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New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

eleven rule and its uses, this uni
formity is unnecessary, and it is
safer to lead the smallest of the suit,
regardless of number.
The solution of last weeks prob
lem, No. "a, in which Y and Z want
ed all seven tricks, with hearts for
trumps, is as follows:
z leads the trump and then the
high diamond, upon which his part
ner, Y, plays the ten. The next lead
is club, which Y trumps and leads
trump, Z discarding a spade Now,
when Y leads the spade jack, both
and A must get down to two cards.
If on the trump lead one has kept
the club the other must have dis
carded spade or a diamond If A
has let go a diamond both rs are
good, as Y's five can be overtaken
if B plays the six. No interchange
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
AUCTION BRIDGE

cuestion-A. the dealer. holds six
diamonds to the ace, jack, king, queen
of clubs, three small spades and two
small hearts On this he bids one
diamond, Y, second hand, one heart,
passes and z says two diamonds.
which A passed, and went two, no.
trpmps. AS we are all playing the
clpb or diamond convention, should not
A. the dealer. have bid the two dia-
msnds in the first place? On the play
Y was set three tricks at no-trump,
although z. who bid the two diamonds,
had six to three honors and the king
Of spades.-L. J. C.
s4nswer-Those w-o use the two club
or@diamond bid as an invitation TO
the partner to so no-trump usually do
80 on a solid suit, which is not true of
either of these hands. rs bid, with
the diamond strength banked on his
left, is very dangerous.
Question-We have an argument as
to sthe proper opening bid for the
dealer on this hand, no score: Ace
jack, small in hearts, small club; ace
small in diamonds, seven spades to the
king, ten, nine.-W. C. W.
Answer-Ths hand belongs to the
lass of long weak major suits that are,
7everthcless, too strong to pass, and
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

in value to each other, such as ace
king, king-queen, queen-jack. The
most valuable openings are from
suits headed by both ace and king,
because they not only win tricks but
hold the lead until one gets a look
at the dummy, and also give the
partner chance to say what he
thinks about going on with that suit.
AS the opening must be one of six
cards, it should not be difficult
matter to learn the combinations
from which each of these is led. If
the following table of leads is
studied at leisure, with the actual
cards, it should be mastered in about
twenty minutes.
The following rules apply chiefly
to the leads against trump declara-
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

higher honor in the hand, and the
queen is accompanied by the jack
and ten or jack and nine.
The jack is led from jack ten and
others, with no higher card in the
suit. 1t is bad policy to lead a jack
without the ten behind it, even from
a short suit.
The ten is led from one combina-
ton only, king -jack-ten and others.
1t is not good opening, but there
may be none better. If the suit Sc
lected for the opening lead contains
none Of these high-card combina-
tions, from which one of the five
honors would be led, the usual open
ing is the fourth best of the suit,
counting from the top, such as the 6
from X 8 2, but, unless the part
ner thoroughly understands the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
htning Begins to Ziszag Mrs. Cove Gets Her Camera
Movie Machines Are Too Slow to
Make Films Of Lightning, but She
Has Devised Substitute

acquainted with lightning ever to
abandon her plan Of having it re-
produced on the screen. AS produc-
ton editor of a moving picture COM
pany, which has successfully pictur-
lied all forms of educational and
nature studies on the screen, Mrs.
Cove was we'll versed in the me-
chanics Of movie photography. Hav-
ing obtained the aid of the United
States Weather Bureau, the Do
minion Astronomical Observatory at
Ottawa and the Mount Wilson Solar
Observatory at Pasadena, in the
form Of advice and typical lightning
photographs, she called to her assist
anceJ. r. McCrory, an artist, who has
made study of the technical end of
difficult jobs in the making Of NOV
ing pictures. They labored for
weeks. The first result was a sue
cess, but not in the way expected.
This is the way Mrs. Cove describes
it:
Imagine our excitement when,
after weeks of labor, we had our
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

