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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-04-28
James T. Fields as Editor.

In 1859 The Atlantic Monthly passed
into the hands of Ticknor & Fields, the
Junior publisher becoming finally it's
editor. twas change Of much impor-
lance to all it's contributors and greatly
affected my own literary life. Lowell
had been, of course, an appreciative
and sympathetic editor, yet Fields had
the advantage over Lowell of being both
editor and publisher, so that he had a
free hand as to paying for articles. The
prices then paid were lower than now,
but were raised steadily, and he first in
troduced the practice of paying for each
manuscript on acceptance. He had a
virtue which I have never known in
any other editor or publisher-that Of
volunteering to advance money Oh pro-
spective articles, yet to be written, and
he did this more than once to me. l
have also known him to increase the
amount paid on finding that an author
particularly needed the money, especial
~ if it were the case of woman. His
sympathy with struggling women was
always very great, and I think he was
the only one in the early Atlantic circle,
except Whittier and myself with En-
erson also, latterly-who favored wom-
an suffrage: ~
With all his desire to create staff
Fields was. always eagerly looking out
for new talent and was ever prompt to
counsel and encourage. He liked, Of
course, to know eminent men, and his
geese were apt to be swans, yet he was
able to discriminate. He organized Dick
ems readings, for instance, and went to
every one Of them,, yet confessed frank
" that their pathos was a failure; that
Little Nell was unreal, and Paul Dom
hey tiresome creature whose death
was relief. Fields was really keen
| judge of character apd had his own
fearless standards. I once asked him
which he liked the better personally,
Thackeray or Dickens, and he replied,
after moments reflection, Dickens,
because Thackeray enjoyed telling ques-
tionable stories, a thing which Dickens
never did. Colonel T. w. Higginson
in Atlantic.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-04-28
AN EAGLE FOOLED.
Carried . Decoy Duck Far Up Into the
Air Before Seeing His Mistake.

Carried . Decoy Duck Far Up Into the
Air Before Seeing His Mistake.
Ny reputation for veracity among
my fellow sportsmen has been seriously
impaired, if not entirely destroyed, by
my insisting upon the truth of the fol-
lowing experience that befell me one
Thanksgiving day: Ny boy Of Is and
myself were indulging in few days.
outing at little clubhouse on the Po-
tomac short distance below old Gun
ston Hall. The weather was fine sin
fact, too fine for our purposes, as we
were after ducks. Early in the morning
we put out, off the old historic Hallow-
ing point, dear to many duck hunters,
about 40 new wooden decoys, as hand
some as I ever saw, and then took our
positions in the blind, full of those feel
ings of exhilaration and expectancy
which all true sportsmen are bound to
feel in some degree, even when all ia
vorable conditions for sport are dead
against them.
After a few hours waiting in came a
bird, which my boy knocked down pref
tily and with much enthusiasm re-
trieved, but which proved to his dis
gust to be nothing but an old merganser,
or sawbill, known in these parts as q
fisherman" a bird, need hardly add,
of large size and of beautiful plumage.
but absolutely unfit fo4the table.
The incident over, we waited and
waited, with no results, until finally,
leaving the decoys in position, we went
back to the clubhouse, prepared and ate
luncheon and then took stroll back
into the woods and fields on a tour of
inspection, when, finding our heavy
clothes rather oppressive under the suns
rays, we concluded to return to the
blind, where we were sure to find it
more comfortable because of the light
breeze that was coming over the water
On arriving at the blind we noticed
that one Of the decoys was positioned
some 25 or 30 yards from the others.
My first thought was that it was adrift,
and 1 was about putting out in the skiff
to recover it when noticed that it did
not change it's position, although the
tide was running quite briskly. Could
it have foated off and become again
caught? Gould it have dragged it's an
Choir that long distance while the others
remained undisturbed? These and other
theories were being discussed by US
when suddenly over our heads from be-
hind there passed a dark shadow, which
on our looking up proved to be made by
a large eagle, and as we gazed upon
him he sailed out over the straggler de-
coy about which we had been. solicitous,
poised himself for an instant and then
settled down suddenly, and with out
stretched talons grasped the poor, help.
less wooden thing and rose with it un,
til the leaden anchor showed at the sur
face of the water, when for some rea-
son, perhaps because of the discovery
Of his mistake or because of the sudden
and unexpected increase in the weight
of his burden, this king Of birds dropped
his quarry into the water with splash
and scuttled across the river as though
to keep suddenly remembered appoint
ment, w ashington Letter in Forest
and Stream, :,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-04-28
His Punishment.

