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They Have Deteriorated Under
the Unwise Guardianship of
the Government.
DIAZ A GREAT EXAMPLE
President of Mexican Republic a Great
American and an Indian—Some of
the Follies of Paternalism
Pointed Out.
Washington 8pecial: "The grave
yard of the American Indians has
served lte purpose, and Is to be plowed
up," said M. J. Bentley, for many years
an Indian agent In Indian Territory.
Mr. BenUey, who was connected with
the Indian service more closely than
any other agent ever was, believes that
the policy of this nation toward its
aborigines has been a progressive crime
of generations. In this he does not dis
agree with many other people; but Mr.
Bentley enforces his views with some
striking a interne ins.
"Mexico has about 14,000,000 people,”
ho eald. "About 4,000,000 of them are
whites; the rest are Indians. They have
made It one of the most prosperous
countries; It la developing In wealth. In
telligence. culture, everything, at a
wonderful rate. Most of the people are
Indiana. Indiana are the bone and
sinew of Mexico. The country has had
little white Immigration for a century
till In very recent years. It la prac
tically a great Indian republic. We
|»ve read of the power and the glory
of the mystic civilisation of the Monte
ruinaa; but Mexico today is a greater
Indian nation than the Montezuma s
made of the ancient Mexico; It Is
greater than the Peru of Plzarro; and
It Is scarcely less an Indian country
than either of those was when the
Spanish found them.
"Mexico's president lx the greatest
■ living American today: and he Is an In
4 tllan. If you would know a man who
4 has been patriot, soldier, statesman,
J executive; who has always ruled with
J wisdom and foresight: who has been to
3 his country all thut Washington and
4 Jefferson and Hamilton and the
4 Adamses were to this country in Its
1 beginnings, read of Diaz. I think it
J was John W. Foster wno recently do
ji dared Diaz and the emperor of Japan
J j the two greatest rulers of the world to
4 day.
4, "Mexico shows us what were tli
s possibilities of the Indian. It is i
< mistake to assume that the Indians t
J Mexico, the Indians who are now tl
J backbone of (hat nation, are essential!
4 different from our own. They are not
4 1 know both tiio American and tlie
4 Mexican Indians. The difference I.
J1 just this: that while this country has
J ruined the Indian by making a ward
J I of him, Mexico has turned him out to
( hustle for himself, and he has made a
good citizen of himself. Tho policy of
the l'nited States has been calculated
to degrade the Indian.
Curious Citizenship.
Today there are thousands of In
dian citizens in tlie territory; when
the new state of Oklahoma Is ad
mitted they will be entitled to vote for
congressmen and president; yet If one
or these Indian citizens comes to
Washington on business with the gov
ernment he must first secure permis
sion from the commissioner of Indian
affairs, and If he falls to do so the
commissioner and tho secretary of the
interior will not give him audience
When ho gets here. What do you think
of that sort ot citizenship?
“Left to himself ami given a chance
to be a self-respecting citizen, the In
dian of Mexico has developed. Made a
government ward, with tho government
looking after his business, tho United
' States Indian has been ruined. Today
tho Indians in tho territory want to
leave the country and go to Mexico,
and they will be found doing It Just
’ as fast as they can after tho tribal re
lations are ended. Some of the tribes
are now divided between the territory
and Mexico, and in every case tho
■ branch that is in this country is anx- :
ious to get to Mexico. It is just bo- j
cause Mexico knows how to handle
them.
Cross Breod a Failure.
"The Mexican Indian Is commonly a '
full-blood. There are few of them In I
tho United States. You can ride across
Indian Territory, 225 miles, and be
lucky if you see a full-blood Indian. !
The government has encouraged white
men to marry squaw wives by giving
them tho property benefits of such re- j
latlonship to the tribes; and sis a re- |
suit the so-called Indians are half and !
quarter bloods. The cross has been a
failure.
