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The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01
PAWN HOMEiBUYAUTO
PiTTssuRo WOMEN IN MAD so
CIAl RACE.
Many Are Driving Their Husbands
Bankrupt by Trying to Present
Appearance OF Wealth on
Moderate Salaries.

Pfttsburg, Pa-"So mad has the
race for social supremacy become that
many owners of houses worth from
5000 to $4,000, which they have ac-
quired after years of toll and saving,
are mortgaging them in order to buy
automobiles. So fearful are they of
being outshone by their neighbors
that they are resorting to the most
reckless extravaganza and trying to
present the appearance of wealth on
an income not exceeding $3.50 a
month";
This is a portion of the report OF
committee of the New Era Women's
club, of Pittsburg, which has been In
vestigating social conditions in this
city.
Something must be done and done
quickly" the report says, 70 prevent
the women of Plttsburg from resort
ing to the means they do to acquire
social prestige in their set. Existing
conditions in Pittsburg are such that
active measures must be taken.
Mothers are neglecting their children,
and young wives are driving their nus
bands to the wall for the sake of the
appearance of wealth"
The club women charge that women
and girls who have married men re-
ceiving salaries from 500 to 500
month are gradually driving their nus
bands bankrupt In many instances.
for the sake of possessing some means
of distinguishing themselves.
Homes which have been secured
through years of saving and hard Ia
Dor are being threatened with the
auctioneer's hammer or the sorecios'
ing of a mortgage because the women
have seen their neighbor's big red
touring car and do not Wish her to
gain the reputation of possessing
something they cannot have.
After trying to figure out how to Sc
cure an automobile by saving from
her husbands weekly or monthly In
come, the wife with said aspiration
concludes il is not feasible and casts
about for some other means to raise
the money The automobile by this
time has become permanent fixture
in her brain and she must have one.
How to get 1t is the chief and most
important point.
Many ways suggest themselves, but
none practicable until the thought
strikes her that they can get money
on their home by taking a mortgage.
The interest and part OF the principal
can be paid in monthly installments.
1t is brilliant thought and seems to
afford an easy way out of the diff
Guilty.
The husband strenuously objects at
first until the woman's pleadings and
tears bring the desired result, and
the deal is consummated. 1t looks at
first as though the mortgage can be
paid off easily. but something turns up
the baby gets sick and the auto
uses an immoderate quantity OF gaso-
line. The monthly installment on the
mortgage is not paid. The salary, all
of it, must be used to keep up the
house and pay the unexpected ex-
penses that have been incurred.
Pittsburg club women interested in
the subject ask: by what means can
stop be put to this state of affairs?"
They agree that the solution of the
problem is not clear, but that some
thing must be done.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01

In our reckless haste to make money
we forget that in so doing. the I'M.
natural wear and tear of industry, and
the nerce struggle for existence are
producing an increasing host of de-
pendent citizens, who have been worn
out US part of a machine and are
then thrown on the industrial scrap
heap.
The hours of labor are being slight
ly reduced and wages slightly in
creased, but the wear and tear on
man and machine has been nearly
doubled.
Many men. each one a unit of labor,
valuable to the employer and to So
ciety, drop out crippled by accident or
with their health undermined. Unless
the employees are speedily able to re-
adjust themselves in gainful occupa-
tions, they become public charges
Each man added to the list of the
states dependents makes an added
burden OF taxes on the wealth produc-
ing citizens.
The employer, who is the exponent
of the Industrial system is account
able for this waste of productive pow
er, though not the originator of it, is
himself one of the first victims to feel
the extra burden of taxation. Doubt
less he is also appealed to. and sub
scribes literally for private charitable
schemes, which are themselves large
ly necessary evils. Hence the waste
full system of industry in which the
waste of labor is lost sight of in the
mad attempt to save cost OF produc
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01
HAD MISSED GOOD THING.
Patrick's Joy Dimmed by Thought Of
Wasted Opportunities.

