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New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
AUCTION BRIDGE
T is good general working rule
in bidding at auction that one

T is a good general working rule
in bidding at auction that one
should not be deferred from MAX
ing any declaration, either on ones
own cards or as an assist, when ones
cards are good for it, just because
an opponent has bid something. 1t
is a common mistake for the third
band to refuse to assist a major
suit bid, when he has the stuff to
assist, because the second hand has
bid no-trump.
The beginners argument is that
the partner has shown the suit he
would like led against anything, and
that with the lead against the no.
trumper, why not sit tight and play
the hand? The answer is that while
the no-trumper may be perfectly
well able to make the contract, it
might not be able to make two or
three by cards, and if the hearts are
good for two or three, why not bid
it and push the no-trumper up Bit.
The same reasoning applies to the
double, and the third hand should
not hesitate to assist when he has
a good assisting hand, just because
the first bid is doubled. On the same
principle, when the original bidder
is doubled, he should not hesitate to
rebid his hand if he has rebid.
If he passes, he leads his partner to
believe that he is weaker than he
really is.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
PINOCHLE

Question-Playing two-hand, is "
still permissible to meld eight aces
for 1000 points and claim the game a.
once ?-J. F. S.
Answer-These old double-vaius
counts are no longer played in any
form of pinochle. Eight aces are worth
twice hundred aces, o. 300 If rssfsss
all at once.
Question-Playing for cent polnts
calls out, but is found not to have
quite reached 1000. According to the
rules, wins the game; but B has
only $40 points. How much d2es b
win if A has $50. but loses the game!
L. j. NJ.
Answer-Pinochle is played for 50
much game. If you change the rules
in one respect, and make it for 50
much point, you must also change
the rule about settling, when the loser
of the game has more poi,ts than ths
winner. The better way, Il you play
for points, is to make So many deais
a game regardless of any calling ous
on re3shing 1000.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
COME snake hunters must |
~ alaCays hold the sack

ing q jeweled head was ornamented
with a white pendant that upon ex-
animation proved to be the inch-long
fang Of a rattler, a natural hypo-
dermic needle used by the original
owner to inject a poison into the
veins Of its enemies and victims.
"This sort of weather wakes the
snakes from their winter sleep very
early" resumed DR.. Ditmars when
he was ensconced in the swivel chair
in his Office in the reptile house, in
which building there are hundreds
of Gagged, unwinking serpents.
Last year motored about thou
sand miles and walked and climbed
| don't know how many more in max
ing a round Of my snake dens," the
curator said refectively. "I have
the places all charted and have to
keep them closely guarded secret
or farmers living near them would
destroy the dens with dynamite. I
have to be very careful in describ-
ing these dens for fear of snake
killers.
II carelessly allowed to be printed
few years ago picture of rocky
ledge which housed a snake den. and
a student geologist at Columbia Uni
versity, recognizing the formation.
found his way to it with the cunning
of a detective. He killed lot of
snakes, too."
DR.. Ditmars's eyes blazed at the
recollection.
Snake Families Together
Il know of dens of at least five
hundred adult snakes. These are wild.
rugged places, and usually face
south. The selection of southern ex-
posure is deep instinct with the
snakes Of this region. They know
that ledges facing south will not be
frozen in so deeply as lodges facing
toward the other points of the COM
pass. They are given some protec-
ton from gales also, and are awak-
ened earlier from their winter sleep.
I'm some dens four or five species
hole up. / have found blacksnakes
watersnakes, moccasins, COPPER
heads and rattlers living more or
less amicably in a single den. I
know of others inhabited exclusively
by rattlers, and others that are used
exclusively by copperheads. / have
seen red shale ledge where water
snakes only lived
when start out to hunt for dens
always get away from human
trails. When I get into the hills or
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

