Elephant Famine New Horror of War.
The European war has caused a shortage in elephants in this country, according to Ernest Siegfried, manager of Louis Ruhe’s wild-animal farm at Woodside, N. Y. Yesterday he received a rush order for six elephants to be delivered at once to the Barnum & Bailey circus, but he was unable to fill it.
“The activity of the fleets of the Allies in stopping German commerce is responsible for this shortage,” said Mr. Siegfried. “The importation of elephants has been carried on chiefly in the past by Germans through the port of Hamburg.”
Mr. Siegfried declared that his firm was fortunate in getting out of Germany, just before the war started, a considerable consignment of other wild animals, among the number being fourteen lions, two tigers, two leopards, three wolves, two polar bears, three brown Russian bears, three camels, and a number of deer and kangaroos.
While there is some demand for these animals, they cannot take the place of elephants, and there is a danger that some of the smaller circuses throughout the country will have to go through this season at least without their elephants.
Woman Routs Burglar.
A burglar climbed up to the window of the guest chamber in Judge John E. Keeler’s house on Strawberry Hill, in Stamford, Conn., at four o’clock the other morning.
A New York woman whose name was withheld occupied the guest chamber. She awoke when the burglar had half of his body inside the open window, shoved him out of the window, and hurled the water pitcher after him. Then she became hysterical.
The burglar escaped.
Aged Ninety; Still a Sprinter.
David Anderson, of 33 Chestnut Street, Yonkers, N. Y., celebrated his ninetieth birthday by a little sprint around the block in which he lives. Anderson won a gold medal in a hundred-yard dash when he was seventy-four. He has an open challenge to any man not more than ten years his junior.
Americans in the Air Corps.
The formation of an American section in the French aviation corps has been completed by Norman Prince, of Boston, and soon will be in active service. It consists of seven pilots, who will fly a new type of 160-horse-power monoplane. Three of the seven American aviators have qualified for the military certificate at Pau. They are Norman Prince, William Thaw, of New York, and Andre Ruel, of Chicago. The others expected to pass the tests are Elliott C. Cowden, junior, of New York; James Bach, an American, living in Paris; B. Hall, of Texas, and Frazier Curtis, of Boston. Prince says that he needs a reserve of three pilots, at least. Beckwith Havens, winner of the Chicago-Detroit flying-boat cruise, may enlist.
Oddities of Ball Players.
The lamented “Bugs” Raymond, world-famous pitcher of the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, always carried about him his pressmen’s union card. It was always in his pocket on the ball field. Bugs was very proud of it, just as he should have been, for a finer bunch of lovers of true sport than the pressmen on newspapers never lived.
Larry Lajoie, the famous swatter, has a pair of rubber-soled canvas shoes. Those shoes were on his feet when he first played with the Fall River team. Lajoie never has parted with them. They have a special place in his suit case.
Frank Chance, when with the Chicago Cubs, used to seek four-leaved clovers. So does Hughey Jennings to this day.
Mysterious Message in Heart of Potato.
A great deal of interest and curiosity has been created in the vicinity of West Nashville, Tenn., by a message found in an Irish potato.
Mrs. Walter Lovell was preparing some potatoes for dinner when her knife struck something she thought was a cob, but on examination proved to be a heavy piece of brown paper, about a foot long and five inches wide, with the following writing on it:
“Peter Johnson, Edmore, Mich.; Harry Hansen, Edmore, Mich. Please answer.”
This was written with an indelible pencil. The peeling of the potato was smooth, with no indication of a plug. The potato was unusually large, weighing about three pounds, and had grown firmly around the paper, leaving a cavity when it was removed.
As to how the paper was grown into the potato with no indications on the peeling remains a mystery.
Big Grizzley is Hotel Guest.
An unusual guest appeared recently at the Stewart Hotel, in San Francisco, when a huge grizzly bear, accompanied by Fred Thompson, his owner, and nature man Joe Knowles, waddled up to the desk and gravely went through the formalities of registering, giving his name as “Baby of the Rockies.”
After a good feed on lumps of sugar, Baby, who weighs slightly over 500 pounds, took a trip up the elevator, which he jammed on his way up. Arrived at the seventh floor, Baby and escort visited a party of women. The grizzly was captured by Thompson five years ago.
