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THURSDAY, MARCH It, 1880.
K. of H.
Rldgway Lodge No. 1044 meets on
the 2d and 4th Fridays of each month
at 3 o'clock.
New Time Table. Under the new
schedule the mall and local freight
leave Rldgway station as follows:
MAIL WEST - 2:33
" EAST .... 5:00
LOCAL WEST - - 7:50
" EAST 3:25
Social Dnncc.
Joel Miller's new string band will
give their first ball at Maginuls' llnll
on Friday evening, April 2, 1880.
The public are respectfully Invited to
attend. Tickets 50 cents.
Slight fall of snow on Tuesday
Ridgway adjourned appeals on
18th hist.
Dance of Joel Miller's string band
at Maglnnis' Hall on April 2d.
Wash tubs, wooden pails, wash
boards and tinware at Morgester's.
There will be no adjourned session
of the Pennsylvania Legislature this
year.
Large stock plug and Smoking
tobacco all cheap for cash at Morges.
ter's.
Friday last the strong wind which
prevailed at that time blew the top off
the spire off the spire of the Luthern
Church. Besides a great many trees
were blown down In the woods near
this place.
The Co. Com'rs will hold an ad
journed term of the Cou rt of A ppeals for
Ridgway township on Thursday,
March 18. Those who were unable to
receive attention last Friday and
Saturday will have an opportunity
given them to present their cuses at
the above date.
Two men and two bears visited
this benighted village Tuesday last ad
ding by their beautiful singing and
nimble antics to the pleasure and
profit of the gaping crowds who
assembled to witness the sport. X. H.
The men did the singing while the
bears came tn strong on tbc antics.
That splendid organ sold by D. S.
Andrus & Co., Williamsport, Pa., for
$75.00 cash with 7 stops, solid wal
nut case and 5 feet 9J inches high, is
sold now for $80.00 with one more
atop and the grand organ knee swell
additional. Write them. Terms easy
on long time also.
The St. Mary's Gazette has con
tained several articles on the question
of a county poor house and farm.
There is no doubt that after the plant
was firmly established such an ar
rangement could be made to pay.
Communications are solicited on this
subject.
Four beautiful shade trees have
recently been set out by Henry Mar
vin in front of the Ridgway House.
Spring has opened earlier this year
and this is a good time to have shade
trees placed, and Henry is the man to
give your orders, for he warants the
trees for a reasonableleugth of time re
placing all that die.
C. Bowers, of this place, has just
patented a device to prevent bedsteads
from spreading. It consists of two
plates of cast Iron and two wrought
iron hooks. The plates are placed
midway between the head and foot
of the beadstead on each side, and se
curely fastened by three screws to the
rail on a level with the slat. The plate
is L shaped with a groove a little
more than three inches wide to hold
the end of the slat. The hook is fast
ened to the under side of the slat and
contains a nub at the end which (its
a hole iu the plate on the side of tiie
bed. The bedstead is thus held firmly
and all tendency to spreading avoided
while the slat can be removed and re
placed at will. No doubt nearly every
person who sees the article in question
will desire to posess one. Call on Mr.
Bowers for full particulars.
A word to our correspondents.
We are glad to get the news. We
thank you heartily for sending it to
us. But we fear that sometimes a line
creeps in that had better be left out.
Correspondents sometimes want to hit
somebody and they think they can do
it better in this way than in any other.
This is unfair, both to the persons you
refer to and to us. It makes enemies
for the paper, and does the writer no
good. Some correspondents we have
to reject entirely on account of being
too personal, some we strike paragraphs
from, and in a few cases offence Is
given by what we do publish. Make
your correspondence as newsy and
tipicy as possible; but put in nothing
that will injure any one iu any way
and nothing but what you would be
willing to attach your name to, and
let the world read. Ex.
Tlie strong wind on Bundny morning
blew down u section of tlie lenee fcurrouudliii;
Dr. Eurley' orchard, Hiid the six deer parked
therein got out. When Ural discovered they
were quietly browsing III J. IS. Hyde'a Hut in
the rear of the Hyde ltouse. Tboaiuriu wu
given, and noon a crowd of men and boya
collected, which frightened the tiiinbli-fuuteit
bipedi, and they took to their heels. The old
buck wuk Diirrouuded and captured, one of
the doea caled Okterhout heights and dis
appeared iu the woods, and the other four
hwam the Clarion and gained the woods iu
the rear of the cemetery. During the day
four were killed by doga and men, the fll'tn
one escaping IU pursurers and returning to
the park on Monday nighL i.'lk Democrat.
