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The diamond drill., 1921-11-19

cepted another cigar out Of my pocket
case.
.You1l be the one to be bored. IL
was this way: A little over year
ago was on my way to Chicago with
a report that / had been making on
some properties in the Cripple Creek
district. In the Denver-Omaha Pull
man I fell in with n nice old gentle
man who had been buying himself a
gold brick In the shape OF a flooded
mine. The mine had at one time been
n producer though not by any means
what you'd call bonanza After a
rather extended dividend-paylng period
II don't know just how long, though
II was some years-the luck changed.
as sometimes happens. In sinking and
drifting the operators had uncovered
another vein which was exceedingly
rich. Don't let me talk your arm on"
"Go ahead" said !. MY arms are
insured"
"Well. at about the time that they
<truck this new underlying vein. they
also struck water; 80 much Of II as 20
lead them TO suspect that they had
tapped an UNDERGROUND lake. The old
gentleman wasn't exactly a woolly
sheep--ln the Wall Street sense Of the
term. He had owned stock IN the mine
The diamond drill., 1921-11-19

and Omaha. AS recall II now. II was
after the train had passed North
Platte that first became sensibly con-
scious. as you might say, OF the fact
that the man In the opposite section OF
the sleeplng-car had a little Pullman
table set up In front OF him. and was
studying maps--and blueprnts. He
was rather efilcient-looking fellow OF
maybe thirty-two or three. with dark
hair and eyes, and what Lisette would
have called q determined nose. and he
sported beard and mustacbes. nut
brown as 10 color. and neatly trimmed
Farther along we met In the smoking
room. at a time when the stuffy little
den had no other occupants. Mr.. OPP
posite Sections only cigar turned out
TO have broken wrapper. so natural
ly rendered my own pocket-case. That
served 10 break the Ice and we talked,
dribbling along from one commonplace
to another until finally Brown-beard
said:
"You don't by any chance happen to
be mining engineer, do your
Far be II from me-" ] laughed;
nothing 80 useful as that"
II didn't know" he hastened to say,
half apologetically. II saw you study
ing maps as we came along"
Now, ordinarily I'm apt TO talk lot
too much about my own affairs-I1l
admit IL; but this was one time when
had sort of hunch not TO. So I
merely said:
II saw you doing the same thing"
"Sure you did" he admitted cheer
fully. Then he told me his name
which got as Bullion. or Bulletin. or
something like that--and said he was
a mining engineer. which was the rea-
son why he had asked me II wasn't
one.
Past that, the talk ran mostly upon
his profession, and since the mysteri-
GUS hunch was still nudging me. let
him have the floor, 80 TO speak, hgur-
ing chiefly myself as good listener.
Yes; we do run across some rather
queer propositions in our trade" he
said. after he had given me some sort
OF an idea Of what n mining engineers
Job Is like. ain my own experience,
for example. the only sure shot have
ever had-or possibly ever will have
got away from me-"
1t was up TO me TO bite, and. Of
course. did IT,
'How was thatT"
"rhe man died." he replied laconi-
cally.
That sounded rather interesting, so
I gave him another pinch.
"Tell me about IL; IL II won't bore
you"
He grinned northumberland ac-
The diamond drill., 1921-11-19

OF whole cloth, as so many Pullman
smoke-room romances are.
Bullerton's usual address. when he
was In Colorado and not In Denver.
was IN care OF certain bank In Grip
pie Creek: or at least. that was the
way It had been before he went 70
South America.
A telegraph office was the next thing
on the program. and when l found one
II seemed 10 be about a hundred-to-
one shot that I'd never touch bottom.
since had no hint that Bullerton had
been headed for Cripple Creek. My
message. prepaid and answer prepaid.
contained only n single question :
what was the name OF the old gen.
tleman who bought the watered mine
and then diedr An answer to that
would tell the story.
For two whole days, an interval
which I spent In hither-and-yon chas-
ings OF pIebald ponies and harlequin
faced dogs about the streets of Denver
--and found no biue-eyed girls at
tached TO any OF them--I thought I
had merely shot up into the air With
my telegram. and missed the whole
face Of the earth. Then. one morn
The diamond drill., 1921-11-19

