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Naval Orders.

Lieut.. W. r. Williamson, from works
E. W. Bliss Company, Brooklyn. \. Y,
to Asiatic station.
Lieut. Junior grade) r. B. Hammes,
from Atlantic reserve fleet to Chi
cago.
Lieut. junior grade) G. X. Stoddard,
to Illinois.
Lieut. (junior grade) J. +. Dalton,
from Illinois to Chicago.
Lieut. Junior grade) H. .. Roesch,
to Saratoga March 20, 1916.
Lieut.. (junior grade) J. c. billiard, to
navy yard. Boston. Mass. April g. 1916.
Lieut.. tjunior grade) L. p. Bischoff,
from kearsarge to Wheeling.
Ensigns A H Balsley, c. II. Jones,
T. c. Slingluh, E. W. Burrough. p. r.
Weaver and c. d. Fry, from Washing
ton to Asiatic station.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Harry
Shaw from navy yard, New York, to
Naval Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Boatswain y. Z. Cook, from Rhode
Island to receiving ship at New York,
n. Y.
Chief Carpenter A. ". Jones. from
Colorado to home and wait orders.
Chief Carpenter W. F. Hamburger,
from North Dakota to navy yard, Nor
folk, Va.
Carpenter W. F. Twitchell. from
Pittsburgh to home and wait orders.
Carpenter X. J. Leahy, from receiv-
ing ship at San Francisco. Cal, to Iris
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THREE MIDSHIPMEN EACH
FOR CONGRESS MEMBERS
Secretary Daniels Asks Senators and
Representatives to Make
Nominations.

The President having approved the
act of Congress authorizing the ap-
pointment of three. midshipmen for
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tiff for $500; plaintiffs attorneys,
Charles Poe and H. Winship Wheatley;
defendants attorney, H. E. Davis.
Gregory agt. Birtwell: on tyial; plain
tiff's attorney, E. F. Colladay: defend
ants attorney. L. Cabbell Williamson.
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Homer is said to have composed the
Iliadfat the age Of sixty.
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Practically all the corncob pipes used
in America are produced by six rae
tories. all of which are in Missouri.
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established their immense plant there.
and they purpose to skim all the cream
possible themselves, rather than allow
outsiders to get it.
The place has all the advantages. nat
ural and artificial, needed to make it
an admirable site for a big plant for
the making of explosives. Deep water
in front and on two sides-the Potomac
river, and Quantfco and Chappawamsic
creeks-With main line, double-track
railroad. afford ample transportation
facilities. Add to this cheap land,
though land values have scared amaz-
ingly since the project took tangible
form, and one of the largest. if not
the largest. pyrites mines in the coun-
try less than five miles up Quantico
creek, and there is little left to be
desired.
X
Pyrites are used in making sulphuric
acid, and sulphuric acid goes into the
manufacture of high explosives. For
years the mine on Quantico creek was
worked without more than touching
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not escape the law. He was sentenced
to twenty years in the penitentiary for
and was a prisoner in the jail
at Durango when Madero's beneficent
turned him loose on society
Tomas Urbina became one of the most
successful of the revolutionary chiefs
He developed many qualities of rough
military leadership similar to those of
Villa himself. He was in command of
the bandit army which sacked Durango
In this capacity he imprisoned the
venerable Archbishop of Durango in
the cell which he himself had occupied
Gen. Urbina took a great deal of loot
away from Durango. He established
himself on a fine hacienda, but he was
with Villa in the taking of Torreon and
in the subsequent military movements
He also remained loyal to his chief for
several months after the split with
Carranza. Yet. as Villas power waned
his zeal lessened. He did not join the
Carranzistas, but simply withdrew to
his estate with small body of fol-
lowers.
1t is only a few months ago that the
dispatches told how Villa, with a body
of 400 troops, had surprised Gen. Ur-
bina and his staff, and how they had
been executed for taking the property
of the state"-that is, they had tried
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the surface eff the deposits, and a
branch line runs from the railroad-the
Richmond Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac-to the mine.
People used to go to Quantico by boat
or stage coach and there take the train
to Richmond The place was for years
the terminus of the line that is now the
Washington Southern. About five miles
back in the hills is what is left of Dunn
fries, which used to be about the most
important town in that part of the Old
Dominion. Ships used to go up QUAINT
creek, load at Dunfries with huge hogs
heads of tobacco and the like. pass down
the creek to the Potomac-"Potowmac
it was spelled in those days-and thence
down the bay and across the ocean to
European ports
Quantico for a good many years has
had no direct communication with Eu-
rope. The tobacco that used to go from
the broad fields of the big plantations
isn't grown any more. But when the
du Pont people get the new plant in oper
alton Quantico's connection with the old
world. long broken off. may be resumed.
That's where the greater part of the
powder, guncotton and other material
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Ouantic0, Prominent i'm History {

