THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER IT, 1009.
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To Editor Oregnnian. who 1 delictously
aware that a Trust can win In a Timber
fight tiuH he can aay nothing and
saw Wood.
DEAR MR: -When
I hear how Hon. Gifford
Punchout Government Landscape
Gardner, and Hon. RK-h Achillea Balltn
Jr. (unui fcial mind. .was enjoying anry
r vx at each other midst of many de
licious Insults. 1 elope Immediately to
Biltmoro where lion. Punchout was. I
muK slva tile Young Fellow a scolding.
I am very happy to hear of such dis
agreeable fights, because It make audi
n'.ce Interview for me.
In middlemost of Blltmore create, which
ir a nice wooden Forest of Nobleman
appearance, I could hear whack-whack
sound of somebody wh'.ttlln a tree with
a ax. This knocking become mora noisj
I am sure a Politician must toe. some
where fcere.
I see It! 1X yds befront of me. hack
ing; slices in a sltckfynut tree, stood a
hard woodman makinjr a lecture to 6
Chataikwa Ladies xho was writing it
down in note-books. He stood tall &
mujestik like some mighty Jimlock bush
undisturbed by worms chewing at his In
terior Department.
Ladies," he say to them fair Chatalk
was. "the Natural Resources of America
should be preserved."
"Should they be preserved In glass or
stone Jars?" nervously require one
smallish Lady with spectacles.
"The lecture ia shut up for to dart"
snub fc with axe. All Chataikwa Ladles
fade off. I approach, up quietly like a
toadstool.
Where are Hon. Funchout, please?"
"Here are!"
"Ton are?"
"I are."
By his shirt I could see he was a
Hero.
"O speak, to me, Mr. Sir!" I snuggest
calmly.
"About what should I speak it?" he
require.
"Speak something nice about Nature,"
I pop out.
"Nature," he report sadly, "ain't-the
same what It used to be before it grot
Into the Republican Party. Ain't it
strange what happen- to everything what
get to running round with that Greedy
Look at the Constitution!"
I attempt to do so.
"Have America changed much in last
few 100 yeara?" I ask alarmly.
"You would scarcely know It for the
same place," renig. "When Columbus
dishcovered It in 1778 he was delighted
with its pretty appearance. He telegraft
back to King of Spain. 'Nature are seen
everywhere looking very pure. Binoe
then Nature Is under a new manage
ment. Everything different. The woods,
once full of cunning Indiana chasing the
delusive deer. Is now full of cunning Cun
ninghams chasing the delusive dollar.
What has become of the hardy Flaneer
what formerly cleaned up the Forest with
axe & gun? Tou will find him in Minne
apolis, probably, playing poker, with a
Corporation Lawyer."
"Large tracks of land Is oftenly cleaned
up In that nay." I snagger.
"Unless Publlo Conscience return to
American pretty soonly there will be no
property for poor folks to camp on." This
from Hon. Glff.
"When are Public Conscience expected
back?" This from me,
Hotel Clerk on Some Recent Prophecies
BY IRVIN S. COBB.
NOTICE where a bunch of peo
ple up in Massachusetts some
wharea thought the end of the
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worhS wm comin and turned out fur
It." said the House Detective. "But
they mi 41sappolnteJ."
"They SB frequently are." said the
Hotel Clerk of the St. Reckless. "I re
call ao lees than forty-five or fifty
times whan some prophet read It In
the stars r the streetcar ads or some
where that the end of the world was
at nigh. Yet I can count the times
when the world has been destroyed on
the fingers of one hand. Let's see:
Once when Noah brought the ark out
of the archives and took the first pri
vate yacht trip on record. Once when
Pompeii and Whatyoumay callum were
wiped out. Once, the first time Ken
tucky went Republican, the cataclysm
being more or less local on that occa
sion. And once, one morning when It
frose solid and I didn't know about It
and came out of the front door and
slipped on the top step and sat down
so hard It parted my hair In the mid
die and made me bite myself In the
chest. I did so. Andr quite a spell
I felt quite sure that T was the only
living survivor, and not such a very
good survivor at that. I was full of
crevasses. With those exceptions I
can't remember any more times when
the world was destroyed.
