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Show Message Not in Cipher I The Bcnlor partner of a Chicago brokerago firm wns travejlng abroad, whllo tho Junior, his brother, wns spending tho summer in a Wlsconnin summer resort. Ono day a cablegram came from tho former, and tho man In tho oillco opened It. Tho words mado no senso to him, nnd ho turned Immediately Imme-diately to tho firm codo. Ho wns startled star-tled to find that even with the codo ho could mako no translation of tho words, Ho spent scviral hours In a diligent search through all tho ciphers which might possibly havo been used. Hut at lust, chagrined and worried over his falluro nnd tho delay, he called up tho Junior member over tho long tllstnnco telephone. An hour or more passed boforo tho connection could bo mado, each mtn- uto ot which fcund tho confidential B ma.i more annoyed nnd unhappy over W tho delay. lCven a short tlmo might B mo.ui great loss If tho business woro B Important. B At last his chief's volco responded Bj to the call. BJ "Have you and your brother a prl- B vato codo?" questioned tho employee BJ nnxlmifily. "I can mako nettling of BJ his messngo by tho firm or any oUbor BJ clphor." H "Ilond It," was tho reply. H " ' Norway, Pancakes Good.' " Bj "Thnt's no code," said the Junior BJ partner. "I wis lu that same town BJ ono summer, and I told him If they BJ missed tho pa.eakcs thero they'd miss Bj tho finest thlm In F.uropo. He's Just BJS lotting mo know thoy didn't." Kl |