Solve the Ciphers
WASHINGTON Here is a unique
receipt for "soup:"
"First, take about ten or a dozen
Imspwri hz xug, crumble it up fine
and put it in a pan or wash bowl, then
pour over it enough uswhohs (either
chhx or aky) to cover it well. Stir it
up well with your hands, being careful
to break all the lumps; leave it set
lor a few minutes; then get a few
yards of cheesecloth and tear it in
pieces and strain the mixture through
the cloth into another vessel, wring
the sawdust dry and throw itg away.
The remains will be Lhai ugx uswhohs
mixed; next take the same amount of
water as you used of uswhohs and
pour it in; leave the whole set for a
few minutes."
It is the "soup" of yeggnien, whose
particular business is robbing safes. A
crude cipher runs through the riga
marole merely a subdivision of the
alphabet and the substitution of one
letter for another. The first six let
ters beginning with A are substituted
for the last six beginning with U, and
so on, with the single exception that
N is taken out of its turn and made
the equivalent of G, an irregularity in
tended to protect the cipher from de
tection. But no cipher is proof against
expert analysis: certainly not this
one, which, though still used by
"yeggs," nevertheless is known to the
Blind Man Tells
IMAGINE, if you c?.n, one who has
never seen the light of day, sitting
in his accustomed place in the grand
staid rooting with all his eenrg-y for
the success of the heme team, and you
can easily figure out just why Wash
ington always supports a ball team,
although her ball toesers have not fin
ished in the first division during the
last decade.
Eugene Brewertcn, familiarly known
to his friends as "Jack," has perhaps
as wide acquaintance among the pa
trons of the national game at the cap
ital as "Gabby" Street or Walter John
son," and is unquestionably the most
unique rooter who ever patronized the
sport "Jack" was born in Columbus,
S. C, 24 years ago, and after receiv
ing a public school education matricu
lated at the University of South Caro
lina. He came to Washington a few
years ago to study law at the George
town University, and It is his ambi
tion to become as famous a lawyer as
the blind senator from Oklahoma,
Thomas Pryor Gore.
But "Jack" does not believe in giv
Attempt to Stop
TROUBLED by the inroads the dis
ease is making in some of the
eastern states at the present time,
the government has ordered an inves
tigation into the epidemic of infan
tile paralysis. New York, Pennsyl
vania, ' Massachusetts, New Jersey,
and the city of Washington, D. C,
have felt the disease the heaviest
this year, and the scores of deaths
that have occurred among the little
ones of that district has caused Uncle
Sam to take some action.
Dr. Wyman of the Public Health
and Marine hospital service, is the
leader in the investigation, and he
made the announcement this week
that he believes the disease to be both
infectious and contagious. Although
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Government Prisoners Go in Style
fpON'T LIKE TO
TRAVEL WTH
THIS KIND OF
mm,
COMPANY
' THEr are TOO; I fefe
ti'T' IS Leavenworth Overland Spe
1 cial" Is a palatial Pullman car
which runs every now and then from
Washington to a certain rest cure
out west with a stone wall around it.
, The tours are personally conducted
and are rapidly becoming famous.
Every once in awhile your Uncle
Sam runs across certain persons who,
he believes, are leading a too active
existence. A. rest cure is what they
need. Uncle Sam takes charge of them
and sends them, after certain legal
formalities, such as a trial and ver
dict, are conip'ied with, out to Leavcn
crta to recuperais.
With Uncle Samuel ther3 Iz no cas
Used by Yeggmen
police, to post office inspectors and the
treasury secret service people. .
Translating, you find that to make
the, soup you take ten or a dozen
sticks of dynamite and use either
wood or pure alcohol in the manner
directed. .
Fewer depredations by yeggmen are
reported this year than usual. Last
fall a series of such crimes occurred
and since that time apparently there
has been a period of inactivity among
these most dangerous of plunderers.
Tho post office inspectors, whose con
tact with yeggmen Is frequent, since
the attacks are often directed against
country post offices, .hesitate to say
whether there has been an actual re
duction In their numbers; for expe
rience goes to show that waves of
crime seem to sweep the country after
Intervals of varying length.
