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"GO HANG"
An Intellectual Amusement Which Is Be.
coming Very Popular in Society.

An Intellectual Amusement Which Is Be-
coming Very Popular in Society.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
The fifteen-puzzle craze is dead and buried and
almost forgotten, although there are people in
the lunatic asylumns who have got the IA be-
fore the 13 in their minds and cannot straighten
it out.
A rival, in a mild way for that famous diver
sion is the game called here $50 Hang" but,
doubtless, known by some more euphonious title
elsewhere. 1t is not new in fact, 1t Is quite
old but it is new enough to most people to afford
plenty of fun, especially on wintry evenings,
when the young and old folks are at home to-
gether. and the frontdoor bell ringeth not with
the ring of the visitor
The game has become very popular in the
people looking up quotations and study
ing the alphabet OF all sides For the benefit of
those who have not seen the game played de-
scription of it will be given in brief.
A familiar quotation of prose or poetry is
taken as the basis, Suppose, for example, it is
ITO be, or not to be-" It is written thus:
- - - - - - - :"
Each of the daehes represents letter, and the
upright dashes indicate where the words end.
This is given to the person who proposes to I'M
rayel the cipher, and who, of course, does not
know what the question is. He attempts to solve
the mystery by guessing the letters which com
pose the words. When he guesses letter which
is in one of the words it is placed under the dash
which represents il. When letter is named
which is not in the quotation or which has al
ready been covered by previous guesses, then an
error is given to the guesser. You start out
with the knowledge that in written speech
the yowes are used more than the con-
sonants and that the letter is used
TO locate ali the es, and generally they are the
first letters asked for. john who is attacking
the problem ito be or not to be'), asks for the
els, one after another until it looks like this
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Black and Blaokmore, the Novelists.


London Correspondence Boston Herald
Although Mr. Black did not go to the centen-
NAL exposition he did visit the Lotus Club in
New York and met there with an adventure
which fully vies with the somewhat similar one
that befell Mr.. Farjeon when he was entertained
at dinner by that apparently wellread body
The author of BREAD and Cheese and Kisses"
felt moved to publicly correct the error of gen
tleman who had gowingly disroursed about hav-
ing read his novels by the light of mining camp
in 40 which was about score of years before
Mr.. Farieon's career as a writer began The
unfortunate speaker sat suffused with bushes
which became fairly apopleptic in character
when Mr. ChaHncey Depew proceeded to preach
a facetious sermon on the text OF his ludicrous
mistake At the dinner to Mr. William Black
the late John Brougham proceeded to
extol the beauties OF the newell of
situation, and. rising to his feet kept all of the
company save Uncle John" who only vaguely
realized the extent of his mistake in roars of
laughter by continuing the same song of praise
To Brougham's ear these words must have
sounded highly egotistical up to the point; in
fact the climax, where Mr. Black added: But
that book was written by Mr.. Blackmore." Mr.
Blackmore, as a matter of fact is one of Mr.
Blacks literary admirations, and he is some
times a guest at Pastor House. He is a courty
gentleman, we'll ON in years, who retains the
fashion of frilled cambria shirt-front. Mr..
Blacks occasional visitors also include Mr.. Thos
Hardy, usually silent man. and altogether, al
though exceedingly busy, he may be said to be
brought into as frequent intercourse as he
chooses with the cream of his contemporaries.
Like many distinguished workers i'll literature
and art Mr. Black would seem to have found it
an excellent thing to be of London, but not in
it. and Brighton is in itself sort of rarifed
metropolis, with light and air thrown in,
throughout the gloomy period Of winter months
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Young Menl-Read This.

The Voltaic Belt Co.. of Marshall Mich,
offer to send their celebrated ELECrRo-V oLTAIo
BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on trial
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with nervous debility loss of vitality and mans
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and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred
as thirty days trial is allowed. Write them at
once for illustrated pamphlet free.
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Freemasonry Among Servant Girls.

