DIME NOVELS COMING BACK
In Eighteen Months "Nick Carter"
Has Had Sales That Have Been
Record Breaking.
Nick Carter has come into his own
again. The king of the "paperbacks”
has made a record-breaking return to
popularity. About eighteen months
ago his sales began to mount steadily
until the entire supply of Nick Carter
books wns exhausted, says the Sun. (
His return to fame was unexpected.
It wns not the result of an advertis
ing campaign, for the publishers of
the paper-bound books do not adver
tise. They depend instead for the
sale of their books on the lists printed
in the back pages of each volume.
And Nick Carter was not the only
member of the "paperback” tribe to
return. All the old favorites—Laura
Jean Llbbey, Bertha M. Clay, Mrs. E.
D. E. N. South worth and Augusta J.
Evans—have “come back” surpris
ingly.
Five years ago everyone wns will
ing to predict that the movies had
killed the production of cheap books.
Thrills could be absorbed more quick
ly from the screen than from the print
ed page—and the price was the same.
Publishers of the paper books are
uncertain whether their old reading
public has tired of the motion picture
or whether a new clnss of renders has
arisen. Of one thing they are certain,
though, the demand for the 10 and 15
r$nt book has Increased fourfold. If
it were not for the increased cost of
production these publishers would be
reaping the harvest of their lives.
Stories of American life—as seen by
Bertha M. Clny and other writers of
her class—and detective stories are
most in demand. Fortune-telling
books and letter writers also ha\£ n
lnrge steady sale. "Dream” books
were never so popular as they are to
day, their publishers say.
PETE HAD OBEYED ORDERS
Literal-Minded Soldier Came Near Get
ting His Commanding Officer
Into a Bad Mess.
There Is a certain young officer who,
according to his own story, Is thanking
his stnrs that General Pershing had n
sense of humor.
“Some of my men were Polish, and
better soldiers never lived, but I guess
In Poland life has been one. long, sad
story," said the officer. “Anyway, I
never ran across n bunch who took
things so literally. One night the Ger
mans sent out a three-inch shell that
landed square In the trench. In the
morning I told one of ray men. Pete,
we called him. to take It away.
‘“Where shall I take It?' he asked.
“ 'Oh, anywhere,' I answered peev
ishly, ‘put It to bed In Pershing’s
tent.’
“A little Inter a brother officer came
along and said: ‘The old mnn wants
you, and there's something doing.'
“I couldn’t Imagine what was up un
til I stood before the chief. He eyed
me sternly and then pointed to his
bunk, and would you believe It, there
was that blamed shell. Pete sure had
obeyed orders. Well, I thought I was
In for It, but Pershing suddenly be
gan to smile. He said: ‘I just want to
caution you not to order Pete to cap
ture Berlin until the rest of us are
ready to go with him. He might go
and do It, you know.”’—liehoboth
Sunday Herald.
All That Affected Her.
That llie Empress Eugenie Is not
prone to brood sentimentally over the
past Is evidenced by an Incident that
occurred some years ago. She visited
Windsor castle, a palace in which In
the golden days of the empire she was
received as an honored guest. Those
«1w accompanied her on this second
visit hovered near her, fearing that
she would he overcome with the con
trast between the past and the present,
especially when she viewed the apart
ments fitted up for her use and which
had not been changed. But It was
merely her artistic sense that was of
fended. Tlte hangings of the huge
bed were of Imperial purple with the
green of Napoleon, and the ex-empress
remarked disgustedly, “Toujours ces
nfl'reux rldcaux!” “Always those
frightful curtains."
No Woman Passenger Pilots.
In England women will not be given
permission to serve as pilots on pas
senger airplanes. At* official of the
ait ministry gave the reason for this
decision to a writer on the London
Sketcli as “physical disability as well
as nerves,” declaring that women’s
nerves are much more likely to give
way than men’s.
“I think there are no women In this
country capable of passing the air
ministry’s test. If one does succeed,
however, site will he permitted to fly
her own private machine, but whether
she will lie allowed to take a friend
with her is a point that remains to he
decided.
"In any case women will be barred
as pilots of passenger-carrying ma
chines."
A Senator’s Lunch.
Being addressed by a smirking head
waiter as “Senator,” means nothing
to the gay life of Senator McCumber
of North Dakota.
Instead of dining at the senate res
taurant, where senatorial dignity and
flitting white-apron garbed waiters
predominate, when night sessions pre
vent him from going home, the sena
tor repairs to a nearby cafeteria, col
lects tray, napkin, knife, fork, spoon
and other implements of table war
fare, nestles his liver and bacon and
other seasonal delicacies on the tray,
walks over to a table and lays out
his spread.
