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Puzzle a Day

General George Washington al
ways issued terse, but very clear or
ders. But the orders sent to other
officers were generally written in
code. The code used. was very
simple. Each letter in the code mes
sage was a straight substitution for
another letter. And this substitu-
ton was the same throughout the
message. Here Is a copy Of one or
his code messages.
Can you decipher It?
Last puzzle answer:
Inlaid in the cover of the rare
copy Of Tennyson's "Holy Grail, >"
owned by Mr.. Kidd Of Cincinnati,
are &c precious stones. This number
&c is just SO short Of 65. Its quad
ripple, that is 26 times 4, Is 104. The
last number is 80 larger than 65.
Therefore the given quantity of
stones is the correct answer.
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angry, produces the same effect as
eating a toadstool, according to DR..
Hilton Ira Jones, noted chemist ad
psychologist.
1.-THE poison in toadstools is a
chemical substance called muscar-
ine," DR.. Jones said. The greater
part of an egg is composed of colin
harmless substance.
when a person is angered, the
aeidity of the stomach Is increased
oxtdizing the colin. When oxidized
the colin of the egg become mus
carine, the poison in toadstools.
That IL why the effect is the same"
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EGGS AND TEMPER BAD
Hem Fruit Poisonous as Toadstools
If Eaten While Angry.

BIZ Untcen FTeS5 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. b.
Eating a hard-boiled egg when
FRIEND RELIEVES BOYS SUE
FEELING
my little boy has had trouble
with his bronchial tubes since he
was three. We tried all KINDS Oh
cough syrups and medicines with
out any relief. For ten weeks ne
was down, didn't get nights sleep
due to his cough. A friend gave me
a bottle Of Foley's Honey and Tar
and that night, after taking Foley 8
Honey and Tar, he slept all night,
writes Mrs. Ruth Willard, 1oz4
Kappes ST., Indianapolis, Ind. Salts
faction ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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7 | c { R LICKED
TWICE HERE

Maryland University's basketeers
tied six knots in the angry tail
OF the Twitching Tigers from Prince
ton in the College Park gym before
the Shiply-ites were able to tie one
that could not be undone. That
one left the score at 80 TO 26 in
favor of the Marylanders.
It is seldom indeed that the
Tigers. are beaten twice in two al
tempts. but that is. the fate Prince.
ton encountered here. Both Cath
Ollie University and Maryland have
Princeton scalps, which seems 10
indicate that the Tiger is at least
Ewo-headed
The fans were sent into raving
shivvers in the Maryland game.
The score was tied just six times
and spectacular playing was on tap
throughout the night. 1t was a
great game and a notable victory
for Maryland.
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ZIVIC AND MILLIGAN
HAVE 1T OUT TONIGHT

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-AlI ques-
ton of superiority between Tommy
Milligan, welterweight champion of
Great Britain, and Jack Zivic, of
Pittsburgh, was expected to be
wiped out tonight when the pair
will met in a return bout at 10
rounds in Madison Square Garden.
Zivic got the decision on the occa-
sion of their first melting, but the
majority of spectators thought the
Briton was entitled to the verdict.
Civic. however, was generally ia
vored to gain a clean cut decision
tonight. it being felt that his tough
ness would prove too much for
Milligan.
Another important welterweight
bout was scheduled for the semi
final. involving Tommy Freeman,
Cleveland, and Joe Simonich, Butte,
Mont
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Childish Humor
Fails to Crash
Ouer With His
Paymates
BY r. d. THOMAS

