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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 12, 1922 7 BIG, PROLIFIC WALNUT TREE IS PRIDE OF BROWNSVILLE Horticulturists Journey From Far-Away Parts of World to View Unusual Tree on Kirk Place. VTlfilA I 1 , ; once, his partner having: failed to : raise the bid, he, the partner, may raise on a subsequent round if this ; becomes necessary, if assured of i three tricks, or the number the bid j ding player took Into consideration 'when making his initial bid, if at the same time he holds the needed number of trumps. See the logic of. it all? The bidding player has shown by a rebid that he is good for six tricks; the partner is good for three. Six tricks added to three will produce nine. Nine - tricks, therefore, are seemingly assured, sufficient to make good a contract of three. If the initial bidder rebids his hand a second time, his partner hav ing persistently passed, the partner may subsequently raise, though hav ing but two tricks, having at the same time the requisite number of trumps. The second rebid shows eight tricks, and if the partner can supply two tricks, ten tricks, or the contract of four, Bhould be easy of attainment. In line with :$4.85 $4.85 $4.85 E$4.85: $4.85 ij4.85jj W5 6G-' this reasoning, if ' of Ha .oiisand 00. 01 BROWNSVILLE, Or., Nov. 11. (Special.) The Kirk walnut tree is the pride o Browns ville. Probably it is the most remark able tree in the state of Oregon. Because of its prolific growth, tre mendous size, wonderful and sus tained yield and its power to trans mit to its seedlings all of its own qualities, this tree is known to hor ticulturists far and wide. Men have journeyed from far parts of the world just to get a. look at it, and a look at the trees on' Kirk avenue raised as seedlings. The books on walnut culture invariably mention the Kirk tree at Brownsville as a variety and kind of its own, and one which is practically unbeatable. The Kirk walnut tree is now owned by Mrs. John Gross. It stands on her property on Kirk avenue, west of the house, back of a garden, in a spot where there are no other trees. This property is Riley Kirk's old place. t Riley Kirk was a pioneer of 1S46. He was an enthusiastic orchardist. He believed in the future of fruit trees in the Willamette valley. He planted a large orchard east of his house, and one walnut tree west of the house. As walnut raising was something about which he knew I't tle, he forgot all about the walnut tree, and lavished his time and-labor on the fruit orchard Neglect seemed to be just the thing this nut-tree desired, for like Finney's turnip, it grew and grew and grew. At the present day the fruit trees are practically all grubbed up, but the walnut tree Is bearing bushels - upon bushels of delic'ous nuts. . The Kirk family did not take no- xico di me? nitiiiuL Lice until Due year it began to bear. Each year thereafter there was a wonderful nut harvest. Mr. Kirk died in 1900. but his widow continued to harvest the crop. It is said she more than paid the taxes on her place by the sale of walnuts. Johnny Moore, at Brownsville, has three young trees, raised from the seed of the Kirk tree. They are nw so loaded down with nuts that he has had to tie up and prop up all of the limbs. He says that these trees, although they are just coming into bearing, pay the taxes on his place. This is the most remarkable thing about the Kirk walnut. The seed ling is just as good if not a little better than the original tree. Mr. Moore has, all told, H walnut trees Three of them are nursery stock. Compared with the Kirk trees which he has raised from the seed, this nursery stock is too slow for words. On the Lincoln Kirk resi dence property, just across the street from Johnny Moore's place, is a young tree In bearing, and it is larger than any shade tree In the neighborhood. Sim Tycer also has a young tree loaded down with nutty All along Kirk avenue the resi dents are planting walnut trees from the nut of the old Kirk stock. Naturally, there is a wonderful enthusiasm manifested at Browns ville over the planting of walnuts. Mrs. Gross has a row of five young trees, all raised from the nut, grow ing and doing astonishingly well. She says if she was a younger wo man, she would plant the whole place in walnuts, and" is confident that she would soon.be indepen dently wealthy. The trees, she says, will outgrow any shade tree that you can mention. All you have to do to get a start of trees is to plant nuts in nail kegs so as to keep the rodents such as gophers from tak ing the nuts. Nurseries have, from time to time, tried to get control of the old Kirk walnut tree for graft ing purposes. Brownsville people laugh at this, for they know that the Kirk tree is a freak, and that you can get just as good trees from the