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Helped by Thomas r. Ryan.

Mr.. Sheehan said he remembered that
August Belmont was a large contributor
that year. and Senator oliver asked If
Thomas f. Ryan was also contributor,
The witness responded that he was.
Mr.. Sheehan wanted the committee TO
understand when he estimated the Demo-
cratic fund in 1904 at 100000 he was not
contradicting Mr.. Belmont, who guessed
on the stand the amount was $4,000 or
$4,000
1T is all a matter Of memory" insisted
Mr.. Sheehan. II think the national COM
mittee used directly about $4,000. think
there came through the committee some
contributions for specific use in New York
State. ] have an impression that these
amounted to about 100000
The witness declared the committee
made a rule at the beginning of the cam
paign TO accept no money from any trust.
He believed no such contributions were
made, directly or indirectly
There was $4,000 contributed" began
Mr.. Sheehan, by the American Sugar
Refining Company-not by Mr. Havemeyer
to the state committee. Before the cheek
was cashed we heard about it, and II was
returned"
Senator Clapp asked the witness for the
names Of contributors of more than $500
Il recollect Mr.. Belmont chiefly because
of his testimony" replied Mr.. Sheehan.
81 was away up in Maine much OF the
time and did not have so much to do with
the raising of, funds. There were others
who contributed more than that sum- but
I cannot remember Them
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Headquarters in Now York.

The policy OF the committee also
means, that Charles Murphy will have
lot TO say about the Wilson campaign
in New York.
This part WAS more or less empha-
sized by Mr. McCombs, the new chair
man, tonight, who said the campaign
committee would recognize the regular
organiza tons IN the respective states
Mr.. McCombs also said that the cam
paign committee did not intend to SUI
persede the national committee-on the
contrary, the national committeeman
would be consulted Freely. They would
be allowed to pick out the members OF
the advisory committee from their
states, he said, and would also pick out
the chairmen of the finance committees
OF their respective states.
No selection OF yice-chairman, a
treasurer or chairman of finance COM
mittee wa made, although II was agreed
that the latter committee would con-
sist OF thirty-hve or forty members. IL
was also decided by the conferrees to
have the main headquarters In New
York. with branch headquarters In chi
cago. Within the next few days. 1t was
said, decision would be made on the Sc
lection OF Far Western headquarters
Denver and San Francisco are still hsht-
ing for the honor.
Governor Wilson will be in direct
touch with the headquarters In New
York with the aid OF special telephone
but 1t Is expected that the campaign
committee will make many pilgrimages
here to thrash out disputed points with
the candidate. The New York head
quarters have not been selected as yet.
bit Mr. Mcf,nmha said tonight that he
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Mack Sent to tho Rear.

Another interesting thing about the men
who viii conduct Governor Wilson's cam
paign is the way in which Norman T..
Mack. the national committeeman from
New York. was sidetracked. There are
three men from the Empire State on the
committee, but the Governor apparently
preferred TO regard Senator O'Gorman as
his authority In things political In New
York. for all that Mr. Mack will have 20
do with the Wilson campaign viii be
more or less perfunctory.
Judge VIII X. King. OF oregon. was
selected as one Of the Governors man
ayers. to give the Pacific Coast repre-
scntation I'm the campaign. But there Is
another reason, and one which will u'kle
the fanc!es OF the ultra-progressives
among the Governors followers. Judge
King is the judicial officer who. as a
member OF the Supreme Court or oregon,
sustained the initiative and referendum.
Representative Daniel I. McGillicuddy is
cracked up as one OF the brightest mem
bers Of Congress and he was picked out
by the Governor as representative OF the
New England States. OF the other mem
UfTb tI NIlt NNhthANNNS @''' '''"'
been tried and true friends OF Governor
Wilson. with the exception Of Colonel
Ewing, OF Louisiana. who climbed on the
Wilson bandwaYon about the time the
convention started.