"The end of the world, Larry, has
the best press agents and the worst
producers of any open-air 'entertain
ment I know anything about. It's one
free show that never comes up to the
advance notices. Every little while
some Inspired bug emerges from the
rocoon and announces that at 4:13 next
Tuesday afternoon the stuff will posi
tively be off with this planet. He has
read the warning in the heavens or a
dream book, or he ate a lobster New
berg and went to sleep and had a reve
lation. ' He knows he has the day and
the date down right, and from that po
sition he cannot abate one Jot or tittle.
Fine and aupertinei I think to myself
that this arrangement Is going to take
a considerable load off of my mind,
because it saves my buying a new Fall
overcoat, and besides a large number
of unpleasant people are going to be
permanently eradicated without any
rubbish to clean up afterward, which
would not be the case if I had to carry
out my original Intention of murdering
them one at a time with my bare hands.
Let her come, I say to myself. But
next Tuesday comes and she looks and
acts like any other Tuesday. The usual
number of notes come due In the bank,
the usual number of people mistake
toad stools for mushrooms, and the
usual number of hunters mistake each
other up in the Maine woods. About
4:1 the party who made the prediction
begins to throw off a tew of the Jots,
and by half-past he hasn't got a tittle
left to his name. .Wednesday morning
when I wake up the same sufficiency
of pests are encumbering the earth, and
I realize that I've either got to get that
overcoat right away or else start In
to popularize the custom of wearing a
doormat across the chest. Confiden
tially, as man to man, I don't mind tell
ing you. Larry, that I'm beginning to
i lose faith.
j ".Now. you. take thaA-abepherd. la- the
Hon. Gifford Punchout Tells Why "Nature Ain't the Same
What It Used to Be Before it Got Into Republikan Party'
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frock coat and the white tie, who did
the predicting for the recent group of
true believers up in , Massachusetts. He
dldnt have a particle of doubt about it,
not an atom. I suppose he knows by
now that what he mistook for the end of
the world was merely the beginning of
his liver complaint. But at the same
time he didn't have a peradventure of a
doubt and so he passed the word along
that the official sightseeing car would be
leaving for On High punctually on the
hour, and go straight through without
stops, and those w"ho desired to get
aboard would do well to put in their ap
plications early. And quite a number
did. Did you read the accounts of it?
"Well, you missed something worth
while.
"The prophet announcer! that the world
would probably pass away In a great
tempest, and eo all the members of. the
congregation who were subjects to colds
brought their umbrellas. He also said
the faithful few would be snatched up
to heaven Just an they were. and the
ladles of the flock came all primped up
In their best frocks.
"Well, they gathered on the side of a
hill and took up a collection and sang a
hymn or two and waited awhile, and took
up a collection and then waited some
more, and the scoffers who'd Deen Pitting
silent until then, with one eye on the
heavens, began to scoff up a trifle, and
finally the pastor announced that, owing
to unavoidable delays in arriving, the end
of the world would be temporarily post
poned, and took up a collectrew and Issued
raln-checka, and they all wont home,
and tried to beg back their worldly
goods that they'd given away before
hand." "Think how foolish them poor deluded
guys must have felt!" said the House
Detective.
"Yes, but' think how foolish all the
others would have felt if the prophet bad
been right." said the Hotel Clerk. "In
such cases I think it's well to follow
the example of a friend of mine that
used to be a policeman, over in Brooklyn,
and his name was Casey. Casey Is pa
trolling his boat one cool night, trying
the side doors of the saloons to see if
they are all properly locked, according to
the excise law. and very grievously dis
appointed to find that they all are. when
he hears a noise up the street and here
cornea a wild-eyed citizen wearing about
as many clothes as you could get for a
nickel at Tiffany's, if Tiffany's was" a
clothing store. "What have we here?'
says Casey as he reaches up between the
gentle stranger's shoulder blades and
grabs him by his passementeries,
'leave go.' saya the other fellow, Leave
go Instantly I have a mteelon.' 'So've
1 says Casey, 'since you bring up the
subject, I may state that I'm the original
mission kid. My first mission is to see
that no lunatlo oes scouting around this
part of town with not enough duds on to
tie up a sore thumb. And after that my
next mission Is to wrap a blanket or a
barrel or something around you and
take you In out of the chill air of the
evening before you ketch cold from half
to two-thirds of the way up your spinal
colyum.' rBut you don't understand.
says the chap. 'I've had a revelation
I'm a Holy Ghoster from Staten Island.'