ITO Stanford Broughton.
"Hotel Savoy,
Denver.
John Smith.
"CHARLES FULLERTON"
That settled 1t with vengeance,
you'd say. And yet II didn't II
merely proved that Mr.. Charles Butler
ton had acquired sudden excess of
caution, and was probably cussing him
self plentifully for having been too
loose-tongued with a perfect stranger
I'm Pullman smoker. He had an
swered my wire with a name that
meant just MS much or as little as if
he'd said Alexander the Great" and
that was precisely the amount of In
formation he had intended to convey.
Whether or not BuIlerton's memo
randum agreement with my GRANDPA
ther would be binding upon me as
Grandfather Jasper's heir, was ques-
ton for the courts TO decide. But one
thing was certain--that is, granting all
the assumptions: II he should find the
mine and 60 to work on his unwater-
ing scheme. he would have a grip on
things that might be handsomely trou-
blesome TO shake loose.
After I had argued It out thus far
the next step suggested itself In a
jiffy. I must have heart-to-heart
talk with the cautious Mr.. Bullerton.
telling him who wns, and perhaps
"A oh 90 4Al
with me In the search. IL II should
prove to be my grandfather's mine that
he was looking for. Grabbing this Inn
pulse by the neck. no to speak, took
the first train for Cripple Greek. The
next morning. when I made inquiry. I
found that Bullerton had left town.
though where he had gone the bank
folks couldn't say.
had gone into the chase more than
half for the sheer fun OF H.; pretty
much as the dog runs after the stick
you've flung into the bushes, and
which he hasn't much hope Of finding.
But now IL was appealing to me as
more OF a mans job. There was a
legacy and however valueless II might
be In Its present condition, IL had once
been worth nearly half million--and
might be agnin. And half-mfllion Is
whole lot Of money. when You come
TO consider II.
From what little the bank folks told
me IL appeared that Bullerton was
fairly well known In Cripple Creek
"a tto ~o~tex. ~nrrdoh<s., Frl.a~n ~nfora
somebody In the near vicinity must
know more than had as yet been
able 10 learn about the manner OF his
disappearance and his probable desti-
nation. My Job was to find the SOME
body.
About the time l thought had ex-
hausted oil the combinations. found
the one particular Bullerton friend I
was hunting for. His name. as re-
coll II, was Hilton. or something like
that. and he was the superintendent OF
a big drainago-tunnel undertaking de-
signed 10 unwater lot Of flooded
mines on the hills above the tunnel
site.
II can give you little Information.
but not much" was his answer 10 my
inquiry. FULLERTON Is bughouse on
the subject OF n lost mlne-not an un-
usual disease In any mining country
and he has gone 10 hunt for II. He
has sketch map OF the location. but
nothing to tie II 10. didn't ask him
where the location wns-or rather,
where he thought II was"
The diamond drill., 1921-11-19

Continued next week
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

Blackhead Cleansing Powder.
Corn or wheat starch, OF.
Powdered boraX, l OF.
Almond meal. 2 OF.
Wash the skin with hot water, rub
in a quantity of the powder and rinse
out again with hot water. Then rinse
with cold water or rub with ice.
r. G. S.-See answer above.
Miss Blond-Do not pluck your eye
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25
A WELL PRESERVED SKIN.

