Episode 35 In its written form telegraphese, or "Morse," as it is called in the vernacular, is rarely seen. Yet as a vehicle of expression it is, to the initiated, as harmonious, subtle, and fascinating as the language of music…
Episode 34 As soon as the order to disband the volunteers had gone forth, the North had begun to ask itself what they were going to do with the million men about to inundate them. Disbanding the Union Army,…
Episode 33 Great numbers of them had gone into the army boys and had been made men by danger and suffering. Disbanding the Union Army, part 1 by Ida Tarbell ON the first of April, 1865, a Federal army…
Episode 32 The disbanded army faced their hard situation like the brave men they were, and joined patiently in one of the gravest tasks in the history of the world—the Reconstruction of the South. Disbanding the Confederate Army,…
Episode 31 The worst of the ordeal of these men, who had begun to disband in this haphazard way, was not getting home, it was what they found when they got there. Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 1…
Episode 30 Here was I, under sentence, after a farce of a trial wherein I was denied not only my right of trial by jury, but my right to plead guilty or not guilty. My Life in the…
Episode 29• My Life in the Underworld, part 2 • I am now in a precarious position, riding the ends of the down-curving roofs of two cars at the same time. With a quick, tense movement I transfer both legs…
Episode 28• My Life in the Underworld, part 1 • I have often thought that to this training of my tramp days is due much of my success as a story-writer. In order to get the food whereby I lived,…