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comes to me, and I remembers Of how
one time up in Alberta a cowman
saved his stock and pulled 'em
through in good shape with a six
horse team and a drag Tor snow
plough).
No more thought of than tried.
There was enough harness in the
stables to hook up thirty head of
horses, and two teams on hand and
ready: but we wanted two six-horse
teams to do the work and we was
short eight head; so Dan and me hits
out looking through every bunch of
horses on the range for anything
what had collar marks, and any OF
'em what had was run in and put to
work. 1t didn't matter whether they
belonged to the outfit or not.
r.
TWO v.shaped drals was made out
= of heavy logs with thick planks
nailed on the outside so it'd push the
snow away on both sides and clean.
We get the teams all hooked up
Strengthened around, and we're ready
to go. 1t worked fine, and the grass
wherever we went and drug was easy
to get. The snow hadn't drifted any
and was no thicker in the draws than
on the ridges, so we worked the
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draws and found plenty of good
strong feed our cattle was needing so
bad.
We had to cover a lot Of country
and keep a-going so that they'd all
get some; but the exercise and rust
ling, along with that feed they was
getting, made 'em some stronger, and
it wasn't but a few days when the
cattle all knowed what them "
shaped logs dragging along meant.
The strongest ones would follow 'em
right up for ways, and we'd come
down the same draw but on the other
side. The leaders would stop and feed,
leaving the weaker cattle have a
chance as we come by.
That'd been going on for about two
weeks; the stock wasn't picking up no
fat but they was making out all
right. The ranch-hands handled the
drags and Dan and me was riding,
still bringing a few weak ones from
the outside stuff every once in a
while
May was getting near now and
sure enough Spring ought to show
itself pretty quick If it's going to
show up at all; but as Dan remarked
to me and says, Bill, this country
amt got no Spring or Summer to
speak of; it's eight months Winter
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Historic Estates Of Old Dominion
And Maryland in Renaissance

