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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-07
Official organ Of the Newark Puzzlo Club.
A NEW MONTHLY
CONTEST UNDER MAY

We began a special and attractive four
weeks solving Journey with New Puz-
tiles No. go" A prize of 81 will be given
to the puzzler sending in the most correct
answers to the problems presented dur
ing this period. -Four prizes Of fifty cents
each will also be awarded, two for Sc
lected complete lists of answers and W
for selected Incomplete lists from the solv-
ers who have sent In answers during each
week Of the competition. In case OF q tie
the winners will be determined by lot.
Weekly prizes will also be given as fol-
lows. twenty-five cents for a selected cor
rect list of answers received to the puz-
zles in each issue; twenty-five cents for a
selected incomplete list, and twenty-five
cents for a selected original contribution.
Words must be defined according to
Standard Dictionary. All other reference
books used must be properly tagged.
Obsolete words are marked (Obs.),
variant spellings (Var.), compound words
are shown by ~, and words out of die
tionary order by go.
Communications should be accompanied
by full name and address and mailed TO
''Puzzle Editor, EVENING STAR, New
ark, N. j." In time to reach this office be-
fore noon Of the second Thursday after
each issue. Answer will appear In two
weeks.
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UNCLE JACKS
SATURDAY, TALK

My Dear Children:
| am going to tell you today a Few
things concerning the great Peruvian
Temple ut CuZco.
When the Spanish adventurer, Fran
cisco Pizarro. invaded Peru in the hrst
upon the most remarkable temples ana
monuments, chief among which was the
great temple of the sun at Cuzco, the an
cient capital of the Incas who had ruled
the country for centuries previous TO the
Spanish conquests. Pizarro and his IS
Sociates expended every superlatfve OF
their language in describing this extraor-
binary temple. The structure itself was
Of the most imposing nature, and 1t repre-
scented the civilization that in the course
of five centuries had built up and cement
ed together the grent empire when the
Spaniards found.
very large number of monuments con-
sisting of a~cqueducts, bridges and paved
roads hundreds Of miles in length, put
the temple at Cuzco was the most stu
pendous of all the edifices whose ruins
are left. 1t consisted Of a principal build
ing and several ehapels and inferior edi-
fees. It stood In the heart of the great
CITY. and covered a large extent OF
ground. Within this sacred enclosure
a~cqueducts opened, and there were gar
dens with walks among shrubs and How
ers of gold and silver made in Imitation
OF the products of nature. No one, but
ter this holy temple. which was attend-
ed by 1000 priests. The ground for 29
PAGES around the enclosure was considered
holy, and could be traversed only win
UNCLE JACK.
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burglar-coming into our home without
being invited. Burglars always shoulo DC
punished"
the hole through which mousie had evil
deutly made his entrance and sat down 10
await DEVELOPMENTS. One, two, three min
utes passed, when out scampered mousse
making direct for his hole, having decid-
ed that 1t was exceedingly bad manners
TO stay where he was not wanted. FIND
ing his hole barricaded. Mr.. Mousie lost
his presence of mind completely. lie tore
around the room at a great rate, dartlns
under everything and over anything mat
came his way. Ether's father after him
with a stick.
Brave Ben noticed that Esther's mid
night visitor was not a mouse, as she sup
posed, but a good-sized rat. He was even
more anxious to get rid Of him. Inc
chase grew fast and furious as the httie
rat ran and the big fat man chased atter
him. Brave Ben got out of breath IN ms
efforts to kill Mr.. at. who was too quick
for aim. Each time the stick fell Esther
thought the END had come to Mr.. rat
only TO find that it had missed him, leay-
ing Mr.; Rat stu allye I ana more ue
Now something did happen. Mr.. KAT
though he had had enough or sucn TOOL
ishness. 1t was a poor game Two coula
not play. Instead of Brave Ben's pursune
the rat the rat thought he'd pursue Brave
Ben, Straightway ne carried the war into
the enemy's camp. He new az bTase
Rqn's 11re feet, doing MS pest u bll ehtlH
and thus force him TO a hasty retreat.
Brave Ben ran around the room more
breathless each second, the rat after him.
1t was now no laughing matter, though
Esther could scarcely suppress her laugh
ter. the sight was so funny. To see Dig
fat papa actually running away from d
rat. Brave Ben, to escape the rats sharp
teeth. sprang on a chair. forgetting 1t was
a rocker. He swung back and forth Tor a
minute, wildly waving his stick to help
him gain his balance. 1t was no use; the
swayed backward. Brave Ben tot
tered, and, making a final wild plunge,
down he sat OIL the floor with n terrlnc
thudi Esther jumped up. forgetting the
rat. her only thought being to help father.
with the greatest effort father was
tugged up, hot, perspiring and GREATNESS.
Then Esther began to laugh, peal after
peal ringing through the stiffness. Brave
Ben did not at first see the joke-a little
later he did. Under him. still and motion
less, lay the cause of all his trouble. NO
one, not even his mother, could have
recognized in the remains the once frisky
rat. Never again would he frighten Esther
or anyone else. He had not stopped to
consider how heavy Brave Ben was, or he
would have known TINT he had not a
ghost Of a change against a man Of Brave
Ben's size.
This story was told all along the coast,
| would not be surprised If from 1t
the primer rhymes had their beginning.
Don't you remember they always run
like this:
CAT, cat; RAT, rat, and SAT, sat.
Atlanta Georgian.
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IMPORTANT RULES

