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# The New International Encyclopædia/Smiles, Samuel

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​SMILES, Samuel (1812-1904). An English writer, born at Haddington, Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. At twenty he began practice at Haddington and later at Leeds. He subsequently gave up his profession to assume the editorship of the Leeds Times. In 1845 he was appointed secretary of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, and in 1854 of the Southeastern Railway, retiring in 1866. In recognition of his services to letters, the University of Edinburgh honored him with the degree LL.D. (1878). As early as 1838 Smiles published, at his own expense, Physical Education, and in 1857 a Life of George Stephenson His Lives of the Engineers appeared in 1861. He gained immense success with Self Help (1859), practical talks to young men. It has been translated into seventeen languages. Similar books are Character (1871), Thrift (1875), Duty (1880), and Life and Labor (1885).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Smilaceæ

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​SMILACEÆ. A group of monocotyledonous, generally climbing, herbs and sub-shrubs formerly considered a separate order, but now included in the order Liliaceæ. Most of the species belong to the genus smilax (q.v.).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Smilax

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* GREENBRIER (Smilax rotundifolia).
* GREENBRIER (Smilax rotundifolia).
SMILAX (Lat., from ςμῖλαξ, yew). A genus of about 200 species, mostly herbs and woody climbing or trailing plants, of the natural order Liliacete, most numerous in the temperate and tropical parts of Asia and America. In some species (the greenbriers) the stems are often very prickly. The roots or rootstocks of a numberr of species, particularly Smilax medica and Smilax papyracea of Central and South America, yield sarsaparilla. The fleshy, starchy rhizomes of others (Smilax China of Eastern Asia and Smilax pseudo-China of the Southern United States) have similar properties and are sometimes used, the former as food, the latter as medicine. There are at least a dozen American species, the best known of which are the Smilax herbacea, carrion flower, with herbaceous stems, and Smilax rotundifolia, the greenbrier or horsebrier. The smilax commonly cultivated in greenhouses for decorative purposes is Asparagus medeoloides, a native of South Africa.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Smith, Edgar Fahs

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SMITH, Edgar Fahs (1854—). An American chemist, born in York, Pa. He graduated at Pennsylvania College in 1874, and at the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 1876. After filling various chairs in chemistry, he was called to the University of Pennsylvania and made director of the John Harrison Laboratory, and he afterwards became vice-provost of the university. His contributions to chemistry have been considerable, especially in the domain of mineral chemistry and in electrolytic methods of analysis. He wrote Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds (2 vols., 3d ed. 1900), and Experiments Arranged for Students in General Chemistry (with H. F. Keller, 4th ed. 1900).
# The Lottawanna

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United States Supreme Court
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The Lottawanna

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# The Lotos-Eaters

First published in Poems in 1933, Tennyson made several substantial revisions to the work when it was included in his two volume Poems of 1842.
* "The Lotos-Eaters", in Poems (1833), by Alfred Tennyson
* "The Lotos-Eaters", in Poems (1843), by Alfred Tennyson
* "The Lotos-Eaters", in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904), edited by Mary Elizabeth Burt
# The Loudwater Mystery

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THE LOUDWATER MYSTERY
BY
EDGAR JEPSON
NEW YORK
ALFRED • A • KNOPF
MCMXX
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OE AMERICA
[Front matter]
THE LOUDWATER MYSTERY
THE BORZOI MYSTERY STORIES
“These ‘mystery’ books are about the best of their kind in circulation.”
—Knickerbocker Press.
I. THE WHITE ROOK
By J. B. Harris-Burland
II. THE SOLITARY HOUSE
By E. R. Punshon
III. THE SHADOW OF MALREWARD
By J. B. Harris-Burland
IV. THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER
By J. S. Fletcher
V. THE TALLEYRAND MAXIM
By J. S. Fletcher
VI. THE PATHWAY OF ADVENTURE
By Ross Tyrell
VII. THE PARADISE MYSTERY
By J. S. Fletcher
VIII. THE WHISPERING DEAD
By Alfred Ganachilly
IX. DEAD MEN’S MONEY
By J. S. Fletcher
X. THE LOUDWATER MYSTERY
By Edgar Jepson
THE LOUDWATER MYSTERY
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
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# The New-Year's Bargain

THE NEW-YEAR'S BARGAIN.
​ "There was only one body there,—an old, old man with snow-white hair; but there was a long row of clay figures in front of him."
THE
NEW-YEAR'S BARGAIN.
BY
SUSAN COOLIDGE.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ADDIE LEDYARD.
BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1884.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by Roberts Brothers, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
University Press: John Wilson & Son. Cambridge.
CONTENTS
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# The New-England Courant

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One of the first American newspapers, founded in Boston on August 7, 1721, by James Franklin. The newspaper was suppressed in 1726.Warning: template has been deprecated.

