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A Wild Flower of the Chestatee;
The Girl that will Make Her Way
in the World.
BY J. B. s.
after, I fear, a preface long enough to be weari
some, introduces to the reader the real heroine
of my story.
“Nancy!" shouted the former in a loud voice,
“Nancy, go to the well and fetch us some cool
water,,” addressed to some one within.
Up to this time he and the Frenchman had
seemed to be the sole occupants of the castle, but
in a few moments the immaculate bucket and
gourd appeared, ard with them the smiling face
and substantial, but not ungraceful form of a
bare-foot plainly clad Miss of, apparently six-
V*’e who live in cities, where all humanity
puts on its best face and attire, and things are
not always just what they seem to be, know but
little of the unsophisticated honesty of simple
rural life, or of the spirit of contentment and
cheerfulness that diveste the ruder duties of
the farm of their seeming hardiship and real
unpleasantness. The fact is, the people of the
town and the people of the country should
mingle more than they do. Each would learn
lessons of practical wisdom to aid them in the
struggle with the world. With the countryman
theatuition wears off the rough points incident
al to bucolic pursuits, and teaches new sources
of thrift and happiness ; while to the denizen of
the city, the duties of toil and economy, the
virtue of simplicty and the benign llaming of all ar0U nd," and she disappeared. Our entire
resignation to our lot in life, bait what it may, party had> in the meantime come up, and were
the struggle, was in the prime of young manhood, : solicitude. Material conditions are not usually so t*' We prefer P Q B 3 here.
and bad just established himself in a luciative bus- favorable there as here, but they are pernianente, (h) Curious but true, this move (recommended by
mess. But at the first call of his country he invest- ; especially by the clear understanding that they q g •> the usual continuation.
• ed every available dollar in bonds, so as to aid the are so, they beget content, whence adipose mat- (c) We never favored this ex, and think the B should
new govermenment, went into the army as a pri- ter. American women neither work nor worry live to fight auother day.
vnte, s6rT6u nonly hhJ nrflvcly until he was as tncyr us6u. The republic is more settled, some* P() 4 more freedom to bis pieces, • Psvn
invalided by a wound that will disable him. to what of the European feeling is creeping into the more or l iess matters not.
some extent, through life. Stripped of evervthing national mind, and less thinness is the result. (fi The defense should not be allowed to castle.
. , n- 1 u vr - o , , . , (21 KtxP ch: 15. Q R 4, and he has plenty tuna to attend
but his unsullied honor, so soon as he was able, I American women take vastly better care of them- home affairs
he started out to get work, and begin life anew.
But work he could very seldom get—cannot get
now—though he has applied for it from a state
may belearnd to advantage. In flae, both would
be wiser and happier.
Bnt I sat down to write out a little incident of
country life, not so much to moralize ; so I will
proceed with my story.
During the late heated term, a party of gentle
men, on official business connected with one of
selves than formerly. They have more acquain
tance with hygienic laws, and hold them in far
teen summers, though, as will appear in the se- I l “ uu K“ “7“ c “ 11 1IUIU 1 a . s "‘ lc h , i 8 her , e?teem : The da Y 3 , when they exposed
quel, she was several years younger. Always ; * ffice do ™ t0 the m ? 3t - common manual labor, themselves to dampness and wintry cold in thin
alive to natural beauty especially in “Heaven’s ! Some of the very men for whom he fought, and sac slippers and silk stockings; when they pinched
best” etc., she did not'fail to attract mv atten- nficed health and fortune, while they sat at home in their waists to semi-suffocation; when they sac-
tion, and’l almost forgot my thirst in gazing on ea3e and P Ien *y, or made more money, though they rifieed comfort and health to what they conceived
the simple-hearted but noble work of nature be- ^ five since aided in erecting soldiers monuments, to be their appearances—those foolish and unhap-
f re me. j sn< * ta lk loudly of the respect to the dead, some of py days have gone forever, have been barely known
Her figure was unusually developed for one of them have been the first to refuse this live sol- to the rising generation. Our women now have
her age; her manner self-possessed; her features ! dier assistance. He has been denied work by no mawkish and morbid notions as to themselves;
regular and inclined to the classical; her com- j southern men, and a few moments after, seen it . they no longer think that to be unhealthy is to be
plexion slightly olived by exposure, but rich and given to negroes, or northern men in preference, attractive; that individualism and interestingness
healthy; her eyes blue, bright, and smiling, ; Strange to say, in spite of his loyalty through all are synonymous; that pale faces and compressed
while a luxuriance of brown hair fell loose and 1 temptation to his country and her lost cause, he has j lungs are tokens of beauty. They dress seasona-
unkempt upon her back and shoulders. A quaff , met with more sympathy and assistance from ! blv; they wear thick boots and warm clothes in
northern men than from his brethren of the south 5 bad and cold weather; they allow themselves to
and his native state of Georgia—especially, several breathe freely, and they find their looks im
years ago, from the present governor of Flori
da.
