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CHAT WITH CONTRIBUTORS.

Sammy Snug. Ed Ward, Whist and Tunste
have favored Us with acceptable contributions
during the week.-The initial puzzle of this
issue is one Of series Of u contributed By
Oliver Oidbuck to the Study. and turned over to
US by Dorothy Doolittle upon the suspension OF
that paper."It becomes our painful duty to
announce the death of Grace, the infant daggh-
ter Of DR.. and Mrs. Sessford (AIumuus and G..
Race of this city. Little Grace was loved by
every one who knew her, and her loss will be
deeply felt by AL. We extend our heartfelt
sympathy to the bereaved parsuts-Rosebug
has changed her nom-de-plume to Nadchen.
- Mystery" is stirring Puzz!edom to its
depths, and each week serves to enroll in its
cause many new members. This week we are
pleased to welcome as solver and contributor,
Ed Ward, of New York City. Ed has been
keeping very quiet of late, but now announces
his intention of becoming thoroughly mixed
up" IN puzzle matters. He has decided to
take charge of pszzle column in some
bona fide metropolitan monthly, and wishes,
If possible, TO present the first issue about Au-
gust l. A frst-claSs department. is guaran-
teed and good original contributions are de-
sired from all. Address, J. e. Hardenbergh,
245 Lexington avenue, Brooklyn, ". Y.-The
prize for the first answer to Espersneeis square
in last week 5 issue isawarded to T. Hinker-
Stocles calls our attention TO the fact that his
square, No. 509, Is an exact duplicate of one by
uuotC fCScutIy uppSdIea III buc Ctuuy.
He wishes US TO say that be was not aware Of
tie existence of Tunste's square until he saw
the answer given in the last issue of the Study
and that he regrets very much the fact of the
coincidence. We did not know of Tunste's
square. either, or the one by StocIes would not
have been published. Now that the Key has
suspended the Lncubrator is the only puzzle
sheet in existence, and it is to be hoped that
San. and Morton may be able to issue it regu-
larly.. This would be good time for III. s..
Nut to issue the sheet for which he solicited
and obtained few subscribers recently
One would be led to believe from reading the
series of puzzles by Arty Fishel in "Perplexi-
ties" that the Philadelphia puzzlers were
"the" people.-We were pleased to receive
recently list of solutions signed by nine of
the Couundrum Club members. Come again!
Why can't we hear from the Gree Circle and
Diamond Club once in while ?-Realizing
the scarcity of good departments, and desiring.
if possible, to remedy that evil. T. Tinker and
Jack OLantern have decided to issue a puzzle
sheet to be called ''Materia Mystica," the FIRST
number Of which will appear about Aug. 10. A
good sheet would be gladly welcomed By all of
the puzzlers, and it is to be hoped that this
venture will meet with proper support. Send
good contributions and reading articles to
Joshua Price, Box 2S2, Bangor, Pa.
7-4-92. EUGENE.
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gold carving. and the bases of the great pillars
about it were of gold. There were hundreds
of silver candlesticks as tall as man here and
there throughout the church, aud on the walls
hung pictures made Of gold carvings, out OF
which the faces of the Virgin, the Saviour, and
the saints painted in oils, shone.
Such are few or the splendors of St. Isaac's
Cathedral. / give them only as type of the
whole Russian Church. There are dozens OF
churches in st. Petersburg which are filled
with other splend0rs almost as costly and in
some cases more gorgeous.
The Kazan Cathedral. which visited to-day,