The "yeggmen" are especially feared
because of their recklessness regard
ing the sacrifice of human life. Of it
self, handling the "soup" is a danger
ous business. The explosion is a men
ace to anyone in the building, and oft
en the robbers must make a running
fight of it to "make a get-away with
the swag."
The name is of gypsy origin, and
among gypsies indicates a clever thief
so the "yegg" is a wandering thief,
generally a "hobo." As late as twenty
years ago one tramp meeting another
and desiring to be sure of his identity
as a professional tramp, saluted him,
"Ho, Beau." It was the password es
tablishing at once a confidential part
nership on a basis approaching out
lawry. The "yeggs" generally are
tramps, though not all tramps are
"yeggs."
of Baseball Game
ing his entire attention to study,' and,
accordingly, he has found it to his
liking to take in the ball games. Not
only is he familiar with every char
acteristic of the members of the lo
cal team, but he knows as well tho
records and playing abilities of the
visiting aggregations.
"I have often been asked how, as a
blind man, I can enjoy a game. Why,
there is nothing going on I don't get.
I know the finer points of the game,
and can map out plays which I think
Jim McAleer in his palmiest days
could not duplicate. Don't you think
it is a peasure to see chaps of the
Milan type skip around the diamond?
I cannot help from yelling every time
I 'see' him completing the circuit.
Then there is Speaker of the Bos
ton team, and Cobb of the Tigers.
Hew I love to 'watch' them in ac
tion! "It Is my firm belie! that all blind
people have a sort of intuition, and
everything that Is going on around
them makes a picture in their mind.
That is the way it appears to me,
anyhow. I can sit in the grand stand
in the ball park and picture what
Walter Johnson and the rest of the
players look like.
"When the game is over, I don't
have the least trouble getting to the
street cars, I can feel my way along
the grand stand and reach the street."
Infantile Paralysis
the disease is often fatal, its appal
ling feature is that many children af
fected are permanently crippled or
deformed, robbed of speech or hear
ing. In a word, infantile paralysis is
not a slaughter but a mutilation of
the innocents. The disease common
ly attacks children under i five years
of age, but occasionally an adult is its
victim.
Its shining mark at this minute in
the east is William Hinrich, a pitch
er of the Washington American league
in Washington, and his entire right
baseball team. He is in a hospital
arm is paralyzed. At the present time
there are over 500 cases of the dis
ease in Washington alone, while Phil
adelphia and New York city reports
even greater numbers. Nothing is
known of the cause of the disease oth
er than that it Is believed to come
from a germ, but even these have
not yet been found. The disease usu
ally appears during June, reaches its
greatest prevalence during July and
August and subsides in Septemebr.
distinction. Deeds count. It doesn't
matter whether he was a "man high
er up" or not. He travels like one.
He travels to the colden west in a
Pullman, he has porters to wait on'
him and extremely attentive detec
tives to see that he is comfortable. He
lolls in plush swivel chairs and he
dines ia those neat little la carte Pull
man buffets on chicken, porterhouse
steak, and all the side dishes. He
eats what ha pleases and he does not
tip the waiter neither does he pay the
bill. Uncle Sam attends to that. It
is a delightful trip that Is fuYnished
him in his concluding days of freedom
days he is not likely to forget.
From Washington to Leavenworth
is a trip of more than 1,500 miles. On
every mile of the journey the wants
of Uncle Sam's prisoners and guards
are well catered to, as evidenced by
the hampers of chicken, beef, ham,
eggs, sardines and so cn. down to the
liiore esthetic rlclightj of the tourist
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I New News' a'
Of IfesTERiE&r
Almost Tragedy in Congress
Former Secretary of the Navy Robe
son, Replying to Bitter Attacks of
Misslesipplan, Was Prepared
to Shoot H Assaulted.
