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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Made Balloon Trip

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Last June, when the captive balloon
was at Chutes park, l helped Captain
Mueller get the balloon ready to go up,
and in return he gave me trip up In
it. When the balloon was ready to as
cend Captain Mueller gave the signal,
the engineer took off the brake, and we
started up. 1t felt as II we were going
up in an elevator.
had always thought that the Chutes
wireless telegraph poles were very
high, but we went away over the TOP
of them. on the north side could see
a Ions, range of mountains, and on the
south side | could see a stretch of blue
ocean.
When we reached the end of the ca
BILE and looked down on the city, the
people below appeared like ants crawl
ing along, and the houses very small
indeed.
Going down Captain Mueller told us
of some of his experiences in balloons,
and some of them were very funny.
He tod US of one balloon race in
which he passed over a small town in
Kansas. The balloon was very low,
and to rise Captain Mueller threw out
some ballast, and before doing so he
called down: Look out below" A
man stuck his head out of window
to see what to look out for, and got the
ballast squarely on the head.
We were so interested in his story
that the time passed quickly and we
were surprised to find that we We're
almost to the ground. | thanked him
for the trip and hoped l would be able
to go up with him again some time.
Yours truly, RlCHAID MAY
1927 Adair street San Pedro street
school, age 13.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

it looks different. We went very close
to it and could see plainly how the
great rocks are fitted together so. even.
1t has been in course of construction
for about seven or eight years and is
not finished yet.
1t is two and half miles long, eighty
feet deep, sixty feet wide at the bot
tom and twenty feet wide at the top.
The boat tossed up and down just
a little when a high breaker happened
to come our way and we got a little
drink of salt water once in a while but
of course, that was a part of the trip.
My friend tried his luck at fishing
hut the fish evidently didn't want to
bite, and they didn't.
San Pedro has a fine narbor and will
some day be an excellent port for Los
Angeles. We enjoyed our visit there
very much. Your nephew,
ARTHUR MOBILES.
s24 East Twenty-seventh street
Twenty-eighth Street school, grade BS.
Age 13 years,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Saw Strange Dog

Dear Aunt Laurie:
One day last summer l was visiting
my cousin, when we started out for
walk
We passed house after house and
looked for the best features of the
buildings. 1t was not in the main part
of the city, but in the lower part of
town. We walked and walked until
I exclaimed: "Oh! Look what a big
dog" 1 had just to look again TO see
that it was a statue of a dog.
My cousin laughed and said I was
not the first person who had been mis-
taken as to whether it was a statue
or a dog.
We saw many beautiful homes and
we were so tired when we had reached
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Enjoys Auto Trip
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
1 am going to tell you about an in
teresting trip l have taken this sum
mer. We went in an auto. We LETT
Corona at a. IN. on the Fourth OF
July and started for Los Angeles. We
crossed the Santa Ana river, and then
rode for several miles with fields on
each side of us. We then went through
Pomona. The next place we came to
was Lordsburg.
Among the other places we next went
through We're Azusa, with its straw
berry fields, and Monrovia, with its
well kept streets. There was not any
thing out of the ordinary until we
came to Pasadena. Then we began to
"Oh!" and Ali" at the beautiful
homes. Then we went to Los Angeles,
but were not there long, because we
started to Long Beach. We ate our
lunch on the way to Long Beach When
we got to Long Beach we certainly
enjoyed ourselves, for we had all af-
ternoon and evening, as we stayed
there all night. The next day we went
to Los Angeles, and then to Venice,
where we stayed about four hours.
Then we went down the speedway
through ocean Park to Santa Monica.
There we took the ocean drive and
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Visited German Vessel

