item: #1 of 40 id: 11022 author: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins title: Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story date: None words: 27819 flesch: 80 summary: You are one of my best customers, did liquor ever harm you? Yes it does harm me, and when I see young men beginning to drink, I feel like crying out, 'Young man you are in danger, don't put your feet in the terrible flood, for ten to one you will be swamped.' Paul, we are both young men just commencing life, and my motto is to look out for Number 1, and you-- Oh! keywords: anderson; belle; business; clifford; father; good; hand; heart; home; jeanette; joe; john; life; man; men; miss; money; mother; mrs; paul; romaine; time; wine; woman cache: 11022.txt plain text: 11022.txt item: #2 of 40 id: 13365 author: Runciman, James title: The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Our Social Armour date: None words: 99277 flesch: 69 summary: This contemptible cynic told with glee stories of his own vileness which made good men look at him with scorn; but he fancied himself the cleverest of men. I allow that many great men have been sensual fools, but we can by no means allow that folly and sensuality are inseparable from greatness. keywords: air; betting; blood; body; business; care; chance; children; class; company; country; course; creatures; day; days; death; drink; earth; end; england; evil; existence; face; fact; fellows; form; friends; good; great; half; hand; heart; home; horse; hour; human; kind; know; life; little; living; look; man; matter; means; men; midsummer; mind; money; morning; nation; nature; night; order; people; persons; place; power; race; racing; rest; round; ruin; run; rush; sea; self; sense; set; slang; society; sort; soul; talk; things; think; thought; time; turf; use; vessel; want; war; water; way; wild; women; words; work; world; year cache: 13365.txt plain text: 13365.txt item: #3 of 40 id: 13509 author: Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay) title: Grappling with the Monster; Or, the Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink date: None words: 70357 flesch: 60 summary: There are many men who, for years, preserve a robust, hale appearance under both tobacco and whisky, who are, notwithstanding their apparent health, steadily laying the foundation of diseased heart, or DERANGEMENT OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS or nervous system from the former, or an organic fatal disease of the liver or kidneys from the latter. Apart from the fruitlessness of all attempts to permanently restore such men to sobriety, it has been found that their presence in the Home has had an injurious effect; some having been retarded in recovery through their influence, and others led away into vicious courses. keywords: action; alcohol; alcoholic; appetite; asylum; blood; body; brain; cases; cause; chapter; cure; day; disease; drink; drinking; drunkenness; evil; fact; food; god; good; heart; home; inebriate; law; license; life; liquor; man; means; men; new; number; people; power; public; reform; results; society; state; subject; temperance; time; tobacco; traffic; union; use; way; women; work; years cache: 13509.txt plain text: 13509.txt item: #4 of 40 id: 1580 author: Plato title: Charmides date: None words: 21869 flesch: 67 summary: And if we could find something which is at once greater than itself, and greater than other great things, but not greater than those things in comparison of which the others are greater, then that thing would have the property of being greater and also less than itself? You come asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from the other sciences, and then you try to discover some respect in which they are alike; but they are not, for all the other sciences are of something else, and not of themselves; wisdom alone is a science of other sciences, and of itself. keywords: charmides; critias; dialogues; english; good; greek; ideas; knowledge; language; man; philosophy; plato; science; socrates; temperance; things; wisdom; words cache: 1580.txt plain text: 1580.txt item: #5 of 40 id: 19875 author: Thayer, William Makepeace title: The Bobbin Boy; or, How Nat Got His learning date: None words: 72190 flesch: 79 summary: But shall you go to hear Nat