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Not Um first of Germsny'a acta of krar against us but tbe-firs- t resulting in any considerable casualty list, tbe kinking of tbe transport Antilles by a submarine) will have a profound effect ten seotlment In tbla country. Some seTenty men were lost fewer by far thaa the llres of American cits-ken- s sacrificed on the Lusltanla when We were at peace with Germany. But tbla la an act of wnr shocking it Is true to our people, und to the relatives of those who have thus early given their lives to the flag, but legitimate. Its repetition will be at- tempted Innumerable times during tbe ferriage of our troops to the seat of Irvnr, 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 must wlu It. And to win It we at homo, who for one reason or another cannot don the khaki and go to the front, must present un undivided phalanx of sup- port for our fighting men and for the Government 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 even lit the price of rigid economy, com- pared with tbe sacrifice made by the taien who went down with tbe An- tilles? How great a subscription Is equivalent 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 It sa'iib inevitable long before the nation But now our men liuve died lu tlie cause. TheJr blood and their lives tallow it, and make Its prosecution relentlessly to the end of victory kai-re- duty. Shall we permit it to be to tbe million now under tfml soon to be in Jeopardy of death, that these their fellows now under the ocean's waves died In a foolish and unpatriotic cause? The tragedy of the Antilles marks the true beginning of tbe war for tbe tJulted States. It ends nt once tbe foolish theory that Germany intended to ignore our threats and laugh nt bur military preparations. It shows that our men, like those of England and of France, are to be subjected to every form of dendly attack that "rightfulness can devise. And it ought to Impress on the minds and the tienrts of our people that the whole tuition must stand back of our gallant oldlers and sallow with every power of purse and pen and voice and vote that may be available. The Revolts Is Austria. According to the seml-ofllcl- re- ports which have reached tbe outside world, the mutiny of sailors at the Austrian naval bases was caused by the lack of food' und by offensive Ger- man domination. Its economic condition has been a e'lous problem to Austria for more than a year. Necessary commodities tiave not only been high In price, but almost unobtainable In portions of the nation. The people have suffered, It Is asserted, more than the Germans, find they have declared that they were unfairly treated by Germany, that she had not shared with Austria the sup- plies of conquered territory, or given Austria the advantage of her com- merce with the border neutrals. The menace of the victorious Italian army lias caused a concentration of forces in the Isonzo front. Germans, Bui-gar- s and Turks have nil been called to check the advance on Trieste. The lesult has been to divert to tho use of this augmented army tlio nnt Ion's ery limited supply of foodstuffs. The domination nt Germany In mili- tary affairs lias lieen objectionable to lilt Austrlans except the German ele- - ment. The Slavs, especially thoso of the south, have been treated with great severity. There liuvn been sev- eral mutinies among troops; while In the first advance Into Serbia thou-mnd- s surrendered without striking ii blow. Washington reports that an tntlre Austrian 'regiment on the front, whore German officers nre In command, recently voluntarily turrviidercd lo escape further service in the Austrian army. The tension j between the German and Austrian . sailors nt Poln, the despatch says, was caused by the "overbearing conduct" of the Germans and their "Inhuman treatment" of the Austrian. This dissatisfaction with the Gor- man overlordshlp has been expressed by Austrian officials and In the Aus trian and Hungarian Parliaments, j There Is no doubt that Austria Is Im- poverished In men and resources, und is desirous of peace. The significance of the revolt lies In the fact that the peopie hnve arisen against thea condi- tions .that 'havo'been Imposed upon them and In the danger that the movement Is spreading to the army nmf throughout' the, monarchy. The present mission of the Knlser to southeastern Europe Is to quiet the discontent that has been cnused by his own highhandedness In the tui- tions which are his allies. In none of these will he find more difficulty than In Austrfa, for there the dissatisfac- tion with Hpnenzollernlsm has been of long growth among the people and must be heeded. What It Meaaavto Fly. A forty page booklet, "Our Flying Men," by Mrs... Maumce Hewlett, constitutes the most perfect epitome we have seen of the delights, terrors, thrills and miraculous romance of the aviator In war. A book