The italics in the above are ours.
Just why the Editor of the Democrat
should accuse deer of having hut two
feet we are unable to understand un
less some other dear was just then en
gaging his mind. Or in other words
13, 15, 14. How dear will mix the
Lest of us.
Oh! the dean with but two feet.
They mile on us o charmingly sweet.
That when other deer occur to mlud
Tiro-footed decrt are all we Und.
Pergonal Items. .
Miss Dora Irwin's school at Dry
Saw Mill has closed and Miss Irwin is
now at home.
II. S. Thayer and James H.
Ilngerty have purchased 159 acres of
John Cobb's windfall farm, which Is
well timbered with hemlock.
Miss Emma Olmsted, who tenches
school at Portland. Is now at homo, in
this place, her school being closed for
the present on account of scarlet fe
ver. Dr. D. B. Day has purchased 105
acres of John Cobb's windfall farm
which takes in the new house and
joins' II. 8. Thayer's farm on the
windfall road.
Cnp. Fred. Sehosning attended the
regimental election at Erie last Fri
day. Lieut. C. H. Rhines- did not
attend as we announced he would In
our last Issue. Cnpt. Adam Kurt is
was elected Colonel, and Capt. Ran
som, the old riot commissary, whom
the members of Co. H will all recol
lect, was elected Lieut. Col. Capt.
Schoening received one vote for Col.
The citizens of Benezette and
vicinity are hereby notified that I will
be at the Benefcette house on Monday
morning, March 2'2d 1880, with a fuil
line of samples for spring and summer
suitings.
Jas. McAfee.
Congregationalism,
Rev. Dr. Samuel Woloott, of Cleve
land, will be In Ridgway next Sab
bath to supervise the work of organiz
ing the Congregational Church which
has received such general and hearty
endorsement on the part of our com
munity. Dr. Wolcott Is a minister of
large experience and fine abilities, lie
will preach morning and evening in
the Lutheran church. Preaching on
Saturday evening in the same place,
at 8J o'clock. Let our community
turn out and show that they mean
nil they have said in givi.ig their
names and adhesion to this union
movement.'
DIED.
Wkscott At Portland, Thursdav,
March 4, 18H0, of scarlet fever, Je
rome Wescott, aged eiirht years, son
of Mr. anil Mrs. Roderick Wescott.
The remains were taken to Wilcox
for burial.
Heai.y. On Wednesday , March 10,
ls8n, of pneumonia, ai'tcr an illness
of but one week, Mrs. Jane llealy,
wife of John Heuly, aged about, 62
years.
Maloney On Tuesday.March !. 1SS ,
of rheumatism of the heart, .Michael
Maloney, aged about 45 years.
Mr. Maloney had been engaged
dressing stone for the foundation of the
new tannery at Crow Run. Return
ing home last Saturday he did not feel
as well as usual, but nothing serious
was thought of it. He was over to
town Saturday night returning home
about eight o'clock- Sunday and
Monday lie remained at home al
though not confined to bed. He ate
bis supper as usual Tuesday evening
retiring shortly thereafter. This was
the last time he was seen alive, for
when Mrs. Maloney went into the
room an hour or so thereafter, she was
dumbfounded on discovering that the
spirit of her husband had fled.
ilrockporl Locals.
Twenty strings of Short & Ilor
ton's lumber landed at the salt works
on the 7th.
Dan. Nulf is going down the
river on the shanty raft for J. S- Hyde
to cook with Mrs. Slick.
"C Man" thinks the shoe fits
Vale pretty well. How is it "C. Man''
does that young ladies shoe fit you
that you had out riding last Sunday.
Arthur Lurkin our quiet little
shoe maker took a trip down the river
lust week as far as Portland.
As Swamper is down the river
this week we shall look for no Brock
port Notes.
Horace French was in the same
boat the other day that C. Hines and
J. Delong was in when they entered
Ambrose Strait's house. Horace I
fear you were a little off of the strait
and narrow path "Watchman" talks
of.
The old saw mill has served as a
winter resort for the past two months.
Oo there when you may and you will
see some pleasure seekers either
crouched on the cut-oil" bench or on
the carriage deeply interested in some
machinery. Only last week "L. C. A.'
ventured in with several others and
was very much interested in some
parts of the machinery before leaving.