The existence of sort of freemasonry among
servant girls is most annoyingly illustrated by
the experience of a lady living on Beacon street.
-Four years ago she detected her cook in the theft
of bottle of choice wine, and promptly had the
culprt arrested. In some mysterious way the
knowledge of this transaction seems to have
been ditfused through all the intelligence Offices
of the city, and it is even now a very difficult
thing for the lady to induce a servant to enter
her service. She is known as the woman who
had girl arrested, and the shadow of perfect
ly legitimate act pursues her unrelentingly
She herself says that bottle of wine has cost her
hundreds of dollars and inealculable trouble
and that she doubts if she would now venture to
protest should she find her cook stealing her
diamonds.
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number of years in consideration of sum of
money, which he Immediately paid in advance
Misfortune subsequently overlook him, and al
though not always sure that his means will
run" to dinner, he never fails to go in quest
of the favorite flower to which, by freak of his
own providence, he has long since become en-
tiflnl
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The evangelical alliance has recommended the
following topics for united prayer; Sunday, Jan
4, sermons.''Tha Good Fight of FAITH" Il
Tim. vi, IL; Eph vi. 1922 Monday: Thanks
giving and praise for the loag suffering love and
laithfulness of God; for many answers to prayer;
he preservation of peace for the opening of all
Countries to the gospel, and for the power Of the
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A CameIlia, if Nothing More.

GslIgnani Messeneer
Everybody on the Paris boulevard must have
seen a shabby genteel man of about fifty years
of age, walking along tine public thoroughfaIes,
with a white camelia in his button-hole-a ca
mellia to which very curious history is attached
About three years ago the parsonage referred to
won a large stake at baccarat Flushed with his
success he entered a florists establishment and
made an arrangement By which he was to receive
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READING FOR TIE SABBATH.
George IIerbcrt,s Praxer.

