NEARER THAN HE THOUGHT

I was reading, some time ago, of a young man who had just come out of a saloon, and had mounted his horse. As a certain deacon passed on his...

A FATHER'S NEGLECT

A story has gone the round of the American press that made a great impression upon me as a father. A father took his little child out into t...

CHASING HIS SHADOW

When I was a little boy I tried to catch my shadow. I don’t know if you were ever so foolish; but I remember running after it, and trying to...

BABY'S FEEDING HIMSELF

“Baby’s Feeding Himself!” You know it is always regarded a great event in the family when a child can feed itself. It is propped up at table...

PEACE DECLARED

Peace Declared When France and England were at war once a French vessel had gone off on a long whaling voyage. When they came back, the crew...

HE TRUSTED HIS FATHER

He Trusted his Father A party of gentlemen in Scotland wanted to get some eggs from a nest on the side of a precipice, and they tried to per...

AFFLICTION

AFFLICTION.     A Child Visits Abraham Lincoln, and Saves the Life of a Condemned Soldier.     During the war I remember a young man, not tw...