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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11

said if anybody was going to lose
money, it was Eph and Seth and L.,
and not them.
Eph spoke up and said: do you
mean to say, Jed Peters, you littel runt,
that it don't take more skill to play a
base drum so as to make it melodeous
than it does to wave a littel stick in
the air5" Jed says ~Thafs what I
mean, I reckon"
With that Eph pulled the top off the
picket crock and damned Jed in the
head with it. Consternashion rained
soopreme, and when peace was finally
restored, it was found that there wasn't
no band. Jed and Harve and Bige v-ere
willing to be a band and so was Eph
and Seth and Il, but you can't get a
band out of base drum and from
bone and a base horn, nor can you get
one out of leader and a piccolo and
cyrnbals. So now there. amt no band.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11
Locals

An out for the Co. Fair.
Almost everybody has signifed their
intentshion of attending the Co. Fair
at Hardscrabble on Tuesday and We'd
nesday of this wk (Adv.)
Mrs. Cy Hoskins, who has a sister
at the Co. seat with who she will Sundy
for the Co. Fair, was driving over to
the Co. seat tother day with a batch of
appel pies for her sister to test to
see if she thought they would take
prize at the fair when she acksiden-
tally placed her foot in the pies when
standing up in the wagon, but sustain
ing no injuries forchunately.
Mush MELONS are rapidly getting
ripe, but will probly be froze before
they are entirely ripe as ushual The
cucumber crop is about petered cut.
Melancthon Skinner is suffering from
a severe attack of pneuralgy in his
jaw, it hurting him to talk He is able
to eat, however, as he always is.
Miss Samantha Deevers is on the
sick list with her regular complaint,
the name of which has newer been
made public She misdoubts that she
will be able to attend the Co. Fair, but
we do not. We always notis that Sa-
Hlduluy IS aDlc 10 SIagger Outcn ner
bed of pain when they is anything go
ing on that oughtn't to be missed
Miss Sally Hosl5ins, our talented
pome writer, is taking lessons in adj
vanced croshaying by mail. When she
finishes, she ought to be a elegant GRO
Slayer.
Jaspar Hawkins of Pea Ridge VISIT
ed our office tother day with the inten-
shion of paying up some of his back
subscriptions. He did not do this,
however, he finding that he had paid
his Subscriptions through 1892, and
having thought that he had only paid
them up to 1884. He was turrible glad
that he was SO nearly paid up, and
therefore refused to pay any farther at
present. We was not so glad, as we
could of used the money We would
even be glad, though, if all our sub
scribers would see fit to pay their sub
scripshions through 1892.
Rev. Sam1 Moore, our beloved pas
tor, stubbed his toe on a stone on Main |
st. tother day and fell into the road
barking his left shin and bunging up
his nose ittel' Rev. Moore saws that |
there wasn't no doubt that this stone
was placed in the road by the hand of |
Providence, but somehow or other we
see the hand of littel Tommy Barker |
insted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11

What menmeries does not the
words Co. Fair call up in the breast
of he who has ever lived at any
time in dear old Bingville, that
grand old village, or in any other
part of this grand old Co., hal
lowed to each one Of us by a thou
sand memmeries and twice a thou
sand tradishions.
Thousands, nay tens of thou
sands of miles may sepperate the
wanderer from his home, be it new
er so humble, but when he hears on
some far off strand that the Co.
Fair is to be held at Hardscrabble
on Oct. "a and 25, horse raseing in
the afternoon, who can say that
a tear does not dim his eye and that
his manly chest does not heave yet
a little more quickly under the
stimulus of an enoshion which no
man ought to be ashamed to own
up to.
What is it that causeth his eye to
dim and his chest to heave? It is
the SPIRIT of home. He knows that
from far and wide throughout the
Co., from Bingville and Snake
Bend, from Sorrow Hollow and
Happy Valley, from Antioch, FL
derberry Gap, Zion Crossroads,
Lands End, Peckham's Ridge,
Fiinchville, Slab City, Pea Ridge
P. O., Calamity Corners and many
another hamlet nesting in its shell
tering vail are coming all the people
he used to know when he was boy,
and it causes his heart to ache him
with sorrow and sadness for that
he cannot be there yet.
Littel do you know, you people
who are close beside the Co. seat,
able to depart from your own front
door, arriving at the Co. seat in a
breef 2 hrs, litte1 do you know the
forchunateness that is yours in be-
ing able to do so. Nor would you
realize it unless you was so far
away from home that you could not
get to the Co. Fair.
The Go. Fair is a CRATE thing. 1t
enables us to meet our friends. It
enables US to see a boss rase, and
maybe put up a 1ittel money on
same if we can spare it. It en-
abbles us to learn new things about
when to plant things and what to
put on them and how to stick city
folks few cents more for same
when we come to sell anne.
It keeps US in toutch with our
naybors from nayboring towns. We
learn what has happened to them,
if their oxes or horses or wives or
shoats has been sick, who has been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11


