Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-07-11
BAIT eries and infantr

batteries and infantry.
II makes one marvel at the COURAGE
which would send men through wl,at
the northern troops went and also il N.
makes one wonder at a commandin
officer sending his men against sucl, ~
a positi ion. II looks as II II one man I
could hold II against a dozen
~ We can hardly turn around witho,,t!
meeting objects of interest. Above
the city IS the home OF Wash lin ton,a
wife, and not far away the Old taya rn &
where Washing and Lafayette were
entertained. We also saw the county
records Of land transfers written H.
the time when George washington
was surveying. The old books are AZ &
very heavy durable paper and thu
writing as legi BILE as the day it was
written. All the lands are described
by metes and bounds and the descrip.
ton Of a hundred acre piece may cover
two pages of very finely WI tten re-
cord. It seems like. stepping awav
back into the past to come on to these
things. II,
The trains have been crowded viii, !
northern and southern veterans 81 81 4
their way to and from Gettysb burg. We
met one old man who had corne from
Nebraska to visit his old home near ,1
Manassas. He had fought at 4 seettt W..
burg on the Confed erate side and left #
for the west in '65. One minute Tia
tears We're running down his checks
as he watched the old land marks tlit
by and the next minute he would be IN
a loud argument with some Virginian
as to the relative merits Of Virginia
and This state" Of tNebraska a. & Ha
surely was loyal Westerner. Accord.
ing to him every man in Nebraask
was well off Money was as plentiful
as the air. a poor man became rich
over light, crops grew enormously
high and heavy and the climate was
the finest that ever the Lord gave d1is
children. He invited all Of us to come
on out there and visit him and see FIR
ourselves and when he left the car IL
seemed like losing an old friend. When
he climbed Off at the little statio that
he hadn't seen for forty eight years
he evidently N expected relatives rs
meet him but the platf form was almost
deserted. 4 guess the old man feIt 4
wee little lonesome for his Nebras.
Ky" at least until he hunted $ulp old
acquaintance.
BY the way, the isseats'' down mere
are immense 4 thought we knew how
TO live well up north but j see now 4,
that ina i made q bitter mistake. This ID
che ls real home OF champio On cooks ~
America. Imagine coming down NV
breakfast out on a Virginia farm. They,
give you fine rich cream, oat5 II cal.
golden brown fried eggs, red ilIic.,y3
sweet ham, ham that will make Won Won
smack :'1 your lips to think about it 4
week afterwards, ham that is sWeetar
than than any meat you ever tasted, brown
Dreaded pork chops, SO crisp and fina9
that you feel sorry you ate the i am
and then forget you ate it at all. real
piping hot Virginia johnn1y,ca lie. Sl,ip
fia ak slices of bread, yellow. bII1tta.r5
that 5melts in your mouth, big pitchers
OF cold fresh milk, coffee that smells
Just like mother used to make. ali
| kinds OF vegetables, delicious v frrits
and ll lot more. Between you and ma s:
4 " ls great. / don't know how Til ever
tear myself away. Outdoors are roses
ana aoneysuckle and the 3bracing smeil
tyNtxH
e pine '!s-;s trees, fine cool breezes from
the sea, fine roads to ride horsebacL
on. fine people who want yo,,s sttras5
land have dinner WITH fhei1. di ma
M That begins with better not atart.5 ass
ths dinnsr any paper ,i;l viii rnn os,s &
Just haasts the brssik ffaas,h ~ 10, D.
md add asITaD gfffFcKENpiS and IA Van ~
fhavs q Saint Idea 81 II. HI ''F'.5
I With Rndest regards, 1 am
Q. Y. BRENNAN s3s