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J- I. -I I 1 v ) 4 i - e ' ' 4 ' A ir b v4 J r i i - ft THE DETECTIVE STORY Origin and Growth of the Clever! Amateur Sleuth. Tho Great French Writer Introduced Him ta the World of Fiction The Genius of Poe and Gaboriau and Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. TURNED THE JOKE. The Way a Bridegroom Got the Laugh on His "Funny" Chum. Under the thin disguise of harmless fun many an unpardonable rude prank is played upon newly married couples. It is refreshing to hear of an occasion al instance in which the "joke" reacts VOLTAIRE WAS HIS 'CREATOR. the joker. . -A young man and his unu.tr, will uau jusi. uwu uioikicu u a western town, were starting on their wedding journey. They had managed to reach the train in safety despite the showers of rice and old shoes. Just as they had taken their seats In the car one of the bridegroom's chums came hastily in to bid him goodby. As the young husband extended his hand the friend snapped a handcuff round his wrist. ' The groom had been suspecting a trick of some kind, and before the practical joker could play a similar trick on the bride he found the other handcuff snapped round his own wris.t. He was chained to the happy bride groom himself. ; "That's a good one on me, Harry," he said, with a sickly kind of smile, "but I'll have to ask you to come to the door with me and get the key to these things from the fellow outside thafs got it. Hold on, conductor, just a min ute!" , But the conductor, whose quick eye had taken in the situation, refused to wait 'He gave the order for starting, and the train pulled out. It was a through train and made no stop for the next fifty miles. . Before it stopped. however the brakeman, with the aid of a sharp file and a hammer, succeed ed in releasing Harry. The practical joker meanwhile had had to pay full fare for the fifty miles and still had his fare home to pay. i. THE EDIFYING SG . S THE SPANISH kSCUrtlAL Most persons who read detective stories, and most literary critics, too, believe that this very popular form of fiction was invented by Edgar Allan Poe. They point to his story of "The Purloined Letter" as being the first of its kind the first in which is intro duced the man of keen mind, of close reasoning and of constructive imagi nation, who Is able to piece together certain facts that are known and then by brilliant deduction to pass from them to other facts which are not known, but the truth of which he is able to establish beyond a doubt. Poe himself had a mind precisely of this character the mind of a mathe matician, subtle, logical and capable of searching analysis. He once gave a remarkable illustration of what he could do as an investigator of myste rious crime. A young shopgirl named Mary Rogers was found murdered j under circumstances which excited great public interest In New York. The police, were completely baffled, though they advanced a theory which was plausible in part. Poe, taking the facts that were admitted, wove them into a story, the scene of which he laid in Paris and which he called "The Mystery of Marie Roget." Then from what was known he passed by deduc tive reasoning to what was quite un known and worked out a solution to the puzzle which ho professional de tective had been able to explain. . Years afterward the confession of a dying man afforded proof that Poe was right and that he had reconstruct ed accurately "the whole series of events which led to the death of Mary Rogers. ' . This remarkable achievement fixed in the public mind the notion that this use of logic blended with imagination was original with Poe. As a matter of fact, it is almost certain that Poe, who was deeply versed in French literature, got the suggestion of the method from reading certain passages in the ori ental tale called "Zadig," by Voltaire. In this book a young man Is questioned as to whether he had seen a stray dog and horse that might have passed him on his journey. In reply he describes very accurately the peculiarities of both, though he had not seen them. He had deduced his knowledge from observing certain Indications along the way the nature of the footprints and many other signs which the ordi nary person would either not have no ticed or would have been too dull to understand. Here is really the germ of the conception which Poe so bril liantly elaborated in the story of "The Purloined Letter," where we find ex hibited the striking contrast between the working of a usual mind and the achievements of a