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Ths Antilles and the ABtwcr.Not Um first of Germsny'a acta of

krar against us but tbe-firs- t resultingin any considerable casualty list, tbekinking of tbe transport Antilles by asubmarine) will have a profound effectten seotlment In tbla country.

Some seTenty men were lost fewerby far thaa the llres of American cits-ken- s

sacrificed on the Lusltanla whenWe were at peace with Germany. Buttbla la an act of wnr shocking itIs true to our people, und to therelatives of those who have thusearly given their lives to the flag, butlegitimate. Its repetition will be at-

tempted Innumerable times during tbeferriage of our troops to the seat ofIrvnr, and tbe efforts cannot In all In-

stances be defeated.To end thut toll of detttb we must

nd tbe war. To end the war we mustwlu It. And to win It we at homo, whofor one reason or another cannot donthe khaki and go to the front, mustpresent un undivided phalanx of sup-

port for our fighting men and for theGovernment which directs und main-

tains their efforts.We must be ready with our finan-

cial support. What does nny one sac-rifice who buys Liberty bonds evenlit the price of rigid economy, com-

pared with tbe sacrifice made by thetaien who went down with tbe An-

tilles? How great a subscription Isequivalent to one humnn life?

We must stamp out sternly, emphat-ically, decisively all cavilling and

ns to tbe justice of this war,or the righteousness of the pnrtlcl-jmtio- n

of the United Stntes In it.Must right thinking citizens saw Itsa'iib inevitable long before the nation

But now our men liuve died lutlie cause. TheJr blood and their livestallow it, and make Its prosecutionrelentlessly to the end of victorykai-re- duty. Shall we permit it to be

to tbe million now undertfml soon to be in Jeopardy of death,that these their fellows now underthe ocean's waves died In a foolishand unpatriotic cause?

The tragedy of the Antilles marksthe true beginning of tbe war for tbetJulted States. It ends nt once tbefoolish theory that Germany intendedto ignore our threats and laugh ntbur military preparations. It showsthat our men, like those of Englandand of France, are to be subjectedto every form of dendly attack that"rightfulness can devise. And it oughtto Impress on the minds and thetienrts of our people that the wholetuition must stand back of our gallant

oldlers and sallow with every powerof purse and pen and voice and votethat may be available.

The Revolts Is Austria.According to the seml-ofllcl- re-

ports which have reached tbe outsideworld, the mutiny of sailors at theAustrian naval bases was caused bythe lack of food' und by offensive Ger-man domination.

Its economic condition has been ae'lous problem to Austria for more

than a year. Necessary commoditiestiave not only been high In price, butalmost unobtainable In portions of thenation. The people have suffered, ItIs asserted, more than the Germans,find they have declared that they wereunfairly treated by Germany, that shehad not shared with Austria the sup-plies of conquered territory, or givenAustria the advantage of her com-

merce with the border neutrals. Themenace of the victorious Italian armylias caused a concentration of forcesin the Isonzo front. Germans, Bui-gar- s

and Turks have nil been calledto check the advance on Trieste. Thelesult has been to divert to tho useof this augmented army tlio nnt Ion's

ery limited supply of foodstuffs.The domination nt Germany In mili-

tary affairs lias lieen objectionable tolilt Austrlans except the German ele- -

ment. The Slavs, especially thoso ofthe south, have been treated withgreat severity. There liuvn been sev-

eral mutinies among troops; while Inthe first advance Into Serbia thou-mnd- s

surrendered without strikingii blow. Washington reports that antntlre Austrian 'regiment on the

front, whore German officersnre In command, recently voluntarilyturrviidercd lo escape further service

in the Austrian army. The tension j

between the German and Austrian .

sailors nt Poln, the despatch says, wascaused by the "overbearing conduct"of the Germans and their "Inhumantreatment" of the Austrian.

This dissatisfaction with the Gor-

man overlordshlp has been expressedby Austrian officials and In the Austrian and Hungarian Parliaments, j

There Is no doubt that Austria Is Im-

poverished In men and resources, undis desirous of peace. The significanceof the revolt lies In the fact that thepeopie hnve arisen against thea condi-

tions .that 'havo'been Imposed uponthem and In the danger that themovement Is spreading to the armynmf throughout' the, monarchy.

The present mission of the Knlserto southeastern Europe Is to quiet thediscontent that has been cnused byhis own highhandedness In the tui-

tions which are his allies. In none ofthese will he find more difficulty thanIn Austrfa, for there the dissatisfac-tion with Hpnenzollernlsm has beenof long growth among the people andmust be heeded.

What It Meaaavto Fly.A forty page booklet, "Our Flying

Men," by Mrs... Maumce Hewlett,constitutes the most perfect epitomewe have seen of the delights, terrors,thrills and miraculous romance of theaviator In war.

A book about flying wns sent to apublisher, who accepted It as n workof fiction and sent It to an air pilothe knew. The publisher wanted thepilot's opinion as to whether thethings related might be realized someday. The pilot replied that all theIncidents were commonplace and ofevery day occurrence.

