Stories from Everybody's Magazine

About this eBook

Author

Various

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Short stories

Category

Text

eBook-No.

694

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/694

Release Date

October 1, 1996

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HONEST MINING IN HANNIBAL'S TIME — THE "SUCKER LIST" IN WALL STREET — NEW ENGLAND "DONE" BY AN INSANE MAN — ALASKA REYNOLDSIZED — "ADJOINING" MINES—GOOD BAIT — WHEELBARROW VS. $72,000 — ENTER THE FINANCIAL AGENT — CULLED TWO MILLIONS IN FOUR YEARS — LYMAN'S SCHEME TO GET STOCKING SAVINGS — "SALTING" WITH A CIGARETTE — THE MULATOS MINE SALTING SCHEME — THE MAIL AND MINING THIEVES — POST-OFFICE PROTECTION INADEQUATE — LAWS TO PROTECT INVESTORS — Section 1. Any person who knowingly makes or publishes in any way whatever, or permits to be so made or published, any book, prospectus, notice, report, statement, exhibit or other publication of or concerning the affairs, financial condition or property of any corporation, Joint-stock association, co-partnership or individual, which said book, prospectus, notice, report, statement, exhibit or other publication, shall contain any statement which is false or wilfully exaggerated or which is intended to give or which shall have a tendency to give, a less or greater apparent value to the shares, bonds or property of said corporation, joint-stock association, co-partnership or individual, or any part of said shares, bonds or property, than said shares, bonds or property or any part thereof, shall really and in fact possess, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for not more than ten years or fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or shall suffer both said fine and imprisonment. — CAMPAIGN OF THE AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS — THE ENGLISH WAY OF MINING—HONEST BUSINESS — THE AMERICAN WAY—A GAMBLE — THE PROMOTER AND THE CREAM — THE PUBLIC = THE MINE — CRACKER-BOX INVESTORS — ENGLISH VS. AMERICAN MINE REPORTS — NEEDED: A FEDERAL BUREAU OF MINES — WHAT YOU AND I CAN DO — II — "HOW" FINDS A PLANET — THE ETHER ENSLAVED — MAN IS INVISIBLE — BRAIN NOT THE MAN — THE MORAL "HOW" — ——WHO WOULD BE A YOUNG LADY — INSTEAD OF AN ARTICLE — THE SAME OLD STORY OF GRAFT — THE SHOCK TO CARNEGIE — THE REAL STORY OF PITTSBURG — VEGETABLES DEPARTMENT. — ——IN A FAR TOWNSHIP — II — III — IV — ——I'LL NIVER GO HOME AGAIN! — WHISKY VS. SNAKEBITE — WHEN RATTLESNAKES KILL — NO VIPERS IN THIS COUNTRY — BEWARE THE ELAPS — GILA MONSTER NOT SO MONSTROUS — THE SCORPION'S STING — THE DEADLY TARANTULA—IN PRINT — SPIDER HYSTERIA — THE "RED-SPOT"—DANGEROUS — WORSE TEXAN THE "DEADLY" COPPERHEAD — THE RISE OF THE KISSING-BUG — THE DECLINE OF THE KISSING-BUG — OUR REAL POISON PERIL — IV — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII

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