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For the
BilyS ad Girls
A SCRAP OF HISTORY
BY BERTHA A. WINKLER.
It was in May, 1800, when Na- er across the Alps, and leaving his old
poleon's army started to cross the empeoyer to look out for hinesslf.
Alpe, that Wirici--new a sturdy, He strode on in silence, pep ''d
fearless boy -mountaineer, who Isnew and provoked at his own good nature
every elessm and ravine for miles which led him into the blunder.
around -was about to make his third His best intentions were perverted
trip up the Alps, by appearances., for Yokli would never
Several lessons had taught him believe that be was on his way to him
prudence without fear, courage with. when .he met the stranger, and that
out recklessness, and for this, as wee he simply guided him because it was
as his knowledge of the mountainon his way,
passes, he had been offered numerous ! Thy had scarce:y traversed a quar-
positions, both as guide and herds- in' of a mile, when Ulrici suddenly
mom, though he had scarcely retwheil. stopped the mule and listened.
his seventeenth year. I Alarm -notes, faint and broken, as
But he had already promised his though corning from one unused to
services to Yokli, his former employ-
the Alp -horn, reached his ear.
Quickly leading the male to a safe
er and they were to start for the'
e•
,ps In 0 few daS, sawn .a.s mo et atondinand a uung4
•suddenly fell ill, and Ulric', relieving stranger that he would return in a
feve moments, he climbed the teighest
his sister in her Ione night -watches,
peak, in order to obtain a view of the
immediately informed the renner of
his inability to keep his engagement, eurroundines.
Senner Yokli, kneeThe blue veins on his templesing that guides1
swelled high with indignation, as he
were in great demand, and that Na-'
poleon had offered large sums of saw, on the other side, a man forcibly
driving a calf before him, while the
money to any one who would assist
the mountaineers and suspecting that old cow, whose burnt mark on her
Ulrici was only making an excuse fel' hack Ulrici at once recognized as
breaking his engagement for some
Yokli's, was plodding on behind, low -
such purpose, flew into a rage, 111 ing piteously.
"Eric! Eric come back! I'll help
which he dealt with no choice lan-
gaage. you get the cattle!" Ulrici shouted
after the terrified and evidently new
And when IHrici promised to send
, '
him another boy in his place, he coolly 80111101 by who WaS makinghis
turned his back on him and said that escape 0000 the mountains.
In another instant 'Meld had glided
he could find plenty of vagabonds!
down the steep and freed the calf
Though pained and indignant at • from the robber's hold with a heavy
s
this suspicion from his old employer,blow of hiAlp-stick.
when after two weeks of faithful at- "Now, drive them home, Eric-
tendancehis mother had fully re-
quick!" he cried, as he saw the robber
covered her health, he began to con-
,
t raise his rifle with an angry glare.
eider whether it was not his duty, t "I belong to Napoleon's army, and
even now, to fulfill his engagement I can shoot you on the spot for attack -
True, Semler Yolei might have se-. ing me," threatened the thief,
cured an aseistant, and he would be t belong to the Swiss Republic,
and can thresh you on the spot for
running the risk of the loss of another
week in traversing that long distance,
up and down the Alpe.
But, after all, his employer only
spoke in a fit of temper, he thought,
attacking Swiss property," promptly
retorted Ulrici.
"Thresh me? An ignorant young
rustic like you thresh a soldier? Ha,
and the remembrance of Yokli's kind- I ha -
You are no more a soldier than I
"
nese and anxiety for him when he
was once in danger, decided his way- 8011.
would not dare to leave the ranks I know well enough that you
sting mind. He would go and do what!
ho thought was right. !without beiug hunted as a deserter.
You have more likely followed the
Fully equipped with his flask, Alp -1
of army as a vagabond and thief"
horn, and a handkerchief full
eatables, he planted his Alp -stick With this, Ulriei stooped low, and
before the man was aware of his in-
firmly on the rocks, and was about to
tentions, knocked the rifle from his
ascend, when a mule, bearing a rather
short, thick -set, but graceful rgrasp down a precipiee, where it ex-
ider,'
galloped close up to him and halted. 1)10(15(1.