One of the regular duties of airscouts is' to hunt out hidden Germanguns. At a height of several thou-

sand feet, constantly moving, the fliersignals by wireless the position ofwhat, looks like a haystack, a house,a clump of shrubbery or a knoll ofground. The artillery, quite unableto see anything at all, blazes away;the aviator, buzzing about In the skyhas to correct the artillery aim bywireless while keeping a sharp out-look for enemy planes and dodgingthe fire of fixed guns beneath him.This work must often be done Inmisty weather and flying close to theground under a short ranged fire; itlias sometimes to be done when merelyto keep the plane aloft In the teeth ofit gnle is a job for a superman.

Mrs. Hewlett's chronicle Is composed almost entirely of stories ofactual air battles in the words ofthose who participated In them. Apilot, sent out' to protect n Fnrmanphotographic airplane, destroyed aGerman I. O. V.. which fell withinthe French lines, and dived Into acloud n moment later. He emerged tosee two black specks swimming townrdhim. He flew across their pnth andhis mechanlcworked the gun.

"I hnd to perform every ncrobatlcfeat of which I was capable to baffletheir double aim," says the pilot. "Ithas often been said that 'stunt flyingIs of no good, but I was glad of thepractice I had had, as every trick hadto succeed the other without a breathbetween."

The Fnrman headed homeward andhe was free to fight to the finish.Two more Germans appeared betweenhim and the lines. He dropped "likea meteor." One propeller wns shat-tered and Its engine stopped. A shotgrazed his foot He let one engineswing the plane on one wing. "Rib-bons of canvas and splinters of wood,held to the machine by wires, floatedabove me ns I fell. A singing cameIn my ears, caused by the rush of air,and I felt a little dizzy."

He fell 4.000 feet, hut at 8,000 feetabove ground managed to straightenhis plane and landed safely.

Five planes set out at 4 o'clock Inthe morning to destroy the powderworks at I) In Germany. Twowere crippled crossing the lines andhad to return. After crossing theIlliine a German Avlatlk got close tothe side of a third machine. The gunjammed and the Oermnn wounded thepilot. That left two and D wasstill eighty miles away.

Near F the Avlatlk overtookthe two and brought down one ofthem. But the last turned savagelyon tbe Avlatlk and wounded Its pilot.He fell with his machine.

Arriving over D , says the sur-vivor, "we came down In the middleof It to 4,000 feet, and Just betweentwo chimneys we detached two largebombs." A wide clrclo to watch thoresult, then "six more were let loosennd flames and smoke told us we haddone our Job." They got back safely,but pierced by n shot from a 105 andwith sixty smaller rlddllngs.

In Egypt R and nnother hadto fly two planes far Into tho desertto a small base. They missed Jt andlanded, sleeping under tho wings oftheir planes. In tho morning the basewns not discerned from nloft. .Thesecond pilot flew back to headquartersfor exactcr directions, leaving Itnnd a mechanic to repair It 'sfaulty motor.' He was gone hut n fewhours, apparently, nnd then flew backto rejoin It . no found In thewaste of sand the marks of the air-plane's wheels but no men. It wasfour days later when n scouting motorfound the bodies of It nnd themechanic beside their plane. Somenotes, made by Ibo mechanic beforedeath overtook him. piece out thotitory thus:

"Soon after Lieutenant J bad left,B and I repaired the motor. Wedecided to fly It an near henduarlettas possible, as we bad very little waterto drink. We got twenty-liv- e mile,when It gac out again. We did .ill c

njuld to inaMi It light, and It tool! ini '

another eight miles. But It was usingtoo much petrol, and In another halfmile It ran dry.

"That night wo suffered badly fromwant of water. While my back wasturned, It shot himself. I believe Itwas so that I should have all the waterleft I spent the next day on ono spoon-

ful. I slept most of tho time I remem-bered the liquid in tho compass and drankIt. I fired the Lewis gun many times.Nothing has come Just nothing."

Here tho notes stopped.Captain O , flying In East Af-

rica, was downed by n German nndfell on soft ground free of his ma-

chine. Tbe Gerainn sailed away.Captain 0 started to walk fiftymiles' to the lines; He swam six riv-

ers, much Impeded by his compass.Attacked by crocodiles, he had to dropIt to save hiuwelf. He frightened thebeasts off and recovered tbe compassby diving repeatedly. Meeting n lionhe hnd to hide a long while. Thecompass alone brought him through,nearly naked. At headquarters befound the report of his last flight I:ran: "Ono of our airplanes failedto return."

A formula 'that covers up from theworld many on epicnl and solitaryadventure with death.

Two airplanes high up on patrolduty spied beneath them a Germanmachine "manoeuvring In the mostmasterly manner. It wns looping,banking, making side slips nnd recov-ering bain nee, ns If giving a specialexhibition. The pilot wns evidentlyone of rare ability and cleverness."He turned out to be H , famousthroughout Germany.

But that Is ahead of tbe story. Thepatrols, descending, put a hole In theGerman's radiator and hit the Ger-man gunner. The machine spun andfell to earth. At about 000 feet abody fell out of the German ma-chine. It landed among some treesand a man was seen walking awayfrom It and was taken prisoner.

He declared that the gunner, his su-

perior officer, being slightly wounded,had ordered htm to land. He had re-fused, knowing he could reach thoGerman lines, nnd knowing that hismachine, of a new type with Improve-ments as yet unknown to the enemy,must not bo captured.

