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Stevens and Hazlett March 16. $780, 60
House Occupied by Brown.

/ The house which Brown and his fam
lily and partisans occupied during their
preparation for the attack on Harpers
Ferry has partly been built since 1859.
but the old part still stands and Is in
cluded in the newer house. In the time
of John Brown the house had stone
walls to the height of one story, and
on top of that stone work was a
structure of logs one story high and
containing one room. At one end of
this stone and log house was an addi-
ton built of logs, two stories high,
but of smaller dimensions than the
main part of the house. In this all
log part there was a room downstairs
and one upstairs and the upper room
was reached by flight of rude steps
on the outside. The hip roof was
shingled and a stone chimney rose
above 1t.
Near the south end Of the house was
log building that was used as meat
house or store house. The lot around
the house and the outbuildings were
much of the fencing which is to be
seen in that country today. There Is
picture of this house as it was when
John Brown dwelt there. in possession
of w. L. Erwin Of Harpers Ferry. The
property, which covers 300 acres, is
now owned by L. E. Calvert and Joseph
Savage, and most of the land is plant
ed in fruit trees.
toric house and off the main road in the
direction of Elk Ridge lives a woman
who knew John Brown, the sons and
the other men who gathered there. She
sleeps in the graveyard at the side of
Samples Manor Church. Before her
marriage she was Mary Catherine Hoff-
master, and her father and his family
were not only neighbors but close
friends of the Browns. She said:
A Fine Old Man.
Eyes. indeed: knew John Brown
before he started his war, and we GER
tainly were surprised. Nobody would
have believed it of him If they hadn't
seen all the trouble at Harpers Ferry
with their own eyes. He was a fine old
man and a splendid neighbor, and
whenever he killed a hog he always
sent his neighbors piece OF meat.
He. could quote the Bible by the yard
and knew every word that was in the
book, and was as regular at church as
could be. Ny father and old Mr.. Brown
were great friends, and we children,
who were growing up then liked him
very well. Mr.. Browns sons were
good deal over my age then. but
thought they were very nice young
men,"
AS far as known, the names OF the
Brown party in the attack on Harpers
Ferry, and who are often referred to
as 1.-The invaders" in addition to John
Brown and his sons, Watson. Oliver
and Owen, were Aaron D. Stevens, Ed
win Coppic, Barclay Coppic, Albert
John E. Cook. Stuart Taylor.
William Lehman. William Thompson.
John Henry Kagi, Charles P. Tydd.
Oliver Anderson, jeremiah Anderson,
Dolph Thompson, Dangerfield Newly.
Greene, John Copeland and
Lewis Leary. Newly, Greene. Copeland
and Leary were colored.
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CHANTILLY MARKERS
WILL BE SET SATURDAY
Will Be Erected in Memory Of Gems.
Kearny and Stevens, Who
Fell There.

Markers to the two major generals,
Kearny and Stevens, who fell on the
field of Chantilly. are to be formally
set Saturday with impressive services
in the presence Of hundreds OF vet.
Grams now attending the encampmenS
here.
Col. John McElroy, acting commander
OF the Department OF the Potomac. and
Corp. James Tanner. past commander
in-chief of the G. A. R.. are to deliver
speeches at the unwilling of markers.
Brig. Gen. John L. Glen, U. 8. A.. re-
tired, and Col. Charles Magoon also
have been invited as guests Of honor.
In the series of battles grouped un-
der the heading of second Manassas
or second Bull run, in August OF 81.
efforts were made by Lees army to
turn the flank OF the Union army and
interpose between it and Washington.
fought at Chantilly on the evening OF
September 80 in the midst Of a violent
rain and thunder storm.
Maj. Gen. Phil Kearny of New Jer-
sey. one of the ablest officers in the
Union army, dashed out to reconnoiter
and ran into a party of Confederates,
who ordered him to surrender. He told
them to go to place that was warmer.
and dashed of, but was brought down
by a fatal shot.
Maj Gen. Isaac 1. Stevens. in en-
deavoring to rearrange his lines. was
also killed, making two major general9
killed in the engagement. Both OF
them were distinguished officers. an4
their deaths created widespread
Gen. Stevens was a grad
uate of West Point, and had been gov.
ernor of Washington territory.
These two markers to their memory
on the field of Chantilly are to be una
yelled at noon Saturday, at PendeH
Va. about one-half mile from Ok Hin
where the two major generals fell.
Capt. ]. N. Ballard has filed for recor4
a deed conveying to the Phil Kearny
about one-fourth Of an
acre of his farm on the field of Chan
tilly, near Ok Hill. Va. which was the
spot where Maj. Gen. Kearny was kill
ed in the closing engagement of the
second Bull run campaign when Gen.
Lee was attempting to break through
into Washington.
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LINCOLN OWNED IOWA FARM.
Great Memorial Highway Runs Close
to Historic Tract.

