THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.
Eat More Corn Bread.
The suggestion that the American people get better acquainted with corn as a breadstuff, made in Mr. Boyce’s talks recently, has brought many commendatory letters. Mr. Boyce called attention to the fact that corn is a universal crop in the United States. Demand from Europe has made wheat prices high, but Europe has not yet learned to eat our corn.
“Your advice should be heeded by everybody, in the cities and in the smaller places and country,” says one letter, from an Iowa town. “Corn has been selling at from seventy-two to seventy-seven cents a bushel. Bulk cornmeal of good quality can be bought for three to five cents a pound. As you say, there is no better food in the wintertime. People have been eating too much wheat.”
Another says: “We should eat more corn, instead of so much wheat, and also more graham flour and oatmeal. They all furnish the best kind of nutriment.”
Eating of potatoes, rye bread, rice, oatmeal, and similar foods is also advocated. More attention should be paid to vegetables as a partial substitute for bread.
Corn is as healthful as it is economical. Those who make a practice of eating corn bread rarely suffer from indigestion, constipation, or kindred complaints.
Eighty-three, But He’s a Speeder.
Though Alfred S. Hensley, of Stanhope, N. J., is eighty-three years of age, he would not be “dared” by some of his cronies, who wagered that he would not ride a motor cycle. Hensley was telling them how some years ago he was a “speed maniac” with a motor cycle. They laughed, and the old man jumped on the seat of a motor cycle and was off down the Stanhope-Newton Road like a shot. He went about half a mile and then turned back, covering the last quarter of a mile in sixteen seconds, and as he set the machine against the curb, he pocketed a wager with the remark:
“Well, I guess I’m still one of the young uns.”
All Five Shots Hit Villain of a Play.
Lewis Benton, who has lived near Shingletown, Cal., fifty miles from a railroad or town, all his life, came to Sacramento the other day to settle up a timber claim at the United States land office.
Benton, who had read a great deal about the white-slave traffic and had heard something about moving pictures, looked up a newspaper reporter who had spent the summer with him, and together they attended a picture show.
Real trouble was reeled off at the theater. The films showed a stirring play, in which a deep-eyed villain with a silk hat and a cane did his worst for three reels. During the most thrilling portion of the play, when the villain tried to hurl one of his fair victims from the sixth story of a building, Benton could contain himself no longer.
He whipped out his forty-four-caliber revolver and began shooting at the screen. After the police had seized and hustled Benton away, the screen was examined, and it was found each of the five shots hit the curtain within the space of a silver dollar. When the pictures were run again, it was found that the villain was struck between the eyes by every bullet.
The newspaper man had a hard time explaining Benton’s action to Police Judge Waldo Thompson. The judge finally consented to let Benton return to Shingletown minus his “shooting iron.” The revolver was sent to him by parcel post.
Finds Money in a Chimney.
When he moved into a recently purchased house, Floyd Wilkins, of Georgetown, Del., was overjoyed to find a sum of money hidden behind a loose brick in the chimney. The money is supposed to have been placed there by the former owner of the house, who died several years ago. Wilkins has not disclosed the amount.
Pathetic Romance of Aged “Lonesome Bill.”
While hunting for coon in the mountains north of Big Laurel, Va., the hunters came upon the cabin of old “Lonesome Bill,” and seeing no light in the house, investigated and found the old man dead. Whether the aged hermit froze to death or died from illness no one knows, but it is thought that he had been in poor health for some time, and it is likely he succumbed to old age.
His exact age is not known, as all his family have long been dead or moved away, but it is supposed that he was near one hundred years old, probably older. The old man was seldom seen away from his mountain home, and how he lived is still a mystery. It is said that at the age of eighteen or twenty he came to the mountains from the eastern part of the State, with his father, mother, and three sisters. They were all nice people, and Bill was well educated, having graduated from some Eastern university. He fell in love with one of the mountain girls near where his father had bought a large farm, and was about to marry her when his father, Mark Alexander, interfered.
There was some trouble between father and son, but the son finally succeeded in securing his father’s consent to the marriage, but before the day came for the wedding the girl was taken sick and died after a few days’ illness.
From the day of her death, Bill Alexander was a changed man. He went into the forest, high upon the mountainside, and built himself a rude cabin, where he lived until he died. At first he would see no visitors, and came near killing several persons, including his father.