"The Lieutenant, being mad withanger, hit me. I protected myself aswell as I could. Being dis-obeyed by nn Inferior made the Lieu-tenant blind to danger and death, andhe got his hnnds on my throat.

"If I was to die, I made up mymind to kill him first. I took, theman in my arms and with one greateffort got him on the edge of thefuselage; ns the machine went roundthe spin helped me, nnd out he went.

I am sorry you lmvc got thisnew machine."

Mrs. Hewlett Is of the opinion thatthe rupture of the first Fokker wholennd intact Is amusing. We shouldsay so : A celebrated French aviatorhad been invited to try out a new al-

lied tiler and was doing so, nt firstcautiously, then with Immense feint.He had no gun aboard.

A Fokker appeared and the French-man, climbing, dived straight at It.The Fokker had to dive to avoid acollision. Four times by the samemanoeuvre the Frenchmnn forced tin;Fokker closer to earth, giving Itsdriver not n second to recover him-self. The Fokker opened fire butcould not hit the Frenchman, whowas everywhere and nowhere, nnd al-ways driving the Fokker before him"like a dog driving sheep." First theFokker's gun stopped firing, then Itspetrol gave out; it was compelled toland In the airdrome, and thus "thaAllies got a perfect Fokker withoutone shot"

The German aviator, learning whohad vanquished him, bowed low andsaid he was not ashamed. That wafternoon the Frenchmnn tried outthe Fokker too, and made a brief rt

of Its good points."The pilot Is not n typo and never

will be," Mrs. Hewlett declares. "Homtiy talk aviation shop and apnea'on tho surface to be n daredevil youthWho thrives on excitement. This Isabsolutely a false Idea. The men whodo these deeds are Just the pick ofour manhood. Their lives are so va-rious before they have taken up theircalling that one cannot nccotint fortheir choice. It mostly comes sud-denly, nnd with such force that everyobstacle Is overcome to reach the de-sired end."

This, fledgling eagles of America,Is what It means to fly.

Trifling and Preliminary Hardships.The food shortage of the hour hun.

pens to be In the sugar market; To-morrow wo mny bo facing a greaterthan ordinary scarcity of meat. Ourwartime experiences already includea flour "famine." Milk costs morethan It should nnd Is less nlentlfnlfrom day to day, while "Go llcbt ontbe butter" has become a watchwordIn mnny households. But the realhardship hasn't begun or even threat- -

ened to begin; this country Is nskctlonly to eliminate waste nnd to confine Itself to Its actual needs. ThereIs no reason to complain nnd everyreason to accept the situation philo-sophically with the mind as well aswith tho htomaeh.

Discovering thut food control Insome of Its aspects Is a failure, anilmodestly admitting that most of uscould tin better than Mr. Hoovcit, wehave only to compare our caso withthat of any European country, belllir- -

erent or neutral, to feel a warm glowof comfort und well being.

Our mills are not closed for lack ofmen and fuel; our mothers nnd els--tew are not tolling in shipyards nndshell factories; our diet Is still inan.vdlslies lliaii ilnrk brown hivuilnnd pule brown suiip; our chlldmi

can be sent to school with almost ncertainty of returning whole.

.There aro hardships ahead, ofcourse; there is war and the pain

jof It, with empty bomes and achingn en ris. America's part is to meetthoso hardships ns they come, bravelyand always with tho determination towin. In familiar terms that spiritl known as "supporting the "

which means supporting our an., csand our Government It Is littleenough to ask of the millions who stayat home.

The Message of Morris Hlllqult.Complaining of General Bull's

very proper refusal to permit him toat Camp Upton, Mr. Monms

Hillquit says:"The Socialist party has a message

for enlisted men."

It Is a message that must not bedelivered. Mr. Hiu.cjuit Is not mak-ing a municipal campaign'.' His refer-ences to local civic affairs are casualand perfunctory. He Is waging ncnmpalgn of opposition . to the notionnl Government In Its prosecutionof a wnr for tho safety and protec-tion of our nntlon against tho mostnggresslve military Government thatever shattered the peace of the world.The future Integrity of our nntloncompels that Germany shall be sosoundly beaten In this conflict thatshe will be forced to accept terms ofpeace that jvlll permanently preventher bringing on nnother wnr. Onlybv the most arduous military nndnaval exertions of tho United Stntescan this end be speedily attained.The other civilized and peace lovingnations have fought for It for threeyears, and If they have not definitelyfailed they have as yet made littleprogress toward Its accomplishmentThe United States must deliver thefinal stroke. The men at Gamp Up-

ton, and other cantonments, are avital part of the force by which thatstroke la to be dealt

Mr. Hoxqurr would deliver to themthe message that the war Is a classwar; that they are unjustly and un-

warrantably forced Into service; thntthe Government deserves repudiationInstead of support; that Immediatepeace Instead of permnnent peace isthe great end to.be sought. He bearsa message of discontent, a message ofresentment

It was Inevitable that General Brrr.t.should refuse speaktng privileges nrCamp Upton to a man holding Mr.Hiliqutt's views.

