THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.
Michigan on Gridiron.
Six of the eight games which will make up the University of Michigan’s 1915 football schedule were announced recently by the board in control of the athletics. The midweek games have not yet been decided upon.
The schedule follows:
October 9, Mount Union; October 16, Case; October 23, Michigan Agricultural College; October 30, Syracuse; November 6, Cornell; November 13, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
With the exception of the Pennsylvania game on Franklin Field, Michigan will fight all her battles on the home gridiron next fall.
Hen and High-bred Chickens.
A hen of high-flying propensities advertised her character when a barred Plymouth Rock, the property of Mr. Gushee, of Hastings, N. Y., announced from a cedar tree on the Longue Vue estate, that she had a remarkable secret to impart.
Those who answered the frenzied squawks for aid found with her a brood of thirteen chicks. M. C. Cronin, who superintends the poultry stock at Longue Vue, removed the flock from the tree crotch, which was twenty feet from the ground, and installed the family in a comfortable house. The hen had been missing for days, but no one thought to look for her at such a height. Now they are trying to decide whether the birds are cedar birds or plain chickens.
Destroying Odor of Smoke.
A new invention is a lamp which consumes smoke. It resembles an ordinary alcohol lamp in appearance. At the tip of its burner is a piece of platinum. When the platinum is made to glow by the alcohol flame arising from the burner it gives off formaldehyde in great quantities. This overcomes the smoke or any other impurity in the atmosphere. When the lamp is lighted in a room where smoking is in progress it prevents the accumulation of stale smoke. It can also be used as a disinfector.
Ex-slave Ill at 102.
Mrs. Minerva Gillies, whose father, Richard Washington, was George Washington’s slave, was taken to the Harlem Hospital, in New York recently, suffering from ailments that come with old age. She is 102 years old, and lived with her daughter at 58 West 133d Street.
Richard Washington was a stableboy at Mount Vernon. After the death of George Washington, he was sold and went to Petersburg, Va. There Minerva was born. She remained in slavery until the end of the Civil War, when she came North.
From Gate to President.
At a meeting of the directors of Yale & Towne, of Stamford, Conn., the largest hardware manufacturing concern in the country, if not in the world, Walter C. Allen, who twenty-three years ago applied for a job at the gate of the works, was elected president in the place of Henry R. Towne, who retires after forty-six years in that position.
Mr. Towne was made chairman of the board of directors.
Death Takes Four of Family.
For the first time in the history of Loganville, Ga., according to the older inhabitants, four deaths occurred in one family within four days. Edgar Rickets, who lives about four miles west of the place, experienced this affliction recently.
On a Monday he attended the funeral of his mother. That night his baby died, and the next day his wife and little boy, about two years old, also died, all being victims of pneumonia fever. The three bodies were buried Wednesday in a local cemetery. This is the first time that a triple funeral has ever occurred from one family in this section.
Dog Rescues an Old Soldier.
Wanderer, a smart collie, is being showered with attention as a hero in Woodside, Md., for saving from death Charles McCallion, an aged veteran of the Civil War. “Wan,” as the dog is commonly known, is owned by Edson B. Olds, treasurer of the Union Trust Company.
Mr. Olds’ attention was attracted to the continuous barking and peculiar antics of the dog on Sunday morning. Wan would dash up to the house and bark for a few minutes, then run to a field near by and bark again.
When Mr. Olds followed Wan on one of the trips, he found McCallion lying in the middle of the field, unconscious from the cold. A physician was summoned, and the aged veteran was taken to the Soldiers’ Hospital. He will recover.
Ding Dong! Go Bells for Wong Chungs.
Mr. Wong Chung, late of China, whose head is said to be worth $10,000 to certain bloodthirsty officials of his native land, and Mrs. Chung Fong, more recently of the Celestial republic, who has traveled 10,000 miles to wed the political refugee with the precious cranium, were married in New York recently at the First Chinese Presbyterian Church by the Reverend Huie Kin.
The flavor of romance which one might expect from the above was absent at the ceremony. Mr. Chung is tall and thin, with the face of a student. He was attired in the official gala dress of the new republic, which consists of gray trousers, Prince Albert, high collar, and ascot tie. His bride, who is a slim, elderly lady, with gold-rimmed spectacles, wore a native Chinese costume of white silk, with a loose tunic effect and a short white veil. She bought this just before she set out in search of the prospective husband, whom she had not seen in ten years.
