Category: Novels

Other Worlds A story concerning the wealth earned by American citizens and showing how it can be secured to them instead of to the trusts

In introducing myself to my readers I believe I can do no better than to insert the following clipping, taken from a recent newspaper; for I am answering the cry that is going out to those who are able to work out the problem, of finding employment for willing hands to do:

Chapters

28. CHAPTER XXVII.

The Honorable Thomas Vivian first started the Wealth Producing and Distributing Society when but a young man, and though he is only middle aged now, he is more honored than any...

9. CHAPTER VIII.

A great deal has been written about love affairs that were started on board ship but the society had broken the record, for it, unlike the short passage on the ocean, had been c...

2. CHAPTER I.

In a country place near a town called Lake View, on the planet Herschel, lived a family of the name of Vivian. They were known all over the country for their hospitality, wealth...

5. CHAPTER IV.

There is a direct law of attraction that very few people recognize. In the beginning of the society, if Tom Vivian had been told that he would marry soon, he would have scorned...

30. CHAPTER II.

Professor Longrin had been appointed to select the missionaries in the different worlds. Princess and Lord Justring were talking over their children’s discouragement with the pr...

8. CHAPTER VII.

After Scoris and Helen Vivian had returned to the city they were amazed one morning by a letter from their mother, telling them that Mira and Jack Moberly had married and left L...

3. CHAPTER II.

“Tom,” Geron said, after arising and moving around aimlessly, “you are going to waste your time. The trusts are too strong for any one man to undertake to down them.”

21. CHAPTER XX.

Mr. and Mrs. Birch had given up the restaurant in the Colony at the time he was required to take a position in the interests of the Society. He turned out to be a splendid organ...

19. CHAPTER XVIII.

“Who would have thought fifteen years ago, John, that you and I could be living in the comfort and ease that we are today? The most comfortable house ever built on ground, large...

4. CHAPTER III.

The society met at first in the Vivian parlors, that is, in Tom’s flat, where Scoris and Helen, his sisters, assisted in entertaining their friends as well as helping to form th...

23. CHAPTER XXII.

It was gratifying to know that the society had been kept up all these years by the industry of the people, although it could not be claimed that any one system could have done i...

27. CHAPTER XXVI.

Twenty-five years had passed. Tom Vivian was governor of the state and his son was in charge of the first Colony which had become a large town, or groups of towns, rather, for t...

29. CHAPTER I.

A gentleman and his wife were sitting in their study. He was reading; she was doing some fancy work. In a few moments their son came in, and seeing his father occupied, took a s...

6. CHAPTER V.

Nellie stood looking out of the window one morning early in the spring, and as she hummed a merry tune and was so bright and happy, she seemed to reflect the brightness in every...

12. CHAPTER XI.

Nellie told her that only those who are born under certain zodiacal signs were capable of teaching children and have the natural patience necessary. “We have it all down to a sc...

22. CHAPTER XXI.

In thinking it over Prince Charley said to himself: “What a strange thing man is anyway! Some plod all their days and every one connected with them holds them in one place at th...

11. CHAPTER X.

At this time the society was in its sixth year and many changes had taken place. Tom Vivian had proved to the most skeptical that wealth producing and distributing among the mem...

13. CHAPTER XII.

“Well, the children are off my hands at last,” said Mira Moberly. “What a comfort it is to be able to sit down and think once in a while! Oh, dear! there is the bell. No wonder...

15. CHAPTER XIV.

Mrs. Moberly was looking forward to the time when she could secure enough money to take her back to the relatives she had left so many years before. Little by little she was sel...

7. CHAPTER VI.

“The society receives the profit over and above the expenses incurred for buildings, improvements, street pavements, etc., or any necessary expenses that are required for the co...

20. CHAPTER XIX.

Geron Vivian was sitting in his arm chair. It was the day of rest, or should have been, but none had come to him. He was constantly thinking how he could manage to get back to h...

16. CHAPTER XV.

Mrs. Vivian, Scoris and Helen had been living in the colony for two years before Mira came. Scoris still did drawings for illustrations and Helen was doing well at writing for m...

10. CHAPTER IX.

In another week Tom and Nellie arrived in the city on a visit and were astonished at their reception. They had intended seeing their old friends and enjoying a quiet time, but i...

17. CHAPTER XVI.

“Oh, mother,” she said, “I am so glad, for I made application for you. I was sorry you did not see the advantage of it, and now there will be just time enough for your name to b...

14. CHAPTER XIII.

In a few weeks, she had her rooms rented to gentlemen, but they only stayed one week at a time. She saw it was on account of the children, who would cry at night sometimes. Her...

18. CHAPTER XVII.

So many changes had been brought about since the society started that a large number had leased land for a long term of years, building their own houses or cottages near the col...

25. CHAPTER XXIV.

The wedding day dawned clear and bright and the weather was all that could be desired, and in the midst of a profusion of flowers the ceremony took place. The costumes were beau...

1. CHAPTER XXVII.

In introducing myself to my readers I believe I can do no better than to insert the following clipping, taken from a recent newspaper; for I am answering the cry that is going o...

24. CHAPTER XXIII.

The title of Prince had been given Charley Evens because he had proved himself an unusually bright and shrewd as well as a liberal and broad-minded man; all classes liked him. H...

26. CHAPTER XXV.

After the wedding party had returned home, the Vivian family met to talk over the gift that Prince Charley had made Lady Vivian of the mortgage of Geron’s property. The mother d...