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... “I’ll go! I’ll go!” Mr. Bessemer glanced nervously at Travis. “That’s Mr. Rivers, isn’t it, daughter?” Travis smiled. “Well, I think I’ll—I think I’d... ...one thing, Howard,” remarked T ravis calmly, “don’t you ever again ask Mr. Rivers for a nickel to put in your bank.” Mr. Bessemer roused up. “Did that... ... down to the outside door, and before anything further could be said young Rivers came into the dining-room. 10 Blix Chapter II FOR SOME REASON, neve... ...he East- ern journals. He earned $100 a month. When Snooky had let him in, Rivers dashed up the stairs of the Bessemers’ flat, two at a time, tossed h... ...hat come from?” “That cuckoo clock?” inquired Travis, with a stare. “Condy Rivers, you’ve been here and in this room at least twice a week for the las... ...led after an hour’s reading in Lafcadio Hearn and the Encyclopedia—on the “Indus- trial Renaissance in Japan.” But the idea of the diver’s story came ... ...Behold, the bridegroom cometh! Listen.” “‘Bachelor, thirty-nine, sober and industrious, retired 52 Blix sea captain, desires acquaintance respectable... ...e was just touched with gray, and he did have a certain vaguely “sober and industrious” appearance. But the difference between the two men was slight,...

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...seback, in palanquins or unwieldly coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the ma... ...ns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French t... ...narets of the pagodas. This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpid streams, mostly tributar- ies of the Godavery. Passeparto... ...rted off for Assurghur, after skirting for a little the banks of the small river Tapty, which empties into the Gulf of Cambray, near Surat. Passeparto... ... country, which lies along the first depressions of the basin of the great river. Allahabad was now only twelve miles to the north- east. They stopped... ...the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every p...

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...ou would have sought him in vain; only in a few temperate and sub-tropical river val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herd... ...and pursued it and began pictorial art, moulded the soft, warm clay of the river brink between his fingers, and found a pleasure in its patternings an... ...m of vessels, and found that it would hold water. He watched the streaming river, and wondered from what bountiful breast this incessant water came; h... ... though he died blindly unknowing. At last, in the generous levels of warm river valleys, where food is abundant and life very easy, the emerging huma... ...ry and factory pro- duction were visibly revolutionising the conditions of indus- trial production, population was streaming steadily in from the coun... ...t Holsten-Roberts engine brought induced radio-activity into the sphere of industrial produc- tion, and its first general use was to replace the steam... ...pon the heels of this, and by the autumn of 1954 a gigantic replacement of industrial methods and machinery was in progress all about the habitable gl... ...o the sky. And with an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the de... ...aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industrial plant of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland up...

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...the place, that he is not closely invested, and that he forages across the river. The other brings the firing up to 11 A.M. yesterday, being twenty-t... ... occurred, there is still a great deficiency of laborers in every field of industry, especially in agriculture and in our mines, as well of iron and c... ...f establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, and under... ...roposition for enlarging the wa- ter communication between the Mississippi River and the north- eastern seaboard, which proposition, however, failed f... ... yesterday to the Secretary of War. I wish you would go to the Mississippi River at once, and take hold of and be master in the contraband and leasing... ... shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just en- couragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is 97 The Writings of Abraham Lin... ...overnment which we have enjoyed, an open field, and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise, and intelligence; that you may all have equal privile... ...alth, and has crowned the labor of our working- men in every department of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, he has been pleased to animate an... ...ny have feared that their return home in such great numbers might paralyze indus- try, by furnishing, suddenly, a greater supply of labor than there w...