Sugar.There Is a scarcity of sugar.The Food Administration makes It

clear that:The shortage is temporary.There Is no justification for higher

prices.There Is need for strict economy In

the use of sugar.On this statement of facts tlie con-

sumer should proceed to buy onlywhat sugar be actually needs nndshould use his supply as sparingly aspossible. He should shun the re-

tailer who sells sugar at 12 and IScents n pound.,

The retailor who keeps raising theprice of his sugar can offer no ac-

ceptable defence. He will probablysay that he Is trying to conserve thesupply by discouraging unduly largepurchases. But price Jumps merelyIncite the unthinking to buy morethnn they need nnd hoard It. Tbeproper course for the retailer whowishes to conserve the supply, nndthe only proper course, Is to sell Inlimited quantities. A pound or n fewpounds only to each purchaser wouldconserve tbe supply.

The price nt which he sells sugarwill be pretty fair evidence of yourdealer's patriotism.

Who ever could have thought, as hewatched Harrt Lauder's ridiculous funIn tho old day, that this L.U'oer, ridic-ulous monarch of stago fim, wouldono day lend his ballad singing voiroto an appeal for war; would, with hisonly Bon In a soldier's grave, npnearbefore his old audiences In behalf ofa Government loan to buy tho where-withal of battle? Hera Is ono of thestriking transformations of tho wur.Every man and evnry woman, exceptthe passionately selfish and tho In-

tellectually vacant, Is In tho midstof a Blmllar process of change, andtlio realization comes without muchsearching from Just such examplesas this.

Must Petrograd now suffer anotherchange of name?

We suspect that Mr. Crkbl first con-sults the Bureau of Prlvato Informa-tion.

And then there's Mr. Hnxourr, whotalks llkn Kerknbkt and thinks likeMoitnis IliuxjiiiT.

It isn't quite clear whether the Gov-ernment has promised to fix the priceof hogs or for hogs.

To the Kkixt and Burke and Sheaof classic renown add Florence Kel-le- t,

water boy, killed at Camp StewartIn tho performance of her duty.

That divorce court litigant who ischarged with having Invested 132,000In a pig business without any pl;sseems to havo had at least ono quali-fication of a Tammany Mayoraltycandidate.

Tho week ends with more than000,000,000 of tho Liberty loan sub-scribed. Ton days moro for tho nextthreo billions!

When Invited to afternoon tea don'tfall to tuko your own sugar along. Ithas long been the vogue In l'arls.

Be one of the millions to furnishthe billions)

Tha New Kra,MeSsrn Suitor I want to mirry your

deufhtsr,Modem rather-- rn ou buy her Lib-nrt- y

hoticli In the mxmicr lo which flic haciustumcilT a,

1

BRIEF FOR HEINIE ZIM.

An Attempt to Justify the HistoricPursuit of Collins.

. To the Editor or The Sun Hir; Iknow nothing so seductive to sportswriters as the trick of sluicing alt thoobloquy of a defeat on the head of oneman. Thus we have tho "Zlmmermannbone" cataract. Plainly It Is too late todam It, but I've the conviction that thewrong caput ' helng doused.

Let me reconstruct tho play as Isee It ex post dopo. Ma It parenthesizedthat I did not see the game, but my con-

clusion drawn from a composite storyand ratified by good easy chair psy-

chology may not on either count beworthless.

With the ball, then, In Zlm's handand Eddie Collins dashing for home, lotus suppose that for the hysterical 'mo-

ment or two It would naturally take 7.1m

to reduce the temptation to put tho ballon a runner so tantallzlngly near heactually dared to think ho could outfootCollins. There is nothing surprising Inthis Surrender to a temporary madnessor nothing Irremediable In It either.Grant that ha. had chased Collins' towithin Inches of the rubber and foundhis effort losing he would yet have timeto make the cutting down throw to theplate.'

Before, now, we move on the questionas to why no one was covering home,let us sec how Its normal defenders weredisposed. And right here we run Intoconfusion. Some accounts have' it thatBenton, accepting Felsch'a grounder,threw-t- Rarlden, who relayed to Zlm.This presumption would make moreplausible my ultimate contention bypredicating tho almost certain pulling Inof the catcher toward the play. It Karl-de- n

hurled to Zlm he could hardly fallto follow the throw, at least to the ex-

tent of a few excited steps. But theconsensus seems to be that Bentonthrew direct to Zimmerman, so we shalltake that posit Why then was notRatlden covering tha Plata T

My solution, which axonera tea Rarl-den In part. Is that he had unconsciouslydrawn away from the plate toward thaplay, whether he participated tn themechanics of It or not: and that he haddrawn away so far that when Zlmawoke to his losing race the play wasbeyond Rarlden. Can It be doubted thatIf Rarlden had been, say, only onestride from the bag he would havefallen back and covered HT And can Itbe doubted that If he had been thereZlm would at the last minute havethrown the ballT

With the elimination of the catcherand fpr h'a blunder, If we count It

one, Rarlden can offer the same excusewe are approaching for Zlm who wasleft to defend that plateT Not Ben-- ,ton. surely ; for If we discard the reportthat Benton threw to Rarlden then Ben-ton had dashed over to tho third baselino to Intercept Collins and had beenpassed by the volant play before Zim-merman realized he couldn't reach Col-lins. Rarlden. too, on this theory, hasbeen pulled in and passed. Thus Zlm.alive to his danger at last and ofcourse the whole epirode was one ofseconds having yet time to make histhrow, finds the plate without aguardian.

