Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1896, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE ‘13; 1896--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Many t $ are told of thai redoubtable Panl Jones—whom I knew well him w! Jefferson and Franklin the most supreme merit as a Dr. with the tireless spirit was to be expected that he end as he did, disappointed in his career. I know, of nothing sadder, more tragical, than the end of that poor cheva- Ker of the Order of Merit of Louis XVI, who had been a most doughty captain in vy, and an admiral among the Rus- . where political intrigue obscured Fis y, dying as ne did in Paris in 1792. I (o think of hira beer as I knew him in fame that the victory of the Bon Hom- Richard over the Serapis had secured when he took on rather the manner of , assumed fine airs, sported Une sword the king had given him, was petted y the i even by Marie Antoinette, of her gayety befor: the t with la with Mme. ‘Th: swarthy fellow, with h asting over the he served so we! of a petiicoat whe Lam teid he had sev myste Comtesse ison erved the aes een himself the at- he Pevre. plump, r many The swe Little ny at ld our great court pot ir i called M mmitesse’s “Poor Paul. And rr self Liked it all, counting him t victim. But she played him lid many other gentlemen, and Ru and called her the Fevre, after the . bat h on onrage al just enough touch her to the mea though no oe: new it. she had ome secret piichted to Lord Whittlesey. It would no have been p: vt for a lady who courted popularity at Versailles at eriod to have confessed a penchant for lishman. Now, wh main was a rdeck, he wa an Was concerned before and since mple, he was as vai s achievement in thi nt after a gr Comtesse not surp! to find a pretty e. in Mme. nete on nd, by sods of love and puff: fter all the < in of de er_can tell about a womar 1 “When her ner is distant she sometimes likes you most.” And with this trite reflection, which skews how silly a really brave man may be when out of his elen: the doughty captain opened the note, which read: “diy Dear Captain will be at 9 x tomorrow evening entirely alone at ith the cary ae Richelieu you will | jon of a by appreciated. Raise the knocker three times in quick suecesssion. “HORTENSE LE F.” a moment, despite all his vanity achievements with the sex, Capt. wondere Could it be true? Burt was the If Captain Jones had been never would have run into the snare. possibly he was, after all, his sim patural self, the gardener’s son, not quite to the manner born—a bit too vain—too eredulou his possible achievement with great ladies. The long next day lagged dered his hair, and put on his gayest cos- tume, and the fine sword Louis XVI had given him in compliment of the victory of ave Jones there note and her name. himself he Yet He pow- fie Was Not Preity Scent Fevre's Hani Surprised a to Fin Note in Mme. Le Le Kon Homme Richard; then when hear the hour he sallied forth to keep the, ap- pointment, for he never doubted but that ss charmer awaited him. The house, .a building of the Fourth Henry's time, he often had noticed. For with the curiously carved griffins at each ‘de of the door, bearing the arms of a as he took his eager way through » darkening stree 0 difficulty in finding it. ‘The streets of Paris were not en as cleanly as they were to become in the great emperor's time; and the captain, who walked, as & matter of caution, was grieved to think that his shoes and stock- ings were mud spattered. He stood there for a moment. among the few passers, thinking ruefully that this was the case, und observing closely the shuttered front the house. And then, although that . impassive front had made him a bit he lifted the knocker once, . thrice, just at 9 o'clock. A lover, Eke a warrior, should be exact in his ap. Fointments. But was he not in fact ahead of the time? Was it only a trick? He started to lift the knocker again, wnen the heavy door swung oper a crack and a wrinkled fac® peerec over the chain. “Capt. Paul Jom: ?" queried an uncertain voice ay ented Capt. Jones, when the chain rattled, was losed, the door swung open on a hall all dark, and the concierge, or whatever she was, motioned kim in. The woman closed the decor, leaving him in the blackness of the interior, now for the first time with the thcught of the need of cau- tion. And as he thovght of poss‘bilities of dan- Ser after all the ardor of Fis hope, he was i 1 i CLINTON Ross. ght from bebind by strong, invisible arms, a gag was passed over his face, and though he tried to struggle, and he was one Gf these little wiry men, it was all in vain. He was borne to the floor, bound end his eyes bardaged, his assailants the mesntime saying rot a word. The whole Gccurrence was uncanny—this sudden attack in the obscurity of the house where he had expected light and laughter— the streng men who mvtely held him, and zinst whom any struggle was vain— circumstances left the Chevalier Paul Jones shivering. bound and gagged, and slindfolded as he was, and thrust aside in a corner, like a dead thing. And then, as he strained his ears, his hearing indeed’ be- ing the onty faculty of which these bravoes d left him the use—he heare doors shut- ting and the sound of heavy steps on the hard floors of deserted rooms. His reason began to return thea, and the first thing rcurred to him was that