It takes about a billion and a half of eggs every year to supply the
demand in Great Britain and Ireland, besides all the eggs that are
produced there. Forty per cent of the eggs consumed in the United
Kingdom are brought from twenty different foreign lands, including
several of the British colonies.
Germany comes next to Great Britain as the largest consumer of eggs in
Europe. Her imports are a little over a billion and a half a year, and
she is obliged to pay £3,000,000 a year for the eggs she buys from other
countries.
Japan is now using a great many eggs, though few are produced in the
country. As they are very much cheaper in China, the eggs Japan uses are
almost all imported from that country.
Russia is the largest exporter of eggs. The number sent from that
country in 1896 was 1,475,000,000, of which 289,000,000 were shipped to
the United Kingdom.
The manufacture of matches in Germany has become so important an
industry that the factories are now using every year about 5,500,000
cubic feet of aspen wood, of which about three-fifths is imported from
Russia.
Bavaria alone has twenty-six lead-pencil factories, which employ from
9,000 to 10,000 workmen, and produce on an average 4,320,000 lead
pencils and crayons every week. It is a curious fact that the use of
German lead pencils in all the public offices and schools of France is
forbidden by law.
THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.
A Great Cotton Year in England.
Statistics issued from Manchester, England, by the International Cotton
Federation, show that during the year ended August 31, 13,957,000 bales
of American cotton were used, compared with 11,559,000 bales in the
previous year.
The spinners spun more cotton than in any year since the great boom of
1907.
Of Egyptian cotton 701,985 bales were used, considerably more than in
either of the two preceding years.
Famous Animal Trainer Dies.
Frank C. Bostock, the well-known animal trainer and menagerie
proprietor, died recently in London. Bostock was perhaps the best-known
keeper and trainer of wild animals and exhibitor in Europe and America.
As proprietor of an animal show at Dreamland he furnished New York with
many a thrill. Mr. Bostock was born in England fifty years ago, and was
for many years a circus man on a small scale. He brought his animals to
this country many years ago and here began his successful career. It was
he who first introduced to the public the boxing kangaroo.
The old Huber Museum in Fourteenth Street was the scene of his first
success, and it was here that he exhibited Rama Sami, the wild man, who,
besides being a wild man, was an English cobbler. It was really the
adventures of Wallace, the “man-eating lion,” that heralded the name of
Bostock from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Wallace, a lion of reputed
gentle disposition, was turned loose in a stable in a side street in
company with a broken-down horse.
By skillful handling the old lion’s roars were sounded at frequent
intervals and so grew the story that “the untamed” Wallace was loose
raising Cain and defying capture. The public soon knew that the horse
had been killed. It is a matter of dispute to this day whether Wallace
or a keeper killed the animal. The story of the affair appeared in the
newspapers, and for several days accounts of the latest doings of
Wallace were in as much demand as the news of the world. Then Wallace
was “captured,” and became a drawing card at the museum. So grew, too,
the fame of Bostock.
Bostock was an animal trainer of courage. He had more than one narrow
escape from death. On April 12, 1901, while exhibiting in Indianapolis,
he was attacked by Rajah, a Bengal tiger, and was so badly injured that
it was feared he would not recover. In 1905 he was attacked by a lion
while exhibiting in Paris and had another close call. Bostock was best
known of late years because of his show at Coney Island.
An Airship Like a Hotel.
The German navy’s first Zeppelin airship made a trial flight recently
over Lake Constance at Friedrichshafen.
The airship, with its 510 horse-power engines, is said to be capable of
keeping in the air for two days and a half without a landing. Her
equipment, in addition to wireless telegraphy, a searchlight, and
machine guns, includes a kitchen, sleeping bunks for the officers, and
hammocks for the crew.
After her trials the airship will take up her permanent station near
Hamburg.
Columbia Sophomores’ Curious Idea of Sport.
Two hundred heroic figures, the sophomores of Columbia, swept into the
One Hundred and Sixteenth Street station of the Broadway subway, in New
York, recently, so full of college spirit that they didn’t stop to pay
their fares. They took possession of the first two cars of the first
uptown express and removed all the lights from the ceiling. It was lots
of fun after that to throw bulbs out at each passing station and see the
various patrons of the road skip nervously to one side with the
resultant crashes.
All this was a spiritual preparation for the annual sophomore smoker at
Columbia Oval, on Gun Hill Road. They reached the appointed place by
shifting at One Hundred and Eighty-first Street to Jerome Avenue. Some
took a surface car on the avenue and did as much damage to it as they
conveniently could on the way uptown. Others walked and contented
themselves by stealing all the red lanterns marking paving danger points
on the thoroughfares. These an unappreciative and insolent policeman,
who probably wouldn’t known an Alma Mater from a blackjack, forced the
amazed and indignant collegians to return.
The sophomores had brought with them for the smoker some twenty docile
freshmen, whom they shampooed with molasses and old eggs and subjected
to other convulsingly amusing indignities. But, after all, the evening
was spoiled. Tradition says that about 9:30 the freshman class should
rush the smoker and do its best to rescue the captive classmates. This
is tremendously fine sport, but the sophisticated members of 1916 just
yawned and stayed down at the university.
Buys Island for Bird Refuge.
Federal ornithologists and biologists have expressed great satisfaction
over the announcement that Mrs. Russell Sage had bought Marsh Island, in
Louisiana, for a bird refuge.
The island is the winter refuge of the blue goose, one of the rarest
water fowl in the world. The setting apart of Marsh Island under
conditions that will prevent the killing of this bird while it is
wintering in the South, is considered by Doctor T. S. Palmer, of the
bureau of biological survey of the department of agriculture, who is
intimately identified with the management of the existing Federal
reservations for the protection of wild fowl, as being of great value to
natural science.
Doctor Palmer has not been informed as to the plans of Mrs. Sage
respecting control of the Marsh Island reservation. She may turn it over
to the Federal government or to the State of Louisiana, or place it
under the control of the National Audubon Society for the protection of
robins and other migratory birds. If the island is a monument of
scientific interest, it may be accepted by the Federal government under
the terms of the national monuments act, passed during the term of
Colonel Roosevelt as president, and, on his recommendation. Otherwise it
would require a special act of Congress to accept the island from Mrs.
Sage.
There is now pending on the calendar of the United States Senate a bill
introduced by Senator Perkins, of California, providing for the
establishment of Federal bird reserves. The enactments of this bill
would vest the secretary of agriculture with authority to accept Marsh
Island from Mrs. Sage, should she elect to turn it over to the Federal
government.
$10,000 Straus Memorial for Harvard.
A gift of $10,000 as a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Isador Straus, who were
lost in the _Titanic_ disaster, is announced at Harvard University. The
income of the fund is to be used for lectures on commercial practice in
the graduate school of business administration.
Brave Man Faces Death from Rabies.
Notified that he was suffering from rabies in an advanced stage and that
his death was a matter of hours, John Muter, of Haledon, N. J., spent
the time until his death calmly in settling his worldly affairs and
preparing for the end.
When he returned to his home after having been told that science could
do nothing for him, he summoned his wife and four children, together
with the Reverend Warren P. Coon, pastor of the Methodist Church, in
Haledon, which Mr. Muter, a wealthy man, had founded years ago.