lions, there being some notifications
when playing against no-trumpers,
which we shall come to later.
The king should always be led
when accompanied by the card next
in value in the same suit; ace or
queen, or both. That is, lead the
king from A K and others, X @ and
others, or A K Q and others, re-
gardless Of number.
The ace is led from suits of five
or more or from three honors, none
of which is the king~If the king were
with the ace it would be king lead.
This makes the ace the proper open
ing from A Q J, "A @ 10 or A j 10,
or any five-card suit headed by the
ace, without the king 1t is not con-
sidered good policy to lead the ace
from A Q and only two small cards.
The queen is led when there is nc
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Copyright, 1920, Neao York Tribune Inc)
Translated by William L. Mcpherson

the soldiers arm with his gnarled
fingers.
II had only him, you understand.
All the others died off But | had
him, and that was enough. ! haven't
him any longer. When l go we shall
all be gone
Feverishly he took a few steps
and then came back.
"You don't believe that | have
been working and economizing these
twenty years for my own benefit
1t was for him. And 1 didn't regret
it when he grew up and l saw what
he was. The acres which | added
to the other acres, to whom were
they to descend except to him? And
the house which | had rebuilt lust
before the war-it was for him.
And when l did without something
which l wanted or needed, it was
for him. When l broke my back
working from morning to evening
it was for him. When | sowed, it
was. for him. When l reaped, it
was for him. Now all is over. I'm
left here alone. All l have done
of what use is it? What use am |
to myself? Will you tell me that?
I have nothing. to do but to die.
There is nothing elsew
He let himself sink into his seat.
"You mustn't say that" mur-
INJURED the soldier. There are
things to be, done"
After long silence the old man
raised his head.
Tell me how it happened"
1T happened the way things like
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

that you have put yourself out tc
come here?'
Il have no home. (The soldier
shrugged his shoulders.) l have no
one. l was an orphan asylum boy
They called me Dufour, from the
street in which | was found. Nv
home--it is the first lodging 1 come
across. In Paris l work in the
Faubourg st. Antoine as carpenter
My comrades are all scattered here
and there, wherever there is fight
ing. So, you understand, l haven't
given up anything in order to come
here"
Pere Martel looked at him.
Then, you have nothing in the
world?"
An indefinable expression passed
over the soldiers face. He answered
question somewhat different from,
the one which the old man had asked
~ have my own skin to Defend
he said simply. "And then that
which we all defend-that which be-
longs to every one, even to those who
have nothing"
There was another silence.
All that l have done-all that |
have done," mumbled the old man
"All that-it can't be that it is lost
Since he is no longer here, it will be
for the others-it will be for every.
body. 1t must be of use. Things
must go on. There is need of that.
We must say that there is, my boy?
We must say so in order to have
courage. But it is hard. 1t is hard
can't believe it," he cried suddenly
and began to sob.
You must keep busy" said Du.
four. "You must have something to
do. This is the time for autumn
seeding"-
That's true And then it is time
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Auction Bridge

ger of the dealers side going game
on their contract.
The first thing for the player to
study is how to play his cards so as
to get the most out of them when op-
posed to the contract, because, un-
less one knows what can be got out
Of certain cards, one cannot Judge
whether game can be saved or not.
The player who wants the contract
knows what his cards will probably
produce in play. The partners who
fail to get the contract or make no
effort to get it must base their de-
fense On the best methods of win
ming tricks with the cards they hold.
This brings US to the question of
leads, in which many persons are
sadly deficient.
If the player on the right gets
the contract there are four situa-
tions, in one of which the original or
opening lead must be made.
l. When neither the leader nor his
partner has made a bid.
2. When the leader has made a
bid and his partner has not.
3. When the partner has made a
bid and the leader has not.
4. When both have made a bid
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

kles of his furrowed face. But his
little eyes sparkled and his mouth
was firm and energetic.
For a moment the two gazed at
each other.
"Well, what is it," the older man
asked.
II come from the 'front.'" the SOL
dier began-"from the front, where
your grandson is"
"Well?" said the farmer, his ex-
preston changing.
pierre Martel-he's your grand
son, isn't he?"
"Well?" the old man exclaimed
for the second time. His voice was
hoarser now and his neck twitched
convulsively.
Il see that you don't know. Some
thing has happened to him."
He isn't He isn't'-'?
The old man was painting. The
soldier wanted to protest and tc
soften the news. But he read in the
others eyes that that was useless
80 he merely bowed his head.
There was a silence, broken only
by deep groan. The old farmers
face was twisted into a helpless
grlmace. He recoiled a couple of
steps, seemed about to collapse, and
then, all of a sudden, rushed into
the house.
The soldier followed and found
him In the big kitchen, seated beside
table, motionless, his eyes fixed
on vacuity.
Some minutes passed. A clock
on the wall licked monotonously
Finally the soldier ventured to put
his hand on Pere Martel's shoulder
we must be reasonable" he
stammered. 1--WE must be brave"
Il had only him." whispered the
old man.
He Strengthened up and grasped
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