fteing with each other, who got
cheeted on something or a mother,
who is snide and who is honest,
and all these things which we need
to know to talk intelligently during
the winter mos.
So everybody put on his best
clothes and go to the Co. Fair, even
if he don't spend any money
there, there beil.,; a good many who
are so nigh and mean that they will
not do that, and we could name
them right now before we start.
1t will probably rain, but what do
we care. Subscribe for the Bugle,
it comes out rain or shine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11
FITE In Band!
Members of BingviIIe Horn Band
Get All Het up About Money With
Result That Horn Band Will not
Perform at Co. Fair According
to Custom. Read About Fite:

The me1lodeous organization known
to every Bingvillian as the Bingville
Horn Band, which has lightened so
nanny of our more weary moments
with the strains of marshal musicl1,
sometimes a trifle sour, but always
marshal, has had fight within itself,
and as result its CHEEKY notes will not
this yr. ring out upon the assembled
multitude at the Hardscrabble Fair.
1t has been we'll said that money is
the root of all evil, for it was nothing
more or less than money which was at
the bottom of this fife, it is pity that
there cannot be a organization which
cannot preserve its freedom and its
aIoofness from the commercial faint by
remaining free from the Attacks of the
Golden Calf
The committee over to the Hardscrab
bic Fair made the Horn Band a Liberal
offer, in accordance with their Liberal
ness in the past The RECOMMENDATION
which the Horn Band was to receive
for going over to Hardscrabble and
playing from 9 in the a. m. until in
the D. m was SO which IS a generous
sum, considering that the band will be
there only two days, and it will cost
them nothing to git inside the gates and
see the fair and the people and ever
thing else.
AS soon as the generous offer of the
Fair Comm. was made known, Jed Pet
ers, our intelligent school teacher, and
leader of the Horn Band, called a meet
ing of the band to be held in the back
of Hen Weathersby's gen1 store last
Wensdy ev'g, so as to decide about
everything.
Everybody was on time, those pres
ent being Eph Higgins, base drummer,
Seth Dewberry, trombone, Harve Hines,
picolo, Bige Barker, cyrnbals, and Il
Goolins, base horn.
Jed Peters first a nounced that the
RECOMMENDATION was So, and that this
would be divided equally among the
members, thus giving each member SO
cts. apiece for his 2 days work. To oncet
there was a offal boiler. Eph Higgins
spoke right up and said that he was
horn-swoggled if he thought Jed Peters
ought to get that much for waving a
httel stick in the air when he had
to carry big base drum around on
his stumnlick, pounding it. Eph said he
ought to get l dol, and that the other
2 dolls ought to be divided equal among
the other FIVE members.
At this Il Goolins and Seth Dew
berry set up a turrible yell. Both Seth
and L said the trombone and the base
horn took a powerful amt of wind to
blow, and that they would be blamed
if they would divide equal with Harve,
who only had to tootle now and then
on a measly littel piccolo, and Bige
Barker, who played on a instrument,
the cyrnbals, which it was just like
pleasure or loafing to play. Both Seth
and L said they thought they ought to
have the other. s. to divide between
them.
Jed and Harve and Bige jest sat and
LATED at tother 3, and took the stand
that all of them possessed the skill and
brains of the party, while tothers mere
ly possessed the brute strength. They
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11

Everybody is hoping we won't have a
spell of weather along about Co. Fair
time.
Everybody is wondering what kind
of weather we will have for the fair.
Rainy, probably.
Eph Higgins, our accomodatin P. M.
and government expert, says it looks
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- GeS 4AEKE ro1 XIX o~

tongue You know what they say, LATE
people that gets cankers on their ton
CUES has been living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11
(Weather Permitting
Tuesday 3 Wensday
OCE 24 6 rs, 1911
Enormous display of catteI