“My journey here is ended,” he said calmly. “I can live but a few hours.
I have no fear of death and I am ready.”
At his request the entire family knelt while Mr. Coon prayed. It was
almost daylight before the minister left the stricken group.
Mr. Muter then dictated his will dividing his large estate among the
members of his family and went to his bed. That night he became violent
and later sank into a stupor, from which he never rallied.
Mr. Muter, who was almost 69 years of age, was bitten by a stray dog
while sitting on the porch at his home last June. He had the wound
cauterized and thought no more of it.
Social Institute for Young Men and Women.
The two sisters of the late John Arbuckle have announced their intention
to build a social institute for young men and women in connection with
the Plymouth Church as a memorial to Henry Ward Beecher and as a gift to
the church and the people of Brooklyn. The women are Mrs. Catherine A.
Jamison and Miss Christine Arbuckle, equal heirs to the coffee
merchant’s estate of $30,000,000. The gift is in furtherance of wishes
expressed by Mr. Arbuckle before his death, but not mentioned in his
will. The memorial will cost about $100,000.
Mr. Arbuckle is said to have conceived the idea after hearing a sermon
by Reverend Doctor Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of Plymouth Church, on
the social needs of the hundreds of young men and women who live in
boarding houses. Mr. Arbuckle, in declining a short time before his
death to give the Young Women’s Christian Association $400,000, said he
did not believe in keeping young men and women apart.
Indian Tribes Claim Chicago Lake Front.
Lawyers representing the Pottowatomie, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indian
tribes have filed suit in the United States district court for recovery
of the Chicago lake front from the Chicago River to Forty-seventh Street
on the South Side, or cash damages of $50,000,000.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company, the Michigan Central Railroad
Company, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., and the board of
South Park commissioners were named as defendants.
The names of 2,785 Indians residing in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
are given in the petition of the plaintiffs, who base their claims to
the land on old treaties with the Federal government.
This Big College Man a Needle Expert.
Andrew J. Onderdonk, junior, a third-year student in the Harvard law
school, a giant in stature, and the possessor of a voice that puts to
shame a tugboat’s siren, arrived in New York recently from Europe with a
trunk filled with lace handkerchiefs, which he had made himself.
Instead of playing shuffleboard, deck quoits, and other boisterous
shipboard games, “Fancywork Andy,” as the girl passengers called him,
kept busy with his needle from the time the steamer left Antwerp until
it reached Quarantine.
So expert has Fancywork Andy become with the needle and thread that the
girls on board said he made a stitch for every revolution of the liner’s
propellers. Nothing could persuade him to leave his needlework, and the
only way his fellow passengers could get him to knock off work for a few
minutes was to steal his thread.
“I have hundreds of handkerchiefs I made while abroad,” said Fancywork
Andy. “They make such pretty presents for girl friends. I do all kinds
of fancywork, although I prefer filet work best. I don’t see why any man
should be ashamed of embroidering. It is just as artistic as painting a
water color.”
Hazers Expelled from New York University.
Drastic steps to stamp out hazing at the University of North Carolina
were taken as the result of the faculty investigation of the death of
William Rand, the Smithfield freshman who recently was killed while
being hazed by sophomores.
Four students accused of forcing Rand to dance on a barrel, when he fell
and cut his throat on a broken bottle, were expelled. Two other students
who witnessed the hazing also were expelled for aiding and abetting the
principals.
Ten members of the student body who were known to have engaged in hazing
either during the present year or last year, were suspended from the
institution for one year.
New York Taxes Increase.
When the city tax books were opened in New York to the public it was
shown that real and personal property assessable for 1913 totals in
value slightly more than $7,640,000,000, a net increase of nearly
$200,000,000 over figures for the present year.
Andrew Carnegie, with an assessment of $10,000,000, leads the personal
list. The estate of John D. Rockefeller, John Jacob Astor, and Joseph
Pulitzer are assessed at $5,000,000 each, Cornelius Vanderbilt
$8,000,000, Mrs. Russell Sage $2,510,000, and Isidor Straus $2,000,000.
Real estate owned by J. P. Morgan is assessed at $1,875,000, Charles M.
Schwab $1,700,000, Mary Payne Whitney $1,225,000. The Grand Central
Station is assessed at $15,000,000, the Equitable Life Building at
$11,000,000; the Metropolitan Life Building at $12,415,000, and the
Mutual Life at $10,000,000.
Youngest Postmistress.
Miss Elinor Stark Campbell, who took charge of the post office recently
at North Reading, Mass., in its new quarters in the Flint Memorial
Building, is probably the youngest woman in the country holding a
commission as postmistress, being but 23 years of age. Miss Campbell,
who was born at Reading, is the daughter of Henry W. Campbell. She
received her education in the public schools and the high school at
Lowell from which she graduated in 1905, afterward taking a course at a
commercial school in Lawrence.
Since graduating from school, she has been connected with the local
public library. She succeeds the late Sumner French, who had held the
office fop 26 years, until his death last June. She is a lineal
descendant of General John Stark.
Few Left-hand Pitchers in Minor League.
After several weeks spent in observing the work of young players in the
minor leagues throughout the country, Arthur Irwin, the veteran scout,
of the New York Americans, has come to the conclusion that the
left-handed pitcher is dying out.
“I’ve combed the bushes this year as never before,” said Irwin, on his
return to New York, “and never did I see such a scarcity of southpaws.
They are not to be had.
“My experience is the same as the experience of other scouts with whom I
have talked. I cannot account for it, except on the theory that
left-handed persons are getting rare in all walks of life.
“In my travels this season I saw very few left-handed pitchers--fewer
than I ever saw in all my years in baseball. I’ll venture the prediction
that next season there will be fewer new southpaws in the big leagues
than in any season in twenty-five years.”
Italy Wants Porter Charlton for Lake Como Crime.
The long wait of Porter Charlton behind the bars of a New Jersey prison
for the final word as to whether he must return to Italy to answer for
the murder of his wife at Lake Como, two years ago, is drawing to an
end. The supreme court will take up Charlton’s case.
Charlton’s appeal is the most-noted murder case before the court.
Diplomatic officials of Italy and the United States have become involved
in the matter. The decision of the court will be looked to as a guide in
diplomatic intercourse.
The twenty-three-year-old prisoner, through his father, Judge Paul
Charlton, of Porto Rico, will challenge the right of the American
government to surrender him to the Italian authorities. This right is
claimed on account of the peculiar circumstances under which Charlton
was arrested.
Immediately after Mrs. Charlton’s body was found in a trunk in Lake Como
the search for her husband began. He was arrested at the request of the
wife’s brother, Captain H. H. Scott, of the United States army, as he
stepped from a steamer at Hoboken, N. J. He had committed no crime in
America, but confessed to having murdered his wife who, he said, had
refused to obey his order to be quiet one night on their wedding trip.
Under the treaty between the United States and Italy, Italy has
repeatedly declined to grant requests of the United States that Italians
who committed crimes in this country and escaped to Italy be returned.
Italy has responded that she would punish them.
