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The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-19
CONGREGATIONAL.

Railroad rate legislation was the
topic at a recent White house con-
ference participated in by the presi-
dent and Senators Nelson, Simmons
and Overman.
The resolution of Representative
Norris, of Nebraska. providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people has been fav-
orably acted upon by the house COM
mittee on elections.
The house committee on labor has
acted favorably on bill prohibit
ing interstate commerce in prison
made goods
James S. Sherman, of New York,
has been elected chairman of the re-
publican congressional campaign COM
mittee.
For more than four hours recently
Senator Bailey, of Texas. held the
undivided attention of his colleagues
while he discussed the railroad rate
bill. The speech was one of the most
notable in the recent history of the
senate.
1t is expected in Washington, that
at least one more week will be con-
sumed by Senators in discussion of
the railroad rate bill before vote
on the measure is reached.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-19
Hay.

Upland, per ton. s10.50@11.00; sec
ond bottom, $S.5O@9.00; timothy.
s11.O0; timothy and clover, $1,000;
alfalfa, prime $500; straw, $3.50;
South Park wire grass, S14.00.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-19
Miscellaneous.

Two OmcerS ana HVe men were
killed and IA men injured by an ex-
plosion on the battleship Kearsarge
while in Cuban waters.
Grave anti-Jewish manifestations
Took place at Tangier Sunday during
which the Jews were threatened with
death. The agitators paraded the
streets and afterwards hanged and
burned efigies dressed in Israelite
costumes.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian revolu-
tionary writer, who is Ill in New York,
has issued a statement that he
came to America to regain his health,
and not to seek assistance for the
freedom of Russia.
The National Live Stock associa-
ton proposes to bring suit against
the live stock commission men in
Chicago and Missouri river points
on the ground that they are MEM
bers of a trust and are restricting
trade
The anthracite coal operators, have
rejected the miners proposition for
arbitration, and submitted new one
which has been taken under advise
ment by the miners.
An immense throng of people greeted
John Alexander Dowie upon mis- ar
rival in Chicago recently. He took
rooms at hotel, and delayed his visit
to Zion City until armed with proper
legal documents which he believed
would place him once more in power.
He expressed fear of bodily harm
from his enemies in the church.
A violent earthquake occurred Sat-
urday morning in the southern part
of the Island of Formosa.
]. e. Bilby, a wealthy stockman
of Claremont, Mo-, was indicted by
the federal grand jury at Topeka on
a charge of perjury growing out of
land frauds in western Kansas.
A mob at Springfield, Mo-, broke in
to the Jail Friday night, took three
negro prisoners out and hanged them.
Corporal Tanner, commander-in-
chief of the G. A. r., in his annual
address requests that Union veterans
decorate the graves of Confederate
dead on May 80.
President ]. Hampton Moore, of the
National Republican league, has issued
a call for the biennial convention at
Philadelphia June IL, Is and 10. The
occasion will mark the 50th anniver-
sary of the first republican national
convention.
Pitsburg, Pa, is suffering from an
epidemic of typhoid fever. The hos
pitals of the city are taxed to their
capacity, more than 500 cases being
taken in in four days recently.
The average condition of winter
wheat on April 1, as reported by the
agricultural department, was 89.1.
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IF NOT AIR, SAND.
Life Saving Device OF an Autoist Stranded
Down In Jersey. -..-..

