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PHI
The Key Found Among the Papers In III.
LAhrAFY Of Congress.

To THE ED1roR OF THE sUN-Sir; In Tn,
Sun for March / Mr.. George H., Richmond
printed a copy of a letter written by Gouyer.
neur Morris to Gen Nathaniel Greene, dated
Philadelphia, September II, 1871, This let.
ter transmitted to Greene a messaE e In plain
English, with It's translation into a cipher
composed Of figures, thus:
is. IS. "a. $50. b6s. lao. 2Oo. $40. s2o, ola. 80. u
$50. 40.
The cipher was In possession Of Gen. WasA.
ington also. The messag consisted Of
twenty-eight words. The Librarian OF Con.
gress was good enough to make a search
among the manuscripts in his collection a,
my request. The key Is to be found in TIA
Washington papers, miscellaneous III, folio
70. A part Of the translation of the message
printed In TIL Sun Is:
is=Si, 53=r, G=H, 800 en-. H5= ry, i4O=c,
2oO=l, 3i9=in, est, el3=on. a30=thr, rs =aL
b9O=en, 24=an. 14s=a at. 23= ack. &c.
The cipher key contains ten columns, each
containing slxty-two words or letters. Thu
MESA &c printed In THE Sun was not long
enough to determine the key even with tn.
help Of the words In plain English.
H'may be OF interest TO historians IN know
OF the existence OF this key and cipher.
EDWARD g. HOLDEN.
U. s. MILITARY ACADEMY. March "A.
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Hysteria and Common Sense.

From tho Chicago ErGnino Post.
What Mr.. jerome said last night about the
hysteria tina pervades the utterances and the
actions OF a good many Of his fellow citizens
just now Is particularly commendable Tor its
lucidity and common sense.
Because grand juries can and viii bring
In indictments against anybody accused Of
certain kinds of crimes and misdemeanors
by the hue and cry of yellow journals-with
or without evidence justifying a present.
ment-Mr. Jerome deserves credit for refus-
ing to permit indictments to be found except
upon legally satisfactory grounds.
That is not only good law and common
sense but it IL the act OF a level headed guar
dian of the rights OF all the people. II one
lot Of citizens may be indicted without reason
it will not be long before another lot will meet
tn q RAme fate.
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The opinion of a "Trust Buster"

If Lawyer HADLEY is right, it is a
question whether we are not wasting
the very considerable sum of money
which is being spent for the Bureau Of
Corporations. Referring to the recent
decision of the Supreme Court in the
Sugar Trust and the Tobacco Trust
cases, Mr.. HADLEY says:
1t Is now Impossible for any public prosecutor
20 say that he is satisfied that such and such a trust
is violating the law but he can't prove 1t. Under
this Supreme Court decision. which, to my mind.
is one OF the most important in the history OF the
country. he can force the trusts which are operat-
ing in defiance OF the law 10 convict themselves.
ain the very nature of things. the trusts are creA.
lures OF the State, and as such are subject TO the
control Of the State. The Supreme Court decision
makes this perfectly plain. and n the laws are not
enforced the people can put tho blame where II
belongs-cn the oraciais who fail TO sec to their
enforcement"
This has the ring Of a sound PROPOSE
ton, and as an active trailer of corpo-
ration evils Mr.. HADLEY may be said
to speak with authority. The Bureau
Of Corporations was established for the
purpose of gathering such information
and data as will enable the President of
the United States to make recommends
tions to Congress for Legislation for the
regulation Of commerce. 1t has al
ways been a question whether the work
of the Bureau of Corporations, so far as
such Investigations are concerned, does
not properlv belong in the Department
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Story OF BinieE and 40.

