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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

from boil on her neck and enjoys
the heartfelt sympathy of Bingville
folks in her painful afflickshion. 1t is
good cal better though, Phronicia, to
have it on your neck than on your
fase-if it was on your Ease your Ease
would be all sweld up and you would
look foolish & ridicklus in the extream
Hen Smiley says he cant remember
when he was ever so short of socks
as at the present writing, being as he
amt got a pr to his name but whats
got holes in EN-. Hens wife has been
so busy with her fall work that she
amt had time to darn Hens socks for
him.
Please subscribe for the Bugle, and
when you do subscribe kindly accom-
pany your subscripshion with the cash,
being as we are purity hard pushed for
same at the present writing.
Emily Dewberry says she would visit
her sister over to Hardscrabble for
few days if she could only git some
kind persons to feed her chickens and
milk her COW for her. Who will volun-
teer to do this for Emily?
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and set straddle of him and slapped
Ames Ease for him until Anne hollered
that he had enuff.
Eph then let Anne git up and Anne
told Eph this wouldn't be the last he
would hear of this and walkd outen
the offs and back home purity bad used
up and Madden a wet hen. Eph was
also a good cal scratched & bruised and
diddent know why Anne had assaulted
him until he found out from others
who Anne told. Anne went home with
out getting his circular, and now he
sayes it can rot in his mail box before
he'll stick his nose into the Bingville
P. 0. again.
Anne says he is a going to write a
letter to the P. O. authorities at Wash
ington and have the Bingville P. o.
took away from Eph Higgins. Eph says
he wishes to goodness he would, being
as it only paid him $7.14 for the last
quarter, which amt sufishent for keep
ing the offs open.
Anne says hes going to stop having
his mail come to the Bingville p o.
but to the co. seat instid He says he
would a good cal ruther haft to go all
the way to the co seat for his mail
than haft to go to the Bingville P. o.
for it.
We don't see but what at the present
writing Eph has the best of things
Jest becuz Anne was stung by a couple
of bees amt no reason he should take
out his spite on our accommodating
P. M
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Country Correspondence
SNAKE BEND

Alb Woods says he calkilates to do
considerable numbering during the COM
ing winter and will begin operashions
as soon as the snow flies.
Lem Peters boy RUDE made pun
kin face outen big punkin and put a
candle in it one night last wk an set it
on the front PLAYER, and when Lem
come home about 9 p. m. the blamed
thing scairt him turrib1e. When Lem
found out he give Rube a good lickin
for it.
It is roomered on good authority
that Sam Parker & Miss Phronicia
Hunt, who has been on the outs for a
while, are keepin company again as
ushual, and are jest as sweet on each
other as ever. We persoom it wassent
nothink but love spat, anyhow.
Buck Henderson made trip out into
the country from here last Sunday and
reports that the chestnut crop is a fail
ure, being as he only found a few and
them was such shrunk up wizzled little
things they wassent worth bothering
with SCRIBBLER.
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Anne & Eph
in a Fife!
Our Accommodating P. N. & Our
Attorney, J. of the P. 6 Legal
Light Come to Blows Over No.
think at aII---FuII PartickIerS
of the DisgTaSefuI Preceding
Below!