The children writing to this depart
ment or answering the puzzles Will
please carefully observe the seven rules
which we print below for their guild
ance. No prizes will be awarded unless
these rules are fOIlOwed;
Rule No. Write legibly and dis
tinctly.
Rule No. 2-sign YOU full lame and
address to all communications.
Rule No. 3-State you age.
Rule No. 4-The to todaY's
puzzles must reach this office by We'd
nesday night. solutions and prize win
ners will appear in next Saturdays
paper.
Rule No. 5-Unless you use a postal
card in sending your answers be sure
TO place a two cent stamp on the en-
velope to avoid delay at the postof1ce.
Rule No. 6-No boy or girl over Is
years of age will be allowed to COM
pete in the various contests except
those conducted by Abel EN-.
Rule No. Address you letters to
Uncle Jack, EVENING STAR, Newark,
N. ].
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ESTMER'S NIDe
might ADVENTURE

Esther lived all alone with her father
In a lighthouse near the sea. She had
been fathers little housekeeper ever since
her mother died, two years before. and
kept everything around the home as bright
and shiny as If she had been twenty years
old instead of half that number.
What a busy child Esther was to be
sure. She had the dishes to wash, the
meals to cook, the sweeping and dusting
to do. and so many other things that there
was no chance OF satan's finding mischief
for Esther's hands to do.
Esther's father had always been a very
stout man. OF late years he had grown
stouter and s%touter, until he could not
move about with very great speed. In
addition TO her own duties Esther daily
accepted more of his work as her own.
She buttoned his shoes every morning.
and every evening climbed to the top of
the lighthouse. so high as TO make one
d~izzy-there to put the shining light to
warn ships away from danger.
One night Esther did not sleep as soundly
as usual. Perhaps she had worked too
hard keeping the little home as mother
had kept 1t; perhaps she was 100 busy
thinking of n visit to her cousin Ruth next
week. Anyway she tossed and turned in
her little bed and thought that morning
would never come.
What was that noise she heard-scratch
scratch, scratch, and then a scamper?
Something was being rolled over the floor.
What could II be? The something" being
rolled turned out 10 be a nut. The some
thing doing the rolling must be Il mouse.
Now Esther was an unusually brave
little girl This was only right and
natural. for wasn't she known everywhere
as the daughter of Brave Ben. the light
house keeper When her father was
younger he had been a sailor and after
ward one Of the l~ifesaving guards sta
toned on the beach. Brave Ben was
famous all along the coast for his deeds
of courage and heroism. For some reason,
hard to explain, there was one thing
Esther was really afraid of. What do you
suppose it was? A harmless, cunning little
mouse. who was more afraid OF her han
she should have been of him. Esther tried
hard not to lister to Mr.. Mouse's m
ing. but her heart beat so fast and she be-
gan to tremble so that she uttered
Father before she knew 1t. 1t was some
seconds. however. before his $50 pounds
was completely out of bed, and he had
struck a lght and had stepped into
Esther's room.
What Is it. daughter? ?" he asked. Are
you sick ?"
mo father" trembllngly answered
Esther. but I hear a mouse In the room
and 1t frightens me so / can not Sleep
why. why. grille, to be afraid of a
mnpsel I'm ashamed of you!' said Brave
Ben "A mouse couldn't hurt you ii he
tried. The Door little fellow Is only hunt
ms, for his supper, / suppose"
While trying to cheer Esther. Brave Ben
remembered how afraid OF mice her dear
mother had always been, and this re-
membrane made him very tender toward
his little daughters fear.
Well soon fix him. dear. for he's a
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VERY LONG SIGNATURE