Abraham Lincoln never owned but one
piece of farm land and that was in Iowa,
six and a half miles northwest Of Dem
ison. in Crawford county. according to
an official statement just issued by the
Iowa highway commission.
There were 120 acres in the tract
and President Lincoln still owned it when
he was shot by Assassin Booth" says
this statement ]. B. McHose of Boone,
at a recent meeting Of the Lincoln High
way officials at Boone, called attention
to this interesting fact in urging the Iowa
officials to greater efforts in putting the
route into the best possible condition.
when this highway was named much
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Soldiers Home. at Hampton Further
southwark lies Norfolk, Va, the scene
of stirring activities in the tragic days
war.
In fact, in all directions from Wash
ington and within easy access are To-
calities in which American history has
been made. Any of these would form
the objective for a weekend jaunt dur
ing the progress of the forty ninth en-
campment or at its close.
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THE NAME OF OLD GLORY.

Old Glory say,
BY the ships ''
long, blended ranks of the and the blue.
Who you. Old Glory. the name that you bear
With such pride everywhere.
AS you yourself free to the rapturous air
full length, we're wanting to?
gave you name with the ring of the
And the honor and fame SO becoming to you?
stripes stroked in ripples of white and of red
With your their glittering best overhead
By day and by night
Their delightfulest light
Laughing their little heaven Of blue
Who you the Of Old Glory? Say. who
Who the name of Old Glory3
lifted, faltering then
In vague lisps and whispers fell silent again.
Old Glory. speak out! We asking about
How you happened to favor" name, to
That sounds SO familiar careless and gay
AS we cheer shout in wild, breezy
We-the crowd. every man of u.s. calling that
we-Tom, Dick Harry-each swinging his
And hurrahng "Old Glory' like you
When. Lord all know we're as common as sin.
And yet Just like humor all
And watt thanks We hail and fall
Int with waving
Where glorifed. sanctifed betters have gone.
md this is the were wanting to know
(And wanting 1t
Where fathers went willing go)
Who gave you Of Old Glory, Ohio.
Who you the name of Old Glory?
flag unfurled with a billowy thrill
For an instant, then wistfully sighed
Old Glory the story we're wanting to hear
s what the plain facts of your christening were,
your name-just hear 1t,
Repeat 1t and cheer 1t. g tang to the spirit,
AS salt tear;
And seeing fly, the boys marching by.
There's shout in the throat and blur n
aching live for always-or die,
II dying. still keep you waving high.
And by love
For you, floating above.
And the of all the thereof
gave you Old Glory and why
Arc thrilled at the Old Glory?
Then the old banner leaped like a In the
And huttered audible answer
".
And 1t spake. with shake Of voice. and it said
By the driven snow-white living blood-red
OF my bars. and their heaven of overhead
By the symbol conjoned Of them all. skyward cast
As float from the steeple or flap at the mast.
Or droop DER the sod whore the long grasses ned
My name is IL old the glory Of God.
So came by the Glory
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1s9s).
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duty there.
Beyond the mouth Of the Potomac.
where it empties into the broad waters
of the Chesapeake. piled by passenger
steamers from Washington. is the ia
nous stretch Of water where the Con-
federate ram Merrimac and the little
grapple in Hampton roads. On the
shore line from Hampton roads is To-
Gated Fort Monroe. famous in war
time history, and nearby. the National
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who were present at the surrender at
Appoma ttox will visit the Surrender
to be photographed in a group on that
historic ground.
The scene of the battlefields of Bris-
tow station. four miles south Of Man
assas, is also an interesting locality
near the capital. One of the fights oc-
CURED in 1862 just before the second
battle Of Bull Run. The other in 1853.
when Gen. Meade commander the Union
army. Arrangements have been made
for railroad excursions to the Man
assas fields September 80.
Will Show. Bull Run Points.
Lieut.. George C. Round Of Manassas,
who served in the Signal Corps Of the
Union Army during the war. is making
arrangements for the reception and en-
tertainment of veterans and other en-
campment visitors who may wish to
avail themselves of the opportunity to
take a trip to the Bull Run battle
grounds. Lieut.. Round is a veritable
encyclopedia of Information concern
ing the battles that occurred between
an authority on the two actions at Bull
Run. He was particularly active in
bringing about the Manassas national
jubilee of July 81. 1911. under auspices
of Manassas Picket Post, G. A. r., and
Ewell Camp. United Confederate Vet
| Grams. when the motto was adopted:
Let US have peace" Grant: DUTY
| the sublimest word in any language"
uee).
feature of the jubilee was the lin
ing up of the Union veterans on one
| side of the battlefield and the Con-
federate veterans on the other side.
AT the command Charge" the two
| lines dashed at each other. not with
flashing bayonets and fierce battle
yells. but with outstretched hands. AS
the lines blended in friendly confusion
the men in blue and the men in gray
| clasped hands in American comradery.
Following the grand review on Penn
sylvania avenue in Washington, May
%. 1865, the veterans marched back to
| their camps which dotted the Virginia
dales and hills about Washington.
| where they were disbanded. But be-
fore they went to their homes they
tarried long enough to erect with their
own hands two monuments to mark
! the beginning of the great civil war.
They used such tools as they had in
their camps and fashioned from the
| native Virginia brownstone two rude
memorial monuments. I'm Memory of
the Veterans Who Fell"
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Manassas. the scene of the two bat
ties of Bull Run. Is about forty miles
from Washington. The drst battle was
fought July Fl. 1861. and the second
thirteen months later. August %, 20
and 80: 1862. The preliminary fight
ing in advance of both battles began
at Blackburn Ford on Bull Run
creek, where the very first clash
between the Army of the Potomac and
the Army of Northern Virginia occur
red July IS. 1861. In these hrst bat
ties between the men in blue and the
men in gray Gen. Mcdowell command
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The Society for Electrical Develop
ment announces the selection of the
period from November % to December
4, 1915. for the observance Of SelectricAl
prosperity week throughout the United
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Memorials Fashioned by Soldiers.