The tribes that were transported to
Indian Territory were already well on !
the way to civilization. The territory I
was their ruin. There were newspapers
printed there in the Cherokee language j
almost ns soon as In Illinois, and long j
before there were newspapers printed
In Ungllsh within the boundaries of
what is now Iowa. There were schools
and churches and legislative govern- J
i mints of tho tribes. The Indians would |
have developed and become a strong I
and rich people If they had been let 1
alone. Hut they were not let alone.
Down at Shawnee, Okla., last October, i
work was begun on a great school es- !
tabllshmont for a tribe of Indians, near- !
I ly all of whom are now In Mexico. j
| Big Institution for Ninety Children.
"Why was it done? If the entire 1
| number that theoretically belong to \
I that group were there Instead of In
i Mexico, there might be ninety children
; of school age to use these great build- t
. lugs that are being erected. Hut they |
! are not there. These buildings will
1 cost something like $150,000. Around
I them will be constructed a regular vil- '
j Inge of structures for the superintend
ent and touchers. Nobody say3 a word
about It; the white people roundabout
smile and keep still. They know there
are no Indians to use that big estab
lishment, and they calculate that one
! day It will provide a useful institution
: for the new state."
Indian affairs have been of unusual
Interest in Washington this winter be
V...;
Sherlock Holmes Foiled.
From the Kansas City Journal.
There la a man at Ottawa whose obesity
and slovenliness Increase with his age. He
has reached the point where personal ap
pearance is the least of hfs worries. The
other morn'll? he came down town with
bis chin all smeared with egg.
• John, I'll bet I can tell what you had
dr breakfast lids morning,” said a bright
-oung lawyer who met him.
"What did I have?” asked ihe man.
"You had eggs,” replied the lawyer.
You are mistaken,” said the man, "]
. id eggs yesterday morning.”
GREAT SCOTT.
The Tllgrgest Man of Ailrllson County,
Vt, Tell* an Interesting Story.
E. C, Keott, mo,at dealer, Vergennes,
Vt., Past Commander of Ethan Allen
Post, G. A. It., says: "A severe at
tack of typhoid left
me with weak kid
* neys. Every night I
had to get up fre
quently to pass the
urine, which was
ropy, dark and very
!$) painful to void. 1
had no appetite, but
$4 drunk water continu
I «««ally without being
j able to quench my thirst. Terrible
headaches and dizzy spells oppressed
I me and my back was lame, sore and
! stiff. A mouth’s treatment with
Doan's Kidney I’llls rid me of this
trouble, and now I am strong and
healthy and weigh 230 pounds. I give
the credit to Doan’s Kidney Pills.’’
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box
Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
cause of tne approaching dissolution al
the tribal relations of the wealthy
tribes of Indian Territory. The future
of these Indians is a matter of great
concern throughout the southwest.
They have been allowed no opportunity
to equip themselves with experience'
and business knowledge, for competi
tion with the white man.
Hustle for Themselves.
They are soon to be turned out to
hustle for themselves. Many are pre
paring to go to Mexico, and If they do
they fear that the government will u-eat
them as it has the Kickapoos of Mex
ico, who are unable to secure the rental
of their lands In Oklahoma. The In
dian department wants to force , them
to return to this country, and this they
will not do.
Meanwhile there Is a great fight In
congress over the heritage of these In
dians—the Immense Indian Territory
coal field, which, it is alleged, railroad
interests want to absorb at small cost.
The president himself has recently been
Induced to take a hand in this contest,
In the effort to save the Indians from
being entirely despoiled of their great
property.
Glasgow, Ky.—Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Eonls
of tills country, are probably the only mar
ried couple in the world with sixteen chil
dren. all girls, all legally their own, whose
ages range from 3 to 11 years. Mr. and
Mrs. Eonis have been married twelve
years, and when their hoped-for sixtTN
child did not arrive, they yearned for more
little ones, and adopted two at once. Then,'
from time to time, one was picked up here
and another ther till eleven little orphans
were adopted.