George Herbcrt's Prayer.
20, Thou that hast given SO much to me,
Give one thing more a grateful heart;
See how Thy beggar works on Thee
BY art.
'He makes Thy gifts occasion more,
And says, il he in this Is crost,
AL Thou has. given him heretofore
Is lost
'Wherefore 7 cry. and cry again
And in no quiet canst Thou be,
liz l thankful heart obtain
Or Thee.
mot thankful when it pleaseth IneI
As if Thy blessings had spare days;
But such heart whose pulse may be
Thy praise"
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the party draws picture of gallows and rope
and the body of the guesser is divided into nine
parts. AS he makes mistakes the body is put
together in the sketch. Sometimes only head
and neck are there and sometimes all the body.
Frequently penalty equal to the wpng out of
two errors is enforced if the person writing the
quotations cannot tell from whence it comes.
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He asks for stIli another r." and if there is
none, he gets an error. AS IF" at" and sis"
two letters, John thinks he will take an 81" He
is told that no Il" is in the quotation and gets
another error, making two in all. John con
cludes he will try an 20" and asks for it, and
getting it. continues to ask for that letter until
he exceeds the actual number, and gets his
third error, when the quotation is in this shapes;
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Original Puzzles.
NO. 13S0-sQUARE.
l. A man of learning. g One who worships
as divine. g. The yellow fever in its worst form.
a. The horny beard which issues from the husk
of grasses 8. Captured by stratagem. g. Foot
ings Jobs. DUTCH AND PETE.
MARSHALL, Ill.
NO. 1381-cRoss-w ENIGMA
In promenade, not in walk.
In conversation not in talk;
In antelope, not in deer,
In nob1eman, not in peer;
In recompense, not in fee,
In dimnutive, not in wee;
In large, not IN big,
In uuearth, not in Dig
My whole was Greeian sculptor.
NEW BRUNSWICK Ind. GRACE.
NO. 13s2-RHoMBoID.
READING AoRoss-L Part of milk q Splen-
dor. 3. A flower 4 A reward. 5. A thread
used to keep wound open.
READING Down. In candlestick. 2. A
musical term. 3. An abbreviation 4 min
eral substance 5. Not ladies. 6. The flow Of
waters. Z Exactly suitable s See: In
candlestick. RUTH DAVIS
KNIGHTsTowN, Ind.
NO. observation-disclosures.
l. Behead Scottish river and leave an in
strument of defence q Behead hydrograph-
ical map and leave animal. g. Behead a
word used as a mystical number in the Bible
and leave uniform. DELL.
JAMESTOWN Ind.
NO. 1384-REvERsED PARALLELoGRAM.
AcRoss-1 To confne. q A dealer in tin
ware 3. An cutlery (obs) 4 A river of the
West
Down. A letter 2 A pronoun g. Is
not (obs) 4 Within s. A Hebrew measure.
G. The middle of church. I. negative Jobs
s. Nay. O. A letter. UNCLE THEo
SALEM, Ind.
NO. 1395-oRoss-woR ENIGMA.
My first is in boy, but not in girl;
My second rs in emperor, but not in king;
Ny third rs IN weather, but not in pearl;
My fourth is in feather but not in wing
My fifth is in honor, but not in fame
Ny sixth is in earth but not IN air;
My seventh is in order, but not in namei
My eighth is in grief, but not in care;
Ny ninth is in reap, but not in sow;
My tenth is in hurt but not in pain;
My eleventh is in come, but not in go;
My whole is phrase-three words it contains,
A good motto for all twill show.
GAINESVILLE, Ind. NEo1Es
NO. 13e6-A DIAMOND.
Mote ALI definitions taken from Webster's
dictionary of 1880-Author.
L A letter 2. An islet. 8 The raising of
the band in beating time. T. The sound of a
fish. s. Fearful. G. Sorrowful. T. A letter.
WASHINGTON, d. G. D. c.
NO L3S7-REHEADINGs AND oURTAlLINGs.
l. Behead enchantment and leave injury 2.
Behead to cheat and leave place of abode 8.
Behead and curtail to summon and leave a pro-
noun. L. Behead and curtail to purify and leave
a meadow. 5. Behead part of the ear and
leave a spurious drink g. Behead sagacious
cistern and leave to make brown
MILLvILLE, Ind. LOUIE HEDRICK
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By Uncle Theo, Salem: Nos, 1859, 1860 1862
By See U. u, Haywood, Ills: Nos. 1857, 1858
1859, 1861, 1862.
By Grace (late): Nos 1340, 1850, 1853, 1855
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Good for Dyspepsia.
Newark New

Newark News.
A New York physician says he prescribes
chewing gum for his dyspeptic patients 1t ac-
CELEBRATES digestion. kThis may explain why
boarding schoolgirl can banquet on slate-pencils
and grow fat
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THE YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT.

Everything relating to this department must
be addressed to W, H. GRAHAM, West Scarbor
ough, Cumberland county, Maine. Original
contributions and answers to each weeks puz-
zles are solicited from ALL
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John is puzzled 1t looks easy to those who
read it, but, when tried, it will puzzle them, too.
What words can he form with the letters he has
discovered He can make go" mo" to-
Ego" 3D." out of the first and fifth words
Which of them is the one which will make
sense2 OF the consonants, 't' is one of the
commonest, and John asks for it, and gets this
result:
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1860; this I am unable to work, partly becauseit
is printed Incorrectly lin my opinion, but prin-
cipally because l am not smart enough"
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CATARRH is a constitutional disease. Hoods
Sarsaparillaisa constitutional remedy. 1t cures
eatafrh. Give it trial
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ANSWERS in three weeks
We offer desirable book for the largest list
of answers this week.
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II
'Tve got it," shouts John. ITS to be or not
to be- ," Thus he succeeds with but three errors in
his attempt to read the quotation. The longer
the quotation and the freer it is from vowels the
more difficult it is to decipher. "Persevere ye
perfect men, ever keep these precepts ten," is a
quotation which will stagger almost anyone, as Q
is the only vowel in it.
The game is called "to hang" because nine err
rors only are allowed to each guesser and one Of
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Prize Winners.

