The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1903, Page 12

THE SUNDAY CALL fuck omens. On the other hand, he be- lieves Friday Is his lucky day, for he can recall many successful undertakings be- y on Friday his first year of freedom came the s life. [ keen ie boy as ofntment of It_wgs decided to open a school f ored people in the village of Malden, where he worked, and now it seemed his one dream was to come true—he could learn to read. Somehow—no one cares how—his mother had already secured for him an old Webster's blue-back spelling book. Alone he had mastered most of the alphabet, but he could not build words with it. The school opened, but Booker’s stepfa- ther could not spare him from his work. Day after day he saw the boys and girls passing on their way to school, and all he could do was to practice making his 18" and stick closer to his old biue-back speil- ing book. He was determined to learn something anyway. By I by, however, the boy won and for a few s was allowed to go to school by getting up early and working until § o'clock and returning to work after #chool. And 1s there one who can blame him for mov e hands of the clock forward a half hour each morning so that he could get ol by 9 o'clock and not miss his recitations? At school he had a new difficulty to face —the question of a name. His mot had named him Booker, an old Virginia family name, and he was too young te think of having any other until he went to school and found that all the children had at least two names, and some three He was puzzled, for he knew the teach- S CAUTMMACHER. FHOTO LOJT ANGELES —— After sc to sweep o This he felt w amization, and he knew Washington, and a return to Hampton periment of training then Tuskegee, the Gesire. This man has had two consu tion to learn and to teach thess two thoughts have life is show y answer tion of what sta the greatest “The gregtes sald, “was whe Harvard Univers & degree upon me. Next to President McK kegee. Th. £ st life as the greatest events To Booker Wash gree meant recog done for himself; President of the L gee was recog done for others. His work is his 1 money have fal though he is practical er would demand two names, and he had but one. But by the time the teacher got &round to roil him he had had in- spiration d he caln announced that his ne was Booker Washington. Later he learned that his mother had named salary of $250¢ support his fa tertain the dis to Tuskegee as his guests The present Mrs, ngt the him Booker afe ugh > second bee he rev . o ter by the first wife and two sons b 2 e e first wife and two sons by the g A few m 8 of school, then Back 10 4ocond. What Mr. Washington counts e : e L uch away fr S night time for The darkness of D°!N& so muc ¥ S - lectures are the main source of revenue the ccal mine as full of horror to the o - et of the Tuskegee Institute. O s et of 1t Do Bated, Tt 16 7«3y Baut vent and reasentions he saye m heard of Hampton. Two miners wers talk- .3 &0 evening at home with my w a 1 o h " ing one day of this school for colored peo- c*l“‘:"}"" or an afternoon in the woods ple and could they have peered into the With them. - i darkness of the passage they would have _ Gardening is also a favorite pastime, scen thelr “buddy” idle, wide-eyed, scarcq 404 an hour away from his office digzing breathing lest they should discover him 3MOng the flowers or planting seeds is a aud cease talking. rare treat. He keeps a . He aid not know where Hampton was. ond fowls of He did not ca He only knew he was - ®J5es the pig going there. Bt Aoy Apwts, Revey e s i But how? It required money, and up football and does not know to this time all his wages had gone to his &nother. He goes fishing n mother. He quit the mine an@l hired him- Dbut would rather have a & self as house boy to the wife of the mine With his two boys than any g else s pame. et owner—a Yankee woman, who gave him He dreads speaking In public, suffering a g his first lessons in neatness, promptness, 80 much from nervousness before speak- ot der. ing that he has e of Mcre than a year he worked and walted. Dever again to mak Then with but a half consent from his best to speak to an audiepce s e mother, and less than half enough money men, and next a Sov N t this was to take him to Hampton, he started. He A&re most responsive, airt # £ gy ng still @14 not know where it was. Five England audien s hundred miles would have seemed a long He has a deeply way, and it was long before he succeeded never goes upon t te in covering It by walking and begging prayer. Ever rides. makes a pract! On his first night away from home he the Bible first was to learn what it meant to have a the rite of havi 3 black skin. He applied for lodging at the River w e grew .. hotel where the stage coach stopped and d, he is a Bapt r was” refused. Out under the stars he ligion is bigger tha i walked all night, to keep warm, and religlon of doing good and hel wonder what was to become of him if all On the subject of soclal equ 4 doors were closed to boys with a black blacks and whites, Booker Wa on . skin. = s After several days he reached 'he outcome of the race prot 1 P ; mond, dirty, tired, hungry, penniless, ev- cannot foresee. I do not be erything but discouraged. He had never marriage. It is not -al. been in a city before and did not know tion cannot be solved that way ; . what to do, 80 he walked the streets un- n all th purely soclal, we can be 2 - . i after midnight, then crept under a as Separate he fingers, yet one as the - : sidewalk to rest as well as he could for hand in all things essential to s > o the tramping of feet overhead and the progress.” S oos = e o clamor of an empty stomach. »oker Washington does not seck s for one ha In Richmond he earn enough money recognition for himself. It has to land him in Hampton with just 50 cents ntaneous tribute to him as a in his pocket, and an appearance so and only those can unde against him that the head teacher hesi- who have fe force of his 1 tated to admit him. personal HA H . ) does not succeed. . Sy e e % e i Finesses In partner's sult—usually un- . < » j ] 1] € CASY L 1455 U[\D jl\l V\/\/J i JS called for and tending to mislead them t's hand, but the phard « & regarding the distribution of their suits. d be a better Jead t % the BY ses from fear of giving any chance for Fallure to review the plays and by heart. As It s, hand S St sbsariiaican KoIy win by elimination read opponent’s holdings, or ruffs. m forced lead. Trick 3—North ead Its are by no means surpris- Faflure to read and understand part- West's lead w. gy e onsiders the foundation upon ner's forced leads—hasty conclusions, no trump st e le P 1 of the general rules are overlooking the fact that opponent may for the p 1 of our strict long suit t disappointed at their fail have opened the suit in which partner hearts. There is no = f t ¥ was strongest. anything with the sult, and th g . ure the suit opened originall Careless or indefensible discarding— like a good time for Last to get v er t S rom the start th look for which places partner ai the mercy of tt Tun. > ¢ * outcome. The suit is led as the adversaries, ke . . : ive measure, with knowl- Last, and worst of all-shifting to ad- protection of versaries’ tacties In the middle of a game must be wit and expecting partner to understand a Trick 10.—Eas change for which he is totally unprepared. the A deal where three tricks were lost, due the s the long run less harm can the opening than from an ex- short lead, with the chances r of materially assisting opponent. ) pposition that he credits South wit o les aril thing Dafther's autih to unnecessary mistakes: three clubs, a conc ces y o A clfeved of ihe necessity of are no grounds. Th heart sy € nst that particular suit as 3 queen at th tric nts for two of the tricks East and West lost upon the W s when a may be com- R deal. e nergies to_ protect TABLE NO. 2 “ gthened by the %h - rdly compensates L 42 s Sl SRR the possibility that o # short plices upon ‘ ks of this nature the $ players who are satisfled to open their sg—',\. K, J. 10, 7 - be ts in regard to number-showing H.-J, % . resort to few experiments and no C.—10, 9, 2 Was e ar as partner is concerned, D—Q, 6 2 b ¥ to defeat. While for N e Queen of spades trump, leader East. TABLE NO. 1. E. 8. W be only a poor player is a happy medium und following of rules E . " 4 t that o ¢ . h Jh *Kh pende o fothe v:']:r\:rnf";hr:eld“- sh Th An ith, T: East and “-m“ suit game v are uble to meet the » g s 3-West's lead from four small varying conditions as presented by the 53 7s 23 trumps and nothing in two suits fs a fiyer sh *10s €s A still better re 4c *As 83 of the stren 7d *Ks 3s Trick 3 pment of a b rdance with nd derive d, after an opening strict long-suit prin- as much enjoy- low the lead ete in three that exercise of skill and close ',:d gd fisd of the trump s 3 the Sunds Call, in the middle and end of game, *Ac o e and 3. 18 and 25. The 1de possible, as do those whose f . Qn *Js 8 Trick 4—The fine # e | largely speculative. oh 24 4h Trick 5—East gets 1 s trated by the “common ‘of ‘the le- 12. *Ka Jo 8¢ 10h ning clubs, whict ecial ight photo- | mmitted by these who are in- 13. *10d Ko 10e Qo other table falled a # Byron, the | play hastily, or to strive for North and South, 10. Hast and West, 3. Trick 3—North's play of the spade queen ’ 4 re than there is in a hand, a few may Trick 1At both tables East opens with at trick 3 must have deceived his parts photag-. | umerated as follows: - the heart six. ver, for if South counts West with two for Miss Trick 2—Holding the four and three, trumps he will not pass this t West knows that his partner almost sure- trump in and draw the rem mistaken impression that it could make an aggressive game and should be given chance to lose equals the chance to gal, 1y opened a five-card sult and one of the and discard his hea n his part- . no difference in the result. exact information. and there is no compensating advantage opponents must be vold. It looks as ner's long diamond, which would save s ) S False carding—when partner is playing Finessing In one's own sult—when the in position possible, in case the finesse though Sovth was out and his Is presum- trick. 3 o leads—when partner has n s in his power that ck, b ning tru