Chapter XVII: A Counterplot (2)

For several years past there has been considerable ill-feeling among the schools of the Boston interscholastic organization against the Cambridge High and Latin School. This feeling has arisen from the fact that the High-School and Latin School of Cambridge are two separate and distinct institutions, presided over by separate officials, and yet the scholars of the two schools join forces in athletics, and appear upon the field with teams made up from the strongest and best material to be found in both bodies. In years past, when the participation in out-door sports was not so general among the student body as it is now, there may have been good reason for allowing these two schools of the same town to join forces in athletics. But as matters progressed, and more and more of the students became trained in the science of football and baseball, it seemed manifestly unfair toward the smaller schools in the league to allow the Cambridge team to draw upon so much larger a field for material.

The question of having the Interscholastic Football Association step in and interfere with the combination has been agitated for some time, and the opposition at last came to a head at the meeting of the executive committee last week. On this occasion a specific charge was brought against the football management of the Cambridge High and Latin football team, and as a result the following resolution was formulated and adopted:

_Whereas_, Cambridge High and Latin played a man through the entire season who was at no time a member of either school;

_Resolved_, That Cambridge High and Latin be dropped from the Association, and that no member or manager of the 1895 team be allowed to play in league games, except at the request of the head-master of the school he may attend; that the Cambridge High and Cambridge Latin schools be admitted separately to the Junior Interscholastic League.

After adopting these resolutions, however, the executive committee decided that if the head-master of either school should so request, they would reconsider their vote. But as matters now stand the Association no longer recognizes the Cambridge High and Latin School as an athletic organization, and if sportsmen of either school desire in the future to enter any interscholastic football contests, they will have to apply for membership in the Junior League as separate institutions. But even if such application should be made, and were it accepted, as it probably would be, neither school can play upon any team it organizes any man who had any connection, either in a playing or a managing capacity, with the football eleven of last fall, except, possibly, at the special request of the head-master.

At the present date of writing I have been unable to secure full and exact confirmation of the charges made against the C. H. and L. team, but I feel perfectly confident that the executive committee, doubtless acting under the advice of the B.A.A. and of graduate members of the schools, made a full and careful investigation, and had thorough proof of the guilt of the player referred to. An extenuating circumstance seems to have been that the Captain of the C. H. and L. team attended the Latin School, and the alleged non-member claimed to attend the High-School. The Captain doubtless argued that he took the man's word for his connection with the High-School, and the committee no doubt seized upon the argument as a very sound pretext to separate the schools, probably ruling that although a Captain ought to know positively whether or not his players are _bona fide_ students, it is perhaps too much to require him to be familiar with the roster of more than one institution.

The punishment inflicted upon the players--if the charges have been proved valid--strikes me as being the best possible solution of a very unpleasant situation. It frequently happens that players who are not strictly amateurs get on amateur teams. We hear of this continually. It is always very hard to find out whether the Captain of the team or any of the other players were aware at the beginning, or at any time, of this player's actual standing. It is impossible to prove whether or not such knowledge existed. But if you make the penalty for such infringement of the law so severe that every Captain and every player will make it his business--for his own sake--to know all about every other man on his team, you will be purifying sport at a rapid rate.

It is useless, unwise, and unnecessary to expel an entire school from an athletic organization because there was a non-amateur on that school's football team. That does not help the cause of sport. On the contrary, it injures it. But if you place the responsibility upon the players themselves, upon the men who are looking forward hopefully to a successful career among other amateurs, then every one of these fellows will be looking out for his own skin, and the moment he hears there is something crooked about his companion he will investigate for himself, and if he finds there are good grounds for suspicion he will soon see that the evil is remedied.

This may sound as though I were advocating a system where selfishness rather than a just sense of honor must be the controlling motive; but that is not the idea I intend to convey. No one recognizes more fully than I do how greatly young men dislike to put themselves to any trouble, especially in matters of this kind. I fear the average strictly honest sportsman on a school team would do nothing to rid his eleven or nine of a player whom he was fairly sure had no right to be there, simply because it would necessitate his putting himself to some trouble, and possibly subject himself to some unpleasantness.

It is for this reason that I so strongly approve of any honest incentive that can be given to youthful energy, even if it has to work through selfishness and "the first law of nature." Therefore I repeat that the plan adopted by the executive committee is most excellent. It is like cutting out a cancer. By removing all the players who were in company with the guilty man they get rid of the possible good with the surely bad, but they make room for new material that will certainly profit by the lesson given to its predecessors. It seems to me that if this year there is found on any New York interscholastic baseball team any player who has no right to play, as was the case last year, the wiser method will be to blacklist the whole team rather than to expel the school from the association. Then, the following year, the school body will see to it that there are no dishonest fellows wearing the school colors on the field of honest sport.

