Chapter III: Part 3

Hotchkiss put up a beautiful game. The eleven played so snappily and with such excellent team-work that Hartford was unable to withstand the attack, and even if the visitors had not lost their two half-backs, it is not probable that they could have won, although there is no doubt that the score would have been smaller. The best gains for Hotchkiss were made around the ends, their interference being of fine quality.

There seems very little chance now for Hartford in the Connecticut championship series. Besides the two men laid up in the Lakeville game, Hartford has also lost Morris, tackle. Marsh will take his place. Captain Sturtevant will go in as half-back, and Ballerstein will take Sturtevant's place at quarter. Ballerstein is a good player, but he lacks weight, and is considerable of an unknown factor for the new position.

The Hotchkiss School team is an unusually good one this year. Noyes at full-back plays a steady game and interferes well; he does not buck the centre quite hard enough, however--a style of play which is being greatly developed at Hotchkiss this year. Adams and Reynolds are the half-backs. The former runs well with the ball, plunges strongly through the centre, and interferes well, but he fumbles on catching kicks. Reynolds was a substitute on last year's team, and is doing good work this season. If he could train himself to start more quickly, his running around the end would be of double value. Fincke at quarter-back plays a good sharp game, and is considerable of a strategist. He interferes well, although he is not quite fast enough for the backs.

The line men are all in pretty good condition. Of the two ends, Savage is the better. He plays a good offensive game, but has the inexcusable fault of running backward at times when given the ball. His offensive work is good, and on the defence he is clever at getting into the interference, but does not always tackle his man. Coy, at right end, is a new man on the first team, and has not yet learned how to put his opponent out of the plays every time. He runs well with the ball, but is only a fair tackler. Montague at right tackle is a veteran; he is still somewhat slow, however, and does not block fiercely enough, but he may generally be depended upon to make a good hold when occasion demands.

The weakest spot in the line is probably centre, which is looked after by Dix, a player who has had no experience until this year, but is doing remarkably well for a novice. With coaching and practice he will develop into a strong player. Cook, at right tackle, is good at breaking through, but is not a capable tackler. His line-work is good; he runs fairly well with the ball, but he runs too high. Hixon, the captain, has played on the Hotchkiss team, alternately at guard and centre, ever since he entered school; his strongest point is in making holes, and a play put through him by his backs is practically sure of a gain. He runs powerfully, but too high. He is a conscientious commander, and has good control of his men.

Following close upon the defeat by Hotchkiss, Hartford was beaten a week ago Saturday by New Britain, 42-6. The Hartford men started out well, and scored their first touch-down in the first few minutes of play; but when New Britain kicked off, Hartford, instead of rushing down the field, returned the kick, which gave New Britain the opportunity of scoring within a very few moments. The New Britain men then scored again, and as soon as they were ahead Hartford seemed to lose all spirit.

Hartford's offensive work was pretty nearly as good as New Britain's, but on the defense they seemed to be absolutely powerless. The best work of the defeated eleven was done by Gillette and Sturtevant. For New Britain, Brinley and Flannery were giants. Of course much of Hartford's weakness was due to the crippled condition of the whole team, the loss of Bush and Morris. Strong, who was injured in the Hotchkiss game, tried to play against New Britain, but his condition did not allow of very good work. This is undoubtedly an unfortunate year for Hartford in football.

The other games played on the same day were by Hillhouse against Meriden, which resulted in a victory of 54-15 for the latter; Bridgeport defeated Waterbury, 12-8. Connecticut Literary Institute forfeited to Norwich Free Academy.

One of the most interesting school football games ever played in Cleveland was undoubtedly that between the University School and the South High-School on October 25. The score was 4-0. This touch-down was made by Roby, University School, after a run of thirty-five yards; he got started through a big hole in the South High line, and there was no stopping him until he had scored the only points made that afternoon.

The teams were evenly matched, although the South High men were much heavier than their opponents. The University players made up for this inequality by opposing skill to brawn. At the University School there are eight football elevens which practise daily, and from these very good material is to be had for the first team. At South High, on the other hand, there is a scarcity of players for a scrub team, but the men are all heavier than the University players. The feature of the play was the excellent punting of Perkins. Most of the gains, however, were made through South High line, and a few by good plays around the end.