The Due de veragua. says a French
journal, while travelling through America
entered one day a telegraph office IN
Chicago and asked how much 1t would
cost to send a message containing ten
words to Columbus, o..
twenty-five cents" replied the clerk
"Does that include the signature?" asked
the duke.
YES" was the answer.
But suppose the signature is rather
long?" asked the duke.
SThat doesn't make the slightest differ
ence," answered the clerk.
The duke wrote the ten words which
formed the message and then signed his
name, as follows:
'Cristobol Colon de Toledo y Larreate-
gui de la Carda Ramirez de Baquedano
" Gante. Almirante y Adelantado Mayor
de las midas. Marques de la Jamaica.
Due de Veragua Y de la Vega, Grande de
Espana, Senador del Reno, Caballero de
la Insigne Orden del Torson de Orc, Grand
Cruz de la Conception de Villaviciosa.
Gentil Hombre de Camara del Re de Es-
pana."
The clerk, it is said. almost tainted when
he saw this signature.
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NOTES AND EQUIPMENT

Subscriptions to this column are So
licited from all puzzlers. For terms
The standing of the solvers In the
monthly contest just begun Is as follows
humber of problems published 10);
WEE ,d FI T1iS %; REX, l O. A 4 E.
10; ENAVLICM, 10; +. AITCHELL 10;
RALPH, 10: 10 MULLINS. 10; o. N. L.
ONE. 10; Tryon. 8; Musicus, z; Ess Ell, q;
:; leonardo. 5; Katy Did, s; Ficur de Lis
4; Clarissa. 8; Cincinnatus, 2; Cinder Ella.
2; Ira T.. Billy, 2; Revlos 2; Primrose, 2;
None Hit. 2; Grace Note. l; Park, !.
Ten completes to start the four weeks
contest. Looks as though all the prizes
will be won this mcrth
DAN d. LYON starts off with a rush.
The others should keep their eye on the
E. p. l. president when It comes TO
f. AITCHELL, the steady one, Is In
/. Glad r. see that 30 MULLINS has fol-
lowed cur advice and not allowed his
business to Interfere with his puzxling-
II one or the other has to be given up.
why let the business slide. BY the way.
10 reached the mature age of 40 on All
gust q We offer congratulations and
best birthday wishes.
REMARDO'S anagram brought forth
praise from all sides. CINCINNATUS
says: ut Is neat and first class" PRIM-
ROSE p~ronounces it 'good!ir'
We viii define the pentagons II CINCIN-
NATUS viii send them along.
The Eastern Enigma has not vet ap-
peared. MYSELF and WILL ]. AM should
get together and hustle the minutes Of the
last convention into print.
We were glad to hear from THE
GOPHER this week. Let these letters
come more frequently.
We met ADONIS this week and the
veteran has promised faithfully to resume
active puzzle work. Can't begin any too
soon. ~
ARTY ESS and REX both felt musical
" Inclined when they sent IN the charada
ana published this week.
A denniion is wanted for sgEn.
| a oeunition Is wanted for YLs.
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ToDAY'S PRIZE OFFERS

Very pretty books will be awarded to
the girl and boy who send in the best
answer to the city rebus problem.
Handsome story books will be given TO
the girl and boy who send in the best an
swers to the hidden picture contest,
Uncle Jack will also award pretty paint
boxes to the girl and boy who can first
find the correct answer to the hidden name
puzzle.
will give a handsome rule box for school
work, containing pen. pencil, ruler and
slate pencil, to three boys and three girls
who answer all three of the puzzles cor
rectly.
answers 10 todny's puzzles and list
OF prize winners will be published next
SATURDAYS afternoon.
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UNCLE JACKS
PRIZE WINNERS