## 1721

* Number 1 (7th August, 1721)
* Number 18 (27th November–4th December, 1721)

## 1722

* Number 25 (15th January­–22nd January, 1722)
* Number 27 (29th January­–5th February, 1722)
* Number 28 (5th February–12th February, 1722)
* Number 35 (26th March–2nd April, 1772)
* Number 37 (9th April­–16th April, 1722)
* Number 39 (23rd April–30th April, 1772)
* Number 41 (7th May­–14th May, 1722)
* Number 43 (21st May­–28th May, 1772)
* Number 45 (4th June–11th June, 1772)
* Number 47 (18th June­–25th June, 1722)
* Number 49 (2nd July–9th July, 1722)
* Number 51 (16th July–23rd July, 1722)

## 1723

* Numbers 75–126 (7th January–30th December, 1723) (start transcription)

## 1724

* Numbers 127–178 (6th January, 1724—28th December, 1724) (transcription project)

## 1725/6

* Numbers 179–255 (4th January, 1725—25th June, 1726) (transcription project)
# The New-Year's Bargain/Advertisements

SUSAN COOLIDGE'S POPULAR BOOKS.
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SUSAN COOLIDGE'S POPULAR BOOKS.
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# The New Student's Reference Work/New Brunswick

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New Bruns'wick, a province of the Dominion of Canada, is a square, bounded on the south by the Bay of Pundy and an isthmus connecting it with Nova Scotia; on the east by the Gulf of St. Lawrence; on the north by the Bay of Chaleurs and Quebec; and on the west by Maine in the United States. It has an area of 27,500 square miles, little less than that of either Scotland or Ireland, and more than twice the size of Belgium. The proportion of land cultivable is much higher in New Brunswick than in Scotland, and about as high as in Ireland. The population is 351,815—largely English-speaking, although many Acadians are settled in the northern counties, lending a picturesque variety to the people. In origin there are three and one half times as many British as French. The Roman Catholic church leads in numbers, the Baptist churches next. The larger share of the population is agricultural, and generally owns its own farms. There is still a vast wealth of forestland. The three principal rivers are the St. John, the Miramichi and the Restigouche. A curious fact is that the headwaters of these three great rivers lie near to each other and the Indians in former days, as the sportsmen in our day, were thus able to pass easily from one to the other, securing thereby a highway to nearly every part of the province. A province so nearly surrounded by water and having such an excellent river system of course has splendid inland and coast navigation. Steamers run to Portland, Boston, uebec and other ports.
The forests are regarded as inexhaustible. Black spruce, the best commercial wood, is largely exported. The province is noted for its game. Moose, caribou and deer are abundant. Its fisheries are among its greatest sources of wealth. The herring is the great commercial fish, though lobsters, smelts and salmon abound. One fifth of the fish caught in Canada are taken in New Brunswick waters by New Brunswick fishermen. St. John, Fredericton and Moncton are its chief cities. The schools receive a grant from the provincial treasury; the rest of their cost being defrayed by local taxation. The provincial university at Fredericton (the capital) also receives a provincial grant and revenues from university lands.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Neva

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​ Ne′va, a northern Russian river; rising in the southwestern corner of Lake Ladoga, it passes through St. Petersburg and empties into the Bay of Cronstadt in the Gulf of Finland. It drains Lakes Ladoga, Onega, Ilmen and others. Its total length is 40 miles and the width varies from 180 to 4,000 feet. It is frozen about five months in the year.
# The New Student's Reference Work/New Haven

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​ New Ha′ven, the largest seaport and city of Connecticut and fourth largest in New England, stands at the head of New Haven Bay. It has broad, shaded streets, public squares, parks and gardens and handsome public buildings. It also contains Yale University, Sheffield Scientific School, Hopkins Grammar School (1660) and a high school consisting of Hillhouse School and Boardman Manual-Training School. Its chief consequence is as a manufacturing town, having large works in hardware, wire, locks, clocks, cutlery, firearms, indiarubber goods, carriages, furniture, paper and matches. The city was settled by an English company in 1638 and was unconnected with Connecticut until 1662. It was incorporated as a town in 1665 and received a city charter in 1784. Until 1873 it was jointly the capital with Hartford. Population 133,605.
# The New Student's Reference Work/New Guinea