Rock, In the adjoining county Of
Delaware. These farmers, driving
along the soft dirt road behind a
pair Of stolid country work horses,
were surprised when the animals
halted abruptly with ears pricked
forward and snorted and trembled
in great fear. The horses refused
to proceed, in spite of several sharp
cuts with a whip, and finally one
Of the men dismounted to investi-
gate. He walked ahead a few PAGES
and glanced at the dry, rocky shore
Of tiny stream. Then in great ex-
element he called his companion to
look.
An entire community Of venomous
snakes was snarled into a living
heap Of menace. Here and there a
lance-shaped head protruded from
the ball, and it was the rattling of
half a dozen projecting tails that
had alarmed the wise old farm
horses.
Slaughter of Snakes
One of the men went to farm
house about a mile distant, borrowed
a shotgun, and filled his pockets
with shells loaded with birdshot.
Returning, he stood about ten feet
from the snakes and discharged
both barrels into the mass. The
buzzing grew in intensity. Slowly
the ball unwound, and one by one
the serpents detached themselves.
A few had been injured too much
to crawl away, but most Of them
would have escaped if the farmers
had been content with the number
killed. In the bed of their wagon
was an eel gig attached to a long
pole. 1t was a splendid spear to
"stick" snakes with. So they took
turns, one gigging the: serpents and
then holding them out as targets
for the other to shoot. Very few
Of the reptiles escaped. They
counted twenty-five wriggling, head
less "varmints," whose tails contin-
ued to buzz warnings that now were
false alarms.
Ike Whitbeck, who lives in the
Berkshires, is another devotee of the
rattlers. DR.. Ditmars says that
Whitbeck is always to be found in
the vicinity Of their dens when the
young are born. Henry Mallory is
another who is fascinated by the
mottled skins. He lives at Great
harrington, Mass. Among all these
folks there is sort of freemasonry.
They exchange letters and keep one
another posted about the numbers of
rattlers in their sections.
cit is darn seldom one Of these
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
UMAN antipathy for snakes
is an instinct that comes as
= neflCage from ancestor
who lived in caves and ha<

q heritage from ancestors
who lived in caves and had
to be careful where they set their
bare feet. The shiver that chases
up and down the normal spinal col
umn at the mere thought Of reptile
is telepathic communication that
has bridged all the. time that has
elapsed since the period when man
was as hairy as and had longer teeth
than John Daniel, Ringling Brothers
gorilla.
This fact makes a sympathy for
snakes, especially venomous ones,
far more difficult to comprehend
than an ordinary divergence from
the opinion of the majority. Yet
there are folks in New York who are
possessed of a positive affection for
reptiles-people who are as strange
ly attracted by snakes as was the
queer heroine Of Oliver Wendell
Holiness book, Elsie Venner.
Fond of Snakes
DR.. Holmes endeavored to show
that prenatal influence, the bite of
a rattlesnake inflicted on her mother
shortly before she was born, had af-
fected Elsie Venner, creating an af-
finity to which both she and rattle
snakes were mutually responsive.
But it will be necessary to search
further for an explanation of the
fascination rattlesnakes have for
such men as Raymond L. Ditmars.
curator of reptiles and amphibians
of the New York Geological Park, or
Arthur L. Gillian, of Flushing, L. l.,
chief huntsman of the Reptile
Study Society of America.
When DR.. Ditmars hears of anv
one willfully killing a rattlesnake
that was merely minding it's own
business or buzzing it's parchment
like rattle in honest warning of hor-
rible death he grows furious. Gill
lam has similar distaste for per-
sons who wantonly kill venomous
snakes. Both of these men know
others who feel as they do. They
know where there are snake dens
within f1ivvering distance of New
York, but they keep this knowledge
carefully guarded secret, fearing
that persons with the ordinary reac-
tions to snakes would destroy the
serpents' homes.
. DR.. Ditmars has found about
twenty dens where snakes hibernate,
and at this season Of the year he is
preparing his flivver for about
thousand miles of travel to these wild
places. In no case, however, is he
likely to go more than fifty miles
from Forty-second Street and Broad
way in order to visit his reptile
friends. His favorite hunting ground
is in the Ramapo Mountains of New
Jersey.
"I'm getting the car shined up for
my annual spring snake hunting ex-
petition" DR.. Ditmars said recently
to a friend who caught him lying on
his back beneath his battered ma
chine. eve need lot of snakes, and
it's up to me to go out and catch
them"
I Good Snake Weather
Crawling out from beneath the
car, parked in the rear of the Bronx
Zoo reptile house, the snake catcher
brushed the dust from his clothing
and adjusted with meticulous care
his tie pin, which instead of contain
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
DINING q rattler this
qUGy has its ercitements