lecture? I go! The door suddenly opened, and in rushed Nat, under great excitement, with his eyes as large as saucers, to use a hyperbole, which means only that his eyes looked very large indeed. keywords: ben; boys; case; chapter; character; charlie; day; evening; factory; father; frank; good; home; house; john; knowledge; life; like; man; men; mother; nat; new; night; people; place; play; reading; sam; school; society; study; teacher; theatre; thing; thought; time; trip; use; want; way; work; years; youth cache: 19875.txt plain text: 19875.txt item: #6 of 40 id: 20080 author: Dyer, Gertrude P. title: Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets date: None words: 18439 flesch: 82 summary: Poor little Pollie lies sick and ill at home, so pale and thin one would scarcely recognise in that wan little face the Pollie of last spring-time! Poor child, poor little child, murmured the lady compassionately. keywords: child; day; dear; face; flanagan; girl; god; good; heart; home; mother; mrs; pollie; poor; sally; time; yer cache: 20080.txt plain text: 20080.txt item: #7 of 40 id: 20808 author: Pansy title: Three People date: None words: 88270 flesch: 85 summary: Thus it happened that when Mr. Hastings mail had been delivered as usual, the boy hesitated, and finally asked with an unusual falter in his voice: Can I see Mr. Hastings a minute? Well, sir, said that gentleman, whirling around from his table, and putting himself in a lounging attitude. Oh, Tode _wanted_ keywords: birge; boy; business; day; door; dora; evening; eyes; face; father; fellow; friend; going; good; hand; hastings; heart; help; home; house; jim; life; look; lord; mallery; man; matter; mother; new; night; place; pliny; room; sir; stephens; theodore; thing; thought; time; tode; want; way; winny; words; work cache: 20808.txt plain text: 20808.txt item: #8 of 40 id: 21066 author: Collingwood, Harry title: Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru date: None words: 92537 flesch: 57 summary: Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru By Harry Collingwood ________________________________________________________________________ Harry Escombe is a young apprentice in a civil engineer's office. But before he could arrive at a decision on this point he was in the presence of Mr Richards, and a single glance at the chief draughtsman's face--now that it could be seen clearly and unveiled by a pall of smoke--sufficed to assure Harry Escombe that in this case at least he had nothing in the nature of censure to fear. keywords: arima; body; building; butler; camp; chief; city; country; course; day; end; escombe; eyes; fact; feet; find; gold; good; half; hand; harry; head; hour; house; huanacocha; inca; indian; lake; left; length; life; lord; man; manco; matter; minutes; moment; morning; night; palace; party; people; return; room; sun; survey; tiahuana; time; umu; valley; water; way; work; xaxaguana cache: 21066.txt plain text: 21066.txt item: #9 of 40 id: 21132 author: Wilson, Theodore P. title: Frank Oldfield Lost and Found date: None words: 114918 flesch: 85 summary: On a low, roughly-made bedstead lay poor Frank Oldfield, judiciously shielded from draughts by hangings of carefully arranged drapery. Oh no, my dear, exclaimed Lady Oldfield; I am quite sure total abstinence would never suit poor Frank; his constitution would not bear it; I appeal to you, Dr Portman, is it not so? I am quite of your ladyship's opinion, said the doctor. keywords: betty; boy; captain; day; dear; drink; eyes; face; father; find; frank; god; good; got; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; hubert; jacob; johnson; juniper; lady; left; life; look; love; man; mary; master; mind; mother; oldfield; oliphant; place; poor; right; round; sammul; sir; thing; thomas; thought; time; total; want; way; wife; work; young cache: 21132.txt plain text: 21132.txt item: #10 of 40 id: 21133 author: Wilson, Theodore P. title: True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best date: None words: 88461 flesch: 79 summary: Spring had come, but the cloud still rested on poor Jane Bradly. While I now freely confessed to her my pleasure at the improvement, and endeavoured to repay her loving attentions by coming home regularly in good time and sober, I forbore to question her as to