The proposed in-door track-athletic meeting, to be held next month at the Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the New Manhattan Athletic Club, will be the first real interscholastic in-door meeting that has ever been held in this city, and will consequently establish in-door interscholastic records for the New York I.S.A.A. At present the in-door scholastic records for this city are as follows:

_Sixty-yard Dash_--6 3-5 seconds, P. W. Simpson, Barnard, 1893; Junior, 7 2-5 seconds, D. M. Armstead, Berkeley, 1895, and G. Mayne, Barnard, 1895.

_Seventy-yard Dash_--7 4-5 seconds, T. H. Hall, Jun., Yale, 1895; H. Moeller, Columbia Grammar, 1894; H. L. Patterson, Wilson and Kellogg, 1892; boys under fifteen years, 8 4-5 seconds, P. W. Simpson, Barnard, 1894; R. Thompson, Columbia Grammar, 1894; boys under thirteen years, 9 seconds, G. G. Soper, Berkeley, 1894.

_Seventy-five-yard Dash_--Boys under fifteen years, 8 3-5 seconds, T. H. Hall, Jun., Yale, 1892.

_One-hundred-yard Dash_--10 3-5 seconds, T. H. Hall, Jun., Yale, 1895; Junior, 11 1-5 seconds, W. Wilson, Barnard, 1895.

_Two-hundred-and-twenty-yard Dash_--25 4-5 seconds, R. W. Moore, Barnard, 1895, and P. W. Simpson, Barnard, 1894; Junior, 28 seconds, W. Wilson, Barnard, 1895.

_Four-hundred-and-forty-yard Run_--54 1-5 seconds, C. Martin, Berkeley, 1894.

_Eight-hundred-and-eighty-yard Run_--2 minutes 14 2-5 seconds; C. Martin, Berkeley, 1894.

_One-mile Run_--4 minutes 55 4-5 seconds, L. Tappin, Cutler, 1895.

_One-mile Walk_--7 minutes 37 4-5 seconds, G. L. Berget, Berkeley, 1892.

_One-mile Bicycle Race_--2 minutes 46 seconds, W. H. Blake, Harvard, 1894.

_Sixty-yard Hurdle Race_--7 3-5 seconds, S. A. Lyme, Barnard, 1894, and Von Bour, Barnard, 1895.

_Seventy-yard Hurdle Race_--9 seconds, H. F. Willney, Harvard, 1894, and W. B. Rogers, Barnard, 1894.

_Seventy-five-yard Hurdle Race_--9 1-5 seconds, E. W. Brooks, Harvard, 1892; Junior, 10 2-5 seconds, J. D. Pell, Cutler, 1892.

_One-hundred-yard Hurdle Race_--13 seconds, S. A. Lyme, Barnard, 1895.

_Two-hundred-and-twenty-yard Hurdle Race_--31 4-5 seconds, E. M. Brooks, Harvard, 1892.

_High Jump_--5 feet 8 1-2 inches, S. A. W. Baltazzi, Harvard, 1895.

_Putting the Twelve-pound Shot_--37 feet 5 inches, E. Bigelow, Wilson and Kellogg, 1895.

_Pole Vault_--9 feet 4 inches, E. F. Simpson, Barnard, 1895.

These are the records, therefore, some of which we may look to see broken at the big meeting in March. The rules that are to govern eligibility of contestants are, as I announced last week, to be those of the New York I.S.A.A. They are as follows:

"_Art. XI. Sec. 1_. No one shall represent any school as a competitor in any athletic contest who has not been a member of that school from the 1st of January of the school year in which the contest is held; or who has actually been paid wages for services during the school year; or who has been enrolled as a member of any college; or who has attained the age of twenty years; or who is not in good standing with the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States. _Sec. 2_. Having been a member of the Sub-Freshman Class of the College of the City of New York does not debar a scholar from competing.

The game of basket-ball is a comparative innovation this winter, but in many sections of the country it has sprung into great popularity. In New England, especially, is this the case. The reason for the game's success is that it offers to those who wish to keep in training during the winter months an ideal recreation, affording a greater variety of exercise than any other kind of gymnasium work. It furnishes an opportunity for all-round physical development such as cannot result from even a systematic use of dumbbells, Indian clubs, and pulley-weights.

Another reason why basket-ball has become popular is that it may be played upon any kind of a ground, in-doors or out-doors, in a gymnasium, a hall, a back yard, or a ten-acre lot, on a dancing-floor or a stubble field. I have seen the game played in a room 12x20 feet, and I have known it to be played on a football field. Furthermore, it is allowable for any number of men to join in a game, although the regulation number of players for a team is five on a side. Where a match is not being contested the number on a side may be increased to the capacity of the field, and two balls may be used. This adds to the fun, perhaps, but, of course, the true science of the game is then lost.