Four Legs Fatal to This Curious Chicken.
The town of Cheshire, Conn., has developed a chicken which ought to have been born in the days of Phineas T. Barnum, so that its praises could be properly expressed by the world’s greatest showman and purveyor of natural and man-made wonders, more frequently the latter.
Joseph Wheeler, a prominent poultry raiser, found among a recently hatched Rhode Island Red brood a chicken perfectly formed except that it had four legs. All went well for nearly a week. Then it was discovered that the two sets of legs were arranged for locomotion in opposite directions. The result was that the chick pulled itself apart.
People from all over the countryside came to see it, and in death it has been turned over to a taxidermist.
How Ships Take Oil on Run.
The method of supplying vessels, especially battleships, with fuel oil at sea is remarkably simple when compared with that required for coaling. A tanker is run up to within about six hundred feet of the vessel needing oil, a tow line is attached, and a second line supports a hose through which the oil is pumped. Meanwhile the ships are steaming at an hourly speed of from ten to twelve knots. An automatic tension furnishes the necessary elastic medium for paying out and taking up the supporting cable, as required by motion of the vessel.
By this method it is possible to transport from the tanker to the vessel taking on the fuel nearly seven hundred barrels an hour.
Owes Life to Sleeping Dog.
A dog averted perhaps a fatal injury to its owner, J. H. Adams, a farmer near Polo, Ill. He fell thirty feet from the haymow of his barn and alighted upon the dog, which was lying asleep. The dog was killed, but the man escaped.
Facts for You.
For the convenience of travelers, an English firm is compressing tea into blocks that resemble American plug tobacco.
After experimenting for thirty-two years, a New York man claims to have perfected a synthetic gold, made from copper and aluminium.
A French inventor’s parachute can be guided in falling by pulling cords to draw in its sides.
Extensive deposits of iron ore have been discovered in Bavaria, the ore lying close to the surface of the ground.
In the last twenty years the per-capita consumption of paper in the United States has increased about six-fold.
Aluminium can be rolled into sheets one-two-thousandth of an inch in thickness that are as strong as tinfoil.
Charcoal made of peat and formed into briquettes has been used successfully for melting iron ore in England.
A new sanitary holder for tumblers is made of spring wire, so shaped as to touch the glass as little as possible.
To enable a man to walk on an inclined roof, spiked frames, to be strapped under the shoes, have been patented.
Experts from the United States Department of Agriculture are making an extensive study of the coconut industry in the Philippines.
To enable visitors to get a closer view of the whirlpool of Niagara Falls, a passenger-carrying cableway will be built across the river.
California possesses more than one-twelfth of the hydroelectric power development of the United States, about 450,000 horse power.
A violet-rays water-sterilizing apparatus invented in France automatically opens a valve and diverts the water into a drain if the rays should stop.
Experiments are under way with glass for spectacles intended to filter out the injurious rays of artificial light, leaving the effect of sunlight.
A new deepest hole in the earth is a well that has been bored in Silesia to a depth of 7,348 feet, 6,848 feet of which has been lined with iron tubing.
A New South Wales irrigation dam, which will cost $3,680,000, will impound 33,380,000,000 cubic feet of water, backed up in a lake forty miles long.
By authority of the Brazilian government, the railways of that country and Paraguay will be connected, providing another transcontinental line for South America.
For finding leaks in motor-cycle tires there has been invented a box to fit over them in compartments of which is cotton that is moved by the escaping air as it passes over a hole.
Raise Your Own Food.
Sufficient vegetables can be raised on a quarter-acre lot to supply a family of six persons for an entire year if close attention is given to the rotation and succession of crops, says the Federal Department of Agriculture. The same lot will accommodate such permanent crops as asparagus, rhubarb, and small fruits and berries, if care is taken in arranging the garden. It will provide fresh vegetables for the summer and enough for canning for use in the winter.
A smaller area, such as is found in the average city back yard, will accommodate several of the smaller crops, such as lettuce, peas, parsley, radishes, beets, and onions, all of which are in constant demand by the average housewife.
Pigeons Overrule Solomon.