One of these monuments, twenty feet
high. stands on the Henry hill. where.
as undisciplined recruits. they sur
fered their first defeat at Bull Run,
and where. thirteen months later, un-
der Sykes. Reynolds and Reno. they
stood in solid phalanx and drove back
the gray legions of Lee and Long,
street.
The other monument in memory of
the Union dead Is sixteen feet high and
is located on the Groveton farm, where
at the second battle of Bull run siren
uous efforts were made to dislodge
Stonewall Jackson from his tntrenched
position on the unfinished railroad.
Both monuments were consecrated by
the same ceremony on the same day.
Sunday. July II. 1855.
These monuments will be objects of
unusual interest to visitors to the G.
A. r. encampment, AS well as q bowl
der tablet erected in memory of Col.
Fletcher Webster on the spot where he
fell. August 80. 1852. while CALAMITY
leading his regiment, the 18th Massa-
chusetts Volunteers. Col. Webster was
the son OF Daniel Webster.
There are other memorials on the
Bull run fields. including those in
honor Of the dead Of the 18th Brooklyn
Regiment. the 5th New York Infantry
(Duryee's Zouaves), the 10th New
York National Zouaves). and several
Confederate monuments. Then there
Ia the famous stone house. which was
used as a hospital by both armies dur
Ing the two battles of Bull run. The
old Dugfn house In all its wartime
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CHARGE AND HA11psHA1lE VETERANS Or E Blue AND Sx
AT MANASSAS REUNION INl9n

simplicity, and still bearing the scars
of battle; Club Run bridge and hill and
the famous Stone bridge, where the
first gun was fred in the first battle OF
Bull run
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

The new constitution of the state
of New York, drafted by the constitu-
tional convention and now awaiting
acceptance or rejection by a vote of
the people, wipes out the huge
blanket ballot which has always been
a feature of United States elections.
Under the new constitution, the
governor, the lieut.. governor, the at
torney-general and the comptroller
are the only state officials to be elect
ed; and only their names appear on
the ballot paper. All the other state
officials, hitherto elected by the
people, will be appointed by the
governor. The right of the state
senate to confirm or reject the COVER
nor's appointments is also taken
away. If the constitution is adopted,
as is expected, the governor of New
York will become a real executive,
with large powers. The movement to
limit the choice of the people to the
higher officials, which is spreading
throughout the United States, is a
significant development.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07
NORTH DAKOTA LEADS U. S.

