A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect...

  It happened that a country man was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other Birds were hopping about picking up their food. “Be ware of that man,”s...

My friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that young men have to have older and more worldly wise men to tell them. For instance who to trust, how to care fo...

    There was a big company located in St. Louis, Missouri. One day, after lunch, all the staff saw a poster beside the gate of the company. The poster read: “Yesterday ...

      I will never forget the lessen which Mr. Li gave us. One day Mr. Li was speaking to us in our school meeting room. He began his speech by holding up a ￥1...

  Mr. Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, ...

THE Chinese, President Grover Cleveland proclaimed in 1888, are 'an element ignorant of our constitution and laws, impossible of assimilation with our people, and dangerous to our ...

“Do you know the time?”   Time is a very complex thing. We’re surrounded by it, yet all too often we feel like we don’t have enough of it. Sometimes, we take it for grante...

A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, ...

   The swallows and sparrows are very pleased to find a place on the roof of the hall for their nests.    The mother birds are feeding their babies with pleasu...