The following six children won the
pretty rule-pox prizes oHered LOT ene
best general work in the various con-
tests of last Saturday:
Matilda Rivelis. aged IA, 4Oe south
Seventh street, Newark, N. J.
Lillian Rodriguez, aged 8, 40 o
Fannie Rosner, aged IS, 2ss Camden
street, Newark, N. J..
Abraham Cohen, aged 1s, 2sz Central
avenue, Newark, N. j.
Leo Granger, aged IL, 825 warren
street, Newark, N. j.
Arthur Franklin, aged 8, 763 south
Fifteenth street, Newark, NJ. j.
City Rebus Problem.
A good book was awarded today to
Elizabeth Rickershauser, aged D, AIS
Avon avenue, Newark, n. D., for the
contest. James Clinton, aged II, Id
Grant avenue, Harrison, n. j., was
awarded the book prize in this contest.
Hidden Name Puzzle.
Susie Speier, nged ~, 5 Sayre street.
Newark, N. j., was awarded a box of
paints, and Roland Hopper, aged 13, IL
won a box of paints for finding the
correct solution to the hidden name
puzzle of las Saturday,
Hidden Picture Contest.
The prize of a handsome book for the
best answer to the hidden necklace
puzzle published last Saturday received
from a girl was won by Anna Ruefic,
aged IL. 81 Springfield avenue. Newark,
N. J. The boy who sent in the best
answer and who received a prize of a
good book was william saul, aged ID,
149 Spruce street, Newark, N. j.
Roll of Honor.
The following children answered one or
more Of last Saturdays puzzles correctly,
and are entitled to a great deal of credit
for their cleverness:
Abraham Cohen, Matilda Riyelis, Eliza
betha Rickershauser, Helen Breckenridge,
Fannie Rosner, Leo Granger, Helen For
den, William Saul, Arthur Franklin, Susie
Speier, Frank Fox. Edna Heck, Monroe
Constam, Benny Rickershauser. Rosaline
Stone. Lillian Rodriguez, James Clinton,
George Jenkins, Roland Hopper, Marie
Mayer, Cornelius Fitterer. Nellie Vaughn,
Robert T. Jones, Title Babst, Anna Nos
trand, Kathryn Duerr, A. Edith Stafford,
Anna Picosky. Edythe s. Walker, Samuel
Dlugatch. Albert Feller, William Frick,
Willie Carter. Anna Ruefie, Marafet
Meters. Hazel Taylor, Harry Dewey, Au-
gust Hauer. Joseph Reilly, Milton Engel-
man, Joe Rosengarten. Philip Eckert,
Walter Draper, Mildred Stone, Mary
Casey. Ellie Il. Reynolds, Helen Miller,
Louise Mo~schenros, Ruth r. Fishbein,
Fanny Avidan, Charles Goldstein, Clara
David, Paul II. Gadebusch. Harold Levin.
Barbara Wetterer, Clara Koch. Amelia
Rank, Edith Lawrence, Gertrude Lake
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r. Kenah. Sarah Koffer, Freida Koenig,
Marie Manning, Martha Brantigan, Ida
May Perkins, Sam Wollman. Louis Woll-
man, Paul Helmuth, Belle Rosenthal,
Minnie Greenberg. Helen O'Brien, Elsie
Ambielli, Harry Huberman, Alice Hopper,
Evelyn O'Connell, Herman Adlerstein.
Emma Dickinson, Patsy Biunno, Karl
Young, Michael Caruso, George Wells,
Henrietta Haug. Ida Shapiro, Leslie
Agens, Mamie Harrison, Jessica ]. Bross,
Philip Marsh, Marie Bloom. Herman
Cohen, Iris Thrust. Philip Thomas, Alice
Baum, Theodore Augenstein, Caroline Au-
genstein, Edith M. Burke.
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Answers received from the following
children were not counted today when the
prizes were awarded, as the rules govern
ing the various contests were not fol-
lowed. Try to be more careful in future:
Helen Breckenridge, Helen Forden,
Frank Fox, Edna Heck. Title Babst,
Kathryn Duerr, Anna Picosky, Albert
Feller, Ellie Fl Reynolds, Helen Miller,
Clara Koch, Amelia Rank, J. F. Kenah.
Marie Manning, Emma Dickinson, Mamie
Harrison, Philip Marsh, Iris Thurst, Alice
Baum.
Joe Rosengarten-Do not be discouraged.
Your turn at being one of the lucky prize
winners may come any week.
Fanny Avidon-No doubt you will be a
prize winner in the near future.
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G0NUNDRUNS

