The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

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.