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The Elbert County tribune., 1908-07-30
Ohio Man Has Composition Which He
Claims Is Best Ever.

Defiance. O.-John Budd 4 this city
has Thomas Edison. beat when 1t
comts to building dwelling house at
small cost and OF new material Edi-
son claimed thai he could mould a
cement block house at cost less than
half the cost Of an ordinary frame
dwelling, but the great disadvantage
of Edison's house is that it is apt to
be damp, while house built of the
composition invented by Mr.. Bndd is
waterproof. according to the claims of
the inventor. and costs not quite as
much as Edison's cement house.
Mr.. Budd has applied at Washing
ton for a patent and in answer to his
application has received notice that
his composition is patentable and that
steps will be taken at once to give
him protection. To give a practical
demonstration Of his new composition
Mr.. Budd is building a house OF 1t on
Summit street, East View addition.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-07-30
BIG PRICE TO WE'D souAw.
White Man Thinks Forty Acres, $500
and Horses o. X.

York, Pa.-Charles Peterson, stone
cutter Of this city, has offered to mar
ry the daughter OF David Toulee.
well-to-do half-breed of Indian Chinese
extraction, Of the Yakima district in
the state of Washington. Recently
Toulee advertised widely for good
looking suitable white man as hus-
band for his daughter, offering 40
acres of land. $500 cash and band
OF horses for her dowry.
Peterson has written to Toulee and
also TO the police of Seattle to learn
something of his prospective father
in-law. He is awaiting replies. His
modest letter to the father reads:
Dear Sir: read in the newspaper
you are looking for a white husband
for your daughter. have been all
over the United States, south, north.
and am at present time in the east.
Have travelled In Europe and was
born there. My trade is stone cut
ter. Am light complexioned. am
"a years old. l am concidered good
looking. II YOU give me dowry OF
40 acres of land, $500 cash. and a
band of horses. will marry her right
away. am Just as white as can be-
hope you and the daughter Will take
this under consideration.
"P. S.--Answer at once. please"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-07-30
House Made Of Tags and Rags.

The composition Mr.. Budd will not
make public at this time but 1t is com
posed OF broken bottles. broken brick.
mud, feathers, straw, and most any
thing. A framework of the house is
built up and this composition is then
poured into 1t. After It is dried the
framework is removed, the walls
smoothed off and any artistic touches
desired can. be given.
The house Mr.. Budd is building is
to be OF the new composition through
out. even to the floors and roof Proof
OF the waterproof qualities Of the new
composition are demonstrated by Mr..
Budd by pouring water over a cement
block and also over block OF his new
composition.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-07-30
BLIND MEN INCORPORATE.
Even Employees Of Vienna Concern
Are Slghtless.

Vienna.--A business corporation has
been successfully established in Wen
ma BY men who are totally blind. The
company manufactures brushes and
baskets, and all its employees are blind.
In the eight months of its existence
1t has filed orders aggregating 5000
kronen. making a fair profit. and has
enough orders on hand to justify the
enlargement Of its workshops.
Sixteen Of the employees are skilled
workmen, and the company wishes IT
known that their wares are sold on
their actual merit" that they are put
upon the market ''in fair competition
with the product of other concerns. /"
and that the blipd people want "busi-
ness, not charity"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-07-30
Woman Is a FinancIer.

Fargo. N. D.-Being $4,000 in debt
while attempting to run farm in Fos-
ter county, proved too much for Mrs.
Maggie r. Montgomery, and she has
petitioned the United States court to
declare her a bankrupt. Her assets
are only $3.50.
The greater part Of her liabilities
are in the form of judgments.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-07-30