L No complete list received.
g. See q. U.-Christmas card.
g. Uncle Theo.-A magazine.
a. Not won
Graces list arrived late to compete for last
weeks prizes
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10 4nn h SSi,, trv IN, and down q ,oss st
the beginning Of the fourth word. A little study
as to what letter to use with the els, and he
guesses at ID" twice. and the result Isl
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-04
Chillan Indians.

The faces of the Indians nv whom
we were surrounded impressed me n.
vorably. Some few were fair and
must have had European blood in their
veins. They were broad-chested sna
ly-built men, intelligent looking. with
well-formed heads. and | could not hu
bestruck by one feature-the extraordi
nary brilliancv of their eyes. which
CLEANED like FIRE. They were All well
mounted, the horses for the most mari
being adorned with silver bits and or
naments, the stirrups also in man,
cases being of silver. 4 piece of tim
Der about 20 feet high, with a mans
facescarved on it, was imbedded in tbs
ground in the center of the circle Of
Indians, and ! understood that it wa,
their custom TO swear by this. They
believe in god. creator of the uni
verse; in inferior gods of good and
evil, war, ETC.; in the Immortality OF
the soul; in polygamy. and in the pur
chase system as applied to matrimony
They possess many good qualities; are
faithful, courageous, and have extraord.
mary memories. One of their charac.
teristics is inordinate laziness. Ineyer
saw them out of their huts until II
o'clock in the morning, and then they
would saunter forth and stretch them.
selves on the ground, with the chin
supported on the hands. In this posi-.
ton they talked together for hours
In riding it is their custom only to
place the big toe in the stirrup. They
eat horsehesh, and prefer the flesh OF
mares to that of oxen. 1t is sad to
think that the modern civilization
which may benefit their children is
now by its accompaniment, fast des-
troying the parents. who are fearfully
addicted to strong drink. Fortni9htig
ReUietD.
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cried one day, dropping her face il h.,
arms upon the ragged rocks.
Il love you. Laurel. but il i too III.
for You @ love me. syllabled i yosas
ut her side.
She lifted her head. She and Darn
Alverton looked into each o.hsr,.
eye Ills sad gaze read all her strn,.
gle.
Oh, tell me the TRUTH he prayed.
Perhaps the sea. sounding its grana
thunder II her ears. helped her 10 IL.
above AL pettiness.
i love you, Baron" she said. sim.
ply; and both were happy.
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Antiquity Of Agriculture.

