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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1909-02-03

Louisville has another young man
who is bidding for fame and fortune in
the line of Playwriting. He is John
Allen Murray, one of the bright news
gatherers of The Times, Mr.. Murray
is Breckenridge county boy, a son OF
the late Judge John Allen Murray, of
Cloverport, who was prominent mem.
Der of the Kentucky State bar. One of
his uncles, Col. David r. Murray, is a
well-known lawyer and politician of the
State. Another uncle. the late Hon.
Eli Murray, was at one time territorial
Governor of Utah. Another uncle, Mr..
Logan c, Murray, is a prominent finan-
cier of this city. The Murrays are re-
Lated to the Crittendens and otherwise
highly connected.
So by inheritance and training young
John Allen Murray has "full license, 4"
as the expression goes, to try for prizes
even in that difficult but Turing field of
dramatic writing.
The title of Mr.. Murray's play is
"The Power of Politics" 1t has reach
ed the dress rehearsal stage, and is to
have its premiere at Bardstown on
Tuesday night, February 2.
The story of how the play came to be
written san interesting one.
Johnson Musselman, the young Lou
isville thespian, who has been making
good on the vaudeville stage, sought
Mr.. Murray and asked him how soon he
could write a play. Mr. Murray modest
ly replied that he thought he could turn
the trick in six months.
''But l must have it inside of two
weeks" said Mr. Musselman.
Mr. Murray said he would consider
the matter. That night he worked out
the scheme of the play and the next day
"The Power of Politics" was knocked
out on the pewriter-certainly quick
work for four-act play.
But it seems the project was too big
for Mr.. Musseman and Mr.. Murray is
now being backed in the production by
Cincinnati capital.
A capable cast has been selected to
present the play, which is to take
swing around the Kentucky circuit for
a try-out. Eventually Mr.. Murray
hopes to land it in the fierce light of
Broadway, New York.
1t is certainly big undertaking for
a young man and does high credit to
his ambition and enterprise. Even
though 1t may not realize all the fond
hopes of the young dramatist, it is
start in a direction which may lead to
later.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1909-02-03
Mrs. Adams III

Word has been received of the illness
OF Mrs Lewis Adams. of Louisville.
Mrs. Adams has many friends here who
are indeed sor y to learn of her Distress
ing illness. She is sister OF Mrs.
Tillman Pauley of NATION, Ill.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1909-02-03
Arrive From Kansas.

Warfield Hendrick and Alfred Miller
were here Friday from Hutchinson,
Kansas, en-oute to Mr.. Hendricks
home at Hardinsburg. Mr.. Hendrick
has had an ENJOYABLE visit Of three
weeks to his sister. Mrs. Bette Miller.
Mr.. Miller has been IN Kansas four
Years and thinks Hutchinson Is fine
little city. He holds lucrative position
with the Sante Fe railroad.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1909-02-03

Story OF The Play.

The play has to do with John Winston
who, just home from college, has been
elected to the Office of Commemorative
Attorney by the local political boss, who
is trying to cover up a shortage of 81
900, 900 in the Sewer Construction funds,
derived from the sale of bonds. Col.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-24
SUFFERS AND PINES
FOR ElkS' FLOAT

Harry E. Murray, delegate of Lodge
No. GIG, B. P. o. E. of Honolulu, has
taken the trip to Los Angeles via the
s. S. Aorangi, passing through Vancou-
yer, Seattle and San Francisco to reach
Los Angeles, instead Of waiting for the
Lurline which may not sail until July
3. This will give him an opportunity
to visit the Alaska Yukon exposition
and appear among the kamaainas at
the Hawaii Building.
The float which the local Elks lodge
win put in the great allegorical parade
of Elks in Los Angeles on or about
July 16, will be designed after the
painting by Howard Hitchcock, repre-
senting a Hawaiian canoe riding the
surf. The float will be made of papier
mache. In the canoe will be four young
ladies with Hawaiian steersman. It
is certain to make a hit and no pains
will be spared to make it one of the
leading attractions of the parade The
fact that James McCandless will be on
hand to aid Harry Murray, is one sure
token that no details will be lost to
make it the ego
Another float from Hawaii may be
one showing huge pineapple entered
by the pineapple growers of Hawaii.
Thousands Of paper male leis will be
used by the Hawaii delegation as souve-
Mrs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-24
Condensed News From
Latest Coast Files

