The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1917, Page 6

eo mente nee nn naan ean ggg ith ER STAR—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1917. THE GOLD BUG” BY EDGAR ALLAN POE RPA RAR AAPL AAAI PPP LPP jin this particular cipher, we shall only partially require its aid the | As our predominant character is & lan-| we will commence by assuming it jan the e of the natural alphabet To verify the supporition, let us observe if the & be seen often in| PAGE 6 PAP APRAPAL LLL LLLP LPP LPL Heroes of American ney JOHN PAUL JONES merit! 1(Continued From Our Last tesue) | developing thelr import CHAPTER VI | “In the present case—ind The Cipher all cases of secret writing ard, of course | firet question regards the frigates in the English navy and/the many stories current—the thou |s04Ke of the elpher; for the prin more powerful than the Richard,’ sand vague rumors afloat about | Ciples a solntien 90 246, oapectal while ) | mone: ed, somewhere upon the|!). 48 the more simple cipher o eee ae FSR ee ee aN yon Sagedeyed PUA cod tp as concerned, depend upon, and are | couples for @ in doubled with ving sociates.” These rumors must have|‘4ried by, the genius of the par-|frequency in English — in such Both ships, badly battered, Jind gome foundation in fact, And Vcular idiom, In general, there in| words, for example, as ‘meet,’ ‘feet, were alongside each other and jini the rumors have existed so "0 alternative but experiment (di: | ‘sp n,’ ‘been,’ ‘agree,’ etc the Richard wae Jong and so continuously, could have rected by probabilities) of every |In the pre nt ingtance we see it ty, wi resulted, it appeared to me, only (ongue known to him who attempts|doubled no less than five times Serap , {from the circumstance of the bur. ve solution, until the true one be/altho the cryptograph tn brief. “Have you struck your flag?” jied treasure till remaining en-|*ttalned “Let us assume 8 tombed. Had Kidd concealed his “But, Now, of all words in the language, plunder for a time, and afterward fore tis, the’ is most usual; let us see, reclaimed it, the rumors would the therefore, whether there are not soarcely have peached us in their the word ‘Kidd’ t* appreciable in| repetitions of any three characters, present unvarying form no other language than the Eng-|io the same order of collocation, You will observe that the stories |!'8. But for this consideration 1/ the last of them being 8. If we dis told are all about money-seekers, "20Uld have begun my attempts | cover repetitions of such letters, #0 not about money-finders. Had the| “th the Spanish and French, as d, they will most probably Pirate recovered his money, there {U° tongues in which a secret of nt the word ‘the.’ Upon in the affair would have dropped, It '!!8 Kind would most naturally b ction we find no less than seven heen written by a pirate of thelguch arrange the characters seemed to me that some accident “ t eay the lows of a memorandum Parish main. As tt was, I assum-| being ;48. We may, therefore, as ume that ; represents t, 4 repre Indicating Its tooality--had. de.|°,t2® ¢ryptograph to be Bagitsh . . re. | prived him of the means of recoy-! \lpents hb, and represents ¢— | ering it, and that this accident the words. Had|jast being now well tonfirmed had become known to his follow.|(!*re been divisions the task | ‘Thus « great step har been taken.” - oe Seer nee would have been comparatively era, who otherwise might never|\ioy° i ttc casos 1 ahould bavel have heard that treasure had been POO) of uuCl cies rie el concealed at all, and who, bUsy-| siaiyain of the shorter words, and ing themselves in vain, because ) 4°, ae ‘: por Ay athe or po bagi mpte to regain it.had | ‘irred, aw ie most likely (a or I first given birth, and the universal bp 8 oO for example), I should have consid currency, to the reports which are now #0 ¢ mon. Have you ever re 4 the solution as assured But, | heard of any important treasure | [Bele being division, my firs eABUTO! top wan te ertain the predom bejng uncer hed along the const?”|' She letters, ae well ao the least t. Ce co ue “But that Kidd's frequen ounting all, | construct were immense, is well known. 