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THE CANADIAN WHIST CLUB.
TORONTO. Canada, June IS. 1898

TORONTO, Canada, June 15, 1898. Whist Editor of The Gail: The third Cana dian whist congress will be held at the Toronto Athletic Club house, Toronto. beginning Thurs day, July 2l and ending Saturday, July 2S 1898 The plan of play will be similar to that adopted by the American Whist League and may be divided follows:
 First-Contest for the championship of Can ada for teams of four for the year 1889. e Second-Contests for the championship of Canada for club pairs for the year 1SsS-9. Third-CQntests for the championship of Can ada for mixed pairs Qady and genD for the year lS9S-9:
 Faurth-Contests for the Anglo-American championship for the. year 1SsS-9. This contest will Ee open to American Whist League and Canadian teams making the hlgnest scores ID tke: championship match
 All contests will be open ain entrance fee of $1 per player being charged for each match, = Entries in the various contests will close Monday July IS; 1888 with the secretary. Players will confer a great favor by entering as early as possible.
 Play will coEnmence at 2 o'clock in the after Iioon and evening at o'clock.
 AS the committee has fixed the date of the congress so that the players taking part in the . American Whist Congress will have ample time in'which to rest and come on to Toronto it is hoped that q very large number of the Ameri- can experts will enter, the contests have been arranged with that view, and to enable the best players in Canada to try conclusions with the recognized champions of the American Whist League
 Letters already received from prominent American Whist League officers indicate a hearty approvaF of our endeavor to bring about an international contest: and have assured the secretary that they will not only be present, but will endeavor to influence others to enter
 The committee feels that every recognized player in Canada should make a special effort to enter afd do his best to uphold record as good whist players by winning the Anglo American contest.
 If you propose entering kindly advise by re- turn mail when fuller details will be supplied
 Honorable Secretary-Treasurer.
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and Decatur in 1872, and as a captain he was with Farragut at Mobile Bay His recollections amount to a history of our naval service In war and peace. Long as- signments on foreign stations have made his life full of incident and his recollec- uons of notable men, places and events, both at home and abroad, are numerous and varied. The volume was prepared without referring to notes or journals, and this has imparted an informally con- versational tone to the pages of the book.
 There is a strong flavor of Marryatt in the opening chapters, which tell of the authors rollicking midshipman days off the coasts of South America and Califor- mia. From the primitive naval academy of those times he went to Washington in 1S4S and engaged in coast survey work until ordered to the Mediterranean squad ron His "reminiscences of society in the American capital fifty years ago are fol- lowed by recollections of foreign service, naturally interesting, because naval off, f1cer's duties, social and official, necessar- fly bring him in contact with a great variety of prominent and interesting char acters. Returning to America in time to distinguish himself in the Civil War, Ad
 miral Franklin saw the navy change from wood to iron, from sail to steam, and he when the little Monitor saved the Union
 fleet from destruction by the Merrimac
 In charge of the dispatch-boat Dacotah he witnessed and took part in many stirring scenes and many chapters are de- voted to his anecdotes of historical per sons and events of the war. His promo tion to the rank of rear admiral in 1885 was a fitting continuation to his long and honorable service of the country.
 Harper & Bros; price s.
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-Four Centuries of Spanish Rule In Cuba" by Italo Emilio Canini. is the title of new book that ought to prove of per manent interest In the opening chapter we find this: ' History said a great writer, is a mixture of good and of evil, with here and there a glorious page. But he who would undertake the study of the methods which Spain adopted in con- quering Cuba, and in retaining it's pos session for 400 years, with the eXpecta- tion of finding such page, would com init a grave error, for he will meet with the story of no deed on which he may dwell with satisfaction
 The book contains some forty illustra- tions from authentic sources, among these being portraits of famous Cubans, pict- ures showing the burning of men at the stake, the terrible garrote, Havana in the sixteenth century, Cuban forts, Spanish guerrillas firing, scenes at executions, the destruction of the Maine, etc. Laird & Lee. publishers, Chicago. Extra cloth, 75 cents; paper covers, % cents,
 Don't Worry Nuggets. By Jeanne G. Pennington Fords, Howard & Hurlburt, New York. Price. 40 cents.
 War, being true stories of camp and battlefield by famous officers. Mcclure & Co.,, New York.
 A Trooper of the Empress. By Clinton Ross D. Appleton & Co.,, New York. For sale by William Doxey. Price, $l.
 Materfamilias. By Ada Cambridge. For sale by William Doxey.. Price $l-
 Torn Sails A tale of a Welsh village by Aien Raine. For sale by William Doxey. Price, s1
 The Making of a Millionaire. By him. self. G. w. Dillingham; & Co.,, New York Price, 50 cents.
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A REAL FARMER IN CONGRESS-.