Not many months later his father died and two sisters married, leaving his younger sister and mother alone. He received them in his cabin, and they remained with him for two days, when they sold out the farm, with the exception of his house and one acre, and left the country. The two sisters who married had already gone away with their husbands.
So Bill Alexander, the dashing young college man of eighty years ago, came to be simply “Lonesome Bill” to the mountain people, and he was left to brood over his lost love alone. All traces of his people having been lost, he was buried by the side of the cabin he called home. The cabin contained nothing of importance, further than an old tintype of a young and pretty girl dressed after the fashion of the mountaineers a century ago.
Suit Over Nail in the Bread.
A nail and a tooth of a woman’s comb or a piece of a toothpick found in loaves of bread that had not been touched by a human hand in the preparation or baking or delivery are the causes of a suit for damages brought by C. A. J. Qeek-Berner against the Ward Bread Company before Judge Aspinall and a jury in the Kings County Court, New York.
Mr. Qeek-Berner claims he found the nail and the other foreign substances with his teeth, and in so doing inflicted damage to said teeth and mental anguish to himself to the value of $50,000. The plaintiff testified he found a wire nail an inch and one-half long in one loaf of bread, and in trying to masticate it, he ruined five teeth. Later, in another loaf, he found a tooth from a woman’s comb. Counsel for the defendant insisted that it was but a common toothpick.
Thirty-mile Race to Save $25,000.
With a package containing $25,000 in cash perilously near falling out of the open door of an empty express car, a Union Pacific fast-mail train speeded westward, from Omaha, Neb., pursued by a special train carrying the messenger who had missed his car.
The race continued for nearly thirty miles before the mail was overtaken. The package of money was found just a few inches inside the open doorway.
The money package was delivered just before the train started. It was placed just within the open door, and while the messenger was registering, the train of exclusive express cars pulled out of the station. The chase immediately was begun.
Flood Kills Caged Beasts.
Flood and storm conditions approaching those which swept southern and central Arizona with disastrous results a month ago were repeated several days ago. Two cities—Globe and Miami—were isolated. In the Salt River Valley damage amounting to more than $100,000 has been done. In Phoenix the streets were rivers, and animals valued at $30,000 were drowned in a menagerie.
Ranchers in the lowlands were caught unprepared and scores were rescued from trees and housetops by boats after their homes had been swept away. Many productive areas between here and Bisbee are still covered by the flood, which in places reached the highest stage recorded in twenty years.
$25,000 to Girl Who Kept Nice and Quiet.
Just how golden constant and well-regulated silence can be made was evidenced when Miss Bertha Gretsch of New York, learned that Jacob Hyman had bequeathed her half of a $50,000 estate because she didn’t laugh and talk when he took her fishing.
Hyman, who was seventy-three years old when he died lived with Miss Gretsch’s parents for many years, and since her early childhood she was his constant companion. Being of a silent and contemplative nature, the aged man enjoined her to always sit still and not be giddy when she was about with him, particularly when he went angling. She was, however, permitted to utter monosyllables in monotone when he made an unusually good catch.
Regarding a loud laugh as one of the disturbers of philosophic calm, Mr. Hyman was opposed sternly to visible and risible mirth. And because Miss Gretsch could fish without giggling or otherwise impeding the sound of absolute silence, she is now an heiress. She is twenty-two years old and is a graduate of Erasmus Hall High School. Mr. Hyman was noted during the latter years of his life for his benefactions to Jewish institutions. He was in business for some time at 5 Beekman Street.
Another Man Restores Stealings.
W. H. Chapin, convicted of larceny by bailee in Portland, Ore., for appropriating to his use $3,500 belonging to Mrs. Marion Annie Grace, was given a full pardon by Governor Oswald West, who executed the instrument upon receiving a bond signed by Chapin’s friends guaranteeing that he would make restitution.
Mrs. Grace and her husband, an aged couple, alleged that they had placed their savings in Chapin’s hands for investment, and that he had converted the money to his own use.
Governor West notified Chapin that if he would guarantee full restitution, a pardon would be forthcoming.
“It seems more important,” wrote the governor, “that these old people should be provided for than that Chapin should go to the penitentiary.”
Government Plan to Aid Unemployed.
The Federal department of labor has completed the preliminary work in connection with the Federal employment bureau, and necessary blanks are being sent employers throughout the country and to post offices for distribution to persons seeking employment.
It is the purpose of Secretary Wilson and his department to act as a clearing house for those who seek employment and those who have employment to offer. Both union and nonunion workers and proprietors of open or closed shops throughout the country are interested in these operations of the department.
