Secret Place of Thunder in a Sermon on Prayer
Dr. Talmage preaches that true religious power lies in hidden prayer unseen by crowds. He cites a church’s quiet, persevering prayers in the gallery and a family’s pious lineage as the “secret place of thunder” that transforms souls and sustains moral influence.
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Sr. James
St. John
Sons of Thunder
Pilace
Dr. Talmage
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Samuel
Job
Rosa Bonheur
James
John
Mount Sinai
Patmos
Yale
North Star
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Father Pearson
Quincy Street
Israel
Sour Cellar for Cream in Hot Climate
Henry Sturt describes a two story subterranean dairy cellar as the best cooling method in hot climates. A lower brick or stone chamber stays within a few degrees of year round, with lime whitewash to reduce dampness, and a stairway to upper storage. Salt solutions and ice machines offer limited benefits and higher costs.
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Henry Sturt
New Yorker
Making Solid Walks and Roads With Layered Gravel
The article urges layering and compacting gravel or broken stone for paths and carriage drives. It explains that angular broken stone locks tighter than smooth gravel, with four successive compressed layers for an eight inch fill. Finishing with thorough rolling prevents uneven, lumpy tracks.
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Ayone
Best Practices for Sheep and Cattle Fattening and Milking
The article urges keeping only top quality sheep of their class for profitability, trimming legs to prevent pasture fouling, and properly feeding suckling ewes. It notes older cows cost more to milk than younger ones with similar output, milk yields usually peak around eight to ten years, and milk production and fattening efficiency decline after the eighth year. Farmers' Voice.
Too Many Acres and the Call for Intensive Farming
A rural essay argues that southern and western farmers overextend by cultivating too many acres. It warns large farms exhaust soil fertility and urges intensive farming on smaller plots to restore land and boost profits, citing Addison D. Smith.
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Airman
Addison D. Smith
Parm
Field and Stockman
Clever device to destroy insects lures them with light
A Connecticut inventor proposes a simple lamp and water oil trap to attract and kill night insects both indoors and outdoors. The design uses a low lamp behind a glass pane in a water and kerosene film to lure and perish flies mosquitoes millers and other pests.
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Connecticut
N. E. Homestead
Not a School of Dull Lessons Says Toomy
In a St Nicholas excerpt, Toomy complains grammar and arithmetic bore boys and proposes a school teaching rowing, sailing, pistol shooting, swimming, diving, skating, tennis, cricket, polo, football, and baseball to attract students and prevent running away. Geertrude Morton reflects.
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Toomy
Meerace
Craar
Tennia
Thomas
Geertrude Morton
St. Nicholas
A Lesson in Geography from a Father and Son
Frank Atkins finds geography dull until his father Adam Atkins teaches him with a live atlas lesson. They discuss currents, winds, and climates from the Pacific coast to Europe, explaining how latitude, the Gulf Stream, and mountain barriers shape fruit growing and regional warmth.
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Frank Atkins
Frank
Pennsylvania
New York
Lake Erie
New Jersey
Delawland
West Virginia
Ohio
Europe
Australia
Mr. Atkins
Will
California
Columbia River
Pacific Coast
Philadelphia
Equator
Alaska
Japan
Behring Sea
Pacific
United States
West
Atlantic Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic
Nudeson Way
England
British Isles
Hudson Smngle
Atkins
Montreal
Venice
P'shaw
North Pole
Italy
Verona
Mantua
Milan
Ottawa
Portland
Ore
Portugal
Spain
Sardinia
Greece
Caspian Sea
Turkestan
Gobi
Irank
Victor Valentine
Real Hero Shows Nerve After Schoolyard Accident
A Harper's Young People tale recalls a thirteen year old boy named Jack who, while playing tag with the doctor’s son, was nearly run over by a horse and then injured by a splintering window. He endures seven stitches without a whimper to spare his mother worry, showing real pluck and spirit.
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Jack
Mary
McCobb
Harper's
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Tommy
George the Third
Volga
Maine
Mamma
Trey
Lesties
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