Harper's Round Table, October 27, 1896
Part 6
The attention of all subscribers to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE is called to the prize competitions which we are offering for the winter of 1896-7. These Prizes are worth, in all, $475, and are offered for original Short Stories, Amateur Photographs, and Puzzle Solutions. Contestants for them must be _bona fide_ subscribers to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, save in Puzzle contests, in which contestants may be subscribers of a few newspapers which publish the puzzles simultaneously with HARPER'S ROUND TABLE. If you are not now a subscriber, and desire to compete, send the subscription price, $2, with your puzzle answer, photograph, or story, and you will then receive HARPER'S ROUND TABLE each week for a year, besides having a chance at the prizes. Even if you do not secure any prizes, you will have the paper, and be able to enter other competitions, and take advantage of our Book and Library offers.
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Prizes for Puzzle Solutions--$200.
Offered in Five Unique Contests.
HARPER'S ROUND TABLE puzzles are famous. During the year five prize puzzles will be published, and $40 in cash will be offered for best solutions to each. Competition for these prizes is open only to actual subscribers to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, and to the subscribers of a few newspapers which print these puzzles simultaneously with this periodical.
These prize puzzles are given in addition to the usual "Kinks." As a rule, the Kinks are not prize contests. The prize puzzles consist of stories, which are interesting as stories, and are good puzzles besides. The five cover as many varieties or styles of puzzles, and so give solvers of different tastes and abilities a chance at the particular kind of puzzle for which they have a bent. Here are titles of two of the prize puzzles: "The River Styx Puzzle," and "A Wonderful Outing Tragedy." Others are similar. The prize-money is $40 to the best three solvers in each contest. The right is reserved to divide the prize-money according to merit of answers. As a rule, it may be said that the best solver wins $20; the one who comes next wins $12, and the third $8. These puzzles will appear in HARPER'S ROUND TABLE during November and December, 1896, and January, February, and March, 1897, with the particulars of the contest. Correctness and neatness are the tests of excellence.
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Prizes for Short Stories--$150.
First Prize, $75; Second, $50; Third, $25.
HARPER'S ROUND TABLE offers $150, divided in three parts, thus: First Prize, $75; Second Prize, $50; Third Prize, $25--for the best stories written by actual subscribers to it, those whose names are on its subscription list for a one year's subscription. Stories must contain at least five hundred words, and must not exceed two thousand words, actual count. The plot must be probable, and the story well told, both in sequence of events and in language employed. As far as practicable type-write the story. But this condition is not imperative. At the top of the first page place your name and address in full, and the number of words in your story. Do not roll your manuscript. Use paper about five by eight inches in size, unless the story is type-written, when use regular type-writer paper. Prepay postage, and enclose return postage. Address it, not later than February 28, 1897, to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, New York, and put in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope the words "Story Competition." No story may be sent by you that is not wholly original with you, and none may be submitted that has ever been submitted in any contest. One person may not submit more than one story. Two persons may not join in writing a single story. If you are not a subscriber, and desire to compete for these prizes, send $2 with your story, and give address to which paper is to be sent for one year.
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Prizes for Photographs--$125.
In Junior and Senior Contests.
We take great pleasure in announcing the opening of our annual photographic competition, in which prizes are to be given for the best photographs entered in the different classes before February 15, 1897. Until last year the competition was confined to members of the ROUND TABLE CAMERA CLUB. At that time it was decided to arrange, in addition to the competition for the club members, one which should be open to all amateur photographers who are subscribers to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE. This arrangement proved so popular that it will be continued this year. The prizes are as follows:
Open to all subscribers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE who have not passed their eighteenth birthday.
CLASS I. CLASS II. CLASS III. FIGURE STUDIES. LANDSCAPES. MARINES.
First Prize $20 First Prize $12 First Prize $12 Second Prize 10 Second Prize 8 Second Prize 8 Third Prize 5 Third Prize 5 Third Prize 5
Entries for this competition will close February 15, 1897.
RULES OF COMPETITION.
RULE I.--This competition is open to all subscribers of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE who have not passed their eighteenth birthday.
RULE II.--All photographs offered must be the work of the competitor, from the exposure of the plate to the mounting of the finished print.
RULE III.--No picture less than 4 by 5 or larger than 8 by 10 must be sent.
RULE IV.--Any printing process may be used with the exception of the blue print.
RULE V.--All pictures must be mounted and carriage prepaid.