It is Secretary Wilson’s intention, it is further stated, to try to induce municipalities which contemplate building projects and public improvements to begin their work as soon as possible. Mr. Wilson believes the greater part of this work should be done in times of industrial depression and less should be done during periods of great industrial activity.
Finally, the secretary of labor believes it will be necessary ultimately for the Federal government to actually put the unemployed on the land. He favors a plan much like the one provided for Ireland by the Gladstone bill. The government bought the land, cut it up into small farms, built houses and other improvements, placed a family on each farm, and received payment in amounts little larger than taxes.
War Costs Germans Trade in Chemicals.
The German exports of chemical products, in the manufacture of which that country undoubtedly led the world, have been virtually entirely cut off since the outbreak of hostilities. Last year they attained the enormous figure of about $250,000,000.
German experts in this trade, however, express no fear as to the future. They are of opinion that the competition which has started in other countries will, after the cessation of the war, only tend to sharpen the edge of the inventiveness of German chemists, who will, they say, be able to make further chemical discoveries which will place them in a position at least equal to that which they have hitherto held.
Quitting Booze and Smokes.
Under the conditions that he neither smokes nor uses intoxicants until he is thirty years of age, Charles Gordon Emery II., of Watertown, N. Y., is left the sum of $50,000 in trust by the will of his grandfather. Charles G. Emery, the tobacco millionaire, filed for probate here to-day. The estate amounts to between four and five million dollars.
Bear Curfew in Jersey.
Women and children of Vernon, N. J., are staying indoors nowadays from fear of bears. Two or three have stolen sheep and beehives lately, carrying their loot into the woods and swamps on the outskirts of the town. Hunters are organizing to put a stop to the bear raids.
Thanks Good Samaritan of ’61.
A resolution was adopted by the legislature of Vermont commending Mrs. Bettie van Metre, of Berryville, Va., for her care of Lieutenant Bedell, of Westfield, Vt., after he was injured during the Civil War.
Lieutenant Bedell’s leg was broken by a shell in a battle at Opequon, Va., and he was left behind by his regiment. He was picked up unconscious and carried to the house, where he was left in an attic room for three days without proper care, until Mrs. van Metre, then a girl of twenty years, heard of his condition, and insisted on acting as nurse. She watched over him, regardless of criticisms, until he was able to be moved back to his Vermont home. She then accompanied him on a troop train, and afterward returned to Virginia.
Indians’ Football Dates.
The athletic officials at the Carlisle Indian School have announced the 1915 football schedule, which contains one game less than last season.
Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, and Syracuse have been dropped, and Harvard, Bucknell, and Fordham take their places.
It has not yet been decided as to who will coach Carlisle on the gridiron during the coming season, although there are a number of applicants, among whom are former Indian football stars, as well as graduates of leading universities.
The schedule follows:
September 18, Albright College vs. Carlisle Indians, at Carlisle; September 25, Lebanon Valley vs. Carlisle Indians, at Carlisle; October 2, Lehigh University vs. Carlisle Indians, at South Bethlehem; October 9, Harvard University vs. Carlisle Indians, at Cambridge, Mass.; October 16, University of Pittsburgh vs. Carlisle Indians, at Pittsburgh; October 23, Bucknell vs. Carlisle Indians, at Carlisle; October 30, West Virginia Wesleyan vs. Carlisle Indians, at Wheeling, W. Va.; November 6, Holy Cross College vs. Carlisle Indians, at Worcester, Mass.; November 13, Dickinson College vs. Carlisle Indians, at Carlisle; November 20, Fordham University vs. Carlisle, at New York City; November 25, Brown University vs. Carlisle Indians, at Providence.
Has a Five-footed Pig.
R. S. Givens, living between Georgetown and Laurel, Del., has a hog which has five perfectly formed feet. The freak is attracting much attention from the residents in the western part of the country, and hundreds have been to see it within the past few weeks.
Worked Fourteen Years, Never Asked Pay.
Here is a man who worked for about fourteen years as a clerk without compensation. He is Edward A. Noonan, of New York, who went into the employ of John Fox & Co., manufacturers of iron pipes, on August 23, 1900, but he never received anything for his work except a promise of twenty-five dollars a week.
