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The Arena, Volume 4, Issue 4 (September 1891), edited by B. O. Flower

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Dollars and Sense, by Col. Wm. C. Hunter. Published 1908.

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Stories by American Authors, Volume 4. Six short stories by various authors, editor not named. Published 1897, ©1894.

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Buchanan’s Journal of Man, Volume 1, Number 1, edited by Joseph Rodes Buchanan. Published February 1887.

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Mysticism and its Results; Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy, by John Delafield. Published 1857.

The title continues: Being an Inquiry Into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy, As Developed in the Instruction and Acts of Secret Societies, Associations, or Confraternities, Whether Social, Religious, or Political, from the Beginning of History to the Present Day, and Their Effects on the Masses of Mankind, then and Now.

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One of the most singular looking creatures that ever walked on the earth or “swam the waters under the earth” is the world famous man-faced crab of Japan. Its body is hardly an inch in length, yet the head is fitted with a face which is the perfect counterpart of that of a Chinese coolie–a veritable missing link, with eyes, nose and mouth all clearly defined. The curious and uncanny creature, besides the great likeness it bears to a human being in the face, is provided with two legs, which seem to grow from the top of its head and hang down over the sides of its face. Besides theses legs, two feelers, each about an inch in length, grow from the chin of the animal, looking for all the world like a forked beard. These man faced crabs swarm in the inland seas of Japan.

News comes from Texcapa, Mexico, a small town inhabited by Indians and Mastisos (half-breeds), that ten persons were burned there as heretics by order of the the auxiliary town judge. The judge claims he was acting according to the will of God, manifested to him in an extraordinary vision, accompanied by certain indications of divine wrath against heretics and people leading immoral lives. The whole population of Texcapa seems gone mad. All believe the judge was commissioned by the Almighty and the saints to destroy evil-doers. They point to the pile of bones on which they profess to see miraculously traced outline forms of the saints who, on advising the judge to burn the heretics left their images. Twenty-one arrests have been made.

In certain parts of Holland when a young man thinks he loves a girl he asks her for a match to light his cigar at the door of the beloved one’s home. This is done to let the parents know that something is intended, and if the visit is repeated and the same thing occurs no doubt is left in the minds of the girl’s parents, and they immediately proceed to investigate the young man’s character and antecedents. When he calls a third time they are prepared to give him an answer. If his suit is looked upon favorably he is given a match. If refused, he produces his own match, lights his cigar and walks away. If a favorable answer is given he steps forward and joins hands with the girl. While the engagement is by no means a settled fact even at this important stage, it is stated as a truth that if, on the occasion of the young man’s third visit, his inamorata offers him a second cigar and he smokes it in the house the engagement is never canceled.