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The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1915-04-15


Worth Masters.
Godfrey Cass, A young man with
high ideals but possessed of a gull
ty conscience--Mendel Drake.
Dunstan Cass, The black sheep
of the Cass family-Roy Webb.
Bob Cass, His fathers favorite-
Chas. Grim.
Silas Mariner, A weaver. saved
from himself by a baby-Hugh
Melton.
DR.. Kimble, Who prefers COM
fort to practice-Rue Webb.
Mrs. Kimble, The Doctors good
natuted wife--Grace Teeter.
Mr., Crackenthorp, The jolly rec
tor-Davis Lewis.
Mrs. Crsckenthorp, The rector's
wife-Hazel Carter.
Solomon, The fiddler, a favorite
with the gentry-Arthur Hurt.
Mr.. Macy and Ben Winthrop,
Commoners, privileged to enjoy
the festivities of the Cass home
Dan Mayors and Harold Carr.
Dolly Winthrop A friend of ev-
eryone--Velma Mackey.
Aaron Winthrop, Dolly's son;
Eppie's sweetheart-Ralph Rob.
erts and Chas. Grim.
Bryce. A good Judge of horse
flesh-Harold Schroeder.
Mr.. Lammeter, A respectable
squire with two daughters-Roy
Webb.
Nancy Lammeter, Godfrey's pref
ty sweetheart-Mary Drake.
Priscilla, Practical and unsenti-
mental-Nell Hughes.
Mrs Osgood, Aunt of Priscilla
and Nancy-Alma Greenwood.
The Misses Gum, Stylish but un-
popular-Florence Stratton and
Marsie Tunnel.
Betty,A servant in the Cass farni-
ly-Grace Teeter.
Jane, A maid to Mrs. Godfrey
Cass-Alma Greenwood.
Eppie Godfrey S unowned daugh.
ter and Silas' foster child-Nadeen
Beam.
Act I.-Cass dining room. God
frey and Dunstan Cass show their
brotherly love. Godfrey resolves
to sell his horse to meet his debts
and save the secret OF his marriage
with a barmaid.
Act II.-Godfrey discovers that
his horse has been killed, that Dun
stan has disappeared and that his
, father is over anxious to see him
married to Nancy.
, Act III, Scene IA New Years
party in the Cass parlors in which
= festivities are interrupted by Silas
| Mariner who has found dead wo-
, man near his home and has rescued
| her child. Godfrey recognizes the
child as own. Scene 2.-Silas Mar
: ner's cottage where Godfrey finds
! his dead wife. His better nature
, is overcome by moral cowardice
, and he fails to own his child
, Scene 3.-Dawn in Manners cot,
: tage. Silas wakes to a new day
, and new life with a new found
, treasure. He resolves to do his
/ best for Eppie's sake.
Act IV.-The Cass home sixteen
years later. When God Almighty,
! wills it our secrets will be found
out" The world finds out that
Dunstan Cass stole Silas' money
and Godfrey tells Nancy of his life
long secret.
Act V.-Marners cottage n
which Godfrey endeavors to right
the wrongs of years but finds COM
plete reparation impossible and in
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u dealt and bid two hearts. probably
because he had Ga in houors TO score.
a led the king of clubs and B played the
ak, The ace OF clubs followed. and II
played the three, completinc an echo. In
this case the echo was entirely uuneces-
sary, as A could count tho hands II +
PLAYS up. As It IS. \ Is put 10 "A guess.
II the echo means that h has no NOR
clubs and can trump Us queen. the
game Is saved, as Il is certain TO lead
up to dummy's weakness. In spaies. so \
cad another club.
Instead OF b. IL ls the declarcr that
trumps. and draws three rounds of
trumps. remaining with the lead. while
dummy still has a trump left. The
hnessc in diamonds catches As king and
dummy gets two spade discard-. 80 that
only n spade makes for \ and y.