cost S., 600 900, and it has balustrade of solid
silver about its altar which weighs half ton.
The Cathedral of st. Peter and st. Paul, in the
Fortress, blazes with jewels and gold, and its
mighty spire of gold can be seen anywhere
about st. Petersburg.
The Church of Russia, about which I shall
write more fully hereafter, is perhaps the rich
est Church in the world, and its possessions in
jewels and gold would, if turned into money,
relieve Russia of famine for long time TO
come 1t has wonderful hold on the people,
and it is, believe, the strongest Church with
its people of any in the world to-day.
In other parts of Europe you find that the
worshipers are chiefly women. Here the
majority in the churches are men, and morn
ing, noon and evening the churches are filled
with men crossing themselves kissing the i'm
ages on the walls, and bowling their heads to
the floor in alteration. The worship is genuine,
and it is very impressive. The Russian of the
masses is deeply-religious man, and he car
ries his religion with him all the time; every
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houses are double. IF you would put extra
sashes outside the ledge of your windows at
home and make them just like the ones you
have now, save that one pane of each window
might be swung open on hinge, for ventila-
ton, you would have the St Petersburg win.
dow as it exists in all of those vast palaces
below me.
st. Petersburg has the biggest houses of any
city in the world. They do not rise toward the
sky like the History flats of New York and
Chicago, but they spread out as though they
would cover all outdoors. Some of the blocks
are nearly mile around them, and the Winter
Palace is as big as one of the larger buildings
OF the Chicago Exposition.
This st. Isaac's Cathedral has a grand area,
bigger than that of the new Pension Office at
Washington, and you could lose yourself in
these private palaces below you, and wander
about as though in the catacombs at Rome.
! have now been a week in my hotel here,
and l get lost every day.
The corridors seem endless. and stretch them.
selves away before me- narrowing down almost
into square pipes at the other end. walk
along them and find new corridors quite as long
jutting off here and there, until i AM lost in
the meshes of the hotel network.
The public uildings are vast in their area, and
you could review an army in the great square
in front of the Winter Palace, or have it in the
State Department, the Synod building, or the
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himself from the Dom.
Mr.. Price was born in Northampton County. Pa,
on May y, 1857 and still resides in that County,
" Puzzedom" in Golden Days was the first puzz e
column to attract his attention. and in 1857 lie began
TO take an active interest in puzzles From that
time on lie solved and contributed the different
papers and departments. and eventually became
associated with I. Tinker stated last week.
DIR. Price has been cripple since childhood. and
has necessarily been Obliged TO forego many of the
pleasures ordinarily aceruing TO the youth
but la p'zzling he finds much pleasure and
genuine satisfaction that he forgets the other joys
which are denied him.
Personally. Jack is of a decidedly pleasant dis
position, and he made many friends on the occa-
sion Of his recent visit to the New York Conven-
ton. Since the inception Of Mystery" JACK has
been one of its frmest friends, and we pleased
to be able TO number him among our regular sup
porter5.
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Hawaiian Annexation.

