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DECATVR'S BRAVE
FIGHT VNAVAILING
Incident of the War of 1912

Lying in the River Thames is fri
CITE captured by the British from
America in 1915 Her name is the
President.
Few persons knew of the existence
of this old vessel until the other day,
when Lord Charles Beresford, COM
mander in chief of the Mediterranean
squadron. hoisted his flag at her peak
to signify that be had assumed his
new charge.
The story of how the President came
to be a British prize is interesting. She
was surrendered to overwhelming odds
by Capt Stephen Decatur outside San
dy Hook. having been cut to pieces in
battle with a. superior vessel and
then surrounded by four others Es-
cape was utterly out of the question,
and SO her flag was hauled down.
The President was one of the largest
of the American frigates, rating forty
four guns and carrying a large crew
Her first affair of Importance was her
encounter with the British sloop-of-
war Little Belt, in command of Capt
Bingham, OF the Capes. on May Is,
1911. The President was then com
mended by Commodore Rogers, and,
while none of her crew was killed and
only one-a boy-wounded, the British
sloop lost thirteen killed and nineteen
wounded.
n The surrender to the British of the
President took place on Jan 16, 1915
Two days before. under command of
Capt Stephen Decatur. the President
had dropped down from the city to
Sandy Hook During the night she
made an attempt to cross the bar and
put to sea- From some cause never
explained the pilot missed the channel
and ran the ship on one of the shoals
which obstruct the harbor, and for five
hours she was detained
AS a squadron of British ships had
been blockading the harbor for several
weeks and had been blown on by a
gale, the opportunity to run the Presi-
dent outside had been seized by Capt.
Decatur. The mishap caused by the
pilot was therefore particularly unfor-
tunate, resulting as it probably did
in the loss to America of the fine
frigate-
Tsarly on the morning of jan is,
while Capt Decatur was headed south
east by east he made out three strange
sail, all within shot and all directly
ahead of the President The Ameri
can vessel then was hauled up and
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ME- TOO
The "TaiI Enders' That Follow Gen.
uine Articles.