1t wuz easy to trail as a cyclone. We'all
went out an trailed it an loaded it on
a team an brung il to taown. Oh. yes.
the guv'mint paid for tn caow. Mother
one o the durn things lit in the marsh
same day, but 1t done buried itself an
done no havoc"
The six-inch gun rusting on the hill
top was big weapon IN it's time: prob
ably the gunners who handled it hated
to leave the gun there when the fire
of Federal gunboats made things too
hot for them to remain. But the four
teen-inch projectle that "sploshed"
mud enough to kill a cow and then
II ounced' over railroad bridge,
two-story schoolhouse on hill. and
rolled" nearly mile through the
woods. and which was fired in testing
from gun nearly fifteen miles away,
is pretty good illustration of the adj
vance that has been made in the science
of killing men in the years that have
elapsed since our own great war.
Quantico, il is claimed, is going to
be big town pretty soon. Residents
of the village know 1t. and are making
ready. They know all about what hap
pened at Hopewell when the du Points
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the single entry system-by his eX-
cellency, George Washington" John
and Thomas Washington were distant
relatives of the father of his country.
living in the neighborhood of Dunn
fries The great-grandfathers of George
and the other two were brothers. ac-
cording to old records.
Years ago a man with more imRgi-
nation than practical knowledge plan
ned a summer resort at Quantico. a
fine gravelly beach promised excellent
bathing in brackish water; the en-
circling hills afforded sites for summer
cottages and villas; deep water right
up to the wharf end made it possible
for the largest boats on the Potomac
to land passengers and freight, and the
railroad afforded quick and easy ac-
cess to Washington and Richmond. a
big hotel was built and never occu
pied. A road. lined on either side with
naples, gradually washed away until
today nothing is left but rutted path
up the hill and past the schoolhouse.
Gradually the hotel sank into decay.
and at last, few years ago, all that
was left of it burned to the ground.
Since then Quantico has simply vege-
tated. Nearly half hundred trains
pass through the place each twenty
four hours. Most of them whiz through
without even slowing down. few
locals in each direction stop to let off
occasional visitors or to take on per-
sons going away from there.
But Quanticans say today that all
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history of VIRGINIA. May Become Another H0pevwell
VILLAGE Is Planning Boom Days. With the Prospect of Gigantic Gunpder rae
he-Repo May Build Thehe Prosper
Quantco Shipping Point for Quantities OF
Virginia Tobaco-Reics Of