"My friend, are you a guide?
A fearful struggle now ensued. One
Do
you know anything about the mouree instant they were rolling on the!
tain passes?" inquired the stranger, !ground, locked in each other's grasp;
hurriedly. the next they again rose, and
"Yes, sir; I am on my way up now, in spite of his desperate resistance, !
and will be glad to guide you." I felt himself gradually pushed toward
a
A look of satisfaction and relief yawning chasm,
swept over the stern face of the Could the man really intend such a
;
stranger as Ulrici promptly took hold horrible fate for him? He measured
the width at the chasm with a hasty
of the mule's bridle and strode out for ,
the mountains. i glance, Yes, he might baffle him yet.
After a few more inquiries and re -1 He allowed himse:f to be pushed!
plies between them, they both seemed close to the brink. Then, as his ad -
to be very much interested in each versary loosened his grasp, to let him!
other. I sink down, he dexterously turned and!
The quiet reserve of the unknown, leaped across the chasm; and in an
rider, and the lofty dignity of his instant, while his enemy stood in open
whole manner, had a strange fascina- mouthed amazement on the opposite;
tion for the young boy -guide. side, he turned and re -crossed it,
And the stern face of the stranger /rushed between the limbs of his en-
lost some of it severity as he listened , ponent, and upset him, face down- !
to the boy's quaint narratives of Al- ward. -
pine adventures, and observed with. He next tied his hands with a strong'
what care he led hie mule up the rocky twine, which he always carried with
steep and past the precipices which hirn, and not knowing what had be -
yawned close beside them. I come of his Alp -stick, he took his horn!
He seemed affected by the artless- from his side and belabored him so
ness with which the youth related his soundly that in a few moments it was
past life, and described, in glowing battered and bent like a reed in his!
ardor, his plans and hopes for the hands.
f uture. I "Now," said Ulrici, as -he was about'
After considerable stumbling and to let him run with his hands tied be -
climbing, Ulrici began to look about hind him, "go and tell General Na -
for Yokli's herd, which he knew must poleon that you got a threshing from
be in that vicinity. a senner-boy for stealing his cattle;
He soon met them, with Yokli in and that I said, if his justice is as
their midst. But his heart sank within great as his name, he will order an -
him as he saw the dark scowl which other threshing for you 1"
Yokli cast at him, and then disap- Ulrici now continued his journey;
peered behind the rocks without the across the mountains without any
usual friendly salute. more interruption.
Ulrici suddenly realized his unpleas-i He briefly related to the waiting,
ant situation. Here he was, just as' traveler what had happened, though I
Yokli had suspected, guiding a travel- ` he suspected that he had partly wits'
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nessed the scene, from the fad that
the strimger had dismounted and was
a short distance from his .mule when
ho arrived.
His suspicion WAS confirmed when,
about to separate at the foot of the
last mountain, the- traveler, with a
deep, searching gaze on the young
mountaineer, snid:
"I have heard your remarks abolit
Napoleon to -day. You are a brave
• fellow. With an army such as you, he
could conquer the world!"
He then wrote on a loose piece of
paper, and handing it to Ulrici, with
the request to give it to the Adminis-
trator of the Army on bis return, he
galloped away.
Unfortunately, like all poor pea -
stints, Ulrici had never learned to
read, and, as he turned the paper over
in his hands, wondering what it all
meant, he began to realize the advans
tages of an education, and resolved to
learn to read himself.
He lest no time in reaching Yokli's
hut; and after a long explanation
from _Ulrici, and profuse apologies
from Yokli, who allowed that he was
the best boy in Switzerland, he pro-
duced the mysterious slip of paper
for Yokli's perusal.
