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The New York herald., 1922-01-22
By EDWARD ANTHONY.


My Annabelle 1 reprehend
For but one fault-whene'e | lend
Her books and she would have me
know
She liked the volumes, all aglow.
What ringing stories," cries my
friend.
She never says "a pleasing blend"
It's always ringing! Prithee, spend
Some money on Roget, oh,
My Annabelle,
How ringing" pals! Would I could
end
The silly adjectival trend,
/ wonder how hint would go?
Since ringing things delight her so
On her next birthday shall send
My Anne a bell,
The rondeau, frothiest, to our no.
tion, of the French verse forms. is
used more in America, Frenchman
tells us than in France.
Some authors have apartment houses
named for them; others Pullman cars
or yachts. Still others--and this, we
think, is the surest way of having
your name perpetuated-have cigars
named for them. Apartment houses
are torn down in time: Pullman cars.
sooner or later. are scrapped; and even
the best yacht eventually winds up
in the boneyard. But a good cigar,
made by a manufacturer who keeps
up the standard of his product, can go
on forever. Yet, we'd rather have a
loud cigar band cry our fame to the
world than anything else we can
think OF.
A NOVEL KIND OF ANTHOLOGY.
We have been reading novel called
The WALL" by John Cournos. We
think it was written to show how
many writers the author is familiar
with. In case you don't know, these
quotations from "The wall''-and they
represent less than so per cent. of
what we might have quoted-will give
you an idea of how smart and well
read John Cournos is:
Il don't want any one TO know I've
read Pater."
II said didn't want TO read about
Browning"
THAT wonderful chapter about
Nausicaa i'm the Odyssey"
II did read Shakespeare"
Spout to me about Ibsen and
Turgenev."
1--WE only got as far as Robert
Chambers"
HE was talking about Dostoevsky."
II am afraid swinburne is not any
more cheerful than I am"
After all. Schopenhauer must have
experienced a great joy i'm ex-
pressing his pessimism."
'I remember reading a translation
of n Chekhov story"
Stories Rabelaisian."
Like the Wedding Guest in The
Ancient Mariner"
He proceeded 20 recite the opening
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
The Book Factory

stanzas of The Ballad of Reading
Gaol.'"
"It was Huxley said that"
He had not at that time read
Rousseau
He concluded that Longfellow knew
nothing about life."
Poe got drunk and wrote
poetry"
There is Darwin"
"Voltaire infected the common peo-
ple.'
'Nietzsche was sick and mad, and
only his brain lived"
There is Karl Marx"
81 take up the subject where, Her
bert Spencer left off"
The New York herald., 1922-01-22


OPEN TRIoLETTER TO OUR
READERS ON TWO GREAT
MERRY-ANDREwS.
Clarence Day, Jr., author of "The
Crows Nest" and A. r. Herbert, au-
thor of Little Rays of Moonshine.")
Short books and merry ones they
wrote,
And that is an achievement,
Accept it from this humble pote.
Short books and merry ones they
wrote
To cheer the man who's lost his goat
And wants to make retrievement.
Short books and merry ones they.
wrote.
And that is an achievement
The telephone skit Wrong Num-
bers" in Little Rays of Moonshine"
is one of the most uproarious pieces of
pantaloonacy-and we have seen many
good clowning act in the literary
circus tent-we have ever encoun-
tered. Here is the last word in cap
and belres-lettres.
Trout HSEeTInan VIII nnu DIT george
Aston's Mostly About Trout (Hough-
ton Miffiin) the most fascinating book
on the subject since o. Smiths Trout
Lore" (Which we sent for in despera-
tion from Big Horn. Wyo., a couple
OF years ago when the snobbish West
ern trout ignored our Eastern flies).
Sir George, in addition to being an
expert writer on angling topics. is a
genial philosopher.
Not the least interesting feature
for us, at least-of the unforgettable
"If Winter Comes" is the rollicking
English slang that A. S. M. Hutchin-
son uses throughout the book. We
especially liked "swiping" II is
American slang. too. but the meaning
is different)-which is used as an
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13
Louc as Well as Duty
Cells at Lexington