used in the wholesale destruction of hui
man life is being used these days,
c. F. Brawner runs general store
at Quantico. Away back in the eight
zenith century an ancestor had much the
same kind of store at old Dumfries. then
a fourishing community and point OF
shipment to England. France. the Meth
erlands and various other european
countries Some of the ancient books
owned and kept by this storekeeper OF
early days are in the possession or MT
Brawner, and through the records, on
paper yellowed with age and crumoiing
at the edges. run names that loom large
in the history of the nation.
Leaning over the counter of the little
store at Quantico the writer dsciphered
the entries in these old books. written
with a quill pen. in ink that after the
lapse of more than a century and
quarter is as clear and black as the
day it flowed from the pen, the entries
form an interesting and intimate INK
between the days of Washington and
the present time.
Under date of June 10. 1882 Is This
item:
Mr.. John A. Washington. to profit. for
interest on loan, 21-6." The figures. of
course. indicate twenty-one shilllngs
sixpence.
His excellency George Washington.
Received from Mr.. Lund Washington
for a keg of paint. 36-9" This sum.
of course. was thirty-six shillinGs and
March IL. 1855. Lund Washington
bought of the Dumfries storekeeper
"one brass skillet" for which he was
charged on the books fifteen shillings.
In September. 1875, John A. Washing
ton sold to the storekeeper crop to-
bacco. for l hid. on Nomony," receiV-
ing for 1t 14-17-11. or fourteen
pounds seventeen shillings elevenpence.
'Nomony" evidently referred to the
creek now known as Nomini.
Under date of May -. 1888. is an
entry reading:
ITO amt. of Thos. Washington's or
der, $780," Sixty pounds, this was.
Lawrence Washington. half-brother
occasion with the Dumfries storekeep-
err, whose name was II. Reed. according
to inscriptions and signatures in the
book and an accompanying letter-copy
book. An entry dated October Is, 1875.
reads:
Mr. Lawrence Washington. for one
pair shoes, 40" There is descrip-
tive adjective preceding the word
shoes, but a drop Of water that some
time fell just there has obliterated the
Washington bought cannot be deter
mined.
Lund Washington. November 4, 1885.
bought three AIDES and two broadaxes
from Storekeeper Reed. the fact being
noted in the musty book.
Lund Washington was overseer at
Mount Vernon and as such was au-
thorized to make purchases for the es-
tate, which were paid, according to
the entries-the books were kept by
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I'd with the title OF

Madero's bodyguard with the title or
colonel.
After Madero became president Case
tillo failed to get the patronage he
asked. and in the role of disappointed
office seeker again took to brigandaee.
He operated independently of villa, al
though there was said to be an under
standing that certain territory should
be left to him without Villas undertake
ing to establish law and order there.
Castillo and his band were charged
with one of the most horrible acts OF
the revolution. A freight train was
set on fire in the Cumbre tunnel of the
Northwestern railway between Juarez
and MADEIRA. \ passenger train, on
which were some fifty persons, includ-
ing number of Americans. was sent
crashing into the freight, and most OF
the passengers were roasted to death
In the tunnel.
Castillo and small section OF his
band We're captured by United States
troops on the American side of the Dor
der. whittier they had wandered, appar-
emily not knowing that they no longer
We're on the safe soil of Mexico. They
were taken to Fort Bliss and then to
Fort Wingate, where the Huerta troops
which had been driven across the Dor
der by Villa We're interned.
Later, these troops were released and
joined Villas army. and it is now sup
posed that most of them are 1ncor-
porated in the CarranZa army. 1t is
not known that Castillo has been set
free by the military authorities. who
were waiting to find some sort of gov
eminent in Mexico to which he could
be delivered over.
Among the minor bands of guerrillas
who ranged Chihuahua were those of
the Quevada brothers. and of the Gu
tierrez brothers. Villa, when his power
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a T the top Of the bluffs that rise
An almost in the very edge Of Guam
IN ,ico' Va where the du Pont
q - Company is declared 10 be get
ting ready to establish gunpowder
town. an acid plant. gigantic dye
works or some equally huge industry. lies
an ancient cannon. The gun. dismounted.
has laid rusting in the weeds and grass
of the schoolhouse yard. A few feet away
is all that remains of the emplacement
where the gun once stood. to hurl It's six
inch solid shot in the general direction of
vessels of the Potomac gunboat feet that
patrolled the river during tho civil war
Across the ponderous breech OF the gun.
just above the spiked vent, are the let
tiers G. S. A--Confederate States Army.
Available information is that the gun
was left behind when the Confederates
were forced TO evacuate the position. An
axle of its carriage broke: there was no
way to repair il. so the gun had to be
abandoned Big as it is-the gun is four
teen feet lonS-it had range Of but
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By CHARLES M. PEPPER.

