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WASHINGTON— Here is a unique
receipt for “soup:”
“First, take about ten or a dozen
Imspwrl hz xug, crumble It up fine
and put it in a pan or wash bowl, then
* pour over it enough uswhohs (either
chhx or aky) to cover it well. Stir it
up well with your hands, being careful
to break all the lumps; leave it set
(or a few minutes; then get a few
yards of cheesecloth and tear it in
pieces and strain the mixture through
the cloth into anotUir vessel, wring
the sawdust dry and throw it away.
The remains will be Lhal ugx uswhohs
mixed; next take the same amount of
water as you used of uswhohs and
pour it in; leave the whole set for a
few minutes.”
It is the “soup” of yeggmen, whose
particular business is robbing safes. A
crude cipher runs through the riga
marole —merely a subdivision of the
alphabet and the substitution of one
letter for another. The first six let
ters beginning with A are substituted
for the last six beginning with U, and
so on, with the single exception that
N is taken out of its turn and made
the equivalent of G, an Irregularity in
tended to protect the cipher from de
tection. But no cipher is proof against
expert analysis; certainly not this
one, which, though still used by
“yeggs,” nevertheless is known to the
Blind Man Tells of Baseball Game
IMAGINE, If you can, one who has
never seen the light of day, sitting
in his accustomed place in the grand
stand rooting with all his eenrgy for
the success of the home team, and you
can easily figure out just why Wash
ington always supports a ball team,
although her ball tossers have not fin
ished in the first division during the
last decade.
Eugene Brewerton, familiarly known
to his friends as “Jack,” has perhaps
as wide acquaintance among the pa
trons of the national game at the cap
ital as "Gabby” Street or Walter John
son, and is unquestionably the most
unique rooter who ever patronized the
sport. “Jack” was born In Columbus,
S. C., 24 years ago, and after receiv
ing a public school education matricu
lated at the University of South Caro
lina. He came to Washington a few
years ago to study law at the George
town University, and it is his ambi
tion to become as famous a lawyer as
the blind senator from Oklahoma,
Thomas Pryor Gore.
But “Jack” does not believe In giv-
Attempt to Stop Infantile Paralysis
TROUBLED by the inroads the dis
ease is making in some of the
eastern states at the present time,
the government has ordered an inves
tigation into the epidemic of infan
tile paralysis. New York, Pennsyl
vania, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
and the city of Washington, D. C„
have felt the disease the heaviest
this year, and the scores of deaths
that have occurred among the little
ones of that district has caused Uncle
Sam to take some action.
Dr. Wyman of the Public Health
and Marine hospital service, is the
leader in the investigation, and he
made the announcement this week
that he believes the disease to be both
Infectious and contagious. Although
Government Prisoners Go in Style
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-1 cial” is a palatial Pullman car
^which runs every now and then from
Washington to a certain rest cure
out west with a stone wall around it.
The tours, are personally conducted
land are rapidly becoming famous.
Every once in awhile your Uncle
Sam runs across certain persons who,
tie believes, are leading a too active
existence. A rest cure is what they
need. Uncle Sam takes charge of them
and sends them, after certain legal
formalities, such as a trial and ver
dict are complied with, out to Leaven
;worth to recuperate.
:, With Uncle Samuel there is no class
police, to post office inspectors and the
treasury secret service people.
Translating, you find that to make
the soup you take ten or a dozen
sticks of dynamite and use either
wood or pure alcohol In the manner
directed.
Fewer depredations by yeggmen are
reported this year than usual. Last
fall a series of such crimes occurred
and since that time apparently there
has been a period of inactivity among
these most dangerous of plunderers.
The post office inspectors, whose con
tact with yeggmen is frequent, since
the attacks are often directed against
country post offices, hesitate to say
whether there has been an actual re
duction in their numbers; for expe
rience goes to show that waves of
crime seem to sweep the country after
intervals of varying length.
The “yeggmen" are especially feared
because of their recklessness regard
ing the sacrifice of human life. Os It
self, handling the “soup” Is a danger
ous business. The explosion is a men
ace to anyone in the building, and oft
en the robbers must make a running
fight of it to “make a get-away with
the swag.”
The name is of gypsy origin, and
। among gypsies Indicates a clever thief
■ so the “yegg” is a wandering thief,
I generally a "hobo.” As late as twenty
I years ago one tramp meeting another
; and desiring to be sure of his identity
> as a professional tramp, saluted him,
• “Ho, Beau.” It was the password es
■ tablishing at once a confidential part
t nership on a basis approaching out
i lawry. The “yeggs” generally are
’ tramps, though not all tramps are
s “yeggs.”
ing his entire attention to study, and,
accordingly, he has found it to his
liking to take in the ball games. Not
only is he familiar with every char
acteristic of the members of the lo
cal team, but he knows as well the
records and playing abilities of the
visiting aggregations.
"I have often been asked how, as a
blind man, I can enjoy a game. Why,
there is nothing going on I don’t get.
I know the finer points of the game,
and can map out plays which I think
Jim McAleer In his palmiest days
could not duplicate. Don’t you think
it is a peasure to see chaps of the
Milan type skip around the diamond?
I cannot help from yelling every time
I ‘see’ him completing the circuit.
Then there is Speaker of the Bos
ton team, and Cobb of the Tigers.
How I love to ‘watch’ them in ac
tion!
“It Is my firm belief that all blind
people have a sort of intuition, and
everything that is going on around
them makes a picture In their mind.
That is the way 'it appears to me,
anyhow. I can sit in the grand stand
in the ball park and picture what
Walter Johnson and the rest of the
players look like.