Colusa County, California, are about to
be claimed by the remnants of the
Colusa tribe of Indians under a treaty
made with the United States govern.
ment sixty years ago, when the late
General William S. Green acted for the
Indians. The present owners of the
land claimed by the Indians believe
that their deeds viii hold.
President Guy Potter Benton, of
Miami University, made sensational
| attack on the Japanese as nation in
i his baccalaureate sermon. He is
quoted as saying that in private life
they were the most immoral people on
earth and the Americans on the Pa
cific Coast We're justified in their eff
forts to preserve the purity of their
civilization against the yellow peril.
The appreciation, good viii and con.
graduation of the people of the United
States were extended to the Wright
Brothers by President Taft when he
/! presented to them the gold medal of
the Aero Club of America for their
conquest of the air. President Taft
expressed admiration of their work and
ventured the belief that their machine
will be the basis for the future aerial
craft and prophesied that the dawn OF
the age of flight is here.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-24
ADVERTISER, FOREIGN
AND miscellaneous

When the various departments at
Washington, D. c., learn that Hawaii
or the Hawaiian Islands are not SEQ
lonial possessions or a part of the
British possessions or entitled to
cataloging under the Miscellaneous
Foreign a sigh of relief will GO up
in these isles of the sea.
Fred Waldron writes Secretary Wood
of the Promotion Committee from New
York that early this month he accom-
panied Mr.. Mcclellan, secretary to
Delegate Kalanianaole, to the Congress
sional Library and they had occasion to
go through the magazine and newspa-
per section. He says he finally found
a file of Advertisers in rack marked
British Possessions. Upon com
planning to the young lady librarian
in charge of this section, she stated
that it was placed under that title by
mistake, at the same time stating that
it should have been placed in the
Miscellaneous Foreign file.
Mr. Waldron suggests that the Pro-
motion Committee endeavor to get a
file similar to other states and terri
tories, marked Hawaiian Territory"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
Plenty Good Enouoh.

Aunt Chloe was burdened with the
support of worthless husband, who
beat her when he was sober, and
whom she dutifully nursed and tended
when he came home bruised and bat
tered from fighting spree.
One Monday morning she appeared
at the drug store and asked the clerk
for "a right pow'ful liniment fob ach-
In in de bones"
You might try some of this st.
Peters Prescription, aunty; it's an old
and popular remedy, cures cuts, bruis-
es, aches and sprains One dollar the
bottle. Good for man and beast
Aunt Chloe looked at the dollar bot
tie and then obviously at her fiat
purse. Amt 20 got some fob SO
uSents?" she ventured. Some fob jes'
beasts. All want it fob ma oil
'-Lippincott's
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
Don't Hurt the Birds.

Every farmer and fruit grower
should be interested in the work of
protecting the native birds. They
represent valuable assistants in agri-
cultural and horticulture whose labors
cannot be duplicated by the introduc-
ton of any other forces. They destroy
the insects and keep the fruit trees
clean of pests that otherwise might
ruin the annual harvests. They lend
assistance just at the proper time and
enable the soil tillers to get good re-
turns for their labors.-Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY u. 1909,
AGR0SS1NFAMY

