TRIPLE BEHEADINGS. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE OCTOBER NUMBER. noun-ce. Mal-let. 4. Pal-lets. 5. Bar-on. 6. Slo-west. Lin-e. 9. Ear-nest. 2. Re-unit-ed. 3. Un-time-ly. Th-inn-er. 6. Ho-nor-ed. 7. Le-gate-es. 4. De-tail-ed. 5. CONCEALED ACROSTIC. Primals, "Golden fruits"; middle row, "Blushing leaf." 1. Gable. 2. Oiled. 3. Lauds. 4. Dusty. 5. Ether. 6. Neigh. 7. Fancy. 8. Regal. 9. Ullet. 10. Ideal. 11. Thank. 12. Safer. DOUBLE BEHEADINGS. Pumpkin. 1. Ap-parent. 2. Un-usual. 3. Im-mature. 4. Im-pair. 5. Li-king. 6. Qu-it. 7. Ab-normal. WORD-SQUARES. I. 1. Disk. 2. Iron. II. 1. Date. 2. Avow. 3. Tone. 4. Ewer. BEHEADINGS AND CURTAILINGS. Goldenrod. 1. En-gin-eer. 2. Pr-omen-ade. 3. De-law-are. 4. Or-din-ary. 5. Pr-each-ing. 6. En-no-ble. 7. Me-rid-ian. 8. In-odor-ous. 9. Ma-don-nas. 3. Some. 4. Knew. TO OUR PUZZLERS: Answers, to be acknowledged in the magazine, must be received not later than the 15th of each month, and should be addressed to ST. NICHOLAS Riddle-box, care of THE CENTURY CO., 33 East Seventeenth St., New York City. ANSWERS TO ALL THE PUZZLES IN THE AUGUST NUMBER were received, before August 15th, from "M. McG."- Florence and Edna- Hilda Chapman - Joe Carlada - Elsie Fisher Steinheimer - Harry S. Young-Edmund G. Robinson - Daniel Milton MillerRoss M. Craig- Richard Kimball- Margaret C. Wilby-Genevieve L. Pratt - Elisabeth D. Merrill - F. Morgan Pyle, Jr.,-Claude Stallard- Helen G. Johnson- H. C. Neal-Mabel, George, and Henri- Agnes Louise Kennard-Elizabeth Fisher Wheeler-Elizabeth T. Harned -Marion S. Comly-Alice L. Halligan-Catharine Baker Hooper Johnny Bear". "Brown and Blue"-"Allil and Adi"-Gladys Burgess-Virginia S. McKenney-Samuel P. Haldenstein- Eleanor Whidden - Margaret E. Conklin - Olive R. T. Griffin-Albert Beecher Crawford-Elsie W. Dignan- Nessie and Freddie- -Eva A. Mooar- May Richardson - Robert Porter Crow - Sara Lawrence Kellogg - Deane F. Ruggles-Marjorie L. Williams - Waldo Booth-T. J. Durell - Mary Hutchinson - Fred C. Kearns. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE AUGUST NUMBER were received, before August 15th, from R. Hogeland, 1-A. Brockett, 1-H. N. De Haven, 1-J. Bruce, 1-M. H. Eaton, 1-L. Cooper, 1-C. Neave, 1-Helene Bloomer, 9-B. Warren, 1- E. Sanders, 1- E. Burton, 1-M. L. Keiper, 1-C. G. Cronk, 1-D. Hadley, 1-C. Schumann, 1-Louise Ring, 4-C. Swan, 1-G. Campbell, 1Rosalie and Celia, 5-A. É. Weigel, 1-M. E. Weigel, 1-M. Birdsall, 1-G. Baker, 1-M. Evans, 1-M. L. Stranahan, I-Thomas H. McKittrick, 6-T. Longnecker, 1-H. Gribble, 1-E. Clarke, 5-M. Sharpless, 1-S. S. Lilienthal, 1-M. Barker, 1- - Lippincott and Moore, 1-B. A. Speier, 1- M. Muller, 1- Eugenia Wilson, 2-J. Ward, 1- Margaret Edwards, 4- Helen S. Worstell, 2 -L. A. Fleming, 1- Margery Hoffman, 5- E. J. Dickerson, 1-Amelia S. Ferguson, 4-J. Maher, 1- E. Stevens, 1- Helen Kingsbury, 9-G. Bush, 1-Gracie L. Craven, 3- H. M. Kershner, 1- Rebecca Chilcott, 5- R. Swain III., 1- M. Birdsall, 1 - P. Lee, 1 -R. Church, Jr., 1-B. Belcourt, 1-W. Lawrence, 1- Edith Leonore Kaskel, 4. A HOLIDAY PUZZLE. (Gold Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition.) WHEN the following holidays have been rightly guessed and the names (of unequal length) written one below another, one of the rows of letters, reading downward, will spell the name of a November holiday. CROSS-WORDS: 1. The sweethearts' day. 2. The celebration of All Saints'. 3. One of the four Greek festivals. 4. A holiday that comes in February. 5. The name of a queen whose birthday the English celebrate. 6. A legal holiday in December. 7. A legal holiday in September. 8. A legal holiday in November. 9. A lovely spring festival, very often celebrated. 10. The Irish holiday. 11. A legal holiday in January. MABELLE SEITZ. NOVEL ACROSTIC. EXAMPLE: Reverse a snare, prefix a letter, and make separated. Answer: trap, a-part 1. Reverse a space of time, prefix a letter, and make a weed. 2. Reverse a pronoun, prefix a letter, and make to chop. 3. Reverse a tax, prefix a letter, and make to distribute. 4. Reverse to perform, prefix a letter, and make a movement of the head. 5. Reverse a metal, prefix a letter, and make to unite closely. 6. Re verse a feminine name, prefix a letter, and make a sword. like fish, prefix a letter, and make mirth. MYTHOLOGICAL PRIMAL ACROSTIC. WHEN the following names have been rightly guessed, the initial letters will spell the name of something without which no Thanksgiving dinner is complete. 1. The queen of the " under-world." 2. A hero who is famous because of his wanderings. 3. A monster who was confined in a labyrinth. 4. A winged horse. 5. Another name for the queen of the "under-world." 