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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08

interested he works in the tunnel after
dark, and has about used up our supply
of candles.
He has erected a flag pole, with a
rope and pulley attached. and on holi-
days he raises the Star Spangled Ban
ner
Some time ago he built house in
the trees by mailing boards firmly to
four trees that stood near by in a
square. This house was four feet
square, and the first floor was ten feet
from the ground, and from the floor to
the ceiling was three feet Then on top
of that there was the second floor, three
feet high. He began to build the third
floor, and was hosting up lamber with
a rope and pulley when papa stopped
him, being afraid that my brother
would have an accident. The floors
were strong enough to hold papa, and
so were the ladders.
l believe my brother gets more pleas
.ure playing in our back yard than he
would in a public playground. If the
playground commissioners would let
the larger boys who are inclined to be
mechanics build a number of small
houses on the Fairgrounds, furnishing
them with the materials, it would be
fun for the boys. and then the smaller
children could play in the playhouses
with their different playthings. This,
I think. would add to their enjoyment.
Your loving niece,
MAUDE EDWARDS.
3027 West Tenth street, sixth grade,
Fobart school.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
An Orchard Playground

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My favorite playground is not a real
playground, but just row of pepper
trees. 1t is very nice and cool under
them My brother and a few others of
the Juniors often take small lunch
and carpet. We lie down ON the carpet
and eat our lunch.
l will now describe one of our days
in the pepper trees.
My brother and l were playing that
we lived in the east. We got all the
children we had invited. We gathered
at our play station. We had gone for
our health and when We got there we
had a great time climbing the trees,
which were mountains in our play.
I must not forget to say we played
that the pepper'trees were California.
Just the other day a man came along
and cut all the nice trees down or
partly down, so I suppose we will have
to find another playground.
Yours truly,
MAUD JENNINGS,
1929 Pinelly street.
Write on one side of the paper the
next time, Maud.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
Keeps House for Dolls

Dear Aunt Laurie:
The most amusing feature of my
playground is my dolls house.
After ] have done all that is needed
in the house and after mother is all
through and ready to rest for an hour
or so I then go to my dolls house. 1t
is in the attic. But the attic has win
dows, which make it light and CHEEKY
for my dolls.
1t is not furnished IN mission furni-
ture nor birdseye maple, but it is neatly
furnished in doll furniture. The attic
is divided into four rooms. The finest
one is the parlor, which is furnished
with mating on the floor, then two
or three chairs, a table, a dolls sofa.
and dolls piano. All these measure
about two inches in height. Next is
the bedroom, which is furnished with
a bed. a bureau and two or three
chairs. Then the dining room and
kitchen.
Now. of course you are beginning to
wonder how many dolls occupy this
house.
There is Teddy c.. Miss Dorothea
and Miss Margaret, who is a beautiful
haxen- haired doll about twenty-four
inches in height.
Monday | wash for these young peo-
pie, Tuesday l iron, Wednesday l mend,
Thursday I bake. and Saturday we go
TO / ne herald TO WISH Aunt Laurie III
the afternoons.
Sunday we go to church in the morn
ing and the rest of the day is spent
in reading from the Bible and teach
ing the dolls lessons from the scrip
lures. l forgot to mention that my
dolls are very bad on Sunday morn
ing between and S, the very morning
I wish to rest after my hard weeks
work. But my three naughty children
will in GiGt 0nttino 9t < O'clock
to wait for The Herald Junior.
[ have taught NV dolls to take an
interest in the Junior since it first
started. They had whooping cough
two or three weeks ago, and after
keeping me running from one to an
other constantly they finally recov-
cred. I can tell you I was glad too.
16S East TLirtv-fft street. Sixth
Grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
Near Deserted Mission

Dear Aunt Laurie:
think the subject which you gave
us to write on is very good. My ia
vorite playground is about two blocks
from our house. 1t is on large hill
under a wild walnut tree The tree
is very large and its branches spread
out on the hill and it has so many
little seats which you can sit in.
Right next to the tree is an old res
ervoir which the Indians made, and
a little way from that is an old mis-
sion which the Indians had started.
1t is right at the foot of great crack
in the hill; it is the whole length of
the hill and is very, very deep. 1t
was caused by an earthquake. When
the earthquake came it scared the In
dams and they started another one
across the river near Lompoe. My
friend and l take our books or sew
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
Playground at Home