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Two years ago we went to Long
Beach to stay two weeks. One day we
went to San Pedro on the boat. l en-
joyed it very much. A boat had just
got in from Germany. 1t wSs a mer-
chant vessel. 1t was one of the big
gest boats in, the world. The boat car
ried lumber, cement, pigs, chickens and
other things.
Some sailors were meuding the sails.
The captain was a jolly, fat old fellow.
We went clear through. 1t was almost
like house inside. After we had seen
the boat we walked out to the light
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
UNFINISHED STORY

home we didn't feel like doing any
thing.
1t was a foggy morning when we
started about o'clock. and when we
were nearly home we were caught in
the rain and had to run.
When we reached home we counted
up to see how many blocks we had
walked, and it was thirty-three blocks
LEOTA TURNER.
East Whittier school, grade s, age o.
Whittier, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

house. The keepers daughter took us
through it.
We went up winding stairway. The
lamp was at the top. There was little
balcony at the top and we went out
on 1t.
When I looked down, the ocean ana
the land looked like a map to me.
Then we went back to the pier and
caught the boat for home.
EARL ADAMS.
First Street school, B5 grade. Age ~
Years. 27O3 East Fourth Street.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Coming Westward
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
am going to write about my trip
to California We started from Terre
Haute in the morning with a silver
shower in front of us, for a drunken
man dropped all his money on the car
steps. We got to St Louis at about
o'clock in the morning crossing the
great bridge over the Mississippi river,
but it was so foggy that we could not
see much of the river.
One night we left st. Louis at
o'clock. We crossed the Missouri the
next morning. 1t is the ugliest river
/ have seen-so broad and muddy and
not a sign of a tree near it,
Then on to Denver, and from there
to Pueblo. On the way to Pueblo we
saw the snowy range, the first noun
tains l had ever seen. Pixies Peak
doomed up in the dim distance.
From Pueblo we went to Salt Lake
City and the great lake On the way
where the Wasatch mountains rose like
wall, the train stopped for another
big engine for the climb. II was the
steepest grade of the trip. The engi-
neer gave me bunch of sweet peas
and a man was shouting, Paper print
ed in the Mormon language" l guess
he was a humorist.
Then through the desert. 1t was
Sunday and raining. A very queer
SundayJit seemed to me. The next day
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

started for Pasadena. We rode through
the grounds of the soldiers Home at
Sawtaita. We went through Holly
wood, Colegrove and Garvanza.
We stayed over night inaPasadena
and came home the next day by way
of San Gabriel to Pomona.
CHARLOTTE KIRBY.
Corona, Cal.
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THE TENNESSEAN AND THE
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NEGRO HUNG
TO lockwood
BODY FOUND DANGLING FROM
LlMB.-CHARGE WITH
ASSAULT.

HOPKINSVILLE. Tenn, April TO-
Without the intervention of judge OF
Jury. punishment was melted out Friday
afternoon to Ben. or Booker Brame
the negro who Thursday morning at.
tempted to assault Miss Ruth Gee,
near Pee Dee. while the young lady
and her sister, Miss Sallie May, were
gathering bushes with which to sweep
the yard. The heroic action of Miss
Sallie May in striking at the negro
with an axe forced him to loose his
hold and the girls made their escape
All day long search for the negro
went on and he was finally located on
the farm of Jim Coleman, near Hern-
don, in this county. Brame saw the
posse coming before they reached the
house where he was hid and he took
to his heels, but was soon overtaken
and captured. He at once began to
beg to see his mother, but his prayers
went for naught. Without any loss of
time he was taken to the Gee home
stead where the young ladies positive
ly identified him. Even before this,
all question as to his identity had been
dissipated on account of the accuracy
with which he tailed with the descrip-
ton given by the girls Here Brame !
broke down and confessed his guilt |
1t is said that Mr.. Gee attempted to
shoot the negro but was restrained, |
and the posse left with their prisoner,
making their way into what is known
as the Flat Lick section, rather
;parcely settled and heavily timbered
'egion. What happened after they
eft the Gee home is not known. Some
ime later, through traveller On the
main highway about two miles from
in this county, found the
egro's body swinging to the limb of
dogwood tree. The scene OF the
ynching was so near the Trigg and
county line that there is
ONE question as to which county the
eed was really done in. When the
ody was found there was no sign of
nybody about, the body itself being
he mute evidence of the action of the
-nchers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
MDE. MODJESKA
EXITS FROM LIFE
FAMOUS ACTRESS DEAD AT LOS
ANGELES-ExlLED FROM
POLAND.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, April TO-
Nine. Helena Modjeska, the famous
Polish tragedienne and one Of the
most noted actresses of the American
stage, died at 10 o'clock Thursday al
her island home at Bay City, Orange
County, at the age of 65 after an Ill.
ness of about two months. For sew
eral days she had been unconscious
and her death was almost hourly ex-
pected. Bright's disease, complicated
with heart trouble, was the immediate
cause of death. Gathered around the
bedside Of the noted actress when she
passed away we're Count Bozenta, hus-
band Of Madame Modjeska; Ralph
Modjeska and his wife, a son and
daughter-in-law, of Chicago, and DR..
]. C. Boyd the family physician.
The body Of the actress will be en-
balmed and taken to Los Angeles,
where II VIII lie IN a vault for some
time. Later Count Bozenta will take
the remains to Cracow, Poland, the
early home OF Modjeska, and there
they will be inferred.
Count Bozents. husband of Nine.
Mod jeska, talked before her death OF
the reasons for the coming Of himself
and wife with others from Poland In
1875. Because OF his political writings
he was exiled from Poland and Nine.
Modjeska was by imperial ukase de-
barred from the Polish stage. Follow
ng the publication of paper read by
Nine. Modjeska at the Worlds Fair in
Chicago, which had to do with Rus
politics and the former
lkase OF the Gear. further order was
ssued barring Modjeska from Russian
II is believed by Count
however, that there will be
10 hindrance to his mission TO bury
he body OF the famous actress in
poland.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
HUGHES BILL is
GIVEN THE KNIFE

