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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18

had, no doubt observed, for some weeks
past, the abstraction of my demeanor, and
took especial care not to leave me alone.
But, on the next day, getting up very early,
l contrived to give him the slip, and went
into the hills in search of the tree. After
much toilsI found it When | came homo
al night my valet proposed to give me a
fogging. With the rest of the adventure I
believe you are as well acquainted as my
self
II suppose" said 1, you missed the spot.
in the first attempt at digging through
Jupiter's stupidity in letting the bug fail
through the right instead of through the
left eye of the SKULL
Precisely. This mistake made a differ
ence of about two inches and a half in the
'shot'-that is to say, in the position of the
peg nearest the tree, and had the treasure
been beneath the shot the error would
have been of little moment; but the shot,
together with the nearest point of the tree,
were merely two points for the establish
ment OF a line of direction of course, the
error, however trivial in the beginning, in
creased we proceeded with the line, and
by the time we had gone fifty feet, threw
off the scent. But for my deep-seated con-
victions that treasure was here somewhere
actually buried we might have had all our
labor in vain"
II presume the fancy of the skull, of let
ting fall bullet through the skulls eye
was suggested to Kidd by the piratical flag.
No doubt he felt kind of poetical con-
sistency in recovering his money through
this ominous insignum.'
Perhaps so: still l cannot help thinking
that common sense had quite as much to do
with the matter a s poetical consistency. To
be visible from the devils seat. 1t was
necessary that the object, If small should
be white and there is nothing like your
human skull for retaining and even increas-
ing its wilderness under exposure to all Vicis-
STUDIES of weather.
But your grandiloquence, and your con-
duct in swinging the beetle-how excessively
odd! | was sure you were mad And why
q;5 LET fal he
stead Of bullet from the skull?''
why to be frank, / felt somewhat an
noyed by your evident suspicious touching
nv sanity, and resolved to punish you
quietly in my way, by a little DIT OF
sober justification. For this reason swung
the beetle and for this reason l let 1t fall
from the tree An observation of yours
about its great weight suggested the latter
idea.
Eyes. 1 perceive; and now there is only
one point which puzzles me. What are we
to make of the skeletons found In the hole?"
THAT is a question / am no more able to
answer than yourself There seems, how
ever, only one plausible way of accounting
for them-and yet 1t is dreadful to believe
In such atrocity as my suggestion would
imply II is clear that Kidd-f Kidd indeed
secreted this treasure, which doubt not
1t is clear that he must have had assistance
in the labor But, the worst of this labor
concluded, he may have thought II expe-
dent to remove all participants In his secret.
Perhaps couple of blows with mattock
were sufficient, while his coadjutors were
busy In the pit; perhaps 1t required dozen
who shall tell?"
che sna.D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18

Secretary Edwards reply, land am ready
to carry out the terms of the contract
whenever the old black hat is produced"
Although Secretary Edwards made the
wager to turn himself into human goat
on the spur of the moment, the disagree
ableness Of losing doubtless impressed itself
on him later, for he hedged by wagering
two bottles of champagne, which would
have to be furnished in case he lost in his
bet with the senator. This wine he declares
shall now be used to wash down the hat
The secretary is looking at the whole
matter philosophically and thanking his
preserving fates that he made only the two
bets on the election.
1t is limited that he is to be made the
guest of honor at a little dinner arranged
by the senator, when he will be furnished
with the 'old black hat while the other
guests partake of tempting viands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18
CHARLEY EDWARDS TASK.
Senator Elkins Reminds Him of Lost
Wager.

All of the difficult feats required Of the
secretary to the democratic congressional
committee have not yet been performed by
Mr.. Charles A. Edwards, who has followed
the vicissitudes of that Office for the past
few months with the energy of pack of
hounds on fresh trail. The secretary
thought he was In on the death when the
returns came in on election night, but when
the mists had cleared away and he found
that mot nothin' had been landed he look
ed around for solace. The only solace he
got was little message from Senator
Stephen B. Elkins Of West Virginia. The
senator said:
You remember you were to eat my hat
II the democrats did not get at least two
Of the West Virginia congressional districts.
Well, have a large stock Of hats, and as
don't know your gastronomic tastes I will
allow you to make the selection, but of
course shall have to insist that you carry
out the terms Of the contract"
II am very fond of old black hats" was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18
DROWNED SELF AND BABY.
Mrs. Sechrist Committed Suicide in the
Missouri River.