about flying wns sent to a publisher, who accepted It as n work of fiction and sent It to an air pilot he knew. The publisher wanted the pilot's opinion as to whether the things related might be realized some day. The pilot replied that all the Incidents were commonplace and of every day occurrence. One of the regular duties of air scouts is' to hunt out hidden German guns. At a height of several thou- sand feet, constantly moving, the flier signals by wireless the position of what, looks like a haystack, a house, a clump of shrubbery or a knoll of ground. The artillery, quite unable to see anything at all, blazes away; the aviator, buzzing about In the sky has to correct the artillery aim by wireless while keeping a sharp out- look for enemy planes and dodging the fire of fixed guns beneath him. This work must often be done In misty weather and flying close to the ground under a short ranged fire; it lias sometimes to be done when merely to keep the plane aloft In the teeth of it gnle is a job for a superman. Mrs. Hewlett's chronicle Is com posed almost entirely of stories of actual air battles in the words of those who participated In them. A pilot, sent out' to protect n Fnrman photographic airplane, destroyed a German I. O. V.. which fell within the French lines, and dived Into a cloud n moment later. He emerged to see two black specks swimming townrd him. He flew across their pnth and his mechanlcworked the gun. "I hnd to perform every ncrobatlc feat of which I was capable to baffle their double aim," says the pilot. "It has often been said that 'stunt flying Is of no good, but I was glad of the practice I had had, as every trick had to succeed the other without a breath between." The Fnrman headed homeward and he was free to fight to the finish. Two more Germans appeared between him and the lines. He dropped "like a meteor." One propeller wns shat- tered and Its engine stopped. A shot grazed his foot He let one engine swing the plane on one wing. "Rib- bons of canvas and splinters of wood, held to the machine by wires, floated above me ns I fell. A singing came In my ears, caused by the rush of air, and I felt a little dizzy." He fell 4.000 feet, hut at 8,000 feet above ground managed to straighten his plane and landed safely. Five planes set out at 4 o'clock In the morning to destroy the powder works at I) In Germany. Two were crippled crossing the lines and had to return. After crossing the Illiine a German Avlatlk got close to the side of a third machine. The gun jammed and the Oermnn wounded the pilot. That left two and D was still eighty miles away. Near F the Avlatlk overtook the two and brought down one of them. But the last turned savagely on tbe Avlatlk and wounded Its pilot. He fell with his machine. Arriving over D , says the sur- vivor, "we came down In the middle of It to 4,000 feet, and Just between two chimneys we detached two large bombs." A wide clrclo to watch tho result, then "six more were let loose nnd flames and smoke told us we had done our Job." They got back safely, but pierced by n shot from a 105 and with sixty smaller rlddllngs. In Egypt R and nnother had to fly two planes far Into tho desert to a small base. They missed Jt and landed, sleeping under tho wings of their planes. In tho morning the base wns not discerned from nloft. .The second pilot flew back to headquarters for exactcr directions, leaving It nnd a mechanic to repair It 's faulty motor.' He was gone hut n few hours, apparently, nnd then flew back to rejoin It . no found In the waste of sand the marks of the air- plane's wheels but no men. It was four days later when n scouting motor found the bodies of It nnd the mechanic beside their plane. Some notes, made by Ibo mechanic before death overtook him. piece out tho titory thus: "Soon after Lieutenant J bad left, B and I repaired the motor. We decided to fly It an near henduarlett as possible, as we bad very little water to drink. We got twenty-liv- e mile, when It gac out again. We did .ill c njuld to inaMi It light, and It tool! in i ' another eight miles. But It was using too much petrol, and In another half mile It ran dry. "That night wo suffered badly from want of water. While my back was turned, It shot himself. I believe It was so that I should have all the water left I spent the next day on ono spoon- ful. I slept most of tho time I remem- bered the liquid in tho compass and drank It. 