Many of the elite of the Chinese colony, which is not to be confused with Chinatown, witnessed the ceremony. Miss Fun Hin Liu, a Wellesley graduate, was the bridesmaid, and Mr. Lo Lam, a student from Columbia, was best man. After the ceremony, which was the simple Presbyterian ritual, delivered in English by the pastor of the church, Professor Ou, of the Canton Chinese College, made singing noises while the newly married pair had their pictures taken.
Mrs. Fong met her husband ten years ago while he was serving as dean of the Canton Christian College. Since then the two have kept up a correspondence, which grew so ardent on his side that it finally lured Mrs. Fong across the Pacific and to Chicago, where her husband-to-be met her and brought her to New York.
Starved, Fight for Food.
Owing to the extended shutdown of the mines in Venetia, a small mining town in Washington County, Pa., 480 persons, including many women and children, are slowly starving to death. This message was received in a letter sent to a local newspaper. Barks and herbs are the only food that the starving people can obtain, and the pangs of hunger have so affected many that they fight one another for the bark and herbs that can be found in the fields and woods.
New Flag for Marshall.
Vice President Marshall is the first vice president of the United States to have a naval flag all his own. The necessity for the creation of such an ensign was brought about by the intended visit of Mr. Marshall, as the president’s representative to the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco.
When the vice president determined to go, and arrangements for his reception were in progress, the navy department found that, while the president and the secretary and assistant secretary of the navy each had a flag, the vice president had none. The duty of providing a vice president’s flag proved simple. The new banner will be the reverse of the president’s flag in the color distribution. It will be of white, with the arms of the United States—a spread eagle bearing on its breast a shield of stars and stripes. The eagle will be of blue and the shield in red, white, and blue.
J. B. Brady Aids Woman.
James B. Brady, noted as “Diamond Jim,” while sitting as a member of the New York grand jury, was so touched by the story of one of the witnesses that he suggested taking up a collection for her. Just to start things off, he tossed a brand-new one-hundred-dollar bill on the stenographer’s table, and when the other jurors had added their contributions, there was $130 in the purse.
Mrs. Marka Buila, of 1324 First Avenue, was the woman whose plight touched Mr. Brady’s heart. She told the jury that she had been robbed of all her money, jewelry, and clothing, and when she was summoned to testify last Monday, had to walk to the Criminal Courts Building from her home in Harlem.
The man against whom the woman was testifying was indicted.
Army of Institutions.
Charitable, civic, and religious organizations exceeding 3,800 are working for the betterment of people and things in New York City, according to the directory issued by the Charity Organization Society.
There are 1,800 churches. Social centers and settlements, 150 in Manhattan and forty-one in the other boroughs, lead the remainder of the list, which includes hospitals, kindergartens, homes, nurseries, and missionary societies. Included in the directory are the names of twelve war-relief bodies. About 6,000 persons are associated with charitable agencies.
Anarchist Plot Revealed.
One of the exhibits at the next county fair in Metuchen, N. J., will be a prize Jersey anarchist, guaranteed to give results any place at any time.
A farm where anarchists will be reared in proper anarchistic atmosphere was purchased recently by a man who said he was Harry Kelly, chairman of the Ferrer Settlement, of New York City. He bought the sixty-nine-acre farm of Walter Rush, in Raritan Township, where, he declared, the headquarters of the Ferrer School will be established about May 1st.
“Our main object,” he said, “in establishing the colony is to produce genuine anarchists, and we must rear our children in a thoroughly anarchistic atmosphere.”
The plot will be cut up into building lots. To each anarchist will be given one plot, upon which he is expected to sow the seeds of anarchy, tomatoes, and turnips. Kelly says the settlement will be the anarchist headquarters in the East.
This town is all excited. It remembers with painful distinctness what happened four years ago, when the socialists established a colony near the site of the contemplated anarchist farm. Professor George D. Herron and Eugene V. Debs took the leading part in the formation of the socialist pasture ground.
Nobody took more than the usual curious interest in the project until the announcement seeped into this town that Herron was going to bring Miss Carrie Rand to live with him “according to the new and simple form of marriage ceremony.”
Metuchen isn’t exactly puritan, but when that news reached it, every Metuchenite dug his Bible out of the attic and joined his neighbor in excited protest. Metuchen was willing to tolerate some things, but when it came to winking at free love, never!