New York, N. Y.—Mrs. -Margaret Kelley,'
a 117-year-old Irish widow, who added to
the spirit ot the occasion when she attend-*
od the dinner and celebration of St. Pat
rick’s day at the Irish club, showed no ill
effects from the lively time when seen to
day. Mrs. Kelley says she was born in
French Park, County Roscommon, Con
naught, Ireland, in March, 1789. When
asked as to her idea of the best way to
live in order to attain old age, she replied:
•‘Have a good time, get plenty of sleep,
and don’t worry.”
The Coffee Debate.
The published statements of u num
ber of coffee importers uud roasters In
dicate a “waapy” feeling toward us, for
daring to ear that coffee Is harmful to
a percentage of the people.
A frank public discussion of the sub
feet is Quite agreeable to . us and cun
certainly do no harm ; on the contrary,
when ail the facta on both sides of any
Qacetlon are spread before the people
they can thereupon decide and act in
telligently.
(live the people plain farts and they
will take care of themselves.
We demand facts in this coffee (11s
jusilon and propose to see that the
facts are brought clearly before the
people.
A number of coffee Importers and
roasters have joined a movement to.
boom coffee and stop the use of I'ostuui
Food (toffee and in tbelr newspaper
statements undertake to deceive by
(aIre assertions
rihnix first ia tiSatt coffee Is not harm
ful.
Y.'c assert that one In every three cof
ftv risers has some form of Incipient or
chronic disease; realize for one moment
what a terrible menace to a uallon of
cfvlUzed people when one kind of bever
age cripples the energies and health of
one-third tire people who yse It.
We make the assertion advisedly and
suggest tlrnt the reader secure his own
proof by personal Inquiry among coffee
ssors.
Ark your coffee drinking friends If
they keep free from any sort of aches
and alls. You will he startled at the
per-outage aud will very naturally
reek to place the errose of disorder on
roa ethtng aside from coffee, whether
fjod. Inherited tendencies or something
rice.
Ho deeper In your search for facts.
If your friend admits occasional nett
rrlgtn, rhoumatisin. heart weakness
stomach or bowel trouble, kidney com
plaint, weak eyes, or approaching nor
vpuH prostration induce him or her tc
make the experiment of leaving off cof
fee for ten days and using Post tin
Food Coffee, and observe the result.' 1
will startle yon and cite your frlem
tome thing to think of. Of course, l
tlio person is one of tlie weak ones and
says “1 can't quit” you will have dis
covered one of the slaves of the coffee
Importer. Treat such kindly, for they
seem absolutely powerless to stop the
gradual but sure destruction of body
and health.
Nature hns a way of destroying a
part of the people to make room for the
stronger, ft is the old law of “the sur
vival of the fittest” at work, aud the
victims are many.
We repeat the assertion that coffee
does harm many people, not all, but an
army large enough to appal the inves
tigator and searcher for facts.
The next prevarication of tlio coffee
importers and roasters is their state
ment that Postum Food Coffee is made
of roasted peas, beans or corn, and
mixed with a low grade of coffee and
that it contains no nourishment.
We have previously offered to wager
$100,000.00 with them that their state
ments are absolutely false.
They have not accented our wager
and thev will not.
We will gladly make a present of
$25.1100.00 to any roaster or im lorter of
old laslihmcd coffee who wil accept
that wager.
Free inspection of our factories and
methods Is made by thousands of people
each month and the coffee Importers
themselves are cordially Invited. Itoth
Postum and Grape-Nuts are absolutely
pure and made exactly as stated.
The formula of Postum ntul the an
alysts made by one of the foremost
chemists of Boston has been printed on
every package for many years and is
absolutely accurate.
Now as to tlio food value of Postum.
■ It contains the parts of the wheat berry
which carry the elemental salts sue'; as
lime. Iran, potash, silica, etc., etc., used
by the life forces 11 rebuild the cellular
■ tissu', and this is particularly true of
the phosphate of potash, also found in
i Grape-Nuts, which combines In the hu
• man body with albumen and this eom
; hluatlou, together with water, rebuilds
the worn out gray matter In the deli
cate nerve centers all over the body,
- and throughout the brain aud solar
. plexus.
