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launches, together with the Benecia- board of which there were JOS men from the various ships of the fleet, entered tine Salee river, and before fOrty-eight hours had passed five Korean forts had beer taken, 2fO guns destroyed and one battlt fought. in which the loss of the enemy
 was $50 killed and wounded. while thu forces of the United States lost only three killed and nine wounded
 The steam launch Weehawken, sound
 ing. led the advance of the fleet June 1C 1871. followed by the Monocacy. the Beneci2, three steam launches and the Palos towing in the landing party of n!re
 teen boats in the order named.
 An hour later they shelIed the Korean
 battery on Louise Island, which did not reply, and then engaged the second of the line of forts. This fedoubt gave them battle, and the Korean shots cut
 away the standing rigging of the fleet. but did not damage their hulls. This fort silenced. the fleet proceeded to the third embankment, where. under shelter were put ashore.
 Fort du Condo and the earthworSs at Sun-tol-mok fell before the Korean cita- del was attacked, and when that fell to the American forces it was discovered that the enemy had intrenched them selves upon a knoll a mile to the north ward, and it was there that the hand-to-
 hand fighting took place in which Lieut.
 H. W. Mckee received a mortal wound
 The late Rear Admiral Winfield Scott
 Schley, then lieutenant commander, and
 the man who organized the expedition.
 was the second to gain the inside of the redoubt with Lieut.. Mckee. and he if was who shot down the Korean who had given Mckee his mortal wound The re- doubt was later renamed in honor of the | young lieutenant Here Is Schleys own report of the fighting ct the redoubt: About 12;}O pm, June III. the charge
 was made through deep ravine fully | eighty feet deep, with $50 sailors and ma rines. The approach was clear of any ! covering and the fire of the enemy most terrific and severe Nothing could with stand the men. The impetuosity of the ] charge was met by brave men in the fort. who contested inch by inch and | who fought hand to hand. | 'HThe honor of gaining the first foothold | in the fort fell to Lieut.. Mckee, who was at once charged by the enemy. But | a moment had elapsed before I gained the inside and went to his aid in his des- perate fight In a moment he fell nor | tally wounded by a musket ball in the groin and spear stab in the side The same brave one who had speared Mckee ! rushed upon me. but the spear passed ! between my left arm and my body and | before he could withdraw it for a second i trial he was shot dead and Ifeless at | my feet"
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I'm blamed if I can see any reason why anybody should want a man like that as a representative" growled the first man. He is one of those long haired ranters who has never done a thing in his life but criticise other per sons. He is a buffer and shyster.
 The friend nodded.
 Yep he agreed. 'I guess that's all true. But you must admit that when he gets on his froek coat and string tie he certainly does look the part And Representative Anderson concludes 
 1 "We'n have better government when fewer people continue voting for men who look the part"
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< beard" Teach and the swinging. of Capt. William Kidd gibbet high in chains off Execution dock at a time beyond the memory of living man, to the contrary. Now, there is no gainsaying that when Justice pulled the blindfoid from one eye long enough to catch the buccaneers England, Rackam, Lowther Kidd, Black beard and another score of the Jolly Roger brotherhood red-handed, sending them to look their last through hempen collars while they danced air, the Lady of Scales and Bandage did a pretty thorough job.
 Yet. after all of these and many of the lesser 1awless lights were swept from the seas, there remained that which gal lows tree nor kings sloop-of-war could lay-the spirit of piracy.
 D
 The "pirate destroyers''r win not go to the now peaceful Spanish main. or sail the stretches where once the plate ships of the King of Spain struck colors to raking broadsides from low black top sail schooners. for the spirit of piracy now dwells along the shore of the sham bling China sea, and rides the reaches of the Sulu and South Pacific waters. upon the prows of great pirate junks or can non-bristling Malay prahus.
 And so. the station of the, two pirate destroyers" of the United States Navy will be at Shanghai, within easy striking distance of the great Yangste river, along whose banks are thousands of set dement's where American concesSionarieS, agents of great commercial enterprises and missionaries spend peIilous lives.
 |
 Although the United States maintains a score of vessels on the China station most of them spoils of the war with
  no light-draft gunboats among them, and the volume of water necessary to float them was so great as to make any pur- suit up rivers and canals little less than a farce.
 So it was that the United States finally grew tired of having the light-draft pirat ate craft show clean heels and get away in safety, which exhibition on the part of yellow outlaws soon became a joke at which Uncle Sam could not and would not laugh. Therefore was the construc- ton of the pirate destroyers" author ized.
 A long time ago the United States main tained among her ships in eastern waters a side-wheel, iron sheathed, steam and sail vessel-the Monocacy; and also a screw tug of iron-the Palos And be- cause of the honorable history of both of these vessels, which long ago went to the junk heap, the two river gunboats have been named for them.
 Taking pattern after the type of oun boat exampled in the British Widgeon. these two little craft were constructed at the Mare Island navy yard. But they were too small to stand the trip across the Pacific, where typhoons and hurri- canes are frequent. Therefore they were Knocked down" and shipped in a big ocean liner to Shanghai where they vere reassambled by Naval Constructor Ror- der assisted by Lieut. Andrew F. Carter U. S.. N few weeks ago they were launched and given their trial trips.
 
