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THE TIMES PHILADELPHIA, SUNDAY MOENTNG, APEIL CO, 1882. 0 COLONEL QUAY'S ORGAN. TLTE CIIE33 JiOARD. AMONG THE CHURCHES. THE MERRY MAY DAY.

HAVERLY'S THEATR! J. II. HAVEItLY W. II. MOKTOM Proprietor mxl Mamices Ac tiiiK Manairc Earl of Mulgrave, who is also vicar, devoted much time and trouble last year to one of these pretty entertainments.

Twelve hundred children took part in the festivities, three hundred of whom were quaintly masqued, and the Queen wasadcar littleeigiit year old girl, whose pretty flower trimmed dress was thegiftof the Dowager Marchioness of Js'onuunly. Children are children still, even in the nineteenth century, but the untroubled gayety which gave to older people the power to be merry in true childish fashion has passed away, and if we had a Maypole now, who would be found to dance COMMENCING MONDAY, MAY 1 C. H. SMITH'S MAMMOTH DOUBLE vri i TOM'S CABIN The Largest and Best on the Face of the Earth. Direct from its Enormous Euns in Boston and Chicago in the Grandest and Most Perfect Performance of tbe Immortal Drama before the Public.

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GLITTERING The ONLY DOUBLE COMPANY in the WORLD He is Kofused Admission Into tho Associated Fress Partnership. Colonel Quay's application for admission into the Associated Press, for the purpose of publishing a morning Stalwart organ, was considered yesterday at a special meeting of tho Association, called hy President Clayton Mcllichael for the purpose. Colonel Quay's proposition was to pay for the franchise, which would make him a member of the Association and entitled to all tho privileges of tho other partners. The proposition was fully considered and tho proposal was refused. The proceedings of tho Association are not public, as it is a private partnership.

The last admsssion to tho Associated Press partnership was Jlr. Swain, when he established tho Record, and with that exception there havo been no new members admitted for many years. In Jlr. McClurc, now Editor of Tiie'T imfs, was refused admission, and when tho present publishers of The Times decided to start this journal, they made no application to tho Association, bocauso they knew that it would not bo favorably entertained. They purchased the Age and thereby obtained the Associated Press franchise for Till Times.

It is a franchise that may be sold with a newspaper that possesses it, but it could not bo hold by au individual after the discontinuance of his journal, as it must attach to a paper. In the case of the News, a morning daily published by Jlr. Joseph R. Flanagan, the franchise expired with the A'em. Six Million Dollars Made in a Month.

During the present month the coinage executed at the I'nited States Mint in this city aggregated pieces, valued at That amount is made up of SI VOI eagles, fJ.HOO half eagles, silver dollars, five cent pieces and cents. "Tha Leading and Most Extensive Millinery Establishment in tlie United States." TO MORROW (Monday) MORNING We shall place on sale an importation of UNTRiMMED ii? hoots 1 Conihtint nf St rate Hats and Donncts in all the popular nhapes and special shapes of our own, not sold elsewhere, in Jiuylish, Milan, Dunstable, Manilla, Vanama, l'or citpiue liraids, French Chip and other Fancy Straws in the most novel and ucauliful colors. We guarantee tiejwiecs of these goods to he loweii than those of any house in the trade. OSTRICH FEATHERS In all the Neto Colors in plain and fancy shadings, the latter being specialties of our own. 500 Hunches Genuine Double Ostrich Feathers in all the Fashionable Shades, at for a Bunch, of 3 Tips, worth tloulle the price Superior Quality oile Ostrich Plumes at the very lent) price of $1.94, $2.48 and $2,94 WORTH $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00.

Elegant Assortment of FRENCH FLOWERS in Wreaths, Sprays, Clusters and Unbranchetl. RIBBONS in all the Popular Shades, Tlain and Fancy. Also the Latest Novelties in Sash llibbons, 10 Inches Vide. JET LACES AND CROWNS in Great Variety, and many other Desirable Novelties, all at very ATTRACTIVE PRICES. ROTHSCHILD.

wsk. fiaa ji Medal of superiority American institute issi. 11 Jiff if WaIi $1.65 iHEANHEAR: The Possible Winners of the Club TournamentChampions Off for Vienna. The tournament of the Philadelphia Chess Club Is rapidly drawing to a close.and the possible winners of Hie first prize are narrowed down to Messrs. Klson, Hoskins, Michaells, Newman and l'riester.

The parties yet to be played are Klson vs. Hoakins, Michaells, Newman and Wliitton lloskhis vs. Miller, Newman and Prlester; S. Miula vs. Miller and l'riester; Michaells vs.Newman; Miller vs.

Whltton; Newman vs. Priester; Priester vs. Wbitlon, and lliirimui vs. Whilton. The stale of the leading scores now is: Flson, Hoskins, Michai iis, 14; Newman, (I; A meeting of the club will be held next Wednesday evening.

The club is in a very tloarishing condition. WIIITTON'S MANOCUVHE. A very singular chess maiueuvreoccurrcd in one of tbe tournament games between Messrs. Whitton and Hos kins, which niay well serve to jioint a paragraph and adorn a game. The position just prior to the manoeuvre stood thus: White Wliitton.

