Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1878, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY.. AUGUST 25, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES PARIS PRISONS. | 7 1he Difficulty of Coing to Jail in That City When You Are Anxious to Get In. How s Sweeping Order from the Pre- fect of Police Took “ Gideon” Behind All the Bars. goteresting Scenes in the Great Prisons of Manzas, §t. Lazare, La Ro- quette, and Elsewhere, Tha Hewest and Most Remarkable Rea- son on Record for Committing Deliberate Murder, - will Have Happered Before This Letter Is Read in Chicago. MANZ: From Our Own Correspordent. Passs, Acs- 9.—Parisians naturallydall into srogesersl classes,—those who are in jail znd hoes who 8T out. The latier may in theirturn jeamnzed gnder three Leadings: those who pyrebeen ia jail, those who are likels to be, those who ouzht to be. Seeularly enours, fn a city where the facili- paslorgetting behiad the bars are so necessary pcdimpte, OF first essay 2t going to jail was gixethe Keely motor,—it didn't work. I hada ard to the Director-General of the Manzas Prmfrom a bigh American official, saviog fa efes that T was a devil of 2 fellow in America, gnd requestin courteously that I be permitted 1ovisit the fnstitution. Tmtcsrd and its bearer went as far as the conderre,and po farther. Atsight of it the zate- “peeperhad a fit. H mped around pis littie pen ofan office like a turpentined puppy, and abused ¢ forthe worst kind of a forelgn fool for dar- jcetoexpect to et in withiout 2 svecial order gom the Prefect of Police. He wouldu't send the card to the Director-General, and ke youldn't do anything except berate my idiocy. Not knowing put there might be Parisian eguistions under which a person could be Jocked up merely for asking to iuspect a jal, T s sway. Just as cocher was driving me of, 2 great prison-van loaded with a fresh sist ol wretches inmbered up to the ponderous pste. Its haze portals yawned, and they went in easily ecough. A few dars later I was at the doors of Manzas saw. Thistime I had verbaps as compreben- sre an order as Was ever presented by a visitor fo8 Paris prison. It was a command 1o the teads of the various places of legal incarcera- fion i the citv to show the bearer every detail o the prizon he might visit; to answer ail bis (@estions. and to afford him evers opportunlty {x scrutiny he micht desire. It was sizned, teand black, by the Pretect of Police, and had st considerable bother in the obtaining. ut the trouble has more than repaid the firsy Jal. At sight of it that concierze doubled Foself into the sembliance of a folded lemon- sacezer, threw open his door, aund nearly stood @bic head. Pe first view was that of a lovely court, the tzh brown-stone walls_of which were eglow <ih flowering vines. To be ushered from this st snot to the loncliness of their cells is as conld possibly be cooked 4z the newly-arrived prisoners. ssine the court, ou which faces the bouse fthe Director and his family, I was headed off br an iron-latticed door and jts iron-faced rurdiau. The document was the best kind of 10pen sesame, howerer, and the barrier flew bk Passioe juside, my credentials were giared over, smelied of, and jawed about by foar or five ofiicials, after which 1 was taken to aseeretars’s office. The secretary was evidentiy awed at the aver, Lut dissatistied in mind as to the pos- iy of my bavine murdered its rightful owner end stolen it from his ¢ead body. Ileran neover with a distrusttul eye. and then sent the order to sumebody in a back department. Atter wasting. some minutes. end just as Iwas wnsigering tte advisability of turning mv pockets out to ehow they contained no tine saws whers for_prisoners’ use, the messenger re- tarned, and 1 was marshaled in pomp to the Diector-Lieneral. & Here the lundrances were over, for he was an ;| Aceeabie gentleman and a sensible executive. fie had that tender. sympathizing 1ace curiously wmmon with jail-manazer, and outside would bre been taken for a juicv-rearted abbe. It mast bea rough set-back for imprisoned ras- s, who expeci to find such men piadle and asy-zoing. 10 learn that they are as touch ard aterding as the bars on the erated windows, The rood-looking Chief, whose face, ficure, nd carriage suzwrested Sullivan, of the Journal, thosgh sn older man, called an_ assistant, read thePrefect's order 10 him slowly, impressed tm to rerard its injunctions fuily, and waved ®eont o1 his office. az.s is a prison of detention. Al arrested ersons in Paris are first taken to the concier- ferie, W cheered by tt.e fact that they are I s eminentiy historical lock-up. they are kgt come twenty-tour bour: Preliminary Jucges then pass ipon their cases, and all who menot discharred cr released on bail are sent toMenzas to await full trial. Those sentenced 18 short. terms, for minor offenses, also go to s prson. A MODEL PRISON. Manzss §s in the western part of Paris, and #een from the outside is a massive wall running moud s space about equal to larme aty bocks. Tt Is ugly enourh appearing from with- ont, and announces itself as a prison at sight. Mereiy looking «t its esterior serves to make most forewwners behave themselves, though ir doesu't keep numbers of thew from befng ar- rested. luside, it fsan enormous double wall. with med soldiers pacing between, and further I3 gignatic cart-wheel. The Director-General's office s the reat hub. and {rom this run sIX buze etone spokes. These spokes cotain the «ells, 13000 number, and all are large, well- aired, aud fairly lizhted. ) The system is the “solitary,” the same that werells at Phitadelphis and Pentouville. No Pritoter sees, Lears, mor can in any way com- Thbiate with another. Toose who are under sentence work in thelr c2lls making paver bags, paper boxes, and other l::; the manufacture of which is easily hoA:‘x‘nunz the roods thus made I noticed copy- ks for the usegof school-schildren. There ere the old famitiar precepts, doae in French, ll_-hctey :_;x each page. After a rogue, in a tary prison-cell, has prizted off daily for six '1““ axioms about Houesty being the Best o.“c\-. thc on;h'. to begin to kaow aud profit ¥ the fuct. But, alack, he isoften th 110 does w0t uraitice, Jud the. Slanses” rmate mes frequently back to his old quarters un- e_‘r_lsemenfie for fresh offenses. Those who are awaiting trial for more seri mFs ‘m'ed not work. But they mrfciczn]?x‘;i b;u:lmicd, and mauy of them reguest that r be furnished tuem. Probsbly these are baps who know that hard jail work is ahead Lt‘hem dud are destrous of getting used to it ivance. Those who do not fancy toil are r d with reading from a library, and all b lowed to buy books snd pape i aIe’kifln-eksor the usual jail order; like the ™ r’n isagc»lmx;u countrv, there is enough er? DULI's uniuvitive. Al prisoners, how- hemarbuy of a licensed Purveror to the s ho;- wibes, cigars. and comestibles of ta':henn A printed tariff of charges hangs o D’ . The pricesare fair, and are fixed mn:slr;mflr—hcnm Af tie gentle Purvey- e ri ot SUaltY, price, or quantity, be runs i :;ubemz himeel: stuck into a cell. m&hh ; -door Lias an ere-hole. scarcely one- b oa:n inch in aiameter, through which m;u_flm ©an peer at acy time unknown to the ; P‘rgo xeli-door can also be opened and Jocked b Ut three inckes. This is coue Sunday ‘“ZS, and the pricopers squint through a2t the priest, wio holds service from i erected over the office in the ventre. B E2e bim, but not each other. It is the mxmox of exclusive religion. Nobody 15 Daving 2 sexton show some aistastetul L into his pew. 