mind of exceptional power and training. Toe's central figure, the amateur de tective, was afterward caught up and elaborated with great effect by several French writers, of whom the chief was Emile Gaboriau. Gaboriau gave the world the character of M. Lecoq in the remarkable novel of that name. Lecoq . is a proressionai detective, Dut ap pears in that book as a novice, inexpe rienced, but full of intelligence and en thusiasm and obliged to work out his clews against the secret opposition of his official chief, Gevrot, who Is jeal ous of the young detective. In the background is the interesting figure of the real amateur detective, old Fa ther Tire-au-Clair ("Brlng-to-light"), a retired tradesman who studies crime from sheer love of the Intellectual puz zle which it affords him and which he solves by purely scientific deduction. Sir Conan Doyle in creating Sherlock Holmes openly acknowledged his great indebtedness to Poe. Like Poe's hero, Holmes works apart from the official police and is consulted by them when they are wholly at a loss. Many of the incidents in the Holmes cycle of stories were suggested by the inven tions of Poe. Yet it is only fair to say that Doyle has gone one step further , than his master. Poe's characters are abstractions. - They are like chessmen on the board and excite interest only because of the complexity of the prob lem which they are made to solve. Doyle's characters, on the other hand, are drawn with sympathy and a shrewd insight into human nature. They entertain us by their whims and individual , traits no less than by the adventures through which they pass. Thus Holmes addiction to the cocaine habit, his trick of smoking great quan titles of shag tobacco when thinking out a problem, his dislike of women, his skill as a boxer-rin fact, a score of itraits all g've him individuality and make us think of him as a fascinating Sketch of One of the Great , few-man Toy Warehouses. , V The Troedel market Is' on a little Is land in the heart of the old town of Nuremberg. Along the north branch of the river is an old, low eaved house with a little darkling doorway. When you have got so far you;are met by a little old man a rusty little man who looks as though he were made of metal who leads you Into the great mysteri ous warehouse of toys. . Round all the walls they ore ranged guns, cannons, motors, steamships, trumpets, sabers, and everywhere the soldiers. How many millions of metal soldiers have marched away from the Troedel market- not even the bisty old man could tell you mighty articles of pewter and tin. - ? ' . . -')-. Hundreds of regiments, of battalions, of divisions, are drawn up ' on the shelves, waiting for the day when they shall, be sent out into battle. ; And with a kind of pride the rusty old man says, "They are eauying soiaiers.' That is the German way of putting it. What it means is that each army Illustrates a battle or a campaign the war of Troy, the campaigns of Alexander, the exploits of Coeur de Lion, the war of thirty years, the siege of Orleans, the victories of Na poleon, the battles of 1870 and (the one I liked best) that desperate battle in which a tiny tin hero with gleam ing teeth rough rode it up San Juan hill. In a word, the edifying soldiera teach history, geography, strategy. Vance Thompson in Everybody's. EATING IN PUBLIC. The FRENCH SENTIMENT. The Greatest Way It Classifies the xMen of the Nation. The Petit Parisien in 1906 conducted a very interesting plebiscite, the object of which was to ascertain who, in the opinion of its readers, were the ten greatest Frenchmen of the nineteenth century. More than 15,000,000 votes were given, and the result-was that Pasteur came out at the top of the poll with 1,338,425 votes. The next were Victor Hugo, who received 1,227,103 votes; Gambetta 1,155,672, Napoleon 1,118,034, Thiers 1,039,453, Lazare Car- not 950,772, Curie 851,107, A. Dumas Dere 850.602. Dr. Roux 603,941 and Parmentier 498,863. Immediately fol lowing were Ampere, the electrician; Brazza, the explorer; Zola, Lamartine and Arago. It will be observed with interest how large is the proportion of scientific men in the number of those who, in the opinion of Frenchmen, occupy the highest places in the records of the country. Napoleon is only fourth, though Pasteur heads the list, and Curie, Roux and Parmentier, the chem ist who Introduced the culture of the potato into France, are also honored, while Ampere and Brazza are not far behind. Literary men and statesmen dispute with the scientists for the