For the greater part of General
Grant's two terms as president of the
United States, George M. Robeson of
Camden, N, J., was hi3 secretary of
the navy.. He' retired from that post
when Grant gave way to Hayes, and,
after practising law for some time in
his home city, went back to Washing
ton as a member of the house of rep
resentatives. During his administration of the
navy department Mr. Robeson's po
litical enemies had applied to him the
nickname of "Secor," because of his
alleged partiality to a manufacturer of
the name of Secor when it came to
awarding naval contracts for the line
of goods made by Secor. Many of
these political enemies were still in
the public service when Mr. Robeson
made his reappearance in Washing
ton. Some of them were in congress,
and these, almost as soon as Mr. Rob
eson had been sworn in as a member
of the house, began more or less heavy
attacks upon his actions when he was
the head of the navy department.
Notwithstanding his aggressiveness,
for which he was noted, Mr. Robeson
was very sensitive to attacks upon
him. He met me one day just after
he had been the subject of a partic
ularly bitter arraignment at the hands
of Representative Barksdale, from
Mississippi. "If these attacks con
tinue," said Mr. Robeson, "I shall reply J
to them from the floor of the house,
and if I do reply I think it will be
worth your while to be present and
hear what I say. I expect to be strong
ly personal and there may be a scene."
Sure enough, a few days later, Mr.
Robeson took the floor of the house
in his own defense, and there followed
as dramatic and tense an hour as the
house had witnessed in many a month.
Mr. Robeson, leaving his desk, strode
down the aisle and took his stand be
fore the clerk's desk. Of impressive
appearance with his florid complex
America s First
Jcslah Hornblower Brought One to
the Colonies In 1750, Married Miss
Elizabeth Kingland and Never
Returned to England.
This is a story that goes back to a
quarter of a century before the col
onies threw off the yoke of England
j et, so far as I know, it has never be
fore been in print. It is a story
vouched for by William B. Hornblow
er, the nationally-noted lawyer, who,
but for the enmity of New York's
Democratic senators of 1S93, would
not be on the bench of the United
States Supreme court as an associate
justice. And though it is a story of
the eighteenth century, it is one of
peculiar timeliness in this, the great
country and the great age of steam.
Meeting Mr. Hornblower, I remarked
that some years before I had been
told by the late Abram S. Hewitt, one
of New York's famous mayors and for
years a big voice in the national coun
cils of the Democratic party, that he
had talked with an artisan who had
been employed by Mr. Hornblower's
great-grandfather in operating a
steam engine in a topper mine in
New Jersey.
"Yes," said Mr. Hornblower, "my
great grandfather did operate a steam
engine in a New Jersey copper mine,
and the artisan Mr.. Hewitt talked with
must have been in my ancestor's em
ploy abort the" year 1750."
"What," I exclaimed, "a steam en
gine in this country in 1750? Why,
not until about the time of the Revo
lution did Watt have his steam en
gine perfected."
"Nevertheless, the date is correcti"
replied Mr. Hornblower; "for while it
Is true that the great improvements
which Watt put upon the steam en
gine has erroneously led many per
sons to look upon him as it3 inventor,
Jcsiah Hornblower brought to the
United Slates its first, steam , engine
about the year 1750 and set it up in
what, I think, was the first copper
mine to be operated by the colonists.
There it was successfully employed in
pumping water out of the mine, just
as mahy mines In England were freed
of water years before Watt had his
engine on the market.
"Jcsiah Hornblower," continued his
distinguished descendant, "brought his
engine over under what could be
termed a contract. The mine people,
wanting to drain their mine, heard of
my great-grandfather's engine and en
gaged him to bring it over, set It up
in their property, and give instruction
in the running of it. To do all this he
planned to be absent from his home
for perhaps a year. '.
"But, alas for the plans of men!
