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  2. TEN MINUTES.

    We are but minutes—little things—Each one furnished with sixty wings, With which we fly on our unseen track, And not a minute ever comes back. ...

    Article : 116 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    When a girl advises a man to marry some other woman, she is usually only trying to find out his sentiments toward. ...

    Article : 498 words
  4. MY OLD-FASHIONED AUNT.

    Aunt Madeline is, I suppose, an old maid, but there is no blight of disappointment upon her life. She has never loved, and her heart is still fresh with the dew ...

    Article : 1,349 words
  5. WHAT IS CORAL?

    More than wonderful, and differing from every gem or stone used in similar ways, is coral in production and growth. It might be called a ...

    Article : 508 words
  6. THE HAND UPON THE LATCH

    "It's a dark day, Barnabas. A very dark day!" "It is nothing of the sort. You always take such a gloomy view of ...

    Article : 2,792 words
  7. REIGNING MONARCHS.

    Oscar the Second, King of Sweden and Norway, is, perhaps, the most unorthodox of reigning monarchs. Could he have had his way kingship is about ...

    Article : 1,307 words
  8. DYING LIKE A MAN.

    How long Bones, the vagabond, had been a country tramp before he reached London could only be guessed at by the butchers and fishmongers of Applegate ...

    Article : 1,698 words
  9. A TALE OF AUSTRALIA'S CONVICT DAYS.

    A settler in New South Wales was missing from his small farm. His overseer (a convict) gave out that he had gone off privately to England, and left the ...

    Article : 622 words
  10. PROMPT PEOPLE.

    Don't live a single hour of your life without doing exactly what is to be done in it, and going straight through it from beginning to end. Work, play, ...

    Article : 253 words
  11. "GUM-ARABIC."

    In the course of Mark Twain's visit to Egypt he engaged two Arab guides and set out for the pyramids. He was familiar enough with Arabic, he thought, ...

    Article : 113 words
  12. GIVE AND TAKE.

    When one member of a family has better ideas than the others of the way things should be done, he needs to put a guard upon his spirit that he does not ...

    Article : 301 words
  13. HE STAYED.

    "Well, good night, Miss A—," said a young man the other evening to a Dwightville girl whom he was visiting. "I think it is better for me to go. I ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. TAKING THE WORDS.

    The skilled reporter heard a famous vocalist sing "Wait till the clouds roll by, Jenny,' and as he wanted a copy of the song, he took down the words ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. CELERY GROWING.

    Probably the best method of growing celery for profit is without trenches. The ground should be made very rich with stable manure, put on the ground ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. FRIENDSHIP.

    Small friendships of daily commonplace We hold together, dear, constrained to go Diverging ways. Yet day by day I ...

    Article : 236 words
  17. HELPING THE MAIDS.

    During the War of the Revolution, while the American and British armies were contending in the Pennsylvania, General Washington was in the ...

    Article : 305 words
  18. AN EDITOR'S PERQUISITE.

    A plump fowl arrived at a certain newspaper office and was regarded as a present from some subscriber. Every member of the staff hoped to be ...

    Article : 78 words
  19. THE TZAR'S KINDNESS.

    The Tsar of Russia, whose humanity is well known, often over-rules the narrow officialism of the ecclesiastical circles in Russia. ...

    Article : 114 words
  20. LIVING HARDER THAN DYING.

    Dying is easy; it is living that is hard. Dying is simply ceasing to struggle; living is to continue to struggle, and to suffer, and to endure. But lying ...

    Article : 79 words
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