When the Italian government requested the United States to surrender
Charlton, Secretary Knox granted the request. To prevent his removal,
Charlton’s father brought habeas-corpus proceedings before the New
Jersey courts, claiming there was no authority for his arrest, and
challenged the right of the American government to turn his son over to
the Italian officers. The New Jersey courts held against Charlton, who
appealed to the supreme court of the United States.
Heir to $50,000,000 Born.
The birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt at
Betchworth, Surrey, England, was recently announced.
The Vanderbilt infant will rank with the richest children in the world,
and in all likelihood will become as famous as the celebrated McLean
baby, of Washington. It will be heir to not less than $50,000,000, and
probably more.
Mrs. Vanderbilt made herself a favorite not only in the first social
circles in this country, but in England as well. While as Margaret
Emerson she was one of the most popular of Baltimore girls. She was
first married to Doctor Smith Hollings McKim, of Baltimore. Her wedding
to Mr. Vanderbilt occurred last December, after she had been divorced
from Doctor McKim the preceding summer. She is noted for her beauty, and
is not thirty years old.
Parcels-post Stamps Are Novel in Design.
Arrangements have been made by Postmaster General Hitchcock for
engraving and manufacture of a series of 12 stamps, unique in size and
novel in design, for exclusive use in forwarding packages by the new
parcels post. Under the law enacted recently by Congress, ordinary
stamps cannot be used for this purpose.
The special parcels-post stamps will be larger than the ordinary stamps
and will be so distinctive in color and design as to avert confusion
with other stamps.
The new issue will be in three series of designs. The first will
illustrate modern methods of transporting mail, one stamp showing the
mail car on a railway train; another an ocean mail steamship; a third an
automobile used in the postal service, and a fourth the dispatch of mail
by aeroplane.
The second series will show at work in their several environments the
four classes of postal employees--post-office clerks, railway mail
clerks, city letter carriers, and rural delivery carriers. The third
series will represent four industrial scenes, showing the principal
sources of the products that probably will be transported extensively by
parcels post.
The stamps will be ready for distribution December 1, that the 60,000
post offices may be supplied with them before the law becomes effective
January 1.
Had 96 Shot Wounds in His Body.
With 96 shot wounds in his body, received when a companion mistook his
foot for a squirrel, William Rodenstein, 18 years old, of New
Comerstown, Ohio, is expected to live. With Jacob Beiter, Rodenstein had
gone hunting and stretched out at the foot of a tree. His companion
wandered off and on returning saw something moving near the tree and
shot.
Charges from both barrels entered Rodenstein’s side. Beiter carried the
injured boy a mile to a farmhouse.
Relics of Spanish Armada Found.
Recently a remarkable collection of relics has been recovered in the
course of the hunt for the Spanish treasures, supposed to be at the
bottom of the sea at Tobermory. From the Armada wreck the treasure
hunters have secured among other things large quantities of African oak,
cannon balls of stone and iron, broken pottery and wine flagons,
encrusted cutlasses, daggers, swords and muskets, lead, copper, and
pieces of eight. Metal plate, showing the same embossments as specimens
found last May, have been discovered in comparative abundance. Among the
more peculiar finds were several feet of copper-wire cable, a graduated
brass bar, supposed to be a tangent used for sighting purposes on a big
gun, a hollow shell containing a remarkably light and soft metal, three
exquisitely shaped teeth firmly fixed in a man’s jawbone, and the almost
complete skeleton of a boy of about 14 years of age.
Language of Lower Animals.
Professor R. J. Anderson, of University College, Galway, who dealt with
the so-called speech in lower animals at the meeting of the zoological
section at the British Association, at Dundee, says the “early training
of dogs, horses, and other animals go far to obliterate any tendency to
marked development of original lines of thought.” It is to be doubted,
he says, whether any great advance could be made in the development of a
“dog language.”
Shoots Self During Nightmare.
Sudden fear caused by a nightmare came near proving fatal to Michael
Matthews, 22 years of age, at Madison, Wis., when he shot himself in the
temple with a revolver.
When taken to a hospital Matthews related the story of a dream in which
he was captured by a gang of ruffians who were making preparation to
torture him.
Quickly taking a revolver he pulled the trigger and emerged from his
dream. The revolver had been under his pillow.
Korean Plotters Get Heavy Sentences.
Heavy sentences were imposed on many of the 123 Korean prisoners charged
with conspiring against the life of Governor General Count Terauchi, of
Korea.
Baron Yun Chi Ho, formerly a cabinet minister, and several others of the
more prominent among the accused, were sent to prison for ten years,
while various terms of punishment were inflicted on all the other
prisoners, except nine, who were released.
The introduction into the Korean conspiracy trial of the names of
several American missionaries, prominent among them Bishop Merriman C.
Harris, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, attracted worldwide attention
to the case. The trial began on June 28, and some of the prisoners,
nearly all of whom were Christian converts, made confessions implicating
the missionaries, which they afterward withdrew, as they declared they
had made them under torture.
The Japanese government and the Korean officials disavowed at all times
suspicion of any complicity on the part of the missionaries in the plot.
They also declared they had viewed the missionaries’ labors in Korea
with favor.
Oppose Capital Punishment in Austria.
Opposition to capital punishment is gaining ground steadily throughout
Austria. The advocates of absolution of the death penalty include
several of the most powerful writers and speakers in the empire, and
they are making the most of the fact that, while the congress of jurists
voted 470 to 424 in favor of the retention of “legal murder” (as they
are pleased to express it) this was really a moral victory for their
cause. It most unquestionably was. Before the vote in congress it was
not thought that more than a third of the jurists would support the
resolution assailing the wisdom and legality of death sentences.
Concerted action is to be taken to force the imperial government to
adopt the issue and submit it to Parliament as an administration
measure.
Statistics Show 31,517 Books Published in Russia in 1911.
According to a report just issued by the central statistical committee,
in Russia, the number of books, pamphlets, brochures, and periodicals
published last year was 31,517, and they were printed in thirty-three
different languages and dialects. The Russian publications naturally
head the list with 25,526. Then follow Polish, 1,664; Yiddish and
Hebrew, 965; German, 920; Lettish, 608; Esthonian, 519; Tartar, 372;
Armenian, 266; Little Russian, 242; Grusinian (Georgian), 169; French,
143; English, 23; the rest were in various dialects.
The _Moskovsky Listok_, commenting upon this report, observes that
formerly Russian culture in the Baltic provinces was opposed solely to
German culture, but now, apparently, it is the literary culture of the
Letts and the Ests that predominates in that region.
Large Crops Vindicate Colorado Dry Farmers.
The farmers from the Central States, who have visited Logan County,
Colo., this year, or passed across its broad acres in automobiles or on
the trains, have opened their eyes with wonder at the beautiful fields
of grain of every description, sugar beets, alfalfa and wild hay,
vegetables, and other products of the soil. They have seen excellent
crops growing, not only in the valleys, but on the broad plains of this
country that a few years ago were the haunts of the Indians, buffaloes,
and the coyotes.
No doubt many of them a few years ago were solicited by land men to
invest in some of these fertile acres at from $1.25 to $3 an acre, but
thinking that the real-estate men were working some wildcat scheme on
them, they turned the proposition down. But those who have had the
opportunity to view the fields in Logan County this year have no doubt
wished a hundred times over that they had taken advantage of the
investments offered them, for they could have reaped a harvest in one
season that would pay for the land twenty times at the price offered
them.
