Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 183, 10 May 1909 — Page 4

?AGE FOUR.

THE 1HUHM05D FAIOiAlilim AHT SUWTEUSGRAJa, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1909.

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OfV--Crner Korth tta ana A streets. Phone lilt. . . RICHMOND. INDIANA. Mews HUM cDsscstiFTioef mica IS Ktchmoad fits per year (to advenes) or Its per wmIl, mail ccrBMcnrnoN a gee ysar. fa idnnet Jte BMtU la advance One seoath. la Ktibm .......... .u RtTKAXt ROUTES. la months, la advaneo'l!"""" Ml ee month, la edvaaoe M Address as often aa desired; addresses must be both bmt aad erven. v ... Kbscrlbers win please remit with r, which should be given for a faolflad torn; seme will not be entcr1 an til payment Is reratv-ed. Katend at Richmond. rniSlanc, xtofrico e kc9iu1 cls tull matter. The Association of AaMfieaaj CNaw York City) bat at at the atoalatlaa Oaly the fiss of m tat . Tf a a s s s ,aAAeAae PEACE AND THE WEATHER. Two topics are always in order, and often under discussion peace, and the weather. Everybody wants peace. aad everybody appreciates good weatber. But it Is not possible to have both all the time. There are per iods of disturbances in the affairs of nan, at there are atmospherical dis turbances. Storm3 will come, and must be taken into all safe calculations. .o leader In, any- civilized country declares for war. The declaration ia for peace. The three foremost generals In the ?reat struggle for the pre serv.""i rf tho Union closed their dny - locates of peace. "Let us T"- . -.: sh!1 Gen. Grant. "War 1 '' r,4 Oen. Sherman, in ium- , . horrors. "I hope never t flr-w;v; sword again." said Gen. Sheridan,'' with the utmost earnestness. ' But did fine of , tbese eminent captaina declare for disarmament? Did any of them think the country would be justified in saying "good-bye" to the army and the nary? On the contrary, were not all of them in favor of keeping: aa our, provisions for defense, both oa land aad sea, to the safest level? Tbelr knowledge of men and their experience with the world had taught, them that peace was best assured by the most perfect equipment for war. But there are eminent men who take the other view. They see ia preparation for war only Incitement to war, aad would remove the temptation. Of this v number Mr. Justice Brewer is one of the most putapoken. He has recorded himself on several occasions in strong terms, and at the meeting of the American Peace and Arbitration league in Washington last etenfng said: "If the United States, since the Spanish-American war, had diverted the enormous amounts expended to baild up a great navy and maintain a large army to liquidating our national debt, no nation in the world would think of attacking us. "Without a national debt, and our enormous resources at our command, the world would, respect us and fear to attack us. . Billions of dollars have been spent In the last ; ten years In building the navy and maintaining the army. Just think of this amount being utilized to pay off the national debt, and It la easy to conceive that there would be more livelihood of international peace, so fer as we would be concerned. The fntnre of this country will be better and brighter when wa say good-bye to the large army and navy." Ia this good advice Does it square with the history of mankind? Would any president of the United States advise eoagress In such terms? Would any congress accept such advice from a president? If we Lad nothing with which to defend ourselves, and were the richest nation on the globe, would other nations stand in awe of us? On the contrary, should we not become speedily the spoil 'of militant mankind? j For, as everybody knows, all mankind Is armed, and the most powerful nations are, with temptation and under everyday Impulse, quick on the trigger. . . The very best way to bid "goodbye" to our present, and to cancel all plana for the future, would be to bid "good bye" to the army and navy. Strip us for the millennium, when the thousand-year period is not In sight here, nor expected elsewhere, and we should cut the figuru of the enthusiast, who," persuaded that the end of the world was at hand, clothed himself in white and sought an open field to catch the trumpet's blast Washington Star. Items Gathered in From Far and Near How to Abolish War. From the Jacksonville Times-Union. If America, proposes to be a world power why not be the world's peace power? We believe our' country could put an end to wars. To do so it would be necessary to take risks In man and money, but the rlska -would decrease year by year. Let the United States invite all nations opposed to war to form an alliance to settle all questions by arbitration. Let these nations provide a court of arbitration for tl;e settlement of all disputes) inYomss.any nauon Belonging to una aaeev or wishing to join it, aad

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than let them back the decisions of this court with all the power at their command. It would not be many years before the decisions of such a court would be backed by such" Irresistible force an to command unhesitating acceptance from all the world.

