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THEGAME OF CHESS

Communications for this department should ba
addressed to THE TRIBUNE and indorsed ''Chess-'
CHESS DIRECTORY
CHICAGO CHEss CLuB-No. 50 Dearborn street.
CHICAGO CHESS sAssoc1Ar1ox-Hansen s Welch's,
$50 Dearborn street, opposite TRIBUNE Building.
Chess-ptayars meet daily at the Sherman House
(Basement) and fremont House tExehange).
TO CORRESPONDENTS
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70 enter into such An arrangement ut present.
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SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 178.
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MUS1C.,
AT HOME.

THE LEGITIMATE MUSICAL sEAson,
which should be coming to an end with these clos
ing days OF May, will be supplemented with some
'tPinafore" performances which may run till
next fall. several cxafts Of that name are head
ing this way fully manned and laden with rich
cargoes Of fun. Mr.. AcVickeE inaugurates his
summer season of opera on Tuesday evening,
when '.Pinafore" :" will be presented By the
original Standard Theatre Company OF New York.
The cast will be the same with exception, Miss
Stone as Josephint. an improvement upon the
ortginaD as that which has ppeareo in New York.
1t will be as follows:
Sir Joscph Porter, K. c. MI. Thomas Within
Faph kaesss1ax Alonzo Hitch
giGk Deadeye-..... ..'''..''....Mf mil!iaa peS9Es
Bob .::..:..MT: 9: i: cioster
ION nastef henry
iittlt nuttercup. ........ .: Miss blanche Gnltoa
Htbe Nile Jarbeau
The performance will conclude each evening
with Sulliv2n's operetta, "Cox and Box iu
which Mr.. Conway will be the Halter, Mr.. Whifin
the Printer, and Mr. Mackin the Sergeant. The
chorus will be an unusually large one, md most
OF it will be brought here from New York. MIR.
Maretzek will have charge Of tne orchestra. The
''Little Duke Is underlined for week after next,
and '' Fatinttza" for the following week.
On the same evening the Iendelssohn Club OF
Hyde Park will produce ''Pinaforc' at Floods
Hall for the entertainment OF the people Of that
suburb casting It as follows:
The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Porter,
U. N. y. <lAu
Gapt Cofcofan Mf. j. L. Aoneu1
1kaIph FRANK r. 1901
0lCk Dcade5c.. .-....--..-s E. L. mouule
Hltl bOpsL4y. .Af Ne0TEc Is wilson
Tom Tucker. Master 81, ILs5ry Wats ats
Sos,a Asos:: Mis- 5ossPhiae ksTSss
''se MesaFs. Bese. Lewis os5oruc. II Prstt Kob.
seamen. iDeon Rogers. Waters, Williamson. and
Sisters Cousin, sen sad t1s 9issss SalEes Gesae
a0o Aao'' Webster, viii %ams. aad ~Pai'S6s sgsiaSs
The ''Maurieal Opera Company" whats
madfigal opera " announce ''Pi1afore" all this
week Mt the Academy Of Music.
Next week Haverlys Church Choir Pinafore
Company will commence its season, and its rehears
ais the first full one OF which was given last Fri
day afternoon indicate that our amateur crew. both
aoloists and chorus, will meet with remarkable
success. The cast will be as follows:
Sir JOSEPH -.tI&uk BOWER
N8pt. CorCoF1n E AC faue
R2lpQ a. AnO!1
Bin l3obstay... Noble
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scarcely think that fact is likely to weaken his
season to IN appreciable extent. John McCul-
engagement At Booths, bnt with the exception Of
thst and or TWO other special attractions, Bou-
cica,flt proposes to run stock theatre on big
scale. He has already prepared two new Irish
plays, aud will probably finish third during the
summer, He is nor. selecting the people
osqan5f ss he
the California Theatre. has been engaged, and
Jedreys- Lewis ia also expected to come on honci-
saut will gsy I9s be n
ably successful they will probably be kept on the
boards etraieht through the season Otherwise
caplt viii be revived There IL q good deal OF
money in the scheme az it now stands, think.
IS Aarrah ma pogne." as described in my dis
It the Grand Opera-House to IN audience which
represented considerably less than the manage
sns T. an eve to be anaes
Boucicault for that nights work: dg1red exactiy
$03 more than the gross receipts. 50 somebody
mpstAave quit loser on that speenla.,on pei nat
and TN altogether probable TINT on the fortnisht's
engagement Harry will come ont ahead The per-
now much ef 2 tdn
dences 49, Of m marked approval BY the. au-
diencea. The scenery and mounttngs reject a
managers of the theatre. Apropos Of the Grand
0pera-uouse, there is no Doubt that It has made
more money this year than any theatre in New iork
Fopul1r prices ana generally COCO attelttloAs u3se
done the bueness-
Among.
THE PROMINENT THEATRICAL LIGHTS
now IN town are Clara Norris, John Mccultongh.
Rose Eylinge, the Florcuces, Janauschek, Tom
Davey, Lotta, and the Williamsons Most Of them
are getting ready to 60 into the country as soon %
possible. Mccullough IL finishing ND bis season as
usual by playing for Inc benefit Of different people
around here. Tomorrow night bic acts with Mary
Anderson in Syracuse for the benefit Of '.Pop''
O'Hnra, aud on Saturday afternoon he will play
again with Miss Anderson in the Boston Theatre
tor the benefit OF Harry McGiennen. the treasurer
Of that house. That winds up what professionals
know AZ Johns supplementary :season." He
will then come back to New York, and await the
drst cruise OF the Shangbtaun.
On the carpet for next season atthe Union Square
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07
southern Society Before the War.

