The Moon Metal

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - When the news came of the discovery of gold at the south pole nobody suspected that the beginning had been reached of a new era in the world's history. The newsboys cried Extra! as they had done a thousand times for murders battles fires and Wall Street panics but nobody was excited. In fact the reports at first seemed so exaggerated and improbable that hardly anybody believed a word of them. Who could have been expected to credit a despatch forwarded by cable from New Zealand and signed by an unknown name which contained such a statement as this: