Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1877, Page 12

~=77 arridze can never take place. c I‘HE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, umumhlmfin %3, ISTT—SIXTEEN YAGES. GOSSIP FOR LADIES. Enéfgetic Woman-==-Some _Ante-Nuptial Dangers. An How They Obeyed Orders—-A Minneso- tian Who Has Had Six Wives. {he Confession of a Great Sinmer--Hiscellaneous Fotes of a Feminine Kalure. MY LOVE. My love, your hair Is brizht as gold; Your cheeks aro red 25 cherrics; Tour lips are of 2 dsinty mold, And scarlet s strawberries ; Your bosom's white as driven snow: Your hands are like a friry's; Your tender voice, 0 sweet and low, Is clear 28 & canary’s. My love, your evesare £oft and blue, Like ektes of Spring ethereal; Pure as a drop of morning-dew, You scarcely seem material; Your rlender form of wildering grace Glows with the rose and hiy; Sweet thoughts are mirrored in your face, Like blooms on waters stilly. My love, eweet empress of my heart, 3ay we be soon united. And every keen, love-longlng smart Forvver be requited; And in some snuz, embowered cot, With blushing roses Iaden, el live contented with our fot, And crave no bigher Aidenn. Grexwoo, Ia. Sious " BRUBAKER. IER ACTIVE MIXD. Lockester Demorrat. « You are going to die, William,” remarked a (ady of energetic pature to her poor littie hus- band. “The doctor says you can’t live two hours.” “Yery well,” responded William in a weak voice, but with a great sigh of relief. “Godown ard blow up the servants at once.” * Wh-what?" said the agitated woman, bend- iz over him. + Free your mind, Naney, frce your mind.” be gasoed feebly. **I shail be as quick about it as possible, but I shall try your patience. Blow enouh to make you cheerful a couple of hours, and by that time £ shall be out of the way. I shall never have another opportunii; d want to dic in peace.” “ye wanders,” said the lady to herself, scowling tarough her tears at some cheerful voices that stole into the room of death from the strect below. **1 wonder if those pesky trifiers don't know there’s some dying woinz on up here. I shall speak to the policeraan about this. It's a shame that I’ve ot to be worried. and worricd, and -worried 1o death when my heart is so full of othier matters that I can't find time to think. re I've been "— 1 should like to comfort you,” interrunted ihe rapidiy-failing man with a2 faint smile of apology; “bur the truthis, I've got so much ol my own dying on_hand that I cun’t find the time. Bear up, my dear. I'li cail® around and make a complant to-moer—or rather, il send my ghost.” ) **William,” cjaculated the'riel-stricken wom- an, “that’s just like you. Always too casy and znftless. Always puttine off till_to-mdrrow what should be doune to-day. My wmother warned me of ft before I married you. If there’s auything 1 hate, it's procrastination! 1f there’s anytbing I abominate, it’s a shiftless man.” **Go down and give it to the servants,” said the dying wan, h Ve “ B wanders,” repeated the agitated woman, rising hastily to make frautic passesata fly resting iv the sunsbiie on the wall. *This house1s overrun with vermin from cellar to garret. - It makes 1o difference how much T toil, and delve, and drudge, and work my fin- gers to the bont d weur old clothes and look like a fright. William?! if you don't get me some exterminator to-morrow “'—— «It's unnccessary,” interrunted the gentle- man addressed, with a sad, sweet smile. *I— 1 uess PU—L’1] manage to—to go off without it . His head fell back, and therc was a strange 00k in his eyes. “1le's dead! ™ shrieked the widow, throwing berselt upon the lileless form aud weeping vicleotly. “I had forzotten that he was 3yicg—] have so much 1o’ think of! Nothing goes Tizht in this house. My poor, patient hus- Sand!” There ‘was the sound of approaching fect. *Goaway!” shescreamed. * Leave me alone sith my. dead!” A moment of silence inter- rencd. "¢ Sta she added. ‘- Go straight to Lic undertaker’s, Susan, and tell him to come tooce; aud if he slurs this job as he bas sther's Pve beard of, I’ never give him an- other as long as I live. Undertakers is so shift- less? 2 A yleam of sunlizht stole into the room and Tested for a moment on the dead man’s face. “Ideclare!™ exclaimed the heartbroken woman, I told Susan to shut the blind tight, and she hasn’t done it. We sball be all covered with dust. I shall discharge that girl at once.”™ Sheput her handkerchicf to her and, having found the reguisite time, wept bitterly. SOME ANTE-NUPTIAL DANGERS. Philadelshia Times. A charming young lady of Iilinois had a lover who doted ou herand prided himsetf on his learning. This young woman was oue of the wost beautiful and accomplished of the sex which is noted for its beauty. She nad been to noarding-school. and money had been lavished without stint on ler cducation; she kuew Freuch and Latin, and enouzh of Greek to be actually dassicel in her literary tastes; she read only thevery best books,—not the kind which young ladies too much incline to. but those from which much learning was to be had. And al? this scemed Jike polishing the already polished diamond. Beside this. she was happy in possessing, o an eminent degree, all those accumplisnments which make a young lady at- tractive in the society of the period. She was briiliant aud witty” in conversation, knowing exacily what to say and_where 10 say it; she danced ds ¥, dressed lise a Princess, and h the grace and charm of a duno. She wAs more than a lady, for she knew Low to cools, aud unce took the first prize for tbe best loaf of bread at the county iwir. In due the vounz woman with ail these splen- did accomplishments made the usual prepaca- tins to throw herself away ou the young man ‘who hiad mouopolized the most of her tune for a yearor two. This inuocent and contiding man liitle knew what a terrible_calamity lay in wait im. Busivess called him from home for a days while the wedding preparations were going on, and he wroteand she wrote, as young and cnthusiastic hearts witl do under suth cire cumstances. 1n a littie while the neighborbood was horritied to learn that the wateh was off. The weddinz preparations ceased, aud all was e the 3 Theu the youns woman sought. redress court. Moved by that curiosity comman g b scx, aswell as the other sex. she wanted to know why Le had declined to fuitill his promise. 1t was such 2 natural request that he was com- pelied to give bis reasons, and did so without iudircction, by jproducing one of her glowing letters, in which she described her happiness in view of The cuining “nupshials,” and incidental- 1y referred to her **dimond” Ting. The stony- Learted wretch declined to marry anybody who gould not spell ruptial, particatarly within a uonth of her wedding-day. Tne young lady broaght her Pportiolio into court and cfil tict’l = Dis leiters ont where the light of the law conid line upon them. ~The first one read was in an- 'r\’t; toflher rush about the “nupshals,” very of and truly Hewrote: “ This found out why, but she recavered damar” Tl Judge was 2 humane man, aud coneratulated tbe youns woman on her NATOW escape from a mat who didw't know how to epcll marriace within 2 month of his wedding-day. Nk business-like. ORDERS OREYED. Fombday Gazette. A young sub-Licutenant left his regiment a short time azo on sick leave, and putup atthe best hotel, not 3 hundred miles from Poonab, where he was immediately smitten by the ar. tractions of a Jovely maiden who was stasing there. He proposed. was accepted, and the bappy day was fixed- The Colonei, howerer, disapproved of sul-Lieutenaals getting mar. ried, aud particularly the marrisgé of 1he sub in question. As he happened to be a fricod of - ibe youne man’s father, be thought to prevent tbe union of the fond couple by sending a per- emptory telesram couchied in the following words: ¢ ““Join at once.”’ The son of Mars was in despair. . He prescated himeelf before his in- tended with the fatal missivein his band; and anythine but a look of picasure in his coun- tenance; but the ""5 was equal to the occasion. ‘With a blush of maidenly plicity and virgin ce, she cast her eyes on the ground and remarked: “Dear me! I'm glad your Colo- nel approves of the match, but what -a burry beisin! 1 don’t think I can get ready s0€00n, but. 1'll do my best, Leeause, of course, love, the commands of our Colonel must be obeyed.” The young warrior was vuzzled. “Dou't you see, my darling,”® he safd, “that this confounded telearam puts a stopper on our vlans? You don’t scem to understand the tele- gram. He says peremptorily, ‘Join at ouce.” The lady’s blushes redoubled, but, with a look of arch simplicity, she raised her lovely eyes to her jfiance and replicd, It is you, my darling, whodon't seem to undcrstand it- Your Colonci says plainly, ‘Join at_once,’ by which he of course means get married immediately. What clse can he possibly mean?? A look of intelli- mence replaced the air of bewilderment in the Young hero’s classic features, and, bestowing a Tewular feu de joie of chaste ealutes on her rosy livs, he accepted the explanation, and was en- abled to answer the Colonel’s telegram in forty- eiglit lours afterward in these words, “Your orders arc obeyed. We were joined at once.” MUCH MARRIED. r Stitticater (Minn.) Lumberman. There now lives in Dakota County, fn this State, & man who has just married his sixth wife in St. Paul, Minn. He was born in New Bruns- wick, married there, and movea to Minnesota with his first wife and two children—both girls —in the year 1857 or thercabouts. At Miunecap- olis his wife died, and afterward one child. Here, a short time after, he married a widow with one child, a boy. Moving thence to Stearns County, be remains until five children are born, all zirls. One dies, and afterwards his second wife. After alapse of six or seven months he 1marries again a widow with a boy. This woman is a Hcosier, and proves too much for him. In less thun two years he gives her a thousand dollars to grant him a divorce. He obtains it, starts for Maine, meets with a woman scoarated from her husband, but not divoreed, falls in love (#), marries her as soon as the di- Yorce is obtalned,—the extra boy coming after- ward this time.: Ina year and ahalf she dies, Jeaving no children belonging to Lim. Nowise discouraged, after three und one-balf years he marries again—another Mzaive widow. Then be returns to Minnesota, where, on the 1ith of Augasy, last, his fifth wife passed from ecarth, Jeaving hum anotber girl. And now her place is already filled by a_sixtn,—whether maid or widow Lkuow not. Who witl dure to be the next? If any man outside of Salt Lake Ci: at least outside the regions of polygamy, can show a better record, let him speak. MEET FOR REPENTANCE. Kansas City Times. 40, Mrs. Van Cott, I'm a great sinner,” said a young married woman at the Tabernacle last evening. * Scek forziveness with a penitent heart, and all will be well,” was the consoling reply. * O but I cannot repent, aud Harry, my tusband, must know it all,”” sobbed the poor wanderer. “ Why, what have you done, said Mrs. Van Cott sharply. **O how canItellit! But L must. Well, you sce, a rag-man came around this morning, and I gave Harry’s over- coataud two pairs of pantaloons for a tin pan and a glass goblet and a'’— here the poor girl entirely broke down and sobbed asif her iicart would break. Just then, and before Mrs. Van Cott could say a word, the choir com- menced to sing: Scant my earthly garments are FEMININE NOTES. The song of the widow—** What is home with- out another#” = Court-House, Va. For some time past h¢ has hadin_his employment- a young nezro man about 21 years old, named Frank Lewls, and these three constituted the houschold. The girl is described as belng very beautiful, and, to all appearance, a very modest and chaste per- son; but on Thusday last she was taken sick and afforded incontestable evidence of criminal intimacy with one of a different race. Lewis haa absented himself from the place for several dgys, but returned Thursday, when the out- raged parent of the gh'l seized a double-barreled shot-gun and warned him to leave the premises, and, as he turned to retreat, both barrels were discharged into his back, and he now lies danger- ously wounded in the vicinity, It is needless to relate that the circumstances created a pro- found sensation in the neighborhood of their occurrence, forming, as they do, s bartial parallel to_the love ot the renowned Desde- 1mona and Othello, “the Sooty Moor.” —— NEW YORIK GOSSIP. An Epidemic of Gorgeously-Arrayed Show= Windows—floliday Shopping and Shoppers —The Crush at the Toy Stores—The Sequel to the Kulds on tho' Snloons—Wit and Humor. From Our Own Correspondent. New Yorr, Dec. 20.—There is a perfect eni- demic of show-windows. The stores are all broken out with tbem, and the discaseis en- tirely beyond the control of the health officers. The idea seems to have taken firm hold that the merchant who has the largest and most con- spicuous windows counts for the jargest and most couspicuous merchant. Perhaps he does. There is philosophy and profit inshow-windows, not to speak of the art, ingenuity, expense, and varicty in them. No other eity, Paris excepted, makes so fine store displavs.. Everybody here goes out to see,and everybody has something worth while t6 go out for. Trade recoznizes the advantace of attracting people from home, and leaves no novel method untried toward this end. The common allurement is to find goods remarkably cheap in the windows; the common practice to buy goods remarkably costly inside. The window has done its share, and the sharp clerk and vanity do the rest. As the show-window munia would lead one to infer, the displays this scason. are uncommonly fine and extensive in all branches of manufac- ture. The merchants scem to have anticipated that revival of trade which has formed a topic of discussion and hope for the past two or three years. Norare they wholly disappointed in the present demand. Judging from the stores and streets, everybody in the metropolis and its vicivity is to have a Christmas present. The temptations to buy are scarcely more numerous than the persons who roamn about with purpose to be tempted. At the leading stores it is al- most impossible to shop with ease, comfort, or reasonable speed. Such OLLA-PODRIDA ESTABLISHMENTS as Macy’s or Ehricl’s, Sloan’s or Kinzey’s, re- semble bee-hives, with a million bee-power of buzz and commotion. Itis a sight 1o watch the progress of business and cash-girls in these places,—a sight, that is, for ladics. On such ground it is that the masculine patience and koowledge both conspicuously appear—to be lacking. I bave tried to endure what a Jady can in the way of racing and shopping, Query: Isnot a fashionable party a loan ex- (low neck) Libition? The frost on the milkman’s mustache chills the hired-girl to the core.