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Show GERMAN SPY?" GLAD TO SEE YOU! HERE'S INFORMATION ' c"-; a great ij-a: of C'jui-'ernatioc aa'J ;--. rir a..:oi.g the eneir.y when t:.--y ioulJ v hiit h'; was "up again t" i.a the unlimited r-.-oore.s of the Ceiled Mtates. COM'tHOW t':e "5 2' 'cal gof.?B ti kJ i'l' a Cit :! A:..:v-au soldi-rs wet. i.Lor' of r:h-s and small arms generally.. la iliu.is lor proving Lis innocence were. a i i 'j -J to Prof' e.r X , an ornirhclCoist, v-I.o h ;i ' I o-t-u ii.ierned on account of ei-fc ei-fc ;.j I; suspicious "em-my activities." T!..-re had been found in Lis house cot cnly cot:;:r-r.i d wire!'-.-.-, apparatus, but even com-pi-onii-mg oocunienrs showing that he baj ben in tiit1 pay of the German embassv to shot-., of r :!-,- . small arras gem-rally.. ' I'ix lAU-.t lor proving Lis innocence w?rf 'Z ' '.- Swj ', i v'i a " -J to Prof i -.:or X , an ornithologist, ' ' . ?- f ! : hh.S:::-':,-i'iivh ; v-i.o had ot-t-u interned on account of ex- -' ' : : -- ' There had been found in Lis house 00t only S, --.'h. ''-.-fWW' I ; ,y connected v.in-h-,., apparatus, but even cora- . -1-, :: i. i J j : -'':..; J "' C V- yy":W:'M pi-oml-ing document shoving that he had S ' :.' 1 , '- ' :-':r been in the pay of the Onnan embassv to V I ' WL-' "" t ' IStL VWA?I ''' 'f Who successfully thwarted all Germar, i."'! plans to secure military information and SfS VW toi ' i ' vTX t -''l! fTJ1 A. fVyXg '' bf to destroy American war industry, cap- 5J 3TCl) Sjtg WA" )A ZtApAkw ml " turing many paid agents of the enemy XV -5J 'SS-S. AJ LJ TtANWSN.' ti " and keeping all of them in check by - GIvADl.'ALLV threads .n t h shoLli of (J.;,-lomaMc: (J.;,-lomaMc: shr. -due-s !,y v. :.i-ii I'n-ie Sam "put it over," liie lieri.'.a):-, are eon.iu; to light, nud eho-.v moi'e and rroro clearly that it v.as Ly .it no 1" -i tliao -r 'nut America v,on the war for the v.oi'ds , fl' ion. When f Cn-r.t. ei,: -red tiie var, l-e I nited Stales i;.,t..rcm-iit took every py,,ib! re-preb.-.iie in a ution to )iut fjeriuau spies out of bn-ii.es-;. The &..,-rl Service Liureau, th Inteliisenee Ciice, and all tl'.e patriotic ,..ff.n:... u ii-ii.-s con. Line. 1 to ferr"t out and put eve-V or.- I".-" VI p- I'd of heiii- a ;,nrmn soy umi-r k and lo-y. tho faster this ilk 'v.is orre-'t-d iln- fa ,tr it grev, and, for a;hilo. thin.-. be;ao to look as if the number:, of ihe tu .peets would run into the. m illions. U this point some Tran-'"'-iident. enius of the Intelligence OlTn-e hit upon a s-heme f.hich not only did away at one stroke with the nec-s-!ty of lnfUin? up and f-e.!ing at the public expen-c tlie hordes of spies, but ronverled this hoMlle facfor into an instrument instru-ment of utility for the t-e eminent. Two otn.-ers of Ihe I nil -.1 States Cast Artillery one a co!on-l. tic- oth"f a major met i the lobby of the Wadiinslon lintel in Wa-.hinKlou. The major, who carried a larie portfolio, v as a rafne- elTu-ive, loud -Mtokeu individual. He lohl the colonel lie uas on his way lo th" laller's olliee to deliver de-liver some imporlaiit papers. 'What (ire they''?" aid"'! the colouel. Whereupon the major, litining over, whispers whis-pers his reply and indicates the i.ortfnlio. "Well, you uecd not, take them to my office," says the colonel. "T will relieve you of Ihe responsibiliiy here." 'hereupon Ihe major, with evident gladness glad-ness to be rid of his charge, takes n batch of blue-prints from his portfolio, surrenders them to the colonel, and, after a few more words, inaudible to those standing near, walks buoyantly away. Among the crowd in the lobby is fl stunningly stun-ningly gow ned young woman, who has been wafching the movements of the two officers w ith a lynx -like keenness. Her beautiful, eager face is glow ing with a flush of e.vcite-l e.vcite-l nient. as she edges herself nearer and nearer during the conversation between the two. SCARCELY is the major gone than another young woman, clad in a picturesque uniform, uni-form, comes up and speaks excitedly to (he colouel. She shows him a document which pppears to be a report and which he reads frith an ever - increasing interest. At one point, he hesitates