According to an order of Judge Beall, in special sessions court, of Yonkers, N. Y., a flock of pigeons was permitted to determine ownership. The birds were in the cote of William Warholy, who asserted they belonged to him. John Yosko was also a claimant, charging the pigeons had been stolen from his cote.
Recalling that pigeons are credited with a wonderful instinct in finding their own roosts, Judge Beall ordered two policemen to release the pigeons in dispute and report the result.
One-half of the number of birds flew to Warholy’s cote and the others to Yosko’s cote, thereby reserving decision for the judge.
Garden Rake is Life-saver.
Jennie Reed, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Reed, of Grand Rapids, Mich., owes her life to a garden rake. The little girl fell into a cistern while playing with little Raymond Algra, a neighbor boy. The boy called his mother and told her Jennie was in the cistern. Mrs. Algra seized a garden rake, which had been left near by, and drew the child to safety. Jennie was delivered to her mother little worse for her cold plunge.
Prehistoric Race Relics Found in Nebraska.
Ruins left by some prehistoric race in the vicinity of Howe, Neb., have recently been inspected and studied by Professor Gerard Fowke, the St. Louis geologist, who is curator of the St. Louis Museum.
Mr. Fowke has been gathering scientific data of the primitive inhabitants of the Missouri Valley, and he investigated the remains of their civilization. He began with the ancient ruins north of Kansas City and followed the west bank of the river northward, tracing the northern retreat of these ancient farmers and gardeners.
After an exhaustive examination of the ruins found at Howe, Neb., and at Peru, the professor is of the opinion that the ancient remains recently discovered near White Cloud, Kan., were of works made by the same race. Considerable work has been done at Howe under the direction of C. L. Meek, and a large number of the bone and horn gardening instruments have been unearthed. The tools for the most part were found cached beneath what had once been the floors of the dwellings, where they were buried in beds of ashes.
Scientists are now of the belief that a number of the remains found along the Missouri River and the neighboring country were those of a civilization which preceded that of the Indians.
Skeletons discovered by Robert P. Gilder, of Omaha, and now in the University of Nebraska museum, are declared by scientists to greatly antedate the Indian. The skulls show much less brain capacity than those of the Indian, and have the very receding forehead characteristic of the early members of the race, and but little higher than the ape or gorilla type.
Well Stops Flowing at Night.
Hawkinsville, Ga., has a well which refuses to work at night. This well, which is located at the county jail, has an estimated flow of about fifty gallons of water per minute until about a year ago, when it suddenly and without apparent cause quit flowing entirely and remained dry until about a month ago, or just after the earthquake in Italy, when it commenced flowing again, the flow this time being not over two or three gallons per minute. But the strange thing about this well is that it flows only in daytime. It begins flowing about nine o’clock in the morning and quits about the same time in the evening, and remains dry all night.
Missing Police Pet is Found with Kittens.
“Now, Annie; now, Annie,” crooned Captain of Detectives Walker on his knees at the central police station, in Cleveland, Ohio, “nobody’s going to hurt em. Say, George, better give that teeny one some of that milk. It looks as if it needs some.”
And Lieutenant George Matowitz, assisted by Lieutenant Charles Sterling, obeyed the commands of their superior, picked up a kitten in the corner, and administered nourishment via a bottle and nipple.
Annie, feline mascot of the police department, was discovered after a disappearance lasting four days. Hidden behind the telephone booths in the reporters’ room at the central station, she was found nursing her litter of kittens.
The police department rejoiced, for Annie is the only official mascot at the station, and her disappearance had caused no small amount of worry among Cleveland’s finest.
Captain Walker sent to the nearest drug store for a bottle and nipple and obtained a quart of milk, which was administered to all the little newcomers by Lieutenants Sterling and Matowitz, while Annie, secure in the grasp of Walker, arched her back and otherwise indicated her feline rage.
Villainous Bugs to Pose for the Movies.
Bugs in movies—ten or twenty-legged insects posing for the camera—are promised by a new entrant into the picture field, the division of entomology at the Minnesota College of Agriculture. The various creepers, borers, and aviators, after they have been placed on the film, will be routed over a circuit of Minnesota towns. The promoters of the venture are confident that their “star” bugs are sure to make a hit.