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 nnd fell on soft ground free of his ma- chine. Tbe Gerainn sailed away. Captain 0 started to walk fifty miles' to the lines; He swam six riv- ers, much Impeded by his compass. Attacked by crocodiles, he had to drop It to save hiuwelf. He frightened the beasts off and recovered tbe compass by diving repeatedly. Meeting n lion he hnd to hide a long while. The compass alone brought him through, nearly naked. At headquarters be found the report of his last flight I: ran: "Ono of our airplanes failed to return." A formula 'that covers up from the world many on epicnl and solitary adventure with death. Two airplanes high up on patrol duty spied beneath them a German machine "manoeuvring In the most masterly manner. It wns looping, banking, making side slips nnd recov- ering bain nee, ns If giving a special exhibition. The pilot wns evidently one of rare ability and cleverness." He turned out to be H , famous throughout Germany. But that Is ahead of tbe story. The patrols, descending, put a hole In the German's radiator and hit the Ger- man gunner. The machine spun and fell to earth. At about 000 feet a body fell out of the German ma- chine. It landed among some trees and a man was seen walking away from 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 tho German lines, nnd knowing that his machine, of a new type with Improve- ments as yet unknown to the enemy, must not bo captured. "The Lieutenant, being mad with anger, hit me. I protected myself as well as I could. Being dis- obeyed by nn Inferior made the Lieu- tenant blind to danger and death, and he got his hnnds on my throat. "If I was to die, I made up my mind to kill him first. I took, the man in my arms and with one great effort got him on the edge of the fuselage; ns the machine went round the spin helped me, nnd out he went. I am sorry you lmvc got this new machine." Mrs. Hewlett Is of the opinion that the rupture of the first Fokker whole nnd intact Is amusing. We should say so : A celebrated French aviator had been invited to try out a new al- lied tiler and was doing so, nt first cautiously, 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 a collision. Four times by the same manoeuvre the Frenchmnn forced tin; Fokker closer to earth, giving Its driver not n second to recover him- self. The Fokker opened fire but could not hit the Frenchman, who was everywhere and nowhere, nnd al- ways driving the Fokker before him "like a dog driving sheep." First the Fokker's gun stopped firing, then Its petrol gave out; it was compelled to land In the airdrome, and thus "tha Allies got a perfect Fokker without one shot" The German aviator, learning who had vanquished him, bowed low and said he was not ashamed. That w afternoon the Frenchmnn tried out the Fokker too, and made a brief rt of Its good points. "The pilot Is not n typo and never will be," Mrs. Hewlett declares. "Ho mtiy talk aviation shop and apnea' on tho surface to be n daredevil youth Who thrives on excitement. This Is absolutely a false Idea. The men who do these deeds are Just the pick of our manhood. Their lives are so va- rious before they have taken up their calling that one cannot nccotint for their choice. It mostly comes sud- denly, nnd with such force that every obstacle 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 greater than ordinary scarcity of meat. Our wartime experiences already include a flour "famine." Milk costs more than It should nnd Is less nlentlfnl from day to day, while "Go llcbt on tbe butter" has become a watchword In mnny households. But the real hardship hasn't begun or even threat- - ened to begin; this country Is nskctl only to eliminate waste nnd to con fine Itself to Its actual needs. There Is no reason to complain nnd every reason to accept the situation philo- sophically with the mind as well as with tho htomaeh. Discovering thut food control In some of Its aspects Is a failure, anil modestly admitting that most of us could tin better than Mr. Hoovcit, we have only to compare our caso with that of any European country, belllir- - erent or neutral, to feel a warm glow of comfort und well being. Our mills are not closed for lack of men and fuel; our mothers nnd els-- tew are not tolling in shipyards nnd shell factories; our diet Is still inan.v dlslies lliaii ilnrk brown hivuil nnd pule brown suiip; our chlldmi can be sent to school with almost n certainty of returning whole. .There aro hardships ahead, of course; there is war and the pain jof It, with empty bomes and aching n en r is. America's part is to meet thoso hardships ns they come, bravely and always with tho determination to win. In familiar terms that spirit l known as "supporting the " which means supporting our an., cs and our Government It Is little enough to ask of the millions who stay at home. The Message of Morris Hlllqult. Complaining of General Bull's very proper refusal to permit him to at Camp Upton, Mr. Monms Hillquit says: "The Socialist party has a message for enlisted men." It Is a message that must not be delivered. Mr. Hiu.cjuit Is not mak- ing a municipal campaign'.' His refer- ences to local civic affairs are casual and perfunctory. He Is waging n cnmpalgn of opposition . to the no tionnl Government In Its prosecution of a wnr for tho safety and protec- tion of our nntlon against tho most nggresslve military