KntKB sc, at Kt 4, It at si, at II Kt at 2, Pawn at Kt 2. Black Hoskins. at sq, at It 7, at sil, Kt at 4, Pawns at Kt 2 and i. The game was then pursued. 1.

to Kt 4. to Kt 3 was, of course, more advisable. 1. eh. 2.

E. Kt to (J 0 ell. 3. to II 3. Kt (J.

Very natural, but a more careful survey of the board would have induced him to check at It 4 lirst. Now follows tbe real import of Mr. Whitton's curious niameuvrej 4. Kt to Kt 3. Menacing mute and at the same time placing the black queen in a cage.

4. to 3. 5. to II sq. li.

Kt R. The srume was continued for many moves, but Mr. Hoskins' extra pawn finally carried llie game. A J1 1USF.Y CII1 1SS Eltll.LIANT. Showing a sparkling chess brilliant wherein Mr.

William Riddle, ot'the Camden Chess Club, gives Ihe odds of Queen's rook which must be removed from White's side of the board White Mr. Riddle. 1. IMo K4. a.

Kt to 3. 3. to 4. 4. to Kt 4.

5. 1" to li 3. Black Amateur. Flo 4. Kt to B3.

BtoB 1. II Kt P. 11 in 11 4. (. Cast Its.

Kt to B3. to 3 is the proper move at this point und the weakness of playing tin knight thus receives here another uejiiuii uriuiou. d'lllUl. PxP. 10 Kt 3.

Kt to it. I'toQ 4. to 4. P. 11.

to 2. CJ to li 4. 11 to It 4. 8. i J.

to S. 11). 10 si). H. I'x Pen pas.

1A li tnCio. 13. Kt. 14. 11 xBeh.

15. to It 3. hi. Kt to 3. 17.

Kt to 5 ch. 11 to 1. S(. And tho climax of the game is now reached bv an announced m. iiu iu six moves, Illustrating the famous l'hili dur's legacy.

OFF TOR VIENNA. Many of the champions are now en route for Vienna, in order to participate in the grand chess congress which will begin May 10. In many respects this meeting will be Ihe most noteworthy of modern lilacs. America will be represented by Mackenzie and with Ware thrown iu. Knglaud will be championed by Sn in hz, lllaekburnr and Zukerlnrt.

France by llosenlhal. (ierinanybyl'auisi n. Austria by Kuglisoh and Hussia by W'inavcr. Also a nunieious showing of a miscellaneous character, consisting of players of a somewhat inferior yi'ade. I1Y T11K ITKSlS POET LAt'ItKATE.

Fck, the chess poet laureate, Of Philadelphia, thus describes an Evans' gambit tbat we played with Mr. Jiisoo: The game below was played no matti where. W'hen and by whom? dear sir, you need not care. The sheet whereon the moves were jotted down, By chance turned up in other parts of town, A twisted taper, soon in flames it glowed, And mingling with the gas to tw.trr llowed. Scene, in a room a patient crowd observes, i'iaying on words, and on tbe players' nerves; laborious pipes a cloud of sinnke'ciiiTuse, Laborious puns the tardy hours amuse: And many suggestion, no one heeds, is given ioiprolnplu, lis ihe game proceeds.

Now each phtysoul pawn to lug's fourth, a move Thai all ttie books since Mack low's time approve. King's Knight to bishop's third, sustains the (mefn's Knight to hishop'H third supporting block; Bishup to bishop's fourth alike they play, Ami tor an vans' gambit clear the way. White's pawn to queen's knights' fourth is forward thrown. The challenge black accepts, takes the pawn Pawn to queen's bishop's third, compelling black To bishop's fourth, to call his bishop back. Pawn lo queen's fourth, and pawn takes pawn are played.

Wlihe'castles, and the opening moves are made. Tliesable warrior must bis lime improve, l'awu to queen's third is now bis only move; Wheu white proceeds to take llie advancing pawn, Toqueeu's Knight's third tbe bishop is withdrawn. Bui, now, shall eaeli the equal game pursue, While we, unbiased, the encounter view. Wben ail the lb Id they carefullysurvey, Pawn lo queen's tilth is Ihe dii i'ded pla'v. Tuc sable chieltain, close iwiled hy white, 'I his King's second square rciieats the Kuight.

White to King's lillh does now his pawn advance, Queen's Knight to King's Knight's tiiird is black's defense, To his Knight's second white's queen's bishop plied, To King's Knight's lillh does black's queen's bishop si ride. Pawn captures pawn King's Knight to bishop's third, Book lo King'ssquare, and white lirst check is heard, The bishop's square, awhile the monarch shields, Queen's pawn lakes pawn, nod to black bishop yields; Queen's Knight to bishop's third deploys tbe wiiite, And black at King's rook's fifth now plants a Knight. Queen's Knight to liis hflh square, provokes the llay, The tierce black bishop bears one knighl away But iu his turn is hy the knight's pawn slain. The (lurk queen enters now the chequered plain, And al her second square impatient burns, That white king's bishop to Ins square returns. Now eager trembles all ihe troubled air lilack's frowning rook runs to the monarch's square.

