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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-08-24

A swarm of bees was caught on the
streets at Milton one day of last week
by Bob Laing.
I. A fine new Icelandc church is under
ssS.ou1se of construction at Grader in
Pembina county. it is to be com pleted
and ready for declaration this fall at a
cost of $4,000.
The three school houses in the vicini-
ty of Fairdale, used prior to the forma-
ton of consolidated school district
we're sold at auction last week the build
ings being bought hy farmers living in
the immediate vicinity.
Postmaster j. w. Pratten of Milton
was the winner of two first prizes in the
poultry exhibit at the Cavalier county
fair held here lastweek Harry Watson
another Milton resident carried off the
honors with his roadster colt which got
blue ribbon among the two year old.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-08-24

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The Washington herald., 1911-06-25

unwholesome meat or articles of pro-
vision. under penalty Of s. fine for every
offeEse."
Like all the other aristocratic residents,
Brent desired a home in keeping with
the dignity of the young republic, and
he decided to build the present Brent
wood" mansion on the northeast hill, In
which direction every one expected the
city to grow. For the architect. he en-
gagged Dr. William Thornton. designer OF
the Capitol. and much in demand among
the rich landowners who were erecting
new homes. DR.. Thornton was more of
an amateur than practical builder and
while his houses were planned with more
consideration for the outside appearance
than utility and convenience on the in
terror they were nevertheless based on
the firm Georgian lines Of the period. and
in addition were often markedly original.
Brent Never Entered House.
For Brentwood he arranged a central
building of two stories. the decked slate
roof being topped with an open lantern
that admitted light entirely down to the
first floor. where an oval drawing-room
formed the nucleus of the house To
either side of the main STRUCTURE were
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
SLEEPING IN CHURCH.

