| Author |
Huff, Jacob K., 1851-1910 |
| Contributor |
Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton), 1880-1958 |
| LoC No. |
11025995
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| Title |
The philosophy of Jake Haiden (late Jacob K. Huff) : selected from the columns of the Reading Times, Reading, Pennsylvania : with a biographical appreciation by his friend Henry W. Shoemaker
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| Original Publication |
Reading: The Reading Times Publishing Company, 1911.
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| Contents |
Biographical appreciation -- I plead guilty -- Religion of humanity -- Joe Bailey's ride -- The other man's baby -- The pathos of humor -- The Pine Creek tragedy -- The homesick boy -- Friends who pass in the dark -- Voice of the stone -- Ingratitude -- Orphan Eva -- Loving the world -- Lost in the snow -- A plea for childhood -- Thoughts of immortality -- Teach sentiment -- The soul of sorrow -- Visiting the old home -- The wayward boy -- A wasted life -- Garret memories -- Your baby still -- Wish I were a Jew -- Memories -- Sweetened with sorrow -- In her dreams -- The mortgaged mother -- The toy maker -- The mother-in-law -- Bob White -- Whipping a child -- Not a clinging vine -- The saloon in our town -- The homesick child -- Why he quit hunting -- The hard-luck showman -- Playing with hearts -- True friendship -- Sighing of the pines -- The homesick horses -- The blind cigarmaker -- The three classes -- Hissed and hooted -- The war with self -- Crippled Joe and the showman -- Race suicide -- For a stage career -- The dead of the land and sea -- Where dreams come true -- It might have been -- A misguided mother -- The world is blind -- Wrong on the throne -- The voices we understand -- Chasing the cows up -- Flowers for the living -- The hobo's story -- In the looking glass -- Ungrateful young girls -- The giant pine -- The little house-keeper -- The male flirt -- Memories of the old trunk -- The auction block -- The old yard master -- Books that made me think -- Forgotten graves -- In the open door -- The judge's tears -- The dog's kiss -- Love letters -- At the pool of life -- A palace without love -- The soldier's diary -- Two men who touched my soul.
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| Credits |
Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
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| Reading Level |
Reading ease score: 75.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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| Subject |
American essays
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| Subject |
Huff, Jacob K., 1851-1910
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
74444 |
| Release Date |
Sep 19, 2024 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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