ALBANY, N. Y, April 12.-Direct
nominations, as recommended by Gov.
Hughes, received their death blow In
the Assembly Thursday, at least so
far as the present session Of the Leg
islature is concerned. BY vote OF
112 to % the Assembly decided to sus-
tain the adverse report of the Judi
ciary Committee, which had registered
its approval OF the measure.
Already there is speculation whether
there Is a possibility of the Legisla-
ture being called back In extraordi-
nary session by the Governor because
the Assembly did not vote directly on
the bill, but on a motion to adopt the
report of a committee.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
PETE HARRISON
is GRANTED BAIL

Pete Hardison, the young white
nan charged with the murder of Toney
Steel, colored, at Leftwich, had his
preliminary hearing before Esq. G. w.
Hayes Thursday afternoon. After
consideration of the evidence sub.
mitted Hardison was bound over to
the next term of the Circuit Court.
His bond was fixed at $4,000, which
was made without difficulty and Hardi-
son was released
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
FRY BROS. SELL
CAR TO MURPHY

Fry Bros. have delivered to M. P.
Murphy a handsome four-passenger
tour-about car built by the Buick Mo-
to" 90" ~, who claim to make the
most durable, smoothest running,
easiest-managed and most economical
to maintain of any car manufactured.
This car is suitable for both business
and pleasure The ad of Fry Bros.
will be found in this issue of The
Herald. They repair as well as sell
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Street, NJ artin & Vaughn CO.
COOPER MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL
WILL BE ARGUED APRIL TWENTY FIRST
DATE is FINALLY ANNOUNCED AFTER PROLONGED SUSPENSE
NOT LIKELY THAT PRAYER BE GRANTED

defense stated that they would not
unnecessarily delay the argument of
the motion for new trial, and for
this reason the public has become
somewhat restless at the apparent
lack of intention to make this promise
good.
The argument will be watched with
interest, as there will be considerable
curiosity as to the grounds on which
the new trial is asked. Judge Hart
was very careful in all his rulings
during the hearing of testimony, and
it Is not believed here that the new
trial prayed for will be granted.
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Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April ~
April II has at last been fixed as the
date when the motion of Duncan B.
Cooper and Robin Cooper, father and
son, convicted of the assassination of
former Senator Edward Ward Car
mack, for new trial shall be argued
before Judge Hart in the criminal
court of Davidson county.
This announcement was made this
and will remove the suspense
that has existed ever since the famous
case was closed With a verdict of
guilty. At that time counsel for the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16

FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique,
April 12.-Prior to being taken aboard
the steamer Versailles for deportation
10 France, ex-President Castro pre-
pared a written protest against the
action of the French Government,
which has been submitted to the au-
thorities here. 1t reads as follows:
Il hereby protest against the action
of the French authorities of Marti-
nique, in having me put by force on
board an outgoing vessel. First, be-
cause / was i'll at the time, and be-
cause the act imperiled my life; Sec
ond because / have committed no Of
Tense against the Government of |
France and the authorities of Marti.
nique during the time that / was per-
mitted to remain on that island and |
finally, because the decree of expul.
sion which orders my deportation out
of French territory compels me to
take passage aboard a vessel which
will again land me on French terri
tory.
Moreover, these considerations,
aside, the case constitutes breach of
law and denial of the
rights Of individuals. That such a 6
thing should have come to pass in }
the land which saw the birth of f
and from which came the ?
Inspiration and presage of liberty and q
1T the hands of people who shed u
heir blood by torrents hardly a CEN g
ury ago to maintain unlmpaIred the a
lights and prerogatives of man, is
!;
The ex-President said Just before 6,
he sailing of the Versailles that if he
vas at liberty when he arrived at ST. h
Jazire, he would Immediately proceed =,
D Spain in order to take passage for =.
anita Cruz, Tenerife. Gen. Castro r.
aid he was leaving his brother, Car Or
lelo, here for the purpose of receiv- IN
lg mail which he expects to be for
arded from Trinidad and Venezuela ~
Hardly had the steamer left port y,
hen party of Castro's friends ar 80
we'd on the steamer GoeIette from ~
anita Lucia. They were very much he
lrprised that the former President -,
Id been expelled from the island, and no
Id a long consultation with Castro's 10
other.
pa
The removal of the former President fri
Venezuela from the hotel to the
Gamer was not without its pitiful or,
pect. Immediately on the announce for
9nt by the medical commission, who The
ade lengthy physical examination oft
Castro that he was entirely capable 7
making the voyage, the Commits 10
ry of Police, with AN escort of gen. Nm
rmes, invaded the hotel and pro- moi
eded to his chamber. They found nas
} ex-President lying Ia bed and al daa
ugh he still protested that he ould enc
move, they carried him down .,
IRIS on a mattress, the patient all G
while moaning dismally, and s+r,
ced him on stretcher. Officers ~
m the United States cruiser North =,
'olina, in civilian dress, helped to ,mn
Ike him as comfortable as possible, woe
then the stretcher was picked up tau
four negroes and taken to the ,,,t,
amer dock. Gendarmes guarded 1t n
either side and crowd numbering :,
y 1000 Followed the PROCESSION =,
1ugh the streets. d,ao
he entrance to the French Line
3 was guarded by police and mol -
was permitted to enter except ~
"a who were diractly cnnnactad wen
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
ANOTHER NATION
PUTS UP THE BARS
AGAINST c. CASTRO
INSTRUCTIONS FROM coPENHA-
GEN FORBID LANDING OF
THE WANDERER.
ISSUES A WRITTEN STATEMENT
Strong Protest Against Being Com
PEELED to Leave by the French.
Says Individual Rights Are lg-
noTed.

COPENHAGEN, April 12.-The
Government has instructed the Gov
ernor of the Danish West Indies, I'M
der no circumstances to permit ex.
President Castro to land in that terri
tory. These instructions were issued
in response to a cablegram from the
Colonial officials inquiring as to what
measures they should take in the
event of Castro's attempting to take
up his residence at any of these ports.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-16
TRUTH has one good friend
left anyway, Time.
Time is the revealer of truth, as
well as falsity, Time proves the
truth and exposes the faults.

And you can ride down any country road in
this country or any village, town, or city street
and see for yourself what Time has done to
bring out the facts about paint. Over there
you see muddy bleary-looking house dull
eyed, as it were-low vitality paint that is
dying dead, may be.
And there in a stones throw away that fairly
CLEANS with the reflection of living light bright clear,
with that brilliant sheen and radiance of gloss that
tells you the story of what's in it Just truly if you
looking into mirror to your self.
Time has proven absolutely that Horse Shoe Brand
House Paint, manufactured by the Mound City Paint
and Color Company of St. Louis, is the truest paint
manufactured in this country any other country.
It's the paint that does what good paint ought
do, and much more than you expect that any paint
will do. This is because it made of nothing but the
highest quality white lead zinc and best aged linseed
oil. One gallon goes twice a surface high as
sixooter and so feet long-an stays there at least
three years and sometimes ten.
know what's good paint pays know where
It, All have that know absolutely that Horse
Shoe Brand Paint the straghe highest quality honest priced
house for twentysix years. Sold merits
features complete line of the highest quality paint
Horse Shoe Brand for every Floor Paint
Paint On Stain, Screen Paint Wagon Implement
Paint Grecm Enamel for the Bathroom Iron Beds like
And claim pays know one paint store in this
where good advice and color
cards ought to have, if you're
tree -to you here at the store and get them
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AMERICAN SADDLE
HORSE BREEDERS
ASSOCIATION SPLITS
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF
PEACEFUL EXISTENCE TRoU-
5LEs ARISE.
SUIT IS FILED TO DETERMINE
Just Who is Entitled to Have The
Funds-Wanted To Vote Proxies
And squabbIe Resulted-Wild
Scenes Ensued.

