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Crookston vs.. Fertile.
Bought Several.

N. J. Sullivan, Ed. Lodgard and
Mike Herrick comprised an expectant
party yesterday that took to the fields
and lakes for the purpose of wasting
all available ammunition. Here is
the way one of the party describes
the trip. "All day long we tramped
around the circle of ponds and
marshes but though We saw plenty
of ducks they were shy and difficult
to approach and when disturbed by
the low. crunching sound Of our feet
as they sank over the shoe tops in the
black Shiny mud they preferred to
take to wing or swim out of range
rather than stay in our neighborhood."
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The latest flying trip has been made by
Captain FLYR SAMTE-MARrs, who hes tray-
ellsd west and east through the heart Of
the desert. his outgoing and return routes
being from fifty to one hundred miles apart
and nearly every mile Of the way leading
through regions never seen before by an ex-
plorer excepting where hNorossed the north
and southtracks Of other travellers. lie as
certained the lay Of the land throughout this
long unknown tract and discovered a num-
Der Of excellent wells that are believed TO
have beer the source OF water supply for
the nomad robber bands that have made a
practice Of swooping down upon merchant
caravans which had time to wonder, even
as they were being plundered, from what
mysterious source those fellows managed
to replenish their water bags The French
have practically put an end TO banditism IN
the Sahara, and one Of their most effective
81 pedients Ia to guard the wells against
all whose business on the road Is not mani
festly legitimate.
II the development Of the Amazon basin
does not take q more rapid pace. large
areas Of IT will still remain untraversed and
unknown when every important feature o:
the Sahara viii have been spread out on good
maps for the information Of the world.
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DAvNpoRr, Ia, August 8.
Confession OF a,Converted Socialist.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Let me
tell the practical effect Of what ] have seen
Of Socialism In reply to criticisms Of my let
ter in to-day's correspondence, When l was
a boy. more than fifty years ago. down In the
Bowery. near Grand str rect. j attended So
~ciallstio meetings. ] soon found out that my
toes would continue to stick out Of my boots
and shirt out Of the seat Of my breeohes II
/ persisted In taking an interest In the highly
inter esting theories advanced by these long
haired men and short haired women.
Besides, i was very. very hungry all the
time In those days. and SO were all the listen
ers around me. and the orators-for / loaned
them many. many times the few pennies l
had. So l came to the conclusion that II ever
l expected to amount to anything l would
haveto root, hog. or die" And haverooted
and have grown vigorously on the meat OF
honest toll and the swea Of my brow.
To-day In that same old Socialists hall are
a few of the identical enthusiasts. with long
hair and still unkempt. poor and hungry.
listening to the same old songs. sung In the
same old keys. without the slightest idea that
a single theory can be put into use. Of the
slightest individual value to themselves or
to humanity In general. c. d. LEROY.
VERONA n. J.. August 3,
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TIC THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-tSir: For the beneht
of hay fever sufferers allow me. through your col
umns. to give my experience with the disease and
the treatment I have tried to relieve its distress.
For forty years l have suffered with hay fever.
In the last few years accompanied with asthma
and bronchitis. Tue disease, I think. capenever
be cured but IL can be relieved And the re8tment
! have employed with success Is as follows:
FIN . Birmin CHAM douche with hot glyco thyme.
line. as hot as can be borne; douche one nostril
after the other. throwing the head back and allow.
Ing the liquid 10 run into the throat. Do this every
night and morning, This viii clean on the surface
Dr. Sellers antisepiic tablets in an ounce Of water
and spray up the ~uos,rils. and for this purpose /
have found q raseline atomizer 10 be the best. This
win 500 THE the irritation Of the nerves In the nose.
Foy Itching eyes battle them In hot water. Make
. pad OF . handkerchief. soak It In hot water and
lay II ACROSS the bridge Of the nose. pressing IL into
the corners Of the eyes. The hot water viii take
the Inflammation from the eyes and Temporarily
stop the itching.
Put q few drops of carbollc acid In the water,
Just enough to make IL bite without burning. but
have the carbolic acid thoroughly dlHused or mixed
In the water. This pad can be kept danpened by
wrapping 1t In another handkerchief and carried
In the pocket. Whenever the eyes would Itch I
would gently press the pad TO the corners of my
eyes and the counter irritant would stop the Itch
ing.