| A turrible disgraseful preceding tux
place in the Bingville P o. last Tues
| day afternoon in which Eph Higgins,
our accommodating P. NJ, & Anne Hill
| yer, our well E1nowd attorney, 1oryer &
legal light, participated, & as a result
are now bitter enemies and will prob
ably remain so as long as they live.
Tuesday was a quiet day in the P
| O., and along in the afternoon, being
as nobuddy had come into the P. o.
to purchase a stamp or even for their
mail for the last hour or two, Eph Hig-
gins set down in a chair, tilted it back
agin the wall, pulled his hat down over
his eyes and went to sleep in deep dis
gust.
Bye and Bye, after Eph had got off
sound to sleep, so to speak. Anne Hill
yer dropped into the P. o. to see if
there was emmy mail for him, being as
Anne had been bizzy the night before
reading up on lawsuit case and didn't
have time to git his mail Anne wassent
in a very good humor when he got to
the P. o. being as just before leaving
home he had TUX some honey from one
of his hives of bees for home consump-
shion and got stung a couple of times
& the stings was still paining him some.
Well. Anne he walked into the P O.
and passed Eph, who was setting in the
chair asleep, and went over TO the P. 0.
boxes and looked into his box and seen
circular or somethink in the box and
says to Eph, still squintin into the box,
"I'll take my mail, Eph." Eph. who
was sound asleep, of course diddent
hear him and as result diddent anser.
Anne looked around at Eph and says
again. 81 said I'd take my mail, Eph,"
but Eph KEEP right on snoring. Anne
begin to git out of pashience, being as
he thort Eph was playing a joke on
him, so he speaks up purity sharp and
says, "FIow meny times do 1 haft to
ask you for my mail? If you think
line a goin to stand here and wait for
my mail while you set there & pertend
to be asleep when there's something inn
portant in my mail box you're turrible
mistaken You git tip and gimme my
mail or lie take harsh MEASURES with
YOU, Eph Higgins. You're servant of
the guvverment & when a person de
mands his mail you've got to give ii
to him right off, do you hear ?"
Eph diddent hear a word Anne said,
but Anne thort he did. so when Eph
diddent anser him Anne stepped right
over to where Eph set and give him a
push and the chair upset & Eph fell
often it to the floor with dull sick
ming thud and hit his head turrible
wallop agin the floor hard enuff to
split the floorboards.
OF course this wol1ed Eph up right |
off and he jumpd to his feet, and when |
he seen Anne standin there Eph says. |
Who the thunderashion hit mel" L |
did" saws Anne. That's all 1 want to |
knowr' says Eph & he jumped on to
Anne like fury. Both men clinched |
and stumbled and fell to the floor and |
rolled around bit and scratched and |
clawed like as if they was in a battle /
to the deth, unit! Eph got Anne under 2
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LokaI SquibS

Doc Livermore, our Professional
horse docktor & human speshialist, says
that the Stork will VISIT certain fam
billy in Bingvil1e before another ishue
of the Bugle comes out. We think we
know who Doc means, but the less said
about it the better until the happy event
has eliminated Any further mentchion
of this affair at this time would be
prematoor & out of place. Well, this
will make one more inhabitant for
Bingville-our populashion is steadily
increasing.
Cy Hosleins went to sleep in church
last Sunday jest before the contribu-
shion plate was passed, and as a result
diddent put nothink into the plate. We
have notised that he has been going to
sleep every Sunday of late jest before
that he wakes up and is as bright as
a dollar while the sermon is being
preached. You can draw your own
conclusions.
Miss Amelia Tucker, Bingville's
raining society queen, is not taking
much part in the soshial whirl of Bing
vile at present, being as Amelia is
suffering from a ingrowing toenail
which is giving her considerable trouble,
and as result she has retired from
sossiety for the time being.
Bill Hepburn, our artistick black
smith, made his ushua1 Satterday trip
to the co seat last Saturday and re-
turned home about dark full as a tick,
as is his custum Bills wife put him to
bed All day Sunday Bill had a sp1ittin
headake, but Monday morning he was
at work in his shop, but was in a tur-
rib1e bad humor until Tuesday. 1t is
a awful thing for a person to let old
Demon Rum git hold on EN- like that
Yves Woodruff, our expert hunter
& trapper, is getting ready to put out
his line of traps which he will do soon.
We persoom about the first thing Yves
ketches in his traps will be skunk
and then he will be ostercized from
Bingville sossiety for the rest of the
winter. Yves he don't seem to mind
the oder. but others does & they avoid
him.
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SORROW HOLLOW

Josh Slade had his hair cut over to
Hardscrabble last wk This is a queer
time for you to have your hair cut,
Josh, right on the Threshold of win
ter, when you will need it to keep your
head warm, but Josh calkilated he need
ed haircut, being as he haddent had
one for two years.
Mrs. Alvira has COW for sail. AL
vira says she will sell the COW ruther
than bother milkin her and feedin her
through the winter This cow is fresh,
too. Who wishes to buy fresh COW?
Pete Hawkins has been sprucin up
and keepin his Ease & ears washed so
clean of late that they fairly shine He
also wears a starched shirt. and stiff
collar and uses grease on his hair
Did you ever notice this. Lucy?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-05

Becuz you go & make me so sad
When I wood good cal ruther be
full of JOY & glad.
The leaves has all fell from the
& there is a awful coolish like feel
to the breeze.
I hate to see the flours die like
everything
Alas no more flours will bloom til
next Spring!
o dear, o dear, o dear, o dearl
Awful winter will soon be heat!
Soon veal feel the North winds isy
breth
& like as not veal freeze to deth
I don't like Ottum it IS so lnelan-
colick
& I feal sad instid of like fun
& frolick;
If I Good wish & git the thing
wish for I'd wish for Spring Gall
the tinel.
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Personal BreVitieS