To queen's rook's third the checking bishop dies, The King to Knight's square for protection hies; Book takes rook, "cheek "the dusky chieftain quakes, But black's bold Knight tbe attacking iwstio lakes. Tbe bile queen at King's second leads tbe right. Black pawn to queen's rooks third assaults hor knight, Hook to King's Wjiitirc may justly black jit rplex Who with tlte koiiit takes bishop's jiuvvn ami cl; The Kuight a falls before the queen, checks. jut i i hi; in ten iu me paw it is seen. Honk to Kinu's seventh is quite decisive now.

And black's brave warriors to the victors bow. fiJIOWXKQ THE FORCE OF POSITIOV. Showing the force of position in a remarkable combination display by li. Keill. There are 9 men against 11: No.

2il'2. Black. ft A 1 1 A 4 HITK. White to play and mate in two moves. MATING COt'I S.

It to 3 doing the mate in No. Kio is found by Alpha, Americas, Anico, Amateur, S. It. Uurrett, lienry C. lirinvn, Kli, Miner, Jacob Klson, llr.

Fulnier, C. 1). I. Hamilton, K. Henderson, J.

Willie Jones, J. A. Kaiser, August Krueger, li. 51. Keill.

A. James Holierts, Salitli, (i. H. stout. II.

Wells, Zeke, J. Wliilluii, Duriiin. It. F. Quickel, W.

II. Warwick, J. Young. No. opens with ft to 4.

and is reKnonderi to by Ann go, H. li. Harrctt, Henry C. Prown. Kli, Dr.

runner. D. Hamilton. 1). J.

Willie A Kaiser, August Knieger, Itotit'its, (Salitli, H. itttton, zeke, Durhln, J. Young. A TUUKK MOVlfi BEAUTV. A three move mate of uncommon beauty by Oscar Moment hal (O vs.

li), No. 23a: Wiiitk at 88, (1 at 4. at 8. at 7. Kt at 11 3, Pat QKtZ Jii.ACK at il 115.

tat a It 4. 11 at 7. KtatO Kt 4, Pawns at 3, and li 5. hue lo play and mate in tliree moves. FASHIONABLE FABRICS.

The Liberty Allowed by Fashion lu the Se lection of Dress Materials. Fashion lias been extremely liberal this sea son in the choice of fabrics allowed her patrons, and tew can justly complain of her requirements putting them to disadvantage. TTiis fact was evinced by the line of new spring fabrics, shown us a few days since by one of our leading retail houses. Kich silks, satins, brocades and damasses were shown in every color and shade, from creamy white to sombre black, as well as many novel and beautiful effects in checks, pin stripes and mixtures. In fine wool fabrics wo found plain, lace and brocade nun's veilings, crapes, cashmeres, French llaunels and various similar fabrics, both iu rich blacks und colors, the latter embracing every conceivable shade and tint, liesides these were luminous elfeets, combining many colors, but giving prominence to none, and rich combinations in silk and wool, showing a plaid.

striped or embroidered surface. To sum up, there was sometiung to suit every taste, every style and every purse, and all bearing the brand of fashion. We repent, therefore, that ufter having made such liberal provision for all as the beautiful line of goods shown by the house referred to, that of George Kellv N'o. Sltl Market street, proves her to have done.no just complaint can be made against fashion's decrees for this season ut least. A New Cure for Measles.

From tlie Fresno Expositor. We are informed that a number of Indians living east of Akers' place on King's river, were afflicted with measles, aud a few days ago, when well broken out, concluded to take a bath in the river as a remedy. Fourteen of them were permanently cured. Tiiey have been gathered to their fathers in the happy hunting grounds. THE STATE'S DEFENDERS.

Major Wetherill, brisnde inspector, has granted Major Hepburn leave of absence on account of ill health. The ln iiHKle's Board of Examiners met on Friday and examined Lieutenants Zeicler and Mcr ritt Uoiiglass and Dr. Wharton, of the Third Hegi nieut. Muior TJvnn's Stntn Font ihlcs will rmrnde in Fairm'ount Park on May 2f and a parade of the Third Keinnient is ordered to take place there on next ed nesday. All the preliminary arrangements for tho encampment of the Suite troops have been perfected as far as possible.

The First llrigade will leave here by tiie Pcnsylvania Kailrond for Lcwistowu on Friday, August S. The place selected is beautifully situated on rolling country, with the Juniata river in the background, and from a small creek near by fresh water will be forced up to the camp bya steam pump. A HA Die Ar, ritE for rheumatism is St. Jacobs Oil. It nover half does its work.

