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Show ES PQmily $ Secrets Flashed Over 3 I Code Books 'ZZls" rfiUUliiUllliliiluiIlilluilliuuuiifulHilmmiuliuummilll ihe rigging up of a cipher code Is said to be the most simple thing in the world by those who know nothing about it Those the larger governments govern-ments possess have taken years to put together, and some of the most competent compe-tent minds have been employed in their construction, says the New York Mall and Express. Notwithstanding the claims of many newspapers, there is not a single code book that fully meets the requirements of newspaper work. During the war with Spain many of the correspondents invented what is known as a blind code, and the representatives of a certain cer-tain metropolitan daily, who claims to .T6, fineSt code la the business yelled their heads off trying to call th-censor's th-censor's nHonti . . . Lu- censor Is wide awake, as censors generally gen-erally are. Business and government code have been in use as long as the submarine telegraph, the original high cost of cabling being responsible for their creation. The desire for secrecy has encouraged the- building of business and official codes more than has tha mere question of telegraphic codes. The latest thing in the code line is ' the social one. Within the last five years families in society have arranged tor their private use. Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan and John W. Mackey have probably the finest codes extant tney are used exclusively for conveying convey-ing messages of a family nature. One of the most sucrRaf.ii ,ir,s , " l" iact that the other fellow was using a blind code This was because nothing could be found in "the finest code in the busi! ness" to convey the ideas of the "ot respondents of the sheet to their office The chap with the home-made blind code that cost about 6 cents' worti of labor to make knew how to ge h?f information through every time A blind code is rigged im i ll, . "Sampson's fleet Ls begun it bardment of Havana," toe Ta T been sunk by a Snaniah M has news of erea? ! 1 h warship." great importance when the tors of America, whose wife and children child-ren spend much time abroad, communicates long messages to tbem daily by means of his private code Ha keeps them informed in-formed of all the latest socletv gossip, and they, in turn, convey to him how. when and where they are being enter-ta enter-ta ned. This particular code book contains con-tains 325 pages and is the labor of years. ln which all the members of tha millionaire's family took part II contains the names of tte individual members of all the prominent families fami-lies in society, and additions and" alterations al-terations are constantly made to the work, each side notifying the other by mail of the improvements and increases increas-es in groups and characters. |