TTUW W pUtTtoa WWVTI.TV|
Sam Davis of Nevada once made a wNSG .NAl
he could successfully initiate the style OF any l'Ins
or dead poet and do II so thoroughly that ne
difference was not dlscernlble. and that the pUNIc'
the press and the critics would not detect the 't'1d'
As a result he wrote "Binley and 49," TO whDH ne
signed F. Bret Harie's name. The fake VS. pAi
out In a publication known as Tho open l''lrt
II described an engineer who took his train thf".sA
a .snowstorm In the Sierras, dying al his post
From the Atlantic to the Paclhc the poem VS.
copied. "Blnley and 40" was given a full page 10
Leaie'S weekly, with a portrait Of Bret Hart Aha
described as the best short poem OF the dccad'
1t was many years before MIR. HaTte dCui"4 ~
authorship. The poem has since been incorpn'a.ed
In several books. OF popular Rotations. no'"'h'
standing Binley freezes 10 death beside a rosr'n'
locomotive furnace. with $50 pounds OF steam W
and Two cords OF wood within reach.
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Municipal Ownership and the Ballot

Professor HUGO RICHARD MEYER in
his book just out OH Municipal Owner
ship in Great Britain deals almost ex-
clusively with the economic side Of
the question. Yet under the heading
Municipal Employees" he touches the
political problems involved. He quotes
Sir ROBERT CRANsToN, Lord Provost
that is, Mayor-of Edinburgh, as saying
in May of last year that the danger
ahead" point had been reached.
"As the city grows" said the Lord
Provost, "the army of employees grows,
and there have been indications at times
that they may WELD a power in the
dictation Of the city government which
is not altogether for the best interests
of the municipality"
To meet this danger the Edinburgh
Mayor suggested the probable necessity
at a not distant day of Withholding the
franchise on all municipal matters from
city employees. Only a few weeks ago
the Mayor Of Glasgow came out in a fiat
footed declaration in favor of taking the
ballot away from the employees Of that
city.
II this is the situation in the cities Of
Great Britain, where politics is divorced
to the limits of possibility from munich
pal administration, the question natu-
rally arises, What would be the result OF
municipal ownership in our own intensely
political cities?
Concerning this question We are able
to present the testimony OF an uncom-
monty competent witness. Our own
Honorable TIMOTHY d. SULLIVAN. moi
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Public Sentiment and Mfr. Speaker,

Public Sentiment and MT. speaker.
There is just now an excellent oppor-
tunity for Speaker CANNON to practise
what he breaches. In an article recently
published and bearing his signature Mr..
CANNON says:
Constitutions and laws are Of no advantage
unless there is a public sentiment that demands
their enforcement. The Constitution and laws
do not make sentlment-sentlment makes and
e%nforces them"
The Senate has failed to agree with the
House upon the joint Statehood question.
The House has failed to agree with the
Senate on certain points in the Consular
bill. Both of these measures now go to
a conference Of committees from the
respective bodies. That public senti-
ment supports the Senate's plan of adj
hitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory
as one State and cutting out Arizona
and New Mexico Is now beyond question.
Public sentiment also approves the plan
of Executive transfer of Consuls-G General
or Consuls from n place to another
according to the needs Of the service"
These are the matters at issue in the
conference.
II Mr.. CANNON will recognize and bow
to this public sentiment, instead Of in
dulging in a strut about "the dignity Of
the House." he will put himself in line
with public sentiment and in harmony
with his own protested philosophy OF
government.
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A VOICE FROM THE JAIL.
Recalling n BarbarOus Law That DefacW
New Y0rk,s statute Books.

To II EDITon OF The s%UN-Sir; Why
does the great Empire State OF New York
supposed to be the richest. largest populated
and most progress lve-remain the only STATE
in the Union. or In the civilized world, to
retain ON its statute book the antinuated,
barbarous, brutal. inuuisitorlal law that per.
mits the body Of 0 person to be seized and
imprisoned In civil actions without trial BY
why are civil prisoners In custody Of the
Sheriff compelled TO breathe. liye. eat qnd
sleep amid filth and vermin. that the Board Of
Health or the Tenement House Commission
would not permit IN any living or manufaO.
turing establishments .
Why are not civil prisoners in custody Of
the sheriff supplied with sufficient food 10
maintain health and strength, or does tho
Sheriff maintain us here at his personal
expense7
Ny -four fellow prisoners and the writer
ali New York city residents and taxpayers
would thank you very much for some light
on the subject. GEoRGE 7. S~ThCRHOuBE.
LUDLOW STREET JAN. March 20.
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From me Buffalo Ereninp Nees.

