Faith and Reason in a Faithful Partnership
Two travelers, Faith and Reason, embark on a shared quest. Reason pursues knowledge of matter and law, while Faith seeks the divine behind it all. Together they contrast science and spirit, discovering that faith completes science and opens Heaven’s gate.
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Faith
Her
Hila
Earth
Nh Key
Heaven
Ito
Reston
Back to the Old Home Romance
Jim recounts returning from New York to his Wisconsin hometown, reuniting with his mother and father, sharing money found in a sugar bowl, paying off debts, and promising weekly support. The tale ends with a friend deciding to visit his own Maine home after hearing Jim’s story.
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John
Jimmy
Georges
Carling
Weill
Young Min
New York
Job
Father
Mother
Father Sid
Depot Cross
Lo Lever
Chicago
Jim
Josin
Heer
Maine
Youthful Champion Duchess of Sutherland Aids Street Boy
The Duchess of Sutherland, famed for benevolent work in east London, intervenes when a ragged crossing-sweeper boy attacks a man harassing her. She explains details to the inspector, and the boy is freed, recalling her nursing him after a cab ran over his leg.
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Duchess of Sutherland
East End
London
New York Tribune
Ead
Jemmie
Big Ears and Their Meaning
The passage interprets ear shapes as character signs. It links Nat-like ears to vacillating minds and unromantic dispositions, bull-dog tenacity to strong will, earless lobes to selfishness and vengeance, rounded ovate tops to placid love seeking, and oval ears with marked lobes to lofty ideals and sensitive nature. It ends with a caution about a burnt child dreading fire yet playing with it.
The Foreign Service and Its European Counterparts
The piece compares American diplomatic practice with European systems in Britain and France. It notes how American appointments mix politics and service, while Britain and France require language proficiency rigorous exams and probation. It also discusses poet laureate Tennyson’s private life and shyness.
Treating Them Alike And The Sam Self Sacrifice
A Greenville worker named Sam, called Sant Bassett in error, earned good wages by hiring out during harvest. He was praised for hard work but criticized for helping multiple farmers on the same day. Sam explains he aims to treat all alike and make people feel good, planning to settle next day among three claimants.
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England
Tennyson
Browning
London
Farringford
Isle of Wight
Sant Bassett
Greenville
Sam
Samme
Slowtown
Ferrer
A Western Graveyard Joke Across Mud Flat
A Warward Lampoon style tale notes the scarcity of crosses marking graves in Mud Flat cemetery where timber is scarce and the last grave lacks a fence. A cowboy quips that a man survives better with a mother-in-law than with a wife, highlighting frontier humor.
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Tiober
Wild West
Mud Flat
Waal
Pard
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British Foreign Office
Moust
France
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