Things has begin to look a good cal
like Ottum in Our midst.
Speaking of Ottum, we call your re-
speckful attenshion to a pone on "Ot-
tu1n'' which appears in our eddytoriul
collurn of this ishue, & while you're
reading that you might as well read
our few eddytoriul remarks on the
same subjeckt.
Miss Phronicia Eatkins is suffering
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EDDYTORIUL

If our eddytoriu1 menry serves
us correckt we Amt so far wrote a
eddytoriul on "Ottum" up to the
present writing this Fall, and so we
take our pen in hand to do that
same without further delay.
1t has a1lus been our custum to
write a eddytoriul on Fail jest as it
is our custum to write one on
Spring as reglar as Spring & Fall
comes around, and we shall not de-
part from our ushual custum on this
occashion.
There is all the more reason why
we should write a eddytoriul on
"Ottum" on this ospishus occashion
being as Miss Sally Hoskins, Our
talented poet writer has at our
ernest & respected solisitashion Just
dasht off a pone entitled "Ottum"
for publicashion in the Boog1e, &
it is fitting that our Eddytoriul &
Sally's pon1e both on the same sub
jeckt should appear in this collum
in concunckshion & sinultanus.
We have been at Sally for the
past several wks to dash us off a
pome on Otturn, but Sally, like all
other geniusses, says that she got
to wait for inspirashion. In other
words you cant crowd genius-you
haft to let it take its time and when
it gifts good & reddy then it will
take its pen in hand and do justice
to the subject whatever it may be.
We have a good cal of genius
ourse1f, but we have teached it to
know its place and to come to us
when we whissel for it :nstid of
hanging back to suit itself. When
it comes to writing eddytoriuls for
the Boogle we can't lounge back in
a easy chair like Sally Hoskins and
wait for inspirashion-if we did
there wouldn't be no eddytoriuls in
the Bug1e and like as not we would
starve to deth being as if we had to
wait for inspirashion we calkilate
we would haft to wait a turrible
long spell. In other words we have
teached Our genius to come when
called and git bizzy on the job.
However, let us perdoosc as fol-
lers Sally 1oskins' turrible booti-
full & pathetick pome on "Ottum"-
OTTUM
By Miss Sally Hoskins
10 Ottum, Ottum, you are here
aganel
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AWFUL CHEEP

AS you all know l have been en-
gagged in the bizness of repairing
umbrelIers for a yr. or 2, but
have now desided to sell out all
my bizness and good will to the LIST
person who comes along. Here is
chanst to build up this bizness
into somethink that will make you
rich beyond the fondest dreams of
avarise. You can bet it will new
yer make you rich unless it is bilt
up more than it is at present. Good
reasons give for selling. The
principle reason is that bizness in
this line is turrible dull & I wood
perfer to git into somethink where
l could make living if possible.
If the above amt a good reason
for selling ] can give you some
more. l would be a blame fool
to sell out if bizness was as brisk
as it ought to be. Now as to the
price: l will sell you my biz
ness, good will and tools for
the small sum of IS cts! This
melodies broken ribs and good
ribs, several old handles, caliPers,
screw driver, wires, two unbreller
covers Zone with holes in it), ETC.,
too numerous to mentchion. Here
is a chanst for you'll Being as
there amt no money in the umbrel-
Ter fixing bizness in this locality
don't think that rs cts is too much
for a good opening with no op-
pOsishion. If this price is too
much I'll take less becuz line GO
ing to sell regardless of costl
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OTTUM

By Miss Sally Hoskins
o Ottun, Ottum, you are here
aganel
& in my hart you almost give me
a pane
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
Expert Vino Drinkers.