The principle OF action that Mr.. Jerome
LAYS down Is unassailable. A district attor-
ney is bound to have the evidence in hand
when he asks the indictment OF any citizen.
A jury has no right to convict save on the
actual evidence. A grand jury has no right
to take account OF ms gazine hysterla" when
asked for indictments.
The moment any part OF the machinery of
Justice Is run In open disre gard Of evidence
that moment marks the beginning OF the
reign OF injustice. The outcome OF that
course is anarchy. The testimony OF Mr..
Jerome is Of value on that point and his
pledge that he will have the evidence before
he will carry the citizen to the grand jury
is warmly commercial le.
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precisely a chicken In municipal political
activities, on his return from Great Brit
ain. last simmer had this to say In the
course of an interview on his observa-
lions abroad:
Municipal ownership is a grand
thing. II Tammany gets 1t going here,
Tammany will be doing business when
the millennium comes"
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The Original "Oid sIeuth.'

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-sr: In the account
Of the death OF Col. Harvey King Shackleford at
Atlanta, Ga. published In to days sun. II Ia stated
that he originated the old leuth" series OF detec-
tive stories.
Col. Shackleford was never a man to claim credit
for work he did not perform, and ! am certain, from
a personal Acquaintance OF twenty .hve years, that
he would deny the report II he were alive,
The odd Sleuth" stories were originated and
written by Harlan p. Halsey OF Brooklyn, who ac-
cumulated a fortune from them and died a few
years ago. This correction is made In justice TO
the original "Old Sleuth" and TO Col, Shackleford.
BROOKLYN. March 20. CECIL BURLEIaH.
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Bluebesrd's wife had Just entered the forbidden
chamber.
And yet" unused Mr.. B., when we were court
ing she paid her little brother ten cents a night TO
stay out Of the paTlor,"
Herewith he could only ponder on the lncon-
nistcncy of woman.
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tDb W. thN W ~ ASN
Crop.
We're hunting for a winter way down here In
Maine;
When We ought TO have a snowstorm they give
us slush and rain.
The hens are out and scratching, It is summer all
the year;
We can't tell what has struck us when the weather
acts so queer.
There's a little scum OF something and some people
call II ice:
II Is spread upon the river. but II isn't very nice.
We shall scoop It In and house II and Try TO pass
II round:
Twill be awfully expensive, about sixteen cents
q pound.
sixteen cents a nugget, dollar and half a day:
When you want TO cool your toddy that's what
youll have TO pay.
when the sun gets good and busy, al 90 in the shade.
We shall call round with our thinning and we're
sure TO strike a trade.
IttAyDHN. Ne A. N. TAYLoA.
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An Old French BookMorm.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sfr: Having read
this last week OF the recently found %bUokworm. II
recalled TO my mind the interest displayed by my
yorklng companions when | myself found one In
one OF the hve volumes folio OF "Mirolr Historique."
by Vincent Antoine verard, printer and bookseller,
paris, 1885 We all declared that II must br the
genuine bookworm. BINDER.
NRN YnRK. March "a.
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goveTnTner

II the courts reject Justice DEUEL's
claim that he was exercising his oonstitu-
tiohal right in having an interest in 'other
business he may ask leave to amend his
defence by declaring that o hunting isn't
a business anyway, but a sport or recrea-
finn
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Helm for the snob Ridden.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUE-Sir: In answer TO
the man who says the world is peopled largely by
snops, but doubts whether God intended people
TO remain snobs, | would say that II children were
taught TO think nationally. snobbery, rascality and
irrcliglon would soon be a minor quantity.
Why is II that when a civil engineer OF my &C.
ou alntance married a sweet waitress in the board.
ing house, the lady boarders objected TO their
former waitress sitting among themi Why is 1,
that young men OF good education turn with dis.
gust from the young fellow who strives to convert
them, but only succeeds as a rule in making them
despise him!
1t is all because the reason and the inner con
sciousness are not appealed to.
BROOKLYN. March "a. SAMUEL BRcHTRL.
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II our friends tvho favor Us phh manuscripts Ior
publication pish 10 hare rejected articles returned heV
must IN all cases send stamp, for that purpose.
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Speaker CANNON is President RoosEvEtT's
present choice for the Republican nomination In
i9Os. This has been known for a few days TO O small
circle OF men by whom II has been closely guarded
Washington despatch 10 me Springfield Republican.
The same small circle Of men Is also
closely guarding Uncle JoE's family Bible.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sfr: Permit me TO
sug est 10 your correspondent OF last sundays
issue, who seems much worried over the existence
OF 30 many snobs in the world, that he read Thack-
eray's Book OF Snobs." II should give him much
relief. ROBERT MAJOR.
COLUMBIA UNIvKRsITY. March 20.
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sub,rripttons BY Mail. Postpaid.

