Observations of a Retired Veteran

A perfectly new friend is the Sky. How often does one in health look at the Sky save to see about the weather? But once a year. But in sickness it is an ever present friend. You...

Have you ever watched a man going down? It is an interesting study, and a unique one, for the reason that no other animal has language by which to express the various stages at...

The essays contained in this little book comprise a selection from many of a like character which were contributed at intervals through a series of years to the columns of the V...

Do you know--of course this is confidential--that I am glad the schools have gone for the summer. Education has been a thorn in our family for some time past, indeed since the y...

While I was away I learned a secret that is worth a good deal of money to any young man intending marriage, and that would have been without price to me if I had known it thirty...

All his speculations, all his telescopic philosophies, all his discoveries, find plausible support until he stumbles on an open grave. There, man and chickens are dumb. Somehow,...