I don't care If you're a Roily Coaster
from Coney Island." says Casey. 'You
have most scandalous ideas of correct
evening drees for young men. Come
along now before I fan you.' 'I've arisen
And come. forth to-vredlot the- end) of ths-
linjer furht," bid Hon. Gift with look of
poetick peer in his hansom eyes. "This
are a false roomer started by some truth
less reporter. Are pubMck men like Wm.
Mules? Must they always attempt to
bite each other when ever they are
world,' says the fellow. 'You don't say,'
says Casey. 'When's It due?' 'This very
night,' says the prophet. 'In the midst
of a mighty tempest this sinful world
will be wiped out." he says. 'Well, I
wouldn't be surprised but what you're
rteht,' says Casey. "My corns have been
paining me all evening something fierce,
and that generally means a change In the
weather. But you wouldn't want to be
caught out at the grand finish wearing
the undress uniform of an angel, would
your saya Casey! "If I'm any judge of
this town there'll be quite a crowd out
And. anyway, you'd better come on down
to the station first with me and tell the
Cap about It. He's interested in knowing
everything that goes on in' this precinct.
Let's be cool, ca'm and collected,' says
Casey. 'You ought to be cool, anyhow,
in that striking costume, and now that
I've collected you. there's nothing for
you to do but be ca'm.' And he took
him In and the next morning the prophet
thanked Casey very cordially and bor
rowed a pair of pants oft of him and
went home. But Casey told me that
when a thunder storm came up about
midnight he went and sat in the prophet's
cell and hold hands with him. He knew
It was all blamed foolishness, of course,
but In case anything did come off, Casey
said he wanted to be in the right com
pany. Casey'a a good, careful man. He'll
be a sergeant some day."
"Wot I never could dope out ia why
folks will keep right on fallin' fur them
dippy prophecies and the liWe," said
the House Deteqtive. "Specially when
we're supposed to be goin' ahead and glt
tin' broader all the time?"
"Maybe we're being broadened and
maybe we're only being flattened." said
the Hotel Clerk. Youll notice this
Larry. V(u can organize almost any
thing from a new brand of religion to a
farewell performance of the world if you
only make it exclusive enough. When
you scrape the rind off you'll find most
of us nursing the notion that heaven is
a highly restricted establishment that will
be populated exclusively by our own' Im
mediate set. together with a few 'spe
cially Invited guests and a carefully se
lected line of angel hired girls, who can
bring good references from their last
places. You may have observed that
every one of the parties engaged in pre
dicting the abrupt finish of this world
always figures It out that only his own
particular little crowd Is going to be
saved, everybody else going into the dis
card. That's what makes It so attractive.
None of us would want to go to Paradise
as long as we had the choice of another
place, if we thought for a minute there'd
be mixed Sunday excursions running In,
and bringing all kinds of socially lmpos-
sible people to turn our mansions in
the skies Into bum two-family houses
with clothes poles out the back windows
and to hang signs for delicatessen stores
and hat-cleaning establishments out over
the solid gold sidewalks. Not at all; not
In a million years. I never saw a man
yet who could bring himself to believe
that the people he didn't like would ever
have a chance of being socially recog
nized in the Great Henceforth. Why,
right now, I could give you the names
of at least 60 persons that haven't an
earthly chance to show In the money In
the same eternity where I expect to
settle. If I thought they did have, I'l
chance my plans. So when I hear of a
prophet doping out the Grand Slam and
stating at the same time that the alev-ntn-hoTir-trals
-th- otbac- shore will
coupled together on some Question?