She You think, then, that q man
gets his punishment in this world?
He Yes, indeed. For example, take
my own case. ] have to spend part Of
the year in adelphia. Wrinkles.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-04-28
MEN w ANTED.

Farmers, Mechanics, School teachers,
Machine Agents, anyone honest and will
ing to hustle, we will pay. good wages
from now to April. With our facilities
and personal help any man fully alive
and willing to work can win q paying
position with us. Apply quick, stating
age. i: i. May = Co.,
Nurserymen, Seedsmen & FLORISTS.
ST. Paul MINI.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-04-28
Cottage Orgaps.

Ceo. Dayton sells the Celebrated Cot
~ tage Organ with the largest and
best Organ Co. in the World to back
their warranted goods. Sold on east
terms and cheap for cash or on shor-
time. Pianos sold on the monthly inv
stallment plan. The Conover, the Worlds
FaVorite, is made by theChicago Cottage
Organ Co. and built by Conover Bros.
bet best piano builders in America.
The sun., 1897-04-25
TYPE OF YALE's NEW YACHTING CLASS.

The boats of one design from plans by w.
ii. Hand and are being built by the Buzzard's
Bay Yacht Agency. They Is feet on the
water line, 81 feet o inches over all, feet 3
inches beam, inches draught without centre
board and will draw feet inches with the
board down. They will carry $50 square feet Of
canvas in their lib and mainsail rig but Will not
carry spinakers at the beginning OF the season.
although they may later on. With their present
sail plan they will not come into the regular If
teenfoot class. but will rate about seventeen feet
racing length, so they a special and not
regular class, as has been stated. The crew is to
be limited to three men, though a great many
will race with only two and matter of fact
one man would suffice.
The new boats are not likely to suffer from
lack Of practice. for they are to be raced almost
continuously during the month of May, and
after the college season closes the majority will
be taken to Sarragansett Bay and raced there.
The Yale-Corinthian Yacht Club has offered a
handsome silver cup for the boat winning the
most points during the season, and champion
ship pennant which will be transferred from
one winning boat to another at tho end of each
The sun., 1897-04-25
CLUB NOTES.


There has been very little change % IN the posi-.
lately, but all the averages are very high and
show remarkable Improvement over last years
scores. The best averages to date are:
C.. Henrques-207 in is games.
f. A. BufIintun-2O9 In 2l games.
c. X. Keiley-207 In II gHmes.
A. Gilhooly-lS2 In "a games.
The leaders to date In the compass matches at
the New York Whist Club arc at follows:
+. 7. Baker, b7 tricks plus.
J. b. Elwell, 81 tricks plus.
A. 4. Taylor, 81 tricks plus.
H. J. Bachman. "a tricks plus
The high score last Wednesday was made by
Baker and Ewell. tricks plus. skinner and
Hcrrick. Dlckcrson and Watson, making plus.
Mr.. Baker has made the top score six times out
OF the eight rounds so far played at this club
and seems to be equally successful in other
matches. He made the top score. ! ! plus. at the
Knickerbocker on Tuesday, and the top score at
the Germania on Wednesday, plus playing
has learned all she knows OF whist strategy from
THE SUNDAY sun. Mr. Bakers success is en-
tireiy due to his common-senso use OF the com
mon-sense game.
The staten Island Whist Club defeated the
Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, twenty players u
side. by "a tricks TO z, or II plus. Faber and
Curtiss and Rich and Janssen made the highest
scores.
Mrs. Breckenridge and Mrs. Ton Eyck still
lead in the compass whist mat ches at the
Womens Club IN Brooklyn, Mrs. f. T. Baker
being good third.
Tho Canadian Whist League has Just con.
cluded a very successful congress- at the Vic
tOria Club, Toronto. The contest for the cham
pionship for teams of four was q tie in number
Atheneum clubs. the former winning on plus
tricks. The champion four are: George c. Big
gar, V. Armstrong, IL. +. Gault, and A. ii.
The return match between New York and
New Jersey will be played at the Continental,
Newark. ON Saturday. May q
The sun., 1897-04-25
PUZZLED POKER PLAYERS.
How . Participant Worked In q Cold Deck
mt n Jackpot Crisis

