knife.
11. A poultice that may save your life.
12. A book that should be oftener read.
13. A resting-place for honored dead.
14. A sepulchre in foreign lands.
15. A cruel whip with many strands.
16. A cataract or waterway.
17. I take your senses quite away.
18. A spicy sauce to use with meat.
19. A class of workers with four feet.
20. A kind of ivy often found.
21-22. Sciences of reflected sound.
23. A heavy armor used of old.
24. The doctrines of the church, I'm told.
25. A mineral used for isinglass.
26. A useful herb you often pass.
27. An engine used for throwing stones.
28. A remedy for broken bones.
29. I form a chain of many links.
30. A philosophic list, methinks.
31. Essential to the violin.
32. I'm noted for my scaly skin.

The Prize Story Contest.

Members forget that it takes a much longer time to read several hundred
stories and weigh their merits than it does to examine puzzle answers.
To this fact is due the necessary delay over our last Story Competition.
But the decisions have been made, and the First Prize Story, with names
of all successful contestants, will be announced next week.

Want Corner.

Janet Priest writes to say that the yell of the University of Minnesota
is "Rah, rah, rah, Ski-U-mah--Varsity, Varsity! Minne-So-ta!" and the
colors old-gold and maroon. Ralph Cotter and others are reminded that
one certificate admits to all branches of the Order. The new
certificates will be called "Patents." They will be very handsome. Due
notice will be given when they are ready, and all will receive who ask
for them. Camera prize offers are now under consideration. M. B. Y.:
Rose Standish, mentioned by Longfellow, came in the _Mayflower_, the
wife of Miles Standish. She was of English stock, but we can find little
about her. Does any one around the Table know of her early life? She
died of famine and privation in the next January but one after the
Pilgrims landed. It was the second courtship of Miles that Longfellow
describes.

LARRY, JACK, AND THE BELLS.

A goodly number of years ago there dwelt in Ireland two brothers whose
names were Larry and Jack. They were witty and humorous, and played many
a mad prank on their unsuspecting neighbors. Now it seems that the town
they lived in had in its church steeple two uncommonly large bells, and
the clatter, when rung, was a source of annoyance to many people. Being
church bells,