Sunset, Volume 16

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Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, 1906
 

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Page 56 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 274 - The press was old enough to be preserved as a curiosity; the mice had burrowed in the balls; there were no rules, no leads, and the types were rusty and all in pi. It was only by scouring that the letters could be made to show their faces.
Page 122 - When they had heard the king, they departed; and lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Page 82 - But, spite of ignorance and hate, Known and exalted soon or late. My country is the world ; I scorn No lesser love than mine, But calmly wait that happy morn When all shall own this sign, And love of country, as of clan, Shall yield to world-wide love of man.
Page 274 - Co, established in this Capital is offered to serve the public with the greatest exactness and care; receiving all kinds of writing under the rules established by the laws for the liberty of the press, subjecting the loose impressions to the following rates, and agreeing at more equitable prices with gentlemen who may wish to establish any periodical.
Page 274 - ... the craft," Benjamin Franklin, worked when a printer. It is probably the oldest printing press in America, though the same style, known as the Ramage press, has continued in use until within ten or fifteen years. The frame, platen, ribs, and part of the bed are of wood, the bed on which the type forms lie is of stone, and the screw, which is the mechanical principle by which the impression is taken, is of iron, and large enough to raise a building, to which the main uprights which support the...

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