serves the grace and beauty OF
Georgian architecture, is approached
by a long avenue of poplars, and on
the other side from a similar port!co
one looks between solid rows Of box
twice the height of a tall man, to
see at the vistas end the blue waters
of the Potomac. Gardens flank this
walk At its end is a bricked terrace
with a pergola and below this a.
garden laid out more or less formally,
but rioting with bloom. The view
from terrace and garden commands
stretches of green meadow, dotted
with forest trees and cut by canals
through which Washington's eight
cared barge used to sweep when he
came in mis- favorite fashion to pay q
visit to his neighbor.
The characteristic ornament Of
Gunston Hall-found on gateways
without, over the stairway in the
wide hall, which extends through the
house, and on pediments within-is
the pomegranate, symbol Of hospital
ity, now as in the early days the
salient characteristic of the place.
The carving throughout the house is
notably beautiful and IN most in
stances native woods, many of them
probably. grown on the place, have
been used.
The drawing room, with it's carved
pilasters and its broken pediments
above the doorways. boasts closet
alcoves filled with rare eighteenth
century china The communicating
room offers one of the first examples
Of Chinese Chippendale influence in
this country in it's carvings
x X x
HOLM HALL FARM, now this,
property of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley.
+. Wilson, comprises some 600 acres
of the 2,0OO-acre tract that was
Thomson MasOn's domain. Tradition
has 1t that the original Holm Hall
was burned and only the grass grown
outlines of the foundations, with
terraces that in Springtime are a
drift of daffodils and narcissi, tell
where 1t stood. But for a long time
the Wilson's lived in what has come
to be known as Little Holm Hall,
an enchanting low whitewashed strucA
ture, which originally was the old
the last few years, however, they
have built themselves a mansion
house atop Mount Hybla, the highest
spot in Fairfax County.
The casual visitor would never. guess
that this house Is new. for il is
embowered in century-old trees, ivy
climbs over its warm brick walls and
it looks as though It might have been
It is Georgian in type, with a lovely
peaked roof of warm gray slate and
pair of delightful double chimneys.
Indoors, too. the colonial atmos.
Continued on Sixth Page)
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WHEN Senator Underwood retires
w from public life and settles down
at Woodlawn to lead the life of a
gentleman farmer which some wise
acres insist Is likely to be soon, he
will find an engaging combination of
the old order and the new, for Wood.
lawn Mansion has been brought up
to date, with electricity and the most
luxurious of modern plumbing, besides
being within a half hours motor ride
Of Washington over the smoothest
Of concrete boulevards. Yet, on the
other hand, it nestles among age-old
trees, the house has been preserved
in its old-fashioned beauty, and on the
veranda George Washington used TO
sit, looking off toward Mount Vernon,
when he came a-visiting to his kins-
folk.
Originally part Of the Mount Vernon
property, Woodlawn was the marriage
portion Of Eleanor Parke Custis,
adopted daughter of the Washingtons
and granddaughter of Lady Washing
ton. The dwelling was designed by
DR.. William Thornton, architect of the
Capitol, who also drew up plans for
beautiful old Tudor Place in George.
town, home of the Armistead Peters.
and of a score of other famous man
sions. The house stands on a COM
manding elevation above Dogue Creek,
a tributary of the Potomac, and is on
the road to Mount Vernon.
The news of the sale Of Woodlawn
TO the Underwoods was coincident
with the assembling at Mount Vernon
Of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Associa.
ton, holding it's f1fty-ninth assembly,
at which the failure of these patriotic
women to raise sufficient funds to buy
the neigbboring estate was made
known. It had been their purpose
to make of it a shrine similar to Wash.
ington's home, governed by similar
ladies' association.
The place was previously owned by
Miss Elizabeth Sharpe of Philadel-
phia. The late Woodrow Wilson tried
to buy It for a Summer home some
years ago, but Miss Sharpe would not
consider parting with it; and it was
not until after her death that the es.
tate was sold by her heirs.
*%*
FUNSTON HALL stands out as per-
- haps the most perfect example
near Washington of the Colonial
homestead at it's best. For Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Hertle, who now live in
the historic mansion, have had the
taste and knowledge to restore the
house as nearly as possible to what
1t was in pre.Revolutionary days; they
are blessed with enough of this
worlds goods to have carried out the
work effectively; and they have such
an appreciation Of the historic and
T the beautiful that they regard their
home as a sort of trust, and inform
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n in the historic estates of Mary
"A land and Virginia is one of
4 L the most gratifying features
Of that back to the soil"
movement to be noted among Ameri-
cans of wealth, who are slowly de-
veloping a taste for leisure and a
knowledge of how to expend 1t profit
ably.
One by one. the picturesque old
places in the vicinity of Washington
are being bought up and restored, to
the great delight of lovers of the gra-
cious traditions of an older day. And
the recent purchase by Senator and
Mrs. Oscar Underwood of Woodlawn,
to which Nellie Custis went as bride
on her marriage to George Washing
toms nephew, Lawrence Lewis, calls
attention to the imposing group of
Virginia estates on which the life of a
century ago is being revived-with
modern variations.
Mount Vernon Is preserved, Of
course, as nearly as possible as II was
in Washington's time, its chambers
filed with the furniture which George
and Martha Washington used in their
daily life, its quaint gardens still cut
by the box bordered paths they daily
trod. But this is a shrine rather than
nome. ana 1t Is 10 places Dk6
Woodlawn. like Gunston Hall, built by
George Mason. author of the famous
Virginia Bill of Rights and now the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hertle;
like Rippon Lodge, recently purchased
by Mr., and Mrs. Wade Ellis, or TO
Mr. and Mrs. Harley p. Wilson's
home, Holm Hall, that one must look
for a picture of that pleasant inter
change of hospitality characteristic of
colonial days.
The HertleS have owned Gunston
Hall long enough to have become thor
oughly identified Herewith. as have
the Harley Wilson's with Holm Hall,
the estate which in it's original form
was built by George Mason for his
son, Thomas Mason. But the Ellises
only acquired Rippon Lodge last Sum.
mer, and it's restoration is only just
completed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Walker have
bought a charming old place on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, which re-
Mary's Delight. And the growing list
of fine old places that are again play
ing an important part in the life of
the community includes Mount Eagle.
originally Lord Fairfax's hunting
lodge; Collingwood Farm, recently pur-
charsed by Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Reid
Yates, and Observation-Disclosures
the country home of Col and Mrs.
James A. Drain, which is of much
later date, but which still has enough
ing.
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And right there I stopped one of
'em with a bullet right through him
from shoulder to shoulder. The
other started to run and let's him
have a pill, too, but he kept on a-run-
ming, dragging two useless hind
legs. A couple more shots what
don't seem to affect him none and
gets my horse, takes after him.
and brings him back. limp, with a
bullet between his ears.
/ gathers up little Johnny (calf),
puts his dying nanny out Of mis-
cry, and being I'm not very far
from camp, / don't stop to skin the
wolves right then, but takes EN- in
as they are.
Two more weeks gone, and it still
looks and feels like the middle of
Winter, when by rights of season the
range ought to be getting bare Of
snow and the grass showing a little
green; and worse yet, the hay is all
gone and fed up, every speck OF IT.
So it seems to us that the outfit
is UP against IL for sure. We
know that no hay can be bought
nowhere around, being they've all
got their own stock to save and run
ming short themselves. Dan and me
had just about given up thinking of
some way out. when of a sudden 1t
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, the very atmosphere with a spirit of
dignity and true hospitality.
The house was built by George Ma
son between 1755 and 175S-about the
same time George Washington was
putting Mount Vernon in order to re.
| ceive his bride, Martha cambridge
Custfs. The two families were on
terms of intimacy and there was much
visiting back and forth between Gun
ston Hall and Mount Vernon, the two
estates being separated by Belvoir-
| now Fort Humphreys-the estate of
the Fairfax family, common friends
of the Washingtons and Masons.
Equidistant from Gunston and
Mount Vernon stands Pohick Church,
one of the few remaining eighteenth
century churches in the South. Tradi-
| ton says that Washington designed
| the structure; and II is history that he
conducted the survey by which it was
located, while George Mason assumed
| the responsibility of completing it
when the undertaken" contractor
| failed, The two men, moreover. served
| on its vestry for 20 years. and 1t was
| their usual place of worship. Bearing
| the marks of age and the scars of
Civil War. the restored Pohick Church
| is still the religious center Of the COM
munity.
When IL came into the hands OF its
| present appreciative owners Gunston
| Hall had fallen upon evil days. After
descending to George Mason's son and
his grandson the estate passed out of
| the family and was sold to two wood
choppers for the timber on the land.
| They lived on the upper floor while
the wood was being cut and allowed
! four negro families to camp out in
| the beautiful drawing rooms. Surviv-
| ing even such desecration, the place
was sold to a Col. Daniels, who clean
ed things up a bit, but who built a
| three-story watch tower atop the low
Georgian house. Afterward, it passed
| through several owners into the hands
OF Vaughn Kester and Paul Kester.
the playwright, from whom the
| Hertles bought it.
Then began the arduous and very
| delicate task of restoration Old
| prints were dug up. showing the
house as it was originally designed.
| Old books and records were searched
for descriptions thereof. The watch
tower came down and stucco was re-
moved from the beautiful old brick
work. Indoors all manner of ex-
crescences were removed. Eight lay
ers of paper were peeled off to dis
close the warm pine paneling of the
| drawing room. Restoring was done
| wherever necessary and the hidden
beauties of the gracious old house
were brought out.
| AS 1t stands now-and as It was in
George Mason's day-Gunston Hall is
| a low Georgian house of warm red
| the brick probably made and fired on
the place. A small porch, which pre-
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AUTHORS NOTE.