'g:.ne\s do not hare the run of the jail as s x‘l‘hey _must havea permit from the ke*erem‘rqsmp‘ 2nd when ‘'one coes he is tatiop ) bis dlient 1nto 3 special cell for con- _§3¢ pnsoners can see friends twice a week, + }former obtalning permissiou from the Pret , olice. They are allowed to visit one inacell divided into three grated com- partments. The prisoner jabbers in one, Ten of relative aiks bach rom 1ot othed, 4n # rurd sits between in_the middle one. The Frgnch 4o not fancy baving the means of escape passea to imprisoned criminsls, and pobody breaks out of Manzas. But think of the sto- rles, sighs, and wailings that rail over the heads and shoulders of those sandwiched guards In the course of a yvear! g My toor of this prisor was long and interest- fogz. Its fruits may be condensed. It is plainly superior to aoy Americau house of criminal detention, Ithas no idle prisouers who are under sentence. It prevents innocent persons from contamination bs association with euilty ones. ftis secure. Itis wholly free from po- Litical meddling. It heaas off ~savstering col- Jusion hetween justiy-immured offenaers and irrespousible Jawyers.” It gives each prisoner a. cell large enough to breathein; not a stonc closet. It 15 clean, wholesome, ingeniously buiit, and admirably ruled. it is one of those much-prated-of thinzs which are better man- aged in France than anywhere else in the world. Ishould add that curiosity-bunters are dently rarities in Manzas. A Traupmaon could oot have bren stared at more by toe various officials than was mvself as 1 was conveyed about the place by the zuide. Shortly before leavice I peeked through one of the tiny apertures in a certaju cell-door. In fact 1 had spent 2 wood porticn of the time in Ehmlar squinting, There was an astonishing fascination in this sort of a pecp-show; to be able to watch caged unfortunates as they worked, ate, and = pondered, without their knowledge that somebody was looking at them. In this particalar cell lounzed & handsome bewhiskered young man whifing a cizarette and occasionally scribbling at a stack of paper on the table beside him. **What is he in for " I asked of my cicerone. ‘The latter took his turn at the nole and then said pleasantly, Oh, he ¢ He is a journalist. His trial takes place to-morrow. The charge is hibel, and he will probavly be sent back here for three months.” A Frenchman has no seose of humor. Call him a thief, or some little thing like that, in a l}e_;rspaper, and he will up and have you seni to jait. WOMEN AND BOYS. All female prizoners, whether awaiting trial or under sentence, are sent to the orison of St. Lazare. Here they are guarded and attended mostly by women, although, of course, soldiers and some other men are necessary about the place. The women who are serving out sentences labor mgstly -at making uniforms for the French army. Nearly all of the clothing worn by the red-lezged musket-bearers of France is manufactured at St. Lazare or otber prisons for females. Visitors, partictilarly reputable lady visitors, are allowed in this prison to a considerable ex- tent, and the poor girls and women generally have a beiter style of callers when in jail than when out. The. inspection was nut very entertsining to me. To see over S00 females, of generally good figure and bad character, sewing at red breeches was effective to the artistic eye, but melancboly to the pure Chicago beart. The Director told me that the imprisonment emed to work an sverage improvement, and that numbers of his patients led reformed lives after being turncd loose. He also said that, barring the proneness to hysteria of many of the poor girls, his subjects were mostly very dozile and casy to manage. It is only the French woman at liberty who cannot behave herself. Bor miscreants in Paris, under 16 years of age, are coufined in a separate prison, ust op- posite La Roquette. Each youthiul wrone-doer s brouzht here in 2 separste van, and is confined in a solitary cell. From the day of his arrest till his discharge he sees nobody but his guards, his parents when they eall, and bis instructors. He eats, works, sleeps, atrd exercises in solitude, and has two or three hours schooling & day, sitting in a hich pen, where he can sce his teacher, but not one of his young fellow-sinners. The work is light, and is graded according to the azes and physical ability of the prisouers. The diet is good. and the general results of the imprisonment excellent. . Edmond Braudreth, a capable Director, W his soul m the work, piloted me through every portion of his wteresting domain. ile said that over three-fourths of the boys turned out respectable men. How would they turn outif piled in helter-skelter witlr older and crime-hardened prisoners, as in the United States? “That looks likeagood boy,” Isaid, when one particularly Lrizht little fellow stepped out of an opened cell. “Oh. they are all good boys,” snid M. Brandreth, “while they are here.”” What the French leal code calls * simole stealing” brings most boys licre, and vazrasey nearly all the rest: both of which they usually outgrow as the years of scuse cowme on. LA ROQUETTE. This prison is known as The Depot of the Condemnea.” Toit come criminals vko have been regularly tried and are under severe sen- tence. Here they awalt exccution or transpor- tation; for Paris prisons are like Paris homes— nobody remains long in any of them. As soon as 3 large enoush load congregates at La Ro- quette, the yretches are shipoed to penal settle- ments at New Caledunia. This cleans out§the place every few months, new victius of cours coming from the courts to occupy the work- benches and cells of those who are deported. Roquette prisou thus contains at all times some 400 of the worst criminals in the world. And their faces are the uziiest the Devil ever forged. Sauntering through the shops and cor- ridors of this Depot of the Condemned, and studying the countenances of the inmates, I could for the first time see features that told of Liearts within atrocious enough to plan and carry out the horrors of Communism. Such utterly damnable phizzes would warrant an honest mau in shooting auy of their owners at sicht. Work hours at Roguette are from 5 in the morning until 6 5t night. Toe convicts labor In four larve shops making paper boxes, metal buttons, deor-hinges, shoes, ete. Iobserved that some conversation was ailowed, the prison- ers tatking in undertones to one another. At Szt of such @ rarity 8s 4 visitor a loud buzz Went around each shop, wlich was subdued by 4 shout of warning from & guard. DBut they would turn around and gape as I passed, and whisper to each other excitedly about my proba- ble mission. I was glad to get out without bav- ing iy watch grabbed. The celis are fair-sized, but dismally desti- tute. T:e uniform is a heavy dark-gray stufl, and enormnous wooden sboes.” Apart from the shoes the attire has no suggestion of Penite tiary garb, and would not attract special atten- tion from a eitizen if scen in the streets of Paris. But a gendarme og detective would knov it at once, and if a prisoner of Roquette could break through tne four or five wails of structure, dodge the bullets of two lines of colduers, and get outsice, he would be picked 2 aud returned by 8 police emissars in fifteen minutes. Tne modes of punishment arc ample but not brutal, as in all French prisons. Thereare no buck-and-gaes, no stringing up by the thumbs. The refractory brute goes into 2 combpletety- dark ccll, sans blanket or pallet, and lays on the stone floor until heis readv to be decent. The Suards gre patient, and take him_quietly back %o the dupeeon if he proves faithiess to his pledges of penitence. They will do this a hun- dred times if necessary, and this sort of faithful attention is said to never fail to take the ob- Stinate starch out of the worst cases. If the