Either Dawes or Prescott the searcher
after knowledge reads in Comstock's "Four
Mounted Messengers of the Revolution"
Preached Concord about 2 o'clock that morn
ing [April 19] and both did fighting that
day
Prescott, we are informed by Bryant and
Gay, joined Revere quite by accident as he de-
parted from Lexington after midnight, "hav-
ing fingered thus late on that critical night
with his sweetheart, a young lady of Lexing
ton, whom he afterward married"
Dawes. according to Paul Revere's own ac-
count of his most famous ride Che made eight.
altogether as an express" sometimes on
horseback, occasionally in sulky, in the three
or four years preceding the Battle of Lexing
tom, arrived in Lexington half an hour after
Revere reached the Clark house and gave the
word of the approach of the British The later
arrival Of Dawes is accounted for by the fact
that he had come by the longer land route,
over Boston Neck while Revere was rowed
across the Charles River by friends and OBJ
tanned horse in Charlestown
The three who started for Concord, there
fore, were Revere, Dawes and Prescott The
story of Revere's capture and the carrying out
of the mission to Concord by the other two
is thus graphically (if somewhat ingcnuously)
told in Rcveres own account of the incident
known "Revere's Narrative" first published
in the form of letter to Jeremy Belknap,
secretary of the Massachusetts, Historical So
ciety, in 1898:
eve [Revere and Dawes] set off for Con-
cord & were overtaken by young gentm
named Prescott, who belonged to Concord, g.
was going home; when we had got about half
way from Lexington to Concord, the other two,
stopped at a House to awake the man, kept
along, when l had got about 200 yards ahead
of them; | saw two officers as before, called
to my company to come up, saying here was
two of them (for l had told them what Mr.
Devens told me, and of my being stoped) in an
instant, | saw four of them, who rode up to
me, with their pistols in their hands, said
Cd d-n you stop if you go an inch
further you are dead Man, immeaditly Mr.
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E-OUT, PAUL REVERE; CLO LOSE-UP, BILL DAVE
Illustration by WILLIAM CRAWFORD

Prescott came up we attempted to git thro them,
but they kept before us and swore If we did not
turn into that pasture, they would blow our
brains out, (they had placed themselves oppo-
site to pair of Barrs, and had taken the
Bars down they forced us in, when we had
got in, Mr. Prescott said put on, He took to the
left, to the right towards wood, at the
bottom of the Pasture intending, when gained
that, to jump my Horse e. run afoot; just as
reached it, out started six officers, seized my
bride, put their Pistols to my Breast, ordered
me to dismount, which did: One Of them,
who appeared to have the Command there, and
much Of Gentleman, asked me where / came
from; told him, he asked what time left it,
told him, he seemed surprised said Sr may
have your name, / answered my is
Revere, what said he Paul Revere; answered
yes; the others abused much, but he told me
not to be afraid, no one should hurt me; told
him they would miss their aim He said they
should not, they were only awaiting for some
deserters they expected down the Road; told
him I knew better, I knew what they were
after; that had alarmed the country all the
way up, that their Boats were catch'd aground,
and / should have 500 men there soon; one of
them said they had 1900 coming; he seemed
formed them who took me, they came down
immeaditly on a full gaIop, one of them
(whom | since learned was Major Mitchell of
the 9th Reg) Clapd his Pistol TO my head, and
said he was going to ask me some questions, il
| did not tell him the truth he would blow my
brains out. told him l esteemed myself a
Man of truth that he had stopped me on the
highway G. made me prisoner, knew not
by what right; / would tell him the truth;
not afraid: He then asked me, the same
questions as the other did, and many more, but
was more particular; l gave him much the
same answer; he then Ordered me to mount
my horse, they first searched me for pistols.
when / was mounted the Major took the reins
out of my hand, and said by Cd Sr you are
not to ride with reins l assure you; and gave
them to an officer on my right, to lead me, he
then Ordered men out of the Bushes, & to
mount their horses; they were countrymen
whom they had stopped who were going home;
then ordered us to march. He said to me We
are now going towards your friends, and if you
attempt to run, or we are insuted we will
blow your Brains out"
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be produced under the supervision of Yale
professors for use in schools and colleges.
Carl Becker's "The Eve of the Revolution"
one of the Chronicles of America series, pub
lished by the Yale University Press, upon
which the pictures are to be based, says Of the
warning sent to the countryside from Boston
"To destroy such stores Of ammunition
[those gathered by the Massachusetts, colonists
in preparation for defense] seemed to General
Gage quite the most obvious Of his duties, and
Colonel Smith was accordingly ordered TO pro-
ceed to the little village of Concord, some
eighteen miles northwest of Boston. and de-
stroy the magazines which were known to be
collected there The night of April 18 was
the time fixed for this expedition, and in the
evening of that day patriots in Boston noted
with alarm that bodies of troops were moving
toward the waterside DR.. Joseph Warren,
knowing or easily guessing the destination of
the troops, at once dispatched William Dawes,
and later in the evening Paul Revere also, to
Lexington and Concord to spread the alarm.
the only one of the two to finish, though an
added starter in the person Of young man
named Prescott, "who was thus pre-ordained
to take the torch when it fell from the hand
of the first messenger" [Reverel is spoken Of
in Bryant and Gays Popular History of the
United States" as having had a hand in the
climax.
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if that cannot be taken after the losing cards
IN another suit, have been got rid of. In this
column is fair sample of this error:
dealt and passed When passed, bid
a spade. This B passed, and z called the
hearts. This being a secondary bid and it
being likely that would go back to spades,
B doubled. misunderstood the object Of
this double, and as he had not yet made a
bid he called three diamonds when z passed.
This led Y into rather rash bid of three
spades, which was doubled by B, and would
have been set for about 400 points if q had
not gone back to hearts, bidding four. This
B doubled, and all passed
led the king Of diamonds and won with
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13
BY r. F. FOSTER