Dear Aunt Laurie:
We have no public playground in
our part of the town, but my back
yard is my playground and we have
let's of fun in it, but 1 think the most
amusing part of it is the play house
nv father made for us.
Sometimes we turn it into a theater
and we play shows and have fine
time. we also have a large swing
and hammock under the trees, where
we can swing by the hour if we want
to. l have never been in any of the
public Fairgrounds, but I enjoy my
own playground very much.
JESSIE CLAUDINO.
Class B4, Age 9.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
WRITER'S CONTEST

Los Angeles first przeAine Kage, $40 South Avenue 10;
Griffin school, grade B7.
Honorable menton-Anta Wilson, 3127 South Main street,
Theth school, grade AS Adrenne Des Noyers 1861
South Flower street, grade s.
Out of first przeIare Dunlap Beaumont grade g.
Honorable menonHazcl Robinson, Puene Basset school,
Elizabeth Mckinney 1884 Garfield Pasadena
RHYMING CONTEST
Los Angeles first przeHelen Marie Ferguson 3246 Emmett
street; Los Angeles high school, grade 9.
Honorable mention-Martha Blanchard 219 Also street,
Cathedral school, grade B6 Guess 2241 lie Grand
B5 Seventh street school,
Out of town. first prze-Helen Nichols box 47S Monrova
high school, grade g.
Honorable mention-R. Olive Mihous, Whittier college,
first year preparatory Whittier Martin 4035 University
boulevard San Diego, grade "A National City.
UNFINISHED STORY
Prize story-Bessie Chapman, AZ Ninth street school.
Honorable menton-Alce Swanson, FL Cenro, grade 8;
Bertha Wade 1909 Rich Sentous school, grade
YOUNG ARTISTS CONTEST
Prize pictureIelen Knecht ITO Washington street. Red
lands.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
Junior Goes North

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1 shall probably be in Oakland by
the time this has reached you. / have
enjoyed the Herald Junior very much
and hate to part with it.
l am, as ever,
Your loving niece,
GRACE M. WALKER.
Age 49, Address will be 1876 Eighth
avenue, East Oakland.
/ hope you will write US from Oak
land, Grace, for we will miss your
letters and your delightful interest.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
Dog Ate Cheese

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1 will tell you about Teddie's ad-
ventures in Mother Goose land. We'll.
he was playing out in the back yard
with his kitty when fairy came
drifting along and caught Teddie in
her soft arms and fioated away with
him. OF course he cried, and pretty
soon they came to Mother Goose land.
In the meantime his mother was hunt
ing all over for him.
There he saw lions and sheep play
ing together. And cats and mice
playing together. He saw all sorts Of
fairies and he even saw old Mother
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
coastinq on Sandy Hill

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I hardly know which one of my play
grounds to write about, because there
are so many beautiful ones upon and
around Signal Hill.
I believe I like what we cali Our
Sand Pile" the best though. 1t is
part of the hill where the road has
been cut through. The road and bluff
is all sand and then where the bluff has
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08

ing and go up there fer the afternoon
and we have a very pleasant time,
Most lovingly your niece,
LENA C. TRITCH.
Age u. Lompoc.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
Hides in Japanese Garden

Dear Aunt Laurie:
First 1 will tell you that my most
fayorite playground is at my aunt's.
They have a great big lawn and nice
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
Ravens and the Hapsburqs.

Henri de WeiddeI tells the story Of
the late Empress Elizabeth and the
ravens which. Maurus .Iokel gave in an
article at the time of her majesly's
tragic death. Early in her life Eliza
beth wrote some verses In Hungarian
on the subject. OF the raven. the bird
of i'll omen. which plays great part
in the history of the Hapsburgs Ac.
cording to the imperial poetess. Il
flight of ravens was lowering over o.
mutt when Francis Joseph received
from his uncle's hands the crown
which was destined to intlict upon him
such miseries. A raven followed Max.
imilian and Charlotte on their last
walk before their departure for Mex.
leo. and when Maria Christina was
starting to receive the crown OF Spain.
which was one day to be SO grievous a
burden. Ii raven flew over the horses
heads and accompanied the carriage 10
the railway station. These incidents
were the subject of the poem,-West-
minister Gazette.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
Tho Baby Turtle.