The Academic Athletic League of San Francisco held its autumn field-day a few weeks ago with the usual success, seven records being broken. The figures that went in the 120-yard hurdle, which Hoffman, O.H.-S., reduced from 17-4/5 to 17-1/5 sec. Woolsey, B.H.-S., won the 220-yard dash in 23-2/5 sec., which is one second better than the former record. Spencer, B.H.-S., reduced the 220-yard hurdles from 29-1/2 sec. to 28-1/2 sec. Pitchford, B.H.-S., ran the 880-yard race in 2 min. 7-1/5 sec. Hoffman, O.H.-S., cleared 5 ft. 6-5/8 in. in the high jump. Smith of Hoitt's School broke the 12-pound hammer-throw record by sending the weight 133 ft. 9 in., which beats by 4 ft. 1 in. the National I.S. record made by Ingalls of the Hartford High-School.

Hoffman's work at this field-day was of the first order; he won the three events in which he entered, and in these broke two of the League records. Following is a table of the points made by schools:

1st Place. 2d Place. 3d Place. Points.
O.H.-S. 5 6 3 46
B.H.-S. 4 6 4 42
P.H.-S. 2 1 3 16
L.H.-S. 1 1 1 9
S.H.-S. 1 - 2 7
Hoitt's School 1 - - 5

Points: 1st place--5; 2d place--3; 3d place--1. In relay: 1st
place--10; 2d place--6; 3d place--2.

The desire to resume relations in sport seems to be growing among the students both of Andover and of Exeter. Only recently one of the Andover publications, the _Mirror_, printed an editorial upon the subject, urging that a school meeting be held to consider the question of opening negotiations with their old rivals. "Who is there in school now," says the _Mirror_, "who has any grudge against our old-time rival? The majority of the fellows only know that there was trouble; that somebody was naughty, and somebody else said they wouldn't play with them any more. As a matter of fact, the make-up of neither of those memorable teams would bear the scrutiny that is now being turned against amateur athletics, nor can Andover be entirely upheld for protesting a game which she ought not to have played."

There is no dispute of the statement that there were men on the Exeter eleven, during the game which caused trouble, who had no right to play for the school. It seems now that Andover was also to some extent in the wrong in regard to the eligibility of players. But that is a point which it is not necessary to go into at this late date. The _Mirror_ admits that Andover knew that Exeter was going to play individuals who had no right upon the team, but instead of refusing to meet them, Andover, on the other hand, "rather sought glory in the hope of defeating them, whether or no."

The "Mirror" then goes on very wisely to say that now, after the _personnel_ of the two schools has changed completely from what it was at the time of the trouble, there is nothing to be gained by cherishing the old grudge. "There is everything to lose by it, on the other hand," continues the editorial. "Our present opponents are true sportsmen, and play good football and baseball, but they live too far away." This is about what this Department contended a few weeks ago--that Lawrenceville and Worcester, and those schools which Andover has been seeking for close games of late are not her natural rivals, being at too great a distance from the home grounds. There is a great deal more in this argument than may appear at first sight.

It is therefore sincerely to be hoped that the Andover men will have the school meeting suggested by the _Mirror_. Good will surely come of it. "We feel sure," says the _Mirror_, "that a discussion shared by the whole school, and led by intelligent speakers instead of demagogues, as was the previous one, would be the greatest gratification to every true Phillips man, whether from Andover or Exeter, and would clear up one of the most unfortunate affairs that has occurred in a long time."

The victory of the Cheltenham Military Academy football team over Penn Charter makes it look as though the soldiers would capture the championship of the Academic League this year. The game was played at Ogontz, and consequently Cheltenham had a small advantage over the visiting team, but they put up a game which Penn Charter would find hard to beat on any field. Play had only been under way five minutes when Boyd, C.M.A., broke through the line and scored. There was no goal, and soon afterwards Boyd scored again.

Toward the close of the first half it looked as if Penn Charter might score, but misjudging the situation, a try for goal from the field was ordered, and the visitors lost the ball. In the second half, Cheltenham scored another touch-down almost at the start. This made the score 16-0, and that ended the point-making for the game. Just before the whistle sounded, Dolson got a good start and made a long run, ending by placing the ball behind the goal posts; but the referee refused to allow the points, the Penn Charter man having run out of bounds.

The Chicago interscholastic football teams kept up their forfeiting procedure on October 24--only two games being played. Hyde Park defeated North Division by fast playing and good interference. The score was 42-6. Trude did good work, and made the finest run of the day by shooting through a hole in the line and making a run of ninety yards. Miller has developed into one of the strongest tackles in the League, and in every game he makes sure gains when he takes the ball. Friedlander's tackling was one of the features of the Hyde Park-North Division match.

The game between Evanston and West Division was a one-sided affair, Evanston winning, 28-0. The three centre men of the winning team are as good as any in the Cook County League. Praether is the best man in his position; he weighs 210 pounds, and does his work with thoroughness and intelligence.