to watch the soils that need drain
ing, and to harvest the vegetables.
But how do you know about seeding
time?' he asked, surprised at the
others suggestion
He told me-" Dufour explained
He thought only of that-of farm
ing and of the soil. He was always
worrying about how things were
going here and wondering if you
could get through with everything.
He loved it. He loved the soil as
| love it, Pere Martel groaned.
And the soil-it mustn't suffer
There would be nothing more then.
Everything would be finished. Thai
cannot be. That cannot be. The
soil, you see, the soil"-
He repeated the word again and
again, as if to bring home to him
self what it meant to him and to
draw from it the force with which
to combat his despair.
The clock on the wall struck the
hour.
Il must GO"
The soldier got up.
Il shall come back 70 see you
afterward, if | am still alive. But
now | must hurry off. It's near my
train time | am sorry TO leave you,
but l must"
Where are you going?" asked
Pere Martel.
The soldier looked at him IN sur
prise
you know very well-to the
front, am going back TO fight
Il, too"
The old man got on his feet.
mot like you, my boy. | can't do
that. But I'm going to keep OF
growing what the others must eat.
And as the soldier returned 20 the
war the old man returned TO hi
fields.
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that happen at the front. 1t was a
shell. There were six of US in a
group. Martel and one other were
killed outright. Three others were
wounded. hadn't a scratch. 1t
was just before we were going to
be relieved"
He paused and began again.
eve were comrades, Martel and
I. We talked together. He spoke to
me about you and about farming and
the soil. He loved the soil. And he
made me promise to tell you if any
thing happened to him. And to
bring you his effects when ] could.
So, as the accident happened only
some days ago and knew that
was going to get a furlough, I came
myself instead of writing. I thought
that perhaps you had already heard.
Here are his effects" the soldier
added, putting the little black pack
age on the table.
Pere Martel laid his hand on the
package, but didn't open it.
81 thank you, in spite of the suf-
fering you have caused me-" he said
slowly. HE knew how to choose
his friends-my boy did I thank
you with all my heart
"You don't need to. l promised
him and promise like that must be
kept"
The old man struggled to control
himself.
"And your own home?' he said.
"Will you have time to go there, now
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

"HE soldier had stopped in the
village and asked his way
They pointed out to him the
little farm near the crossroads, 500
meters further on.
He started off again with his
swinging step, both hands in his
pockets and small black package
under one arm. But as he drew near
his destination his pace slackef4ed
and his face was clouded with en-
barrassment
Reaching the farm, he halted, had
last spasm of hesitation and swore
between his teeth.
There's nothing else to do.
must go through with it,"
Tossing away the stump of his
cigarette, he pushed open the door
of the farmyard.
The yard was big and we'll kept
At the far end was the house-that
of wellto-do peasant To the left
were shed and a we'll. To the right
were the pigsty and the chicken
pens.
An old man stood on a ladder
mending the straw roof of the
chicken house. He turned around
and saw the soldier.
What do you want?" he called.
'ls that you, NJ Martel?" the SOL
der asked politely. He spoke with
a slight Partisan accent.
YES answered the old man
What do you want with me?"
II have something to tell YOU"
The old peasant climbed down.
He was in his shirt sleeves and
stopped at the foot of the ladder to
put on the sabots which he had left
there. A cloth cap was pulled low
over his gray head. Stiff white
hairs stood out from the many wrn-
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24


