The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1902, Page 4

THE SUNDAY' CALL. Jhe Yarrowness of Dr. Chepp. Copyright. 192, by R. H. Russell. HICH. of course, son,” said the Old Cattleman, between dense puffs of tobacco smoke; “which, I wouldn't go pi- of course rootin' about Doc Peets makin' no gech disclosures. but between wus I ain't g« exalted opinions touchin’ these vere sawt sharps when took es a herd s speciments like Peets whereon 1 ready to lose my last chip; but roole. As 1 observes, however, 1 sacrifice a bloo stack before ever 1 ¥ k up ag'inst me an’ me talk Doctors, that a-way, Is jeslous an’ their word Is ‘touch That's straight! you go vidious, an’ let- tin’' fiy s calc’lated to draw blood o an’ the next news is, you're t inch, head down, tafl up c lustin’ for your deestru ere yooniversal eager- bess on them scientists to come stur ich other’s rescoo is @ue tc what Peets calls ‘their "spree do core “Shore encounters doctors who Is narrow to the p'int of bein’ mean. Thar's & party e Panhandle country in my time- brief camp at Tas- cosa, he lancets, knives, saws, pilis an’ plisens; he splints. © h —now he’s that nar- ut this practitioner to remind a g Doc Peets, you can gamble! Peets is that broadminded it comes mighty clost 1o bein’ a gift. I've knowec Peets— k of takin' a wide view! ~I've knowed Peets 10 put two bullets do his best to plant he miscreant An’ then, wned this felon, turn in an’ r f, medical, savin' his life. at 1 calls bein’ broad. 1 asks bow he regyards sech con- lives. That's w recconcile your actions ¥ ‘bustin’ this party one mic an’ tyin’ up his wounds the Bext” because doctors is es Peets dooal, that “They're not only folks. Actin’ in my this crim'nal r level utmost to Later, 1 appears in my role = hyvsician: an’ then I performs all 1 save exhoome them bullets an save the I ma mments, as sech doe- trines is b me. But I recalls how they shore strikes me as romantic a whoie lot. I submits ‘em to Dan Boggs. Dar Says freely that if the case is his an’ he @iscovers & h jef who outlasts two shots he'd keep on shoott m up. for'ard like I'm headed at the * Dan. ‘That outcast who steals my steec gets every cartridge in my belt s calied for by his extermin- ation ® logical. 1 shore wouldn't onderstand a play where after the second shot you turns in to heal! and rehabil'tate the enemy: none whatever.’ “This Doc Chepp I adverts to comes from no one savevs where. No one asks; @5 bein’ inquisitive is bad manners along the Canadian. Most likely he's a foogi- tive of somse sort. Mebby he's done things that's agin the law. “Still, that's no resson te go back- frackin’ e gest. Why, son, st the epock T aliudes to if you-all was to make a Wwiné-up of them sports in the Panhandle for whom rewards is offered some'ers @ise, they'd been worth more money than the biggest, fattest beef berd that ever @oes tralliz’ out of that region for the Berthern yards. “Which nefther I nor others asks this Chepp concerning his yeretofore. We're %00 @iscrest for ome matter; an’' them Sgin, it's & cinch he'd a-lied. I don't believe in bein’ curous as to your neigh- bors, mohow. Thars & equilibrium to information, an’' I allus notices that about the time you knows a few inter- estin’ things about = gent he knows & equal mumber of highly thrillin’' things sbout yeu. As Colonel William Greene Sterett well says in his Coyote paper | Trist Duplicate Whist Club. HIST is & more powerful moral and soclal factor than is generally real- ized. Already women have exercised a great and good influence upon this, the most inteliectual and elegant pas- time known, and its futurs wel- fare must largely depend upon the continuance of their interest and support. It is my oft-expressed belief that women have in an equal degres ‘with men all the natural qualities which are essential to the playing of good whist. Mrs. A. A. Fredericks, president of the Trist Duplicate Whist Club, has fully exemplified it in her thorough knowledge of the game and executive ability. She is con- sidered one of the best lady whist players on the Pacific Coast, and is 2 most zealous and indefatiga- ble worker in the cause of good whist The Trist Duplicate