Tail Coats and Statesmanship. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Much excitement has been aroused In Washington over the fact that President Taft is found at his office every day clad in' a coat guiltless of tails and generally of a gray color. This seems to sound the death knell of the tail coat. For years it has not been seen in the rest of the country save on formal occasions, but it has held its own in Washington and especially at the White House. Roosevelt never appeared except in the conventional "Prince Albert." and this was the coat of McKinley and his predecessors back to the days when all gentlemen of professional rank wore the "shadbelly." The frock coat still lingers on a few of the statesmen from the south who hark back to the civil war, but these few survivals simply accentuate the fact that the sack coat is now triumphant. ; Gossip of the Planets. From the Detroit Free Press. It would be nice to have a few words with Mars or Venus or both of them and get them permanently on our circuit. It might be worth much to learn their political systems, what they know about big navies for keeping the peace, how they deal with prison grafters, what rights their women have and what kind of hats they are wearing this season or expect to wear next fall, the standing in their respective base ball leagues, their method of handling trusts, whether the Salome dance goes there, whether they have germs under control and if they pay any attention to the phases of the moon in conducting their affairs. There is a lot more to gossip about, but the rest will keep until the conversation opens. No Favoritism. From Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. The United States is committed to the policy of protection, and would make a serious blunder by departing from it But the policy of protection is endangered whenever the slogan of protection is used to further a scheme of favoritism. Statistics demonstrate that hosiery and gloves do not 'need more protection than they had under the Dingley tariff. To advance the rates on the articles in those schedule would be rank favoritism. Favoritism and genuine pro-' taction are at swords' points. Office Seekers. Frti thr Providence Tribune. ' It is said that Washington could house with ease a hundred times the number of office seekers now in the city. But probably the President hopes it will offer no special induce ment in the way of reduced charges ' f i Trophies1 From Africa. From the Chicago News. Now is the time to begin building additions to the Smithsonian Institution. TWINKLES Corporation Pride. "These street railroad people assume to do about as they please," said the man who complains. "Well, answered Mrs. McGudley, "I can't deny that some of 'em is pretty overbearing. The directors and stockholders I've met seemed real genteel and considerate. But the way the motormen snub you an' the conductors order you around is something lrritatin'." An Echo From the Turf. The horse has proved to be a wondrous animal indeed. There is no limit to his possibilities of speed. For howsoever swift may be the horse on which I bet They're certain to discover several that are swifter yet. Studies in Temperament. "Don't you think that a man Is lucky to have a good disposition?" "I'm not sure," answered Mr. Sirius Barker. "Sometimes we confuse the cause with the effects. A man is likely to have a good disposition because he is lucky." A Refuge in Obscure Discourse. '."Isn't it a great advantage to study foreign : languages before traveling abroad?" "Not always." answered Miss Cayenne. "Unfamiliarity with a language occasionally enables one to conceal a great deal of downright Ignorance." Trying to be Accurate. "Where's this trunk going?" asked the baggageman. "Well," answered the mild-mannered passenger, "from the way you're handling it I'm inclined to change my first Impression on the subject and conclude that it is going to the scrap Pile." Genuine "morocco" leather is made of goatskins, tanned with pure sumach. nPRINTERSH If anybody knows how hard It is to keep the skin soft and Clean, you 6o don't you? Gasoline Is hard on the skin Jdon't use It. To get the ink out of the cracks and pores and to keen the hands soft and white Try a little Whls water rub rinse and -