Government that ever shattered the peace of the world. The future Integrity of our nntlon compels that Germany shall be so soundly beaten In this conflict that she will be forced to accept terms of peace that jvlll permanently prevent her bringing on nnother wnr. Only bv the most arduous military nnd naval exertions of tho United Stntes can this end be speedily attained. The other civilized and peace loving nations have fought for It for three years, and If they have not definitely failed they have as yet made little progress toward Its accomplishment The United States must deliver the final stroke. The men at Gamp Up- ton, and other cantonments, are a vital part of the force by which that stroke la to be dealt Mr. Hoxqurr would deliver to them the message that the war Is a class war; that they are unjustly and un- warrantably forced Into service; thnt the Government deserves repudiation Instead of support; that Immediate peace Instead of permnnent peace is the great end to.be sought. He bears a message of discontent, a message of resentment It was Inevitable that General Brrr.t. should refuse speaktng privileges nr Camp 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 only what sugar be actually needs nnd should use his supply as sparingly as possible. He should shun the re- tailer who sells sugar at 12 and IS cents n pound., The retailor who keeps raising the price of his sugar can offer no ac- ceptable defence. He will probably say that he Is trying to conserve the supply by discouraging unduly large purchases. But price Jumps merely Incite the unthinking to buy more thnn they need nnd hoard It. Tbe proper course for the retailer who wishes to conserve the supply, nnd the only proper course, Is to sell In limited quantities. A pound or n few pounds only to each purchaser would conserve tbe supply. The price nt which he sells sugar will be pretty fair evidence of your dealer's patriotism. Who ever could have thought, as he watched Harrt Lauder's ridiculous fun In tho old day, that this L.U'oer, ridic- ulous monarch of stago fim, would ono day lend his ballad singing voiro to an appeal for war; would, with his only Bon In a soldier's grave, npnear before his old audiences In behalf of a Government loan to buy tho where- withal of battle? Hera Is ono of the striking transformations of tho wur. Every man and evnry woman, except the passionately selfish and tho In- tellectually vacant, Is In tho midst of a Blmllar process of change, and tlio realization comes without much searching from Just such examples as this. Must Petrograd now suffer another change of name? We suspect that Mr. Crkbl first con- sults the Bureau of Prlvato Informa- tion. And then there's Mr. Hnxourr, who talks llkn Kerknbkt and thinks like Moitnis IliuxjiiiT. It isn't quite clear whether the Gov- ernment has promised to fix the price of hogs or for hogs. To the Kkixt and Burke and Shea of classic renown add Florence Kel-le- t, water boy, killed at Camp Stewart In tho performance of her duty. That divorce court litigant who is charged with having Invested 132,000 In a pig business without any pl;s seems to havo had at least ono quali- fication of a Tammany Mayoralty candidate. Tho week ends with more than 000,000,000 of tho Liberty loan sub- scribed. Ton days moro for tho next threo billions! When Invited to afternoon tea don't fall to tuko your own sugar along. It has long been the vogue In l'arls. Be one of the millions to furnish the 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 h aciustumcilT a, 1 BRIEF FOR HEINIE ZIM. An Attempt to Justify the Historic Pursuit of Collins. . To the Editor or The Sun Hir; I know nothing so seductive to sports writers as the trick of sluicing alt tho obloquy of a defeat on the head of one man. Thus we have tho "Zlmmermann bone" cataract. Plainly It Is too late to dam It, but I've the conviction that the wrong caput ' helng doused. Let me reconstruct tho play as I see It ex post dopo. Ma It parenthesized that I did not see the game, but my con- clusion drawn from a composite story and ratified by good easy chair psy- chology may not on either count be worthless. With the ball, then, In Zlm's hand and Eddie Collins dashing for home, lot us suppose that for the hysterical 'mo- ment or two It would naturally take 7.1m to reduce the temptation to put tho ball on a runner so tantallzlngly near he actually dared to think ho could outfoot Collins. There is nothing surprising In this Surrender to a temporary madness or nothing Irremediable In It either. Grant that ha. had chased Collins' to within Inches of the rubber and found his effort losing he would yet have time to make the cutting down throw to the plate.' Before, now, we move on the question as to why no one was covering home, let us sec how Its normal defenders were disposed. And right here we run Into confusion. Some accounts have' it that Benton, accepting