Self Improvement/Skills

Time is the only sure test for a truth. If our actions, based on our convictions, bring results that satisfy us and our neighbors, then we may know that our convictions were right.
After ten years of experience and observation, the author would re-affirm his belief in the efficacy and the desirability of sane fasting. He knows of hundreds of cases where a partial or complete fast, of one to thirty days, cleansed and renewed the body and mind to a most gratifying extent.
He would urge, however, the need of caution--

For entrepenuers and inventors, this manual is a great resource to avoid mistakes already made in the past, or who knows? You may be the one to discover they way around the problem and make perpetual motion a reality for the world.

The high prices which coal and wood have commanded for several years back have directed attention to peat fuel; and, such is the adventurous character of American enterprise, it cannot be doubted that we shall rapidly develop and improve the machinery for producing it.

This Volume has nearly Two Hundred valuable Recipes for Stationers, Printers, Bookbinders, etc. These Recipes are thoroughly practical, and such as come up in every day's work. They have been gathered from many sources, and are endorsed by the best workmen of the United States and Europe.

Records show that less than one-thirtieth part of the time of man in general is consumed in productive pursuits, yet some people toil diligently three-fifths of their time and receive only a scanty living. To assist in making clear the road to private and national prosperity is therefore the motive which actuates me in the publication of this book.

Though demonized in today's world, nitro-explosives help build industrial America. This book takes you through the methods and science behind this miracle discovery. Properties, Manufacture, and Analysis of Nitrated Substances

Once scoffed at by the medical profession, the old ways and means of health diagnosis are beginning to be proven by science, such as iridology. Palmistry may also be one of those resurrected methods.