AQUARIUM IS DUE OF THE FEATURES OF ISLAUD CITY Honolulu Boasts of One of the Best and Most Unique Collections of Fish to Be Found In the World. BIHSOP MUSEUM VERY INTERESTING PLACE

Student of the South Seas Will Find There Probably The Most Wonderful Field For His Studies. Honolulu, March 2S.In my last letter I dealt with the city of Honolulu and some of the interesting things one sees here. I described the historic building in which the Hawaiian legislature meets, devoted a little space to the legislature itself and told about the Archives, the depositary of the treaty and documentary treasures collected during the independent existence of these beautiful islands under their old monarchy. In this letter I will deal with other Interesting sights in and about Honolulu.. Honolulu has an aquarium undoubtedly containing one of the most unique and beautiful collections of fish to be seen anywhere in the world. In size the Honolulu Aquarium can not rival the famous aquariums in New York or Naples, both of which I have visited, but for odd shapes and magnificent blending of colors the fish displayed here in the aquarium cannot be equaled. The Honolulu Aquarium contains about eight hundred fishes of the approximately one hundred varieties found in the waters about here. These range from the little Kihikihi, a pig-snouted, water-melon seed shaped fish beautifully colored in white, black, yellow and a touch of red. to the dun colored, altogether dreadful looking octopus, restlessly4 turning about in Its tank and somewhat resembling a rimless wheel,- Its great, puffed-out body the hub and its many long, sinuous, besuckered tenacles the spokes. The octopi in the Aquarium are small specimens, being about three or four feet in "diametfer." Specimens have been caught in other parts of the Pa cific ocean measuring fifteen and twenty feet across ; large enough to carry and devour a man. What the Archives is with regard to the diplomatic history of Hawaii, the Bishop Museum occupies an equally important place, with regard to the customs and everything else in general having to do with the interesting people the missionaries found here, nearly a hundred years ago. The sqope of the museum not only completely covers the Hawaiian Islands but also takes in many other islands of the Pacific. The student of the South Seas will find here probably the most wonderful field obtainable in which to pursue the study of that subject. The museum Is divided into sections and the section devoted to . Hawaii not only naturally comes first but is the largest, most complete and most interesting. Arranged around the walls of the two-story entrance hall are portraits of the departed kings, queens, princes and other notables of the Hawaiian kingdom, the only exception being that Queen Lilloukalanl, whose portrait hangs there, is still alive and dwells In Honolulu. A portrait of the Island's great conqueror and first ruler, Kamehameha I, is one of the most interesting pictures. It portrays the Hawaiian Napoleon as rather a mild-looking old gentleman. From the upper landing of the entrance hall one enters the picture gallery, where more portraits of Hawaiian notables are to be seen. Here also is a very interesting series of paintings of the great volcano Kilenea, made at the times nf different eruptions; a clock given by the French King, Louis Philippe to Kamehameha III; a silver teapot presented to the regent Kaahumanu, by . King George IV, of England; a silver cup presented by Queen Victoria to her Godson the little Prince of Hawaii; and specimens of old jewelry belonging to the Kamehameha family. At the left of the entrance hall on the first floor is the Kahili room, containing a truly wonderful collection of Hawaiian feather work. It is doubtful If any other race excelled the Hawalians In the production of various articles made from feathers. So important was the Industry in the old days that Kamehameha I strictly forbade the killing of feather producing birds. When the feather hunters, therefore captured such birds the particular feathers desired were plucked and the birds were : then set free. Feather work was a favorite occupation of Hawaiian women of noble birth and the most interesting examples in the museum were their handiwork, made for various chiefs and kings. These include kahili, lei. ahunla and mahiole. The kahili are long poles, at one end of which are large feather cylinders. These are probably derived from fly flaps. Several specimens in the museum have poles fifteen to eighteen feet long, the largest feather portion, or hulumanu. of which. ' is two and one half feet in diameter and four feet high. The most interesting kahili is one that belonged to Kamehameha I. the handle being construct-! ed of the bones of bis enemies who fell In battle. The principal part of the handle is the right shin-bone of Kaneoneo. a noted chief of Kanai who i killed at Nuuanu. a battle of