Avoid travel where there Is dust. especially rail-
road travel: keep quiet and eat lightly, am con
WINGED that anybody following out these instruc-
lions viii experience the same relief as l have from
this distressing co mplaint. This year for the hrst
time, / have gone through the summer without
sun .TinE fro IN hay fever. WILLARD +. BINGHAM.
CHICAGO, August 8.
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A Chance to Buv knowledge.

To THE EDITOR OF THE uS-Sir Again I beg
leave TO advise you to the effect that | have defn
itively ascert4ined the general character OF the
natural laws which govern the origin of earth
quakes and Of volcanoes-all as a scientific result
OF careful attention. studious Investigation and
dnigent reflection: and that | have prepared an
artistic summary Of my (concre,el knowledge on
the subject. In the form OF q succinct literary syn
thesis-compfising rot more tina IN about z.t00 words:
and that l am willins TO have the same discovered
Immediately TO the world at large for an adequate
consld eration say for ten million dollars or SO.
satisfaction guaranteed. or no pay.
Also permit me. please, TO state tn | am assured
OF being able to take at least one OF the annual
forty thousand dollar cash prizes offered by the
Alfred Nobel foundation Of Norway. And more
over that IL Is certainly not for the authors own
good he intends to exact a financial tribute of the
amount statcd-since he would prefer not TO be
burdened with the responsibility OF having TO care
for 50 much money-hls personal wants being most
simple and inexpensive: but 1t is rather for the
beneht Of a manmo worshipping public which
will hardly appreciate the full Importance of q viz
tuous work unless there was a commensurate pc
cuniary valuation attached. to signify the dearness
OF cost. CLARENCE NJ. JONES.
MAGNOLIA. Mass, August 2.
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Bromide Glossary.

To rRE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sr: Permit me
to offer the folio wing suggestions for the forth
coming glossary OF bromide" remarks:
None Of Rudyard kipling's recent stories is as
good as those he wrote fifteen years ago
III all the money In the world was divided equally
among all the people IN less than a year 1t would
DO owne ed by the same persons who have It now"
do you shrk Tolstoi Is really ~sincere!"
Have you noticed how poor the cantaloupes arc
this year,
Something ought to be done for the poor people
who have 10 work"
why do poets always have long hart"
IF En- glishmen don't like America, why do they
come heTel-
1T Is time for all the hon est people TO get together
and put on end to boss rule In politics"
1T is only the poorer classes who complain tina;
there Is something wrong about our social system"
Il suppose us very old fashioned. but ! must con
Tess that ! like 10 read ThacSeray's books"
You can leelslate all you want to. but you can't
change human nature"
Many Of the negroes were better on as slaves
than they are to day"
The American people will never elect q Presi-
dent who does no, respect the rights Of property
Why don't the unemployed Of the cities 60 out
into the country. where there Is always plenty OF
work.
do you suppose they will ever get through tear
Ing up the pavementsf"
while ] am naturally an aristocrst, my sym
pathies are with the common people,"
PIrreBUao. Pa. August3. j. u. LsSAHAS.
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IOWA rs ALL RY0Hq.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH-Sir; Great
Is the light that streams from The sun In
the editorial OF August l. 'Cnmmins Revo-
l%utionist,' The same Temperature Tint te
making the corn grow out here In lowavis
causing the political caldron to seethe. dnd
rapidly tho SCUM is being thrown Oh. H. In
simply glorious to witness how nicely the
Republican Cong ressmen have fallen into
line. Mr., Perkins Is a fine gentleman. but,
alas, he has been mixing with bad company.
II the -standpatters' stormed other sec
lions Of the Hawkeye State as they did
Scott county just previous to and at the
primaries, then their whole tribe merits not
merely the label Of "revolutionists'; plainly,
they are in the class Of pure, unadulterated
anarchy, The o the Republican party
Of Iowa unloads g oh passengers from its
'band wagon the better. The solid, sub
stantial and honor loving element OF the
party, in Scott county anyway, is repre-
sented by the 1progressives,' while the
frothy trioksters are all on the other side.
o t|oeurse It does not necessarily follow
that this would naturally be 80; only It does
happen to be so in Scott.
Cummins nominated? Why, Of course.