Yokli slowly adjusted his spectacles
and read and re -read the paper. Then
suddenly bringing his fist down upon
the table with a tremendous noise, he
exclaimed.
"Boy, you've seen the greatest gen-
eral of the age -Napoleon! And mind,
Uli," he added, "he'sd • d enough
to be paid you for a house and fieldl"
Ulrici was almost struck dumb with
amazement.
"Napoleon? That little, silent nem,
who listened so patiently to my simple
talk, and smiled whenever I spoke of
the house and meadow I wanted to
buy?" he exclaimed, scarcely credit-
ing his rearing,
"There is his name, black on white,"
laughed Yoke, as he spelled it. "I
suppose I won't have you for a 80111150 -
boy after all."
But TIlrices mind was made up dif-
ferently.
He t down to the valley to get
Napoleon's order cashed and placed in
bank. Then he bought a few school-
books and some candles, and ascended
the mountains once more,
"Now, Yokli," he said, as he enter-
ed the hut, "I'll take care of your cat-
tle for this season, as I promised, if
you'll sit down with me in the evening
and hely me learn to read I'm going
to make myself worthy of Napoleon's
money, before I use it."
As Ulrici sat on the green sward,
in the midst of his cattle poring over
his school book he felt that a IIONV
world -the world of know:edge-was
opening to him.
Years after, when he had cattle of
his own In the Al
himself in erapoleori's history as a
young peasant who unknowingly led
the great general across the moun-
tains.
Sentence Sermons.
Nothing is Advantageous -That a
man would be ashamed to have his .
family know about.
-That puts, a feer of a dread into a
inan's life.
-That pays profits at the expense.
of honor,
-That decreases a workman's fund
of self-respect.
__That leaves a prejudice or a venge-
ful spirit in its wake.
-That must be promoted by crooked
dealln g.
-That lowers the boss in the con-
fidence of his help.
• "COIrteeS the Asettierin."
Clothed • in splendor, beautifully sad
and sil eu t,
Comes the autumn over the woods and
highlands,
Golden rose -rad, full of divine remem•
brance,
Full of foreboding.
Soon the maples, soon will the glow-
ing birehes,
Stripped of all that summer anti love
. had dowered them,
Dream, sad -limbed, beholding their
pomp and. treaeure.
Ruthlessly ecattered.
Yet they quail not; winter, witl', wind
• and iron,
Comes and finds them silent and un-
complaining,
Finds them tameiese, beautiful still
and grades's.
Gravely enduring,
-Archibald Lampearin.
•
Modern Witchcraft.
• The belief in witchcraft dies hard.
We are apt to suppose that it exists
nowadays, outside of the Orient, only
among savages and the superatitious
peasantry of a few nations backward
in civilization, There, iudeed, are its
strongholds; but it crops up occasion-
ally in unexpected places. • A recent
issue of the Manchester Guardian re-
cords an amazing trial in theEnglish
village of Cullompton, In which witch-
craft practised by the plaintiff was
seriously adduced by the defendant to
explain and justify his acts.
Alfred John Matthews, a small farm-
er, was summoned for assault by his
neiglsbor, Ellen Garnsworthy. He had
she declared, attacked her without
provocation and severely scratched
her arm with a pin, calming a profuse
flow of blood, He had also threatened
to shoot ber.
Farmer Matthews, far from delving
the assault, readily admitted it. • She
had, he -.considered, got no more, and
indeed less, than she deserved, for ill- ,
wishing hint and bewitching his Pie.
It was she, and not he, to whom the
police ought to turn their attention,
he declared with spirit. They ought
to raid her house, for she possessed
O creetal with svhieh she wrought evill
magic, and the thing ought to be found,
and confiscated, that her neighbors
might be safe.
The presiding magistrate tried,
wholly in vain, to persuade and con-
vince the man that there wile no such !
thing as witchcraft. lie was sentenced
to a month's imprisoninent for the as.
sault-a sentence which he persisted
in believing preposterously unjust.