and shakes his head disapprovingly. dis-approvingly. I.ayiug down upon a chair the blueprints which the major had given him. he rests the report upon a projecting ledge of the wail, and begins writing in some interlineations. The eager-faced woman, who had been edging her way close to the colonel, snatches from her shoulder a lilmy material which she drops upon the chair. It covers the blueprints, blue-prints, and the next instant, when she picks it up agaiu. the papers too are no longer on the chair. With the blue-prints in her possession, the young woman vanishes from the room ; and it is not until a minute or two later that the colonel, his task with the report completed, turns around and discovers the theft, but the papers and the thief have disappeared. Later, when the colouel and the major meet again, they chuckle complacently. "Fraulein Sc-hmidthoffer will not fail to make the most of those blueprints," says the former. "We certaiuly have planted a goodly seed of despair for the Teutons in those notes which lie scattered through the blueprints," says the major. The blueprints were designs of war materials mate-rials which had already been received in France. Idindeuburg. to whom the papers iu question would inevitably sooner or later find their way, would find in them what he eould not but regard as proof of the inexhaustible inex-haustible resources and resourcefulness and become no small factor in the lessening of his morale. Aud. with the morale of the leaders of the enemy's army br " en, the reaction upon the soldiers eould uot but assert itself sooner or later. Scores of means were adopted by the United States intelligence system to disseminate dissemi-nate information similar to that contained in the stolen blueprints. Aud there can be no doubt that every one of them must have 1 he eager-faced woman snatches from her shoulder a filmy' material which uc she drops upon the chair. It covers the blueprints, and the next instant, when she picks it up again, the papers, too, are no longer on the chair -lirefl vitlS n WILLIAM J. FLYNN Who successfully thwarted all Germar. plans to secure military information and to destroy American war industry, capturing cap-turing many paid agents of the enemy and keeping all of them in check by counter measures Washington before our country had entered into the war, and that his activity had not ceased even after the German ambassador returned to Germany, Nevertheless, now that it was determined that his pernicious service should be diverted into a useful channel chan-nel for Uncle Sam, he and his friends found little difficulty in proving that he was guiltless guilt-less of any intentional wrongdoing, and he was permitted to leave the internment camp aud go whithersoever he desired. HE CHOSE Philadelphia as his point of vantage, and as he believed that the government gov-ernment was convinced that a great injustice in-justice had been done by the treatment formerly for-merly meted out to him, he felt that he might act with a more open bravado now than if he had never been under a suspicion. Less than a week after his release he presented himself at the office of the commandant com-mandant of an arsenal in one of the big seaport cities of the East and introduced himself as a veteran of the Spanish war. in which, he said, he had risen from the ranks to a captaincy. "I have been rejected for disabilities in the present war," he said, "although I was more than anxious to act in some capacity for my country." The reason for his visit to the arsenal was. he said, to ask the assistance of a fellow-officer to tide over his temporary financial embarrassment. If 1 imm-'w "I'm glad you have mentioned this." said the commandant. "I will allow you to judge for yourself how we stand in regard to small arms." "In what way can you do that?" asked Mr. Spy. "Why. I'll just take you around and show you just what we are doing here : and as we are one of the smallest of the plants doing similar work all through the country you will be able to put two and two together and judge for yourself what basis of truth there is for any such rumor." "But I'm in a hurry to catch a train," said