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​ New Guinea or Papua (pä′po͝o-ä), the second largest island in the world, lies 80 miles northeast of Queensland, Australia, at the southwest of the Pacific Ocean. Its length is 1490 miles, its greatest breadth 410, its estimated area over 312,000 square miles. Its population is estimated as 560,000. It was discovered by Abreu of Portugal in 1501, and has been visited repeatedly ever since. Naturalists were the first to explore the interior, Wallace being the pioneer in 1858, and doing world-famous work. Missionaries came next, and five Protestant and Roman Catholic societies are in the field. The Dutch were the first to colonize (1827), the Germans proclaimed a protectorate in 1884, and Great Britain, inspired by anxious Australia, made annexations in 1885. Dutch New Guinea is the part of the island west of 141° E. long, and covers 151,789 square miles, and perhaps has 200,000 native inhabitants. German New Guinea or Kaiser Wilhelm's Land is the northern half oi the eastern region, containing 70,000 square miles and having 15,232 natives. British New Guinea or the Territory of Papua consists of the southeastern portion of the island, with an area of 90,540 square miles and a population of 350,000 natives. The Australian commonwealth took control in 1901. The Dutch have done little for their territory; but the Germans are developing theirs through a company, though the imperial government administers public affairs; and the Australians have reduced many districts of the Territory of Papua to order and made tribes in large areas settle down to industry.
New Guinea is irregular in shape, consisting of a broad center from which a narrow peninsula runs southeastward and another to the northwest. The coasts are mostly lofty, but parts of the western shore are marshy flats covered with dense forests. The outline is broken by many indentations, but good harbors are rare. Mountain-ranges traverse the island, Mt. Owen Stanley in the southeast rising 13,205 feet, while in the northwest there are heights of over 20,000 feet, covered with perpetual snow, and active volcanoes. There are four or five large rivers. The animals, except a native pig and native mice, are marsupials and monotremes. Birds abound in amazing profusion and variety. The forests are filled with enormous trees, including the camphor. Bananas, cocoanuts, maize, rice, sago, sugarcane and yams are cultivated. The chief exports are coffee, copra, gold, pearls and pearl-shells, sandalwood and trepang. The bulk of the natives are Papuans, who are not unlike the Negroes of African Guinea, but Malay settlements are numerous on the western coast. The Papuans mainly are at a low stage of culture. Some are fierce and untractable, others friendly in disposition. See Australia and British New Guinea.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Neutrality

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​Neutral′ity, or the state in which a nation remains friendly to each of two nations which are at war with each other, is a rather novel invention in the history of nations. In ancient and even in medieval history a nation might be more or less neutral, but never entirely so, in the event of a war between its neighbors. At the present time there is a recognized code of conduct for neutral nations, which finds a place in international law. Neutrality, while not so perfectly defined that there may be no more dispute, in general requires the following mode of behavior on the part of the neutral nation: It is not to equip a privateer. For violation of this provision in the case of the Confederate cruiser Alabama, Great Britain was mulcted by arbitration in an enormous fine. It is not to allow war-vessels of the belligerents to remain in its ports more than 24 hours, except in stormy weather. It shall not be a market for prizes of war. It may not trade with either belligerent in contraband articles. It is not to be a recruiting ground for either belligerent, although it cannot be held responsible for the action of individuals in enlisting separately and on their own responsibility. But a neutral state has definite rights, as these: Its territory is not to be invaded by either belligerent. No battle is to be fought in its home waters. Troops are not to cross the territory of the neutral state. Neutral nations often proclaim the conduct which they propose to adopt at the outset of any war, chiefly to show their own citizens how far they will be protected by their own government in trading with the belligerents. A neutral vessel may trade freely except in articles contraband-of-war or in violation of a blockade. The orders of the English and ​French governments during the Napoleonic War, that the whole coast of their opponents should be regarded as in a state of blockade, violated the rights of neutrals in a way that would not at the present time be tolerated.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Nettle

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​Net′tle, species of Urtica, a genus containing about 30 species widely distributed. The best known nettle is U. dioica, known as the stinging nettle, which is a native of Europe and Asia, but has become extensively naturalized in the United States. It is densely beset with stinging hairs. At the base of each hair is a small gland secreting a poisonous fluid. It grows from two to three feet high and is common in waste places.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Neuchâtel, Lake of

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​Neuchâtel, Lake of, is all that is left of the large body of water which at one time covered the whole lower valley of the Aar in western Switzerland. Its greatest dimensions are 25 miles long and 6 wide, and its area 92 square miles. It is fed by the Thièle and the Reuse, and drained by the Thièle through the Lake of Bernice and thence into the Aar. Its elevation is 1,424 feet above sea-levelt and its northwestern shore is rich and cultivated, but the opposite side is barren and rocky. It has pleasing though not remarkable scenery, and is famous mostly for the discovery of the ancient remains of water-dwellings in it.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Neuchâtel