His pig had been bewitched and died,
If 'anybody went to Jail, clearly it
ought to be the witch!
The Idea.
Cop -"Madam, lel have to take your
number."
Isady--"1549!"
Cop -"No! Not the tette of yore
birth -your -license number!"
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• New Series byWYNNETERGUSON
author ef 'Perguson on auction .Thidge
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Copyright 1925 by IloY1., Jr,
ARTICLE No. 4
Is it more difficult to play the dummy
hand against two opponents or for the
two opponents to play against the de-
clarer? That question has been the
cause of much discussime but to the
writer there seems only one answer. It
is much more difficult for the opponents
of the declarer. The latter can see his
twenty-six cards and should know the
best way of combining them to the best
advantage. Reis not 111 1110 dark as are
his opponerits, for they must guess as
to the other's holding and they are just
as apt toguess wrong as right. Also, in
the opening lead, the opponents of the
declarer are Sit a disadvantage, If part-
ner has not bid, what should be the
opening lead? This is a question that
puzzles the experts at times but the
average player can greatly overcome
this difficulty by the careful study of a
good table of leads. In playing against
the declarer, try to convey as much
information as possible to your partner
by use of conventional leads and cis -
cards. Watch you e partner's play and
that of thedeclarer very closely. Try
not only to make every play of your
own convey information to your part-
ner, but try also to learn something
Hearts -J, 9, 6
Clubs - Q, 10, 8, 6, 5
Diamonds - Q, J, 9, 5
Spades- 7
trroomeecylearyrerplay of your partner and of
hd
The followink hand looks easy but
Unless the proper lead is made, the
game is lost:
Hearts Q, J 8
Clubs- 7, 4, 2
Diamonds- K, 10, 7, 4, 2 *
Spades - J, 4
The dealer bid one specie and all passed.
What is the correct opening lead with
the above hand? The correct leadAs the
queen of hearts Any other lea(1 with
this hand would have lost game. The
placlia Yineornwci sh, °ale' eeirdy ibtaodpleenaec, Nd t heev ef uorp eonf
a suit containing the king against a suit
bid, if there is any °thee possible lead.
It is nearly always a trick loser.
The writerhas occasionally mentioned
the Law of Symmetry in these articles.
This Law is, in effect, a theory that
there is a symmetricat relation existing
between the distribution of the four
suits in any one of the hands and the
distribution of any one of the four siiits
among the four hands. This symmetri-
cal relation is well exemplified by the
distribution of the following hand which
caret up recently in actual play:
Hearts - Q
Clubs - K,J, 7, 4
Diamonds- A, 8, 7, 6, 2
Spades -5, 4, 3
Hearts -- K, 10, 7, 5,8
: ' Y . Clubs -2
: A 13 : Diamonds- K, 10, 3
. Z . Spades - J, 9, 8, 2
Hearts -A, 8, 4, 2
Clubs -A, 9, 3
Diamonds -4
Spades -A, K, Q, 10, 6
No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid
one spade. All passed and.A opened the
six of clubs. Z won the trick with the
nine of clubs and procedded to look the
hand over. What would you figure as
to probable distribution and correct
play of the hand? Z should note that
his own, hand and Y's were divided
5.4-3-1. He also noted that A opened
the six of clubs and that 13 played the
deuce. 12 13 had held two clubs, he
would have started an echo to show his
partner that he could trump the third'
round of clubs so his play of the deuce
indicated a singleton. Z, therefore, fig-
ured that the clubs were divided 5-4-3-1.
He holds five spades and his dummy
three so that if A also held a singletoue
it must be in spades. Therefore the
spades must be divided 5-4-3-1. His
heart and diamond holding and that of
Hearts -J, 10
Clubs -10
Diamonds - K, Q
Spades - Q, 9'
the dummy also indicated a possibility
that these suits were divided 5-4-3.1.
