Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-23

The problem now was to find an arrange
nent of the numbers which would make
sense of all five columns equally. II would
not have been difficult perhaps to contrive
a corjectursl Ieau,ng of the first column,
for that contained only one unknown word !;
but the Interpretation would have been no
better than a guess unless the other -four
dispatches had confirmed it. The only sys
tematlc method Of deciphering was to tit
together little groups of words, trying
every rational combination of W or three,
and varifying the experiment by compari-
son with the corresponding words in the
parallel columns. Almost always a few
words can be found which seek each others
companionship obviously and naturally.
These we may call guide. words" In the
first column for instance we have the word
"adjourned" (27.) We know. by the date
Of the dispatch. columbia, November l3),
that the man who wrote it was anxiously
watching the proceedings Of the South Car
DINA board OF state canvassers. and the in.
ference is clear that the only ADJ ,urnmen,
be would be likely TO telegraph about was
The adjournment OF the csnvassing board.
We found no open meLtion of the hoard 10
his telegram. but there is the substitution.
cipher "London," which is used with erea,
frequency all through the correspondence,
If that means canvasslng board, it will make
a good nominative to adjourned" Now
we also know that the board did not com
plete It's labors till q week after this date F;
the adjournment then was not final, but to
some particular day, and tue day must have
been gwen In the dispatch. London ad-
journed until to- morrow" Is u reading
which not only seems rational, but agrees
with the facts as We learn them from an K
animation If the newspaper flies for Nov
ember, 1876. We have, tnerefnre, the
sequence 80 81. 10 %. which makes sense
in the first column. In the second, it pro
duces this arrangement Of words "us out il
a ~ in the third aud fourth it yields a large
proportion of blind words which give us
little or no help; in the fifth it produces
satisfied by Bavaria aud" All these col
locations look at least encouraging. The
fragment Of a sentence, or sentences
which We have obtained from the SECOND
column. ''us out if %a."cnntaius two clews b,
which we can extend the sequence in bctt
directions; plainly the word in that column
which precedes "us out" is count" Oh,
10Th word), and the 25th and 9Th words
"intend to-" are just as clearly The word
that lead up TO ''count" Our fragment nov
contains seven words, and 1t ends with tn
article "a" (2s). There are only two word
left 10 the column 10 which the lndefnit
article can possibly be applied
few" ga and the yet unknown
"Copenhsgen" (4). A comparison With tn
parallel words 10 the fifth column shows tha
Copenhagen" will not do, and We tax
few" Now the phrase - few. must b
followed by 4 plural noun. and unleas "Co
penhagen" stands for . plural noun the on
y one that remnants is "things" t2GI Their
il no,ning in the other columns 10 help u
in deciding between them, 70 ve leave III
sequence for the preseni aud Try some o,he
blocks. We have already ct the orI-,
Is, s. 10, %. n. 10. ., "a, flung psrf. ell.
in all the columLs, ~ Tar ~ they are under
stood, and We know that ths next nu,nts