go no-trumps upon AS diamond bid, in answer
to the double. This would have been set for
three tricks, even if B clears the diamonds
and for four if he tries to establish the spades
This is the solution to Problem No. 11S, in
which hearts were trumps, z to lead and w
to win six tricks
Z starts with the jack of diamonds, follow
ing with the five. trumps the second trick
and leads the spade seven, upon which F dis
cards small club. The spade five, trumps,
forcing to under-trump or discard
Us next lead is the club queen, which B
wins with the ace. AS has nothing but
diamonds left, he must lead one, upon which
dlseards his losing club (f A still holds the
club klngl, and the trumps make separately.
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diamonds he is down for 5000; but, if he loses
the club and does not lose the two diamonds,
he makes his contract.
Although this was quite clear to him when
pointed out after the hand was played, he
DID not see it at the time and played the hand
on the chance of winning the club finesse,
getting his two discards and making five odd,
which would be worth an extra sc points.
To win these extra 66 points he took the
risk of losing 264 and the value of a game
won, or more than 400 points If the club
finesse will hold and make an extra trick, it
will DO so just as we'll after those two
diamonds have been got rid of and the trumps
are out of the way
lhe premature fnesse in clubs lost to BIS
King and he at once picked up both dunlmy's
trumps and then returned the diamond the
fourth round Of which z had to trump.
olseardlng the club. This left z with onlv
Two by cards on a contract to make four.
lhe only other way that z could have mis-
played the hand would have been to lead the
trumps, because that is open to the objection
already, stated; z cannot hold the lead in
trumps. The correct play was to lead the
club, but to abandon all hope of catching the
KING by going right up with the ace, so as to
make sure of those two winning spade leads
and two diamond discards. Then the trumn
lead leaves nothing to be lost but the ace and
king of that suit
One curious thing about this hand is that
there is no play A and could have made
that would have saved the game, not even if
a leads clubs. spades or trumps instead Of
diamonds.
Some players would have been tempted to
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Queries and Ans.uers
AUCTION BRIDGE

Questlon-Spades are trumps. The declar-
er leads the four of clubs from dummy Sec~
ond hand plays the five, the declarer puts on
the nine of spades, fourth hand the deuce of
clubs. Before turning the trick down the
declarer notices his error, takes back the nine
of trumps and substitutes the nine of clubs.
3 says to A: You can amend your play and
win the trick" A says that is the only club
he had but he will cal, the declarer's highest
club. The declarer denies his right to do this,
as there is no penalty for the declarer's expos
ing cards-G. l.. P.
Answer-Law 5Se specifies as an exception
that II the fourth hand has played the trick
IN which the declarer corrects revoke his
highest or lowest may be called.
Question--What would be considered the
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13