Yet if he “should die to night.” would not some
friend look compassionately down upon his
marble face, and feel that he, whose “faltering
ih) There is no hope for White alter this. Black has
conducted this latter part with precision, and we have a
lively finish.
Mr. C.
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CHESS IN GERMANY.
(Centre Counter Gambit.)
Dr. Goring Mr. C.
Dr, Goring.
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Castles QR tj and P, except to sacrifice
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P K 4 him with a lost game.
enjoying the cool breeze in the shaded piazza,
and discoursing about rocks and minerals, sul
phates and hornblen, cross roads and meeting
houses, etc., etc.
I rather regretted that the visit of this rustic
nymph was so brief, as I wished to discourse
proved, not injured, by the wholesome change.
There are exceptions, many of them, doubtless,
but the rule is as we have described, and the ex
ceptions are constantly diminishing. It may be
safely said that all sensible women are becoming
men, on otiiciai business connected with one ot w ith‘her concerning herself as no man of sense ; f eel . were pierced by many a thorn, could find I if they have not yet become, converts to nature,
the scientific departments of the govrerment of and lod taTte s°ever satisfied Jrtth a mere JUSUCe a “' 1 merCy °“ ly b , ey0Dl1 the grave ? aad ,h;U ,he Y heed her behests, recognizing the
Georgia, with myself in pursuit of recreation Ji4 p g e 0 l the beautiful, either in nature or art. The wlfe . of ‘ hl3 gentleman was very ill, for great principle that what is not natural connot be
® v ... . . .. .j,, , many months; the cruel hand of want was upon l grateful.
An opportunity soon presented itself. The j - - -
weather was excessively warm, and our party in
reorgia, with myself in pursuit
and health, not omitting an interesting and in
quisitive lad, the dutiful son of a neighbor,
whose strength had begun to fail under the
restraints of home, set out for a trip among the
mountains and valleys in the north eastern sec
tion of the state. It was a jolly, as well as a
knowledge-seeking party, and but little escaped
their attention that was either curious or in
structive. It was near noon, on a sultry day in
the month of June, having enjoyed the luxury
of crossing the Chattahoochee at what is known
as the “Shallow Ford,” in Hall county, and
cooling our panting steeds in its beautiful
waters, when we approached the gold-bearing
Chestatee, at a point long known as Leather’s
Ford, bnt now modernized into “New Bridge,”
though the bridge itself disappeared long since
on the bosom of a mountain freshet, and, is now,
probably, in the Mexican Gulf, like Virgil’s
ships, rttri nantes in gurgite vasto. To relieve
our weary team, that was then watering from a
limpid stream at the foot of the hill, I left the
party and proceeded on foot to the summit,
gathering as I went a quantity of smooth water-
worn ptbbles that lay imbedded in the hill-side,
showing that even that high locality had been
the bottom of a watery deep at some remote
stage of the earth's existence, when I was ac
costed by a venerable farmer from his old-fash
ioned piazza, and invited to “come in.”
no baste to pursue their journey, especially as
but a few miles remained to be accomplished be
fore we were to call a halt and go into camp for
the night. Strolling down the long piazza, I
f und her sitting just inside a farther door that
opened directly upon it, and a conversation im
mediately ensued, a large pile of well-thummed
pictorial papers and fashion plates which lay in
her lap presenting a ready subject of opening
remark on my part.
“Are you fond of reading, Miss Nancy?” was
my introductory enquiry.