N borderland of Mexican brig
IL andage. 1t is something more
~ than a borderland. 1t is the
breeding ground of bandits who have
made names for themselves.
All Mexico. under the conditions dur
ing the last five years. has been
nursery for brigandage. other sec
lions have produced their bandits and
murderers. but these are farther away
from the United States. and few of
them. with the exception of Zapata.
have acquired fame beyond the immedi-
ate locality of their murders and their
pundering-
Chihuahua is one of the wealthiest
and best developed states of Mexico.
The city of Chihuahua is the finest
city in the northern section. In the
old days it was the most prosperous.
Yet out of the city itself came some
of the most celebrated bandits whose
names have filled the pages of Next
cos red history during recent years.
In the old days the cathedral was
sought by visitors as one or the nheSt
of the examples of church architecture
There were also the attractive plazas
and the memorials to Juarez and other
Mexican patriots who had thought
they were creating a real common
wealth.
The foreign colony always was a fea-
ture of Chihuahua city. The many
foreign interests conferred there were
the reason for the existence of this
colony. The city was the clearing
house for the capital invested in the
mines and ranches, timber and other
development enterprises.
In the old days the foreign colony
numbered not far from a thousand per-
sons Americans were largely in the
ma iority, but there were many Eng
lishmen, Germans and other nation
alities The Spaniards in chihuahua.
while they We're apart from the Next
cans. and held aloof from them. did
not affiliate especially with other for
eigners.
The foreign club was the rendezvous
for Americans and Europeans. No
stranger in Chihuahua was allowed to
leave its gates without having enjoyed
the hospitality of the club. During the
course of its existence more than 10000
guests have been registered on It's
books
Gen. Huerta, when he came north
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CONFEDERATE
AMIGO, coNFEDER

of those trains are going to stop be-
fore long. When Quantico gets on the
map, when men from every corner of
the world travel there to work for
the powder company or to engage in
the various businesses that come into
being when numbers of men and wom-
en- gather together, the trains will
have to stop. So Quantico is waking
up. yawning and rubbing the sleep
out of its eyes. Soon 1t may know
more about the things with which war
is made nowadays than it ever learned
from the big, rusty cannon lying in
the weeds up on the hilltop. or even
from the 14-inch projectile that lies,
an object of idle curiosity, in the lit.
tie villages single street.
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Not Practiced.

rs HE REV. CHARLES F. AKED Of
San Francisco, before sailing on
the Ford peace mission. was talking
about Christianity, when a journalist
said to him:
Doesn't this war prove the failure
of Christianity"
1.-The failure of Christianity" said
DIR. Aked, in an amazed voice, 1.-THE
failure of Christianity? Let mo an
swer your question. sir. by asking you
another. Who among the belligerents
ever practiced Christianity"
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with his troops to quell the Orozco in
surrection against the Madero govern
ment, was the guest Of the club. Later
the revolutionary chieftains who
were defying Huerta in his Dictator
ship were also gracious enough to
avail themselves of the privileges OF
the club. Some of them were ex-ban-
dts. and some of them have since be-
come bandits. but all of them bore the
title of general" and were accorded
the honors due their rank. Though at
heart anti-foreign and anti-American.
they were fattered by the attention
shown them.
Chihuahua city had another institu.
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was strongest. promised to extsrminate
them, but the job was done, it was re-
ported, by American troops when they
were found on the American side OF the
border.
The fate of so many of the bandits
would seem to Justify those who hold
that they may be depended upon to ex-
terminate one another. This belief.
however, is lacking in one very i'm
portant particular. 1t does not take
into account that while the bandits who
become revolutionary chiefs and who
fall from power may be killed off, there
are always new ones likely to come
forward. The solution of brigandage
in Chihuahua is not self determination.
Some other plan will have to be found
in order to end 1t.
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months ago, when Villa made his ex-
cursion into Sonora. Fierro disap-
peared at that time, and it was said
that he had been drowned. Whether
he was really drowned or was assassin
ated, it seems certain that he has gone
in the way of other bandit champions
of the cause of constitutional govern
ment in Mexico.
Maximilo Castillo was a man of some
consequence in Chihuahua. He had
difficulties with the authorities and es
tablished himself in the Sierra Madres,
making occasional forays on the
ranches for cattle and running off
horses and ponies. He espoused the
cause of Madero, brought a very eff
cient band of bandits to the support of
the revolution against Diaz and became
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THE Breeding Of Many Mexican Bandits and Mrdes-On of
Mexico and Its Principal City Is the
in the ComtFugn Colony of City and the Famous
BndMmo Bands of Cuena
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ua the B0rderlane1 Of Mexican Briganda@e