his silent hoes. Was this And then of that, having accom- need of silence no tv patent. They hoes. But again the epting for his breath- had worn no different? eived man, or ‘ourse he per mien, shed the a: longer existed. TL. had put cn their house grew still, es ing. His togethe the D tied behind him and his feet h a strong rope that cut into Ss landaged, his mouth strug: 5 useless, and on- that the g jants had drop- where th ad taken him, our alier was inéeed in a horrid pre- ment. The only thing he could do was il over the floor. He could do that difficvlty, and to and fro, right and and hi 2 which ¥ as only way that, indeed, was possible. Roiling to his right abcut three feet, he wall. ‘To his left a Lumped head, he povement brought This was a hall, nore or less, broad. He jud m? sed ice from the de, while he r of brea turns rt, bound es he w If you .o not believe pend tht, nds and folded, and then e in thi plight ap- yught in a fashion, nth al him romembe: t was to be a great bail which he had counted. thought of the fine clothes he had wern to the appotat- nt, which were torn and hopel 4 ruined. He thought of the sword the ki had given kim, and which the assailan’ pad taken And ay there his ever the simplicity of the ratage! And him? did For a mom fon, as he th wry tim they intend to do with t he was cold with pe cht the ould ri aps drop hi reflected the hen be that had w to be of him the would have him a sword or dagger thrust. More likely they wanted to kidnap him. If they had wisked to kill him they tainly would have stabbed nd zny noi But why should to kidnap h As E There His Bitter. © Lay Heart Was the authoritie reward offe n England, who had a large 4 for his apprehension as a pirate dangerous to his majesty’s shipping 1 coast. Had he not himself abducted Lord Selkirk? And now the same methods were tried on him, the abductor. Mme. Le Fevre plainly had engaged some desperate fellows, of whom Paris held many, who, having nothing to lose. gladly had embraced the chance of obtaining the reward offere: for the apprehension of the “pirate Paul Jones.” They had caught him neatly, and now they had gone after the carriage which was to carry him out of Paris. Impatient and angered over his own sim- plicity in this matter—his wretched vanity about women—he began to struggle and roll about again. After he had struggled for some time vainly at his bonds, the spirit of investigation returned, and he began to roll over and over, now in the other direc- tion of the room. Connting the distance with the same method of calculating it he had used before, the length of that room seemed endless. He krew he must make considerable noise with his shuflling about in that house, which ap- parently was now deserted. PART IT, Patsing out of utter exhaustion and breathing hard, with the gag cutting into his mouth, he almost despaired. And then taking courage, he again began to move about, when he thought his hands were not so much hind-red. Certain, all at once, that the rope had stretched, he stopped his roll- ing and tried to move the arm that seemed to be least confined. As he did this the rope stretched further. With hope he worked at it again. These fellows were not sailors in the tying of a knot, God be thanked; and after a half hour in this struggle he was able to free a hand. a man like Capt. Pant Jones nd free and he could accomplish the Twenty minutes after he was on his bruised and maimed between his assailants and the scarce- But he was free again, clothes torn, himself cut and bruised, the nepes and bandages that had confined him in a heap on the floor. The room was dark except for the light that entered from a high window in the rear. And just then he heard steps as from some distant part ef the house. Trying the front door, which had admitted him, he found it closed. In his desperatior’ he turned through a door xt the left, opposite to that from which the steps came. Seeing a win- dow in this room, he sprang toward It, pushed it up, while over his shoulder a glare of light fell from the next room. “Gone!” cri2d a voice in consternation, and in English. “The devil!” exclaimed another in French. “Quick, he is in the next room!” said the first. By this time Capt. Jones had his window and, without pausing to examine he was to land, he was over the sill while a bullet fired by one of the pursuers whistled past his ear. He heard the re- port an instant after he sank on the soft turf. For, as luck wowld have it—the luck which favors tnose men that dare all things —he had fallen on the turf in the little gar- den back of this house. In the opened wi dow above appeared suddenly two faces There were two of them. “Wretches,”” cried the Chevalier Jones, forgetting ail prudence. “If I had known re only two of you I had stopped to rest. feet, struggles with hi ly less severe cne with his bond: , one of the fellows thrust his leg over the sill and dropped, with an oath, into the garden. Quicker than a flash, and not considering how many others might follow, Capt. Jones’ fingers, still numbed with the bands, were at his throat, while the other fellow paused in the window above, disregarding his comrade’s plight, or doubtless thinking he should be able to settle a man weakened as Capt. Paul Jones certainly must be after his terrible expe- rience. At the moment a loud pounding was heard at ihe