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4 M '0 Very Trying Situation of American Women Whose Hus- if! )M "V j ffW bands Now Are Ranged in Opposition to $$M J 1 m fl.li.li wwwi . u jiwui ftll W" " ' m'' ' lr ' 5 :i- '4 -' f i , i ' ' 4 - Jf?i , lll th VOjragr. nUtld. "A Summarlc and ; ' ? '1 - I'U i' 1 111" f " ' )k - I' True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's I -. ? U t 1 " - ' " 2 lli " ? - 'X - i ' ' '""lll West Indian Voyage." printed in Lon- f . - -- . ' H r' ? ' i ' 'i 'III 1 : . .. .A V- N III don in 1589. Capt. Bigrges died before i - ' - I 4-1 ' t 4 j ' - "J ill "1. - , V IJI the work was finished, but his lieu- j "4 ' L f, i 11 1 - 3 ' - - f . l - N, N. lil tenant. Master Crofts, Completed it. . " ' " - :; ''. ' i ' - i f , i 111 rt ii ' ' , I Xv f If This Volume haa four lafg. fbtdlnsr linn mm ii .ni ii.nl ii ir-imaa iJif'm.irtm-i. 'niiiiinJi.iiii- -- i i ' 1 1 V. L. - '.' ? .lit. 4 --i " 111 maps of St. Jago, San Domingo, Car- r BT BARBARA CRATDON. ONE thing has become pretty clear war is a big pull on the heart ctrlngs in more ways than one. The Spectacular instances Of royalty, intermarried in a way to bring about appalling complications of sentiment and self-interest, only serve to suggest In how many other cases the great conflict has brought trouble. Hundreds of American girls are nar ried.to natives of enemy countries it was not without pride that America eaw its young women eagerly sought on the other side and now comes the long distress of the catastrophe. Little Old Dan Cupid mixed up the international cards and made all sorts of rouble for the Yankee girls. Not of them Would willingly take off her picture hat to any other flag than her own. Not one of them would for worlds forget the' traditions and the faith of her own blood relatives. Vet along came the little person "with the seaside costume and the bow and arrows and shot these women, out, of their land, out of its protection and made them Suspected enemies of both friend and foe. That is one of the curious workings of love and war when they come to a clinch. Nobody has ever been able to tell how far a woman's love for a man would serve to take the place of her loyalty to her native land. The law presumes that love Is greater than loyalty and automatically transfers to a foreign land the citizen chip of any woman who marries a resi dent of that land. But the law works by rule of thumb, and the wise heads of war don't always take law as a safe grutde. They have found, in fact, that many Of the most dangerous spies in history were highly-placed women who san4& everything -love, fortune and even life before the chance of eervins their countries. A soldier figures that be gives his family, his home and his life for his country, and he measures all other persons in time of war by his own standard. As soldiers hold the whip hand in all lands when war is raging;, the cold rule of the law vanishes and he fair women of the court who came from an enemy land are at once suspected and watched with the most Jealous care. That is just what is happening to the rich American women who have narried into the German and Austrian nobility. It is what is happening, in a vastly different degrte to those who married leading Russians, for 'the titled Russian is the subject of the suspicion of the revolution, and all factions in that distressed land are now so afraid of each other that , any American woman with a husband who is in Ger many, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria and even Russia, has a most isolated po sition. Shortly before the opening of the war, Germany, in keeping with her other carerul preparations, forbade by Imperial order the marriage of any German diplomatic authority or at tache to a foreigner. Bismarck had done the same thing in time of former strife. But there were alreadr two of the most notable diplomatio German American matches. Miss Lillian May Langham, a noted beauty, of Louisville, had captured the late Ambassador to Washington. Speck von Sternberg, and Count von Bemstorff who held the im portant Washington post to the very hour of the break, had married Miss Jeanne Luckemeyer, the daughter of a rich New York family. Mies Constance Hoyt, who wed Baron voa Stumm, is another important case of where a rich American girl married into the Inner of inners of German diplomacy and politics. There are scores of eases of less prominence in Germany. These expatriated American women, If i f i ' - with their teeth set and .pride un shaken, are taking a leading place In all of the relief and Charitable work, while they know that the Iron Blr marck's rule has made them the target for all of the eyes about them, whether they be social, military or merely serv ant's eyes. But the German, girls have even more pleasant positions than their sisters who used to be American and are called now by the i&f Auetro-Mungarlan. Germany, Under the Kaiser's keen com mercial y. haa held no strict rein upon family history in making Court rules for foreign matches. Not so with the Austrian eourt. It Carried along the pld rule of making a person presented at court show eight generations of noble ancestors. As no bility is not recognized In America it was obviously Impossible fbr any of the rich women to comply With this rule. Bo half a dozen of the best-known women formerly Of- this land were" on the Outside looking In When the war started. They