Al joke that misfires surely
makes a fellow ridiculous. a
bowler at the Veterans Bureau
turned in to a morning newspaper
q set of phoney scores that ex-
ceeded the highest legitimate
scores ever recorded in Washing
ton. One team was marked up
with set of 1905 and the other
with one of 1850.
The bowling bugs examined the
scores with wide eyes for a mo-
ment and then scented something
rotten in Denmark. The attempted
humor had all the characteristics
of an aged banana.
Some idea of how his league as a
whole accepted it may be CLEANED
from the following letter bearing
the signature of the leagues presf-
dent, N. D. Mccarthy:
Dear Sir:
THE United States Veterans Blu.
reau Bowling League desires to
make known It's position with refer.
ence to the fictitious scores OF a
match between the Claims Division
and Accounting Division teams, rolled
Monday evening. February Is, 1926
which were published in the Wash
ington Post. issue of Tuesday morn
ing, February is.
These scores were drafted by a
member Of the Claims Division team
who acted solely on his own respon
sibility and were submitted for pub
LEGATION without the knowledge or
consent OF his team, the opposing
team, or the league.
THE league sincerely regrets this
ill-advised action on his part, and
offers its apology to the. Washing
ton newspapers and to the other
leagues and bowlers of this city.
THE correct scores of the match
in question were as follows:
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TAMPA. Fla, Feb. 19.Curly
Ogden looms as crack pitcher IN
The Griffmen's 1926 pennant CAM
paign. The ghost of misfortune
which has haunted the big boy
from Swarthmore almost from
Che time he stepped into the. big
show apparently has departed tor
keeps.
Today finds him the happiest
man in the Griffmen's training
camp. He is convinced that the
aiIment contracted in 1922 when
he pitched a game for the Mack
men. despite lame arm, at last
has been conquered.
aYes, I believe I'm in for fine
year. / feel great" said Ogden,
and he looked il.
II expect him to surprise a lot OF
people. said Buclxy Harris, and the
pilot seemed to relish the thought,
ii was with keen regret that he
found II necessary for the good of
the cause to send Ogden to the
Southern Association last year.
One mistake as a green youngster
possibfy prevented Ogden from be-
coming great pitcher. While
Ditchif1g for the Mackmen as q
rookie hts arm suddenly went dead.
It was tight game An expert
eneed finger would have been dis
Greet. The kid Ogden chose to be
vnlorous. He said nothing and
stuck to the finish. He earned a
costly victory that day. His arm
was to trouble him many times.
Constant cerve ball pitching
for the Mackinen gave his weak
wing insufficient opportunity %
recover fully and when be came
to Washington in 1924 i was
with the reputation OF having an
uncertain arm. But smart and
earefuI catching by Muddy Ruel
and the expert attention Of Mike
Martin helped . lot Ogden was
something Of sensation with
the Grifflnen I'm 1924.
He was crowded off the regular
staff last year and finally was sent
TO Chattanooga whore it was ex-
pected regular work would aid
him. 1t did. apparetly. When he
was recalled in the fall Curly
showed the excellent effects of toll.
He had pitched himself into first
class condition.
And now. without a twitch or
an uncertain feeling OF any sort in
his giant young sl1oulder Ogden
Is - years old-he expects to make
brand new start this spring.
Those who have known Curly long
say he is displaying more snap
and dash than they have ever noted
before, either in training or during
the regular season
Gdgen is one OF the reasons
for the optimism Of Manager
Harris and President Clark Grit
fifth. But slightly offsetting this
II q growing pesslmlsm IN the
case Of Walter Ruefher, the star
s0uthpaw who Is stubborn In his
salary debate with the Old Fox.
Ruether and Griffith have talked
here. 1t was confidently expected
they would agree. But Ruether.
believing he has an ace in the
hole for the future, stuck firmly
to his demand for more pay than
Griffith has offered him.
Ruether has said he could make
more money selling real estate than
he could earn, on the diamond. In
truth. the tall southpaw is an in
telligent chap with uncommon bust
ness acumen, compared with the
run of professional ball players.
However, he is a ball player at
heart and wants to stay with the
game. The battle may wax warm
mad last while yet. but it is a
common belief that eventually the
Finger and his boss will get to-
gether
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Thrill Is He LEN
To NE / DUKE
BY FREDERICK 3 ABBOI'E
Interna2ienal News service