In tragic moments we think Of
trifles; no doubt girl who lie being
run down by an automobile stops to
thank heaven that there are no holes
in her stockings and man that there
are no incriminating letters in his
pockets.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

small contrvances which few persons know as his in
ventions.
Edison is known of the country's most noted
men, and it is recorded the fame of the inventor sell
attaches itself to his until after his remains
laid to rest therefore greater credit should
be given him. for he is worldamed character despite
the fact that he is not dead
Thomas Alva Edison is Ohio production. He
born at Milan, O., February II, 1847. He the ia
son, while they took great pride in their boy, found
themselves incapable of giving him the education that
such bright lad deserved His mother, however
allied that his intellect above the average of that
of of his age, and having had fairly good educa
ton, learning went in those days. tutored him at
home in reading, writing and arithmetic
At the age of IL years home ties broken and
he the hearth which he had known since his birth
to take up position newsboy on the Grand Trunk
railway. He fell in with many railway telegraph
operators his love for the mysterious about that
vocation led to study it at the instance of his
friends among the knights of the key.
Soon he went into telegraphy actively opera
tor and though he yet very young man, he
clicked messages in all parts of the United States
and Canada.
Soon familiarity with his instruments led him to
see flaws in them and the possibility for evolving
ideas add efficiency to the system Telegraphy then
was young and there plenty of opportunity for
wide-awake person to add improvements to the sys-
tenn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

Early in 1909 he plans to repair to his newlypur-
chased Florida home where he will pass the winter
months and early spring. He took much interest in
planning for this Florida home for it almost the
first time he had any particular longing for home of
high class type. He had previously been wrapped
up in his works of invention that home to him
mere vision put aside in moment by the appearance
OF a problem which needed solving.
Towards the last of August he departed for the
leaving New York that he would be there perhaps
month if the west interested him to that extent 1t is
hard to interest Thomas A. Edison and his friends and
family know it. He has much of the
wonderful accomplishments of mechanics, chemistry
and electricity that there few problems which
prove of interest.
That the life of Thomas A. Edison has entered a
epoch evidenced by his recent visit on fun-mak-
ing tour Long Island, where he spent three days
Soon after that visit however the spell of delvng into
to his laboratory and not for several days
among his friends. Then he departed for the Pacific
coast and Florida will see him early in 1909
To the art of telegraphy Edison has given many
inventions of the greatest imaginable efficiency The
automatic repeater evolution of Edisons ideas
also the quadruple telegraph, printing telegraph
etc. 1t in his early life, after he left the
employ of the telegraph companies of the country
Later in life he perfected machines for quadruplex
and sextuplex telegraphic transmission; the carbon
telegraph transmter the mcrotasmeter for detection
of small changes in temperature; the monograph the
aerophone the ncandescent light SYSTEM the kinete
scope and hundreds of other inventions of somewhat
similar nature.
If scans the average American home of to-day,
he sees dozens of Edison inventions in everyday
and many which the housewife finds she cannot get
along without. The visitor entering the hall of big
apartment building is admitted to the fiat he wishes to
visit by tap upon electric bell the evolution Of
Edisons experiments with electricity The place is
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
E1I5ON[S WeNNEPM H7YlAlP" ElNU MTCHIItE

A few years as an operator suffced to show MN
where there was opening for his ideas. He estap
lished workshop at Newark, N. j., working tnere
evenings while he employed as telegraph opei
ator near by In 1876 he removed to Menlo N j., anu
later to West Orange, N. j.
In 1873 he married Miss Mary G. Stillwell and MS
home now is in the where he established himseH
when his work first showed signs of success-West
Orange, N j.
Many honors conferred upon Mr. Edison In
his later years. The French government, because OF
favor which he conferred bestowed him the titles
of chevalier officer and afterwards he made hon.
orary commander of the Legion of Honor. In 1903 he
was appointed honorary chief consulting engineer OF
the st. Louis worlds fair
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
AGAINST INADVERTENTLY.

Sir James Crichton- Browne lecturing recently at
Cambridge said that in the present movement in Eng
land and Germany of ambidexterty he fancied
he detected the old faint of faddsm Ambdexterity
large scale impossible and undesirable according
to Sir James by the superior need of his right
that gained the victory and to try to undo his
dextral prominence simply to fly in the face of evo-
luton There has been instance, said Sir James,
any tribe community people that has grown out OF
it or broken away from it and found salvation in am
bdexerity recently published book alleged that the
Japanese were by law and practice ambidextrous but
he had the authority of the Japanese ambassador
phatically to deny this
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
PUZZLE SOLVED.
Coffee at Bottom of Trouble.

