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i H i ■ 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. ira ite. 1 P K 4 2 PxP 3PQ4 4 B K 2 5 KtxB 6 Castles 7 Q Kt B 3 8 B K3 8 Kt Kt 3 10 q Kt K 2 CHESS IN GERMANY. (Centre Counter Gambit.) Dr. Goring Mr. C. Dr, Goring. Black. P K R4 ' P R 5 PR6 (Jlta Black. White. P Q 4 11 P Q B 3 K Kt B 3 12 Q K 4 B K Kt 5 13 K K R BxB 14 P Kt 3? OxP Resigns. Kt B 3 Curiouslv. White has no Q K R 4 defetree against the attack of Castles QR tj and P, except to sacrifice Q K Kt 3 some of his pieces, leaving 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. TO CORRESPONDENTS. All communications relating to this department of the 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. ttlfl 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. INSTINCT PRINT