North Division and English High had an ugly misunderstanding in their game, and the whole thing will have to be done over again some time later. Part of the trouble resulted from playing in the dark. A decision by the referee was the immediate cause. A competent referee should have ordered play stopped as soon as it grew so dark that decisions must be difficult to arrive at.

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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.

The following new issues are on the market:

Fernando Po.

1/2 centimo, yellow-brown.
6 centimo, violet.
12-1/2 centimo, brown.
20 centimo, blue.
25 centimo, carmine.

5c. on 10c. surch. per.

Montenegro, on September 1, two cards.

1 novtch, blue and brown.
2 novtch, lilac and orange.
3 novtch, brown and green.
5 novtch, green and brown.
10 novtch, yellow and blue.
15 novtch, blue and green.
20 novtch, green and ultramarine.
25 novtch, blue and yellow.
50 novtch, red and blue.
1 novtch, rose and blue.
2 novtch, brown and green.

Some of the Tobago stamps have been seen in different colors from those catalogued, and in some instances these stamps have been offered as "errors" in color. It turns out that a new issue is to be made from the same dies, but in new colors.

A collector in San Francisco lately was given access to the papers of a merchant who was in business during 1861-1865. It is said that he found U.S. Revenue stamps to a face value of $20,000. Most of the stamps were common, but a good number of rarities repaid the collector for his trouble.

ENDICOTT C. ALLEN, High Street, Brookline, Mass., and L. T.
BRODSTANE, Superior, Neb., wish to exchange stamps.

A. GREENE.--No premium.

HAROLD WEAVER.--Your stamps are locals from Finland.

W. BENEDICT.--"Correos" is Spanish for postage, España is Spanish
for Spain. You can obtain the Belgium dominical stamps from any
dealer from 1c. to 25c., nine varieties for 25c.; the 50c. 1 F. and
2 F. are worth 25c. each.

A. B. C.--The Columbian half-dollar of 1893 is worth face only.

E. V. SULLIVAN.--No premium on the coin. I believe there is a
philatelic society in Hoboken, but I do not know the address. The
Cuban republic stamps have been seen in New York on letters, but it
has not yet been shown to the satisfaction of philatelists that
these stamps are used for postal purposes in any part of Cuba. Of
course, should the Cubans win their independence, they would
establish regular post-offices, and probably would use the present
Cuban republic stamps for some time at least.

P. A. N.--Unused Würtemberg stamps previous to 1869 issue are very
scarce. In many instances the used copy is worth 10c. or 15c., and
the unused $10 or $15, and even more.

CONSTANT READER.--Your coins are still current in England and
Prince Edward Island respectively, consequently there is no
premium.

A. GILLOW, Main Street, Zeehan, Tasmania, offers Australian stamps
in exchange for American and West Indian stamps.

P. DREIER, Ridley Park, Pa., wishes to exchange stamps.

C. H. V.--Encased postage-stamps are sold at $1 each and upward.
Some varieties are very scarce.

E. BRIGHAM.--No dealer will buy any stamps or collections of stamps
without previous examination, and common stamps catalogued at 1c.
to 10c. each are unsaleable (to dealers) except in lots of one
hundred or more of each kind at one time. You can probably dispose
of your collection to some of your friends who collect stamps.

A. M. STEBBINS.--No premium.

C. WILLISTON.--Continental and Colonial currency is well worth
collecting. Many varieties are very common, and as yet it has not
become fashionable to collect these interesting souvenirs of
American history. Probably when they become scarcer there will be a
greater demand than at present.

A. B. TAYLOR.--The first issue of Tuscany stamps were printed on a
sheet bearing twelve crowns as a water-mark--_i.e._, four
horizontal rows of three each. It takes about eight stamps to show
a complete crown, consequently individual stamps have a few
irregular water-mark lines only.

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This Department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the
Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject. Our
maps and tours contain many valuable data kindly supplied from the
official maps and road-books of the League of American Wheelmen.
Recognizing the value of the work being done by the L.A.W., the
Editor will be pleased to furnish subscribers with membership
blanks and information so far as possible.

It will be necessary this week again to devote the Department to answering one or two of the general questions on the subject of bicycling. In the first place, letters are being received from time to time asking not only how to join the League of American Wheelmen, but what the advantages of it are. As is stated in the note at the beginning of this Department, we are glad at any time to send blanks for application for membership of the League to any one, but particular reasons why any one should join the League cannot be given in small space and apply to each request. The League of American Wheelmen consists, according to the constitution, of amateur white wheelmen of good character, eighteen years of age or over. An applicant for membership must be endorsed by two League members and three other reputable citizens, and pay an initiation fee and dues.