“0, yes,” she replied promptly, “whenever I
can get anything good to read.”
“ Have you no books?”
“ Yes sir, but a very few. Pa and ma have a
bible and some religious books which they read,
but I like something livelier.”
“How old are you, Miss Nancy, if that is a
fair question?”
“O, yes, fair enough. I’ll be thirteen in Au
gust.”
“Why, you surprise me; I took you to be al
most a woman.”
“I lack lots of that yet,” she replied, “even if
I am bigger than most girls of my age.”
“I suppose you have been to school.”
“Yes sir, I went to school pretty regular un-
them, and he bowed down with grief on account of | Little more thin a quarter of a century ago
their condition and her state of heal.h. How she i young American women were ashamed to show a
yearned for the tender ministration of friends, and : hearty .ppetite in public. They were infected
how often she wished her pastor would come and j with the Byronio philosophy; they wanted to be
comfort her with sweet words of God’s chastening i spiritual—as if all true spirituality did not rest
The building had a historical look, and mauy til the first of last year, when my brother left us
years ago was used as a road-side inn, for the
accommodation of the miners in the vicinity
and prospecting visitors from all sections of the
Union. It is far advanced in decay, bnt still not
thought unworthy of habitation by the not over
particular people of that section. No doubt it
has been in time the theatre of many a trade in
which vast sums changed hands, of many a re
velry among the early miners, and its drear
wails the silent auditors of many a soliloquy on
prospective riches.
The locality is also famous as the scene of the
memorable battle of that gallant C’e dgian, Gen.
John W. A. Sanford, with the hostile Cherokees,
some half century ago. The old inn, thongh
worn and weather-beaten, still stands on its
lofty eminence, overlooking the dashing Chest-
fcun.‘Mi£ the 3-JTroundmg hills, an.I is the cLer
tailed home of a genuine, old-fashioned, blunt- i
spoken, bnt hospitable and warm-hearted farm
er, John Wilkie by name. He and another
individual the latter a rare specimen of the
genus homo—were sitting at a small table in the
rickety verandah, evidently engaged in an anim
ated discussion of some point on which they
were not likely to agree; and my timely appear
ance seemed to be welcomed, especially by the
farmer, for he had an umpire at hand to settle
the question, if, indeed, anything could be
settled in the mind of his fellow disputant that
he himself did not first suggest. This latter
was emphatically what we are accustomed to
call “a character.” He was an old, spare-made,
dilapidated Frenchman, with stooped shoulders,
long-hooked nose, small, sharp gray eyes, and
long white hair thrown back from a narrow and
retreating forehead. He was a peripatetic clock-
mender by trade, and a tramp of the first water,
who bad seen much of the world in a superficial
way, knew a little, very little about almost every
thing, and was deluded with the impression that
no mineralogical or other scientific mystery was
beyond the reach of his ken. His costume was
characteristic throughout — short threadbare
overalls that shrunk from contact with either
sock or brogan, and an equally antique sack
coat that rode high in the rear, as if disdaining
to cover the shrivelled glutaji below. He had a
constant companion in a huge, hideous, and
hungry-looking red dog, with a Newfoundland
cross, whom he called “ Satan,” and to whom he
would frequently address lengthened remarks
in French, which the beast seemed to compre
hend about as well as his master. When not
too much absorbed in the discussion with the
farmer, he was engaged with some rude tools, in
and my father was obliged to keep me at home
to help him in the crop.”
“What part of the work on the farm can you
do?”
“Why, bless you, almost any part. I plough,
and I hoe, and I pick cotton, and I tie up the
wheat, and all that sort of thing, and I like it
pretty well, except when the sun gets hot,—all
except the ploughing. I don’t think a woman
was ever made to plough; she can’t stand the
jerking about.”
“Field work is pretty hard on a young girl
like you; isn’t it?’’
“Yes, tolerable, but then I am willing to do
anything to help pa along.”
“Can you cook?”
“Certainly I can; I guess there’d be lots of
hungry mouths about here if I couldn’t.”
“And wash? ’
“Yes, and milk the cows to boot.”
“I see you have some fashion plates there—
I suppose you have y6ur Sunday dresses made
up by them.”