While he was in the midst of the task
of setting up his engine, he chanced
one day to meet a very beautiful
your.g woman of New Jersey, Mistress
Elizabeth KIngsland, the daughter of
William Kirgsiand, whose family en
joyed Intimate social and neighborly
ion heightened by the b train of the
moment, his white hair and beard
shining Ilk snow, and his near-sighted
eyes glowing like great coals of
fire behind powerful eyeglasses he
faced Representative Barksdale as
squarely as a man ever faced another,
and directed at him all of his stinging
personal sentences. Two or three
times Barksdale, showing every sign
of extreme exasperation and wounded
dignity, seemed about to rise from his
seat, and each time Mr. Robeson
stopped In his castigation and eyed
his enemy intently. At last, however,
being unable to stand the strain any
longer Mr. Barksdale, plainly angry
through and through, did rise and
start towards Mr. Robeson, but near
by friends speedily forced him Into
his seat, and -Mr. Robeson ended his
speech without any further evidence
on the part of Mr. Barksdale that he
longed for a personal encounter 'with
his castigator.
Twain9 s Last
Characteristic Letter to New York
Banker Called Out by the Non
Arrival of a Money Shipment
to Bermuda.
Mark Twain was exceedingly par
ticular about money matters, always
insisting upon exacting, as a matter
of principle, all that was his due and,
on the other hand, being rigorously in
sistent on paying to the last cent
every dollar of his obligations. His
business correspondence frequently
contained facetious and highly humor
ous comments and if his literary ex
ecutors can obtain any of these letters
it is probable that they will be able fo
extract therefrom some highly char
acteristic Twain humor.
It was Mark Twain's custom for a
number of years before his death to
drop in occasionally and chat with for
mer Postmaster General Thomas L.
James, now president of the Lincoln
Steam Engine
relations with the Schuyler family,
one member of which afterwards be
came the wife of Alexander Hamilton.
That meeting, if family tradition is to
be believed, delayed considerably the
getting of the steam engine into suc
cessful operation. In any event, its
Inventor fell heels over head In love
with Mistress KIngsland, they became
engaged, their marriage took place In
1755, and my great grandfather, re
nouncing his original plan of return
ing to England, settled in the colonies
for life and afterwards became a
speaker of the New Jersey legisla
ture." Perhaps I should add to what Mr.
Hornblower told me that the beauti
ful Elizabeth KIngsland was one of
the first American girls to annex an
Englishman of fortune and ability.
And she made of him a most loyal
and steadfast American. ,
(Copyright. 1S10, by E. J. Edwards.)
Mileage of Blood Circulation.
The mileage of the blood circulation
reveals some astonishing facts.. It
has just been calculated for instance
that assuming the heart to beat 69
times a minute at ordinary pressure
the blood gees at the rate of 203 yards
in a minute, or, nine miles an hour,
227 miles a day and 80,000 mile3 a
year. If a man 84 years old could
have but one single blood corpuscle
floating In his blood all his life it
would have traveled in that time near
ly 7,000,000 miles.
Marine Corns is Restless
Ml
tAzny Officers, From Commandant
s Down, Have Seen on Duty at
Washington for Years.
That the Marine corps faces certain
reorganization as the result of the pro
nouncement by a court of inquiry that
a spirit of insubordination reigns
throughout the service seems to be the
prevailing opinion of naval officers on
duty at the department. The serious
condition of the service was held to
be due primarily to too long terms of
service by officers without changes of
assignment. The question of reorgani
zation probably will be considered this
week and radical changes may be
made.
The records of the officers concerned
in the recent inquiry show that Gen
eral Elliott, commandant, has been on
hl3 present duty in Washington since
October 3, 1903; Col. Charles H.
Lauchheimer, the adjutant and inspec
tor at headquarters, since December
14, 1904; Col. Frank L. Denny, quar
termaster, since June 27, 1897; Lieut.
Col. Thomas C. Prince, rince July 10,
1906; Lieut. Col. Henry C. Haines, as
eistant adjutant, since May 30, 19CS,
and Maj. David D. Porter, assistant
adjutant, since May . 28, 1908.
"A day or two later I again met
Mr. Robeson and here is where the
new news of this incident, famous in
the history of the house comes in.
"Mr. Robeson," I 6aid, "do you think
that Mr. Barksdale Intended to make
a personal attack on you when he
started towards you tho other day?
It Is the general opinion that he did."