Formerly in the churches Of England a
most curious and laughabfe custom was
that of using the ''rousing staff.' This
was long stick or pole in the hands OF
the beadle, who walked softly up and
down the aisles OF the church during the
religious service of a Sunday, his eyes
scanning the members of the congrega-
tion. II perchance a worshiper was
discovered mapping. out went the nap
ping staff. the farther end of which
"bobbed" the offender in the ribs or on
the shoulder. The sleepy one would not
close his eyes in church again that day.
An amusing story is told of a woman
who acted as sluggish walker in Holy
Trinity Church, Warrington, about the
year 1890 1t is given here:
In the early years of the nineteenth
century, at Holy Trinity Church. War
rington, a masculine bit of womanhood
named Betty Finch held the Office of
sluggish walker. which was there known
as the 'bobber.' She is described as
walking majestically along the aisles dur
ing the service armed with a long stick
like a fishing rod, which had bob
fastened to the end of 1t, and when she
caught any one speaking or mapping she
gave him a nudge with the stick
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rains. in the east wing three OF the 1--WE
rooms have eased their walls of the plas-
ter burden. the delicate marble mantel
OF the long drawing-roon Is stained and
cracked. and the mahogany stair rail is
SCARED and battered. The kitchen, where
once the bounteous dinners were prepared,
now serves the humble duty of the stor-
age shed, its cupboards house the win
teT's fuel. and the brick floors resound TO
the seurrying of rats and mice.
Though the old house is fast falling into
decay. the surrounding grove OF oaks
yearly grows IN beauty, and the superb
view Of the city takes on new interest.
Pattersons Hill" is one of the highest
points in the city. and on fine Sunday
the entire neighborhood turns out to wan
der over its cool, green slope. Though
the inner park Is avoided thanks to the
watchdogs. the remainder OF its hundred
acres swarms with picnicking families,
strolling couples, and playing children.
In the meadow are field sports and base
ball games on a diamond which this
spring has been used by the high school
teams.
To Make 1t Park.
For some years past DR.. E. M. Gall
laudet. late president of the Gallaudet
College. has advocated the purchase OF
the Brentwood estate for public park.
He has repeatedly brought the matter be-
fore the District Commissioners and other
prominent men. The northeast section is
rapidly building up in small homes, and
breathing space will soon become Inn
perative. The plan outlined by DIR. Gal
Iaudet involves no expensive grading or
landscape work. but would maintain the
natural beauties of the tract, as at Hamp-
stead Heath. the great common in Lon
don. The Brentwood mansion. with small
expense. could be fitted up as shelter
house and tea room, as was done with
the Rogers house in Druid Hill Park,
Baltimore, or the Pierce Mill in our own
Rock Creek Park. Thus it might serve
as memorial to the first mayor of
By the purchase of Brent
wood and its combination with Kendall
Green great park of 200 acres, with
priceless old trees, would be obtained for
the pleasure and recreation of coming
Paul Laurence Dunbar, in his Poems
of Cabin and Field" has illustrated THE
Deserted Plantation" with photograph
OF Brentwood Mansion, but its faded
grandeur and stately desolation are best
pictured with the negro poets plaintive
lines:
An de big house stan's all quiet lax an solemn.
Not blessed soul in pa lcr. po'ch, er lawn
Not guest, ner not . ca'iage lei, TO haul 'em,
Fu de ones dat TUNED de latchstring out air gone.
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my hands. Senator Lodge came into the
district to help. He talked one thing; I
talked something else, namely. free hides,
coal, and iron. Our teamwork being hor-
ribly inefficient, I was beaten. have
always thought that If Lodge had stayed
away l should have been elected. Two
years later 1 again ran and again was
defeated. was also kept out the Repub-
lican national convention in 1904. I tried
a little later to be nominated for leu
tenant governor. Once more ] met with
disaster had done a lot of work, had
kept in motion. but had arrived nowhere
Naturally, I became somewhat discour-
aged.
Then. one Sunday morning in summer,
the Democratic manager of Massachu-
setts came TO my house IN the country.
He told me his party was penniless. dis
oreanized. and leadarless. had proni-
ised Mrs. Eoss that l would drop politics.
Besiaes, she was Republican But here
I was In conference with the chairman
Of the Democratic State committee. For
tunately, AIRS. Foss was In Europe.
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their way to the "prinking room" paused
to peer down at the throng or throw kill
ing gianccs to the gallants strutting about
below. And what hot politics were dis
cussed in the gentlemen's room, where the
black servant kept the punch bowl filled
and the masters Madeira flowed! Then
later, perhaps, there was dancing in the
long drawing-room. while every window
framed the heads of admiring negro
servants.
Height of It's Glory.
Old Brentwood reached the high tide
of its glory in the regime of Capt. Car
Isle P. Patterson, of the Coast Survey.
who married Elizabeth Pearson. famous
belle of antebellum days; but when mar
riage dispersed their trio OF beautiful
daughters it was the beginning of the
end Fashion was fast moving west
ward; around the hill the railroad came
and spread its grimy tracks into the
meadow, and then the hand of death left
Brentwood TO tire tender mercies of the
old servants. caretakers until the future
shall bring its fate to the forgotten home
stead.
Now the oval room is stained by the
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discovered had been pigeon-hoied by
standpatters in the Senate Blaine. Har-
rison, and Mckinley. leaders Of my party.
had favored reciprocity. What was
wisdom to them was sound sense to q
manufacturer like myself
Fess Gets Into Politics.
Now. reeonect. / did not care to hold
Office. 1 wanted to be OF service to my
city. my State. and New England. The
burned factory should be rebuilt, I de-
'cided. near Boston. would stay here
and keep my skilled workmen. nearly
Zoo in number. The Yankee mechanic
is still the best in the land. being In
genious. reliable. and intelligent. Fur
fhermore. should labor publicly fer
cheaper raw materials and q larger mar
kes With that idea, now q passion IN
my mlad. announced my candidacy for
Congress- got the nomination. beating
the Republican organization. Then ! blum
dered was inexperienced and let the
management Of the campaign slip from
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
TURNING THE RIVER CLAM
INTO BIG PEARL BUTTONS