 Although the ''misquitoes' of the China station were too small to undertake the transpacific trip, they will be none the less efficient against the pirate men. who depend largely upon fighting at hands grips in overpowering their victims. and
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A Big Asset.

If ther e is one thing that Repre- sentative Anderson of Minnesota hates above all else it is a demagogic fraud in politics-one of those plus, friend of-the-people type. who spout and spout but never do anything.
 He tells a story of two voters who were discussing a candidate for Con greSS
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Both in Same Boat.

Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa rejoices in initials similar to those by which the diplo- m a t c mediation c O m m i ssion was designated, for the first letters of his three names are A, B. C. His fam fly originally came from Pennsylvania but they en1igrated to Iowa some years ago
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What Is the Brand?

R e pr e sentative H. T. Helgesen of North Dakota is of Norwegian descent. In his district is the famous Devils lake, which in re- cent years has re- ceded so much by the drying up Of the waters that the town of that name, once on the bank. is now six miles inland
 In the course of
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Plenty of Room.

R c pr c sentative c. H. Sloan of Ne braska is from the land of big farms farms whose corn fields run along a railroad sometimes for ten miles, while in its wheatfelds several G erm a n principalities could be lost. So Sloan is used to taking a big view of things, as well as viewing thin OrC fra,
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stroyers' have just been added to the United s t a t e s Navy. The one end , and aim of their ! existence will be to sweep from the now-a-day ocean hordes of freeboot-
 ing g e n t try the
 two-c e n t u r y-ago demise of Black
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But this system, it was soon discovered. worked only hardship without lessening tc any appreciabIe degree the number of pirate atrocities; for seldom did the loot CTS come from the village assessed and, upon one occasion a few years ago, the head man of a village was forced to sell his six young daughters into slavery to pay an indemnity for crime which none of his villa gers had compitted-
 So. realizing at last that the ''vicarious system" was worse than ineffective, each nation having commercial interests in China has sent to the Shanghai station light-draft river smboats to hunt down and bring to justice the bandits Of the rivers, and in this way to stamp out pi- racy wherever It's hydra head shows.
 For several years now England. Ger many and Japan have maintained these light-draft river boats. Now the United States has added her complement In the Palos and the Monocacy
 China herself is about to come into the
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crew met the yellow boarders in a hand to-hand conflict. The passengers, pro- boat deck in safety, where. launching the lifeboats,. they made their escape from the ship under cover of the dark ness and confusion.
 But the crew, outnumbered three to enc, were beaten back. and those who escaped the pirate knives leaped into the sea to drown.
 Left victors, the pirates footed the steamer and then applied the torch, but the flames of the burning Taion attract ed the attention of other steamers, and they, speeding full ahead for the doomed vessel. managed to pick up all the pas sengers and Capt. Wetheren Of the Taion, with all of his European officers.
 The second form of freebooting in Chinese waters takes the form or river piracies. The pirates themselves are, unlike their deep-water outlaw brethren, more of the jackal type, sinking coward ly, but still murderous and deadly when ever they fall in with unarmed parties. They infest the shallow rivers. creeks and canals which cut in from the China coast.
 The big junks. in use by the deep-sea freebooters, are of earthly good in shallow waters, and so the river robbers make use of light-draft craft known To- cally as fast crabs and "scrambling QTdSODS- ne w SSl TlNtE HSdI AdlilOii is a favored ground for these shallow water freebooters, although the great Yangtse-Kiang river is also infested with them.
 In their little craft they navigate with out trouble over the shadows and rapids inland as far as Chungking, which is more than 1000 miles from the coast. and instead of preyinS upon the mer- chant ships and steamers nf the deep ! they loot villages, murder travellers. mas sacre white concessionaries, and cause | untold trouble to the missionaries. ot whom there are many hundreds in this | part of inland China. And it is against these river pirates particularly that ths | activities of the little PaIos and Monoc- | acy will be directed.
 | Long ago it became apparent that the | Chinese government either would not, ol could not. cope with the perpetrators oi | pirate outrag ges But this was learned l only after the great barges owned by thu | Standard Oil Company to carry case oi l inland had been repeatedly attacked anC | sacked several vessels loaded with to bacco belonging to a British company | controlled entirely by American capita had been footed, and American citizens and missionaries without number hat been murdered.
 | Thereupon, lacking the necessary mean
 of pursuing the pirates and bringing them to justice a system of "vicariou! punishment grew up in the Chinese prov inces. By this system. upon the perpe 1 tration Of an outrage. the American con Sul would file his complaint with thu 1 Chinese government. and the government upon learning the amount of damage sus ! tained by the depreciation, or the indem nity demanded for the loss of life woulS promptly levy the amount upon the vii lage nearest to the scene of the crime.
 *
 But this system, it was soon discovered
 worked only hardship without lesseninI
 tc any appreciabIe degree the number O
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Two Ships to Join the International Elect at Shanghai Will Clean the Sea and Riv- CTS of Chinese, Pirates. Cases of Atrocities Per- petrated by These Cut throats-Fighting the Pirates a Hopeless Task Until the Other Nations .Took,a Hand.
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence WASHINGTON. D. C., August '. 1914.
 WO pirate de
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Although the 'misquitoes" of the China station were too small to undertake the transpacifc trip, they will be none the less efficient against the pirate men. who depend largely upon fighting at hands grips in overpowering their victims. and
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
MExlCAss FACE sTARvATl0A