1/4 4 table thus took it for granted, therefore, that| Of the character § there are jthe earth still held them; and you; will surely be surprised when I tell | you that | felt a hope, nearly); amounting to certainty, that the| parchment so strangely found tn-| volved a lost record of the place of deponit | Hut how did you proceed? ‘I held the vellum again to the fire, after increasing the heat, but! nothing appeared. I now thought it rible that the coating of dirt might have something to do with| |} “Now, In the failure; #0 1 carefully rinsed| the parehment by shich most frequently occurs is ¢. pouring warm | oto caddie,| water over it, and, having done|\ferward, the succession runs Il bet yer ithis, 1 placed it ina tin pan, with/(iua: # old bor etuy cfs i the right clubl)the skull down wbkpaqaxsz E predominates | rd, and put the rybody’s. . ° so remarkably, that an individual . y pan upon a furnace of lighted char-| lasats ts vaely a jsentence of any sonar ploy canes bi yeast ory jreen, in which ft fs not the pre-| moved the slip, and, to my in.|*#ling character sible joy, found it spotted, in| “Here, then, we have, in the very! place with what appeared beginning the grountwork for arranged in line | Something more than a mere guess sced it in the pan, and The general use which may be and think mean things.—Puck lauffered it to remain another of the table is ob but Z “lute. Upon taking it off, the whole ee was Just aw you see it now Here Legrand, having reheated the parchment, submitted it to my “3$8! 205) 16%: 4826) 48.) OG" 48! inspection. The following charac ters were rudely traced, in a red tint, between the death's head and/| the goat $60) )85 SOR RR A : 96" 2;8)° $(: 485) :69:2:8(; 4966°2(59 | A) Sw@R* (O89 2EG) 68) 488.1189; SS6 81; 8: 891548585: 4) 4851528806981 (89; 48: (885468794; 48948; 161; :188;87;" | But” said |, returning him the slip, “Iam as much fn the dark ever, Were all the jeweln of Gol-| conda awaiting me upon my solu- jon of this enigma, | am quite sure hat I should be unable to earn them.” “And yet,” said Legrand, “the #0: jution is by no means #o difficult you might be led to imagine the first hasty inspection of| characters These characters, might readily gues that is to say, the a meaning but then from known of Kidd, I could not suppore him capable of construct ing any of the more abstruse cryp-| |tographs. | made up my mind, at once, that this was of a simple spe cles—such, however, as would ap. pear, to the crude intellect of the sailor, absolutely Insoluble with out the key.” | “And you really solved it?” “Readily; | have solved otbers of an abstrusepess ten thousand times grea Circumstance tain bias of mind, hav take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether hu Man ingenuity can construct an NEXT NOVEL “A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY” BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE Editor’s Mail FOOD DUMPING ‘The Star: About 7 a. m 23, while a Ballard Western ave, and passengers be top of a what 66 { {| { cor Union m4. LEAGUE OF NEWsrarmns Editor m, May North car, at 'Spring #t., several sides myself saw on the passing garbage = wagon must have been as many as #ix or eight boxes of tomatoes, of which more than 60 per cent were apparently good. I also heard on 000 authority that many sacks of potatoes were dumped the week before because they were spongy and prouty This can be proven Now that there {# so much discussion going on regarding food vaste, what are we to think re garding these facts? For many men bave been dumping vegetables fn the bay rather than sell for less, Tons and tons have gone that way This could be proven easily The fact is, if they eannot get the price they demand, they keep the produce until it is slightly spoiled, then dump it High prices must prevail at the consumer's expense. H, R. ROGERS. Editor's Note—Let us get the proof. Let us pin down @ case of “dumping” to the guilty party by netual evidence. The Star will giadly do its utmost to see that the guilty ones shall not escape, oe ‘Ife READ STAR WANT ADS | | Jones showed his real jwhen, as commander of the Rich ord, he fought the Serapls, late In 1779, off Flamborough, England,’ ‘The Serapis was one of the finest] “Weil, The George wasktnain of the American revolution on wa- ter was John Paul Jones, first ranking officer of the United States navy The arkable career of this dauntle Scotchman brought him praixe from foreign nations and un dying fame thruc the world. He