So highly excited did the townsfolk become that Herron and his wife left for Florence, Italy, where they lived until her death a year ago. And even though the socialist farm was established, nothing that resembled free love ever made its appearance.
That’s why Metuchen sizzles with palpitating expectation and teems with a throbbing skepticism. It knows what the I. W. W. folk have done in Paterson, another Jersey town, and it has read what the anarchists in New York are reputed to have done.
Metuchen was able to repel the socialists when they would have set up a free-love colony in the neighborhood. But it is not so sure that it can stand off genuine anarchists.
Rowing Dates for Year.
In addition to the announcement on Saturday night that the championship meet of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen would be held at Springfield, Mass., on August 13th and 14th, the following rowing dates were made public by the Amateur American Rowing Association:
May 22—American Rowing Association, at Philadelphia; May 31—New York Rowing Association, on the Harlem River, New York; June 19—Schuylkill Navy Regatta, at Philadelphia; July 3—Hudson River Rowing Association meet; July 5—People’s regatta, at Philadelphia; New England regatta, at Charles Basin, Boston; Western Massachusetts Rowing Association, at Springfield, Mass.; Rosedale Boat Club open regatta, on Hackensack River, New Jersey; September 6—Middle States Rowing Association, meet date not yet fixed; New England Rowing Association regatta, at Boston; Detroit River Rowing Association, at Detroit; September 9 to 15—Pacific Coast Association meet at Pan-American Fair, San Francisco; September 15—Detroit River Rowing Association, at Detroit.
Reduce World Armies Plan.
A movement to bring about a world-wide restriction of armies and navies by international agreement after the European War is ended is announced by the American League to Limit Armaments. The crusade is being organized through conferences and correspondence with leaders of public opinion in several foreign countries, it was stated.
“We are undertaking to solidify the movement and co-ordinate the efforts along this line while the war is still in progress, in order to make the strongest possible presentation of the issue at the earliest opportune moment,” says the league’s announcement. “We are not proposing methods to bring peace to Europe until Europe is ready to stop fighting of its own accord. We stand by what we hold to be the main proposition—that the reduction of all armaments to the least proportions consistent with the demands of normal tranquillity and the use of the money now going into destructive engines of war for the constructive agencies of peace is the true solution of the peace problem.”
To Sell a Pilgrim’s House.
The only remaining house in America which has sheltered persons who came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 is to be sold at auction by order of the court.
The house was built in 1666 by a son of John Howland, the last Mayflower survivor. In course of time the building fell into decay, but upon the organization in 1911 of the Society of the Descendants of Pilgrim John Howland of the ship Mayflower, the property was acquired and restored by that body.
Lieutenant Shares Meal with Private.
Some excitement was created in a Piccadilly grill at luncheon time when a private English “Tommy” walked in and sat down at a table with a young lieutenant. The private is the young officer’s father, and before the war held a high position in a London bank. His lunching with the officer caused some discussion, and some said it was too much democracy even for the English army.
After the meal the young officer said: “Should you refuse to let the governor buy you a lunch merely because he is a Tommy?”
Skipper of Six-master at Twenty-one.
Shortly after the E. R. Sterling, the only six-masted barkentine in the world, arrived in San Francisco, Cal., from Nanaimo, B. C., laden with coal, she was boarded by Federal operatives, who made a thorough search of the hold for a high-power wireless apparatus which officials have been informed is destined to be transferred at sea to a foreign warship from some American vessel in the near future. No apparatus was found.
Captain Edward Sterling, junior, son of the owner of the E. R. Sterling, is only twenty-one years old, and is said to be the youngest skipper of a deep-water ship to possess a master’s license. The vessel requires a crew of only twelve men, as her sails are raised by donkey engines.
Canary Sings in Trenches.
A private of the English Second Rifle Brigade, writing to a friend at Sheffield, England, tells this story of a canary which he says sings and cheers his comrades through the smoke of battle:
“Our only companion—in the trenches—is a little canary we rescued from a deserted house, which had been almost shelled to atoms. On the cage was a ticket: ‘Please look after this little bird.’ It has made itself quite at home with us. When we leave the trenches, we hand it over to the next regiment. So you may guess it’s made quite a fuss of. Last time we went into the trenches our canary was almost black through the smoke from shell fire, but it seems as cheerful as ever. Really, it gets so black with smoke that it’s a job to distinguish it from a sparrow.”