"L. C. A." you should not meddle
with any of the machinery knowing
full well that the owner does not .al
low any one to touch even the slightest
part of it when he is. at home for fear
they may do some mischief. Vale.
Dr. Day's Stomach and Nerve
Tonic is the best remedy in use for
poor appetite, weakness and trembl
ing in the stomach, pain after cnting,
heartburn, soreness and gnawing
pains in the stomach, nervousness
when tired, constipation and other
diseases of the bowels arising from
poor digestion. One bottle lasts
nearly three weeks. Price HMO.
Dr. Day's Cure for Head-ache Is
theonly remedy known that will stop
an attack of sick or nervous head
ache in its voiiiiiienceineiit; only
three or four doses, half an hour
apart, are necessary. Price 50 cents
a bottle.
Dr. Day's Standard Cough Syrup
will cure a cough with fewer doses
than any medicine iu use. Price 60
cents a bottle.
Dr. Day's Ear Drops will give
the greatest relief in neuralgia of the
face and will cure ear-ache immedi
ately. Price 25 cents u bottle. Ask
your druggist or storekeeper for these
medicines Manufactured by D. B.
Day, M. P., Ridgway. Pa.
The Hon. John A. Cutliber of
Mobile Is still practicing law in that
city, although SI years old. He was
an officer iu the war of 1812, and was
elected to Congress from Georgia in
1819.
The MiuMy Crossing.
N. Y. Truth.
A vnnna in, if whn hus ovldontlv hncl nn
experience that wclahs upon licrmlnd, drops
Into poetry which clie cnd to Truth. While
she gives full piny to fancy, she keeps n tight
rein upon fact:
Just over llierfl tit the window,
Hidden behind tlio slinde.
Kits n wicked man with his paper
Watching n poor little maid.
Umlllng ho watt-he her coming
Pattering down the street.
Daintily buttoned gnlters
Hiding the charming feet.
Bhe renchoR the muddy crossing,
And pnnses there in dismay,
Whllo Hint wicked, wicked mortal
Watches from over tlio way.
Laughing to see the maiden
Ixiok nt the muddy street.
Then smiling at hor vexation
As she ghinets down nt her feet.
Bravely she gathers her flounce,"
liaises her skirts up high
What Is It that man nt the window
With glistening eyes doth spy T
Under the snowy rutlles
Olenmlug out so bright
A pair of n'ripcd ftnrkingf
Are gradually gaining sight.
Then, ns the mud grows deeper
The niiililcu stops in dismay.
Unveiling still more of the stockings
To that creature over the way.
With her skirts uplifted bravely,
Higher and yet. more high,
A tlttintiiy buckled gttrtvr
Sparkles upon the eye.
Oh! man over thereat the window,
Don't stare so hard, I pray.
At that helpless little maiden
trussing the muddy way.
Hut lie dashes down the paper.
And throws aside the shade,
Gazing still more intently
Right at the poor little maid.
Sow, she lias turned a corner
And vanished out of sl'ht.
While that wicked mortal yonder
Watches another wight.
The golden Summer sunshine
Is nil very well In Its way.
Hut mud and striped stockings nre nicer
To that man across Hie way.
Miss M. E. K.
Magus City Dots.
Snow a small quantity.
Beadle says he has just received a
new stock of peanuts. Oh! won't Sam.
Early be happy now. But stop, Sam.
toys he does not want us to say any
thing more about him through the
columns of the paper. Well we won't.
A tinker made his appearance in
the city on Tuesday. Fixing up lin
wti re & c.
Butter is a scarcity in our midst at
present.
Lou. English is slo.vly recover
ing.
Charlie Eiiason is now driving
the dray wagon for the mammoth
store of J. H. Steell & Co.
A Social dance was given nt John
Helsells residence at Coal Hollow tin
Tuesday evening of this week. From
what we learn a pleasent time was
had.
James McKillopp was the winner
of thenccordeou tit the raffle on Sat
urday night last. '
We understand that Fox will
have three candidates for the nomina
tion for the office of sheriff".
-Our friend Pender visited St. Mary's
on Tuesday. He reports a pleasant
trip.
The mines are now running quite
brisk.
The front windows of Steell & CVs.
store arc filled up with some clocks,
ranging in price from $3.50 to S8.no.
Services at the school house on
Sabbath evening last.
Our Sunday school is prospering.
Kiias Jonesaud William Marshall,
after an absence of several wecks.iiave
returned to the city.