Let us consider basket-ball merely as an in-door game for the present. It is probable that wherever the game may be taken up it will be played in a gymnasium. The floor should be well cleared of all apparatus, and if there is a running track around the building the baskets may be hung upon it, or, if there is no track, they may be suspended from the wall, ten feet above the ground. The "baskets" now most generally used consist of hammock nets of cord, eighteen inches deep, suspended in metal rings eighteen inches wide. Any kind of basket of that approximate size, however, will answer just as well. The ball is round, and made of an inflated rubber bladder covered with leather, and it should be between thirty and thirty-two inches in circumference. It may be just as well to insert at this point that the object of the game is for the men of one team to put the ball into their opponents' goal. This may be done by tossing or throwing or batting the ball from any part of the field with one or both hands. Boundary-lines must be drawn around the room several feet from the walls, and when the ball goes outside of these lines it is out of bounds.

The game is started by the referee, who throws the ball into the middle of the field. It is then in play--as in polo. The energies of the players are exerted toward getting the ball into their opponents' goal or basket, but no player may kick the ball or run with it. He must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, although allowance is made for momentum in a running catch. Shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking is, of course, not allowed, the penalty for such conduct being a foul called, with disqualification for the second offence. A player has the right to take the ball at any time while it is in the field of play, but he may only touch the ball, and not the opponent.

The ball goes out of bounds when it crosses the line drawn about the field of play. When this happens it is returned by the side first holding it. The man who "throws" it in may do this by bounding the ball in, or by throwing it to some one on the field, or by rolling it in. He is allowed five seconds in which to do this, and if he holds the ball longer, it goes to the opposing side. If the referee is in doubt as to which side first held the ball, he throws it in himself.

A goal is counted when the ball is thrown or batted from the ground into the basket directly, or by a rebound from the sides, and stays there. If it bounces out there is no goal; but if while the ball is on the edge of the basket the basket is moved by an opponent, a goal shall be scored. The time of play is forty minutes, divided into two halves of twenty minutes each, and the side scoring the greatest number of goals in this time wins.

The officials of the game are a referee, two umpires, a scorer, and a time-keeper. The referee is judge of the ball, and decides when it is in play, to whom it belongs, and when a goal has been made. He also appoints the time-keeper. The umpires are the judges of the men, call fouls, notify offenders, and have the right to disqualify players. A foul called by one umpire may not be questioned by the other. A great deal of responsibility thus rests upon the umpires, for it is in their power to keep roughness out of the game, and to see that science rather than brute force becomes the chief road to success.

It is evident that basket-ball is a game capable of great scientific development. It is by no means child's play. It is a sport in which team-work counts fully as much as in football, and where individual brilliancy must become secondary to concerted effort. This very season, in several important games, the value of team-play has been made evident, and its superiority has been conclusively shown. Basket-ball is certainly a game to be favored. It is the ideal competitive sport for gymnasium recreation; and for dwellers in cities, who must nowadays get most of their exercise in a gymnasium, it ought to be welcomed with enthusiasm.

At Andover there seems to be some hesitancy about joining the interscholastic league newly organized by Lawrenceville and the Hill School. Andover's objection seems to be valid, being based on the fact that she already belongs to the New England I. S. A. A., and is in a dual league with Worcester. This brings Andover also into the National Association, and a large faction in the school considers that those applications will furnish all the opportunities for contests that the team will be able to accept.

THE GRADUATE.

This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor Stamp Department.

H. WANGELIN.--See ROUND TABLE, December 17, 1895. The cent you
describe is worth 5c.

M. H. HORN.--It is a Hungarian stamp, worth 1c.

BRITISH.--The coin is Portuguese, not Spanish. The English coins
are not collected in this country.

W. J. KERRIS.--Your stamp is a counterfeit. No rule in
stamp-collecting is more rigid than that not to buy rare stamps of
any one except of responsible dealers, unless you are an expert,
and are acquainted with both the counterfeits and the genuine
stamps.

M. H. STILES.--The 2-cent U. S. stamps are printed in sheets of 400
stamps, four "panes" of 100 each. On the outside margins, between
the panes, are "guide lines," showing where to cut the sheet apart.

H. HASPERS.--1. Any one can buy or sell stamps without a license.
2. Most collectors now keep all the shades of the current U. S.
stamps. 3. English stamps are usually printed in sheets of 240
stamps. Some collectors make up entire sheets, but that is unusual.
4. Pomeroy, Boyd, etc., are U. S. local express stamps, all used
before 1882. 5. Wuher, Corea, etc., are not worth collecting. 6.
Escuelas are school-tax stamps.