—Danbury News. ‘When a girl begins to take an interestine young man’s cravat, it is a sign she doesnot love him as asister. Never write letters to a widow. She always takes down the old box and compares yours with the other man’s. A philosopher remarked that men like women opposite to themselves. Of course they do. Gointo any ijce-creamn saloon and see if they don’t. At Swedish funeralsa small handglass is put into the coflin of a woman, in order that she may takea last Jook at herselt when the trum- pei sounds. Kbaiil Pasha receotly, while plaging cards with his wife, became crazy. We should think any man would when he seces a woman trump the ace—New York Herald. A young lady, just home from boaraing- school, on bei old by the servant that they had_no gooseberries, exclaimed, ** Why, what ’as happened to the goose Among the many surmises as to what will be- come of the last wan, it is queer_that nobody has yet discoyered that he is destined to be talked to death by the last woman. *Them pottery things is real nice,” said Mrs. Venecering. **Me and my daughter Maria have got the rage, you know, and buy all we kin git. But what on carth is they intended for? A manout West has been terribly trounced by his wife beeause he took his ove boots out of her bustle, just as she so as to give the lady readers some jdes of what can be scen and bought in New York bazaars during holiday season. ‘I'he result can be obtained by any man who wants a ruined temper and shattered constitu tion badly cnough to go through the same ex- perience.” There are strange mental mixtures of every conceivable thing, from French dolls with winking eyes and reddest cheeks to the finest laces and embroideries, from Christmas elephants with trees growing out of their backs to §35 hats made to wear, not on the head, but on the summit of the fashionuble * catagon braid,” to speak technically. The head gets 1o be a jumble of oddities aud commoaities. The age runs to novelties, and is quite likely to run mad yet, though the Japanese period is safely assed. ‘p Of all the stores, the toy stores, 2s usual, take thelead. The universal interest in chilaren is shown by the universal interest in children’s playthings. ‘The toy stores are tull of wonders ior the youngsters, of memories for the elders. Boyhood aud giritiood come back with flving feet at the sight of what were nursery alfure- ments in other days as now, though surcly there were pever 50 much expense ana ingenuity dis- played in this line of manufacture, which bas reacned nearly enough to full growth both in variely - and economy. No mother need complain nor deny the Toddies and Budgics, when the rhrillest of trumpets can be bought for a nickel, and an entire elevated-railway train for a quarter, 10 2ay nothinz of the rows of soldicrs who, dressed “in the neatest wooden uniforms, can be made to open their mouths in pecaliarly feroctons style, resembling the ‘eat of contlict, perhaps. Liutle girls learn adjectives to apply to the wonderful dolls and their still more wonderful costumes. This branch hus reached its limit. The doli of to- day, like the Miss of to-day, hes her complete outilt, including jewelry in pearls and preclons stones, chateluinés and fans, parasols and bounets, huir goods of color to suit.the style, powder puffs, and even breakfasi caps for old-maid dolls who 0 putiton. Next time he'll mind his own busi- Dess. “ What constitutes marriame?” asks the Bos- ton Adtertiser. Getting down 10 one cigar a day in order to pour money into the coffers of the man who sells striped stockings.— Worcester L’ress. ‘The proper way for a ladv to dircet aletter this winter is torun tie direction from corner to coruer, scatter three-ceut stams over the cavelope, and write *important * on auy va: cant space left. At a Dubuque wedding. the other day, among the wedding presents ostentatiously displayed was a S100 bill, a present 1rom the doting father to his darling Jaughter. After the wuests had deoarted the old man coolly rolled up the bill and put it in his vest pucket, and that was the end of it. Scence on the New York train—Conductor (to lady with small boy)—* Have to pay half-fare for bitn, ma'am.” “Lady—"* All right1” (Hands out a 310 mote.) Conductor—“Haven't vou any smallert”” Lady (alarmed)—“ None but thit G-months-old baby over there!™ Gonductor explodes and explaius. Fact!—Plaladelphia Lulictin. Scene ina private box of a fashionable the- atre—Enter servant, considerably exciteds It you please, mistress, your husbana has just had o bud fall, aud the doctor thinks he has sus- tained serious injuries, so—" Loving wijj “What a pity! _1shall iave to go home at once and see to it (Turmng to doorkeeper) Give me a return cheek, quick! "—Fliegende Blaetie Olive Lozan writes: “It isreally the that jaunty Enelish girls are now rvnbinz’fxflh; hat by way of acknowledging a bow, the sume g the gentlemen do. The hat used is the little round felt Oxford, which looks well enouch on top ol a_pretty younz face, but isa power fully hm:l—[outkl:u;; J:uhlir nudum poll of a woman wno ranks in that large and increasi y the ‘has beens.” ™ & Hesieeg mrm) ot The voung man who halted in front of a dol- lar store, and, after looking turtively nl)ofil.:c him, walked briskly in, fourd the & queen of bl thoughts » there inquiring for * Something suitable for a geutleman.” He has sice beey reading with sioomy satisfaction the account of desperate lovers who have shot the object of thur allections.—Boston Lulletin. The lady with “experience as a writer,’ devoted 10 journalism, wantod & pacs oo first-class daily journal, She *would be von: teut with her expenses for salarytill she showed her value,” and the editor thioughit it would ne encouraging cheap labor to engaze her, till she sent down to the oflice her bill at an up-tows hotel, with her laundry -account charged $21 a month for Suted skirts.—Xew York Mail, = IN MEMORIAM. NRe. M. M. WOODWELL, DIED DEC, 17. We heard not the wings of the Angel, So softly he cames We beard not the voice in the darkness Toat whispered her name, Bright visions of holiday-pleasures I fancy outspread, The while Angel hands Acrown for the dead. were entwining We ehall miss her whete firm hands are needed To wrest Right from Wrang, To lift up the poor and dowgirodden, “To make Virtue stronz. |+ ‘The clonda close in darkness aboat us— Turm day into night. ] Except where we see, bror ; One glimmer of hghts gt thcenadin, The wav that her eve had discovered, By Faith rendered clear; : And we know that her fect did not falter, Her heart did not fear, ’ When the beautiful Angel descended, And whispered her, * Come! The triais of Earta-life are ended; We welcome thee home " Caicaco. MLz C. PoxeRoy, A Virginian Othello Shot. " Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, Robert. a white man.and with his only child, 2 daughter 15 eate i'izoE;’ Lives on the road leading from Pohick to Fairfax have been driven to nurse their sick sisters fora livelihood. i One of the most characteristic and inzenious WINDOW DISPLAYS ismade at Macy's oy the use of these miniature sgures. The crowds which gather about these windows are so great as to render it difiicult either to sec or to pass by on the same side of the etreet, In the first window i3 _represented a scenc on the beach at Long Branch, with the beach mostly omitted. A ‘ooden hotel with long pinzzas ‘hides a good part ‘of the linen sky which forms the background. On the piazzasare fashionable people