have given their for PORTLAND GUARDS SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY IN CASCADE MOUNTAINS WITH JEALOUS CARE rCAntinnea From First pg. long after the fire starts befo e trained fire fighters, fully equipped, are e work. They are followed up by addi tional forces dispatched from every part of the reserve, provided the fire is se rious. As the fire progresses it meets an ever? increasing host tot experienced fighters all directed from the Zlg Zag station headquarters by telephone. Telephone lines are extended quicyly about the fire and the work is directed systematically in this way. It takes extremely unusual conditions for a fire to get away from the fighters. The main causes of fires are light ning and camp fires. Lumber camps along the Columbia river north of the reserve have started many fires in the past, the TlreS Spreading into the re serve. Also an occasional fire breaks in from some other place and When lightning storms occur fire is apt to break out anywheie. The lightning striking the dead and dried snags in the forests play havoc, the snags usual ly being dry as tinder. Rang-er'a Life Is Hard. The life of the ranger Is a hard one He must own his own saddle horse and a pack horse. He goes out beeaslon ally and loads up with supplies, then moves back Into his forest home to live and watch until his supplies again are gone. Some Of the ranger live In cabin and ethers in tents. The Government Is continual!? at work on additional new trails and im provements 6n existing trails. The THE SUNDAY OHEGONIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 5, 191?. tunes, their homes and their personal work to aiding the wounded, and do ihg all they could for their adopted countries, but new that the United States is at war with their husbands' country they fall under the Teutonic ban. and each angel of mercy among them pursues her charitable way under the hourly suspicion of being a poten tial spy. The Countess Szchenyl, who was Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, was never able to reach the top of the court set with her titled husband, but she has done the most loyal work for the Austrian government, and her home has been given over to war purposes. Ker-for-tune has done as much as any in the empire to keep the troops in the field. When Miss Harriet Daly, daughter of Marcus Daly and a sister-in-law of Ambassador Gerard, became the Coun tess Anton Sigray, she never had an idea that America Would ever become Involved in a European broil, but she le now one of the alien enemies of her native land, made so by law arid love. Another of the alien enemies to the city also is doing much work along these lines. Both the Government and the city have pack trains of mules and horses which carry supplies in to these construction camps. It has been the Gomroon understand ing In Portland that the supply of water comes from Mount Hood. As a matter of fact Mount Hood is entirely separate from the Bull Run water shed. Not a drop Of Water from Mount Hood. gets Into Bull Run. a deep can yon separating the two water sheds. Water Gashes From Rocks. From Bull Run Lake the water passes underground a distance of one and one quarter miles, where it gushes from the FORTUNES IN By William H. Smith. Jr. I HIRTY-NINE thousand," "forty thousand," "forty-five thou sand," "forty-seven five," "forty-nine." "fifty thousand" "Sold!" And 86 the famous Gutehberg Bible the first Bible pfintedwas knocked down to Henry E. Huntington of tall road fame. There is a vein of humor in connec tion with the sale of this book, fbr a clergyman in one of the large cities, in looking over the Catalogue of the hale, noticed the description of this, the oldest Bible in existence, ana mused: "It's a pretty old book, and I don't be lieve anybody win want it," and he sent in a bid of SO cents. Today more tn6ftey Is spent for rare o6oks than ever befdre. for book C6l iectors and the ,large libraries and his United States, and who must privately smile at the idea, is the Countess Col-leredo-Mansfleld, who was the daugh ter of C. Oliver Iselin, one of the most noted American millionaire yachtsmen. Her husband has been in the diplomatic service of Austria-Hungary in tome of the most important posts. Then there is the Countess Zichy, who as Mabel Wright, was a famous American beauty. Her beauty first won Ferdinand Yznaga. from whom she Was divorced just before the dip lomatic count came along and won her. Miss Agnes Carroll, of Maryland, is the Wife Of Count Anton Heussen stamm. There is Miss Gladys Virginia Stewart, daughter of the late John A. Stewart, who has given her hand to Count Julius Apponyl, a Captain of hussars in the Austrian army and one Of the best knbwn diplomatic workers for his country in time of peace. Taken as a class there are no more interesting people in the world just how than the devoted band of women, rich and poor, who have been betrayed by Cupid to the service of the enemy. rocks and forms Bull Run River. It flows down this river for 20 miles to the headworks, five' miles inside the reserve, and is there taken into two large pipelines and carried 30 miles to Portland's reservoirs and thence into the distribution system. The Importance Of the Bull Run re serve protection can be seen from a visit to the reserve, where it is. seen that at this season the snow is still very deep in some parts Of the timber. Were this timber burned