Elected? AS surely as righteousness must
triumph over trickery. VIII CUMMING take
his seat In the Senatorial chamber at WASH
ington2 The people pray that he will.
Iowa Is all right and win be saved to the
party; but the credit will be due not TO
8 oretary Shaw but to Cummins and his
following. @. DE WITT DowINa.
Rector Of Trinity Church.
DAvRNPoRr, Ia, August 3.
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AntOuius Ridiculus.

To TIE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir. As the
editor Of the American Student OF Art, on &C.
count Of which Mr.. Anthony Comstock raided
the Art Students Lea quarters the other
day. and as q student and lover Of the fne
arts. will You not allow me a little space in
your columns to express my indignation and
disgust at this new action Of the Society for
the Suppression Of Vice against the nude In
art?
Instead Of suppressing vice Mr.. Comstock
and his society only cover them selves with
well deserved ridicule. In this case Mr.,
Comstock has. moreover. permitted himself
to drag the names Of slot Of self n especting
and respectable people into the papers as
connected with a paper which he mildly
denounces as being obscene. lewd, indecent.
filthy and disgusting Unfortunately per-
sons who do not know Mr.. Comstock and
his methods, or have not seen the publics.
tioh. might think that this was true.
MIR. Comstock's education evidently does
not include any knowledg &c OF the history and
art Of the ancient Greeks. He does not know
that though they made statues repreeentins
the nude they we're the greatest thinkers the
world has ever seen. to say nothing of their
extraordinary achievements In almost every
other branch Of human activity. We know
that Mr.. Comstock isSa small minded man
We suspect that the raids of the Society for
the Suppression Of Vice are Gut the chean
notoriety by which an insignificant individual
c~onceals his mediocrity.
Why not institute q Society for the Supprea.
sion Of Comstockf Il would be a usefu,
public service. ANDRE C~HAMroLLIoS.
NEW YoRK, August 4.
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To THE BpIroR OF THE SUS-Str: The vnlag ers
here arc enjoying a remark made by a local mag
istrate recently during a trial. The defendant had
been arrested for abandonment and was being
tried before the Squire, who Is locally famous fol
his frankncss and ability in reconclling couples
who come 70 him with their petty squabbles, The
attorney for the defendant was attacking the
validity of the marriage and was cross Ing
the wife. The Squire suddenly gave vent 70 his
impatience and disgust by exclaiming:
Now. by gosh. Tim, you hurry up or I'll throw
the dun thing out. Here you've been two hours
and a half on one witness and you hain't any bet
ter OF than you was when you started. You don't
give a hang you get your pay for II. but I only get
ten cents for that one witness. "Taln't no use In
your tryin' 10 argcr. cause you know better than
10 say that they hain't never been married. You
said before the trial that they were both dun
fools. so what's the use Of your dciayin' the trial.
By gosh. u you don't hustle. I'll hne George and
send him to jail and let Mary help my wife keep
house. Now. dunn ye. hurry up: I've got. 10 90
and hoe ~perta,ers some tune to-day 1T.
CoRISTH. August B.
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to whom explorers called attention as
wearing no clothing Of any description
are tho wakavirondo living on the
northeast coast Of Victoria Nyanza. The
fashion has notyet been changed, though
few parts Of barbarous Africa have wit
messed the advent of so many phases Of
western civilization as Kavirondo. The
Uganda railroad extends through the
land. II Is most incongruous, says
Father VAN DER BURGT, to see at Port
Florence, the lake terminus of the line,
locomotives putting TO and fro, the beau
tiful steamer Winfred at the wharf, the
shops filed with many kinds OF foreign
wares, including watches and clocks,
and hundreds of the very primitive ma
tives, men and women, f1ocking daily
into the town, naked, to sell their produce
on the market place. In a German SEN
tence he places the English word Shock
ing" in quotation marks IA expressive of
his feelings.
Further south on the lake shore the
missionary reached the German military
post Of Shirati. The natives in that
region are related to the Wakavirondo,
and in their villages away from the lake
they live in complete nudity. Near the
German settlement they are beginning
to wear clothing, and o n is permitted
to enter the town unless completely
clad.
