back some-weeks since, as advised, will soon be ready for potting. Much of the old soil should be shaken away previous to ...

    Article : 396 words
  27. JACK AND THE EDITOR.

    Jack Regers was a newspaper reporter, and broke. He had hung around the Dubuque newspaper offices for a job until he had been requested to move on. He decided to move on ...

    Article : 344 words
  28. COURT ETIQUETTE.

    There is a curtain in a prominent and unusual position on one of the walls of the Romanoff gallery of the White Palace at St. Petersburg, and beneath this ...

    Article : 215 words
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