Governor Wilson didn't tell the news
paper men the names OF the campaign
committee he had selected until O'Clock
tonight During the afternoon he ana
his nine advisers. whose names were pub
lished in The Tribune this morning. went
over the situation in detail. and as the
Governors guests at dinner tonight
talked about 1t some more.
1T Is a matter Of congratulation.' the
Governor said. that the thing worked
out so satisfactorily" And then he went
back TO the waiting conferrees to further
discuss the different departments OF the
campaign. such as the finance committee.
the publicity committee and other details.
During the three hours that the con-
ferrees talked TINS afternoon one Of the
most important things decided upon was
that the regular organization In the DIFF
ferent states would be recognized. This
means. of course, that Tom TasBart
VIII be the byss OF the Wilson campaiSh
in Indiana, and that Roger sullivan wiz
conduct the Wilson campaign IN ilhhoIs.
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quito. Anopheles is to be hunted to his
or in this case. her-lair and de-
stroyed. with all her family. For it is
the lady of the house that does all the
damage. in the anoDheles family. Truly.
in malaria mosquitodom, the female OF
the species Is more deadly than the male.
The male is an innocuouS individual,
who sits at home and keeps house, while
the suffragette lady anopheles prowls
about late at night, keeping scandalous
hours and invading the homes Of perfect
strangers with q shamelessness and de-
pravity which, it seems, would bring a
crimson blush to the cheek of even the
most hardened Of midnight debauchees.
But little cares Mrs. Anopheles FOR what
people might say; she has heard all that
anybody can say, even with the knOwl-
edge that no other human ear can catch
the profane outbursts of baff1ed rage. Her
only aim is to drink her fill of her VIC
TINS blood, innoculate him with the
germs of sickness and then fly away, to
come and bite another day, or night.
So the newly appointed commission is
to devise ways and means of breaking
up the home life of anopheles, destroy
ing the homes-the breeding places-once
and forever, and to undo the work that
the myriads of female anopheles have
been doing throughout the south for
years.
The first steps in the work will be to
secure definite information upon which
a comprehensive campaign may be plan
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ordinary humanity it is simply a mos
quito. But. anopheles or mosquito. its
ravages-and on this point scientists
doctors. economists and ordinary human
ity are united-are responsible for max
ing only half a bale of cotton grow
where two would grow if the hummipg
singing little disturber of slumber
might be banished
Were it not for the malaria mosquito.
say the men of science the truck gar
dens and fruit farms OF Florida would
produce double what they now bring
forth Could anopheles be made "one
with Nineveh and Troy" the fields OF
Mississippi and Louisiana would Yield
two-fold bounty. Because, with this
spreader OF weakening illness left out OF
the calculation, the men and women who
till those fields. who cultivate the gar
dens and harvest the fruit crops. would
he able to do twice as much effective
work as they are now capable OF. Just
that much figure can an apparently In
significant insect. too small to offer much
of a target for ever the best directed
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THE REAL SACRED PEACOCK OF THE YEzEDIs.

Sheitan must never be uttered in the
presence of the YeZedis," Riley added.
and one must take care too, not TO use
words which by their sounds or even Dy
the letters they contain suggest refer
ence TO the cursed one. Only as 'kina
Peacock must this great and iliustrious
prince be spoken of in the presence or his
worshiperS.
Once during Riley's interview with the
high priest he offended that dignitary
almost MORALLY by the simple act Oh
finging away the burning match with
which he had just lighted his pipe. Such
disdainfuI treatment of so sacred thing
as fire is to the YeZedis upset the old
priest lot and Riley mad 10 oHer tne
most humble apologies before he came
round again.
In the morning he took the traveller
from end TO end of the temple of the
devil. Its two naves, SAID Riley, were
senarated nv a coIonnade of arches, and
Just inside the doorway was great tank
into which water, conducted from the
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hillside, poured and foamed. As we en-
tered there was yell OF rage and a
mailman who had been crouching on the
floor sprang at me. snarling, glaring and
shaking the long hair that fell to his
shoulders. He seemed on the point OF
attacking me, and i was badly scared.
but the old priest stepped quietly between
us. and with a word sent him covering
to his mat. 1t was this mailman who
had made the night hideous with his
screams. Apart from him the temple
was absolutely empty, except for a
catafalque which was covered with
cover the tombs of great personages
Is this the tomb of your famous
priest. Sheikh Adi?' ! asked.