The remarkable fortitude of Noonan in waiting fourteen years for a pay day that never came around, figures in the accounting of the estate of John Fox, late representative and president of the National Democratic Club, which was filed in the surrogates’ court yesterday. Mr. Fox was senior member of the firm that employed Noonan, and the latter has made a belated claim for $19,500 back salary.
Even while the affairs of the estate were being straightened out in the office of former Surrogate Charles H. Beckett, attorney for the executors, Noonan did some clerical work in connection with the estate. But he never mentioned anything about his claim. The estate also advertised for claims, but Noonan paid no attention.
Not until the accounting was to be filed did he assert his desire to be paid his salary. However, there will be no pay day for the unpaid clerk in the near future, as the estate is not inclined to recognize the claim, and it will be made the subject of a jury trial in the surrogates’ court under the new law.
The accounting shows that John Fox, son of the former politician, received only $1,121 as his first year’s income from the estate, while Eleanor B. Fox, granddaughter, received $1,000, and Mrs. Catherine O’Brien, a niece, a similar amount.
1,827,000 Persons Get Aid in France.
Official statistics give the number of applications for government aid as 2,116,000, of which 261,600 were refused. At present daily allowances are paid to 1,857,000 persons, the average a family being two francs 10 centimes—forty-two cents. The daily outlay is 3,900,000 francs—$780,000.
Much Despised Weed Has Medicinal Value.
Thymol is an important antiseptic. For years it has been manufactured almost exclusively in Germany, from a plant cultivated in India. At the beginning of the European war the price of this medicinal chemical rose from two dollars to seventeen dollars a pound.
“Yet during all these years,” says Professor E. Kremers, of the University of Wisconsin, “while we have been importing about ten thousand pounds of thymol annually, a weed growing on the sandy areas along the lower course of the Wisconsin River has probably been producing enough thymol to have supplied the entire United States in the present crisis.”
Although attention has been directed again and again to this medicinal agent, this weed has been allowed to go to waste. Because of its thymol, it is not even touched by grazing cattle or sheep. Yet after the thymol has been removed, the exhausted plant is eaten by animals, and may thus be converted into a useful agricultural product.
Now that the supply from Europe is cut off, requests for seed and plants have been received at the Wisconsin pharmaceutical experiment station.
Once Rich, Now Beggar.
Unshaven and shabbily clad, “Colonel” William Wayne Beldin, who says he was at one time independently wealthy, was found guilty of mendicancy by Magistrate Deuel, in the Tombs police court, New York, and sentenced to the workhouse for ten days.
Beldin, who retains traces of his former gentility, says he was at one time vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. Unfortunate speculation in Wall Street, he says, dissipated his fortune, and for a time he was supported through allowances paid to him by relatives and former friends.
Five years ago these funds ceased to be forthcoming, and he obtained a position as a waiter in a small restaurant. Finally he lost even this humble position.
According to Patrolman Gavan, of the Old Slip Precinct, Beldin was begging Saturday night from passers-by opposite the Stock Exchange. After he was placed under arrest, he told the police he had relatives in the South who would be glad to care for him if he could find them.
One Day of Rest Upheld.
The constitutionality of the law securing to employees in factories and mercantile establishments twenty-four consecutive hours of rest every week, as applied in New York State, was upheld by a unanimous decision of the court of appeals in that State.
The decision was given in an appeal from judgments of the city court of Buffalo convicting the Klinck Packing Company, of that city, of violating the law. The statute is known as “the one day of rest in seven” law. The employers will carry the case to the United States Supreme Court.
Death Valley Now an Eden.
Death Valley, recently placed on the social map by a dance to which girls were invited and provided with transportation by the bachelors of the mining camps, is about to be transformed from an Eveless Eden into an Eden densely populated with femininity.
Following Death Valley’s great ball and the importation of music from Los Angeles, a deluge of letters from Adamless Eves has descended on the mining camps.
The dance was arranged by young college men, mining engineers, and employees in Death Valley. They invited girls from Goldfield, Ludlow, and Los Angeles, providing each with railroad fare. An orchestra went from Los Angeles. It was a gala affair. Robert M. Pease, who arranged it, is being deluged with letters from women who want to move to Death Valley. Pease writes:
“Behold, I am being deluged with a hopeless mass of communications from all ‘Adamless Eves’ in Christendom. I am receiving pounds of pressed roses and violets; I am receiving offers to mend my socks, to sew my buttons, to cook for me; requests for programs, requests for photographs, and, yea, even requests for transportation.”