II Il plays the CLUBS up, as he should.
reServing the down and out echo cN-
cluslyely for cases In whicn he has orly
twO of the suit. \ will switch to the
spade SUIT rs tho only chance. ~ h,
knows his king Of diamonds Is gone.
Next week We shall have souicjh,n- %
say about the play Of the third hand III
the partner leads when the declaration
il 10 trulnps.
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SAYS GEN. HWANC

or tho republic So az to attribute such
failures to tho inCompetency of the
people to rulc themselves and to make
n monarchy appear a necessity.
1T is absurd and iuCoUSidcrato 70
assume that the Chinese are unit 40
enter the grand road Of human liberty.
equality ana justice because they are
so unfortunate as 20 have a treach-
erous usurper play traitor 70 all the
solemn VOWS of the sacred office that
was entrusted to him by the people.
Emperors and potentates have led
China down II gradual decline.
The Chinese are remarkably dem
ocratic In their customs and institute
tons. Foreign students and writer's
on China have attested to this. For
elen residents IN China acknowledge
that the Chinese are excellent law
abiding and easily governed people,
possessing the splendid qualities which
u to build up ropublicanism.
To-day Yuan poses before the
word as being unanimously elected by
the 400 millions of Chinese. and has
accepted the imperial throne-villain-
rus imposition ON his part II our
ildNiVh iIdu any Ithrpl W Ilst ds one
man against the Manchus We have
now tenfold reasons TO arise ana thrust
out thiA deadly Toe In our midst
In his American home Gen. IIwang
dispenses hospitality IN n charming
manncr to all visitors, Last summer
his house was constantly filled with
| guests. who included highly educated
Chinese, representing tie New China
in this country for postgraduate on
technical work. Some were there with
their wives and children, In fact, Tn,
baby of one young couple, whose
parents are studying at Teachers Col.
lege, Now York, and who spent the
entire summer at the Generals home
il named Whitman. In honor of Gov
Whitman, because the baby WAS born
on election day.
The Generals wife is IA pretty Chi,
uese woman, who dresses in the lates,
American fashion. 1t Is no uncommon
sight to see Gen, Ilwang push his it'll,
~two-year-old O in n go-cart alons
Idlcwild lane, near his home.
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good hearts and at once bid two no
trupps, which held the contract
In the opinion of the writer AS open
ing lead should have peer the diamond.
Instead OF that he led his fourth best
club. z won with the queen and ran OF
his six diamond tricks at once.
Dummy kept three hearts and three
clubs. a was dow to the two tops In
three suits. When Y was through with
the diamonds he led n club and A lost
both his queens, SO that Y went game at
no trumps. A should have deliberately
sacrificed one of his queens, but he did
not know Y had nc more clubs.
n should have bid no trump In the
first place and A should have led the
King of clubs TO have a look, as nc held
three honors, IL he did not like to lead
the short diamond suit and wait for his
hand to be led into. The one diamond
bid gives no idea of the strength OF rs
hand, or A might have doubled the no
trumper. asking 70 for his best suit. and
Il would nave bid the spades.
If A doubles the diamond b will bid
the spades. no matter what Y does. as b
would be under no misapprehension az
TO the meaning of the double. Good
players never double a one trick bid
except to ask the partner to do some
thing better.
II WouIu nave gone game In SPACES
very likely. Some good players who
we're given the hand led two rounds Of
diamonds and then led the low heart to
US declaration. hoping to Brighten cut
the ace. but b passed II up to The jack.
so as to lead the trump for the fine $50.
After that the Jack of clubs was the only
trick for Y and Y.
This Is q very interesting hand ard
one OF the best illustrations Imaginable
of the modern theory of doubling q sui,
when the player holds a no trumper out
Side that suit.
The last match at the Knickerbocker
brought out some Of the most remark-
able hands ever played at duplicate In a
single sitting. There were no minor
scores y and S and no plus scores l. and
W, vet the difference between top and
bottom on either side was ABOUT $500
points on thirty deals.
as season tray No. 10 was the ink.