Dickens is German Soldiers’ Favorite.
Dickens is the German soldiers’ favorite novelist. He stands first in a list of fifty authors prepared by the great publishing house of Reclam, of Leipzig, famous for its cheap reprints.
Of the total number of orders from the German troops at the front forty-eight per cent calls for fiction, nineteen per cent for serious reading, comprising philosophy, religion, and arts; seventeen per cent for poetry and drama, and sixteen per cent for light miscellaneous stuff, including humorous works.
The German soldier is catholic in his taste when it comes to fiction, for not only does he top his list with Dickens, but includes twenty-one other foreign novelists, among whom appear Bulwer, Defoe, Scott, Dumas, Daudet, Merimée, Prevost, and Victor Hugo.
Forests Fired by Sparks.
Of the 503 fires reported by the United States Forest Service as having occurred in 1914 in the national forest purchase areas in the White Mountains of New England and the Southern Appalachians, 319, or sixty per cent, were caused by sparks from locomotives. More than half of these fires, or 272, occurred in Virginia alone, and of these 227 were from locomotive sparks.
Three hundred and seventy-nine of the fires were confined to areas of less than ten acres each, and 296 were put out before a quarter of an acre had been burned. The total loss amounted to $2,192, and the cost of fire fighting to $1,300, an infinitesimal sum compared with the value of the timber and reproduction protected. As the areas swept by fire were mostly cut over, the greater part of the damage was suffered by young growth.
Expert Stump Blower Has Narrow Escape.
Jake Bodine, prominent tailor and stump blower of Kenton, Ohio, sat at his ease and smoked his pipe.
When it went out, he lighted it again. When it went out a second time, he decided he had had enough, and laid the pipe aside.
He had been blowing stumps with dynamite during the day, and had brought four large caps home in his pocket.
Reaching into his pocket in which he had put the caps, and in which he carried his smoking tobacco as well, he found three caps instead of four.
When he emptied the ashes from his pipe in search of the fourth cap, that fourth cap rattled out, badly scorched.
“It’s a good thing my pipe went out when it did,” he says. “If that cap had gone off, like as not it would have ruined one of the best stump blowers in Kenton.”
Killed Nineteen California Lions.
Nineteen California lions fell before the guns of the bounty hunters in February. Four were killed in Humboldt County; three in Siskiyou; three in Lake; two in Mendocino; two in Ventura, and one each in San Benito, Del Norte, Monterey, Tehama, and Tuolumne. The State paid twenty dollars to each successful hunter, and in addition to this the pelts brought as much more. Some counties also give a special bounty for lions’ scalps.
Officers Applaud New Box Wireless.
Under the direction of the secretary of war a new wireless apparatus, the invention of Doctor Otto F. Reinhold, of 77 Nye Avenue, Newark, N. J., was tested at Bedloe’s Island by First Lieutenant J. G. Taylor, of the Signal Corps, and M. B. Dilley, master signal electrician. The government men declared afterward that the apparatus gave promise of revolutionizing the entire system of wireless telegraphy.
The apparatus, inclosed in a box about fifteen inches long, six inches wide, and eight inches high, may be styled a secret radio plant, and is intended primarily for use in the army field. The astounding feature of it, according to Lieutenant Taylor, is that it was fully demonstrated that the little contrivance sends out its sound waves without antennæ.
The experiment enabled the government officials to communicate with Fort Totten, about fifteen miles away in one direction, and Fort Hancock, about twenty miles distant in another. The navy-yard wireless station called a halt on the tests as the inventor was about to try to reach Fort H. G. Wright, one hundred and twenty miles away, at New London, Conn.
Doctor Reinhold said his apparatus could be connected wherever direct or alternating current is available. He said it could be used on an automobile and operated while the machine was at top speed by using current supplied from the automobile dynamo.
The inventor claimed for his apparatus that in a recent test he sent a message three hundred miles.
Echoes of War in London Want Ads.
Want advertisements are always interesting because of the varied and intimate side lights which they give on what people are doing and thinking about. As war topics fill the news and editorial columns of the English newspapers, so is the war the all-absorbing subject in the classified department. Following are a few of the advertisements appearing in the London Times, sent to the Blade by Mr. Boyce as showing how England is taking the war:
Dogs and cats of the empire!—The kaiser said: “Germany will fight to last dog and cat.” Will British dogs and cats give 6d. each to provide Y. M. C. A. soldiers’ hut at front? Any dog or cat sending five pounds can have his or her picture hung in “our” hut.—“Tom,” care of Miss Maud Field, Mortimer West, Berks.