It Is of course Holke who Is tacticallyout of tho picture. Him t nominate asthe real bean splller. He was whollysupererogatory at first base, all thesacks being full, and ohould have beenbacking up the play whether he sawRarlden waiting there or not. WithHolke on deck Zlm could have extendedhis nervy If harebrained effort beyondboth pitcher and catcher and choppedCon his quarry notwithstanding. Whatmust have been Zlm's sensations whenhe looked up having shot his bolt andsaw no salvation mitt before him? Whatelse could ho do but continue despair-ingly to "chase a White Sox run overthe plate"?

Thus I read It not Zlm's but Holke'sbone In the last analysis, nor was Itthe first baseman's only bloomer, hisfailure to complete the double play engi-neered by Herzog In the seventh Inningby touching Hjf bag before taggingSchalk not being forgotten.

It Is often less the surgeon's faultwhen the knlfo appears to slip than thatof his assistant who bungles the anaes-thetic. Chase the right man to the op-probrium shower. 8. K. Wilson.

Swarthmou, Pa., October IJ.

WASTED CIGAR BOXES.

Could They Be Given to the Bed Crossfor Resale!

To the EniTOR or The Svt( Sir: An-

swering an Interesting letter on youreditorial rage with reference to theFhortugo of cedar cigar boxes and theposition our Clovernment officials take,namely that It l.i Inadvisable to reusethese boxes because of the expense foradditional Inspectors, 4c, I respectfullymake the following suggestion :

Why not turn oer all empty cigarboxes to the Red Cross and grant au-thority to that society for the resale ofthese boxes to cigar manufacturers undercome approved Clovernment seal?

When one considers that cedar boxescost all the way from It to 75 centseach, thn enormous revenue that couldbo directed to tho urgent aid of thatworthy organization Is plain. t'tider

plan that would not work mircu-t-onab- le

hardship on thn cigar box man-ufacturers this seems to embody a pointfor practical economy, particularly in

lew of tho shortage of this lumber, asI have previously Indicated, when everylienny should be used to aid the suffer-ing. E. Kantor.

Nrw York, October 1.Still Come the Blver Queens.

To the Kditor of The Sun Sir; Thatwas buliy reading, the articles of T.Townsend Ruckley and James KlnierChristie on the old Hudson Rlcr boats.Hut they did not mention tho Saint John.Dean Richmond, C, Vlbbard, C. Vander-bll- t.

I think tha C. Vanderbllt was lateraltered to a towbont. And do they re-

member the Wagner line that ran op-

position to Uncle Daniel Drew about18D9 or ISfiO? Walter Scott.

New York, October 20,

To an Ancient Sleeper.The river winds Ilka molttn glass

A in Id the fields of waving grain,And Indian echoes haunt tha plain

Wrapped In tha Indian summer hase;They wlilpr In the rustling malte.

And speak from out this mound again,

Thou, who art one alth all that wasAnd all that ever ahall remain

Hurrly thou nearest through tha graasHither and thlthar my faet psaa,

f xklng the apot where thou liaat lataThese centuries of aun and ralnl

I may not aee thy face, alaa,But free earth touches grain to grainAnd links a rurrent 'twlxt us twain)

M. IS. lit ii Ma.

A Geod ReeolntloB.rum Ma Detroit free rreit.

Mnro I can't goArrota tho pond,

I'll do my partAmi buy a bond,

THOUGHTS OF A DISCHARGEDSOLDIER.

He Can Still Do Hit Fart for HisCountry and Its Caase.

To the Editor or The Bum Sir; OnI October 10 1 was honorably dischargedfrom the National Army for physicaldisabilities. I must say It was a keendisappointment to me, as I had reallymade up my mind to serve my country

I In that large capacity as a soldier atthe front; but since my return home I

, have reasoned that a man can as trulyi serve his country at home as ha canwith rifle In hand at the front, great asthat need Is at the present

There are various ways In which hacan assist Among tha many are: Hecan help In that large field at presentof elthar purchasing Liberty bonds orpersuading his friends to purchase soma;then he .can always; whether In time ofwar or peace, live the life of a goodcitizen, living near lo the principles anddoctrines of our great land.

So I really hope those' who have beenhonorably discharged from either thearmy or navy for various reasons will

i not be discouraged, but take a firmerstand to help further the cause lorwhich we as a people are fighting, thatof making the world safe for democracy.

Oronon A. Karrinoton.CnAppAquA,iN. T October 20.

JOHH GAY WAS RIGHT.

Those Who In Quarrels Interpose MuttOften Wipe a Bloody Nose.

To the Editor or The Sun Sir: LastThursday, on .the street, two men hadengaged In an argument, one clutchinga heavy door key with which he wasendeavoring to open the understandingof the other. When squirming andwrestling himself from my grasp In ef-

forts at separation, he lodged an acutaelbow between my seventh and eighthribs, and I Immediately lost all InterestIn the controversy, and have been nurs-ing the alata ever since.

