DYNAMITESTORIES

AND

SOME INTERESTING FACTSABOUT EXPLOSIVES

BY
HUDSON MAXIM

Author of “Defenseless America,” “The Scienceof Poetry and the Philosophy of Language,” etc.

NEW YORK
HEARST’S INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CO.

Copyright, 1916, by
HUDSON MAXIM

All rights reserved, including that of translation into the foreignlanguages, including the Scandinavian

Printed in the U. S. A.

DEDICATION

To the actors in the comedies and tragediesof real life presented in these stories,without whose efforts and sacrifices thestories could not have been so interestingand true, this volume is with grateful acknowledgmentsmost respectfully dedicated.As the parts played by the actors were notrehearsed, the performances have required alittle retouching in the interest of the reader,the author having subordinated history tostory rather than story to history.

Hudson Maxim.

[vii]

TABLE OF CONTENTS