A disgusted Episcopal lavman recently re marked in reference to the proposed revision of the course of theological study hat Is the use ot re vising the course of study in our divinity schools Most of our clergy now are educated in the schools of the various I move to abolish our schools and advertise for the lame and halt and cranky of other denominations to come over and ollicer the church." The Central rreshlrrian gives Longfellow's poems just eighteen years to die out. Thus does it knock the deceased poet: "The attempt to mak3 a great poet out of Longfellow is a mistake. He has written some very pleasing verses; but compare him with Gray or Collins, or even Walter Scott. His books will be forgotten before the close of the century. We believe he was a Unitarian." The gist of this is evi dently in the last sentence.

I'ity Longfellow had not turned Presbyterian before he died, and then his very pleasing verses might have been more pleas ing to the Central. The Catholic Mirror makes an exceedingly practical suggestion as to some of the girls: "Iu New England the women outnumber the men In the far West the men outnumber tho women. The mill towns of the Fast are swarming with Catholic girls. All of them will not get husbands. Too many oi them will enter into mixed marriages.

Here is a work for charitable ladies to take the superabun dant damsels from the land of the Puritans and find homes for them in Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado and adjacent States. Better than looking out for immigrants is taking care of our own. What shall wc do to entertain our girls says a religious exchange. The Christian at Work says: "A man who needs advice as how to enter tain his girls is not fit to edit a religious paper. We suggest tbat fie should taJce one ot them out buggy riding in the atternoon, tell her what a daisy she is, and how insipid and fixed up that other girl is.

Then he should take 'that other girl' out for ice cream after supper and tell her confidentially how very uninteresting and awkward the buggy riding girl is. When the two girls meet, the religious editor can de pend on them entertaining each other without his personal assistance." On a recent Sunday evening a lioston parson suddenly paused near the close of his sermon and said: "We would all be glad if that young man in the vestibule would come and satisfy him self whether she is or is not here. That would be much better than keeping a half inch draft on the occupants of the back pew." The occupants of the back pew and of all the other pews turned around to look at the half inch crack in the door, and as they heard the hurried boot creaks of the departing young man they concluded that if she" was iu the house she would probably meet him after the benediction at some quiet spot outside the door. The Xatiomtl Jlaplixt says that not a thousand miles from Philadelphia, a Methodist minister having occasion to receive three into the fellowship of his church, repaired to the mill pond, sprinkling one of the candidates as he stood by the edge of the pond. because there was much uatertltire; the second being led out into the pond, kneeling down, was pound upon, being satisfied that he bad gone domi in the tatter, and had come up out of it, while the third was immersed by a minister who had never been bap tized himself.

Another Methodist clergyman buried several candidates in the same pond, saying as he went thither, I fltall tithe my death of cold, 1 knoic Shalt; it willbethc. end of me." It did not finish him. There lias been a great stir in temperance circles over the lines in Tennyson's last poem: Hands all round Cod the traitors' hopes confound To the great cause of freedom drink, my friends, And tile great name of Knglaud round and round." Some of the English temperance workers take ex Ception to the sentiment, and have drawn up agaiust the poem a resolution to which Mr. Tennyson has replied iu a very kindly spirit, explaining that the language is simply symbolic. He might have added that he did not specify in these lines what beverage should be imbibed by those who join hands ail round." It might be hot tea: it might be skim milk or black cotl'ee, or zoedone, or hygidone, or viehy, or appol uaris, or even common cold water.

The poem is open to so many constructions that it is a pity for people of any liberality ot sentiment to grow unhappy over it. The present condition of the Salvation Army in England, especially iu London, is an evidence of the good that is done to a cause by being kicked and otherwise abused. Tho rowdies hooted the Salvationists in the streets and interrupted their meetings. Respectable people and papers sneered at them and said that they were of no account. The police ar rested some of the shouters and extorters as public nuisances.

Tin's gave tlic "army" all the notoriety it needed to ensure its success. Ocneral Booth, the chief leader of the Salvation Army, is shrewd enough to make the most of the public attention which has been called to his work. He says that if it is right to ring church bells there is no reason why salvation drums should not be beaten the streets. If organ pipes may with propriety bo sounded he sees no reason why the Salvationists should not be permitted to toot their horns and blow blasts on their biggest bugles. Booth is an eccentric person, but he has a good deal of magnetism and marked ability as a leader.

The Rev. John Miller, who was some time ago excluded from the Presbyterian Church for alleged heretical belief and teaching, comes out in a long manifesto agaiust three points in the theological teaching of Princeton Seminary. One of these is that a belief in the Trinity is essential to salvation. Tlic second is that "God is one substance, and that this substance has but one consciousness, and that this one conscious substance is in Three Persons such that, before the first creation, (Jod relieved His eternal solitude by company, the One Person with the Other, in His one conacioua substance." The third is that Augustinianism has nine points, derived from Au Kunifne Himself, and that one of these points is the Perseverance of the Saints. In regard to this point Mr.