1 Have ’em made! No indeed; I make all my
dresses iyself, but not by the books. I don’t
understand all these Yankee notions and fix-
ins; and, besides, I wouldn’t wear ’em if I did.”
“Did you make the dress you have on?”
“Certainly; and what’s more, I made it from
the jump. I planted the seed, chopped out
the cotton, ploughed and hoed it, picked it,
carded and spun it, dyed the yarn, wove the
cloth, and then cut it out and made it, and
now you see I’m wearing it.”
“Well, Miss Nancy, all I have to say is; yon
are a noble girl, and will make some honest
fellow a glorious wife some of these days.”
“I’ll try,” was her prompt and simple reply.
Our party was ready; I shook hands with her,,
gave the honest girl my best benediction, and
left, though not without bringing away with me
a real interest in the future of Nancy Wilkie—
the “Wild Flower of the Chestatee’’—the girl
who led a hard life, yet was happy because she
was useful to herself and to others. In the
hands of the dress-maker and the milliner, she
would attract attention on any fashionable prom
enade in the State; but circumstances have
planted the flower in a soil where it is destined
to “blush unseen,” and, I fear, “waste its
sweetness on the desert air.” Yet, she will be
happy in spite of it all. She is a worker and a
benefactor in the great human hive, and, come
what may, will have the sweet satisfaction of
duty faithfully and cheerfully performed. She
j is placing a long credit to her account in the
repairing a wooden clock apparently of the last j JJSSASTUilTma^y of ourcX beltos
lead a life of vanity and discontent in their am
bition to outvie as mere objects of display, and
finally pass away from earth without the con
sciousness of ever having lightened a single
burthen or dried up a single tear of any of its
century, which appeared to be minns quite a
number of its cogs. No doubt he put a week’s
work on this weather-beaten machine, and left
it worthless after all, while a new and better
one than it ever was could be purchased for a
11?,.'! 1 iV* *mirt^*t’ I fVV >r ° bftb * e *L° WeVer ’ 1 eight hundred millions of inhabitants,
nt- f,K °? thefarm ? rln th ? course We have here represented two classes of re-
th nts" 8 °« mU ° h “ “by your sponsiblei immor tal beings. The latter will
. ,’ h t , gentleman was resolved p ity or smile derisively on the former, while the
“ W r e -,f S , ^ lng ^ U !! n ? former will envy the latter; but which of the
tie ti^nnArinn r f ° a * W1 briefly add, that t i s the greater benefactor of mankind?—
the disputation referred to was over a piece of 1 - - - - -
ore, taken from a lot belonging to the farmer,
and which the learned Frenchman, with an air
of authority had decided to be silver.
The farmer listened to the decision which was
made after a very careful inspection through
two pairs of glasses, with hope strongly com
mingled with doubt. He, himself, believed
it to be copper, and so contended. The arrival
of a gentleman in store clothes, and picking up i and the commentary upon it, “ work for the liv-
rocks by the wayside withal, was a welcome ing ” in the last issue but one of the Sunny South,
event, as it presented at least a chance for a imprassed me deeply, as all truth is sure to im-
settlement of the grave question, upon which p ress. If the writers had read my own heart like
which will wear the brighter crown in the life
to come?
“ W ORK FOR THE LIVING. ”
BY INFEL1CE.
That pathetic poem, “ If I should die to-night ”
the value of his possessions so materially depend
ed.
an open book, they could not have more faithfully
delineated my feelings, and as the sad nights
pass by and the pitying angel sleep, comes to kiss
the tears from my cheeks, these words are the last
Having a smattering of mineralogical lore,
brushed up by recent intercourse with mv learn- lUB lwo lrulu a,
lt C T^ n ° nS d \ l ;°.y a( J e ' a ha ?‘Y glance satisfied i‘‘hear Tobbtog to my heart:
me that it was nothing more than iron snlphate . J
with a slight admixture of copper, hardly use
ful for the metal, but susceptible of being put to
account in the manufacture of sulphuric acid,
an ingredient that entered largely into the com
mercial fertilizers of the day. I so pronouced
it, to the utter dismay of the little French mum
my, who forthwith called his dog, gave him a
punch lor some imaginary offense, and re
doubled his energy upon the broken cog.