answer to calls made by the deal
er. or his partner, it will be nee
essary to consider what they>can do
with their cards, because it is upon
the trick-taking power of the cards
that all bidding is based.
The ruling principle in all games
iss first. to save them, and then to
try to win them The first consider
alton of the dealers opponents,
therefore, should be whether or not
they can surely save the game
against the proposed contract, and
then whether or not they can win it
if they get the contract themselves.
The mistake made by so many play
ers is in trying to get contract
that holds out little or no promise of
game and might lead to serious loss
WHEN there is not the slightest dan
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Instead Of Trembling, Woman Expert
; Finds Electrical Storm Fasci-
.nating and Enjoyable

ming probably was engendered by
conditions particularly favorable to
it's study. Born on a plantation IN
Virginia and brought up on the
boundless prairies west of the Mis-
sissippi, she early learned to wit
ness without fear the great streaks
of lightning which there flashed
from horizon to horizon without ap-
parently hitting anything. The
lines of Joaquin Miller especially ap-
pealed to her:
II saw the lightning's cleaning rod
Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God"
Not until her removal to New
York, where people are wont to be-
come seized with kind of panic by
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Westchester County, she was hap
piest when the thunder rolled the
loudest and when the lightning
cleaned the brightest. The blacker
the night the more vivid the streaks.
Forked, chain, sheet, globular or just
plain up and down lightning were
all one to her, strolling as she did
beneath the storm-torn heavens not
unlike feminine Lear, or, perhaps,
as she herself whimsically adds, a
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

had happened. Instead Of reproduc
ing lightning as it actually occnrs
we found that through d mistake :,
the technical work we had revers.d
Natures order. The lightning th..
we beheld on the screen behaved ;r
post unlightning-like manner. T.
leaped out Of the ground, zigzarved
around bit, as if uncertain vker.
to go, wabbled over toward a snnueb
tower, knocked off a piece Of the n,
cornice, ricochetted TO a telegram
pole, then shot up into a cloud where
after many curious wriggle, it dis.
sipated itself ingloriously in sheet
lightning. 1t was great suggestion
to the heavenly authorities, but !.
wasn't according to Hoyle. ANY one
who has seen an ordinary movie
reversed so that the people wall
backward and everything appear.
to be dissolving into It's origin has
a proper idea of our first production
of lightning"
Camera Too Slow
However, success was in sight. Tn.
problem which confronted Mrs. Cove
and Mr.. McCrory was that the NOV.
ing picture camera worked only
about one-tenth as fast as lightning
An ordinary fash of lightning ap-
pears and vanishes in one -eight-hu
dredth of second, whereas very
fast camera would require at least
one-eightieth of a second to get the
impression.
Realizing that the moving picture
machine had no chance with storm
in contest for speed, Mrs. Cove, so
to speak, took the storm into her
studio and there leisurely worked
out the problem. She gathered to-
gether her most typical Photographic
productions Of lightning. Each pho
tograph was subjected to minute
study. Finally she devised scheme
whereby the lightning streaks were
to be rephotographed in sections. ],
was a slow process. At first only a
small section of the lightning in the
still photograph was exposed to the
moving picture machine, and then
between each turn of the movie crank
little more was exposed until the
whole picture had been transferred
to the long tapelike film. All sorts
of obstacles were encountered. but
finally the lightning came out in all
tits glory.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
PINOCHLE

Question-Playing two-hand A is 900.
920; when A wins a trick, melds 40
trumps and calls out. 1t is B's conten-
ton that he must win another trick to
make the meld good. C. McC.
Answer-1t is only in three or four
hand pinochle, or auction, that this is
necessary. as all melds are made at
once, and winning Gny trick entities the
player to score them all. In two-hand
no melds are made until after a trick
is won, and then only one meld at
u time. The winning of the trick en-
titles the player TO score both trick and
meld at once
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

any nearby crash from the sky, did
she learn the sterner meaning con-
veyed in Tennyson's lines:
OTIS the flash that murders; the
poor thunder
Never harm'd head"
Dangerous or otherwise, Mrs.
Cove pursued her study Of lightning
from a Photographic standpoint with
zest. Given an open space during
a storm on the Palisades or up in
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
MRS. M A RG UERITE
1'A PANNILL COVE, &C.
pert on atmospheric elec-
tracaty

modern Ajax defying the lightning
with camera.
The real purpose of all of Mrs.
Gove's efforts was eventually to re-
produce lightning on the moving
picture screen. 1t never had been
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
School for Card Players

should bid one spade. Some persons bid
two or three on such hands, as an indi
cation that they are good for nothing
unless spades arc trumps; but this is
not true in this case, and the dealer is
certainly not afraid of hearts.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
RUM