what had made such a difference in her, and she was evidently anxious to avoid the subject. keywords: bag; bible; book; bradly; come; crossbourne; day; dear; doctor; foster; friends; god; good; half; hall; hand; heart; help; home; house; jane; left; life; look; lord; maltby; man; men; mind; place; poor; right; room; set; sir; things; thomas; thought; time; vicar; want; way; wife; william; word; work cache: 21133.txt plain text: 21133.txt item: #11 of 40 id: 21135 author: Wilson, Theodore P. title: Nearly Lost but Dearly Won date: None words: 30094 flesch: 81 summary: How do you mean? Why, just this way, ma'am: as soon as young mayster and miss gets old enough to know how things is, they're too old for the nursery; they won't go in leading strings; they must be little men and women. I was going to ring for one of the servants, when the door opened, and little Mary toddled (I ought rather to say tottered) up to me. keywords: child; day; dear; drink; franklin; good; hand; heart; home; house; jim; john; little; man; mark; mary; mother; mr tankardew; mrs; mrs franklin; night; poor; rothwell; tankardew; way cache: 21135.txt plain text: 21135.txt item: #12 of 40 id: 21285 author: A.L.O.C. title: The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier date: None words: 45366 flesch: 62 summary: Mr. Carson reported the correspondence which he had had with Mr. Tait, and the Executive, having unanimously approved Mr. Carson's letters, adopted the following resolution: WHEREAS, Mr. W. W. Smith, the President of the Brome County Alliance, has been dismissed from his position as agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and whereas we have reason to believe that his dismissal has been brought about because of his temperance activity, and not because of dereliction of duty: _Resolved_, That this Alliance will stand by Brome County Alliance in any action it may take under the advice of our solicitors to vindicate the reputation of Mr. Smith. Moreover, it happened in an old and progressive county of Eastern Canada, just across the border from New England, and Mr. Smith had incurred the anger of his persecutors only by trying to enforce law and order and working for the protection and uplifting of his fellow-men. keywords: agent; alliance; assault; brady; brome; canadian; case; company; county; evidence; following; junction; kelly; law; letter; liquor; man; men; pacific; people; public; railway; railway company; smith; sutton; temperance; temperance people; time; w. smith; witness; work cache: 21285.txt plain text: 21285.txt item: #13 of 40 id: 21713 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Young Trawler date: None words: 91385 flesch: 82 summary: Such were the conditions, one lovely morning about the end of summer, which gladdened the heart of little Billy Bright as he leaned over the side of the _Evening Star_, and made faces at his own reflected image in the sea, while he softly whistled a slow melody to which the gentle swell beat time. It is probable that there never sailed out of Yarmouth a lad who was prouder of his position than little Billy of the _ keywords: billy; boat; boy; bream; bright; captain; captain bream; come; course; david; day; dear; deck; evening; eyes; face; father; fish; fleet; good; gunter; hand; jessie; joe; kate; left; like; look; luke; man; men; mind; miss; mission; moment; mother; mrs; night; north; poor; round; ruth; sea; sir; skipper; smack; star; think; time; vessel; want; way; work cache: 21713.txt plain text: 21713.txt item: #14 of 40 id: 26774 author: Allen, Martha Meir title: Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say date: None words: 106761 flesch: 60 summary: Dr. W. F. Pechuman, of Detroit, in his valuable little treatise, _Alcohol--Is it a Medicine?