In period varying from three to twen-
ty-four hours, the tiny clam is COM
pleteiy tnclosed. And in this peculiar
cradle the clam papoose must be car
ried about for one or several months.
Nobody knows why this is necessary
for the life of the clam; all we know
is that nature has ordained that no
clam shall live unless it first becomes
the papoose of some fish.
After a period varying from about
one month to four months, according
to the season and the kind of clam,
the papoose carrier opens and the little
clam drops out. 1t has not grown
much. but 1t has obeyed the law, and
can now live and settle on the bottom
like other clans; and, If no accident
befalls II. its shell in the course of
years will be thick enough for the
pearl factory and sharp enough to split
a boys toe.
These and many other things the
scientific doctors have discovered about
the clam. They have also learned that
1t is useless to forbid clam fishing at
any time OF the year. because one or
more kinds of CLAIMS are breeding prac-
tically every month of the year.
Will Vnccinate the CLAIMS.
The doctors fairly well understand
the case now. and are ready to pre-
scribe. In suitable ponds and aquaria
they have infected at one time as many
as $4,000 fish with millions of young
clans. Such experiments have been
carried on in Wisconsin, in Iowa, in
Missouri. and other States. In the near
future hundreds of thousands OF fish
will be vaccinated, so to speak, with
clam germs, and will then be turned
loose to replenish the exhausted clam
beds and to plant new ones.
The fish will not like il. Having
never done anything since the time OF
creation but loaf and tantalize the de-
scendants of Sir Izaak Walton, the
outlook for them is rather dreary. Who
would have thought that a part of the
white mans burden would ever be
shifted to the fish in the streams? But
the pearl men are smiling now, and
the languishing industry will surely
recover. and. maybe. larger pearl but
tons. will soon be the fashion.
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
BRENTWOOD MANOR; RELIC
OF CITY'S EARLY DAYS

supporting wings of one story. extending
backward In two .eIls. It was of sturdy
brick. stuccoed with pebble dash. while
an entrance portico, classical as Grecien
temple. presented four sandstone Ionic
columns 70 the southern sun.
Rebort Brent. however, was not des-
tined to occupy his fine house His long
service as mayer and his additional du-
ties as Paymaster General of the Army
and judge Of the Orphans Court left their
mark upon his health. After stroke OF
paralysis he was forced to retire from
active life. and in 1919 he died at his
home in Twelfth street southwest just
before Brentwood" was finally COM
pieted.
The mansion was FIRST occupied by
Brent's daughter Eleanor, wife of Hon.
Joseph Pearson. OF North Carolina, who
carried on the traditional family hospi-
tality At the Pearson levees were enter,
tanned the statesmen of the nation, the
makers OF history, and all the dignitaries
of the time. When numbering coaches
lined the drive before the house the hosts
of Brentwood met their guests in the
oval room, With its domed ceiling curv
ing up to the lantern on the roof. From
the gallery circling at the second floor
demure maids and naughty beauties on
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
Uncle Sam Goes to Aid of One of the
Mississippis Principal Industries and
Explains How to Increase
the Clam Crop.

An important industry which produces
annually millions of little things neces-
sary In the household of the nation is in
danger OF working itself to death, and
the Great Uncle in Washington has been
appealed to to send q corps OF business
doctors TO find out just what is the
matter with the patient and to apply a
remedy.
The patient in this case is the pearl
button industry in the Mississippi Va.-
ley and the business doctors are a num-
Der of biologists appointed to investi-
gate the somewhat perplexing case. The
doctors just glanced at the patient. then
they knew what the trouble was.
You are not living right" they toln
him, your symptoms resemble very
much the symptoms OF the lumber in
dustry. Mr.. Lumberman is cutting too
many trees; you are using too many
clam shells. You are going the pace
that kills. Inside of ten years you win
be as dead as a clam shell, IL you keep
on going at this rate"
But" replied Mr.. Pearlman, 1--WE
can't change our manner OF living. The
ladies demand more pearl buttons every
year, and we are making them as small
as the public will stand
You must raise the CLANS" said tho
doctors
Raise the clans" retorted Mr.. Pearl
man. Haven't you Just told us we
raised too many of them? Gentlemen,
this Is no Joking matter. Tell us what
to do or go back to your laboratories"
Plant Crops of CLANS.
Yes: you must raise them, not just
raise them from the bottom and kill
them, as you have been doing. but plant
them, grow them like the farmer grows
his crop of cabbages every year. Then
your industry will live, and you can
gradually make your buttons a little
perhaps win the thanks of
the married men,
We'll, tell US how to plant them" re-
Joined the Pearlman, "and We will plant
them wherever you say they will grow.
We must have clams""
The doctors didn't know much about
clam seed and clam planting themselves.
1t was a new case. they said, but they
would investigate and find out. They
have been working for some time on
the case, now, and they are finding out
many things. and the patient is now
quite cheerful and hopeful.
CLANS, the new wards of the govern
ment, lead a rather uneventful life after
they once settle down to the real busi-
ness of their lives on the bottoms of
rivers and lakes; but before this time
they pass through a most precarious and
dangerous period of youth. Before any
thing of practical value could be done
FOR the pearl button industry, the scien-
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25