street door. The man in the window, knowing that this probably came from the watch, aroused by the pis- tol shot, turned and fied from the window, doubtless considering it near impossible to. get away over the high Wall inclosing the garden, and knowing an exit in the rear. Capt. Jones, left with his man, and, being still on top in the struggle, clung to the fellow’s throat with the tenacity of des- peration, till the man sank back, choked into unconsciousness, The noise and cries at the front door still continued. By this time the excitement of the little action had restoréd Capt. Jones’ sense. Kicking the fellow to tind whether he was really unconscious, he looked up to sce if he could not gain the house to admit the people at the door, who, he thought, un- doubtedly were the watch. Noticing a vine that crept up the stones almost to the sill, he found that by clinging to it he could gain the sill. A lantern was on the floor of the room, as the desperadoes had left it. In the meantime the knock and voices at the door were imperative. “Open. In the king’s name!” iJ cannot. They have taken the key.” “And who are you?’ demanded the voice, the knocks ceasing. u “The Chevalier Paul Jones, beguiled to this house and robbed.” “The Chevalier Jones!” voice, incredulously. The chevalier, or, better, the captain, as his proudest American title was, was known and admired throughout Paris. The watch could not believe it was he. He in- sisted he was Capt. Paul Jones. He told them to try the rear door, by which he be- lieved one of the men had escaped. The house was on the corner of a lane turning from the Rue Richelieu into the adjoining street. The watch found easily an en- trance by which the men in the house had escaned. ‘apt. Paul Jones now had no difficulty in proving his identity to the captain of the watch, who recognized, for all his bruises exclaimed the He Noticed a That Crept Up the Stones. and torn and dirtied person, that this was really, the redoubtable American sailor. One man had fled certainly. The woman who had admitted Capt. Jones was not to be found. The house had no furnit any kind, and had been rented a w viously by an unknown man for six months in advance the one fellow was foun consciousness, and known Parisian desr who had pa n the garden ast recover This fellow would give no explanation of the plot, though smartly questioned at his trial. Preserving whic that + proves that son ht have made, under other excellent and honorable i on the galiows bravely without a word confession, Capt. Paul Jones, now having quite re- covered that pretty wit which had sivod him in such good stead on many ano:hct occasion, drove at once to the m Comte de Vere Insistent lim, he succee tair over, been a plot to abduct him and carr to England. M. de Vergennes cone with him that the object of just he gained best by keeping the ly private, at least for some da gratulated Capt. Jones on having escap=d as he did with only a few bruises. Jones, on his part, said that he was that he had not suffered the loss of the sword the king had given aim, which had been found in one of the rooms of the house When M. de Vergennes questioned him narrowly about what had led to the ap- pointment, he said he could not reveal the person's name. When M. de Vergennes was insistent that the facts might be laid prop- hefore the minister of police, S$ equally reticent. He could noi “Ah, ye: acknowledged M. de Vergen- nes, since he was of the ever gallant race, “I paruly comprehend, and I suppose I can- not shake your obstinacy. M. de Vergennes could not, for Capt. Paul £ on seeing and told the whole af- own belief that it had Jones, though this woman certainly had tried to carry out the most hideous plot against him, not consider it quite fai to punish her as if she were a man. Be- sides, he shrewdly guessed that she would swear that her nime had been used wit out her knowledge, that the conspirato had simply played on Capt. Jones’ we known vanity avout women r, indeed, as a matter of pride, did he care to ha himself shown in the ridiculous light wh a statement of the exact truth to M. de Vergennes would put him. But he had his own notion of a fine pri- vate revenge. The next day no soul in Paris except his servant saw Capt. Paul Jones. He told the servant to tell all callers that his master had gone away the previous evening with- cut explanation, and had not returned. In the meantime he took needed rest—as mu>h as he could in his meditation over revense, and with the painful bruises he had veived. One eye was black, and that side of his face badly swollen. The next evening following was that of the great ball at Versailles I have men- tioned. In the midst of the festivities who should appear, with black eye and swollen face, but this gardener’s son of Arbigland, in Kirkeud, Brightshire, the famous knight of his most Christian mafesty’s Order of Merit, Capt. Paul Jones. Everybody smiled. Mr. Franklin, was our mirister then, looked grave. who What “I Have Your Note. ridiculous row had Capt. Paul Jones been involved in now, to present so disreputable an appearance? But though ladies tittered, befure whom carller in the week he would have shone, our great captain had no vanity on is occasion. He had only eyes for Mme. Le Fevre. In his pocket was the fatal note. He was rewarded, nay, had almost pos- itive proof. Mme. Ie