Turtles hay their eggs In the sand
and let the sun hatch them out. They
do not lay then, all III one PLACE prob
uby BECAUSE they think II safer to
scatter them. Then. even though one
he stolen or broken. the Others may en-.
cape. The mother turtle covers them
all carefully up. one after another. with
thin sprink ing Of sand and then ap-
parently never gives them another
thought. considering her maternal duty
done. Certain 1t is that she has never
been discovered going near these egg
babies again. and when they hatch at
last the tiny soft backed creatures ut
once begin crawling around In search
Of dies and other food as independent
~ as If there were no such. thing as a
mother in the world. A little girl who
found one Of these odd oblong turtle
eggs on a sandy river bank In Louisi-
ana took it home aud put it In a teacup
on the table for safe keeping. A few
hours later slight noise was noticed
in that direction. and on looking In the
cup again she found a baby turtle, full
fedged. but tiny, scrambling about
among the bits of it's broken eggshe!l
cradle.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
Distribute Immigrant Labor
Over the Entire Country.


this country be known the land Of the free and the
of the brave be made free and the only it
- OF FREEDOM Immigrants cannot acquire
It contested centers protect the Institutions
country that these whose voices will be raised
the voices children shall RAISE THEM
IN PRAISE AND NOT IN BLAME this country its
flow STRANGE ARE! SCIENTIFICALLY WITH
BUT WHEN II HIMSELF HELP
LESS As MANY SITUATIONS, LEAVE HIM sHFT5
HIMSELF. x@s rM# ~ IL = - II ss.SS 81 x IA 4
hold hands despair the business who ships
his goods market greatly Of its real
it. Yet the present have done
very little to PREVENT a CONCENTRATION OF SUCH EX-
PENsIVE MACHINES AS MEN going glutted market
and dcayng mentally morally the injury society
THOUSANDS IMMIGRANTS HERE PRACTICALLY PEN
NILEss, STARVATION THE PORT OF ENTRY
III BEING IMPOSSIBLE THEM WITHOUT MONEY
cENTERs WHERE LABOR IS NEEDED E$@& ~
TRUE ECONOMY DEMANDS THAI SOMETHING SHOULD
OUTSIDE or THE contested cENTERs %##%*
This requires establishment Of SPECIALLY EQUIPPED
TRAINS running from congested New York city
all parts country which will carry these abong
ACTUAL COST in order that they may be PLACED WHERE
THEIR SERVICES ARE NEEDED-on the farms and fac
tories If this were the RAILROADS WOULD SOON BE
ECARRYING# BACK THE PRODUCT OF THEIR LABOR and
they, turn would receive very ample indirect the very
low fare :ssZS$sz Z %E@az
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
OUR MILLIONAIRES.
American Money Kings From Ger.
man Point Of View.

American Money. Kings From Ger.
man Point of View.
In satirica article entitled 1.-THE
Natural History Of American Million.
aires a writer In the Berliner Tage-
blatt says: '"They all came to New
York. Chicago or Philadelphia with
one shirt aud with one cent in the
pocket Of the only other garment. All
served as bootblacks. errand boys or
even in more humble positions and in
the second week had saved enough
to buy waistcoat After one month
they appeared before their respective
employers clad in new clothes and
told them with imposing self conf
dence that the organization of their
business was defective and required
reorganization. A year later the boy
has become a partner, in two years he
has outstripped the former boss in
wealth. and a year later, he has grown
smart enough to kill off the benefactor
Of other days. All American million
aires arise at 3 in the morning, eat
and drink almost nothing, cease their
work at midnight and allow only those
to live whom they think are good
enough to invite. Every dollar king
POUNDS a university. an opera, mu-
scum or picture gallery. Life be-
comes burden to them when there
are no more competitors in their
branch worthy Of destruction. Then
they lie down and die Of ennui"-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16

A certain estimable old gentleman is
at all times worth listening to. though
occasionally his grammar. IS scarcely
perfect. He was dining on one occa-
sion with the local squire. when. much
to the disgust Of his worthy host. a
trit1ing error on the old gentleman's
part was pounced upon and loudly re-
peated by the son and heir of the
house. There was painful silence.
broken at length by the host,
my son." be remarked quietly to the
young fellow, there are times. | ad-
NIT. when our old friends speech is Il
little peculiar. At such times you
might be Of mutual assistance to each
other" ~,
in what way. sir?' asked the son.
WELL" was the severe rejoinder.
you might give Mr.. x. a lesson or
two in grammar. in return for which
l have no doubt he would assist you
to patch up the holes in your man
ners." -London Tit-Bits.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
PRESIDENTS TRIP No INNOVATION
Most Of the Presidents
Have Followed the Example
Of the Father Of His Coun'
try In This Matter. :: ::