H. MOORHEAD.--It is a token, not a coin, and has no particular
value.

G. E. J.--The cents can be bought at a dealer's for 5 or 10 cents
each. The $3 gold piece has no premium, as it is one of the common
dates.

HALL KING.--All collectors avoid cut postal-cards, and most
collectors refuse the Seebacks, unnecessary issues condemned by the
S.S.S.S., and many will not collect surcharges, but this last is a
matter of choice only.

A. G. S.--The 5c. piece without the word "cents" is quoted by
dealers at 10c. The 1834 cent, small letters, is worth 50c., the
other two varieties of 1834 are 10c. each. All the other dates
mentioned can be bought at about 5c. each.

F. BUTTMAN.--Dealers ask 50c. each for the Columbian quarter.

E. STRAMBERG and L. MCHUGH.--No premium.

J. O'NEAL.--U. S. $3 gold pieces no premium. 1809 half-cent is
worth 10c.

MRS. PARK CHILD.--See ROUND TABLE, December 17, 1895, for value of
coins.

N. MARTIN.--Address the Dorchester, Massachusetts, Stamp Exchange
direct. I do not know any more definite address.

AMY ROGERS.--The 5c. Playing Cards, U.S. Revenue, are sold by
dealers at 50c. each.

J. SUGDEN.--The 3c. U.S., 1869, is worth 2c. The 7c. U.S. with
Stanton's portrait is worth 30c.

H. MARSH.--The 5c. nickel without "Cents" is very common.

MARY H. HARTMAN.--We do not buy or sell either coins or stamps. The
coins and stamps quoted in the _Handy Book_ are the prices asked by
dealers. Age has nothing to do with value. For instance, the 1804
dollar would be cheap if bought by a collector for $500, whereas a
1798 dollar would be dear at $3. Old foreign coins, as a rule, are
worth their weight in metal only.

L. G. VARNEY.--The English coin is worth face only. For value of
cents and half-cents, U.S., see ROUND TABLE, December 17, 1895.

A. L. POISSON.--The three-cornered Cape of Good Hope shilling is
worth $2.50 if with good margins, etc.

F. R. SABINE.--The stamp is the U.S. 3c., 1851 issue, worth 2c. The
original color was red, but it has oxydized.

CORRESPONDENT, BARRIE.--The stamps are not very valuable. They
would answer very well for exchange purposes with any of your
friends who are collecting.

ADELE B. CRAMER.--It is impossible to identify the stamps from your
description. I should advise you to purchase a stamp catalogue from
a dealer.

C. H. TREAT.--For list of U. S. coins see ROUND TABLE, December 17,
1895, and January 14, 1896.

H. W. KNIGHT.--See answer to C. H. Treat.

H. BERNEDELO.--No! Dealers sell it at 5c.

J. RADBURN.--The guinea is worth $5. It is not rare.

F. FRENCH.--The revenues are worth 1 cent each. The 3-cent postage
due, buff, is worth 5 cents.

C. ARMSTRONG, Pre-emption, Illinois, desires to exchange stamps.

M. S. MAYER.--Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador, Costa Rica, etc., use
Seebeck stamps.

CONNER, FLORIDA.--No name signed to letter. I would advise you to
buy a stamp catalogue.

P. F. LISK.--List of U. S. coins from 1 cent to 20 cents will be
found in the ROUND TABLE dated December 17, 1895. The dollar gold
pieces are sold by dealers at $1.50 each.

A. HALL.--Fashion plays a great part in the value of stamps. Just
at present the fashion is for old West Indian and British North
American colonials. Consequently the rarities are advancing in
price very rapidly.

PHILATUS.

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The city of Washington is perhaps the finest city in the United States for bicycling, and it deserves to be given a place in this Department simply on account of its asphalt streets, to say nothing of its importance as the capital. In the better parts of the city, towards the west and the north, almost every street is asphalted, and where asphalt is not used, macadam or some smooth block pavement of one kind or another is. But through the whole city most of the streets are rideable, and it would therefore be absurd to give here any directions for getting about from one part of Washington to another. Certain things there are, however, which should be said regarding Washington. There is a good deal of riding of late in the parks and grounds about the Smithsonian, and it should be remembered that these park roads are kept in the best condition, as are all the avenues that run up to the Capitol. These are so wide that one need not fear crowding from carriages, as is the case in most cities, Baltimore especially. New York is, of course, almost impassable, except above Fourteenth Street, but the magnificent avenues of Washington are a joy to the wheelman. The District of Columbia is, indeed, filled with many good roads, and there are consequently several trips well worth taking in the vicinity of the city. It will be impossible for us to go into these trips, giving maps, since we must begin in the Chicago wheelman's vicinity, as was promised some time ago.