Z, therefore, decided to play according-
ly. At the second trick he led the ace of
hearts and then a low heart trumping
in dummy. He then led a low club
which A trumped, On this trick Z
played his ace of clubs 50 (1101 he could
fiuesse the king jack later. No matter
what B now plays Z must make a small
slain. Figure it out. The hand is remark-
able in that after the first lead the dis-
tribution of all four suits can be so
accurately deterndned, It is also a re-
markable illustration of the Law of
Symmetry. All of the four suits and all
of the four hands have the same dis-
tribution, 5-4-3-1. It is the first time
that the writer ever has noted such a
unique hand.
Answer to Problem No. 2,
Hearts -Q
Clubs - Q, 9
Diamonds -A, 8
Spades -8, 5
:A
Y
B
Z
3
Hearts - 8
Clubs -7, 6, 3, 2
Diamonds -10
Spades -10
Hearts- 9, 5
Clubs -s J
Diamonds -7, 5
•
Spades - K,'J
There are no trumps and Z is in the
lead. How can YZ win all the tricks
against any defense? Z should lead the
jack of clubs and wilt. the trick in Y's
hand with the queen. Y should then
• lead the 1)1110 02 clubs on which Z should
discard the five of diamonds. A is now
up against a .discord. If he discards a
heart, Y will place the queen of hearts
and lead a spade so that Z's nine of
hearts will be good. If A discards a dia-
mond, both of Y's diamonds will be
good, If A discards a spade, both of Z's
spades will be good. Any of the three
discards, therefore, will lay A's hand
°pent° a loss of a trick. Suppose he dis-
cards a heart, y peays the queen and
then plays the five of spades. Z wins
the trick and leads the nine of beasts.
What can A now discard but a spade
or a diamond? If the former, Z's spade
iegood; if the latter, Y's diamonds are
good so that YZ must win the balance
of the tricks.
• ----,--
• Tropical African Facts.
"I define tro "'cal Africads bel
West Africa; Belgium third with 900,-
000 square miles in the Congo; Portu-
i gal fourth and Spain fifth. The Bri.
that tentral portion ef the continent 1 tish territories have an a.ppeoximate
which lies to the south of the Groat Sa- ; aggregate population of 42,000,000, 1.e.,
zhamm•abcDsciserrilt,era,n,d tzoaid•thethneortHhon,
W. French area has. population of about
ef the about the same ea Groat Britalia. The
Ormsby -Gore, M.P., in a speech at the ' 12,000,000, as also have the Belgian
territories."
Royal Sectors,- of Arts meeting record-
ed in its Journal.
"This vast. fertile and well -watered . What Dad Said.
stretch of Use earth's surface coin- Our little lad WAS asked by his
prizes over 5,000,000 square miles mother what his father said when he
(Great Britain Is 20,000 square mileS). sat down at the table. There was coin;
Of this area nearly half is under Bid- , pany present,
teat administration, being comprised Mother was proud and wanted the
of 1,000,000 square miles for the five little boy to answer: "Grace."
British territories in Bast Africa, But instead the boy answered:
1,000,000 square miles far tho Anglo. "Go easy on the butter, kids. It's
Egyptian Sudan, and. half a million fifty cents a pound!"
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square !Mies for the British West Afre I. •
can colonies. Most heroic figures in history are
"After Groat Britain, with two end a , like certain paintlegs. It is better
half million square miles, comes not to approach too near if
Franco with 1,500,000 square miles in to see them at their lease
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STORIES OF WELL-
KNOWN PEOPLE
Dootoring Millions.
Very few of the millions who have
visited the British: Empire Exhibition
have mot Dr. Charles Ernest Goddard,
Medical Officer of Health for the Ex-
hibition. A genial, white-haired man;
Dr. Goddard has, in ble capao-
ity, bean responsible for the health o2
some twenty-four millions of people.