which I will deal with more fully later in this letter. The bones of other chiefs who tell in this battle, such as Kaiana and Kalanikupule. the latter having been king of Oahu, grace the same handle:. The lei is a neckband made of feathers. There are , several splendid specimens of this work in the museum collection. The most valuable being one made from feathers of the Maino. and is comroaed of three ancient lei that belonged to the Kamehameha family. The ahuula, or feather cape or cloak, is by far the most valuable product of Hawaiian feather work. The exhibition of ahuulas in the museum is the finest In the world. The famous ahuula. or feather robe, of Kamehameha I, is the most treasured of alL With the exception of a narrow band at the neck this large robe is made entirely of the yellow feathers of the Mamo bird. Nearly one hundred years were spent in collecting the feathers for this splendid robe and in completing it. It is estimated that the time and labor spent on it make this ahuula worth between $500,000 and $1,000,000. The finest mahiole. or feather helmet, in existence Is to be seen in this museum. Formerly the property of Kaumualil, the last king of Kauai. It was given by him to the Rev. Samuel Whitney, an early missionary from America. It is a wonderful example of feather work and the coloring of its feathers is very beautiful. In shape It is very like an ancient Roman helmet. There are many other very interesting articles in the museum. Beautiful mats made by the old Hawaiians from a native grass; paper cloth. In the manufacture of which these people were very expert; instruments of war and household and . cooking utensils; articles for personal adornment, some made of beautiful shells, others of human bones and teeth ; drums, canoes and calabashes, the latter being the famous and beautiful bowls the Hawaiians fashioned from their native woods; an ancient grass house such as afforded the only dwelling before the advent of the foreigners; a small model of an ancient Hawaiian heiau, or place of worship and sacrifice; and various interesting entbological groups picturing the making of poi, the great native food, and the" manufacture of the celebrated paper cloth. Other islands, and their people besides the Hawaiian group, are interestingly exhibited in the museum. New Zealand, Society Islands, Tonga, Samoan Islands, Australia, as well as many other islands of Polynesia and Australasia are given space for many interesting exhibits. While I have seen all the things I have described above, it is only just and fair to 'explain that I gained my knowledge of them from the museum handbook, a most excellent work prepared by William T. Brigham, director of the museum. The drives around Honolulu are all most beautiful and delightful, the roads generally being well constructed and of macadam. Three and bne half miles west of Honolulu and reached by a splendid road, Is the magnificent estate of Hon. S. M. Damon. Moanalua. Mr. Damon is head of Bishop and Co.. the greatest and oldest banking institution in the islands, and he has spared neither time nor money in making Moanalua a very heaven of beauty. The estate is traversed by park-like roads, that wind through scenes of indescribable beauty. Everywhere there are beds of gorgeous flowers, replenished when necessary from the estate conservatory. Mr. Damon is not at all miserly with his beautiful estate. On the contrary he throws it open to the public every Saturday, when, likely as not. you will find him present, agreeably acting as host to his many visitors. Furthermore he maintains at his own expense for the benefit of enthusiasts a splendid golf course and polo grounds. Another drive worthy of note is the one around Diamond Head, the gigantic rock which Uncle Sam is fortifying, that guards the Eastern approach to Honolulu. From Kapiolanl Park the road leads to and around the Southern and Eastern sides of the great rock. Here the traveler winds around the face of the cliff, several hundred feet above the pounding ocean, and the view of the rock bound coast beaten by long lines of foaming surf is superb. Then the road leads on and down again, round the Northern face back to the park. ' Last and, to my mind, best of all is the drive up Nuuana Valley to the Pali, which, from its place in the annals of bloody warfare, might well be called Death Valley, were It not for nature's- beauties that cover it and breath forth now only peace v and quiet. Starting from sea level in Honolulu the road winds between the sheer mountains on either side, upwards to an elevation of one thousand feet at the Pali, six miles distant. And then to practically sea level again is a sheer drop of one thousand feet, for the Pali is but an immense cliff, marking the end of Nuuana Valley. At the entrance the valley is a mile or more in width. At the Pali but two hundred feet separate the mountainous sides of the gorge, which ends in that awful drop of a thousand feet., The view Is one of incomparable magnificence. To the left the cliff stretches away for miles, rising sheer from the plain at its foot like some giant's wall, until . in the hazy distance it almost impcrceptably blends with the ocean. To the right a well constructed road winds down and around the face of the mighty cliff, giving access to the plain at the foot. From the Pali, as though seen with the eyes of a colossus, this beautiful plain is spread before one like a relief map In green, the various shades of which denote forest trees, grass, rice patches and fields of sugar cane. Here and there like little dots are the homes of the happy dwellers of this walled-in paradise and far to the right, near the sea. are the buildings