Mr. Robeson's answer was impres
sively slow. "I expected a personal
attack to be made upon me," he said,
"and that was one of the reasons why
I did not speak at my desk with part
ot the house behind me, but-from In
front of the clerk's desk, with the en
tire bouse before me. But I was pre
pared for any possible attack. ,1, had
a revolver In each hip pocket. And if
any one had approached me, intending
to strike me, I should have shot him
dead upon the spot."
I have never doubted that Mr. Robe
son would have done that very thing
had the aroused and angry Mr. Barks
dale been allowed by his friends to
continue on his way to the clerk's
desk. But thank God they merciful
ly restrained him.
(Copyright. 1910, by E. J. Edwards.)
Business Joke
National bank of New York city. Not
only were they business friends, but
they had had in common many literary
friends, now nearly all dead, and Mark
Twain used to enjoy exchanging anec
dotes and personal recollections of
them.
"I suppoee," said General James to
me a day or two after Mark Twain's
death, "that the last humorous busi
ness communication Mark Twain ever
made are those which came to me
from him a few weeks ago. They were
written soon after his arrival in Ber
muda, whence he returned to die. For
years he kpt a personal account In
our bank, and he was eccentric, al
most, in his requests for the kind of
money with which his checks were
honored.
"Early in February I received a let
ter from him dated January 30, Bay
House, Hamilton, Bermuda. It was
very brief and representative of nu
merous other Twain, business letters
we have on file. It read as follows:
" 'Dear General:
'"Please send me $50. Send It in
silver American quarter pieces. Don't
send old rusty ones. Send bright and
white and new ones just out of the
mint. I have a special use for them.
I inclose check. Sincerely your,
" 'MARK TWAIN.
"What in the world Mark Twain
wanted with 200 bright, white andH
freshly minted American quarters I
could not surmise. He used to like
occasionally to jingle coin In his
pocket while talking, and maybe he
wanted this new, fresh money to fum
ble with as he talked. Then, again,
maybe he wanted it for tips. I dont
know. But, anyway, we sent him the
$50 requested in newly minted quar
ters, notifying him tluat it had gone
forward by Wells-Fargo express. Two
weeks later, I received this letter:
" 'Dear General:
" 'The parcel of money shipped to
me per Wells-Fargo express February
4 has not yet arrived. I thought I
would just mention this to you in pass
ing sometime. But on second thought
I will mention it to you mainly to put
you on your guard against sending
anything to Bermuda or elsewhere by
any express company, because I have
learned that the persons connected
with those companies have been dead
30 years. This often causes much de
lay. " 'Yours always.
" 'S. L. CLEMENS.'
"Wasn't that characteristic of Mark
Twain? It was the last letter I re
ceived from him. and I presume it
was the last business letter he wrote."
(Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.)
All of these have been on a cruise
or on a tour of sea duty within the
last ten years, except Colonel Denny,
whose record shows that the expira
tion of his last cruise or sea'duty was
October, 1889, or 21 years ago.
There is a probability that when tho
next commandant is appointed to suc
ceed General Elliott on his retirement
next October, his term of office will bo
limited to four years, the same as the
chief of staff of the army, and the
heads of the bureaus in the navy de
partment. False Report.
"No," said the politician who was
hobbling around on crutches, "there Is
no truth In the rumor.'
"What rumor?" we asked.
"The one to the effec'tHhat I broke
my leg in trying to get Sway from an
office that was seeking me," he an
swered. Calls Attention.
A fellow up east Is trying to in
vent a. noiseless lawn-mower."
"It wouldn't sail."
"And why not?"
"The ncise a lawn-mower makes ad
dcrtises a man's Industry."
CHEERFUL WORDS FOR
SUFFERING WOMEN,
No womtm can bo healthy with sick
kidneys. They are often the true cause
of bearing-down pains, headaches, diz
ziness, nervousness, languor, etc. Keep
the kidneys well and
health is easily main
tained. Doan's Kid
ney Fills make
strong, healthy kid
neys. Mrs. Delia E. Chap
man, 5 Winthrop St.,
Hartford, Conn.,
says: "I was a
wreck from kidney
trouble. I spent over $700.00 doctor
toring but to no avail. I was In de
spair when I began taking Doan's Kid
ney Pills but soon felt better. For sev
en years I have been free from kid
ney trouble."
