A No Account Niggah.—By Leonard M. Prince, U.S.A. How a despised coffee-colored mulatto recruit in the regular army, alone and unaided, intercepted a band of hostile Apaches, is told in this touching tale by an officer experienced in Indian campaigns.
A Hundred Thousand Dollar Trance.—By Eugene Shade Bisbee. The thrilling recital of the most costly and astounding hypnotic experiment ever made, told just as it happened in the famous Bohemian Club of a well-known city.
The Misfit Gown.—By Elmer Cook Rice. In this strikingly original and humanly interesting tale are described for the first time the wire pullings, heart burnings, and white-hot excitement attending an election in a modern woman’s club.
The Shifting Sand.—By C. C. Van Orsdall. A marvelous treasure-trove, revealed first by the wind-blown sands of the Northwest to a man engaged in digging his own grave, but concealed again for eighteen years by the same agency, forms the pivotal point around which moves this exciting tale of love and adventure.
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