BEAuLIEIJ. Frames Feb 49,.
Helen wills doesn't get ~ Of her
thrills out Of tennis she admitted
e much is the international News
Service today. after she had met
the Duke Of COnnaugl
II am really quite thrilled. Ter 4
inst met the Duke or ConnausEit
ana think ne Is charming, said
fI1e california girl, with far more
emf husiasrn than when she discussed
her match with Mile. Lenglen last
Tuesday
The Duke 81 Connaught IS not
often quoted. but Il Il reported
that he was also thrilled to meet
Miss wills, for he Is an ardent
sportsman and q great admirer Of
III me next match between Helen
ana Suzanne at Nice II now &C.
cepted as certainty Tor Pere
I.engIen who will manage the Nice
Tournament, has announced that IN
difference to the American champion
ne will instruct the use Of balls such
as she Is accustomed 90 playing
with and viii ban the grooved pan.
Pers I.engIen told international
Newa Service that he has Tor
Given Suzanne Tor her showing at
Cannes Om Tuesday md he cx
uects her Id do better IN the
Nice match.
when Suzanne returned from
Cannes on Tuesday said IN NJ.
jI,engien, she said. Papa please
forgive me: / played n1iserahly.
q said. Don't worry, am sure
YOU did your best
81 hope the strain didn't AFFECT
guzanness liver, which IL very weak
and causes an of her physical ills.
Suzanne Is worn out and needs
rest. and she has Withdrawn from
the mixed doubles at Beaulieu and
won't play until Saturday, when she
PLAYS III the wOneFss doubles with
Mrs. Satferwaite.
Miss willis has apparently Tor
gotten tuesdays great battle she
I n playing as though nothing had
happened at an, and shows no signs
81 fatigue. Her game seems tO be
steadily improving and her play IN
the mixed doubles yesterday was
the best doubles play she mas Yet
shown on the Riviera.
The tacticians are figuring Il al
out Tor Helen now, and they are
agreed that fin her next Tatch with
Suzanne she must take q vigorous
offensive and strive 81 smash
through the defense Of the Nrench
girl.
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THDEN T A c [ 5
Ne " TROUBLE
By DAVIS ]. WALSH

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Hand
bills, which somehow neglected to
conceal the fact that an "inter-
nationally famous" Mr.. Tilden not
only could be seen on the tennis
courts, but also on the stage Of
q certain nearby theater that very
evening, were left with disarming
innocence in and about the gal
lery at the national indoor cham
pionships yesterday.
The writer is looking forward to
this afternoons events with some
interest, fully expecting to learn
that the gentleman's diamond ear
rings were mysteriousiy stolen cur
ing the course of his fifth round
match with Jean Borotra, French
champion. Technically, this IL old
stuff but, at that, it is a mere
grandchild to the business of ply.
ing a crowd with dodgers"
TiIden may diseIaim any con-
nectiOn with the coincidence,
whereby his prominence rs an
amateur tennis player was made
to lend aid and comfort to ms
Obscurity as an actor. But the
United States Lawn Tennis As
ISOLATION may make some en-
barrassing inquiries.
/ In fact, 1t looked very much to-
dav aa though another Tilden war
was in the offing with the posi-.
biIity that the great man would
suffer an indefinite suspension. The
tennis association questioned Ttlden
some time ago concerning his writ.
ing for publication.
The writer can see members OF
the amateur rule committee fairly
lashing themselves into a lather
over the present situation.
The evidence consists of a
double page of theatrical advertis-
ing. Seven columns are devoted
to a treatise about Tilden as a ten
mis- player and actor. The rest Is
an art layout. picturing scenes In
the play, one of them showing
Tilden kneeling upon a lounge and
holding a lady's hands.
Another had Tilden sitting at a
table, interviewing someone from
| the immediate rear of what looks
very much like one Of his tennis
trophies. A third is a portrait Of
| the champion, posed somewhat
after the manner of the Mona
Lisa.
| Anyhow, his match with Borotra
| this afternoon promises the first
action of a tournament, notable
! thus far for it's schedule Juggling
and undergrown galleries. So do
| the scheduled meetings betwee n
| Vincent Richards and Rene La
| coste, Wimbledon champion and
| Francis T. Hunter and Jacques
Brugnon, respective No. 3 men Of
| the American and French teams.
These will be worthy battles, no
| double, but the real match Of the
day may come when the u. s. l..
| r. A. tries to sit down on a hand
bill, left by some careless person in
the gallery chairs.
| In the final doubles match OF the
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score was 81 to 20 which is almost
an upset.
CARRIER, Bob Wilson, Captain
Heagy, Pee-Wee Walker and Rab-
bitt were the starters for Western
and they played masterful ball. Al
decision over an intact GOnzaga
team Is quite d triumph and that
rs Just what Western accomplished.
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Saps Are Sought

Joe Holman Is seeking meat for
his grinding machine. For any
callous team Joe is good one TO
get into touch with. His address
Is 1874 Columbia Rd. n. w.
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Another Close One

The Chevy Chaseites and the
Elliotts tossed about for an eve
ming while the latter was winning
33 to 20.
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Inraa 800 Periods

1T required three extra periods Tor
the RoVers to beat the Mt Rainier
seniors. e to q
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General Tires Here

some fun out OF their basketball
series. They defeated the Argyles
and that makes for successful sea.
son.
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81. Adams ii NJ

ST Adams has fallen for the Soc
Ger germ. and win play the Pierce
school team tomorrow st I o'clock
on the Monument Lot.
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Play Many Games