Adams and Hancock at Lexington, permitting
them to escape and the minute men to prepare
to meet the cncoming redcoats
Current interest attached to the question of
the relative Importance of Dawes and the man
Longfellow made a by-word in every back
woods school through the preparation by Yale
University's historical film organization of a
motion picture, to be called Lexington" deal
ing with this pre-Revolutionar period in Colo
nal America. Lexington" will be one of a
series Of movies based upon actual history to
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13
A British "Sarjont" gets
Paul RcUere's Horse

Revere then describes how the party rode
back toward Concord until Major Mitchell
sard a gun fired and asked Revere what it
meant. Upon being informed that it was to
alarm the countryside, the officer rid himself
of his four chance prisoners by deprving them
of their horses. Then, after the soldiers and
Revere had come within sight Of the Concord
Meeting House, they heard voley fred, and
Mitchell, asking "the Sarjant if his horse was
tired, he said yes; he ordered him to take
my horse; dismounted, the Sarjant mounted
my horse; they cutt the Bride & Saddle of
the Sa~jants>horse, & rode off, down the road"
after having asked the way to Cambridge.
Il then went to the house where left Mess
Adams and Hancock" Revere concludes, land
told them what had happened"
Al if not content with thus upsetting the
pretty story of Mr.. Longfellow, the historians
cite Revere himself as authority for the fact
that he not in the least concerned about
whether the friend commissioned TO
Hang lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,
One if by land, and two if by sea
displayed light or string of them, since
he knew all the time what the British were
going to do and how they were going to do it.
On this point, Gettemy, author of '"The True
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truth must be known, was as much of a
hero on that memorable night as was Paul
Revere-perhaps even a little bit more. For,
though the poet wrote:
So through the night rode Paul Revere
the plain truth is that British officers took
Reveres horse away from him long before che
came to the bridge in Concord town. and
turned him adrift virtually helpless. Without
his mount he was, of course, unable to accom-
plsh all he had set out to do, though he effected
the greater part Of it by giving the alarm to
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13

Story of Paul Revere sass:
"No one can familiarize himself vi.s !,
temper of the Boston populace on thai ne
night and with the character and perse.al'l alal
of Paul Revere and not appreciate tbss y
the whole town more was in better 49,. u
than he to know what the plans Of tbe s..sa p-..
were. He was in the thick of everytbina :. y y
was taking place. No need Of anv .'s Is. III =
being hung out in a church spire - 80 ;as. q
him whether the 1ed-coats were going =. ,.'10s
or sea- He knew all about this long bos.. :
he got into his row-boat that night.y ''is
And Revere himself says:
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best call on four hearts to ace king queen,
four diamonds to queen ten and FIVE clubs
to king queen nine?-E. P. S.
Answer-Either heart or no-trump would
be unobjectionable, the no-trumper being a
bit dangerous account of the absence of
spades. Many players believe in waiting with
hand like this, to see who has the spades
They either pass o. bid club.
Question: diamond bid by the dealer,
what is the call by second hand, holding one
small diamond, FIVE hearts to the queen ten,
four clubs to the ace ten, three spades to the
king queen? The dispute is between the heart
and the double.-M. F. G.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13
Paul Reuere's Our, Story
OF the Signal Lamps