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...acquired long ago in Algiers, and this served to give him something of the river- side quality. The day was full of sunshine and the river had a Mayti... ...” He became reflective…. After lunch and coffee he rowed the doctor up the river towards Cliveden. “The last time I was here,” he said, returning to t... ...idge over his shoulder. “Yes, the place has a floating population of quiet industri- ous soakers. The incurable river man and the river girl end at th... ...ce has a floating population of quiet industri- ous soakers. The incurable river man and the river girl end at that.” Dr. Martineau encouraged Sir Ric... ...ue; one feels the presence of a Conservancy Board, planting the rushes and industriously nicking the swans; but none the less delightful. And this set... ... who drift from one pub to another, drinking, the people who fuddle in the riverside hotels, are the last fugitives of pleasure, trying to forget the ... ...esponsible man through- out my life. I have handled complicated public and indus- trial affairs not unsuccessfully and discharged quite big obli- gati... ... me by some woman. Without the vision they give me, I should be a hard dry industry in the world, a worker ant, a soulless rage, making much, valu- in... ... essentially unselfish. Manifestly there were many things that an ordinary industrial or political magnate would do that Sir Richmond would not dream ...

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...through tree-stems and blue haze a twisted strand of bright whiteness, the river that joins the Rhone at Sion. It looped about and passed out of sight... ...thousand feet or so, in a clear, sweet air over the town of Sheerness. The river, with a string of battleships, was far away to the west of us, and th... ...ver, were still noisy, and a persistent sound had be- come predominant, an industrious unmistakable sound, a sound that took his mind back to England,... ... Marayne’s plans for her son’s future varied very pleas- antly. She was an industrious reader of biographies, and more particularly of the large fair ... ...he village dressmaker, when Sir Godfrey insisted upon her supporting local industries. It was very amusing but tech- nical. The devil had put it into ... ...armth of his filial devo- tion, had prohibited his pipe—and reading Webb’s Indus- trial Democracy. “Hello!” he said coldly, scarcely looking up, and c... ... gaunt regions of reeking toil. As yet he knew nothing of the realities of industrialism. He saw only the beauty of the great chimneys that rose again... ...shman, was free to play whatever part he could. This nar- row turbid tidal river by which he walked ran out under the bridges eastward beneath the gre... ...e carried the flags of every country under the sky… . As he went along the riverside he met a group of dusky stu- dents, Chinese or Japanese. Cambridg...

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...der. ‘No,’ he replied. ‘He’s a soldier, and an explorer, and a Napoleon of indus- try,’ said Birkin, giving Gerald his credentials for Bohemia. ‘Are y... ...plied, ‘alarming.’ ‘Why alarming?’ she laughed. ‘It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness,’ he said, ‘put- ting forth lilies and snakes, and the ig... ... we never take into count— that it rolls onwards.’ ‘What does?’ ‘The other river, the black river. We always consider the silver river of life, rollin... ... said Ursula. 168 ‘It is your reality, nevertheless,’ he said; ‘that dark river of dissolution. You see it rolls in us just as the other rolls—the bl... ...r of dissolution. You see it rolls in us just as the other rolls—the black river of corruption. And our flowers are of this—our sea-born Aphrodite, al... ...leep. CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE INDUSTRIAL MA THE IND... ...hildhood, Gerald had paid no heed to this. He had ignored the whole of the industrial sea which surged in coal-blackened tides against the grounds of ... ...rld. There was impressed photographically on his conscious- ness the great industry. Suddenly, it was real, he was part of it. Down the valley ran the... ...ousness. And now he saw them with pride. Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. He saw the stream of ...

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...ect,— “‘Tink-a-tink, tink-a-tink, By the light of the star, On the blue river’s brink, I heard a guitar. “‘I heard a guitar, On the blue waters ... ... pupil, “should not only have a fine ear, a good voice, and an indomitable indus- try, but, above all, a faultless character—faultless, that is, as fa... ...ed from the hotel), she gave us to un- derstand that the great walk by the river was altogether infe- rior to the principal avenue of Molloyville Park...