Felsch'a grounder, threw-t- Rarlden, who relayed to Zlm. This presumption would make more plausible my ultimate contention by predicating tho almost certain pulling In of the catcher toward the play. It Karl-de- n hurled to Zlm he could hardly fall to follow the throw, at least to the ex- tent of a few excited steps. But the consensus seems to be that Benton threw direct to Zimmerman, so we shall take that posit Why then was not Ratlden covering tha Plata T My solution, which axonera tea Rarl- den In part. Is that he had unconsciously drawn away from the plate toward tha play, whether he participated tn the mechanics of It or not: and that he had drawn away so far that when Zlm awoke to his losing race the play was beyond Rarlden. Can It be doubted that If Rarlden had been, say, only one stride from the bag he would have fallen back and covered HT And can It be doubted that If he had been there Zlm would at the last minute have thrown the ballT With the elimination of the catcher and fpr h'a blunder, If we count It one, Rarlden can offer the same excuse we are approaching for Zlm who was left to defend that plateT Not Ben-- , ton. surely ; for If we discard the report that Benton threw to Rarlden then Ben- ton had dashed over to tho third base lino to Intercept Collins and had been passed by the volant play before Zim- merman realized he couldn't reach Col- lins. Rarlden. too, on this theory, has been pulled in and passed. Thus Zlm. alive to his danger at last and of course the whole epirode was one of seconds having yet time to make his throw, finds the plate without a guardian. It Is of course Holke who Is tactically out of tho picture. Him t nominate as the real bean splller. He was wholly supererogatory at first base, all the sacks being full, and ohould have been backing up the play whether he saw Rarlden waiting there or not. With Holke on deck Zlm could have extended his nervy If harebrained effort beyond both pitcher and catcher and chopped Con his quarry notwithstanding. What must have been Zlm's sensations when he looked up having shot his bolt and saw no salvation mitt before him? What else could ho do but continue despair- ingly to "chase a White Sox run over the plate"? Thus I read It not Zlm's but Holke's bone In the last analysis, nor was It the first baseman's only bloomer, his failure to complete the double play engi- neered by Herzog In the seventh Inning by touching Hjf bag before tagging Schalk not being forgotten. It Is often less the surgeon's fault when the knlfo appears to slip than that of 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 Cross for Resale! To the EniTOR or The Svt( Sir: An- swering an Interesting letter on your editorial rage with reference to the Fhortugo of cedar cigar boxes and the position our Clovernment officials take, namely that It l.i Inadvisable to reuse these boxes because of the expense for additional Inspectors, 4c, I respectfully make the following suggestion : Why not turn oer all empty cigar boxes to the Red Cross and grant au- thority to that society for the resale of these boxes to cigar manufacturers under come approved Clovernment seal? When one considers that cedar boxes cost all the way from It to 75 cents each, thn enormous revenue that could bo directed to tho urgent aid of that worthy 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 point for practical economy, particularly in lew of tho shortage of this lumber, as I have previously Indicated, when every lienny 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; That was buliy reading, the articles of T. Townsend Ruckley and James Klnier Christie 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 later altered to a towbont. And do they re- member the Wagner line that ran op- position to Uncle Daniel Drew about 18D9 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 was And all that ever ahall remain Hurrly thou nearest through tha graas Hither and thlthar my faet psaa, f xklng the apot where thou liaat lata These centuries of aun and ralnl I may not aee thy face, alaa, But free earth touches grain to grain And links a rurrent 'twlxt us twain) M. IS. lit ii Ma. A Geod ReeolntloB. rum Ma Detroit free rreit. Mnro I can't go Arrota tho pond, I'll do my part Ami buy a bond, THOUGHTS OF A DISCHARGED SOLDIER. He Can Still Do Hit Fart for His Country and Its Caase. To the Editor or The Bum Sir; On I October 10 1 was honorably discharged from the National Army for physical disabilities. I must say It was a keen disappointment to me, as I had really made up my mind to serve my country I In that large capacity as a soldier at the front; but since my return home I , have reasoned that a man can as truly i serve his country at home as ha can with rifle In hand at the front, great as that need Is at the present There are various ways In which ha can assist Among tha many are: He can help In