seed, and probably better ones than from grafted stock. ' 1 AiBffit&aim BUHjtjtegfe BT ANNIE BLANCHE SHELBY. AN ORIGINAL BID, especially when made by the dealer or second player after a pass, takes into consideration that a cer tain help will be provided by the partner. The bidding player does not expect to make his contract on simply the ' number of tricks his hand guarantees, but upon this number plus the number he has a right to expect from his partner. As has been explained, the dealer and second player after a pass may expect greater help from their part ners than can the third or fourth player, when, the other players hav ing passed, their bid becomes the original bid of the hand. Neces sarily, therefore, these players must be stronger themselves to justify a bid than either the dealer or second player after a pass. . The "normal expectancy," that is, the number of tricks the deaier or second bidder after a pass has a right to expect from his partner, is three, which number (assuming that the bidder himself is assured of four tricks) will generally en able him to make good his contract. Should the bidder's own hand not be good for four tricks or should the partner's hand not produce the expected number of tricks, or three, the contract, as a rule, will fail of fulfillment. While, as has been repeatedly stated, game is the goal of all play ers and a partial score is considered of negligible value, it is nevertheless important that a player who makes a bid have a reasonable assurance that at least he will make his con tract, as no sound player wishes to contribute to the score of the adversaries. Fifty points a trick, what the adversaries receive when a contract fails of fulfillment, counts up pretty rapidly. As stated, the normal expectancy of the dealer or second player after the dealer has passed is that three tricks will be furnished by the part ner; in other words, that the part ner's hand will contain 1 quick trick values, which values, it is found, automatically double and produce double that number of fide, or three. This is the expect ancy whether the bid be a trump or no trumps. If the bid be a trump, three trumps or two with ace, king or queen at the top are expected from the partner. Summed up in a word, then, the normal expectancy of the dealer or second player after a pass is that the partner will provide three trumps, or two with ace. king or queen, and that the hand will contain 1 V-z quick trick values, or three tricks, sufficient to enable the contract to be made good. It follows, then, that if the part ner's hand contains just what the tidding player expects, and has taken into account in making his bid, he, the partner, should on no account raise the bid, but rather should pass, or, if the hand admits of it, deny the suit by naming some other bid. To raise the bid, having just the help 'the bidding player credits him with, would be to bid twice on the same thing, and, pro vided the bid initially made was made on four tricks only, would generally result in defeat. A players' first duty in consider ing whether or not to raise his part ner's bid I am assuming a trump bid is to note whether his hand contains the requisite number of trumps to the raise, three, or two with ace, king or queen. If it does he should next consider his quick trick values, and If he finds the hand contains two, or one more than his partner took into account in making his bid, he should raise once (provided, always, he has not a better bid to substitute); If it contains still another quick trick value, or 2 Vi (five tricks), he should raise a second t-ime. In the same manner he should continue to raise, though his partner may thereafter do nothing but pass, for every ad ditional quick trick valuo th hand contains. It will often develop that a hand is bid on the minimum strength only and does not justify a rebid, but that the partner has sufficient strength to carry the bid success fully to a high figure. If the' partner's hand lacks the number .of trumps requisite to -a raise he should on no account aise, no matter how strong otherwise his hand may be. When these are the , conditions he is usually strong I enough to name some other bid. The bidding players partner esti mates his quick trick values as follows. I will consider them first at a trump: To ace, king, or guarded queen of the trump suit, he gives the value of one trick; to four or more cards of the trump suit. i the value of one 6r the partner of the bidding player y raises the bid at the first oppor- i tunity, thereby showing four tricks, the initial bidder may raise to three y. n necessary it naving live lanici than simply four tricks in his hand. His five tricks added to his part ner's four should easily produce a contract of three, or in all nine tricks. As is known, when third