The second entertainment of the
public-schools at thcCeuircville school
house on Saturday night, was, we
learn, tt second success.
Slam Hang is getting to be quite a
town.
W. II. Osterhout, Michael Wei
dert und Geo. Reischer, our County
Coumiissnicrs, we understand, paid
Contrevillo a visit on Tuesday. Busi
ness holding an appeal.
Evo Cook was to the city on
business Monday. He talks sooio of
moving here,
A re we to have a post -office hero
also an Express office? Two institu
tions uadly needed.
Mr. Samuel Hines, Gcneial Su
perintendent t'f the mines at this
place, and at Scranton, has been here
spending a few days with Mr. D.
Robertson, inspecting the works.
Glad to see you Mr. Hines, come
again.
I. N. O.
Worthy of Attention.
We advise till our readers, whether
ti.cy own a foot of land or not. to sup.
ply themselves with that treasure of
useful, prastienl relianle information,
the Amct'caa Agrieulturitt, so mimed
because started 38 years ago as a journ
al, but now enlarged to embrace a
great variety of most usftil reading for
the Household, Children included, for
t lie Garden, as well as the Farm for
all classes. Each volume gives some
800 original Engravings, with descrip
tions of labor-saving and labor-helping
contrivances, of plants, fruits, flowers,
animals, etc., including many large
and pleasing, as well as Instructive,
pictures for joung and old. The con
stant, systematic exposures of Hum
bugs and Swindling Schemes by the
AgricutturMareotgraixl value to every
one, and well save to most persons
many times its cost. Altogether, it Is
one of the most valuable, as will as
cheapest. Journals any where to be
found. The cost is only J1.50year,or
4 copies for $5. Single numbers 15 cents
Subscribe tit once for 1880; und receive
the rest of this year free, Orange Judd
Company, Publishers. 245 Broadway,
New York. The Advocate and the
named journal for $2.00.
Wilcox (J railed 'Schools.
Principal's report fot month end
ing March S, 1880.
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J. B John-)
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145 1 11 3 1 84 1 05
The highest class standing ob
tained by any pupil for the month
Is 98; lowest 00; the best general aver
age 9ii ; lowest 58.
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"a" drape.
Lucy Neering
Eva Sch rein er
lanthti Schultz
Ella Locke
Matie fiocke
Martha Groat
Ada Miller
Herman Lnmpc
Johnnie Murphy
Kn'.rcne Parsons
Willie Miller
Fred Aldrich
Lorcnda Warner
Mary Sehrciner
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Frank Brown
Grant Allen
Willie Sweet
Jackson Schultz
George Sehrciner
Edi'iie Sowers
Bcruie Murphy
Willie Locke
Flora Weiuing
Mary Lan'ipe
Edna Walker
Mary Flannigan
Mary Mourtougli
Glen ni Johnson
"c" OUADH.
Ella Wbiteman
Lillic Eruhout
Allie Houghtaliiig
Hat lie Cole
Katie Flauuigan
George Wcining
John O'Lrary
John Flannigan
Otto Schreilier
Charles Stoltz
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Visitors. Prof. Geo. It. Dixon, Dr.
A. M. Straight, Mrs. A. M. Straight,
Mrs. C. Cody, Mrs. G. Woodward and
Mrs. J. D. Parsons.
J. B. Johnson, Principal.
Wilcox Jots.
E. S. Brevier and Jos. Tambini
are the "boss"' men with the 10 block
puzzle.
John Mcenun has started a junk
shop.
Shorty says he will win the fair
haired girl or bust.
The son of Mr. tt. A. Wescott
was laid in his last resting place on
Sunday morning. A very appropriate
sermon was preached by iiev. Mr.
Lampe.
The Iiev. Mr. Lampe preached
his farewell sermon on Sunday evening-
E. Nl'F.
Mrs. Clarkof Indiana was thought
less enough to present her husband
with a petition signed by herself and
seven children praying for a new
calico dress. Mr. Clark thereupon
threw the petition under the table and
his wife out the window, and now she
is a crippie for life.
If you want a sheet of note paper;
if you want u quire of note paper; if
you want a ream of note paper, don't
fail to call at The Advocate cilice.
We keep a large assortment of note
paper and envelopes, and sell cheap.
Notice to Correspondents and Others.
Hereafter The Advocate will go to
press at 10 o'clock Thursday morning,
consequently all advertisements and
correspondence must be handed in not
later than Wednesday noon to insure
insertion in the current issue.