“When the game is over, I don’t
have the least trouble getting to the
street cars. I can feel my way along
the grand stand and reach the street.”
the disease Is often fatal, its appal
ling feature is that many children af
fected are permanently crippled or
deformed, robbed of speech or hear
ing. In a word, infantile paralysis is
not a slaughter but a mutilation of
the innocents. The disease common
ly attacks children under five years
of age, but occasionally an adult is Its
victim.
Its shining mark at this minute in
the east is William Hinrich, a pitch
er of the Washington American league
in Washington, and his entire right
baseball team. He is in a hospital
arm is paralyzed. At the present time
there are over 500 cases of the dis
ease in 'Washington alone, while Phil
adelpuia and New York city reports
even greater numbers. Nothing is
known of the cause of the disease oth
er than that it is believed to come
from a germ, but even these have
not yet been found. The disease usu
ally appears during June, reaches its
greatest prevalence during July and
August and subsides in Septemebr.
distinction. Deeds count It doesn't
matter whether he was a “man high
er up” or not. He travels like one.
He travels to the golden west In a
Pullman, he has porters to 'fcalt on
him and extremely attentive detec
tives to see that he is comfortable. He
lolls In plush swivel chairs and he
dines in those neat little la carte Pull
man buffets on chicken, porterhouse
steak, and all the side dishes. -He
eats what he pleases and he does not
tip the waiter, neither does he pay the
bill. Uncle Sam attends to that. It
is a delightful trip that is furnished
him in his concluding days of freedom
—days he is not likely to forget.
From Washington to Leavenworth
is a trip of more than 1,500 miles. On
every mile of the journey the wants
of Uncle Sam's prisoners and guards
are well catered to, as evidenced by
the hampers of chicken, beef, ham,
eggs, sardines and so on, down to the
more esthetic delights of the tourist
library.
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In effect Sunday, June 14, 1908, and
superseding all previous issues.
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How old ’s the world? they're askin’,
An' they whisper In our ears
That they’ll soon be unmaskin’
The number of her years. - _ '
They reckon It by millions.
Their figures fill the wall.
An’ some say it is billions—
But she's not old at all. )
She’s brand new every mornin'
In silver sunlight dressed
With flowers for adornin’
Her path from east to west;
She isn’t growin’ older.
She’s young as young can be
Though age is growin’ bolder
Each day with you an’ me.
The good Lord sends the showers,
The sunshine an’ the dew,
The sweet breath o’ the flowers
Each day to make her new—
I wish he thought us. worthy
Like In the olden days
To really be earthy
An’ walk in newer ways.
I see the stars a-shin!n’
Like jewels every night.
The mornin’ glories twinin’
Each mornin’ In the light.
An’ all these things together
Blend with the song that's sung
In all the summer weather:
The world's forever young.
She’s young as when creation
First felt the primal thrill,
When each star took Its station
Accordin’ to His will.
She’s brand new every mornin'
In silver sunlight dressed.
With flowers for adornin’
Her path from east to west.
Parlor Magic.
"To do this trick with cards," ex- 1
plained the parlor magician, "you
must first slip the card selected upon
the bottom of the pack. Then, while
talking on some Interesting subject,
you should peep at the card. Having
fixed It In your memory, you count
100, adding to that the number of
spots on the card, multiply this by 52.
and divide by four because there are
52 cards In the deck and four suits
of cards. Take the result, subtract
13, because there are that many cards
In a suit, ask the person who drew
the card if he or she remembers what
It was, and then draw It from the bot
tom of the pack and show It to him
or her.”
"But,” says one of the audience,
“wouldn’t it be just as easy to take
It from the bottom at the start?”
“True, but wouldn’t you rob the
feat of all its mystery?”
Her Desire.
“But I tell you I can’t afford It,”
protests the husband. "Can’t you get
that new hat off your mind for one
day?”
“I don’t want it off my mind,” ex
plains the suffering wife. “I want to
get It ever my mind.”
Getting His Money’s Worth.
"My Uncle Silas,” says the man
with the mole on his ear, “was one of
the most saving men that ever lived.
But even with all his economical
traits he never objected to my aunt’s
having everything she wished on the
table at Thanksgiving, making, how
ever. one stipulation.”
“What was that?” asked the man
with the confiding air.
That he should have a mirror face
him while he ate,, so that he would
seem to be getting twice as much as
there was on the table.”
The Advantages.
“Did you enjoy the advantage of a
college education?” asks the Inter
viewer of the man who has suddenly
become prominent.
"That depends upon how you look
r.t It,” replies the eminent person.
"My older brother went to college
and he always sent home his cast off
tennis suits and other clothing, and
I had to wear them. But I can’t say
that I really enjoyed it”
SIDNEY JARVIS,
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Mr. Jurvis, who Is one of America’s
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Janis. He writes?
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most prominent phy
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factory results. I
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and felt benefited soon after begin
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Hew Lightning Splits Trees.
Lightning makes trees explode, like
overcharged boilers. The flame of the
lightning does not burn them up, nor
does the electric flash split them like
an ax. The bolt flows through into all
the damp interstices of the trunk and
Into the hollows under its bark. All
the moisture at once is turned Into
steam, which by Its immediate explo
sion rips open the tree. For centuries
this simple theory puzzled scientists,
but they have got it right at last
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English as She Is Spoke.
Chinatown Visitor —John, sabee, sea
screen —how much sabee want for
him?
The Chinaman —What’s the matter
with you? Can’t you speak English?—•
Judge.
Reason Enough.
Husband —Your wife doesn't appear
to be In very good humor.
His Friend —No, she thinks I’ve in
vited you to dinner. —Jean Qul Rit
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