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