The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-11-16
SALTWATER MINNESOTA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1911

myself / fear most Of my earnings
had gone. The last advice of the /
Warden before bidding me good bye
was that / put the remainder, one
hundred and twelve dollars, into
the bank at once. It was good adj
vice and as / was leaving with the
firm intention Of plodding for the
remaining years along that rough
and dust strewn highway thai leads
to scenery grand" | followed it as
soon as ] arrived in Minneapolis.
where it was my intention to stop
for time before going on home.
1t was upon reaching my room in
quiet boarding house that evening
that | sat down on the edge of the
bed { a real bed, boys. five and one
half feet wide) and returned there
to my mind, thoughts of the old ap-
partment and the boys back there,
and especially of the great help and
much good advice that / had re-
ceived from careful perusal of The
Mirror. Strangely enough, just be-
fore falling asleep that mathemat-
ical problem of the Steele Barc's
again REQUIRED to my mind.
Probably it was from my thoughts,
before falling asleep, having been
of this problem that it figured in my
dreams. And it was the most natu-
raj thing in the world that my night
fairy, who, during my Incarceration
had given me many happy hours of
freedom, should, now that liberty was
at last mine in reality, take me
back for just one more visit to the
sounding galleries that had been SO
long my only front yard. dreamed
that / had applied the Steele Bard's
system to my old apartment num-
Der and was trying to induce our
genial desk clerk to give me the key
to room 1889. Before the Captain
had come to agree with me on this
matter the landlady called me to
breakfast. / was not greatly disap-
pointed that my return trip should
have been only dream.
But the practical application OF
that system kept bothering me and
breakfast over / returned to my
room to figure out plans for dem
onstration. My scheme was very
simple and ran smoothly but fol
one or two slight bitches whieh b
were soon overcome. My one hun
dred and twelve dollars were al
ready in the bank and one hundred
and twelve being number OF three
figures / took that as base of oper-
i atoms. Reversed, it was two hun
n dred eleven. AS the marginal -.
subtraction will show: one 211
from two leaves one, one from m
one leaves naught, and there
/ was stuck! / could not take two
from one though this clearly must
be my own fault for the Steele Bard
J, | had said that any number woulG
!, work out. To get over this Difficult
| ty I bo,v0z0ed one from the bank =.
making it two from ele0en, 81,
which leaves nine. So far, 90
fine! By his system. happily
, discovered, my bank account ha6
jumped from one hundred anc
| twelve dollars to nine hundred ant
one and al perfectly square ane
, above board, as the Bard had said
) for surely it could be no sin to Dor
) row one in the interest OF scientific
t demonstration of mathematical law
Besides, / would pay it back.
e Talk about your Monte Carlo
| Not for mine. Talk about you
s Estock exchange! No stree. Me 70
: Steele Bard mathematics every time
9 The next thing was to reverse tn
a ninehundred and one and add which
E accordingly did, with the result tha
my bank deposit was increased t
one thousand and ten dollars. on
r This was not up to the amount 10
0 that the Bard had said should l0I
b be the result but try however
/ / might / could not get anothe
f dollar into it. My demonstrate
f would be failure unless / manage
d to get the figures to come out righ
y and L determined not to fail.
iii never would desert a friend in hi
J. hour of need and the Bard. had sal
n 1889. So | hit on this happy expo
& dent. would check against M
q accountsto the amount Of one thor
i sand and eighty seven dollars an
q ninety-nine cents (thus returnin