Patrick, recently arrived and un-
used to the ways of this country, VIA
accosted one day by member of the
sporting fraternity. who offered to i'm
part to him. for a modest considera-
tion, marvellous way to make money
without toIling for 1t. All one needed,
he said, was a small amount to bet
on certain horse that couldn't pos
sibly lose. And yez say OF can get
that money without working for it?"
asked the bewildered Irishman, when
the other was through explaining.
Sure thing. All the work you got to
do is to count the mazuma." iii thry
1t" said Pat So they hied them 60 a
racecourse. where the sporty-looking
gentleman placed Pats money at odds
of five to one. And the horse won,
Pats Joy was unbounded when he was
handed large roll of yellow-backed
bills. Calling his new-found friend to
one side, he asked in n voice that
trembled with excitement: "Oi say,
how long has this thing been goln'
on?"
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01
Have Trouble
| with Your Food ?
|Grape-Nuts
Perfectly Cooked.
Ready TO Serve.
Delicious and Healthiul

"The ordinary breakfast cereal
cooked a few minutes in half-hearted
way will in time weaken the stomach
Of anything short of an OK.
ANY preparation Of wheat or oats
put into water that is below the boil
ing point and cooked as mush is usu-
ally served, remainr pasty, indi.
gestible mass. The .ells are tough
and unopened. In addition. the stom-
ach of a person sensitively constituted
refuses to do anything with the pasty
mass. 1t is sent into the second stom-
ach, the Duodenum, where in conse-
quence of the long time OF the first
process OF digestion, is fermented and
soured. AS an eminent medical man
pertinently states. the stomachs of half
the people going about the streets are
about ia the condition Of an old vim
egar barrel.
Intestinal dyspepsia is the direct
consequence Of such feeding"
knowledge of these facts and wide
experience In the preparation and use
of cereals brought out the product
known as Grape-Nuts, manufactured
with special reference to having the
heterogeneous and starchy parts of the
grains, of which the food is composed,
perfectly and scientifically cooked at
the factory, ready for immediate use
and therefore not subject to the ma
nipulations of any cook, good or bad.
The starch of the grains. changed to
grape-sugar. can be seen glistening on
the little granules, and gives forth a
delicate sweetish taste. very palatable.
Children and adults obtain fine re-
suits from the use of Grape-Nuts food.
1t is SO perfectly adapted to the wants
of the human body and so easily di-
gested that many cases are on record
OF nursing babes being fed very sue.
cessfully on 1t. There's Reason"
Made at the pure food factories of
the Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.
Read The Road to Wellyille." in pkgs
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01

some of the more obscure trades. II
has been shown that $4,000 are an
nually disabled in factories and con-
struction work. But we have no
means of knowing how many are in
dustrially displaced by inhaling the
poisonous fumes in working over bat
teries. or the large numbers that are
afflicted with mercurial poisoning and
other ailments in the hat industry
and allied trades. Neither do we
know how many succumb to painters
collie, or blood poison by working with
brass and copper.
The victims of tuberculosis among
sweatshop workers, grain trimmers.
longshoremen, coal hands and others
are shown to be numerous by the
numbers have never been gathered
into statistical form.
Tributary Evils.
This loss of life and limb in times
of peace would be sufficiently appal-
ling in itself were there no tributary
evils. But the situation is rendered
even more serious by the fact that
only about Is per cent of the indus
trial accidents result in the death of
the victims. while So per cent. or 445.-
600. are doomed to a one-sided battle
for existence.
When man loses limb or the use
of it. is rendered partially blind by
an accident. or in countless ways is
incapacitated for his regular work. the
first great question confronting him is
to fit himself for some other form of
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01
Good for Fishermen's "eait.r