During discussion of the appropriation bills
last week in the Hawaiian Legislature one of
the representatives said ne had read in the
newspapers that the Envoy at Washington was
working in favor of annexation. If that was
so, there was trouble ahead. The Ministry
apparently had no knowledge of the matter.
Other members spoke in the same strain.
Minister Wiiemann replied that he considered
the Minister at Washington too prudent to
have made the statements ascribed to him in
published interviews. The matter went over.
Attorney General Alfred Hartwell has
published an article in which he takes the
ground that the time has come to negotiate
with some foreign power, or combination of
foreign powers, for the eession, Or better still,
for long lease of Pearl harbor. The assumption
of the Hawaiian debt, undertaking to estab-
lish submarine cable communication with the
outer world. making of Pearl harbor Naval
station and securing good entrance to the
harbor, he considers, are among the definite
considerations for Hawaiian interests.
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Cholera Endemic i'm Europe

The cholera is spreading throughout Europe.
The Caspian Steamship Co. in Russia has been
ordered to suspend its service because of the
prevalence of cholera at the ports on the Cas-
plan Sea, and the Government has converted
the company's vessels into hospitals for the re-
ception of patients. The cholera is advancing
toward Moscow. The disease has appeared on
the other side of the Volga River, in Samara.
In Astrakhan the cholera caused panic last
week A large number of workmen, after re-
ceiviug an advance on their wages in order to
induce them to stay in the place, made prepare
tions to leave. Upon the authorities trying to
make tho men fulfill their contracts q serious
riot followed, number of the workmen being
killed or wounded.
In Paris the past week about 200 deaths re-
suited from the disease. The official Council
of Hygiene has been trying to conceal the
facts, but there is no Disgusting the great ex-
tent of the epidemic, which is raging in "a
communes in the metropolis.
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The eighteenth semi-annuai Convention of
the Eastern Puzzers' League which was bsId
Ia Boston July A, was not as largely attended
as the last two meets. Auonynie. BARNARD
Beeeh Nut. b. Yer. Ed Ward. J. E. b.. ]. f..
w. sammy Smng. and Sphinx being the only
members present. with sam Slick as visitor.
President u. Yer called the meeting 10 order
with a Few brief words Of welcome aud ap-
pointed Anonyme and Sphinx Recording Sec
rotary and Treasurer pro tenn respectiyelv
4 nc minutes OF the previous meeting, as pab-
iished IN No. IL Of the Eastern Eisiga.a. were
accepted. and, there being no report from, the
CfedentiaI Committee. the rest of the COM
mites reports were read and accepted. and a
recess taken for the collection of dues, during
which group picture of ten of the puzziers
was taken By a local artist.
On reasscmbling, the Board of Officers as pub-
lished IN last weeks Mystery" were elected.
and then came the regular order of business
followed by adjournment.
Inc most important committee report yyas
the one to revise the Constitution, but no action
was taken. owing to the fact that the present
Constitution requires that written notice
signed ~ at least three members shall have
been given at previous meeting before il may
be altered, amended. or abrogated. Such no.
tiee was then presented, and the matter will
come up for adjustment at the next Conven-
ton IN Washington on January 2 Sphinx
suggested the Gate decided upon rather than
the usual Christmas Day" because he be-
lleved that the majority would like to spend
the latter day at BONE
Anonyme reported for the Committee on the
Chicago Exposition project. and the same COM
mlttee were ordered to report again with full
particulars at the next Convention. The Exc
cutiye Committee, together with the Commit
tee on Forms and Flats. failed to present any
report whatsoever, and Sphinx alone came
forward for the Committee On Puzzle Depart
ments.
The visitors arrived in town early Sunday
morning, and after day spent in sightseeing.
very pleasant evening was enjoyed at Sphnx's
residence.
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as the Admiralty building, which stands on
the banks of the NeYa between the two latter.
St. Petersburg is a city Of magnificent dis
tances. 1t is % miles around it, and the New
ski Prospect is as long as Pennsylvania avenue
in Washington. 1t is almost as wide as Penn
sylvania avenue, and st. Petersburg reminds
you of our Capital in its many public squares
its numerous gardens. and its statues, which
stand here and there all over the city.
Like Washington, it was laid out in wilder
ness, on the banks of river, and like it its
plan was made at the beginning and it had not
the natural struggling city growth of the other
laid out the lines and his descendants followed
them. He mapped out the skeleton; they
padded the bones with municipal flesh.
To-day the city, as it lies below me, is solidly
and evenly built throughout. Business has
grown up with establishment of it as the seat
of Government. and st. Petersburg is to-day
great manufacturing and commercial center.
The business blocks contain fine stores and the
bazaars are vast structures covering many acres
and filled with hundred Of merchants The
shops on the Nevski are as good as those Of
Paris and over there, on the other side of the
river, the great wholesale houses extend for
miles along the quay. The Neva itself is filled
with shipping, and the silver canals, which
make the Russian Capital look like Venice or
Amsterdam, are crowded with great barges Of
wood, and hay, and merchandise.
From the Dome Of st. 1saac's they look like
tubs and canoes, but they are immense boats
which carry hundreds upon hundreds of cords
of cut wood, and which hold as much hay as
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ton symphony in Pompeiian red. st. Peters
burg is a combination of cream yellow and
Vandyke brown interspersed with strips of
silver where the canals and river throw up
their diamond surface to the sun.
The city is laid out IN acute angles. Stand
ing in the dome of st. Isaacs it looks like an
immense crazy quilt of these brown patches
sewed together with white streets, and the
white chimneys on the roofs form the knots
by which the mighty quilt is tied together.
What lot of chimneys there are! Every
house is dotted with them, and there are hum
dreds to the square. The terrible Winters turn
this Capital into city of ice. The houses de-
mand the best of fires. The sparks fly from
these chimneys from November till May.
The heating is almost altogether done by big
Dutch stoves, aud the windows of all the
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H. O. Erick.