wretch is fighting ugls, Le s slioped joto n camisoie-de-force. or French-jail strait- jacket, und, swathed like a muminy, i3 dumped foon the flazeing of the dark ccll. Ilis mind mav be active, but_bis body is not, and it does not take long for bim to conclude that batton- making and cbedience s better than Lhis sort of thing. FOOD FOR THE GUILLOTINE- After my jsunt through pearly every part of Roguette, the Director said: I have some- thing unusual to show which your order entitles you to see.”” ‘He then took me to the doors of two separate cells, in the lower section of the prison, and, drawing the slide of one, told me to look in. Seated in a chair, with chains on his ankles, and swaddled in a camisole-de-force, 80 that he could move nothing but his head and feet, was 2 man of intelligent but sneaking face. Before him sat & guard, turning the leaves of a book while the bandaged prisoner read. In the other cell was snother maz similarly chained and bound, Iying upon his bed smok- ing. The guard removed the cigsr from tbe fellow’s mouth or replaced it whenever the lat- ter desired. o The camisolede-force in which each prisoner was swaddled was a cost made of coarse sacking and cords. The cords were lashed around the arms, bicding them across the breast immora- bly. This_restriction, with the presence of 3 guard at all_times. prevented every possibility of suicide. The guard. relieved frequently dav and night, had to feed and otnerwise minister to his wholly helpless charge. ‘Looking inquiringly at the Director after this had been shown me, I was answered men are Barre and Lebiez. They came here yesterday. They are to be guillotined.” T kuew the restof the story well epough. Barre, a man of schooling and a lawyer by pro- Tession, had hired Lebicz to help him murder an ola milk-woman. She bad,in a lifetime of toil- ing and senmping, saved about 32,5005 and to obtain this she was butchered. Barre intended to use the money to start a newspaper! This is the first murder of that sort on record. Men who have been coaxed in America to put money into newspapers bave often been mad enough to kill somebody afterward; but to as- sassinate fn order to raise the fuads to found a journal is Frenchy and unprecedented. This horrible scoundrel also bad the perve to deliver a Jecture to some law-students the very cevening of the murder. ‘The Court of Cassation, from which tberc is 1o appeal, has the case under fioal review. But the crime is so clear!y fixed and so unique in its flendishness that there is no chance of com- mutazion, and the two heads are_certain to be X : FRENCH JUSTICE. There is no nonsense about French justice. The condemned murderer has no . chance for entertaining sentimental visitors, reportorial interviewers, etc.; no long months of being a viltainous hero; no opportunities for fresh trials, supersedeases, and other law-cheating dodaes. He comes straight from the court where he is doomed to Roguette, the solitary guard, and cumisoledeforce. And usually in less than 2 week, with just one hour’s notice, he is rushed to the seaffold and sent to pereition without & head. Tnis is neater and better than the inhuman Massachusetts method of keeping a murderer In jail a whole year, snd then takicg bim out and hanging him. ‘fhat rulcis only squaled by the meanness of a fate which will hoh} a steamer-load of ccean passen- ers in the miseries of sea-sickness for ten dags, and theu drown them in sight of home. Some morning just before dawn, in a few days now. and” when - this letter is sailing Chicagoward, lanterns will be flashed in the oves of Barre and. Lebiez, and they will jump from sleep and dreams of pardon to be told that in one bour they must die. Then there will bea few minutes to eat, if they can eat; a few mlnutes with tbe barber to trim the bair from the back of the neck, and a few minutes with the priest. Then they will be led across the same court erc the Archbishoo of Paris was shot by the Commune scoundrels, through the wall, out upon the guillotine scaffold. “The day: will just be breaking, and the famous macbine of death will only havg been built in silence about half an hour. Yet there witlbea considerable number of spectators there, for many persons hire couriers to watch every ing outside of Roquette when an execution is possib od to runand wake them as soon as the erection of the scaffold begins. But there will be little opportunity of posing for miserable Barre and Lebiez. The execu- tioner will grab the first one, push him against a plank, strap him, face forward, to it, up the plank down, run it between the two cojumns of 2 pile-driver, and pull a string. The pile-dpver witl happen to hare an ax underneath, and when it fies down the posts to the bottom, there will be a head in a small basket on one side of it and a body on the other. The body will be rolled ioto a long basket; the second victim thrown upon the plau’, and run under the ax. Then, in less than four minutes from the time the murderers emerged from Roquette, there will be two bodies in the long basket, and two heads in the litile one, and Barre and Lebiez will be—1 bee Bob Inger- soll’s pardon—in betl, where they belong. G1IDEON. THE HOMELY GIRL. A Study of a Neglected Institution. Written for The Tribune. The homely girl is a favorite of fortune from the cradle to the grave. The practiced eyes of the busy and curious group upon whom the orbs of the red and quivering little mass of humanity first alizht in this world are not slow to dis- cover that, whatsoever other endowinents may have been bestowed upon her, the dangerous gift of beauty has been withheld. The anxious mother, eagerly scauning the faces of those about her to catch the first and freest expression of their thoughts about the little stranger for whom her beart s already swelling withaffection, is quick to interpret what she secs upon those faces and, mother-like, toresent it. Impulsively stretching out her arms toward the group, she, with sudden strengzh and energy, demands and obtains possession of her child and nestles it upon her bosom. How touching the act!. How subhimely symbolic of the rest and shelter to be found within thosc arms, upon that bosom, in after stormy years! The earlicr years of the homely girl are as the kindred vears of otherchildren.” Busy with her youthful thouzhts and plans, her childish doings, ber young companions, no Euggestion has come to her from within or without of that “laying on of bands” by which fate, at the dawn of her life, bad set her apart for a special and peculiar share In the world's work. Her motler, watehful but sileut, and Wwith the pa- tience and persistence only possible to mothers, has quietly trod the path which reason. quickened by pride and affec- tion, had pointed out to her on that first mem- orable day. Thnat which Nature. prodigal but capricious, had denied to her child, should be replaced by qualitivs of mind and leart more enduring, if less enchanting, than beauty. Such was her resolve, and strong in that purpose every day—every hour of the day—has supoplied its opportunities and its Jessons, the latter none the less effective beeause unconsciously learned. Tt is the sckool-time of life with the homely girl. The motier’s teaching has not been vain. Gentleness, modesty, and patience are RmMONg the jewels that bedeck her character. Already she has taken many steps along the road that leads to the goal of her especial life, and has tound it a fair and pleasaut journey. Teachers and fellows riyal each other in loving and praisisg her. and who shall _decide which has the stronger reason? Beneath ber gentle but fervid infiu- ence, even the rude and selfish tendeccies of the pert and