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POLITICAL ASSASSINATION. AWEAPON THAT SELDOM SUCCEEDS.

ANNOYING PARTNERS AT BRIDGE.

[DY W. DALTON.].

The point in question was :-. South-One No. Trump. West.-Two Clubs, North-One Spade. West-That is not enough? What about it, partneri

the

were asked, would be that West was quite in order, and that East could either make North bid Two Spades" or elect that the hand be played at "Two Clubs?" and then there would be no further bidding

writes to me that many years ago, when A gentleman, now living in London, in India, he read my Arst book on Aut

My correspondent goes on to say that' much of the modern play seems based on the idea that one's partner's first biu must be taken out if possible. Poor must have something wrong with it, and mother! She is always supposed to be wrong, but is it not wiser to assume that her first bid was justified and to try to help her to make it good t

THE ENCHANTED ISLE,

the Premonitory dreams are most mysterious of all, but there is no longer any doubt that they occur, writes Louise [BY THE REV. CA. ALINOTON, D.D., HEAD Rice in the World Magazine. From the

A reader from Ceylan asks me to give MASTER OF TON.]

decision on a disputed point and to time that the Babylonian king saw the publish it in my weekly article, which, It was apparently the "Old Man of mysterious handwriting on. the wall (un-e tells me, is always reprinted in their tion Bridge, and that he has always the Mountain" who, in the time of the doubtedly in a dream, as is shown by the local newspaper, writes Mr. W. Dalton remembered what I said on the subject Crusaders firet raised assassination to the original text) down to the strange dreams in the &vening Standard. I alt very of helping mother." I had forgotten

interested to hear that these articles pene- level of a profession.

which Alled the sleep of those who had trate as far as that, and are, apparently, be nearly 20 years ago but I can quite ever having used the expression-it must Before his time (il Murray's Diction-bought tickets for the ill-fated steamship read with considerable interest.

see how it applies ary is to be trusted) the word assassin "Lusitania, men and women have heard and seen that in sleep which could have merely suggested private enterprise on told of the future. the part of individuals who intoxicated

In all nations and in all times, the themselves with bashish when preparing thought and visions of a mysterious is- land have meant that some one-either to despatch some public man. But after

ourself or of those connected with us, is.) his time we £nd them erected into "al near to death. The persistent use of the company of most desperate and dangerous figure of the enchanted isle which runs all men among the Mahometans" or even through the Tales of the Round Table do a "bloudy sect of Sarazens who under-pot originate there, but can be found take the murther of any eminent Prince thousands of years before that, in the impugning their religion."

literature of the East. - Whatever its origin, it is a fine, mouth- Just a few years ago Sir James Barrie filling word to represent a very horrid wrote the weird story of" Mary Rose," thing and it recalls some dack pages a little girl who disappeared on a strange in human history.

uninhabited island off the coast of Spot April 14th, 1962, was Good Friday, and land, and of her secand disappearance Abraham Lincola, with his wife, had when she was a young woman.. That play gone to the theatre is Washington tois fail of all the secret meanings of man who has witness a performance of a play called "dreams, for Barrie is a "The American Causin. The fet will studied dream fore as few moderna have. scem surprising to, those who do not So little is this very important matter realise how perfunctory all religious understood that many of the things which observances had become in this country,

he puts in the mouths of his characters in the play have all to do with the inter- pretation of dreams: And yet, not one dramatic critic has ever given even two lines to the discussion of this most "in- leresting fact.

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as well as in America, before the days of the Oxford Movement. In 1983, for example, the hours of service in Chester Cathedral were altered to enable the elergy and congregation to attend a race meeting.

Certainly Lincoln, however much bis plainness of speech might shock the ees- pectable, wa the last man to outrage

...

South-West is out of order and penalty is forfeited,

All agreed, add the bidding con- tinued :

ed.

East. No bid. Boath. No bid. West.-Two Oluba,

North-Two No Trumps, and all pass

I know quite well what my friend refers to. There is a section of players- quite a large section-who are always on the look-out for a chance of taking their partners out of their calls, and they are Then the question arose na to who most annoying to play with. They seem to enjoy doing it, and you sometimes hear should play the hand. North or South?

them say, in a plaintive voice, "I could The point raised was that, North's bid not take you out, partner; my hand was too bad, and the partner probably says, of One Spade being left in, South's original bid of "One No Trump was

or, at any rate, thinks, Thank good- thereby cancelled,

the biddingness for tha and I never heard the point On the other hand, I should say that begin afresh.

the modern tendency, among sound raised. before, and I do not think there is anything in it. One bid, even though stendy players, is to support a major it is an undereall, cannot cancel a suit bid of their partners, if they have other one South was the first No Trump any material to do it on, in preference bidder, and therefore he should play the to branching into some other possible, That is quite clear, but the previous there is not nearly so much taking a and quite reasonable, call. Certainly hand.

proccdings are not so clear. West was

partner out of a major sait call into No Trumps as there used to be. Experience Dreams of being on an island, and not out of order in drawing attentica to the undereal. It is specially stated ia especially of hearing beautiful and

seems at last to be driving home the solema music on the island, are all pre-Law 46 that any player can call atten lesson that the No Trump call is not the monitions of some great change which is tion to it, but it is not stated how much one high road to success at Auction, but Christian sentiment by any action of his going to take place. It may not be further he may go. It has been decided that a major suit call is generally & He was, in the most literal sense of the death but it will be something equally by the Card Committee that when the sounder and better proposition.