It was only a few days before that Isaw a lady under spiritual exhilara-tion, who prone on tha sidewalk wasbeating the soles of her sandals on theunoffending earth with enthaslastlalaments. A roan with moro sympathythan prndence stooped, mad as he raisedher with some difficulty to a sitting pos-tu- ro

he spoke in soothing tones of In-

quiry as to the causa of her woe. For amoment she was dasad : then, recoveringpresence of mind, with one hand sheclutched his four-ln-ha- tie, andsnatching his derby from his head shevigorously smote his countenance tn arrenzy of joy.

When he sought to disentangle himselfnnd regain his hat she clung to both asthough they were earth's sweetest pos-

sessions.With these Incidents tn mind, assj that

I am. yesterday, on Nassau street, I saw.a man from the pocket of whose over-coat there protruded a hastily foldedtwo dollar bill. I tapped htm on abiceps, pointing to the money. He firstlooked at me with Inquiring expression,next to the object. Which he thrustdeeply down ; then again to me In a re-

sentful manner as though having de-tected me In pocket picking. I havefinished. When next I meet one Introuble, I will leave him to Its enjoy-ment. By a slight paraphrase ofShakespeare:

From beneI'll aid no man.Slnca aid gives auch offenea.

PjirLOBOVHtR.

Flatbush, October It.

CALLITHVMP A SKIMELTON?Not Necessarily Unless Somebody

Rises and Proves ItTo the Emtor or the Stw Sir: Can

any of your gifted correspondents drawfrom the storehouses of their memorysufficient Information to enlighten meas to the , difference between a calll-thum- p

and a sklmelton? Is a sklmel-to- n.

which Is an old time custom In upperNew York State, adapted from "sklm-Ingto-

or Is It a custom which has de-veloped entirely In the State? Is a

In any way related to a' char-ivari, or Is It something else again?

The memory of The Surf's corre-spondents reaches back into the dimyears and from the fund of their Infiniteknowledge I should like to secure thisbit of Information.

Edward B. Whitket.Merioeh, Conn., October 10.

In the United States, or at least Incertain parts thereof, a sklmmerton Isthe same as a sklmmlngton; Just asa sklmmlngton Is the same as a char-ivari. Hut a culllthump, while shar-ing tho noise properties of a charivari,may bo caused by something besidesa wedding: an election, for Instance.Is not "sklmelton" like "sklmmerton"and "sklmerton," a variant of "sklm-mlngton," as "shlvaree" Is a variantof "charivari"?

The First Ieased Telegraph Wire InThis Town.

To tiik Kditor or The Sun sir: Itmay Interest mnny old New Yorkers,especially telegraphers, to know that oneof the llrst, If not the first, telegraphwires to be leased In New Yorlt cityran from the Stewart Building, Broad-way and Chambers street, recently pur-chased by Frank A. Munsey as a homofor The Sun, to the other Stewart store.Ninth street and Broadway. This wasIn tho early '70s, and one of the opera-tors was Peter Flynn, now superlnlend-den- t

of tho telegraph department of aNew York newspaper.

O. M. IfAVANAron.Nbw York, October 20.

Suggestion From Louisiana to Texas.To tub rprroR of Taz Sun sir: As

the quickest and surest way to "get" thoKaiser may I bo permitted to KUggestthat the citizens of Poolvllle, Tex., pur-chase Liberty bonds with the tt,-4- 6?

raAcncAuSiirucvrroRT, La., October 17.

(irorila Awalte nevrlopmenta.From the DaMoneao. Eeko.

The associate editor of this paper hasbeen promlaed a good whipping by a cer-tain joung man of thla town, that la. Ifwe aver used hla father'a name In thlapaper. Wo promlaed, nhen w atarted outon our newapaper career, to give tha newswithout ahltawath, fear or favor, and waaspect to do It, regardless of any and allthreats. Wa aro like Hacharla of old,little of atatura, but If thla young mangeta to feeling too good and nantn tu tryus a few wa are ready any time.

A Georgia Bastaeee Slump.From th Tipton OaietU,

Raving no further uaa for tha building,tha town of Pelham has rented Its guard-house for tl a month. The elump In bual.tiees la attributed to tbs bona dry law,whleh liaa been blamed for many flmllurIneldenta.

The Fmplre Slate In Linei'rem te .it .vtet

reople vs. Kelitr, KJ0 N, T. tS.

AUNT SUSIE DOESwf nrn m tup mvtr wadaWf sfaW sflatraleW MA MM W W W MM WW fA

aasaaaasaaBaaaaasaaaaal

Old Time Lint rkraalnf, Girea Way t Making BanaJarrs, but She St m

Works as Private.

Aunt Susie Is doing hor bit aa brave-ly and as happily as she has carriedall the other burdens of a busy lifesince the tragedy of 1881 relegated herto the ranks of splnsterhood. Herpoor old hands are badly twisted nowby rheumatism and. do not move soswiftly as they did,' but the twingesof pain that rack her bonea from timeto time can stop' her fingers, no morethan the tears could stop them fromscraping lint when ahe thought of hersoldier lover reported missing afterone of the first civil war battles.