_ says clearly:-- When alcohol or any other irritant poison is put into the system, the conservative vital force, recognizing it as an enemy, at once makes an effort through the living matter to rid the system of the offender;--the heart increases in action and new strength seems to appear. Dr. James Miller, of Edinburgh, says in _Alcohol, Its Place and Power_, written many years ago:-- It may be well here to correct an important error, yet very current, in regard to the medicinal use of alcohol. keywords: action; air; alcohol; alcoholic; beer; blood; body; brandy; cases; cause; cent; cold; condition; cure; day; death; disease; doses; drink; drug; effect; experience; experiments; extract; fact; fever; following; food; form; general; good; habit; health; heart; hospital; increase; influence; life; liquors; liver; man; matter; medical; medicine; milk; nature; new; number; opium; patient; people; physician; poison; power; practice; quantity; remedies; result; small; stimulant; stomach; strength; system; temperance; time; treatment; typhoid; use; water; way; whisky; wine; work; years cache: 26774.txt plain text: 26774.txt item: #15 of 40 id: 27146 author: American Tract Society title: Select Temperance Tracts date: None words: 125392 flesch: 72 summary: Ben, like many other men, thought he was strong-minded, and could stop at a certain point; but he found, to his cost, that king Alcohol was stronger, and that when once he had forged his chains around his victim, he was sure of him, unless the grace of a merciful God intervened, and plucked him as a brand from the burning. We do not mean to intimate that in no circumstances a man may be engaged in it and be worthy of our confidence, and be an honest man, or even a Christian: for our belief is, that many such men have been, and are still, unhappily engaged in this traffic. keywords: ardent; body; business; cause; children; cold; community; conscience; country; course; day; death; disease; drink; drinking; drunkard; effects; evil; family; father; fellow; fire; god; good; half; health; heart; home; house; influence; intemperance; jack; land; life; liquor; look; man; men; mind; money; mrs; new; poison; poor; principle; public; right; ruin; society; soul; spirits; state; strength; temperate; thing; thought; time; traffic; use; way; wife; work; world; years cache: 27146.txt plain text: 27146.txt item: #16 of 40 id: 27495 author: Mackintosh, Mabel title: The Girls of St. Olave's date: None words: 49176 flesch: 88 summary: Not a pretty, piquant face like Gertrude's, quickly smiling or quickly clouded, but a cheerful, reliable face with a pretty, good-tempered smile and kind, gentle eyes; a face that little children smiled back at, and which invalids loved to see bending over them. Special prayer was made in church for those who were any ways afflicted or distressed, for the story was in every one's mouth, and mothers with little children guarded them jealously, and thought of what they would feel if one of them was taken from them as Maud had been. keywords: 8vo; baby; cecil; charlie; child; cloth; day; denys; edges; extra; eyes; face; gertrude; gilt; good; gray; half; harry; henchman; home; illustrations; jane; jim; life; little; maud; mind; mother; mrs; pattie; reggie; story; thought; time; tom; way cache: 27495.txt plain text: 27495.txt item: #17 of 40 id: 29292 author: Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George) title: The Old Game A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon date: None words: 6630 flesch: 76 summary: I had accumulated a farflung line of drinking men as friends. I know this will be disputed by many men who have quit drinking and who beat themselves on the chests and boast: I never think of it! keywords: drink; drinking; game; man; men; time; water; years cache: 29292.txt plain text: 29292.txt item: #18 of 40 id: 31493 author: Babcock, Bernie title: The Daughter of a Republican date: None words: 25624 flesch: 85 summary: But she did not forget the incident, and when, shortly after, the tiny baby boy in the cold arms of his mother had been put to rest beneath a mound, and the light had gone out of the father's face and the elasticity out of his step, little Jean pondered and her heart went out strangely to her father in his bitter trouble. I wonder if such men as Allison, Russell and Joy have hearts. keywords: allison; boy; child; crowley; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; hand; home; jean; judge; man; men; mother; party; room; thorn; time; voice; way; woman cache: 31493.txt plain text: 31493.txt item: #19 of 40 id: 31785 author: Perram, Annie Frances title: For John's Sake, and Other Stories. date: None words: 46239 flesch: 80 summary: It was early in the morning of the day following a public holiday; and, of all the workmen employed upon the block of houses