Facts You May Not Know.
The earliest record in journeying around the world was held by Magellan at something less than three years—the latest stands at thirty-five days and twenty-one hours. It has taken us nearly four centuries to lower it to this extent. To reduce it in the next four hundred years in the same proportion, we should have to make the circuit, in A. D. 2314, in about a day.
The California-Mexican border covers 152 miles. Arizona has 300 miles of border on Mexico. New Mexico neighbors with the Mexicans for 410 miles, and Texas lies along the Mexican boundary for more than 900 miles.
A pipe organ has been installed in a Massachusetts church which produces a tone so low that it can be felt rather than heard.
The life of the domestic horse is about twenty-eight years, while that of the wild one is thirty-eight years.
A National Forest is Lost.
Lost: A national forest. Last seen somewhere in Michigan. Three thousand dollars reward. Finder please hold until called for.
During the debate on the agricultural appropriation bill in the House, at Washington, D. C., the reading clerk was interrupted by Representative Fordney, of Michigan, when he read the item appropriating $3,000 for the care of the Michigan national forest.
“Mr. Chairman,” said Mr. Fordney, “I’d just like to inquire of the chairman of the committee where that forest is located.”
Chairman Lever confessed his ignorance, and no one else could enlighten the Michigan man.
The item was left in the bill, however, for fear the forest might be discovered and left without provision.
Figure Seven His Lucky Number.
Calvin Ross, real-estate dealer, of Shelbyville, Ind., has just celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday. Referring to his anniversary, Ross said: “I was born at seven p. m. on the seventh day of the week and the twenty-seventh day of the month in 1837. I was the seventh son and the seventh and last child of my family.”
He is convinced that he will live to be eighty-seven years old. He says he has never been sick a day in his life.
Poor Man Proves Right to Patent.
After having been scoffed at for years while he struggled to achieve his ambition and never once lost hope, Albert S. Janin has been declared inventor of the hydroaëroplane, or flying boat.
The decision was given against Glenn H. Curtiss, the famous aëroplane builder, who had heretofore been credited with the creation of the hydroaëroplane, by the examiners in chief of the patent office in Washington, the appeal board in all questions of patents.
Janin, a poor carpenter, living in a suburb of New York City, has for years skimped his wife and seven children in the necessities of their daily life, for the sake of carrying out his idea. He lost friends on account of it; they pointed to their heads as he passed and said “wheels.” The neighbors and the capitalists whom he tried to persuade to finance his dream repeatedly told him he was going crazy.
“It all came from the flying fishes and the sea gulls,” said Janin. “I was what is called a cadet representing the government on a mail ship in 1899. I was detailed to a steamer running down South and used to stand on the bridge and watch the flying fish rise in an arc from the surface of the sea. I used to say: ‘If a fish can do that, I can make a machine do the same stunt.’ That’s why I got the idea of the water machine first, while the others worked on the land-machine idea.
“The notion about warping the wings I got from the sea gulls that were always sailing around us. So I began to make drawings of flying boats. Right away my friends said: ‘Crazy.’”
The difficulties through which Janin has made his way are hinted at in the decision of the examiners in chief. Here, for example, is an excerpt from their report:
“Following the date of his conception—of the invention—Janin made drawings, and in 1909 attempted to build a full-sized device himself. He, however, was a poor man, evidently struggling to meet his current living expenses.
“From what his witnesses testify it is apparent that he was continually striving to raise funds to develop his ideas, which were regarded by many as illusionary.”
Without the help of any one, and with no encouragement except the sympathy of his wife, Janin persisted in completing his invention. The value of the aid given him by Mrs. Janin can only be guessed from the few words he said of her.
“Everybody laughed at me except the family. They were game. My wife was a sticker, even when there was sickness in the family, and a lot of troubles that I won’t tell about. She believed in me all the way.”
Finally, in January, 1911, Janin made application for a patent on his design for the flying boat. August 22d of the same year Glenn H. Curtiss applied for a patent on the same “counts.” The examiner in the patent office gave the patent to Curtiss. Now that Janin has won on his appeal to the examiners in chief, he will get a royalty on the flying boats which will make him rich.
Warns of Boiler Danger.
There are over 500 boiler explosions in North America every year. The records show that many of them are accompanied by fatalities. A little invention which promises to do much toward preventing such accidents has just been completed and patented by two Canadian engineers, John J. Oglivie and Fred F. Dier, of Ottawa. It is called an “electric-signal water column.”