 A REAL FARMER IN CONGRESS-
 The farmer in Congress Is not the Hon, Jerry Simpson, not the Hon. Ben jamin F. Marsh, not the Hon. John D. Clardy-none of these The farmer in:s Congress is the Hon. Leonidas I. I.iv-. ingston Of Georgia. He began the fas-. cinatfng vocation of national solonizing. in 1891 as the representative of the At. lanta district, and has been hard at 1t ever since. The other day he was re nominated, and he will be a member. of the Fifty-sixth Congress. He:was re-. nominated over the protests of Editor Howell and Editor Smith. He beat the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta Journal two papers that are. agreed in nothing except that the Chicago of the South" ought to be represented In Con- gress by more brains than. the Hon. Lon Livingston can bring. to bear in that behalf.
 But the Hon. Lon is a farmer and "has always lived on a farm::' The Fifth Georgia contains the counties of Campbell, Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas. Newton, Rochdale and Walton. as well as Fulton, and all of them are. f,,lI of farmers, and the Hon. Lon, a. hucolio Claverhouse, gave the literary fellers,' a bucolic Up with the bonnets of Ron. nie Dundee" and he swept them off the face of the earth at the primaries Ha had been in both branches of the Stafe Legislature and chairman Of the Com mittee on Agriculture, and he never lest an opportunity to tinker with the farming interests. He was vice iiresf. dent of the State Agricultural Society eleven years and president of. 1t four years He was president of the Farm ers' Alliance for three years.-Io,,i vile Courier Journal.
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a religious turn of mind and loved quiet and Sabbath calm, while the Maypoles liked dancing and games and all joined voices In singing the popular songs of the day, did not mar the happiness of the flock. The relations were cordial and the exchange of cigars and raisins and laun- dry soap continued.
 In time, however, the likes and dislikes of the families began to jar. Sometimes Mir Lyke and his family would be tired and retire early, only to have their nerves jump in tune to 'There'n Be Hot Time In the Old Town To-Night" or My Gal is a High-Bo'n Lady," And in time, too, there came gentle suggestions that early hours and much quiet were best for city dwellers who were seeking rest and health in the country. On the other hand there were as covert suggestions that there was no need for persons to be mummies simply because they were in the rural districts.
 The rag-time melodies continued to make the shore of Fox Lake echo, and the Lykes continued to retire early and court elusive Morpheus or seek the sub stance Of FoX's martyrs at distance of fifteen feet from rousing chorus, ac companied by piano that was working overtime
 The thread broke at last and the atmos- phere about the Maypole-Lyke cottage became such that the icehouse went into disuse. If either side wished to have ice cream or sherbert for Sunday dinner it simply set the mixed ingredients on the front porch and in five minutes the stuff was ready for the table
 Last season MT. Maypole and his fam fly left the cottage for the sole use of the Lykes. They spent the hot months else where. The Alderman thought long over the proposition and as shrewd business man, came to the conclusion that it was poor policy to have vacant property on his hands Under this train of thought a result was soon reached and the next day local carpentering firm sent a force of men to Fox Lake with full kit of tools. dawn appeared, and then they mounted upon the roof of the mutual cottage
 They began to saw Rip, rip, went the blades, and they did not stop until they had made halves of the structure from roof peak to basement. Then they began on the barn. That was divided, and the icehouse and chicken coop suffered a like ter of the building did the carpenters di- gress. The Alderman was fair man and he only waited his half. Every movable
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WHISTLES.

The crack whist team of the Fifty-nrst lIl,- nois Volunteers, made up of Major Matbovs surgeon of the regiment, captain; Colonel tahn c. Loper' Captain Warrington and Adiutant DaVloson' sn' were given a whist reception at the home Of ex-President Galley of the Linda V,sta Club of Oakland. Thursdey evening last.
 After the game was over refreshments wora served and a general infomal recepti,n tnol place. Mir. Galley is one of if not the stro,y- est whist player In Oakland, and he says next fall the Linda Vista Club will renew it's ecf q work in the whist field. e
 team of four, made up of ex-Prasid, nt George E. Bates as captain, H. c. Ricanr is pr. W. R. Lovegrove and Mr. J. R. Hanify of the San Francisco Whist Club, leave for Port r,btch for the Payot trophy. This is looked forward to with considerable interest. but of course no one expects but one result-that the San Francisco Whist Club.
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l, in scrlbner's Magazine for July.