Fevre nearly fainted when she saw him. He walked straight to her, when she was by an evident effort recovering her self- possession. “The heat here Jones,” she said. “May I have a word with you, madame?” She scanned him closely. ‘The iittle cap- tain looked dangerous. ‘Relying on her wiles, she thought it best to humer him, to cajole him out of his bad humor. Some beautiful women, in the conceit of a thou and successes, kelieve they can do anything th sh with men; and was not woman the one vulnerable part in Capt. Jones’ ar- mor? So, now smiling, though she was fearful enough, she let him take her aside into one of the recessed windows looking out on the great fountains of the inner court of the palace. : “And what have you to say, chevalier?” she began. ‘) commiserate madame on her disap- pointment at finding I did not take a cer- tain pleasant excursion to Engl:nd.” Despite her knowledge of the great need of keeping her self-coatrol 20 meet him squarely, Mme. Le Fevre trembled. “Mon:{ecr—” sh2 bezan. “I have your xote,” he begaa, “My note! Give it me, moasienr! me, I pray! Surely you wouid not me so—you would— “Ah, madame,” saiG Capt. Jones, “you have ‘conf and—I despise you—who— with all your charms, your greainoss, your viitue, which I believe in, are yet more despicable than the poorest girl who passes on the sirect.” “You would not, monsieur?” cried the wo- man, in her desperation. is oppressive, Capt. Give it torture “Madame, if ay acess: at -court after tonight ‘I will tell,gi. I swear I will tell all, Mme. Le Fevre began to weep. s Now, Capt. Jones, in telling me this story himself, confessed that he never could with- stand a woman’s tears, and this woman, de- spicable as she was, yet had made him in love with her charms. So, suddenly, im- pulsive as he was in such affairs, Capt. Jones took the letter from his pocket and tore it into pieces. “Madame,” said he, “I fight men—not wo- men, though I confess they are vastly more dangerous. I believe it’s a brave man’s part to use no force against a woman ere- my, but simply to despise her—to hold her Jess than the dirt upder his eet.’ And, turaing on bis heel, he ieft her. In telling the story long after, Capt. Jones said that no one in Paris ever had from him the true version of this adventure, and as I believé he esteemed it wrong, as said, for a brave man to fight a woman, however dangerous she might be, I readily believed him. (Note. The lady in the case afterward married the Earl of Whittlesey, a cireum- stance which may explain her motive in the affair. Her son is that young Lord Whittlesey, who lately distinguished himself in the peninsular campaign. F. Middleton, Naples, January, 1813.) The End. FATE OF A BUTCHER Boy. His Father Means to Make a Gentle- n Salesman of Him, From the bune, A man came in to see Superintendent Lane the other day with a request to have his son excused from manual training. “Iam a butcher,” said this sapient par- ent, “and my boy can do all the carving and cutting he needs in my shop. I don’t want him to waste his time on it in school.” “Of course,” said Superintendent Lane suayely—he is hardened against surprise the idiosyncrasies of paren: butche shop well conducted offers excellent educa- tional pportunities. A boy is undoubtedi developing some good traits if he wor conscientiously at sawing and cutting at, weighing it and making But there are some advantages in o tem of manuai training not to be obta in the best sho» “Well, 1 don't care about ‘em,” said the butcher. “James G. Blaine was O00 the eda nt ‘I have to do for my boy. to have him beat James enough man for me, and T gu cation he don't c Blaine The superintendent some of the advantages of man how it foped all the muscles of the xdy and counteracted the bad nervous feets of too much desk work with grow- ing children, but the father interrupted him with: “And Abraham no call to 40 Abe hadn't trainir G. tried to him ining, show Ltr Lincoln, sir! My boy’ in. manual her than Abraham 1 fancy 1. any of but he di me said the su ‘intendent, Lincoln had much manual training his boyhood, and of the best sort, the ual training of the woods and t farm. Its effect upon his character was undoubtedly great.” ‘My can pick up all he needs, too, I gues: said the other He don’t need no regular training mot n Abe did. “But the conditions of ¢ ty life are s different from the conditions which round. fi oin’s boyhood th wperintendent, “Here we have to give artifically what there boys got naturally. Here the boys spend their leisure tim: playing the sharp, shr games of the street, which are menta demor: zing, and have safe outlets for their natural energy. Manual training is doing wonders for ou boys. It is fitting them for other trades and occupations than those of the store and office and giving them a whole. some respect for labor—" “My boy ain't goin’ to be no rpenter— I tell you that now. He ain't goin’ to have no trade. I look higher for him. He's go- in’ to be a cashier or a bookkeeper, or a if he ain't nothin’ better. My work won't work with his hands if I can help it. And I want his mind eddicated. ut, my dear sir, manual training is one of the most powerful axencies for develo your pre ty w Exeuse ‘Mr. m ing brain power. As the hands and mus. are used, the nerve centers in the in which cottrols these m too, and the whole b ‘ My boy