HAPPY NATIVES OF SARAWAK
Under Wise Government, People Live
Easy Lives in Their Gloriously
Fertile Country.
The tribe of Kayans, inhabiting the
head waters of the Baram and Rejang
rivers of Sarawak, have lived for un
known generations almost isolated in
the interior of the Island of Borneo.
There are many reasons for believing
them to be originally of Caucasian
origin. Many of them have very light
skin, and they probably reached Bor
neo by way of the Malay peninsula
from lower Burma. Rigid discipline
is characteristic of the domestic me
nage, resulting in good manners and
recognition of authority.
For a good many years Sarawak
was under the independent govern
ment of a white rajah, Sir Charles
Brooke, who controlled his mingled
subjects with unusual wisdom and
sympathy. Among other far-sighted
edicts he Instituted stringent game
Inws, so that the island is one of the
best protected parts of the world in
this respect. Birds, beasts and butter
flies are protected, not more than two
specimens of any one species being
allowed to the collector. In this way
the very beautiful and rare trees and
insects of the country are being main
tained for the enjoyment of future
generations.
Another wise move of the rajah
was to continue the native costume—
what there Is of it—in place of Intro
ducing the unsuitable, ugly and arti
ficial modern clothing of Europeans.
This, ns Stevenson points out, has
usually exactly the opposite effect
from that Intended by well-meaning
missionaries, nnd the happy natives of
Sarawak are very well off as they are.
GOOD WORK WITH CAMERA
Explorers in Northwestern Canada
Have Photographic Studies of
Wilderness Wild Life.
After a three years' hunt with tho
camera in the almost unknown Lnlrd
river district In northwestern Canada,
II. A. Stewart and John Sonnlckson
have come hack to civilization by way
of Peace river, Alberta, bringing sev
eral thousand photographic studies of
the manners and customs of the wild
life of those remote woods and
streams. The explorers, for they well
deserve the name, worked Into the
wilderness by way of Hudson’s Hope
and the forks of the Findlay and
Parsnip rivers ns far as Fort Gra
hnme. Their negatives Illustrate the
habits of the ptarmigan, moose, beav
er, Canadian wild geese and other a»
lraals and birds that have seldom been
observed with anything like.thorough
ness by means of the camera. The
travelers had devices of various sort*
whereby their subjects were enticed
to spots upon which the hidden lense*
were focused; and upon reaching
these spots an ambushed cnmern mn*
"snapped” them by twitching a long
cord attnched to the lens shutter. A
single negative of some specially shy
animal was often the only fruit of
many hours of patient waiting. Some
times for days the explorers w'ould
watch a single spot through their field
glasses awaiting the favorable mo
ment to “shoot.” But It was all
worth it.
Gleaning the Stumps.
The rapid decrease In the number of
twit stumps which have been so fa
miliar to the traveler through the coast
hills of Oregon, Is regarded ns an in
dication of their approaching extinc
tion. Hitherto some 20 feet of encli
stump has been left standing, silent
relics of former monnrchs of the forest,
too thick for most saws to compass
and too full of pitch to suit the saw
mills. But now the need for timber is
greater and men no longer climb high
up on to boards thrust into notches In
the trunk to suit the saw and the saw
mill. They have learned thrift and
they cut tow down lest good lumber
be uselessly wasted. Only ns a record
of past wastefulness are the tall
stumps with their deep notches still
visible.
A Filipino Vassar.
What the occidental Ideals of univer
sal opportunities of education are to
mean to women of the Orient takes on
n large significance with the estab
lishment in the Philippines of a uni
versity for girls only. This university
Is to be part of an educational group
called Centro Kscolor de Senoritas,
where until now the Instruction to
girls has been only in the primary,
secondary and Intermediate grades.
That this Filipino Vassar will develop
traditions characteristic of girls’ col
leges in the United States cannot be
doubted by anyone who has observed
how wholeheartedly though shyly, girl
students from the Orient have en
tered into the undergraduate studies,
festivities and pastimes at American
colleges.
Coquelin's Memory.
"How many parts do you know well
enough to play tonight if need be?”
somebody asked Coquelin. He took a
sheet of paper and wrote down the
mimes of 53 plays of his repertoire.
Ills friends laughed.
"You are boasting surely, mon ami?’’
said the Vlseomte de Lovenjoul.
You have every one of these plays
In your library,” said Coquelin quietly.