Life Saving Device OF an Autoist Stranded
Down In Jersey. ~
Il find" said a man who has not yet
come to own q buzz wagon, THAT auto.,
mobile tires are sometimes filed with other
things thar air. Down on the Jersey coast,
the other day I saw a man filling a. tire
with sand. -" -
This tire had apparently-for the men
in the auto appeared to be cool and COM
petent men who knew what they were about
become broken in such q manner thai it
could not be repaired to stand imitation
on the spot, but they ant something in
it and 80 they filed it with sand, Al the
place where they were when the tire coll
la psed the road ran close to the ocean
front, and they took the tire of the wheel
and one OF the men climbed with IL down.
the bulkhead to the beach and there he set
to work.
sWhen he had worked in a lot Of sand he
would hold d the tire up n ehake the sand
down In II and then he would put in some
more, and 30 on till he had the tire filed.
-This was something new to me, but a
friend tells me he has seen 1t done before
and that sand In the tire lie better than
nothing, that it will cushion the tire In some
measure at least and keep the machine
from pounding down on thai wheel with its
sheer dead weight
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"'You can get in on the ground floor OF
any palace, and get right up against the
throne. l have smoked cigarettes with
Peter of Servia. / a never been to Con-
stantinople, but l have a friend in this ooun-
try who is only a bit of common clay, as
compared with the uneasy heads on the
other side, who had a brief fifteen minutes
with Abdul. 1t took him about eighteen
months to land the willy Sultan, but he made
it,
Just then somebody ordered up another
quart. Count me out, said the man who
had failed to hand the Siam ruler his letter.
4 haven't the time. i nave just fifteen
minutes to make the train that will land me
in Montreal. There | will have about ten
minutes to maket the Canadian Pacific, which
will start me direct for Vancouver. I've
got to be at that point promptly on a certain
day to catch my steamer for Hongkong. So
long, fellows. I'm of. See you later, l
hope
Although he went out in a hurry, as it would
away as deliberately as II he were going to
wait for a street car.
II knew something about what he had
on his mind. He has a date in Pekin, m
then he is going to switch back to Toxic,
where he is booked to stay a week. Then he
is going to make a hurried trip to Dalny in
the interest OF a big American scheme.
THAT done, he will hike out to Mukden,
and is due TO take a train on the Siberian
railroad for st. Petersburg. He has to be
in Berlin by October Is and in London two
weeks later. Barring sickness and break
down incident to travel, he is due in, New
York November Is.
"He is used to it. He thinks no more OF
going on'a jaunt like this than we would
think Of going from here to Chicago;
don. We had been dining | asked him
over the walnuts and wine if he would go
with me to the theatre. He looked at his
watch and said:
Cant do it, old man. I'm of in ten
minutes to take a train that will land me
just in time to make the steamer for Cape
Town. Good-by.'
Before l fairly caught my breath he was
gone. That sort of thing would kill most
any OF US, but that fellow fourishes IN it.
He would pine away IL he had to travel in
the ordinary way. The world grows smaller
every day.
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or so to the land they had leased, hired
the farmer next door to help them, and
slept that same night in the completed
home.
'One Of our greatest successes we expect
to be the mother-in-law portable. This
In 30 designed that when the bridegroom
hears Of mothers first visit he can take
down the L with the guest chamber in it
and pack it away, and when she feels that
she must go back rather than incommode
them the house is in its original shape a half
hour later.
Another use for the portable house is
for the country club. One in particular that
has its clubhouse built, it's lakes stocked,
has a number of members all eager to try
the Joys OF a summer on their own land.
They cannot get houses built in time, and
they nave sent for half a dozen cottages
with single rooms riazzas and ellis, and the
probability is that they will be 30 satisfied
that they will never take the trouble to
build another more permanent In con-
~struction than these will be-"
Another call on the portable house agent
Ia made by hunters, canoeists and campers
who are looking for a comfortable place to
sleep in at night az well as a place where
they can stow their dunnage. For them is
designed a plain, compact and convenient
portable camp. Such a camp, 7xe feet, can
accommodate four grown persons and can
easily be erected by two men In thirty
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THE CHORUS GIRL
WHO WAS DIFFERENT
How SyivlA StApIs,on Remained
True 10 Her Pflnslpiss IN Spite
of Temptation.
cHAFrtR
sFRusa = y Az


.H'op TN frl~afaaF
" Nas The vulcs ~ NctlfaW, w" s'aeA
fnansanf ~ To- ApuilI Theatre, Inst srohe'
urHFtiha BE arm W rufnftahd a'tent'on w
sesntly th@ forty eight eturla eiFN ~
heafaina tindef h's dttection f"f the nv.
cpfnlc ofefa Ss,~ed, fhefe va sn hr ~
eaAHf eaIHctation ~ The mitch feared etsHr
lnanaeef' VIM ,ts'tally efowled MT oatIpa o'
Fearful lu'fuSs' addsd d'ile,ly and oouF'e-
otiaiyi
WIN n hat aifl IN the bach hHsF
Az eyes turned toward thu unfortunate
yd,tnR girl thus Indicated by h,a itnper'ouH
eye, Veterans ~ ths chotun, q VINO
hal hnovn the tefrib'e hcuraw ~ n,a
worst, felt adfry for this latest victim OF hiH
probable wrath.
Vet oven The oldest chorus girl could not
retneinber Whe McOraw had spoken 20
asntly before. II was a. though some new
inh,ience masie itAslf felt, ~ though some
ender' olineing vine OF sortest torture mac
reached out lie delicate tendrils and fas-
tened upon The rough, hardened exterior
OF his coarse, brutal nature. a slender
young girl, Dressed simply In gray, shrank
back modestly when all eyes we're suddenly
centred upon her.
'Come here, childl'
IL was the terrible Mc0raw who spoke
thus gently. even encouragingly. TO the
frail young creature gazing at him with her
frightened, fRwnlike eyes.
What il your manner"
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II.
A TERRIBLE EMERGENCY.

