The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-22
DIlBOLO AND DINE NOVELS
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...l Nv mon Interested IN thine-e -iri.
,lo.cr ~ origin tho popularity ~
.1uo ,putinu~a n W nct only spread
. r,r. lut has overrin tho provinces
.r.,yoi not pniv -ingly but IN teams AMI
,aft, saht n IL to -ce handsome Young
rcr nu.ilv tossing = spoui me ~ another
culea yoring 80 catch n With ss keen
.. interest ~ when they atm Ia return .
..1 In 1, Championship tennis match.
,tot reaching a stage where police resu.
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., rtiv ~ Etampe-. where the whole com.
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ago dtsholo tourna ments on Sundays for
A., -,Irrpnud,ng country. There are thr.e
---o~. men. women. and children below
Nb,le uurcIy , diversion 10 the chill
.-.r the ~ mo 10 moro than q pas
umo Il trnins tho eve. aids the player in
r.r-,. -uprleness. agility and repose. Two
,.,,or- who have ~dis,inuui.hed themselves
,f iampes are BOYS ~ II and II. one ~
whom made the rr,na rk bile record Of 325s
p..pf. IN as minutes and 7 .econds. and the
thor 9p7 in Io minutes
lean Iacaues Iaumonier. IN. fourteen
v.,,. Old boy VIII wrote to NJ. McClusky.
tHIef Il the Secret Police 81 New York . the
Icftrr printed IN THs SrN of Septemher 10.
M which he asked IL Nick Carter. the IN nous
detective" about whom he had bcen reading,
really existed. seemed heartily disappointed
when told that the great detective was only
q fictitious cha racter. He said:
"Of course ! did not think that Nick was
hs real ma me. hut the stories in the books
sounded 81 true that I supposed thew we're
The experiences pf a big American sleuth
vho wanted to hide his identity. ! read
sherlock Holmes and Buffalo Bill and the
weekly story papers. but Nick is the best
of all, There are more murders and fights
and Indians in his adventures tina in Conan
~ " y dl'F Y ~ alvaNr W ohlE Tia
he will turn up at the right time, revolver
in hand. The French detectives are not in
t. with Nick. They do not know how to
hustle at he does, would not miss buying
he story each week for anything. Forty
instruments have already been published.
and have all Of them"
The boys mother. who il a well to do
hourgeoise. interrupted TO say that a visit
nf her son to Buffalo Bills show some sea-
sons ago started his interest in American
sensational literature. Ever since Buffalo
Bills stories and weeklies with lurid detec-
tive tales have appeared on the Paris news
stands, and for about a year the boys route
IN school has been sfrewn with hashily
covered literature and his lessons nave
suffered sadly. The school teachers tell
the samr STORY Of his classmates,
The mother Of the hoy was ignorant Of
his letter TO M. McClusky" until some days
after IL had been sent and was surprised
that Vt had found its way into THE SUN.
The Carter craze has become so widespread
that many parents are trying tn bar detec-
tive weeklies because their excessive reading
has been interfering with necessary open
air sports for the last ten months.
/, man Of many interests. jules C1sretie.
this week on the enthusiasm Of
''NnC' N'"'he :" 'V
He says Nick Carter and Sherlock Holmes
are more popular than Du Boisgobey and
G4borisu The bloody exploits Of Indians
and Yankee counterfeiters and murderers
have replaced Jules Verne's ~fancies. which
thrilled the older generation.
nj all the sound hearted Americans who
have endeavored to ameliorate the con-
duion or the abused cab horses OF Paris
there seems NJ last some little likelihood
that one may succeed in ehecting some
thing. II ia a mistake to imagine that a
tender heart is needed 10 move an American
TO wish 20 protect these beasts. All that Ia
necessary Is the normal heart OF a decent
American human being.
Paris cabmen, like most Frenchmen in the
.uar uaILa Of life having heeu treat tod aa