Loot year he dealt with twenty thous-
and cases of •illness -most of them
cases of fainting and of children over.
eating!
From C,B.
One of tee outstanding romances of
the senior -services is revealed by the
announcement that the Kieg has just
aimointed Captain T. J. S, Lyne,
0., 11.N„ to be a Companion of the Or-
der of the Batll on his retirement,
Captain Lyne lute lite distinction of
being the first member of OAS lower
deck to reach his high Tank, his last
ship being 11.11,9, Imeregnable, which
lie Joined as a boy forty years ago,
His career has been remarkable In
many ways. He attained warrant
rank, for eisemple, at the early age 01
twentyeeven, an achivement almost
unheard 01 111 those clays. But it was
hie great seamanship. during the Boer
War, when in difficult circumstances
isa brought a disabled torpedo boat In-
to harbor, that first marked him AD a
future high officer. His example, one
inay be sure, lethrproved an inspiration
to many an able seaman since. '
. Mr. Shaw's Invitation.
The journalist who Can got an inter-
view with Mr, George Bernard Shaw
may conekler himself lucky, Par the
dramatist . has the greatest dislike t.0
being interviewed.
some time ago 0 certain young jtmis
nalist wrote to ler. Shaw asking for
an emminiment, ane to lila great de-
light, :anew waiting i some days, he
received the fell° wing reply late 51 the
"aftesmoou: "Certainly. Drop in anti
dine with mo to -night -George Bei,
nard Shaw,
• The journalist was eougratulating
himself on his luck when, happening
to glance at the envelope, he ratted to
his dismay that the "etanm bore the
postmark of a remote little town on
the Continent. Mr. Shaw had been
Joking again.
torlytWy1;'at is Your.,,
.Real Age?
Iso doesn't loge a day over
How often 5 that remit* made of a
mau who is fifty or so'?, And it is in-
teresting to note that doctors In these
days are veering round to the opinion
that in such a case the man's real age
may be nemerforti then Rae.
The age which your birth certificate
reveals is not your real age --it only
represents the number of summers
that have passed over your head. The
real age Is determined by tho 'wear
.and tear" 2of the body -which eau be
fairly closely recorded by modern
methods el examination,
The heart, for all practical purposes,
Is Just a piece of machinery, a hc.1.1,,w
muscular pump to drive the blood
wards, and a rough estimate of its
real age in relation to its birthday age
may be made by abscessing its rata
and steadiness.
The tubes that carry tho bleod--the
arteries- have their age, too, 1111011
is denoted to the finger by their elas-
tic qualities and the pressure af the
blood within them -both of white can
be accurately redorded by an lnstru-
..
ment
Then there are the lungs. Their
powers of breathing can be measured,
but perhaps a more important test is
the power of holding the breath, for
this indicates the degree of atnadiness
of the nerves too. The steadiness cf
your nerves is important, because the
less steady they axe, the more vital
energy you will spend every year.
Lastly there is the digestive system.
From, the state of the teeth ant the
conditionof the stomach an estimate
can he made of your digestive age.
Thus a doctor can form an estimate
of the ages of your heart, arteries,
lungs, nerves and digestive system,
and from these he should be -able to
place your real ago to within five
yeers or So.
• Enemies.
We would have, all of us friends,
• friends
And yet consider, pray„,
The value of staunch enemies
Along life's curious way.
Few friends will frankly tell us et
Tice faults we all possees:
Largely from enemies wo come
• To know of traits we guess.
A good &tout enemy will stir
To make extended effort;
He prods, he digs, he emu° eight out
• While friends will stop to court.
Lord, grant me friends, aenany,
manse
But let me never be
Surrounded by my friends,
With no good enemy.
--George muston.
• A Stage Superstition.
In the theatrical prdtession it has
long been a popular belief or supersti-
tion that a "ragged" dregs rehearsal
will result in a better show on the
lint night than if the final dress roe
hear";a1 rues too smoothly.