Advertising the town is not the only
Washington yesterday passed the SEN
ate resolution to permit the re-en-
Iistment in the army of the negro sol
diers who shot up Brownsville in
August. 1906. The bill was railroad
ed through the house. being taken up
under special rule, with debate linn
tied to thirty minutes for each mem
Der. The final vote was strictly on
party lines. The gross infamy of
this measure can scarcely be ex-
pressed in words and can only be APP
preciated by those who were in
Brownsville at the time the outrage
occurred. Never before in the his
tory OF the United States has the
legislative body passed an act to de-
liberately employ in the government
service criminals who have placed
themselves beyond the pale of the
law-for such are the members OF
the 18th Infantry who were either
the actual murderers of who were
made particeps criminis by the con-
spiracy of silence for the protection
of their blood guilty comrades.
If President Roosevelt wishes to
perform one more patriotic act that
will increase the admiration of the
people of the South for him, he will,
before he retires on March 4, veto
this ubiquitous measure.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
NEW LINE MAY
BE BUILT SOON
EASTERN CAPITAL INTERESTED
IN TAMP.Co LINE.
Julio II. Limantour. Mexican Finan-
eier, Working up Interest In New
York ano Chicago--Prospects
Good For Work to Begin Soon.


Interest in the proposed railway
line from Brownsville to Tampico
has been reawakened by the result
of the visit of Julio NJ. Limantour,
the well known Mexican financier
and railroad director, to New York
and Chicago recently. Advices from
San Antonio, where Mr. Limantour
stopped on his return trip indicate
that his mission was successful. The
San Antonio dispatches say:
Returning from an extended trip
to the eastern and northern money
centers. evidently upon a mission to
interest American capital in the
Observation-Disclosures railroad project
which he is known to be interested
in, Julio NJ. Limantour. a widely
known Mexican railroad financier and
director of the National Lines of
Mexico, passed through San Antonio
yesterday over the International &
Great Northern Mr.. Limantour's
private car was routed for the City of
Mexico.
las a result of the visit of Mr. Lii
nansul,f IN Flew YORK and Chicago
the Observation-Disclosures projetcs is
expected to be materially launched
within a very short time. The fran
chise and right of way will in all
probability be secured Immediately
and the work upon the road begun
within a few months. 1t is under
stood that the return of Nc Imam
tour from his trip looking to the fl
nancial part of the project has been
the only thing delaying jeff ~ Miller
formerly general manager OF the ST.
Louis, Brownsville & Mexico, who is
recognized as one of the principal
promoters of the project, from taking
definite steps"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
At the opers.

"You see some queer things at the
opera now and then" the operagoer re-
marked. Nov, last night, for in
stance. at Samson and Delilah.' You
know they cut off Samson's hair and
dress him IN rags and let little pau
per child as poorly dressed as he
bring him on the stage and pull the
house down. Well, then that little
pauper child puts her arms around
Samson's neck to comfort him when
they have finished giving him the
merry ha! hal diamond ring about
as big as birds egg is blazing on her
little finger. New York Times.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
censorino the Mail.

1T is strange there is no mail for
me-" remarked Mrs. Instyle Yes,
dear, quite strange" acquiesced Mr..
Instyle.
Then, as she stepped into the other
room, he chucked three fashion maya
zines, four patterns, skirt catalogue,
cloak catalogue, jewelry catalogue
and letter from "The Royal Lady
Tailors" into the fire.
Two hundred dollars saved!" he
chuckled, and became so well pleased
with himself that he set aside one
tenth the amount for cigars.-Judge.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
A Rox,a Essav on p.lcks.

A schoolboy assigned to prepare an
essay on ducks, wrote The duck is
q low, heavy-set bird composed mostly
of meat and feathers. He is a mighty
poor singer, having a hoarse voice,
caused by getting SO many frogs in his
neck. He likes the water and carries
toy balloon in his stomach to keep
from sinking. The duck has only two
legs and they are set SO far back on
his running gears by nature that they
came pretty near missing his body.
Some ducks when they get big have
curls on their tails and are called
brakes. brakes don't have to set
or hatch, but Just loaf. go swimming
and eat II was TO be duck I'd rath-
er be drake National Food Maya
zine.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27

The man who raised $500 pounds
OF cabbage on an acre of land a
couple of miles from Brownsville
and sold it the other day at two
cents pound. a yield of $500 per
acre, is not a pessimist. He probably
never was. but if he was his pessim-
ism has been converted into bowling
optimism This is only small in
-cident but it shows what can be done
in this glorious Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27

Advertising the town is not the only
use a newspaper can be put to. Does
it ever occur to the merchant or 9TH
er business man that if advertising is
= good thing for the town, it may also
be made good thing for them in a
business? Boosting the town is a
patriotic thing to do. but the patriot
ism should not all be on one side.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
sardou,a ouip.