What I've wrote here is without
the help of the dictionary or any
course in story-writing. 1 didn't
want to dilude what l had to say
with a lot of imported words that
] couldn't of handled. Good eng
iish is all right, but when I want
to say something 1 believe in hit
ting straight to the point without
fishing for decorated language.
l was born and raised in the
COW country am a cowboy-and
what's put down in these three
articles is not material that I've
hunted up; it's what I've lived,
seen and went through before l
ever had any idea that my writing
and sketches would ever appear be-
fore the public.
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I FINALLY spots 'em half a mile
to the right. There's a ridge be-
tween us, and soon as l get peek of
their whereabouts and lay of the
land. what little l showed of myself
is out of sight again. / seen where
the motherd found a good spot to
make her last stand, and, even though
she knowed how the fight was going
to end, she was sure making use of
the rim-rock she'd backed up against,
and bellering for help that didn't
seem to come.
He'll bent for election, / follows up
the draw I'm in to where I f1gger I'd
better hoof ii the rest of the way
There was no wind to give me away
and I managed to crawl up to within
so yards of the fighting bunch, taking
In at a glance all what'd been going
on while I'm looking down the rife
sights
The wolves are enjoying themselves
so much that they're not on the look
out as they generally are They had
the COW down and letting her last as
long as they could without allowing
the fight to get too monotonous. Her
head and horns are still a-going and
mighty dangerous to anything what
comes near.
The poor little calf was all together
as yet, and off ways, plumb help
less and watching. too young to
know for sure what to do. The
wolves had figured him not worth
while TO fool with right then.
They'd fix his nanny first, spend
a few minutes with him afterwards,
and then go on TO the next victim.
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BY WILL JAMES.