It is an association of bicyclists who have proved that by combining in an association they can constitute themselves a strong influence for the laying of good roads, can secure legislation for the advantage of and prevent legislation against wheelmen, and can secure special rates at hotels. The League is not a money-making institution, the services of the officers are not paid for, and the two dollars which each member pays for membership go not to any one's individual advantage, but to paying the expenses of putting up signs throughout the country, of getting out the State Road Books and Tour Books, and to the expenses of carrying on correspondence, etc. The advantages that accrue to any one who joins the League are, in the first place, that he receives an interesting weekly paper, _The L.A.W. Bulletin and Good Roads_, which keeps him pretty well informed as to bicycling matters. The League also spends a large amount each year in keeping up the agitation for the movement for improved roads, and it makes every attempt, so far as it can, to protect wheelmen in their legal rights. The hand-books, maps, road-books, bicycle meets, parades, tours, and entertainments gotten out by each State for the benefit of members are all advantages that do not need to be explained. Any one member may not avail himself of all these, but he will find that at the end of the year he has obtained more than two dollars' worth of benefit from the League. The ticket which is given to him on the payment of the two dollars will secure from ten to twenty-five per cent. reduction in at least one good hotel in almost every large town in the United States, and if the member is making a two weeks' tour in the country in New York State, for example, he will be sure to more than get his two dollars back in that time on reduced hotel rates alone.

Some one writes to ask whether it is important to observe all the city regulations regarding bicyclists. This is one of the most important details of wheeling in cities that can come before the attention of the wheelman. The laws against bicycling would be much more stringent were it not for the work of the League of American Wheelmen. This League maintains, in substance, that a bicycle should be treated practically as a horse and carriage on the road. The tendency, however, for legislators is to curtail the rights of bicycles. As a result, certain laws have been passed, and the contest is continually going on between the two parties: those who assert that bicycles have and should have as much right upon the road as carriages, and those who believe they should be more restricted. If the community of wheelmen wish to have more rights on the road than they have to-day, or as many of them have to-day, the least they can do is to observe the ordinances, for by each infringement of a city ordinance the chances of securing better legislation become less. For example, there are city ordinances in New York which require that every bicyclist should carry a lantern after dark; that no one shall coast within the city limits; that every bicycle should have a bell in good order attached to it, which shall be rung on certain occasions. There are laws of a similar nature in most of the cities in the United States now. It is a very simple matter for one bicyclist who comes to a hill on the outskirts of New York city to coast. It is a pleasure to enlist, of course. There may not be any policeman about, and it is very possible that the bicyclist can have his coast and not be discovered. At the same time, if he is discovered and arrested, the case comes up in court; and especially if he is a well-dressed, respectable citizen of the city, the opposition at once secures a handle for argument that the bicycle must be restricted, that people do not observe the ordinances, and that the bicycle in general is a nuisance. Few readers of the ROUND TABLE could perhaps realize this at first sight, but it has been used time and time again in the New York city courts as an argument against bicyclists, and it is therefore the duty of every person who rides a bicycle to observe these rules. The questions of lights and bells are parallel. You may succeed in riding at night without a light in some small city where the laws are not enforced, but if any trouble arises you have done the best you could to bring the bicycle into disrepute.

THE MANIA FOR COLLECTING.

It is doubtful if there is anywhere in the world a boy or a girl who has not at some time or another suffered from this very harmless disease of "collecting." It comes to most of us almost as surely as the mumps, but, unlike many other of the diseases of childhood, it can be had more than once, and there is no limit, apparently, to its phases. Stamp-collecting, and autograph-collecting, and the collecting of coins are most reasonable, instructive, and oftentimes profitable; but what can be said of a person who collects toothpicks? It would almost seem as if such a person were insane, and yet to some men it has appeared to be worth while to do it. An English journal states that probably the distinction of owning the most valuable assortment of these useful little articles belongs to an Eastern Rajah, whose collection contains toothpicks of the rarest workmanship and design, many of them studded with costly jewels. Others of them are valuable from their antiquity and the unique circumstances under which they came into his possession. The most curious miscellaneous collection, the paper goes on to say, ever made was that of an eccentric Scotsman, William Gordon, who lived at Grahamstown, near Glasgow. He had an immense collection of the most varied description, including adzes, gimlets, hammers, keys, jars, bottles, toothpicks, tops, marbles, whips, toys of all sorts, sizes, shapes, and materials, besides having an assortment of walking-sticks and gold and silver watches. The most remarkable articles ever used as toothpicks are the whiskers of the walrus, which are quite stiff, and improve with age. The writer tells also of a curious fad of an eccentric collector, who went in for bottled battle-fields, as he called them. He had about seventy-five bottles, each bottle containing some of the soil of a historic battle-field, and duly labelled.