“Get them all out and put them on the
table.” The vlseomte did so. “Now,”
said Coquelin, “let anybody select a
cue from any one of these plays at hap
hazard and give It to me.”
They tried him with 16 plays out of
the 53 and he never missed a single cue
or made one mistake.—Fortnightly Re
view.
State Fire Day Proclamation.
Section 6850 of the Revised Statutes
for the State of Nebraska reads as
follows:
“For the purpose of creating a pub
lic sentiment and in order that the
people of this State shall have called
to their attention the great damage
caused both life and property by fire,
there is set apart and established the
first Friday in November, which shall
be observed by the public, private and
parochial schools of the State with ex
ercises appropriate to the subject of
that day.”
Every well regulated city has a de
partment that is constantly on guard
and ready to answer any and all calls
to extiguish fires. Every town should
have some organization, at least, that
could be assembled in a short time for
the same purpose, but what is still
better than these is care and caution
on the part of all the people to PRE
VENT fire. It is much easier to pre
vent than to extinguish, for a spark
.may instantly be fanned to a flame
that will consume a whole section of a
city or wipe out hundreds of square
miles of forest. All such might have
been avoided by care in handling a
match, cigar or cigarette and keeping
the premises free from grease and
trash or other substance calculated to
produce spontaneous combustion. We
are approaching that season of the
year when, in this latitude, people
will begin starting their stoves and
furnaces. During the summer stove
pipes and smoke conductors become
damp and rusted, and while they may
look quite well and secure from the
outside, yet oftentimes they are as
thin as paper. All such should be ex
amined and replaced when found de
fective. It is desirable that State Fire
Day be observed in keeping with its
true intent, and therefore I repeat that
public and private schools take up the
subject of how to prevent fires and
how to behave in case fire breaks out
in school houses or other public places.
The mayors of cities can do a good
service by stirring up the minds of
the people and calling attention to
these matters.
The State Fire Marshal has pre
pared and will send to every Marshal
of cities and to the town clerk of each
village, a statement giving suggest
ions as to the manner of conducting
public meetings on State Fire Day,
and indicating subjects to be discussed,
so as to thoroughly impress the minds
of tile people with the necessity of
proper care in the matter of handling
fire and in looking after every place
about the premises, where fire is
most likely to occur. Let every man,
woman and child be on guard in order
to prevent destructive fires.
Hoping for the best possible results,
I Samuel R. McKelvie, Governor of
Nebraska, hereby wish to emphasize
the necessity of carrying out the
meaning and intent of the day, and in
keeping with the act of the Legisla
ture, I hereby proclaim Friday, No
vember 7, 1919, STATE FIRE DAY.
Witness my hand and the Great
Seal of the State of Nebraska, this,
the thirteenth day of October, 1919.
SAMUEL R. McKELVIE,
(Seal) Governor.
By the Governor
DARIUS M. AMSBERRY,
Secretary of State.
In Quest of Hu Germ.
Washington, Oet. 15.—In order that
there may not be a recurrence of such
another influenza epidemic as caused
550,000 deaths in the United States
last year, Senator France, of Mary
land, chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Public Health and National
Quarantine, has reported a joint
resolution providing for a thorough in
vestigation of this and allied diseases.
Hence one million dollars is to be
made available for reasearch work on
the part of all universities and col
leges of medicine and otherwise in
order that the dread germ which
caused all the trouble may be found.
In addition all of the agencies of the
Public Health Service and the medical
departments of the army and navy are
to lend their assistance in the quest.
It is felt by the Republican leaders of
the Senate that if the panacea for
tuberculosis be found, that for the
“flu” may be also.
Hadn’t Seemed to Work.
An oldish man In rusty-brown clothes
and with a rusty-brown beard met up
with a pin. It was shining sharply
bright on a flagging, and he stopped
to pick it up.
He had stiff Joints and his fingers
were in that state Informally known
ns bungly. So he had trouble picking
up the pin.
A young man paused to offer his
services, but the old one refused. He
Just grunted and grumbled until at last
victory came his way. Then he
straightened up his rickety Joints and
put a hand on his back.
"I’m not ns young ns I used to be,”
he admitted, ns genially ns his Joints
would allow. “But you know the old
saying:
" ‘See n pin and let It lay, you’ll
have bad luck all the day. See a pin
and pick It up and you are sure to have
good luck.’
“So I never pass one by.”
And yet he didn’t look ns lucky as
a mnn ought to be who had made a
life habit of picking up pins.—Wash
lnaton Star.
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