don’t need no better brain 7 of Maine. He's got enough brain power to suit me, und he never went to rone of your new-fangled schools. I'd like that excuse. Crushed beneath weight of learning 1 argument, the superintendent: meekly de out the required papers and handed them over. VE in is invigol 1! see DINS NoT PERATURE, Imex Given by Cus- rs at Book St Me ew York Mail and Express. A newspaper contributor, who evidently has made a study of the subject, avers that orders sent to publishers are often of a curious characte Mistakes as io titles are constant jokes of the trade. “Enoch in a Garden” for “Enoch Arden’ mon. umerous orders are received summer from the seaside such as_ thi. “Pray send me $25 worth of vour most ap- proved recent fiction. There are more ladies than gentlemen in the family.” The last paragraph is understood as a warning. nally, in a general order of this char- is added, “Nothing Frenchy.” jer recently received and forwarded Send me C. O. D, twenty pounds of history.” Some natural cu ad as to why anybody sheuld want history by the pound. The reason of the purchaser was later understood. He was a@ traveling salesman, and was fond of books. He paid a certain race for treight and was entitled to carry in his baggage just twenty pounds more, and so he filled up with history. Here is an equally sin- gular order: “Please send me three feet and seven inches of books, adapied to the requirements of the patients in the -—— Hospital.” ‘This order was given by a well- kpown philanthropist. who visixs m. ny charitable institutions in New York. When- ever he sees a vacant shelf in the iidrary of a hospital, he takes out a foot rule an 1, cal- culating the gap, sends an order for books, limiting it to a fixed lineal measurement. During his useful life this man has filled up a thousand or moi yards of shelving in hospitals with good book: sos yptian Tree Planting. From ‘Travel. Systematic efforts have been made in different parts of the world to introduce a growth of trees where they had never been known, from which important results have followed in many instances. Kgypt, which had formerly only about six rainy days during the year, h since having planted trees on an extensive scale, aiready is still com- in read: general Was excited attained about five times that number. Six- teen square miles of the swampy, un- healthy country along the Bay of Biscay was planted with thousands of trees, espe- cially the cork oak and swamp pine. The trees have drained the land so as to de- stroy the swamp fevers, and change it into a healthy country with fine forests. Biscay law requirés that for every tree cut down two shall be planted. Bridget furiously). s that you ringing the bell loike that Boy—“No; the boy ran away what was doing -it."" Bridget (fnally)—“An’ what do you want?’ Bo: want to be with him.” AN UNDECIPHERADLE CIPHER. An Interesting Study of Medern and Ancient Cryptograms, From the Mlustrated London News. It is curious that the cipher- telegrams, the key of which is alleged to have been found in Dr. Jameson's traveling bag, should have been of so simple a character. Considering their great importance and that the senders had an unlimited com- mand of money, one would think their meaning might have been better concealed. On the other hand it is possible that in South Africa there are no professors of the cryptic art. In ordinary cases, as that great authority on such matters, Mr. Bab- bage, remarks, It is of more consequence to have a cipher that can be quickly writ- ten and quickly read by the person ad- dressed than one that is very difficult to in- terpret, but this cannot apply to state and still less to anti-state documents. These should be of a character to puzzle the most intelligent scrutineers—let_ alone a Boer— for a lengthened period. “The art of de- ciphering resembles that of picking locks, and the only question is what time each re- quires.” Mr. Hobbs during the exhibition of 1851 picked Bramah’s challenge jock in fifty-six hours, but the performers during a certain robbery of a bank in Scotland spent three months in passing through three locks. A cryptcgram in Paris deci- phered for the government took six month: in the operation. If the same pains had been expended in framing the Johannes- burg messages those who sent them would not now—or perhaps ever—have been in so regrettable a position. No sagacity seems to have been employed in their composi- tion. Since a cryptogram was employed what necessity was there for that feeble attempt at deception, the use of the term “flotation?” And surely it would only have been a matter of the commonest to destroy the code when the le arose of its falling into hostile hands. A histery of ciphers, if such could compiled, would be interesting: are few things more attractive to the hu- man mind, as is proved by the immense | popularity of the gold beetle (or the American edition terms it), though it is true it was enhanced by the glamor of buried treasure. One of the earliest methods of secret writing (made use of, { think, by Mr. Andrew Lang, in one of hi humorous stories) was to Shave th 1 of the messenger and inscribe on it the Ge- sired information, but t for its revelation, since the had to be pred in order to conceal it and before he was ready tor the operation= of the second here wo have been chan al Roent- ons ) for