W A N t 1: 1 )-D.H. Patty & Co., N 11 rs
erymcn, want a few good reliable men
to sell Turk's vine's and shuihh
through this state. They promise
steady employment to good salesmen.
For full particulars address, D. II.
Patty & Co., 721 Broad St., Newark,
N. J. nl in3
Prints. The most desirable assort
ment in Western Pennsylvania, now
011 exhibition at Powell & Kime's
mammoth sales rooms.
Eggs, Butler and cheese at Mor
gester's.
Brandy Cam'i Penciling.
L. C. A. did not have as great n
lime flndihg out who "Watchman"'
and his helper is ns the "ttldge and
Vicinity'' correspondent thought.
"C. Mart"', If we went on the ridge
ns you request to rcconnoiter wo should
go straight to the grave yard school
house and without doubt, find Mr. "C.
Man." It seems strange how suddenly
D. C I's locals stopped. Perhaps "C.
Man" can tell.
Since hearing that the "Star of
the West" was about to start, n young
school teacher has been practic
ing f.ome very ntnuslng exercises with
H. F. ns stage manager. There will
boa small menagerie attached. We
think with a little practice, one at least
will make an expert.
"Watchman" exposed himself In
his lir; locals by committing Susan
side. "Watchman" If you have any
thing to say, good or bad about L. C
A. say it, but bo careful that we do
not catch you in another 1 e.
Miss Eliza Taylor Is teaching one
month's subscription school at the
Brandy Camp school house. She
gives very good satisfaction.
Miss Susie Mcintosh has been
hired to teach the summer school at
this place.
A few days ago George Foust was
caught between a stump und a rolling
log and had bis leg considerably
bruised.
"Watchman got back from down
the creek Tuesday.
There is a young man in our town
who talked a great deal about sending
in his locals he lias written on L. C. A.
Daniel if you have n strong dmo spit
it out, don't try to swallow it, and we
will try anil make it as Interesting for
you as we can.
To iiu v person who will send it
three cent postage stamp we will send !
in our next week s locals a roll ins
cription of "Watchman" and his
helper. Address, L. C. A. Brandy
Camp.
John Taylor of III., formerly a res
ident of this county, is very ill. Word
was sent here to his friends that he
was not expected lo live. Ellis a
of Ills started for there a few
days ago.
"Vale" beats about the wall with
a hammer fancying at every blow
that he hits the nail on the bead.
As Prof. T. S. Fuller was return
ing to the Brandy Camp Hotel 0 few
nights ago from giving a imiiic lc--iii
he saw what appeared lo lie a light in
the born opposite the grave yard. As
he came nearer it appeared outside
about two rods from the road, and was
standing perfectly still, he looked at it
several seconds, and it disappeared
suddenly, he looked and tried to see it
again but could not. Adam Miller
has seen a light start from the grave
yard and go down to the barn.
Twenty-six dollars a month are
the wages paid to many of the
men of 1 1 lis section and board
themselves there is one man among
the rest that supports a family of ten
by the above wages. Tills seems like
ante-bellum prices.
Vale it may seem strange to many
how sly you can keep ihings, but it
does not 10 us, it did seem strange un
til wc saw you give the old lady some
choice candy for your little ones. For
she says you just Jill the vjcancy of
Mr. Stanly and that you do not always
go on the Hidge when you start
Now "Vale" what is falling iu the
creek compared to this? bev?
The latest style of popping the
question is Henry just come over ami
I will give you a piece of that good
cake 1 baked the ether day.
L. C. A.
We publish the aiinnuneemeuts
in car advertising columns for p't;,
and seldom trouble ourselves to en
quire as to (lie qualities or merits of
tlie wares advertised, further than to
t.iu-e ourselves mat nicy are legiti
mite and respectable. But when an
article periorms n.is'ucies in our midst,
transforming ike old to vouii'r. i m-
pearanceat least, we cannot pass it by
unnoticed. We know of people who,
years ago, was gray-headed and who
now wear dark and glossy hair. I low
is this? It evidently is not colored,
for it has a perfectly natural appear
ance instead of the harsh, dry. staring
look of hair Ktninul with nitrate of
silver or other common hair dyes.
No! it. has been nxtorctl ' to its
youthful color, lustre and vitality by
the Use of that wonder of wonders,
Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair lie-
newer. It has many imitators, but
there there is nothing like I!. The
test of years only increase its fame,
while its imitators die and uro for
gotten. Booton Daily Globe.