From the Detroit Free Press.
Some of the story tellers have discovered
that woman can play poker" The speake.
was q man who used to travel because lie had
a constitutional antipathy TO remaining in oas
place for any COZ siderable length OF tine.
This one I've Just read recalls en- exper!encs
of ny own.
II had been TO South America and was re-
turning 20 New York by slow Gamer from
Buenos Ayres. The passengers we're few. and
the chief end of their existence seemed IN "a
to xiii time pleasantly Among other thu
We olayed poker. and the most enthusiastic
devotee of the game was n beautiful spanish
little curly headed god Of chance favored o.
opposed her.
"As the end of the voyage approached tie
inevitable happened. for you never can run =
the sensational. The woman had been loser.
and 50 had the dark skinned man from Co
was the merchant from New York. seconded
by the diplomat his way 10 Washington.
that had indnced jack kpots; Just for that even
nsTeed on chn us, one Touad and
Il dealt. The diplomat opened for 500.
The woman tilted il another hundred. and 10
hands M one DIRE v a card. Every nlayer. stood
pat. and five people Joined in frozen lau-E.
while all looked puzzled. Not being a Believer
in miracles. ] latd dom four aces and looked
on. When the betting was done the woman
rAked in $4,000 OF 81 royal Hush. beatia: =
straight or straight flush in every other hand:
on the knee Of the invalid. threw il ,ugoY =
table. and exposed desk OF cards. Wnl
wonderful dettness he had rung in a cold deck
while pretending 10 cut the cards on my Gea,.
me. asked me to give each PLAYER his share.
In giving it TO you. she added. i earn the r!sh;
full Incident AS /" whst was behind i, al
you know just much as do"
The sun., 1897-04-25


Trick ]. The long suit contains a tenace; tho
diamond suit n single honor. and the only sup
porting card is the spade. But A cannot trump
anything, and rs ho will never be able to use his
trtimps for anything hut following suit TO tho
trump lcnds. he leads them himself.
Trick .. follows the modern principle OF
equal, keeping the stronger for purposes of re-
entry.
Trick 3. Y naturally plays a trump through
the original leader, whom he reads for four
trumps exactly, as he began with the deuce. A
is afraid of losing his queen IL he puts it on
second hand and he does not want the lead in
anv case.
Trick !. wants to get his partner into tho
lead again to get out the trumps He knows u
cannot have the spade queen so he tries dia-
mond.
Trick 8. A is now playing to keep the lead
away from Y: who will evidently pull his trump
IL he can get in again.
Trick g. explained after the hand that no
was sure had the tenace In clubs, simply from
the fact that he SO carefully avoided that suit /;
and as he had to lead clubs or force his partner,
he went right along with the spades.
Trick 2. II hRs now to choose between two
things: To catch both As trumps-for he imaR-
ines he had four orginally-and then TO estah
lish his suit, to establish his suit first. Had
he followed the principles of the top-of. nothing
game and led trumps without waiting to estab-
lish the suit he would have made four of the re-
suit first he never gets trick in It, plays
the ace second hand because he knows his part
ner has the diamonds and the best spade, and he
takes no chance of Y 3 getting n trick.
Here is how the long suffers managed ABS
cards:
The sun., 1897-04-25

will not cost very much, as the cheapest form Of
construction has been used, but they will un-
doubtedly furnish plenty of sport; Their sides
thick. with bottom OF white pine Of the same
thickness, though Just why white pine is
hard to say. The decks will be OF
hve-eighths-of.an-inch hemlock, covered with
heavy drilling, painted. The spars, are to be Of
spruce. the ruddcrs OF oak. and the deadwood OF
one-nch yellow pine; while all Of the iron work
will be galvanized. The centreboards will be Of
boiler plate and the blocks OF the aluminium
shell pattern. The standing rigging will consist
OF quarter.in galvanized wire. and the sails of
6i2onnce duck, The boats are to have white
topsdes. and will be painted green on the bottom
Following is list of the boats. owners, and
racing numbers:
No. !. Lead. II. O. Havemeyer. Jr.. 1900; No 2.
We Galoot. H X. Smith as. J. A. Ripley. es. and F
r. Williamson. 'ss No. g. iehl. II. Rogers Winthrop
Ss; ; No Seat, T. 7; Tent 'ss. and W. K. sturses
Us: No. D. Lotus. L. Van Dyke, 1900; No. g. Aotee r.
Z Forrest. .es; no, =. BRENDA c. A., Goodwin. 'es;
No. :. Aloette ]. Day. 1900. and William Post Jr.
1900 30 a g Orion l. Alexander. 's7. and Z. Alex
No. IL. Trio Z. c. Havemeyer 1900. II. BabcocS
1900, p A. Rockefeller, 1900, and J. NJ " Cormick
1000; No l2. prrnSo. T. T. Nugent, '9y; No. l3
Whust. +. Howe, 9s; No. IL. Sinaoa w. $. Ray, '9s
and W. Walsh. 'Hs; No. To- Geisha. W. G. Low, Jr
81, No is. Lono. p. wech, 9s, H. Bingham, 'ss. and
s. VI Nilliken, 'gs
The sun., 1897-04-25
ALB win two tricks. losing three.