~ AGGED, bewhiskered, narrow
Drained, cruel and mighty
TX dangerous to all folks, spe
Il cially women; unscrupulous,
with ha lZarirpr To Kill and
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RENAISSANCE of hospitality
in the historic estates Of Mary
land and Virginia is one of
the most gratifying features
oR that arnn nnlr 70 fha cnilV
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-03
MISSING NJ ALL
PLANE BEING
SOUGHT
Officials Hopeful Aviator Will
Be Found Soon and
Unframed

BELLEFONTE, Pa. Oct. 3.-Of
ficials at the air mail depot here
reported today that no trace has
been found of the missing air mail
plane, lost Thursday night while
en- route from New York to Chi
cago,
Search for the missing aviator,
halted by darkness and low hang
ing clouds over the mountains
twenty-five miles east of here
where the plane was last reported
sighted, was renewed today.
Despite the length of time that
has elapsed since the plane dis
appeared. air mail officials were
hopeful that pilot Charles Ames, of
Cleveland, who is considered one of
the best in the service, would be
found shortly, unframed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-03
NEW D. 6. SPEED
LIMIT SIGNS
GOING Up
Traffic at 80 Miles an Hour
LOCALIZED for Certain
BouIeVards

Installation of the new thirty
mile-an-hour speed limit signs was
started today by Director of Traf-
fic NJ. o. EIdridge.
Work Of putting the signs up will
be confined today to Bladensburg
road between Mt. O,iVet Cemetery
and the District line
No danger spot" signs. wheI e
motorists will be requested to re-
duce their speed from thirty miles
an hour will be set up today.
Director Eldridge said that the
hirty-mile-an-hour limit will be in
effect on Bladensburg road some
time this afternoon. Signs for
Pennsylvania avenue from Alabama
avenue to Minnesota avenue and
Alaba ma avenue from Pennsylvania
avenue to the District line. south
east. have not been completed by
the traffic bureau
The new speed limits will be in
effect on those streets early next
week. when the signs will be
painted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-03
GROCER Is
HELDBY
POLICE
Detective Said to Have Posed
as. Ex-Service Man to
Get Evidence

Accused of completely in the
operation of an alleged ''liquor
club supported by soldier patients
at the walter Reed Hospital, LAM
bert Bennett, manager of gro
Gerry store at 2422 Fourteenth
street northwest, will be arraigned
today in Police Court on charges
Of possession and sale of liquor.
Two other men, one of whom,
police say, was the ringleader in
the 'sliquor club are being sought
by police. The second is credited
with having solicited the Walter
Reed veterans to join the club
after he was satisfied they were
"all right"
Detective Posed as Vet
Exposure of the alleged liquor
club" was accomplished through the
activities of Detective W.. S. Brown.
Brown posed as 4 veteran and sue
ceeded in obtaining one of the cards
of membership in the club. he says,
which he later redeemed for liquor
at the Bennett grocery store.
The purchase of the detective at
The grocery store resulted in a raid.
which, it is said, netted two gallons
of liquor and the marked money
with which the first liquor purchase
was made.
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R 90 I j R Ct 5
NTERNAT IONAL
LAW CODE
Veteran statesn1an Tells
Union Of Legislators Nation
Can No Longer Delay
BY FRED j. WALKER.