Should Hon. Cook enjoy despise lrom
Hon. Peary? Should Hon. Wright make
cross word to Hon. Curtiss? Should Hon.
Jim Jeff dorace-riots to one Jon. Johnson
(colored)? Why should they 7"
be run as a through limited, intsead of
an accommodation, as heretofore, with
no stops at the way stations and no pas
sengers allowed on board except those
who've had their tickets properly coun
tersigned by him personally, my hat's off
to him. I know he's figured out a pro
gramme that's bound to draw trade. Yes
sir, Larry, If you want to start a reform
movement or a patent dry-cleaning pro
cess for renovating soiled souls or a
brand new plan of salvation, just take
my tip and make it narrow and tight and
hard enough, and chuck plenty of blue
laws and such things into the mixture,
and you've got a combination that can't
lose. Remember that practically the en
tire "population la strongly in favor of a
wide-open Hades, one that's deep enough
and wide enough and warm enough for
everybody we don't particularly care for,
but the heaven that gets ouc custom must
be very small and very hard for outsiders
to break inao."
"When do you look for the end of the
world?" asked the House Detective.,
VWhen the Government busts a trust,''
said. the Hotel Clerk.
Helping 7000 Leper.
London Globe.
The report for 1906 of the Mission to
Lepera in India and the East, received
from the London office, tells of work
In 73 stations and among T295 lepers.
Over 600 untainted children of leprous
parents are being educated in homes con
nected with the society. The expenditure
for the year was 28.SS2, of which 'S63S
was received abroad, mainly in grants
from the Indian governments. This is an
evidence that the mission possesses the
confidence and sympathy of'lhe authori
ties. The society has offered to admit
the Chinese leper discovered in Cardiff
to one of Its Chinese asylums, and he
will probably be sent there.
THE CHILDREN.
Baltimore Sun.
The children, the children
i ' Those blossoms of the morn,
In lender srrace how every place
They bloom In they adorn!
A laughinj elan, a alnging crew.
Where'er they dance along
The barren way Is bright with May
and iweet with April song.
The children, the children
' How tendwrly they come
To measure aweet of marching feet
And peal of fairy drum!
A bloomy banner o'er them spread.
Green carpeta where they waik.
And theirs to know, with hearts aglow.
The mystic fairy talk. .
The children, the children
Ah, they are or the dew.
Without one stain of grief or pain,
Without one thought untrue;
Care on their shoulders binds no cross
Nor on their foreheads woe;
But dewy on the dream-deeo moaa
They dance a-Uppytoe.
The children, the children
Around us like a maze
Of butterflies beneath blue skies
They dartle down the days;
Sweet, allken-wlnged and fair.
Pure, beautiful and bright.
Blown like bloom-bubbles of the air
Against the blooms of light.
The children, the children
Our Ariels of the Spring.
Far o'er the morn, like bugle-norn
On April lips they sing;
They charm us and they make ns.
They lead us and they lift.
Olad with love's power to shake u
As round our hearts they drift.
The children, the children
Birds, blossoms, songs and sun.
Rifts of the light that lifts the night
And moonbeams all in one; .
Green meadows and sweet vale and hill,
Hope, trust, wealth, diadem.
ph. for their grace to charm and thrill.
"They shouldn't, but they d." are
smart reply from me.
"Hon. Rich Achilles Eallinjer is a man
for which I entertain the deepest congrat
ulations." he repeat with them deep &
tender smiles with which Yale-oys men
tion Harvard-boys. "Our relation has
been one of complete bansal. When to
gether we talk to each other like affin
ities." "T am surprised that nCbody has been
killed." This from me.
"I acknowledge that some slight differ
ence has come between us," he report.
"But this are too tiny to arouse such
loud newspaper comet."
"What are the size of that Difference T'
I nextly inquiz.
"About 2,000,000,000 acres of timber land,
800 lakes. 243 ricers. Hon. Wm. H. Taft
and all the coal deposits In Alaska, Utah,
Idaho, Colorado or wherever else that
interesting vegetable grows in sufficient
quantities to be conserved by the Corpo
rations." say Hon. Punchout.