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​Neuchâtel or Neufchâtel (nẽ′shȧ′tĕl′), the chief town of the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, is situated on the northwestern shore of the Lake of Neuchâtel, about 85 miles from Geneva, and is noted for its charitable, educational and artistic institutions. It mainly manufactures watches, jewelry and lace, but not the Neufchâtel cream-cheese; this comes from a small Norman town called Neufchâtelen-Bray. Population 23,505. The canton of Neuchâtel has an area of 312 square miles, and in 1910 had a population of 132,184.
# The New International Encyclopædia/La Rabida

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​ LA RABIDA, lȧ rä′Bē̇-Dȧ. A Franciscan convent near Palos, Spain, restored in 1855. Columbus stopped at the convent on his proposed journey to France to seek assistance in his plans, and through the interest which his conversation aroused in the prior was brought to the notice of Queen Isabella.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Labitzky, Joseph

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​ LABITZKY, lȧ-bĭt′skē̇, Joseph (1802-81). An Austrian dance composer, born at Schönfeld. After studying music under Veit at Petschau, he became the first violin of an orchestra at Marienbad (1820), and the next year took a like position at Karlsbad. He continued his musical studies under Winter at Munich, and in 1834 organized an orchestra, with which he made extended concert tours. His own compositions were favorite numbers of his programmes, and his waltzes, quadrilles, and galops thus became widely known. The best of his waltzes are "Sirenen," "Grenzboten," "Aurora," and "Karlsbader."
# The New International Encyclopædia/Lablache, Luigi

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​ LABLACHE, lȧ′blȧsh′, Luigi (1794-1858). A celebrated Italian operatic singer, born in Naples in 1794, whither his mother and his father, who was French, had fied from Paris during the Revolution. His voice, a deep bass, was of wonderful range, flexibility, and volume; and his acting, particularly in the characters of Figaro and Leporello, was almost as remarkable as his singing. His first engagement as a singer was at the San Carlino Theatre at Naples, in 1812; he appeared afterwards in La Scala, Milan, and in Vienna, and also at the San Carlo, in Naples, during the intervals of the Vienna season. On his first appearance in London, in 1830, he met with immediate success, and for a number of years he resided alternately in the French and English capitals, singing during both the Paris and London seasons. He died at Naples. Consult Couailhac, Galerie des artistes dramatiques de Paris (Paris, 1841).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Labor Church

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​ LABOR CHURCH. An organized effort to develop the religious life in the labor movement. The founder of the Labor Church was John Trevor, a singularly gifted and devoted man. The first services were held in a hall at Manchester, England, October 4, 1891, and in November the church was organized. Five principles were adopted. The service included the Lord's Prayer, hymns social in character, readings from Whitman, Emerson, Lamennais, Lowell, Whittier, Ruskin, Carlyle, and Maurice, and an address. In 1892 the Labor Prophet was started, and the Labor Hymn Book and tracts were published. The demand for similar churches was local and spontaneous. In July, 1893, a Labor Church Union of 14 churches was organized. By the next November there were 24 churches. The movement has not shown continued vitality.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Labor, American Federation of

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​LABOR, American Federation of. A non-secret confederation of trade unions, having for its object the improvement in the conditions and wages of labor; the establishment of self-governing unions of wage-workers in every trade and legitimate occupation, where none now exists; the formation of public opinion by the agencies of platform, press, and legislation; and the furtherance of a civilization based upon industrial progress, by securing to the toilers a reduction in the hours of labor. The American Federation of Labor originated in an attempt to found a general organization of American workingmen, distinct from the Knights of Labor, on a trade-union basis. A preliminary convention was called by the Knights of Industry and the Amalgamated Labor Union—the latter composed largely of seceders from the Knights of Labor—and met in Terre Haute, Ind., August 2, 1881. The first convention officially recognized as such met at Pittsburg in November, 1881, at which the name of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was adopted. This federation merged itself with an independent trade-union congress held at Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1886, when the present name and organization were adopted. On January 1, 1903, there were affiliated with the American Federation of Labor 101 national or international unions, 26 State federations, 475 city centrals, and 1825 local unions. In May, 1902, the secretary estimated the aggregate membership of affiliated unions at 1,100,000, excluding duplicates. Among the oldest and most influential of the affiliated unions are the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, the International Typographical Union of North America, the Cigar Makers' International Union, and the Granite Cutters' National Union of the United States of America. The largest affiliated union is the United Mine Workers of America. The American Federation of Labor is growing very rapidly, about 800,000 members having been added from 1897 to 1902. It has practically taken the place of its old rival, the Knights of Labor (q.v.).