of a busy sugar milL Where the plain meets the sea it, is outlined,' either way as far as the eye can see. br a narrow, brown ribbon of. sand, against which the beatiag surf appears like a lei. or neckband, of deli-

Catching Thief Who Steals From Mails Frank E. McMillin, Chief Post Office Inspector and Dean of The World's Detectives, Tells How Crime is Traced by Mathematical Processes

Did you ever put a five dollar bill in a letter and mail it to a friend you had touched during the vacation season, or to your wife as penance money when you bad overstayed on an alleged business trip, or to a mail order firm for a strople&s raxor, and then wonder why you never heard from it? Well, the bill went Into the pocket of a dishonest employe of the postoffice. Thousands of them do every year, writes William Atherton Du Puy. You eventually . made a complaint about it, and were asked the details as to the time and place the letter was mailed. The facts you were able to give eventually entered into the calculation to determine who stole the money. Combined with other similar facts from people who had sustained similar losses, they in the end Indicated the thief. They were a link In the system of detecting crime by mathematics that is being employed by the government's postoffice inspectors with surprising results. Frank E. McMlllin. chief of these, the dean of the world's detectives, tells of the manner in which the calculations are made. The story and the man telling it indicate the character of the work these inspectors constantly perform and the plan of it. They show the carefulness of detail necessary and the exactness of execution, given an idea of the reasons that lie back of the success of these men, and show how they get their reputations for always reaching results. Chief McMlllin who began life in a postoffice in Montant, worked through every detail of it and of larger offices, ran for years as a railway mail clerk, became Inspector, and finally assistant postmaster at Boston is a type of the men who are making a violation of postal laws a thing most unsafe for the criminal. There is the knowledge of detail In postoffice work that, when a crime is committed. Immediately unfolds every possible manner in which It could have been done. The men have this knowledge as have their chief. There is plenty of thrill and danger from personal adventure in many of the cases handled by the inspectors; but this present one is a matter of mathematics. Thinks They Have a Sure System. The theft of money from letters," said Chief McMlllin, "is one of the commonest crimes with which we have to deal. It is the ever present temptation to employes of the service, and a man here and there is going to fall now and then. These clerks or carriers are prone to get the idea that they have originated a system that, will outwit, the .government. They do not realize that all the clerks and all the carriers with a possible turn, toward dishonesty- who have worked during the last hundred years have been originating plans of this sort and coming to grief through them with wonderful regularity. They forget that all these experiences have been handed down to the inspectors, and that in addition they have worked on the original plans of hundreds of others of their class, have compared notes with hunQreds of other inspectors, know the service much better than the inventor of the scheme, and all the possibilities it offers for fraud. "If one of these men should steal a letter once and let it go at that, we should have only the ordinary possibility of getting him; but the employee who opens one letter and gets the easy money can no more stop than the man who has fallen under the spell of the opium pipe can give it up. Having opened one, he will open others. Once started, he works assiduously. "With every offense the ease, of de tcciion through the mathematical eysteir. is increased. The system fin, no rlacc for the personal equation; it cate, fleecy lece. And the sea and sky 6tretch away for miles horizonless, so perfect is the mingling where they apparently merge. At the Pali the wind never ceases blowing and a small stone tossed over the brink Is easily thrown back, so great is the velocity of the currents that, rising from the plain cast themselves impotently against that thousand foot barrier. It seemed to me that above the fury of the incessant wind I could bear the battle cries and clash of spears of the two opposing armies that here, over a hundred years ago . decided Hawaii's and the conquering . ' Kamehameha's destiny. For Nuuana Valley was the scene of the awful, final and complete victory of the Alexander of these isles. Kamehameha I. , Kamehameha was a chieftian in the Southern part of the island of Hawaii who made himself supreme there by the conquest of neighboring chiefs. Like Alexander of old, he determined to conquer his world, the Hawaiian Islands. In succession he won the Kingdoms of the rules of the islands of Maui. ' Molokai and Oahu, governing these through regents. The natives of Oahu rebelled and successfully drove out their regent. Then came the final test of strength, for Kamehameha returned with bis army, in which he had now incorporated a few white men. He met the army of Oahu and drove It into Nuuana Valley. Kamehameha was the better general and his army, the more seasoned and it was not long before the rebellious Oahuans were fleeing before him ln disorderly array. , ,They fled to the Pali and then. rather than surrender to tlie conqueror's tender mercies, cast themselves to' cnick death upon the plain , a thousand . feet . below. Three thousand thns met their death and their bones, until a few years back, could still be seen. From the rocky height of the Pall, Kamehameha surveyed bis world and I wonder if he. like Alexander the Great, sigh ed because there were no more to conquer. R. G. LEEDS.