wan the first Heutenant and first captain of the United St navy He un elected by in je per month up to @ mon; @ mow $1.00) year Ja0e By carrier, city 250 a month. Datty by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Mate 00, eae _enneeiee a Seaetierss you have h r ‘The Fraser-Paterson Idea nis Br The Fraser-Paterson of Seattle, t dalivate dhe tte. rookine Liberty Loan bonds in trade on the same basis as cash,/of the navy, in 178t and re a patriotic step, but also one that will re-|o gold from in immense benefit commercially to the country, if|{at siven Washingt a 187 led by merchants everywhere Saini on ek etl TF ikke Whee It means, in short, the addition to money Oflne enlisted.in the American navy mation, another two billion dollars, It means, in otherjin t He was the firat naval of. , the putting into circulation of two thousand million | Meer to holst the Am aes naval | rs—every cent of which will be circulated in the United |{M&, "nder « salute of = 8. At the beginning of the revolu {tion Jone part in small naval Money in circulation Jencounters with British ships. L ‘times industrially and nn i ihe is one that merchants dias saver cutumy adine be ly adopt quickly ring night raids under the en- Te will not only help the sale of the Liberty y's guns S assuring every housewife and every householder that he ean treat the bonds exactly like cash, but it will STAR BEAMS . the merchants by adding to the cash circulation of the : instead of diminishing it De Looking at it from any standpoint hants take to the Fraser-Paterson d States currency (paper certificates) as cash, Mo interest whatever. We them because pnt guaranty is as good as g¢ >The same government guaranty behind Liberty bonds, and they're even better than because | ¥ grow more valuable with time, for they bear three and! s half per cent interest Why not make the bonds as negotiable as currency? The r-Paterson management has the proper viewpoint | e Obscure Mr. Hoover > Whenever the United States senate indulges in the luxury! eo ie the @n executive session from which the mere public and the| the catcher of th ters are kept out, some misrepresentative can be relied | Shamrocks _ upon to display himself as a pluperfect ass | “sy oe Our American house of lords had a gabfest the other day|F. Cc. which it relieved itself of some of the spleen it has been, land ing against the president, the press and the public. One mind spoke of Herbert C. Hoover as “a man who had! yankee Rheblasen, residiog nerth d from obscurity only a short, time ago and whom the! west of town, sold bin farm this inistration now wants to make a food dictator.” week to Clyde Harris and has al Long before the war, it just so happens that Hoover had |Ttady taken possession of the same himself one of the master mining engineers of the) CPW" (I®) Herald , With an income far beyond that of most of the jackleg S who are now accidentally sitting in our senate. prever the engineers who were doing the world’s k gathered, Hoover was known and admired and welcome t it was the war which gave him his splendid oppor-| 14 Dropping his own life’s work and the big emoluments | day ht him, he devoted himself without reserve and | bread may b pay to the Christ-like service of feeding and clothing] wow asouT THE EVENING? 00 Belgians and Frenchmen Joo Gangy vistied Eva Marty i In all the history of civilization there has been no job like| Sunday forenoon ‘and Wm. Lilter : in all history no such job was ever carried on with rag Medea Ea, 2 Min gat in Smoothness, swiftness, economy, efficiency and hon-|jntormant ear lo history of the war can ever be written without de Pages of glowing praise to Herbert C. Hoover. His reAn will be known and honored when the nonentities in onar | Pay igh Mivdcniringey ent senate have become nothing but names of tt hot rome.” ganizations are for a brief space held office women—used to getting store in offering to ac i] officer medal congress, like | be | n, as ¢@ with the cipher now all difficulty was removed signature, The pun upon “I have not yet With increased vigor Jones and his men poured fire into the Serapis, Suddenly the mainmast of the Serapia fell and Capt. Pear son struck his colors. Jo nored in the United States and France. He had fought $ battles at sea and not once had | he been vanquished. He died, July 