Including cows, bulls, horses, dogs,
Sleeps, cucumbers, MELONS, squashes.
all kinds of pies. big ears of corn. bed
quilts, knitted bedspreads.
IN SHORT
You will be able to see at this Fair all
the curious and unushual things that has
took place or been discovered in tbis
Co. this VI. You cannot afford to miss
one bit of this.
Hoss RAsEINc wENsDAY AFT.
Also a balloon ASCENSION. IL the f.,t.-
can get his balloon filed up with stnfF -
make It go up, which we think he will
And hundred other things of prst-
educational interest. 40
COME AND BRING YOUR DINNrp
HARDscRABBLE FAIR COMM
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01
/ CHAPTER XVIII,
interviewing WiIlouohby

interviewing WIllou0hpy'
Coolly, yet without in the least
comprehending how best to proceed.
Keith drewttoward him the only chair
In the room. and sat down. Miss
Hope-more widely known as Christie
Maclaire-had claimed this drunken
lad as her brother. but. according TO
Hawley. he had vehemently denied
any such relationship. Yet there must
be some previous association between
the two. and what this was the plains
man proposed to discover. The prob
lem was how best to cause the fellow
to talk frankly-could he be reached
more easily by reference to the girl
or the gambler? Keith studying the
sullen. obstinate face confronting
him. with instructive antagonism over
his intrusion. swiftly determined on
the girl IA
cit was not very nice Of me to como
in on you this way. he began, apollo
getically. but you see happened TO
know your sister"
my sister7 Oh. ! guess not"
YES, but Il do throwing con-
fidence into his tone he was far from
feeling. Miss Hope and | are friends
The boy sprang to his feet. bis face
flushed.
"Oh. you mean Hope? Do you know
her? Say. / thought you were giving
me that old gag about Christie
Maclaire."
Certainly not: who is she?"
That's more than know: fellow
came to me at Carson, and said he'd
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01
SYNOPSIS.

Jack Keith. Virginian. now bor-
der plainsman, Is riding along the Santa
FEE trail on the lookout for roaming war
parties OF snvages. He notices camp
+ fire at a. distance and then sees team
attached ito wagon and at full 9aliop
reaches the wagon the raiders have mass
acred two men and departed He searches
the victims finding papers and iocKet
with Wolnan's portrait. He resolves 70
hunt down the murderers. Keith IS ar
rested at Carson City. charged with the
Black Burt He goes TO !ai fully 3sy,,r rea Nj
companion In his cell is q negro. VINO
tells him he is Neb and that he knew the
Y Keith family, back In virginia. ~ eD says
one q the ,nIrdered men Vas Jo dr
sibey the other Gen, Wills Waite, r r0y-
The plainsman ana Neb 5escap pc from the
cell. and later the two fugittves become
lost in the sand desert, They come upon
n cabin Send ind its lone occupant to be
young girl. fwhom Ke,t tn, recoXntzes as e
singer he, saw at Carson City: II , si y
a brother who had deserted from the
come to the cabin while he sought to To-
cate her brother. Hawiey appears and
Keith in hiding recognizes him as Black
Bart. Hawley tries to make.iove. TO the
girl. There is a terrific battle IN the
Black Bart. sAorses are appropriately: ana
the girl who says that her name IL Hope.
Joins in the e1:ape Keith explains his
situation and tbs fugitives make for Fort
5Larned where the girl is left With the
hotel landlady. Miss Hope tell. that i she e
and Neb drift Into Sheridan where keith
meets an old. friend. DR.. Fairbatn.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01
HIS MAIZE MOST APPRo PIRATE
Knapp" II Was and Drowsy Dele
gate Proceeded to Live Up to
Copnomen.