of the numerous recipes for the growth of hair to obtain sement, ‘The skytale of the Spar- which caused the message it con- veyed to consist mere of broken letters: until it Was wound upon an exac jar sta in the possession of the pendent, was ingenious ptie writ r date, but it is stood t ophet “Jeremiah (XxV226), “to conc prediction from | all but the uninit Sheshach’ | instead of ‘Babyion, Xs ad of us-} ing the second and tweifth lettters of the | Hebrew a es the second aid | twelfth If the ciphers of | Charles 0 the hands of the | roundh Naseby, and which Dr. | John pmatician, was em- | 1 been less simple, possibl have kept his head The Jacobites, who, it} be conte were not remarkable | for intelligence, often came to grief through | using sympathetic ink, a very chi and! orm of eryptogram, Perhaps the most unfortunate of cipherers as poor F whose domestic pecc hidden ! a fondly imagined from prying eves, | have become public property H As ciphers grew more difficult, experts | who undertook their interpretation be | more skillful. Walsh in his “Handy Book | i iterary Curiositie: ellis that a dle instance of this took place in the | United States in iNi6. “Cipher me: transmit puted st Til en's agents to of Oregon fell into the ot the New York Trit Mr. | set himself to master the problem, and dis- covered that the messages contained ov tures of bribery and corruption. Tribune published the explanation, though the me: s could not be directly to Mr. Tilden, but on nephew, the result was’ to reduc den him: enter elf to a cipher.” That a joke can into cryptograms is obvious to tho. who » read Mr. Donneily’s attempt to identify Bacon with Shakespeare. What puts him out of court, to begin with, the fact that Shakespeare got the money for his plays, which we are quite certain, trom what we know of Bacon, he would never have suffered Shakespeare to get (nor the half of it) if they had been his own composition. The only thoroughly undecipherable pher is aiso the simplest. It consi two duplicate books—any books: one in the hands of the transmitter of the and one in those of the recipient. letter in the first page is taken the fi letter in the -ond for So on till the end of the message is rea suppose it to consist of tweaty-four words, twenty-four pages of the book will thus have been us*d; for the next message the first letter of the twenty-iitth page will be used for “a,” the first letter in the twe ixth for “b," and so on. Even the poss sion of che of these books would not he the would-be decipherer, unless he su: pected some virtue in it, but without the book the cipher would remain absolutely inscruteble. ———__++ TO KEEP M FROM SPITTING ci- of Indiana State Board of Health Issues a Remarkable Circular. From the St. Logis Globe-Democrat. If the state board of health carries cut its idea, there is going to be less spitting | done in the state of Indiana ‘han there is at present. The board is ihe inveterate enemy of the man who spits, and propcses to pursue him with all the weapons that law will permit it to use. It will issue, to- morrow, a circular letter to 2ll railroad of- ficials_in Indiana asking hem to have ejected from their trains every man who spits, that is, if he spits persistently, after being warned not to. In its circular the board explains that “sputum” is an excrement, full of the germs of Ia grippe, nasal catarrh end a whole train of minor ills. It also adds the } information that “spitting is a nas:y and unnecessary habit,” and that “women do not.” It explains that the state board of health will pass a rule against spitting, which will have all the force of law if the railroads will only post it up and do their best to enforce it. With a stroke of per- istence, the board adds: “When the rule is first published in each county, and when posted in public places, this board will, of course, be 'oudly abused as foolish, impracticable and idiotic. At- tention then being gained, we will publish in every county reasons for the action.” ses EER PRODUCTION, Some Woods Can Be as Writing From Hardwood. | While the finer and thinner veneers of cestly woods are sliced tangentially from the side of the log, there are woods that earnot be cut this way—no amount of boil- ing or steaming rendering it possible to cut them without breaking down the tissues to such an extent as to destroy their surfaces for polisbing—while others, becoming di colored from steaming or boiling, and he- ing too hard to cut otherwise, have to be sawed. The fine-toothed, thin-gauge cir- cular, wita flanged center, is the favorite for cutting all ordinary veneers thicker than thirty to the inch; twenty to the inch is the thickness most commonly used for cabinet work and finishing, but much thinner is used in the case of rare and costly wood or rare abnormal or accidental figures, 2 in the case of burls. Some woods have to be eut much thicker, being unable to. bear handling when too thin: genuine ebony, the only fine, realiy jet-black wood known, and large enough to be of any use, will noi stand sawing much below one-fourth ef an inch in thickness, owing to its extreme brittle- ness of want of cohesion, but there are other woods that can he cut as thin as writ- ing paper and still be handled in large sheets. Other woods there are that will lose their fine color on exposure to the zt- mosphere, especially a