Request from sailors and soldiers at the front to send large consignments of flint and tinder lighters; matches, when procurable, being unreliable in wet weather. Money to help purchase direct from makers solicited.—Address Haden Crawford, esquire, Marlow, Bucks.
Ninth Seaforth Highlanders.—Field glasses are required for the use of N. C. O.’s and scouts, and will be gratefully received and acknowledged by Captain Petty, Salamanca Barracks, Aldershot.
Playing Cards (used) urgently required for wounded soldiers.—Gratefully received by Miss Peck, Maidencombe, St. Mary Church, Devon.
Urgently needed, socks for the Eighth Irish Service Battalion, King’s Liverpool regiment, shortly leaving for the front.—Gratefully acknowledged by Miss Cox, The Priory, Royston, Herts.
Elizabeth Motor Ambulance.—Will every one named “Elizabeth” in Great Britain and Ireland send me contribution toward above—in connection with Lady Bushman’s Ambulance Fleet—and save our soldiers much unnecessary suffering?—Mrs. F. Ford, Rushmere, Wimbledon Common, S. W.
Wounded Soldiers “Margaret” Fund.—“Lady Margarets” subscribe a guinea. “Margarets” over sixteen, half guinea; “Little Margarets,” 2s. 6d. Lady Margaret Hospital, Bromley, Kent. Lady Margaret Campbell, Hon. Treasurer.
Loses Leg After Fifty Years.
Fifty years after a Confederate shell had struck and injured his right leg, Ellet Ramsey, of Huntingdon, Pa., had the leg removed at the Blair Hospital. The amputation was made necessary by suffering from the old wound received half a century ago. He stood the operation well and will recover.
Angry Lamb Injures Woman.
Mrs. Garret Smith, of Liberty, Pa., is suffering from severe injuries received by being butted by an angry lamb. Dan Carroll, a neighbor of the Smith family, is the owner of the lamb, which escaped from its premises and went into the Smith yard. Before Mrs. Smith realized what had happened, she was knocked to the ground and seriously injured, one of her arms being broken.
Lost Boys Found in Abandoned Mine.
After searching a week for two small boys who were missing from their homes during that time, the searchers found the body of William Hale, five years old, and his companion, Albert Tomlinson, aged ten, still alive, in an abandoned mine near Banksville, Pa. The boys had been lost in the mine all that time. Young Tomlinson was almost exhausted from exposure and hunger.
The boys were in a small five-foot drop in a mine pit which had several inches of water in it. The body of the Hale boy was partly submerged in the water, but his head was resting in the lap of his companion, who could barely sit erect. The younger boy had starved to death.
After searching for several days for the missing lads, the party entered the mine pit. They had progressed only a short distance when they heard a faint voice crying: “Oh, Thomas; oh, Thomas!” It was young Tomlinson calling for his older brother.
When rescued, young Tomlinson said: “Thank God you found us.”
Tomlinson told an incoherent story. He said he had no idea of time, but as nearly as he could tell Hale had been dead about two days. He said they walked hand in hand many miles, endeavoring to find a way out. After his comrade died, Tomlinson said, he carried the body around with him. Overcome with exhaustion, he gave up all efforts and had not sufficient strength to get out of the pool of poisonous water in which he and Hale’s body was found.
It is not known how the Tomlinson boy survived the ordeal, but it is supposed that he subsisted on bark from old timber in the mine. He is in a hospital now.
Catches Baby Boy on Roof of Moving Train.
An escape from death without precedent occurred in Pittsburgh, recently, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Walter Betle, four years old, was playing on the bridge at Thirty-third Street, near where the flooring was being repaired. He stumbled at a hole and started to fall to the tracks, twenty-five feet below.
A freight train was within a few feet of the bridge, running at high speed. On the roof of the first box car was Richard Roundtree, a brakeman, saw the boy stumble through the bridge. He braced himself and managed to catch him as he fell. Roundtree staggered dangerously near the edge of the roof, but managed to keep his footing until the train was stopped.
Has Wonderful “Peace” Egg.