'The prima donna, Miss Starlight, is Ill.
Who will take her place for to-night's per-
formance?'
McGraw, the stage manager, burst into
the private Office Of Samuel Sellingout,
as he spoke, the fashionably dressed throng
was crowding into the theatre lobby to
witness the latest musical extravaganza.
~Sellingout looked at his watch. 1t was
but a few minutes before the overture
Quick action was necessary.
as there in your chorus any one with q
voice capable of singing the prima donna's
role2" he asked.
McGraw hesitated.
yes" he said suddenly. Sylvia Staple
ton can save us-if she will"
'Pooh!" responded the manager. Il
never yet heard Of a chorus girl who would
refuse to sing the prima donna's role. We
will see this chorus girl at once
Sylvia, having just completed her modest
toilet as one of the village maidens in the
first act, trembled violently when she met
the great manager. That she, a simple,
unknown chorus girl Of the back line,
should be sought out by the most famous
mana ger in New York, seemed like a dream.
She gasped, and steadied herself by leaning
against a painted canvas wall, or she would
have fallen.
Come, come, girl; it is nothing. viii
you sing the part?"
Tmidly, nervously, like a fawn at bay,
Sylvia looked in vain for some means OF
escape. II only she dared to turn and
run! But no-that would mean losing her
position, and she needed her salary OF
SIS a week. But, oh, if only some other
girl could be persuaded to sing the leading
rAe.
WELL, what do you say2 Sing it, Or
The fearful threat Of dismissal was never
uttered. Sylvia Stapleton drew herself
up proudly. The Quaker anoe stry as
serted itself as, with the air Of a martyr,
she half whispered;
Il consent to sing the leading role to-
night-but, remember-only only for
tonight
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minutes. It's weight does not exceed 800
pounds and it can easily be transported
from place to place.
One Of the most constant customers Of
the portable house companies is the South
American. The Government is also a good
customer, and a great many houses have
been sent to the Canal Zone for the work
ers. Another customer is San Francisco since
the fire. Many people are still undecided
whether or not they will permanently remain
there; the portable house gives them an
opportunity to make up their mind, and IL
they decide to come East all they nave
to do is to fasten it on an automobile and get
out.
an fact says the portable agent, Il
honestly believe that IL San Francisco had
been built Of portable houses, as it should
AVE been, not one would have been lost
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III.
THE THINGS THAT ARE C&sAR's.