This exposure ol nis ignorance effectually muz
zled him lor the remainder of our visit. The
former bore his share of the disappointment with
becoming grace, his rugged face and frame
*■ Oh! friends, I pray to-night.
Keep not caresses for my cold, dead brow;
Tfie way is lonely, let me feel them now.
Think gently of me; Tam travel-worn;
My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn.
Oh, hearts estranged, forgive, I plead:
When dreamless rest is rniue. I snail not need
The tenderness for which I sigh to-night. ”
Though I would be glad if we could erect state
ly monuments to our soldiers in every slate of the
South, I have often thought, it was our first duty
to make some provision for their destitute wid
ows and orphans, and our maimed and aged sur
viving soldiers’ who have no means of support.
love, and infinite compassion. But the “ friends
stood aloof and the pastor never called; yet if she
“ should die to-night,” would not friends come and
drop tears on her “ cold, dead face;” and “ fold
the icy hands with lingering caress” over the
poor, tired heart that yearned so much for tender
ness and sympathetic aid ? And would not the
pastor come then, and sing the sweet songs and
and pray the restful prayers she had so longed to
hear, but that can never reach her now? So often
has her sensitive nature been wounded by the
“ the world’s cold charity,” she has requested her
husband if he should survive her, not to allow any
obituary or notice whatever of her death, to be
made public—saying, with a sad smile and tearful
eyes, if she were not worthy while living, she
would not be when dead.
I also know an old gent.'eman of more ihin
three score and ten years, who has been a christan
from his early youth, and never known want, but
is now in great need of a sum of money that has
been due him for several years, from a man in the
prime of life, and a prominent member of the same
Christian denomination. The debtor and his fami
ly fare almost sumptuously, while the old mtn
could not get last winter, either through the
church or the courts, enough of the indebtedness
to keep the snow and slush from his feet, and the
chilling winds from his venerable body. If this
old man “ should die to night,” would the debtor
then “war with the dumb, unconscious clay,” or
look down with remorse upon the shrunken, dead
lips, that, pleaded for right and mercy ? And would
he assist in bearing to the tomb that old man from
whom he withheld the justice that would have
helped his aged feet to walk in the close of his long
pilgrimage?
How I wished I had a broad, shaded lawn, so
I could go and bring that poor “caged bird,”
the “little ADita,” to play under the trees all
* ‘ trough the summer days, and with a fountain
close i.y to X’elight yes’ and make for
her its sw£eC 'inkling . if I fi?j a horse
and carriage, so I could ofter» take her and, other
“caged birds,” to drive through the lovely sub
urbs, or far out into the green, open country, to
hear the birds sing in the trees, and see the cun
ning squirrels hide in their leafy branches. But I
too must confine my view to staring walls, bare,
dusty streets, and a boundary ot blue sky, and
have not seen the green woods this summer, only
far away. *
Would not some kind lady wbr. is blest with
these thijjgs, give herself this pleasure—purer,
and infint ’ greater than any' entertaining”
of “ societ y If “little Anita” should die, it,
would the«-^e too late. Her little restless hands
would then bijgathering flowers un ler the trees of
Paradise, or borne tenderly in the Saviour’s arms
she would lis'en to the ripple ot silvery waters
over goldensands. I thank God tl . -e is a heaven
for little cnildren—poor, weary, friendless and
homeless children, Inat know so little of earth’s
beauty and joy—it° tenderness and charity !
The writer of “ the borrAwers side,” in lending
the newspaper, that appeared in the Sunsy South,
makes the true charitable discrimination of the
subject. She did not wait for that young girl, with
the “ bright, beaming face,” whose “ way was
lonely,” and who was “ travel worn,” though go
young—she did not wait for her to say,
“ When dreamless rest is mine, I shall not need
The tenderness for which I sigh to-night,”
but gave her kindness to the living.
0 for “ the thousand years of peace ! ”—for the
fraternal, good will to the universal heart of man,
and the broad, tender charity of Him‘who said—
Love thy neighbor as thyself! ”
on sound physical conditions—and to look ele
gantly wretched. Many of them had half their
wish; they looked wretched, but not elegant.