Sam Marks’ Plymouth Rock hen, of Orville, Cal., which recently laid an egg bearing the Hebrew word for “peace” neatly inscribed thereon, is bringing her owner much fame and large daily mail. The president of the Panama-Pacific Exposition has written to Marks, inclosing a free pass to the exposition and asking Marks to bring the wonderful egg and “Martha,” the remarkable hen, with him.
Lands 975 War Horses Across Ocean Safely.
Doctor E. R. Forbes, of Fort Worth, Texas, who, early in January, resigned as State veterinarian to return to British service, recently took the record on animal transportation, having landed in Europe 975 head of animals without losing one.
Doctor Forbes was in good health when the letter containing the news of his safe arrival at his destination in England was written, and signified his intention of remaining in the animal-transport service of Great Britain as long as his services were required during the war.
Doctor Forbes was employed by the British government during the Boer War in the same position he now occupies. At that time he took two cargoes of horses from New Orleans to South Africa, and, after demonstrating how to care for the animals on shipboard during such a long voyage, returned to New Orleans, where he continued to pass upon the soundness and stamina of horses and mules for the British army while the Boer War lasted.
Taking 975 head of animals across the Atlantic in mid-winter was a feat in maritime equine transportation never before equaled, and especially when it is taken into consideration that not an animal was lost during the voyage.
This is quite in contradistinction to the fate of a shipload of horses consigned to the Italian government by the steamer Evelyn. When the steamer neared the Bermuda Islands, the condenser on the vessel broke, and, no water being available, the cargo, 366 head, was driven into the sea.
Another shipment to Italy arrived at its destination with only seventy-eight alive out of 345 when the vessel left an American port.
Michigan Has Climbing Cow.
Marshall Rust, a farmer, of Lapeer, Mich., possesses several cows that are as graceful examples of bovine femininity as ever chewed a cud, but, in addition, one of them has some athletic ability.
Mr. Rust recently turned his cows into a field in which was also a wagon partly loaded with bean pods. One night he went out to milk his cows just after darkness had set in and found one missing. He searched over the near-by fields for several hours, but to no avail.
When morning came, the lost cow was found sleeping peacefully on the load of bean pods. The cow had climbed on the wagon, six feet from the ground.
Timber Inspector Slays Three Bears.
Mat Jordan, expert timber inspector, living in Turner, Mich., is the hero of the hour just now in that town and vicinity. Old residents, especially those who came from the East many years ago, declare that if Mat had lived in the good old pioneer days of which J. Fenimore Cooper so charmingly wrote, Mat would have made as interesting a story hero as did Natty Bumpo, the famous deer slayer, only Mat’s long suit is bears, no matter how many.
Mat was strolling through the woods near here with a double-bladed ax on his shoulder. He was there to look over some timber land, with a prospective dicker looming up in his speculative mind. While pausing to inspect a likely looking log that lay half concealed with dead brush, he heard a noise. Stepping toward the sound to investigate, he beheld a large black bear emerging from its den.
“Great siege guns!” exclaimed Mat, “this looks like war.”
It was war, and it started right away, for Mat swung his double-edged ax and soon had the enemy at his feet, registering its final kicks and last gasps. While he was surveying his conquered foe with a gleam of triumph in his weather eye, he suddenly had occasion to exclaim:
“Well, for the love of Mike, look who’s here!”
Two more bears, but young, half-grown ones, which were quickly dispatched and laid alongside their mother. The large bear weighed 175 pounds.
Mat went after help, and the carcasses were brought to town, where they were viewed by hundreds of persons all of whom were of the opinion that Mat Jordan is the champion bear slayer of Michigan.
Strangest Fresh-water Fish.
George Welscher, who lives in Illinois, opposite Commerce, Mo., caught a strange-looking fish in the Mississippi River the other day. He had been told that if one would break the ice near the shore and drop a baited hook in the water, he could sure catch fish. He decided to try it, and had only been fishing a few minutes when he landed a queer specimen, to describe it mildly. It had a head like a dog’s, but the body was like a fish. Where the fins should be it had something like wings, which it could open and close. It had a tail similar to a cat’s, with fur on it like a cat’s, and on which the water seemed to have no effect.
Near the end of the tail there were three prongs, each having a different color of fur on them—one blue, one white, and the other a shade of yellow. It had a tusk about two inches long in its mouth. Its eyes were in the tip of its tail, and instead of having two eyes, it had three. Welscher said he had no trouble landing the fish, and as soon as landed it began to bark like a dog.
Saved Russian from Big Bear.