the spy. secretly hopiug, however, that the commandant would renew his invitation. Too ready an acceptance of an invitation of the sort in such "parlous times" might have excited suspicion ; but, 'if he were thought to be yielding to a gentle pressure, there could be no ground for any suspicion in his acceptance of the invitation. What, therefore, there-fore, was his joy when the commandant, laying his hand caressingly upon his shoulder, shoul-der, said : "Why. nonsense: there are so many trains out of here for Chicago that it won't matter if you get one a few hours later. I'm proud of the work we're doing such as it is in a small sort of way, and I like my friends to see that we are alive on the job." And, so, taking from department to department de-partment of the entire establishment the man whom the commandant would have placed under arrest only a few weeks before, be-fore, if he had as much as expressed a A Keg of Silver Dollars country be? And what reason had ! "& German army for rejoicing in the f ' . idc i of an equipment which was so superior to what Germany was still s: . not to produce? i-iiiiini . giant TITHEX the commandant saw the eU' i' crestfallen appearance, he could cot ,'u bear adding to his discomfiture by iff " h.ow of a practical joke with the perp?ti tion of which the spy himself suppM'- ' ,;'Je material by the following question: ? "How do you keep spies out of bi-"' :iit ir. I should think the information they to. :. " gain here would be of invaluable , J,. 'j'" to Germany." ,;i ' Viii "We have a mighty effective way olffi 5 trio tr-io with them," replied the auaule :a"''; "Do you see that trip-hammer-like t .i"lt0 of metal just above your head?" y t;:j "Tes," replied the spy, looking : ' t scared, yet fearing to move away !et :: ;W;1(, arouse suspicion. !' "Well, that weighs twenty tons," 5 -vj hJa the commandant, "and it is release! " "'w wa just the gentlest sort of pressure upon'- i',.;:, button. See?" And he brought ac iite : finger so close to the button in qaC-that qaC-that the spy involuntarily exclaimed, If. ' w c out, for heaven's sake." and leaped n: V.'"e Then, realizing the mistake he bad tR- ilt he added hurriedly : ,-..'sre "Why, I suppose even a George e .rJ ington or any other patriot of tie-' ,''' at water would feel uncomfortable beneath :-sort :-sort of 'sword of Damocles.' " nev "They would have no cause (or ( if' said the commandant, "any more th!! ' sjcs should have." t. But he did not tell the spy l!t '-" :,,as, reason they would have had no - '.tjri'8 fear was that what looked like :J: hammer was something firmly Die ' ' upper structure of the shop an! - .' fc connection at all with the pod" '. which had given him such a scare. '. Hog Island, where our fleets ere ; turned out, and which was at first . , "-iate ously guarded against spies, ? resort to them in the end.' .;''" t Great care was taken to supply ties ' lem photographs portraying its various f ;3 ties. Each vessel was photographed at ?y. ous stages of its completion. In t:'-' ; . ' v'- the Hog Island activities became tie. -.ia ,ra, the miud of the spy into whose hm- photographs were manipulated in F- i;int . much the same manner as the b.:-- iu the case, of the charming ,hc Schmidthoffcr. V5 That the Germans were duly ': lo , bv the stupendous resources wli;s - :h, a thus found to be at the command -;f United States admits of no doubt. - . , General llindenburg recently id. .- a interview- that the reports of tk , r means at the disposal of the I - t in addition to (he actual preseure . bet of "so large an army, which Aroeri. - r to have stamped out of (he grott . ;Mv the principal factor in conviocmS of the utter hopelessness of su1 V- ' ' . - "T"v ' " ' r t - ' s i I ; ;J U I.. "? Ai iM IS ONE of the older churches of New-Haven New-Haven there is a very quaint and beautiful beau-tiful baptismal service set of silver aDd no less quaint is the tale of how the old church came by the same. It was during the year that Torktown fell that the trustees of the church decided that the frame building must have repairs aud sent to Boston for six kegs of uaiis. iu course of time the kegs arrived on one of