that large field at present of elthar purchasing Liberty bonds or persuading his friends to purchase soma; then he .can always; whether In time of war or peace, live the life of a good citizen, living near lo the principles and doctrines of our great land. So I really hope those' who have been honorably discharged from either the army or navy for various reasons will i not be discouraged, but take a firmer stand to help further the cause lor which we as a people are fighting, that of making the world safe for democracy. Oronon A. Karrinoton. CnAppAquA,iN. T October 20. JOHH GAY WAS RIGHT. Those Who In Quarrels Interpose Mutt Often Wipe a Bloody Nose. To the Editor or The Sun Sir: Last Thursday, on .the street, two men had engaged In an argument, one clutching a heavy door key with which he was endeavoring to open the understanding of the other. When squirming and wrestling himself from my grasp In ef- forts at separation, he lodged an acuta elbow between my seventh and eighth ribs, and I Immediately lost all Interest In the controversy, and have been nurs- ing the alata ever since. It was only a few days before that I saw a lady under spiritual exhilara- tion, who prone on tha sidewalk was beating the soles of her sandals on the unoffending earth with enthaslastla laments. A roan with moro sympathy than prndence stooped, mad as he raised her 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 a moment she was dasad : then, recovering presence of mind, with one hand she clutched his four-ln-ha- tie, and snatching his derby from his head she vigorously smote his countenance tn a rrenzy of joy. When he sought to disentangle himself nnd regain his hat she clung to both as though 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 folded two dollar bill. I tapped htm on a biceps, pointing to the money. He first looked at me with Inquiring expression, next to the object. Which he thrust deeply down ; then again to me In a re- sentful manner as though having de- tected me In pocket picking. I have finished. When next I meet one In trouble, I will leave him to Its enjoy- ment. By a slight paraphrase of Shakespeare: From bene I'll aid no man. Slnca aid gives auch offenea. PjirLOBOVHtR. Flatbush, October It. CALLITHVMP A SKIMELTON? Not Necessarily Unless Somebody Rises and Proves It To the Emtor or the Stw Sir: Can any of your gifted correspondents draw from the storehouses of their memory sufficient Information to enlighten me as to the , difference between a calll-thum- p and a sklmelton? Is a sklmel-to- n. which Is an old time custom In upper New 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 dim years and from the fund of their Infinite knowledge I should like to secure this bit of Information. Edward B. Whitket. Merioeh, Conn., October 10. In the United States, or at least In certain parts thereof, a sklmmerton Is the same as a sklmmlngton; Just as a 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 besides a wedding: an election, for Instance. Is not "sklmelton" like "sklmmerton" and "sklmerton," a variant of "sklm- mlngton," as "shlvaree" Is a variant of "charivari"? The First Ieased Telegraph Wire In This Town. To tiik Kditor or The Sun sir: It may Interest mnny old New Yorkers, especially telegraphers, to know that one of the llrst, If not the first, telegraph wires to be leased In New Yorlt city ran from the Stewart Building, Broad- way and Chambers street, recently pur- chased by Frank A. Munsey as a homo for The Sun, to the other Stewart store. Ninth street and Broadway. This was In tho early '70s, and one of the opera- tors was Peter Flynn, now superlnlend-den- t of tho telegraph department of a New 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" tho Kaiser may I bo permitted to KUggest that the citizens of Poolvllle, Tex., pur- chase Liberty bonds with the tt,-4- 6? raAcncAu SiirucvrroRT, La., October 17. (irorila Awalte nevrlopmenta. From the DaMoneao. Eeko. The associate editor of this paper has been promlaed a good whipping by a cer- tain joung man of thla town, that la. If we aver used hla father'a name In thla paper. Wo promlaed, nhen w atarted out on our newapaper career, to give tha news without ahltawath, fear or favor, and wa aspect to do It, regardless of any and all threats. Wa aro like Hacharla of old, little of atatura, but If thla young man geta to feeling too good and nantn tu try us 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 flmllur Ineldenta. The Fmplre Slate In Line i'rem te .it .vtet reople vs. Kelitr, KJ0 N, T. tS. AUNT SUSIE DOES wf nrn m tup mvtr wad aWf 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 carried all the other burdens of a busy life since the tragedy of 1881 relegated her to the ranks of splnsterhood. Her poor old hands are badly twisted now by rheumatism and. do not move so swiftly as they did,' but the twinges of pain that rack her bonea