Only bold, dangerous villains, the most destructive known to exist in the State, are sure of a position in the cast. They are to be shown in the native environment, and all their destructive operations reproduced before those who suffer from their malicious activities.
Has a Lamb with Eight Legs.
Martin Werner, living near High Ridge, Mo., has a lamb which has eight legs. The lamb is otherwise normal. It is considered a remarkable curiosity by Mr. Werner’s neighbors.
Heliograph to Sell Goods.
Perhaps the most novel of all methods of selling goods is that devised by a grocer in Tonasket, Wash., who uses the heliograph for signaling inquiries and quotations to a forest-service station located fifteen miles away across the mountains, and receives orders flashed back by the same method. The grocer’s heliograph is an improvised instrument, consisting only of a mirror held in front of an automobile headlight. With this he flashes his messages in the code used by the forest service.
Electricity in a Fence Kills Three.
Three persons were killed and two badly shocked by current from a high-voltage wire which broke and fell across the rear fence of a house on Grover Street, Los Angeles, Cal. The 2,200 volts in the wire set fire to the fence across which it fell. Two men were killed when they threw buckets of water on the flames. A woman seized her husband’s hand and fell dead.
War Chiefs Begin by Prayer.
Lord Curzon’s statement in the House of Lords that Lord Roberts had conducted family prayers for his household for fifty years, is supplemented by data collected by the Church Family Newspaper regarding Lord Fisher, first sea lord, and Lord Kitchener.
“We learn, on unimpeachable authority,” says the journal, “that Lord Fisher makes a habit of going to a certain church practically every day for prayer and meditation before commencing his responsible duties.
“We understand that Lord Kitchener follows out a similar rule whenever he is in London.”
“Tipperary” Causes Mix-up of Nations.
Allan McAtee, Scotch, of Bridgeport, Ohio, asked two Austrian girls to give ear while he sang “Tipperary.”
He was interrupted by Policeman Tom Howley, formerly of County Donegal, Ireland, who arrested him for disorderly conduct.
Next morning McAtee faced Mayor Herman A. Schafer, German by right of descent, who fined McAtee one dollar.
Harry Wilson, an American and a friend of McAtee’s, paid the fine.
Fuel Value of Wood.
The fuel value of wood is in weight about half that of coal. But the forest-service laboratory at Washington has determined that a cord of seasoned hickory, oak, beech, birch, hard maple, ash, elm, locust, longleaf pine, or cherry equals a ton of coal; a cord and a half of short leaf pine, hemlock, red gum, Douglas fir, sycamore, or soft maple, and two cords of cedar, redwood, poplar, catalpa, Norway pine, cypress, brasswood, spruce, or white pine are needed to equal in heat a ton of coal.
Eighteen Pigs Young Sow’s Record.
Lawrence Murphy, of Pilot Knob, Ind., has a bigboned Poland China sow that had a litter of eighteen pigs. Believing this number more than the sow could care for, Murphy took five of the pigs away to raise by hand, but in this he was unsuccessful.
The sow at present has only ten pigs, she having laid on three of them at time of birth. The sow weighs 350 pounds and is not yet two years old. Her record is nine pigs in her first litter and eighteen in her second, which is considered quite extraordinary.
Serves as Juror at Eighty-five Years.
A. R. Wright, who is serving as a juror at this term of district court in Fort Dodge, Iowa, despite his eighty-five years, is probably the oldest man that ever has served on a jury in Iowa. Notwithstanding his advanced years, Mr. Wright is in possession of all of his faculties.
He saw a dispatch in a local paper recently about a man seventy-eight years of age who served on a jury, and he decided to go him one better.
Boa Tries to Eat Zoo.
Ten pythons, a crate of parrakeets, now reposing inside the largest of the giant snakes; armadillos, boa constrictors, monkeys, parrots, Theodora, a baby bear; Brazilian wild cats and South American birds of all combinations of brilliant colors were part of the cargo of the Lamport & Holt liner Terence, which docked in New York recently.
