If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

W. A 1919 edition of his Ventures in Common Sense featured a foreword by celebrated American writer (and cynic) H. He is known to have begun his journalistic career as far back as March 22 1873 when as a 19-year-old he came to Golden Colorado from Platte City Nebraska and partnered with William F.

W. W. Howe's Monthly.