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] |