THIS yea it Ia No. 10. Here is what
went round the room in this board last
week, December 10. The dealer sat
west.
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IHlNG quietly IN one of the sub
urbs of Philadelphia IL Gen.
- Hwang-HslnR, who helped sun
Yat-seD TO organize the revolution in
China and for whose capture Yuan
Shih-k'ai Is said to have offered to pay
500. 600. From his home go many
cipher dispatches to China, and many
are received by him. for he keeps in
close touch with Chinese affairs. Tic
has all along declared that Yuan was
endeavoring to make himself EN-
peror. After the crown had been Of
fered to Yuan Gen. Hwang sent this
message to United States Minister
Paul S. Reinsch In Pekin:
YUAN Shih-k'al, using farcical cleo
tons, created himself monarch, which
our Chinese people will oppose to the
bitter end, We crave that your Excel
!ency may give your moral support &c
our republic for the peace of the
Orient. Please transmit my cable ia
all other embassies in Pekin."
The General does not speak Eng
fish, but through an interpreter he
said to a SUN reporter:
In reestablishing the monarchy
Yuan has lone II to establish a dynasty
that Is all his own, a dynasty
for his children and his children's chill
dren. Yuan demonstrates that he has
been IA cunning hypocrite. and as ht
thinks his ambitions now would no
make trouble. he doffs his mask ant
serenely awaits a propitious time fol
his coronation.
"That Yuan Shih-k'ai Is the great
est Chinese Of our time It Is no
worth while to dispute, as he has beer
the President of the Chinese Repub'
lie. but 1t was the democratic repre-
sentative whom he Is now hunting
down that voluntarily resigned in hi
favor and placed him In power. Thu
Chinese Republic has been a farce, 1
Is asserted: but who has stsered Thu
ship Of state through failure n farce
| and been responsible for the failure"
YUAN has by systematic intrigue
and t~rcachery, Intentionally and sin
| fully, brought about 81 ths fsAurcs
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OLD R K CANNON BALLS

1.-TWO stone cannon balls, relies 10
a Turkish war of three and a
half centuries ago, have ir,,
been presented to the museum ~ H..
bart College, at Geneva, y. y, Thev
are ten inches in diameter and weigh
twenty pounds each. Such missile,
were used as late as 1897 10y tho Turk
The year 1871 found Turkey at w,r
| with the Kingdom OF Cyprus. ono 81
| the many Christian States that sroy
| out Of the Crusadcs. The city OF Fan
| augusta was an important stronghold II
' the enemy, and against 1t the Turf,
brought all their power. Against H..
walls wete trained the Turkish cannon
These cannon threw stone bal,
The p~rojectiles varied in wc.p
from a few pounds To sis or seven hun.
d~rcdweight. They contrast strangely
with the shells used by he Germa,
krupp guns thai now defend the Iar.
dane,les and Con stantlnople against t,e
Allies. or the still larger shells fired a.
the Ottoman for 3 By the Queen Elm
beth's Is inch guns. Though 81,
stono balls We're the most cffec'iy
projectiles OF that time, II took -
Turks nearly a year 10 reduce F3ma
gusta. and then the garrison va,
starved out rather than d~cmorail1cd hy
the ordnance Of the l,siacers.
Yet crude as these stone cannon IA ,
seem now. the Turks riide themstlv,
feared In the fifteenth and siAteeu,n
centuries by the size and destructh.
power of their artillery. which had thu,
a reputation something ike that " ,hs
German siege mortars or tho french
10 millimetre field guns Of S-day,
Turkish cannoneers made the create.
demonstration Of artillery work in the
fifteenth century in 1853 at theSiege y
Constanttnople. where they fired stone
shot from larger picces than had bee
seen In Europe.