General Charles G.. Dahlgren of the
confederate army thus recalls the palmy
days OF the ancient regime. Natchez
was the homo and pride Of the cream of
the southern aristocracy. It was sur
rounded by the beautiful homes of the
planters, whose broad acres extended
up the river for many miles. The finest
people on Gods earth lived there.
Why shouldn't they have been !? They
spent money enough to secure every
grace and accomplishment. The so.
ciety. though, was this most exclusive,
I believe, in the world. The people
did not look for money, or good clothes
especially, although it perhaps required
both of these to maintain position
once obtained, but they looked at
character. If that was all right in q
man, he was welcome and was treated
warmly and Hospitality; but if he was
tested there, and not found sound, then
he had no hopes of favor. There was Q
wealthy slave trader who used to come
to Natchez with his wife. She was q
woman of rare beauty and graceful de.
meanor, and all that money could buy
her was bestowed upon her, but she
was ostracised because her husband
sold slaves. The very planters them.
selves were guilty Of this, but they
Quoted their consciences with the feel.
ing that they did not make it traffic,
and that they never separated families,
but specializing in human flesh and
blood was so repugnant to their sensi.
bilities that there was aperfect loathing
Of slave.trsder. So this poor, yet
very rich woman, came to Natchez,
stopped at the very best hotel, and had
not particle Of society. One morning
l met her husband crossing the street,
carrying box in his hand. Dahl
gren," he said, IT am not happy"
what !" I said, "not happy With all
is nothing. Twill give you all that is
in that box, and I will guarantee that
there is $500, 900 there, if you will in
troduce my wife to the people you
know" I passed on. He might as
we'll have asked me to take his wife on
q journey to the stars. There were in
those days men about Natchez who had
incomes varying from 500, 900 to $500
900 q year. Men were accustomed to
think and talk on big scale. When q
bank was organized in Natchez there
was dispute about the salary Of q
cashier, aud one gentleman impatiently
said that he could not waste his time
discussing matter like that, and told
the other directors that, as their only
object in organizing bank was to get
interest on their money, if they would
hand him over their million of dollars
of capital, he would pay them their in
terest. I demonstrated one day with
my brother-in-law for indorsing to the
extent OF $500, 900 for q neighboring
planter. "Oh." he said, "what do l
care for that amount? See, here is q
report of my sales from Liverpool. Tie
amount is $500. 000." One morning 1
met s. s. Prentiss going along the
street. He was one of the most brilliant
lawyers at the bar OF his day, but un-
fortunately loved his liquor too we'll.
He had q roll Of bills of large denom'
ination in his hand, and said, I just
got these for making q three hours
speech" The fee was $50, 600.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07
The Use of the Hands.

