Sometimes a horn is knocked off or a leg broken before the struggling reindeer understands that she is to be milked and not branded or butchered. Under the circumstances the dairying feature of Arctic life is not very prominent, and the milkmaid’s song is not welcomed by the wise little animals that have undergone the torture of one milking. * * * * * ☛LATEST ISSUES☚ NICK CARTER WEEKLY The best detective stories on earth. Nick Carter’s exploits are read the world over. =High art colored covers. Thirty-two big pages. Price, 5 cents.= 662--A Tragedy of the Bowery; or, Nick Carter and Ida at Coney Island. 663--Four Scraps of Paper; or, Nick Carter’s Coney Island Search. 664--The Secret of the Mine; or, Nick Carter’s Coney Island Mystery. 665--The Dead Man in the Car; or, Nick Carter’s Hair Line Clue. 666--Nick Carter’s Master Struggle; or, The Battle With the Man-monkey. 667--The Airshaft Spectre; or, Nick Carter’s Shrewd Surmise. 668--The Broken Latch; or, Nick Carter’s Single Clue. 669--Nick Carter’s Sudden Peril; or, The Riddle of the Rutgers Street House. 670--The Man With the Missing Thumb; or, Nick Carter’s Chance Discovery. 671--Feltman, the “Fence”; or, Nick Carter and the Hester Street Feud. 672--A Night with Nick Carter; or, The Kid-gloved Case. 673--In the Nick of Time; or, Carter Finishes the Feltman Affair. 674--The Dictator’s Treasure; or, Nick Carter Nips the Honduran Plotters. 675--Pieces of Eight; or, Nick Carter Solves a Strange Enigma. * * * * * DIAMOND DICK WEEKLY The heroes of the stories published in this weekly are dear to the hearts of 60,000 boys. Diamond Dick is a splendid Western character. =High art colored covers. Thirty-two big pages. Price, 5 cents.= 676--Diamond Dick’s Great Round-up; or, The End of the Reign of Terror. 677--Diamond Dick’s Buccaneer Boy; or, The Ship of the Burning Sands. 678--Diamond Dick’s Encouragement; or, A Runaway Boy at the Haunted Ranch. 679--Diamond Dick’s Shadow Dance; or, The Hunting of Grisly White. 680--Diamond Dick in Arizona; or, The Mystery of the Missing President. 681--Diamond Dick’s Power; or, The Affair on the Road from Flagstaff. 682--Diamond Dick Solves a Mystery; or, On the Trail of Job. 683--Diamond Dick in the Colorado Cañon; or, Frank’s Sight of Another World. 684--Diamond Dick on the Farm; or, The Mission of the Strangers. 685--Diamond Dick and the Dummy Deacon; or, On a Silent Trail. 686--Diamond Dick’s Chase; or, On the Track of Charlie. * * * * * BRAVE AND BOLD WEEKLY All kinds of stories that boys like. The biggest and best nickel’s worth ever offered. =High art colored covers. Thirty-two big pages. Price, 5 cents.= 352--Right on Top; or, Yankee to the Backbone. By Cornelius Shea. 353--A Clue from Nowhere; or, On a Phantom Trail. By Harrie Irving Hancock. 354--Never Give Up; or, Harry Holton’s Resolve. By John L. Douglas.