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  2. A PRICELESS NAVAL SECRET.

    It is the common belief nowadays that the nation which possesses the largest ships and the finest and the most deadly guns is the nation that ...

    Article : 269 words
  3. A STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.

    A daring ride by a young soldier during the American Civil War has been recently described in the American Press. ...

    Article : 649 words
  4. A SECRET SERVICE (All Rights Reserved.) CHAPTER XIX.

    Ida was amused at Valerie Brune's enthusiasm. She had reached the stage at which surprises were becoming a matter of course. Throughout ...

    Article : 1,965 words
  5. POPULAR SONGS.

    A popular song is a mess of words and music which has become epidemic and cannot he stamped out. A song becomes popular just as ...

    Article : 361 words
  6. TENNYSON'S APOLOGY.

    Here is a tale of Tennyson, told by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A., who once went to Freshwater for the purpose of getting sittings for a portrait ...

    Article : 238 words
  7. GREAT MEN'S EYES.

    It seems that at last genius is discovered not to be allied to insanity, but that rather all its eccentricities are due to eye strain. ...

    Article : 282 words
  8. THE LONGEST DAY.

    How brief the longest day! The glowing sun that seeks the westera skies, The fickle cuckoo calling as she flies, ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. SHACKLETON STORIES.

    "On our expedition," writes Sir Ernest Shackleton in 'Antarctic Days,' "we had a learned professor and geologist who has undoubtedly ata ...

    Article : 248 words
  10. CHAPTER XX.

    Arnott was available and would come around at once if Miss Brune wished to see him. He had just returned from the office of hiss ...

    Article : 1,904 words
  11. A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.

    The story of a Glasgow fish salesman's peculiar escape from financial ruin is perhaps worthy of more than its present private circulation. His ...

    Article : 186 words
  12. LONELY GRAVES.

    Probably the loneliest grave whose site is actually known is the one in which lies Captain Scott and his brave comrades among the white desolation ...

    Article : 343 words
  13. GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

    The world, they say, is gettin' old an' weary as can be, But write me down as sayin', It's good enough for me! ...

    Article : 196 words
  14. SLEEP.

    Sleep is a mysterious thing; very little is really known about the physical processes that cause it. It comes and goes like a rising and falling tide; ...

    Article : 257 words
  15. The Law's Humor.

    There is always a special piquancy about the legal joke, perhaps owing to the usual solemnity of the circumstances in which it is made. Here is ...

    Article : 271 words
  16. The Bishop's Protest.

    Bishop Oliphant, of Llandaff, had a well-to-do young man as curate who had rather sporting instincts. He kept his own horses, and always ...

    Article : 157 words
  17. CARE OF THE FEET.

    The feet are such hard-worked members of the body that they deserve careful treatment. Frequent bathing keeps them from being tired andl ...

    Article : 119 words
  18. Butchers!

    Doctor Porritt was called to a butcher's shop to examine some meat that had been condemned by the medical officer as unfit for human ...

    Article : 67 words
  19. Quite Simple.

    Boston Five-Year-Old: Father, what is the exact meaning of the verse beginning "Jack Sprat could eat no fat"? ...

    Article : 158 words
  20. A Slave to Propriety.

    "I beg your pardon," be said after they had been formally introduced to each other, "for speaking to you when I arrived. I thought you were Mrs. ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. A CURE FOR HICCOUGHS.

    Fill a glass tumbler with clear, cold water and place on a table. Then let the patient stand where he or she can look directly into the glass, and fix the ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. True or—

    A New York Rabbi, who is very popular as a preacher, is given to embellishing his sermons with anecdotal illustrations, and at dinner recently ...

    Article : 117 words
  23. CHAPTER XXI.

    At the moment the child's implication of bad faith did not strike Ida, for here was something in the way of good fortune which she had ...

    Article : 1,862 words
  24. Tied Down For Life.

    "Would you go on living with your wife if she gave you cause to be jealous of her?" "Sure. Her father always sends our ...

    Article : 47 words
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