smoky one; these are cut only when immediately wanted, and are kept covered until the finishers can put on a protective coat of some prepara- tion. VE awed as Thin Paper, ——__-+ e+ ‘Had to Begin Early. om the Chicago Record. How early do you clean house, Mrs.Per- kins?” “Well, I always try to get started before the neighbors begin to borrow my steplad- der.” MUNYON’S Improved Homeopathic REMEDIES. SAVE DOCTORS’ FEES With Munyon’s Guide to Health and a Munyon Family Medi- cine Chest -in the House You Can CURE YOURSELF fe canes. ‘There is a separate Munyon for each ‘diss and each specitic has plain directions, so there ke. Af yuu are ailing, alth; at ‘ott how yon Remedy. If you find tht you bave lism, take Munyon’s Kheumatisin Cure amd 94 pains ai will be gone in a few days. you have sD Munyer Cure: for a cokt or a cough, the Cold Care, or Care, and se on, No uatter what th ube absolutely ceriain of a emedy recom: fm the * rate cure for ints a Lotte you have Catarrh or any ‘Throat or Tang > eal and u A diseas arth, with fr service free Lo: HER FAH IN MEN. The Melaneho refally » Daily Tribne but alert of Regina Ived to clope with Ange- His name had not been R nor Wa But no transformation ea youth lingers on the threshold of Diminutive of stature obser’ #gination and n, An- is impossi- ehri he exclaimed; * nove r. ‘r ye talkin’ about?” asked An- who meant well, but who was not to keep pace with Reginald’s of conversation. talkin’ about not speakin’ above a ‘4. How ‘r We goin’ ter clope ef we holler at de tops of our voice: Der ain't nobody ent she an- swered, reassuringly. exinaid eround his teeth . pulling oat collar up around his ea r pate moon has deseen¢ an dow of de livery stable de a es' wish of me heart will be fuitili« lina gazed at him enrapiured, and ed upon to say something, she murmure yer lifer ‘Ali de: ears of waitin’ shali 1 atan end. Despite de twranny yer mer- cenary father, ye shall be mine! jon’t you git uneasy ‘bout me fad- ngelir as she »0ked soul- and stretched her che rv don't cut no ice in Kinall exclaimed indig- nantly, dis ter be an clopement er isnt i? Uwanter understan’ de situation right now. Si “You're runnin’ de % atch,” re- plied she, s un’ sing © choru “De unholy plot,” he pr ter de Daron dat holds de fadder's farm wan, prjected. Worr ye interrogated. ume I've ope wit a> hull game. go mine.” in’ der+ goin’ ter be no “lopement?” a Ivs de oll story, 1 vough Treature of portry an” light. I never yer true nature till now. O wo- man, wot a deception you hay ever been!” u jes’ go ahead er tune, Reginaid, an’ Wil join in ded 1, “ter wed mortgage on hall crumble into dust!” sinald,” she no baron.” he wrathfully p broke me up eve talker. I'm rough You go your way an’ or or oC Micky—I “1 don't tryin’ “y to do “Se dere ain't goin’ ter be no” Well.” she exclaimed, in) withering “i's no more’n was ter be Dere never wus a man y' sn’t a bluffer at We start an’ a quitter at de finish,” MISTAK ARs. The Ligh cinely the s the Dark. From the ia Record, The truth is the so-called “light, mila” cigar is no milder in e: sntials than that of dark brown color, for the “filler” is of the same grade of tobacco, and in many cases is, in point of fact, apt te be of a heavier, stronger grade. The natural color of a genuine Havana cigar of grade is dark brown, dull and heavy. cigar is found very fragrant and highly flavored, and is not necessarily a bit strenger than a much lighter cigar with wrapper cut green and dried out to a whit- n yellow hue. Such statements will be vouched for, I dare say, by every cigar maker in this country or in Cuba. They laugh in their sleeves at the Americans and their “light” cigar fad. In the meantime the better grades of cigars are being sent to other countries where such a fad does not pre- vail. There is all the difference in the world between the Américan and the En- glishman in their tastes for cigars. The American hurries along through life call- ing for a cigar ivere today and there to- superior This | morrow, not caring much about the price— however high it may be—only seeking to find a “mild, light looking” cigar. The En- glishman is different. He goes into a store and finds, after careful investigation, the brand that suits him and orders a quantit) of them, and as they “run” of high grade he will keep them on hand, and smo! other. So cautious is he that he keeps thy name of the cigar and the address of the dealer ever afterward in order that he may hold trace of the cigar that he likes. It is quite a common thing with many of the leading clubs of English cities to send agents to Cuba and buy up in advance of tne tobacco harvest certain crops which are found of rare quality. This tobacco is turned over to the best cigar factories, and the clubs are supplied with the very best cigars that could be purchased at much les= cost than the same grade cigar would be sold in America. Conspicuous among these clubs are several smokers’ clubs which seem to be organized for no purpose other than such an arrangement for furnishing its members with high grade cigars from Cuba. soe-— Found His Hoard. From the Winchester News. In the oil excitement near Parkersburg, W. Va., years ago, J. K. Hendershot, an ig- norant and eccentric farmer, sold his farm on which ofl had been discovered for $169,- 000, movel to a small house on an island and buried the money at places under the house and about the island. Last week while dying he told his heirs, nephews and nieces where the money was buried. So far they have dug up $120,000 on the is- land and $30,000 under the old house. IF YOU VALUE YOUR HAIR IMPERIAL HAIR REGENERATOR make GRAY HAIR BLEACH. Dark Rrown ‘No. 8— Medium Brown, No. 4—Chestnut. No. S—Ligist Caost- Chemical Bis. Co., itth Ave. N.Y. In Washington sold} A. LISNER. ED. P MERTZ, W. 3. THOME No Agypli at MARLBOROUGH PARLORS, 110 $e6,13,20,27. 