During the morning prior to the
opening of the national convention. .
special meeting of those delegates a.
ready arrived was held to discuss and
vote on some preliminary measures.
These met in smaller hall. opposite
the convention hall: and when they
were all assembled In the stuffy ROOM
one of the members leaned back wear
lily in his chair and promptly fed
asleep.
After an hours session. tho chair
man called a vote on certain meas.
ures All responded but the sleeper.
whose shores now and then echoes
through the room. @ 4.
Here! wake that man up!" do,
manded the chairman. at this potns
What's his name. anyway?
No one being able to tell. and ne
one following the chairman's order'ts
wake the sleeper up, that functionar3
at once called upon a ballot clerk t.
carry out the order So accordingly
the clerk hurried down the aisle "a
the dozer. shook him vigorously By
the arm. asking him his name thu
while.
With . broken snore tina. perforat
see the atmosphere. the sleeper awoks
Whats his name?" again called out
the impatient chairman.
At this. the clerk Strengthened up
from the unknown members chair.
and announced. to the accompaniment
Of roar Of laughter.
Mr.. chairman. he says his name %
Knapp"-Judge's Library.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01
WILD GAME IN VENEZUELA
Jaguar, Many Varieties Of Wildcats,
Strange Birds and Snakes Are
Plentiful.

Venezuela offers better opportun-
ity for the seeker Of wild game than
any other country in the world, per
haps," said Ralph Totten, recently
consul of the United States at Mara.
caibo. Venezuela. Mr. Totten, who is
a Tennesseean, has been in the con-
sular service for three years and has
been stationed In Maracaibo and Santo
Domingo. He Is on his way to his new
post at Trieste. Austria.
1t has always been source Of won.
der to me that more Americans fond
Of hunting have not gone to Venezue-
la, where, along the Amazon and In
the vicinity OF Lake Maracaibo, more
varieties of wild birds and small game
can be found than perhaps In any
other place on earth. So far as know
there have been only two Americans
who have hunted In that country. One
Of them was Caspar Whitney. the nat.
uralist and writer, who went there ia
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01
kill taguar. species of the tiger

kill 1aguar. a species of the tiger
family.
THE jaguar is probably one OF the
most powerful members of the cat
family. He has tremendous strength
in his forelegs, and with a stroke OF
his paw can kill an OK. There are all
varieties of the wildcat family in Ven
ezuela, and they can be found almost
any place in the country outside OF
the cities.
Everyone knows of course that
myriads of all varieties of the parrot
family and monkeys can be found
there There are dozens OF different
kinds of parrots. Among them is the
largest parrot in the world-the ma
caw-which measures several feet In
length. These birds are black, with
bright red heads and tails, and wings
tipped with red. A more beautiful bird
I never saw. They fly in pairs and a
popularity of the species is that while
flying they hook their bills together.
along the Amazon and Lake Mara
caibo, which, by the way. is as large
a body of water as Lake Erie, there
are all varieties of large snakes. The
boa constructor is native of that
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01
up.to-pa.e street seooars.

Even your street beggars are mp TO
date hele in New York." said an OBJ
serving out-of-town man 40 he tossed
nickel into the hat Of a professional
beggar wearing badge "Victim OF
the Recent Fire. i've never, known IL
to fail" he continued. that after .
fire. an explosion or any other big
accident there was noticeable change
in the appeals made by your street
beggars. Another thing. note his
shrewdness. AZ he doesn't specify any
particular FIRE. put simply the recent
!. fire. The desire to keep abreast Of
the times seems to be deep seated
in all New Workers.. and Just after some
great accident tho street begkars arS
sure to make the most Of the situatica
and make their appeal to the public
along the latest lines"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01

when It exploded In the oven of 4
range and shattered the cast-iron
crate. blew open the oven door. and
caused such loud report that the
maid thinking someone had shot at
her rushed from the house screaming
for help. Tho explosion was due to
the large amount of water in the 20.
tato and to the fact that it was in q
hot oven. When the water was con.
verified to steam, the skin being baked
hard. did not break until the pressure
became tremendous. causing report
similar to the discharge Il . shotgun
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01
How the Late Tom Jo.s.son. In Ea-ly
Life, squtrmed Out ct Very
Tight Place.