from time to time can stop' her fingers, no more than the tears could stop them from scraping lint when ahe thought of her soldier lover reported missing after one of the first civil war battles. "Yes, we scraped lint tn those days," she said with one of her whimsical smiles, as she folded up the last of a huge bundle of surgical bandages that she had made. "I guess these band- ages mxv better, and' anyhow they ore what tho doctors want now, and It Isn't my business to tell them how to do their work. I have all I can do to try to help them. They wanted lint then and I sent them all I could. Now they are calling for bandages, bo I'm sending bandages.' "I think women are different, some- how, from what they were when I was a girl. At least some of them are. Of course, there were a few strong minded ones, as we used to call them, even then, who wanted to be officers and take charge of things Instead of work- ing In the ranks as privates, but I was always willing to be a private. There are more of them needed, you know, than officers. And in those days we let tho men do most of the thinking. "But 'how we did workl You aee the civil war broke out like a audden thunder storm. There had been rum- blings, of course, but we of the. North didn't actually believe there would be fighting till the first shot was fired at our flag. Than everybody knew over- night that we were at war. and It seemed aa If everybody waa at work next morning. We didn't have ee many bureaus and commissions and committee and things aa we have now, and there were not so many peo- ple to tell us what to do, but we did not need any telling when we learned that our boys were lying wounded and that the doctors were short of hospital supplies. We scraped lint and sent It on as fast as the Lord would let us. "It sounds primitive now, doesn't it? These days we get all kinds of notices and letters of instruction and charts nnd explanations and warnings, but I sues I'm a little old fashioned. I don't even read 'em. I know enough to know that a bandage must be clean, and after they tell me what size and shape they ought to be I just go ahead and make 'cm. I notice that they haven't sent any of 'em back to me so far. "That was Just the way we did In the civil war. When they told us what they wanted wo went right ahead and got It somehow. Our methods were crude. I guess. Anyhow, we didn't take such an awful time to get prepared Wore we did anything. We Just did It. There was no time to get ready. "Now they tell us that wo are at war and that some time next year our troops will be ready to begin fighting, but in '61 our men began fighting first nnd war was declared afterward, so everything had to bo done in a hurry-W- organized as we went along. It wasn't very scientific, I guess, but we had 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 do nlmost everything outside of the actual Held operations of the army, and among other things It raised what we thought was a tremendous amount of money. "It was found that the expense of the war was something like $1,000,000 a day, and there were a good many peoplo who could hardly believe that the Government would be able to stand the strain of raising It, but afterward oven that was not enough, and before the war wns over they told us we were spending $2,000,000 a day. I couldn't quite believe that myself be- cause I didn't think there was so much money In thn world, but now It sounds like a mere trifle, doesn't It? "Well, anyhow, one of the first things we had to do was to raise money, and we went at It the same way we had always worked when the church needed money for a new orgnn or a steeple or something. We gave fairs. There were what we called our sanitary fairs all over the country. I shall never forget the one we had In Brooklyn. You see, I was one of those who helped in that one, and I waa al- - eways very proud of the fact that it wns cailod the most successful one of them all. "There was a good deal of local prldn in Brooklyn then. It was the third city In size In the whole country, and PAPER MATCHES. We Can T.ose Them Without Ileal Hardship. To the Kditor or The Sdn olr: It Is said that tho cigar stores Intend to htop tho free distribution of paper matches. It will bo a good thing, for they are dangerous. The entire responsi- bility cannot be placed on the matches; the Individual using them is often at fault In not closing the flap before strik- ing a match, but the fact remains that the matches are dangerous, more so than any other type of match nhw In use. Any number of perwins have had the unpleasant experience of having the card light up In their hands; they give a burn which Is very painful. lately there has come Into use a card match with an arrangement for scratch- ing them on the back of the card Instead of on the front, which has been the custom. This Is an Improvement, but It shown that the makers have realized that thn card matches are dangerous and they have sought a way to eliminate the trouble. 