6. A woman who was changed into a beautiful heifer. 7. The oldest councilor of the Greeks before Troy. 8. The seven daughters of Atlas. 9. The goddess of the rainbow. 10. The god of love. M. BLANCHE PHILLIPS (League Member). THE changes expected in the stamps of Haiti, on account of the state of affairs in the island, have begun to appear. All of the issues, both regular and postagedue stamps, have come surcharged with abbreviations of the words signifying provisional government. The form of the surcharge is a rectangle with rounded corners containing the date of the establishment of the provisional government in May, 1902. These stamps are very interesting from a historical standpoint, as their use must be temporary, and whenever the existing troubles are ended a new issue is sure to appear. Another country whose stamps are, just at the present time, exceedingly interesting is the Colombian Republic. The issues that are made are not handsome; indeed, they are precisely the opposite of this, being produced by a cheap process of lithography and printed and perforated in the most primitive manner. The country is in such a state that many of the towns are shut off from the headquarters of the government, and being unable to procure regular issues of stamps, they provide for themselves provisional issues. These are sometimes nothing more than printed labels, but, whenever it is possible, stamps of a more pretentious character are produced by lithography. There are evidently, in some of the towns, no perforating-machines, and therefore recourse is had to the sewing-machine as the best obtainable means of providing for the separation of the stamps. There are some of these issues that will be scarce when the revolution is ended, but at the present time it is impossible to tell which ones they will be. The consequence is that collectors can get nearly all of them with very little difficulty, the country not being a very popular one at present. It does not appear that the issues made are for speculative purposes, at least in most cases, SO that, as evidence of the changes taking place in the country, all of the issues are at least worth securing. The authori CAUSE the Hamilton Bank Note Company, has now secured a new series of stamps prepared and printed by the American Bank Note Company. This is likely once more to make the stamps of this country popular, since finely executed stamps are always more pleasing than those produced by cheap processes. Officials of governments which have issued stamps are supposed to know what has been done, and therefore to be able to state the facts in relation to issues that have been made. They, however, pay very little attention to those facts which stamp-collectors notice particularly. Therefore it is not surprising to learn that officials of the Canadian government assert that the two-cent stamps surcharged with the inverted figure cannot possibly exist except as counterfeits. An official of our own government, in high position, recently passed upon some counterfeit surcharges, asserting that they were genuine. The postmasters of Southern cities under the Confederate government frequently produce affidavits in relation to rare labels issued during the war, which are of no value because their recollection of the facts is at fault. It is necessary, in order to know that one's stamps are what they are represented to be, to have them examined by a competent expert. There are many cases in which young collectors are deceived and consequently place in their collections stamps of no value, simply because they do not do this. It is well worth while to go to the small expense attending the examination of stamps, since one is often saved a great deal of money by so doing. The twentieth-century edition of the album, the one filled with the new issues that have been made, will be one of the most pleasing books that the collecting world has ever seen. The bright colors and contrasting designs which are now used by the different countries cause the pages to appear very different from those of the nineteenth-century album, containing many of the early issues of stamps. The possibility of making a complete collection of the stamps of this century is much greater than that of doing the same with the stamps of the last century. Such large issues are now made that the stamps, either in used or unused form, are quite easily secured, so far as the principal varieties are concerned. ties of the French Somalicoasthave 5 become tired of the large size of the stamps in use there, and have produced a new series of the design and size illustrated in our cut. The frame