NasAhlEtoas fresAsaat wfilsen cen.
fsrred for svo hours ON the alexicanl
sltuAklin with Secretary Bryan and
tohn n. Sililnsaa. who made d spascsai
tifip from Mexico al his own request To
taik with the nresident M tnkiing d
lEhAs waz discussed wAs siveA ont "
the White Haase after tho conferences.
Secretary BRYAN rafasea to make xAay
ceEgnlens.
Mr.. Siiitmsn. Who 10 united States
consul Al SAltEli0. Mexir0, has been
acting "a President wilscns personal
representative IN Mexico for soma
weeks. A few days agc be sslegrapAea
the state department. asking psrmis.
sion 10 come to Washington Tor q con.
snltAtiOn. IL @As tcld Il was thought
best be should return ia Mexico Cisy.
SilliEnan was not satisfied. and X Ii
said his visit was arranged directly
with the president
Admiral Howard. commanding the
American laval forces of the Pacific
coast Of Mexico. reported to the navy
department that there was shortage
of food all along the west coast. and
that the popalaee Of Acapulco faced
starvation. Foodstaffs were not avail.
able at any price. We said Transpof>
tation both by land and rail virtually
ia al . stanistill along the Pacific
coast, and inasmueh as the revolution.
AIRY activities OF the past three years
have engaged the great masses Of the
people. only meager crops have been
grown.
Admiral Howard says Il 10 absolute
ly necessary that corn and rice be pro
vided promptly for Acapulco.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
As'ssiAsiPpt t0aiaaissloN aETsAN
N EVEN SREAv<-0uLFpoRr
0fvEN ss0,ooa.
s2o,oOO,OoO APPROPRIATED
Board 81 Army Ensinsrs cemrisis
Their Work. CUTTING Mlsslsslppi
anr Arkansas Short. and Al
most Overlook Tennessee.

Washington. Allotment Of the $50.
00c.0oo appropriated by congress for
river and hArbor improvement this
year was announced by the board Of
army engineers
The largest single allotment was So,
75o,000 TO the Mississippi river com
mission.
Other items Included: Port Aran'
sas. Texas. 100000; Sabine Pass,
Texas. s24o. 900: Houston ship channel,
Texas. $4,000; ouchita river. Arkan.
sas and Louisiana. locks and dams,
100000; Cumberland river, below
Nashville. s2le.eeo; Ohio river. locks
and dams. ti.Tso.eoe: Black Warrior,
Warrior and Tomhlghes rivers. Ala.
bama. s75o.00o: Southwest Pass, Mis-.
sissippi river. sseo,0oo.
On the Mississippi river, from the
mouth OF the Ohio to the Missouri.
s3s0.0 900: from the mouth OF the Mis-.
souri, TO Minneapolis. 100000 Mis-,
souri, river. Kansas City OF the mouth.
$3.50. 900.
I Other aiiotments include: r''" r.''''
Mobile harbor. Alabama. s62,S0o:
Mobile bar. Alabama, $4,000,
Alabama river. Alabama, including
Coosa river up TO Wetumpka, $50, 900.
Tombigbee river. Alabama and Mis-.
sissippi: Mouth to Demopolis, Ala.
$4,000; Demopolis. Ala, to Walkers
Bridge, Miss. 5000.
Gulfport harbor and Ship Island
Pass. Miss. $4,000; Pascagoula, Leaf
and Chickasahay rivers, Mississippi.
$4,000.
Yazoo river and tributaries. Miasis.
sippi. including Yazoo, Tallahatchie,
Big Sunflower and Coldwater rivers,
Tallahatchie river above the mouth Of
Coldwater river. Tchula Lake, Steele
and Washington bayous. Lake Wash.
ington and Bear creek. $4,000.
The Big Sunflower river. Mississip-
pi, lock and dam, $4,000.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
cAmPBElL's WILL ATTACKED
chlldran of areshar OF James cameheil
tnstituss suls--Estats Worth
$4,000, 900,