The Sterling district alone this year planted 28,000 acres of sugar
beets that will produce as many tons to the acre as any beet crop that
has ever been harvested in the State. The farmers of Logan County are
just completing the harvesting of 41,000 acres of wheat and hundreds of
acres of rye, millet, barley, and flax, thousands of acres of alfalfa
and wild hay, to say nothing of the corn, potatoes, melons, pumpkins,
and every other kind of farm products that the Eastern farmer values so
highly.
It is estimated by reliable authorities, basing their estimations on the
yield of fields already threshed, that the wheat production in Logan
County this year will average twenty bushels to the acre. This will give
Logan County farmers more than 800,000 bushels of wheat. The beet crop
this year will produce 400,000 tons of beets which will bring better
than $5 a ton.
The alfalfa crop is larger this year than ever before, two cuttings
having already been harvested, and the third cutting is almost ready.
Hundreds of Eastern people, who visited the Logan County Fair, which has
just closed, were astonished at the exhibition in the Agriculture
Building. It is safe to say that every one of those who viewed the grand
display will be a booster for Logan County. They will tell that they saw
cabbage raised in Logan County that measured 48 inches in circumference
and corn that is equal to any they ever saw raised in the Missouri
Valley or any of the corn States. They will also tell that they saw
potatoes that would make Eugene Grubb, the expert in the Grand Valley,
go into ecstasies. They also will tell that they saw pumpkins,
watermelons, and other garden and field vegetables that would be a
credit to a tropical country.
While Logan County does not make claims of being a fruit country, the
visitors will describe to their friends a splendid showing of apples,
crabapples, plums, and berries. And even the sunflowers that they saw
are over 14 feet high.
Arkansas Has 10,175 School-teachers.
State Superintendent George B. Cook, of Arkansas, gave out a statement
showing the condition of Arkansas schools, from which the following
extracts are taken:
Number of teachers--white, 8,227; colored, 1,948. Total, 10,175.
Increase over last year, 341.
Average length of term, 117.9 days; increase over last year, 4 days.
Number of schoolhouses erected in the year, 282; total value,
$1,014,100; average value, $3,596. Total number of schoolhouses in the
State, 6,338; total value, $10,131,828.
Total receipts from all sources, $5,275,653.37. Total expenditures,
$3,387,349.08.
Would Compel Girls to Join German Army.
Professor Doctor Witzel, of Dusseldorf, advocates compulsory military
service for German girls. An army of nurses should, in his opinion,
follow each army of male combatants, not only to care for the wounded,
but to attend to everything connected with food and clothing. Every
healthy German girl, says the professor, should look on training for
this object as a patriotic duty, and the knowledge acquired will be
useful in the home if it is not utilized in the battlefield.
Prisoner Blows Up Police Auto.
Exploding with a match the fumes of gasoline rising from an open tank, a
prisoner on the way to jail blew up an automobile patrol in the downtown
section of Los Angeles, Cal., recently. The vehicle was destroyed, and
one prisoner was fatally burned and two others, with Patrolman Louis
Canto, seriously injured.
Canto, with his clothing aflame, started in pursuit of the man who
started the fire, and another prisoner, who, unhurt, were speeding down
the street, but was stopped by onlookers, who stripped the flaming
clothing from his body while the fugitives escaped.
The patrol was being driven back to central station, after a round-up of
prisoners, and gasoline fumes were released when the fuel tank was
opened for refilling.
Three Killed in Clan Fight.
Two families living near each other at Moschino, Italy, named Dalia and
Fortino, after years of litigation over a patch of ground, decided to
settle the trouble with revolvers in the market place. The townspeople,
on hearing of this, fled, but not before a woman had been shot dead. The
revolver battle lasted some time, and eventually two of the Dalias were
killed and two of the Fortinos are dying. The police arrested the other
relatives.
Graft Sister’s Skin on Burned Boy.
The surgeons at Bellevue Hospital, New York, had had four-year-old
Winfred Schulhoff under their care ever since he was burned on August 23
in a bonfire in the back yard of his home at 1,085 Washington Avenue,
the Bronx, and had come to the conclusion that only skin grafted from
the body of some healthy person would save the little boy, when they
were startled by his twelve-year-old sister, Alice, walking into the
hospital and volunteering as much of her skin as they wanted.
Five square inches were grafted from her back to his unhealed thighs. At
the end of the operation, Doctor Cramp, assistant visiting surgeon,
pronounced it successful, and predicted that the children would be able
to go home in a few days.
Training a Pleasure, Says Veteran Coach.
Training, instead of being a great act of self-denial, is in reality a
pleasure, according to Coach Joseph H. Thompson, of the University of
Pittsburgh football team, who brought out this fact in an address
delivered by him before the Men’s Brotherhood, of the Eighth United
Presbyterian Church, Perrysville Avenue, Northside, Pittsburgh. “The
value of training as an element of success,” was the subject assigned to
the famous coach, who said in part:
“A man is trained to be a physician, a painter, a veterinary
surgeon--why then should he not be trained to develop his own faculties?
Many persons make the mistake of believing that training is a great
self-denial, but on the contrary, it is not. It is in reality the
highest element of pleasure in which a man can possibly participate.
“What is more pleasing than to be able to walk erect, to look your
fellow men straight in their faces, to feel so good you cannot avoid
getting up on your toes and stepping out at a lively gait, your face
radiant, eyes glistening and so full of life and hope and joy, that all
mankind is made happy by coming in contact with you? This is what
training does, and surely such things are certain elements of success.
“The cigarette is the greatest curse the young man of the country has to
contend with to-day. If he wishes to excel in anything, he must
eliminate this habit. The cigarette is as deadly to success as the most
deadly poison is to the body. To train is to regulate the body and all
its functions. One must sleep regularly, eat regularly, and, in fact,
eliminate all things that would in any way interfere with regularity.
“When a man enters his home with a radiant face and a beaming
countenance, he is always sure of a welcome. That which is pleasing to
your own wives and families is also pleasing to your fellow man. The
greatest factor in a man’s happiness is regularity. Regularity is
training. Training under proper conditions is the one factor, in my
opinion, which will produce absolute and genuine happiness.”
Revolution Has Drained the Treasury of San Domingo.
The resources of the Dominican government are so drained by the cost of
fighting the revolutionists that it is unable to pay the salaries of the
officials or current expenses and the public debt is increasing,
according to advices received in New York. Intervention from outside is
looked for in many quarters. The opinion is frequently expressed that if
a provisional government should be appointed and elections held under
the efficient control of a third party, the republic would be placed in
a position which would lead to prosperity.
Instrument to Detect Hurricanes.
The “barocyclometer,” an instrument so sensitive as to detect a
hurricane 500 miles away, thus enabling ships equipped with it to steer
clear of storms, is to be installed by the navy department in all of the
naval stations on the Atlantic coast, and perhaps on the ships of the
Atlantic Fleet.
This instrument is the invention of the Reverend José Algue, director of
the Philippines weather bureau. While in Washington recently, Father
Algue conferred with Captain Joseph L. Jayne, superintendent of the
United States naval observatory, relative to the recharting of the
Atlantic Ocean for the use of the barocyclometer. This instrument has
been in use in the Philippines and China naval stations and on the ships
of the Asiatic Fleet for many years.