Surely, if this mania continues to develop, we shall shortly hear of collections of canned volcanoes, and barrelled rivers, and preserved voices--in fact, the last would not, in these days of the phonograph, be a had thing at all. If, instead of taking an autograph-album to a celebrity, and asking him to write his name in it, a collector might readily take a phonograph fully supplied with cylinders to the famous men of the time, and ask them to say a few words to be handed down to posterity, not by word of hand, but by word of mouth. It would be a great joy to us now if some means of preserving the voice of Shakespeare, Washington, Napoleon, and other illustrious dead had been devised in the old days.

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.

Owing to the number of questions, we devote the entire Department to answers this week.

SIR KNIGHT E. MAGSAMEU asks how to burnish prints without a
burnisher; if ferrotype pictures be made with the pocket kodak, and
if so, how are they made; if lantern slides can be made with a
kodak; if blue prints can be burnished; how to print a title or
name on a photograph; what is meant by the diaphragm; and what is
the reason tall buildings in his pictures have the appearance of
falling down. To burnish prints get a ferrotype plate (price 5c.),
clean it with a soft rag dipped in benzine, take the prints from
the water and lay them face down on the shiny side of the plate.
Lay a piece of blotting-paper over the print and rub it with a
squeegee (which is a rubber roller), till all the moisture is out
of the print and it adheres to the plate. Leave it on the plate
till dry, when, if it does not come off itself, lift it at one
corner and it will peel off the plate. The contact with and the
drying on the ferrotype plate give the print a fine gloss. If one
has not a squeegee, a smooth bottle or even a wooden rolling-pin
can be used. Ferrotype pictures cannot very well be made with a
pocket kodak. Sir Knight Samuel Boucher, Jun., Box 68, Gravesend,
L. I., says that he will send the formula for ferrotype plates to
any one who asks him for it. Lantern slides can be made with a
kodak. Blue prints cannot be burnished. See No. 855, March 17,
1896, for directions for marking negatives. A diaphragm in
photography is a thin metal plate with a hole in the centre, which
is placed between the lenses of the camera tube to concentrate the
rays of light and increase the sharpness of the picture. The
smaller the opening the sharper will be the picture, but the
exposure will take longer than with a larger opening. The reason of
the lines of the buildings in the pictures being out of
perpendicular is because the lens is not rectilinear.

SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM F. BEERS, San Remo Hotel, 75th Street and
Central Park, New York city, wishes to know the best book for
amateurs. Wilson's _Photographics_ is a good book, and gives
detailed directions for making pictures. Sir William says he has a
3 by 3-1/2 daylight kodak which he would like to sell, as he wishes
to purchase a larger size.

SIR KNIGHT ARTHUR LAZARUS asks how to enlarge and diminish the size
of pictures. To enlarge see directions given in No. 801. Will Sir
Arthur state whether he means to reduce from the negative or from
the print? Our competition is now open.

ROBERT HUNTER, 122 Buena Vista Ave., Newark, O.; LOE OLDS, Spring
Alley, Minn.; EDWARD CLARKSON SEWARD, JUN., 43 North Fullerton
Ave., Montclair, N. J.; WALTER S. RAUDENBUSH, 130 South 6th St.,
Lebanon, Pa.; LESTER SCHUTTE, 29 East 93d St., New York city;
GRENVILLE N. WILLIS, Maplehurst, Becket, Mass.; WILLIS H. KERR,
Bellevue, Neb., wish to be enrolled as members of the Camera Club.

SIR KNIGHT J. R. SIXX sends two blue prints, and asks if they are
good. He has had his camera but two months and is anxious to do
good work. The picture of the poultry-yard is very good, but in
making pictures of figures would suggest that the full length be
included. If the camera had been moved a little farther away from
the subject it would have brought the whole figure within the angle
of the lens. The picture is sharp and detail good. The picture of
the steamer is a good one, but trimming would improve the general
appearance. Try cutting off half an inch in the foreground, at the
same time making the edge of the picture parallel with the bottom
of the boat, and then squaring the rest of the picture to
correspond. A part of an umbrella out of focus shows at one side of
the picture. This can be removed in the printing if a thin mixture
of Gihon's opaque or lamp-black (water-color) be painted on the
glass side of the negative over the outlines of the umbrella. Make
it as near the color of the film of the sky as possible, and it
will look like a part of it. Try and win a prize in our coming
competition.

SIR KNIGHT WALTER RAUDENBUSH and several other correspondents who
wish to become members of the Camera Club ask if there is any
initiation fee required for admission into the Camera Club. There
is no fee, and any Knight or Lady of the Round Table may become a
member of the Camera Club by sending name and address to the editor
and asking to be enrolled as a member. One is not required to be a
subscriber to the magazine in order to belong to the Camera Club or
to enter the competitions; but it is a great advantage to have the
magazine, as the Camera Club column always contains matter which is
of value to the amateur.