is printed in one color, and the picture at the center in another, differing with the denominations. All of the stamps so far issued. The unpaid letter-stamps of the Danish West Indies are alike, with the exception of the value at the corners. New countries are added every year to those whose issues are of fine quality. The republic of Honduras, which has been putting forth very poor stamps of homemade manufacture, since it gave up its contracts with come in uncanceled condition. It is not customary to cancel these stamps after they are placed upon letters to indicate the amount of postage due upon them. Therefore they are not to be considered as unused unless they are secured in original condition with full gum. cheap stamps, etc., free. NEW ENGLAND STAMP CO., 27 Bromfield St., BOSTON, MASS. STAMPS. Mauritius, Natal, Cape of G. H., Cuba, 103, no two alike and GENUINE, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, etc., and an ALBUM, for 10c. only -a splendid bargain. New list free! Agents wanted, 50% com. L. B. DÖVER & CO., St. Louis, Mo. var. very fine coin, only 10c. Soudan, 15c. India, Egypt, hinges, etc., and Chinese Finest sheets 50%. Catalog free. 4 var. SAMUEL P. HUGHES, Omaha, Neb. STAMPS. Vador, China, Cape G. H., Labuan, Bor 105 different genuine Ceylon, Peru, Sal neo, Finland, etc., with album, only 10 cents; 1000 fine mixed 25 cents; all fine bargains. Agents wanted, 50%. New List free. I buy old stamps and collections. C. A. STEGMAN, Dept. D, St. Louis, Mo. STAMPS FREE for addresses of collectors. The more names, the more stamps. Album free. Agts. 50%. 105 In.-China, U. S., worth 25c., etc., 5c. Bullard, Sta. A, Boston. NYASSA. A big and pretty stamp offered to all who apply for sheets at 50% com. W.T.McKay,673 Broad St., Newark, N.J. 111 500 1Ο different stamps, China, etc., 6c.; 1000 mixed, 25c. STAMPS finely mixed, only roc. 50 all diff., 5c. 100 diff. Corea, Mexico, etc., 10c. 1000 hinges (union), roc. 40 diff. U.S. and Canada, 1oc. Agts. wanted, 50%. LIST FREE. Old stamps bought. Union Stamp Co., Dept. D, St. Louis, Mo. 300 Foreign stamps, 10c. 104-all different-from Malta, Bulgaria, India, etc. Album, 10c. 15 different unused, 10c. 40 different U. S., 10c. 18 Australia, 10c. 24-page list free. Agents wanted. 50% commission. D. CROWELL STAMP CO., 143 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O. 50 rafter, British Honduras, Barbados, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Gold Coast, Lagos, Sierra Leone, etc., for 25 cents. This is a real Bargain. A rare stamp to all sending for our Approval Books at 50% disc. Thomas Stamp Co., 604 Chartres St., New Orleans, La. 10 fine unused var. for 15 cts. Agents wanted, 50%. GEO. M. FISK, 2015 Vermont Ave., Toledo, Ohio. different stamps from British Colonies only, as Malta, Gib PERU $7 For only 5 cents. $1 Red, $1 Green, $1 Gray, $2 Gray, and $2 Olive U.S. Revenues for only 5 cents. 10 all diff. Canada, 2c.; 10 all diff. Netherland, 2c.; 10 all diff. Australia, 2c.; 10 all diff. Portugal, 2c. Postage extra. 1000's of other bargains. Lists Free. KOLONA STAMP CO., Dept. N, Dayton, Ohio. CANADA 1860 5c. red Envelope Entire Used, $1.00; 30 var. Canada, 15c.; 50 var. Br. Colonies, 15c.; 20 var. d. values, Br. Colonies, 12c.; 20 var. 1d. values, Br. Colonies, 6c.; the two packets, 40 var., for 17c.; Canada c. Jubilee, Unused, 17c.; 1000 Ideal Stamp Hinges, 1oc. List Free. THE BRITISH COLONIAL STAMP COMPANY, 217-218 Temple Building, London, Canada. 50 free. Agents wanted for finest sheets. 150 var. VAR. fine, 10c.; 50 var. U. S., 15c.; 25 var. unused, 12c.; 25 var. Australia, 20c. F. C. BARTLETT, Norwich, N. Y. Commission APPROVAL SHEETS 1000 mixed, 60% STAMPS each, 15c.; 500 var., $1.00 1000 Hinges, 8c. P. G. Beals, 21 Pearl St., Boston, Mass. 17c.; 50 var. France, 20c.; 100 var., 1c. to 5c. STAMPS! 200 all different, many rare, 25c.; 60 U. S., 25c.; 15 U. S. Officials, 35c.; 4 Confederate, 25c.; 11 Finland, 1oc.; 8 Cuba, 5c.; 4 Kashmir, 15c.; 11 Brazil, 10c.; 15 Greece, 1oc.; A neat album, 91⁄2 x64 in., 20c. Est.1868. Edwards, Peeke & Co., 2728 Calumet Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60% disc. on App. Sel. Reference. 100 diff. 10c,, 50 diff. 5c. Pacific Stamp Co., 132 N. 38th Ave., Omaha, Neb. FREE! A stamp worth 12c. given to all new applicants for approval sheets. Reference must accompany application, or a note from parent giving consent. WILLIAM F. PRICE, Arnold Ave., NEWPORT, R. 1. BROWNIE MIXTURE Beats 'Em All. Con tains Turkey, Cuba, Japan, Egypt, Mexico, Chili, P. R., etc. 400, 10C.; 1000, 20c. Stamps on approval. Price list free. W. W. MacLaren, Box 133, Cleveland, Ohio. |