Why is a historical event like a parcel
united and tied again? Because it is re-
corded.
Why is kiss spelt with two SIS? Be-
spell.
Why does a cook make more noise than
a bell? Because one makes a din, but the
other makes a dinner.
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UT-oFF TOWN

a town I've heard Of somewhere
tAnd L hope It's far away,
Where the people live a wretched life
Every single day.
The streets that lead up to 1t
lYou can tell them by the dearth
OF happy faces met there
They're the gloomiest on earth)
Are named-it Is no secret
Not now, ''O-Can't-You-Wait.
"I-Will-in-Just-a-Minute;f
And right up DER the gate
Is written in large letters
cTwas not placed there for fun),
This Is where are found the boys
Who never get things done!'
And in this city none are glad,
AS you may well suppose,
And 0 will hear the self-same tale
From any one who knows.
That You may never dwell within
This place of III renown
BE prompt in every duty
And so hun this Put-off-Townl
Boys World.
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address that 1 am a country girl and live
SO far away that 1 do not think that I
could go down to Newark If 1 should hap
pen to win a prize, as L am very anxious
to win one. Hoping that my first attempt
will be a successful one, and hoping that
II l should win one that you will send
1t to me / remain, yours truly,
HELEN O'BRIEN, aged II.
You may be sure that Uncl Jack will
mail your prize to you when you are a
prize WINERY
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THE TRICoL0RED STAR

Take a sheet of cardboard-a calendar,
for instance-and bend it in the median
line. In one Of the wings thus. obtained
cut a four-pointed star In which two
Now bend back this wing upon the other
and take a tracing of 1t with a pencil.
Strike the centre Of a new star. of the
same size, but whose diagonal makes an
angle of ~forty-fiye degrees with the first
one. Having traced this new star. cut It
nnt nnrnfnllN nnd nlnce Nonr cardboard.
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candles of the same height, opposite a
screen of white paper affixed to the wall.
Regulate the angle formed by the two
images which the stars cast may fall
on the centre Of the screen directly one
over the other. You will now have n
bright star of eight corners. Now, II you
cover one of the two apertures with a bit
of colored glass-say green-y0u will have
n trl-colored star whose rays or points are
alternately red and green, while a white
octagonal star will appear In the centre.
The colored glass may be replaced. as in
the illustration, by a drinking glass con-
tanning any colo.ed liquid.
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HOW TO GET YOUR PRIZES

Uncle Jack will mail to each prize win,
ner a postal card notifying them to call
Mt the business office Of the EVENING
STAR for their prize. Bring the card
with you when yoI call, and the prize VIII
be given to you In exchange for IL. Please
write Uncle Jack acknowledging receipt
OF your prizes md how you like them.
Uncle Jack will publish the picture of any
prize winner who cares to send him a
photograph.
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SQUARE.
THE PRIZE WINNERS

The regular weekly prize of twenty
1--WE cents for a selected complete list
Of received to New Puzzles
No. 23O was won by
Wee Fling. Vftfsburg. Pa.
The regular weekly prize of twenty
Ave cents for an incomplete list to New
Puzzles No. $50, selected at random,
was won by
RuStfcus, Media, Pa.
The regular weekly prize of twenty
FIVE cents for a selected contribution
was won by
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ANSWERS TO LAST
SATURDAYS PUZZLES

The name of the city shown IN last Sat
urday's rebus was Wilmington. Del
The answer to the hidden name puzzle
WINS Gladstone,
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Newark, N. j., Aug. Is, 1907.
Dear Uncle jack received my book
and thank you very much for It. 1 have
been in Newark three weeks, and this
was only the second l solved of your con-
tests. The book, which Is called "Strug-
Cling Upward" Is a very fine book. /
will try again. Yours truly,
NELLIE VAUGHN, aged ID
179 Avon avenue.
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Newark, N. J., Aug. Is, 1907.
Dear Uncle Jack-I thank you very
much for the book 1 received. 1 showed
it to some of my friends and they all
thought 1t very nice. Thanking you once
more for my book I am as ever, your
CAROLINE AI1GENsrEIN. aged 8.
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CAROLINE -AUGENSTEIN, aged 8

Dear Uncle Jack-I thought the rule box
was fine. I am having a fine time this
summer We go in bathing every day.
Thank you for The rule box. Yours truly,
MARGARET RYSLEY, aged 9.