THE THINGS THAT ARE C&sAB's.
"Plea se ask Miss Stapleton to come to
my Office"
So spoke Samuel %Sellingout, the man.
ager, as the curtain fell on one of the most
memorable nights ever known at the
Apollo Theatre. Sylvia Stapleton, an IN
known chorus girl. taking the place Of the
celebrated prima donna, Miss Starlight,
known in the realm Of comic opera.
Hardened first nighters, veterans who
had seen and heard every one since Patti,
said the range OF her voice was remark
able. Experienced critics pronounced her
acting fawless, while as for the general
public, all raved over her beauty, her
modesty, her self-possession,
It was indeed a night Of nights at the
Apollo.
Now, flushed with her success, too fright
ened to believe it was true, the timid,
shrinking chorus girl was summoned to the
great managers office.
IOh, do you think he will fnd fault with
me? 1 did my best, indeed, indeed, I
did!" she sobbed to the other girls, as she
made her way to the sanctum Of the much
dreaded manager.
The great manager arose when she entered,
threw away his dollar cigar half unsmoked,
and bowed low as he offered her a chair.
miss stapleton,' he said, you are q
great find. A wonderful discovery. Such
a voice has seldom been heard. You act
with great genius. Now, I have here a con-
tract specially prepared, ready for your
signature. 1t gives you $50 a week the
- - .L;. .1a,o, Ann n r,aal, nal $1,000
and $3.50 a week the year after, and provides
that l am to star you fully, commencing
tomorrow. Will you sign this o~ontract2'
Sylvia's bosom rose and fell with excite
ment. She gasped for breath and her hands
trembled as she took hold Of the priceless
contract-a contract for which most chorus
girls would have given their lives,
Then her sense Of right and Justice az
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ss you see 'em now, the dog in the kennel
and the kitten washing it's face
A moments pause and then, eorrow-
fully:
Its goodby to summer boarders II tina
kind Of thing amt stopped by the Legislator
They oughter stop some thing
This view is shared by the manager
Of one Of the portable house companies.
4 suppose it's an Irish bull to say hat
the portable house has come to stay; but
it has he said. THE first portable house?
Well, | imagine the first was built by the
turtle. He probably suggested the idea
To some human inventor.
A few years g people laughed at
portable houses, and, to tell tie truth, they
were clumsily constructed. Constant ex-
perimenting has resulted in a house that
none need be ashamed to live In for all
time.
1T 10 lust the thing for a summer cottage.
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holding a baby, a young woman was sew
ing by its side, and twins of the pink and
blue variety sat on the lowest step and
exchanged optimistic views Of life. 1t was
an idyllic country scene, and to complete
It a young man, apparently coming from
the station, waved his hand joyously with
the proud air Of the proprietor.
Jehu pointed his whip contemptuously.
One Of them ~portables, he explained.
SHYou mean2"
Wasn't there last week; wasn't there
day before yesterday. Yesterday l drove
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about three weeks the completed house
will be delivered. Small stores. news
stands, lunchrooms, fruit stands. barber
shops, bicycle repair shops, shooting club
houses, cobblers' shops. children's play
houses, summer kitchens, Photographic
galleries, golf houses, gatetenders' houses,
hunters camps, bath houses, voting pre-
cincts, dog kennels and chicken ooops are
to be purchased ready made.
Just to give you an idea of the business, "
said the man who sells the portable houses,
this morning as | was coming in on the
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OF mat1mony because they cannot af-
ford it2
They talk It over. The would be hus-
band balks at fats and boarding houses.
They spend their Saturday afternoons
and holidays in the company Of real estate
agents. Now. the portable house is an
answer to all their problems. All they
rave to do is to lease a PLOT of ground,
If they don't want to buy, have it cleared,
send a plan to the factory. and in three
weeks or a month the house is ready for
them.
-One young couple told me that they
were married in the morning. tool the train
somewhere to New Jersey, drove out a mile
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A FROM III TURTLE
AND DON'T BE BOTHERED
BY THE u PROBLEM

.Hlna sirhs = 0ptntry fosd frcraeiy In
o. oaiehipnatlr %IrFktoafi hafHes.~d ~
r. srav hofsS . Vrw Yorker rassHd y nea, =,
a].,tteivs c1ttHar n strpt . rbuple ~
f,fis from ~ slirealh Rhd had . snfdsn
~ sthef shie Tan ahruls waved thalf
Ia -snms ftrm tehlhd tha cpitaae add q
llao b,isti scrnted Tho air,
4 malierr kitten eame nut from @rnes
shatc ~ other and etrc,ched hersrif In
no ain IN tho stocp Nrar ny q tis New
fulndland, sptawline ~ front ~ 4 hsnnai
~inked ms'hodicaliy NJ the kitten and
lhumt 81 tho ground With HE tall
on tho trrrh \ hammock WAa atre,ohad.
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lnA&
FMs.f
Dripping Pan on Tombstone ~
From fbs wsatufnsfov G1ar.ou.

One frequently comes across curious ep.-
taphs. but we have never before heard of thai
useful and necessary kitchen requisite the
dripping pan" figuring upon q tombstone.
The following curious lines. however. are TO be
in Wooditton Churchyard. near New
market, and let into the head Of the stone is Q
dripping pan:
To the memory Of william Simonds, who died
March !. l76S. aged 90 years.
Here lies my corpse who was the man
That loved q sop in dripping pan ,
But now believe me | am dead II, 3
See here the pan stands at my head "a
Still tor sop 70 the last cried Tnti i
But could not eat and so ! died -
Ny neighborS they pe7hhpg may laugh ~
Now they do read my epitaph.
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more than all the men together who were in
the assembly. He drew a package Of letters
from a pocket and shufled them hurriedly
as he smoked and ohatted.
by thunder he exclaimed, here's a
letter Of introduction to the King Of Siam
that l forgot to use. ] was In a devil Of a
hurry, though, when / was in Bangkok.
This letter a given TO me through a friend
who has quite a pull in England.
sounds big, eh? Well, fellows, you
don't know how these things are done now
unless you go from pillar to post as I have
been doing for eleven years. II you know
tate in Europe.
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when lhe sHttirc, n . e,mmpr feulience
oufnea No. The avetasr man s,ys' 4 Wuuhi
tny srups iand and huiii IN " tut wtsfr
W co. that ~ tho ptBnlefn like the go
shufr and my Nite likes ths inoibtalas, ~
chuue~ \ ta%ftrancni hom~ N elthef pIsce
Wvpli di-appribt The othef'
~ IL hefr that I ccur In ami ~ ~ him
Why nat nv Tho raahore until yuu art
tired and then a. ~ The mouu'sina' All
that " hecrsary ~ IN 10 ~ hifr srfne land.
ypur huusr and thctr you afp'
Tho r,f'1blr huue" Ia ho, limited "a the
needs n cr,,aRe hfe A plan NJ any kind
~ hou~r may 10 ann, ~ thafac'ory and In
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fear that N thry ~, 40 . p~srnfanen, strIc.
ture eorilnH that annuHt thsy viii nev~T
b" aha W. rails eHouEh moary ~ enlafMs
~ frtrtild, Por ts.0n N ran turn u,rm
"f . very pfrtty Etnietufp, hfrpfppf
nr'hodos a0d srscirus qagtah for their
heetia,
I'm 80 m out many hftiei cUuplcs'' and
~ ihe question = amilr fitted acrpss Me
fFo~, 'Now, Iu~' aha~rr that rus ailon
yourself How many youHe rrppte 10
yru hHoW Whu am h%ratajlng ~ Tho hfinh
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WASHTUBS AND WASHTUBS.
The Kin Our Foremothers Used n ON
Of the Sorts Used To-day.