One of the greatest compliments
that can be given a woman beyond
middle age is that she is well preserv-
ed. For this implies much more than
beauty. 1t shows that she has valued
her good looks all her life aud taken
the means to preserve them. If you
are young and feel that you are quite
good-looking enough, please remember
this-youth must vanish with the
years, and the care that you take Of
of your complexion and your body
must inevitably show up when you
have passed middle age
Therefore you must be careful Of
your diet and your health, so that
your skin will look it's best. There.
fore, you must study your complexion
and its needs. If your skin is too dry
now. it is going to wrinkle later on
unless you feed it with nourishing
cream. IL your skin is too oily now,
you can use plenty of astringents on
it to guard against course pores in
later life. More than anything else
you must keep the skin perfectly clean
during these younger years, for a
healthy complexion must always be
a clean one.
There are two kinds of cold creams
The kind you purchase ordinarially is
made Of white mineral Oil with wax
and spermacetti to give it the creamy
consistency. This is cleansing, since
the oil softens the dirt in the pores,
but it is not nourishing. The other
sort contains a vegetable oil, and is al
most as cleansing as the other. but
because il is absorbed by the skin, it
is nourishing as we'll. Choose the sort
of cold cream you prefer. Choose an
oil soap, because it is least drying.
and never be afraid of hot water TO
begin the cleansing treatment aud very
cold water to end it.
With these simple directions kept in
mind, there is no reason why you
should not have a we'll preserved skin
l.. Zone of the many ways to
overcome blackheads and reduce large
pores in the nose is to us tn Black
head Cleansing Powder. This is made
as follows.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

had no man care for me. My broth.
er's friends have come to the house,
but they have been several years
younger than ! am and / never con-
sidered them as anything to me al
though several of them have taken
me places. .-.-..
The young man met year ago
lives about ten miles west OF here,
also on a farm. He loves me, / know,
because he comes to see me so often
and brings me so many presents. He
is determined to have me marry him
and finds some way out of every objcc-
ton l offer His farm is big and he
makes plenty of money and promises
to have enough help so that l will not
have to work any harder than a city
woman. and he says that can learn
to drive his machine and come to
town as often as l want to.
The one thing that holds me back
is the fact that do not love him as
I feel ought to. have always read
a great deal and I know that have
not a. feeling for him such as the
heroines in books have. merely like
him and il he stopped coming I would
not want to die by any means.
II do not marry this man I do not
think will ever marry. What would
you advise me to do? Marry a farmer
when all my life l have been deter
mined would not?
EDYTHE
1t is probably unfortunate for you
that the man shows so much affection
for you. If he were Indifferent and
you had to use all your wiles to win
him, you would be only too eager for
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am thirty
two years old and have been working
as stenographer since / was eigh-
teen. When l was young ! was en-
gagged to marry a young man who
lived IN another state. My parents
objected to him because would have
to go so far away to live and SO was
persuaded to break the engagement.
l am not a pretty girl and feel that
1 am not very interesting because
my life has been SO dull. We live
about mile from town SO that am
able to stay with my parents and
come in to work every day. Our place
is a small farm, but just as lonely as
a big one
From the time / broke my engage.
ment until about a year ago have
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

marriage. AS a rule I do not advise
a girl to marry unless she is sure of
her love. In your case, however,
feel that you care more for the man
than you realize. Your mind is too
full OF book romance and as a result
you do not recognize love as it comes
in every day life.
It means a great deal I'd a person
to have companion through life.
Imagine yourself ten years from now
if you do not marry, and also il you
do. The thought OF q mans protection
and little children would be quite al
Turing to most girls.
II you do marry and expect to be
happy, consider what you can give as
well as take. Unless you are thought
full of the man and remain a sweet
heart to him, his love for you will die
and then your life will be barren. Be-
sides, what you do for him will make
you happier in the end than selfish
acceptance OF his kindness to YOU
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

Toby and Bud. The bright-eyed Cecile
was present, and SO was Francis part
ner. l wore very simple white satin.
and changed quicly into my suit when
the ceremony and luncheon were over.
Violet, in a frock Mrs. Meade had or
dered for her, looked adorable as my
sole attendant, and Buds eyes never
left her once.
And then, at the height Of the fes-
tivities. while our guests were lunch.
ing, Francis and l slipped away-be-
fore any one knew we were going.
And an hour later, bundled up in my
fur coat, / stood at the rail of the ship,
watching the tugs nose her out of the
Gock-wishing that wistful-eyed little
Violet was as happy as ! was then.
Tomorrow-Looking Backward.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25
A SWEETHEART AT THIRTY
TIL. Story Of Woman's Transformation
BY MARION RUeiNcAM