AS the north-bound traveller leaves
Washington and runs the gantlet of glar-
ing signboards that hem the track his
eyes may find relief beyond the lurid ad-
vertisements, on to the northeast, where
a white road sweeps across the fields. on
and up ever the hill. until lost in the
grove that tops the crest Through the
leaves he may catch occasional glimpses
of a gray-walled house deep in the green
cry, but If he is curious enough to start
an inquiry as to this country seat he usu-
ally receives the meager answer. ''oh.
that's Patterson's HILL for few of the
city dwellers really know anything of
this bit of open country only fifteen min
utes' walk from the Union Station and
fast being surrounded by the growing
Capital
At Florida avenue and Fifth street
northeast a navy yard car deposits one
at the very entrance to this ancient es-
tate, properly known as Brentwood" +"
The great gate is barred and padlocked,
, for fashionable carriages no longer come
that way, but the small boys of the
neighborhood have burrowed under the
fence, and time, too. has made rents IN
the barbed-wire barrier. Once beyond, a
stretch of pasture awaits. Lush grass
waves in the meadow, where cows pause
in their grazing to inspect the intruder,
and birds build in the hedges and the
ragged locust trees that struggle beside
the driveway.
At the foot of the hill the road forks,
and turn to the right brings one up
before still another gate. from whose high
posts two trespass signs give ominous
threats. But in the incloSure the aged
oaks rustic in the breeze wild flowers
blossom in the underbrush, and up the
hill the sun CLEANS on the soft gray of
a stoccoed wall, so If you are adventur-
Gus you negotiate the second fence, brave
the dogs that growl and rattle their
chains. and start the upward climb to
the manor house.
Part of Young Estate.
brentwood" in early days, was part
Of the old Youngsborough estate. owned
by Motley Young. one of the original
proprietors of Washington. He kept great
state in the mansion house, near the
present landing of the river boats, and
with him lived his daughter Mary ana
her husband, Robert Brent. Young was
not like David Burns, that Obstinate one
of the five great proprietors: he wei
coined the founding of the Federal city
upon his lands, and when the young Capt.
tai was incorporated in 1902 and the
President empowered to annually appoint
a mayor the honor fell to Robert Brent.
who served for ten successive terms
Brent was a thoroughly progressive man
who believed in the future of the sorely
maligned Capital, and while his friend,
Maj. LEnfant, was laying out vistas and
gardens for the beauty of the city, Brent
was attending to the everyday necessi-
ties. Under his supervision were organ
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25