. ( 4 . -
When, the late Tom johnson started
in life he drove horss car IN In
dianapolis.
One night there war big storm
of sleet and snow and the tracks were
almost hidden. johnson was on the
night shift. and in the Storm he drove
his car two blocks 1eycn' curve be-
fore he realized the car was on the
tracks and slipping along on the Ice. 4
He tried to pull the car back and
failed. Thereupon he unhitched the
horses, drove them back to the barn
and left the car where 1t was.
Next day the superintendent called
him. Here. Johnson" he said. what
do you mean by driving car OF the
track and then leaving 1t in the
street,"
Why" johnson replied. suavely,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01

the Staying of Premier Stolypin. Who
killed him, and for what purpose? The
answer is not as obvious as an Amer
lean would assume. Amazingly enough.
the assassin, Bogroff. was claimed
both by the government and by the
revolutionists. HE was cog in our
machine who went wrong" assert the
police. He was a revolutionist who
obeyed our ORDERS" say the disciples
of terrorism. =.
It requires thought to appreciate
the niceness OF the dilemma which the
situation presents, especially on the
side Of the police. The officials find
1t a shade preferable to take the
wrong cog view, and assert that Bo-
lgroff had q regular permit to enter
the theater, and used revolver sup
piled by the authorities. 1t is less
injurious to the police to take this
view than to admit that they were
outwitted by the enemy, and that ter
rorism Is in successful ascendancy.
II Bogroff had been asked which
side he worked for. he would have
found it difficult to answer.
There is an increasing roll in Rus
sia, headed by the arch betrayer Azetf,
who helped to kill a grand duke and
a minister while in government Sem-
ploy, Of ambiguous persons who may
be styled the missing links or unclass-
flied monstrosities of revolution.
Agent provocateur, secret co-worker,"
government spy, revolutionary spy
these seem to be simple terms whose
meaning can be easily learned and un-
derstood. But the dictionary defni-
tons do not satisfy an, impartial stu
dent. There are things in the phe-
nomena not covered by the definitions.
The revolutionists are with the diction-
airy. Like the police. they do not be-
lieve in twilight zone; they separate
the sheep from the goats with clear
cut line. They explain most elaborate
ly that a sheep is a sheep and a goat is
goat. Nevertheless, survey OF cold
facts shows that there are woolly goats
and goatish sheep. Acct, Gapon, Pc
troff. Bogroff, they worked on both
sides and helped and hurt both sides.
A psychological zoologist would have
difficulty in placing them.
The Russian agent provocateur IL a
government spy who encourages or
commits crime for the sake Of making
arrests. But any spy or detective is
likely to conduct degree of crime in
order to succeed in his work. Be-
tween direct sprovocation and condona-
ton the difference is not always per-
ceptible. The terrorist operating
against the government must needs
use to greater or less degree the
same methods. He must betray some
what, injure his party little In or
der to injure the enemy more. In a
game Of desperate intrigue. where the
stakes are life and death, only the
stanchest characters preserve their
moral and mental balance So great
is the peril of losing integrity that
many leaders Of the revolutionary
movement dtsapprove Of any revolu-
ZIONIST entering the service of tho po-
lice.
Some new light on the spy problem
in general and the Azeff case in par
ticular was given by Leonid Menschik-
on, late senior assistant to the chief
Of the Third section at st. Petersburg.
Mr.. Menschikoff is the original ex-
poser Of the terrific Azef and has
supplied evidence against lesser stars
Of the inferno Of provocation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-11-01

met my sister on q stage west OF 10
pska.i knew he was lynn. because
she's home over in Missouri. Finally.
| got It out of him that she claimed TO
be ny sister, but her name was
Ma claire. Why. don't even know
her, azh what do you suppose she
ever picked me out for her brother
fort"
He was. alainly puzzled. and perfect.
ly convinced 1t was all q mistake.
That his sisrer might have left home
since he did. ..ud drifted West under
an assumed name, apparently never
occurred to him as possible. To Keith
this was the explanation. and nothing
could be more natcrsl. considering
her work. yet he die aot feel like
shattering the lads loyalty: Faith IN
the sister might yet save hl7a.
Perhaps the follow who toic you.'
he hazarded blindly, speaking the first
thought which came TO his mind. had
some reason to destrs TO make you
think this Maclaire girl vas your sts-
ter"
The suggestion caused him to iaue n
at first: then his face sudn-A'v sob
ered as though new thought hAd &C.
Cured to him.
Damn me. no. 1t couldn't be thai, /"
he exclaimed. one hand pressing hn
head. HE couldn't be workin' no
trick OF that kind on me"
Whom do you mean?"
"A fellow named Hawley." evasivo.
ly. '"'The man who claimed to have
met my sister"
'''Black Bart Hawley?"
The boy lifted his head again. his
eyes filed with suspicion.
Yes. If you must know: he's .
gambler all right. but he's stuck to
me when was down and out You
know him?"
tTo BE CONTINUED3