A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kan. yes
terday says: In the Missouri river near
here a woman's straw hat with the follow
ing not has been found:
clothes to Journal Office and they will send
1t to AS North 26th street, Lincoln, Neb
This is to mark the place where l, Mrs. al.
Sechrist. and baby have gone to rest in the
deep Missouri
The woman's family live in Lincoln. The
hat was identified by a restaurant keeper
in this city, who says its owner ate several
meals at his place last week. 1t is believed
that Mrs. Sechrist is the wife of Frank
Sechrist, who was killed by Dr. Zorn at
Kansas City three months ago in a dispute
over a board bill. The river is being
dragged.
Mrs. Sechrist was supposed to have start
ed for Kansas City to testify in the Zorn
case. The killing Of Sechrist by Zorn was
a sensational affair and Mrs. Sechrist was
the states principal witness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18

line from the tree through the shot fifty
feet out "
But said I. the enigma seems still In
pessbe to entort Is
jargon about devils seats death s-heads
and bishops hotelsT"
II confess" replied Legrand, that the
matter still wears a serious aspect, when
regarded with a casual glance. My first
endeavor was to divide the sentence into
the natural division intended by the cryptic
sraphist."
you mean to punctuate it?"
Something of that kind"
But how was 1t possible to effect this?"
Il reflected that 1t had been point with
the writer to run his words together with
out division, so as to increase the difficulty
OF solution. Now, not over acute man.
In pursuing such an object, would be nearly
certain to overdo the matter. When In the
course of his composition, he arrived at a
break in his subject, which would naturally
require pause or a point, he would be ex-
ceedfngly apt to run his characters, at this
place, more than usually close together. If
you will observe the MS, in the present
instance, you will easily detect five such
cases Of unusual crowding. Acting on this
hint. 1 made the division thus:
A good glass In the bishops hostel in
the devils seat-twenty-o degrees and
thirteen minutes-northeast and by north
main branch seventh limb east side-shoot
from the left eye of the death -head-a
Decline from the tree through the shot
n1ty feet out.
Even this DIVISION" said L. "Ieaves me
still in the dark"
ut left me also in the dark" replied Le-
grand. for few days. during which I
made diligent inquiry. in the neighborhood
OF Sullivan's Island, for any building which
went by the name of Bishops HOTEL for
of course dropped the obsolete word hos
tel Gaining no information on the sub
5ect, l was on the point Of extending my
sphere of search and proceeding in more
systematic manner when one morning 1t
entered my head, quite suddenly, that this
Bishops Hostel might have some refer
ence to an old family, Of the name of Bes-
sop. which. time out of mind, had held pos
session of an ancient manor house about
four miles to the northward of the island.
1 accordingly went over to the plantation
and Reconstructed my inquiries among the
older negroes OF the place. At length one
of the most aged Of the women said that
she had heard of such a place as Bessop' 8
Castle, and thought that she could guide
me to 1t, but that it was not a castle, nor
a tavern. but a high rock.
II offered to pay her we'll for her trouble,
and. after some demur, she consented to
accompany me to the spot. We found 1t
without much difficulty, when. Diminishing
her, proceeded to examine the place. The
biage Of cliffs and rocks-one ot the latter
being quite remarkable for its height as
well as for its insulated and artificial ap-
pearance. I clambered to its apex, and
then felt much at loss as to what should
be next done.
while was busted in reflection my eyes
fell upon q narrow ledge In the eastern face
Of the rock, perhaps yard below the sum-
NIT on which stood This ledge projected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18

w. Sutton. laden with plaster from New
Brunswick, has arrived at Alexandria, con-
signed to Herbert Bryant.
The two-masted schoonel Samuel L. Rus
sell Is in port with large cargo of laths
from North Carolina for Frank Libbey &
Co.
The ram schooner Harlan w. Huston,
laden with North Carolina pine lumber for
the dealers at Alexandria and this city, has
arrived from Newbern. N. c.
The schooner Sdonia Curley, laden with
lumber and shingles. has arrived here from
Norfolk for H. L. Biscoe.
The schooner Fannie is in port with a full
load Of sand from Greenway for the deal
ers at Georgetown.
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Concluded from Yesterday. !