Jam Poles.
Middletown X-Cut Saws.
Jefl"ard' White's and Mann's Axes.
Tubular and 00 Lanterns.
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Manic of Fifteen.
From tlio Plilln. Tlmes.l
AN EXPLANATION nV TItK tNTRICA
C li:S OF THK OKM VV.7.VK.
Various nw'ounts have. been given of
the Invention of the "Fifteen Game,''
otherwise known as the "Gem Puzzle,"
which is just now having a run second
only to that of "Pinafore,'' According
to one story it isthc Invention of ndeaf
mule In Hartford, who made It for the
entertainment of the inmates of the
asylum where ho lived, without tt
thought of the Insane nsyluni for
which It seems likely to make so many
patients. Another Ktory ascribes the
tiling lo the postmaster of Cannstota,
N. Y., who gave the game to a lady
in Syracuse, who sent It to a lady at
Watch Hill, who took it homo to
Hartford, where a Boston man saw it
and so on. But whoever invented it,
it Is the manufacturer who are reap-'
ing the profit. It is not patented, but
the manufacture appears to have been
eon tined thin far to two New England
firms, who arc said to have been turn
log out the games at the rate of six or
eight thousand a day and still hardly
to have supplied the demand. The
puzzle Is to be seen everywhere.
From the judge on the bench to the
bootblack 00 the sidewalk, everybody
it puzzling over it. The scientific peo
ple nre discussing it, and for the last
few days the newspapers have been
lull of it. Tlio apparatus consists of
l ixtecn little squares of wood, num
bered consecutively from one to six
teen, and lilting exactly in a shallow
square box. In use, the square num
bered 10 is removed, and there is
thus a blank space left, which allows
the blocks to slide, one square at ti
time, and they are thus lo lie arranged
without removing them from the box.
The lift cen squares being mixed mid
placed indiscriminately in Hie box,
the nriiblem is to arrange them in re-
gular arithmetical series as in the fol-
lo.ving diagram.
iTTT
1
i 5
9 j 10 I -11 j 12
13 14 15 I
1
Anyone can make the game for him
self by cutting the little squares from
n cigar" box, or by dividing the bottom
of a square pa-tboord box, lir.st into
quarters and then into sixteenths, and
ti.-ing the lid of the box, which will
of course, just contain them. Or it
can be played with counters 011 a quar
ter section of a checker-board. The
game as it is soid in tho shop, how
ever is more convenient, and it can be
had anywhere' for a quarter or even
less.
THE I'lV.ZI.E.
Tho early moves of the game are
.simple enough. Starting Willi the 1
and working it gradually toward the
corner, and following with the 2, nnd
so on, a beginning is easily made.
Then you start this line in procession
around the sides of t lie box, gradually
working the numbers in the required
order. This process cannot be de
scribed minutely, but one soon dis
covers a certain sort of method in it
and it looks as though the solution of
the pux..le were only a question of
time and patience. Gradually the
lilies are formed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 7, t,
ami so 011. Victory is at hand, ami
the playi r subdues his exeitement as
bc.-t lie can, while the lookers on say:
"lie has it." Hut he hasn't. Although
so near, the end is yet so far that san
iuine hope soon gives way to despair.
After working for a longer or a shorter
lime, according to the familiarity of
tlie player with the method of the
thimr, this is the way it comes out:
1
5
i
n
And no art
right place.
3
C 7
1) 11
1;
15 14
can get that 15 into its
Tlie more you struggle
with it the worse it
horiously arranged
gets, and the la
rows become all
mixed up again. It is at this point
that grim despair settles down upon
all but the most courageous. Some
limes the 13, If, 15, come in their right
order, while two other numbers are
misplaced, but we believe that every
combination can be reduced ultimately
10 that given above, so that the real
problem is to get the 15 after the 14.
An enterprising Yankee lately adver
tised to send the solution of this pro
blem for two stamps, umj to the many
who applied lie sent back the answer:
"Take up No. 15 carefully between
theihumbaud forefinger and place it
where it belongs.'1 This is on . the
principle of Alexander's solution of
the Gordinii knot; it is heroic, but not
satisfactory.
THE .SOLVTION.
