Stories from Everybody's Magazine

These are stories from Everybody's Magazine, 1910 issues.
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Vol. XXIII No.1 JULY 1910
Dorothea reposed with her shoulders in the shade of the bulkhead and her bare feet burrowing in the sun-warmed sand. Beneath her shoulder blades was a bulky and disheveled volume—a bound year of Godey's Lady Book of the vintage of the early seventies. Having survived the handling of three generations, this seemed to take naturally to being drenched with rain and warped by sun, or, as at the present moment, serving its owner either as a sand-pillow or as a receptacle for divers scribbled verses on its fly-leaves and margins.
It was with a poem now that Dorothea was wrestling, as she wriggled her toes in the sand and gazed blankly oceanward. Under the scorching August sun, the Atlantic seemed to purr like a huge, amiable lion cub.
It was not the amiabilities of nature, however, in which Dorothea found inspiration. A harp of a single string, she sang as that minstrel might who was implored to make love alone his theme.
Given an imaginative young person of eleven, who, when not abandoning herself utterly to athletics, has secret and continual access to the brand of literature peculiar to the Seaside Library, and the result is obvious. Dorothea's mother read recipes; her father was addicted to the daily papers. It was only in her grandmother that Dorothea found a literary taste she approved. On that cozy person's bookshelves one could always find what happened to Goldie or what the exquisite Irish heroine said to the earl before she eloped with the captain.
In this knowledge Dorothea's parents had no ambition that their daughter should excel. In fact, an uncompromising edict on the subject had been given forth more than once to a sullen and rebellious sinner. But how should the most suspicious parent, when his daughter sits in his presence apparently engrossed in a book entitled The Girlhood of Famous Women, guess that carefully concealed in its interior is a smaller volume bearing the title Muriel's Mistake, or, For Another's Sin?

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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


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"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


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——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


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Язык

Английский

Год издания

1996-10-01

Темы

Fiction; Short stories

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