We do not know was the reply, and
my other questions met with similar an
swers. Empty, too. were all the innu-
merable shrines and huts with which
the valley was dotted. There were curl
Gus corridors, apparently meaningless.
which ran few yards into the noun
tain side and then ended What are
these for?' / asked. ror nothing was
the reply.
Certain spots.' Riley went on. were
said TO be holy, but why, the priest
either could not or would not tell.
offended him nearly as bitterly a. | had
over the match by washing photo
graphic plate in a fountain which was
said 10 be holy and when 4 aid IL on a
stone TO dry he begged me 10 choose
another. as the one j had selected was
holy. Why this and not the other L
asked We do not know, he replied
AS they passed out of the temple they
were joined at the door by an elderly
woman I'm white, who appeared 10 he
the lady abbess OF the nuns of Satan
In the courts and corridors of the temple
lamps were kept burning continually. and
at night an attendant went round the
little valley with a bowl Of oil and wieks.
kndling a momentary flame al the doors
of the shrines and huts and certain sa-
cred springs. This rite, the high priest ex-
planned was one which gave much graft
fication to his Satanic majesty.
Riley furnished the accompanying sketch
of one of the real sacred peacocks OF the
Yezeds, which are fixed on the top OF a
candlestick, round which are two lamps,
placed one above the other and each con-
tanning seven burners. Nothing could be
less like the respondent. ruby -eyed and
damascened steel bird now on view at
the British Museum.
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look like a man who was used to gum
play
He is one Of the few persons in London.
outside the church. who have a priva.e
chapel in connection with their homes.
His house in Remington court is close to
the famous gardens and Is a regular mu-
scum Of relics. religious and otherwise.
He has another home In Jersey. from
which he takes his title Of ''Seigneur de la
into the history Of this title has decided
that he is equivalent to exactly one
fourth of baron. From which you will
conclude, quite rightly, that he is some
thing Of humorist. as we'll as a daring
traveller, q profound scholar and SO Wig
orous a religious disputant that one Of
those who disagreed with him once sug-
gested that a certain famous article Of
his religious belief should be renamed the
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ing Of pretty shindy, but the high priest
after some difficulty smoothed them
down."
After the visitor had replenished the
inner man and made himself comfortable
for the night, the high priest joined him
beside his campfire. and there as the
night fell and the eastern moon flooded
the glen with a ghostly hight he told the
emissary Of the high priest of the Eng
lish church as much as he could. or
would, of the queer creed of his people,
"And as he talked" said Riley, there
came from the temple at regular inter-
walls long, mournful walls. which made
my blood run cold. but which l thought
1t discreet not to inquire into. They
went on all night.
'.There was a queer flavor Of Paradise
Lost about what the high priest told
me Of the devil worshipers creed the
explorer went on. According to their
belief, Satan, or Sheitan as they call him,
is the first and chief of seven great
spirits created by God. Each Of these
great powers 10 70 reign 10000 years. The
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ly stated delivers only haif TINS ahiouh'.
Result: The upbuilding, in commerciai
sense OF that portion of the country
lying below Mason and DiXon's imagi-
nary line is a slow and tedious process
And the reason for this state of af-
fairs. according to the scientists, is
little, buzzing. biting insect, with spot
ted wings. that sucks the blood of its
victims and injects into their veins the
germs of a h-destroying, enervat-
Ing enfeebung disease-malaria.
Science calls the pest anopheles. To
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loss-the toll paid by the state to anoph-
eles-in 1910 is estimated at So, 4S2, 900, and
Kentucky lost in the same year 81 H.