Whist Club has a membership of about fifty, mostly gentlemen. They showed their appreciation of and confi- dence in Mrs. Fredericks when they elected her to that office, and #he has by her able management shown that their confidence in her #bility was not misplaced. The Trist Duplicate Whist Club has its clubrooms 711 Jones stroet. ernoons instructions will be given to the ladies in billiards. R —— Compass whist is played Tuesday { = Seturday evenings. Friday efternoon is set apart for the la- | @es’ game. A billiard table hak | recently Leen added for the use | ©f the members. On Baturday aft- “BUT I'M A MIGHTY FERTILE GENT ABOUT EXPEDIENTS, THAT A-WAY, AN’ IF YOU DON'T MOVE GAM?, I SHORE HARBORS THE IDEE YOU’RE GOIN’ TO HAVE BAD LU K—YOU AN’ THEM SAID SHEEP.” Jest prior to goin' squanderin’ over to Red Dog to peel the hide off that rlrul Journalist who's been waxin' too perni- clous, ‘Nacher abhors a vacyooum an' Gearly loves a even break.' Thar's wis- dom in them remcrks.” An' you-all should never forget—for you're young, son, an’ can’t acquire habits of caution too soon— that when you've gome clost enough to the game of a fellow sport to discover how he turns some clever trick, you've likewise gone clost enough for him to read the brands on you. You all ought to ponder over these vere temets, for they teaches charity. An’, comin’ down to the turn, where's that gent who's per- fect and has nothin’ to conceal? Thar's moments when even a angel walks in the water an’ tries tp break his trall; an’ I inclines with Old Man Enright to the theery that no gent of enterprise an’ activity attains to forty years without cuttin’ the wire fences of some law an’ goin’ bulgin' crim'nally through per- miscus. “But to recur to this Chepp: Let me tell you a incident which shows how plumb mean that praifie dog is. It's a o'casion when Bill Gatlin breaks his laig. You see, a obstinate party named Smith swings in across on the south side of the Canadian with a passel of sheep. This Smith is & heap evil disposed, an’ he camps them sheep over in Parker's Arroya; the same bein’ long an’ sucyoo- lent of grass and the best part of e LIT range. This Smith maintains sald sheep thar a week. Y “Now, sech conduct Is not only wrong; it's obnoxious. Cattle won't stay near sheep; cattle's too 'ristocratic. You Lold sheep on a range a week an’ all the cat- tl: vamoses. Wherefore, it's cattle law that while sheeo folks may drift through @ country, they can't stay none. They must, like John Brown's soul, keep marchin’ along, an' twenty-four hours in one camp is the limit of what's comin’ to sheep. They're shore long enough under foot that a-way, even if you-all kceps ‘em on the move: for the woolly ediots an’ do their best can't travel more’n six miles a day. Sheep possesses but one strong p'int; they can go with- out water longer than Huggins or Old Mornte. Otherwise they sizes up for as footile a form of anamile as ever deso- lates a smilin’ range an’ sets your eat- tle to huntin’ other scenes an' pastures new. “As I states, this low flung Smith gets into Parker's Arroya—him an’ his sheep— an’ they're thar a week. At\last Bob Roberson, who's manager of the LIT out- fit, rides over an' remonstrates. But Bmith is sullen an’ allows some he'll stay where he’s at. “ “Which I don't reckon now you-all is the State of Texas none!” says Smith to Bob, by way of a closin’ bluff. *‘No, retorts Bob; ‘I shore ain't the State of Texas, or outcasts who herds sheep like you would go to Huntsville for twenty years. But I'm a mighty fertile gent about expedients, that a-way, an’ if you don’t move camp, I shore harbors the iGee youuse goin' to have bad luck—you an’ them said sheep.’ “It's second drink time next mornin’, an’ Smith an’ the sheep i8 still p'isenin’ Park- er's Arroya. Thereupon Bob takes Bill Gatlin an’ four or five more riders who's at the LIT, home ranche, an' rounds up the head of the arroya, an’ comes swarmin’ down on that egreegious Smith .an’ his outfit with about a thousand head of cattle. > “Which it's ever been a subject of re- grets with me that T ain’t thar in person none to witness. the engagin' .spectacle. Folks who beholds the same assures me thar ain't been mothin' like it since the stormin’ of the Springer jall when Jack Hixenbaugh gets drilled through the knee an’ Red River Tom is lynched. The cattle goes intelligently to work. They stampede in among the sheep an' tosses ‘em. The alr is full of sheep an’ wool an’ the war- cries of Indignant cattle. Son, they kills off seven hundred of Smith's sheep right thar; an' you hear me! he's plumb ready to shift his grazin' grounds, Smith when the frolic's over. An’ he ain’t goin’ about none, makin’ insultin’ inquiries, ‘= Bob the State of Texas?' neither. QOSTUME - POSTER® POSES OOK on the front page of The Sunday Call to-day. That mag- nificent picture of Miss M. F. Swift as the “Duchess of Gainsbor- ough” is the third in the striking series of beautiful costume poses Ly rich and prominent socisty woman which have created a furor. The first was Miss Adalaide Murphy as the “Water Sprite,” the second was Mry. Thomas Magee Jr: as “Sunrise;” and the fourth will be “Folly.” Now | guess. No one—not even the most in- timate friends of the other three la- dies—had the slightest idea of their {dentity betore the pi ‘were pub- lished. As for the fourth—well, here is & good clew. She is one of the pret- tlest, daintiest, wittiest and most original women in California. Here is another clew. She is petite and blonde. Now you have a whole weel: betore next Sunday’s Call appears to ransack your memory. “ ‘.’m "“":,',,',‘,"3' series. will be: 'ommy ? «Empress Jo- sepkine,” “M;’fia 00’:;1:, Court Beauty,” “French Princess,” “Colum- :&:hnd “H Princess,” all subjects posed for by the ) ‘women in thelocal \ “It's doorin’ the progress of this success- ful plece of strategy that Bill Gatlin's pony slips an’ falls on Bfil's off laig. Snap! goes both of “Blll's bones below the knee. The others tharupon collects Bill a heap, swims the Canadian with him, an’ packs him over to the LIT ranch house. Then they spreads Bill on seme blankets an’ summons that Doc Chepp from Tascosa, said hamlet bein', say, mebby a mile away. “When this Chepp gets to Bill, he looks owly an’ knowin' an’ tries to let on that besides Bill's” laig he's also injured in- ternal a lot. ** ‘Mebby so,' says Bill, a heap scorntul. ‘Still, you-all confine your excitement to the laig. Anything that's fetchéd loose internal I'll ondertake to correct with Valley Tan." Whereupon Bill takes about forty drops by way of initiatin’ a treat- ment. “Seein’ Bill's synical about them inter- nal injuries, this Chepp don't say no more, but sets the bones an' fixes up Bill's lalg. That done, he lines out for his” wickeyup in Tascosa, some ugly be- cause Bill won’t let him light a lantern an’ go romancin’' about in his interior for. wounds. “It's most likely a hour later when Bill raises the long yell as I'm sa'nterin’ by the door of the camphouse where he's quiled up on his blankets like a damaged rattlesnake. When I goes a-weavin' in \ BY MRS. E. P. SCHELL. “LL whist players agree that there is no subject giving use to as many perplexing situations, nor one that {8 worthy of more careful conslderation than that of the dis- card. Hande are constantly met with where tricks are lost by poor judgment in dis- card or by misunderstandings bhetween partners concerning the proper interpre- tation of a discard; and in spite of inves- tigation among the expert whist players during the last few years no perfect sys- tem of discarding seems to have been yet evolved. The rule laid down by nearly all the au- thorities and universally agreed upon by whist players is that when there had been no declaration of strength in trumps on the part of opponents either by lead or call the first discard should be from one's Wweakest suit—the suit in which he is least lkely iu take a trick. But if the oppo- nents have previously led or called for trumps, then the original discard shaumld be from one’s best protected suit, the theory being that when trumps are de- clared against the discarder a defensive game should be played, and yhat strength he has in weak suits, which'are most apt to be the adversarles’, carefully guarded, not weakened by discarding from them, while with trumps declared in his favor he