The st. Louis Cardinals have
booked % exhibition games this
spring.
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WESTERN TEAM
IN VICTORY

Using only material that viii be
on hand next year, Coach Danny
Ahearn, Of Western. sent win.
ming team into action against the
Gonzaga High School quint. The
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day. Vincent Richards and Francis
T. Hunter, Olympic champions. won
from j g. Hall and Charles Ander-
son, New York, So, rs.
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Freshmen Win One

The Georgetown Uniyersity Fresh
men defeated the sBenedicta s. to
is, doubling the score.
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YANK EEs TRAIL GIANTS
IN TREK SOUTHWARK

NEW YORK, Feb 10 The ad-
vance guard Of the New York
YANKEES win fellow the Giants into
the south today when II departs for
Petersburg. Fla. The Brooklyn
Dodgers viii entrain tomorrow for
Clearwater, Fla.
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Some More Seniors

The Yosemites haven't Gu. such
q stir this year. They are IL Lin
coin 2115. or 113 Tenth ST.
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Doctors FIunked

The Medicos fell before the Hy-
attsviIle guards, Az to IA.
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MTA TIONAL sporting
eCenEs are cogsred fOy
TIE Tines ~ Ansricas
eyenfest SPORTS lCFitors
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Terminals Triumph
The Terminal five won from the
quint, 81 to /
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Another had TiIden sitting at
table, interviewing someone from
the immediate rear Of what looks
very much like one Of his tennis
trophies. A third is a portrait OF
the champion, posed somewhat
after the manner Of the Mona
Lisa.
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| 4 0UIS A. BOUCHER,
L. sports editor Of The
Times, Is recognized nation
ally as q sports authority.
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For Fords. This prevents your
radiator from freezing over by
keeping the water circulating at
Ali times. 1t can be installed in
a very short time.
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saam,ssd}9I,a.! - "a
.SEOTy Martha Martin

and they don't hold 1t before you long.
Have your money ready in case
you have to give, but don't give if you
can help it. They may think you're
giving to other charities and can't at
ford this, too. They often have nice
kind thoughts like that"
That had been the way in which
Walter had been brought up, so one
can hardly blame Walter. Yet he was
a very selfish little boy as result and
it grew to be so that no one wanted
him around. He wanted everyone to
do everything for him. He wanted to
do nothing at all for anyone except
himself.
He had no idea of what the spirit
Peter GnorIe had heard of Walter and
Peter Gnome felt it was a pity that u
little boy who would otherwise be a
nice little boy should be allowed TO
grow up into a miser or very mean
person.
SO one time, late, late at night,
Peter Gnome paid call on Walter.
Walter was smiling to himself for
| Walter had just been thinking of what
luck he had had in not having to
spend anything for ever and ever so
long but in getting everyone to do
| for him.
And as he was smiling to himself
along came Peter Gnome.
"Hello, Walter" said Peter.
ST don't know you,'" said Walter,
but what is your name?"
"Peter Gnome. I've come to play"
"Oh yes" said Walter, land have
you some marbles"
"No," said Peter Gnome, "but you
have"
Walter looked quite uncomfortable.
If he played with his marbles they
might get lost.
"And I'd like some candy" said
Peter Gnome. II heard you hadn't
spent penny for days and days and
thought it was a good time to be-
GIN"
Walter looked very miserable.
"And I'd like to have a game Of ball,
too, but we'll have to use your ball.
/ didn't bring mine"
Walter looked astonished.
at don't know that / can play just
now" Walter said at last.
'No," said Peter Gnome. "and you
won't be playing very much from now
on. except all by yourself if you don't
change your ways.
"The way I've talked to you isn't
half as dreadful as the way you've
acted with the other boys-you want
all their things to share but you will
share nothing of your own. And
you've become such a miser that every
one is getting tired of you.
Learn to share,
That's playing fair!
And Peter Gnome was gone!
But Walter remembered what he
had said.
(Copyright.)
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WHEN | WAS
TWENTY.ONE
AT Fl: James D. Lacey, Lead
ing Lumber Man, Was Druggist.
BY JOSEPH KAYE