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...undergo. The childish prayer of that old birthday when I had aspired to be indus trious, contented, and true hearted and to do good to some one and w... ...e aspired to be, she had struck out a natural, wholesome, loving course of industry and perseverance that was quite as good as a mission. “My dear,” s... ... together with any little property of which I may become possessed through industry and perseverance, to my daughters Emma, Jane, and Caroline. I also... ...ft bill book for the ultimate behoof of his three daugh ters. So might an industrious fox or bear make up his ac count of chickens or stray travelle... ...pon them; not only is it a still night in gardens and in woods, and on the river where the water meadows are fresh and green, and the stream sparkles ... ...ves, in nooks of bridges, looking over; and in shadowed places down by the river’s level; and a dark, dark, shapeless object drifting with the tide, m... ...lost all idea where we were, except that we had crossed and re crossed the river, and still seemed to be traversing a low lying, waterside, dense neig... ...e stopped at the corner of a little slimy turning, which the wind from the river, rushing up it, did not purify; and I saw my companion, by the light ... ...ance and many declarations on the part of Mr. Smallweed that he was a poor industrious man and that he left it to Mr. Jarndyce’s honour not to let him...

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...he faith. Where they knew only by passionate instinct that their system of industry and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them,... ...ver of Zenith. He thought of the outlying factory suburbs; of the Chaloosa River with its strangely eroded banks; of the orchard-dappled Tonawanda Hil... ...where tough nuts can raise cain. Keeps ‘em away from our own homes.” As to industrial conditions, however, Babbitt had thought a great deal, and his o... ...ook like two cents!—but I didn’t realize it’d got to be such a reg’lar key-industry! Must rank right up with groceries and mov- ies. Always figured so... ... desire to flee. She made him what is known as a Good Wife. She was loyal, industrious, and at rare times merry. She passed from a feeble disgust at t... ...itions of competition. The real villains of the piece are the clean, kind, industrious Family Men who use every known brand of trickery and cruelty to... ...o, some day before I past out,” he sighed. From a rough wharf on the North River they stared at the stern of the Aquitania and her stacks and wireless... ...h marble pilasters, and frescoes depicting the exploration of the Chaloosa River Valley by Pere Emile Fauthoux in 1740. The benches were shelves of po... ...mber in Junior year how we char- tered a sea-going hack and chased down to Riverdale, to the big show Madame Brown used to put on? Remember how you be...

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...of eight brothers and sisters to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River. There Herman remained until 1835, when he attended the Albany Classi... ...latter was the mistress of the family, and a notable housewife, and a most industrious old lady she was. If she did not under- stand the art of making... ...women would have sunk. T o tell the truth, Kory-Kory’s mother was the only indus- trious person in all the valley of Typee; and she could not have emp... ...urface. I remember upon one occasion plunging in among a par- cel of these river-nymphs, and counting vainly on my supe- rior strength, sought to drag... ...ch finer than those of T ypee; and every day bathed their glowing limbs in rivers of cocoanut oil. In that happy land there were plenty of plumes and ...

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...es that of the Yenisei, with about seven-ninths; the Lena, Amoor, Hoang-ho, Yang-tse-kiang, and Nile, fiveninths; the Ganges, less than one-half; the Indus, less than one-third; the Euphrates, one-fifth; the Rhine, one-fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the whole of Europe, exclusive of Russia, Norway, and Sweden....

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...Yang tse kiang, and Nile, five ninths; the Ganges, less than one half; the Indus, less than one third; the Euphrates, one fifth; the Rhine, one fif... ...imes, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the... ...f the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the mighty swee... ...n our globe. EDITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863 Chapter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. ... ...y THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways re markable. Considering the M... ...eam ers; next the war came and almost entirely annihilated the steamboating industry during several years, leaving most of the pilots idle, and the c... ...fficiency of money out of what is left of the once prodi gious steamboating industry. I suppose that St. Louis and New Orleans have not suffered mate... ...prohibitory impost upon it to keep it from working serious injury to her oil industry. Helena occupies one of the prettiest situations on the Mississi... ... shops and wagon factories—in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. She has two railways, Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain ...