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE AMERICAN CLIMATE.

We learn a great many interesting things about America from the London newspapers. Here is the latest bit of information that has come to hand:

"Mr. Willie Park, Jun., the well-known golfer, who recently returned from a visit to America, tells of a match he played there with Willie Dunn under exceptional circumstances. It was the time of the great heat wave in New York, and on the day on which the match was decided, the heat Mr. Park describes as being 'somewhat terrible.' The thermometer registered 101 degrees in the shade. Notwithstanding this, there was a large following, many of whom sought to overcome the effects of the heat by bathing their heads under running-water taps on different parts of the course. It was almost impossible to keep the balls in a playable condition, as the heat softened the gutta-percha. To prevent them melting they were placed on ice and carried along by a caddie, who deposited a changed ball at each tee, while the old ones were replaced on the ice for preservation!"

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A Glimpse of Long Island Life.

HARPER'S ROUND TABLE has always been the greatest source of
pleasure to us, and has followed us around in our various
wanderings, both here and abroad; always awaited with impatience
and devoured with avidity. I have just finished that most
delightful serial "For King or Country," and think it one of the
finest stories I have ever read. I began it one evening after
supper, and became so much excited over it that I could not lay it
aside until I had reached the last page. My other favorite serials
were "Dorymates," "The Red Mustang," and "The Flamingo Feather."

Roslyn is a quiet little town on the north shore, nestled at the
foot of Harbor Hill, the highest elevation on the island. It is on
Hempstead Harbor, and looking out across the Sound one can see the
hills of Connecticut ten miles away. It is a resort much frequented
by tourists in the summer-time, and its scenery is most
picturesque. With its rolling meadows, deep glens and recesses, and
ridges of hills, one might almost imagine Switzerland on a small
scale. We are devotedly fond of the place, having lived here the
greater part of our lives, and were quite heart-broken at leaving
it to go to Europe in early 1889. My sister and I go to a classical
school here, and take the regular college preparatory dose of
Latin, Greek, and mathematics, which we enjoy immensely.

We are both ardent disciples of photography, and also struggling
young acrobats on the treacherous fiddle-string. During our leisure
hours we ride, drive, skate, play tennis, or swim--according to
season.

HILDA WARD, L.R.T.
ROSLYN, N. Y.

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Queer Signs of Coming Events.

There is old sign that if the housewife drops her dishcloth, "company" is coming. Did you ever hear of it? Then there are signs about the weather, about luck, and about many similar things. We want to know the signs common with you. Do you live in the South, in Canada, or in the West? Tell the Table briefly a few of the signs you oftenest hear. Those that strike us as the oddest and the funniest we will print, giving credit to the senders of them. Cannot our readers abroad help us on the collection? We hope so.

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Kinks.

No. 50.--A DIAGONAL ACROSTIC.

Here is as pretty a puzzle as one could wish to see. Its answer is simple, and yet fewer things are harder to construct than this double acrostic. It looks easy--but! You remember the story of the fresh Freshman at college who thought proverbs simple. His professor told him to make a few! In the following the primal diagonal reads downwards, the final one upwards. The five short couplet lines throw light on the cross-words:

Two brothers we are said to be,
And children of the year;
We come each spring, and always bring
Some proof that spring is here.
The elder fumes and shakes his plumes
That spring should be so coy;
But, much more mild, the younger child
Sheds copious tears of joy.

1.

In every work-shop, every trade,
For imitation chiefly made.

2.

When weary on the desert plain,
Rest and refreshment here obtain.

3.

In this the low comedian plays,
And seeks to catch the vulgar praise.

4.

Some great event doth indicate
The time from which I take my date.

5.

Musician I--when David sung,
His lyre to me ofttimes he strung.

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No. 51.--DOUBLE PROGRESSIVE MAGIC SQUARE.

Figures 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256. These numbers have been doubled from one upwards, and the puzzle is to place them in a square of three lines, so that the first multiplied by the second, and the product multiplied by the third each way, horizontally, perpendicularly, and diagonally, will produce the same amount. There are eight answers, all alike.

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No. 52.--A SENTENCE HUNT.

The following sentence, standing alone, is in one of the most familiar of books,

"Neither give place to the devil."

Where is it?

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No. 53.--PHONETIC CHARADE.

I am the first half you all are to guess,
I, a poor insect, quite tiny or less.
After me comes the two-syllabled verb
Lovers may do and their parents disturb.
Join us, we make the fleet-footed beast
Lovers should copy and rival; at least,
Would those rash lovers reach safely their goal,
They ought to make use of the speed of my whole.