"Victorien Sardou hated shams," said
Q New York theatrical manager. III
You tried to impose on him. he would
call you down.
Eat the Ambigu during a rehearsal
he said he doubted an actors state
ment that he had given 40 hours Of
study to his lines.
"'You doubt me?' said the actor,
holly. I assure you, Mons. Sardou,
have never lied but twice in my life.'
"Sardou smiled dryly.
I" Then this makes thrice, eh? said
Doctors Thick in New York.
The proportion of physicians to the
general population is probably great
er in New York city than anywhere
else in the country In the United
States, for example, taking the esti-
mated population of the census bu-
reau for 1908 as basis, there is one
licensed physician to every 709 per-
SONS; in New York state there is one
to 672, and in New York city, one to
only 65S.
1t has been estimated that the ply
sician in general practice must have
a clientele of $50 persons, or $50 fam
lilies, to support himself and his fam
lily in comfort. so if this estimate is
accurate the New York doctor is short
an average of 100 patients, and many
Of course are further behind than
that.-Medical Record.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27

fact that. there is so little likelihood
of securing the passage OF the bill
authorizing the Fort Brown right of
way, it is quite possible that the line
skirting the northern edge of the
city, if it be found feasible, viii be
adopted
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-02-27
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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-29
Uncle Sam Locks Up Turkish Cigarettes

bite the tongue and have small dark
leaves. The most aromatic sorts are
what are called Marden and Dere.
The country where the best Turkish
tobacco is grown is low mountain
Gus region bordering the south shore
of the Black sea. The tobacco is
grown, like the grapes, on the slopes
of the hills, and the climate is always
humid. A clear sky and bright sun
are extremely rare. The methods of
tobacco culture are primitive. and
much is left to chance and nature;
no systematic rotation of crops is
practiced, no scientific fertilizing and
there is little cultivation.
In TrebiZond the average yield is
about 500 pounds of tobacco per acre.
The leaves are put on strings, each
quality by itself, and hung on poles in
the open air. Then, when dry, they are
put into sweathouse. A good deal of
the Turkish tobacco is made up in
Hungary for the American cigarette
trade. In one factory in Fiune, Hun
gary, in the last year, 371 100000 Gig
arettes were manufactured. Some of
the tobacco came from Brazil, Java
and Sumatra.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-29

sHey, there, Jack! You there! Look
at him, fellers. Amt he plumb
crazy?"
Wentworth Livingston, recalled to
realization Of his surroundings by the
uproarious laughter of his companions,
looked down at his limbs. Wrapped
in a sheet, which did duty for spirit
ual embodiment, he was declaiming the
lines of the opening speech in which
the ghost makes his debut before
Hamlet.
Hastily, to the accompaniment OF
the subsiding jeers, ne put Off his
sheet, clad himself in short toga,
and hurried to his place Livingston's
part was that of Third Citizen in
Julius Caesar
Night after night he performed
these mental parts in the little Shake
spearean company that was spell
binding the inhabitants of the coun-
try town. Sometimes he was Third
Citizen, sometimes he took the part of
a retainer; he had been great part
of Roman army, a spectral figure in
THE Tempest
But he endured these humiliations
in silence Some time the chance
would arrive that would boost Went
worth Livingston's name among the
stars Of the stage. Secretly he had
understudied all the principal Shak-
spearean parts played by that matinee
magnet, Cyprian st. Cyr. But the
part in which he felt that he was des-
tined to be immortalized was that of
the Ghost.
Waiting forlornly in the wings while,
in his multitudinous roles, Cyprian
ST. Cyr gyrated and gesticulated to the
thunderous applause of his audience,
Wentworth Livingston lived, in imag-
ination, through those triumphs he
was to achieve. And always, in every
interval of leisure, he rehearsed the
ghost scene Some day Cyprian would
fall sick or fail, and his own star would
rise above the armament. Livingston
smiled; he could afford to wait.
The Roman army had marched and
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-29
Illinois Senator Is Railroad Magnate

