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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1899.
a GUESSING CONTEST.

We defy anybody who listened to
the disbarment proceedings in the
Supreme Court to tell us what the
result Of tbs case was.
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NOTICE.

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BRING THE SUITS.

The official organ of the planters
and their government has started a
new deal and demands that Messrs.
Hackfeld & Co. or the Government
make thorough investigation OF
the charges brought by slave labor
against the treatment to which
they have to submit on various
plantations.
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LOST

A WHITE MARE FROM KIM YUN's
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Finder will please return this office and
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NOTICE.

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DIVIDEND Notice.

A DIVIDEND is DUE AND PAYA-
n BILE to the Stockholders of the Inter
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There was a puzzled expression on
the faces of the respondents, the
attorneys and the audience, and it
was a relief when Mr.. Kaulukou
arose and said: "Your honors, gen.
tlemen, ! ask you with my own
mouth, who gets the wood?"
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The wise judges took the case
under consideration for five minutes
and each Of them delivered lucid
address.
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Justice Frear said. .

Justice Frear said, ..............
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Justice Whiting disagreed with
his learned colleague and said. .....
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Finally Judge Stanley sitting in
the place Of Mr.. Judd, spoke the
following serious words to the re-
spondents .................
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NOTICE.

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"A of what has been known as the Ka-
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Office ON Kaahumanu Street.
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every AFTERNOON.

Except Sunday
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

than not were simply motley aggrega-
ton of reckless adventures. Now that
steam has supplanted the sailing YES
sci and coal has come to be looked upon
as contraband of war, new complex
ion is put upon the gentle art of pri-
watering. While the element of dam
ger was never absent in the pursuit of
such work and the shadow of the hang
mans moose always hung over crew,
from captain to cabin boy, if once over
taken by the more powerfully armed
cruiser of the enemy, the present status
of the authorized pirate, especially in
such cases as that of the Boer-British
war, makes it extremely unlikely that
Great Britain need fear that her ire
mendous commerce going and coming
in all parts of the world will be preyed
on and harassed by authorized free
hooters of the high seas. 1t must be
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

North and South take five tricks.
Trick 1.-The question may be asked:
"What is there in this hand to lead
trumps for?" The answer is very
easy: Nothing" But a simple process
of elimination shows that the trump
opening is probably the safest one to
make. The Spades are out Of the ques-
ton; the Diamonds, being a three-card
suit are unfavorable, for such leads
are always misread by partner, and
command is lost on the second round;
the weak four-card suit of Hearts is
not worth playing for, as long suit,
and it's trick taking power will be much
more favorably developed if opened by
some one else. Then there is nothing
left but the trump. You certainly can
do no more damage by leading from
four trumps, nine high, than by open
ing four Hearts, Queen high. And there
is, in addition, the possibility that
your partner can accomplish some
thing in a plain suit when trumps are
out of the way. The lead apparently
loses a trick here by killing Ms twice
guarded Queen, but this is offset by his
ruff at trick 5. One trick is all he is
entitled to make in trumps from his
holding.
Trick 2-There is no reason why E.
should not make try for his five-card
suit of Spades, though headed by only
the 10. He held four trumps originally,
still retains command, and has prob
able entry card in the King of Dia-
monds. A variation here, however, by
leading the singleton Heart, would
bring about the same result as in the
original play, Ms. scoring four tricks.
Trick 4.-E. naturally must credit S.
with having Jack of trumps, and so
stops the second round with view of
forcing with Spades. S. passes the
trick, taking the opportunity to declare
his suit by a discard.
Trick SIS. might as well draw one
trump, but although he has the Dia-
mond Ace for re-entry, the outlook for
establishing the Hearts is very poor.
The rest of the play is forced. 1t
seems. then, that the trump lead stands
to win trick on this deal, with nor
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