out, this snow would not stand, and there would be nothing to keep Bull Run Lake up dur ing the season When Portland needs water most. OLD BOOKS torical societies are buying Americana. An interesting pastime is this col lecting books, and what is more thrill ing than these old books of sea voyages and discovery? As Stevenson's "Treas ure Island" enraptures the growing boy, srj does the "True Report 6f the Last Voyage Int6 the West and North west Regions" 6f Sir Martin FrObisher, published in 1577 in London, appeal to the grown man. One may purchase "Treasure island" tor $1.6o. but to se cure the "FrObisher" cbst the purchas er the heat sum of $6900 recently. The Clergyman Who bid 60 cents for the Gutenberg Bible could probably purchase many a eerrrion in pamphlet form for that price or less, but away back in 1631 At Plymouth one Robert Cushman preached a sermon to the lit' tie band Of Pilgrims. Which IS said to be the earliest printed eermtin In New England. This important little pam phlet containing not only the dis course, but an account of the country and the condition of the Indians, is worth approximately 12800. Every schoolboy who has reached the "history" class has heard of Sir Francis Drake. Oh his voyage to the West In dies he was accompanied by Capt. Wal ter Bigges. On his return home, Bigges wrote the first part of an account of Auction J3yylAi?iANCfS Shelby. TIE voluntary revoke, of which I have recently spoken, made In Or der to save an . impending loss which would amount to considerably more than the ' loss Incident to the revoke, has aroused such a storm of indignant protest that it is not un likely some legislation will sooner or later follow, making the revoke pen alty so great that no situation could arise which would cause one to Incur It voluntarily. While to be sure this would be hard on those who revoke innocently, still,- as in other phases of life where some radical Improvement is attempted, the innocent must suffer with the guilty. Besides were the re voke penalty materially increased it is not unlikely fewer revokes would occur, as players generally would realize the necessity for increased care and vigi lance. The revoke penalty, as at present enforced, giving the declarant the choice of three tricks (such tricks often giving him game ' with its 125-point bonus, even the rubber game with its 1 2ii0-point bonus) or 100 points above the line, but permitting the adver saries simply the 100 points above the line, is distinctly unfair. The offense is the same whether it be committed by the declarant or the adversaries and the penalty therefore should be the same. No advantage should accrue to the declarant because of an adver sary's revoke which should not accrue equally to the adversaries in case the declarant revokes. Cheating Never Countenanced. A prominent Eastern authority, re ferring to the revoke in Question, has the following to say: "As to honesty, is it honest to cheat any adversary of a rightful 600 points? To pay him 100 when his just deserts are 600? That is what is popularly known as a 'skin game." The fact that every player (except an occasional one or two) feels alike on this subject proves that it is not Open to discussion. The fact that those rare dissenters are openly despised by all honest players spells their condemnation. "A man is Certainly supposed n6t to revoke knowingly. If he does So un consicously the entire hand is Spoiled, his own count IS prohibited and his ad the Voyage, entitled. "A Summarle and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's WCst Indian Voyage," printed ih Lon don in 1589. Capt. Bigges died before the work was finished, but his lieu tenant. Master Crofts, Completed it. This Volume had four lafg. folding maps of St. Jago, San Domingo, Car tagena and St. Ausustine. It is most Interesting to note the accuracy and perfection achieved by these early Copper-plate engravers, and one meets many a specimen of the work of these talented artisans ih the early books, of such brilliancy that it is difficult to conceive them not having been recent impressions. The writer has a Set Of De Bry's "Voyages" published frorrt 1600 to 1634, Wherein are pictured the horrible tor tures of the Spaniards on the Indians. You probably Would not want these 100 or more books at any price, neverthe less, some one thought enough of these bid Latin and German accounts of voy ages to America and the East Indies to pay $7000 for them. Near my home, built by the side of the road, in what is still somewhat swampy ground. Is a monument com memorating the "Swamp Fight" in the Pequot war. William Hubbard, a min ister of Ipswich, wrote a rather thick book about the troubles with the In dians in NeV England, and added a "Discourse About the Warre with the Pequods in 1637." The map in this precious volume, called the "White Hills" map, represents the first map engraving In America. It was en graved, and the book printed, in Bos ton In 1677. A copy was sold recently for $2900, not a penny too much, for the book is exceedingly rare. Bridge versaries are allowed some slight re dress. That it is far from adequate has long been admitted by most auc tion experts. Since men can so cheat it is Certain that the revoke penalty should be heavier. A hundred points is absurd. It Is a bagatelle. I have been fighting it ever since It was es tablished. "The declarant may profit quite hand somely by hrs adversaries' revokes. He