81. c. Frick, Chairman of the Carnegie Steel
Company, is 42 years of age, and about five feet
six inches high. Twenty years ago he was a
poor man, making coke on small scale i'll the
Connellsyille coke region; but in time lie be-
came the king of that industry and locality
Mr. Carnegie. awakening to the Importance of
the coke business to manufacturers bought an
interest in Mr.. Tricks enterprise in 1882. Five
years ago Mr. Friek became Chairman of the
firm of Carnegie Brothers & Co. His net rev.
enue is said to be 81 600 900 So 600 900 year.
His experience with strikes in the coke region
led him to regard the leaders of organized labor
as unreasonable and unbusincsslike. Hence
the policy pursued at Homestead.
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dome. It is as big almost as that Of the Capt..
toll at Washington, and its outside is of plated
gold. 1t took 200 pounds Of solid gold to cover
that massive semi bubble of copper, and Oh the
corners Of the cathedral you see cupolas which
are also of gold. Below, the bases of the col
umns on the portico are of heavy bronze, and
their capitals are Corinthian wonders Of the
same material.
The columns themselves are wonders They
are monoliths of red Finland granite, and there
is forest of them. Each column is high as a
fve-story house. and so big around that it
could not be squeezed into the average hall
bedroom. Each weighs 1913 tons, and the sur
faces are so smooth that you can see yourself in
them. These columns uphold only the portico.
Inside the church there are hundreds of smaller
columns, all with bases and capitals of gold,
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ment for political battle. He never temporizes.
but strikes straight from the shoulder. In his
rugged manhood. fearless advocacy of party
principles and answering devotion to party
policy he much resembles Senator Plumb, who
was his warm personal friend.
1t is difficult to see how Kansas could have
made wiser choice. Mr.. Smith is farmer. a
man Of the people, who understands their needs
and necessities He is an old soldier. with a
record in the ranks that many an officer would
give his straps to possess. lie is law maker
whose honesty and integrity have never been
impugned, and rs a student of economic ques-
tions he has no master. He is self-made man,
who, without egotism. may congratulate him.
self on the job.
Success to the Smiths in general and in par
ticular to Smith Of McPhersou."
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sian soldier walked up the 500 winding steps of
iron which lead to il yesterday, and there, more
than 300 feet above the earth. took birds-eye
view OF the city. The country is dead fat, and
the river, the sea, and the canals run in and
out among fat, low houses which fill your
vision almost far as your eye can reach.
The great River Neva. as wide as the Ohio.
which flows from one of Russas greatest lakes
only % miles away to the sea- is filled with
shipping, and Of in the distance you can see
the Notifications of Cronstadt, which guard its
mouth aud the Capital. All around you at the
front are beautiful islands. on which are the
Summer homes of the nobies aud at your back
stretches the city.
III Is one OF from two to four story houses all
made OF brick or stone and covered with vel.
low siucco, and all having sheet-iron roofs of
dark brown. joaquin Miller called Washing
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NO. 531-cHARADE.

Afar in tile glow wander at will
Where the bee and the bird are strayng,
And the flowers blossom sweet by the puriiDg riil,
And the breeze in its GOODNESS is playing
With leaf aud with twig and golden sheen
That peeps through the wealth of beauteouS green.
There are echoes of tr!s and babbiny brook
That come responses from hill and nook,
There IRE pauses of silence dreamy and still
That rausc in tile heart eicliantmeEt at will,
And afar from the TOTAL green branch of a tree
Ascend5 the glad soag of the linDet LAST free
The ferns anu the brakes raise FIRST myriads Of
heads
With a perfume Of wealth from their soft messy
beii5.
There's a caImness in nature so soothing to care
Which the prince and the peasant equally
snare,
And the soul feels n thrill, undescribed and I'M
told,
OF pleasure and joy never purchased with gold.
-FRANTz, BinghamtOn, N Y.
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NO. 53O-HouR GLASS.

l. Epilepsy. q A tribe ofNorth American Indians,
formerly numerous. (Lipp.) 8. Obstacles. A. Saws.
in Austria II. There. IL. A plants Is. Teasing.
II. River Of Etst Australia. 15 Vertically.
DIAGoNALs.-LefTLo right down. A battery erected
on RATS on the huiis Of ships. Lei 10 right UP.
Presses for printing books. CEaTRALs, up Formal
questions. ED WARD. New York City.
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HON, ABRAM W. SMITH,
The SOldier-Farmer Candidate for
Governor of Kansas.