North Dakota leads the United
States in composite conditions of
all agricultural crops. This informa-
ton is given out by the national gov
eminent through the office of the
agricultural statistical department at
the federal building in Grand Forks.
No other state in the union surpasses
North Dakota in point of all crop con-
ditions and productions. North
Dakota's crop scored 1865 per cent
with 100 per cent average. It's near
est competitor is Oklahoma with an
average of 1861 per cent. Here is
how the first five states of the Union
rank: North Dakota, 1868; Okla
homa, 1875. l; Kansas, l24.5; South
Dakota, 122. l; Nebraska, 100.
North Dakota raised 13, 900, 900
more bushels of wheat than any other
state in the Union. In the production
Of oats, this state ranks fifth with an
estimated yield of IS, 962, 900 bushels.
The barley crop captures third place
with a yield only a little less than
:, 1000, 900 bushels of California's
yield, the banner barley state of the
Union. Almost half the flax seed
raised in the United States is produc-
ed in this state. Of the IS, I'll, 900
bushels estimated for this year in the
nation, North Dakota will furnish
8,O23, 600. If ever any community
had reason to invite people to come
and enjoy prosperity, North Dakota
certainly has. In the words of the
boy on the street-''We are there
with the Goods
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07
ments, 6 per cent interest.

ments, 6 per cent interest.
Railway fare credited purchasers.
Minimum price is lowest bid that
will be entertained and is from
$40. 90 to $50. 90 an acre less than
surrounding similar land is held at.
Land is nearly all under cultivation.
Soil deep, black loan, clay subsoil.
Crop failures unknown.
Good dwelling houses, barns, gran
aries, wells, sheds, groves, fences etc.
Telephones, daily rural mail, near
railways, schools, churches, creamer-
les, etc. Good graded roads.
You buy as cheap as homesteading,
improvements considered. Crops here
tofore have soon paid for the land and
will do so again.
Must sell. Owners actively enga-
ged in business only reason for SELL
ing. Prospective buyers shown
land any day before sale.
Short space prevents giving details.
Write owners,
c. D. LORD and G. W. YOUNG
Park River, North Dakota.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07
Military Rats.

An old military dictionary tells us
that rats were sometimes used in war
for the purpose of firing powder maya
zines by means of lighted matches tied
to their tails. We cannot offhand re-
call any historical instance of this, but
presumably it did occur. seeing that
Marshal Vauban laid down special
rules for counteracting it. Anyhow,
the dodge is Us old as Samson, who,
you may recall, used foxes in a similar
way for q somewhat similar purpose
London Standard.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

Com'r Alex Russell and wife
received the word at their Fremont
township home during the week of the
unexpected death of Mrs. Russell's
father.
Ernest Rekow one of the early day
pioneers to locate in Huron township
now located at Westfield, Wis.,, made
his annual visit with friends at Clyde
this fall.
Daniel Berg, a resident at Osna-
brock for twelve years at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Koch, died Sunday
aged seventy-five years, no sign of
illness being evident up to a few
minutes of his passing away. Rev.
B~ierwagen of Dresden conducted the
funeral.
Auction sales being held in Cavalier
county this fall seem to be confined
to the southwestern part of the
county. Sales in Henderson, Banner,
seivert and Stor]ie townships are at
the present time being advertised in
the Munich paper, to be held within
the coming two weeks.
Henry krien is one of the we'll
known old timers north of Osnabrock
who is able to tell Of crop yields as
shown by the thresher. His wheat
crop shows an average of better than
80 bushels per acre, while eight acres
Of new land gave a yield of 33S bush
els, or better than 40 bushels per
acre.
The new banking institution at
talrdale, the Security State Bank,
opened its doors October LIST. The
officials are: 0. j. Nordlie, PRESIDENT:
Albert c.. Hanson, vice president;
Otto P. Hoff, cashier; Paul E. Glass,
assistant cashier; 0. j. Nordlie, AL
bert C. Hanson and Otto P. Hoff,
board of directors.
The towns of Sarles, Calvin, CLYDE
and Munich each had a representation
at the meeting OF the state board of
railroad commissioners held in Grand
Forks on Tuesday of this week MAX
ing a vigorous protest against the
train service on that branch line of
the ct. Northern. They ask for a
passenger and freight train daily in
stead of two freights.
To date Wales is the only town
along the line that has not lost an
elevator by fire, but on Tuesday of
last week the town had a bad scare
and close call of breaking the record
when the Fischer elevator caught fire,
the blaze starting around the exhaust
pipe of the engine where it passed
through the wall of the engine room.
Several minutes elapsed before the
flames were actually under control
after the discovery Of the fire by
Frank Fischer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07
On TALKING Too Low.