The "TaiI Endersr That Follow GEN.
uine Articles.
1t is sometimes interesting to watch
the curves imitators make to get the
public to buy limitations of genuine
goods.
Every now and then some one will
think there is splendid opening to
fix up something like Postum Coffee
and advertise the same way and take
some of the business.
An imitator is naturally ignorant Of
food values and how to skillfully
make a cereal coffee, on scientific
lines.
Such men first think of preparing
something that looks and tastes like
the original, with no knowledge of
how the grains should be treated to
prepare them so that the starchy part
is transformed properly and the val
liable nourishing elements made di-
gestible.
Such limitations may be foisted on
the public for a short time, but the
people are critical and soon detect the
attempt, then the lmitators go out of
business
Something like 400 of these little
factories have been started in various
parts of this country in the past 3
years, and practically all OF them have
gone the long journey" Just lately
a new one has come to life and evil
IDENTIFY hopes to insert itself in public
favor by copying the style Of the Post
um advertising in the papers
This is a free country and every
man who makes an honest product
and honestly labels it has reason for
some recognition, but the public has
the right to know the facts
Postum is the one original and gen.
uine Cereal Coffee. made skilIfuIly
and for a definite purpose 1t has
stood through all the wars of the i'm
ftators, has won the approval of the
Physicians and the people
People who really seek to free
themselves from the coffee habit and
at the same time to rebuild the soft
gay matter in the nerve centers. and
thus reconstruct the nervous system,
broken down by coffee, can rely on
Postum
There's a reason
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passed to the northward, three miles
distant
When the day came it was found
that there were four ships in pursuit
of the President Two were astern
and one on either quarter. The near
est ship was only three miles away
Decatur had on board large guam
tity of stores, for use on a long cruise,
and he at once took steps to tighten
his skip. Anchors were cut away,
water casks emptied, provisions, ca
bles, spars, boats and all other articles
that could be spared were thrown over
board From the royals down the sails
were kept wet. but as the wind was
light and elusive the pursuers gained
steadily.
At three O'Clock in the afternoon the
nearest ship was close enough and
opened fire with her bow guns At five
O'Clock, having won a place within
half point blank shot distance, she was
able to bring into use all her guns, but
neither those at the stern nor on the
quarter of the President could be
brought to bear
For nearly an hour the President en-
dured the CALLING fire, each shot carry
ing away some of her rigging. Then
Capt Decatur determined to act, and
his crew cheerfully agreed with him
The Presidents helm was put up and
her course changed so that she could
get in close quarters with her Oppo-
nent. The Englishman understood
/ the scheme of Decatur and kept OFF.
| The ships meantime coming abeam
and each delivering broadside.
Then for two and half hours the
combatants, a quarter of a mile apart,
ran dead ahead. but whenever the
President made an attempt to close in
the enemy sheered of, so that the &C
ton was altogether with the heavy
guns Spars and rigging were aimed
at on either side, but the Presidents
marksmen appear to have been the
better. as at eight O'Clock the STRANGER
was dismantled. s-her sails being cut
from her yards" as Decatur afterward
| reported
The damaged ship then fell astern
while the President made an effort to
| repair the damage done and to shake
OF the three other pursuers, which by
this time had been Joined by brig
and all of them were gaining rapidly
on the American frigate-
When the four ships had come with
in gunshot, at IL o'clock. the Pomona
one of them. at once began battle with
in musket shot distance, while ths
Tenedos. within two cable lengths, and
the Majestic and the Despatch, ever
closer astern. all opened fire
Surrounded by a force vastly supe
rior to his own and with one-fifth O
his crew either dead or crippled and
his ship in such condition that to sal
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tina. the treatment was about fifty
per cent better than l enjoyed Cd
on tie English boats.
There were only two Americans in
that crew OF horsemen, John White,
a Providence, R. l., boy, and myself
We had been chums during the Boer
war and had tramped thousands of
miles in company in America since
When the Nishawa dropped anchor
in Nagasaki bay we commenced to
make preparations to go ashore, and
incidentally began to look for the re-
cruiting officers, who had always come
abroad looking for recruits whenever
l had landed in a foreign country I'M
der similar conditions.
NO recruiting officers came out,
however, and for two whole days while
we laid at anchor, waiting for a
chance to unload the horses, Jack and
/ worried over that and wondered If
the Japs didn't want any more sol
diers.
Finally the ship was towed into
the docks, and while the agile Japs
unloaded the horses and other truck.
we, Jack and l, started for the shore
We started several times, but in ev-
cry instance were arrested and
brought back to the ship
The captain said Japan didn't need
any foreign help. They could whip
Russia alone and were going to do it
quick. He further said that unless
we had passports we would never be
allowed to land.
Now, whoever heard of volun-
teer having a passport? You might
as we'll look for a tramp with money.
OF course we had none, but we swore
we would get ashore some way
For over a week we tried in every
way to get by that guard line on the
docks, but it was no use; they would
catch us every time. We tried to
bride them; Jack and 1 together had
s2.s5, but it wasn't enough, and when
the cargo was all ashore and the
Nishawa back at her anchorage ready
to sail the next morning, we were
still aboard.
THAT was the prettiest moonlight
night you ever saw. l noticed that
only very short watch was on duty
and called my chum's attention to it.
l believed if we tried we could swim
ashore; it was only about a mile and
the water was warm and calm as a
millpond.
1--WE discussed the matter fully, and
finally, just a little before midnight,
we packed the cameras and our
clothes in a big feed tub. launched it
out of one of the port gangways on the
shady side of the vessel, and Slip
ping quietly into the water, started on
our loag swim
Il don't believe there is anything 1
want bad enough, on earth or any
where else, to tempt me to try that lit
tie aquatic stunt again.
I'VE were nearly half way to the
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away was impossible, Capt Decatur
decided that it was his duty to surren-
der. which he did by hosting light to
indicate his purpose.
The Presidents force was thirty-two
long twenty-four pound guns, one TWEEN
tyfour pound howitzer, twenty forty
two pound carronades and five small
pieces in her tops.
On the President twentyfour men
were killed and ffty-six wounded. The
Endymion lost eleven killed and four
teen wounded. There were no casual
ties on the other ships.
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TOLD BY SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
aadS in
Of Japan eckle vim
Only b Arrest