They were charged with drinking vinegar, eating
slate pencils and committing other monstrous ab
surdities They may have been unjustly accused,
but their theories warrant the accusation. All
such nonsense belongs to the past. American wo
men to-day eat as much as they want, and more
wholesome food than they once ate; they walk
more, court the open air, cultivate their bodies as
well as their minds, believe in perfect digestion,
unbroken sleep, the glow and glory of unblemish
ed health. No wonder their proportions are ful
ler, their cheeks more blooming, their eyes brigh
ter, their steps more elastic. The growth of the
country arid their common sense are serving them
generously.
The scrawny, sallow, peaked woman, if she be
educated and fairly placed, will ere long cease to
be the type of the middle-aged American woman.
With the steady growth of the republic, the increas
ed ease of circumstances, and their complete health,
American women will be comelier and rounder
now than they have been. External and inter
nal conditions assure us this. They are not like
ly to become gross, as so many of their European
sisters are; the character of the country, its in
stitutions and its atmosphere, with their own tem
perament, will preserve them from that.
Col. T. M. Holliday, who will be the next Gov
ernor of Virginia, lives at Winchester, is a one-
armed ex-Confederate, a lawyer with a good
practice, and has never had much to do with
politics.
A young man who was heavily fined in a San
Francisco court for kissing his betrothed against
her will, didn’t break up the engagemet and de
mand the return of rings, pictures and letters.
He ximply wrote: “ Dear Lydia: You’ll have to
wait now till I can borrow enough to pay the min
ister.”
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
The Counties' Chess Association, in Entfland, has just
concluded. Mr. J. Jsukin. of Glasgow, Scotlaud, wins
the Provincial Challenge Cup (for one year); Prof. Waite
and Mr. Thorald. second and third prizes. Rev. C. E.
Rankeu was elected Secretary. 4’he Association will meet
in London next year. —London Xews.
Samuel Loyd says: - Any experienced problemist can
solve a two-move problem the instaut his mind has taken
in the relative position and bearing of the pieces. If it
is a crowded, complicated position, with the pieces scat
tered all over the board, it may take the eye live seconds
more to bring system out of chaos. In solving 180 little
problems for the Lebanon Herahi. I averaged less than
live seconds each " I—A. C. Journal We hope our solv
ers wiil study the above, and send in their solutions
promptly hereafter.
A master chess tournament is on tapis this fall, to
place the duty of representing American Chess at Paris
in able and worthy hands.
Stogie parlor,
showing that he had seen much of the ups and
downs of life, and had “ a heart for every fate.”
He “knowed there was copper thar.” and his
opinion being measurably sustained, he appear
ed content At this juncture some of our party
asked for water, and this slight circumstance,
diera, while so many families of our brave dead
are homeless and penniless, and caunot get work
to do.
Our Women Growing Plump.
( From Harper's Bazar )
Europeans generally concede that our American
women rre handsome, though '-e/ say they are
so fragik •.hat they early lose th ’ • freshness, and
with it much of their beauty. They particularly
remark the tendency of our women to grow thin
with years, while we remark the tendency of their
women to the accumulation of flesh as soon as they
have passed their youth, and often before that
period. While we mnst allow that our women are,
for the most part, lacking in roundness, there are
few of us, we imagine, who would not infinitely
prefer the New World slenderness to the Old
World stoutness. A medium! between the two
might be the standard of the becoming, and this
medium we seem to be approaching, slowly, per
haps, but steadily. The opinion of the thinness
of the feminine part or the nation is based rather
on what has been than what is. The majority of
our women are still too lean for beauty, but
are far less lean than they were twenty-five or
even fifteen years ago.
This fact—for fact it unquestionably is—can
scarcely have escaped observation It is noticea
ble everywhere, particularly to large towns and
cities, and is due to different causes, all of which
are easily recognize. The fleshiness of a people
depends largely on the age and development of
their country. Where everything is new, and, in
a certain sense, raw, as in this land, there is very
little leisure or repose. Our entire energies are
directed to our advancement; our minds are absor
bed by thought of the future and what it promises.
We hardly take time to get flesh; we think and
fret off that which we have acquired, instead of
acquiring more. Our women do not perform so
much physical labor as our men, but they work
ness as nothing els«. does. These live too much
through the body, and the body suffers in conse
quence. In the Old World everything is fixed.