I'VE Americans are Of two kinds;
We either talk too loud or too low, par
ticularly in public places. A European
family will sit down in public without
feeling the necessity of putting a mute
on the voice and retiring as though be-
hind a wall. They are not noisy or
gay, they do not toot on tin horns, but
they say what they wish without low
ering the tone to that painful depth
which We mistake for a cultivated
note. Let us be brave and be our
selves, for nothing can be better than
that.'-Louise G. Hale in Century.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07
LEGAL NOTICES
SWORN EMF

Statement of the ownership, management
etc, of the Courier Democrat, published at
August "a, 1912. Name of editor, Al, Koehm-
stedt, Langdon. N, D.; managing editor, James
Woolner, Langdon, N. D.: business manager,
Fred S. koehmstedt. Langdon. N. D.; publish
er, A. I. koehms:edt, Langdon, N. D.; owner,
A. |. koehmstedt, Langdon, N. d. -
known bond holders, mortgages and other
security holders, holding one per cent or more
If total amount of bonds, mortgages or other
securities. None.
Al. KoEHMsTEDT. Owner
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st
day of October, A. D.. 1915,
THOMAS DEVANEY, Notary Public.
(My Commission Expires August ii, 1920
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

The calendar shows tomorrow,
October 9Th, as the date for the APP
p%earance of a new moon. Let's hope
that it isn't going TO be a wet moon
this time. The weather of the past
two weeks has about exhausted all
the signs of the local weather prophet
and if the new moon, which is due to
arrive tomorrow, should prove to be
of the variety which beamed over
Minneapolis after the election of
Monday, the patience of both the
farmer and thresherman will be we'll
nigh exhausted.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

The Milton Globe goes to the length
sof an editorial leader bearing the cap
zion "Spenthrift Democracy" to
dilate on the imposition of such evils
of democratic rule, the heredity of
which can be traced to the third and
fourth generation of republican regime
preceding it. Why doesn't the econo-
mist of the Milton Globe bring his
machine gun to a shorter range and
make a few BULLS eye hits at the ex-
travagances of Governor Hanna's
business administration, and the
empty state treasury and outstanding
unpaid warrants?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

The North Dakota experiment sta
tlon at Fargo claims that they have
proven that wild oats buried six
inches deep for five years will be all
dead. Farmers ought to be able to
make their W deductions and plans
ron this result gained from observa-
ton at the experiment station at
Fargo.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07
Puzzled.

Now that you have made your for-
tun what are you going to do with
it,"
Y don't know. I'd like to do some
thing big and splendid, but l can't
make up my mind whether to cndow
d college or build Il hospital. Which
do you think would get me the more
publicity ?'-Detroit Free Press.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

1T was to some extent consoling to
know that this was not the only sec
ton of country that was damp during
the seven rainy days of the past week.
Reports from the corr and wheat
belts in the states Of Iowa, Nebraska
Ind Kansas show a rainfall of from
shree and one-half to five inches
during that same period.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

Six years old, and coming severn
is what Editor Sam Scott tells his
readers in the last issue of the Law
ton Republican, referring to the pas
sing of another milestone in the
journeyings of that paper since it was
launched in Lawton six years ago.
Long life and prosperity to both the
paper and the family of the publisher,
who is not such a rabid republican
as one is sometimes led to think after
glancing over some Of his editorial
hot air.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-10-07

Political stunts are being pulled off
with almost clock like regularity
'dhese days by the big fellows who hold
Jobs and want to keep them. Only
last week Congressman Geo. M.
Young, who will stand for reelection
IN the Second district at the election
OF next fall, presided as state modera-
tor at the conference Ct the Congre-
gatlonal church held at New Rockford.