is net cbsnged by locality, and works alike in New York or Kalamazoo. Take fcr ir-ttance. any office anywhere. Money has been disappea-ing from Kitrs that go through that office. This has been going on for perhaps iwa ii!t-mhs, icrhaps six months. Everybody is under suspicion; yet ther Is iio cit'rnce that tends to place blaxr.r. Vn feeling mathematics will do it. How They Are Caught. Whenever money disappears, the individual sending it will sooner or later complain of its nondelivery. . The facts as nearly as it Is possible to get them are taken as to the time and place of mailing each letter. It is known through what hands these letters would pass. This limits the possibility of the theft to probably twenty men. There Is likely to be not more than one thief operating in one office at a given time: so it is logical to say that he is a man through whose hands all the letters that have been rifled would pass in their regular coarse. This again narrows the group; for I: would have been Impossible for certain clerks and carriers to have seen all these letters. There are now probably ten men who might have taken the letters. The exact days and hours that these teu men have worked for the six months in question are then brought into consideration. Brown had a vacation in August; yet the thefta continued through that month, and Brown could not have been implicated. He is eliminated. Several of the thefts occurred between eight and nine o'clock. Smith never comes on till ten. He could not have got t he letters. Two letter disappeared during the three days that Green was 111 and off duty. He could not have taken them. The possibilities for every one of ten men are worked out. It is found that Jonea is the only man who has been on duty- all the time each theft has occurred. It looks bad for Jones. He had a two weeks vacation In September. No letters were lost during that time. "The problem is checked and proved back and forth in a dozen ways. There is no question that Jones is the guilty man. We know it beyond a shadow ot doubt. We have not the evidence, however, upon which to convict him. Being convinced that he is the man, we find a method of watching him and see