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No. 54.--A GEOGRAPHY LESSON.

1. What town in Norway would you prefer not to drive a shying horse past?

2. What city in Trans-Caucasia runs on wheels?

3. What is the most aristocratic river of Europe?

4. What suburb has Bombay that, if you had it, you would try to get rid of?

5. What city of Afghanistan can one person talk in every part at once?

6. What large river of Bosnia can you not drown in?

7. What town in Sweden could you use on your front-yard fence?

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Answers to Kinks.

No. 46.--CHARADE.

Sun-down-(h)er.--Sundowner; a squatter on government land.

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No. 47.--FOR MATHEMATICIANS.

He receives all his book debts except $2 in $5 of $15,000, and all except $1.25 in $5 of $6000. His loss corresponds to 2-5 of $15,000 plus 1-4 of $6000 or $7500 in all. Had he received all his book debts he could have paid $5.25 on every $5 he owed. As it is, he can only pay $4 on every $5. Therefore the loss of each $1.25 on each $5 he owes corresponds to the total loss of $7500, and so

As $1.25:$7500::$5:$30,000. Amount he owes, $30,000. This is propounder's solution.

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No. 48.--WORD SQUARE.

T A F F Y
A W A R E
F A T A L
F R A N K
Y E L K S

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No. 49.--EASY RIDDLE IN PROSE.

Valuable as a curiosity to any museum. The five pebbles. The one pebble with which David killed Goliath.

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A Sailing Trip and a War-Ship.

Last April a friend of my father's told me that a party from
Bluffton were going to "Paris Island" to see the man-of-war
_Indiana_, and asked me if I would like to go. I went. We had to
ride five miles in wagons, and then we got into a large sail-boat.
It was a cold and rough day, and some of the girls got seasick. But
other boys and girls and myself had a delightful time. We arrived
at our journey's end in four hours, and proceeded to a friend's
house.

The dry dock in which the ship lay is a hole thirty-five feet deep,
four hundred feet long, and about seventy feet broad, and has steps
going down three sides of it. The other end is the gate, which is
very large and oblong. It has rigging inside of it, which opens or
closes it at will. A pump working all the time keeps the dock dry.
We went on board the _Indiana_, and a marine explained everything
to us. The small cannons fire twenty-five times in a minute, and
some others sixty or sixty-five times in a minute. The large
cannons are in turrets, which can be turned around on a pivot,
enabling them to be fired in any direction. We saw some torpedoes
which, the marine said, cost twenty-five hundred dollars apiece.

The ship's kitchen is large and cool. There were some sailors
cooking, and some were washing clothes. Others were sewing,
reading, writing, and talking. Then we went through the petty
officers' quarter, which was a kind of long hall, on each side of
which were small rooms, and all along this hall sailors were asleep
in all kinds of positions. We went to a lower deck in the boat, and
our guide showed us where they telegraph to all parts of the ship.
There were two rows of boxlike instruments, and in the middle of
each was a button. The sailors wore navy-blue blouses and
pantaloons and Tam o' Shanters that were trimmed with white braid.
The marines' suits were trimmed with gold braid. Instead of Tam o'
Shanters they had caps. We went also to see Fort Charles. The moats
are three feet deep and five feet broad. They are very thickly
overgrown with scrub-oak. We picked up a few shells on the beach as
mementos of our trip to the _Indiana_. I would like a few
correspondents.

EMILY MITTELL.
BLUFFTON, S. C.

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Books for a Girls' Chapter.

I have organized a little club of five girls, three
thirteen-year-olds, one ten, and one eleven years. We call it the
Iris Club, in honor of Juno's hand-maiden between the earth and
sky; and also in honor of her, our colors are purple and white. Our
dues for the first month are ten cents, and after that five cents.
We are going to give these dues to the Home for Friendless
Children. I thought it would be nice to take up some noted work
which all would enjoy--the oldest as well as the youngest. I love
Dickens, but his works are so lengthy, and the plot so long in
evolving, that the younger ones might lose interest. Can you
suggest a list of books?

ADELAIDE L. W. ERMENTROUT.
READING, PA.

Ellen Douglas Deland's _Oakleigh_, _The Wide, Wide World_, which is a standard, but which you may have read, and Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney's books--all of them.

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Amateur Illustrator's Outfit.

"What utensils are needed by an amateur illustrator, and where can
they be obtained? J. S."

CORNING, N. Y.