may well affdrd to play the forward gane, feariessly discarding from his weak suits and keeping his strong suit intact. To the first portion of this rule, which requives a discard of strength when the pdversaries have either led or called for trumps, many serfous and welghty objec- tions have been urged in recent years, the most noticeable of which are: Tirst, that eltuations often arise where, though trumps are led or declared by op- prove strong enough, either by leading or forcing, to exhaust the adverse trumps I finds Bill in a rage. He demands that the splints an' bandages be removed, an’ gives it out cold that they ain't on right. Also, he offers four to one that this yere Chepp don’t savey broken laigs more than Mexicans saveys constitootional gov'ment. “Bill's as hot as a brandin’ iron; I sees that easy. An’ Bill has grounds; his laig has done swelled ontil the splints is buried in Bill clost onto a inch. Shore, Bill's in agony. He can't get at the bandage none or he'd onslewed it himse't. “Which I'm a heap conserv-tive that a-way, an’ 17don’t go buttin’ in, ontyin’ bandages an’ ondoin’ broken laigs impul- sive. I ca'ms Bill, an’ allows I'll fetch Chepp an’ let him reconstruct his game more to Bill's comfort. ‘Don’t bring that held-up herel' says Bill. ‘So shore as he shows in the door I'll dewn him. From now that doctor's barred.” “As Bill's gun is layin’ on the window sill where he can reach it, an’ as thar's no use promotin’ needless homicides, I don’t send for Chepp. “‘Get Bob Roberson,’ says Bill. ‘Bob's had two arms an' a laig busted, an’ is shot five times doorin’ the Lincoln C ity war. It looks llke he oughter know plehty about medicine.’ “This yere sounds feasible, so Bob comes into the case. He sizes up Blll's laig; an” then without a word he throws it loose from them splints an’ bandages mighty and thus make it possible to establish and bring in the strong suit of the discarder. In such cases the discard from the strong suit will usually lose one or more tricks, ‘The second objection is based upon the fact that the discard gives positive in- formation to an opponent, who, having the lead, can better take advantage of it. For these as well as other reasons the old system of discard has been modified by a large number of the more advanced players, though I belleve that the major- ity of whist players still adhers to it. ‘While a trick or so' will be lost now and then by this system of discard, it o8- sesses the advantage of absolute cér- tainty. The Invariable discard from weakness has obtained considerable vogue among whist players, but it is far more objec- tionable than the other method. As it lacks positiveness and gives more usetul Information to oppopents than to partner, it calls the adversaries’ atténtion to the ‘weakest spot in your armor and does not‘ offer your partrier anything but the bagls for a negative iInference. The following illustrated hand will show how the “card that can best be Spared” discard lost two tricks: 5 East dealt and turned the three of dla- monds. South led. North, 8.-Q, 10, 8, 7, 3, 2 H.—A, J, 10, 8 A the same as demanded by . heart's tears, ‘which this contemptuous. After conferrin’ a drink of whisky on Bili to sustain an’ soothe his impatiencé, Dob goes to the shop an makes a new-fangled splint on plans of his own, an’ with that he resets Bill's laig a lot. Aw Bob does a falry eligible trick. Bill himse'f declar's it's the finest set game leg in T s when Bob is done. “8hcre, thar s Tu ' about m Bob's mipistrati a-way. Broken bones is simple; 1i's like breakin' a stick no per an’ feelln’ the two ends together ag'in with your eyes shet. You-all van’t miss. Ondoubted Bob with his ranch-made splint does the work as well as a entire herd of surgeors. . “When this Chepp hears of the fmprove- ments Bob inaug’rates, he refoosed to re- turn. He’s justified in his decisions by Bill's firm intention to open on bim on sight with his Colt's. For double causes, tharfore, Chepp allows that he washes his hands of Bill. “ “This person, Roberson, is a empirick,’ says Chepp. .