1t takes some people long time to
find out that coffee is hurting them.
But when once the fact is clear,
most people try to keep away from
the thing which is followed by ever
increasing detriment to the heart,
stomach and nerves.
Until two years ago was heavy
coffee drinker," writes an Ill. stock
man, land had been all my life. I am
now Sc years old.
about three years ago I began to
have nervous spells and could not
sleep nights, was bothered by indi-
gestion, bloating, and gas on stomach
affected my heart.
II spent lots of money doctoring-
one doctor told me I had chronic ca
tar1h of the stomach; another that Z
had heart disease and was liable to
die at any time. They all dieted me
until I was nearly starved but
seemed to get worse instead of better.
Having heard of the good Postum
had done for nervous people, | dis
carded coffee altogether and began to
use Postum regularly. soon got Det-
ter, and now, after nearly two years,
1 can truthfully say am sound and
well.
IT sleep well at night, do not have
the nervous spells and am not both
cred with indigestion or palpitation. !
weigh 80 pounds more than when
began Postum, and am better every
way than ever was while drinking cof-
fee. can't say too much in praise or
Postum, as am sure it saved my life."
There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letters A new
one appears from tiIne to time. They
are genuine, true. aud full OF human
interest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
A Queer Harvest,

II was little Ethels first VISIT to
church, and the sermon had for it's
text, LAS we SOW, so shall We reap"
But on her return home she could not
remember it, and in consequence was
chided by her mother for being stupid.
A fortnight later a seamstress came
to the house to do a days work. After
watching her for awhile fashion old
style garments into those that were
tn evogue, Ethel suddenly exclaimed:
90 mamma, 1 know now what the
preacher said. 1t was: What you sew
in the winter you shall rip in the sum-
mpr'O
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
BALLOONING AMONG CLOUDS

through holes in the cloud carpet be-
low, you have little thrill of concep-
ton of how lonely man would feel.
falling away down there, and not be-
ing able to see the spot where he must
alight. 1t is safe little thrill, how
ever; you know that you are not going
to fall Such dizziness as some per-
sons feel in standing near great
heights on the earth is almost un-
known in ballooning.-Success Maya
zine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
The Good That Never Dies.

Dickens: There is nothing, innocent
or good, that dies and is forgotten. Let
us hold to that faith or none. An in
FAINT, prattling child, will live again
In the better thoughts of those who
loved it, and will play it's part, through
them, in the redeeming actions Of the
world, though its body be burnt to
ashes or drowned in the deepest sea.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
Not a Thoughtful Race.

AS race we seem to have no desire
for any such adventure as introspec-
tive thought, to leave an awesome
shrinking from our own souls. In
trains, on summer shores before the
most alluring of seas, on piers, at
bandstands people are provided with
books, papers, periodicals, anything
timetable would serve-to keep
themselves at bay.-Black and White.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
The Doctors Fee.

The average man will give a lawyer
$500 to $500, together with lifetime's
praise, to keep him out of the peniten-
tiary for from two to ten years, and at
the same time he will raise a phos-
phorescent glow and kick that can
be heard around the world if doctor
charges him $50 to 500 to keep him
out of hell for lifetime. We are the
only people under Gods ethereal tent
to-day who keep open shop "a hours
each day and 365 days in each year.
We are also the only laborers to keep
on working for people who do not pay.
can carry my part of charity with
as good a grace as most men. l can
go through rain, snow or mud and do
my best, provided the case is one of
worthy need, but to reward continually
downright rascality, willful drunken
ness and wanton laziness is getting
out of my Iine.-TeXas State Journal
of Medicine
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

1t has been my lot to see, in arctic
regions, some hundreds of thousands
always believed them to be the most
beautiful objects on earth; but the
clouds of the sky, close at hand, are
almost as beautiful. If you mount
above one of these majestic things,
swiftly overlapping one by one its
folds and wreaths, and If, remember
ing how high it is, you look down and
see only small green patches of earth
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
Larger In Population Than Sixteen DIFF
ferent States and Territories.