The remarkable Notwithstanding ef-
feet of vacuum is strikingly brought
out in the claims made for a new
sportsman's bottle. The vessel has
double walls, being really one bottle
within another, with a sealed-up in
teryening space from which the air
has been withdrawn. 1t is asserted
that liquids In this bottle can be kept
hot As hours in the coolest weather.
and that inced beverages will retain
their delicious coolness for weeks in
the hottest summer.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01

labor. What are his chances to regain
a foothold?
Some few corporations retain on the
payroll those employees who may have
been injured in their service, but the
number of such is small. A few pro
vide pensions. and even fewer have
instituted some form of benefit that
will be real help in case of disable
ment.
But the great mass of injured per-
sons must readjust themselves as best
they can.
Prejudiced Employers.
The chief reason why they fail to do
this and start on the long tortuous
road to semi-pauperism and finally the
almshouse is the open prejudice of
employers against hiring a cripple, or
failure on their part to recognize
the fact that he still possesses an
economic value, as he usually does
This remorseless prejudice against
which many an honest and capable
man has been forced to contend has
driven valuable material to the waste
heap of humanity, If not to self
made grave.
There are many positions filled by
boys and girls who should be in school
which could be better filed by older
men and women unable to command
higher wages because of physical dis
ability. To supplant the incumbents
of such positions would be to raise
the standards of education and of liv-
ing, for if the children were not avail
able their disabled seniors would take
their places at higher rate of wages
though at less than current standards.
This would do much to remove the
stigma of present national disgrace
by which 1,267, ,324 boys and girls be-
tween the ages of IA and 16 years are
allowed to dwarf their young lives in
our shops, factories and mills. The
handicapped man would supplant chill
dren only where distinct economic
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01


New York.-More than 100000 men
and women are injured or killed in
the industries annually in the United
States, or one person every minute.
This industrial carnage costs the
people of the country, directly and in
directly, over two and half billions
of dollars-a sum larger than the
national debt
Such are the death tolls of indus
trial progress, which shows such a
smiling face to those whose occupa-
tons involve no danger, but turns a
CHASTITY countenance on those who
work in peril of their lives.
Whoever doubts these figures need
only read the grim statistics to be
convinced that modern industry is
more fateful than war
In the Japanese-Russian war total
of 333,7s6 men were killed and wound
ed on both sides. not counting the
losses in naval battles.
In the same period in the United
States alone the great army of Ameri-
can laborers engaged in manufactur-
Ing and building operations suffered a
loss of 425.000 killed and injured; 92,-
900 more lives were sacrificed to in
dustrial progress in one year than dur
Ing the greatest conflict of recent
times.
Statistics of the interstate COM
merce commission show that Ais
people were injured and 10,046 killed
on the railroads during the year end
ing June 30, 1904. Sufficient data has
been accumulated by the United
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01

ditions condemn him to only a pre-
carious living and If he is disabled by
the machinery of industry, only one
fate can be his-the acceptance OF
aims sooner or later from friends or
the state. He has not shed his blood
as the vassals of old in the service of
a master. He has sacrificed himself
on the altar of industrial progress,
whose masters are practically uncon-
cerned for his future.-From the N. Y
Journal and American
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01
Menace of the Industries.

and educational advantage is to be
gained. He is fully competent to com
pete with the able bodied for many
positions. 1t is not favoritism that he
needs or asks; only an opportunity to
demonstrate his fitness. The trouble
is, he is rarely given that opportunity.
Great Need of the Day.
A crying need of the day is an
awakening of the national conscience
regarding the needless loss of human
life and the resulting economic waste.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01

we're spells of dizziness and faintness.
the kidney secretions were like blood
and passed with intense pain. had
lost 80 pounds when l began using
Doan's Kidney Pills. and was dread
fully nervous. In one week felt bet
ter and to-day am well woman and
have been for Il long time"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01
Strange Reauests.

In his will Stephen Swain of the
parish OF ST. Olave. Southwark, Eng
land. gave to John Abbot and Mary.
his wife, sixpence each, ito buy for
each of them halter. for fear the
sheriffs should not be provided
John Aylett Stow left the sum OF
five guineas for the purchase of the
picture of a viper biting the hand OF
his rescuer, to be presented to an emf
nent X. C. as a reminder Of his In
gratitude and insolence."
When women have been deceived
by men, they wish to marry them.
This is as good as any other kind Of
reyenge-Beaumapo
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01

