Steve and his outfit can’t go on and can’t go back to Dobra. They can’t stay in Covington, because Steve has only thirteen cents to his name. The car contains a little feed for Fanny and a little cracked corn for the chickens. Steve has been living chiefly on the milk Fanny gave him and the schmierkäse he made from it, and occasionally some eggs from the chickens. Outside of that, he hasn’t had much else to eat for several days. Steve doesn’t want to sell Fanny, for, if he does, the ice-cream business will be impossible, but if he must, he wants one hundred dollars for her. He says he paid seventy-five dollars for her six months ago and she now represents his only means of livelihood. He claims the railroad only wants to give him thirty dollars for Fanny. In the meantime he is still stranded with his cow and chickens in his freight-car home in the railroad yards in Covington, Ky. Two Thousand Air Pilots Engaged in Western War Zone. It is estimated that the total number of aëroplane pilots engaged in active service with the Germans and the Allies in France and Belgium is nearly two thousand. Fully five thousand pilots in uniform and new aviators are still far from the front. These include Italian aviators. Comparatively few German aëroplanes are seen on the French front, probably for the reason that German pilots seldom accept battle with the French aëroplane, which they are sent in chase, but they promptly speed back to the German lines when pursued in their turn. Over the German lines they are protected by many types of efficient antiaircraft guns. These include an automatic gun, which shoots shells vertically more than ten thousand feet at the rate of thirty per minute. 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.