poutiug miox who is at once the pet and bane of the school—the spoiled beauty of sowe vain and heedless household—melt away. Ah! what happy, fruitful days are the school-dass of the homely girl! At home, in the intervals of school-life, the homely girl, howbeit so young a star, fairly shines. What life would be to her mother without her thoushtful and ready aid at every turn of the household-wheel, that' mother is un- Willing even to_imagine. How much of the taste, order, and comfort that pervade their home from the rising of the sun to the going down thereot is due to her, the father, brothers, and sisters of the homely girl will never know till she shall have passed over the threshold for- ever. Shrewd suspicions of the indispensable character of her presence nud service theyindeed have, for, from the biggest to the littlest, st waork orat play, in sickuess or in health, the first,.loud and longest cry is always for her. But is it not hard that this young life should be so early and completely given up to the service of others? Abno! Happy as those about her may be because of her, none enjoy such pure, Wabroken happiness as falls to herself. In this, at least, the fates are just. She has found the Spring of perpetual joy, and she sought it not in her own heart, but in the hearts of others. The homely irl is, at the end of her teens, the moet _interesting period of girlhood. Her childhood’s days, purzed of their youthful cares and calamities. and colored and softened by lime, have fized themselves as beautiful pict- ures in her memory, and her school- girl-days are entering upon the first ftaze of a_similar reformation. Too self- possessed to be cithes a dreamer or an enthusi- ast, her thoughts are busy with the present. Perhaps she has learned that priceless lesson, that in no way can the future be so well an surely controlled as by single-minded devotion to the duties ana opportunities of the present hour. Now, too, she bezins to have well-de- fined perceptions of differences between herself aad otner wirls that tend to make the currents of her lifc flow 1 other channels than their own. Sugeestions, indecd, she has had before, but too feeble and fsolated to make lasting im- pressions upon her youthful and elastic nature, ‘Frammed to modesty and self-denial, she had taken it to be the due and proper course of nature that others should be extravagantly raized and petted and she herself overlooked. ven at times when she had felt the sting of neelect, she had not failed to discover, in bebalf of those by whom tbe wound was in- flicted, excuses which disarmed both pride and resentment. ~And was she not a crowned prin- cess at home, and was not home all of the world that had the keeping of joy or surrow for her? But now the saggestions came to ber with new and stronger force, and, despfze her mother’s kindly tact and her own calm, strone tempera- ment, she cannot always escape the tears that’ flow trom vexation and disappointment. Has that girlish heart ever heat which bas mot vearncd for some share of the devotion paid by inen to women, weeping when it came not or when it deparied? But even as the hidden rose-tree fs detected at Jast by its fingrance, and thenceforth blooms no more in solitude, 5o it is with the homely girk. The wiseand sincere ventirenot to an- genr 111 the noisy tribe of foos and fintterers ave gone, or have made it certainthat they will not come at ali, but then they go only as they come, in the fullness of time. What mingled joy and sorrow fill the house- hold of the homely girl when it becomes certain at last that she is about to take up a new char- acter and pass out from among them to be the licht of another home. What scltish but loy- ing hopes of having her aliways to themselves are crushed, but _vet how willingly they resign them because of the new happiness they seein her. Other hopes crowd in, too, to take the places of those that are zone. They are not to lose her, but only to share her.with others who need her and will prize her as highly as them- selves. She will still be partaker of their joys und griefs, and will bring them into union with 3 wider citcle wherein the pleasures and pains of life pursue each other, and are respectivelv hightened and_softened by diffusion. ‘The loss of her constant presence and uid will be com- pensated by the larmer joy of her occa- clonal returns to them and their service. But the parting will be bitter at the first, and peither tney nor she would have it otherwise, because in that bitterness will be the proof of a duteous life béhina and the promise of a happy one before her. - The weddinz of the homely girl—who of the chosen and happy few who were there will ever forges it ! How pomp, vauiry, and vulgarity were bundled out of doors, and comfort, cor- diality, and mirth were installed in the place of nonor! How the old rénewed their youth and the young_porrowed something of the sobriety of age! How manly the bridegzroom looked as he rose to respond to the toast to the ‘““happy pair,” and bow ‘‘true womanlv"” looked the bride as friend after friend arose to pay bomely trbute to virtues which, though practicdd in re- tirement, had been seen and remembered by kindly eves and hearts, aod of which the pres- ent proud and happy day was the fitting crown and culmination! And then the final tumulit, as relatives and friends gathered eagerly about the twain when they departed upon the little jour- ney that had been thoughtfully planned to save to the bride the pain of a too-sudden translation from the old home and life to the new! How happy is the husband of the nomely gir}! Be is 2 marked man among his ellow-men, as with firm out buoyant step he walks along the busy strect. His eye is bright, his brow clear, his voice cheery, and the grasp of his hand puts new life and energy into the friend or acquaint- anceon whom he bestows it. Whosoready as he to take up the daily burdens of life and carry them a stage furtlier towardstheend? And well he may be, for he knows that frugaliry and toi! at home will make froitful his skill and indus- try exerted abroad. He knows, too, thatwithin the precincts of that home is a fountaio in which he may perpetually renew the youth and ardor that contact with the world is forever wearing away. In that home, wheu tne cares of to-day are over, he will find rest, recreation,—s new hope, and new courage for the toil of to-morrow. The children of tne homely zirl, who does not koow them? Ruddy of feature, limber of form, exuberant with life; gentlenessand intellizence shine in their faces’ like stars in 4 sunset-sky. Knowledge of the elements is so mixed in them that they fear neither water mor dirt. They dread " not the schoolmaster, nor love him over- much. Rudeness and servility are equally re- moved from their behavior at home or abroad. Books they love, but wisely love, as unobtru- sive friends who may be put aside without mur- mur or violence to friendship when other calls of duty claim the hour. The promise of their full life is of manliness on the one part and pa- tience on the other. They will be doers in the world, not eynical observers of it. The home of the homely girl. what an earthly aradise it is! Not that stateliness or splendor Pave there an abicing-place, for in truth they would be strange and unwelcome guests. The homely girl has ideas of her own touening the uses and ordering of her home, designing it for busband, children, and fricnds, as = place in whicn to be happy and at ease. Neatnessand good-aste are the sternest of her rales: In all else there is freedom. There are no darkened and locked-up rooms, no protected carpets, no covered furniture, no chandeliers forever swathed in