I'm the autumn, sensing the ap-
proach of cold weather, they return.
old and young survivors, and again
mole up for another season of quies-
cence.
when I start out on my spring
hunt l avoid state roads and other
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

we'll Travelled highways, because
know that the snakes also avoid
travelled regions. They have a from
5ler of their own in the Ramapo
Mountains, over in Jersey. That is
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

an excellent place in which to catch
them.
II have an atlas Of my own marked
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
TNAKES come large and
- small IN the RGmapo
Mountains

with discovered dens Of different
species. One Of the best rattler
lodges in the country is on Mount
Eyelander, in the Berkshires. At
Stockbridge, in the Berkshires, is the
rattler ledge described by Oliver
Wendell Holmes in Elsie Venner."
Likes Their Coloring
DR.. Ditmars paused moment and
fingered the rattler fang on his
cravat. Then he said:
"That was strange story, absurd
in places, and yet am never SO
happy as when I am on a ledge all
acrawl with rattlers. I take as much
delight in their gorgeous coloring as
a jewel collector might in the prize
stones that come into his possession.
Do you wonder that it makes me
furious when l find some one blow
ing out a snake crevasse with dyna-
mite?"
There are many other snake
ledges or dens that are familiar
haunts Of DR.. Ditmars and some few
others who feel as he does about SER
pents. In Sullivan County, near
Black Lake, there are several places
thickly inhabited by reptiles, espe-
cially rattlers. Their human guar
dian is Jerry Miller, an odd sort of
sure in the rocky parts of the county
that shelter snakes.
Jerry was in a rage for days, it
is said, after he heard how a couple
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
r COATING a snake den |
Ii from o. Run10po Hill

mountains a pair of field glasses is
great help in searching the sur
rounding country for likely places.
Usually, as I say, den is to be
found in a fissure in the rock on the
face of a cliff. Generally 1 have
found that the snakes have selected
assures that run from thirty to
forty feet back into the cliff. groups
holing up in apartments or divi-
sions in the fissure. Pine needles
and dead leaves blown in there bv
the wind make fairly warm nest,
for the rotting vegetation generates
heat.
Meadow Lands Required
Snakes retreat as the area of
cultivated land encroaches on their
former feeding grounds. Yet thew
require meadow land for feeding
grounds. 1t is about this time of
year that they emerge from hiberna-
ton, and soon they will descend the
hillsides to the low grounds, where
there is food and water-and where
there are countless enemies.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

stopped only once if z does not over
take the Jack.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
POKER

Question-We play with six cards.
but are at loss to know how 20 rank
the hands vhsn such tAiRgs a. three
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

fellows gets bitten," said DR.. Dit
mars. "They know how to handle
snakes and they are intelligent men,
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
Good Snake Weather

Crawling out from beneath the
car, parked in the rear of the Bronx
Zoo reptile house, the snake catcher
brushed the dust from his clothing
and adjusted with meticulous care
his tie pin, which instead of contain
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
FOR THE CARD PLAYERS

pairs or two triplets are shown
Which is the better hand ?-E. c. K.
Answer-This game is not sufficiently
popular to justify going into elaborate
calculations as to the rank of the freak
hands it produces unless some of your
players will undertake it.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
U.OF r. FINALS ORATOR
T,AKESRAP ATHARVEY:
TRIBUTE TO NIL LHISFR
DR.. MctcaIf CharactcriLcs L. =. AM
bassaior a. "Our Misrcprcsrnta-
tive at Court OF st. .JnmCs.''


'''' "i"s "''o'' VIC
Nrhchhi"ac ana friends at the tni-
v"rsi'y Of Richmond. iIr. John cal
>ir N.,.,lr ,,rr,c, ,.n -. r,.r.
'"""' "lI"s'' sp'"'t"t on mora!
'o"r'Se a. one "l '"' '"''n''nen'n''
"' '"a"cfShir' char"cteiiz"d Colonel
''"rfc h"fN'E ~ our 'hi9repr."eh'
iat'Ne at the Court OF 81 James,
whose "notorions assertion that 'his
country won't 4" VIZ solely TO save
h"r skin. Was "n ahor'ir" attempt TO
'''' 49,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
LEADERS IN HOUSE PLAN
TO BEAT B0RAH PROPOSAL
amendment tO Navy Bill
in Conference.
URGE PORTER RESOLUTION
Lower Body Prepares for Grim Bat
tic Against Addition of S9S,000,-
900 to Ship Program Added by
Senate.
IEx .Assoclatcd rress.l