Four'or Eve years ago, gentleman
living ON farm near sea-sidC resort
in Maine, bought one Of the two dollar
printing. presses for his boys. One OF
them learned to use it expertly, and by
printing visiting cards, labels, etc., for
his mother, soon earned enough to buy
an eight.dollar one. All Of his spare
time from his lessons he gave to print
ing.
At this time his father died insolvent,
and the family were reduced to absolute
poverty. The boys were not sufficiently
educated to go into any kind of bust.
ness. Our young printer determined
to make some use of his toy. He went
around to the hotel and boarding house
keepers, and solicited work in printing
cards, menus bills. There was no job
printing office within thirty miles
Work poured in on him.
By the time the summer. boarders ar.
rived, he had saved forty dollars, with
which he bought larger press, sold
the old one for paper, and issued q
little newspaper, the size Of o letter
sheet, which found plenty of subscrib.
ers among them. His mother and sis.
ters were editors. The tiny journal
was sprightly, cosby, aud we'll print.
ed. The lad worked for years as hard
at his books as III his type, and last
summer he took charge Of o newspaper
in the country town, with every chance
of assured success.
A great tlefect.fn the modern educa-
ton of well.to.do American lads is,
that it is confined to the head, while the
hands are left totally unframed. In
the first years Of the republic, when
the majority o. boys were reared on
farms or in vilhges, they learned man.
ual skill unc0nsciously. The only
means OF supplying this lack now are
the printing presses, jig.saws. lathes,
ETC.. which are such popular toys. Ev.
cry wise fathes should provide them
for his sons. They may not make 80
much use OF them as our energetic
Maine lad; but they will Ger ainly give
q training to tie fingers and the eye.
quite as usefut o. are many branches OF
theoretical knewledge.
THE LrAaEaD BIAcxsn1rH.-A sis
ter of the late Elihu Burritt is the wife
OF Prof. A. 80. Sawyer. Of Chicago.
She relatesS many anecdotes Vi her
brothers career, one of which is as fol-
lows: "Some years ago Q will was
sent to this country from the West In
dies written in Danish. The manu-.
script was enc of tho most difficult to
,lecipher that could we'll be imagined.
and it went the rounds Of several lead
ing colleges without meeting with any
body who could interpret it. Finally
it was referred 10 Mr.. Burritt. he was
then working at the forge, but. with
his usual determination, made mp hi
mind that he could master it. He VA
acquainted with the Danish tongue
but that was only half the task: The
badly written manuscript must be do
oiphered. He worked at it two week.
in his spare time. and succeeded
: When be sent the will back, translated
with absolute correctness. he said n
would only charge what he would hav'
} earned at the FORGE"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07
The Story Of the Medium Slade.