Illustrations are made in two ways--pen-drawing, and what is called "wash." For the former get good Bristol board, a bottle of drawing-ink, and some small steel pens. The outfit will cost half a dollar, perhaps, and can be had from a dealer in artists' materials, or your bookseller may have them. If he has not, he can get them for you. To draw in wash use ivory black and Chinese white. The drawing is a water-color, and the picture is made with the lights and shades of the background, the ink, and the white. Use water-color paper and small sable brushes--half a dozen assorted sizes. You can get the outfit by sending to the address given in any advertisement. These are all the utensils you need. The rest comes by practice and study.

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A Query in Natural History.

Adelaide L. W. Ermentrout asks: "Can any one interested in natural history tell me the name of the queer object which I am going to describe? It is a worm about one inch long and one-fourth of an inch in diameter. The body is brown, but over the back is a patch of green bordered with white. In the centre of this patch is a brown spot. At each end of the body are two horns covered with bristles, and around the body are tufts of bristles like fringe on a cushion. At one end, under the body, is a little head with which it feels its way. There are two tiny eyes at the sides. Its under side has little holes in three parallel rows, by which, I suppose, it clings. It is a hideous creature. What is it, where does it come from, and what does it develop into?"

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A Startling Experiment.

Not long ago I went to the American Institute Fair, in New York,
and went through a most mysterious performance. At one end of the
hall was the "illustrated" X rays. To see this wonder, you pay ten
cents and put your hand in front of a tube and peep through an
instrument which looks like a stereoscope. At first you see nothing
but a dark object; then, as if by magic, a faint outline of the
hand appears, and then--horrors--you see the bones--the actual
bones--of your own hand with all their ugliness!

This is a most wonderful experiment, and, if possible, I would
advise all those who can, to "see the bones of your own hand." Some
timid persons may shrink from this ghastly sight, but I firmly
believe that they would learn something by seeing this marvellous
scientific experiment.

FRED. W. PANGBORN, JUN.
HACKENSACK, N. J.

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The Lesson of a Life.

The late George du Maurier was an example of a man who worked his way to fame and fortune. True, when just turned sixty he had a wonderful "run of luck," but it is to be remembered that his genius had been present all the long up-hill years before sixty. The trouble was, the world would not see it.

Daniel Webster, upon the conclusion of the greatest effort of his life, that wonderful speech in the United States Senate, was congratulated on being able to make such a speech off-hand. Asked if it really was extempore, as it appeared, he replied, "Yes, but I have been all my life preparing it."

It was much this way with the late novelist. Du Maurier wrote and the world applauded. Quite simple. Quite easy. Not so. Du Maurier studied for many, many years, and faced discouragements that would have sent weaker men to the wall. Like Webster, his effort at last seemed almost "extempore" in spite of the fact that his custom was to write, rewrite, tear up, write again and change; but he had been all his life a student, a patient toiler, piling up a capital of experience, not knowing whether he should ever be able to realize any thing from it or not. In spite of Du Maurier's phenomenal success near the close of his life, his personal history is a lesson to young persons in this: That the price of success must be paid, just as the price must be paid for land, for gold, or for anything else of value.

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"Chinese" by the Way of South Africa.

From distant South Africa comes the following. It is not quite new, if it did come so far, but we print it, partly because it always stimulates, and partly to oblige the sender, J. G. Tanté, who is a young stamp-collector of that distant place where we have so many other Round Table members--Somerset East, Cape Colony, South Africa. Here is the story:

A Chinaman died, leaving his property by will to his three sons as follows: "To Fuen-huen, the eldest, one-half thereof; to Nu-pin, his second son, one-third thereof; and to Ding-bat, his youngest, one-ninth thereof."

When the property was inventoried, it was found to consist of nothing more nor less than seventeen elephants, and it puzzled these three heirs how to divide the property according to the terms of the will without chopping up seventeen elephants, and thereby seriously impairing their value. Finally they applied to a wise neighbor, Suen-punk, for advice. Suen-punk had an elephant of his own. He drove it into the yard with the seventeen, and said:

"Now we will suppose that your father left these eighteen elephants. Fuen-huen, take your half and depart." So Fuen-huen took nine elephants and went his way.

"Now, Nu-pin," said the wise man, "take your third and go." So Nu-pin took six elephants and travelled.

"Now, Ding-bat," said the wise man, "take your ninth and begone." So Ding-bat took two elephants and vamosed. Then Suen-punk took his own elephant and drove him home again.

Query: Was the property divided according to the terms of the will?

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Hattie is no longer in doubt. She has often heard good people declare that it was "raining cats and dogs," and for a time believed that they were romancing, or, at least, prevaricating. Now she thinks they were speaking the truth. "If it doesn't rain cats and dogs sometimes," says Hattie, "how do the Skye-terriers get here? That's what I want to know."

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