highest distinctions, and the national sentiment of France is evidently ec lectic. . Varied Sorrows of the Critical Man Who Dines Out. What chance has the diner out of being completely happy? The mere actions of eating and drinking are nei ther pretty nor conducive to showing people at their best. It is really, a most uncouth sight to see a man or a woman stoking food. The necessity of being polite at the same time makes it uncomfortable as well.. No sooner have , you got into conversation with a pleasant woman than the soup in your mustache stops all inspiration. She despises you for your play with your napkin, and your mustache is out of shape. And who can feel that the evening is going to be what he hoped when he realizes that his shirt front is smirched with some relic of the meal? Indeed, dinner parties are really struggle between eating and talking, a struggle which does not always end, as do most things, in the survival of the fittest. As . one can't speak with one's mouth full and first hunger must be appeased, conversation and eating go on rather as a game, the one person whipping up some food while the other Is speaking and then in his turn speak ing in order to enable his partner to get some nourishment. To talk or to eat might be a sensible question at the beginning of dinner, but it is not one likely to be asked. One is seldom sure which is least worth sacrificing, the food or the conversation. How much simpler it would be if 'we fed apart and indulged in conversation after ward. Macmillan's. It I. a Marvelous Specimen of Anolant architecture. lr8c1irIal. toe palace of the Snan- merdral-afo. of the world," . ,a " wuuaer of eve by those Beldom spoken wild over much less pSe ready to go tures. The cornerstone oPL0118 struc ish St. Peter's" was laid by PdiSpan- ln 1563, but it was 302 years (1865) be fore the monstrous building was pro nounced finished. It was built by Phil ip In fulfillment of a vow to "erect th finest monastery In the world" should his forces be successful In their great battle with the French. That battle was fought at St. Quentin on Aug. 10, 1557, Sti , Lawrence day, and in order to honor that saint as well as to fulfill his vow the king had the foundation of his great memorial laid off in the shape of a gridiron, the implement of torture upon Which the goodly Law rence is reputed to have suffered mar tyrdom. - To those who have never visited the Escurial the size of the gigantic struc ture is beyond comprehension. It la 740 feet from'' north to south and 580 feet from east to west, the square tow- ers at each corner rising to a height ot over 200 feet. Within this monstrous building are the king's palace, a cathe dral, a monastery of 200 cells, two col leges, three chapter houses, three li brary buildings, five large halls, six dormitories, three hospitals and over 3,000 other rooms. In order to make St, Lawrence's gridiron complete, the building is built in quadrangular form, with seventeen rows or ranges of mon strous stone structures crossing each other at right angles, these forming the gridiron's ribs, the handle being wing 470 feet in length. The church, which is a part of this vast pile of ma sonry, is 364 feet long, 230 feet wide, with a dome 330 feet in height It is estimated that the building cost $50,- 000,000. Animals That Are Trained. The animal trainer paused in his midnight supper. . "It is strange," he said, "how train ing increases an animai s vaiue. j can buy a young lion for $100, train it and sell it for $500 afterward. Take the group I performed with tonight three lions, three tigers, two leopards, four bears and four boarhounds. They are all young adults in the pink of con dition, but untrained they wouldn't be worth more than $1,500 or $2,000 at the outside. Yet the boss was offered $60,000 for them last week. The train ing sets the price, and no wonder. It took four years to train this group of mine, and, though there are only six teen animals in it now, no less than seventy had to be tried and discarded before we got together the sixteen we wanted." Short Stay Neighborhoods. , A man who contemplated going into business for himself looked around for a good location. He rejected the ad vice of two, friends who had suggested neighborhoods which they thought desirable. "I don't like either of the places," he said. "Business can't be good around there. I have passed through those streets many times, and always I have been struck with the frequency with which the names on the shops are changed. That doesn't look