“Dead” Animals Made to Live.
Doctor Samuel F. Meltzer, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, in the course of recent experiments to discover a successful
method of artificial respiration, restored to life two animals which he
had caused to be put to death, and which were dead in the common
acceptance of the term. Both recovered entirely. He believes the method
to be equally applicable to man, and urges that it be tried in all cases
of death; for it is quite possible, he asserts, that in cases of death
from acute illness the actual cause might be only of a temporary
nature.
This laboratory worker, whose reputation is international, is known to
scientists as an extremely conservative man. His positive statements,
therefore, regarding the result of his latest discovery have created a
stir in scientific circles.
It is certain that Doctor Meltzer has devised a method of artificial
respiration tenfold more efficient than the older ones, and it is
expected that it will be the means of saving countless lives.
Briefly the method consists of the introduction of a catheter into the
pharynx, pulling out of the tongue, forcing the back part of the tongue
against the roof of the mouth by pressure applied far back under the
chin, putting a weight on the abdomen to keep air from being forced into
the stomach, connecting the catheter with a bellows, and pumping air
into the lungs. With very little instruction the layman can learn these
methods as readily as the physician.
“The method was studied and found effcient on four species of animals.
But its real usefulness will be established only after standing the test
in its application to human beings, and the final judgment will have to
come from the physicians and not from the experimenter in the
laboratory.”
The majority of Doctor Meltzer’s experiments were carried on with
animals in which respiration had been paralyzed by means of a poison
named curare.
Indians Poison Mexican Wells.
Death by poison is a new menace added by rebellious Indians operating
about the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, whose residents fear to take a drink
of water. Chemists are making tests for traces of cyanide of potassium
in the city’s water supply.
A group of rebels are declared to have entered the Natividad mining
camp, in the Ixtlan district, and to have secured 200 pounds of the
poison.
The rebels said they would first use the cyanide to poison the springs
at San Felipe, from which much of the water used in the city of Oaxaca
is piped. A small band of rebels was discovered in the neighborhood of
the springs and driven off by federal troops. The rebel loss is given at
11 killed.
A Good Use for Grasshoppers.
Perry Wharton, a Gray County, Mo., ranchman, is buying up turkeys
wherever he can find them.
“I want to feed them grasshoppers,” explained Mr. Wharton. “There isn’t
any better turkey feed, and there’s plenty of it going to waste.”
Mr. Wharton explained that there are an unusual number of the big
yellow-legged grasshoppers this year. They are not the kind that eat up
crops, but nevertheless they are a nuisance, and do some damage.
“My plan is to pasture out several thousand turkeys and let them feed on
the hoppers,” said he. “It will fatten them up in good shape and they
will be ready for the Thanksgiving market, at very little expense, and
at the same time be ridding the country of a pest.”
Slim Build Lets this Convict Escape.
Stiney Bogden, of Shenandoah, Pa., owes to his slim build and a rope of
stockings his liberty, which he gained some time between midnight and 5
o’clock in the morning, by squeezing through the small aperture which
served as a window in his cell in the Schuylkill County prison. He then
dropped to the ground twelve feet, scaled the lightning rod to the top
of the jail building, and with the stocking rope lowered himself to the
street on the other side of the jail wall. The window was so small that
it was not thought necessary to provide it with bars. Bogden was serving
a two-year sentence for receiving stolen goods, and had served about six
months of his time. Thus far no clew to his whereabouts has been
obtained.
Former Dive Keeper Tells of Wrath to Come.
“New York to-day is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah and God’s wrath will
fall upon it as it did upon them and smite it into nothingness.”
William McGlory, formerly “king of dive keepers,” and known as the
“wickedest man” now reformed, is author of this statement and prophecy.
He declared “the police are not what they use to be, and that he is now
afraid to venture out upon the streets at night.”
Indians Buy Baby Carriages.
Blanket Osage Indians, who have a liking for automobiles and other
features of modern civilization, have taken another step forward. The
Osage women are abandoning the ancient aboriginal custom of carrying
their infant offspring strapped to a board on their backs. Recently a
great many of them have purchased the fanciest “gocarts” they could buy,
and now it is no uncommon sight in Tulsa, Okla., or other towns
frequented by the Osages to see an Osage mother, garbed in a gaudy
blanket herself, pushing a baby buggy in which reposes a little papoose
who seems as contented as when strapped to the mother’s back.
It is said the Poncas, Otoes, and other blanket Indians are gradually
coming to this custom.
Unsuspected Bank Clerk Pleads Guilty of Robbery.
William H. Bell, the 19-year-old bank clerk, who recently confessed to
stealing the package of $55,000 from the First National Bank, at
Pensacola, Fla., was arraigned before a United States commissioner and
entered a plea of guilty.
Bell declared he had no accomplices in taking the money from the bank,
or in returning it to the back door of the bank where it was found by
the negro janitor. His bond was fixed at $5,000.
In his confession, Bell declared he yielded in a moment of weakness in
taking the money, but, after he had it, he did not know what to do with
it. He said he desired to have sentence levied for his crime as quickly
as possible.
Bell was not under suspicion up to the time he presented himself to the
bank president and confessed to the crime.
Gaynor Stands Up for the Hatpin.
Mayor Gaynor is not in sympathy with the crusade to suppress the wearing
of hatpins with unprotected ends. Several attempts to pass an antihatpin
ordinance in the board of aldermen have been made recently, and the
mayor expresses his opinion on the subject in a letter to one of the
advocates of the ordinance:
“I must confess,” he writes, “I never saw any one hurt by a lady’s
hatpin, but since you say so, and since the prefect of the Rhone
department, in France, as you say, has issued an edict against ladies’
hatpins, I suppose they must do much slaughter. But is it altogether
seemly for a man to get his face so close to a lady’s hatpin as to get
scratched? Shouldn’t such a fellow get scratched?”
Cripples Play Exciting Ball Game.
A large crowd of sympathetic friends and school comrades watched the
ball game on the old league grounds on Huntington Avenue, Boston,
recently, between the nines of the Massachusetts Hospital School, of
Canton, and the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children,
which resulted in a victory for the Industrials by 19 to 14.
Nearly all the young players on both sides were handicapped by some form
or another of bodily injury, and the running had to be done in many
cases by substitutes, but neither their good spirits nor skill seemed to
be affected greatly. The Canton school was outplayed in the early part
of the game, but picked up toward the end, and the ninth ended in a
blaze of glory with two home runs in succession, one of which was
knocked by Noel Metras, who is pitcher for his team, and has had both
legs amputated below the knee.
Killed 3,750,000 Flies.
A. E. Chapman, the municipal fly catcher, at Redlands, Cal., has filed
his first report, showing that in the period between September 1 and
September 24 he killed approximately 3,750,000 flies. He has emptied
fifty gallons of flies from too traps scattered through the business
portion of Redlands. Chapman estimates that there are 75,000 flies to a
gallon.
Factories in Canada Behind on Orders.
General Manager Leonard, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, stated before
the railway commission in Ottawa, that the company found itself in a
serious position, in that it could not find car manufacturers to take
its money for cars required for its new equipment.