Question-In playing two-hand can a
player having four of kind laid out
borrow one of the four to complete a
run of three in a suit IS. T. l..
Answer-This borrowing is allowed
only in the parent game, coon-can.
In rum, combinations once shown must
remain
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

done. Experts said it never could
be done. They said lightning was
too fast for the camera, nor could
the movie man without any advance
knowledge of just where a flash Was
to appear be able to point his ma
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

Hearts are trumps and 2 leads.
Y and Z want four tricks. How do
they get them? Solution next week
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

chine in the right direction. That
kind of argument was not accept
able to Mrs. Cove. Anything that
nature displays, she retorted, the
moving picture camera can photo
graph. She had become too we'll
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
LIGHTNING would seem to
be an element too violent
4 and vitriolic to be attractive

al
be an element too violent
IL and vitriolic to be attractive
to women, yet if you ever
sees real flash.of lightning pictured
in the movies you may know that
woman's ingenuity made it possible.
Mfs. Marguerite Pannill Cove, per-
haps the only woman expert on at
mospheric electricity in this country.
has not only scientifically studied
lightning photography, by which she
has obtained many weird effects
such as church steeples silhouetted
against the midnight sky, forest
scenes lit up by natures own flash
lights, trains caught moving through
the blackness of night and the
heavens themselves crisscrossed as
by rivers of fre--but, after months
CT experimenting, she has devised
means by which the lightnlng's lurld
and vivid beauty has been repro
duced on the movie screen.
- Made a Record of 1t
Benjamin Franklin, with his keen
utilitarian eye, perceived that light
ming and electricity were identical.
But it remained for woman to see
the possibilities Of lightning as a
form of amusement. Franklin
brought electric currents down from
the clouds by means of kite string,
bat he had no way Of bottling it up
or preserving it for future genera
tibns. Mrs. Cove has found a
nethod Of procuring a permanent
record of the movement of the swift
est of all natures phenomena.
s"Far from appearing merely as an
agent of destruction, lightning has
always been to me fascinating
spectacle," said Mrs. Cove, in ex-
planning her interest in the subject.
Its suddcnness, its evanescence, the
uncertainty of its place of appear
ahce and the magical and unexpected
effects which it has on scenery is a
source of thrilling surprise and con-
1inual wonder. Perhaps in great
city where we are taught to be
timorous of thunder and lightning,
always sure that the last crash has
hit some building around the corner
and expectant that the next will
bring our own home down on our
heads, we are not as appreciative of
natures wonder as are people who
live in the country"
MRS. Gove's. penchant for light
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
By R. F. oster
Author of Foster on Auction, Auc-
tion Made Easy, Fosters
Complete Hoyle, etc.

::::: :;: :; 3: ::;: "a; ; ;:::;:;: T. i; :
er they are original or in
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

first film developed and ready for
showing. We sat in the projection
room with throbbing hearts and gave
the signal for the operator to turn
on the lightning. Our chagrin was
beyond measure when we saw what
New-York tribune., 1920-10-24

DHOTOGRAPHING light
ming is q difficult task.
All the pictures IN this group
were taken By Mrs. Gore
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-04-01
DARLINGTON

Freda Smith visited her brother at
Mineral Point the first of the week.
Thomas Dodge of Shullsburg visited
in Darlington Wednesday.
Mrs. A. V. Morrow is visiting with
her son in Milwaukee this week.
Chas. Sullivan went back to his
position in GAINESVILLE.
Fred Lumberger and his daughter.
Marie, left for New Glarus Wednesday
Mrs. Sam Ryan and children left for
st. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday.
Miss Gertrude Finley accepted a
position with the Iowa County Demo
crat in Mineral Point.
Merle Putnam is working in Argyle
this week.
The Stephenson crew are in Fayette
putting in lighting plant.
Albert Parson of Darlington is in
South Dakota on business.
Mrs. James is in Milwaukee and
Chicago this week.
Roy Putnam is home from Kenosha
visiting his parents.