600. Louisiana's estimated loss by rea-
son of malaria in the year consid-
cred was $3.50 200; North Carolina suf-
fered loss of $1,614 600. while her sister
state, South Carolina. suffered not quite
so severely. the figures being $,3S9, 600.
In the case of Tennessee the loss is
fixed at 81, ss7. COO: Texas, 81 ,OS6, 600. and
Virginia, 81. 221 600. In tabular form the
showing is:
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The Reason Why.

TAR LEWIS WHITE ALLEN. the Den.
- yer psychologist, was giving an in-
formal talk on physiology upon the windy.
sea-fronting porch of an Atlantic City
hotel.
Also" he said, 1T has lately been
found that the human body contains sui
phur."
Sulphur" exclaimed girl in blue
and white blazer. ..Iiow much sulphur is
there. then. in girls body?''
oh" said DIR. Allen, smiling, the
amount varies"
And is that asked the girl why
some of us make SO much better matches
than othersr' aaxn>ss
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sided character.
It was the late Archbishop Benson
that sent Riley off to the orient for the
second time. This distinguished occupant
of the see of Canterbury and the Seig-
neur of Trinity We're personal friends,
and as the archbishop particularly want
ed some information about the Assyrian
Christians and knew that Riley already
had made one journey In Persia, he per-
suaded him to go again, and it was while
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In short the people OF the whole south
are to be taught that unceasinG Vtgf-
lance is the price OF immunity against
malaria, and that If they really want
TO bring themselves up To their actual
economic ctficiency-if they really
want to he able to do "A real days pro-
ductfve work for every working day of
the year-thcy must stop doing things
they have done all their lives and that
were done by their forehears for gem
erations, and learn the new gospel of
conserving their health by taking
every precaution against its enemies
Not so many years ago Washington it
self was known from one end of the ma
ton to the other as place where ma
laria was rampant The marshes along
the Potomac river were ideal breeding
places for mosquitoes, and the myriad
swarms that came out of the noisome,
dank stretches of reedy, oozy swamrs
each summer kept the residents of the
city inoculated with malaria germs the
year round. But the reclamation of the
swaInps, thus destroying the breeding
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chapter of F1aubert or Lott at their most
imaginative or Of the Arabian Nights
Riley remarked casually that he might
write book about 1t all some day. He
is the type of Englishman who goes,
mostly alone. into queer, out-of-the- way
places. and does surprising things there,
and on coming back home publishes all
the cut-and-dried details, and the dub
scientific results and leaves all the exc
citing part untold. A bit past middle age
and about the medium height. carefully
dressed and soft of speech. he doesn t
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devil is the first occupant of the throne
and 1000 years of his sovereignty are yet
to run. Just who is to succeed him the
Yezedis aren't sure, but Satan, they be-
lieve. is to go back to Heaven and there
will receive great honor. And it's Curl
GUS" Riley continued, that Purne-Jones.
in designing the moSaics in the American
church in Rome. carried out the same
idea, the niche of highest honor among
the archangels being represented as
empty and still garnished against the
return of the real spirit. The name of
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Almost Entirely.

<<D 1CK QUAY, at a hotel in Chicago,
- was talking about notorious poli-
tician.
And he's worth s11, 900. Co.," Mr.. Quay
ended.
He is an entirely seff-made man, too,
/ believe said a correspondent.
Entirely so,' said Mr.. Quay. except
for nine thick coats of whitewash that
have been applied to him by various in
vestigating committees
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,ONOMISTS have
figured that the
south-that IL, the
producing. labor
ing classes Of the
southis only so
per cent efficient.