‘I declines him as a col- league. Also, I refooses, absoloote, to go prostitootin’ science to the reestoration of laigs which is personal to murderers who packs weapons to bed with ‘em, an’ threatens to slam away tharwith at thew medical advigors. Sech rannikaboo doin’s lets me plumb ov “If this yere Is all, thar wouldn’t be 2 further word concernin’ that bungier Chepp. But it's now he commences, as [ states, to grow narrow an’ mean speshul Bil’s got a sweetheart who is goin’ to wed Bill after the beef roundup in the fall. While these ferrymakin’s Is in pro- gress over Biil's laig, she's in Dodge C a whole lot, ruanin’ her brand on a tros seau. She comes a-weavin' into Tascosa on the stage when mebby Bill's laig has been busted two weeks. It's then this in- sidious horned toad Chepp cuts loose farious. He slys up to Bill's sweetheart an’ fills her full of the belief that Bill's laig is goin’ to come devious. * ‘Shore, Miss,’ says Chepp. ‘Pore Bill's off laig will look like the letter S. This quack Roberson ain’t no doctor. He couldn’t set a hen—couldn’t set a clock, miss—let alone laigs.” ““Then he argues, this malignant Chepp does, that Bill's laig’s got to be broke over. . An’ with that, Bill's sweetheart comes curvin' over, all sobs tears, to tell the news to Bill “‘An’, Bill she concloods, ‘much as 1 love you, I can’t go through life leanin’ on a gent whose laig is crooked as a cork- screw. It must be re-busted, Bill, or them nuptials is indef'nitely postponed.” “ ‘Bust my laig anew!" says Bill. ‘Mary, you're locoed! It would be a insuit to Bob!" “*“Then you-all don’t love me! saya Mary, redoublin’ her walls. ‘If you cared for me you wouldn’t lay thar, Bill Gatlin, refoosin’ my most trivial requests on the grcunds that they're insults to Bob. If this yerc Roperson is goin’ to come be- tween us, it’s well I finds it out before in my trustin” simplicity I goes prancin’ to the altar af’ it's become too late. But you-alj never loved me! At this Biil's sweetheart takes on to a dégree -that makes Bill stand ‘round an’ stare. “Of course, Bill's laig is broke over. Thar's nothin’ else to do. Bill's sweet- heart set her mind on it, an’, as Bill says when he explains the game to Bob, he's ‘up ag'inst it." “‘An’, besides, Bob,” says Bill, ‘she’s a woman that a-way; an’ it's a gent’s dooty to humor 'em in the smaller affairs of Hte” “Thar's one element of satisfaction, however. This yere Chepp donm’t re-bust that laig. MacAllister sends over a drug an' lancet sharp from the Lee-Scott out- fit, an’ it's he who deals the game. An’ this Lee-Scott practitioner pays Bob ¢om- pliments at that. “‘Which this yere laig.’ i he’s about to make the play an straight as a arrer an’ house. But what then!" onderstand that this is sentiment. laig has got tangled u faigs, an’ it’s break Bill's lalg or lady’s heart. Nacherally ‘which you applies to me is insultin’ while the term quack is more'n I b'ar. Both is stains Now, I'm a mighty petyoelant man; an’ if you-all knowed me an’ my record as ‘well as 1 does, by first drink Ty evenin' you'd be miles to Tascosa, goin' all spraddl o Dedge.” Which Chepp was.” | BEAUTIFUL | THE FASCINATING GAME OF WRIST Tks. N. B A t *Jo : o 'h it h t gh *Kh Qn I S 3 34 Sc . Ks 8¢ ®Ac 8. *1h 4h sh a 8 Ah 3h 10 10, i *%d 38 - o a8 BOAE B Qs *Sh ' Ke 9s *~Takes trick. North and south 3: east and west 10 Trick 1—South opens his long club suit, ‘which falls to west at second round. Trick $-West opens trumps. East com- mences to show five trumps, and later continues trumps to get discards from opponents. Trick 5—South is uncertaln whether north's suit is hearts or spades, as the discard at the previous trick merely an- nounced that north could best spare one of the latter. Without positive informa- tion .i‘;mah.:m on the of the R LR 8] a character as to F-‘..I» 1t hm: that he may obtain twe In that suit If both king and be with opponents and uuz can b: compelled to W::flnonh- 1 lead it the king may Indeed, there anp::n:; reasons why sout! S IR T crmation that it is m’"fi#m"‘.‘fi?‘ 7 Trick 6—-East leads an apparen! un- round of s made clear at "th‘.'.' Il:: 6 was pla; & discard of the lone m'gl.'leol' Bast hfll.; I:". his ‘heart after careful work. On the ow umtb ll.‘k south -Mg‘.l: In answer 8‘..“ of &.‘ sult on the ave