In spite of the varied temperaments of the members of the party, the trip was calm and peaceful, except for one dary day, when “Old Tom,” the largest python, broke loose and devoured a crate of parrakeets to appease the appetite engendered by the sea breezes. Tom fell asleep while digesting the crate, however, and was bundled back into captivity before he awoke.
The zoölogical consignment is the property of Henry Bartels, of 72 Cortlandt Street, and was shipped to him by his brother Ferdinand, who has been collecting beasts and birds in the Amazon region to fill the hole in the wild-animal trade left when Hagenbeck was put out of business by the war.
Countess Szechenyi Invents War Game.
Countess Szechenyi, who was Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, of New York, and Countess Sigray, daughter of the late Marcus Daly, have invented a popular war game for Budapest. It arose from an argument between the two, as each has a pet theory as to when the war will end. The game consists of writing forecasts of the date of the close of the struggle, sealing them in envelopes, and filing them to be read after peace is declared. A growing number of people, lured by the chance of saying, “I told you so,” are canning their own opinion with red wax and ceremony.
Dog Saves Man from Attack by a Park Buffalo.
James Crowley, keeper of the menagerie in Central Park, New York, who has charge of the herd of buffalos and bears in the pens near the Arsenal, had a narrow escape from injury, when one of the biggest buffalos of the herd attacked him. Crowley’s pet Airedale terrier rushed at the big buffalo and kept the animal busy long enough to let Crowley escape. The dog then made a dash for safety and managed to get out of the pen.
Crowley went to the buffalo pen just when his animal charges were enjoying breakfast. In the pen he was surprised to find the body of an old pet rooster, “Dick,” evidently a victim of a snow storm. “Black Diamond,” who is the fighter of the herd of buffalos and about the biggest of the lot, was not so much interested in his breakfast that he did not see Crowley, and when the latter’s back was turned, he sneaked up behind him.
It would have fared badly for Crowley, for the buffalo was coming at full speed, with head lowered when the dog interfered and attacked the animal. Crowley then saw his danger and escaped before the buffalo could get free from the dog, and in a few minutes more the dog, knowing that danger to his master was past, came racing to safety out of the pen.
Sings as Convicts Weep.
Mrs. Mary Greer McLane, daughter of Bishop Greer, of New York, sang Easter hymns recently for the prisoners in Sing Sing prison. With her sister and father she entered the chapel of the prison, where every bench was filled. Her audience listened in absolute silence. When she had finished, more than one gray sleeve was used as a handkerchief.
Bishop Greer conducted the Episcopal services, and Mgr. Evers, of New York, and Father Cashin the Roman Catholic services.
His First Ride Proves Fatal.
Upon the very first ride on the motor cycle for which he had been saving for years, Samuel Leechman, twenty-six years old, a salesman, of New York, was killed before he had gone fourteen blocks.
On Central Park West he swerved at Seventy-ninth Street to avoid a passenger from a trolley car. The wheels skidded and Leechman was thrown. The police could get no ambulance for half an hour, and then Leechman was dead.
Friends say motor cycling had always been Leechman’s hobby, but he had not been able to purchase one until the day of his death.
Hog Nearly Eight Feet Long.
A hog weighing 1,210 pounds and less than two years old is the record in swine raising made by Colonel W. E. Wimpey, of De Kalb County, Ga. The hog is 7 feet 10 inches long, 39½ inches high, and 74½ inches around the body.
Cupid Calls Mayor to Aid of Pastor.
Backed up with a letter of commendation from the Bishop of Ontaria and kind words from other persons of prominence, a clergyman of the Church of England, from Barrie, Canada, has asked Mayor Mitchel, of New York City, to find him a wife.
When the mayor replied he had no means of obtaining wives, but would be glad to publish his letter, the minister sent the following:
“Dear Sir: This is to thank you for kindly acceding to my request to aid me in finding a wife, and you may publish my want. I desire a well-bred, cultured woman, healthy, cheerful, preferably not over thirty years of age. For publication let me repeat that I am an Episcopalian minister, graduate of a leading university, healthy, vigorous, bright, artistic, practical, affectionate, and very devoted where deserved.
“I send you credentials that will enable you to attest my position and social standing.
“Of course, all communications will be honorably treated by me as strictly confidential.”