second term, Jackson made a tour
through the old middle states ana
New England. which carried MIN
to Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York
and Boston and which proceeded as
far as Concord. N H.. at which point
Ill health compelled him to return to
Washington. He was old and infirm.
but the enthusiastic greetings which
he received. even in the old time Fed
eralist stronghold of New England.
made his tour very interesting. Jack
son had just overthrown Calhoun and
the nullifiers of South Carolina. and
on this account he received the plaudits
of Boston and the Businesses OF the
Essex iunto. Ten years later Tyler
went to Boston to attend the dedlca-
ton Of the Bunker Hill monument.
Polk made tour Of the south and
also visited New England during the
Mexican war, but he did not receive
the welcome in the latter section which
was given to Old Hickory.
Johnson's Speeches Significant.
Nothing which Mr.. Taft will say on
his coming trip to the Pacific coast
will be likely to attract so much atten-
ton or to arouse so much comment as
did some of the remarks which John
SOB made when on his way from
Washington In 1866 to lay the corner
stone of the monument in Chicago to
Stephen A. Douglas. That trip car
ried him as far west as st. Louis. He
was then engaged in his feud with
congress on the reconstruction ques-
ton. Lincoln's policy Of state restora-
ton, which johnson was trying to
carry out, was opposed by the Repub~
ncan leaders, and the Republican
party had an immense majority in
each branch Of congress. Probably
the policy would have been defeated If
Lincoln had lived, as the majority of
his party thought it was too lenient to
the states of the late Confederacy.
Under Johnson, who was not Re
publican at all, but who was placed
ON the Lincoln ticket in 1864 as a
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
BROKE IT GENTLY.
Tho Reason the Brakeman Quit Rais'
roadina For Awhile.

q
Tho Reason the Brakeman Quit Ra's'
reading For Awhile.
Danny, Wilmmrth was brakeman
One day while his train was oiT!a SIDE
track at a town In Ohio another train
thar was doing some switching on the
same track suddenly bumped into the
caboose on the rear platform of which
Danny was standing, and he was &C.
verely bruised. He was taken to q
local hospital. where 1t was found that
his injuries were so serious as to ne
cessitate his remaining several weeks
for treatment. AT the end OF month
he surprised his mother at her home
In Pittsburg by walking into the house
on crutches.
"Why. Danny" she exclaimed. what
is the matter? What has happened to
your -.
why. I wrote and told you. mother
he answered with grin.
mo, son, you didn't. All you wrote
was that you were going to quit rail-
reading for awhile, that you had found
something else to do and that 1t was
an indoor job. You didn't say word
about getting hurt or anything of that
kind"
~ surely did. mother. told you
what happened to me-"
"You surely didn't"
How did | say came to be staying
In that town."
"You said you happened to be caught
there between trains"
"Well, I was."-Youth's Companion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16

be out guns To do this it must be able to ascend about
two miles the aerone should be disabled the mo-
mentm send along for distance Then providing there
no trouble steering apparatus the aviator might be able to
land safely his chances always favorable and this IS the
DANGEROUS FEATURE OF THE AIRsHIP OF TODAY ,
would that the dgbe balloon offers better opportunities
for usefulness navy requires less shpboard Beng
collapsible, may easily be stored until needed ~ ~
In RECONNAISSANCE there be question that the air
ship very servceabefor the purpose of LOCATING IHE
POSITION OF NOTIFICATIONS, ARMY ENCAMPMENTs
OR THE POSITION OF A FLEET OF SHIPS anchored in
bay ahp Santiago Cevera fleet might
made the attempt from the harbo
Another interesting point is that arshps HAVE 10 BE
KEYED UP TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF PERFECTION.
This question confronted the submarine boat in the begin
ming about year perfect the submarine boat and it's
mechanism Today have them well hand and their
watch and evenly balanced No doubt the AIR
SHIP WILL ARRIVE AT THE SAME DEGREE OF PER
FICTION IN DUE TIME. t:.s ..-t -
FIRST CAME INTO USE GREAT
WAS EVEN AN IMPRESSION
ABROAD suPERsEDE THE 8ATTLEsHiP AND
OTHER wARstlPs IMPRESSION WRONG. TODAY 1T
ING MANY POINTS OF VALUE: THE
LOOKED ON IN THE SAME LIGHT THEY
THE WARst4P AN OBSOLETE WEAPON
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
DOING a Mans Work.