About 10 o'clock DR.. Warren san.
haste for me, and begged that won,d s-SA
diately set off for Lexington, where Ne
Hancock and Adams were, and acogain. =
of the movement, and that it was tbo,ot. 80 !,
were the objects. found he had sent ,"Ss ~
press by land to Lexington-a Mr. WIZ.
Dawes. The Sunday before, by des;va - ~ =
Warren, / had been to Lexington. IN w..-
Hancock and Adams, who were at the psv ws
Clark's. / returned at night throuob cb..,.-
town; there I agreed with Colone, c.
and some other gentlemen, that II tbs Pr,4;.r
went out by water we would show +rvo J..
thorns in the North Church steeple and !, E.l
land one as a signal, for we were apurebe- 4
it would be difficult to cross the Cbarlssl /
or get over Boston Neck. left DR.. War;,
called upon friend, and desired him to maj
the signals. / then went home, took nv boo,,
and surtout, went to the north part ~ u,
town, where kept boat; two friends rovs
me across the Charles River little IN "a,
eastward where the Somerset man-of-war i,v
1t was then young food, the ship was wiudr,
and the moon rising. They landed me on -.
Charlestown side. When got into town m..
Colonel Conant and several others; thew ss;s
they had seen our signals I told them whzs
was acting and went to get ne horse; I ts,
horse of Deacon Larkin."
Revere has thus made it quite pla!ns ob
serves Gettemy, "that the signals were agea
upon for the benefit, not of himself but Of the
waiting patriots on the Charlestown shore
who, when they should see the light or licbss
might be trusted TO carry the news to Leg
ington and Concord in the event Of no one be-
ing able to cross the river or get through tt
British lines by the land route over Bostu
Neck
"The fact that he makes no minute Of seetn
them may we'll be taken as evidence that tb
lanterns had already been displayed and viii
drawn ere he reached the Charlestown shox
If they were still visible, what more natur.
than that Revere's attention should be cah
to them as matter of curiosity, and that
that event he should have mentioned It al
his very circumspect narrative?"
So, as the historian observes, Mr.. Longfelr
must have drawn literally from his imagin
ZION "hen ne penned the stirring lines:
Meanwhile. impatient to mount and ride, 4
Booted and spurred, with g heavy stride Il
On the opposite shore walked Paul ReverssH
Now he patted his horses side. =
Now gazed at the landscape far and near
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth.
And turned and frightened his saddle-girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the OLD North Chu-cat
As it rose above the graves on the hiIl
Lonely and spectral and somber and Sill;
And 10! as he looks. the belfrys height
glimmer and then CLEAN Of light.
He springs to the saddle, ard bride he tgrss
But fingers and gazes. till full on his sigaf
A second lamp in the belfry burns!
Weighing the facts, it would seem thai
whole flock of lanterns, or none at all. vGa
have made little difference to Paul ReTens
And William Dawes worked in the not +
light too.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13

A it has been already pointed OFT II
"A these articles, while there are three
- - principal ways of winning tricks for
the decarer's side, there is still
choice among the three, and the play that
stands TO win The most or lose the least should
always be given the preference if there is any
choice.
AS between making dumny's trumps sep
arately from those in the declarer's hand and
discarding losers, the decision must depend
on being able to hold the lead The moment
the lead is lost it will be too late to discard
any losing cards, because the adversaries will
at once proceed to pick them up.
AS between either of these plays and fines
sing, the decision should be easy, for the rea-
son just pointed out. If fnesse loses, the
lead is lost with it and the chance to discard
any losing cards probably goes with it.
There is one point about finessing that few
beginners seem to grasp, and that is the fact
that unless it is in the trump suit finesse can
just as well be made at the end of the hand
as at the beginning, and often with more idea
as to whether or not it is likely to succeed
Many illnesses are taken early IN the play
that need never have been taken at ALL One
often sees a player lead small card to the
ace and queen and lose the queen, when if
he had only kept still the adversaries would
have led that suit up to him and given him
two tricks in it.
In teaching / advise pupils always to look
fret for the opportunity to discard losers, as
they are absolutely sure tricks saved and
therefore just SO much to the good If there
- fnesse the position must be very peculiar
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13

TF Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had been
more of a sticker for facts than rhyme
IL and meter he might never have written:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
On the eighteenth of April in Seventy-ive.
iect somewhat as follows:
Listen. my children hesitate. pause
To hear of the ride of William Dawes
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-ive
Hardly is alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
and so on. Because William Dawes, if the
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13

Answer-The double is probably sat
it asks the partner TO call major suit, S]
of which can pc supported.
Question: bets FIVE dollars with shaa
slider that he will win the rubber. ne "
so points but loses two games. B. 7. !,
Answer-The English language says =
rubber game is the one that decides =
such as two games out Of three played q 4
second when won by the same partners . 7
first, three being the series. The laws ss4s
by the Whist Club, which do not pay ns..
attention to the English language, say y
rubber at auction is won by the side y
makes the most points. Take your chos-2 +
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RUSSIAN BANK

Question--Can player use card frca !.
top of his opponents exposed stock or has'
discard, TO continue play on the tssp'
apart from the foundations?-W. c. =
Answer-If the player thinks it wortas-
TO help his adversary along in this way -
is no objection to it. If he cannot plas :
other card he is stopped and his opponsa (
play the card himself.
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the ace. On looking over the situation he
should have seen that he must lose two tricks
in trumps. If he also loses club and two
New-York tribune., 1922-08-13

There are no trunaps and z leads. Y
aud z uant all seven tricks. Hou do
they get themf Solution nert aoeek.