uon OF the blads
der and the trou-
BILE had gone so
far In FIVE years
that my physicians
said nothing but
an operation would
cure me. Awful
b e In & d o W n
pains. backaches
and headaches tor
tured me, there
The Elbert County tribune., 1907-08-01

tion, reacts on itself; and the hard
pressed employer becomes victim TO
the very system that is slowly but GER
tainly adding to the cost of main
tenance and production by increasing
the value of labor. which he has tried
to maintain, If not to cheaper.
Remedy Pointed Out.
Where is the remedy? If the pres
ent industrial system cannot be abol-
ished, it may be controlled. If the
wear and tear must continue, 1t may
proceed with less friction and waste.
Legislation on this point is becoming
more stringent, and employers them
selves are aiding in the effort to avoid
needless loss of life and limb.
This problem can be solved only by
sorting out the injured and readjust-
ing them to other forms of labor. AS
employers more fully appreciate the
great financial loss of life and limb,
as they now so carefully guard the
waste of raw material and so assidu-
ously convert by-products into profit,
the half million now annually forced
into idleness and nonproductivity will
be reestablished on self-supporting
basis.
Centuries ParaIIeIed.
In former times vassals, serfs and
slaves gave up their lives blindly to
their feudal chiefs; fighting their bat
ties, tilling their soil. selling their own
birth rights for a pot of miserable
porridge.
AS the fourteenth century vassal
sold his service and life for food and
shelter SO the twentieth century ar
tisan sells his labor and life for money
with which to buy the necessaries of
life. II his wages are greater than his
living expenses and he is fortunate
enough to escape bodily harm, he may,
undor extremely favorable conditions,
be able to provide for an independent
old age. But If shifting economic con.
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ttorney-at-Law, Room 3, 4 NTH Build.
ling, Reno, New, p. o. Box 5s7.
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GEO. e. klTZMEYER

Funeral Director and Embalmes
ParIcrs South Of Pos OrHee.
Office Phone 721. Residence, 722
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PROFESSIONAL
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given to the .,x
payers both known and unknown, q.
ormsby Couty, State of Nevada th.+
the State, County and City taxes f,r
the year 1907, are now due and nav.
able at the office of The Conr+x
treasurer, County Clerks Office
county Building, Carson City, New
laxes Will be delinquent after
December 2, 1907, after which da4s
ten per cent will be added, and II.
collection of the same enforced az
cordlns to law. +. o. PATTERSON
County Treasurer and Ex-Oficio Ta~
Receiver Of Ormsby County, Sta G
Of Nevada.
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MUST HAVE THE CASH

Under Departmental regulations all
applications to make entry Or to pur
chase public lands, unde. the agricul-
tural. coal land or mining laws: must
be accompanied by the required fee,
in the form of currency, coin or post
office money order.
Checks or drafts of any character
cannot be received
Louis ]. Cohn, Register
Earl w. fremont, Receiver
United States Land Office, Carson
City, Nevada, November 6, 1907
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
UNIQUE HATS.

A fine line of unique hats those -
ABE COINS. Pretty bear hats, hand
some patterns.
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Parties desiring autos to make
hunting or other pleasure trips can
rent autos suited for parties of four
or seven. Apply to Smith and Kram-
err or leave orders at Arlington hotel
S13w
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24

An ordinance to regulate and control the places of business where malt. vinous or spirituous liquors are sold, or kept for sale. by retail.
 Be it enacted by the City Council of Birmingham as follows:
 Section 1. That on and after thirty days from the passa ge and approval of this or dinance. 1t shall be unlawful for and ta- ble chair or other convenience for sit ting or lounging to be allowed in any place where malt, Vnous or spirituous liquors are sold or kept for sale by re- tail. or in any room connecting there with except the lobby of n regularly H. censed hotel; and that the serving of such liquors at any other place than the regu- lar counter or bar of saloon is also hereby prohibited. provided guests of hotels and restaurants may be served with such liquors in the dining rooms and private rooms when the owners of such places have paid all license required by law.
 Sech ,. It shall he unlawful for any person to loaf in any place where such liauors are sold or kept for sale.
 Sec 3. Any person violating any pro- vision of this ordinance must. on convic- ton, be punished as provided in Section SO6 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Birmingham.
 Sec. 1. After January 1st. 1908, there shall be no screens or other Instructions to the view kept or maintained in any place where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale or deposit in such manner as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
J. C. MURRAY. City Clerk. Age-Herald. September "A. 1907.
IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE NO. 40.