"Great nations have oftenly made war
over less real-estate than that," I relate
shyly with Port Arthur expression.
"If private Persons behaved like
Great Nations they would go to Jail,"
reproach he. "Them what can't afford
to hire battleship had more better
snuggle down & be a Diplomat." -
"What you call a Diplomat?" I re
quire. "A Diplomat," say Gift, "are one who
have something to say and don't say
it. This are deliciously difficult for rue,
because I was born a Roosovelt Policy.
I am ahead of my time. I belong: in the
last Administration.'.'
"Many Senators says you are disre
spectful to the law," I deride sternly.
"Many Senators Is wrong," he dib.
T reverence the Law yet I am not
one of them what would build a
chleken-wlre fence around the Law so
that Common people won't come too
near it with their dirty fingers. What
say Hon. Roosevelt about this. He-say,
If you must break the Law, break it
over the head of a predatory Trust' "
"Can you not still enjoy this sport
occasionally?" I dlgr out.
"No more!" say Giff with weeps.
"Such boyish antlx would not be un
derstood in the good old-fashioned
days of Taft."
"Maybe you are not sawed out by
nature to be a Chief Forester," I snug
gest. "I have oftenly thought of that,"
say Giff. "Forestry are a wooden job
and It require a wooden man to run
It. With all my faults I am not wood
en. I am deleriously human. I am a
Ideelist and like manjf other Ideelists
I got a morbid & unhitched mind. When
I got my Job I Imagined that a g-ood
Forester should study trees. How
thoughtless! A Forester should study
Politicks and let Mrs. Nature take care
of the trees. Tall Timber Dept are right
place for them what can't learn this
simple lesson."
"But could Mrs. Nature took care of
the trees without a Chaperone?" I ab
rupt. "I got a brlte mind-picture of how
the West would look if there was no
public Landscape Gardener to watch
the woods," say Glff. "In about five
year-times it would look like a bird's
eye view of Hon. John D. Rockfellow
it would look too naked to seem nice.
There would be a awful run on Na
ture's Treasury everybody taking out.
Patience, Newest Thing in
THEY have a new .game for the
coming Winter which la a sort of
Marathon race, Intellectually as
well as physically. It is a partnership
game of patience for four players at
its best, but It can be employed as a
sort of dummy patience by those who
do not care for two-hand bridge or
double dummy whist. If a third player
wants to cut In, he can do so, but the
partnership game for four players Is
the real thing, says the Boston Herald.
Each player is provided with a full
pack pf 62 cards, and one of these packs
Is cut for partners and choice of seats.
Each of, the four shuffles one pack
and passes it to the player on his right!
This player passes it on again to the
right to be cut, and when all are ready
the signal Is given to begin and the
game is on.
The first thing Is to count off 13
cards from the top of the pack face
down and place them on one side. This
is the player's boneyard. Each player
then turns four cards face up on the
table, laying them in a row. These
are his starters. The 35 cards that
remain In his hand are kept face down
and constitute his playing pack.'
Ace Must Be Played.
Should any of the first four starters
be an ace it must be placed in the cen
ter of the table and another starter
laid out in its place from the top of
the boneyard. Every ace that shows
must be placed in the center of the
table as a foundation for the builds,
and these aces are public property
which any of the players is free to
build on, whether he laid out that ace
from his pack or not. As the cards get
mixed up in this process It is better
to have them of different patterns.
As soon as the four starters are
down each player runs off his playing
pack, still held In his hand face down,
three cards at a time. The three cards
are laid on the table In front of him
face up and the top card showing is
available for building on the atarters
or on the aces.
If the top card of the three can be
used the one under It Is available, and
if that can also be used, the third, and
if that, the card showing from the last
three laid off may be taken. Any card
face up on this pile is In play. When
no card can be used, three more are run
off and turned face- up, and so on, un
til the whole of the playing pack has
been gone through.