tation during the life of each individual. even in the period of growth. It is the iron hand of natural selection that brings into bold relief without too compelling in- sistence and apparently without serious motive-namely. by means of play-what will later be so necessary. There need not be any particular superflulty of ener- gy; so long as only a small remnant or unemployed force is present the animal will follow the law that heredity has stamped upon him.
 Instinct. therefore, Is the real founda- ton of play.
 formulation I say because all play Is not purely instinctive activity. On the contrary. the higher we ascend in the scale of existence the richer and finer become the psychological phenomena that supple ment the mere natural impulse, ennoblinB 1t, elevating it and tending to conceal 1t under added detail"
 Play not only enables the young animal to exercise itself beforehand In the stren- uous and necessary functions of its life, enables the animal by general instinct to do many things in playful way, and so to learn for itself much that would otherwise have to be inherited In the form of special instincts. When the inherited instinctis thus supplemented by individual experience it need not be so carefully elaborated by selection, which according ly favors the evolution of individual in telligence as a substitute for blind in stinct. At the moment when the intelli- gence reaches a point of development where it is more useful than the most per feet instinct natural selection will favor individuals in whom instinct appears only in an imperfect form. manfesting itself in early youth In activity purely for ex- ercise and practice-that Is to say, in ami mals which play. Indeed. the conclusion seems admissible. in summing up the bio | logical significance of play. that perhaps the very existence of youth is due in part | to the necessity for play. The animal does
 not play because he is young; he has a | period of youth because he must play. | His third and fourth chapters Professor | Groos devotes to anecdotic illustrations.
 He goes into the actual plays of animals | with wealth of detail an opulence of 1 literary information and a soundness of l critical interpretation which are heartily 1 to be commended. Indeed, as Professor
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HQrper's- S.

The leading features of the July Harper's are 'The People and Their Government by Henry Loomis Nelson; "The Ethics of a Corrida," a story of a recontre with Spanish bull-ighter, by Lucia Purdy, H. lustrated by photographs taken by. the author: "Notes on Journalism.' by George w. Smalley; "A Man and His Knife, Passages from the Life of James Bowie" by Martha McCulloch-William "Eastern Siberia by Stephen Bonsal il
 lustrated from photographs taken by the author; "A Colonial Dame: Neglected Records of the Life of Mistress Margaret Demand the Right of Suffrage by Car oline Sherman Bansemer; "New Era in the Middle West" by Charles Moreau Harger, and New Worlds and Old, by Professor Brander Matthews. -
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of daylight along the middle of the cell ing and through the aperture was work ing the flashing blade of saw.
 Two or three seasons ago Alderman Maypole and MT. Lyke, also a Chicago citizen, decided to build a cottage at Fox Lake for their mutual occupation. They were great friends and they. knew it would be pleasanter for both if they would pool their interests In the matter of summer living.
 The cottage was built, a barn, an ice- house, chicken GOODS, and all the neces- sary buildings for the summer home were
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erected and the joint owners surveyed their work with pride.
 The warm weather came and the fam lilies moved in, each occupying half of the premises. It was a fine arrangement for a time. Mrs. Lyke and Mrs. Maypole borrowed sugar and raisins of each other and the husbands traded cigars, which they smoked on the veranda in the warm evenings. The cottage was the first to be built on that side of the lake, and they had no neighbors to encroach on their privacy.
 At first the fact that the Lykes were of
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Whist League. The invitation offers many in- ducements and frankly admits that the com ing of American whisters will serve as a keen Incentive to make the approaching congress largely attended and memorable one The meeting will extend through entire week and well appointed rooms of the Toronto Ath- letic Club. Ii is to h- hoped that a suitab reply to So gracious invitation may be sent at an early date and that a band of crack players, headed by the ever ready moderator umpire, referee and general all around man. MT. -, whist editor of the San Francisco Call, may make the July pilgrimage to To ronto."
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N HICAGO, ILL.-Recently Alderman William T. Maypole and his family and John Lyke and his family oc- \ ,cupied the same cottage on the h. N gleside shore of Fox Lake. Each
 occupied half the structure Each still occupies a half.
 A few mornings ago MT. Lyke was awakened by the rip. rip of big saw and a stream of sawdust fell on the Turkish rug in the center of the floor. The wor- thy man looked up and saw a thin line
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OUR WHIST EDITOR OFF FOR THE
 EIGHTH CONGRESS.

