After Mr. Wright’s death there was a space of fifteen years in which no man could transmit an inspiration to my soul and give my mind a new impetus. Then, outside a little country church, I met for the first time the other man who touched a vibrating chord in my soul, and a new world of hope opened up, like the lifting of a dense fog often reveals the distant mountains.

INDEX

Page
Frontispiece[1]
Biographical Appreciation[3]
I Plead Guilty[9]
Religion of Humanity[10]
Joe Bailey’s Ride[12]
The Other Man’s Baby[13]
The Pathos of Humor[15]
The Pine Creek Tragedy[16]
The Homesick Boy[18]
Friends Who Pass in the Dark[19]
Voice of the Stone[20]
Ingratitude[22]
Orphan Eva[23]
Loving the World[24]
Lost in the Snow[26]
A Plea for Childhood[27]
Thoughts of Immortality[29]
Teach Sentiment[30]
The Soul of Sorrow[31]
Visiting the Old Home[32]
The Wayward Boy[34]
A Wasted Life[35]
Garret Memories[36]
Your Baby Still[38]
Wish I were a Jew[39]
Memories[40]
Sweetened with Sorrow[42]
In Her Dreams[43]
The Mortgaged Mother[45]
The Toy Maker[46]
The Mother-in-Law[47]
Bob White[49]
Whipping a Child[51]
Not a Clinging Vine[52]
The Saloon in Our Town[53]
The Homesick Child[55]
Why He Quit Hunting[56]
The Hard-Luck Showman[58]
Playing with Hearts[59]
True Friendship[61]
Sighing of the Pines[62]
The Homesick Horses[64]
The Blind Cigarmaker[65]
The Three Classes[66]
Hissed and Hooted[68]
The War with Self[69]
Crippled Joe and the Showman[71]
Race Suicide[73]
For a Stage Career[74]
The Dead of the Land and Sea[76]
Where Dreams Come True[77]
It Might Have Been[79]
A Misguided Mother[80]
The World is Blind[82]
Wrong on the Throne[83]
The Voices We Understand[84]
Chasing the Cows Up[86]
Flowers for the Living[87]
The Hobo’s Story[89]
In the Looking Glass[90]
Ungrateful Young Girls[92]
The Giant Pine[93]
The Little House-Keeper[95]
The Male Flirt[96]
Memories of the Old Trunk[98]
The Auction Block[100]
The Old Yard Master[101]
Books that Made Me Think[103]
Forgotten Graves[104]
In the Open Door[105]
The Judge’s Tears[107]
The Dog’s Kiss[108]
Love Letters[110]
At the Pool of Life[112]
A Palace Without Love[113]
The Soldier’s Diary[114]
Two Men Who Touched My Soul[116]