“All the car shops in the country are behind in filling orders,” he
said, “and the present shortage of rolling stock is largely due to
inability of makers to keep up with orders. Our directors recently
authorized an expenditure of $19,000,000 for cars, but we are unable to
find any one to take all that money.”
The Canadian Pacific has been obliged to place orders for more than half
of the 14,500 freight cars required with United States manufacturers.
The other big Canadian roads reporting to the commissioners made similar
statements.
Danish Swindler Makes Fortune by Clever Coup.
By spreading the report that the Danish copper cent coins of the 1910
issue contained gold, a clever swindler has amassed a small fortune in
Denmark. Before spreading the rumor the swindler acquired a large
collection of the 1910 issue of coppers. Then it became noised about
that through a mistake in the mint gold had been mixed with the copper.
The price of the cent pieces began to go up, some selling for as much as
a dollar each. With the market at the highest, the collector distributed
his cents judiciously among the clamorous bidders and escaped before it
became generally known that the coins were worth only their face value.
Chained to Post in Public for Refusing to Pay Fines.
After being allowed to rest Sunday in the city jail, Ike McCammic and
Benny Donner, two of the oldest residents of Wellsburg, W. Va., were
fastened to ball and chain and by staples to two telephone poles in
front of city hall.
They refuse to work out small fines imposed by the mayor, and the mayor
is determined to exhibit them to the public every day during which other
prisoners are cleaning the streets until 30 days have elapsed, and as
the mayor does his duty with emphasis, it is expected the prisoners will
be at their posts daily until their fines are met. The men are permitted
to whittle.
For Not Cashing Vouchers Woman May Lose Savings.
A government regulation may make the bulk of the savings of 80-year-old
Mrs. Kate Coombs so much wastepaper. The aged woman for thirty years has
hoarded the monthly $10 voucher she received for her care of machine
covers in the bureau of printing and engraving. To-day her trunk
contains 360 of the warrants calling for $3,600 from the treasury. But a
treasury law provides that such vouchers must be cashed within two years
of the date of issue.
An investigation of the vouchers will be made and they may be paid out
of the “outstanding liabilities fund.”
Illinois Central Railroad Has Decrease in Business.
Claude R. Prince, contracting freight agent of the Illinois Central
Railroad, has received the annual report of the system for the year
ending June 30, 1912.
This report shows a decrease in revenue, due to labor troubles, the
report says, and bad weather conditions in the South and West.
Summarizing, the report says:
The business during the year shows a material decrease as compared with
the previous year, the latter being the largest in the history of your
company. The principal reasons for the decrease were a strike of the
shopmen, which began on September 30, 1911, on all of the different
lines of your company and continued as a disturbing factor for several
months; an unusually severe winter, which seriously affected the
movement of traffic, but caused a large increase in operating expenses.
The total operating revenues for the current year were $58,727,272.17,
which, compared with $62,088,736.52 for the preceding year, shows a
decrease of $3,361,464.35, or 5.41 per cent.
Freight transportation revenue decreased $3,622,219.29, or 8.73 per
cent. The tons of revenue freight carried decreased from 27,966,035 tons
to 26,339,149 tons.
Revenue from the transportation of passengers increased from
$13,168,862.89 to $13,337,562.40, or 1.28 per cent. There was an
increase in passenger traffic on the northern and southern line, while
the western lines show a slight decrease.
The Recent Distribution of Immigrants.
The census taken April 15, 1910, enumerated in the United States
13,345,545 white persons of foreign birth, of whom almost exactly
5,000,000 were new arrivals who had reached this country between January
1, 1901, and the taking of the census. A statement just issued by
Director Durand, of the bureau of the census department of commerce and
labor, and based on a tabulation prepared by Mr. William C. Hunt, chief
statistician for population, gives the distribution among the States of
these recent additions to the population of the United States. The
figures are preliminary and subject to revision. They represent results
of the inquiry made of all foreign-born residents concerning the year of
their immigration to this country. For some 10 per cent of all
foreign-born whites the enumerators failed to ascertain the year of
immigration, but in the figures here given these unknown cases are
distributed in the same proportions as were ascertained where the facts
were available.
Of these recent arrivals coming after January 1, 1901, there were
2,155,772, or 43.1 per cent, in the middle Atlantic States (New York,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey); 1,012,417, or 20.2 per cent in the east
north central division (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and
Wisconsin); and 684,473, or 13.7 per cent, in the New England States.
These three divisions, comprising the States lying north of the Ohio and
east of the Mississippi, contained 3,852,662, or 77.1 per cent of the
immigrants who had come to this country since the year 1900. There were
only 1,147,436, or 22.9 per cent located in the sections of the country
south of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi.
The older immigrants who came to this country prior to 1901 are more
widely dispersed. Of these earlier immigrants the middle Atlantic
division contained in 1910 2,670,407, or 32 per cent, as compared with
43.1 per cent of the recent arrivals. The east north central division
had 2,054,803, or 24.6 per cent of the earlier immigrants, but only 20.2
per cent of the more recent ones. New England with 1,129,913, or 13.5
per cent of the older immigrants, has about the same share in the older
as in the newer immigration. The whole region north of the Ohio and east
of the Mississippi, which contained 5,855,123 persons who came to this
country before 1901, or 70.2 per cent of the entire number, has, as
previously stated, 77.1 per cent of the newcomers.
The new arrivals formed 37.5 per cent of the whole number of the
foreign-born whites. In the middle Atlantic division the newcomers
represent 44.7 per cent of the total foreign-born white population, in
the South Atlantic division 40.9 per cent, and in the mountain division
40.3 per cent. On the other hand, in the west north central division the
newcomers are only 24.9 per cent of all the foreign-born white, and in
the east south central division the proportion is 24.3 per cent.
Among the middle Atlantic States the proportion of the newcomers is
greatest in Pennsylvania (48 per cent), but in each of the other States
of this division their proportion is greater than in the country at
large. In West Virginia the newcomers represent 68.2 per cent of the
foreign-born white, the largest proportion found in any State, but this
is the only State in the South Atlantic division with a noticeably large
proportion of recent immigrants. Without West Virginia the division as a
whole would show a smaller proportion of newcomers than the country
generally. States in which the recent arrivals form more than the
foreign-born white are, besides West Virginia, Arizona with 54.9 per
cent, and Wyoming with 51.7 per cent. States where the proportion does
not reach 50 per cent, but exceeds 40 per cent, are New Mexico 49.2,
Pennsylvania 48, Florida 44.1, New York 43.5, New Jersey 42.4, Montana
42.1, Nevada 41.8, Connecticut 41.5, and Ohio 40.4. On the other hand,
there are a number of States where the foreign-born have received
comparatively few accessions by the immigration of recent years, and
where the older immigrants represent at least three-fourths of all the
foreign-born. These are: Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska,
South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
The proportion of newcomers among the foreign whites in 1910 (37.5 per
cent) is much larger than was the case ten years before. The census of
1900 enumerated 10,341,276 foreign-born persons, of whom 2,609,173, or
25.2 per cent, had arrived in the United States after 1890. The reason
for this larger proportion of newcomers in 1910 lies in the greater
immigration of the decade which preceded the last census enumeration.