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 relief Uuy a bond, Iluy a bond to clear the sea Of tha menace of tha llunaj ttuy a bond tn guard your gstei And protect your little onea. Uuy a bond to aureor France, llaaten! to tin- call renpoii'l, Mwke the i u ufer ,'':tce Iluy n bond, Mir.N Iiiinu. HER BIT, JUST AS CenteateeMy considered It the first tn a ,! ... , - " iwi moro churches than any of the others had. and considered 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 w held it for a whole week. ln fact it took a good part of the next wev to finish things up, though Saturday night was the time It closed officially "I never waa In such a crowd In m life aa I waa in at that fair. We aJ waya claimed that the building wouu seat 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'snv though the New Yorkers claimed It was larger than ours, but during that week there would be as many as 8 ooo or 6,000 people ln the' building a CMd deal of the time. "And how thoso people did 8penj their money! I don't remember Just how much we cleared, but It was rnor. than any other one fair raised You see we went around to all tho ts In the city and made them contribute some of their goods to tl,, fair, and then we put the goods en exhibition In the Academy and 80lo thorn off. And those that were so ex pensive that we didn't think we would be a,b!e to sell them to a single cui. tomer we raffled off. "Yes, -- we did, we raffled them it was gambling, of course, and tfi.r waa a strong protest against it Toa see a good many of those who did mot of the work for the fair ware church people and they had conscientious o- bjection, and there was quite a hitter centrorarsy over it. I belonged to the Plerrapont Street Baptist Church my. self and.-d- o yet. but I took the ground that the moat of us did, that war wit a wicked thing anyhow and it was necessary to do a good many wkke4 things to carry It on successfully "And besides," here Aunt eiirte'j eyes twinkled with merriment, "we got a good deal more money for the thinti that way than we would have got If we had tried to sell them outright Perhaps that waa the strongest argu. ment we put up. I don't know about that, but anyhow we used It quit shamelessly una It seemed to cam considerable force. "I remember one funny thing that happened In connection with. one f those raffles, for I was the one who had charge of It. Thero was a verv nice buggy that had been donated by some wagon maker that was valueJ at nearly $400, so we put a price of $500 on It and Issued 250 tickets it ouuicu 10 seu tne ucjtets and had disposed of only one when a ' gentleman came along who sild he would buy the buggy. "I told him that one ticket had heen sold, and he said lie would take x'l tho others. It was more than he had intended to pay fbr a buggy, but so long as tt was for the causo he didn't care. So he paid me $45S, and the man who had tho Blngle ticket won the buggy. "And speaking of the crowd tr.er was in the Academy that week, there was another funny thing happened. 1 , got lost in it one night and nns Jo- stled around considerably before I could find my way back to my booth, Ever- ybody was good nntured thoush, tM anyhow I had no fear, for you wetr as safe In the Academy ns you wouH have been In your own church. I' was where we held all our most Im portant social functions that were tc big for ordinary meeting places ml I felt perfectly at home, tho'ich I ce- rtainly was confused for a little while. "I was dodging around trying to fnl my way back when a big poMeemat stopped me as T was going throuf. a doorway. 'This exit is for reople to go out at.' he said. 'That there exit over yonder is for people to go In t So 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 nhfn all I seem to remember omsid" o' them, of one of the busiest weeks ' my life. Is n confused Jumble I re member the confusion, of course, anl I know 1 worked myself almost t' ' death thnt week, but ns the man iM who wanted the buggy, it was all fer the cause, and I didn't cnr. "Somehow It's been somethlr.c lit.' that all my life. There's always be so much to do that I haven't lisd tta' to stop and think how to do it I'm Just had to do It. And mi It l ne Perhaps 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 nrori place. 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 "f the cooks. If every housekeeper would p" ' 'J herself 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'cJ I 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 's place and Fifteenth street rropheta of Hard Winter from the Haytretotcn Mm Squirrels and rlilptnunki fere" winter. They have been fn n'lu'im and 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 "T munka than uiual he been summer, 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