Ordinary coffee stimulates In an nn
- natural way. hut with many people it
i slrwlv and surely destroys and does not
- rebuild tills gray substance so vitally
\ important to the well-being of every
t human being.
1 These are eternal facts, proven, well
f authenticated and known to every prop
erly educated physician, chemist and
food expert.
Please remember we never say ordi
nary coffee hurts every one.
Some people use it regularly and
seem strong enough to withstand its
attacks, but there Is misery and dis
ease In store for the man or woman
who persists In Its use when nature
protests, by heart weakness, stomach
and bowel troubles, kidney disease,
weak eyes, or general nervous prostra
tion. The remedy Is obvious. The drug
caffeine, contained In all ordinary cof
fee, must be discontinued absolutely or
the disease will continue in spite of
any medicine and will grow worse.
It Is easy to leave off the old-fashion
ed coffee by adopting Postum Food
Coffee, for in it one finds a pleasing hot
breakfast or dinner beverage that has
the deep seal brown color, changing to
a rich golden brown when good cream
is added. When boiled long enough (13
minutes) the flavor is not that of rank
Bio coffee, but very like the milder,
smooth and high grade Java, but en
tirely lacking the drug effect of ordi
nary coffee.
Any one suffering from disorders set
up by coffee drinking (and there is an
extensive variety) can absolutely de
pend upon some measure of relief by
quitting coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee.
If the disease has not become too
strongly rooted, one can with good rca
sou expect it to disappear entirely in a
reasonable time after the active cause
of the trouble is removed and the cellu
lar tissue has time to naturally rebuild
with the elements furnished by Postum
and good food.
It’s only just plain old common sense.
Now, with the exact facts before tho
render, lie or she can decide the wise
course, looking to health and the power
to do things.
If you have any doubt as to the
cause of any ache or nil you may have,
remember the far reaching telegrams of
a hurt nervous system trove' from heel
to head, and It may bo well worth your
while to make the experiment of leav
ing off coffee entirely for ten days and
using Postum in its place.
You will probably gather some good
solid facts, worth more than a gold
mine, for health can make gold and
sickness lose It. Besides there’s all tho
fun. for it’s like a continuous internal
frolic to be perfectly well.
There's a reason for
POSTUM
Postam Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek Mich.
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes [
I BY A. CONAN BOYLE.
Copyright. 1903, Copyright. 1905.
by A, Conan Dayla and Colli.r'a Waakly. by NcClore, Phillipa ® Ca.
' III—THE ADVENTURE OF THE
DANCING MAN.—Continued.
“The absence of the latter means
nothing, though Its presence may mean
| everything,” said Holmes. "Unless the
1 powder from a badly fitting cartridge
happens to spurt backwards, one may
fire many shots without leaving a
sign. I would suggest that Mr. Cubitt’s
i body may now be removed. I sup
pose, doctor, you have not recovered
the bullet which wounded the lady?”
“A serious operation will be neees
1 sary before that can be done. But
, there are still four cartridges in the
revolver. Two have been fired and two
wounds inflicted, so that each bullet
, can be accounted for.”
“So it would seem,” said Holmes.
"Perhaps you can account also for the
bullet which has so obviously struck
: the edge of the window?”
He had turned suddenly, and his long,
thin finger was pointing to a hole
1 which had been drilled right through
j the lower window sash, about an inch
above the bottom.
“By George!” cried the inspector.
; “How ever did you see that?”
"Because I looked for it.”
“Wonderful!” said the country doc
tor. “You are certainly right, sir. Then
a third shot has been firr t. and there
fore a third person must have been
present. But who could that have
been, and how could he have got
away?”
“That is the problem which we are
now about to solve,” said Sherlock
Holmes. “You remember, Inspector
Martin, when the servants said that on
leaving their room they were at once
conscious of a smell of powder, I re
marked that the point was an extreme
ly important one?”
