Literature

A woman was sitting at her reel one night, and still, she sat, and still, she reeled, and still, she wished for company. In came…

Once upon a time, there were two sisters who were as like each other as two peas in a pod; but one was good, and…

This story was written in collaboration with Miss Ina Lillian Peterson, to whom it is rightly due the credit for whatever merit it may have.…

David William Duck is an old man living in Aurora, Illinois, where he is universally respected. He is commonly known, however, as “Dead Duck.” “In…

First, among these I count the great chief Pontiac, who led the rebellion of the mid-western tribes against the English after the French had abandoned…

The history of that awful struggle is well known I have not the intention to record it here, but only to relate some part of…

This narrative begins with the death of its hero. Silas Deemer died on the I6th day of July 1863, and two days later his remains…

The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst. Editha sat looking out into the…

I One sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861 a soldier lay in a clump of laurel by the side of a road…

Vagabonds the world would no doubt call many of my doorstep acquaintance, and I do not attempt to defend them all together against the world,…

Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial. In the year 1859 a…

‘I am not so superstitious as some of your physician’s men of science, as you are pleased to be called,’ said Hawver, replying to an…