engaged, as the custom is, in doing nothing, and doing_it in the easiest manner. The sandy torezrouna 18 covered with bathers, who play in the sand, rt with the fascinating parties at the hotel, and, metaphorically peaking. repro- duce the ' lively effects of o summer's day at the Lranch. The costumes and arrangenient ure equally artistic. - An orchestra of German tenden- cicefills a tmy band-platform, and waters are sisible, bearing trays as lurgo as n two-cent picce, with decanter and glassex, the latier small ns 8 bean, The second window farnishes a domestic scene. Loyish-faced pups, in broadcloth and heavy gold chain, reclines on o sofa, nis arm ouiid 4 dot of a' girl. Mamma bends'over the infunt in the inch of a cragle, while two nurses stand_adwiringly near, The miniature peopie are momore pertect than the miniture furniture, which is made with extreme nicety. Still more at- tractive to many Is toe third and lust window, whicit pictures “the Velham coach abou to start from the country inn. The horses are as full of the appearance life - as tho driver and guards arc of gorscousness. A bride who occnpies a commanding position on the hotel piazza displays a costume simply sur- passing, o marvel of mite millinery. There are W0 merry partics, oneat croquet and one at the coach, and only hife is lacking to compiete what art b done. The siow-windows are not, as a rule, devoted to anything of this sori. On the contrary, they are made Lo indicate the . NEW AND STRIKING FEATURES of the stock within, especially of the stock on which barsaing arc offered. This is_the day of bargains, which means aiso of apecialties. Every aust beat ever, other store on some few arti- cles, no matterif these be zold below cost. The hope 1% 1o Wake ub on romething else. -Once get a person into the store, that is the merchast's motto, ut hard times maxe ehaip customers, and these swing around_the circle, buying at vach place tao kpecial line of zoods cheapest there. In this way a emall capital “may be made 10 <o a tolerably Jony distance. Take toilet waters, for instance, whicl cost G5 cents per bottle at the mannfactories at wholesale. These can be bought for 50 cents at one “of . the notion stores, because the next notion _ elorc competes in tho same lime. But 1f one wants ribbons orludes’ underwesr, donot go onand purchaseat the eame place on the zroena that if one thing is cheap all will pe. AL the very next establishment these 200ds may be found marked considerably lower. Silks are to be looked for in one plabe, cloak goods in ancther, cloves in o third, and g0 on, Broad- way, Fourteenth street. and Sixth and Eighth ave- nue i’lllco‘rlmn;." in fora vieit. o So larze haa been the manufscture and 1 : tlon in fancy wares that these have flted nfipfi:{;s and run over into the street. Fourteenth stroct, for example, is lined with etands and s<mall mer. chants, who fairly thrust their stock into the no- tice of the thousands who surge by. Chinese and Japanese manufactures of cvery deseription are thus shown and bawked at prices which astound of any one who has not kept track of Lo extensive - auction-eales rendered necessary b v 3 inz of the market with these nea'mfinfi‘;:n“:ff::rfdly common 200ds. Intermingled with the Iaborjouy products of Chinese cheap-lasor are tae products of Yansee ingenuity, made to cateh the eye, drasy the pocket-book, and- prove = worthis the “firat trial. Of "'cou';suwi:mis"mfl possible o g0 into detalls where these aze simply innumerable and hopeless; conclusion reached aftor a ronnd of- tos ohilS Louscs has been made is. that great is the world of shopping and the endurance of shopperas to which may beadded with all reverence the words of the Litany, -** Good Lord, deliver us!™ If men had to putter around as women do in outdtting themselyes the belief in total devravity wonld be superseded by the 1act, pind the Millenniuz would be. Tike n's prophesied suit to guin the Pr 2 definitely postponed. eeidoner, 1o TIIB SEQUEL TO THE RAIDS. ‘The Mayor csiled upon the Police Commissioners the othér day 1o show why they should not be res moved from office for malfeasance. This might have been expected, nd resembles the polics roubles 1n Chicago, 'save thet there is no chance Tor two or three séts of Commissioners to be claime ing oftice at the same time. The Mayor has the un. doubted right to remove these gentlemen if he decms thelr conduct in ofice auch a8 to deserve it Then it rests with thd Governor to confirm the action. The Mayor himself preferred the charges, saring in his_ note to the membors of “the Board: .(¢;The management of the Police Depaitment ~secms to cail for official action on my part.” Thae two charges are based upon the ineificient performance of the duty o clean the streets, the filthy condition of which is put down as not only a public scandal and disgrace, but dangorons to the public health; and the’ assumption of the right to decide when the State stntutes should be enforced and when ignor- ed, thus rendering law odious instead of respected. The Mayor Lus expressed his dctermination to remove every one of the thrce Commissioners now in town, the fourth being in Europe on leave of absence, ‘unless facts in defense not yet known to him can be produced. s to the condition of the streets, the subject hos occupied the press and people'alike ever since the wretched otk perpe- trated Dy the New Yenr's storm last winter, and the subscquent two or three fect of mud and slush fn the highways, Daring the summer the odors have been deadiy, and the lines of garbage barrels to beseen on every street day in and out were assuredly a disgrace to a civilized city. Innsmuch as $60,000 month have been drawn from the treasury for this work, the people no doubt agree with tho Mayor in his strong usser- tions. It was in connection with this sime question that the Commissioners were led, by a se- vero arraignment in a leading mornini paper, to bogin libel suits, damages aggresating in the claims to $40,000. The paper it uestion did not cease its comments, and 1t is scarcely probable that the suits will ve pressed, under the present aspect of affairs. Some of the Repubiican managers take exception to Mayor Ely’s action, on the ground that itis a transparent attempt to sccure a partisun Police Board. _Certain resolations passea by the City Central Committce of.the Repuvlicans are considered premature, inagmuch a3 the Mayor has given no indication that, in case_of removal, a partisan Board will be established in place of the present one. The zist of the matter is thut the re- action predicted in my last letter has bewun speed- ily, and hits the rizhi parties first. Tho Excisc Commissioners, aiso, are not frce from trouble. Suits have already been brought against them by liquor-dealers, and the Aldermen have moved an investigation into their methods of transacting business. Taken all around, the hquor-dealers are likelv to malke it as lively for the authorities as the authorities dia for them. WIT AND HUMOR. Brooklyn has been luushing at Burlinzton Bar- dette and Oakey 1lall, or rather at their lectures. The one is as muchof a wit as the otherisa humorist, and the ex-Mayor has the advantage of being by Tar the more entertaining and graceful speaker. He purposes o Western tour, by the by, and will probubly give the Chicago people who desire it a chance to hear bim. 1fe certainly has & brilliant lecture, snd has thus far succeeded in drawing larec sudiences; whether because of reputation well merited, or of notoricty such ns few-men gam—or care to gain—by a European voyage, it would be difiicult to determine. It seems to amount to the same thing. The lecture- platform offers financial aid to those who have nade themselves characters, allowing that word a broad but not odious interpretation. In this city Joseph Cook has been delivering a brief scries of his now well-known lectures, with fair degree of success and intercst. The ground of urt has been gone over attractively ut Chickering Hall and elsewhere, and the lecture-ticld has by no means been melected. It must at the same time be udmitted that the crowds have been rather ahead at the colored-baby show, the cat show, and the rest of the shows. The colored babies deserve further notice, and shall have it. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren Investigated the biack chips tne other day, and satisfied itself tnat nextber the sanitary condi- tions nor the proximity of the menagerie were in- imical to the small interests, o tospeak, at stake. So_ the bright-eyed, white-teethed 1nk-stands of babies remain next door to the roaring lions and the conservative hippopotamus, likewise within hearing of the striped clownand the buzz of the ring, while the London Circus propriclors pockat ‘much moncy. G —— THE MORTAL'S WO. ‘What is thie load so weighs me down— Thie constant press from solo to crown, My every joy of life to drown? * A cursed debt! What haunts me like a spectre grim— Which way I tuen sce naught but biwm, And from my life takes all tue vim? A hideous debt! What covered o'er my eyes with wool, And made my cup of hardship full, My barque to up the torrent pull? Ahorrid debt. What plunged me in this wofnl pit— This_**Slough of Despond,” only fit For demon dark to grin and grit His tecth at debt? What makes my hair too soon turn gray, And wrinkles on my vieage play, My step go faltering o'er the wa Aloud of aebt. What stares me ghastly in the face, But meagre want and dire disgrace? For who can 6l a worthy place Harussea with debt? 0 for some power to give me wings To soar above terrestrial things, And list the sonz some Seraph sings— **All free from debt. ™ THE SERAPI'S 50NG. 0O listen, Mortal—hear me sing! Though high I soar, and,swift my wing, Thy wail of wo, I've heard it ring Through all the land. It makes this pity heave my breast, To check my song, to fall my cres And eyes with blinding tesrs be pressed— A sore demand— For thon who art my special care, With whom 1'd every blessing share, And every wo of life would spare Thy biirdened heart, As, through the ether's mist and maze, T've watcoed thy land, I've scen the blaze— Misforune's lood—sweep all the ways, Like herald-dart. Those hapoy homes, with Legion's name, 1 saw them all within the flame, The fiend triumphant ride untame, And hurl his brand. When pestilence and panie sore Ueurped the throne, proctaimed thelir power, 4And desolation ruled the hour, Powerless thy hand. Still, still I ang, still sad my lay, For now thou'rt chainea—thie déspot’s proy— No power thy grievance to allay, The wolf to foil. As in a vise thou'rt trammeled down, To wither 'neath the Nabob’s frown Who thrust away the silver crown— One-half thy spoil. That silver coln enthrone once more; "Twould save the bank, secure thy store, And spare thee from Destruction’s shore— *T'would Jift thy hand. "T'would lift away oppression's pail That now oer suffering miilions fall; 'Twould shower the manns down for all, To blese thy lana. Caicaco, DEc. 22,18 Cuartorre C. WILDER. g Billiards. London Standard. The history of billiards is involved in some obscurity. A French artist, Henrique Devigne, has been credited with the invention of the fiamc: but the claim cannot be sustaned, for he lourished in the reigu-of Charles IX. A. D. 156074, and the game was undoubtedly know and practiced in this country beiore the days of Elizabeth. Tt is clear, we think, that the game bad an Enelish origin had_originated,zas Strutt suggests, in one very similar to croquet, played at first upon the«round and - aiterwards 1 {erred to the table. The allusions to it_by old - writers will throw some light ou this question. We may note first the three allusions which are quoted_in nearly every article and bock on the subjeet, tew writers having thought it worth While to search for any more. First comes Sl!:lksne:\rc’§ ‘‘ Let us to billiards™; then there is the allusion in * A Lament of Charis,” by Ben Jonson, where a Jady’s nose aud cheek arc said to be ““smooth as is the billiard-ball”; and !.!nrd!)'.thc linesin Spenser’s Mother Hubbard’s Tale,” where billiards are classed ,with dice, cards, and shuttlecocks ag a recreation “mis- seeming manly wit.” Other allusions, how- ever, are noticeable. Locke tallis of the ball obering the “stroke of the billiard stick,” and l'i’oylc of *“ivory balls meeting on a billiard- table’ 3 while in Burton’s “*Anatomy of Mclan- choly,’ amoug the **ordi y_recreations” of Winter, we find mention of ““biiliards.” Misson, in us travels in England, also mentions the game; #nd Gayton, in his notes to *Don Quix- ote” (1633), refers to billiards as being played in thetuverns of that period. Evelyn, writing a!u_)ut. twenty years after the above date, de- scribes a table e saw in the house of the Portu- guese Ambassador, and tells us that the balls were struck with a stick shod with brass or sil- ver. There is also a reference to billiards fu a Dote of a payment made in the reizn of James L, wherea % josner » is credited with the man- ufacture of a table of waluut_wood. We have {yuud}lso 2u allusion to biiliards in the of The“Woman’s Prize,” by Fletcher, written someshere about 1600, whick, like nany other of the carly notices of the gatc, is not of a very complimentary character. In the mnemoirs of the ?\lxé:ct}e tS“:tim S[morb by old that Louis XIV. oifen amuscd himsolf with billiards, and the wags of the time nt:fi‘hsfl- ffict.;:gg‘n;lhmnlgnc 0{1 Cl]mu".llillm to his skill at . thouch probably he was wi e uot to beat His Majesty. 2re e ol The old billiard-tables were of various shapes, —round, oblong, and oval,—some of which exist at the present aay, and they sometimes had pockets and sometimes were without, therm. A curious picture in the School of Recreation (1710) shows ns two gentlemen standing at a table with four legs, and prodding at balls with curved cues beld on the shoulder, while there are archea or “passes ¥ on the tabls something like ). Cherncl, we are croquet-hoops, Oneof the earlicst games was known gs the fortification game, the table being covered with forts or castles, and the ' players Veing ranged against each other, as French and English. Billiards was catled an unlawful zame in an act of the thirtieth year of George II, which prohibited the playing of the game in pub- Iic houses under a penalty of £10. fn 1801, or thereabouts, the cae scems to bave superseded the mace, and some five and twenty years after- ward slate tables succceded the old wooden one, while in due course of time the vulcanized india- rutber cushlons now generally used suoerseded those stuffed with list. CURRENT GOSSIP. BAD PUNS.---NO. He met a comrade oa the stree! 