“Yes, sir; but I confess I did not
quite follow you.”
“It suggested that at the time of the
firing, the window' as well as the door
of the room had been open. Otherwise
rapid and masterful progress of
Holmes’ investigation. At first he had
shown some disposition to assert his
own position, but now he was overcome
with admiration and ready to follow
without question wherever Holmes led.
“Whom do you suspect?" he asked.
"I'll go into that later. There are
several points in this problem which I
have not been able to explain to you
yet. Now that I have got so far, I had
best proceed on my own lines, and then
clear the whole matter up once and for
all.”
“Just as you wish, Mr. Holmes, so
long as we get our man.”
“I have no desire to make mysteries,
but It is impossible at the moment
of action to enter into long and com
plex explanations. I have the threads
of this affair all In my hand. Even
if this lady should never recover con
sciousness we can still reconstruct the
events of last night and insure that
justice be done. First of all, I wish to
know whether there is any inn in this
neighborhood known as 'Elriges?'”
The servants were cross questioned,
biit none of them had heard of such a
place. The stable boy threw a light
upn the matter by remembering that a
farmer of that name lived some miles
off, in the direction of East Ruston.
“Is it a lonely farm?”
“Very lonely, sir.”
“Perhaps they have not heard yet of
all that happened here during the
night?”
“Maybe not, sir."
Holmes thought for a little, and then
a curious smile played over his face.
"Saddle a horse, my lad,” said he.
“I shall wish you to take a note to El
rige's farm.”
He took from his pocket the various
slips of the dancing men. With these
in front of him, he worked for some
time at the study table. Finnaly he
handed a note to the boy, with direc
tions to put it into the hands of the
“HE SANK WITH A DEEP GROAN ON TO THE SETTEE.”
the fumes of powder could not have
blown so rapidly through the house. A
draught in the room was necessary for
that. Both door and window were
onl open for a very short time, how
ever.”
“How do you prove that?”
"Because the candle was not gut
tered.”
“Capital!” cried the Inspector. “Cap
ital!”
“Feeling sure that the window had
been open at the time of the tragedy,
I conceived that there might have beer,
a third person in the affair, who stood
outside this opening and fired through
it. Any shot directed at this person
might hit the sash. I looked, and
there, sure enough, was the bullet
mark!"
“But how came the window to be
shut and fastened?”
“The woman’s first instinct would be
to shut and fasten the window. But,
halloa! what is this?”
It was a lady’s hand bag which stood
upon the study table—a trim little
hand bag of crocodile skin and sflver.
Holmes opened It and turned the con
tents out. There were twenty fifty
pound notes of the Bank of England
held together by an India rubber band
—nothing else.
“This must be preserved, for it will
figure in the trial,” said Holmes, as he
handed the bag with its contents to
the inspector. “It Is now necessary
that we should try to throw some light
upon this third bullet, which has clear
ly, from the splintering of the wood,
been fired from inside the room. I
should like to see Mrs. King, the cook,
again. You said, Mrs. King, that you
were awakened by a loud explosion.
When you said that, did you mean that
it seemed to you to be louder than the
second one?”
“Well, sir, it awakened me from my
sleep, and so it Is hard to judge. But
it did seem very loud."
“You don’t think that it might have
been two shots fired almost at the
same instant?"
“I am sure I couldn't say, sir.”
“I believe that it rva3 undoubtedly so.
I rather think, Inspector Martin, that
we have now exhausted ail that this
room can teach us. If you will kindly
step around with me, we shall see what
fresh evidence the garden has to of
fer.’
A flower bed extended up to the
study window, and we all broke into
I an exclamation as we approached it.
The flowers were trampled down, and
the soft soil was imprinted ail over
with footmarks. Large, masculine feet
thev were, with peculiarly long, sharp
toes. Holmes hunted about among the
grass and leaves like a retriever after
a wounded bird. Then, with a cry of
satisfaction, lie bent forward and
picked up a little brazen cylinder.