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par>»r should be addressed to the editor, and have the
word •* Chess ” written on the envelope.
Chess Headquarters—Young Men’s Library Associa
tion, Marietta street.
Original games and problems are cordially solicited for
this column. We hope our Southern friends will re
spond.
G. E. S —Th» game to hand. We prefer “ S ” to “ Kt ”
for Knight, bnt shall not adopt it, for the same reason
that the American people eat •• hot bread ” and not cold.
In which number did yon see change ?
Problem D'8olver Problem by Sol. Smith was pub
lished in Xorditk Skaktidende, in March, 1873, by R. 8abl-
burg, of Stockholm, Sweden.
G. E. Smith—Problem Little Fraud ” is a big fraud, as
Pawn might have been at Q Kt 3. Try again.
Additional correct solutions from Geo. E. Smith,
Queen’s Rook and B. F.
Problem No. 24—Correct solutions from Mary, Lee
Smith, Typo, Doctor and G. E. Smith.
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 24.
1. Q K 7 K K 6 3. Mate accordingly.
2. P Q 6 K moves
Several of onr correspondents point an easy solution
commencing with K R 4. This pr »blem is commended (???)
in the German Chess Magazine.
PROBLEM NO. 26.
By Problem D’Solver.
BLACK.
I JM Jy J^S
m . ilia vM
m m wm m
No puzzleof any kind will receive attention unless
the answer accompanies it. Ali the parts must be an
swered fully and plainly.
We will try to answer puzzles, etc., two weeks after
their appearance.
New Puzzles mid Enigmas.
No. 1—Puzzle.
1 have no fingers, have no toes.
Yet comfort to the weary bring;
Large is my month, long is my nose;
I never talk, but often sing.
Old Lady, Piney Woods, Fla.
No. 2—Charade.
My first is a small animal, almost as large as a rabbit.
My second is pointed; a thing in art. that has no end.
My third is the name of one of the digits.
My fourth are inferior portions, and the principal part
of my whole.
>Jy whole is a very useful article, extremely beneficial
to boys, and sometimes to girls.
Zokomobee, Atlanta, Ga.
t No. 3.—Enigma.
I am composed of sixteen letters.
My 11,10. 5, 4 is a part of the visage.
My 10, 2, 9, 6 is a kind of grain.
My 8. 4, 4 was a great General.
My 13.14, 9,13, 4, 11 is a sort oi glove.
My 12,10. 11 is a relative.
My 3, 2, 9 belongs to the floor and the table.
My 1, 2,11, 4 is a girl’s name.
My 16 4, 11 is a kind of fowl.
My 6, 7, 11, 15, is an herb.
My whole is the name of one of the most prominent
gentlemen in the State of Georgia, much admired by
Gertrude, Atlanta, Ga.
No. 4.—Diamond Puzzle.
I am a very curious thing. Take me forwards, back
wards, downwards, upwards, straight, crooked, sidewise,
lengthwise, crosswise, and you will find me to he the
very same identical object—a real diamond puzzle. With
out me,the precious diamond gem could not sparkle; there
would be no light of the sun, moon or stars; the little
fire-flies and glow-worms would cease glimmering; all
natural and artificial light would -be pat out eoerguihere.
The end of everywhere is my end, aud there are twenty-
five tLOUsanJ jWt- u i tie small biuo bottle fiy. w ■■■
Jammzk, Moultrievillb, d. C.'“ *
No. 5.—Cross-WoKD Enigma. >
My first Is in window, bnt not in pane;
My second in Georgia, bnt not in Maine;
My third is in Athens, bnt not in Savannah;
My fourth is in carriage, and also in manner; **"
My fifth Is in earth, but not in sky;
My sixth is in moth, bnt not in fly;
My seventh in heel, but not in shoe;
My eighth.is in old, but not in new;
My ninth is in school, but not in book;
My tenth in expression, but not in look;
My whole, a delicious frnit.
Now fully in season,
Which we hope onr young friends
Will partake of in reason.
No. 6—Puzzle.
Here is one chicken—here is the other;
Here are two on the top of another;
And here are three with their legs tied together.
How many chickens are there ?