may claim three tricks. These tricks may give him game"-128 points; they may give him rubber 250 points; they may save him from disaster and per mit him to keep an otherwise impos sible contract. Suppose he had b- n doomed to lose three odd tricks doubled and redoubled 6 JO points. He catches one of his adversaries in a revoke and claims the three tricks. immediately he scores his bid and saves the COO points. BiK Scores Possible. "Let us go a little farther. Suppose It is the rubber game and the declarant is playing three "no trumps." doubled and redoubled. As the cards lie he takes but six tricks and is in for a 600-point loss. . But toward the close of the hand (where it can make no material difference In the play) an adversary unwittingly revokes. Imme diately the declarant Claims his three tricks, instead of being 600 minus nn the hand he scores 120 for tricks and 250 for rubber- 370. He lose his bonus for contract, but the gross difference On the tw6 results is 970 points. That revoke on the adversary's part was worth 970 to the declarant. Yet an ad versary, being debarred from scoring beneath the line, can claim no tricks en a revoke and must satisfy himself with 100 miserable points. In taking his 100 he may even be robbed of 500, as in the revoke under consideration. The revoke penalty is badly regulated. There is no doubt about that. "In the first plttoe, the exact same penalty should be awarded to both declarant and adversary. The declarant should not be permitted to take tricks for a revoke unless his adversaries can also do so. He should be given the same number of points above the line as would be given to his adversaries if they scored a revoke on him. The number or these points should be so Increased that voluntary revoke would be renderea a poor tiargaln. The exact number of desirable points is rather hard to determine. "Five hundred would seem too much. Yet everything less than that would certainly permit our classic friend who niadft this particular revoke still to cur tali his losses. "There are those who claim that a revoke should equal the rubber value (250 points), or even the rubber value considered as plus to one side and minus to the other (500 points). "There are others who think a re voke should immediately give the cur rent game to the other side. I am rather inclined to this opinion. Score SO points below the line for either declarant or adversary who detects the other in a revoke. This would be con trary to the rule that debars the ad versaries from scoring below the line, but special Instances allow special rul ing. Make the wording read: The adversaries may net score below the line except In those Cases where thoy detect the declarant In a revoke.' "Even at that the man who saves 600 points by a Voluntary revoke will Still be ahead, unless, perhaps, the re voke occurs on the rubber game. Gen erally speaking, he will always be ahead in precisely the same way that a thing Is ahead of an honest man, be cause he will do things to which an honest man will not stoop. It is im possible to make cheat-proof laws. But there are few dishonest players who would not rather lose 100 points than lose the current game." An Interesting hand which recently came up in duplicate in local circles is, as follows: AST ft 8 t 2 S 10 7 K J 10 6 3 a C 10 7 ( a 6 & 4 3 AKQ.T10Z AKQI2 K i V 8 S 4 2 5 4 J 8 4 AQ 22 Z was the dealer. ' In the hand, as originally played, all passed until It came to B. who bid a club. The re sult was A-B SIS points five tricks at six each, 30; five honors in one hand, 60, and game bonus, 125. Overplay J ft "X Tramps.1 In the overplay Z. the dealer, again passed, but A, without rhyme or reason, bid a heart. Y passed. B, after has Itating a moment, called "on no trump." He reasoned that his solid Clubs would give him six tricks and his diamonds probably five more. Hl partner had shown good hearts, likely headed by the ace, and it was probable he had also protection in spades. He felt, therefore, that he was risking but little. Z, the dealer, who led to the firnt trick, led ace of spades, dropping dec larant's king and making good his queen and jack. At trick 4 Z's small spade Was taken by Y (his partner) with the 10, and at trick 5 Y made his heart ace. Note: Y's four spades being in Sequence, he makes no effort to unblock, as, to hi3 partner's lead of a high card at no trumps, he should otherwise have done. Result of the Play. A-B two by cards, or 20. Honors being .evenly divided, they did hot even score for honors. A's bid of a heart when holding simply five to the king. Jack, 10, without protection in another suit, was entirely without au thority and misleading to his partner. Even so, it Is still a question whether B, with a hand which practically as sured game at clubs and a high honor score besides, should not still have called clubs. in duplicate game la of paramount importance, and when game is prac tically assured even at a minor suit it Is rarely advisabla to take risks at a higher bid for the sake of the big ger score, which the venture, if suc cessful, would insure. To be sure, in this case if A had held the hand which he should have held to make a bid A-B would likely have made a slam, which, in the event that A held the two aoes not held by B, would have given, them a score of 336. Unfor tunate!?, however, partners ar hot al ways ' dependable, and It 1 hard to get around that "If,1 A B Z