WASHINGTON, Juno i.-Tne House
paved tho way TO-DAY for its fight TO
strike tho Borah disarmament amend
mont from the naval appropriation
h.H.
In sending the bill 20 conference,
~ a vote OF -. 10 Ito. Republican
leaders tudicniod that the House
would not HAY. an oruortunity to
vote directly on tho liorah amendment
Instead, k"rres, Mond"n, Of
Wyoming tho Republican leader. an
mounccd that hc would advocate ac-
CcptanCc. as u subs titutc, Of the For
ter resolution, reported b: ;hc For
cign Andi:s Committee. which wuuli
leave cnircly in tho bands OF rresi-
dent Harding tho question OF calling
an international disarmament confer
cncc.
Two of the Senate contcrccs. Chair
man PoindcXter. OF the naval COM
as Mr Mcndcll saw the President
today. They declined. however. to
say what phrase. IL any, of the dis
armament Tight had Keen discussed.
While there was sharp difference
"f opinion on the Horah amendment.
the House seemed united in its de-
termination not /" accept any part
OF the SOS 100000 added 10 the naval
bill by the senate. N
Representativ" Burton. of Ohio. a
former Senator. leading the ngnt TOR
holding the total TO the sum ixcd
by the House. declared tho people
locked To the latter body to remove
the heavy tax burdens against which
tIc country was crying.
Tho Porter resolution was attacked
by Democrats, Representative Pou.
North Carolina. churactcrizinG it as
IA gold brick" while Representative
Connolly, Texas. Democratic member
of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
declared it "a coiorlcss omc-half al
| per cent. proposition. without teeth
or whiskers."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
ny Hudson IlaNIcy.

United News staff Correspondent.
rARIS. June 7.-YounE men and
women Of France will be able to
marry with as much freedom and alb
scnco of rcd tape" as those OF
America. If n hill just introduced in
the Chamber becomes a law.
The measure removes the ucccs-
sity of parental consent after tn" age
Of FL Such u departure strikes at
the very vitals of French customs,
which make the parents the arbitcrs
Of the daughters matrimonial fate.
At present a French woman cannot
marry unti after she is 80 years
old without the consent Of her pa
rents. Gaining this consent can only
he avoided by sending formal legal
notice TO tho parents fifteen days be-
fore the cont tcmplatcd wedding. And
even then tho parents arc permitted
- bring action against the husband.
- consequence c.opensnts arc
likely TO be very expensive luxuries.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
ny james L.. KilgnI,.n.

United New. S;aff spnudcEi
CHICAGO. June 7.---rccgy Hopkins
Joyce. says her present millionaire
husband. J. stanley Joycc. is no naive
victim OF Broadway wiles. Gracious.
no.
j. stanley knew few things ahont
women before nc ever me, her. she
says.
lie wasn't. TO use pcsgy's words.
AN unsophisticatcd and ingenious
boy" whom she had misled
There was charlotte, for instance.
Charlotte. Peggy says in new
barraSc "f scandal IN the form of
document fled here on The eve Of
IN" resumption tomorrow Of her
iislt for $4,000 IA month aiimony,
vas an old namc ~ T. Stanlcy's be-
fore She ever met him and. what is
more. Charlotte caused j. Stanley
no end of trouble for time.
poSGy says she VAS on her honey
moon a, Miami. Fla. when she found
out about Charlotte
Charlotte was threatening To make
trouble FOR him ana was going to
sue him" rcEgy AYERS. She said J.
stanley begged her to stick ty him
cvcn II suit was started. because he
'wuuld have nothing more 70 do with
Charlotte"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
2 DIE, 8 INJURED, AS
FIRE TRUCK CRASHES
WTO TROLLEY CAR
ENGINE Meets Car in Rounding
Curve at High Speed in
Hattiesburg.

HArTIESEURti. MISS, June Two
,rcman. one chief. arc dead. four other
mon are injured seriously and four
nassGngera on a trolley car arc hurt
.s a result Of Il collision today be
tween a iirc truck and a street car.
,rh. dead arc Fire Chief y. j.. Pot
tar. killed by glass driven through
tito heart and also injured about the
hCad. and Guy McMull"n. fireman,
thrown under tho street car ana
badly mangicd.
The injured: St!nson Barnes. ex-
rc.tcd to die: Frank Potter, son or
IRE chief and driver OF the truck
condition very grave, Alexander
Richards. fireman, badly hurt, hut
expected TO recover: w. i. Nichols
,notorman or the trolley ear leg
broken; Mrs. George Autrcy, Miss
Christine Cohan, Rev. w. s. Allen
and !. w McInnis. passengers on
the car.
The truck just had crossed bridge
and was rounding curve at hisu
speed when 1t met the trolley car.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
MAKES A MOVE TO
ENCOURAGE MARRIAGE BY
PUTTING END TO "RED TAPE"
New Measure Removes Necessity of Parental Consent
After Age of21-French Women, at Present, Can
not Legally Marry Until 80 Years Old