About three years ago one Of the most
famous leaders in the spiritualistic
ranks was Slade, the medium and Iec-
turer. He was very daring in his ex.
PLOTS, and became notorious through.
out the country for his audacity and
the number Of persons whom he drew
under his influence.
He made Q considerable amount Of
money here, and in the latter part Of
1876 he went to England, where he con.
tinued his career as medium, and for
some time he was q rival of Home, the
lucky medium who married a rich wild.
ow, whom he had taught to believe in
"spirits." Finally, Slade was arrested,
and tried in London, on January %,
1877. for fraudulently obtaining money
by means Of the unlawful power he OBJ
tanned from his occupation rs q medi.
UNI. It was charged that as spiritual
ism was not O belief sanctioned by the
law. it was delusiOn and fraud, and
that its use to extort money from the
credulous was against public policy.
The trial brought up the question a. 10
whether spiritualism was fraud or not,
and the case became the talk of the day,
and Slade was given q worldwide repu.
tation thereby. Slade was found guilty
Of fraudulent practices. and was sen.
fenced to three months imprisonment
and hard labor, but his sentence was
afterwards quashed on some technical
ground.
Slade went to Australia and then
came to San francisco. A few days
after the steamer arrived, q converse
ton was overheard between the ships
doctor and an intimate friend of his, in
which the startling statement was made
by the medical man that Slade, the me.
dunn, was o woman, and was as per-
fectly developed as any OF her sex.
The physician gave the following &C.
count OF the manner in which he made
the strange discovery. The gentleman
who occupied the stateroom with Slade
on board the steamer, is Q man who ia
we'll known here in PittsbuHg, where
he has many friends. He was not an
admirer OF Slade or his doctrines, and
did not have much conversation with
him-or rather her. One day when in
mid ocean Slade was stricken down with
something like paralysis while in his
stateroom. The other occupant of the
room came in, and finding Slade i'll and
probably unconscious, he began to re-
move SHADES clothing and rub his (her)
sides and chest 10 bring back the circn-
lation of the blood. 1t was then that
the discovery Of Shades sex was made.
When Slade recovered sufficiently to
talk she begged that the gentleman
would not expose her. He said that he
would not do so publicly if she acknow
lodged the truth to the physicians OF
the steamer. Slade at last consented
and told the doctor all about it. He
made an examination which proved be-
yond doubt that she was perfectly
developed woman. One Of the queer
est parts of the story is that Slade
wears q heavy mustache. She said
that she had always wanted to be taken
for a man, and had shaved her face
daily when very young, and had kept
the practice up until she had long.
heavy m ustache, of which she was very
proud and which she took great care of
and could have had beard and whisk-
ers if she dressed them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07
The Science Of Art and Teaching.

The establishment at Michigan Uni
versity of Chair OF the Science and
Art Ct Teaching, and the filling of the
professorship with one so eminently
qualified for the position as William Ii.
Payne, are important steps in educa-
tional progress in Michigan. The
worst evil with which our public school
system has had to combat, the chief
stumbling block in the pathway, has
been the rock-rooted assumption that
any man, woman or child who knew
any thing could teach it, and that the
true test Of capacity to teach is the
number Of an applicants requirements.
1t has been urged for years upon the
attention Of educators that the test was
an utterly worthless one, that OF two
persons equally capable of passing o
rigid examination in respect to acquire
ments, one will be abundantly able to
impart the knowledge he possesses,
while the other can make no impression
whatever upon the minds of the schol-
ars. Educators have realized, or pro.
fessed to, the force of these statements,
but in the face of them have gone on,
year after year, giving them certificates
Of fitness for the position of teacher to
those who have demonstrated their ap-
titude in no other way than by show
ing that they have acquired What they
are expected to impart. The normal
school system has done something to
relieve the public schools in this mat
ter by turning out trained teachers;
but as the product OF these institutions
has necessarily been brought into com.
petition upon terms of practical equal
ity with the unframed graduates of
high schools and seminaries, the work
of reform has been very slow.
What has been needed was the recog-
milton. in some full and comprehensive
way, of the fact that teaching is not q
mere inspiration, but an art and y
science; v something that can and
should be learned and acquired before
one undertakes TO practice it. This
need the University has met and .up.
piled by the step it has taken. The
purposes it seeks TO accomplish are:
To tit University students for the higher
positions in the public school service:
to promote the study of educational
science; to teach tho history of educa-
ton and Of educational systems and
doctrines; to secure to teaching the
rights, prerogatives and advantages of
q profession; and to give more perfect
unity to the State educational system by
bringing the secondary schools into
closer relation with the University.
Theee purposes the plan devised seems
we'll calculated to accomplish, and
friends of the University and OF educa-
ton should unite in giving 1t their cor.
dial support. Detroit Free Press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07
The Invisible Flute-player.