in course of erection, only Tim Maloney and John Jarvis had made their appearance, the latter of whom seemed none the better for the previous day's cessation from toil. The breakfast bell presently rang, and John Jarvis, who lived at a little distance, threw himself at full length upon some boards, grumbling at his wife for being late with his breakfast. keywords: brother; children; day; dear; dick; drink; evening; face; father; good; help; home; husband; jane; john; life; look; man; mattie; mother; mrs; poor; richard; room; ruth; thee; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; years; yer cache: 31785.txt plain text: 31785.txt item: #20 of 40 id: 31837 author: Cornelius, Mary Ann Mann title: Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier date: None words: 73457 flesch: 78 summary: Little Wolf. Threats--Little Wolf and Black Hawk--Tragic Death of Hank Glutter 354 CHAPTER XXXII. keywords: air; bloody; brother; chapter; daddy; day; dear; dewolf; doctor; door; drink; edward; eyes; face; fanny; father; friend; fur; glutter; good; hand; hank; heart; home; honey; house; jim; life; little; louise; love; men; miss; mother; mrs; night; recta; room; sherman; sorrel; thought; time; tinknor; tom; tween; way; wife; wine; wolf; young cache: 31837.txt plain text: 31837.txt item: #21 of 40 id: 34057 author: Buck, Charles Neville title: When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry date: None words: 101743 flesch: 82 summary: Blossom met me down ther road, observed the minister, an' named ter me thet she hed---- He paused, casting a dubious glance at the stranger, and Lone Stacy interrupted: She named ter ye thet she stood guard at ther still an' warned Mr. Henderson off? I come over hyar on my way ter Knoxville ter lay me in a stock of winter goods, volunteered the storekeeper, an' I 'lowed I'd tarry an' hev speech with ye keywords: aim; air; air ye; bear cat; black; blood; blossom; boy; broke; brother; cat stacy; come; day; death; dog; door; ef ye; eyes; face; father; feet; fer; figure; fire; folks; fulkerson; girl; god; goin' ter; hain't; half; hand; head; heart; henderson; hev ye; hills; hit; house; hyar; hyar ter; jerry; jest; joe; kinnard; kinnard towers; know; lay; left; life; lips; little; lone; man; man ter; man thet; men; moment; mountain; need; open; place; power; ratler; reckon; rifle; right; road; rose; saw; stacy; tell; ter git; ter hev; ter ther; ter ye; thar; thet; thet ther; thet ye; thing; time; time ter; tom; towers; turner; turner stacy; voice; war; way; way ter; whar; words; ye hyar; ye kin; ye're; yore cache: 34057.txt plain text: 34057.txt item: #22 of 40 id: 34563 author: McKenzie, Fred A. (Fred Arthur) title: Sober by Act of Parliament date: None words: 50850 flesch: 65 summary: This volume is an attempt to partly answer the question, not by means of elaborate theories or finely drawn inferences, but by a statement of the actual results obtained from liquor laws in various parts of the world. The influence of Puritan immigrants in the middle of the seventeenth century led to the framing of many severe liquor laws. keywords: act; beer; bill; business; cent; compensation; country; dollars; drink; favour; government; houses; increase; law; laws; licences; licensing; liquor; magistrates; maine; majority; measure; men; new; number; party; people; place; police; power; present; prohibition; public; question; sale; saloon; spirits; state; system; temperance; time; trade; traffic; way; years cache: 34563.txt plain text: 34563.txt item: #23 of 40 id: 35397 author: Berens, Edward title: Christmas Stories Containing John Wildgoose the Poacher, the Smuggler, and Good-nature, or Parish Matters date: None words: 42770 flesch: 73 summary: Both parties wished to have the indictment tried at once, and came prepared--the prosecutor with witnesses to prove that the road was very bad and unsafe--and Barton with several _good-natured_ men, who were ready to swear, that it was as good a road as they wished to travel. I might feel it right to hint to them, as I have done to you, that they are encouraging poor men to break the laws by poaching, and that they are in one point of view more to blame than the poachers themselves. keywords: barton; children; day; farmer; fowler; god; good; home; hooker; house; john; laws; life; man; mary; men; money; mother; nature; night; parish; pay; poor; public; thing; thought; time; way; wildgoose; work cache: 35397.txt plain text: 35397.txt item: #24 of 40 id: 35983 author: Warner, Susan title: Little Nettie; or, Home Sunshine date: None words: 24253 flesch: 91 summary: However, it was done at last, the floor brushed up, all ready, and the top of the chest wiped clean; and next Nettie set about bringing all her things up the stairs and setting them here, where she could. But Nettie Mathieson hardly could sing; it seemed to her so glorious a thing to be _that_ sort of a peacemaker. keywords: barry; child; day; father; good; home; mathieson; mother; mrs; nettie; room; thought; time; way cache: 35983.txt plain text: 35983.txt item: #25 of 40 id: 37268 author: Robinson, Solon title: Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated date: None words: 110099 flesch: 88 summary: It is past midnight, and such little girls as you ought not to be in the streets of this bad city at this time of night. The door was opened, and there stood a little girl with a bandbox and bundle.--It is a shame to send such little girls out late in the evening with such heavy bundles. keywords: athalia; bed; boy; buy; child; children; city; corn; day; dead; dear; door; drink; evening; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; husband; know; lady; life; little; look; maggie; man; men; mind; money; morgan; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; place; poor; room; rum; sir; street; thought; time; tom; voice; walter; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 37268.txt plain text: 37268.txt item: #26 of 40 id: 39080 author: Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) title: My Mother's Gold Ring: Founded on Fact Eighth Edition date: None words: 4137 flesch: 76 summary: After supper was done, little Robert climbed up and kissed his father, and, turning to farmer Johnson, Father, said he, has not smelt like old Isaac, the drunken fiddler, once, since we rode home in your yellow wagon. I have one of the kindest husbands: he is a carpenter by trade, and our flock of little children has one of the kindest fathers in the county. keywords: children; farmer; god; husband; johnson; ring cache: 39080.txt plain text: 39080.txt item: #27 of 40 id: 41139 author: Thorne, Guy title: The Drunkard date: None words: 124351 flesch: 86 summary: He had known men, friends of his own, go down, down, down, through drink. Our local celebrity, Medley continued, Mr. Gilbert Lothian, the poet. keywords: alcohol; amberley; bed; book; brain; come; course; dark; day; days; dear; dinner; doctor; door; drink; ethel; eyes; face; felt; friend; gilbert; gilbert lothian; girl; glass; god; good; half; hall; hand; head; heart; help; home; hour; house; ingworth; know; left; letter; library; life; little; london; look; lothian; love; man; mary; mind; moment; morning; morton; mrs; new; night; people; place; pleasure; podley; poet; red; rita; room; rose; round; saw; sims; sir; sort; soul; table; thing; thought; time; toftrees; tumpany; village; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 41139.txt plain text: 41139.txt item: #28 of 40 id: 42435 author: Cook, Joseph title: Alcohol and the Human Brain date: None words: 6838 flesch: 73 summary: If you will fasten your attention on the single fact, that alcohol hardens this albuminous substance with which I place it in contact, you will have in that single strategic circumstance an explanation of most of its ravages upon the blood and nerves and brain. But brain is the organ of the mind. keywords: alcohol; blood; body; brain; man; right; scars; ship; substance; system; water cache: 42435.txt plain text: 42435.txt item: #29 of 40 id: 43480 author: Parton, James title: Smoking and Drinking date: None words: 38779 flesch: 67 summary: Many men, too, risked capture in seeking what smokers call a little fire. About eleven, three or four other young men came in, to whom cigars were furnished by the military chieftain. keywords: alcohol; asylum; beer; brain; day; dollars; drink; drinking; good; half; health; home; hours; human; institution; life; man; men; months; nature; new; people; persons; pipe; self; smoke; smokers; smoking; system; thing; time; tobacco; way; whiskey; wine; work; years; york