19 Washington, Alexandria & Mt. Vernon Railway, From Station, 133 St. and Pa. Ave. FOR ALEXANDRIA. \Datly, © “pt Su 6:30, 7, 5, 9, 10, 11, 32 a.im., 1, 4:30, 5, , G0, 7, 40, 11, 12 SUNDAYS—9, 10, 11, 2. 1, 2 7.8, 10 pam. PROM ALEXANDRIA. (Daily, except Su sb yea, Me AB a.m.5 1, 2, 8, G10, TO, 8:10, 9:10, 10:16 p. FOR MOUNT VERNON AND WAY STATI (Daily, except Sunday.) 10, 11. 12 aan. 5 1,2, 8, 2:80 pom. FROM MOUNT VERNON AND WAY STATIONS. Waily, except Sunday.) 33 a.m.5 1:35, 238 ks, 4:33, 5:08, ND AQUEDUCT BI 1, 12 am: 1, 2,3, 4 ns. IM ARLINGTON AND iste Agi 7285. S25. Wo25 pom. Po MOUNT VERNON 1 3. 4, VERNON 1 NDA Span. SUM SOUTHERN RAILWA PIEDMONT Aix LIN dule in effect June 14, . NI. All trains arrive wad Jeave at Pennsyivanta pas senger staticn. 8:00 A.M.—Daily.—Local for Danville, Qeunects at Manassas for Strasburg, dally except Sut day and at Lanchburg with the Norfolk and Weste Gaily, and with ‘the Chesupcake and Ohio dally for the Natural Rrid 11:15 A.M.—Daity. MAIL. and Clifton Forge. THE UMTED STATES FAST Carries Pullman Muffet Sleepers, New York and Washington to Jacksonville, aniting at Ss with Pullman for “Axhewttte Co: Knoxville and © marlotte with Pal also Pullman Sleeper New in Montgomery, com Sleoper for Birnviny Local for Front Royal, Riverton and tersburs. dails, except § 5 St. Dat 0 Charlotteavie. tele ete Hot teaeinh ND SOUTH. Coaches, ville an vin Ch ville, Mais Atinota NE Washington to g Car Greensboro AND ORTO Div m. daily pm. Sundays only cept Sanday @uiy from n farnisbed at oMficos, 511 ti avenue, and at Pennsylvumia tion, W. T. GREEN, General Sap 1M. CULP. Pratt W. A. TURK, Gen, L. napolls, Io might Express daily, 11:30 11:30 am. 40 p.m. boxville, aus, 1090 ROYAL BLUE LINE i YORK AND. VTLADELD ainated with y and the % m. Din- 45 Dining Car, $09 Car nat Tea 9:00 aan, 05 Dining for gras: Cars on all trtins, ty, 10:00 am, 12:00 noon. Sunday only, NNSYLVAMA i Station comer of 6 stress, In effect 7:50AM. week digs, BURG EXPGSs. AM. PE ing, Wind PITTs- Marris- LIMITED Po’ and ation 1A nan Harristing to Cinctanatt, St. Louis, ud aud Toledy, Car to Harris! 10:30 A.M. FAS’ man Car to Harrisbars, rlor and Dining risburg to Pittsiurs. 3:40 PM. CHICAGO AND ST. —Puliman “Buttet Parlor « Sleeping and Dink Louis, ‘Cineinnats, 7:10 PM. WESTERN ESS. ing Cur "to Chicago and Harris! Ditiug Car to Chicago. Tv PM. SOUTHWI : ned Duin aris ~ Louis and Sleep ti, PRESS. —Puliman Steap- Rochester and cept Sunday. Renovo, daily, except week days and Will- lilamsport, Ruffalo and Magara Fulls daily, except Saturday, with Sleep- ing Car Washington to Suepension Bridge via Buf- falo. M. for Erle, Canandaigua, Roshes‘er, But- falo an] Niazara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ington to Etta, POK PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND THE AST. LIMITED, Es 4:09 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL all Parlor Cay cular ini mii 200 (Dink ing Car, and M. . 11:00 (Dining Car 3:15, 4:20 0 Tam 30:00, 10:40 36 PM. M. and 4:20 OO AM. 0, and 4.20 1 Atlantic Coast Line, Express for Richmond, points on Atlantic Coast Line. 4:30 A.M, 3:46° PM. Gaily. Richmond and Atlanta, 8:40PM. dwily. Richmond only, AM. week days. Accommodation for Quantico, 7:45 A.M. dally, and 25 P.M. week days, For Alexandria, 4:30, 8:40, 1 11:50 A.M; 1: 4:25, 5200, 6:15, unday nk 8:02, 10:10 and 11 7:45, 945 AML; 2:45, 6: at and 10:10 PM. Leave Alexandria for Washinzt . 29315, 5. 0, 7:90, x Ticket offices, corner Fift at the si 10 and 10:52 Pd eenth and G siverts, . Sixth and B streets, where orders can be left for the checking of baggage to Cestina- tion from hotels and residences S. M. PREVOST, J.B. Woon, General Manager. General ‘Pass. my20 Agt. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. TEROUGH THE GRANDiST SCENERY IN AMEWICA, ALL TRAINS VESTIBULED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM HEATED, ALL MEALS SERVED IN DINING CARS. S1Aa- TION SIXTH AND B STREETS. Schedule in effect May 20 P.M. DAILY —Ciuc 1896. nati apd St, Louis Spe- Pullman sie~pors Louisville, Indianapolis e. COnneCtS at Cove lor cary Cine to Chicas P.M. DAILY—F. F. Vv. 1 d Salta for Clnctunatl. — Pallaian’ sleepers to Cin Leaington vad Louixvilie without change. Lean slecper to Vinzinia Mot Spriugs, change, Tuesd: redays and Satardays ection Observation pers C U to Chicago and St. Louts. 10:37 A.M. EXCEPT SUNDAY—Via ‘Bic Old Voint’xnd Norfolk. Only rail line. » PM. DILY—For Gordonsville, Charlottes. ville, Staunton and for Richmond, daily, except Sunday. Reservations and tickets at Chesnpeake and Oh! 3 and 1421 Penusylvania avenue, 1110 & offices, 5 st. ww., aud a. the station. ‘H.W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. ¢lal— Solid train for Cin-imiati, fo (Cluciunati, Lexington, wd St. Le ington, withomt eh: Va., for Hot Spr aio mati, Pull without ily inn mylS