[Illustration] DYNAMITE STORIES AND SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EXPLOSIVES BY HUDSON MAXIM Author of "Defenseless America," "The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language," etc. [Illustration] NEW YORK HEARST'S INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CO. Copyright, 1916, by HUDSON MAXIM _All rights reserved, including that of translation into the foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_ PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. DEDICATION To the actors in the comedies and tragedies of real life presented in these stories, without whose efforts and sacrifices the stories could not have been so interesting and true, this volume is with grateful acknowledgments most respectfully dedicated. As the parts played by the actors were not rehearsed, the performances have required a little retouching in the interest of the reader, the author having subordinated history to story rather than story to history. HUDSON MAXIM. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 THE FORGOTTEN BIT OF FULMINATE 25 HELL SWAZEY BREAKS UP THE DANCE 29 THE POET'S UPLIFT 34 HOW BENDER LOWERED THE PRICE OF DYNAMITE 39 FOOLHARDY KRUGER 42 DISCHARGING PAT 45 LINES TO A LADY 47 HE SEPARATED 50 THE WELL-DIGGER'S CASUALTIES 53 THE RIVAL EDITORS 55 THE PASSING OF "JEOPARDY" 58 THE INVOLUNTARY ATTACK 59 HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD 62 THE FORGOTTEN PRECAUTION 64 THE FATAL HAT 67 A DROP TOO MUCH 68 A CLOSE CALL 70 A PICKANINNY'S TREASURE TROVE 72 NOT TO BE BUNCOED 73 SIR FREDERICK'S BONFIRE 76 THE IRREVERENT NATIVE 79 AT FOLLY'S MERCY 80 THE WATCHMAN'S DOUBLE VISION 82 THE ZEALOUS FOOL 84 SOME LIVELY COTTON WASTE 87 SAVING TIME 88 THE BROKEN SCALE 90 THE SINGULAR GOOD FORTUNE OF A GENTLE ENGLISHMAN 92 THE MATCH AT THE PEEP-HOLE 94 THE FLASK OF LIQUOR 96 IMPERTINENCE PUNISHED 97 CURIOSITY'S UPLIFT 99 PROUD EVEN UNTO DEATH 101 THE DOG THAT ATE DYNAMITE 104 INSECURE SECURITY 106