Miller oilers to prove not only that Augustine be lieved in Falling fpjm Grace," but that he distinctly taugnt it. Ami ne oners also to prove that Watts de nied the Trinity. On the second point Mr. Miller says: really feel stirred against it as a Pagan profanity. As though God needed company, and as though the Spirit of the universe could be so the subject of loneliness as to gender the odd thought that one could have love and counsel and intercommunion together." He wants Prince ton to correct such mistakes, waking up to them as a man does to a blunder the types." The Attitude of l'raver" is discussed in the Cumberland Quarterly by a writer whoobjects to kneeling because it is "beyond doubt of heathen origin." and pleads for the standing position.

But it would be equally as much and as little of an argument against "standing" that the "seniles and Pharisees, hypocrites," stood when they prayed. The whole discus sion is one of those things which is seldom engaged in witn pront. ine bible gives no command as to posture. The precedents it mentions are such ns may be used by the advocates of kneeling, or standing, or prostration, or sitting. All those modes have their advantages and their disadvantages.

Prostration is seldom practiced except by a class of brethren who are generally considered enthusiasts. Kneeling is customary among the Methodist, the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches, but is not practiced with any great degree of uniformity even in the most strict of these. Standing is the Presbyterian custom, yet it is every year becoming less general. Many who stand during prayer spend the time in gazing about the church or looking at the people in the choir gallery. Host people have a habit ol sitting in praver.

some times inclining the head forward and sometimes sitting bolt upright. It is an important feature of devotional exercise, concerning which every man may bo persuaded in nis own mnui. vt hatevcr position is chosen it is safe to remark that the average worshiping congregation is not more reverent in its manners than it ought to be. The Rev. Dr.

George Emlcn Hare contributes to stnddarfa Itcrirw a very suggestive article on "Things due from the revisers of the current version of the old Testament." In the conclusion of this lie says: "ine public do not expect that the revisers will pass from tho character of translators into that of interpreters or that they will import into the text In italics or otherwise any matter not involved in the words of the original. And the reasonable part of the public will remember that as before the discov eries of Sir Henry Uawlinson no translation of the book of Daniel could have removed therefrom its seeming irreconcilablencss with other books of history, so no revision of the authorized version can give the rationale of facts and doctrines which belong to the Bible. Faithfulness, the great thing which is to be desired, will neither demand nor allow the pro duction of a book free from difficulties or even from things inexplicable. Tho revisers have it in hand to improve the translation, not to improve the Bible. If those who saw in the life, teaching and death of Jesus of Nazareth much which could not have coexisted with imposture or fanaticism, who, therefore, yielded their faith to him and to the Old Testament books to which he bore witness, had, in generation after generation for seventeen hundred years, to put up with a discrepancy which was for all that time inexplicable, the discrepancy between the book of Daniel and all accredited history in other books, what wonder if Christians of the present day have to bear the like, have to believe where they cannot ex plain, have to wait until day dawns and dissipates the darkness.

There is at Odessa a new sect of Jews. It is called by the name of New Israel." The Jews who compose it reject the explanations by rabbis of Babylon and Jerusalem of the laws of Moses. They only admit as holy the Pentateuch of Moses in its literal sense. They recognize as the first working day of the week Monday, and celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday. The New Israel suppresses the ceremony of circumcision of children, instead of which on the eighth day after the birth of the child a short prayer is read, by which the little one is received in the bosom of the New Israel.

The new sect also suppresses the obligation for the Hebrew Talmudists to write the Pentateuch on parchment, and recognizes as good the printing in vellum books ith the old Hebrew letters, "Jehovah, Flohci Israel." Every member of the sect has a right to kill birds and animals, and to feed on the flesh of animals killed by Christians. All the historical and religious Hebrew feosts arc celebrated, excepting those added by the Talmudists. The members are forbidden to exercise the profession of money lenders and usurers. All efforts are to be made to induce the Russian Government to acknowledge the legality of tho sect and to get some Immunities for it. From the day of the legalization of the sect, for a whole year, the members will bind themselves togive to their new boru infants the name of Alexander or Alexandra, iu honor of the Emperor.

The Government will be asked to grant all tho rights of citizenship to the members of the new sect, and to allow marriages between the New Israelites and Christians. The New Israelites, to show their independence from the Talmudists, will ask the permission of the Government to wear a special sign to distinguish them from the other Hebrews. How Coniir. of tlic Flowery Month Was Cele brated in (lie OlJen Tims. MYSTERIES OF THE MAY POLE A Collection of Scraps From the Poets Relat ing to May Day Memories.

As I have scone Hie La1y of the May Within an harbour, Built bv the May pole, where the jocund swains Diiiw With the maidens to the bagpipe's strains. So is wurtletl a quaint old pastoral, one of tho many which go to prove the antiquity of Muy clay customs; but to find their origin wo must search further still. Even with the Romans May was a season of festivals, tho month being held sacred to Apollo, hut tho rartienlar re joicings on the first day can be traced to tho feast of Flora, which began on the 2sth of April and lasted for five days, culminating on tho 2d of May. On the same day the Druids also cele brated their great festival of lieltane, or Bel tein, meaning "Fire of God," and the name has clung in a curious fashion to Whitsunday. which, in certain parts ot Scotland, is still called lieltane.

lilooming at Beltane, in winter to fade. Lady of tlie Lake. The proverbial ill luck which is said to attend May weddings can also bo ascribed to the Eoiuans, who devoted the 9th, 10th and 13th of the month to the feast of Lemuria, in memory of tho dead, thus casting over the time a shadow which boded nothing but misfortune to tho newly married. There is an old French proverb which points to this venerable superstition Nocos de Mai, noces do mort. But it is in England tinder tho Tudors and Stuarts that wo find the first of May held as a general holiday, to be spent by rich and poor in the open country, and both Hone and Chambers have gathered for us from a multitude ol sources a record of tho various games and diversions proper to the day.