6 a T ABOUT eighteen got job
"A in a Grand Rapids drug store
which paid me seven dollars a week;
every week I got my seven dollars I
peeled off three and added them to
some savings I already had. When I
got a raise to eight dollars, peeled
off four and when my pay rose to ten
dollars I peeled off five. So that by
the time / was twenty-one I got
enough money saved up to buy a half
interest in a drug store of my own.
But it was a bad time to buy. A
pew tariff law went into effect soon
after taking the duties off many kinds
of merchandise and Immediately our
stock became worth only about half
what we paid for it. We managed to
sell the store. though at consider
able loss, and I went on the road as
a observation-disclosures ID. Lacey"
TO-DAY: Mr.. Lacey is one of the
most noted lumber men in this coun-
try, with offices in Chicago. Seattle
and New York, and a trade that ex-
tends to all parts of South America.
A peculiar phase of Mr.. Lacey's ca
reer is that he got into the lumber
business after he had made compar-
alive success as drugstore owner.
At the age of thirty-one he had al
ready saved some $4,000 from the
profits of drug store, when he
thought of lumber as better paying
proposition for him.
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low herself to think Of her many bless
ings or to frame even the slightest ex-
cuse for the friend who had failed.
Now, with Christmas approaching,
she grew even more bitter than usual.
I'm not going to do a single thing
this year." she repeated to herself over
and over. "Why should l, anyway,
after my great loss2"
So when the Ladies' Aid called for
an offering for the annual entertain
ment and Christmas baskets to be CIV
en- to the poor she was ready with her
answer. But when they left hurriedly
after her curt refusal she was more
unhappy than ever. mo one seems to
have any sympathy for my great mis-
fortune" she walled to herself. what
a cruel world 1t is; no one seems to
care"
The window where she sat brooding
opened out on Arbor street. Soon after
the Ladies' Aid left she looked out to
see that some one else was coming up
the steps. This time 1t was young
girl and Hulda shifted to herself as
she saw her: Another who comes
seeking" she said under frightened lips.
But the young girl who entered had
not come begging. Instead, she had
come to tell Hulda that she was the
daughter of the man to whom Hulda
had entrusted her money and that she
had heard that Hulda was in need
that her loss had left her stranded.
Her father had been i'll for several
months, crushed by the failure Of his
hopes, all of which was due to the
treachery and deceit of his partner in
business. He was now better and
things were beginning to look brighter.
There was every hope that no one
would lose a dollar. In the meantime
the girl had come to offer Hulda some
money from her own earnings-she
was private secretary to some big man
In the city.
After the girl left Hulda sat hud-
died In her chair. God! how selfish
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CHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
BY H. IRVING KING
WEDDING RINGS, SITES

IF YOU want to cure sty just take
L a wedding ring-your own or q
friends will do-and holding the ring
in your fingers reach your left hand
around over your head and rab the
sly with the ring. The writer STUN
bled upon this superstition the other
day. A domestic in the family had a
sly. A neighbor told her, "Oh, that's
easy enough to cure" loaned her the
necessary wedding ring and showed
her how to work the charm. The next
day the sly was better and rapidly
disappeared, thus making another con-
vert to the magic folklore of the an
clients.
Upon inquiry this sly cure was
found to be a common superstition.
The basis of the superstition is, evil
IDENTIFY, that very old magic symbolism
which is attached to the ring and
which has been variously explained
by many learned writer's, but never
quite satisfactorily. Possibly some Of
the explanations given are correct but
II lOOhS DIS IL HAL lldu SOlllC-
thing in the "back of his mind" with
regard to the ring which has been
lost to his descendants. "For who
hath known the ways of time or trod-
den behind his feet?"
That the most sacred sort of a ring
to US moderns is wedding ring ex-
plains why in curing the sly we'd
ding ring should be used. There Is
more than a hint Of sun worship in
the superstition under consideration
in that the wedding ring is of gold,
the color of the sun and round like
the suns disc. Also the taking Of the
ring in the left hand, and the move
ment of the hand over the head from
left to right, or sunwise-the "cere-
monial circuit"-emphasize the sun
motif in the "cure." There is a
lonely obelisk in sCentral park whose
gilded apex still catches and reflects
the morning light as it did when 1t
stood before the temple of Ra at He'll
opolis and sent back the beams Of the
| rising day across the desert sands
while within the fame the priests, NOV
| ing in the Ceremonial circuit" adored
their god From Heliopolis in 5000
B. G. to these United States! 1t is a
"far cry; and long journey has the
| old obelisk made through the centu-
ries and across the seas! Yet If that
| granite mass were sentient would ii
not think that the old gods were not
entirely dead when beneath it walks
some nursery maid telling her COM
| panion how she had cured her sly by
using a wedding ring in the "cere-
monial circuit?
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