nearly three years, and after awhile
l caught on. In the first place, you
never hear anybody wonder what the
weather is going to be. That was set
tied hundreds of years ago. They only
have two seasons, and tomorrow will
either be as wet as a mill pond or as
dry as bone. You haven't got to do
the least worrying over it, Then there
are the railroads. There is no schedule
time to arrive or depart. Nobody is in
a hurry. Nobody seems to care wheth-
er they ever get anywhere. With the
first railroad it was settled that it was
a go-as-you-pleas train service, and
nobody speaks Of being ahead or be-
hind time. Mail and passenger stages
are run between towns in the interior.
They may get off two hours ahead or
four hours behind time. A coach with
twelve passengers once waited five
hours for me to pack up, and nobody
kicked about it.
For the first three months Of my
stay" continued the smoker, II was
always hoping to strike a good hotel
1t was waste Of time. Each one was
the same, even to the bugs in the beds.
They used to be amazed that | should
kick about the bugs. They had been
there ever since the days OF Columbus,
and why go TO any trouble? II driven
out they would return, and SO let them
stay where they were. The bugs got
or the train service. and it was a big
load off my mind. You could always
figure on being lied to wherever you
went. By and by that was on the reg
ular programme, and you didn't have
to wonder why man would walk
around block to tell you lie when he
could speak the truth to your face.
I fought the feas for few weeks and
then gave 1t up. They were in the beds
ON the streets-in the theatre-on the
veranda. Columbus landed them to pio-
neer the way, and why break up a rou-
tine four hundred years old? never
heard any one worry about crops. They
would be either coed or bad, and why
worry? 1t was the same about sick
ness II a person were sick he'd either
get better or die. never heard but
one Porto Rican man make kick
about anything / was sitting on the
hotel veranda at Ponce one day when
merchant came down the street to
see me. There was vicious bull tear
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

AS is well known, the damage done to
English commerce was tremendous, and
volumes, and very interesting volumes
many of them have been, too, have
been written on the life and adventures
of our different trough riders Of the
waves" One has only to remember
such historic names as the America, the
Paul Jones, the Bunker Hill, the I'm
ion, the Eagle and the Yankee to realize
the extensive part which the privateer
took in that early war of ours. The
bravery and dash and energy of their
men and commanders were proverbial
and are still recounted in many good
sea yarn.
But in 1856 the parties to the declara-
ton of Paris brought about a new era
in international law by four new rules
relating to warfare at sea, one of which
was that the practice of privateering
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03
SOME GOOD WHIST POINTERS.

If a skillful opponent opens an es-
tablished suit and continues it in the
face of a probable ruff by yourself or
your partner he is weak in trumps. If
he shifts to a second suit, he is strong
enough to warrant his entertaining
some hopes for his established suit.
Should an expert opponent open what
proves to be a short suit, he is I'M
doubtedly willing to be forced. Per-
haps he is fairly strong in trumps, but
has no long, strong, plain suit which
he thinks it is worth while to play for.
If the enemy leads an ace and follows
with low card, he should be lacking
in one of two things-either trump
strength and re-entries to warrant an
original trump opening, or side strength
upon which he can depend to bring In
his long suit. Without trump strength
one or more re-entries would have war
ranted him in opening low from the
ace, unless six or more were held, and
if extreme length is the reason for the
ace opening, his chance of holding
three or more trumps among his re-
naming seven cards is very remote.
If the enemy opens with trump and,
upon regaining the lead, fails to con-
tinue the trump it is fair to assume
that he holds considerable strength in
two plain suits, and that either he is
not entirely satisfied with the develop
ment of trumps or weak spot in the
hand has been found. In such cases
one should endeavor to add 10 his en-
barrassment either by forcing his
trump hand or by drawing the re-entry
upon which he is depending, an aggres-
sive trump game being out of the ques-
ton. Players often show a hopeless
lack of Judgment in failing to compel
the enemy to part with the re-entry
card, the holding of which means the
winning of the game to him.
A tendency that has been noticed
among weak players is to cover every
thing higher than a nine second hand,
no matter what the holding may be.
1t is a safe rule not to cover a weak
lead second hand unless you are weak
yourself in that suit For instance,
jack is led and you hold queen and one
small card. Put up the queen, for 9TH
erwise third hand will not cover the
jack. 1t is hardly likely that third
hand has both ace and king; = he has
the ace, your partners king As made
good: if he has the king, your partner
ace catches it. If third hand should
happen to hold both ace and king, your
queen would never have made, so you
lost nothing by putting it in second
hand. If jack is led, and you have ace,
queen and others, do not cover unless
with the ace. You are not finessing, as
the leader can have nothing higher than
the jack.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03
Wits
The Opening Lead-A Hand in Which
the Lead Of Trumps Is Better Than
Plain Suit Lead-A Rubber Of Whist.
Delicate Perception "BumblepuPpy."
The Discount.
THE OPENING LEAD.