An opportunity is now given to explain a little more fully why the longest bicycle route from Philadelphia to Washington was given in these columns. It has already been said that the reason was because the road was better and less hilly. It is naturally taken for granted that any one riding a bicycle from Philadelphia to Washington is in no great hurry. If he were, he would possibly think of the railway. Consequently, unless the time occupied on the journey is a wager (in which case the wager might just as well be laid over the long route), the wheelman is probably out for pleasure. And one of the greatest pleasure creators, so to speak, in the bicyclist's world is a good road. Hence, if you are going by bicycle from Philadelphia to Washington, you will do well to go the route given during the last six weeks. The trouble comes between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Of course there are other routes, and they are shorter. For example, one route runs from Philadelphia, through Darby, Moore's, Chester Station, Linwood, Practical Farmer, Wilmington Court-House (Delaware), Middleton, Warwick, Cecilton, Frederictown, Galena, Locust Grove, Hainesville, Fairlee, Tolchester Beach (Maryland), and thence to Baltimore by boat. This is a 92-mile trip as compared with our 160-mile trip, or at least 68 miles shorter; but from Chester Station on the road is apt to be bad. Another route is from Philadelphia, through Moore's Station, Chester, Linwood, Practical Farmer, Wilmington (Delaware), Hare's Corner, Glasgow, Elkton (Maryland), Northeast, Perryville, and on direct to Baltimore, crossing at Havre de Grace. Much of this road is sandy, and between Elkton and Perryville it is usually easier to walk the whole 15 miles. The distance is, all told, 105 miles, though any one who had done it once would choose the 160 miles by the other route the next time.

On the above map the black streets are asphalt or macadam.

NOTE.--Map of New York city asphalted streets in No. 809. Map of
route from New York to Tarrytown in No. 810. New York to Stamford,
Connecticut, in No. 811. New York to Staten Island in No. 812. New
Jersey from Hoboken to Pine Brook in No. 813. Brooklyn in No. 814.
Brooklyn to Babylon in No. 815. Brooklyn to Northport in No. 816.
Tarrytown to Poughkeepsie in No. 817. Poughkeepsie to Hudson in No.
818. Hudson to Albany in No. 819. Tottenville to Trenton in No.
820. Trenton to Philadelphia in No. 821. Philadelphia in No. 822.
Philadelphia-Wissahickon Route in No. 823. Philadelphia to West
Chester in No. 824. Philadelphia to Atlantic City--First Stage in
No. 825; Second Stage in No. 826. Philadelphia to Vineland--First
Stage in No. 827; Second Stage in No. 828. New York to
Boston--Second Stage in No. 829; Third Stage in No. 830; Fourth
Stage in No. 831; Fifth Stage in No. 832, Sixth Stage in No. 833.
Boston to Concord in No. 834. Boston in No. 835. Boston to
Gloucester in No. 836. Boston to Newburyport in No. 837. Boston to
New Bedford in No. 838. Boston to South Framingham in No. 839.
Boston to Nahant in No. 840. Boston to Lowell in No. 841. Boston to
Nantasket Beach in No. 842. Boston Circuit Ride in No. 843.
Philadelphia to Washington--First Stage in No. 844; Second Stage in
No. 845; Third Stage in No. 846; Fourth Stage in No. 847; Fifth
Stage in No. 848.

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Getting Ready for a "Backward Dance."

In the "Questions and Answers" column a Lady asks how to get ready
for a "backward dance." Comb your hair over your face, but do not
put it in a knot. Put a false face on the back of your head and try
to get as queer clothes as you can. Wear very large shoes, so that
when you walk they will clatter. In the dance you walk frontward,
but you look as if you were walking backward. You should wear also
a very large hat with lots of feathers and ribbons bobbing about on
it.

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ALLEGHENY, PA.

Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.

PREPARATION OF TINTED SENSITIVE PAPERS.

NO. 1.--HOW TO MAKE RED PRINTS.

Learning how to prepare sensitive papers is one of the most interesting of photographic processes, and an art that is quite easily mastered. While for general work the brown or black tones are more desirable, still for decorative work the tinted papers are very effective, and in these papers some simple directions on the preparation of tinted papers will be given.

A few general hints, which will not be repeated in the other papers, are as follows:

1. See that all dishes and utensils used in the preparing of solutions are perfectly clean. The traces of chemicals used in some other process left in the dishes will sometimes spoil the entire solution.

2. Follow the directions exactly. In the preparation of sensitizing solutions one must be careful to put in the amount given, and no more.

3. In handling chemicals care must be taken not to get any on the hands if one has a wound or sore. Some chemicals are very poisonous, and some are quite harmless, but by using rubber finger-tips one will not only avoid all danger of blood-poisoning, but will keep the fingers free from stains.

