The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1902, Page 11

TH SUNDAY CALL. 11 oS v \7 (With Copyright Illustrations by the Author.) > tourists ask after they have wept elen Hunt Jaackson's though the ques- 1d as often answered, varied and as far they can well.be. a novel. Ramona a fiction, a crea- a bel that n the mind of the here is such a wonder- t woven into the woof that it takes one tory of Southern 1 is fact and whicl 15 ry made n so ul mosaic, and fictic r as to formed. rs 1 have been dili- P from fiction, and i have come under fact that blood was Ra- born and Indian village so truth- Jackson. Hero nately mar- Dieg of the same e He a fairly in- f *, but owing to some mis- flered from a tem- of mind, commonly of the San Jacinto these fits range and unac- s, but every one knew him what in others would verely condemned. evidepiced by Cahuilla, after pros- and located on a piece of e on on the south lla Mountains, some five d's home. Here, by he built an planted a peach voir and did consid- For awhile the youngcou- here in happiness and conjugial He who deems the Indian a ger to these things is guilty of a table want of knowledge. In due 2 child was born to Juan and Ra- The parents rejoiced in the child terror-stricken After using all medies with which they decided that Juan e to go to the agency lived in San Ber- ling his poor, scraggy pony, urging him to the reached the office of sed point-blank to but sent some Without Wwaiting for started on his return t as far as Old San Ja- ¥ named Hewett had : a corral where Indian were in of uld do s ooked 2d ca erable wo ple lived ent. mons. rest journey the habit of ekeeper here original of the novel, and th of his so worn out ed woman urged him bronco and sleep for z story the story are offered of ording to the way one Indian. As to the no dispute and they addling his own *hed nag he found corral upon nd in 2 few s mountain e his sick anations in the no ' more ng the black aried with pon hiis re- all these wsserted itself and us of steal it is would have left his own did uneonseic ai he trated thai his only answer was to throw himself dewn upon his blanket on the floor, where he immediately fell asleep. She herself took the horse and tled it to a tree near the spring. Some time later he was awakened by hearing a white man’s voice, It was Temple, who had tracked his horse. Ramona says he went directly to the house, calling as he went. Her husband came to the door, only to be met by a volley of oaths and the leveling of the gun, and the next moment a shot was fired and he fell dead across his own N N Weli-known nuise 1n the’ corral. Every one knew he was there, many knew where he lived—to track him would be an easy task. As to what occurred at the house there are two versions—one given by Ramona herself and which is practically the same as related in the book; the other by Sam Temple, the Jim Farrar of the novel, and the owner of the black horse that Juan Diego took. Ramona says that when her husband arrived home on a strange horse she was terrified with fear, as she knew how horse-stcaling by an Indian would be re- garded, but her husband was in such an avsted condition that he could give her mo satisfaction as to how he gained the horse. She begged him to return with it to the Hewett corral and there seek its owner, but he was so completely pros- 12 AND HER STHAR DESIGI [T FAMONA WEEFPING LT R ie duvorstep. then wuring this brief conversation Juan from his pocket and fired three more Diego was slowly approaching nearer to shots into the dead body of her husband, Temple, and the latter, afraid of the knife, unfastened his horse and immediately bade him stop. Instead of doing so, the rode away. . taok his revolver On the other hand Temple says that when he came to the ridge overlooking the house and saw his horse there he called out and that Juan Diego came to meet him. As he came he noticed he had a long knife so held in his hand that the biade was up his sleeve. “Where did you get that horse?” 'he asked. “From the corral of the Senor Hewitt,” was the reply. “Don’t yours?”’ “§i, senor,” said the Indian, you know that horse fsn't Indian made a sudden jump forward and lunged with the knife at the white\man. In a moment Temple raised his gun and fired point blank at the Indlan. As he vet approached, however, Temple VOws he did not know whether his shot had taken effect or not, so he quickly drew his revolver and fired three more shots. At the first shot the Indiap fell, but still struck convulsively with his knife and not until the third shot did he seem to have received his quictus. Temple then examined him and found that the buck- shot from his' gun aad penetrated the oreast of the Indian, twenty-seven of which covered a Space no larger than a man’s hand. f Cutting his horse loose he placed his own saddle upon it, rode away and at once gave himself up to Judge Tripp. The Judge released him on his own recogniz- ance and when the trial finally occurred he was released on the plea of self-de- fens 1 give Temple's story substantially as he has recorded it in my graphophone, as I deem it right that he should be heard in his own defense. Until recently he lived in San Jacinto and on my last visit there I made the accompanying photo- graph of which he is the proud possessor. He is now in Yuma, Ariz. At the same time I went up to Juan fort is made to preservc them, even these will completely disappear. ne showed me a nne stallion | adobe walls have rapidly disintegrated and now nothing but the ruins here pic- tured remain, and soon, unless some ef- At Cahuilla T asked Ramona to show me y where her husband was buried. "After a good deal of persuasion she accompanied me to the graveyard on the hillside and there showed me his grave. As I covered my head with the focusing cloth of my wail. she could not contemplate the grave of H CRHUILL. camera, she squatted down, covered her face with her hands and began to sob and Even after this long lapse of years her huysband without the deevest emo- tion. R w even ugly. Squat, fat, her face may tured her it is not always whose souls are be: pearing whose charagter Ramona, the ful type, an ideal, and delineation of I or-all of the ideal deline women made by Hence who reads, its D fmpressionle: seem to e he heroine the el, 1s a herof as true a s are any white rs of i N 1 novelists. | the true learn more acter of the gained by vears of personal where' sym £ the revolu- actor named ceived the vy of the such were sent " 8. for he mean- dividual re- came to stood for Uncle Sam. Je Sam was applied to the URING the 1 \\tion