A strange story is told by the peas
ants OF Holstein of an invisible hute-
player, who ia said to have haunted,
about fifty years ago, farmhouse stu
ated near the river Elbe. Some of the
children of the farmer who owned the
house are still alive.
The mysterious affair commenced in
a cabbage garden behind the house.
There the people often heard flute.
playing, but no one could make out
whence it came, until at last he took up
his abode in the house altogether.
Sometimes he played his flute in the
sitting-room sometimes in one of the
bedrooms; at other times in the cellar
or in the garrett. Occasionally also lie
paid q visit to q neighboring house.
The people on the farm became quite
used to him; and when the children or
the servant lads aud lasses were dis.
posed to enjoy little dancing, they
would just name certain time, or sing
bar or two Of it, and ask him to play
e, and directly they heard the desired
tune. When the milk-maid was occu-
pied in the dairy she sometimes took
an apple in her hand, for fun, and said :
" Now, my boy, play me nice air and
thou shalt have an apple" In mo-
ment the apple vanished ont OF her
hand and the music commenced.
In the course of time, however. the
invisible futist became very intrusive.
and at last he proved quite nuisance.
One night he would amuse himself by
breaking all the windows in the house.
another night he had his gambols in
the kitchen, turning everything topsy-
turvy, and at midday, when the family
had sat down to dinner, it sometimes
happened that the large dish OF stew
before them, from which all were eat
ing, was empGed in an instant by in
visible hands. They would then jump
up and run about the room, breaking
the air with their spoons. When they
had at last driven the fellow into COR
ner of the room, suddenly they heard
him spitefully playing his flute in
another corner.
In short, the annoyance become quite
urbesrable. There was no peace in
the house. The farmer every where ex-
pressed the wish that he could find
somebody who had power to e1pel the
invisible flute player; he did not mind
the expense. At last there came q
clever man from the neighboring town,
who offered to settle the matter; he
only wanted to know beforehand
whether be should show and Danish the
flutist in his real figure, or in the figure
Of q poodle.
The farmer said: ~ would rather
not see him at all Here are ten tina
lers; all I want is to get rid OF him,
and to have peace in my own house"
By means Of queer rhymes. and
smoke, the clever man from town
actually succeeded in driving out the
troublesome guest. and no mysterious
flute-playing has been heard since or
the farm.-Eagel's Musical Fairy Tales
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07


The following was General Grants
speech at the reception given him ct
Nsgasaki:
Your ExoE1LENcY, LADIES AND GEN.
TLKNEN:-You have here tonight sew
eral Americans who have the talent of
speech, and who could make An elo-
quent response to the address in which
my health is proposed. have NO such
gift, and never lamented its absence
more than now, when there is 80 much
that I want to say about your country.
your people ana your progress. I have
not been an inattentive observer of that
progress, and in America we have been
favored with accounts of it from my
disting uished friend, whom you all
know as the friend Of Japan, and whom
it was my privilege to send as minister
Il mean Judge Bingham. The spirit
which has actuated the mission of Judge
Bingham-the spirit Of sympathy, sup.
port and conciliation-not only ex-
pressed my own sentiments, but those
of America. America has much to
gain in the east-no nation has greater
interests America has nothing 10
gain except what comes from the cheer
full acquiescence Of the eastern people
aud insures them as much benefit -
us. should be ashamed OF my coun-
try il its relations with other nations,
and especially with these ancient and
most interesting empires in the east,
were based upon any idea. We have
rejoiced over your progress. we have
watched you step by step. We have
sMa A. .rsoIS;c~, rs.rn,,, ol6
civilization and its absorbing the new.
You have had our profound sympathy
in that work. our sympathy in the
troubles which came with it, and our
friendship. I hope it may continue
that it may long continue. As I have
said America has great interests in the
east. She is your next neighbor. She
is more affected by the eastern popula-
ton than any other power. She can
never be insensible to what is doing
here. Whatever her influence may be,
I am proud to think that it has always
been exerted in behalf Of justice and
kindness. No nation needs from The
outside powers justice and kindness
more than Japan, because the work that
has made such marvellous progress IN
the past few years Isl work in which "
are deeply concerned, In the success OF
which We see new era in civilization
and which We should encourage. I do
not know, gentlemen. that can say
anything more than this in response 70
the kind words OF the governor. Judge
Bingham can speak with much more
eloa uence and much moro authority -
our minister. But I could not allow
the occasion to pass without saying how
deeply sympathized with japan in her
efforts 70 advance, and how much those
efforts were appreciated In America
In that spirit ask you to unite with NJ
in sentiment: "The prosperity and
the independence Of japan"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07

Mr.. Beecher thinks the Southern peo-
pie are behaving better now than at any
time since the war. When the present
generation, he says, has passed away
there will be no further trouble.