Published by The Sun Printing and Puol'shing
Association at 100 Nassau street. In the Borough OF
Manhattan. New York.
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ELI in Attica,

To THK EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir, The INQUIRY
from 1901 regarding Yales great song, For God.
for Country and for Yale" leads me to observe
that It appears from the treason OF Parsons In
going 10 Athens instead OF TO Cambridge that the
Fills have not learned yet that that song is an anti.
climax. PRESCOTT WAKRES.
NEWTON. Mass, March q.
TIC THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str' The author OF
the letter In THE SUN 1 gncd 1901" is not a Yale
man, or a college man OF any kind. That is clear
from his expression; TO thrash the Harvards."
A college man would say! TO lick or beat Harvard"
The plural betrays the "mucker." YALE CLUB.
NEW YORK, March q.
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Too Much for Him

From the Sheridan Sun.
Elery Tharp was seen riding toward Yocums
sunday. We don't know vhs, 70 think.
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GIRL "
The Brooklyn Youth and the Fair Ex'
pensiYe She OF Manhattan.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sr: Perhaps the
Brooklyn boy would he Interested In the way in
which another Brooklyn boy, many years ago.
answered his question as to what he should pay for
tickets TO take a girl TO a theatre.
This boy was earning ga a week. He became
acquainted with a very nice girl whose father was
a very clever professional man In very moderate
circumstances. The girl liked music very much
and the boy wanted her to 20 70 the opera, Maple.
sons company. at the Academy OF Music In Four
tccnth street. Now the boy knew he couldn't
AFFORD GOOD seats. He felt he could afford seats at
81 each In the front OF the top gallery. The young
lady was evidently disguised. The young man
was made to feel that he was persona non ordta.
and so Chill perjury repreSsed their noble rage" and
even left the budding romance frostbitten,
Somewhat later the boy found another girl. who
happened to be the daughter OF a well to do father.
The girl was trying TO earn her living, though her
father was financially worth hve OF the other
girrs father. The boy took this girl 20 the top
gallery OF the old Academy. Campanini, Del Puente,
Annie Louise Cary, Gerster. Galassl. Minnie Hauk
and all the rest. how they enjoyed IL all.
Now the boy and girl 1.-THE second one have been
married more than a quarter OF q century. They
still 90 TO the theatre a good deal and even TO the
opera. and generally In cheap seats. or course
their income is somewhat greater, but there have
been many other things to do. There has been a
city house to buy and a country house. A library
OF more than 1000 volumes has accumulated.
The oldest child has graduated from college, the
second has a year 10 go, the third has a good start.
The boy and girl have realized from the nrst
that there were 50 many. many things they couldn't
have the best OF, and theatre seats we're among en-;
but they have a good deal Of many best things.
INV YORK, March a. AN OLDER Boy.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: Brooklyn"
can't afford TO court a New York girl whose prin.
cIpal theme OF conversational the theatre and whose
chief diversion is attendance thereat. Nor can one
whose ~pittance Is TWENTY TWO PER.
NEW YORK, March q.
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To THE EDITOR OF THR SUS-!sfr: Why does
THH SUN print such trash as the letter from the
brooklyn young man about the theatre tickets,
such stupid questions and YOU more silly to print
them. ]. T. kILGoRR.
RRooKLYN. March "a.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-03
COTTON IS STILL KING
EXPORTS ARE ENORMOUS