18, 17 at the age of 45, ranking with George Washington in the |hearts of Americans -BvE.D.K. tenia if I didn’t stop smoking cigar ottes I surely would become feeble | minded.” | “Well, | by the fluid c took rk, bet Fraser-Paterson | ay States should} sonea, | makes prosperity, financially The of the United more we ‘You observe there are visions between no by or bonds also (Continued in Our Next Issue) M.A. GOTTST EIN coe FURNITURE CO PECIAL | NOTICE For the purpose of co-operating with the home- furnisher during the present high cost of living, the following terms on homefurnishings will pre- vail until further notice: $ 50, nothing down, $1.00 week, or $ 4.00 mo. $100, nothing down, $1.25 week, or $ 5.00 mo. $150, $ 5.00 down, $1.75 week, or $ 7.50 mo. $200, $10.00 down, $2.50 week, or $10.00 mo. $250, $12.50 down, $3.00 week, or $12.50 mo. $15.00 down, $3.50 week, or $15.00 mo. We Invite the Accounts of All Reputable and Trustworthy Homefurnishers, The GOTTSTEIN original “added-to-account” policy will conUnue as heretofore. Customers having a current account may relect & Gas Range, Refrigerator, Go Lawn Mower, Garden Tools, Garden Hose, Blankets, Comforts, Bedding or other seas- onable articles, and have same adjusted without the usual first payment. HOTPOINT DEMONSTRATION ___ ALL THIS WEEK The factory demonstrator of Hotpoint appliances will be at this tore every day this week. Come in and have her explain the saving features and economy of the famous Hotpoint utensils. M. A. GOTTSTEIN FURNITURE CO. 's Popular Homefurnishers * ue, Between Pike and Pine UNION MADE STOVES AND RANGES AN REV ING-SEAT BED DAVENPOKIS OSTERMOOK MATTRESS biue ce is may we've not bt Peg got the | roday ept| should t We acc and these gov why n STILL, ALL POLITICIANS CAN DO THAT Portland el a Baker chap as mayor ought to know how to handle the dough why didn’t you stop?” WARNING! If you have it coming In today, Don't you snoore For, after midnight, No more booze CAUGHT IN A TRAP js | He-—Didn't some idiot propose to you before our marriage? She-—Certainly He Then you marri him. She Well idea the is ted the folks, currency accumulations th’ hand beats pecially when two in it's a . 33. th |gold eagle Villa has captured a town on the border We don't know whether or not he's the same Villa who was caught in n and surro ought to have a trap i ded a year oe I did . “ Ls un ago e* CADDIE'S COMEBACK The beginner gazed wrathfully at th sddie for a moment. “Look hi he said, “I'm tired of you laughing at my game. If I hear any mare of your impudence I'll crack you over the head” All right,” replied the moving away; “but don’t know what to do it with.” r Melt and Wayne pite ~ aking Lw awyers,” posteards n Cleve English, the letter ts one VYANKEE'’S BIT OF BUSINESS “ gE . NO ESCAPE FOR HIM Hubby {tr Well, since it takes two | exy to make a quarrel, I'll shut up. Wifey: tnn't that just be figures contemptible man! You'll sit there! again 1 pt $300, | A great-grandson of the man who wrote “The Star Spangled Bann has enlist Maybe he {boys that it reall show the ng we whea i at It's getting so cheap that rye BANK OF CALIFORNIA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO A NATIONAL BANK Member of Federal Reserve Captial ast Surpine $16,800,000.00 SEATTLE BRANCH P01 Second Ave. » C. WAGNER GO. T. 8 WHITE 5 with popular YOUR COUNTRY WIN! Subscribe for a U. 8. Gov. ernment Bond TODAY! We accept subscriptions and make no charge for our services, BOND DEPARTMENT —— Trust Savings Bank reeport Women's r rat the er We'll wage | Pay. ’s Just Our Business Way, | ‘The Cologne Voltszeitung editor is sure pecking at our places. He declares that we are “unpolished”; that taste “lies in the direction of shirtsleeves”; and that “the, tone of Berlin gives every real American gooseflesh.” He’s mostly right. In war we not only take to shirt- but often roll up our pants to wade in. EDITORIALETTES FIFTY PER cent claimed ex emption from select service in Se. A high percenta but probably mo higher than that of the) who are fighting againet conscription of wealth. Manager SOLE AG Anat, Mer awe PROPHECY FULFILLED “When I was a boy, the doctor Cor. First Ave. at Columbia St a an 7 from the 1 jas any one | pher ciphe what FOR VICTORY AND PEACE _ JOHN BARLEYCORN gets it at midnight where Fatima wears beads. The state will be so dry there won't even be any tears, s ONE MILLION dollare—this is the amount the Red Cross must im the state, and Seattie’s share is $400,000. Will you do your! Colossal _ “8. $."