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...holy men, ash smeared fakirs by their brick shrines under the trees at the riverside, with whom he was quite familiar–greeting them as they re turned... ... where it touched earth, there broke out a stream which presently became a River, whose nature, by our Lord’s beneficence, and that merit He acquired ... ...tten,’ said the Curator sadly. The lama drew a long breath. “Where is that River? Foun tain of Wisdom, where fell the arrow?” ‘Alas’, my brother, I d... ...ow! We know the arrow fell! We know the stream gushed! Where, then, is the River? My dream told me to find it. So I came. I am here. But where is the ... ...tains freedom from the Wheel of Things,’ the lama went on, unheeding. ‘The River of the Arrow! Think again! Some little stream, maybe–dried in the hea... ...march and they march away East to Leh (ah! it is cold there), and down the Indus to Hanle (I know that road), and then down, you see, to Bushahr and C...

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...s natural, the little boys let her be. Some one is always looking into the river near Waterloo Bridge; a couple will stand there talking for half an h... ...stminster are like the outlines of Constantinople in a mist; sometimes the river is an opulent purple, some- times mud-coloured, sometimes sparkling b... ...of a great well- ing tear, and the tear rose and fell and dropped into the river. Then there struck close upon her ears— Lars Porsena of Clusium ... ...ade her still more dismal; vans with the odd names of those engaged in odd industries— Sprules, Manufacturer of Saw-dust; Grabb, to whom no piece of w... ...and oblong build- ings placed in rows like a child’s avenue of bricks. The river, which had a certain amount of troubled yel- low light in it, ran wit... ...h, allowing for time spent in the cradle and so forth, shows a commendable industry.” “Yes, the old Master’s saying of him has been pretty well realis... ...y, the schemes for combining this and that and building up a solid mass of industry, was all an offering to her; he laid his success at her feet; and ... ...worms, and their furniture from their own cedar trees, so that in arts and industries the place is still much where it was in Elizabethan days. The re... ...easonable conditions? As for himself—he sighed and pointed at the signs of industry lying all about him, which, in spite of his sigh, filled his face ...

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...ntains of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that night, and all the rivers coming out of high country flowed thick and turbid, and soon—in thei... ...in a rudderless confusion a multitude of men and women fled down the broad river-ways to that one last hope of men— the open sea. Larger grew the star... ...a, its light had been veiled. All the plain of India from the mouth of the Indus to the mouths of the Ganges was a shallow waste of shining water that... ...gs; they turn ‘em out as beavers build dams, and with no more sense of the rivers they’re going to divert and the lands they’re going to flood! “ As w... ...d rest my eyes and cool my head by watching the variegated lights upon the river. Beyond comparison the night is the best time for this place; a merci... ...ise the towers of Westminster,warm grey against the star- light. The black river goes by with only a rare ripple break- ing its silence, and disturbin...

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... parts of his body, and lost his horse, yet, nevertheless, swam across the river Rhone in his armor, with his breastplate and shield, bearing himself ... ...Spanish shore on his right hand, he landed a little above the mouth of the river Baetis, where it falls into the Atlantic sea, and gives the name to t... ...or of Baetica, with the loss of two thousand Romans, near the banks of the river Baetis; Lucius Domitius, proconsul of the other province of Spain, wa... ...y three and fifty cohorts. And when now all the cities on this side of the river Ebro also united their forces together under his command, his army gr... ...frugality, although that virtue was habitual in him, and required no great indus- try to exercise it, as he was naturally inclined to temperance, and ... ...ll which he performed in the space of forty days, by his own indefatigable industry and the zeal of his lieutenants. Pompey met with some interruption... ...s enemies, their justice in the government of its subjects, their care and industry in office, and their self-command in all that regarded their pleas... ...pect to his superior officer; but likewise in temper- ance, frugality, and industry, he surpassed even those who were much older than himself. It happ... ...h’s Lives where it can lay hold of an ingenuous nature, and a mind that is industrious. I, for my part, shall desire that for any deficiency of mine i...