Washington, September 2.-"Cotton is
king in the export record of the United
States for the fiscal year just ended"
This is the Introductory sentence of a
statement just issued by the department
of commerce and labor.
Continuing, the statement says:
"The total value of raw cotton exported
line. and exceeded by far the value of
any other article of merchandise sent
out of the country. The exports of bread
stuffs of all kinds aggregated but $780,
100000, those of provisions but $211, 900. 900,
and tlloseof iron and steel manufactures
but $le1, 900 900.
1.-The value of cotton exported has dur
ing the last five years increased very
rapidly. 1t was not until 1901 that it cross
ed the SS0O,OO00O0 line and in a short five
years period 1t has grown to more than
s4Ot 100000 or an increase of 80 per cent.
This growth Is due in part to an increase
in the quantity exported, but in part also
to the advance In price. since the guam
tity exported in 1906 was about 100000,
900 pounds less than in 1905, while the
value was S21. 100000 more than in 1905.
'"rhe expectation of manufactured cot
ton was also larger in 1906 than In any
earlier year, aggregating practically $685.,
O0O 900 against $50 100000 in 1905, and S22, 500,
900 in 1904 The growth In exports of man
ufactured cotton has been as striking as
that of the raw material.
Europe is of course our principal Gus
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Watterson on Roosevelt.

Henry Watterson, in The Reader for Sep
TENDER.
Theodore Roosevelt was born with a
golden spoon in his mouth, and when in
his babyhood he wanted the moon, 1t may
be conjectured that he pounded his nurse
until she gave it to him. He is the very
child of good fortune. But no one ever
more disdained the Idea of letting well
enough alone. From the day of his exit
from Harvard college to the hour which
sees him taking a moments rest upon his
armor at Oyster Bay, he has suffered lit
tie grass to grow beneath his feet He re-
solved upon q political career-perhaps in
the nursery, for he came of stock both
ambitious and dominating, and to the
core patrician-and thenceforward he pur-
sued the objects he had set before his
future with rare intelligence well as
with aggressive and steadfast confidence.
He believed in himself no less than in
his star; but he was guided by a thrifty
modesty till the crucial time had arrived,
content with such minor places as the
practical politicians could afford to give
him, whilst appearing as a civil-service
reformer inside the lines of his own party
an undoubting, undertaking republican.
He studied and learned equally under
George William Curtis and Roscoe Conk-
ling-Curtis, the poseur in moral phil
osophy, the gentleman in politics.. Conk-
ling, the poseur in oratory, the master of
political organization and craft He came
out of the opposing schools far to sur
pass his teachers in the arts of Impress
ing the public and handling the party ma
chinery. far to exceed them in fortuitous
opportunity. Rising to power on the
crultches of civil service reform. no
sooner did he find himself in the White
House than he threw them out of the
window. Ever since he has furnished ex-
amples of chow to do it, which shame
the living Plat and quite overshadow the
memory of the dead Quay. Neither. in the
high-noon of his audacity, would have
dared to attempt what Theodore Roose-
welt has achieved. Neither could have
survived what contributes to Theodore
popularity.
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GERMAN-AMERICAN YACHT
RACES WILL BEGIN TODAY

Mablehead, Mass, September ITO pro-
mote good feeling between the German
and American people in International
yacht racing, and to enable yachtsmen
of moderate means to participate in the
spot, are the objects which the Eastern
Yacht club of Boston and the German
Emperor hope to attain by the series of
races which will begin tomorrow in Mas
sachusetts Bay between six small yachts
representing the two countries.
The incentive is a massive silver bowl
for which President Roosevelt stands as
sponsor, and which is offered by the
Eastern Yacht club. Next year it is be-
lieved that Emperor William will be the
donor of the trophy when the races are
sailed at Kiel.
The German aspirants or challengers
are the Glueckauf ~, owned by Gustave
SHINES of Muehlheim, representing the
Imperial Yacht club of Kiel; the Tilly VI,
owned by Dollman and Krogmann of
Hamburg, and representing the North
German racing union; and the Wannessee.
representing the Wannesee Sailing club
and owned by that organization.
The American seekers for or as they
are regarded here the defenders, are the
AUX. owned by Charles Francis Adams
of the Quincy Yacht club; the Caramba,
owned by c. II. w. Foster of the Eastern
Yacht club, and the Vim. owned by Com
modore Trenor L. Park of the American
Yacht club of New York.