During the period from January 1, 1910 to April 1, 1911, the bureau of
immigration recorded the arrival in the United States of 8,248,890
immigrants. Of these, 5,000,098, or 60.6 per cent, were accounted for as
present in the United States at the census enumeration of April 15,
1910. In the period preceding the census of 1900 from January 1, 1891,
to June 1, 1900, the number of immigrants reported was 3,421,184, of
whom 2,609,173, or 76.3 per cent, were counted by the census enumeration
of June 1, 1900. The comparisons of the two periods indicates that the
immigration to the United States contains a larger proportion than
formerly of persons who go back instead of remaining here permanently.
Delegate Gives Banker a Shock.
Officials of the Commercial Bank, at Chicago, were given a severe shock
for a few seconds recently when a delegate of the International Chamber
of Commerce started to stroll away with $200,000, which had been shown
to him to illustrate our currency.
John Hammar, delegate from Sweden, went into the bank to cash a draft
for £25. The officials showed him every courtesy, and one went to the
vault, bringing out a package of $5,000 and $10,000 notes, the total
worth being $200,000.
Mr. Hammar, without looking at the bills, and failing to understand the
explanation, took the notes, and, stuffing them into his pocket, bowed
and started to walk out, thinking he had received the money for his
draft.
The officials called after him, but, believing they merely wished him to
count his money, he smiled by way of expressing his entire confidence,
and continued on his way out. After a time the situation was explained,
and an understanding reached.
Pardoned Banker Back to Wall Street Game.
Charles W. Morse, ex-banker, who was released from the Federal prison at
Atlanta because he was supposed to be dangerously ill, appeared in the
office of the Morse Securities Company, in the Wall Exchange Building,
New York, recently, ready to work at the task of upbuilding his
fortunes. Morse was not inclined to talk about himself or his business
activities. He only smiled when asked if he intended to start a
steamship line between New York and Boston, using the Cape Cod Canal.
The ex-banker looks well, and is apparently fit to play the Wall Street
game once more.
Methodist Ministers Must Not Joke.
A minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church must not yield to a
tendency to tell questionable jokes, and he must not permit others to
tell them in his presence, even if he has to use force to prevent their
being told, according to Bishop William F. McDowell, who addressed the
Rock River conference, at Evanston, Ill.
Laziness and lack of attention to personal appearance also were scored
by Bishop McDowell.
Carried Out to Sea While Being Baptized.
While being baptized by immersion in the Atlantic Ocean at the foot of
Remington Street, Arverne, L. I., Lucy Clary, a negress, was carried out
to sea on a big wave which separated her from the Reverend J. W. Dudley,
pastor of the Shiloh Colored Baptist Church, Arverne, who was conducting
the baptismal services.
After being rescued, she declined to go further with the ceremonies
there, and they were continued at the church.
A Blind Stenographer.
A certain Monsieur Lejeune, who has been totally blind from birth, has
just given an exhibition of his skill in writing shorthand, reaching a
speed of 100 words a minute at the Grand Palais, Paris, France. Last
August he was actually expert enough to obtain a medal for shorthand in
a competition held at Orleans, where he also received a diploma for
correct and rapid typewriting. The machine he uses for stenography is
also exhibited at the Grand Palais in the exhibition that is being held
of toys and mechanical contrivances, and its inventor has received the
prize from the jury of the “Concours Lepine.” Lejeune learned to
manipulate the machine at his present speed in less than five months.
Brave Newsboy Offered Fifteen Artificial Legs.
William Rugh, the Gary, Ind., newsboy, who gave his crooked leg to save
the life of Ethel Smith, will have all the artificial legs a crippled
centipede could require. He has had the offer of fifteen artificial
limbs. In addition, nearly $1,000 has already been raised for him,
contributions coming from Ohio, Texas, New York, and the coast States.
Three New Rescue Stations for English Miners.
Three new mine-rescue stations are to be established in the English
counties of Durham and Northumberland similar to the one already in
existence. This is in accordance with the mines rescue and aid act,
passed by Parliament in 1910.
At each station there will be kept ready for use, not less than 15 sets
of portable breathing apparatus, 20 electric hand lamps, four sets of
oxygen-reviving apparatus, an ambulance box or boxes provided by the
ambulance association, or similar boxes, together with antiseptic
solution and fresh drinking water; also cages of birds and mice for
testing for carbon monoxide. The necessary motor vehicles and fire
engine will likewise be provided.
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516--The Mechanical Giant.
517--Doris, the Unknown.
519--Madge Morley’s Ghost.
520--An Automobile Mystery.
521--The Mysterious Stranger.
522--The White Arm of a Woman.
523--The Man in the Doorway.
524--The Plot of the Baron.
525--The Passenger on the Night Local.
526--A Double Mystery.
527--Clarice, the Countess.
531--A Blackmailer’s Paradise.
532--Gipsy Madge, the Blackmailer.
533--Facing an Unseen Terror.
534--Idayah, the Woman of Mystery.
537--Zanabayah, the Terrible.
538--The Seven-headed Monster.
539--The Woman of the Mask.
540--The Masked Woman’s Daring Plot.
543--Black Madge’s Vengeance.
544--A Tragedy of the Footlights.
545--The Mayard Woman’s Double.
546--Three Against Fifteen.
547--A Mystery of Two Passengers.
549--The House of Secrets.
550--The Lost Bank President.
551--Ralph Bolton’s Double Plot.
552--The Dare-devil Crook.
553--A Mystery from the Klondyke.
554--Returned from the Grave.
555--The Mystery Man of 7-Up Ranch.
556--A Bad Man of Montana.
557--The Man from Arizona.
558--Kid Curry’s Last Stand.
559--A Beautiful Anarchist.
560--The Nihilist’s Second Move.
561--The Brotherhood of Free Russia.
562--A White House Mystery.
563--The Great Spy System.
564--The Last of Mustushimi.
566--A Mystery in India Ink.
567--The Plot of the Stantons.
568--The Criminal Trust.
569--The Syndicate of Crooks.
570--The Order of the Python.
571--Tried for His Life.
572--A Bargain With a Thief.
573--Peters, the Shrewd Crook.
574--The Mystery of the Empty Grave.
575--The Yellow Beryl.
576--The Dead Man on the Roof.
577--A Double-barreled Puzzle.
578--An Automobile Duel.
579--Jasper Ryan’s Counter Move.
580--An International Conspiracy.
581--Plotters Against a Nation.
582--Mignon Duprez, the Female Spy.
583--A Mystery of High Society.
584--A Million Dollars Reward.
585--The Signal of Seven Shots.
586--The “Shadow.”
587--A Dead Man’s Secret.
588--A Victim of Magic.
589--A Plot Within a Palace.
590--The Countess Zeta’s Defense.
591--The Princess’ Last Effort.
592--The Two Lost Crittendens.
593--Miguel, the Avenger.
594--Eulalia, the Bandit Queen.
595--The Crystal Mystery.
596--A Battle of Wit and Skill.
597--Vanderdyken, the Millionaire.
598--Patsy’s Vacation Problem.
599--The King’s Prisoner.
600--A Woman to the Rescue.
601--Nick Carter in Japan.
602--Talika, the Geisha Girl.
603--By Order of the Emperor.
604--The Convict’s Secret.
