The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906

How stately tall your ship, how vast, With night nailed to your leaning mast, With mighty stars of hammered gold And moon-wrought cordage manifold! Good-by, Bret Harte, good nig...

George Washington was only eleven years old when his father died, leaving the widowed mother, Mary Washington, with five children to educate and direct. She used daily to gather...

Finally he decided to give it up, and he went to Kansas City, where he had a friend who obtained for him a post as bookkeeper in a mercantile establishment. He continued in this...

My mother now besought, urged, even commanded me to make my escape at any rate, which, as I was young, I might easily do; as for herself, she said, her age and corpulency render...

The missionaries, running to the spot, frightened away the remainder of the herd, while they took possession of the fallen one, and, having taken what would serve them for sever...

They braced my aunt against a board To make her straight and tall; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her...

Attempt made to remove the Seminoles from Florida, and war followed; Micanopy and Osceola, Indian leaders, were successful in fights at Fort King and near Wahoo Swamp, but were...

Thanks to the beneficence of that band of ministering angels who have their bright abodes in the far-off capital of Minnesota, just as the agony of my anxiety was about to culmi...

Makeshifts of pioneer journalism have taxed the ingenuity of many a great mind. Writing for the _Bookman_, J.M. Scanland tells the story of early California newspapers. The firs...

Nobody earns his or her livelihood more honorably or more directly than the wife and mother of a family who does her duty. She is her husband's business partner in a phase of hi...

Scott may be said to have created the historical novel, and to have quickened by means of it the national pride of his countrymen. At the time of his death he was recognized as...

The late Lafcadio Hearn was one of the great prose-poets of the time. The glimpse into his intimate mind which the _Critic_ affords by printing a sheaf of his letters to H.E. Kr...

His step-father's brother-in-law kept an oyster bar, and he at once put the boy to work learning to open oysters, attending to customers, and keeping the place clean. The work a...

We have indulged in gratifying recollections of the past, in the prosperity and pleasures of the present, and in high hopes for the future. But let us remember that we have duti...

There was a very remarkable incident connected with the killing of one of them. It occurred in the northern spurs of the Bighorn range. Dr. Merrill, in company with an old hunte...