Some one who is apt at figures has
shown that New York city to-day is
larger in population than 16 different
states and territories, and further that
within a radius of 20 miles are living
over 100000 people.
The improved methods of transpor-
.Asicn, which are fast widening the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

idea of the tremendous growth of the
city can be appreciated. One of the
assurances of continued and perma-
nent growth is to be found in the 50,-
600 marriages that take place every
year.
Besides this permanent Increase
New York is entertaining an average
of over 100000 transient visitors every
day, and at some seasons. when the
hotel accommodations are taxed to
their utmost, fully 100000 people are
chrnonicled in their home papers as
spending few lays in New York on
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
NEW YORK TRULY GREAT CITY

limits of New York's business energy,
will soon embrace radius of so miles,
within which are located 1854 differ
ent towns and cities whose total popu-
lation, with that of Greater New York,
is equal to fully one-fifth of the popu-
lation of the United States.
When it is realized that the perma-
nent increase in population of New
York last year was about 100000, a
city the size of Cleveland, o.. some
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
Not an up.to.Date Church,

Two colored sisters living in a SUI
burban town met on the street one
day, and Sister Washington, who had
recently joined the church, was de-
scribing her experiences.
deed Mrs. Johnsing, Use fined the
Baptist church, but l couldn't do all
the timing here, cause they had to
take me to the city church to baptize
me. You know there amt no pool
room in the church here'-Success.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
Pennsylvania Statesmen.

The Pennsylvanians in George
Washington's first cabinet were Tim
othy Pickering, secretary of state, and
for a time secretary of war and post
master-general, and William Bradford,
Encouragement. Pickering was the
only Pennsylvania in his second adj
ministration
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

flow. l was examined again and again
and treated to no avail, and kept get
ting worse. I have to praise Doan's
Kidney Pills for my final relief and
cure. Since using them 1 have gained
In strength and flesh and have no sign
of kidney trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

perhaps heated by electricity, the
heating device being Edison's In
vention also. On the sitting
room table is phonograph,
evolved by Edison. Then there
is the telephone, parts of which
are products of his wonderful
intellect. Those are the prin-
cipal devices about the household
of the middle-class American, for
which the world must thank
Thomas A. Edison, but, besides
these. there are dozens of other
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
He Miaht Have Elared up.

Willie Oceanbreeze-What did her
father say to the match?
Tessie Summergirl-Oh, he made
sight of it.-Smart Set.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
MoDESTY.

Teacher (encouragingly) - Come,
now, Willie, spell chickens.
WILHELM afraid I'm too young to
spell chickens, teacher, but you might
try me on eggs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

i've years ago with
dull backache, which
got so severe in time
that 1 could not get
around. The kid
ney secretions be-
came badly disor-
dered, and at times
there was almost a
complete stoD of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