cache: 43480.txt plain text: 43480.txt item: #30 of 40 id: 43481 author: Fiske, John title: Tobacco and Alcohol I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine. date: None words: 29305 flesch: 67 summary: As Sainte-Beuve profoundly remarks concerning that ferocious Duke of Burgundy for whom Fénelon wrote his Télémaque, he was such a wretch that they could not make a _man_ of him, they could only make him a _saint_: that is, he was got up on such wrong principles that, whether bad or good, he must be somewhat morally lop-sided and abnormal. We suppose Mr. Parton must _know_ keywords: action; alcohol; body; cases; digestion; dose; effects; food; good; life; man; narcosis; narcotic; nerve; nutrition; paralysis; parton; physiology; point; poison; power; smoke; smoking; state; stimulant; stimulus; subject; system; time; tobacco; use; waste; way; wine cache: 43481.txt plain text: 43481.txt item: #31 of 40 id: 44950 author: Optic, Oliver title: Plane and Plank; or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic date: None words: 56799 flesch: 89 summary: I explained to Mr. Gracewood that I had left Mr. Rockwood and an officer outside of the house. Leaving Mr. Rockwood in the entry, I went in to see Mr. Gracewood again. keywords: boat; boy; brother; captain; dollars; door; farringford; father; good; gracewood; greenough; house; left; lynch; man; money; mrs; night; phil; rockwood; room; sir; street; time; want; work; young cache: 44950.txt plain text: 44950.txt item: #32 of 40 id: 45536 author: Pansy title: Little Fishers: and Their Nets date: None words: 94358 flesch: 88 summary: Had they really no hearts, so that it made no difference to them how deeply they wounded poor Nettie Decker? I do not think it was quite either of these things. Said Nettie, There was a little girl on the cars to-day that I knew. keywords: boy; boys; children; day; decker; door; dress; eyes; face; father; girls; good; help; home; house; jerry; kind; little; look; man; miss; money; mother; mrs; nettie; nettie decker; new; night; norm; people; poor; room; sate; smith; susie; table; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; work cache: 45536.txt plain text: 45536.txt item: #33 of 40 id: 4621 author: Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay) title: The Two Wives; Or, Lost and Won date: None words: 42348 flesch: 86 summary: CHAPTER I. YOU are not going out, John? said Mrs. Wilkinson, looking up from the work she had just taken into her hands. Mrs. Wilkinson was sitting by a small work-table, in a neatly furnished room. keywords: business; cara; carlton; day; dollars; ellis; face; good; hand; heart; home; hour; house; husband; little; man; mind; mrs; room; time; voice; way; wife; wilkinson cache: 4621.txt plain text: 4621.txt item: #34 of 40 id: 4623 author: Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay) title: The Son of My Friend date: None words: 5686 flesch: 87 summary: Albert Martindale left his home, as did thousands of other young men, with his blood untouched by the fire of alcohol, and returned from the war, as thousands of other young men returned, with its subtle poison in all his veins. I knew all this, when, with my own hand, I wrote on one of our cards of invitation, Mr. and Mrs. Martindale and family; but did not think of it, until the card was written. keywords: albert; eyes; friend; home; husband; martindale; mrs; party cache: 4623.txt plain text: 4623.txt item: #35 of 40 id: 4744 author: Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay) title: Ten Nights in a Bar Room date: None words: 55360 flesch: 87 summary: Men who have everything at stake--sons to be corrupted, and daughters to become the wives of young men exposed to corrupting influences--stand aloof, questioning and doubting as to the expediency of protecting the innocent from the wolfish designs of bad men; who, to compass their own selfish ends, would destroy them body and soul. What pained me most, was to see the large number of lads and young men who came in to lounge and drink; and there was scarcely one of them whose face did not show marks of sensuality, or whose language was not marred by obscenity, profanity, or vulgar slang. keywords: bar; child; door; eyes; face; father; frank; good; green; hammond; hand; heart; house; joe; judge; landlord; look; man; mary; men; morgan; mother; mrs; night; room; slade; tavern; time; voice; way; willy; years cache: 4744.txt plain text: 4744.txt item: #36 of 40 id: 47934 author: Baker, George M. (George Melville) title: An Old Man's Prayer date: None words: 2048 flesch: 84 summary: When the cannon's boom o'er Sumter broke, And the air was filled with traitorous smoke; When brave men sprang with willing hearts To their Country's flag to repel the darts Which treason had hurled with malice wild At the life of the mother, so good and mild,-- My boy stepped down from the preacher's stand, And started forth, with life in hand, To sell it dear, but to battle strong With the loyal North against fearful wrong. He left my side full of life and health, In a good stanch ship, in search of wealth. keywords: heart; illustration; life; light; man cache: 47934.txt plain text: 47934.txt item: #37 of 40 id: 6116 author: Bennet, Robert Ames title: Out of the Primitive date: None words: 90385 flesch: 94 summary: Dolores, Mr. Blake. The hee-row! sighed Dolores, clasping a hand dramatically on her heart. I'm sure I'm--pleased to meet you, Mr. Blake, murmured Ashton, his voice breaking slightly as Blake grasped his gloved hand in the bare calloused palm. keywords: ashton; away; big; blake; bridge; chance; course; dam; day; dear; dolores; door; earl; engineer; eyes; face; father; friend; gantry; genevieve; girl; good; griffith; half; hand; head; james; jenny; jimmy; left; leslie; look; lord; lord james; love; man; miss; mrs; need; papa; plans; right; room; thing; thought; time; tom; tone; vievie; voice; wait; way; wish; work; young cache: 6116.txt plain text: 6116.txt item: #38 of 40 id: 6481 author: Ellis, John title: Personal Experience of a Physician date: None words: 47820 flesch: 57 summary: When selfish men who were leaders in the churches desired to exercise their love of rule in spiritual and natural things and to exercise despotic power, when they desired to reduce other men to slavery and to hold them as slaves, or when they desired to gratify other perverted passions and sensual appetites, they all went to the Bible and strove to justify their conduct from its pages, with the expectation of reaching heaven at last; for this purpose it required the invention of special doctrines, and these they taught to their children, and thus the Word of God was made of no effect by the traditions and doctrines of men. In view of the opinion of such men as these, can the above writer say truthfully that the notion of two wines is unsanctioned by any scholarship? keywords: body; children; christian; church; clergy; day; disease; divine; doctrines; drinks; evil; god; good; health; heaven; life; light; lord; love; man; men; new; physician; question; remedies; spiritual; swedenborg; time; treatment; truth; use; wine; world; years cache: 6481.txt plain text: 6481.txt item: #39 of 40 id: 6868 author: Chisholm, Addie title: Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada date: None words: 20166 flesch: 67 summary: These needs cannot be met without money, but if our thousands of temperance women in Canada will make this a personal matter to see that 6-1/4 cents are sent each quarter to the Provincial Union, we shall soon be in a position to employ an organizer, and thus do better work. We need also an _organizer,_ who shall be able to give her whole time and thought to Union work, who shall organize new Unions, and visit all regularly. keywords: chapter; committee; god; good; home; influence; ladies; meeting; members; miss; mrs; new; place; president; provincial; public; secretary; society; temperance; temperance work; thought; time; union; w.c.t.u; women; work cache: 6868.txt plain text: 6868.txt item: #40 of 40 id: 7358 author: Stretton, Hesba title: Brought Home date: None words: 32084 flesch: 84 summary: She had been expecting him for some time, for Ann Holland had sent word that both he and Mrs. Chantrey were at her house. Above the doorway, under a low-gabled roof, hung a cracked and mouldering sign-board, bearing the words Ann Holland, Saddler. keywords: ann; ann holland; bolton; chantrey; chapter; church; david; face; god; good; holland; home; husband; life; mrs; people; sophy; think; time; upton; warden; wife cache: 7358.txt plain text: 7358.txt