"Yes, we scraped lint tn those days,"she said with one of her whimsicalsmiles, as she folded up the last of ahuge bundle of surgical bandages thatshe had made. "I guess these band-ages mxv better, and' anyhow they orewhat tho doctors want now, and ItIsn't my business to tell them how todo their work. I have all I can doto try to help them. They wantedlint then and I sent them all I could.Now they are calling for bandages, boI'm sending bandages.'

"I think women are different, some-how, from what they were when I wasa girl. At least some of them are. Ofcourse, there were a few strong mindedones, as we used to call them, eventhen, who wanted to be officers andtake charge of things Instead of work-ing In the ranks as privates, but I wasalways willing to be a private. Thereare more of them needed, you know,than officers. And in those days we lettho men do most of the thinking.

"But 'how we did workl You aeethe civil war broke out like a auddenthunder storm. There had been rum-blings, of course, but we of the. Northdidn't actually believe there would befighting till the first shot was fired atour flag. Than everybody knew over-night that we were at war. and Itseemed aa If everybody waa at worknext morning. We didn't have eemany bureaus and commissions andcommittee and things aa we havenow, and there were not so many peo-ple to tell us what to do, but we didnot need any telling when we learnedthat our boys were lying wounded andthat the doctors were short of hospitalsupplies. We scraped lint and sent Iton as fast as the Lord would let us.

"It sounds primitive now, doesn't it?These days we get all kinds of noticesand letters of instruction and chartsnnd explanations and warnings, but Isues I'm a little old fashioned. I don'teven read 'em. I know enough toknow that a bandage must be clean,and after they tell me what size andshape they ought to be I just go aheadand make 'cm. I notice that theyhaven't sent any of 'em back to meso far.

"That was Just the way we did Inthe civil war. When they told us whatthey wanted wo went right ahead andgot It somehow. Our methods werecrude. I guess. Anyhow, we didn't takesuch an awful time to get preparedWore we did anything. We Just didIt. There was no time to get ready.

"Now they tell us that wo are atwar and that some time next year ourtroops will be ready to begin fighting,but in '61 our men began fighting firstnnd war was declared afterward, soeverything had to bo done in a hurry-W-

organized as we went along. Itwasn't very scientific, I guess, but wehad to do It that way, and we accom-plished quite a good deal.

"Wo had one great big organiza-tion that wo called the- Sanitary Com-mission that was called upon to donlmost everything outside of the actualHeld operations of the army, andamong other things It raised what wethought was a tremendous amount ofmoney.

"It was found that the expense ofthe war was something like $1,000,000a day, and there were a good manypeoplo who could hardly believe thatthe Government would be able to standthe strain of raising It, but afterwardoven that was not enough, and beforethe war wns over they told us wewere spending $2,000,000 a day. Icouldn't quite believe that myself be-cause I didn't think there was so muchmoney In thn world, but now It soundslike a mere trifle, doesn't It?

"Well, anyhow, one of the firstthings we had to do was to raisemoney, and we went at It the sameway we had always worked when thechurch needed money for a new orgnnor a steeple or something. We gavefairs. There were what we called oursanitary fairs all over the country. Ishall never forget the one we had InBrooklyn. You see, I was one of thosewho helped in that one, and I waa al- -eways very proud of the fact that itwns cailod the most successful one ofthem all.

"There was a good deal of local prldnin Brooklyn then. It was the thirdcity In size In the whole country, and

PAPER MATCHES.

We Can T.ose Them Without IlealHardship.

To the Kditor or The Sdn olr: ItIs said that tho cigar stores Intend tohtop tho free distribution of papermatches. It will bo a good thing, forthey are dangerous. The entire responsi-bility cannot be placed on the matches;the Individual using them is often atfault In not closing the flap before strik-ing a match, but the fact remains thatthe matches are dangerous, more so thanany other type of match nhw In use.

Any number of perwins have had theunpleasant experience of having thecard light up In their hands; they give aburn which Is very painful.

lately there has come Into use a cardmatch with an arrangement for scratch-ing them on the back of the card Insteadof on the front, which has been thecustom. This Is an Improvement, but Itshown that the makers have realizedthat thn card matches are dangerous andthey have sought a way to eliminate thetrouble. MtTRNT.

New York, October 1.The Hong nt the Bond.

rtuy a bond for Liberty.t'or tha freedom of tha world,

Tor the rights that you enjoy,For tha starry Hag unfurled,

For tha country of your birth.For your ulfe and dear onea fond,

For humanlty'e reliefUuy a bond,

Iluy a bond to clear the seaOf tha menace of tha llunaj

ttuy a bond tn guard your gsteiAnd protect your little onea.

Uuy a bond to aureor France,llaaten! to tin- call renpoii'l,

Mwke the i u ufer ,'':tceIluy n bond,

Mir.N Iiiinu.

HER BIT, JUST AS

CenteateeMy

considered It the first tn a ,!... , - " iwi moro churchesthan any of the others had. andconsidered our Academy of Music tu!parlor to the one in New York i-

act we ware mora nrmia . ... .'

ejny of Music than we were of X.ef In th "it.. .