scheme to exploit what is known as
the Costilla land grant The Costllla
State Development Company, the Co.'S
tilla Power Company, and the Costilla
Irrigation Company all have been
launched with the railroad. and Sena-
tor Lorimer and Congressman Weeks
have shares in each.
The president of the new railway
company happens to be Franklin Il.
Brooks, who few years ago ;.bly rep
resented the state of Colorado at
Washington as represen alive at large.
Therein lies the story OF how Messrs.
Lorimer and Weeks were allowed to
participate in the good thing" out in
Colorado. The most important house
committee on which Mr.. Brooks
served while in congress was the COM
mittee on agriculture. Mr.. Lorimer
and Mr. Weeks were fellow members.
They sat side by side in many inn
portant meetings of the committee
during the packing house inquiry and
the discussion of the pure food bill.
Naturally they all became fast friends.
and accordingly when Mr.. Brooks re-
turned to private life and visited the
east in search of capital for his new
projects he sought them out and won
their approval and financial support.
Thus it was through his member
ship on the committee on agriculture
that Mr.. Lorimer has been afforded
the opportunity of becoming a rail.
way magnate
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-29

WASHINGTON. - President Taft,
wv the summer bachelor" of the
White House, is sharing the fate of
many other government officials and
Washington residents whose families
have gone away to mountains or sea-
shore. The president is taking the
situation philosophically, doesn't seem
to mind the hot weather and is read
ing daily with great delight letters
from Beverly which tell of the rapid
improvement in Mrs. Taft's health.
Living bachelor fashion at the
same discomforts that beset the mere
man who has his home CLOSED up on
him." when his wife goes away and is
compelled to seek food and lodging as
best he may. The president and Mrs.
Taft divided the White House help"
when the occupancy of the Beverly
cottage was begun, so the president
is well taken care of and domestic
affairs at the White House run on
much the same.
The president, however, allowed
Mrs. Taft to take the first cook" to
Beverly, while he is served by the
second COOK who is legacy from
the Roosevelt administration. She is
negro girl named Mary, who halls
from Old Virginia and whose sway
over the White House kitchens now is
complete
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-29
MAY REGAIN PRESIDENCY

Gen. Ignacio Andrade, former president OF
Venezuela and ousted from that excellent job by
Dictator" Cipriano Castro, is apparently upon
very good terms with the present administration
He has been named as minister to Cuba and is
at this moment in the United States on his way
to that post.
General Andrade had served two years in the
presidency when General Castro and his revo
luton came along and created an abrupt vacancy
in the office, to be filled by the little dctator-to
be. Since that time General Andrade has been
lively element in Venezuelan affairs Castro
has not dared to have him killed off-hand and
Andrade has pulled off two or three little per
sonally-conducted revolts of his own that were
unfailingly failures. He will probably be a can
ext shift in administrations.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-29

REPRESENTATIVE TAWNEY, who
IL is chairman of the house appro-
priations committee and lives in WI
mona. Mimi, read in the morning pa
Ders the other day the itinerary OF
Mr. Taft's western trip, and it did not
mention Winona. Mr.. Tawney is the
man who engineered the $4,000 ap-
hropriation for the presidents travel
ing expenses, and he called to find out
about that Winona omission. The
president agreed to put Winona on
his travelling map, not, as he ex-
blamed, on account of the appropria-
ton, but because he remembered a
story President Roosevelt had told.
President Roosevelt was touring
ahe v est v-.cn I.o came tc Minnesota.
In his itinerary, too. Winona was
omitted. Mr.. Tawney boarded the
train up the line and asked for a
uuarter-hour stop and speech in his
town. Secretary Loeb said it would
be impossible, as they were going
somewhere else and had to hurry or
they would be late. Then Mr.. Tawney
looked up the district passenger agent
of the road, who was on the train.
For some reason, not yet entirely ex-
plained. the engine got out of order
when Winona was reached, and 1t
took the engineer 20 minutes to ind
the fault and fix it.