The Widow Skinner has been twice
bereaved, and she was telling me about
her two husbands over cup Of tea.
>>"Boggs was the first," she said
dreamily. "a ornery hound wot usued
to git drunk and come home and lam.
haste me all over the place. AFTER
Boggs died l married Skinner. He
was good for nothin', ornery critter
wot 'ud turn up full, and I'd lam him
till be couldn't see." +: e. + ~ 5.1~ r II
She chuckled with quiet amusement:
"Well." said a listener. ''the last was
better than the first, at least"
But the widow shook her head. I.
mo, 'tw'an't." she said. I'D kinder
got used to Boggs' little ways, and in
SINNERS case i never cottoned to the
idea of donna mans work about the
house "-Ewhange. ....s = =: r,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16
PRESIDENTS TAFT AND D1AZ INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE.
Ell PASO.
tribute to the services Of the war
Dauocrats failr1ro 1xas cnrtain

tribute to the services Of the war
Democrats, failure was certain.
During his eight years in the White
House Grant travelled much and far.
and this called out a resolution from
the Democratic house Of representa-
tives in 1876 asking Grant what execu-
tive duties had been transacted by
presidents while away from the seat
Of government. This gave him a
chance to counter on his enemies,
which he did effectuaIly. In special
message he gave long list of alb
sences from the national capital by
most Of his predecessors, along to and
including Buchanan, and told some of
the executive acts which they perform
ed while away. The revelations sur
prised the country and silenced Grants
critics. Garfield was beginning his
contemplated tour of New England
when he was shot by Guiteau on July
2, 1881. Arthur made one or two trips
which took him long distances from
/ the capital. In 1887 Cleveland. then in
his first term, made trip which took
him into the Mississippi valley. AS he
had been married only about a year
at the time his, wife received much
attention on the tour. In 1891. In the
latter half of his service, Harrison
made long trip to the west and
south. The trip on which Mckinley
started in 1907 and which was ended
byshfs assassination in Buffalo was in
number Of miles covered the longest
which had been made by any president.
As IN many other things. Roosevelt
broke the record In length OF presidens
tia. tours, and he also called out more
tumultuous greetings than any Of his
predecessors had received. During his
service in the White House he yjsited
nearly every state and was in al the
territories. Moreover, he went out
| side the country's boundaries. going
to Panama and spending several days
there. He contemplated a visit to
i Alaska. too. but pressing duties pre-
vented TINT trip. As a member Of an
administration whose representatives
covered d larger portion OF the globe
in the performance Of their duties than
| did the official family Of any preceding
president Mr.. Taft acquired the trav-
cling habit before he reached the
White House. rs ia ID .4 3l :3553
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-16

he was longer on the road. Starting
out in 1917 from Washington on May
81, Monroe visited Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, Trenton, New York, Hartford and
Boston. The railways had not yet ap-
peared. but the steamboat had made
it's advent on some Of the countrys
waterways. New York a few weeks
hence will celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of the appearance Of Full
toms Clermont on the Hudson. Ste
vens placed a steamboat on the Della
ware soon afterward. In 1911 Nicho-
las J. Roosevelt, the recent presidents
granduncle, launched the New Orleans
at Pittsburg. and 1t went down the
Ohio and the Mississippi to engage in
the trade between New Orleans and
Natchez. In the summer Of 1917 the
General Pike, the first steamboat which
appeared on the Mississippi north Of
the mouth of the Ohio, tied up at the
levee in st. Louis. A steamboat was
launched on Lake Ontario in 1916.
Monroe Penetrated Wilderness.
The new method Of transit. there
fore, had become somewhat familiar
to few people on few water courses
by the time that Monroe started on his
tour in 1917. He travelled by It on the
Delaware, the Hudson, Long Island
sound and wherever else he could util-
lie it. But for only short distances,
and only in a few spots, was it avail
able. Monroe went as far north as
Portland, Me-, that locality at that
time being still part Of Massachusetts,.
= Then. by way Of New Hampshire, Yer
mont and New York. he pushed west
as far as Detroit. which was on the
extreme verge OF frontier settlement
I at that time, Kentucky. Tennessee,
Ohio, Louisiana and Indiana were the
only states on the sunset sids OF the
Alleghenies then. Detroit had only a
few hundred Inhabitants and Michi-
\ gan did not become state until twenty
years later. Monroe penetrated far in
( the wilderness on his trip. Returning
4 by way Of GAINESVILLE, Pittsburg and
FrederfcktoWn, reaching Washington
on Sept. II, he was three and a halt
months absent. No other president
until Johnson covered as much terri
tory on any trip which he made.
In 1888, soon after the opening Of his