As the name implies, the invention is a column to be attached to the boiler, answering the purpose of a water glass. By an ingenious electric apparatus, the height of the water is recorded by means of small glow lamps. As the water rises or falls, so the lamps at a corresponding position are lighted or extinguished. Should the water fall below the safety level, the next lamp below is a red one, and as soon as the water reaches the level of this, the red globe shines forth and an electrical alarm rings. The tube in which the water rises and falls is cast iron, three inches in diameter, which eliminates any possibility of it becoming clogged and thus registering a false level of water, which has happened in ordinary gauges.
A useful attachment to the water gauge on the boiler is an indication board, a duplicate of the one on the boiler, which may be installed in any part of the building where a steam boiler is run. Thus a superintendent is constantly aware of the state of a boiler, as the same lamps, globes, and alarm are used. The water column is made for use on locomotives, ships, water tanks, or any mechanism where water levels have to be registered.
“The device is a fuel and labor saver as well as a life saver. It has met with the approval of many of our boiler inspectors,” writes Oglivie, who is chief engineer of the department of mines at Ottawa.
Catches Chickens With Net.
Lewis Johnson, a young man who lives on his uncle’s farm near Troutdale, Ore., has invented a novel contrivance wherewith to catch timid chickens without the customary breakneck chase. Lewis was commissioned to catch the fowls for several large dinners, and it required a deal of chasing. He now has a neatly woven net, a fishnet in resemblance, round in shape, borders lined with auto drive chain, and a long rope attached to the middle of the net.
The net is compact and looks small enough, but when released by throwing, much as a lasso is thrown, it spreads out uniformly to a nine-foot circle. The spreading is automatic and the fall swift, so there is little chance for the fowl to escape.
Spoon in Two Parts.
The germless spoon is to be added to the individual drinking cups, pie plates, napkins, and other “use-once” devices. In a lunch place where people are fed by hundreds, a spoon is thrust into a large number of mouths during the course of its career, and should it be indifferently cleaned, it would afford a playground for millions of germs, according to the experts who study such things. The “germless spoon” has a new bowl for every use. Only the handle is used more than once. The bowl is of paper or compressed fiber. Means is provided for locking the two parts together for use, after which the bowl is destroyed and the handle goes to the kitchen for a bath.
HOW HE QUIT TOBACCO
This veteran, S. B. Lamphere, was addicted to the excessive use of tobacco for many years. He wanted to quit but needed something to help him.
He learned of a free book that tells about tobacco habit and how to conquer it quickly, easily and safely. In a recent letter he writes: “I have no desire for tobacco any more. I feel like a new man.”
Anyone desiring a copy of this book on tobacco habit, smoking and chewing, can get it free, postpaid, by writing to Edward J. Woods, 230 H, Station E, New York City. You will be surprised and pleased. Look for quieter nerves, stronger heart, better digestion, improved eyesight, increased vigor, longer life and other advantages if you quit poisoning yourself.
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When it comes to detective stories worth while, the Nick Carter Stories contain the only ones that should be considered. They are not overdrawn tales of bloodshed. They rather show the working of one of the finest minds ever conceived by a writer. The name of Nick Carter is familiar all over the world, for the stories of his adventures may be read in twenty languages. No other stories have withstood the severe test of time so well as those contained in the Nick Carter Stories. It proves conclusively that they are the best. We give herewith a list of some of the back numbers in print. You can have your news dealer order them, or they will be sent direct by the publishers to any address upon receipt of the price in money or postage stamps.
704—Written in Red.
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.
717—The Master Rogue’s Alibi.
719—The Dead Letter.
720—The Allerton Millions.
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.
736—The Toils of a Siren.
737—The Mark of a Circle.
738—A Plot Within a Plot.
739—The Dead Accomplice.
741—The Green Scarab.
743—A Shot in the Dark.
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—The Masters of Millions.
767—The Blue Stain.
768—The Lost Clew.
770—The Turn of a Card.
771—A Message in the Dust.
772—A Royal Flush.
774—The Great Buddha Beryl.
775—The Vanishing Heiress.
776—The Unfinished Letter.
777—A Difficult Trail.
778—A Six-word Puzzle.
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.
789—The Great Hotel Tragedies.
790—Zanoni, the Witch.
791—A Vengeful Sorceress.
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.
NEW SERIES
NICK CARTER STORIES
1—The Man from Nowhere.