RULE VI.--Each picture must be marked on the back of the mount with the name and address of the sender, the class for which it is designed, and the statement whether the artist has or has not passed his or her eighteenth birthday. No other writing is required, nor is it necessary to send a letter with the picture or pictures.
RULE VII.--No picture must be sent which has taken a prize, or has been submitted for prizes in other competitions.
RULE VIII.--Each competitor may send as many pictures as he chooses.
RULE IX.--In addition to the name and address of the journal the package must be marked on the outside, "Harper's Round Table Photographic Competition."
Senior Contest.
Open to all amateur photographers who are subscribers to HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, without regard to age limit.
CLASS A.--FIGURE STUDIES.
First Prize $20 Second Prize 15
CLASS B.--LANDSCAPES.
First Prize $15 Second Prize 10
Entries for this competition will close February 15, 1897.
RULES OF COMPETITION.
This competition is open to all amateurs, young or old, whether they are or are not members of the ROUND TABLE CAMERA CLUB. Members of the Camera Club may send pictures to both competitions.
The other rules governing this competition are the same as those in the competition open only to members of the Camera Club.
Photographs which do not take prizes, or are not retained for publication, will be returned to the senders if postage is enclosed.
Any picture which fails to take a prize, the percentage of which is above seventy, will receive honorable mention.
If you are not a subscriber, send $2 with your picture or pictures, and give your address, where we will send HARPER'S ROUND TABLE for one year.
Any questions in regard to the competition, or preparing pictures for the same, will be promptly answered by the editor. Address "Editor of Camera Club."
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"Jimmie," said Mrs. Hicks, "won't you have some brown bread?"
"No, thank you," said Jimmie; "I'm afraid to eat it."
"Afraid?" asked Mrs. Hicks.
"Yes," said Jimmie. "You see, ma'am, my papa says red beef will give me red cheeks, and I'm afraid brown bread will make a darky out of me."
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"Pat," said Tommie to the gardener, "what is nothing?"
"There ain't any such thing as nothin'," replied Pat; "becaze whin ye find nothin', and come to look at it, there ain't nothin' there."
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An absent-minded old gentleman went into a shop to buy a new cane.
"That's a very nice one," he said, picking one up from the counter. "How much is that?"
"That's the one you brought in with you. You just laid it down there, sir," said the shopkeeper.
"Oh, really?" said the old gentleman. "Then I don't need a new one. Good-day." And he walked out.
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"What is the baby crying about?" asked his mother.
"He doesn't want to get in the bath-tub without his rubbers on," said the nurse. "He's afraid he'll get his feet wet."
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A WITTY DECISION.
A good story is told of Dr. Arne, the composer of the English national hymn "Rule, Britannia." He was called upon one day to judge between two singers, neither of whom was worthy of a moment's consideration. After patiently hearing them, he said to one of the contestants,
"You are the worst singer I ever heard in my life."
"Ah!" cried the other, exultingly, "then I win?"
"No," said Dr. Arne. "You can't sing at all."
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"Well, my son," said the Freshman's father, "I am very glad you have gone on your class football team. Have you got everything you need?"
"Everything, father, except a new set of teeth, and I may be able to get through the year without losing those that I have," replied the Freshman.
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Jack got asking his grandmother questions the other night. One of them was:
"Grandma, if you was a centipede, would you always insist on putting on fifty pairs of rubbers before you walked on the grass?"
Up to this hour the dear old lady has not made up her mind on the important point.
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Li Hung-Chang, the famous Chinaman who visited this country a short time ago, made quite an impression in England for his wit and apparent ingenuousness, although it was more than suspected that some of the old gentleman's remarks were not so bland as they seemed. One incident especially amused the Britishers. It was when Li Hung-Chang met Joseph Chamberlain, who affects a monocle. The Chinaman noticed the single eye-glass, and took it for granted that the Colonial Secretary had lost the use of one eye, and he offered him his sincere condolences.
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PHILOSOPHIC.
To prophesy the future would Bring more of evil than of good; So let us thank our lucky stars That no such gift our wisdom mars.
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The Irish soldier seems to furnish the story-teller with many an anecdote. The following incident is said to have occurred at the battle of Fontenoy, when the great Saxe was the marshal in command.
"The password is 'Saxe,'" said the officer of the guard, as he sent off an Irish trooper with a message; "don't forget the word."
"Sure I won't, sir," was the reply. "Sacks--my father was a miller."
When he came to the sentinel and was challenged, the Irishman looked wise, and whispered,
"'Bags,' you spalpeen; let me through!"
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, October 27, 1896, by Various