gauze. It is not in the economy of the homely &irl that there should be French china and sterling silver in the closet_while dell and pewter do service on the table. It is Sun- day all the week with the household goods and gods of the homely girl, and the “company manners of her children are tne same that they practice in the privacy of their home. But, paradise as this home may be, it is indeed an earthly one. Sickness and misforiune are not wholly straneers to its precincts, and Death has been kuown to force his way wittin its por- tals. Not all the little feet tpat have pattered over its floors aud stairways are longer to be neard; not all the infant voices that have glad+ dened _its walls continue to echo. Yet cven Death has becn grappled with and partly overcome. He has succeeded in obscur- ing Gome of the lizhts of the household, but none has been put out. The names of the ab- sent ones are repeated in the nightly prayers, the stars that shine oftenest and brightest into the nursery windows are assigned to them us dwelling-places, their infant chaira retain their positions at the family board, their birthdays are celebrated, they are remembered in the Christmas decorations, their graves in the cem- ctery are as parden-plots of tne household. ‘Thus is Death disarmed and the unity of the family circle maintained. Time tlies not less swiftly with the homely girl than with others; yet ke’ bears her kindly. We see her now in the far-evening of life, no longer the homely girl, but a venerable woman in whose face dignity and refinement are added to the expressions of former years. These are her days of rest: peace has been hers alinost unbrokenly through life. She lives much in the -past; mnot that the present is bare of happiness, but it is only in memory now that she can be with him, the dear com- panion of her better years, or with the children whom she tinds it so’hard ' to identify with the bustling men and women who gatner tenderly about her, and who call her Motber.” Yet it is not peritted her to wander too often or stay too long in the rerion of the past, for the tramp of childish feet and the chatter of childish tongues are around her, and there are many critical veriods of the day, and innumerable petty services that only *Grandma* can man- age or perform. These are happy distractions and duties, for they shorten and sweeten the fragment of life that vet pertains to her. Tue grave of the homely girl! - Here at last the carrent of her existence returns to the common stream of life. Henceforth she shares the general destiny of her race, her grave the point of departure from whence she is to jour- ney along the beaten road. But that grave will long continue to be sacred and pe- culiar to those of her naome and kindred whom she bas left behind. For many and many a day will fitial and pious hands keep green and fri- grrant that precious mound of earth; and yetthe time must come when that mound shall have sunk, indistinguishable, into the surrounding clay, and there shall be no loving hands near enough to continue the pious offices tothe dead. But even then the dead will not be lonely or neglected, for the busy town, so distant when she was laid to rest, will be approaching with giant striges her last restiog-place, and soon the cheerful hum of ‘vager life will be foating over hermolderine form, and unquiet feet will be drawing nigh to seck, in the shade ana solitude of the &pot, some respite from their hot and wearying journey. And who shall say that this conjunction of life and death will not be bar- monious and fitting? It will be only the brief turning aside of the noisy tide of life to mur- mur gratefully past the dry and desert homes of those without whose faithful husbandry the very spriugs of life would have Jong since dried up. Americais the land of Institutions. Alrcady prodigious in number and bewildering in variety, the national exuberancy of expression continues to feed the national vanity with such incessant and incongruous additions to the list, that soou the definitfon of an iustitution, as underatood jn America, Will become' a_bare paraparase of Sir James Stephens® definition of afact: ¢ Everything capable of being perceived by the scnses, and every mental condition of which any person is conscious.” But, despite the pervading character of Amer- ican institutions, and the extent to which they bave been exploited, it is true that there has long existed amongst usan institution truly national in respect of its extension and influ- ence, the praises of which uone has sound- ed; the olories of which e has recounted; the workings of which nove has observed and recorded; the characteris- ticsand tendencies of which none has analyzed and delineated. And yet this merlected insti- tution has bitherto exerted, and will continue to exert, an influcnce upon the national life and character as great, perbaps, as all other social forces combined, and in its continued existence and influvnce must be found one of the best hopes aud dependences of the nation against the accumulating perils that beset cursocial and politica! life. p We are not, as_a people, willfully neclizent or ungratefal. Weoften overlook, but seldom turn away_from, obligations of honor or con- science. We have neglected, but not repudi- ated, the homely irl. Let us now repair the fault of the past, by elevating ber to her proper place in the hizhest niches of our temple of fame a3 ope of the greatest and bestof our ‘manifold institutions! Good Fishing. ZLetter in Toledo Blade. A party has just arrived from the Neepizon, bringing marvelous stories of tne trout-fishing. Mr. Robinson, of Cinclnnati, eaid: * Our party o four tbok enonza trout in an hour to fecd fitty Indians,—not 3 fish weighed less than two, and maoy fully five pounds. 1o fact, they are so plentitul that the sport of catching loses its zeRt7? “SAMMY ” DAVIS. Otherwise Kunovwn as Will J, Davis, ‘of the L. 8. & M.S. R. R. He Tells *“The Tribune” Readers About His Australian Adventures. Notes of an Overland Journey from Melbourne to Sydney. The -Stage-Driver's Beminiscences of the Bogus 8ir Roger Tichborna. Special Correspondence of The Tridune. Sroxey, N. 8. W., July 1.—I have just made the overland journey from Melbourne to<this city for the double purpose of seeing some- thing of the interior acd escaping a tempestu- ous voyage at sea. Nos a good sailor in fair weather, [ was only too glad to get to Sydney by auy sort of Jocomotion which would give im- munity from that most miserable of all feelings —sea-sickness. A series of westerly gales have been blowing on this coast for at least three weeks, and, since the wreck of the Loch Ard at Camperdown, numerous minor mishaps have happened to the colonial shipping, but nothinz comparing with that terrible disaster. The coach-owners of the overiand route re- strict passengers to fourteen pounds of bag- gage, 50 your trunks must perforce go by sea. The overiand train leaves Melbourne at 3 p. m. each day, and, if all its passenzers leave that city with the same feelings I did, regrets must be as numerous about the Spencer Street Station as they are on the table of the manazers of charity balls. Noone can leaye a ity whose peoole are so genlal-minded and liberal-hearted without sad thoughts at parting. RAILWAYS OUT OF MELBOTRNE for a hundred miles on efther route are all buiit on the old rock-foundation plan, and as com- fortable compared with our roads as nding on macadam paved roads are to dirt roags. They run at good speed, but with a stiff, jerky motion which tires you completely ic a score of wiles. Of late years they have grown wiser, and they are now building elastic roads. on which their machinery