Cards from the playing pack are used
on the starters to form sequences in
alternating1 colors and in descending
order, building from a red four on a
black five down to a black trey and a
Ted deuce. As soon as' an ace appears
it must be placed in the center of the
table -separata from any other ace,
and these aces can be built on only
in ascending sequence and in the same
suit, the deuce of clubs on the ace of
clubs and the trey of clubs on the
deuce, and so on. .
These aces are called foundations. No
one is obliged to build on an ace if he
does not wish to, but he cannot hold
the ace back. .
The cards In the four starting rows
may be changed about from one row to
another by lifting them one at a time,
but every card so moved must fit the
place to which, it goes. It 1 against
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"WHEW TOGETHER WE .TALK TO
nobody putting In. Them Yosemite
Falls would r,ake a neat power-house
to turn a button-factory where happy
farmers, Indians and other scenic
features could be employed for $10
weekly payment. Think what nice space
those grandy Cliffs & Canyons would
make for advertising purposes!
BARBEREEN
IT GROWS HAIR
WHERE THERE AIN'T NONE
TRY IT! ! !
"On a monntaln-slde where the woods
had been completely scraped away, this
would look very effected."
"Every Barber have a Patent Tonick
for sliding hairs," I reproach.
"Many statemans is alike to Barbers
in this respect," say that famous Gard
ner. "In about 11 years, after all the
Natural part of America have been
mowed down or squeezed out by the
Cunningheims and the Guggenhams,
the Conservation Committees and
Natural Resource Commissions will be
very fashionable clubs to belong to by
elderly Senators who do not care for
other perlor games."
"But Hon. Sir," I rattle, "don't you
take Nature too seriously In your
brain? Nature, when not poked up by
Capital, is a pretty Idle & lazy neigh
borhood. Them Indians what romed
the uncooked Forest in antique dates,
the rules to lift more than one at a
time unless the whole row can be
moved without disturbing lta order.
Suppose that one starting row con
tains 10, 8, 8, 7; another 6, 6, 4 and an
other 5. 4, 3, 2. The 2 and 3" cannot be
lifted and placed on the fi. 6. 4. because
that Is moving more than one at a
time and is not moving the whole row.
But the 6. 5, 4 row can be lifted entire
and placed on the bottom of the 10, 9,
8, 7 row.
As eoon as any one of the starting rows
becomes vacant a card may be taken from
the top or the player's boneyard and
placed In the vacant space to start a new
row or the player may take a king from
his playing hand and fill the space with
that It is not obligatory to fill the space
at once if the player thinks he can gain
any advantage by waiting. As soon as
the 13 cards from the boneyard have been
taken away In this manner kings may be
used from the playing hand, but no other
card can start a row.
Each player Is allowed to look at the top
card of his boneyard in order that he may
know what card he would get from It if
he filled a space with it He may also
look at the bottom card of his playing
pack and remove an ace from it if he
finds one there.
Bottom Card Available.
As the bottom card of hiB playing pack
must always be free-when he gets to the
end of his three-card runs, he ie allowed
to play this bottom card at any time,
without waiting to get to the end of his
three-card runs to reach it. This requires
him to remember what it Is, o that he
may play so as to make it come in. Hav
ing used it, the card which is now the
bottom is available in the same way.
After the playing pack has been run
through, the cards that have not been used
are taken up again, turned face down
and, without any further shuffling or dis
turbance of their order, are run over three
at a time again, to see if any new carda
will appear that can be played.
Every time a card Is used it makes an
alteration in the cards that will appear
after It the next time the pack is run
through: but if no cards are used or if
three are used from the same place there
will be no alteration In the order of the
appearance of the others. As long as a
player can use cards he can continue to
run over the playing pack bythrees and
even when he cannot use a card from the
pack he may be shifting some of the cards
In the start rows, get an opening for a
card that he could not use the last time
he ran them through.
As soon as he runs through hie playing
pack without using a card or making any
changes in his start rows, it Is obvious
that be cannot build any further on the
ace foundations and that his game Is
blocked.
To Build on Aces.