merged his movement into the more
general one. He and Villa were asso-
ciates. and worked together.
After brief period of Madero's
took Juarez 1t was claimed that
Villa had been in sympathy with this
insurrection, but changed his mind at
the last moment. For a time Orozco
dominated a good part of northern
Mexico. His speciality was railway de-
struction.
Gen. Huerta. when in personal COM
mand at Chihuahua, broke the back of
the Orozco revolution, and Orozco for a
time disappeared. Later he was lead
ing a small band of his own against
Villa. After Villa got control at Tor
reon he was heard from occasionally
in the United States. Then he APP
peared at FL Paso an ally of fluerta.
when the United States caused him to
be arrested along with the former die
tator. He jumped his bail. disappeared
for while, and was finally killed,
either by American troops or by Texas
rangers
Fierro was a brakeman on the rail-
way running out from Juarez. He was
of giant stature and had courage cor
responding TO his physical strength.
Difficulties with the authorities caused
him to become train robber and brig
and. Villa was very fond of him, and
Fierro was for while his chiefs body
guard.
After Villas reverses began reports
were occasionally heard of fierce quar-
rels with his favorite lieutenant, and 1t
was even said that Fierro had attacked
him with knife. But he remained
loyal in the reverses. and was in COM
mand of a small body or troops a few
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not reach the dignity of being called
bandits until they had become revolu-
tionary chiefs. After successful rob
berry they seldom tarried long IN
Juarez, preferring to cross over to FL
Paso and spend their gains there.
A look at a map which indicates the
physical geography of the state OF
Chihuahua will show why 1t is the
nursery and the shelter Of brigandage.
notwithstanding it's wealth and re-
sources. The Sierra Madres, with their
forests and their many natural ref
uges for outlaws and outcasts, furnish
one reason. The ranches. which 1t Is
so easy to raid. are another reason.
The mines, with their tendency to draw
to them the lawless and reckless
classes of society, are third reason.
The long border with its facilities for
escape for the outlaws of both coun-
tries are fourth.
These are reasons. Those who know
Chihuahua will not be blind also to
real cause. In spite Of the hideous
chapters of pillage and loot and muir
der. and worse, which have marked the
revolution, it has to be said that So
cial and political conditions In the
state were an encouragement to out
lawry. The grasping land monopoly or
the TerraZas family, with it's greedy
hand on more than one-third of the en-
tire state. and the inability of the poems
to acquire land for themselves, were
cause of revolution to which brigand-
age was both an incident and pre-
text.
Villa is now classed by his former
Official supporters in the United States
as bandit. 1t is necessary to class
him as such. since the Carranza gov
eminent, which has been recognized, so
designates him. But he is no worse
bandit and murderer than he always
was. The uncertainty as to his future,
the unspoken query whether he will be
assassinated by some of his followers,
or will fall in battle. or maintain him
self indefinitely, recalls the history of
his fellow bandits of Chihuahua. The
fate of most of them has been tragic.
When Villa was an ordinary outlaw
down in the corner of Chihuahua bor-
dering Durango one of his comrades
was Tomas Urbina. This comrade, after
a somewhat picturesque career, was ar
rested for murder. Unlike Villa. he did