”1 thought so," said lie; "the revolver
had an ejector, and here is the third
cartridge, i really think. Inspector
Marlin, that our case is almost com
plete.”
The country inspector's face had
shown his intense amazement at the
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person to whom it was addressed, and
especially to answer no questions of
any sort which might be put to him. I
saw the outside of the note, addressed in
straggling, irregular characters, very
unlike Holmes’ usual precise hand. It
was consigned to Mr. Abe Slaney, El
rige’s farm. East Ruston, Norfolk.
“I think, Inspector,” Holmes re
marked, “that you would do well to tele
graph for an escort, as, if my calcu
lations prove to be correct, you may
have a particularly dangerous prisoner
to convey to the county gaol. The boy
who takes this note could no doubt for
ward your telegram. If there is an of
ternoon train to town, Watson, I think
we should do well to take It, as I have
a chemical analysis of some interest to
finish, and this investigation draws
rapidly to a close."
When the youth had been dispatched
with the note, Sherlock Holmes gave
his instructions to the servants. If any
visitor were to call asking for Mrs. Hil
ton Cubitt, no information should be
given as to her condition, but he was
to be shown at once into the drawing
room. He impressed these points upon
them with the utmost earnestness.
Finally he led the way into the drawing
room, with the remark that the busi
ness was now out of our hands, and
that we must while away the time as
best we might until we could see what
was in store for us. The doctor had
departed to his patients, and only the
inspector and myself remained.
“I think that I can help you to pass
an hour in an interesting and profitable
manner.” said Holmes, drawing his
<=-** Wf—
Worth While.
Mrs. Shopper (who is very near
sighted. in a department store;—How
' much is that figure over there?
I Cleric—About a hundred thousand
' dollars.
Mrs. Shopper—What? All that for a
■ wax figure?
1 Clerk—That ain’t a wan figure.
■ That’s the boss.
1
chair up to the table, and spreading
out in front of him the various papers
upon which were recorded the antics
of the dancing men. "As to you, friend
Watson, I owe every atonement for
having allowed your natural curiosity
to remain so long unsatisfied. To you,
inspector, the whole incident may ap
peal as a" remarkable professional
study. I must tell you, first of all, the
interesting circumstances connected
with the previous consultations which
Mr. Hilton Cubitt has had with me in
Baker street.” He then shortly re
capitulated the facts which have al
ready been recorded. ”1 have here in
front of me these singular productions,
at which one might smile, had they not
proved themselves to be the forerunners
of so terrible a tragedy. I am fairly
familiar with all forms of secret writ
ings, and am myself the author of a
trifling monograph upon the subject,
in which I analyze one hundred and
sixty separate ciphers, but I confess
that this is entirely new to me. The
object of those who invented the sys
tem has apparently been to conceal
that these characters convey a mes
sage, and to give the idea that they
are the mere random sketches of chil
dren.
“Having once recognized, however,
that the symbols stood for letters, and
having applied the rules which guide
us in all forms of secret writing, the
solution was easy enough. The first
message submitted to me was so
short that it was impossible for
me to do more than to say, with
some confidence, that the symbol
stood for E. As you are aware,
E is the most common letter in
the English alphabet, and it pre
dominates to so marked an ex
tent that even in a short sentence
one would expect to find It most often.
Out of fifteen symbols in the first mes
sage, four were the same, so it was
reasonable to set this down as E. It is
true that in some cases the figure was
bearing a flag, and in some cases not,
but it was probable, from the way in
which the flags were distributed, that
they were used to break the sentence up
into tvords. I accepted this as a hypothe
sis,and noted E was represented by
“But now came the real dif
ficulty of the Inquiry. The order
of the English letters after E
13 by no means well marked,
and any preponderance which may
be shown in an average of a
printed sheet may be reversed In a
single short sentence. Speaking rough
ly. T. A, O. I, N, S, H, R, D and L are
the numerical order in which letters
occur; but T. A, O and I are very near
ly abreast of each other, and it would
be an endless task to try each combin
ation until a meaning was arrived at.