These guns were mostly Of vrous'
iron. made in two pieces and scrcwoi
together. one piece, the barrel +,
which the stone was rammed. had A 10
inch bore. The rear piece, or powder
chamber, was 10 inches In diame,e.
The gun weighed 10 IONS ana was -
the type since called lombard. Ne0als.
used almost entirely in Siege opera.
tons and from q fixed position.
Some OF those Guns were still IN pI.'r
aud were used in the defence Of r-r.
stantinople IN 1903 Sol years later
against a british fleet. y 400 p.r
stone shot from II of them ,.rri,.
away the mainmaSt of Admiral 80 :
I. D~uCkworth'S ntg~iup and h ri nr.
wounded sixty men. Vt the aim >.,l.
n COO pound shot became ouu,i5
eight feet in the ground Il had 'mr
e!led more than II milo. These " ...rs
were the heavier proj"ctiies. I'll,
erage weight of the stone ,iuu,r o.
q the early aritllcrist> Nao 500 ir !.
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AIKEN.

AnbEN. :. G.. Dec, eS.,-The unusually
large early season throng that has ar
rived here during the past fortnight has
been spending the holiday seasn, rather
quietly out Of doors. A few Informal
teas II lunrhcons In the cottage colony
n at WilicoN's has brought together
several congeniai assemblagcs. To-mor-
row afternoon Mr.. II Mrs. Thomas
Hitchcock and Miss Celestine Eustis will
be at home to the cottagers ut villa Nor
l,cpos.
The New Highland Park Hotel opened
on Thursday for It's second sea son, and
advance reservations are unusually
heavy and augur u good ind long sea.
son,
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Bowers, Mr.. and
Airs, Arthur Coppell. Mr., and Mira
Charles McCutchcn, Alexander Gilbert
Mrs, Joel Ellis Fisher. Miss Vieva Fisher
pr. and Mrs. T., l. Campbell, Mr.. and
Mrs. j, Romans PIrdee are some of those
who will return tins winter to spend the
season AT the New Highland Park Hotel
which is this year under tho ma
msAt of j. !. Sweeney. for many year.
identified with tho management Of thu
Breakers Hotel al Palm Beach, Fla.
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ron THE BEGIN MRS.

Continu!nc the little lesson that Was
started last week for til. D,ueii' al
! those who ARE just aking up bridge. W.
| come 10 the question of the play ut the
third hand in his answer. or echo, 10
his partners .uitlal leads of winning
cards. Three simple rules govern this
part of the game
/. Whcl There is a trump sHt, snow
whether nr not Won can run III" thlfa
round of your partners sun.
. When there are no trumps, snow
how many high cards yol haN" IN your
, partners suit
.. Never make a play hat has a
douplc meaning,
These three rules apply only 10 cases
I'm which tn. third hand makes no ot-
;.npt 10 win the trick. his duty being
confined entirely 10 following suit.
When there IL a trump declaration
| against YOU there are two things TO &c
, kept constantly IN view. First, to make
! your winning cards, aces and kings .spe-
clally. before tho drclarcr d.s"ards his
losing cards IN those suits y gets
ready 20 ruup. Second. 70 make tricks
with your small truInps before the de-
! clarc! gets into the lead and pulls them.
Following out these two principles
| your mariner leads out his winning cards
! al once and in such IL manner as to
show YOU what lac can do. Your PLAY
is TO show whether or rot you can
trump mis- snail cards when his high
| ones arc gone.
The rule for the play OF the third
! hand Is called tho down aud out echo
and Is very easily remembered. II yuu
, have only two small cards OF the suit
| play the higher first. When the lower
| card falls your partner Will recognize
| that you are down and out and willing
to trump.
But with three or more. always play
| the lowest, 10 matter what they are. Let
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THIRD HAND PLAY
AT ROYAL AUCTION
Three Simple Rules for the
Guidance of the Be-
ginner.