2. One whom he long had wished to meet. “4This is cheap board, " said he, **I think; For, when we meet, it's meat and drink. “4One glass improves my vision much; A pairof glasses beata the Dutch, Ilave something®’ **Yee.” *‘Butwineisdear. I would not Mississippi beer.” +*Last night I wasn't fecling well, And took a whisky on the shell; ‘And, when I tried to go from thence, 1 Fond du Luc of fiftcen cents. *4St. Louis beer is flat and stale— Nor half 1s good as Bass' ale. ‘When I am there, good beer I miss, Wyandotte beer 80 good as this? “Genoa wan from Towa? Tis debt to me he will n6t pay. My suit comes up at Tennessce; To Lawyer Brown I Santa Fe. **I'm 1ll—inois gocs through my head- s time that I was in my bed; Such hours for me are gett 1t s too late, I Muscatine. THE BROOKFIELD IIARVEST. New York Times. The Rev. Mr. Sawyer, of West Brookfield, ‘Vt.. possesses a unique. treasure in the person of a small boy whose inventive powers and de- votion to his purents have rarely been paral- leled. “Ile is not precisely whit you would call a good boy,” rewmarked his fatheron one oc- casion, when his son was ledhome by the ear by an irate mivister ot the Methodist denomina- tion, and charged with having fastened thirt) two distinct cats in the minister’s study, his heart is full of love for whatever i right.” This eulogy was fully merited, for al- though Master Sawyer was in no respect like the good small boy of literature, he lately did a wise and noble act, for which the language of ordinary praise is far tov feeble. In Northern Vermont that peculiar form of social outrage formerly known as a “surprise party,” but of late commonly called a * Bul- garian atrovity,” is still lamentably frequent. n a cold evening in the first week of the pres- ent month Mr. Sawyer and his family were seated quietly by their social hearth, enjoying one another’s socicty. The cleriryman was read- ing aloud the Bishon’s pastoral fetter; his wife was_busy calculating how to cut up her hus- band’s old overcout 50 as to supply him with a new waistcoat, herself with a mew overskirt, and Master Sawyer with a new pair of trousers, while that cxcellent small boy was reading the improving adventures of an eminent pirate, and wondering whether he would ever beableto ema- late them.- Not one of the family was pre- pared to receive visitors. Mr. Sawyer had on his dressing-gown and slippurs; Mrs. Sawyer had let down her back hair to give freedour to her mental processes, and Master Sawyer had temporarily slipped off bis trousers to supply his mother with a pattern, while he wrapped the heurtb-rug about him. Suddenly, and with- out the least warning, more than four dozen people of all kivasand sexes, including men, women, teformers, and theological students, burst into the room, carrying cake and devast tion with them. Master Sawyer fled howling; the clergymnan pushed back his spectacles, and tried to smil whastly swmile; aud his heroic wife, by hurricdly twisting her back hair with both hands, and holding her comb between her teeth, manazed to avoid uttering the welcome which the invaders expected, but which her con- scicnce forbade her to express. The marauders conducted themselves after the usual custom of their kind. They convers- ed with onc another with great hilarity, iznor- iug the sufferings of the clerzyman and his wife. Tney spread their cake upon the tabie, and, devouring it without plates, scattered the crumbs over the new carpet. One young man, having laid a larze picce of jelly-cake on the sofa, subsequently sat down onit, and Mrs. Sawyer felt that she would gladly join the Churen of Rome on condition that the medi: val tortures of the Inquisition should be revi ed and she herself delegated to apply them to that particular young man. After having re- duced the turniture to that state of grease that it was no longer safe to sit down, the miscre- ants gathered around the piano and sang “What Shall the Hurvest Be?” until Mr. Shw- yer, mild as he was, rezretted that be could not tuke'a sharp scythe and reap an immediate and bloody harvest. i Whiie those blood-curdling outrages were in progress in the parlor, the zood small boy kept himself carcfully out of 1h¢ room. He was not, howeer, wasting his time in idle rage. He, too, heard the meloidious inquiries as to the harvest, and remarked to himsel{ that they would find out_all -about the harvest if they would only wait a few minutes. Meanwhile, he was busily engaged in carrying pails of water and emptying them on the front step and along the walk “leading from the front door to the gate, The night was cold, and the water froze -apidly. Under his admirable management the ice acquired an unusually smooth and slippery character, and when the work was thoroughly done, the small boy retired to the second-story front window and waited for the surprisc-party to break up. “I'ic moon was at the full, and shone brizatly when the tirst pair of miscreants—the young man who_saton the jelly-cake and a heavy young ladr, to whom li¢_wasaflianced—issucd from the front door, and iustantly. s: with tremendous emphasis, Close behind them came the rest of the raiders, who with onc ac- cord strewed themselves over the ground, until in some places they were coliected three or four deep. Tae shrieks of the ladies and the stronger remarks of the men filled the air. No sooner would a struggling wretch regain his feet than he would sit down again with renewed violence, ‘The affrizhted elergyman and his wife gazed with wonder at the appalling spectacle, and the rood small boy never ceased to sing * What hall the Harvest Be# at the very top of his lunigs,—interspersing that stirring hymu _with a wild “*whoop whenever a particularly brilliant pair of stockings waved in the air. Although ouly three persons sustained fatal injurics, there was scarcely a member of the . party who cscaped without more or less serious wouudls, either of body or clothine. Seventeen legs, tworibs, six arms, and a nose were broken five ankles and &ix wrists were sprained, and one ehoulder was dislocated. The icy pavement was strewed with fragments of teeth, spectacies, coats, trousers, and skirts, and Master Sawyor picked up enough copver aud silver chanee the next morning to cnable him to buy twelve tickets in a raflle for a broken shot-gun, and to subscribe handsomely to the missionary {und. It is generally belicved that there will niever be anotlier surprise party in Brooktield, and it is under contemplation among middle-azed house- gholders to present Master Sawyer with « service of murbles und a life membership in the For- cign Missionary Socicty, s a testimonial of their esteem aud gratitude. BUD CROWNER AT THE BALL., Virginta (Nev.) Enterprise. Up in the hall of the Pacific Coast Pioneers a few evenings ago several of the * old boys and a number of later comers, their friends and admirers, were talking over carly days in Cali- fornia. ‘1 shall uever forget my first ball fn Cali- forni,” said Bud Crowner.” “ 1t was at Hanz- town, in '52. in crossin’ the plains we had all kinds of bud luck. We had some of our hosses. stoled by the Injuns, some died, and at last se left belind wagons and everything but what we could carry on our backs. “It was every feller {for himself in a short time. I traveled on foot and tuck the desperate chances of fiudin’ grub among sich wagons and camps as I passe .