goods and 1t is his aim to live from,
his early accumulations for the rest 49,
of his life. All his life he has been
devotng himself to the invention of moneymaking de-
vices, which, when put the market drew into his
Golfers great amounts of coin of the realm.
Hence the laboratory Llewellyn N. j.. which for
years has been his constant habitaon little of him
these days In the darkened of that laboratory
he often worked for five days and nights stretch
with little or no sleep, on some problem which had been
given him for solution.
The ccuntry's men of money declare that there have
been few puzzles which Edison failed solve whether
they of chemical electrical mechanical nature
Now however finances have been put behind him and he
is devng into various subjects regardless of the
consideration attached them In fact things have
his way easily in the past few years that there
few fields left for him to hence his retirement
To-day at the of 81 years. he is rowing the
seeking chemical problems which he may solve for
his own amusement No man in the worlds history has
solved many intricate puzzles the realm of nven
tons has Edison of his achievements have
been in the line of electricity, but despite his many
wells with the mysterious currents he has not the love for
that study that he has developed for chemistry While
there plenty of mysterousness about electricity
the whole intellect of inventor Edison taken
far interest in the study Of chemistry and it is
corded, chemist the world is quite efficient
as Mr.. Edison.
Chemistry the first science captivate the
derfu intellect Of this man. but he says himself that he
has had the chance delve into its mysteries
with the full power of the fertile mind he possesses
And he is taking advantage of the opportunity
which made itself by of his marvellous
in all lines of invention
He taking life easily than since the time
he started out to earn his living newsboy at the
age of II years. His education limited one but,
thanks to his mother, he received the essentials of
grammar school education
He promised his friends that since his announced
retirement he would give up Shaving days. nights Sun
days and holidays in his laboratory at Lewellyn and
he has kept his promise faithfully He nvades the dark
his workshop only when fancful prob
in chemistry presents itself and he feels mpeled to
get at the bottom of it.
This fall Mr. Edison took jaunts about the country
in pursuit of of the pleasure which his years of
work compelled him to miss. He promised himself that
he would something of the world He aimed to travel
great deal during the remaining of his ife and
he has already laid out route of travel which will prob
ably occupy his time for several years to come.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06

pleasure and business. National
Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
KEPT GETTING WORSE.
Five Years of Awful Kidney Disease.

Nat Anderson, Greenwood, s. G.,
says: "Kidney trouble began about
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-21
Miss Roosevelt to
Be Bridesmaid at
Farr Wedding.

Miss Ethel Roosevelt. younger daueh-
ter OF the President. viii act as brides
mai1 for Miss Ge0rgianna HARDING
FAIR. who viii DO married 10 Fletcher
Harper Sibley, Wednesday. June 10 f8
St Marks Church. West Orange. n. n
Miss Farr is the daughter Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. T. II. Powers FaTr, Of New York
and West Orange, and the bridegroom
IS the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram w.
Sibley, Of Rochester, n Y. ana a
brother OF Mrs John Allyn Gade-
Miss Orling Sibley. sister Of the
Bridegroom; Miss Harriet Alexander.
Miss Cornelia Lee. Miss Margaret 80.
and Miss Susan SedgWick win be brides
maids Little Marion Farr and Master
William Ruch FAIR VIII also be hi the
bridal party.
Thomas Spencer, Of Rochester. n Y
will act as best man for Mr.. Sibley. and
the ushers will be T. II. Powers Farr
jr., Barclay Harding Farr, W. DonneTi
IseIn. Walter G. Oakman. James Par
rish. Malcolm y. Sloane. Of New YORK.
Gordon Arthur Smith. Joseph Husband
of Rochester. and George Burnerr ~
Boston. and Henry Elliott Corbett. ~
Portland, Ore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-21
CASTE" AT BELASCO.

In keeping with the policy he has
decided upon Of producing as wide as
possible a variety OF plays during his
present engagement Guy Standing S
next Offering at the BeIasco Theater.
beginning Monday evening, May 3. will
be Pobertson's English comedy Of class
distinctions. entitled Caste"
Mr.. Standing VIII be seen as the Hon.
George D'AlTOy, Inc demOCratlCally in
chned son OF a naughty grand dame.
Miss Dorothy Hammond viii appear
as Polly Eccles. "a relgniug favOrite on
the stage. with whom y Alroy falls in
love and weds much 10 his mother 8
disgust. while Miss Nira Stowe is cast
In the part OF the actress sOubrettish
sister
Martin Sabine viii have a more Tx
able part IN Caste than has fallen
MS way IN the past fortnight. while
George CASTOR viii be given the
Interpretation OF the humorous and
inebTiared father Of the ECcIes girls.
On Friday evening, May -, the box
Office staff OF the BelasC0 viii have its
second annual benefit. Owing 10 the
popularity OF the BeIssco Theater box
Office star and the production OF
"Caste." the benefit IS expected 20 be a
great success