I therefore waited for fresh material.
In my second interview with Mr. ^Hilton
Cubitt he was able to give me two
other short sentences and one message,
which appeared—since there was no
flag—to be a single word. Here are
the symbols. Now, in the single word
I have already got the two E’s^comlng
second and fourth in a word of five
letters. It might be ‘sever,’ or ‘lever,’
or ‘never.’ There can be no question
that the latter as a reply to an appeal
is far the most probable, and the cir
cumstances pointed to its being a re
ply written by a lady. Accepting
it as correct, we are now able to
say that the symbols
stand respectively foi Jf** T VJ1'
N, V and R. »_J 1—(
“Even now I was Cy I J
in considerable diffi- J
culty, but a happy thought put me
in the possession of several other
letters. It occurred to me that if these
appeals' came, as I expected, from
someone who had been intimate with
the lady in her early life, a combination
which contained two E’s with three
letters between might very well stand
for the name ’ELSIE.’ On examination
I found that such a combination
formed the termination of the message
which was three times repeated. It
was certainly some appeal to ’Elsie.’
In this way I had got my L. S and I.
But what appeal could it be? There
were only four letters in the word
which preceded ‘Elsie,’ and it -ended
in E. Surely the word must be 'COME.'
I tried all other four letters ending in
E, but could find none to fit the case.
So now I was in possession of O, O and
M, and I was in a position to attack
the first message once more, dividing
it into words and putting dots for each
symbol which was Still unknown. So
treated, it worked out in this fash
ion;
. M . ERE . . E SL . NE.
“Now the first letter can only be A,
which is a most useful discovery, since
it occurs no fewer than three times in
this short sentence, and the H is also
apparent in the second word. Now It
becomes:
AM HERE A . E SLANE.
Or, filling in the obvious vacancies in
the name:
AM HERE ABE SLANEY.
X had so many letters now that I could
proceed with considerable confidence
to the second message, which worked
out in this fashion:
A . ELRI . ES.
Here I could only make sense by put
ting T and G for the missing letters,,
and supposing that the name was that
of some house or inn at which the
writer was staying.”
Inspector Martin and I had listened
with the utmost interest to the full
and clear account of how my friend
had produced results which had led to
so complete a command over our diffi
culties.
“What did you do then, sir?" asked
the inspector.
“X had every reason to suppose that
this Abe Slaney was an American,
since Abe is an American contraction,
and since a letter from America had
been the starting point of all/ the trou
ble. I had also every cause to 'think
that there was some criminal secret
in the matter. The lady’s allusions to
her past, and her refusal to take her
husband into her confidence, both
pointed in that direction. I therefore
cabled to my friend, Wilson Hargreave,
of the New York police bureau, who
has more than once made use of my
knowledge of London crime. I asked
him whether the name of Abe Slaney
was known to him. Here is his reply:
‘The most dangerous crook in'Chicago.’
On the every evening upon which I had
his answer, Hilton Cubitt sent me the
last message from Slaney. Working
with known letters. It took this form:
ELSIE . RE ARE TO MEET THY
GO .
The addition of a P and a D completed
a message which showed me that the
rascal was proceeding from persuasion
to threats, and my knowledge of the
crooks of Chicago prepared me to find
that he might very rapidly put his
words Into action. I at once came to
Norfolk with my friend and colleague.
Dr. Watson, but, unhappily, only in
time to find that the worst had al
ready occurred.”
(Continued Next Week)
Dramatize Him.
New York Globe: "I understand that
volt are about to make moves to regain
the money you have lost through state
ments of Mr. Jossem of Boston.” says the
interviewer to the frenzied magnate. “Are
you going to fight him on the board of
trade'.’"
“No,” answers the frenzied magnate.
“1 am going to have him dramatized and.
then work him over Into parlor game."
The methoo employed by the captains
of Nile boats to keep the natives away
on landing is to turn the hose on them.