—It's the symbol of American fitness—Select Service. a ACCORDING TO advocat up to be. ption on the ground of if hie mother doesn’t h. take in washing on Sunday. We begin to think that he’ A LOS ANGELES minist | to spring such temptation on New Yorkers just when Billy Sunday's | FIGHT, FARM, or finance the war by buying a Liberty Bond! AN ILLINOIS prof: has got up a sound-proof room. got Col. Roosevelt trapped in it. Preaching in a Detroit, Mich. , said that in this war “we must fight like he The Germans are fighting |in that style. We'll fight mot like demons. wns. E. A. JOHNSTON, missionary, just arrived in New York, that in Longa, Africa, a man can live well on five cents a week. much work, and have any number of wives. It's darned mi ing t into ‘em without mercy. of brick paving, the Tukwila case in the courts is to determine whether concrete is what it is re-| ave) e's fike | If you want health ce can have it, eb heeding Nature’s laws. 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Waste! “Don't Waste One Single Slice of Bread!” These days And in than are re forms all these chang of he greater moment those going asehold, today lesson all THE BIG LOAF Bi who we is the retains where a great is being heeded by the housew is today ¢ that for It better Sread Que uld confronts undoubtedly s better in ery € the big loaf loaf of texture It moisture It closer grained. It loaf which beyond doubt gives the master baker his opportunity to show to house wives bread ” is the that baker's bread is the equal of home-made THE BIG LOAF IS THE NUTRITIOUS LOAF and the Loaf” steadily msi best value for the money baker or You Order the “Big Try it You will from jor t on it thereaft your a your grocer will like it week r ONT WASTE The Loaf That pare PouE erants wt Saves—the Big Loaf Is the 15c Loaf. INSIST on the Big Loaf. Cup butter, 2 Cups thinly Put a layer of applies in buttered baking dish, sprinkle with sugar Add a Inver of bread crumbs, season with bite of butter and efnnam repeat until dish tw filled. T) haif cup of water, cover ke slowly for one hour, then er and brown. Serve with hard cream. sliced apples and bi These advertinements der the ausploes of the Anwoclation of Seattle published aster Bak M enigma of the kind which human| Ingenuity may not, by proper appli cation, resolve. In fact, having once established connected and leg-| ible characters, 1 scarcely give a thought to the mere difficulty of} ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’ BY BERTON BRALEY Once upon a time when Once upon a time when I young, be Once upon a time when life was new, believed sung, T thought all the tales I heard) were true | I fancied ruler of the earth 1 thought was chiefly made of joy knew for Once a life was) I whatever songs were love Life So 1 meant the mirth, when T was young and but boy. world was Then the years came crowding on and on Sorrow heaped on sorrow, on pain, Love was jeered and taunted, spat upon, All the songs seemed false and wholly vain, for all the strife Yet for all the are wrung, think I life Once upon a young pain Yet bitterness and) heart-strings that | stint knew the truth of time when 1 was 4 Brothers Fight With Kaiser; He : nae Asks Exemption | SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.— Because his four brothers are fighting in the kalser's armies, Christian Jorgenson, a natural. ized American, claimed ex- emption from | draft, on the ground that he did not want to take a chance of killing his brothers, Your government has called upon you to do your share towards making the “Liberty Loan of 1917” a rousing success —and WITHOUT DELAY. Have you given the matter serious thought? Do you fully realize the importance of imme- diate action? Soldiers must be clothed, housed, fed, trained, armed and transported; and it takes MONEY—MONEY — MONEY, to carry on the gigantic undertaking. Your Duty as a Citizen Is to Buy Liberty Loan Bonds Our Allies are doing their full duty towards the cause of justice and freedom. You must not be found wanting. Ae should give freely of vour MONEY the great caus Liberty Loan Committee For the Secretary of the Treasury.