lists had to work out the life history of
every kind of clam whose shell is OF
value in the factory. In this case the
scientists made use OF everything al
! ready known about the life of fresh
water CLAIMS, but very many important
questions they had to solve by original
observations and experiments.
How He Is Born and Grows.
CLANS reproduce by means of eggs,
which hatch in the shell of the parent.
The minutely small young, thousands OF
which hatch in one parent shell. are liter
ally thrown out of the house by the
mother This does not seem a hard fate
for the young CLAIMS. for, as everybody
knows. there is always room for more
CLAIMS on the bottom. But for some in
serutable reason nature has ordained
that every young clam must become
parasitic on some fish before It can take
to the usual life of its kind.
Some of the infant clans are provided
with small hooks on their tiny shells
and by means of these they attach
themselves to the fins and other hard
external parts of fish. Other kinds of
baby clans have no such hooks and
they are forced to attach themselves
TO the soft gills of fishes. Most of the
commercially valuable clans belong
to this class. Every infant clam
that does not become attached 20 a
fish is doomed to perish, and It is doubt
full whether in nature more than one
in 100 or even one in 1000 has the luck
to hook fish.
The Fish Don't Like II.
Fish do not like to be infected with
clans and no doubt avoid. as far as
they can, those places where the clam
brood is thick. When their gills get
badly infested they breathe very fast
and get restless and uncomfortable,
like a dog whose life is made miserable
by too many fleas. Some fish take the
clam infection very readily and some
are almost immune; some are good
hosts and some are poor hosts for the
orphan CLAIMS.
Bullheads are almost immune; for
some reason the CLAIMS are not able to
take a hold of their gills. The Ger
man carp is easily infected, but for
some unknown reason the baby CLAIMS
maintain their hold on its giIls
and soon drop off and perish. Rock
bass, large and smalI-mouthed bass.
the green sunfish and the red-spotted
sunfish are good clam nurses, and a
flve-inch fish OF any of these kinds can
nurse thousand clans through the
period of helplessness without harm to
itself. Croppies. blue-gill sunfish anu
yellow perch readily take the clam in
fection, but easily die of overinfectiOn.
The CLAIMS Cradle.
When the clam has attached itself,
a sort of cyst or pimple. formed of the
tissue of the fish, quickly grows around
the unlimited little guest, so that with
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
SHORT TWILIGHT A MYTH.

1t appears that the short tropical
twilight, like the open polar sea. is
myth of our early gropings for knowl-
edge. Twilight is due to reflection of
sunlight from the upper air, and Young
and other authorities state that in Iati-
tude 40 degrees it continues from about
ninety minutes to more than two hours,
that during the longest days above lati-
tude 80 degrees it does not disappear even
at midnight, but that in the mountains of
Peru 1t never lasts more than half an
hour. From observations at Arequipa
$500 feeD and Vilicocaya Q4,0GO feet,
Prof. S. I. Bailey pronounces the last
statement incorrect. The tropical twi-
light is somewhat shorter than that else
where. and is further lessened by great
altitude and purity of air, but is never
less and generally much more than an
hour.
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
Historic Estate in Florida Avenue North
east Home of Washington's First
Mayor, Gradually Going
Into Total Decay.

lied the school board. police and fire de-
partments, streets were made. and pumps
and wells opened. Mayor Brent evidently
dreaded confagration. for he contracted
for the cleaning of all the Washington
chfmneys, and further, provided that every
property owner should possess as many
fire buckets as there were stories to his
house.
are not of recent growth is eyinced by
his ruling, made when Center Market
was opened in 1902, which stated: That
no person shall sell or expose for sale
in said market any unsound, blown. or
The Washington herald., 1911-06-25
The Height of Fame.

From Harptrs Weekly.
And how is your son. Henry. getting
on in literateur?'' asked the visitor
''Oh, he's doing famously." said tho
proud mother. His autograph brought
so the other day"
Really
"Yes-signed to a promissory note for
three hundred. 1 bought it myself
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-06


The Misses Florence Anderson,
Hannah Mountain and Title Medel-.
stead, teachers 81 the \ Belling Cham,
MINI. High School spent their
Thank sgiying vacation & guests Of
Miss Birdie Ramsett
Mrs. a. G. i Bryant returned yester-
day from Spring Valley where she
went to see her mother, who was very
unfortunate IN having a very pain
FIJI accident from 9 fall, causing a
fractured hip. Mrs. Bryant reports
her mother doing as well as could be
expected as she is pretty well ad-
.vanced in years, and it will take sew
eral months before she will be able
to be up and around again.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-06
THE PRINCIPAL
WINNER
By F. A. Mitchell
Copyright by American Press Assoc
citation, 1911.

j +s 's4 - - $ . ~
When the American troops were
fighting their way across Cuba. Cap
tain Timberlake. commanding a party
Of fankers. noticed coffin lying not
tar from the road.
That evening in camp Captain Tim
berlake was chatting upon the events
Of the day with the adjutant and the
major Of his regiment, talking about
who had been killed, who wounded,
how the Spaniards fought and how
they. had the advantage Of the Amer
leans in the matter Of arms and smoke
less powder, when Tilnberlake spoke
Of the strange sight of coffin lying
beside the road
If men have not the curiosity of wo-
men, and the statement has been de-
MED by the latter, they have trait