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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
405 
Preiuiitnis Tor Boys and fjiii-ls. 
We remind our young readers that the extensive list 
of Premiums, fully described last month, and noticed 
elsewhere in this number, contains many things within 
the easy reach of boys and girls of all ages. Hundreds 
of our young friends have in the past years raised clubs 
of subscribers and secured the great Dictionary, llie 
gold pens, mathcniathical instruments, books, volumes 
of the Agriculturist, etc., etc., for themselves, and very 
often they have singly, and sometimes by a few uniling 
their effbi Is. obtained Sewing Machines and other arti- 
cles for widows of soldiers and otheis. School rooms 
have beea supplied with Melodeons and Barometers, by 
the canvassing of the schoI;iis. Our busiiiess letters 
contain accounts of many pleasant enterprises of this 
kind. There is always a public sympathy in sucli efforts, 
and multitudes of persons subscribe to Iielp on die enter- 
prise when they wouldn't otherwise do so, and in tlie 
end they themselves are benefited by being led to read 
more. We expect to hear of a grrat many such rases 
among our half a million of young friends tliis year. It 
only needs some enterprising youth to start the scheme 
In each town. 
The Ciamo of Checkers or I>raus:hts. 
POSITION NO. 9. — Black to play and vnn. 
Black. 
Wklt€. 
OAME NO. 9.— SUTER OPENING. (•) 
{Position 8, page 366, October Agriculturist.) 
Black. 
Wkile 
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wins. 
(*) Sutcr, Scotch — signifying Shoemaker. Is so called 
from iis being the favorite opening of an old Paisley 
player of thai craft. It is formed by the first five moves, 
(a) 27 to 23, draws, (b) 2fi to 23, draws, (c) 31 to 27, 
draws, (rf) 15 to 18. White wins, (c) 23 lo 19. Black 
wins. (/) 7 to 11, draws, is) Vl to 16, While wins. 
(A) the losing move. 8 to U draws. (0 Position No. 8. 
A I>el>t not £asUy Paid. 
If we possessed nothing more than what had been 
gained by our own efforts, we should be poor indeed. 
Taking no account of the good things with which God 
lias filled the earth for the use of man— the sunshine, 
clouds, fruitful fields, teeming waters, healthful air, and 
all the innumerable expiessions of His bounty in nature — 
every man, woman, and child, are debtors to the skill 
and industry of our fellows. Our clothing, food, books, 
amusements, tools, in short, every thing devised for com- 
fort or happiness, require an amount of thought and 
work, which no one individual could ever accomplish. 
It has required ages of experiment and labor to perfect 
even the commonest articles of every day use. A boy's 
coat represents the toil of the shepherd, who raised the 
wot)l ; the genius of the inventor who devised the ma- 
chinery for cleansing, carding, spinning arid weaving it ; 
the art of the chemist who prepared the dyes ; labor of 
those who did their part in furnishing the thread and 
buttons ; the work of the tailor ; the skill of the hundreds 
of mechanics who constructed the tools necessary for all 
those wlio had a hand incompleting the garment, and the 
efforts of those who furnished food for all thus engaged ; 
why almost half the world had some thing to do toward 
making that coat ; and thus it is with nearly all the things 
we possess. Now no one man can ever leally pay for 
all he has received. When any one feels like '"putting 
on airs," exalting liirnself, antl boasting of his Independ- 
ence, it may benefit him to think that his debts are not 
yet paid, that they never can be. The best one can do 
under the circumstances is to exert Iiimself lo add some- 
thing to the general stock of good things In the world. 
The Good Book sums it up in this wonderful sentence : 
Owe uo man anything, but to love one another — sliowing 
that the debt of good will can never be fully discharged. 
DOS' Stories. 
A friend in Brooklyn relate^; that the family dog, Jip 
by name, being a great favorite, wag generally invited 
to be present at luncii time, and was well remembered 
with occasional tit-bits. One day one of the family did 
not return from a shopping excursion until after lunch 
had been served. She had not long been seated at home, 
when Jip, who had at fiist saluted her. left tlie room, 
and presently returned with a piece of bread in' his 
mouth, wliich he laid in the young lady's lap. She 
threw it aside, but the dog immediately returned it to 
her. She was about to cliide iiim for his annoyance, 
when it occurred to her that the dog had probably no- 
ticed her absence from the table, and was now doing his 
best to make amends for It. Of course, after that, Jip 
was in higher favor than ever. Many incidents seem to 
prove that dogs sometimes undeistand much that is said 
lo them. An English gentleman relates that his game- 
keeper would send his dog from llie field with orders to 
bring him a certain bolt, say No. 4. and the dug would 
receive no other from the servant but the numbej" ordered. 
J\lany cases have occurred where, dogs liave attached 
themselves to companies of men, instead of any particu- 
lar owner, and become part of the organization. One 
such belongs now to a fii e engine company in New York. 
At the first tap of ihe bell ho Is on the alert, and " runs 
with the machine" with as much apparent interest as 
the most veteran fireman. We have often seen him thus 
passing our office. A dog furmetly belonging to one of 
the compares of this city saved the lives of several chil- 
dren by rusning through the fire and dragging them out. 