2—The Face at the Window.
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 Emerald Snake.
9—The Currie Outfit.
10—Nick Carter and the Kidnapped Heiress.
11—Nick Carter Strikes Oil.
12—Nick Carter’s Hunt for a Treasure.
13—A Mystery of the Highway.
14—The Silent Passenger.
15—Jack Dreen’s Secret.
16—Nick Carter’s Pipe Line Case.
17—Nick Carter and the Gold Thieves.
18—Nick Carter’s Auto Chase.
19—The Corrigan Inheritance.
20—The Keen Eye of Denton.
21—The Spider’s Parlor.
22—Nick Carter’s Quick Guess.
23—Nick Carter and the Murderess.
24—Nick Carter and the Pay Car.
25—The Stolen Antique.
26—The Crook League.
27—An English Cracksman.
28—Nick Carter’s Still Hunt.
29—Nick Carter’s Electric Shock.
30—Nick Carter and the Stolen Duchess.
31—The Purple Spot.
32—The Stolen Groom.
33—The Inverted Cross.
34—Nick Carter and Keno McCall.
35—Nick Carter’s Death Trap.
36—Nick Carter’s Siamese Puzzle.
37—The Man Outside.
38—The Death Chamber.
39—The Wind and the Wire.
40—Nick Carter’s Three Cornered Chase
41—Dazaar, the Arch-Fiend.
42—The Queen of the Seven.
43—Crossed Wires.
44—A Crimson Clew.
45—The Third Man.
46—The Sign of the Dagger.
47—The Devil Worshipers.
48—The Cross of Daggers.
49—At Risk of Life.
50—The Deeper Game.
51—The Code Message.
52—The Last of the Seven.
53—Ten-Ichi, the Wonderful.
54—The Secret Order of Associated Crooks.
55—The Golden Hair Clew.
56—Back From the Dead.
57—Through Dark Ways.
58—When Aces Were Trumps.
59—The Gambler’s Last Hand.
60—The Murder at Linden Fells.
61—A Game for Millions.
62—Under Cover.
63—The Last Call.
64—Mercedes Danton’s Double.
65—The Millionaire’s Nemesis.
66—A Princess of the Underworld.
67—The Crook’s Blind.
68—The Fatal Hour.
69—Blood Money.
70—A Queen of Her Kind.
71—Isabel Benton’s Trump Card.
72—A Princess of Hades.
73—A Prince of Plotters.
74—The Crook’s Double.
75—For Life and Honor.
76—A Compact With Dazaar.
77—In the Shadow of Dazaar.
78—The Crime of a Money King.
79—Birds of Prey.
80—The Unknown Dead.
81—The Severed Hand.
82—The Terrible Game of Millions.
83—A Dead Man’s Power.
84—The Secrets of an Old House.
85—The Wolf Within.
86—The Yellow Coupon.
87—In the Toils.
88—The Stolen Radium.
89—A Crime in Paradise.
90—Behind Prison Bars.
91—The Blind Man’s Daughter.
92—On the Brink of Ruin.
93—Letter of Fire.
94—The $100,000 Kiss.
95—Outlaws of the Militia.
96—The Opium-Runners.
97—In Record Time.
98—The Wag-Nuk Clew.
99—The Middle Link.
100—The Crystal Maze.
101—A New Serpent in Eden.
102—The Auburn Sensation.
103—A Dying Chance.
104—The Gargoni Girdle.
105—Twice in Jeopardy.
106—The Ghost Launch.
107—Up in the Air.
108—The Girl Prisoner.
109—The Red Plague.
110—The Arson Trust.
111—The King of the Firebugs.
112—“Lifter’s” of the Lofts.
113—French Jimmie and His Forty Thieves.
114—The Death Plot.
115—The Evil Formula.
116—The Blue Button.
117—The Deadly Parallel.
118—The Vivisectionists.
119—The Stolen Brain.
120—An Uncanny Revenge.
121—The Call of Death.
122—The Suicide.
123—Half a Million Ransom.
124—The Girl Kidnapper.
125—The Pirate Yacht.
126—The Crime of the White Hand.
127—Found in the Jungle.
128—Six Men in a Loop. Dated February 27th, 1915.
129—The Jewels of Wat Chang. Dated March 6th, 1913.
130—The Crime in the Tower. Dated March 13th, 1915.
131—The Fatal Message. Dated March 20th, 1915.
132—Broken Bars.
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