With the salts of uranium one may obtain several colors by treating the prints with different solutions in developing. To make red prints, take suitable photographic paper--which may be found at any dealer in photographic goods all ready for sensitizing--and sensitize it as follows:

Make a solution of 96 grs. of nitrate of uranium and 4 oz. of distilled water. Put in a flat tray, and float the paper on this solution for twenty seconds; drain, and dry it in a dark room. If the paper is dried by artificial heat it is much more sensitive to the light. As soon as the paper is thoroughly dry, cut it in sheets a suitable size for printing, and wrap first in post-office paper, and then in black needle-paper, and lay away in a drawer or covered box till wanted.

To print, place in the printing-frame and expose to the light. If the negative is thin, three minutes in bright sunlight will be sufficient, or one hour in the shade or on a dull day. If a strong negative is used, expose for ten minutes to bright sunlight, or two hours in the shade. Negatives vary in the time required to print from them, and the printing may be judged by the time which it takes to print with other papers, and gauged accordingly.

Have ready a solution of red prussiate of potash, made with 80 grs. of red prussiate of potash and 8 oz. of distilled water. As soon as the print is removed from the printing-frame wash it for twenty-five or thirty seconds in hot water (120° Fahr.), then place it face up in a toning-tray and flood it with the potash solution. Keep the tray in motion so that all parts of the paper may be affected equally. In a few moments the picture will begin to appear, and will develop into a beautiful blood-red color. As soon as the right tone has been reached and the detail is well out, remove from the solution, and wash in several changes of water till no trace of coloring matter shows in the water. Pin the print by the corners to a flat board, and set the board in an upright position till the prints are dry. These pictures may be applied to glass by optical contact, as described in No. 788.

One of these colored prints makes an attractive decoration for the cover of a collection of photographs. Make the cover of heavy water-color or picture-mat paper; cut a square in the upper right-hand corner, and place the picture back of the opening. Letter the cover in red, and tie with red ribbon or heavy red silk cord.

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Prize Poems by Order Members.

The Table offered three prizes of $5, $4, and $3 respectively for the best original poems written by persons who had not passed their eighteenth birthday. They were limited to five stanzas in length. Here is the first-prize one, written by Clara Louise Angel, aged fifteen, of New York City.

OCTOBER.

Ho for October! he's coming! he's coming!
Swallows fly southward, the bees cease their humming.
Leaves red and yellow, air soft and mellow,
Herald this very old, merry old fellow.

Say you he's sober? Nay, not October,
Gay as Aurora, first glimpse of the morn;
Ho for the apple bees! Ho for the evening glees!
Ho for the husking of ripe yellow corn!

Down by the river's flow softly the zephyrs blow,
Brightly above smiles the radiant sky;
Dreamy the morning haze, beauty meets every gaze.
Sweet songs of joy on the breezes float by.

Up on the mountain's crest light fleecy cloudlets rest.
Gorgeous the forests with crimson and gold,
Squirrels hop all about sorting ripe chestnuts out,
Hide them in coverts they never have told.

Dear old October, how gladly we greet him,
Bringing the autumn days full of good cheer,
Stories at eventide all round the fireside;
Ho for the merriest month of the year!

CLARA LOUISE ANGEL, R.T.L.

Oddly, the winner of the second prize lives also in New York city. His name is Simon T. Stern, aged sixteen.

THE LITTLE BLIND GIRL.

There's a winsome little maid,
For her age quite prim and staid--
Yet _so_ kind;
But this bonnie lassie bright
Has ne'er seen the golden light--
For she's blind.

Hers in a pleasant oval face,
Full of sweetness, full of grace,
And no care;
Two blue eyes look up at me,
It is not that they can see--
Only stare.

"What if I have no sight,
And see not a ray of light,"
So says she;
"God has given me a mind,
In a thousand ways been kind
To poor me.

"With the dearest happy home,
Through which I delight to roam,
Am I blest;
Have I not a father bold,
And a mother I can fold
To my breast?"

So this bonnie lassie brave
Does not sigh at what He gave,
Nor lament;
If to murmur you're inclined.
Take this lesson from the blind:
Be content.

SIMON THEODORE STERN, R.T.K.

The third prize goes to Detroit, Michigan, the winner being Carrie R. Schrop, aged twelve.

TWO SHOULDERS AT THE WHEEL.

Should you meet a troubled brother,
Then a kindred spirit feel.
Heavy burdens might be lifted
With two shoulders at the wheel.
Let him know you take an interest;
'Twill not take him long to see
Whether you're a true well-wisher,
Or a shamming Pharisee.
And the time may not be distant
When you'll lack both strength and zeal,--
When perhaps you will be grateful
For one extra at the wheel.

Do not turn your back upon him,
Do not coolly walk away,
Just because you think you're made of
Some superior kind of clay.
When you come to think about it.--
And sometimes we mortals must,--
There is nothing very striking
In the finest kind of dust.
More than that! We cannot claim it;
'Tis but lent to us on trust!
And pray what is there to boast of
In ashes, clay, _or_ dust?