the huge and slow-moving freight wagons of the day aud were duly delivered to the carpenters. Nails in those days were scarce and ex-rensive. ex-rensive. each one being the handwork of a blacksmith, and, as a consequence of the methods followed in their manufacture, the smiths usually turning out a hundred or so on days when they had nothing else iu particular par-ticular to engage their attention, they were spt to be very irregular iu size and d?gree of perfection. The deiijht of the chief carpenter car-penter was. therefore, great when, knocking knock-ing in the head of one keg. he found the rails of remarkably uniform sie and indicating indi-cating the best workmanship and material. "Ye were in luck, deacon," he remarked to one of the trustees who had been present to receipt for the six kegs, for these be Spanish nails, made at Toledo. Belike they were taken from some Spanish ship by a sea-rover." sea-rover." He began to beat in tiie head of another keg and uttered an exclamation of astonishment. "These be n't nails, dea.-ou ."" he gasped, his eyes staring. They were nor. The k'- wns fud to the brim of Spanish silver dollars. "So I see. Master Thomas," the deacon remarked quietly. "Suppose you head up that keg again, and I will call a meeting of the trustees to discuss this matter. We must write to the merchant of Boston concerning con-cerning it." The meeting of the trustees was duly held (hat very day. and long and earnest were the arguments that took place. What was the proper course for them to follow? Should they simply write the Boston merchant mer-chant that one of the kegs had been found to be full of silver dollars? The church was poor and the deacons were Connecticut Yankees Yan-kees to the bone. It was most obvious that the Boston merchant had obtained the keg in some unusual manner and it was a logical assumption that he had paid for it on a nail-value nail-value basis, as he had sold it. rpBEN uprose one who might have done J- mighty things in finance had he lived a century and a half later. "Let us write," he said, "to this merchant mer-chant of Boston town simnly the facts that there was an error in shipment." And so they did. In time came the merchant's reply. He had bought the kegs from a privateersman ; that they were sold as bejugkt and "that no mistakes could be rectified." And there is no doubt that the deacons dea-cons chuckled somewhat dryly -as they ordered the silver dollars of Spain melted down and cast into that service which can today be pointed out to the youth of New Haven as au example of of, well, something. That weighs twenty tons, and it Is released re-leased by just the gentlest sort of pressure pres-sure upon this button "Matters of the utmost private import-once import-once to me demand that I return to Chicago at once," he said, "but I find myself without with-out sufficient funds to take me there.'"' The commandant of the arsenal, although the man vi as a stranger to him, had been apprised by a telephone call as to his identity iden-tity almost immediately after the professor had entered the office, and the man who telephoned tele-phoned this told the commandant to humor the man and do everything iu his power to show the immensity of the preparations which were going forward at the arsenal. "Why, certainly, I shall be happy to assist a fellow-officer," said the commandant, making out a check for an amount which the "Spauish War" officer said would be enough to defray his expenses home. "I shall not fail to remit the amount when I reach my home," he said, as he was moving mov-ing toward the door. "Oh. by the way." he said, pausing at the open door, "what is there iu that awful rumor which is going around just now that we are short iu small arms'.' iou, undoubtedly, undoubt-edly, are iu a position to know. I hope it is one of those myriad canards with which the dear public aiways likes to delude itself." desire lo peep iuto any one of these precincts pre-cincts of war activity, he showed such immense im-mense quantities of finished small arms and cartridges that Ihe spy felt his heart sink w.thin hi,i If this was hut H smnl, plant, what must the total outyut of the |