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A VOICE FROM

THE WEST

A Few Sketches Written in Various
Moods-Culled from the Pages
of a Western Journal

"The greatness of our government is but the
reflected glory of our homes; if our posterity is
destined ever to sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,'
it will be because it treasures even more jealously,
the sacred strains of 'Home, Sweet Home.'

1908

BECKTOLD PRINTING & BOOK MFG. CO. →

ST. LOUIS

PREFACE.

The vagrant sketches of this little volume were for the most part, originally published in a western journal, and are reprinted at the request of many of the staunch friends of that paper.

I take this means of expressing my gratitude to Rev. J. W. Gormley of Kansas, for permitting the reproduction of his splendid article on "Home and Government," an eloquent tribute to the Stars and Stripes and a fearless and a fearless denunciation of divorce.

I. T. M.