605--The Man in the Dark.
606--An Anarchist Plot.
607--The Mysterious Mr. Peters.
608--A Woman at Bay.
609--The Balloon Tragedy.
610--Nick Carter’s Strangest Case.
611--The Stolen Treasure.
612--The Island of Fire.
613--The Senator’s Plot.
614--The Madness of Morgan.
615--A Million-dollar Hold-up.
616--Nick Carter’s Submarine Clue.
617--Under the Flag of Chance.
618--The Case Against Judge Bernard.
619--Down to the Grave.
620--The Fatal Javelin.
621--The Ghost of Nick Carter.
622--A Strange Coincidence.
623--Pauline--A Mystery.
624--A Woman of Plots.
625--A Millionaire Swindler.
626--The Money Schemers.
627--On the Trail of the Moon.
628--The House of Mystery.
629--The Disappearance of Monsieur Gereaux.
630--An Heiress to Millions.
631--The Man in the Biograph.
632--The Time-lock Puzzle.
633--The Moving Picture Mystery.
634--The Tiger-tamer.
635--A Strange Bargain.
636--The Haunted Circus.
637--The Secret of a Private Room.
638--A Mental Mystery.
639--The Sealed Envelope.
640--The Message in Blue.
641--A Dream of Empire.
642--The Detective’s Disappearance.
643--The Midnight Marauders.
644--The Child of the Jungle.
645--Nick Carter’s Satanic Enemy.
646--Three Times Stolen.
647--The Great Diamond Syndicate.
648--The House of the Yellow Door.
649--The Triangle Clue.
650--The Hollingsworth Puzzle.
651--The Affair of the Missing Bonds.
652--The Green Box Clue.
653--The Taxi-cab Mystery.
654--The Mystery of a Hotel Room.
655--The Tragedy of the Well.
656--The Black Hand.
657--The Black Hand Nemesis.
658--A Masterly Trick.
659--A Dangerous Man.
660--Castor, the Poisoner.
661--The Castor Riddle.
662--A Tragedy of the Bowery.
663--Four Scraps of Paper.
664--The Secret of the Mine.
665--The Dead Man in the Car.
666--Nick Carter’s Master Struggle.
667--The Air-shaft Spectre.
668--The Broken Latch.
669--Nick Carter’s Sudden Peril.
670--The Man with the Missing Thumb.
671--Feltman, the “Fence.”
672--A Night with Nick Carter.
673--In the Nick of Time.
674--The Dictator’s Treasure.
675--Pieces of Eight.
676--Behind the Mask.
677--The Green Patch.
678--The Drab Thread.
679--The Live-wire Clue.
680--The Vampires of the Tenement.
681--The Policy King Baffled.
682--The Madman’s Gig.
683--A Life at Stake.
684--Trailing a Secret Thread.
685--The Crimson Flash.
686--A Puzzle of Identities.
687--The Westervelt Option.
688--The Vanishing Heiress.
689--The Birth of a Mystery.
690--A Clue from the Past.
691--The Red Triangle.
692--Doctor Quartz Again.
693--The Famous Case of Doctor Quartz.
694--The Chemical Clue.
695--The Prison Cipher.
696--A Pupil of Doctor Quartz.
697--The Midnight Visitor.
698--The Master Crook’s Match.
699--The Man Who Vanished.
700--The Garnet Gauntlet.
701--The Silver Hair Mystery.
702--The Cloak of Guilt.
703--A Battle for a Million.
704--Written in Red.
705--The Collodion Stain.
707--Rogues of the Air.
709--The Bolt from the Blue.
710--The Stockbridge Affair.
711--A Secret from the Past.
712--Playing the Last Hand.
713--A Slick Article.
714--The Taxicab Riddle.
715--The Knife Thrower.
716--The Ghost of Bare-faced Jimmy.
717--The Master Rogue’s Alibi.
718--The Diplomatic Spy.
719--The Dead Letter.
720--The Allerton Millions.
721--A Play for Place.
722--The House of Whispers.
723--The Blue Room Mystery.
727--The Great Pool Room Syndicate.
728--The Mummy’s Head.
729--The Statue Clue.
730--The Torn Card.
731--Under Desperation’s Spur.
732--The Connecting Link.
733--The Abduction Syndicate.
734--The Silent Witness.
736--The Toils of a Siren.
737--The Mark of a Circle.
738--A Plot Within a Plot.
739--The Dead Accomplice.
740--A Mysterious Robber.
741--The Green Scarab.
742--The Strangest Case on Record.
743--A Shot in the Dark.
744--The Seven Schemers.
745--The Hidden Crime.
746--The Secret Entrance.
747--The Cavern Mystery.
748--The Disappearing Fortune.
749--A Voice from the Past.
752--The Spider’s Web.
753--The Man With a Crutch.
754--The Rajah’s Regalia.
755--Saved from Death.
756--The Man Inside.
757--Out for Vengeance.
758--The Poisons of Exili.
759--The Antique Vial.
760--The House of Slumber.
761--A Double Identity.
762--“The Mocker’s” Stratagem.
763--The Man that Came Back.
764--The Tracks in the Snow.
765--The Babbington Case.
766--Masters of Millions.
767--The Blue Stain.
768--The Lost Clew.
769--The Midnight Message.
770--The Turn of a Card.
771--A Message in the Dust.
772--A Royal Flush.
773--The Metal Casket Mystery.
774--The Great Buddha Beryl.
775--The Vanishing Heiress.
776--The Unfinished Letter.
777--A Difficult Trail.
778--A Six-word Puzzle.
779--Dr. Quartz.
780--Dr. Quartz’s Oath.
781--The Fate of Dr. Quartz.
782--A Woman’s Stratagem.
783--The Cliff Castle Affair.
784--A Prisoner of the Tomb.
785--A Resourceful Foe.
786--The Heir of Dr. Quartz.
787--Dr. Quartz, the Second.
788--Dr. Quartz II. at Bay.
789--The Great Hotel Tragedies.
790--Zanoni, the Witch.
791--A Vengeful Sorceress.
792--The Prison Demon.
793--Doctor Quartz on Earth Again.
794--Doctor Quartz’s Last Play.
795--Zanoni, the Transfigured.
796--The Lure of Gold.
797--The Man With a Chest.
798--A Shadowed Life.
799--The Secret Agent.
800--A Plot for a Crown.
801--The Red Button.
802--Up Against It.
803--The Gold Certificate.
804--Jack Wise’s Hurry Call.
805--Nick Carter’s Ocean Chase.
806--Nick Carter and the Broken Dagger.
807--Nick Carter’s Advertisement.
808--The Kregoff Necklace.
809--The Footprints on the Rug.
810--The Copper Cylinder.
811--Nick Carter and the Nihilists.
812--Nick Carter and the Convict Gang.
813--Nick Carter and the Guilty Governor.
814--The Triangled Coin.
815--Ninety-nine--and One.
816--Coin Number 77.
817--In the Canadian Wilds.
818--The Niagara Smugglers.
819--The Man Hunt.
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3--A Fight for a Million.
4--Nick Carter’s Land Office.
5--Nick Carter and the Professor.
6--Nick Carter as a Mill Hand.
7--A Single Clew.
8--The Currie Outfit.
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