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  2. BETWEEN FRIENDS.

    It is a common saying with many persons that in business there is no friendship. That is to say, these persons decline to allow considerations ...

    Article : 904 words
  3. MY NEIGHBOR.

    Sorry, I'm sure. It is just what I ought to do, Also I'd do it, I know, if I could, Still it is something I cannot be ...

    Article : 234 words
  4. THE POULTRY YARD.

    Among the necessities of the poultry-breeder is crushed bone. This comes in three forms: One as a finelyground product, called bone meal one ...

    Article : 460 words
  5. STORMY HALL, Or "THE REWARD OF CONSTANCY." CHAPTER XXXIII.

    Sir Roger was dawdling over a late breakfast when his man brought him a card. "Show Mr. Stanton up," he said, ...

    Article : 1,216 words
  6. THE BIG-HEARTED RACE OF THE FUTURE.

    The man of the future may hot be any more generous or charitable than the man of to-day, but, literally speaking, he will have a much bigger heart. ...

    Article : 539 words
  7. CHAPTER XXXIV

    In the gorgeous room where Bessie Lang had been a captive a group of dark-skinned men were engaged in stormy discussion; the room was now ...

    Article : 1,575 words
  8. CHAPTER XXXV

    It was a long plunge. Would he ever rise to the surface? Nick struggled fiercely for breath possessed with but one idea, to live, so as to ...

    Article : 1,409 words
  9. IMPORTANT PURCHASE OF HIGHCLASS RAMS.

    A flock of which more is likely to be heard in the near future is that owned by Mr. John A. Macfarlane, of Ben Lomond estate, Hawkes Bay, N.Z. ...

    Article : 219 words
  10. WHAT EVERY BOY SHOULD. LEARN.

    We have said that every boy, especially one on a farm, should know how to tie a square knot. We still hold to the opinion that to tie a ...

    Article : 762 words
  11. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

    Too many men mistake conspicuousness for greatness. When you see a mountain pass it stays right where it is. ...

    Article : 185 words
  12. CLEVER FAT MEN.

    It is frequently averred that fat is deadening to the brain, and consequently a foe to intellectual activity. But is this so? Some of the greatest ...

    Article : 184 words
  13. TO ENCOURAGE NEATNESS.

    There is a movement in Belgium organised for the encouragement of neatness and thrift among working women. It is called the Concours de ...

    Article : 295 words
  14. A Bad Lot.

    When charged with being drunk and disorderly and asked what he had to say for himself, the prisoner, [?]azed pensively at the magistrate, ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. The Qualifications.

    In an Irish Court an old man was called into the witness-box, and, be-, ing a little blind, instead of going up the stairs that led to the box he ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. GRAINS OF TRUTH.

    Manipulating speculators have suc-, ceeded at various times in cornering all the markets of foodstuffs-except the grain of truth. ...

    Article : 209 words
  17. Favorite Fiction.

    "This preparation will positively restore hair to bald heads." "Performance begins promptly at 8 o'clock p.m." ...

    Article : 366 words
  18. STILL A "BEST SELLER."

    Three hundred years this month there was published in London a Book which sprang at once into the ranks of the "best sellers," and has since ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. CURIOSITIES IN INVENTION.

    Perpetual motion is the subject of many patents, as are devices for waking sleeping persons. One of these is arranged in such a way that if the ...

    Article : 220 words
  20. Shocked the Guard.

    Many years ago a well-known Scotch nobleman went out to one of our smaller dependencies to take up an official position under the Governor. ...

    Article : 265 words
  21. DUTCH DISTANCE.

    To measure distances one usually speaks of miles or leagues or some other established length, but some old Hollanders have another sort of ...

    Article : 106 words
  22. Realm of Fiction.

    Mr. Graham threw down his newspaper with an expression of annoyance. "It's too much when the daily papers begin to print fairy tales," he ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. He Couldn't.

    On a recent Sunday morning during a sharp frost a clergyman was walking back to the rectory after morning service, when he overtook ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. An Irreligious Duck.

    A duck went to church a few Sundays ago. It nearly broke up the service, because to everything that the minister was saying it replied, "Quack! ...

    Article : 86 words
  25. Heard Down Town.

    "S'pose my face Is dirty," said the office boy in the elevator, "what business is it of yours? You ain't my dad." ...

    Article : 74 words
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