Whatever theory player may hold
in regard to the opening of hand, he
will often find dealt to him combina-
tions which do not admit of lead
that he is fully satisfied with. II the
long suffers only four-card suit is
headed by the five spot, he will be
pretty apt to hunt for short sequence
that he will feel willing to play away
from Similarly, the short-suiter not
infrequently finds himself compelled to
open long suit which he has no hope
of making, simply because his short
suits are of such a character that to
lead any of them is to lose a possible
or probable trick. In all such cases
the opening lead is unquestionably
disadvantage, and the player who is
put in this unenviable situation has
simply a choice of evils. Fortunate
for him if this theory or System" is
sufficiently elastic to cover the case in
hand by dint of little stretching, or
sufficiently rigid to leave him no choice
Then, if loss ensues, his easy defense
is that he played the team game" or
he comforts himself with the thought
that any other opening was even more
likely to have turned out badly.
An interesting hand of this char
acter came up in a pair game at the
Providene Whist Club. Clubs were
declared trumps, and the opener held
the following cards. Clubs-3, 6, 3, 2;
Diamonds-A, 10, 8; Spades k, 6;
Hearts-Q, s, 3, 2. The leader, who
opened Hearts, found the deal to run
hard for his side, and vas sure he had
lost tricks, but examination of the
scores proved the deal to have been
practical "piano." But SIS hand was
certainly bad one to ofen. The
play at the table went as follows:
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03
"a WORD TO THE WISE, ETC"

The young man had taken off his coat
and hung his hat carefully on the hall
rack. Coming into the parlor he went
to the fire and held his hands out to
warm them. The girl waited for him
to speak. but it was evident that he
was a bashful young man, and knew
not how to begin the conversation. FL
nally, he said:
at was very, very cold last night. I
stayed at home and Rugged the stove
all the evening
The girl turned her great brown eyes
toward him and said, with just tinge
of art in her voice:
"I don't see any use in hugging
stove"
1t didn't require a house to fall on
the young man. even if he was bashfud,
and he promptly resolved not to hug
any more stores.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

1t has been rumored that the Trans
wal government is about to issue let
tiers of maque permitting sympathizers
or Adventures in foreign nations to fit
out ships as priyateers to prey on En-
glish commerce.
This rumor has awakened renewed
interest in that picturesque parsonage,
the privateer himself, though it is not
generally understood in just what re-
lation he now stands to the rest of
the world during a war in which he is
playing his subsidiary but none the
less interesting part.
Privateers as the term is applied to
ships, are described as armed vessels,
owned, equipped and differed by one
or more private persons, but sailing
under special commission called a let
ter of marque. This letter of maruue
is given by belligerent state or ma
ton, and it empowers the person or per-
sons to whom it is granted to attack
erty of its enemy.
Nearly all the civilized nations of the
world, it is true, abolished privateering
many years ago. The American gov
eminent has declared against the prac-
tice. 1t was, indeed, Franklin who in
serted a provision forbidding recipro-
cally the issue of letters of maraue in
the treaty between the United States
and Prussia negotiated by him in 1885.
In fact, the last time this country in
dulged in privateering was in the war
of 1912 against England, at a time
when such was the accepted practice.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

and no seaports. Such vessels could
not be armed and equipped in any
neutral port without making the gov
eminent possessing the same liable In
heavy damages TO the British govern
ment. This, in fact, would fall under
the very principles laid down by the
now famous Alabama case. Nor could
such privateers secure coal in any port
of the world without violation OF the
principles of neutrality. Such Lction
would naturally be almost equivalent
to a declaration OF war.
Notwithstanding this. however, there
are persistent rumors of the equipment
of privateers by friends OF the Trans
vaal. The British naval officials them
selves seem to scent some sort OF dan
ger, for to-day their warships are pa
trolling the high seas and keeping an
eye on all suspicious looking craft.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

North and South take four tricks.
Trick Is. chose his four-carj Heart
suit, not because lie wanted to, but
because he felt he must. Probably tho
majority of the players would agree
with him. The weak poii.t IN opening
such a suit as this lies in the fact that
it contains no So 'ond card OF sufficient
size to form possible guard for the
inferior aonor which leads the suit.
This becomes of The utmost Importance
when partner holds no strength in the
suit, and presently returns it to you.
And such protection is far more neces-
sary in the case of a four-card suit
than in one of greater strength.
Trick 2-W. starts his short suit, as
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

s. has run straight into his strongest
holding, and the tenace OF Spades may
well be worth more to hold than to lead
away from.
Trick 5-E. follows his partners ini-
tiative, and plays for the cross-ruff, as
probably worth more than any other
game in sight.
After the game, and while S. in the
play given above was still under the
impression that his opening was expen-
sive, the hand was laid out and ex-
pressions of opinion asked as to the
best lead. One of the finest players in
the club said at once: Il would lead
trumps." Let us see how the deal un-
der discussion would have gone when
opened in that manner, with good play
on both sides.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