\'c:u-]i' naked and balf- starved I finally got to the Humboldt. I found o larze party of “emigrants camped thar for a day or two to rest, wash clothes, bake bread, and the like. . *“I was a rough lookin’ customer. Ihad on an old roundabout or wamus, that [ had wore all the way from Pike, trousers that was ready t0 drop off me, and 2 pair of moccasins I got +rom a Shoshone Injun for an old jack-Knife. A man at the cimp took pity on me, and, showing me two pairs of green baize drawers, told me'if 'd wash ’em I might bave one pzir for my trouble. As they were sound ana much better than my pantaloons, I jumped at the | edge of town. ‘became, ** Nothing but leaves.” down the river, behind a bunch of willers, to make my toflef. The washin’ and dryin’ had shruuk the drawers tosich anextent that it took me half an hour to git into ’em. Th was skin tizht, and lacked six inches of reachi down to my ankle jints. 2 “T walked up and down the bank of the ereek for along time before Icould make up m; mind to %o back to camp. 1 went and lookes for my old breeches, but 1 had throwed ’em into the creek at the start, and they had floated off or sunk somewhere. “As I walked up and down thar by the water my long, slim, green legs made me look like a ;_h'dlm-v.he-crcck, {8 crane, or some sich water owl. ‘- When T went to camp everybody roared and laughed, some rollin’ themselves op the ground and roarin’ till they was black in the face. g *“To keep the sun from burnin’ my ankles 1got some cloth and made strapsso I could strap the drawers down Lo my moccasins. In passin’ alonz by the wazons 1 overtook, I had to stand all the fun that people saw fit to. poke at me. ‘Here' comes the great crane of the “desert)’ some would say. while others called me the * green dragon of the plains.? * When I 2ot~ to Hangtown, I found out that there was to beagrand ball that pight in the Before scatterin’ out into differ- ent parts of the country, the people were goin’ to have a big dance together. ° ¢ In the evenin’ I V.hm%ht I'd_step down to where the dance was to ¢ome off aund lonk on awhile.” I found they had set up a lot of crotches in which they had laid poles, coverin’ the whole with pine and spruce boughs, makin’ a sort of canopy. The ground had been leveled off and beaten down till it was like a brick-vard. ** I fouud two or three fiddlers mounted on-, pine boxes and with them a feller with a carl- net. They were makin’ pretty fair music, anda great crowd were dancin’ away for dear life. **1looked on for a time, but pretty soom I got excited like, forzot all about my drawers, and sailed into the thick of tue business with a big Pike Ccuutf’ aal, with sun-bonuet off and hair bangin’ bait-way down to ber heels. 1 can tell you we made the dust fly. I soon saw that, though my drawers might be a little tiznt, 1 iind on nbout the soundest and guyest rig in the wholo place. I looked as though in some kind of masqueradin’ outlit, aud began to cousider myself tbe beau of the ball,—a regular dandy. B *‘I'made them long, green legs of mine fly in swingin’ on the corners, and was the wonder of every man, wowman, and child at the ba 1 oot s0 exited about the sensation I was makin’ that I cut all kinds of pizcou-wings and faney flour- ishes, bringin’ down the house every time. “+Go in, wreen lees! the fellers outside would holler, and go in 1 did. Finaily, a couple of:childrea come waltzin’ along. I thought it would be a good trick to sling one of my long, green legs, cireus fashion, over the heads of the little couple. “Itried it, and left that hall runnin’ like a skeered kiotee, and don’t kndw that I've ever 50t eyes on man, womau, or child that was thar from that day to this.” ** Guess you huve,” said an old chap amony the listeners. I was thar and saw the whole performance. It was my oldest gal yok was a- dancin’ with.” “The httle gal you tried to_swing your ley over,” said another old cock, was “my cnile and she is now the wile of Senator W—s, of California.” “T1 amthe very mao that gave you those green baize drawers,” said another of the party. ] remembered you as soon as you mentioned what happened out there on the Humboldt.” “* Wounderful! wonderful!” cried -Bud; then, turnine to a “ Pioneer ” sitting near, he said: & And you?” **Damfino.” said the man addressed. I guess [ must a-bin the Injun that traded you the moccasins I RECONCILIATION. Roghester Democrat. Senators Blaine and Conklingstood beforethe Clerk’s desk, looking bright and bappy and talk- ing animatedly. * Senator David Vavis came up,” says a dispatch to the Z'ribune, “and, put- ting an arm arqund each, stood there for several minutes, and until everybody on the floor and in the galleries had noticed theunusual and friend- Iy meeting.” It was vers pathetic. Mr. Blaine foolivg with one of the buttons of Mr. Conkling’s coat at the time, looking affection- ately into his face und involuntarily snugeling up to him. *‘Are you sure you forgive me#? be said, timidly. “ Why, of course!” was the hearty response. You timid little thing! 1 forgave you long since.” ** Dear, dear!” remarked Mr. Blaind, clapping his hauds. ** This is so nice! I must write and tell auuty all about it.” ** You refer to Gail Hamilton?” inquired Mr. Conkling, with some coldness. = “Why, yes ! said Mr. Blaine. “Why do you speak so icily? Do you not like her?” I do not!” said Mr. Conkling stoutly. “She talks too much. She gets out of her sphere. . She annoys. I think nothing would give that wowAn greater pleasure than to seratéh somebody.” - There was a very noticeable coolness betiween the two; but at this moment thie large and 1ath- erly gentleman from Illinois came up, and, let- ting a tear drop, joined the hands of the two, and’said: “Biess ye, me cnildren.” “Js thisa third party?” inquired Mr. Conk- ling, drawing himself up nanebtily, “No, dear,” replied Mr. Blaine, looking rozuish; it js only asecond—are we not one?” *“In that casc,” said Mr. Conkling with diz- nity, “it’s all right. -You will excuse my appa- rent caution; but it is necessary just now forus to avoid all entangling ailiances.” “Very well, dear,” said Mr. Blaine with gen- tle confidence. You know best, { am sure.” And the Christmas sun was shining brizhtly, and the Christinas bells were ringing far and near. A WOMAN-GAMBLER. Eureka (Ner.) Republigan. b Late last night the monotony of one of our second-story sporting rooms was relieved by the advent of a woman, closely veiled, accem- panicd by an escort. Her presence of course excited considerable curiosity; and the game (faro) was temporarily interrupted, the players and dealers taking more than ordinary interest in the newcomer. They recovered tlieir com- posure, however, on failing to penetrate her veil, and continued their game, keeping a good watch though, lest she mizht draw some instru- ment from under the ample folds of her dress, and castigate or scatter the crowd from their wrestle with the tizer. A number thought she was un outrazed wife in search of her dear “ hubby,” whose absence she had mourned and whom she wanted to catch at the green table. Al conjectures were, however, soon dispelled. The case-keeper bad risen from his seat wurned in. his checks, when the fair incognito deliberately planted herself in his chair. opened the case-Keener, piled up several $20-rolls of silvér alongside of 1t, and appeared ready for business. All eyes were turned upon Ler, and Purdy’s nimble fingers trembled per- ceptibly. A slight paleness was visible in the dealer’s face, but, like the boy who stood upon the burning deck, he was hound to stand it, win orlose. Luck favored the fair stranger, aud from white checks she turned to red, and the red resolvett chemselves into blue (35 ecach). She kept the cases carefully, and p