DEFINITION OF .BOOK"

The committee OIL laws mae lately
made tho following decision AZ to the
definition of the term book" as applied
to auction bridge and has sent It to THE
SUN for publication:
"D. @. s. put these three questions
on the subject: I. Regardless OF what
the contract may I've Is the declaicr's
book always the first six tricks won
by his side? .. L. it not equally proper
To refer TO the number Of tricks re-
quircd by tho contract As his book
3. Does the term book ever apply to
anything else but tho declarers tricks?
Following Is tins decision OF the
committee:
THE term hook Is IL relic OF the
game Of whist--whicli all whist pla! ers
are apt to use In playing auction--hav
ing ms It's meaning six tricks. Booking
the tricks. tina Is, placing the first six
together. IL possibly til" easiest method
for the declarer to mark whether or not
he Is fulfilling his contract. The oppo-
nents Of the declarer, however. AZ a rule
consider their 'book to be the number
Of tricks which. II they took no more
would mako the declarer exactly fulnl
his contract.
Technically the term book may not
! be considered a part Of auction. but
I III " u u vi W. - ''N'H
Gated. MILTON {, WORK,
chairman Commits, ~ Laws"
This decision would seem 10 throw out
| the term altogether as foreign to the
game Of auction. II Is difficult TO see
| why this should be Tor II the term Is
used In It's proper sense. The decision
! falls to give any definition, but con
tents itself with stating tho general
manner OF use, in which It is undoubt'
cdly correct.
with due respect 10 the COMMITTEES
THE Sun would suggest that there is nc
I reason why the term should not be ap.
| piled and preserved In tho game OF anc-
| ton " its correct definition Is clearly
| understood. This definition always has
been. broadly speaking, 'the tricks that
do not count"
The declaration u always to make g
| certain number of tricks over the first
six. For the declarer the first SIX dc
not count and they are therefore his
book. On the other hand. the opponents
bunch the tricks that do not count any
thing for them. That IL their book
All over these are worth SO or more
apiece.
Tho fact that the number OF tricks
in the declarer's book Is invariably SIX
Will, In the opponents II may he any
number, does not alter the correctres'
OF the definition. In the old whist days
the book was the SAME for either sidc
as neither could count anything oNcep'
In excess Of the first sin, but It meant the
came him for both sides. the tricks
that d. not count.
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SHOT TO SEE NIECE JUMP.
Ballot Went Through Her Les
Uncle Arrested.

BLACK JACK. H., Dec. 25.-Henry
Oakes was arrested after he Ia alleged
to have shot hls twelve year-old niece.
Florence Thompson, throush tho leg "to
see her jump"
The shooting IS the elimination Of a
reign OF terror among children. 1t is
charged that Oakes's hobby was tn AXE
pot shoe Mt passerhy. both adults
and children.
Children passing Oakes's house on the
way To the Black Jack school we're
fired on repeatedly until they were
forced to max a detour 10 reach their
destination, they told their parents.
Adult pedestrians also complained of
being fired on.
II just shot at their feet to make them
jumI,'' was the only explanation Cakes
would give. says sheriff Jenkin jenkins
of Edwardsville, who arrested him and
lodged MIN in the Edwardsville Jail.
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folders and enclosed in envelopes
each envelope containing six leaflets.
The whole series can thus be sent by
mail to the trench or leaflets can be
enclosed IN letters all free Of charges.
The cost of the envelope containing six
selections is one penny g cents). This
first edition has appeared in envelopes
of three forms.
The labor Of choosing suitable pas
sages must have been great and we
turn with interest to see which Sir
Walter Raleigh. so great an authority
on English literature, selected. ! draw
at randum several of tlese broadsheets
and find represented verse and prose.
which have taken their place among
the best writings in the English
language - Shakespeare, Dickens.
Lamb. Scott. Tennyson, Matthew Ar
mold. Cervantes, Bunyan, Boccaccio,
Stevenson, the Bible and SO through a
long list of familiar writer's.