Here Legrand, having reheated the
parchment, submitted II to my inspection.
The following characters were rudely
traced, in red tint, between the deaths
head and the goat:
53t4i3O5)D6'; 4s26)4t. )4t) 500 ;4stS'G0))s5
;ls":t'sts3(SS)5't:4 6( ;sS'96' ?;s)'t( 4s5) ST
2:'t (:4956'2( 5'-4)SsS. ;4O632S5) 06fs)4tt;1G9
:4sOs1 IS St1 :4StS5 ;4)4S5t52SSO6's1(t 90 ;4S;(s
S;4t ?34 ;4s)4t ;161; :1Ss;t?;
But" said I. returning him the slip, Il
am as much in the dark as ever. Were all
the jewels of Golconda awaiting me on my
solution of this enigma 1 am quite sure
that / should be unable to earn them
And yet" said Legrand, the solution Is
by no means so difficult as you might be
led to imagine from the first hasty inspec-
tion of the characters. These characters,
as any one might readily guess, form a
cipher that is to say. they convey a mean
ing; but then, from what is known Of
Kidd, / could not suppose him capable Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18
Squadron Leaves Cape Vincent.

The flagship Illinois and the cruisers Chi
cago and Albany of the European squadron
left Cape Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, Sun
day for the Gulf of Paria, Trinidad, to
take part in the naval maneuvers. The
Albany was built in England and purchased
from Brazil during the Spanish war. This
will be her first appearance in American
waters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18
Returned on the Mayower.

Acting Secretary Darling of the Navy
Department arrived yesterday morning on
the Presidents yacht Mayflower from
Hampton Roads, where he inspected the
North Atlantic squadron before its de-
parture for Culebra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18
Synopsis.

william Legrand recluse living Sullivan's
Island, Charleston, 5. c., finds curious
bug wrapped in bit of parchment which
exerts a strange Influence upon him. His friend,
the writer believes him 10 be mentally unbal-
anced, especially when, later. Legrand summons
him to the island and starts out on mysterious
expedition. The negro servant Jupiter, Is sent
up tree. and at his masters command finds
nailed to branch a skull, through eye
socket Of which he let's fall the gold bug by
string. From the spot at which the bug touches
the gound line II In certain direction,
and at its end a pit is dug, But results are
disclosed. Discovering that Jupiter has drop
ped the bug through the wrong eye, tn" mistake
Is corrected the process repeated and chest
Is unearthed containing n great treasure. Ie-
grand explains that he had learned the secret
Of the hiding place OF the treasure from the
parchment In which the gold bug wrapped.
When heated a series Of cryptographic charac
tiers had appeared upon II. comprising numerals
and various topographic signs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18

sary, as before, we arrive at the word
tree, as the sole possible reading. We
thus gain another letter, r represented by
4 with the words the tree in juxtaposition:
Looking beyond these words, for short
distance. we again see the combination ;4s,
and employ it by way of termination to
what Immediately precedes. We have thus
this arrangement
the tree ;4Ct?s4 the,
or. substituting the natural letters, where
known, it reads thus:
the tree thrt ?3h the.
NOW, If. In place Of the unknown char
acters, we leave blank spaces, or substitute
dots, We read thus:
the tree thr.. h the,
when the word through makes itself evil
dent at once. But this discovery gives us
three new letters, o, u and g. represented
by t? and 8.
Looking now. narrowly, through the
cipher for combinations of known charac-
ters' we find, not very far from the begin
ming, this arrangement,
S3(SS, or egree,
which, plainly. is the conclusion Of the
word degree and gives us another letter,
d, represented by +.
-Four letters beyond the word degree we
perceive the combination
:46( :SSs.
"Translating the known characters, and
representing the unknown by dots, as be-
fore, we read thus:
thrice,
an arrangement Immediately suggestive OF
the word thirteen and again furnishing
us with two new characters, and n. rep
resented by 6 and =
Referring, now, to the beginning Of the
cryptograph. we find the combination,
81 tt t. 1
''Translating as before we obtain:
good,
Which assures us that the first letter Is a.
and that the first two words are a good
TO avoid confusion 1t Is now time that
we arrange our key. as far as discovered
IT. tabular form. 1t will stand thus:
represents
I represents
represents j.
represents
represents
represents
represents n
represents
represents
represents
1--WE have, therefore no less than ten OF
the most important letters represented, and
1t Will be unnecessary to proceed with the
details of the solution. l hayessaid enough
to convince you that ciphers OF this nature
are readily soluble, and to give you some
insight into the rationale OF their develop
ment. But be assured that the specimen
before US appertains to the very simplest
species of cryptograph. It now only remains
to give you the full translationsof the char
acters upon the parchment Is unr1ooied.
Here 1t is:
"A good glass in the Bishops hostel IN
the devils seat twenty4one degrees ana
thirteen minutes northeast sand by north
main branch seventh limb. east side shoot
from the left eye Of the doath D-head bee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18