bidder becomes the original bidder of the hand he shows greater strength han is required forthe fnitial bid i Mi V. ile'ilor rti aoinnll Ylla ver after a, pass. To justify a bid on W his part he should hold from 2 to QQ three quick trick values 2M; are considered sufficient If they are dis- tributed among three suitB,' three .if the values are confined to two suits and his hand should guar antee the probability of five tricks. His partner by his pass has denied a bid and cannot be depended upon for a definite amount of assistance. Third player's hand, therefore, must contain proportionately greater strength, or sufficient to make .up to a certain extent for the prob able lack in the partner's hand. In the event, therefore, that third player becomes the original bidder of the hand, his partner, who has already passed, may raise the bid once, having the necessary number of trumps to do so, if holding 1 Quick trick values, or three tricks, , as three added to five, the number i . . ..... . , i u the bidding piayer snows, annum produce eight tricks a two bid con tract. When, however, fourth player be comes the original bidder of the hand his partner, the player to the left of the dealer, may not raise on two tricks only, notwithstanding mat an original oiq oy me uui i." nlaver shows the probability of six J tricks. This may seem somewhat strange and to a certain extent at variance with the principles as given which underly this particular system of bidding. That it is entirely logical, however, will be shown by the following brief explanation: The average expectancy of sup port in the hand of the partner of the original bidder, whether the orig inal bidder be the dealer, the sec ond, third or fourth player, is three tricks. If. therefore, the partner's hand contains less than the normal expectancy, say, one or two tricks, the estimated trick value of the initial bidding hand do not aver age to obtain. Fourth player's part- ner. therefore, shall have three tricks to justify a raise. This particular system of valuing Hands and of enabling each of the two composing the partnership to infer as to the number of tricks at a given bid which the combined hands will or should produce so amply fills the requirements of bid ding that, when correctly and in- -lll-,,n lir onnlUH a hid SllOUld seldom if ever go vrong. I ID This brings to mind a question fJQ recently asked as to whether in con- : siderlng the advisability of a ma a When we gave you this storethe finest millinery store in the landwe promised that we would give you better hats, better styles, for less money. We told you that by doing this We could sell thousands of hats and would be enabled to give you increasingly better hats for less money. . We .are very grateful to be able to say that this principle has proven wonderfully success ful. We are selling thousands of hats better hats better styles for less money. These hats are making thousands of friends for us in Portland. Because of the thousands of hats we sell we can buy better hats for less money. Manufacturers are making us drastic price reductions because of the phenomenal volume of business we are doing. And every day, every week, every month, we will be able to give you still greater and greater values still better and better hats and for less and less money. Every time you buy a hat at Proctor's it enables us to sell you a better hat a better style for less money the next time. 39 CO CO or $4.85 6r 10 CO Small hats, large hats, medium sized hats all kinds of hats. No matter what your age or what your desire, we can fit you in one of these becoming hats. $4.85 A Wonderful Variety of New Winter Hats Real hats. Every one perfectly constructed of the best materials. The styles are all new all have been bought in New York City within a month. They are hats that were bought to sell for much more money. Commencing Monday morning and all week they are on special sale for $4.85 39 CO 01 Hats of Lyons vel vet, silk panne, newest metallic brocades, slipper satin, silver cloth, gold cloth. You will truly say that these are better hats, better styles, for less money. Q0 01 00 $4.85 trick; should ace, king or queen to the requirements for be one of them, the value still re mains at one; to a singleton he gives the value of one trick; to a blank suit, the value of two tricks. Two suits of doubletons, that is. of two cards each and therefore the ability to ruff the third round, give the value of one trick. Baeh side i ace or guarded side king is given la value double its normal value; in ' ot her words, a side ace has the lvalue of two and a guarded side iking the value of one. Queens 1 Other than queen of the trump suit, I even though guarded' are given no i definite value, as by the time they ! become commanding cards, they are ! liable to be adversely trumped. !A player first; naming a bid may rebid his hand once, though his part I ner refuses to support' him, if it i insures the probability of six rather ! than simply four tricks; he may re bid a second time, though his part ner again passes, if he ia assured of eight tricks. When a player rebids his hand player was not entirely justifiable (ft in taking a gambling chance. 