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...OF BIRTH—CHARACTER OF THE DIS- TRICT—TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GR... ...la- tion of the place would have quitted it long ago, but for the Choptank river, which runs through it, from which they take abundance of shad and he... ...t- able, from mud or from dust, the coast is clear; he can plunge into the river or the pond, without the ceremony of undress- ing, or the fear of wet... ... ome ome ome THE NAME “OLD MASTER” A TERROR—COLONEL LLOYD’S PLANTATION—WYE RIVER—WHENCE ITS NAME—POSITION OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET OFFERING—... ... to be caught by wading, digging and raking for them. Here was a field for industry and enterprise, strongly inviting; and the reader may be assured t... ...n old master she was considered a first rate cook, and she really was very industrious. She was, therefore, greatly favored by old master, and as one ... ...—fifteen in number— discriminately selected, not only with a view to their indus- try and faithfulness, but with special regard to their personal appe... ...d—a thing quite unusual in the south—depended almost entirely upon her own industry for a living. To this fact the dear lady, no doubt, owed the excel... ... and Philadelphia markets—a course of life highly un- favorable to morals, industry, and manners. Miles river was broad, and its oyster fishing ground...

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... left that establishment. Standing in the heart of the town, on the little river Loire which flows under its walls, the college possesses extensive pr... ... standing half-way down the slope, on the devious valley through which the river winds and sparkles between meadows in graceful curves—a beauti- 33 B... ...ted only with cereals and small crops; the for- ests, and consequently the rivers, are disappearing; oxen and horses are no longer bred. Means are lac... ...rimi- tive creeds, originating as they did in Thibet, in the valley of the Indus, and on the vast plains of the Ganges, ended their warfare some thous... ...ism and all emotions are living forces. These forces in some beings become rivers that gather in and sweep away everything. XI Though Space is, certai...

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...me, and we felt as proud of them as if they had been our own. Clarence was industrious, and did not fail in his school work, but when he came home for... ...of regaining anything like a position, and that everything depended on his indus- try and integrity. ‘Integrity!’ commented Clarence, with a burning s... ...ion; and these were the moments that stung him into longing to flee to the river, and lose the sense of shame among common sailors: but there was alwa... ...h of experiment, Mr. Castleford declared himself contented with Clarence’s industry and steadiness, and permanent arrangements were made, to which Cla... ...rrived. A raid was made on the cottages for buckets, a chain formed to the river, and at last the fire was got under, having made a wreck of everythin... ...en for that good woman, he would have been out of reach already out in the river before Mr. Castleford’s messenger had reached London! He might call h... ...ble, lively, young man, well reported of, satisfactorily connected, fairly industrious, and in good society, so that Griff was likely to be much less ... ...ee; he has plenty of money, and is very fond of Griff.’ CHAPTER XXXIII—THE RIVER’S BANK CHAPTER XXXIII—THE RIVER’S BANK CHAPTER XXXIII—THE RIVER’S BAN... ...XXXIII—THE RIVER’S BANK CHAPTER XXXIII—THE RIVER’S BANK CHAPTER XXXIII—THE RIVER’S BANK CHAPTER XXXIII—THE RIVER’S BANK ‘And my friend rose up in the ...

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...ans, lights, taxes, repairs on his buildings, and the costs of his various indus- tries. He had six hundred acres of woodland, lately purchased, which... ...s high horse. “Jean, fill up all the holes except those at the bank of the river; there you are to plant the pop- lars I have bought. Plant ‘em there,... ...immer seizes the over- hanging branch of a willow to draw himself from the river and lie at rest upon its shore. Did no dread of a coming ab- sence sa... ...aden with sacks, they all had their comments to make:— “Water flows to the river; the old fellow was running after his gold,” said one. “He gets it fr...