There is no Grctna Green. or Little
church Around the Corner in all
France.
one of the most surprising fca-
lures IN connection with the new bill
Is tho fact that it is Sponsored by a
priest. = Deputy from the Nord De-
partn"nt. His action in sponsoring
The bill aston.sA / the conservatives,
because of its tendency TO diminish
parental authority. OF which the
church has always been extremely
jealous.
However. the church canons de-
mand only mutual consent on the
part OF the prospective bride and
groom, whereas the French civil code
demands the consent of the parents.
publication of banns, and other dc.
tails. Tho French Law also does not
permit the religious ceremony prior
10 the civil rites.
Introduction of the bill is q step In
the campaign to simplify and encour-
age marriages. and 10 dispense with
the dowry custom which now pre-
walls throughout France.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
ALVIN 7, HERT DIES
IN NATIONAL CAPITAL
Was Republican National Commit.
tccman From State of Kentucky.
Survived by Widow.
DEATH is DUE TO ApopLENr
Was Taken I'LL Sunday Night ON
Train While I'm Route to Wash
inEtop to Attend COMMITTEES
Meeting of &. q. y.
LKr Ns.ncinicd rrcs..l-

WASiIINGToN. Juno ..-Nlviu r
i,eri. OF Louisville. Ky. and Rcpubli-
can national committeeman in that
Stat, died suddenly today at the
Ncw Willard IIut"i h.rc
Mr Hort. who was 81 years Of age
bad come hor" 10 attend the meeting
ii tho Republican, National Commit
;c" tomorrow. i,"ath vas said 10
hav. been du" to apupI.xy. lie was
taken III Suujay night ON a train
while coming here for the meeting,
d since had been confined to his
.oom.
only recently Mir, H.rt had de-
c.incd To consider app"intmcn, by
President Harding as ambassador 10
foreign country. or as the rr.si-
dents representative on the govern
mont reorganization commission.
During the last presidential cam
pairn hc WAS member aI the Re"
publican executive committee "f five
and al the national convention Al Chi
cago was Il food leader for Governor
Lowdcn. Of Illinois.
lie had ais" been prominently men
toned after the election as IL cabinet
possibility. and later as the ncNt Re
publican National Committee chair
man. hut hc declared that i,c could
not accept the latter II /; was ten
dcred To him. In the l9IS prvsidcn-
tial campaign h. Was Western. man
accr for the Rcpubiica party.
Congressman Langley and Enbin-
I.t, -
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-06-08
bL. AIR FINDS LIQUOR
LAW GREAT BURDEN
New Commissioner Anxious for
Transfer OF Enforcement TO
Justice Department.
CLOGS BUREAUS WORK
Revenue Chief Declares Trail
ing Bootleegcrs Takes Two
Thirds Of Stats Time.
ny Ralph ~. Turner.

nii"d Sew .i'nm Corrcspcude
WAsHiNGTpN. june 7.-rAeres q
ma" "'cr a, tho -rrcasur. p.na,t,nent
"h" "ceordnp to popular belief
hoide IN his hand The .a,c os all
,h'rS'y i"lks in thea. tinted states.
Tha' man IL David u. ulair. m. ne -
Commissioner oi Internal Kcv.nuc.
Possibly no presidential appoint.
m"n' aroused more ..il, spread inter-
est Than nc Ollie" nj Internal Revenue
'onmiss.orgr. Anzi',: oy.r thc ap-
p"intulcn, hcfpr. II wa maI. .nd..
oat"d IN" popular f.cline thn, IA
nc" counis-i ipucr would hold IA"
ro"cr TO MAKE The country wr, or
dry.
And now 'ha, Mr Bla,r has becr,
AZ his dcsE jugr i;tuc more than :.
N"ck. his reaction is interesting. III,
ars; concern was no; 10 Issue now
r"suiati"ns on prohibition enforce
mont;
on 'hc contrary mis- pronounced
feeling Is ina, the Hur"au or Internal
I:sveru. is no place for prohibition
enforcement lic wauie L" bo rid ot
4 HIi IS ready To co-op"ra,c vita
Congress and thc Department of Jus
tire for the ;ransf"r 81 dry enforce
,Hvat To 'h" httormcy- Generals "nicc.
That's wh"re &, belongs, in BIait's