is not literally pourded to pieces. ‘There is no comparison to be made between their trains and ours. Commencing at the fore- trucks of the engine (they have no cow-catchers or headlights), and going back to the sfgnal- lights on the rear car, Idefy anybody to find one feature in which they will compare favora- bly with our-trains. They adhereto the bar- barous practice of locking passengers fu the coaches without water or closet sccommoda- tions, and there vou must remain until some stupid guard lets you out. If you are in a first- class coach and in'a particular hurry to get out, you must wait unti! the guard commences at the head of the train and watks its whole lensth back to you, uslocking each car. and stopoing to ** have a yarn ' with every alighting passen- ger whom he happens to Know. Bvthe time you are released the station-guard blows his tin histle, and AWAT GOES THE TRAIN. This custom gave me an opportunity while en route of climbing through a cur-window, tvo fellow-pussengers on the interior of the coach recelving me m their arms, much 25 the staze- hands receive the clown of the pantomime when he jumps head first through a seene trap. Such conduct renders a passenger- liable to be *‘given in charge,” and su{wosr I've to thank my stars that I was pot handed over to the police officers at the next station. And wnitinz of policemen reminds me that that class of persons in Austraiia are what might be termed State militia -*“always called out.” The police force of each colony is one force, and its members are liabie to be ordered to duty anywhere within its limits, so that the city bbby cannot put on airs over his coun- try fellow, for hie knows not how soon he may be sent to the bush himsell. ‘A Sergeant-Major of Police is a spectacle magnificent to look upon, and he glories in wmore zold lace, cord, and buttons than twenty of our Major-Generals rolled ioto one. But to return to our mutton. (By the way, mutton is il you get to eat in the bush.) The railway carries you to the Victorian line—that is the boundary line between Victoria und New South Wales. We arrived there at 10:40, and were carried across to Albury in a (our-wheeler, —an American omuibus a /a Frank Parmele except that we were obliced to ride on too, with ail our baggage piled around and about us. ALBURY 15 A SMART PLACE in New South Wales, a couple of miles from the ling, and is noted as the centre of 2 yine-pro- ducing country. There1s a good hotel in Al- bury, but we (my two fellow-passengers, also bound for Sydney, and myscll) didu't get into it because of a business fiction uttered by the Boniface of tne first hotel we reached. This enterprising individual, whose extraction is of that strain which carried Lord Beaconstield to the frout, told us that the stage office was in ks hotel, aud unless we stopped there we conldn’t book for seats in_the coach of the morning. After wo got luto_his house. oug and bagrage, it appeared we couldn’t book any- how, as the coach was already chartered bya commercial traveler who carried only sixteen tin boxes with samples. The little tib of the Boniface gained him two customers for a full day, but shortly after our arrival a telegram camne saying togive the American Commissioner (that’s me—nothing like titles iu this country) 2 box seat “on first coach, sure,” 5o I mounted the box ai & o'clock next morning, tozether with the commereial traveler, wno, as I might have known, was born in Chicaro twenty-eight vears ago, and could not therefore resist mani- *c:t destiny. The driver, like those fn our own countsy. was a “cure.’” He told us all about THE BOGUS SIit ROGER TICIBORNE, whom he had known in Wagea Wagea as Tom Custro, the butcher. Wagpa Wauga was our destination, ninety miles away, and_ e were to reach the **double-header” "at 7 o'clock that night, and we did, thouzh the roads were io a sad state. Horses were exchanged every fifteen wiles, and but little delay made on any account. The driver was slso Maii-Agent, Postmaster at some halt-dozen different localities, general fu- tellizence-oftice, and traveling —pews-agent. Some places he wouldstopat alittleshanty made of corrugated fron or of gum-bark, flud a key in some mysterious place, and, after opening the post-oftice, would distribute the mail, wather up such letters as had been lett for - bim, carefully wrap and seal with wax, and then place them in his coach. If he should bring them out of one of her Majesty's post-otfices without being sacked and scaled, he would de commit- ting a great crime, and there is _no telling what the Jaw would do to bim. We in the States like to refer to good old Euglish laws when we are decrsing our own, but. my word for it, the Zood Enalish laws are 85 mysterious as any we have or are likely to have! Our driver had a new theory in respect Lo the Tichborne case.— that s, it was new to me and is possibly so to your readers. He tegaled us at great length wWitl: the ‘DARING ESPLOITS OF A HIGHWATMAN pamed Morzan, who formeriy preyed on the coach-travelers and sheep-raisers ol the country we were passing through. ‘The usual character- istics were present fn Morgav. He was braye, irenerous. noble-hearted, o great friend of the poor and oppressed, aad only made war upon wealtn and its bloated possessors. Morzan had stolen hundreds of pounds, dozens of horses, burned many houses, and nsd slaughtered Dot a few miszuided people who bad in some way offended bim. Fioaily ke was ambushed and kilted, the Government rewarding the triumgh- ctrategist with £1,000. No_sooner was zan planted than up starts Tom Castro Mo and proclaims himself Sir Roger Tichborne. He submits such proofs as convince a counie of rsin Wazea Wagea, and we all koow the resalt. * Now.” said Heory (uurdrlvur{, “not me alone, but 'undreds Lof parties as 1 could name, believes Morzan was Sir Roger Tich- borne.” And he weut on 1o say that Sir Roger had been well educated as aboy. Morzan was a talentea mao. _Young Koger was reckless; s0 was Morgan. Young Roger was geuerous aud brave; so was Morzan. In fact, he was fully an hour creating numberless comparisons between the two persons which justitied his belief. Henry was,_very entertaining in respect to the LARGE LAND AND SHEEP OWNERS whose posseseions lay on either gide of omr route. He told how this man’s father was a “jag” and had been scot out for life; how he Dbad mude a great fortune, and how bis sou was squandering it on race-horees. He told us how tkis man and _his wife keota “hotel” (a kez of brandy and a barrel of whisky) at such a Teiping-camp; how they ‘‘went through’ miners siter they were drunk, ~and now they own this fing place, and the old man is'quite o swell. Heaory may be an extravagant sort of fellow, bat Surely Australia offers some as fanciful freaks of “the fickie dame 88 does Caiifornia. All_along this ginety miles we did not pas3 one awelling-house which would compare with that of s mechanie or small tradesman in any of our Northern States, although the squatters who own the land and who feed their sheep in these gum forests are worth thousands of pounds. The road had plenty of hotels (%) where sheep-herders’ whisky i5 sold. Every pablic honse in this country is called a hotel ‘The owners are generally Irish, or English Jews, and they do not rank very high for houesty out in the bush, They are said to * knock down » a herder’s check vers reagily. That these road- side places make money is attesed by the fact that they carry on their questionable traffic for a few yeers and then remove to town and ob- tain_a hotel of far greater pretensions, and rapidly come to the surface as reputablo citi- zens, for there is as little inquiry into antece- dents here amonz moneyed men as elsewhere. AT WAGGA WAGGA we were shown the old shop of The Claimant, and a row of buildings ealled Tichborne Block, erected by some enthusiastic builder. 