New Series.
 To provide for the construction of cer- tain sanitary sewers.
 Section l. Be it ordained by the City Council of Birmingham as follows that sanitary sewers be constructed as fol- lows:
 Beginning at the manhole on the sani- tary sewer in Fifteenth avenue, just west of the western corporate limits of the city of Birmingham: thence eastward along said Fifteenth avenue to Allence street; thence northward along Allen street to the north line of Sixteenth avenue.
 Beginning at point on the aforesaid sewer in Fifteenth avenue 450 feet east of the western boundary line of the city of Birmingham: thence northward along a street to Hewitt street: thence east along Hewitt street about POO feet to an alley: thence northward along said alley to Hewitt alley; thence eastward along Hewitt alley 625 feet
 Beginning at a point on the aforesaid sewer in Fifteenth avenue and Hobby
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
aid, September 24, 1907.
ORDINANCE NO. 10s.


 An ordinance to define the limits with in which spirituous. vinous and malt li- quors may be sold at retail and to fix be paid by any person. firm or corpora the city of Birmingham, Ala, on and after the first day of January. 1908; Be 1t enacted by the City Council of Birmingham as follows:
 Section 1. That on and after the 1st day of January. 1908, no sprltuous, vim ous or malt liquors nor intoxicating bit ters shall be sold, exchanged, delivered or given away, nor shall any license be issued by said city authorizing any one to engage in such business at any place located outside of the following limits. towit: On the south, Alley C. including both sides; on the north. 4th avenue, in- cluding both sides; on the west, 16th street, including both sides; on the east. 24th street. including both sides. and also one block which lies between 4th and 9th avenues, north, between 2oth and 26th streets.
 Sec. ?. That on and after the 1st day of January, 1908, the annual license re- quired by said city for doing business of retailing splrituous. Vinous and malt liquors or intoxicating bitters shall be twenty-four hundred (s240O00) dollars. Adopted September IS, 1907.
 Attest:
 J. C. MURRAY. City Clerk Approved, September 20, 1907i
 JOHN l.. PARKER. President of the Council and Mayor Pro Tempore
 Age-Herald, September "A, 1907
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
Hiuh Price for Cotton.

Farmers in the delta are marketing some very fine staple cotton this year and are getting good prices therefor w. r. Church sold a bale weighing 5I6 pounds at IndianSpa a day or two since at 291s cents or S16S AS for the bale. In some instances farmers who are offered less than that for their long staple are haul ing ii hack home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
CITY ORDINANCES.

that a full view from all street entrances is in any manner obstructed or inter fered with. Adopted, September 1s 1907. Attest:
 J. C. MURRAY. City Clerk. Approved, September 20. 1901
 JOHN l.. PARKER, President of the Council and Mayor Pro Tempore. Age-Herald, September 24, 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-24
J' .. MU KftA1, NIty CIerk. Age-Herald, September 24 1907
IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE No. s5l

Notice to Property Owners.
 All owners of lots or parcels of land abutting on Avenue G from the east curb line of Eighth street to Fifteenth street or abutting on any intersecting street, avenue alley within one-half block of the aforesaid portions of said Avenue c, are hereby notified that the aforesaid portions CT Avenue c have been graded and macadamized and taht the sidewalks and gutters along the same have been paved and curbed and that the City Council of Birmingham will meet at it's regular place of meeting in the council chamber on Wenesday, the 16th day of October 1907, at 8 o'clock, D. m, to hear and determine any objections or defense that may be filed in my office before the time of said meeting or which may be then made by the owner of the property proposed to be assessed or his attorney. against the assessment or the amount thereof
 J. C. MURRAY. City Clerk.