The reverend father is not criticising
the English on moral grounds, but he
thinks that they should enforce upon the
natives western ideas of common de-
cency il they wish to introduce western
civilization among them, There Is moth
ing new in his remark that clothing or
the lack of it is largely a question Of
usage or climate, wholly apart from any
religious idea. But he asserts moro
distinctly than most writers on this sub
ject that the more fully clad q primitive
people may be, the more immoral they
are; and he gives as an illustration the
waganda, who have replaced with cot
tons the bark cloth in which SPEKE found
them wrapped from head to foot and
who, il the moral scale, must take a
place below the naked Wakavirondo.
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dered by the Sultan to inform Sir MICH
oLAs O'CoNon that the status quo ante
would. be reestablished in the Sinaitio
peninsula and that the Turkish soldiers
would be straightway withdrawn from
Tabah. Not satisfied with this conces-
sion, the British Ambassador insisted on
the demarcation Of the frontier from
Rafeh to the head Of the Gulf of Akabah
and upon the evacuation Of all points
which had been occupied to the west OF
that boundary. A further attempt to
procrastinate was made on the part OF
the Porte, which, however, eventually on
May "A complied unreservedly with the
demands ofthe British Government.
BY the firm assertion Of it's purpose
to defend the rights of its protege the
British Government has not only i'm
paired the Ottoman Sultan's prestige In
Egypt, Syria and Arabia, but checked a
movement that threatenedNto produce a
Pan-Islamic uprising that would have
caused well founded alaSm among all
Christian Powers which include Mohan-
medans among their subjects. Nor ID
this all. As the recent Morocco incident
has shown, the Christian Powers them
selves might not have recognized a COM
munity of interests and might have
been drawn into conflict with one an
other. 1t would have proved. for i'm
stance, easier for the Ottoman than it
was for the Moorish Sultan to persuade
the German Emperor to fish in troubled
waters and to lend him countenance II
not active support. In the last OF The
letters now officially published Lord
CRoMER dwells at length on the excite
ment caused by recent events in Morocco
and on the Egyptian frontier among
the Moslems Of the Nile Land. He tes-
titles that during the first four or five
monthA Of this year the Pan-Islamio
press combined with the so-called Ma
tionalist party in Egypt to infame Mos
lem sentiment against Christians. The
effect produced seemed to him so grave
that in May he deemed IL not improb-
able that the more ignorant classes would
pass from words to deeds and seriously
threaten public tranquility, in which
event itmight be the duty Of the Anglo
Egyptian Government to resort to severe
measures OF repression.
An outbreak Of religious and racial
rancor did occur, but the murder Of q
British subject was promptly avenged
and the Turkish Governments submits
sion to the British ultimatum caused
the agitation for a jehad, or holy war,
to subside. For a time, at least. that
spectre is conjured.
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Nav YoRK. August 4.
Team Of Deomed Art.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: The art
world Ia In tears, bowed low In sackcloth and
ashes-weepng and wailing and gnashin g
its teeth. For the day Of its judgment Is
come: st. Anthony P~ornographus has raised
his iunette dapproehe and spied arts crimes
and yelled: Il see there art. q w~ickedness,
II thou hast tears to shed, prepare thy sheds
Thou shalt not live: look, with q spot ! damn
Il mean, l gol durn' thee
so the destructive work 10 begun and
the particular object Of his malignant rage
trembies and falls crashing into q hurryup
wagon. Art is such q new thing: just q little
fad It has existed such a few thousands
OF years that 1t will be easily eliminated. leav-
ing the world as pure and blank as the ice
fields OF northern Siberia. Our museums
and libraries win be raided and robbed Of
their filthy treasures and all the accusnu"
latlons of centuries OF toll and study will sink
forever into oblivion. The smile will fade
from the lips Of the Bacchante when they
dress her In a klmono; the pipes O. Pan will be
hushed, and Aphrodite's lifted hand will seek
to cover thes csrlet as that will be branded
on her bosom.
Napoleon at st. Helena. will be left to his
wooden reveries with his deformed back
turned Upon frivolity. gazing into an abortion
OF muddy paint. A new moral guide will be
issued. entitled The Muck Rake: or. The
Triumph OF Graft over Art A low minded
person may no longer have opportunity to
misinterpret the efforts Of a sincere artist;
he will have to draw on his Imagination en-
tirely. And the sincere. wicked, offending.
degenerate artist Is to die with his lewd works
and become q thing OF the pasta skeleton
in the closet OF history.