Beecher. "l"P"nK Mr'

"So naturally we bad our samta,..fair in. the Academy of Muslo and wheld it for a whole week. ln fact ittook a good part of the next wevto finish things up, though Saturdaynight was the time It closed officially

"I never waa In such a crowd In mlife aa I waa in at that fair. We aJwaya claimed that the building wouuseat over 2,000 peoplo, which was

an unheard of thing in tho.days. We did not believe that the Nm,York Academy would seat so m'snvthough the New Yorkers claimed Itwas larger than ours, but during thatweek there would be as many as 8 oooor 6,000 people ln the' building a CMddeal of the time.

"And how thoso people did 8penjtheir money! I don't remember Justhow much we cleared, but It was rnor.than any other one fair raised Yousee we went around to all tho ts

In the city and made themcontribute some of their goods to tl,,fair, and then we put the goods enexhibition In the Academy and 80lothorn off. And those that were so expensive that we didn't think we wouldbe a,b!e to sell them to a single cui.tomer we raffled off."Yes, --we did, we raffled them itwas gambling, of course, and tfi.rwaa a strong protest against it Toasee a good many of those who did motof the work for the fair ware churchpeople and they had conscientious o-

bjection, and there was quite a hittercentrorarsy over it. I belonged to thePlerrapont Street Baptist Church my.self and.-d-o yet. but I took the groundthat the moat of us did, that war wita wicked thing anyhow and it wasnecessary to do a good many wkke4things to carry It on successfully"And besides," here Aunt eiirte'j

eyes twinkled with merriment, "we gota good deal more money for the thintithat way than we would have got Ifwe had tried to sell them outrightPerhaps that waa the strongest argu.ment we put up. I don't know aboutthat, but anyhow we used It quitshamelessly una It seemed to camconsiderable force.

"I remember one funny thing thathappened In connection with. one fthose raffles, for I was the one whohad charge of It. Thero was a vervnice buggy that had been donated bysome wagon maker that was valueJat nearly $400, so we put a price of$500 on It and Issued 250 tickets it

ouuicu 10 seu tne ucjtetsand had disposed of only one when a 'gentleman came along who sild hewould buy the buggy.

"I told him that one ticket had heensold, and he said lie would take x'ltho others. It was more than he hadintended to pay fbr a buggy, but solong as tt was for the causo he didn'tcare. So he paid me $45S, and theman who had tho Blngle ticket wonthe buggy.

"And speaking of the crowd tr.erwas in the Academy that week, therewas another funny thing happened. 1 ,got lost in it one night and nns Jo-stled around considerably before I couldfind my way back to my booth, Ever-ybody was good nntured thoush, tManyhow I had no fear, for you wetras safe In the Academy ns you wouHhave been In your own church. I'was where we held all our most Important social functions that were tcbig for ordinary meeting places mlI felt perfectly at home, tho'ich I ce-rtainly was confused for a little while.

"I was dodging around trying to fnlmy way back when a big poMeematstopped me as T was going throuf.a doorway. 'This exit is for reople togo out at.' he said. 'That there exitover yonder is for people to go In tSo I had to go In at the other exit

"Queer, Isn't It, how tlioe tn triv-ial little things stick In my mlti'l nhfnall I seem to remember omsid" o'them, of one of the busiest weeks 'my life. Is n confused Jumble I remember the confusion, of course, anlI know 1 worked myself almost t' '

death thnt week, but ns the man iM

who wanted the buggy, it was all ferthe cause, and I didn't cnr.

"Somehow It's been somethlr.c lit.'that all my life. There's always beso much to do that I haven't lisd tta'to stop and think how to do it I'mJust had to do It. And mi It l nePerhaps If I had time I could th'rk 'J'1

something more Important 'o do t"help things along, but 1 hietit 'guess I'irjitst keep on inaklnK hur.i

l ages." I), C

SAVE IN THE KITCHEN.r f, 1 T

There the Food Admtnl'tnitlon (

era ShnnM He lllanlnred.To the ICditor or Tlir. Pi'N u'

Hoover's food conservation ila-A'- d

seem to ni" to bo posted lu the nroriplace.

I should like to see one In the kltcJ-e- '

of every housewife who t pt- - s coc1

No matter how anxious we nay t 0

do our bit toward 5HVlng. rjc rr:il' "

be obtained without tlie cnnpe-i- tl n "fthe cooks.

If every housekeeper would p" ' 'Jherself with one and ketp t vi a co-

nspicuous place In lirr 1. n

It would have a tiemetulon eff.- -

Where can the placards bo j j'cJI wnnt to give the (dca r '

New York, October t?. ' ' c

Tho posters may br nbt'il i ' m

the Food Administration W.D. C., or through Arthur U. " "'the conservation committee 'splace and Fifteenth street

rropheta of Hard Winterfrom the Haytretotcn Mm

Squirrels and rlilptnunki fere"winter. They have been fn n'lu'imand atorlng ay aoorn. " ""'they neldoni uae. Thle, hntr. 'n "partly duo to the faet that 'ho""'walnuts and butternuts are tetttne f'r

ach year. Fewer an,utrreli anl "Tmunka than uiual he beensummer, and aoma persona are of the or1"Ion that their food atores Uttl ' Infer 'Inaufflclent to keep them and f

them starved to death.

A Weet Virginia Sport.Trent Ike Witt .Vevt

P. n. Oray of tllanmoriran ""'h" rame chicken tundm-f- ' , "'

lie neara a pair of gaffi on im '

he goes out horseback rldlnx