admiring this new self-possessed vi
olet, as indeed Bud must have admired
her, and feared her little, too.
There was nothing in her manner
during the wedding to indicate any
thing but friendly interest in Bud
though l could not observe them well.
for was the center of the hustle and
excitement.
AS it was such a quiet affair, only
few very intimate friends were there
and Of my own circle, only Helen and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

brows II 1t causes them to swell.
am sure II you let them alone the
swelling will disappear.
Anxious-Send me a letter with a
self-addressed stamped envelope en-.
closed. and will send you the formula
for honey-almond lotion for the
hands.
All inquiries addressed 70 Miss
Forbes in care OF the Beauty Chats"
department will be answered. ir these
columns in their turn. This requires
considerable time. however. owing to
the great number received. So, II q
personal or quicker reply Ia desired q
stamped and self-addressed envelope
must be enclosed with the question:
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25
U. S. ARMY ON RHINE BEST ~
IN WORLD, SAYS COLONEL

BERNIE. Feb. 25.-The American
Army Of Occupation on the Rhine was
complimented as the most up-to-date
of all the armies of the world" by Col.
Schalpbach of the Swiss army, in an
address at conference of the Bernese
Officers Society here.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

March at their home in Greenfield,
R. r. 4. receiving from to o'clock
in the afternoon and from to 10
o'clock in the evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-25

OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDDING
GREENFIELD, Ind. Feb. 25.-Mr.
and Mrs. w. A. Wood will observe
their golden wedding anniversary by
keeping open house to their friends
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25

but frequently it is disarranged so much that scholars probably never will agree as to how it should be re- constructed.
 ''As it is difficult to write when harnpered by these rules Bacon usually shields himself from suspicion tS writing in the strange jargon used by alchemists. Few people under stand it and so he can write nonsense in it without arousinS suhpicion."
 Bacon sometimes wrote tiny char acters under a miscroScope, conceal ing then in letters of bogus alpha be, pr. Newbold said. Many of his illustrations are concealed in the same way, and unimportant lines are ex- trenpely difficult for the scholar to separate from those which form the real drawing. The non-significant lines usually are in lighter ink.
 As evidence of the fact that his method of deciphering is correct, Dr. Newbold said he had found therein facts of which he had no former knowledge but which he afterward found to be true. These included the appearance of a comet on December 5, 1920, and the location of the great nebula of Andromeda-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25
GOV. HAPPINESS
 GIVEN MEDAL

Philadelphia, April 25 = Governor James Hartness of Vermont was the guest of honor Saturday of the American Philosophical Society. presented with the John Scott Medal. awarded for useful inventions, in recognition of his flat turret lathe, used in making artillery. The medal is provided for in a fund established by John Scott of Edinburgh, Scotland.
 Addresses on medical science and allied subjects preCominated the ses- sions, although physicists and archaeo1ogists also contributed.
 Dr. H. Neguchi of the Rockefeller Institute of the fight against yellow fever, declaring use of vaccine fur nishes a rapid meadS of eliminating non-immune persons from areas where the disease is epidemic. The value of vaccination as an emergency measure, however, he added, does not minimize the importance of the anti mosquito operations, the elimination of both factors-the non-immune human being and the infected mos quito-being essential to the eradica- tion of yellow fever.
 Discussing signs of sanity" Dr. Stewart Patton of Princeton Univer- sity said .Bolshevism, radicaIism and the tendency to think in terms of class distinction are defense reactions of inadequates afraid of facing their own personal problems.
 Judging sanity and insanity is a biological and not a psychological dividua1, the future of democracy, and the fate of our civilization de- bends upon the recognition of these biological principles and the cultiva- ton of mental processes favorable for sane thinking and acting"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25
Motorboat Will Race
 Atlantic Coast Linec