In Chaucer's time even people of rank and station joined freely in the innocent gavctv. rortli goeth all tlic court, both most and least, to fetch the flowers fresh." And we are told that Henrv 111. went a May itig with Catherine of Arragon, in those halcyon days before it had occurred to the roval lilue heard how his marital bliss could be improved on. GOINCi A MAYIXO. It was customary to go to the fields early in the morning and come home laden with branches of hawthorne, with which doors and windows were profusely decorated.

Herrick marks how Kach door, each porch, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of whito ihorii neatly interwove. Then came the fashion of garlanding a May pole with wreaths of flowers, while the youn people danced around it and the Queen of May sat at its foot dressed in white and crowned with blossoms. The Muy polo was selected for its height, and was kept in each village from year to year, while every succeeding spring beheld it gaily decked and the centre ot a merry throng. This custom, so replete with innoceiit mirth was severely censured bv the Puritans those uncomfortable people who devoted themselves assiduously to depriving life of everything that made it attractive. Under their gloomy rule the May pole was forced to bow its stately head but among the first fruits of the Restoration was the famous London pole, erected on the Strand by seamen sent bv the Duke of York.

It was one hundred and thirty four feet high, made of cedar and decorated with three gut crowns. A happy crowd escorted it to its destination with music. Hags and general rejoicing, and Little Drury Lane, at whose head it was planted, was called May pole alley from that time forth. In Germany also the May polo was known and loved, and in Ireland, where it was sometimes customary to elect both a King and Oilmen of May, their royal majesties being selected for their proficiency the dance. MAY PAY MASQUES.

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was a favorite pastime both in England and Scotland to celebrate May day wifh elaborate masques, representing the adventures of Eohin Hood and his sturdy followers, the play wind ing up with an exhibition of archery. Other diversions proper to the day and of a much later date were the milkmaid's dance and the chimney sweep's festival. The former was a gay and pretty sight, the dairy women, in fantastic dresses and wreathed with flowers, forming a charming picture as they danced around a milch cow hung with drooping garlands. As for the poorIittlesweeps.it is a comfort to think that they had at least one day in the year to he jolly and free and to eniy tlipgnml aiuno nii'iiu'in many places was provided for them. May dew has always been supposed to possess beautifying qualities and it was customary for all the maidens who inclined to vanity to get up early on the first of May and repair to the woods, there to bathe their faces in the glistening drops of dew.

Another quaint superstition is thus described by Gay: Last May day fair I search'd to find a snail That might my secret lover's name reveal, t'pon a gooseberry bush a snail 1 found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound. 1 subs' the vermin home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk white embers spread. Plow enuvl'd the snail, and, if 1 right can spell, In the soft ashes murked a curious L. Oh, may this wond'rous omen lucky prove! For is found in Luberkin and Love. With my sharp heel I three limes mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.

FLORAL RAMUS IN FRANCE. In France during the Middle Ages the first of May was celebrated at Toulouse by tho renowned floral games, at which the prove'neal poets contested for a golden violet. Afterwards a silver cglantino and a silver marigold were added as secondary prizes, and Clemence Isanre, a lady of rank, who died in 15 10, bequeathed the bulk of her property to the perpetuation of this custom. She provided for a number of gold and silver flowers, which were to bo annually contested for by rival poets, and in consequence it has been erroneously claimed that she instituted these games, whereas the first was held in A small marble figure, of the noble lady stands over the door of the consistory of the Hotel de Ville, at Toulouse, and in her hand were flowers, now long since broken away. A practical spirit, too, she must have been, in spite of her liking for romantic poetry, for she left as an especial legacy to her native city those most prosaically useful things, her markets.

The floral games continued under many changes until a comparatively recent date. Louis XIV. honored them with his especial favor, and, strangely enough, the celebrated Fabro d' Eglantine, whose name will forever be associated with the stormiest pages of the Keigu of Terror, gained his title from winning a silver eglantine in one of Hi jso peaceful aiid courtly contests. MAY AND THE POF.TS. Terhaps it is because the first of May was the time selected for hearing these poetical effusions that wo find in the hearts of all poets an undying tendency to write about the spring.