A good many men and adversary on the right of the offender words, a good Bible Christian, knowing momentous. the book which he described as God's inge into which they were about to enter you partner, to exact the penalty."

women have dreamed this before a mar said "That is an undercell. It is up beat gift to man as well as the most ardent Fundamentalist, though it may

with a heavy sense of responsibility. So penalty could be exacted, because the well be believed that his sense of humour long ago as the earliest Greek history we partner of the player solely entitled to would have saved him from embracing this symbolism of the island having exact the penalty had suggested the force, in the phrase "Isles of the enforcement of it, which he most cer that. Fundamentalist creed. This visit Blest," Happy Isles,"" the Far Isles," tainly did. (See Case 24 in Cases and of his to the theatre would have attracted as little notice as blame had it not been of early French legend and the Isles Decisions.)

of the South," of which the Greenlander for the pistol shot which was heard at dreams, when some premonition stire in 10.30, and for the sudden appearance of the dark recesses of his soul. John Wilkes Booth brandishing a bloody dagger as he leapt from the President's hox on to the stage. Lincoln died the next morning, and his assailant had CLEAN-written his name in the curiously short ING DEPT.

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The fact suggests some reflections on assassination as a political instrument, and the first reflection which occurs, to the mind is, as has already been suggest ed, how seldom it succeeds.

times repeated. He related his dream to his friends, and, though he did not him: sell know Mr. Perceval by sight, his de- scription enabled one of them who did to recognise him. While they were still discussing the vision they heard a horse's. hoofs, and went out to greet Mr. Wil- Hams's son, who had just galloped out from Truro with the news ansässination.

of the

Booth's object, no doubt, was attained so far as it was mere revenge, and this

A CONTRAST, is suggested by the first words of his This happy immunity of ours is in theatrical exclamation-Sie semper tyran- curious contrast to the experience of

i. But his next words, the South America, where two Presidents besides Is avenged," show that he had other Kinenia; Garfield and McKinley, have thoughts in his mind, and if he really fallen to the assassin. It is difficult to desired to serve the cause of the South suggest a reason for the difference, but, his act was as futile as it was criminal. 48 neither of the victims was a man of Lincoln was the pac man living who was outstanding personality, it would seem both wise cough and strong enough to that their fate was due to mere lunacy, have secured justice for the losers in the which is susceptible to no known law, war, and the pitiful history of the years

It is time to return from these gen-" which followed, with their record of eralisations to the great man who met.. organised and stupid oppression, must his death nearly sixty-one years ago. It have brought home to any intelligentia pathetic that he had spent the after- Southernar the tragic nature of Booth's noon in discussing with his wife the mistake.

quiet future that awaited them when his second term of office was over. "He

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recollections of his early days, bis little brown cottage, the law office, the court- room, the green bag for his briefs and law papers, his adventures when riding the circuit, came thronging back to him."

He appears to have looked forward to. taking up much the same kind of life again, with a law office in Springfield or Chicago, though he had saved enough money to keep them in comfort. The pistol of John Wilkes Booth deprived the world of the opportunity of watching A very interesting experiment. The posi tion of President of the United States is BO great that it is always curious to watch the subsequent career of those who have beld it. In many cases their cleva- tion has been more or less a matter of accident, and the obscurity into which they relapsed was, in fact, their natural element.

Ia sober truth, it is hard to think of any famous assassination which I spoke of his old Springfield home and secured the objects for which it was com- mitted. To kill a great man is not to undo his work: in fact, be seldom seems to qualify for apsassination until he has act in motion the ideals which will out- live him. It was comparatively easy to kill Julius Cesar, but the personal dominion which he was killed for en deavouring to found has proved one of the most enduring things in history. Henry IV of France and William of Orange had done their work, and could only be punished for doing it so well.

A HISTORIC CRIME. Russia is perhaps the only country in Europe where great men have been mur- dered rather for their intentions than for their acts, and the result has almost invariably been the opposite of that which it was hoped to secure.

It is possible that some exception ahould be made in the

A VERY GREAT MAN. case of the assassination of the Archduke Francis

But Lincoln was a very great ins Ferdinand, which precipitated the Euro- the greatest of all who had held office pena, war. In so far as its authors were since Washington, and with only two animated by mere hostility to Austria conceivable competitors among those who they might claim to have succeeded behave followed him. And he had lived yond their wildest hopes. The good for in great days, such as only Washington tune which for centuries had been the and Wilson among Presidents have had proverbial possession of Austria has to face. All the world knows how nobly indeed deserted her, and her abasement Washington effaced himself when the is as complete as her worst enemies could great days were over; ill-health robbed have wished. But it can hardly be sup-

President Wilson of the chance to thaw pesed that any assasin would congratu- what he would have done in a similar late himself on a success attained at such position, but it may be conjectured that incalculable cost to the world, and he would have found it at least ne diffi- Serajevo is a name of almost unrelieved cult as did Roosevelt to become a mére gloom for Europe.

private individual.

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Would Lincoln have emulated his great cessful assassination in modern European predecessor? We can never know but history is one which. failed, for it seems all that we do know of his life, his to be clear that if Orsini had not at modesty and his humour, his unselfish- tempted to murder Napoleon III. heness and his self-control, encourages us would not have fought to liberate Italy to think that he would have joined the

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