1t issaid that Castro could have raised any amount of money here wherewith to vrosecute bis claiin when he first announced himself as Sir Roger, but he refused the proffers in every instance. I remained in Waggra over night, and in the morn- inx was joined by my fellow-traveiers of the previous dav, and together we journeyed on by coach toa place called Bethungra, the present southern terminus of the New Scuth Wales railwags. Here we took what they fondly fmagine to be a Pullman-siceper, but which nonpjussed me, and I ought to know one when Izeeit. Itisa peculiarly contrived car, made in Wilmington, Del., and was probably an ex- periment _ which could find no admirers among railway managers iu Americe, and 50 was palmed off on this Government. - 1t was better tian nothing, though, albeit no pillow- cases or sheets were in use. Everybody carries his own blankets here when traveling. If for- tune takes you to the bush, you must carry blankets, as none are keot for visitors by the squatters. and especially if you are traveling by sea one must be sure to carry heavy ones, for the vessels are scantily supplied. THE VICTORIAN RAILWAYS are all of the Irish gauge,—tive feet three inches. The New South Wales railways are all four feet eight and one-half inches in gauge, and here will arise & great difficuity when they pring their respective lines together. Excent the Victorians adopt the rezular gauge there will be no end ot trouble and expense entailed on them for transfers; and as the Melbourne merchants are anxious to capture the trade of New Scuth Wales, which is three times as large as Vietoria, they are already discussing a chanie of the Victorian gauge. ‘The tramn reached Sydney just after daylight, and, while in Chicazo tie weaiber must nave been warm ard pleasant, here it was cold and disagreeable. I am getting three winters in one year. The frost glistened ou the tops (old- fashioned zable roofs) of the houses as the far- off mor:hern sun took the first peep of morn, and there wasa bush aod stiliness in the air as of acity of the dead, for it secmns that the peo- ple regard it as sacrilegous to be abroad before 9 o'clock in the moruing. In fact, when we reach our hotel we have to tug away at the night-bell to awaken the ‘*‘Boots.”” "If they sieep late in the morning here THEY STAY UP LATE ENOUGH at night, Heaven knows, and few members of the useful and all-wise class known as Boots getto bed before3o'clock in the morning. Your thoroughbred young squatter, in town for a week, can't retire at night until he has made the effort, at least, of drinking all the brandy and soda thereisin the house, and be g about two hours past tnidnight with an impres: sion that he has succeeded. 1go from here to New Zealand per Paclfic Mai! Koyal Steamship Zealandia. New Zealand is called tne Wonderland of the Antipodes,” also Fernland, as the number and the varieties of the fern are greater than that of auy other known country. Of the wonders of this com- paratively new country, where * native Kings™ still sway the felicitous South Sea war club, 1 wil write you after my tour through the islands. Yours, WiLL. A GRE.&T IRISH LAWSUIT. The Widow-¥Woman Wins Against Both Law and Evidence. Zondon Times, Aug. 8. ‘When a cause ol action arose more than five Fears ago and litigation has been going on for upwards of four years, it is time that the point injdispute should be settled. This is the feeling tinat must have arisen in the mind of every oue who read the report of the case of “Slattery vs. The Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford Railway Company,” finally determined by the House of Lords last week. As far back as May, 1573, a man was knocked down and killed by a passing train at the Lansdowne Road Station, between Dublin and Kingstown; and sbortly aftersards his_widow brought an naction agaipst the Railroad Com- pany for compensation for the loss sustained through her husband’s death. The case was twice tried at Dublin, and on each occasion the widow obtained a verdict; but the sfirst triul seems to have been set aside and a new trial ordered. The Company were as little satisfied with the second trial as with the first, and their dissatisaction went to the leneth of claiming that the Judge at the trial ought to have taken the case out of the hands of the jury and orgered a verdict to be entered for themselves. When the facts are stated it will be seen that there was some reason for this complaint, and tney may well be pardoned if they carried their cause from court to court until atlast it reached the House of Lords; but the jury have proved too strongz for them. Although” all the eizht Lords who took part in the ultimate decision thought that the verdict of the jury had been as perverse as it possibly could be. the majority of them held that their determinatiou of the points in issue could not be disturbed. Five poble and lesrned personages thouctt that the decision of the twelve me in the box must be respected; three, Lora Hatherley, Lord Cole- ridee, and Lord Blackburn, thought it should be peremptorily set aside. As the Irish Court of Exchequer Chamoer the Appeal Judges bad been equally divided.it is obriousthat uvery del- fcatc question was involved in the case,on which persons of the highest authority mizht come to directly opposite conclusions: and the reflection of the unlearned reader will probably be that it is at least a tnatter to be thankful for that the decision has been defiviteand final. "I'he man Slattery was at the Lansdowne-Road Station seeing a friend off for Dublin. As he and bis friend arrived at the station the train came in, and Slatters crossed in front of it to the tickét-office. Partings having been exchang- ed, Siattery crossed again behind the train, crossed the six-foot way, and was crossinz the down-line when an express tramn from Dublin came through the station, knocked him down, and killed him. So far the facts were undisputed; but in order for Mrs. Slattery to sustain her claim it was nec- essary to show that her husband had come to his death through the negligence of the Com- pany. and to rebut auy case the Company mizht establish that he had brought about his fate by his own neglizence. The case made to prove the Company’s negligence was that it was the duty of the engine-driver to whistle as be ap- proached and passed through the station, and that he did not whistle. Two or three witnesses for the widow testified that they heard no whis: tle, but * the engine-driver and other witnesses, to the number of ten, stated positively that whistling did take place.”” The jury, whether animated by pity for the widow or by a fine sense of their countrymen’s veracity, found tnat there had been negiigence from want of whistling, and_ the widow, theretore, won ou the first part of the case. There can be mo doubt that the verdict on this first issue was acainst evidence. Every oneof tbe Lords was agreed on this conclusion. but, as the case was prescated to them, they had no power to set asde the verdict on the ground that it was acainst evidence; and it was ackoowledged on_ both 'sides that the finding of the jury tnat the Company had been neeligent could poi be disturbed. It was upon the second issue that the contro- verey and the division of opinion of the Irish Judges aod of ‘the learned Lords arose. The Railway Company contended that Slattery brought about his death by his own neglizencey that. it he had looked before him, he must have seen the train coming, and that it was through his own