1 tli( replied that to a certain extent a bid did embody a gamble, as, for instance, a player bidding upon the probability of three tricks in his partner's hand is taking a gamble that he holds this number of tricks. The normal expecctancy is that he will hold them, but he may or may not do so. Lacking this number, the bid generally will fail of fulfill ment unless the bidding player him self holds a greater number than is necessary to the bid. However, the rules and valuations as given for bids, rebids, support ing bids, etc., do not take into ac count the factor of defense;-that is, the fact that the opponents if per mitted to win their bid. may go game, especially the rubber game, and that in the hope to avert this contingency players are often justi fied in going on with their bids with less than the normal require ments. Players, however, in whom the gambling instinct is so strongly developed as that they overstep all the recognized rules and principles governing correct bidding will sooner or later have cause to regret their rashness and wish when too late that they, too, had followed a system, the value of which has been tested and found fully equal to all requirements. Thus far I have considered trump bids only. A no-trump bid calls for precisely the same number of quick trick values (two) and the same number of tricks (four) that a trump bid does. This, of course, is the minimum strength needful for the dealer or the second bidder after a pass. As is the case with the bid of a trumf, third player requires values ranging from 2 to 3, or five tricks, and fourth player values ranging from three to 31-.. or six tricks, to justify an original bid. At a trump "bid the values may be confined to two suits, or even one. At a no-trump bid they must be distributed among at least three suits. In estimating the number of tricks one will win at a trump bid one takes into account a certain number of small trumps. At a no trump bid one estimates the prob able number of tricks the hand will produce by doubling the quick trick values of the hand. Thus a hand made up, say, of A 7 4 K 7 4 . Q 6 4- Q5 4 is protected not simply in three, but in all four suits. It contains two quick trick values the ace of hearts 'one. the guarded hing of clubs one-half, and the two guarded queens one-fourth each, or one-half. Bj doubling these quick trick val ues the hand, it is sem. guarantees tle probability of four tricks. In all respects, therefore, it conforms iio-irurnp The Store With a , Principle Better Hats 1 Better Styles For Less Money 331 WASHINGTON STREET Everything guaran teed to be as repre sented or your money back. -60 CO .01 $4.85: :?4.S5: $4.85j :$4.85j $4.85: $4.85 make good his contract. If. there fore, the partner holds just what is expected of him he does not raise. If he holds an additional value, or two (four tricks) he should raisg once provided this is of vital im portance and on no account should be overlooked he is assured beyond doubt of one or more tricks in the suit the adversary has bid. If he lacks protection in the suit he would on no account raise the no-trump bid, no matter bow many quick trick values the hand otherwise may insurST1 With a hand containing a 'number of quick trick values, though no protection in. the suit the adversary has bid, some other bid doubtless would be justified. If not the combined strength of the two partners' hands would certainly save game and more than likely de feat the contract. BRITONS ALSO WRESTLING WITH MURDER MYSTERIES Two Supposed Poison Killings Remarkable in Character and Thus Far Have Baffled Detectives and Police. t SIX (Continued From Page- 6.) Angeles, Returning in about weeks. - H. B. Beckett, who was called to New York and Washington early in October, will not return to Portland until the latter part of November. bid and the bid should be made Necessarily, having no trumps to consider, the partner of a no-trump bidder estimates his hand some dif ferently in considering the advis ability of a raise from what he does at a trump. To each ace. guarded king and guarded queen he gives double their normal value. To an ace, that is, he gives the value of two; to guarded king the value of one, and to guarded queen the value of one half. As has been explained, and as I think is generally understood, a high card in sequence with a still higher card takes the value of the higher card. This would make ace and