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B. M. Bower

Once Casey did not turn out. That morning he had been compelled to stop and whip a heavy man who came up and berated him because the heavy man’s wife had ridden from Pinnacle to Lund the day before, a..

In the Cause of Freedom

Arthur W. Marchmont

Even had there been no one else involved, I should have gone through with the thing for its own sake. But there was Volna. Her safety and that of her mother depended upon me; and that fact was the mos..

On building a theatre

Irving Pichel

In the theatre, this perpetuation of musty, tradition-hallowed faults of construction has been carried to an extraordinary extreme. There is more ritual, one might believe, in constructing a stage and..

Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2

Various Authors

Within the borders of this fair land of Dixie the finest opportunities for investment and the richest fields for enterprise ever known in the Western Hemisphere are now open to all who wish to come an..

Don Miguel Lehumada: discoverer of liquid from the sun's rays

Sue Greenleaf

Their belief in the first place was that they had secured a fluid from the Sun, which would under proper conditions destroy every species of bacteria in man; that while the death of disease was taking..

George Meredith: A Study

Hannah Lynch

It is our habit to class under the name of light literature all fiction, from that of Richardson to the ephemeral stories of the latest London favourite, though, as a matter of fact, even that histori..

Mandalay to Momien

John Anderson

The journal of our ill-fated companion, recently published in China, and received in this country when this work was completed, unfortunately does not carry him on to Tali-fu, but his impressions of t..

Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1880)

Lizzie E. Cotton

ince the day I introduced my Controllable Hive and new system of bee management to the notice of the public, the worthless bee hive swindlers and their tools have been boiling over with wrath against ..