Trick l. In the play first given A made both
his ace and queen by refusing TO lead from tho
ten ace suit. with the additional advantage that
he killed the entire suit in the adversary's hand.
although 1t was backed up by five trumps to
the ace-king. and re6ntrance in spades. In this
instance A equally makes his ace and queen, but
he establishes the suit for the adversary, who
gets three tricks in IL.
Trick .. u very naturally goes to trumps, hav-
ing a reentry in spades. This Is the proper way
to play the hand. instead OF feeling round to see
who will trump your clubs
Trick g. II b is weak in spades tsee his dis
CARD, and has no clubs or trumps, his suit must
be diamonds, and A leads him the best he has
At the one table where ABB made three tricks,
Y did not put up his ace of diamondu second
hand
Trick 7. Y leads to his partners probable re-
entry suit, and then the hand plays itself.
II A begins with the spade jack. the result is
the same, two tricks for ABB.
OUR PROBLEMS.
The problem OF April is solved by forcing
discards from and w; y may begin with the
tier variat on. wins and returns n diamond
and then n leads both his trumps forcing L and
w to discard their winning cards
How many tricks can and s get out OF the
following cards: Hearts trumps y to lead
and Il and w to make the best defencei
The sun., 1897-04-25
PICKING Up NUGGETS.
A Woman Gathers $50 In Gold while Calling
Her Husband TO supper.
From the Seattle PostIntsLtocncrr.

From the Seattle Post InfrHiacnccr.
The tales told by Ed Thorp since his return
from the Klondike have set Juneau wild. lie
says: THE stories in circulation concerning the
extraordinary richness OF the recent discover
les in the klondike district have not been cN1s-
G ir-ted In the least Gold in good paying Guam
titles has been found on a number ~ GREEKS
above Bonanza. but interest centres al:r0>: e.;
tirely in that stream and Eldorado, its tirst and
principal tributary.
The amount OF gold contained in many q
reasonap aple degree OF accuracy bv sinking a dozen
or fifteen prospect holes in various port!cas Of
the pay streak ano taking an average Of num-
her OF pans from each oDe. is almost incredible.
When II is remembered that dirt that nveTtceS
10 cents TO the nan is considered very r!ch.WAaf
must ii be when it runs 81 and 81 10 the pan.
On Clarence Berrys clam. No EldoTHdu. al
the men that could he had we're given em0!oN-
ment this winter at Sl."5 an hour. He las
bedrock. and has located the pay streak for a
width of $50 feet and averaging three feet IN
thickness the full length OF his claim. Paw
dirt S encountered Immediately under the
muck. whiCn in taat locality is about nine feet
thick. that goes from TO :" cents TO the PAL
but the pay streak is not considered TO hay@
beer struck until 7l-cent dirt IS reached. Pars
taken from the bedrock on this claim almost
staEcer ones belief. they not intre,.uently rnr-
ing AS high ms SljU and 5000 The heaviest nan
washed out SO far in the entire district came
from No, q and weighed sias one nnrrr'
rcnses this, winter have teen from $500 20
Slio per day ana he settles with HI en-
using only pan and some water secured Hv
melting Ice to wash out the amount necessary
To nay his labor. The anocnt OF gravel e..
ready lying on the dump ready 10 re was!"i
out As soon as the water runs, contains n for'
tune close on 10 six figures.
II was standing near Berry's dunn ors
evening when Mrs. Berry came down from the
cabin 10 call her husband 10 supper WEI"
waiting for him 10 come up the shaft >"e
pi~ked up over $50 in coarse gold and nug-'''
that were lying loose in the gravel just a. 8
came from bedrock, nj 1--WE minutes TIN" g
lnE occupied in doing it,"
The sun., 1897-04-25