It is not necessary, however, to re
sort to such heroic measures. The 13,
15, 14 combination is soluble, but Is
only by changing the direction of the
columns. This is the secret of the
problem. Tlio player has started
with tlie purpose of arranging the
numbers in horizontal, rows, und he
has failed. He has Dow to go on from
this baiting place and arrange them
iu vertical columns. This is the idea
intended to be conveyed by those who
have spoken of "turning (he board,"
a phrase apparently borrowed from
chess, but only confusing iu "fll'leen."
It. is not necessary t-j give all of the
twenty-nine moves required for tlie
solution of the problem, but the fol
lowing will enable every one to work
it out:
1
2 3
2
2 3
3
1 2
1
5
0
13
0 7
10 11
15 14
507
0 10 11
5 u 7
9 10 11
13 15 14 12! 13 15 14
4
5 1 2
9 6 7
13 10 11
15 11
5
6 1 2
9 0 7
13 10 11
(I
6 12
9 6 7
13 10 11
1.5 U 12
15 14 12
Thus far we have been simply mov
ing the outer row around the board.
We now make two more such move
ments, bringing the board to tho
position numbered 8, nnd then, In
three moves, bring the 15 into the
centre (ns In 11), nnd then two for
ward movements more.
8
9 5 12
13 8 7 3
15 10 11 4
14 12 6
11
9 5 1 2
13 0 7 3
15 11 4
14 10 12 81
13
5 1
fi 7
9
13
14 15 It
10 12 8
Following
are the ' positions after
every oilier one of the next six moves:
15 17 1
9 5 1 13 9 5 1 1 13 9 5 1
13 6 7 2 14 0 7 2 14 6 2
14 15 11 3 15 11 3 15 11 7 3
10 12 8 .4; 10 12 8 4; 10 12 8 4
The player may now begin to see
his way out. The next eight moves
give the following results:
21 23 2S
13 0 5 lj 13 9 5 II 13 9 5 1
15 14 0 2 15 14 0 2j 14 10 6 2
11 7 3 10 7 8 15 7 3
10 12 8 4 12 11 8 4 12 11 8 4
It now "remains only to move the 11
into Its place and the 12Jnto its place,
and the problem is solved :
13 0
14 10
15 It
12
1
1
But, it may be objected, the only
legitimate arrangement is that repre
sented on the lid of the box, with the
numbers in horizontal order. Very
well. But instead of starting out to
nrrnioro them in horizontal lines be
gin with the vertical arrangement iu
view, with the 1 iu the lower left
hand corner. You can thus obtain
this position :
4 8 12
3 7 11 14
2 6 10 15
1 5 9 13
which corresponds precisely with the
lirst position in the above series, as
con be seen by turning the board upon
its side, and the same moveswill bring
the numbers into horizontal order, ex
actly as shown in the large diagram
at the beginning of this article. Tho
numbers can be arranged either way,
but the secret of success is, nt the ap
parently insuperable point, to change
the direction of tiie columns.
THE MAGIC so, C A HE.
No attempt has been made here to
enter into a scientific explanation of
the puzzle or toilo anything more tliau
present one practical method of solv
ing its dilliculties. As fifteen num
bers are susceptible of no less than
l,.'v7, (174, 3ns,000 different combinations
it is plain that the mathematical possi
bilities of this puzzle cannot be treated
in asinglearticle. Another form of en
tertainment which t!ie"Gcm"aflbrds is
in arranging the whole sixteen squares
iu such order that the sum of the num
bers in every continuous row, vertical,
horizontal or diagonal, shall be the
same. This is a form of tlie old magio
square, which has furnished diversion
to mathematicians for so many cen
turies. Magic squares were known iu
the East in remote ages, but the earliest
I known writer on the subject was a
t 1 ... I. B . I . . ,
vnecii. 01 uie sixieenin century,
named Moschopulus, whose work was
translated into latin by De la Hire and
read before the French Academy in
l'j'jl. Since that time the subject Inn
been elaborated by a great many fa
mous mathematicians, who have
found iu it an exhaustless field of
study, ami the combinations which
have been made of compound squares
magic cubes, and what not, and tho
abtruso mathematical formula; by
which their construction is explained,
would terrify an unleaned reader.
One of the squares given by Moschop
ulus answers the terms of this"sixteeu
puzzle." We give it below, together
with another arrangement of numbers:
1 15 14 4 I 1 10 11 C
12 0 7 0 1 13 i 1 10
10 11 5 I 8 0 14 3
11 3 2 10 I 12 5 2 15
The first arrangement is more sys
tematic, but tho reader can work out
others for himself.
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