there was Samuel Wil to him th United Sta ing of those 1 that sponded Sam Wi In that W United States on E2sy Lesso BY MRS. E. P. SCHELL. HE continual .changing of suits is ‘one of the most common methods [ of losing tricks, and I do not be- | lieve the has been given | the attention it deserves. There are many players of erdinary ability who are continually losing tricks in this man- ner because they do not realize that | with but few. exceptions new suits are | opened at a disadvantage. How often have we seen a player sit subject and hesitate, fingering first one card {and then another, in doubt as to the jadvisability of returning his partner’s suit or opening another. | ““THe old idea used to be to open your | own suit first when winning ‘a trick in a suit led by your partmer. The time has passed when players pos- sessing average whist judgment have any idea that two suits can be established at the same time; that is, your part- ner’s suit and your own. In fact, to at- tempt it is dered as a rule the greatest of folly. And as your partner { has already started to esiablish hi you will in most ¢ s do better by trying to aid him in establishing his suit tkaa starting off on a new one. When yoa do not return your partner's suit you vir- !{ually tell him that your suit can be | rore easily established than his own and you thereby assume the responsibility ¢f the change. The main idea of a long suit opening is to estabiish the suit so that if the trumps are exhausted the suit may be made. With any ordinary trump strength in the hand of either this can often be done, and an established suit is a good | thing to have when trumps are out. The more you investigate and reason the the more strange it will seem | subject { tat any such play as showing your own | suit first can be regarded with favor. In returning partner’s suit it is imperative that you should return the master c: if you held it, or second best, if you | have both second or third best, or other- | wise, lead the highest 'of the two remain~ ing, or the lowest of three remaining. The situation in which a player is jus- tified in opening his own suit with a small card is so rare that the inference should be, when a player does open his suit with a small card, that he is void of his part- ner's suit. It is, rule, very much " better to return partner’s suit than to ‘change to even a fairly strong suit, say (ace, king and two small, for if you open this suit, leading king, then ace, you give up control and may establish it for the advergary, besides parting with what | might prove to be a valuable card of re- entry. But like all whist rules, there are excep- tions, when it is best not to return part- (ner’s lead, such as: First—When you wish to lead trumps for Your own or partner's suit. Second—When you hold a suit headed by a sequence of three high cards, | such as ace, king, queen, or king, queen, jack, or queen, jack, ten, which will evi- dently be more easily established than your partner’s suit. Third—When you | win the first round of your partner’s suit cheaply, as with ten, nine or smaller card. In this case your partner holds either the major or minor tenace, ana ‘},\'\)ur right-hand adversary the other, and | to return the suit would give the oppo- | nent the advantage of the position. | Fourth—When the partner has opened a short suit, to return it is usually about ! the werst thing you can do, for there | again you give the opponents tne advan- !tage of position. Fifth—When both ad- versaries are void of the suit, tq lead it | would allow the adversary who is weak in | trumps to ruff and the other to discard | a losing card. To give your adversaries as a | Diego’s cld home in the mountains. The ‘ a discard and the weak hand a chance to ns He will char- can be Origin of *“Uncle Sam.” 1 1 in Whist. mp is far worse than changing suits. all that has been said and written nging suits, there are in the bad policy tr Afte on the sulject of ch players who will pers of.shifting suits. The novice may two sul the expert establish one. Hand from “Pri Whist” where U to force an oppol attempt to establish satisfied if he can ciples and Practice of ing an established suit nt is good plays Tck. SRVERERFAR ng cad. : and South 9, East and West 4 Trick 1. West's hands would tempt many players to make a pecullar trump opening, but his paucity of clubs should be a sufficient deterrent. Trick 2. North should not lead out dia- mond ace to get a ruff, but keep com- mand of adverse suit, and proceed to open the clubs. The fall of the king shows that west can ruff next round. Trick 3. But that does not deter north from continuing the suit. Trick 5. North knows south has the six of clubs, and that it is probably his only card of the suit. But it is better to com~ tinue than to lead the queen of spades. The lead of queen from a short suit, un- less accompanied by the jack, is one of the- worst possible plays. Trick 6. West, after the double foree, can do nothing but go on with the dia~ monds. North gets in his little trump. Triek 7. North still steadfastly declines to lead spades or trumps. Trick 8. And wins with a second losing trump. Trick 9. The ace, if led, will probably be more effective to injure the adversary or assist partner than {f held in hand. Trick 11. South’s lead here is difficult. The regulation lead from ace and small one is, of course, the ace, but general rules do not apply so late in hand. South knows north has two spades. If one is the king, south’s play does not matter; or, again, if east has the king, it is bound to make, and south cannot lose anything by keeping the ace till the second round. The lead of the losing North trump would be futile, since If east holds king and small spade, he will lead small, and south dare mot pass the trick in view of the risk of| west's winning and leading his thir- teenth diamond. So south plays in the hope of finding' the king of spades on his left, and queen with north, in which case, aven if west should play in the king, south must still make his ace or trump. North’s hand is from actual play, but, as a matter of fact, at trick five (after administering the one force) he led ace, then jack of trumps, whereupon west cleaned up the remainedr and brought in three diamonds. North, knowing south to hold a club, felt justified In discarding both spades and brought in two'eclubs. But even under these favorable cireum~ stances north and south only scored the odd trick after allowing for the fortu- nate trick in the spade suit. Therefore, the loss of one trick still remains attri butable to the over-confident trump lead.