race, unless the holder repeats. AS now ar
ranged the boats will race twice week.
Wednesdays and Saturdays and as often as pos
sble besides. Tho Wednesday races win bc
open to boats not rating above hfteenfoot racing
length. which will DO ptted against the new
one-design boats, while the Saturday races will
be limited TO boats of the special class.
The formation Of tho class was largely due to
the efforts OF William q. Low, Jr., Charles A.
Goodwin, and Edward c. Perkins. who have
worked early and lato for its success. Their OBJ
jcct was to furnish nm opportunity for a large
number OF their fellow students to engage In
yacht racing under nearly equal conditions
as possible They also decided to adopt a cheap
form of construction and n type of boat which
was within the reach of large number of
students, rather than to permit expensive boats
TO be built which would limit the sport to few.
The now boats, as will be seen from the accom-
panying sketch, are OF the scow type. very much
on the lines OF the Question and Paprika. They
The sun., 1897-04-25
BASEBALL TERMS.
The Decadence OF Ono That Was Familiar Not
No Very Long Ago.

"a baseball term that has fallen into decay"
said Mr.. Bitterly, "is tho goose egg although
there was a time when no baseball report was
considered complete without it, Even IL runs
were scored in every inning the phrase was
likely to be lugged In in some way. az for in
stance: AT this point in tho game when a
goose egg of large proportions was looming up
for the home nine Old Man Gimpling stepped to
the plate - and SO ON.
THE goose egg. among eggs, was chosen to
stand for a cipher, because IL was the biggest
of the three common eggs, hen. duck. and
goose, which run about like this in their rela-
tive proportions, o q o. Sometimes blank
score was described as string OF goose eggs;
and occasionally single blank in the score was
described MS great big round goose egg. but
this last phrase scarcely served its purpose, for
the full meaning was conveyed in the brief origi-
nal term. which itself means the biggest thing
oil it's kind; the added adjectives were simply
surplusage.
THE goose egg rarely puts on a uniform now.
Along with whole lot OF other baseball lingo
caEded words and Dhraseas"
The sun., 1897-04-25

card is the top OF the weakest suit, md the
leader does not want trumps led. No matter
what the card Is therc ~ no possibility OF part
nor's misunderstanding the nature of the lead
When the original leader has n good long.suit
hand he leads truInps, regardless OF their num-
Der or the turnup card This Is where II great
many players hesitate. In tho annual tOurna-
lncnt Of the New Jersey Whist Association
there was n hand in which tho club ncc was
turned and the loader held C-K 2; H-K q o. Z.
2;D-As. 4; SO j 8. The invitation or the long.
hcaris; the top-of.nothing player tho club king,
right UP to the ace. The latter play would have
made two tricks moro than the other. although
the dealer had five trumps to the ace jack.
Another great point in the topof-nothing
game II the recognition OF the two distinct uses
CT trumps, to defend good suits and TO ruff bad
ones. II the leader cannot ruff anything. hav-
Ing at least three cards In each plain suit, ho
leads trumps unless. he has a good tenncc IN
them. Val Starnes. in his short suit Whist,
advises the lead OF n singleton trump under
such circumstances. hut tho top-of.nothing player
docs not regard number. There are great
many hands In which players have to guess be-
tween two nearly equal suits, difficulty which
can be easily avoided by leading trumps; but tho
lead from the trump suit simply because you
cannot trump nything Is n new idea. Here is n
hand which was No. % in the compass match Mt
the New York Whist Club March 81. II was
PLAYED mt eight tables. and six pairs made two
tricks ont of ABS cards; the seventh pair got
top score being due TO the trump opening. which
acted as u preventive. Al are partners
against W. Y dealt and turned the heart =;
.hc underlined card wins the trick, and the card
under II Is the next one led. Foster and Bach
man held ABS cards.
The sun., 1897-04-25
YALE,s VIEW YACHTING CLASS.
Fleet or Fineen-Eooter- for Racing OF New
Haven aud NnrraEnnaett.

Maven aud NnrraEnnaett.
The building OF new flftccn.foot racing class
by members OF tho Yalc.Corinthian Yacht Club,
which was noticed some time ago in THE SuN,
has greatly revived interest in yachting matters
among the studonts and the outlook indicates
that the coming season will be the liveliest ever
known in the history of the sport at the uni.
vcrsity. Sixteen OF these little racers have
already been ordered, and as the majority arc
owned on cooperative basis by from two
to four undergraduates each, something like
fifty of tho students will DO directly inter
estcd in the class. so its success should be as
sured from the start.
The sun., 1897-04-25

Fort Myers Is a town of about 200 inhab-
tants on tho south sido OF the Caloosa ahatchec
forty miles up the river from Punta Rassa. 1t
is the headQnarters OF the thrpOn tishers