Country Boy, 8. C.
8. T.
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All letters for this department should have “ Mathe
matics” written in the corner of the envelope.
Solutions published two weeks after the problems.
Problems solicited in all brauches of mathematics, pure
or applied.
Solutions.
Solution to Prize Problem No. 2.
If we represent A.’s money by X and B.’s money by Y,
the conditions of the problem give rise to the equations,
2
X —Y=3.99;
2
Y —3X=2.79; adding member to mam-
WHITE.
White plays and mates in two moves.
PROELEM NO. 26X.
By Adolf Anderssen.
K B6; Ko.
6)
&
her, we get
squares,
-3X-Y —Y=6.78,
completin g
.25=6.78 f 2.50;
X —3X -2 25=Y -Y
2 2
or (X—1.5) -r(Y -5) =9.28.
Now, from the nature of money, X and Y must be exact
2
numbers or rational quantities, and therefore (X—1.5)
2
and (Y —.5) mnst be perfect squares. Bnt the only two
perfect squares whose sum is 9.28 are 1.44 and 7.84. By
inspection we 9ee that Y is greater than X; hence we put
whence
Qfi.
±
White to play and mate in three moves.
[American Chess Journal.
CHESS BY CORRESPONDENCE.
Between F. W. Curtiss, of A.my. Wyoming Territory,
and L. C. Brown. Cranbury, N. J.
{King’s Knight’s Gambit.)
Cnrtiss.
Brown.
Cnrtiss.
Brown.
White.
Black.
White.
Black.
1 P K 4
PK 4
13 PxP
KtxP
2PKB4
PxP
14 K Kt Q
4 (g) P R 3
3 K Kt B3
P K Kt 4
15 Q Q R 4
K Kt
4BQB4
B Kt 2
|16 B K 3
QK 2
3 Castles
P Q 3
.17 B B 2
P B4
6 P Q 4 ia)
P K R 3
18 Q RJQ
PxKtonQ4(h)
7 P Q B 3
B K 3 (b)
19 KtxP
Kt K B 3
8 BxB (c)
PxB
20 K R K
Kifr B 3 Kt 3
9 Q B 2 (d)
Kt Q B 3
21 Q Kt 3
EfrEK
10 Kt Q R 3???
Q B 3
22 Q Kt 6
KtxB
11 P K 5 (e)
PxP
23 KxKt
Kt Kt 5 ch
12 Kt Q Kt 5(t) Castles
and Cnrtiss resigns.
'X—1.5) =1.44 (Y—.5) =7.84,
X=2.70 Y=3 30
T. S. Thomason.
Prize, pearl-handle pen-knife, sent.
Query (signed T ) is No. 116.
Why is it that if the sum of the digits which compose
a number be snbtracted from that number, the remain
der is always divisible by 9 ?
The Reason.
20 =9 leaves remainder 2
200 h-9 “ •• 2
2 000 =9 “ “ 2
30 =9 •* ** 3
. 30,000=9 “ ** 3
etc., etc.; that is, if any number composed of a digit and
cyphers to the right be divided by 9, the remainder will
be the same as the digit.
Now. take any number—as 2,478—and break it np into
its parts as below:
2,000=9 remainder 2
400=9 ’• 4
70=9 “ 7
8=9 " 8
2.478 21
It wiH be seen that the remainders are the same as the
digits of 2.478. Now, it is evident that if 21 is left over
when we divide by 9. if we take 21 from 2,478, the other
part must be divisible by 9 exactly. M. Ebwis.
Problems.
PboblemIN'o. 9
A carpenter has a board 12 feet long, 5 feet wide at one
end. and lij feet at the other. At what distance from
the narrow end must he ent it to get the largest possible
rectangular piece, and what will be its dimensions. E.
Problem No. 8.
At marriage the wife's age was 4-7ths of the husband's,
and in 32 years it was 4-5ths. How old were they at mar
riage ? Humphries.
Problem No. 11.
A b latman rows with the tide 42 mili^, in 3 hours. In
returning, the tide is but 2-ids as strong, and it takes
10hours to row the same distance. At what rate per
hour did the tide run in each case ? Solve by arithmetic
G. B
Problem No. 6 is stated corsectly.
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