with all the pluck of an old hand at the business. She won aud Jost, but kept gathering in the blue checks. Finally, when she was a couple of bLuundreds ahead, slic handed them to the dealer and received her eagles in - exchange, and, with her escort, left the room and _ disappeared from view. The eyesof the boys stuckout like bung- hoics on a molasses barrel. and they looked at each other in pertect bewilderment. ~They were mystitied by the fair stranger beyond concep- tion, and it was some time before the game was resumed. Who she was no one knew, but they would give sometning to find out. QUIPS. The latest out: The nired girl. > A hint tohotel-keepers—How to treat a guest: Treat bim with ino-civility. Arecent poem has the following lines, A tear danced in ber eye.” That tear must have been at the exc-ball. - ‘When the landlady discovered that her board- ers were dropping off, the burden of her song AMrs. Sprigsinspafter preparing her two little |, # Presidents of the future ™ for their bath, callea them *a pair of undressed kids.” s Young man, before setting out. to *court a girl,? supply yourself plentifully with courte plaster. This will make her stick to you. A man had a patch put on hi$ coat, the oth day, and then went and had the garment r:f bound. He said he had it **bouna over to keep the piece.” And now comes a fellow who wants to k how they found the *‘stone man of Cdlgx:;:": iukc:b ml}'c! ll“l‘:‘: su%nt:ased everybody knew ow they found him. They found him ¢ dead,” of course ! 7 M TrEkne chance. I washed the articles and hung’ em up on & bunch of willers to dry. +‘Presently the feller came and took onc pair, leavin’ the other for me. He was 2 little, spindlin’ bit of a cuss, while I,even at that time, starved as Ias, weizhed nigh on to 170 pounds. *I tool the drawers and went some distance “ Let me see,” remarked the guest, as, s in Land, he approached the clork ot "t et And sigh, **0 weary world! " Nay, Alllife'is famished where theee 4 new style ‘of chaprau came to-be Shrisia ‘“ Helmet.” He say3 - the- name oflr:sl:xezg from seeing a fat manin a roundabout, Bel.met luty who Jopked a5 thonua e i h—1l and been * defeated in the first Krager vouches for this. s ol THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, Communications intended for thi ‘#hould be addressed to THE TrinUNE, **Checkers.™ CHECKER-PLAYERS' DIRECTGRY. Athenmum, Nos. 63 and 65 Washington atreet, Departmeny. and indorseg PROBLEM XO. 45, 2 By H. D. Lyman, Washington. D. ¢, % ‘White. Hem ® Je /,// f/%// e (2] /é% 5 ) e Z X, Black to move and win. POSITION BY C. HEFTER, CHICAG o‘;fllnck men on 2,3, 4, 12, lflf“f " ¥hite menon 7. 10, 11, 1, White to move and win. h 20, 25; King 16, 22, 23, 32, . TO CORRESPONDENTS, Amateur—Both probiems acceptea, H. D. Lyman—Recuived with thanks; will com- ply- A. E. Morse—Thanks for your kind contribg. ton. ¥ J. M. W.—Position too easy for publication i this paper. > Samucl Siegel—Thanks for the shail have early attention. Jobn C. Wallis—All three variatio wins. You should play the whites sirongar, D o8 J. H. B.—Certainly, at the Athenzum. A stand. Ing notica always appears at the hoad of tug colamn. G.W. Scott—Play 15-10at eishth move of yourgrst solution and white wine. Play 15-14 at foqmepmi q'mre'ol your second solution, and how can black draw? games, whick _Frank Giddey—Yonr fourth move of first sola. tionisa loss for whites. Continoe your secos gn.a7, /1510, 11415, 91, ity and how'can black draws Fred Johnson—Mr. Hefter writes that your play on his criicism is impossible. ana that his ecs. ciem was, or should have been, at the fifteenth move of Var. 14, Game 132, 13-17 for 2-81 draws. Tn game No. 130 the losing move was made previous to 27-2: CHECKER ITEMS. . The Fitzpatrick-Bowen correspondencs games will be published in this paper soon. Col. C. D. Gates, of Cambridge, Vt., wasavis- itor at the players’ headquarters last week. A dranghts handicap tourney has deen arranged to be played at Manchester, commencing Dec. 26, The Strond-Sullivan match terminated in favor of the former by the score of 27 to 12, and elevea games drawn. Mr. C. Hefter, dranght editor of the Chicago Pout, started for Boston yesterday to witness the Yates-Darker contest. Mr. Hanford, of Duffalo, N. Y., had a sitting with 3lr. L. B. Cook, the 'Michigan champion, & the Goodman House, Detroit, a few daysazo Scoré: Cook, 3; Hacford, 1; drawa, 3. Totl, seven games. Mr. A. Adair, of Kansas City, ¥o.. s out witha letter in the Boston Globe, disputing r. Joseoh' Zanont's claim to the anthorship of the correction of Anderson’s trunk Bristol, and claiming the cor- rection tobe orizinal witn himself. AMr. C. Hefter writcs that he was somewhat sar- prised to sce in Tuy Triwuxe of the ldtn nst Mr. Giddey dispute his score with him while ag - r Jfr. Giddey obtained 3 winning position tn onc zame, but carclessly lost the wume, and that Mr. Giddey also skowed {:ow Ar. Booth should have won & game, but at no time did he actually win a game, nor does having a winning position or showing how another player could have won, entitle him to claim a Detroit. Iie says SOLUTIONS. The solution to prize prublem No. 44 will b published as s00n as a correct solution is received. Quite a number have zent in their solutions duriag the past week, none of them, however, being ths correct solution to the problem. Pass in your solu- tions, gentlemen. OLUTION TO POSITION — 23. 12-18 1 3129 18-25 8 Hlack 1-15 4 13 wins, GAME No 143—CROSS. =t Played in Chicago, Dec. 11, between C. F. Barker, Boston, and G. W. Scott, Chicago, GAME NO. 1it.—WHILTER. Played in Detroit, between Mr. llanford, of Bat- falo, N. X., and L. B. Cook, of Detroit. Cook’s move. 11-15 : 2—19 13~ Hanford wun. GAME NO. 1 Plaved at Janesville, Morse and ** The Court,™ WHILTER. Wis., between A B. move 16-19 -7 9 1718 (a) The men at this move stand exactly tha same. AL E M GAME NO. 146—LAIRD AND LADY. Played nlhnzlmk. Alich., between C. Hefter an. oot . C. L. B L (Contributed by W. J. Giadey.) Bootl's move. 10-17 13— 9-13 | 19-27 2A—14 i 2513 15-18 5-9 (% 19-15 -3 ] 43 a—i3 17-13 | 34-19 2419 Hetter won. (n) At thisstage of the game I claimed a win for Booth. Mr. Ii=fter said I could not win aguiost Whites. “Instead of 59 I played as follows? 17- 16—19 5-9 7-23 3-23 (b) 2318 14— 16-7 Black wins. (b) ve,—] 2. Giddey's plav is very pretty and edlect- . GAME NO. 147—SINCLE CORNER. ° Played at Terre Haote, Ind., in the Brumfel- Owens match. . .2 (Contributed by W. 3. Purcell, . D.) Brumfel's move. 10—14 Fats 10-17 |1 28-24 21 13: 9] 13 11-15 2218 (a) Loses; 1-5 draws, (b) Owens could ha: 2 11-15 When we take into consideration that neither of the players bave any book knowledge whatever.. the above must be and prettily dnlshed. conceded a well-played game RS ————— TO THE CYNIC. Why senrch all precincts of the traveled Earth, From pole to pole with pelted zones confined, Pure hdppiness in human love to find, But to disparage love's nobility and worth, Make {t n butt Tor scollers’ idie uurtn, Or say such love 13 Jac] kind, L s be not blind. a'dearth. I o & 4 liote. A L Smee "3[\5%'"2:7-"“;.“55% ar (oo s et et il ik sy 2! 0, i, some love sct neit! bar. gfi: went belore you were up,” replied the wau recom n:n:e l';exfl.:n F.frmfi'x’ég"i’émi' = 3 Tenected hance soen 1o moon and sar. ruger says he doesn’t wish to appe: - O Foths op.oY l0ve f. man, mot gold, crent, but he would like o explain l‘:‘;wmge oAt Rl e sz B. 2. i