A dog named Monstace was attached to the French 
army during lite wars of Napoleon, where he rendered 
many important services. One night a party of Austrians 
were advancing secretly to the attack, but Monstace 
smelt them out, aroused the guatd, and the enemy find- 
lug tliemselves discovered, retired. Fortius he was duly 
enrolled as a member of a resimenl, and received the 
daily rations of a grenadier. During a fight, he would 
bark incessantly at the enemy, and make a charge when 
he saw a good npfiortiinity. One day he discr>vered a 
dog in the opposite ranks, and aitacking him furiously, 
after a hard struggle, gave him a severe drubbing, though 
he came out of the combat with the loss of an ear. On 
another occasion a spy entered the army unsuspected, 
as he spoke the French language perfectly ; but Mon- 
stace no sooner scented him than he seized him by the 
leg. barking fiercely. This led to an examination and 
the defection of the spy, who forfeited his life. In the 
famous battle of Austerliiz, a standard bearer was set 
upon by nine or ten Austrians, Monstace came to his aid, 
and after a desperate struggle iu which three of the Aus- 
trians were slain, the standard bearer fell, with his flag 
wrapped around his body. Those remaining tried to tear 
It away, but just then a discharge of grape shot swept 
them away, and also took off one of Monslace's paws ; 
but the brave dog seized the flag with his teeih, tore it 
loose and bore it to the camp. For this exploit he was 
decorated with a red ribbon and a medal, with the in- 
sciiplion, "He lost his leg at Austerlitz, and (laved the 
flag of his regiment." He was finally killed in battle by 
a cannon ball, and buried on the field. A stone was 
erected at his grave with the epitaph *' Here lies the 
brave Monstace." 
Impracticable Inventions. 
It is related of Brunell, llie great English engineer and 
inventor, that he was much annoyed by unpractical and 
ignorant men, who solicited his attention to projects often 
of the most absurd kind. On one occasion an Iiish 
gentleman submitted to him a design for a kind of hood 
to a carriage, the merit of which was said to be tliat in 
fine weather it could hang under the vehicle ready for 
instant use in case of a sudden storm. " Impossible," 
exclaimed Brunell, '* such a mass could never be stowed 
away in so small aspace."— *'Do you think so ?'' said the 
visitor, not at all taken aback. " Ah 1 then we will soon 
get over that difficulty. The thing must be left at home 
in fine weather ; shan't wan't it then you know I"— On 
another occasion his benevolence was appealed to, that 
he might examine a new means of sweeping chimneys. 
At that lime small boys were employed to climb up 
through the flues, from which they suffered great dis- 
comfort and no little danger, besides being injured by 
the unhealthfulness of their hard occupation. The pro- 
posed plan was extremely simple ; a broom was to bo 
worked from above as well as below, and tlius every 
nook was to be easily swept out.— " Very good,'' said 
Brunell, '* but you have not vet told me how the rope is 
to be got up to the top."—" Nothing more simple," said 
the sanguine inventor ; *' of course a boy will go up the 
chimney with it at first!" 
An»\rers to Problems and Pnzzleff* 
The following are answers to the Puzzles, etc., in 
the October number, page 367. Comical Picture. —Two 
donkeys, besides the seven donkey-like faces, may be 
found in the picture, by turning it upside down, and side- 
wise No. 229. Mathtmaticat Problejn.—Ciyru. 10 acres ; 
Wheat, 12 .acres ; Oats. 40 acres ; Potatoes, 20 acres ; 
Corn, 63 busliels per acre ; Wheat, 22 bushels . O.iis, 27 
bushels; Potatoes, 129 bushels No. 230. Illustrated 
Rebus.— It is up-h'll work uniting two hearts with a mis- 
understanding between them No. 231. Muthemattcal 
Problem.— The man makes^vedoHars No. 232. Illus- 
trated Rebus. — We've here on hartd together brought, On 
behalf of every one: Rebus, acrostic, merry thought. Coji- 
undrum, essay, pun. And all the tricks m every style, To 
make our little readers smile ...No. 218, Jnly number, 
page 263. Prize Prohlem.—Uy an error, the answer to 
tills was given in tlie September number as 13,918 X43a . 
it should have been 13,968 160 8 n'iJiJ) 
The following ha%'e sent in correct answers: F. W. 
Kleinschmidt, Robinswood, Fidelia R. Lord, Daniel 
Frohman, T. J. Bowerman, Charlie Frohman. 
HicM' Puzzles to be Ans-n^ered. 
No. 233, Illustrated irwrrf.— Needed to read the puzzle. 
No. 234. Mathematical ProWem.— What length of wire 
1-loth of an inch in diameter, can be made fiom a solid 
foot of copper ? 
No. 235. Mathematical Problem. — Two men agreed to 
build the part of the gable end of a brick house between 
the raflers. The house was IS feet wide, and from the 
ridge pole to the center of the end plate, was 20 feet. 
How many feet in perpendicular hight shall the first 
build to complete his half? 
No. 236. Illustrated R^orrf.— EndeavoP to do It plain. 
No, 237. Grammatical Puzxle.~To which nouns do 
the pronouns in the following sentence refer. " An ad- 
vowson presentative is where the patron hath a right of 
presentation to llie bishop or oidlnary, and more<iver to 
demand of him to institute his clerk, if he finds him ca- 
nonicatly inclined." This ought lo be very clear, as it is 
a passa'.;e from Blackstone's Commentaries, a book on 
law; but the pronouns make It very muddy. 
PRECEPT 
FBECEFT 
s.s 
No. 233. Illustrated Rebus.—A vexy obvious truth. 
