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Excerpt from Pioneers of the West: A True Narrative In presenting this volume to the public, the author offers it as a simple tale of every-day life on the Western Plains, told in the simplest manner. And dealing, as it does, largely with scenes and incidents pertaining to the opening and building up of a new Western country, it necessarily contains considerable local historical matter. And the author has, at the same time, endeavored strictl...

Excerpt from Ringworm: And Its Successful Treatment IT gives me pleasure to state that the treatment of ringworm of the scalp devised by Dr. John P. Turner has proven remark ably efficacious in his hands. In the year 1913 the Reynolds Public School, Philadelphia, with a population of six hundred children was badly infested with ringworm. About eighty cases were discovered, of which at least one half were ringworm of the scalp. In View of the ...

Excerpt from Hands Off MexicoOur next armed expedition in force into Mexico is almost certain to result in formal war on both sides, followed by an effort at complete subjugation. The General Staff of the United States Army has been quoted as estimating that it will take men three and one-half years to pacify Mexico. General Staffs are usually optimistic in judging their own capa city for conquest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes h...

Excerpt from Barbarous Mexico The action of President Taft in mobilizing the troops was taken without regard for the wishes of the American people and without due explanation to them. The action of the troops in seizing revolutionist supplies and arrest ing revolutionist recruits is not only against every tradi tion of political liberty upon which this nation is supposed to be based, but it is unlawful and criminal and punish able under the l...

Excerpt from Introduction to Economics This book is an outgrowth of classroom discussions. It contains in substance the talks on economics which have been made, for the past eleven years, to my Classes in Cornell and New York Universities. NO apology is offered for the fact that this volume is limited to a discussion of principles. Even the concluding chapters on corporations are designed to exemplify princi ples. The time has long since pas...

The history and causes of America's entry into World War I. Edward Grey could have prevented war if he had done either of two things. If he had acceded to the urging of France and Russia and given a strong warning to Germany that, in a European War, England would take the side of the Franco-Russian Alliance. If he had listened to German urging, and warned France and Russia that if they became involved in war, England would remain neutral.

Excerpt from Public School Laws of the State of Alabama: Together With Forms for Teachers, Officers and the Constitution of Alabama, And a Revised List of County and City Superintendents Sec. 6. Not more than four per cent. of all moneys raised, or which may hereafter be appropriated for the support of public schools shall be used or expended otherwise than for the payment of teachers employed in such schools, Provided, That the General Assem...

Excerpt from Kwang Tung, Vol. 1: Or Five Years in South China Kwang Tung, Canton, or the Broad East, is the province of which the City of Rams, known among foreigners as Canton, is the capital. Western traders visited it as early as sixteen hundred years ago, and for centuries it was the only point of contact between China and other countries. At Canton also those events took place which led to the war known as the Opium War, and the conseque...

Excerpt from Simple SoulsHe took the hat from the girl's hand, and, hold ing it rather vaguely at his side, regarded her stead ily. With an equally steady gaze She inspected him.What he saw was a girl in the early twenties, dark and tall, and wearing too few clothes. This was not due to fashion, but to poverty. Incident ally, she was beautiful, but he was the sort Of man who would not realize that until it was pointed out to him. She would hav...

Excerpt from Shall It Be Again? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original...

Excerpt from Idealistic Beginnings in England The reception accorded Sterling's The Selim-etc}. Hegel, the epoch-making character of which all freely admit, has usually been explained as a re action against the doctrines of Spencer, Huxley and other espousers of the evolutionary hypothe sis. But it is a far more significant fact that the whole transcendental movement was in its origin a reaction against the advance of science. The germanizati...

Excerpt from The Ricardian Rent Theory in Early American Economics If we speculate upon an explanation Of this neglect, two reasons suggest themselves. The first is the poor estimate of the learning and equipment Of the early American economists in comparison with their English contemporaries, the second is the dominance Of the Ricardian economics in America, especially after J. S. Mill's work gave it a new appeal and a new vogue among Americ...

Excerpt from A Place in the World There is a kind of man who appears to be fashioned in circles. His body is a collection of curves topped by a round and shining head. His soul is as round and polished as his body, with no mad and jagged comers to scarify society's epidermis. Even his life is a circle, for, as a rule, he will die, as his temperate habits deserve, at a ripe old age, on the very thresh-hold of infancy once more. So long as the...

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A full account of the rise and fall of British banking stability which sheds new light on why banking systems crash.

Excerpt from Where Your Treasure IsCharles Cutman who was smoking an after-din ner cigar on the front, and who was one of those who had known the great white cliff in the days of her strength and pride, gazed upon the crippled edge, unkindly outlined by the August moon, and felt vaguely depressed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repro...

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