Hundreds of years and thousands of verses have failed to make the subject too hackneyed to attract, and May especially has been selected as the favorite theme alike of young beginners and of laureled. veterans, while June, the beautiful mothor month, holding in her benifi cent hands the best gifts that nature has to offer, is passed slightingly by. May, chilly, drizzly, uncertain, now advancing us with a plunge into summer heat, nowwhiskingusback into winter; May, treacherous and deceitful even iu her smiles, has been loved and flattered by all poets from the days of Greece down to the present time. Anacreon rings her praises with a dainty pleasure in the time when All along the branches creeping, Through the velvet foliage peeping, I.itile infant fruits we sic Nufsing into luxury. Even Milton bends down from the heights where ho scans the white winged hosts of heaven to notico The flowery JJny, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.

Keats watches with keen, sad eyes her fragile, short lived offspring Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves And mid May's eldest child. The coming musk rose full of dewy wine. And a modern poet, who ought to know better, audaciously asks us What in all the world, in all the world, they say, Is half so sweet, so sweet is half so sweet as May THE REVIVAL OF THE MAY PAliTY. So much for the past; but it is with a real pleasure that we look upon the hearty efforts made during the last few years to renewsome of the beautiful old time May customs. The charm of life has slipped from us amid the busy whirl of modern existence and its loss cannot be overestimated.

In France May is always devoted to especial religious celebrations, because it is tho month solemnly dedicated to thoMutherof God. In England ladies of rauk have amused themselves with reviving the old fashioned May party, with a masque of children andadainty littl Oneon nf tho May. Jit Worseley, a suburb of Manchester, the FUN, TEARS and LAUGHTER, 2 TOFSIS! 2 MARKS, tt3 Lawyers 3 EDUCATED Mr. Sam Lucas as Uncle Tom (Colored Comedian, with Specialties.) Bp. Frank A.

Tannehill as Simon Legree Miss Daisy as Topsy No, 1 1r Tho Most Valuable Pack the World. Ten Terrible 3 feels Crowded Houses in and Thousands Turned Away. KNOTS TO UNTIE. Some Puzzles Which May Afford Entertainment for the Young Folks. Ill the following story are hidden five fish, five birds, fivo beasts, five insects, five fruits and five vegetables.

They may be found in the order named, tho hidden words milk ring thirty altogether; Two boys had a jasper chain and feeling kindly towards ttodie Jones, who was, they saw, hale and hearty, pinned it on hor frock. John Uncap, lover as he was, wrenched her arm tiilit was black andblue for two and a half inches above her elbow. His mother boxed his ears for the cowardly act, and bade him gu at once and beg her pardon. At lirst he doggedly refused, but at length came leisurely along and said he could not be easy while she was angry, that he was passionate and wanted her pardon chiefly because he loved her. If she would forgive him he would sign at once to do so no more.

She said if Ko cap pleased be couid ahvavs appear to advantage, that he plumed himself on his love and it would be for nnsels to lmneach that, that he should be an swered that she 'was appeased, that she could not be eternally angry. One other sleek pets once she on a plate had put some sugar licked it clean; she for gave it and could not do less by John. Old One. NINE NEW PtZZLES. Of tho nine new puzzles presented this week the first is by Solomon, tho second by I).

C. C. the third by W. the fourth by Queenio Walker, tho fifth and sixth by Emanie, the seventh by 0. A.

Carpenter, the eighth by Jenuio andcrbilt and the ninth by Juvenis: 1. 1 am composed of 55 letters. Mv 85, 27, 2, 8, 51, 10, II is what divides. My 15, 51, fl, 39, I I is a part of the head. My 2, 12.

4, IS, 111, 2:1 is a eavnirv sentinel. My 20, SI, Id, if. is a of the da v. My 25, My. is one of the United States.

Mv 17, 11, 17, 50 is complete. My 21, St, 53, sx is a small insect. 5I)'12, 22, 52, fi is a violent outflow. 51 IS, 15, 4 1 is to silence. My 11 4.

ax, 2 is a number. My 1, ail, 7 is a color. My 5. 8ti, 2r is a metal. My whole is a quotation from Hamlet, 2.

1 am composed of 37 letters, ily 7,20, 2 1, 27, 15 is an animal. My 4, 15, 8 is an auiiatie bird. My IS, 11, 20, 37, 31, 2S is an historical character in fch.Uiespeare. Mv 14, 2. 31 is ft color.

My 18. 30, 17, 12, IK is a General in the American Hcvoliitiiin. My 10, 23, 17, Sf is a drug. My 1, 81, Hi, 3, 3,5, 22 is an animal. Mv II, 32.

HI is distant. My 25, 2, 3, 2U, 35 is great. My 21. 21. 37, 22 what this line is.

My whole is a quotation from 3 1 am composed of 30 letters. My 31, Hi, li, 13, lii is a dirge. My 32, 10, 27, 11, an, 12 is an idle fellow. My 12, 3, 1H, (t, 25, 5, 22, 3S with this. My 11, IS, 21, 21, 15, 2o, 1, 24, is also called priest.

My 23, 20, IS, 20, 31, 31, 7, II, pertaining to nuius. My 35, 27, 33. 2, If 17 an abominable place. My 1, 2. 10, 20 a pronoun.

My whole is a noted saying. 4. 5. 6. Material for 4 1, a consonant; 2, a numeral; 3, a sprue, uu imaginary creature; an animal; a vowel.