Andy Williams, an employee of the Gagen Lumber and Cedar Company, of Gagen, Wis., in one of their camps, two miles from this village, killed what is thought to be the largest bear ever seen in this vicinity, it weighing nearly 500 pounds.
A Russian who was swamping out logs suddenly aroused a monster bear, and, in his excitement, accidentally hit bruin on the head. The bear, furious at being struck, made for the Russian, who was now fleeing down the road at his utmost speed. The Russ no doubt imagined that his end was near and that there was at least one Russian who would never get back across the big pond to face a German gun. He probably never would have if Andy Williams hadn’t come to his rescue and dispatched the bear with an ax.
They went back and found three cubs in a hollow log, and they are now getting the best of care at the camp.
Tiny Locomotive is Wonder in Details.
A perfect model of an oil-burning railway locomotive, forty-two inches long, is to be put on exhibition at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Arthur H. Johnson, of Seattle, Wash., who built the model, has been requested by the San Francisco authorities to enter the locomotive as an exhibit, and he has consented.
Johnson, who is a young electrician, spent three years in making the model to try out an invention of his on the fire box. The engine is equipped with air brakes, an electric-light system, and everything else that a modern locomotive has. The boiler has been tested out at 150 pounds working pressure.
A Massachusetts man has built a miniature battleship, thirteen feet in length, which has all the features of a real dreadnaught, including guns that fire, range finders, wireless instruments, gunners, and even a band that plays martial music. The vessel is propelled by electricity, and can make ten miles an hour in smooth water....
Santa’s Aids Honored.
A large statue of Santa Claus, made of paper pulp molded from five thousand letters written by poor children of the city to Kris Kringle, was presented at the Hotel Astor, in New York City, to William C. and F. A. Muschenheim, two of Santa’s aids. It is the gift of the Santa Claus Association and the Waterman’s Ideal Ten-year Club.
John D. Gluck, founder of the Santa Claus Association, presented the figure to the Muschenheims. The statue is three-quarters life size and rests on a base of Italian marble. Kratina, the sculptor, spent two months in molding it.
The inscription says the gift is in recognition of “assistance rendered to the children of the poor, who wrote to Santa Claus. A fortune was sent to poor kiddies, for fuel, food, and toys, and five thousand of them no longer say there is no Santa Claus.”
Find Missing Man in Shark.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance three years ago at St. Augustine, Fla., of John B. Mooney, of Mooney Brothers’ Company, was cleared up when his son, Edgar J. Mooney, of Cleveland, Ohio, received word from Miami, Fla., that the upper portion of a human skeleton, which is thought to be that of J. B. Mooney, had been found in the stomach of a shark caught near there this week.
In 1912 the elder Mooney was in bathing at St. Augustine when he suddenly disappeared in the surf. It was thought that a strong undertow had carried him out to sea, but it is now believed a shark seized him.
Interesting New Inventions.
The “bicycle built for two” about which there used to be a song was followed by the motor cycle carrying two passengers. This has now been improved upon. The newest kind has two chair seats, one behind the other, instead of saddles.
To save neckties from the wear and tear of pinholes, a scarfpin has been patented that clips on the edge of a tie.
In the interest of cleanliness, an Iowa inventor has patented a wire frame to hold a milk pail up from the ground.
A Frenchman has invented a machine for dealing cards that is said to make misdeals impossible.
A microthermometer has been invented that is so delicate that it is capable of registering sea-water temperature changes to one-thousandth of a degree. The instrument is intended to enable ship’s officers to detect their approach to icebergs.
A novel wrench that will hold a nut of almost any size is made of a single piece of steel, the handle being split so that the jaws are sprung together as a strain is applied.
Snake Poison Fails to Cure.
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The Nick Carter Stories
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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.
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.
738—A Plot Within a Plot.
739—The Dead Accomplice.
741—The Green Scarab.
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.
782—A Woman’s Stratagem.
783—The Cliff Castle Affair.
784—A Prisoner of the Tomb.
785—A Resourceful Foe.
789—The Great Hotel Tragedies.
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.
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.
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.
129—The Jewels of Wat Chang.
130—The Crime in the Tower.
131—The Fatal Message.
132—Broken Bars.
Dated March 27th, 1915.
133—Won by Magic.
Dated April 3d, 1915.
134—The Secret of Shangore.
Dated April 10th, 1915.
135—Straight to the Goal.
Dated April 17th, 1915.
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