promising. Wherever a man finds trade profitable he tays; contrariwise, he moves. None of the short stay neighborhoods for me." New York Post. Shingling a House. And I looked and beheld seven car penters shingling a house. They were hauling "up bundles of shingles that had . been lving in the rain for two days and nailing them on one by one In a few days the shingling will be done. Then the painter will come along with his ladders and brushes and stains, and $300 will be spent by the owner of the cottage to have thoroughly dabbed. And In a little while the sun will shine, and all the shingles will buckle, some up, some down, until the cottage will resemble a-frizzled chicken. And there will be leaks and cursings and lamentations. Now, brethren, why not be sensible in these small matters? Painters are not needed at all in a case of this kind. Keep your shingles dry; buy a few barrels of stain; soak the shingles in the stain and throw them on the grass to dry; then nail-them to the clap boards. They will never buckle, they will never leak, and you have saved $300. New York Press. 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Some of : the longest bows : (jyf f 4. nt&tlnt MsCCd Wl CXpUX- bows and arrows. - I These stories began lonj in the "iEneid" tells who were shooting for a prize, the ; 17 long ago. Virgil of four archers J u I It 78. & 17-5 7 si. 00 Sox- vouefa joV 7f.00 7o 7 0.00 0 k 1 ' S tt 1 ' also aS decided strain ffa fvWW MUyPltfo CWld &&U tfolflG Wis ' A person's credulity. The 'Qui' mark being a pigeon tied by a cord to the mast of a ship. The first man hit the mast, the second cut the cord, and ihe third shot the pigeon as it flew away. The fourth archer, having noth ing left to shoot, drew his bow and sent his arrow flying toward the sky with such-speed that the friction of the ! air set the feathers on fire, and it ; swept on, like a meteor, to disappear InThe6 s'torie told of Robin Hood's yj IUOU &Ohtsn&& 6X-z liXt performance as locKsiey ir bcorxs '.'Ivajjihoe," are upon a sensible person'! famous story of William Tell, doubted 0 17 ' 0 I , by many persons, is believed by others C4VvilC' &ly&r6 fl WS &vUU to have a foundation of fact, l nere was a Dane named Foke of whom th same story is told, and William ot Cloudesley, an Englishman, is said to have shot an apple from his son's head merely to show his expertness. Most stories of bows and arrows re late to the accurate aim of the archers but a Frenchman; Blaise de Vigenere, tells one that shows the tremendous ' force with which , an arrow may be propelled if the bow be strong and long enough. According to his own ac count of the matter, he saw Barbaros sa, a Turk, admiral of a ship called the Grand Solyman, send an arrow from his bow right through a cannon ball. if ' i :' v . Causes of Headache. - People get headache because they, do not take sufficient active exercise to keep the blood circulating actively, be come excited and often about things that do not concern them at all, neg lect daily action of bowels, bathe in cold water without wetting the head, sleep on a low pillow, take too much Forest Air. There is a general impression that the humidity of the air is greater in the woods than in the open fields. This is contradicted, however, by th6 result of observations made In Ger many. It was found there .that the humidity, both, relative and absolute was slightly greater in the open thai In the woods, and this was true equal ly in the morning; and in the after noori. 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But, however brilliant Poe may have been, or however Ingeniously Gaboriau may have spun tangled plots, or how ever ably Conan Doyle may have given Press. ... 1. The Return. "I believe," said the cheery philoso pher, "that for every single thing you give away two come back to you." "Thafs my experience," said Pham ley. "Last June I gave away my daughter, and she and her husband life and reality to the central figure of came back to us In August." his stories, they all derive their in- Dickens' Interest In Inns. "Pickwick" is the very Odyssey of Inns and travel, for the youthful Dick ens had traversed England as a re porter, . and in "Pickwick" alone no fewer than flfty-flvetinns, taverns, etc., in London and the provinces are men tioned and often described at length. London Chronicle. - splration, whether consciously or not, from the clever tale told by. the fa mous Frenchman before Poe saw the Jight. Scrar Book. 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