Only a few hundred
people see any average
store window each day.
A hundred and fifty
thousand people see
The Stars advertis-
ing daily.
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EDUCATIONAL.
OUT Of WASHINGTON.

CoNCoRDvILLE, pA.-$2sLYALE,
Harvard Ind Wesleyan Instructors prepare 40
boys for business college. Gymnasium: athletic
field. No tobacco. JOSEPH SHORrLIDGE, Prin.
oc2O-72tsA
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frequent. Counting all, 1 constructed
table. thus:
OF the character there are 80.
:; there are 20.
there are 10.
- there are 16.
there are ID.
8 there are IL.
6 there are II.
l there are 8.
there are 6.
92there are B.
% there are 4.
there are 3.
there are 2.
J. there are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30
SOURCE OF DISTURBANCE.
Education Bill Ii Causing Muoh
Trouble in England.

New York, Sept. 30.-The education
bill remains source of political dis
turbance, with searching of hearts in
every faction, cables the London CORE
spondent of the Tribune. The noncon-
formists alone are thoroughly in earnest
in opposing the measure, but they diner
among themselves respecting the wis.,
dom of their leaders in advocating q
general refusal to pay rates if the gov
eminent persists in enacting it. The
Irish Nationalist, who have been sup
porting the bill. are now threatening to
oppose 1T because Secretary Wyndham
is not regarding the coercion act as .
dead letter. The Liberals are eager to
discredft the government and facilitate
their return to power, but aStute poll
ticians among them do not desire either
the defeat or abandonment of the edu-
cation scheme, for they would be COM
mitted in that event to the settlement
Of this most troublesome question on
the risk of alternating the support of the
churchmen. The government support
ers, while seriously embarrassed by the
agitation against the measure, are hop
ing that a compromise can be effected
through the good offices of the opposi-
tion leaders and the clergy of the Eng
lisEs churches. Moderate churchmen are
suggesting that the chief difficulty can
be removed by restricting religious in
struction to the Bible and the author
lied catechism. and by excluding rit-
works. They contend that the question
of authority could be easily settled IL
the scope of religious instruction were
strictly limited for every religious body.
The October reviews are briStling with
articles on this question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30

Mr.. Henry B. Blackwell. who will be
present at the suffrage convention and
make the principal address the night OF
the 14th at Representative hall, is not
unknown to Kansans. In 1867 and again
in 1884 with his wife, Lucy Stone, he
visited Kansas and made many speeches
and many friends. He is the senior ed
itor of the Woman's Journal, Boston. In
his young manhood he was a hardware
merchant, but upon his acquaintance
and subsequent falling in love with
REIMBURSEMENT, and today having passed
his seventy-fifth birthday he is as en-
thusiastic and earnest as when he be
gan its work 80 years ago. He is as
sisted in his editorship by his daughter.
Alice Stone Blackwell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30

MIDWAY HAS .TROURLE.
L oppenheimer's Show Il Nov
Stranded ct Atchison.