NAL development and no poor play
VIM. A. Potter in the Providence
Journal.
There are men, who, by a delicate
perception, make such good use OF
their cards that they win more with
good cards and loose less with bad
cards than do other players, -Drayson.
Butler says that "bumblepuppy is re-
sponsible for not little insanity" 1t
might be said with equal truth that
not little insanity is responsible for
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Opinion.
One should not risk the loss of sew
eral tricks by refusing to discard a
card which may win one trick. NJ.
Bouye.
A RUBBER OF WHIST.
No pen can describe how a man has to
When being at whist what experts call "a
duHer-
iheNt -, oiIe possessing Slhah shih HA lio
Is seized by three players to make up
their party.
Its vain
To explain
Ard resist might and main,
They urge him and coax him again
and again:
For sharper solicitors nowhere exist
Than those who recruit for rubber Of
whist.
Thaxy Ill, to'H
wonders,
And promise he shall not be blamed for
his blunders.
Ignoring reluctance, pooh-poohing re-
fusal,
They iatter, encourage, soft-soap and
bamboozle.
You'll win,
Sure as sin,
From the time you begin,
And cut us all out if you'll only cut
AT last he surrenders since no turn or
twist
Avails to get rid of that rubber of whist
All testify toward him that kindest of
feeling.
Until he arouses their wrath by misdeal-
ing;
He finds that they think it's no matter
for joking.
And learns what horrible crime is re-
voking.
It's queer
How austere
And sublimely severe,
Yet how very savage their faces ap-
pear.
The language they utter-half spoken, half
Missed
Seems rather bad form for a rubber Of
whist.
He lives out the game-but he hasn't got
through it
His partner proceeds to completely re-
view it,
Ron7barding his ears dn a iargon olltland-
ish,
With precepts of Pole and with canons of
Cavendish.
THE way
You should play
Was as clear as the day,
But you didn't play so, I'm sorry to
If you'd read a line of the teachings of
We'd surely have captured that rubber of
whist!
Convinced that he's thought a great fool,
or, at any rate,
An imbecie crank or some sort of de-
generate,
Our friend most resolvedly swears it's the
last time
Hen ever engage in that heart-breaking
pastime;
For oh!
High or low,
Your find nothing that's so
Provoking as playing a game you don't
know
I'd sooner encounter pugilist's fist
Than meet the hard rubs of a rubber of
Manley H. Pike, in Puck.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

ing about the street, and the animal got
after the merchant and run him a block
and gave him toss which landed him
on the veranda almost at my feet. OF
course l went to his assistance, think
ing him seriously hurt, but it turned
out that he had come out almost with
out bruise. I began to congratulate
him over his escape, but he interrupted
me with:
"Senor, I like it not. The bull should
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

W Ar.

remembered. too. that the Transvaal.
having accepted the suzerainty Of Great
Britain by the treaty of 1881, to-day flies
flag OF very dubious national status.
But even though the flag of the South
African Republic should be recognized
on the high seas there are still serious
practical difficulties in the way of the
issuance of letters of Amarque by a
government that has not naval bases
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03
A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.

One Of the most illustrious of the
many soldiers Of fortune who are taking
part in the present war in South Africa
is Lieutenant Colonel Schiel, who was
slightly wounded in the battle of
Elandslaagte: The record of this Ger
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03
WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WOR-
campaign

"You see, things are settled for you
in a way down in Porto Rico" said
/ the man with the twisted cigar. as the
talk turned on the new possessions. Il
was knocking about that country for
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

man colonel reads like chapter out Of
early history. Strange to say, he open
ed his career as a soldier in the British
ranks, in the Brunswick Black Hussars.
Poverty finally drove him to South
Africa, where he entered the Transvaal
State service. Here he rose to be Jou-
bert's adjutant general. and it is re-
puted that he is the officer chiefly re-
sponsible for the Beers present plan of
campaign.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

have rolled me into the ditch instead OF
tossing me up here. Never before was
I tossed upon this veranda, and l can't
make 1t outl"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

is and remains abolished. Other ma
lions were invited to give their assent
to this new principle on the condition
of the acceptance of all or none, and
most of those nations which are known
as Christian states did so. 1t was
pointed out that, the motive of all such
expeditions being plumber, the captain
and officers were often without profess
sional honor, and the crews more often
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03
RARE CHANCE.

Mrs Binks-Jhe paper says western
woman has a baby that has never cried
Mr. Binks-By Jovel | wonder how she'll
trade2-New York Weekly.