kiiTg together count as two (the normal value) and as four (the doubled value) As is the case at a trump, the dealer or second bidder after a pass takes into account in- making hjs bid tha(V his partner will furnish Vi quick trick values, or three tricks, sufficient to enable him to KHATEUXAl XOTES. A pleasant-social evening is an-' ticipated next Wednesday evening, when a birthday dinner will be given to "Rose of Sharon, L'01 L. O. L." by members of Rose's immediate fam ily. "Rose'' will be 6 years old on that date and is rapidly growing. There will be a birthday cake. PARROT CAUSE OF SUIT Services of Slain Bird as Enter tainer Valued at $300. (By Chicatro Tribune T.eased Wire ) NEW YORK, Xov. 11. The value of a parrot's services, either as companion or entertainer, will have to be settled in the near future by the Hoboken, district court.. The services of one particular bird are estimated to be worth J500. That I is the sum of damages claimed to day by Carmine Taranino of v est Hoboken, in a suit against his next door neighbor, Charles V. Wyckoff, who killed the bird with a shotgun. The parrot, so tame that it was permitted to fly about the house and yard of Taranino. broke up a pinochle game yyckoff and some friends were having last September in the Wyckoff 'back yard. Polly flew- into a tree over the card players and dropped a soggy cracker on Wyckoff's head. -Beatrice Beceher Arrested. l-OS AXGELES, Cal.. Nov. 11. Beatrice Beecher, said to be a granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher, was taken into custody here last night at the request of the police of San Francisco, who tele graphed a warrant charging her with having issued a worthless check, i - - BY NORMAN R. MATSON. (Copyright. 11)22. by The Oregunian.) LONDON. Nov. 11. (Special Ca ble.) The United States, sur feited apparently by murder mysteries of various character, is not. alone in that field. Here in England we have some which have succeeded in pushing the political crisis from the most prominent position on the front page of the newspapers. Two are of a striking character. Both have to do with poison in some form. Nothing,' not even horseracing. let alone nation al politics, interests your typical Britisher as a poison mystery does. We have had something danger ously close to an epidemic of poison killings during the last few months, but there are two, the Jelfe and II ford cases, still remaining un solved. Irs. Jelfe, a wealthy widow of Chiswick, died August IS last after a minor operation. She left an es tate of $100,000 to her physician, Dr. Bernard Hartshorne, . man of excellent reputation. He made out her death certificate. Somehow, after weeks of waiting, suspicion was aroused, the body exhumed and the stomach taken out for analysis. Two days later" Dr. Hartshorne was unconscious in a London hotel room, having taken poison. When he took his room he registered as "Mr. Armstrong." Action Held Significant. There was significance in this, policy believe, because Major Arm strong recently was hanged for the murder of his wife, whom he poisoned. Whatever Dr. Harts liorne's part in the death of Mrs. Jelfe may have been, wonder was expressed that he had used the name of "Armstrong." The solu tion of the mystery must wait, however,- until November 15. when the Jelfe inquest will be held and the result of the analysis of the stomach made known. The second case is even more mysterious. Mrs. Edith Thompson, young wife of Percy Thompson, was found sobbing hysterically on a street 4n Ilford at midnight. Her husband, she said, had fallen and hurt his head. He was picked up and found to have been stabbedfto death. Mrs. Thompson knew noth ing about any attack. Unimagina tive detectives found a knife in a nearby sewer. Next day they ar rested its owner, Frederick By waters, a storekeeper. Then they found a bunch of let ters i Bywaters' room. These have presented a real nuzzle. Obliauelv and subtly the lucid phrases ofl. these letters tell of a great passion; and there is more than the sugges tion of a poison plot worthy of the Medici. These are love letters, but strange love letters. Letters Remarkable Ones. One begins: "It must be remembered that the digitalis is a cumulative poison and that the same dose, harmless if taken once, becomes deadly when frequently repeated. Darling boy, the above passage 1 have just come across in ' a " book I am reading, Belladonna. Is it aiy use?" Through all the letters there is a note of desperate, conscienceless persistence. There was only one suggestion of fear for the future. "Would it make any difference to her lover, this thing I am going to do for us both? Will you ever think any the less of me? . Not now, I know, but perhaps later on in the years that are to come. . 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