81 Louisa suit 10 break the viii
Of James Campbell. multi-miilionAire
railroad promoter. was filed In the cir.
cult court here by children OF John p,
Campbell of West Virginia. q brother
Of the 81. Louis capitalist.
This petition says that James Camp.
bell lei, no children, although In his
will MIR. Campbell referred TO Lois Ann
Campbell. who married Elsey @. Burk-
ham Of st. Louis last week. AZ his
daughter.
The petition also charges that by
reason of incidents in his business and
social life and his fear OF death and
future punishment" Mr. Campbell cas-.
lily was imposed upon and influenced
to leave hts estate In trust for med.
ical school and hospital for the st.
Louis University,
Under the Campbell will the entire
estate IL 10 go 10 ST. Louis University
n years after the death OF the widow
or OF the children OF Lois Campbell
Rurwham.
The validity Of the will IL also cues
toned on the ground that Il was
changed after 1t had been Witnessed. II
Is stated that under the Missouri law,
II Campbell died without leaving val
Id will. the estate Ia TO be divided BE-
tween his widow and children: but that
II Lois Campbell Durham 10 not his
daughter her ehare of the estate. one.
half, would 20 TO the West virsiaiA
claimants. The estate 10 estimated n
81. zoe, 900.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
QUAKE KILLS THOUSANDS
Towns Of lsharta and Burdur Severely
Shocked--2.5oo Are Killed In Asla
Minor, nj kenia.

London official message from
Constantinople. transmitted from Am.
sterdam to the Central News, says the
victims of the earthquake In the prov.
ince Of Konia, Asia Minor. are estirnAt.
ed at $500.
Smyrna. Asiatic Turkey. towns
Of lsbartA population about 2S,000)
and Burdur population about 10000.
In the province Of Konia. we're severe.
ly damaged by an earthquake. The
loss Of life was very heavy. These two
towns are centers OF the carpe. indus.
try.
New York; dispatch from Fort de
France, Island Of Martinique. received
In New York. said that q severe earth
quake shock was felt ct Fort de
France. The direction was from north
TO south. No damage was done locally,
The same shock WAS recorded also
through the windward and leeward Isl.
ahds. -'S''a'Fa 2 ''l
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
CARRANzA0FFERs TO RESIGN
Conference Of Constitutional Lsaosr
Want Him to Keep Presidency.
oppesers Are Cheersd.


Mexico City.--Deiegates TO the gen.
erai conference OF southern chiefs ~
jected by an almost unanimous vote
the resignation Of General venustiAnc
carrsnHe as first chist of the ocnstitu.
tionalists.
The resignation was laid before the
convention and the vote followed q
heated debate.
A commission was sent to tho m.
tional palace to ask General Carranzs
again TO accept supreme power.
Orators opposed to the acceptancs
Of General CarranEa's withdrawal were
repeatedly cheered by delegates and
spectators. A motion was made that
the first chief be informed tina, II
would be impossible to accept his pa.
triotic act Of abaegstion. but the hours
passed without a vote being taken on
the motion. owing TO the turmoil In ths
chamber.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16

Lcn6cn---The Standards CORE
s2ondent says an unusual incident In
warfare was reported at Grtmsby by
the captain OF the Dutch trawler Mar
tina, who said that seven German
hydro stopped the Swedish
steamer Bodel and made Il alter its
course to HelgolAnd. The Dutch cap
tain says thai the hydro-aeroplanes frst
approached hts vessel. bus after sat.
istying themselves as to his nation
ality Few away and escorted tha Swe
dish vessel tn HsiColaad n = pri&
oner
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
Relieved.