CARRIE R. SCHROP, R.T.L.

Poems deserving special commendation are: "The Harvest-Time," by Ethel Marjorie Knapp, of Virginia, aged twelve; "The Valkyries," by Virginia Berkley Bowie, of Maryland, aged fifteen; "Skating," by Leslie D. Reeves, of Pennsylvania, aged seventeen; "An Appeal to Apollo," by Sanford M. Salyer, New York; "Ike," by Lottie Hay Meredith, of Illinois; and "Pleading," by Ida Lee Sharp, of Maryland.

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Prize for New Puzzle Idea.

The Table is constantly in search of new ideas in puzzles. To stimulate this search it offered $5 for one new idea.

We received a great number of suggestions, of course. Many of them came from persons who had not read the Table, for the ideas were old, not new. The very best idea to reach us came from Sir Knight John R. Moreland, who is a Virginian. It was in a puzzle, and here it is:

A man was asked which is the most unlucky day of the year, and replied: If you multiply the date when fans were first used in England (1) by the number of letters in the name of a celebrated painter who died in 1483 (2), and add to the product the date when Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus (3), subtract from this sum the date when Moscow was founded (4), multiply this by the numeral part of a bird's name (5), divide this by the number of American Presidents that have been assassinated (6), from this subtract the date when Canute invaded England (7), and the date when barometers were invented (8), add the number of letters in the name of the man who invented spectacles (9), divide this by the number of men who captured André (10), add the number of words in the two shortest verses in the Bible (11), add the number of letters in the name of the first inventor of the thermometer (12), subtract the number of letters in Charles VII.'s nickname (13), subtract the number of ships in the Spanish Armada (14), add the number of signatures to the Declaration of Independence (15), subtract the number of letters in Louis Philippe's nickname (16), add the number of letters in the name of the president of the first Continental Congress (17), subtract the number of letters in the right name of "The Swamp Fox" (18), divide the number of letters in the last name of the Puritan who, when his right hand was cut off by the order of Queen Elizabeth waved his hat in his left hand and said, "Long live Queen Elizabeth" (19), subtract the number of letters in the name of the Massachusetts girl who fought in the Revolutionary war (20), add the number of letters in the right name of "Max O'Rell" (21), subtract the number of letters in the name of a river in Utah, who from the sound of his name you would think he would be in a warmer region (22), subtract the number of letters in the right name of "The Melancholy Dane" (23), subtract the date of Cleopatra's death (24), and last, subtract the number of letters in William IV.'s nickname (25), you find the day and date you ask for.

The Table awards the $5 prize to Sir John. Who can find the correct day (of the week) and date (of the month)? The second-best suggestion--we offered no second prize--came from Miss M. B. Banks, a Patron, who lives in New Jersey. It is a puzzle story, but not wholly new in idea. The answer to this prize puzzle will be given in two weeks.

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The League of Junior Patrons and Patronesses of the Messiah Home.

_Dear Editor of_ HARPER'S ROUND TABLE:

Do you think the ROUND TABLE readers would like to know how I, a
little boy only seven years and nine months old, became an editor,
like you, of a children's magazine? Mrs. Champney told me that
seven years ago some very little girls made some pin-balls and
paper dolls and had a fair. Many grown-up people came to it,
because they thought it strange that little girls should have such
a fair. With this money the children decided that they would form a
home for poor little children, and their mothers should be
managers. The mothers didn't like this plan at first, but
afterwards they gave in, and the Messiah Home was founded, and has
been helped by children ever since.

Last spring the League of Junior Patrons and Patronesses was
formed. We voted that we would publish a paper, all by ourselves,
to help the home. We elected a staff of editors, and I am one. So is
Karl Dodge and Gilbert White and some other boys and girls. We want
all the boys and girls who take HARPER'S ROUND TABLE to join our
league, and to write articles and draw pictures for our paper. We
offer thirteen prizes. The editor of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE is going
to be one of the judges. If any one will write to Mrs. J. W.
Champney, 96 Fifth Avenue, New York, she will send a little
pamphlet which will tell all about it. Any one can send their
contributions to her or to me.

GILBERT E. JONES,
Editor Junior League.
222 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.

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A Picture in a Word.

WHAT IS IT?

War, carnage, and sacrilege; priests and friars preaching in city streets or by country road-sides to thronging crowds; thousands of travellers of all ages starting on a long and toilsome journey, many of them dying from its hardships ere they reach their destination; costly ships, loaded with soldiers and passengers; kings leaving their thrones and peasants their hovels, all impelled by the same motive; great armies going into battle bearing the cross on their shoulders; money and blood poured out like water for years to win from infidel hands a place dearer than life.