fault that Le was killed. The fact of contributory neglizence was so clear, they ar- gued, that the Judge ought to have taken the Fise out of the handls of the jury and entered 2 verdict for the defendant. It is a very old saying that * Hard cases make bad Jaw,” and the case of the Dubiin, Wicklow & Wexford Railway Company is certainlya bard ‘e damares assessed by the jury were and although Mrs. Slattery will zet little of 1his, as the learned Lords ordered each party to pay their own costs, yet the Company will have to pay this sum beside their own costs, e muel be vers considerable. They will thus be fined o a large amount for an accident which was the fauit of the uufortunate man who suffered by it. Arizona. Salt Lake Tribune. Phil Mayer, who recently returned from Ari- z0ms, gives the Gold Hill News angthiog but & Hattering account of that country. “He says tha thermometer stands at 112 dufing the coolest part of the night, and that during the day it 13 necessary to put an extension on the mercurial tube. He avers that he Das seen beelstcaks cooked in the sand. The country is overrun by ‘men who are looking for worl, but can't find it. The morals of the country are in 8 terriblestate. and murder and robbery run rot. There are come good mines, but the most of these are owned by men who are unable to develop them, 24 a peneral stagnation of all kinds of business {s the natural result. Very little coin ia seen, the checks of - the various mining companies be- inz used to a large extent as circulati dium. Mr. Mayer advises men of all clases to give Arizona a wide berth. He thinks there is nothing in it. THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS. Commaunications{ntended for Tz DRATGRT EDITOR should bo addresseato 0. D. ORVIS, P.-0. Box 215, Chlcago: 111 For Publisher's price-list of standsrd works on the ‘game, address the Draugnt Edltor. CHECRER-PLAYERS' DIRECTCRY. Athenzum, No. 50 Dearborn szreet. PROBLEM 0. 80. By H. J. Coox, Henry, TiL Dlack. White. White to move and win. POSITIO; . 80, By 1. J. Browy, Kichmond, Ind. Black men on 12, 14, 15, 19: kings, 24, White men on I : kiny 201 kings, lack fo move and win. TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. D~Correct. J. F. Caze—Letter at hand. Harrfe G. Cheever—Rook malled. B. Conkling—Received with thanks. . B. Fonville—Your requesé shall be attended to. (2) Have written. C. Keyser—Mr. Kirk Is willing to continne the match with & referee. What say you? Charles J. Davis—Giad 10 be remembered with an- otber of sour excellent problems. C. D. Gares—Mr. A. .J. Duniap. Franklin street, New'York: has the apciicy fur the wark 1o (Bi*country. James Pelleiter—We have no analy4s_on the more you mn;(’e.l Write the author, Mr. J.'D. Janvier, New- <astle, Del. W K. aAbbott—~Thanks for the game:. (2) He was defeated_In two matchies with K. D. Yates, of Brook- Iy, N. T P E. H. Bryant—Problems wili be used, althouzh you had the colors reverscd [a them all. ) At Ufth move of sonr criticism. for 22— n:d win st once. “Sweet Stxteen"—Problems and positions should be soived without moviny tne pleces on the boarl.—1i. .. you should study them ualil you cag see clearly the correct lize of play. before touchiaz asy of the pfeces. (2) Try 16—19 at_the wxth move of vonr solution Problem 79, (3) You have soived Poftit 1y. (1) Thegames are very £00d, and el coiumns s000. tay 1 CHECKER CHATTER. Mr. €. E. Hurrls. of Burngton. In., Is destrousof playing a friendly match Ly correspondince with some of the Chicago piayers. The players of Newnrk. X er tourpament 1o commence th Eeptember, 80 says the Sund:y Cuil. That sprightly liztte magazine, the Eaghish Dreuaht Player. for August {3 at hand’ witn 1t puges Alled 1o overowink with it4 castomary amount of Kood things- Prof. Fitzpatrick. of t. Louls, did not put fa an appearance here 1ast week, as promtsed. and fa conse- quenc the Chicaso players were co ideruoly disap- putnted. N. J..have urraszed anothe frse Wednesday in Dr. W. M. Porcell, the noted plaver of Terre Haute, hrs removed to e ville, Ind. I'layers who hanpea down that way will always 8nd {he genfal Duc foentercaia them with 2 touch of bis skl ard. r realy Mr. Samuel Siegel. champton of Indiaaa. t no lon:z « resident of Indfinanolls. but has taren up permanect abode in Mooresville, Ind., which wiil connt for hia not baving played Prof. zpatrick dar- {0 thie at ter's Vit to Indlanapolis & few dys aro. “Tne match for £403 between Mesars. fieed aad Priest fs to be played at Wiminzton, Del., commenciss Monday. Sent. 9. The hours of piay aré from 10 o'ciack a. m. until 12m., aud frum 2 unti] and from 7 until Jobr s thereby assuminz. the 1aborou ta-K of play- ing efght hours a day until 50games nAVe decl xhed. Mr. Edward Beckwith. of ferlin, and formerly of Watipup. Wis.. bas_ bees 1L rather Hyoiy fur come of the Tiayers in the ** Badger State.” Af iru Ridge, elzhty-four games were contested with Mr. 1 Reyber, of which Mr. Becswith won thirty: vaer (weaty-three, and twenty-s AT wn. At Burnetc hie met the (nvh vk, with the follow(ng resuls Urawn, 5: total. 16 games. M. ! Ccountered the leading players at Madiso Uefeated by a ** large majority.” were dra : K i ind ens , whom Le CRITICISMS. CONTRIBUTORS' F. Game Yo. 14th mover and white obtains a me No. 237, Abbott and friend. 9—14 at the fi- teenth move 13 ot 48 Atrong us =13 0r 6—10. "1 thinis 3-7at the 23d move loses. ~ At the ith move, fu 17, pin wceur after these, It G T thicse, st possible corrections. - Mr. Billy Conkling, of Dubuque, 1a.. sends the fol- Jowing corrections: I game No.:xi6,a the 37th move icstear of 3—7, play 16—19, 14—1 16, 94, 22— 25, 20—, 1026, W 531, 20-5, 31—, and the win Wil bé on the other 1 game No. 247, 81 for 22-17. play S— 524, 28—19, 6-9, 22—14, and on ‘casy white win result. -Sweet Sixteen,” of South Evanston, il - ACthe 40th moveof Mr. Traax'y gaine. 7 foot-note says that 31 oses. After many triafs L ed in the opinfun that 31—24 can make At the polnt 1 e ack men oa s, writes: . 2. 5 2332 White wins. 26-30 | 30-28 on-27 . | White i b 32-23 wins. Mr. WiIl Tryazain makes the fotlowlng corrections. Messrs, Howley and Starkweather have a stro nver old-published end-games. 11 ¢ stuzubllr e o 35 has beon' previousiy published 1o tha o Problem Yo. 79 has Giobe, and liss w0 irat by 13-10 1-10 615 |31 13— 8 13-11 16 draws: at fifts~ 0. ZI5— AL ety ve i -third move 17—22 > -thiird move ninth move 12—16 draws; at seven! draw R0, zan~Dix and Draught Editor—At. thirty-seventh ‘move, for 3~7, piay 19 thens If 14=10, 1214, and Bow can Dy E. 'draw? At difercnt times after thid M. Dix could have drawn. . SOLUTIONS. SOLTTION 70 PROBLEN X0. 78 See Game No. 239 I thls {asue. SOLCTION TO FOSITION NO. 9. By. W. K. Abl 014 1216 28-19 31-24 1912 B. wios, GAME NO. 238-SUTER. 1 1n Chicazo between Mr. J. W. Howley, of 3! cl{‘y‘.’ 5 Sir. L. B. ! her of Boston. o z B ] S H 1-18 13- 22-31 23-19 218 frat o—14 fi-te | 1z-18 | 3i-24 17 115 | 1513 @)] 14— 7 = 15 | 3-10 13 1 283 5 19 1-50 [Starkwe'th- 2413 | 3135 er won. 25—z |35 3 (3 Solation to Problem No. 79. GAME NO, 20~EDINBURG. (First game. ) Played in the second correrpandence mstch betweer Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Lowen: Flizpatrie 9! MO GAME (zecond game.) ‘Piayed {a the second correspondence matel betweea 2 nd Howen. Mesir. Flpsrick gad fowen. 5—14 25 Drawn. GAME NO. 22~DOUBLE CORNER. (Thlrd game. ) 1n the second correspondence match between Measts, Fitzpatrick and Bowen. . Fitzpatrick's move. goys (132 (81 | 1= 2218 28-17 ® 9 | ez b -8 — 2419 28-17 so11 | 152 22-17 2319 ¥—13 4—- A 13— 9 2925 GAME No'flz_u;‘l:;o"lmxé‘z) CORNER. urth Gam % ponn:lw" match betweea = 2—11_ 1 17-13 (8 Forms the Glasgow.