Miami, Fla, April 25-Gar A. manufacturer and sportsman, left here at midnight in his 300 Horsepower 50 foot cabin cruiser, the Gar II, Jr., in a race to New York against the Havana special of the Atlantic Coast Line.t
 He has set Q fl hour schedule for the run and if it is without mkshap it will carry him into New York three hours before the flyer arrives. The Gar is the boat which broke all express cruiser records in the regatta here in February. Aboard with Wood is c. F. Chapman, editor of Motor Boating who made a special trip here to make the I1ln
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25
Professor Gives
 Key To Cipher
 Of Roger Bacon

Philadelphia, April 25-A detailed description of the method used in decoding the cipher used by Roger Bacon, the thirteenth century phil oSopher monk. in writing an S00,00 word manuscript. now the property of Wi1frid M Voynich of New York and London, was given here recently before the American Philosophical
 Society by Professor William Ro- maine Newibo1d of the University of Pennsylvania
 As a result of the revelations made by deciphering the manuscript scien- lists have declared Bacon had re- Tnarkafble knowledge of mathematical physics as conceived today. The manuscript proves. it is maintained that the Franciscan friar used both : the telescope and the cicroscope Proof of it's authencity was submit ted by pr. Newbold before the Col 1ege of Physicians and Surgeons when he announced he had decfphered Baoon's name on the last page
 In his address Dr. Newbo1d pointed of the age in which he lived, to de- wise a cipher which not only would be difficult to read but which no one would suspect of being a cipher.
 Bacon conceived the idea of ex- pressing every letter of a word which he wanted to write in cipher by a syllable and building the syllable : into a new word" ele said. f'For ex- ample, 1T the letter C IS represented 1 by gr, A by ad and T by ed. the word ''graded'' would spell eat
 ''The principle cannot be used in this way because every word will be represented by twice as many letters and only words of an even number
 of letters can be used in cipher. To meet these difficulties Bacon lays down the rule that successive sylla- bles must end and begin with the same letters. doubled letters being dropped. Thus eat may be spelled 'go-o1-1d.' Dropping the double let ters. one gets the word gold
 'tIn reading the cipher you double every letter except the first and last and thus discover the syllables which spell the word. But it is very sell dom possible to find syIIables which fulfill these conditions and yet spell a new word when arranged in the or der of the letters of the original word For example. 'cat' may also be spelled tar-rk-da' and the sy1Ia- bles may be arranged into the word dark but when dark is translated the word eat will reappear as tea the order of the letters being disar- ranged These are the principles Ba-
 con used.
 There are ASA possible comhina- tions of the letters of two twenty-two letter alphabets, taken two by two. Ba- con makes every one of the ASA repre- sent a letter of his alphabet and with them spells his words in latin in the way indicated above. He rearrarnges the underlying text as litle as possi- fble and it usually is still recognizable,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25
Housing Company
 Appeal Reaches
 Superior Court

The appeal of the American Hous- ing company against the City of Bridgeport has reached the Superior court. Three separate pieces of prop erty are involved, two on Connecticut avenue and one on Central avenue.
 The properties were listed at $175,- 900, $7,000 and $153,S00, while the assessors raised these amounts to S1S6, 6,OGO, SS,6OO and S154,009. and the Board of Relief failed to reduce the amounts.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25
PAIGE TRUST
 FILES APPEAL

Charles G. Sanford and David S. Day. Bridgeport, together with Chas. N. Downs, Derby, forming the Allen w. Paige trust have filed an appeal from the finding of the Board of Re- lief for failure to reduce the tax as sessor's figure on property located on Park avenue, this city. The proper ty was listed by the owners at s3o,- 900, while the assessor raised this to S41, 300.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25

A loving cup was presented Elmer s. Joyce, organist of the First Pres byterian church, by the people of the church, last evening. MT. Joyce ter minated his position as organist and musical director yesterday, position he has ably held for F years
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-25

f'Fear God. Not Public Opinion,' 9 was the subject of a very interesting sermon given by Dr. William Horace Day, at the morning service yester- day, at the United church.