him taking the money. This an in- . V ,, J .7- . 1 , 1 Bpecior usually uuvn. eveu t.uvu Is the ispector's word against the em ployee's, and this is not sufficient be fore the court. "It is at this point that the test Ut ters are sent. We never call them decoy letters in the service as the public is prone to do. They are a test, to prove the man. not a decoy to lead him to do something we wish him to do. We know where to reach our man an! how to send the test letters through his hands. We arrange a goodly number of them and let them trickle innocently through the office. He Is all unsuspicious, and Is almost certain to open one of them. At the end of the day's work he is arrested, searched, and the marked bills we placed in the letters are found on his person. We have positive proof of his guilt and he goes to prison. How They Detect the Money. It is hard to understand how the employes know that there is money in these letters; for it is not bard money but bills that are mostly stolen. There are many ways In which, the experienced handler of letters can tell when there Is a bill in one of them. In the first place, it deadens the rustle of the paper. It fives the letter a sponginess and a leathery feeling. As a final test they smell the letter. Have you never noticed the odor of paper money? It has a very noticeable odor, and these sharks smell It out, "I sent a large batch of test letters through an office on one occasion, and the man suspected actually extracted the money from sixteen of them on a single round. This man was a carrier who thought he had. originated a plan of his own that could not be detected. He was exemplary, to all appearances, and had attracted attention through his Industry and faithfulness. He was always the first

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man at his table for the distribution ot mall. He surreptitiously visited

the tables ot the other men and took letters from them that contained money. There was never anything missing from his own pouch; so he figured that he would never be suspected. The figures betrayed him. however, and when we sent the test , letters he opened such a number ot them as to show how easily and quickly he could detect the presence of money. In Worcester. Massachusetts, some time ago we had an Interesting case. Two of us were detailed to work it out. and. relying upon the figures, ia no way attempted to Investigate the personality of any of the men. When the postmaster had given us the data in his hands, we locked ourselves up and worked on the figures for thirty. ' six nours. ai uxe ena 01 inn umf i wrote the ua of the frailty nuui In blue pencil - at the bottom of our sheets. I have the sheet as a souvenir of the case and the man Is now in prison serving his term. "When we told the postmaster the result of our computations he told us that It was impossible. The man was. the most trusted clerk In the office, -and his family was one of the oldest and most respected in the community it was impossible! We put the man under observation, however, and sent out the regular test letters. His guilt was immediately established beyond a doubt. A Remarkable Coincidence. On a case very similar to this I . once failed to convict my man through a moat remarkable coincidence. The case had advanced to the observation; , stage. I had gone into the postoffice the night before amid the bustle of closing time, that being the only hour . at which I could get in without taking some one Into my confidence. I had spent the entire night hidden, away in an attic waiting for the arrival f (ha j!rlra tft navf mnmlov when I was to spy on them. When ' morning finally came I mounted an . i . m a a j j iaiiuui Biepwiwr um vj ma uncomfortable amount of stretching waa t able to look over a high partition and down on the clerks. I saw the suspect deftly run his finger under the flaps of a dozen letters and opea . them. "I went to the postmaster and told him what I had seen. We arranged to send teat letters the next morning , and make the arrest. I went to bed. -Later in the day a business man cams to the postmaster and protested , long and load about the lose of mon- k ey In the mails. The postmaster reASanruI him Vv uvlnr that tluu losses would soon be stopped, as we knew oar man and the arrest was soon to follow. The business man re-, pasted these assurances to his family that night at dinner. . This haonened. in a eitr of a mil lion people end yet the man who had been taking the mosey was the father-in-law of the complaining business man. heard the atorr. and took warn. ins: from It! Next dav when wa ant the test letters he failed to open, them, and when we arrested him there was no lacrimlnatlasT money on his person. It waa mr word aaalnet hia snd we failed of conviction by the coincidence of the one man in a city of a million to know of oar program telling it to the one other man In that million who could profit by the fnfor- -matlon. ; This sort of thing- does not often happen, of course. We usually get -our man. We can sit In Washington with the data that a given office is -sure to possess and tell who ia rob- . blng the malls in Michigan or Texas. The system of detection by mathematics la one of the surest and easiest ever devised. Figures can't lie. and ' the personality of the suspect, how- : ever strongly it might tend to mislead the Investigator working; on any oth- ; er plan, has no opportunity to exert its charm. ' We are as sure to get the miscreant in this phase ot wrong-doing as any man who knows his arithmetic is sore to get the right answer In working out ordinary , problems of business. The Postmaster Every where. - ,