nv hAtAu oes SeSe She SNS
Of the Sorts Used To-day.
what would our foremothers have
thought" said Mrs. Flatdweller, cor those
Of them that on wash days went out to the
wash bench and put on 1t W big round
wooden washtubs, one to be filled with cold
water carried to it from the pump, and the
other with hot water carried from the
stove, while in one OF these tubs was placed
a wooden dashboard on which to do the
scrubbing, and finally the tubs had to be
carried out into the yard to be emptied-
what would our foremetbere have thought,
I say. il they could have seen the modern
set washtubs Of porcelain, set side by side.
each supplied with cold and with hot water
to be had at will by the turning Of a faucet,
and to be emptied by the pulling Of a plug,
while In the inner conveniently sloping front
Of one, and without any legs for the clothes
in the tub to get tangled around, were
moulded the corrugations Of a porcelain
w~ashboardl
They may have dreamed Of many things.
but probably never Of this
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train Ifellin with a man, and in a few minutes
we were talking portable houses. He had
never heard of them and was interested
enough to find all sorts and kinds of OBJ
jections. As we separated he said:
1--WE got a house I've been trying to get
rid of for five years, and l guess I don't
want to invest in any more property, but
you might send me an estimate on a chicken
COOP
Il sent it; he bought it, and now we are
negotiating in regard to a dog kennel.
"The portable garage is one of the most
popular structures we sell. There Ia a
combination garage, with a room in the
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rear for the chauffeur. These garages cost
$3.50 to $2a5, according to construction.
Zone Of the most popular portables is
the children's playhouse. 1t is quite a
step from the child's playhouse to the
portable church, but wo are Mt present
negotiating for the sale Of one to a con-
gregation in Flatbush.
-They have a fund Of 5000, and the reason
they desire q portable church is that they
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Proof Positive.

Proprietor of resort hotel to his wife-"Ger-
maine, you've forgotten to give No. IL his
bill"
Wife-"You're much mistaken. / took II to
his room ten minutes ago"
mistake in your addition. No. /? was singing
before yop saw him, and he has not left Oh
atnce he's had his BILL
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Fat Passengers Advantage
From the Chicdoo Inter Ocean.

TTUW ~ VHNuVU THFtT VttuH'
Pufing and blowing, the fat passenger
began to climb to the upper berth in the
sleeping car.
Pretty hard work. isn't it," said the man
In the lower berth.
1T is" answered the fat passenger. FOR a
man OF my weight"
How much do you weigh, may / ask?"
Three hundred and eiRhty-seven pounds
Hold on: Take this one" exclaimed the
other, his hair beginning to rise on end. I'D
rather SLEEP. In the upper berth. anyway.
The ventilation 10 BETTER b,
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WREv \ 1lN rRavELs NOw.

Ne "as IeWa. geHsWst SEE VSH taeeT,"
~ Ite starts ~ eas NsWuaa me NeHA
stfntlern me,lp,is In tfavSi have lsasrnrtI
distances materially : said . man WV hss
visit~i phases ~ interests In bntb hegnls
sph~rea 'ttt I news ~frslisei huw the wuftd
10 gfuWina smaller ~ { dtd . fNw evening"
q
\ man Win IL Midway IN The ihlftlea Was
NJ . iahie ~ y dgssn lie has already orrN