The Moon Metal

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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 dispatch, forwarded by cable from New Zealand, and signed by an unknown name, which contained such a statement as this: A seam of gold which can be cut with a knife has been found within ten miles of the south pole.