In 1918 Gcrmany's total imports
amounted to t2,s73. 10000.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16

!. c. Striker Established His Plea OF
Self-oefense--Trlai Held at
Lincoln

Lincoln. lll.-Carl Person. editor OF a
labor magazine, was found not guilty
OF the murder, Dec. 30. 1913, OF Antoine
Musser. once chief OF police OF Clinton,
III. Person asserted be shot In self.
defense.
The case grew out OF the strike OF
the Illinois Central machinists Mus.
ser was employed on the road and Per.
son espoused the strikers cause In his
publication. Persons self-defense plea
was supported by evidence. intended
to prove conspiracy against his life by
Illinois Central strike-breakers.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16

Ike new Eln and ! am nov relieved
Of al these Troubles. I hope I'll yeana
girls win get relief a. have. lnsssr
felt better Ia my life. Miss BxRraAA.
pfloouN, Box ii6 Sterling. ceaa.
MsassnA. N. Y.--.i have taken LIZ
dia i. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
ard ] highly recommend Il II anyone
wants TO write 10 me l win gladly tel
her about my case Twas certainly In
. bad condition M my blood was Ill surn~
ing 10 water. lhad pinpiss on my face
end bad color. and for Ave years ] ~
been troubled with Suppression. TIE
doctors called Il Anemia and Exhsns-
ton. and said was al run down, has
Lydia Z Pinkham's Vegetable Gem
pound brought me out eli right Mizs
LAvisA MYREs. Box "a. Massena. NY.
Young Giris Heed This Advice.
Girls who are troubled with painful %
irregular periods. backAche. headache
dragging down senaAtions. fAintin9
spells or Indigestion. shculd Immediately
seek restoration 70 health BY taking I.y~
dla e PinkhAm's Vegetable Compound
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
WILL GO AHEAD WITH WORK
No Dste -iorstIon Of River Projects
VIII Dc Permitted Pending Adop.
ton Of ptzns.

Washington. --Pending the adoption
Of = plan for the expenditure OF the
lump sum appropriation Of s?o. eao 900
on river and harbor work. Gen. King.
NAN, chief OF engineers. has sent teie-
sraphic instructions to IA engineer Of.
ficers In charge of river and harhor
districts to proceed with urgent prof.
sc.s In their care.
This action was thought necessary Ia
prevent deterioration Of any public
works. Secretary OF War Garrison, on
his return. win pass upon plan pre-
pared by Gen. Kingman for continue
ton OF work upon about l7o river and
haroor projects in various parts OF
the coxntry.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
IN STERLING
LIVES 4 GIRL
Wh0 Suffered A. Many Girls
DoTeIla How She
Found Relief.


MpnM n1 rs GY
wesk, I VS. 40
hethsred = ks with
female sfeakness Z
re&il your Assls hNk
WiDscm Tor We
men, and l saw how
others had been
hSlped BY lydia =
PinkhAms vss
bile CosnFounsi. am
decided y try II md
n hAa snag5e nae faAs
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16

New york.--The steamer Korona
brocEht x cargo OF war tales from the
West INDIES. Every native there sleeps
VITA his gan under his pillow. said
the K0rSaA's sailors.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16
/9s~zevz<
YsI1N "a. g: Izya M sss ESII1
Il Helps q Lot

u Helps . Lot
Eve. for the first time In their mar.
ried life. was telling Adam just what
she thought Of him.
This 10 the original rib roast.
chuckled Adam.
And that was the beginning OF the
saving grace OF humor.--Judge.
--s----~-----------~--~~~~~~~
Or. Pierce's Pellsts. small, sugar.coAtsd
easy 10 take "A candy, regulate and invig
crate stomach, liver and bowels. Do nr4
grips. Adv.
Relieved.
she--i hear small checks are TO b
favored for dresses this season.
He-Thank heaven!
In 1918 Germanys total imports
ary,ot,ntad IN ~ eta TEA O0O
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16

Rome, via Paris.--A Dispatch Hom
Conxtsntinople says:
THE khedive In virtually priscnsF
OF the sultan. nao las ordered him not
to leave the city without the sultan'n
permission"
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-10-16

washington. On rnesien OF SenAtcs
yardaman the senate adopted . rssc.
luton calling on tho treasury depart
ment to inform the senate what ~ "a
amount OF revenue would be raised
By Withholding from government en-
ployes and officials certain percent
ages Of their salaries which were
named In the resolutions.