Material for 5 1, a letter: 2, an animal 3, a punctuation mark: 1, the name of a noted South American general; 5, eutertwiued; (i, a girl's nickname; 7, a consonant. Material for 6 1, a consonant; 2, to regret; 3, a new arrival 1, to recede 5, an interjection. 7. 8. Material lor 7 1, a great beast 2, combination 3, King oi crete 1, a stall lor a cow or ox an assault.

Material for 8: 1, a movable chair; 2, a visible prcscnt.itiou 3, a servant 4, a deputy 0, a girl's inline. From Juvenis to Susan of Virginia If you transpose an anagram Vou'll have a wandering beggar man. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES. "Scorn no man for his poverty; honor no man for his wealth," is the answer to No. 1 of last week.

The answer to No. 2 is: "A singed cat dreads the fire the answer to No. 3, Signor Kossi, bdmund Kcan the answer to No. 4, Washington Irving." In No. 5 the rule adopted by tho lady was the couplet From numbers, aid and art Never will fame depart.

Take the vowels a. in their order 1, 2. 3, 4, 5. and place the men according to the oinnlier imli. calcd by the vowel in the couplet alternately, first the imiysmen unci men ine pintles, Asois the lonrtti vowel nut down four Knilor i is tlie nnvl vmvnl iiml the filth, put down five pirates, and so on to the lust woru.

The answer to No. 6 is A A I I A A A A Nos. 7 and 8 have the following answers THE SOLVERS. Solutions were made by tlioso whoso names follow The complete list. 1.

2. 3. 4. R. 6.

7 and 8. bv KahnV. If. and Solomon, A. II.

Oeorge Wells, V. M. mm L. v. Khodes.

ot Philadelphia 1.2. 3. 1. 0 and 7. by Quecnie W.

Ukor, of Xorristown, bv Willie W'olil, of Philadelphia, and by J. II. of Mount Joy 1, 2, 3 and 4, by May (Hading, Abby Sozinskev, lir. Faton, Henrv Marvello. F.innnie.

of Philadel phia, K. T. Flush, of I'hu'uixvilk', ('. B. (iodshalk.

of New Britain, bucks county, and Jennie S. of Ilur lingion, N.J.: 1, 3, 4 and 7, bv t'. A. Carpenter, of Har risburg; 1. 2, 3, 4 and 7, by H.

C. Jones, of Philadel phia. Annie and answered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Me" answered 1, 2, Sand I. Deputy Tax Collector Assigned.

Delinquent Tax Collector Tener yesterday made a second assignment of his deputies. The men and the wards in which they will operate are: Isaac 11. Hurra, Thirteenth ward; Johu w. lie Horsev, Twenty fifth ward Andrew Kaiser, Thirty first ward Henry L. steblnns, Eighteenth ward; William M.

lirst. Nineteenth ward; William T. Fotterall. Ninth ward; Lawrence T. Lynch, Second ward.

The remaining deputies will be assigned in three or four days. Their securities are satisfactory, and Mr. Toner regards tins as evidence of their good standing. A Story About a Baby Seal. From the Los Angelos Commercial.

Last week ns a meat merchant from Wil mington was coming up the channel a baby soul about two feet long followed the boat and set up a piteous cry for help. The little fellow got lost from ilsmother, and was lonesome and hungry. The boat was stopped and the little fellow climbed iu and nestled down under the legs of the gentleman, wiio brought him to Wilmington and fed him with milk. of which he is very fond. He is perfectly tame and is the pet of the town.

Miners Who Sleep on the Snow. From the Wood Klver Times. At the town of Greenville. which con tains but two cabins, are about sixty men, who live iu the open air and sleep on the snow. They sleep on the snow with their blankets, or on poles laid on mpvi me miow iiicii is iiiree iect ueep, out melting fast.

There being no show to work thev rxiss the nig tirnia, aiuuuui; tllCll pipes ttllU Spill ning yams. Seventeen Years After the War. From the Providence Fress, Itep. If an ex confederate soldier is good enough to make laws tor the United States, and even to oc euny the chair of the President of the United States, why is lie not good enough to carry a musket in the army Referred to Senator Edmunds for an answer. Three Good Doctors.

The best of all the pill box crew, Since ever time began, Are the doctors who have most to do With the hculth of a hearty man. And so I count them up again And praise them ns 1 can; There's Dr. Diet, and Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merry man.

There's Dr. Diet, he tries my tongue. "I know you well," says lie "Your stomach is poor and your liver is sprung, We must make your food agree." And Dr. Quiet, he feels my wrist And he gravely shakes his head. "Now, now, dear sir, 1 must insist That you go at ten to bed." But Dr.

Morryman for me Of all the piil box crew For he smiles and says, as he fobs his fee, "Laugh on, whatever you do So now I eat what I ought to eat, And at ten I go to bed. And I laugh in the face of cold or heat; For thus have the doctors said And so I count them up again, And praise them as I can; There's Dr. Diet, and Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merry man.

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