Instead Of being
able TO deliver 100
per cent of pro-
ductive labor, the
south, as a section.
it is authoritative
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tribute of respect to my exalted rank
was permitted by the high priest to pitch
my tent on a ledge close to the temple,
below which a bunch Of Yezedis. both
men and women, We're proceeding TO WOO
the drowsy god. They came to in
flash. however. when heavy iron-headed
mallet just graZed the heads of two of
them, having been dropped. quite acct
dentally, of course, by my Persians, who
We're engaged in driving the tent pegs,
and in another second the YeZedis had
their knives out and there was the max
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A THELSTAN RILEY, an
"A English ]. Traveller and
Scholar, Who Has Just Dis
covered That He Is Equal to
Ope-fourth of a Baron, Tells
of His Adventures Among
the Savage Yezedia-Savages
Live in the Region of Meso-
potamia, Which. Historians
Believe, Was the Home of
Adam and Eve-Worship His
Satanic Majesty in the Form
of a Peacock-Afraid to Ut
ter His Name, But Give Out
the Information That He Is
Getting Ready to Retire.
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And all this caused by miserable lit
tie buzzing, singing. singing insect so
small that you might lay a hundred of
them on space as big as a silver quar-
ter.
But now the south has declared war
war to the death-on the malaria mos
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Id SdtdDlC ma jest ,
who. IL seems, is
going 70 retire
after "A bit and
turn the tempting
business over To
somebody else, is
the principal char
acter in a queer
story, with an I'M
commonly inter
esting sequel, of
which only the
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story are the successor TO Marion Craw-
ford's mfr Isaacs'' and Athelstan Riley,
an English scholar and traveller, who is
a seigneur of the island OF Jersey ana
who has Travelled in the vicinity or the
Garden OF Eden. armed TO the teetn ana
nranared TO kill any one who attacked
AIM. as the personal representative OF
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the mead
Of the Church of England.
This story begins with peacock. NOT
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Riley went on his own hoof to visit the
land of the devil-worshipers
He set OF from Urmia, in western
Persia. His caravan, which was mount
ed on mules. numbered between twenty
and thirty, including two interpreters and
a couple Of native merchants. who joined
his party for protection. and the route
he followed into the Similar hills skirted
the great plain of ancient Nineveh.
1T was the toughest country one could
imagine" said Riley, mountainous and
rocky. Mules as you know, can make
their way through most regions. but in
many places along our march the bag
gage had % be unloaded and carried
across the rocky barriers by hand and
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its way into the newspapers here. The
two other leading personag,S in the
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II is quite likely that the resulting con-
troversy. which seems to have subsidized
now. with all the honors in Riley's favor,
may have been mentioned briefly In the
cabled dispatches to the United States.
II seems to have occurred to nobody,
however. but the present writer to ques-
ton the renowned churchman and trav-
eler about the details of his visit to the
mysterious temple of Sheik Adj. which
proves to have been made through some
of the worst country in the world. where
every man goes armed to the teeth
through fear of his neighbor, and which
ended in experiences that. as. he de-
scribed them in the quiet of his study
the other day. with a ruby-eye Persian
peacock almost Identical with the one
which the prototype of .'Mr. Isaacs' be-
slowed upon the British Museum presid-
ing over the interview. sounded like .
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places of the mosquitoes. and tho stesdv
Improvement in sanitary conditions I'm tha
city. have resulted in the practical ban
ishment OF malaria from Washington ant
this city now enjoys what. 10 all effect.
is entire freedom from the disease. This
is the condition of affairs that IL aimed
at by the newly appointed commission far
Kidding the south of inalari and placing
that part OF the United States where 1
should be I'm the scale Of national pro-
ductiveness.
The commission. OF which Dr craig u
chairman, is composed of the follow in,
physicians, each of whom is A recognized
authority on malaria and kindred dis-
eases: DR.. Graham T. Henson. Crescent
City. Fla. secretary: Dr. II. r. won Ey-
dorf. United States public health service.
Mobile, Ala: DIR. William krauss. Mem
phis. Tenn. :. pr Creighton Welman. New
Orleans. La: DIR. William IL. DeaderiCk.
Mariana, Ark; Dr. w. :. Thayer Johns
Hopkins University Hospital. Baltimore.
DIR. Scale Harris, Mobile. Ala, and DIR &.
G. Bass New Orleans.
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specisl Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, August 10 1912.