The time has arrived for the world
to lay down a law governing inter
national relations. Elihu Root today
told the Interparliamentary Union
in a report read by Congressman
Theodore Burton of Ohio.
From his senni-retirement in New
York came Roots message to legis-
lators of more than forty nations
that the world should not further
postpone the drafting of laws en-.
abling an International court of JUS
tice to settle disputes which from
time immemorial have led to war.
Must be "Reign of Law
The burning question of the
future is,-shall there be reign
of law or reign of force said
Burton in an address after reading
the Root report. "CiVilization de-
nands, and if civilization is to sur
vive. there must be a reign of law"
Burton called attention to pre-
liminary work now under way at
the direction of the Pan American
Uni6 which includes twenty one
nations in North and South America.
and fnferentially suggested that this
agency be used by all nations as
means of drawing up an acceptable
code.
Roots report, prepared at the
request of the union, included a
broad outline of data now at hand
which he believed would guide con-
ferees in the laborious task of codi-
flying international law.
'"The time has come when there
should be no further delay in the
necessary preparation for gen
eral international conference, which
shall make more definite and GER
tain and comprehensive the body
of law by which intarnational con-
duct is to be ruled, said Root.
"The work must ultimately De
accomplished by official representa-
tives of the nations acting under
the instructions of their several
governments.
Qualification of international law
has a special Importance at this
time because it is necessary in
Continued on Page 2, Column p
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No angle of the world series will be over
looked by The Washington Times with the
following staff of expert baseball writers,
players, humorists and feature contributors.
Walter johnson, Griffmen's ACE, and
MOST VALUABLE player of the 1924 sea-
son in American League, will write exclu-
sively for this newspaper.
Louis A. Dougher, Times sporting editor,
needs no introduction to Washington read
ers. His baseball stories are household
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-03
ALLEGED RUM CLUB FOR
SICK VETS. RAIDED
Fruit Salad Proves
Wholesome Dish
For Pups

LONDON, Oct. "a BRIT
ish veterinary surgeon, A. E..
Kennard. has been making some
curious experiments on pups.
His first experiment was per-
formed on litter of Borzois.
He fed half of them the GUS
tomary foods given dogs; the
other half were given a diet of
oranges, apples and bananas.
sAt the end of three months,
asserts Kennard, "those fed on
fruit were noticeably in adj
vance, physically, of their BROTH
ers, and the eventual result of
the experiment was that the
fruit salad pups all became
first-class hounds whereas only
three of those fed on meat,
fish and biscuit grew into good
dogs. One of them died and
two others developed ricketts,
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VIC I'M IS
[NJNDNV
ENGINE
ROOM
Divers Plan to Cut Way Into
Torpedo Room Next in
Grim Guest
By international News service


NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Oct. 8.
The body of Paul Daniel Berk, en-
gineman of Shoemakersville, Pa,
fifth, victim of the S-51 disaster
to be recovered, was brought to
the surface today from the engine
room of the submarine where it
was wedged in the machienry.
Divers had great difficulty in
prying the body loose.
To Enter Torpedo Room
The dauntless squad of divers
win remove the hatch on the
forward torpedo room today. They
will strive to enter this >compart-
ment despite the fact that the
bach opening is only twenty-five
inches in diameter.
1t is within this torpedo room
that most of the dead are ex-
pected to be discovered. Failure of
divers to find bodies in the hunks
lining the engine room indicate
that the men rushed for the safety
of the torpedo chamber when the
water poured in after the undersea
boats collision with the steamer
City of Rome.
Submarine officials believe thar
the men probably failed to close
the heavy door of the torpedo room.
The torpedo room is three feet
lower than the aft section of the
vessel, which fact increased the in
tensity of the rushing water, in the
opinion of naval officers.
May Cut Opening
If the removal of the torpedo
room hatch is found insufficient for
the entrance of the divers, acetylene
torches viii! enlarge the opening.
The disclosure that the torpedo
room contained water, together with
the discovery that the door leading
to the motor room was wide ajar,
strengthened the current theory
that the crew were submerged
within a few minutes after the
disaster.
While salvaging of the submarine
was discussed by Rear Admiral H.
Fl. ChriSty, Rear Admiral j. ID.
Beuret and Simon Lake. immediate
operations were concerned with
carrying out Secretary of Navy
Curtis Wilbur's order to devote
all energies to recovering of bodies. ;"
The former imposing rescue
flotilla was reduced today to a
mere ske .eton. The giant cranes
Monarch and Century, which strug-
gled unsuccessfully to bulge the
SOL. were conveyed back to New
York.
The ramming of the Ssh has
caused officials of the submarine
base here to consider making the
''riding" lights OH submarines more
dist nctive An individual light for
underwater vessels would help TO
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Honest Boy Gets $40
For Series Ticket

If the Nobel Commission decides to give annual
honesty let the honorable committeeman pass the
award to Joseph Gnberg of 269 Garfield northwest
a student at Central High School