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Cricket

Cricket

by Elizabeth Weston Timlow

Kayuna was the loveliest home in the world. At least, the Ward children said so. The family usually went out of the city as soon as the children’s schools closed, in June, and stayed in the country till quite the first of October.Kayuna was also the name of a brook that danced gayly through the lower part of the grounds of the summer home, and that..

The Thing Beyond Reason

The Thing Beyond Reason

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

The house was very quiet to-night. There was nothing to disturb Miss Alexandra Moran but the placid ticking of the clock and the faint stir of the curtains at the open window. For that matter, a considerable amount of noise would not have troubled her just then. As she sat at the library table, the light of the shaded lamp shone upon her bright, ru..

Type and Presses in America

Type and Presses in America

by Frederick W. Hamilton

A study of type founding and of the development of presses and other printers’ machinery in America presents many interesting considerations. If the attempt were made to give in detail the story of American type founding and the accomplishments of the notable American type founders, and at the same time to chronicle the improvements and inventions ..

A United States Midshipman in the Philippines

A United States Midshipman in the Philippines

by Yates Stirling

The writer has attempted to describe in this volume the life of two young midshipmen of the United States Navy, serving in a small gunboat in Philippine waters. The fighting between the United States troops and the lawless bands of Filipino bandits (for they were bandits, more or less, after Aguinaldo’s army had been dispersed) was in most cases “h..

An Experiment in Altruism

An Experiment in Altruism

by Margaret Pollock Sherwood

The men and women that I met filled 7me with astonishment. They were all self-conscious and introspective. Most of them were brooding over wrongs,—the concrete wrongs of others, or their own abstract injuries, in a world that hid from them the great secret of existence. And they were all devising ways and means to correct the misdeeds of man and of..

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

by Ardelia Maria Cotton Barton

Autumn Leaves was in the hands of the Publisher (Bruce Brough) at the time of the Great Fire of April, 1906, and not a single page of the original manuscript was saved. I could only recall a few titles, and a line or two here and there, not knowing though where they belonged. I began to rewrite on the 12th of June, 1908, and on the 12th of Septembe..

Dixie Kitten

Dixie Kitten

by Eva March Tappan

Dixie kitten was a slender little cat with the softest, silkiest black fur imaginable; that is, you would think it was black when you first glanced at it; but if you looked a little more closely, you would see that here and there were gleams of tawny yellow. Three of her paws were black and one was yellow. Her eyes were yellow, too, in the daytime,..

Dr. Paull's Theory: A Romance

Dr. Paull's Theory: A Romance

by Alice M. Diehl

Hugh Paull, house-surgeon to a great City hospital, was seated at his writing-desk. During his spare time he was working at a treatise on nervous disease, the special subject which attracted him. It was a day when a certain public event was disturbing the usual City routine. The thoroughfares near to the hospital were blocked, and his room was quie..