In his letter, which was enclosed, the bishop wrote:
“He is in good health, very active, full of pluck and energy. He could be designated as a manly man. He is about thirty years old, and has no ties.”
A letter from M. L. Mackenzie King, director of the Rockefeller Foundation for Investigation of Industrial Relations in Ottawa, to the clergyman, which he sent to the mayor, said that Mr. King had received “an exceedingly kind and generous letter” on the clergyman’s behalf from her royal highness, the Princess Frederica, of Brunswick and Lunenburg, which letter was written “by her royal highness in her own hand.”
Barrie is a town of 5,500 people, with several manufacturing establishments and other industries, about sixty-four miles northwest of Toronto. It is the county seat of Simcoe County.
Any woman desiring to communicate with the clergyman on matrimony may address him at Post-office Box 701, Barrie, Ont.
Ate All the Rolls in Sight—Three.
The most striking effect of the eight months of war on Vienna has been the banishment of the roll which has made the Austrian capital famous. The Café Imperial on rare occasions with late coffee still serves white rolls. The other evening three were brought to a party of six, just as the party was finishing the meal, and an American girl, who came late, ate all three. The waiter’s voice was full of real pathos as he pointed out the girl to the manager and said: “That, sir, is the fraülein who has eaten three of our rolls. I can’t understand how she dared.” No other hotel serves anything but gray war bread, and the signing of peace is spoken of as the day of the restoration of the Vienna roll.
Fireman with a Tough Head.
Three thousand New Yorkers gasped when an iron shutter fell three stories, striking a fireman squarely on the head. Two minutes later an ambulance corps couldn’t find a fireman who would admit his head had been bruised.
Has Fireproof Cotton Press.
J. R. Roddie, a negro of Muskogee, Okla., has invented and obtained a patent upon an all-steel and fireproof cotton press. Not only does the new press obviate the danger of fire, but the claim is made for it that it can be operated by one man, whereas the present cotton presses require two and three men to operate, and that it can be built for one-half the cost of the presses now in use.
Offered Fifteen Cents to Settle.
An unidentified autoist, after running into a rig driven by Mrs. Frank Reynolds, Mount Holly, N. J., and tossing her and the horse several feet into a ditch along the roadside, stopped his car, turned around, and offered to settle the affair by paying her fifteen cents for a broken strap on the horse’s harness. She refused to accept his offer.
Mrs. Reynolds is a large woman, and received a jolting from which she will not recover for several days. No bones were broken. The horse was severely injured. Mrs. Reynolds secured the number of the machine, and will sue the driver for damages.
Rye Bread Fad Lifts German Flour Ban.
Some of the restrictions against the use of wheat flour in Germany for making bread and pastry have been removed, says a dispatch from Amsterdam. This step has been taken because of the increased consumption of rye bread, which resulted in the use of an undue proportion of that grain rather than wheat.
Lone, Timid Prisoner Released on Parole.
Elwood Armstrong, the sole prisoner in the Sussex County Jail, in Georgetown, Del., who recently complained to Sheriff Jacob West that he was lonely and afraid to remain in the prison at night without company, will no longer be afraid.
Recently he was paroled for two years to Charles S. Richards, of Georgetown, formerly secretary of state, and brother of Robert H. Richards, of Wilmington, formerly attorney general. This was done after he had confessed to the theft of five dozen eggs.
Accordingly the jail is now empty. The turnkey has taken a vacation, and the sheriff does not have enough to do to keep him busy.
Chickens are roosting in the cells, some of which are modern steel affairs, and the jail yard will soon be planted in early corn.
The dry forces say it is a concrete example of what happens when the liquor traffic is forbidden. This is a local-option section.
THE NICK CARTER STORIES
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BEAUTIFUL COLORED COVERS
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—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.
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 Massage.
132—Broken Bars.
133—Won by Magic.
134—The Secret of Shangore.
135—Straight to the Goal.
136—The Man They Held Back.
Dated April 24th, 1915.
137—The Seal of Gijon.
Dated May 1st, 1915.
138—The Traitors of the Tropics.
Dated May 8th, 1915.
139—The Pressing Peril.
Dated May 15th, 1915.
140—The Melting-Pot.
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