Notwithstanding the obscurity that
surrounds the beginnings of agricul
ture in different regions, it is settled
says writer in Popular Science Month
IN, that the dates vary exceedingly
One of the earliest examples of cult
waited plants is drawn from Egypt, in
the shape of design representing figs
in one of the pyramids of Gizeh. The
date of the constr action of the monu-
ment is uncertain; authors vary in
assigning it to from fifteen hundred to
four thousand two hundred years be-
fore the Christian era. If we assign
it to two thousand years before Christ,
we would have an antiquity of four
thousand years for the zig. Now, the
pyramids can have been constructed
only by numerous people, organized
and civilized to a certain degree, who
must consequently have had an estab-
lished agriculture, going bac'1 several
centuries, at least, for its origin. In
China. twenty-seven hundred years
before Christ, the Emperor Chenngun
intAOduced ceremony in which, every
year, FIVE species of useful plants were
sown-viz., rice, sofa. wheat, and two
kinds of millet. These plants must
have been cultivated for some length
of time in some places to have attract
ed the attention OF the emperor at this
period
Agriculture seems, then. to have
been as ancient in China as Egypt
The constant intercourse of The latter
country VITA Mesopotamia justifes Us
in presuming that cultivation was al
most contemporaneous in the regions
Of the Euphrates and the Nile. Why
may it not have been quite as ancient
IN India and the Indian Archipelago:
The history of the Drayidian and Ma
laysian people does not 60 back very
far, and is very obscure; but there d
no reason for presuming that cuitlva'
rion, particularly on the banks of tne
rivers. did not begin among them
very long time ago.
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Nearly everybody IN this country hes
corns, young. old. high, los, rich, poor;
and there appears to be special crop
Of them at this season 81 the year.
This corn aIlment il assuming serious
aspect as the population Is coming 70 Be
full Of crippIes. How maBy men could
do = days march, say Of twenty-five
miles, In the shoes they wear and not
be completely used up at the end of
the Journey How Is IL that men and
women may exercise good Judgment in
everything else and be altogether astray
in buying . pair Of shoes?:: What Is to
blame for all these corns and the human
misery they entail? The responsibility
IL equally divided between the shoe
maker and the wearer. Corns are
caused by friction-not dieect and i'm
mediate, but gradual; and here it is
that leather of light texture causes
corns. When a man bu7s pair of
boots or shoes of light material, no
matter how disproportionase they are,
how tight, the pressure at the time is
not sufficient to cause any direct un
easiness, owing to the pliability of the
leather. The foot fits the shoe, and not
the shoe the foot. After a week or two
of wearing the foot has come in con-
tact with the several sinuosisies of the
shoes-the corn has been growing
gradually and the cuticie becomes
thickened, and circulation ia impeded
and hence the pain. Cutting the hard
and tnickened cuticle restoIes the cir
culation, and gives relief for the time
only to be aggravated again by friction
with some surface. Heavy leather is
the best remedy for corns and for this
reason, having greater power of re-
sistance, the wearer is at once made
aware of the pressure on any particular
part of the foot, and he insfinctively
throws them off. when finer texture
would delude him into wearing them,
until the gentle pressure produces a
corn. Firm. pliable leather, with
sufficient toe room, and to know "where
the shoe pinches," is the panacea for
corns. London Free Press
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How the Japanese Restore Flowers.

HOW the japanese Restore Flowers.
After bouquet is dropping beyond
all remedies of fresh water, the Jap
anese can bring it back to all its first
glory by simple and seemingly most
destructive operation. A recent visitor
to Japan says, l had received some
days ago delightful bundleof flowers
from a Japanese acquaintance They
continued to live in all their beauty for
nearly two weeks, when as last they
faded. Just as / was about to have
them thrown away the same gentleman
Ga Japanese) came to see me. il show
ed him the faded flowers, an0 told hin,
that, though lasting a long time. they
had become useless. "Oh, no, said he:
sonly put the ends of thera into the
tire. and they viii be as good as Defore!'
was increduIous; so he tosk them
himself and held the stems ends in the
Gre until they were charred. This was
In the morning At evening they
were fresh and vigorous. and have con-
tinued SO for another week. What
may be the true agents in this reviving
process ! am unable to determine fully
whether it be the heat driving once
more the last juices into every, leaflet
and vein, or whether it be the bounti-
full supply Of carbon furnished by the
charring. am inclined. however, to
the latter cause, as the fun effect was
not produced until some eight hours
afterward, and as it seems that if the
heat was the principal agent. it must
have been sooner followed by visible
changes. - Ladies Journal.
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If6w sweet 10 have orr nnfly friends
Keep gentle. f5na nad trs.e
Letter q cling q ono Old friend
Than Iind dozen new;
Our carly friends Il few anil fsnr.
Can bless orr hearts lnncn more
Than newer friends, II srae they arc
Til lifu's brief hour i Ger.
Our early friends 10 Is express
The happiness they feel.
An only tide tie bitterness
They trcinble TO ravesI;
The holy sympathy they leave
Our anxious thoughts employ;
I'd rather weep with those lore
Than share strangers JOY.
n the grand ages yet to be,
Who're "a tn finds sweet ieposo.
Fond friendship in full constancy
Shall blossom as the rose.
Oh, who would live for self alone
Or for ones own sweet will7
4 heart congenial 10 our own,
al aching voids must fill!
Our early friends are always beN,
They shared our morning days
Their welcomes ever sweetIy fall
We love their words Of praisel
For fame is but scenilcss flower
Thoigh it be crowned with gold;
But friendship, like the sweetest rose,
Hides friendship in each fold.
Luther q. Riggs.