shore when l heard a queer .swishy'
sound behind us and felt the swirl of
the waves as if boat was passing us.
l looked around, and, if l was ever
near fainting, it was just then Not
twenty feet away and sailing slowly
towards us came the big brown dorSal
fin of monster shark
Il called to Jack to look while
grasped the edge of the tub to keep
from sinking, but he was busy watch
ing another of those horrible triangu-
lar sails on his own side.
1T seemed scarcely a minute until
the sea was fairly alive with maneat-
ers, and l was ready, almost, to give
up; but Jack, veteran man-o'-wars
man, said, Get coat out of the tub
and fight They wont touch you if
you thrash the water about
MY limbs were so chilled that l
could scarcely move and my heart felt
like it was in cold storage Every
faculty was paralyzed from fright. 1
don't really think 1 knew anything
more until my feet were on the sand
and Jack was leading me up the beach
to a blessed safety.
I'VE dropped down on the sand be-
side the rocks and laid there until
daylight Then we dressed and went
up into the city to look up a recruit
ing station.
We soon found one and l was much
pleased to see behind the desk a
sturdy little Jap major 1 had known
in ST. Louis during the earlier days of
the Worlds Fair
Il then offered to bet Jack my sole
remaining dollar that We would en-.
list I'm glad he didn't accept, for :
would have lost
The major recognized me instant
ly, smiled, shook hands and said
How
Then he said few words to sol
der, and we were politely escorted
into another room 1 told Jack that
We wouldn't be common privates- Ii
was sure to be something better.
4 found out an hour later. when
the major paid us a visit, that we
were under arrest. The major very
fatty said we had no business in
Japan and that we would be deported
well, Jack was deported. By rea
son of our former friendship the ma
jor finally consented to parole me for
a little while and let me see a little OF
the mikado's realm.
The little while stretched along
into months and 1 was still the ma
jor's guest. Then came orders send
ing him back to his regiment and l.
with my protector gone, was soon en-
route to Yokohama, from whence the
mikado's war Office sent me home.
4 missed the big war l wanted tc
see, but if l make no mistake there's
a bigger one almost due and if il
| materialize l will, under the UnioI
Jack of old England, see at least lit
tie of it,
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After five months in Japan, where
he went to enlist in the mikado's army
if he could-A. NJ. Strong is back
in Chicago.
Strong is one of the unique char
acters of this big city He is true
soldier of fortune A genius of little
journeys
A dozen times in the past quarter
of century he has been in uniform
under a foreign flag, yet enter the
japanese army he could not
In 1870 Strong was in Berlin and
from there accompanied the victorious
Germans on their march to Paris This
was his first war experience Since
then he has been four times in Eng
Ish service. once with France
Madagascar-in the Barrios revolu-
ton in Guatemala, the DeMello affair
in Brazil and under Maceo in the
Cuban war before this country inter
ferred He was in English service
during the Boef war and accompanied
the allied armies on the march to
Pekin as a volunteer aid On Kuroki's
staff.
Strong is a newspaper writer and
photographer and many of his stories
of railroad life, tramp tours and war
have been used by the Chicago press
He left ST. Louis a year ago with
just SIS bound for Japan He has
travelled IL, 900 miles and he landed in
Chicago with just Is cents yesterday
Concerning this latest trip and one,
by the way, that. even though he saw
no war, was thrilling enough, Mr.
Strong says:
T inc on q
staff of a St Louis evening daily Had
a good job and for a long time had
thought that l could settle down and
quit running about, but as the cables
told of the increasing magnitude of
this greatest war of modern times, the
old unrest again attacked me; 1 want
ed to see it, and, when a little later
came a 'shake-up' in the Office and
my official head dropped in the basket,
l was really glad. | was footloose,
and my first thought was-to Japan
81 had heard that the Japs were
shipping horses and mules out of Van
coxxer, B. c., and 1 headed straight
for the British Columbian port. 1 had
good discharges from two voyages of
just this kind in English service and
1 believed that / could get to Japan
that way.
AT the docks in Vancouver l found
the Nishawa, Japanese transport,
loading horses and almost ready to
sail 1t took a long and very earnest
talk with the little brown man in COM
mand to do it. but 1 finally succeeded
and was installed as nurse for some
twenty-odd horses who were to make
the long trip to the Island Empire
Trips of this kind were so fully
exploited during the Boer war that I'll
pass this one by with the comment
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Church Worker-WouId you assist
US, good sir, TO send a missionary to
the cannibalS?
Mr. Gotrox-Not much-I'm a yege-
tarian-but I'll assist you to send
them some easily digested cereal.
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treats DISTINGUISHES Ancestry.