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 10.-After
eighteen years of peaceful existence,
the American Saddle Horse Breeders
Association has become disrupted, and
the local courts will be called upon to
straigten out the question of which of
the two factions has legally elected
officers. Suit will be entered in the
Circuit Courts today by attorneys rep
resenting the allied boiling faction,
headed by Matt Cohen, TO restrain the
faction headed by Gen. John B. Castle
man from interfering with them in the
fulfilling of official duties, and COM
polling Attilla Cox, the treasurer, to
turn over all funds to DR.. w. H. Meth !
erland, treasurer of the other faction. !
Wild scenes ensued at the meeting |
Of the association held Friday morning
at The Seelbach. The faction headed |
by Gen. Castleman accepted a report |
of committee on nominations over
the protest of the Cohen faction, and
after electing the following officers
adjourned sine die: Gen. John B.
Castleman, president; w. R. Goodwin,
yioe-president; /. B. Nall secretary,
and Attilla Cox, treasurer. Directors,
J. L. Gay, j. T. Woodford, w. R. Good
win, R l.. Bond, w. T. Collins, Scott
Isbell, John w. Bayless, David Castle
man and Gen. John B. Castleman. S
After the Castleman faction had de-
clared the meeting adjourned, the
Cohen faction elected the Lexington a
horseman chairman of second meet t
ing. The insurgents heard report l.
from committee on credentials, and
1t was reported that 1873 proxies were 7
held by Mr.. Cohen, and that sixteen
members were in attendance. An
election was then ordered with the
result: Powhatan Wool
fridge, president; J. G.. John, vice
president; |. B. Nall, secretary, and b
Dr. w. H. Netherland, secretary. Di- re
'ectors, A. E. Edin, J. L. Gay, W. H. hi
Iorthcut, M. S. Cohen, j. E. Gray, ]. OF
\. futile and Gus Ball. T.
The immediate cause of the disrup- OF
ion was the refusal of President Cas- M
Ieman to recognize proxies, he hold dc
ng that they had been voted before. II
he Cohen faction held 1873 proxies to W.
ote for l. B. Nall for secretary, claim is
lg that an attempt would be made to ge
lect Augustus G. Hone, son-in-law en-
Gen. Castleman, as secretary. This 81
i'd not develop in the meeting, how an
YER, as Mr. Nall was reelected. He on
as also elected by the Cohen faction.
Another cause of the split is due to NJ
lie growing prominence Of the Har- w.
son Chief strain in saddle horse
edigrees, strain that breeders
hose animals have preponderance
Denmark blood do not regard as "A
ghly as they do the Denmark strain,
intending that 1t produces more OF
harness than saddle type. The Har-
son Chief horses have become more |
d more prominent in recent years, Mn
d the breeders in Bourbon and Pol
ontgomery counties allege that the mo
ction heretofore dominant are I'M sta
vorable to the Chief strain. her
Coz
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DIR. RAY LECTURES
AT BAPTIST CHURCH

DR.. T. B. Ray, Educational Score
tary OF the Foreign Mission Board OF
the Southern Baptist Convention will
deliver lecture on Foreign Missions
illustrated by moving pictures, at the
Baptist church tonight at 1880 o'clock
The public is cordially invited.
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Cant look wen, eat well or feel
well with impure blood feeding your
body. Keep The blood pure with Bur
dock Blood Bitters. Eat simply,t take
exercise keep clean and you VIII
have long life.