When a player can no longer get cards
free from hie boneyard or his playing
pack he must make as many shlfta aa
he can to build on the aces. When he
finally gives up he must wait until some
other player gives him a chance to get
going again by building up on the ace
foundations. Although you cannot play
as they stand, some other player may
after the top card of an ace build until
it reaches a card that you have the match
for. and so you get other cards free for
farther play and start to run your threes
again.
In a partnership fams, playing two
TJlr'l''V-'rJU-i'l!''AiWr'i''-i'N
EACH OTHER LIKE ATFIKITIEV1
what did they ever do for Chicago or
civilisation? Them Julceless Corpora
tions about which you speak so ar
castly. are they so bad as they are
daubed? Do they not give coal to
the hungry at a ton? Do they not
donate lumber to the sick & needy for
$1.10 a foot? What would the poor of
America do for shoes if it wasnt xor
the Leather Trust?"
Hon. Punchout awing ax to tree
which fell booling to ground with bull
ish grones.
"Hashlmura Togo," he whistle, "you
are too smart talker to be languishing
around here. With them fine arguments
you should hire out to the Excuse Dept
of some great railroad. There, maybe,
you could punish the Cronick Grutnps
and the Lawless Individuals like me."
"What la a Lawless Individual?" I re
quire. "A Lawless Individual," he define, "1
one who can tell the difference between
Right and Wrong without hiring:
lawyer."
So Hon. Giff roll over that log as If
he didn't care whether It smashed me
or not.
Hoping you are the same.
Yours Truly
HASH1MURA TOGO.
(Copyright, 1909, by the Associatea Lit
erary press.;
Card Games
against two, the partners are allowed to
advise each other or to suggest shifts or
to counsel against building on a certain
ace.
In this game one must have a quick
eye for the other fellow's possibilities, or
you may be helping him more than your
self by building on acee to a point that
will let fclm in. Quickness of perception,
Kood memory and good judgment are
the points necessary.
As all the aoca played are available
for any one at the table, the player who
can run off his cards three at a time the
aulckeat without missing anything has a
great advantage, because he can gobble
up the spaces on the available aces be
fore his slower adversaries get there,
and he has his cards so far advanced in
his starting rows that he can play a
number of them on the ace foundations
at one time.
It Is not always advisable to play on
the ace foundations Immediately. A
player may see that If he puts a deuce
on an ace his adversary will get down
five or six cards which are blocked for
want of that very deuce. In euch cases
It is usually better for the player to hold
up his deuoe until he gets some more of
that suit In order himself, unless he is
afraid some other player will block him.
Sometimes by playing two or more
cards together an opponent's run is shut
out because his eequence is free from the
bottom only and begins with the higher
card of your two. Suppose that a player
could get down several diamonds, begin
ning with the five, but cannot get the
six free until he has played away the
five. If you play the four on an ace
foundation away he goes; but If you wait
until you get the five also he la blocked,
as he cannot get his six free.
When a player takes possession of an
ace. It Is his as long as he can play on It
without making any other playe; that is.
as long as he can take cards direct from
hla starters to the ace foundations. If he
stops to make a shift In his start rows"
he abandons the ace to any other player
who can build on it from thence on. In
order to pevent any confusion in thiB It
is usual for the player to lift the cards
Into his hand and to play them on the
ace in one lump, or to place his finger
on the card he played on the foundation
as an indication that there are more to
follow.
As soon as no one can make anotner
move that deal Is at an end and the
cards left in the boneyard. on the table
and in the playing hand are counted.
The player or the partners having the
smaller numbers are called zero, and the
others settle for as many as they have
in excess of that number. When three
play there are usually two losers, but
Individual scores may be kept and set
tled at the end, as In skat, each paying
the others the difference.
It haa been found in practice that the
best game is to agree on a certain num
ber of deals, usually six for a partner
ship, four for two players. At the end
of these deals the scores charged up as
losses at the end of each deal are added
up and the account balanced.
This game contains a number of sur
prises for those who have never tried it.
The difference in the rapidity with which
various players will get their cards run
over in threes and played down in se
quence is astonishing and needs to be
seen to be believed. Tha difficult part
of the game is in watching the three
adversaries, so as to see which of them
is going to let you In and which of them ;
you can keep -Out j