Stranded at Atchdson-
The Oppenheimer Midway which was at
the Topeka fair continues to have trouble.
The Atchison Globe says:
The Oppenheimer midway fs stranded in
Atchison. About 50 people in ALL most Of
whom owe board bills. The midway was
to have opened IN Beividere, ILL.,, this morn
ing, but Jim Challiss got out an attach
ment Saturday night in favor of Frisco
& Faust. speciality team, for back SAL
airy amounting to 500. The sheriff would
not serve the writ without indemnify
garnishment suit. which answered the
same purpose Then G. H. I. Shaffer. the
contractor. sued for $780, L. OppenheInser
went to Chicago when he left here last
midway say that Oppenheimer also sent
charge here. to settle obligations. but that
Howard skipped out with about 200 The
80 was Int tn the First Mst SI bank but
ard went to KaDsas CITY !. ana that ts
cashed at the National Bank of Comnerce
there. The Kansas City bank teiegraphed
to the Exchange National bank In Atchl-
son and learned that the money was claim
Kansas City bank did not cash the check.
midway. brought suit against Howard for
$zS9.99 in the city court and attached the
money IN the exchange Natlonol Dauk "a
8. Shattuck, another member of the show.
had a state warrant issued for Howard.
charging him with the embezzlement of
STA and the certified check for $500. The
Santa Fe company brought the equipment
here yesterday with which to move the
company to Illinois, but took the cars
away again last night when the company
was unable to move. 1t Is stated this at
ternoon that the transportation ID. here and
that settlement will probably be reached
with the creditors. 30 that the midway.
or Ave of them went Saturday night, and
it is claimed that they stole the rag time
opera tent. About ali there is left of the
midway Is the Streets of India and Frisco
and Faust are the principal actors in that
ter. The show has lost fully half of its
attractions in the past three weeks. but
Oppenheimer expects to fill it out in Chi
cago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30
A Financial Record.

New York. Sept. 3o-A petition in
bankruptcy has been filed by Walter
Stanton of this city to purge himself of
liability for tke indebtedness of Coffin
& Stanton, bankers, of which he is
junior member. The firm failed in 1894
Stanton's schedule is accounted in bank
ruptcy courts as establishing what ia
akin to a financial record. 1t shows
liabilities of $4.156,942 in one column and
SIS as an asset offset in the other. OF
the liabilities he states that $5,375 repre-
sents personal debts and the balance is
of the firms contracting. OF the liza
bilities $2,9S6,173 were secured, 1878, 1853
unsecured. and 1921, $50 contingent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30
Colonist Rates for Southwest.

st. Louis. Sept 3o.TThe Southwestern
Passenger association has promulgated
the information relative to the coloniSt
rates for the southwest. The resolu-
ton submitted to interested lines pro-
vides that such rates should be effective
for the second homeseekers' date in Oc-
tober, Tuesday, the 21st. and continuing
until the last date in April. 1903, to be
one way colonist rates, and to be Sec
ond class, not good in standard sleepers.
to be placed in effect from Kansas City.
ST. Louis, Memphis or other Mississippi
or Missouri river gateways as agreed.
upon a basis of one-half of the present
standard one way rates plus 81, con-
tinuouS passage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30
Charged with Robbing a Mail Carrier

st. Louis, Sept. 30.-Through the con-
fession of two convicts now serving Z
year sentences in the penitentiary at
Jefferson City, Postoffice Inspector Dice
has caused the arrest of five persons in
St Louis on the charge of having rob-
bed Oscar Koeliing, a mail carrier, of a
pouch containing registered mail val
ued at $1,000 on the night Of December
II, 1901. The persons under arrest are
Jack Flicker and Tom Commit, employees
in the city registers Office; Jerry Kah-
Ter, a saIoonkeeper: Jerry Creedon.
known around town and Emma Hig-
gins. Conniff was bound over in the
sum of 81, 500 and Kahler in the sum of
81, 500. Kahler procured bond. Flicker,
Creedon and the Higgins woman will
have a hearing tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30
It Might Be Worse.

Constantinople, Sept 30.-Diplomatic
circles here do not regard the situation
In Macedonia as being so serious as
wCdld appear from the Turkish govern
ments military preparations in calling
out 10000 men of the militia reserves
The Porte's alarm is partially attrib-
uted to the. maneuvers and other Incl
dents of the Sbipka Pass fetes, the po-
iitical Importance of which, however, is
considered to have been greatly exag-
gerated, in view of the approach of the
winter, when the movements will neces-
sarily be stopped. 1t is not thought that
the threats of the Macedonian commit
tee will foment a general revolution or
develop into anything very serious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-30
Special Fares for Trip to tho National
Capital.

Persons contemplating attending the
thirty-sixth national G. A. r. encamp-
ment at Washington, D. c.. in October.
and those who desire to make a sight
seeing trip to the national capital;
should write A. B. Richie. T. p AGt..
Kansas City, Mo-, or ]. M. Chesbrough,
A. 6. p. Agt., Vandalia-P ennsylvania
lines, 500 Century building, st. Louis.
regarding low fares. stop-over priv
ileges, side trips. etc. Home visitors
excursion tickets to Indiana and Ohio
points will be sold at the same time.