Answer.--Saunter, from Santa Terræ, the Holy Land.

This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the
subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.

I wish I could gather my whole company of girl friends about me to-day, and see their faces, and bear their replies by look and word as I talk with them. These are talks with my own girls, and I follow the paper with very loving and wistful thoughts as it goes on its way to them, wondering and hoping a great deal about them, hoping that they are making the best possible use of life. There is something splendid in being young and a girl, with the bright years before her, each fairer and fuller than its predecessor. If I could give the girls my eyes to look through, what visions they would see! If they could dream as I do for them, what pleasures they would have when the dreams came true!

I have been thinking lately about our habits of speech. What do we talk of when we are with our friends? What is our rule so far as speaking of others is concerned? Are we of the number who refuse to set unkind gossip going, and of whom it may be said, in the beautiful words of the Bible, "On her tongue is the law of kindness?"

To decide never to allude to our neighbors and their affairs in our every-day talk would be silly as well as impossible. Neighbors and friends are part of the outside family which composes the community, and a community is made up of all the families who reside within its boundaries. We are interested, or we ought to be, in whatever happens to our friends and townspeople, both of good and of evil fortune. If Mrs. Brown's house burns down, we are most happy to invite Mrs. Brown and Sally Brown and the little Browns to come and stay with us until their arrangements can be made for living in another home. If Louis Larcome takes the Latin prize at college, or Alfred Cocks is selected as captain of the Freshmen crew, or Margaret Lane's essay receives honorable mention, or Nelly Parsons writes a book, we are, of course, sharers in the pleasure of the Larcoms, the Cockses, the Lanes, and the Parsons. And on the other hand, if there is illness at the Jenkinses, or Polly Marten falls from her wheel and hurts her knee, or the dear baby dies at the Whitfords, we are saddened with these who are sorrowful. It is quite right to take, and it would be most selfish and shocking not to take, a real interest in our friends and their concerns.

The wrong and the mean thing is to tell little trivialities which are personal affairs, as if they had to do with society. To observe that Martha Newcome is so stingy that she wears her old cloak when the whole town knows she could afford another, but won't do it; that Elias Judson makes his boys get up in the morning and work in the field without their breakfast; that the people over the way spend their whole time going about, and goodness knows they cannot find time to mend their children's stockings, etc. These are the stupid things some absurd people talk about. Pray, my dear girls, set your faces against this, and never take part in it. Never say that Eleanor is proud, or Edith is vain, or Marie has no taste, or Lulu has the temper of a wasp, or Charley's word is not to be depended on. When you cannot honestly utter a kind word, then be silent.

Should it ever happen that you learn directly or indirectly anything about the affairs of a friend, something concerning which the friend has said nothing, respect his silence. Much harm is done by indiscreet speech. Little trouble comes from discreet silence. Silence is golden.

Again, if you are a guest in a house, you must remember that to no one, not even to your very nearest and dearest, must you reveal anything disagreeable or unfortunate which may come into your knowledge. This rule has no exceptions. Only a dishonorable person goes away from a home in which she has been entertained, observing that the family quarrel among themselves, or that the daughters are disrespectful to their mother, or anything else of the kind. Here silence is golden.

Silence is not golden, though, when you hear the absent accused unjustly. Then you must defend him or her. Be brave in standing up for the absent, and never speak ill of them. The ancients made it their rule to speak no evil of the dead, because they were helpless and at the mercy of the living, and it is a good rule for us to follow. It is surprising how much that is true and loving and beautiful we can find to say of all our friends, if we determine that we will be like the princess in the fairy tale, out of whose mouth, whenever she opened it, pearls and rubies dropped.

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AN OBLIGING TRAVELLER.

There has been a great deal of complaint both in London and New York of the way in which a certain class of shopkeepers try to force their wares upon passers-by. One man, a traveller, has managed to get the better of one of these shopmen, a clothing-dealer, who had a way of almost dragging people into his place. One day shortly after his arrival in London the traveller stopped for a moment to examine a coat hanging in front of a clothing establishment, when the shopman rushed out and asked, "Wouldn't you try on some coats?"

"I don't know but I would," responded the traveller, consulting his watch. "I've got some time to spare. Yes." And he went in and began to work. No matter how often he found his fit, he called for more coats, and after he had tried on thirty he looked at his watch again, resumed his own garment, and walked off, saying:

"I won't charge anything for what I've done. I believe in a man who'll oblige another when he can do it. If I'm ever this way again, and you've got any coats to try on, I'll do all I can to help you!"

What the shopkeeper said we are not told, but it is not hard to imagine what he thought.

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The other evening Toddletums called his papa to tell him that he couldn't get to sleep for the mosquitoes.