Charles Henry Treat, who became
United States treasurer several years
ago, is direct descendant of Robert
Treat, who for thirty-two years was
deputy and royal governor of the rcl-
ony of Connecticut Mr. Treat l. ed
for a rUmber of years in Delaware
and later in Maryland. before MOVING
to New York
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o1 -1A III Al ~ u L II
Co., Buffalo,
n. Y.
Gentlemen
My experience
with your valu-
able re m e d Y
has been equal
ly gratifying to
both myself and
friends
(Signed)
ODETTE
"DT It'd
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His Little Joke.

BE careful OF my wigs, please"
moaned the actress. as the sheriff pro
ceeded to cart away her personal eff
fects.
--Ye needn't worry, miss" respond
ed that official. paraphrasing. an an
cient saying, I wouldn't harm a head
of yer hair"
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THE PLAYwRfeHTsTAR.
Odette Tyler, Famous Actress, Values
Doan's Kidney Pills.

Miss Odette Tyler is not only one of
he best known dramatic stars in
America, but has written and pro-
duced successful play of her own
Miss Tyler has written the following
grateful note. expressing her appre-
citation of Doan's Kidney Pills:
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sensfhIe Housekeener.

Will have Defiance Starch. not alone
because they get one-third more for
the same money, but also because Of
superior quality
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The way to mans heart is through
his stomach and TO his reason through
his pocket.
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am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago--MRs- THos- RoBBISs,
Maple Street, Norwich, N ". Feb. IL 1900
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-12

Neve- judge patent medicine by
the almanac that goes with it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-12

But for the crop of fool men in the
world whom other people have left
with money the supply of washerwo-
men might grow to exceed the de-
mand-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-12

A bachelor doesn't consider a CIR
baby worth kissing until she is sweet
sixteen
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Mr.. Geering-Where is that French
chauffeur that you had last summer?
Mr. Sparker-He went back to Ire
land
To meet hearse is sure sign of
1eath- A live man never rides
around in a hearSe
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The Battle.
The shifty pug
Prepared to slug
The rugged mug
OF the other pug,
But the latter dug
His fist kerchug
In the yisage Snug
OF the shifty pug,
Who gave a shrug
And essayed to hug
The other pug
In an embrace snug;
But the other pug
With a mighty tug
Proceeded to plug
The shifty pug
With the fighting bug
Right to the rug.
He gasped, "gug-gug-
They gave him a drug
And proceeded to lug
The conquering pug
Off to the lug.
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If I didn't have anything else against
the Japanese 1 would like to see them
licked measure they introduced the
kimona into this country.
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In the Smoker.

cigarettes are deadly" observed
the clerical looking passenger as he
caught a whiff of one
Its pity they amt fatal" growlej
the vindictive passenger as the aroma
greeted his nostrils-
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Nell--How could she ever fall in
love with a man who wears such loud
clothes2" Belle-t'You know they say
love is blind" Nell-''But 1 never
heard that love was deaf"
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Brooklyn Life: She After six
weeks of married life, Arthur, 1 have
reached the sad certainty that you do
not love me.
Arthur-My deari
She-ItS no use protesting; you
should have married some, credulous,
stupid girl.
Arthur-Well, darling, did my best.
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The devil asks no salary because
so easy.
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Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n Y
FOR sale by all dealers. Price, 30
cents per box
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What happened to Binx-get MARI
led.
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EIHS permanently hts or nervousness afteP
- nrst days Of Kline-s
Send for So botc md rreafi.e.
~ 4 d. kIISE, Ltd, oS1 Street, PhiLadelphjA
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to Colfax, Ia, and run paper OF his
own
DIR. c. W. Newton, superintendent
of the state imbecile asylum at Win
field. will resign, it is said, before the
report of the investigating committee
is filed
An inexperienced drug clerk substi-
tuted corrosive sublimate for calomel
in a prescription and a little child OF
James Tanning of Buffalo is dead as
a result
Chanute's Salvation army has de-
cided to establish out posts at Erie
and Humboldt 1t might be good
idea, too, to send a punitive expedi-
ton against lola
Another defect in the plan to chris
ten the battle ship Kansas by the use
of a dove is that the game warden
would probably step in with a re-
straining order
The Santa Fe's "oil flyer" which is
pulled by an engine burning Kansas
crude oil, made a record of a mile in
fifty-seven seconds between Cherry
vale and Chanute.
Coram Young of the Atchison Cham
pion has lost the first point in the
contest of the will of the late Mrs
Henderson,, who left him all OF hel
property, valued at 100000
Atchison's new paper, the Morning
Star, has a motto" 1t is this, cred
tied to Shakespeare Ignorance is
| the curse of God We mount to heav-
en- ON the wings of knowled2A"
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A Wonderful Discovery.

.Broadland, s. Oak, April H.-Quite
q sensation has been created here by
the publication of the story of @. w.
Gray, who after a special treatment
for three months was PROSTATE and
helpless and agiven up to die with
Bright's Disease. Bright's Disease has
always been considered incurable, buzz
evidently from the story told by Mr..
Gray, there Is a remedy which will
cure 1t even In the most advanced
stages. This Is what he says
Il was helpless as a little babe. My
wife and | searched everything and
read everything we could find about
Bright's Disease, hoping that | would
be able to find remedy. After many
failures my wife insisted that should
try Dodd's Kidney Pills. praise God
for the day when / decided to do SO.
for this remedy met every phase OF
my case and in a short time was
able to get out OF bed and after a few
weeks treatment | was strong, well
man. Dodds Kidney Pills saved my
life"
A remedy that win cure Bright's
Disease will cure any lesser Kidney
Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills are GER
tainly the most wonderful discovery
which modern medical research has
given to the world.
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HEALTH CAMP FOR CONSERVATIVES
Worthy Enterprise Established In Southern Cal
ifornia-So Arranged That Patients May
Be Self-SupportinG

larly careful So as not to be attacked
by the almost ever present tubercle
bacillus.
There are fcrr classes: First. those
who have hereditary predisposition
to consumption; secondly, those who
have weakened their system and thus
predisposed themselves to consump-
ton by the Incorporate use of alco-
h0iic beverages. by a dissipated life,
by excuses of all kinds, ETC.; thirdly,
those whose constitution has been
weakened through disease; fourthly,
those whose occupations, trades or
professions, such as printing, hat max.
ing, tailoring, weaving, and all occu.
pations where the worker is much ex-
posed to the inhalation of various
kinds of dust, have rendered them
particularly liable to consumption"
Let every one take courage and live
above tuberculosis. If you are already
suffering from 1t strive to rise above
it. Avoid alcoholic beverages, condi-
ments, pastries, tea and coffee. Live
out Of doors, provide fresh air for
your bed room, study the laws of your
body and return to the natural way
of living