Remember the name Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. T.
Scandal.
Mrs. Slmmonds glanced at the scare
headline: "Bank Robbed! Police at
ga!" and laid down the sheet.
"Naow, look at that, Ez!" she ejac
ulated, repeating the headline aloud.
"Here's a big city bank broke into by
burglars, and th 'city police force all
off flshin' somewhere! What a scan
dal!" Judge.
HOW A DOCTOR CURED SCALP
i
"When I was ten or twelve years
old I had a ecalp jdisease, something:
like scald head, though it wasn't that
I suffered for several months, and
most of my hair cam 'out. Finally
they had a doctor to see me and he
recommended the Cuticura Remedies.
They cured me in a few weeks. E
have used the Cuticura Remedies, also,
for a breaking out on my hands and
was benefited a great deal. I haven't
had any more trouble with the scalp
disease. Miss Jessie F. Buchanan,.
Pw F. D. 3, Hamilton, Ga., Jan. 7, 1909."
Kept with Barnum's Circus.
P. T. Barnum, the famous circus
man, once wrote: "I have had the
Cuticura Remedies among the con
tents of my medicine chest with my
shows for the last three seasons, and I
can cheerfully certify that they were
very effective in every case which,
called for their use."
Try to Come Back.
Not long ago Lord -Kinnaird, who is
always actively .nterested in religious
work, paid a surprise visit -to a mis
sion school in the east end of London
and told a class of boys the story of
Samson. Introducing his narrative,
his lordship added:
"He was strong, became weak, and
then regained his strength, enabling
him to destroy his enemies. Now,
boys, if I had an enemy, what would
you advise me to do?"
A little boy, after meditating on the
secret oJ that great giant's strength,
shot up his hand and exclaimed: "Get
a bottle of 'air restorer."
Active Possession.
Guinevere, aged four, was going out
to walk with a young .lady, of whom
she was very fond. As they opened
the street door they were met by a
swirling cloud of dust, blown up from
the thoroughfare.
"Keep your lips tightly closed, Gwen,
or you'll get your lungs full of mi
crobes," warned the young lady.
Guinevere pondered a moment and
then, looking up, demanded:
"What are your crobes?" National
Monthly.
Last Here.
The Minister In the next world.
Tommy, the last shall be first..
Tommy Say, won't I shine when,
the minister comes to supper at our
house up there! Puck.
"NO FRILLS"
just Sensible Food Cured Him.
h
... Sometimes a good, healthy commer
cial traveler ; suffers from poorly se
lected food and is lucky if he learns
that Grape-Nuts food will put him
right
A Cincinnati traveler says: "About
a year ago my stomgDh got irV)1 bad
way. I had a headache most-uf the
time and suffered misery. For several
months I ran down until I lost about
0 pounds in weight and finally had to
give up a good position and go home.
Any food that I might use .seemed tor
nauseate me.
"My wife, hardly knowing what to
do, one day brought home a package
of Grape-Nuts food and coaxed me to
try it. I told her it was no use but
finally to humor her I tried a' little,
and they just struck my taste. It
was the first food I had eaten in near
ly a year that did not cause any suffer
ing. "Well, to make a long story short, I
began to improve and stuck to Grape
Nuts. I went up from 135 pounds in
December to 194 pounds the following:
October.
"My brain is clear, blood all
right and appetite too much for any
man's pocketbook. In fact, I am thor
oughly made over, and owe It all to
Grape-Niits. I talk so much about what
Grape-Nuts will do that some of tho
men on the road have nicknamed me
'Grape-Nuts,' but I stand today a
healthy, rosy-cheeked man a pretty
good example of what the right kind
of food will do. ,
"You can publish this if you want to.
It is a true statement without any
frills."
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellvllle," In pkgs. "There's a Reason."
BTer rend the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, tram, and fall of hanaam
latere t.
tutor jl.
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