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"The Rose of Dixie"
When The Rose of Dixie magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was never but one candidate for its chief edi…
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The Third Ingredient - (1)
The (so-called) Vallambrosa Apartment-House is not an apartment-house. It is composed of two old-fashioned, brownstone-front residences wel…
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The Third Ingredient - (2)
"For just one moment I wished I was back in the old Vallambrosa, starving and hoping. And then I got numb, and didn't care. And then I felt…
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The Hiding of Black Bill
A lank, strong, red-faced man with a Wellington beak and small, fiery eyes tempered by flaxen lashes, sat on the station platform at Los Pi…
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Schools and Schools
I Old Jerome Warren lived in a hundred-thousand-dollar house at 35 East Fifty-Soforth Street. He was a downtown broker, so rich that he cou…
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Thimble, Thimble
These are the directions for finding the office of Carteret & Carteret, Mill Supplies and Leather Belting: You follow the Broadway trail do…
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Supply and Demand - (1)
Finch keeps a hats-cleaned-by-electricity-while-you-wait establishment, nine feet by twelve, in Third Avenue. Once a customer, you are alwa…
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Supply and Demand - (2)
"McClintock waves his hand affectionately at one of his mules, and then hurls a few stickfuls of minion type at the mob of shoppers. "A gut…
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Buried Treasure
"If I could have found that three hundred thousand dollars," I said to him, "I could have scoured and sifted the surface of the earth to fi…
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To Him Who Waits
The Hermit of the Hudson was hustling about his cave with unusual animation. The cave was on or in the top of a little spur of the Catskill…
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He Also Serves
If I could have a thousand years just one little thousand years more of life, I might, in that time, draw near enough to true Romance to to…
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The Moment of Victory - (1)
Ben Granger is a war veteran aged twenty-nine which should enable you to guess the war. He is also principal merchant and postmaster of Cad…
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The Moment of Victory - (2)
"The reason I drag all this non ex parte evidence in is because Willie Robbins was standing there listening to us. I was a second sergeant…
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The Head-Hunter - (1)
When the war between Spain and George Dewey was over, I went to the Philippine Islands. There I remained as bush-whacker correspondent for…
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The Head-Hunter - (2)
I took to my bed in the two-roomed thatched hut where I had been comfortably established, and sent for a gallon of rum. That was not for my…
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No Story
To avoid having this book hurled into corner of the room by the suspicious reader, I will assert in time that this is not a newspaper story…
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The Higher Pragmatism
I Where to go for wisdom has become a question of serious import. The ancients are discredited; Plato is boiler-plate; Aristotle is totteri…
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Best-Seller
I One day last summer I went to Pittsburgh well, I had to go there on business. My chair-car was profitably well filled with people of the…
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Rus in Urbe
Considering men in relation to money, there are three kinds whom I dislike: men who have more money than they can spend; men who have more…
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A Poor Rule
I have always maintained, and asserted time to time, that woman is no mystery; that man can foretell, construe, subdue, comprehend, and int…