JUNIus s. CRAvENs.
NEW York, August 4.
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Scotch Hospitality in 1919.

From ne St0fiyf Rspff.
An account OF hospitality In 1893 gives a good
idea OF the manner In which a country gentleman
OF the eriod lived. Dinner and supper were brought
In by the servants with their hats on, q custom
which Is corroborated By Fyn"s MORRISON, who.
says that. being at q knights house who had many
servants 10 attend him. they brought In the meats
with their heads covered with blue caps. After
washing their hands In q basin they sat down
to dinner. and Sir James Pringie said grace.
The viands seemed to have bscn plentiful and
excellent. big postage. long kale, bowc' or
white kale. which Is cabbage; 'breoh sopps,' pow
dered beef. roast and boiled mutton. a venison pie
IN form OF an egg. goose" Then they had cheese,
cut and uncut, and apples. But the close OF the
feast was the most curious thipg about it.
The table cloth was removed, and on Il were put
q towel the whole breadth OF the table and half
the length of Il. a basin and ever to wash. then a
green carpet laid on. then one cup Of beer Sc, on
the carpet. then a little long lawn %serviter, plated
over the corner Of the table. and a glass Of hot
water set down also on the table: then be there
three boys to say grace: the nrst. the thanksgiving
the second. the paternosser; the third. a prayer
for o blessing Of Gods Church. The good man
OF the house. his parents. kinsfolk and the whole
company they then do drink hot waters. so az sup
per. then 70 bed. the collation. which Us a stoupe
of Ale
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william and Edward.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUS-Sir' 1t ID
hardly conceivable that a monarch Of King
Edwards tact and judgment, and especially
Of his correct estimate Of the value OF a ruler
actions when taken up by the muse OF his
tory, should have received Bryan only in a
private manner.
What an opportunity there was to repeat
the meeting OF Henry VIII. and Francis l.,
The splendors Of the Field OF the Cloth of Gold
might have been born again on the Field OF
the Cross Of Gold. with glorious summer
burning In the sky. There might also have
been q ~-rassle." as there was in the earlier
day.
II our Bill had, by some unimasinabls
mischance, failed to throw the King. he might
have put his Excalibur. his jawbone. to work.
and foored him In a hundred and Atty ways.
TAOS, n. NJ, July 80. p. s. W..
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BILL the Taint Killer is still killing.
From the Lakes OF Killarney, that echo
with the Joy of his approaching return to
New York, he sends a recommendation of
Tom JOHNSON, MIR BRYAN is not aware
that Mr.. JOHNSON made his money out
Of corporations.
The Hon. DAVID ROWLAND FRANCIS
shas large interests in corporations of
st. Louis" He must part with them
or resign from the reception committee.
The Hon. GUN SHOE BILL and the Hon.
jim HAM LEWIS are corporation lawyers.
They must give up their practice or give
up MIR. BRYAN. The Hon. OLIVER H. p.
BELAoNT, the Hon. JAMES SMITH, Jr..
the Hon. FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON.
the Hon. RICHARD CROKER, Jr.: about
everybody on the reception committee
IN tainted
To add force to the Jeffersonian COM
mand, Special favors to none,' the
committee on finance has induced the
railroads and tho steamship companies to
grant cut rates to Bryan pilgrims. More
'tainted' money; more rebates, more
unholy dealings with the Money Power.
The grand Bryan welcome home prom
ises to be the most thoroughly tainted"
entertainment that has ever been offered
to q discriminating public.
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Brooklyn Ferry Bonds.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUS-Sir' Some
years ago 1 put q few thousand dollars which
/ had laboriously saved up out OF my earnings
as q bookkeeper into Brooklyn ferry bonds.
/ see that the interest on them due August
has been defaulted.
Now. there is no doubt that the city, by
going into competition Thy way OF bridges,
with the East River ferry companies, has
practically ruined them. What is the city
going to do about Il? Il seems to me that it
is In honor bound to come to the rescue. Nay.
II this is q community where the rights Of
property Are really protected 1t should be
legally liable. A city has no right TO enter
into competition with private individuals
without guarantee eng the latter from loss.
AN OLD READEg
New YoRK, August 4.