Kansas knows when she has a good thing
and knows how to put it to good use. Her last
commendable act was displayed in nominating
for Governor on the Republican ticket Abram
w. Smith of that State.
The Smiths first and last have been con-
spicuous in American history, beginning with
Capt. John Smith at Jamestown, aud there is
not straighter, healthier limb on the Smith
genealogical tree than A. w. Smith, of Kansas.
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WV NtNo WIZ VaD Bp-
ticcd to take an active in
terest in the proceedings,
and who afterward be-
came tin oron x hiy ac-
quainted with all of the
members. This was Sir.
Joshua Price. Of Bangor,
Pa, better known to the
mystic fraternity rs Jack
O'Lautern. IL WAS his first
attendance ut an L. r. J..
meeting, and. as nigh. bc
inferred from his article ia
the Key. he WAS greatly
pleased ut meeting Tor the
first time so many of the
puzz ers with whose nopts.
de-pJnne he had be EN-
familiar. This meeting
served to attach him still
closer TO the Mystic Art.
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NO. 534-DELETIoN.

Adown the street wintry blast
Comes bowling like some angry foe
Drives fnriousiy the falling SNOW
In some huge drift, now here. now there,
Or lifts il up to swiftly Cast
IL at those who its forces dare.
A shivering, ragged. thiniy-clad
Street gamin braved this stormy night
To sell few papers that he had.
A little FIRST he is. poor lad!
No one to make his life more light,
Or make his nlorrow's Christmas bright.
ALI, wide the difference between
This wretcIed urchn of the street,
Who bravely tries his trials To meet,
Whose life n struggle e'er has been.
And some rich. loving parents LAST
Whose Christmas joys no wintry blast
Can chill, nor gloom upon them cast.
Jack O'LANTERE. Bangor. Pa.
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NEW PUZZLEs.-NO. 55.
NO. 529-TERaINAL DELETIoN.


January.
Hail moonbeams dancing Ger well trodden snow !,
Hail, crystal ice in park-surrounded lakes!
Hail, merry sleighbeils TOTAL and observe they
grow
Still louder with each toll the driver takes!
Hail to the TWO with its nice coy seat,
Round which in festive mood friends often meet,
When laugh and jest and homemade cakes go
round,
And home made cider also may abound.
Should then all winds in January blow.
The mirth within the house will ill be found
Undimmed and undated In its flow.
OLIVER OLDBUCK.
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MYSTERY.

tChoice original contributions and 1olutions soc
tied from every reader OF The SArfoSAL TRfBUSE
Write puzzles side OF psper apart from
other communications, Address everything per-
tanning to this department to Puzzle Elitor :"
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. Washington. ID. C-l
NOTICE: Our authorities are the International
Dictionary, LippineotPs Gazsttcer and Phiiiips's
Biographical Dictionary. Words outside Of these
books must be properly taggcri Definitions fol-
lowed by an as,erisk 81 are found in the Una
bridged Dictionary.
Quiet. calm deiiberation
Disadvantages every knot"
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The comrade rho comes to The National En-
campment rithoM supply of THE Nd
TIONAL TRIBUNE'S portrait-eards wiH be
at great loss al his comrades will hare
them, and they nil be disappointed If he does
not add to their collection Of pictures of the
denr old bona
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The ARMY Nurse Pension Bill.

For the benefit of persons interested. we
mention the fact that the Army Nurss pension
bill is likely to become law. The House con-
Cured in the recommendation of the Commit
tee of the Whole House and passed the bill. 1t
now requires action by tho Senate. which it
will receive without doubt before final adjourn
mcnt.
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which look down upon you as you wander in
and out Of the great alcoves and stand under
the massive dome.
stood some time under this dome. The
church is lighted by it, and rs / looked up into
it saw in its very apex a snow white dove of
marble. which seemed to hover as it were. 800
feet above me over the worshipers be-
meath. In the roof Of the dome saw more
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NOS. 532-3-pIAMoNDS

/. A letter. 2. A loop for lifting something. g.
A tube A. Adrot mischief 5. The ordeal tree.
G. A skin disense. z. Italian gondolier and poet.
s. Consul at Rome, b. G. 440. o. Tracks of horse
men. 10. Dutch negro astronomer and writer
l103-l155. IL. A letter.
II. HINKER, Bangor Pa.
l. letter. q To perch. 8. County of Ohio.
T. Bound around. 5. The rock maple 6. A digni-
tary appointed by Bishop 10 exercise limited
Jurisdiction in particular town of a diocese. 7.
Coloring, of the flesh. by pricking in coloring
matter. g. Crowds 9. Seniors of company
occasions Of ceremony. TO- One of the Samese
twins ii. A letter.
SAMMY SNUG. SomeryiIle, Mass