With Sir Walter as guide In a library
Of such authors, II may be sure OF
being led directly to the gems of Eng
lisli literature. which Is Indeed what
these broadsheets represent. IL any
comment IL suitable 1t might he sug-
gested that extracts from the Ency-
clopsadia Britannica on subjects of
mechanical and general interest would
appeal to the type o. mind which Is
not always interested In purely liter
airy products.
Volume and page are not given on
these leaflets, so that It is not possible
for the reader at home TO turn d.
rectly 70 the original, and space does
not allow Of rcprinting here the
broadsheets. Americans. however,
will DO Interested to find. among the
extracts. n from Lincoin's Inaugural
Address Of March, 1865, and this ]
venture TO quote in part. In this now
famous address. which must have
been read by the English sailor ana
soldier with especial interest as being
peculiark applicable TO h present
conflict. Lincoln, speaking of the
combatants. says:
Each looked for an easier triumph
and a result less fundamental and
astounding. Both read the same Bib
and pray to the same God and each
invokes His aid against the other. II
may seem strange that any mei'
should dare to ask Il just Gods MS
s~istance In wrinsing their bread from
the sweat of other mems faces. but
let us Judge not, that we be not
judged. Tho prayers Of both could
not be answered-that OF neither has
been answered fully.
THE Almighty has his own pur-
poses. Woe unto the world because
of offences. for Il must needs he ttat
off come, but woe 10 that mar
BY whom the offence cometh' . 9
With malice toward none. with charity
for all. with tirmness IN tn. right az
God gives as to see the right. let as
strive on to finish the work VIC are in
10 bind up the nations wounds. to
| care for him who shall have borne
the battle. and for his widow, and his
orphan-to do all which may achieve
and cherish Il just and lasting peace
among ourselves, and with all ma
| tons"
The soldier and the sailor are. OF
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AS AN AID TO THE SHY.

- 4 81 think back said Aunt
~ Martha. II wonder how We
can yer get along without
the monograph.
I'VE would talk FOR a time 10 the
shy young man caller about the
weather, and then we would discuss
the coming church picnic and hope
We would have good weather for that.
but that about used up our topics Of
conversation.
ct helped "A little for me 70 play
W or three pieces on our good. old
square piano. but when | swung
around on the piano ~stool-there were
not 50 many piano benches then-we
would come 10 another silent spell;
and then pretty soon tho shy young
man would say:
well. | guess III have TO be going
now
"But now" went on Aunt Martha,
why, now when the conversation
lacs you have the p~honograph.
".'Oh, lave you heard thar you
say TO the shy young gentleman. and
then you put on the disk and crank
the machine.
Prom that on there Is no trouble
In the course OF time. when the young
man rises To go. you hear not. Well
III have to he going now but this:
"'Aly, I didn't know It was 30 late;
spoken with animation. He has had a
pleasant evening.
Really. Il seems TO me that TO SHY
young people the photograph is moth.
ing less than n blessing, don't know
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Correct solutions from The ,oliowing:
II. Irving. T. u. Wallis. f. Beebc,
Henry Mullins, w. a. iiulkley. Thomas
i. WcllsS.iu, sidney Martin, II. a,
Gardiner, Il. NJ. s, Hugo Bilgram. A.
lugrahani. Charles Forrest, Howard
Mowbry, samuel w. Balcll. w. q Berry,
William i. Wynan, G. n. Torl-ss. II, r,
Maxwell. ]. :. SOncrs, Felix Loudbury,
r, W. Pettingill, l.. A. :, Joseph S.
Murphy, Charles Sedgvick. Howard c,
Warren, University Club. Washington,
W. j.. H., b. p. Crawford. W. p. W.
Chas. -. S%huldhatn, Quarter Century
Society, Milton Graham. Thomas L.
Waters, Achilles II, Kohn and Thomas
Green. One solver took II pieces to dc
the job.