On the o'clock overland train last evening" In a through car to Chicago, our whist editor settled himself down for a long, hot ride over the alkali plains and through the sage brush country, to attend the eighth congress of the American Whist League, to be held at Boston, beginning Monday, July II, and ending Satur- day, July 16
 It has always been the aim of The Call to be up to date on all whist matters, and for that reason our whist editor will be on the ground when the battle opens
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 L. Baldwin will be published by the 'Anplet0ns next week. He has written a book ubon an entirely new subject. It is true that the subject of the games or sports or amusements Wherewith animals as yell as men begufle their leisure has occupied the casual attention. of many learned philosophical and ingenious minds But no book, l believe, has ever been devoted to this topic, certainly no hook which. like this, treats it as a ques- ti6n of grave biological interest.
 Many of the higher powers of the human mind may be traced in their 1irst form auiOng the other'vertebrates and it seems difficult to deny positively the faculty for any of the simple, mental and esThetic pleasures 10 animal understanding. Color and music, scents and sounds and the various cosmetics ot simple toilet are all within the scope of their enjoyment, and in many forms of play, sometimes of a rather elaborate nature, animals find q Q pleasure similar to that which the same amusements arouse in mankind. There are no limits to their enjOyment of that kind Of fun which rOmUS and make believes of all sorts, especially mock fighting and serio-comic farce excite in their minds.
 Professor GrooS has set to himself the task of discovering why nature has in stilled this love of play into animals. for nature has, meaning in every one of her works.
 He finds that there are two quite differ ent ideas on this subject. The first is that the animal tor man) begins to play when he feels himself particularly cheer full, healthy and strong; the second that the play of animals serves to fit them for the tasks of later life. The second theory is the one which he indorses, but in doing so he combats so powerful an opponent as Herbert Sbencer, who holds to the first.
 Briefly stated, Herbert Spencer's thesis is that in the more highly developed or gdnisms better nutrition, gained by their superiority. occasionally yields a surplus of vigOr. The appetites being satisfied, there is no craving which directs the over
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The CenturN.

The Century for this month Is fully up to it's usual high standard. Of. course it is apropos of the principal events in the public mind Stephen Bonsal, late of the American legation at Madrid has written an article for the July Century on Holy Week in Seville" The paper is illus trated with sketches by Joseph Pennell. Poultney Bigelow contributes to the July number of the Century paper entitled Ten Years of Kaiser Wilhelm" MT. Bigelow is personal friend of the mon-- arch and he reiterates his statement of ten years ago that the Emperor has "Yankee head on his shoulders" The ar ticIe is accompanied by a drawing made by Emperor William of 'The Ironclad of the Future"
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TAEFY FOR OUR WHIST EDITOR

The Nashville Banner says: "Our cousins over the border have paid American whist
 players a great compliment by deferring the annual congress of the Canadian Whist League until the month of July. in the hope that Americans may feel disposed to favorably con- sider an invitation that has just been sent by w. A. Hunter, secretary of the Canadian Whist League to all members of the American
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BOOKS RECEIVED,

o o o o o
 Memories of a Rear Admiral" by s. R. Franklin rear admiral, United States navy, contains the story of over fifty years of service In the American navy
 As a midshipman Admiral Franknn served with men who had sailed with Hull
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thing on the place was saved in two be- fore the workmen ceased their labors.. =
 The halves have been moved a few feet apart and sided up.. and now the Lykes portions in peace. The ice-cream can still be made by placing the cream between the halves of the cottage, and the piano. continues to accompany chorus of healthy voting voices In :On the. Banks of the Wabash" and "Mstah Johnson, Tu'n Me Loose"
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Ladies, Home Journal.

The President on horseback rides spiritedly across the covers of the July Ladies Home Journal under his new
 flag, and his chief characteristics are de- tailed in an illustrated anecdotal biog- raphy, contributed by his nearest and most intimate friends. Very timely, also,
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CdsselPS.

This English magazine is fully up to it's usual entertaining foreign matter. It con- tains number of good stories. The prin- cipaI one is ''In the Chains of Crime" by E. ". Hornung
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worthy of deep study by all interested in the money question. Among mons other arti- of Science" by Count Leo Tolstoi, and Science and Psychical Research" by B. O. Flower
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Captain Gridley of the Olympia, Cap tain Coghlan of the Raleigh and Cap tain Wildes of the Boston, who fought together at Manila, were classmates at the Naval Academy, graduating in 1863. and Gridley and Wildes were roommates.
 The captain of an Atlantic liner, after many calculations has come to the conclusion that the general size of a fog in the Atlantic is about thirty miles In diameter
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Beneath the blazing skies, And never shall their glory fade While Freedoms s banner fiieSv

Good" he exclaimed. And now. if you're tired. just order some salmon for supper, and I'll let little Johnnie fill out that Little Green Apple Tree poem. as he's been eating cucumbers and can put the proper spirit into it.'-Atlanta Con- stitution.
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HIS PoETICAL ASSISTANTS.

Molly" he said to his wife, T wish you'd finish this poem on 'Hobson'-I've got to get 1t off tonight. Just go ahead on it while l round up my fifteenth Dew ey ode" And then he pushed the following pen ciled poem in skeleton" toward her:
 '-bay,
 -crew,
 way,
 -view.
 "-made
 -skies;
 -fade
 flies" And In short order the wife handed him the following: Tt was in Santiago Bay That Hobson and his crew Sped like the lightning on their way With Spanish guns In view. "A charge as if in hell they made
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6EI1Htt@ MopSbtIf

"~1oHe+oro" a-d "rNn DnoaHenoe ~ "~~'-' ~-~ t'>o two leading articles Tn the 'tIant'c for Trlv