An Algerian regiment will empty as
many as a thousand pitchers Of wine
without losing half a thimbleful of
liquor. 1t is a system which permits
general use of one vessel for drink
ing purposes in an absolutely Clearly
way. 1t dispenses with cups or glasses.
great convenience when troops are on
active service. A large pitcher with a
spout to it, filed with wine, was passed
from hand to hand Each soldier lifted
the pitcher high over his head and
tilted it until the wine poured in a
steady stream into his open mouth be-
low. When the wine splashed inside
the drinkers stomach for about a min.
ute the soldier soldier next him took
possession OF the pitcher and repeated
the performance. Not drop is wasted.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
For Geological Survey

The time is now here when the voters
in the different mining districts should
exact pledges from the candidates for
the legislature, to support a bill au-
thorizing state geological survey.
Idaho, with her vast mineral resources
is the only state in the union without a
state geologist, and without any pro-
vision for any state geological work.
Idaho has school of mines at the
state university at Moscow, but there
is no provision made to give the stu
dents any actual field practice, such as
all other states give. The appropria-
ton to the school of mines is so small
that nothing can be accomplished ex-
cept in technical way. There should
be liberal appropriation made for a
state geological survey, in which the
students could be give practical field
work.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
A Woman and a Tiger.

Although the tiger usually does its
hunting at night, it departs at times
from this habit, especially If 1t hap
pens to be a man eater. In the province
of Nam, in the northern part of Siam,
a villager and his wife were gathering
wood one afternoon in the jungle. Sud
denly tiger Ieaped on the man, seized
him by the ankle, threw him over its
back and made for the woods. The
wife, mad with grief and excitement.
followed After going perhaps 200
yards the tiger stopped, dropped its
victim and began to play with him pie
eisely as cat plays with a mouse.
The woman. armed only With stout
bamboo club, stole up behlndHhe beast
and smote it on the neck. By great
good luck she broke two of the YER
tebrae and killed the animal instantly.
Then she dragged her senseless hus-
band back to their hut and called the
neighbors. The man, although badly
mauIed. finally recovered. In token of
admiration for the woman's bravery
the chao phya. OF governor Of the
province. gave her life pension and
a silver medal.-Yopth's Companion.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
Hotel Lobby Ghosts.

browsing in hotel lobby on a
balmy afternoon were some fifty men
in different stages of somnolence. Pres
emily a belboy passed shouting:
Mr.. Zachary Taylor. Mr.. Zachary
Taylor, please"
The name made everybody sit up.
Zachary Taylor?" said smooth
faced youth. '9That name sounds ia
miliar."
"Familiar?" snorted the graybeard
beside him. GOOD LordP
Then Zachary Taylor appeared. He
was a dapper little fellow known to
nobody there except personal friend
who had wanted him PACED, yet be
had attracted as much attention as
royalty.
Scenes like that are common In
hotel lobbies," said clerk. Nearly
every day some name once famous is
PACED in New York hotels. OF course
the boy is not trying to call from the
grave the original possessor of the
great name, but the loungers in the
lobby show almost as much interest as
If he were. "-Washington Star.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08

The Pacific Monthly and Sunset have
recently consolidated, To introduce
Sunset-the Pacific Monthly to new
readers, we make the following intro
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months and beautiful Indian poster SOC
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months, w. J.. Bryan's paper the Com
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No. 8. Sunset-the Pacific Monthly
months, La Foliette's Magazine 6
months and beautiful Indian poster, 81.
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months, Outlook with Roosevelt's ed
itorials, 6 months, and beautiful Indian
poster, $500.
Order by number and send money
order check or stamps to Fred Lockley
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Pacific Monthly. Portland, Oregon.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
$1,000 Death Benefit.

SIS weekly benefit for Accident or
Sickness; $1,000 for loss of Limb or
Eyesight; 500 for Emergency Relief
Benefit. Cost is Sc per year. No other
Dues nor Assessment. Men and Women
between ages 16 to 65 are accepted.
Reliable company with 100000 state
deposit for the. protection Of policy
holders and to guarantee the payment
of claims. Write for further informa-
ton giving your age, sex and occupa-
ton. Address Dept. AL. American
Registry Company, Erie, Pa.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08

ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY BY
GEO. c. PECK j. Publisher
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
Senator Borah.

The Portland Oregonian says: The
men who have been led astray by the
denunciations of the belligerent
Roosevelt men into the belief that no
hope of securing progressive leglsla-
tion exists except through the organ
ization of third party should take to
heart the words of Senator Borah in
refusing his aid to that movement.
His right to be counted progressive
is beyond question; for he has proved
his faith by his works. To him is
chiefly due the submission to the states
of the amendment for direct election
of senator's; he voted to purge the
senate of Lerimer; he has procured the
passage of the three-year homestead
law, which every western man regards
as a step in progress; he has stood
shoulder to shoulder with the progress
sives in congress in the fight for down.
ward revision of the tariff; he support
ed Roosevelt to the last in his effort to
capture the republican nomination at
Chicago.
This man, whose earnestness and
sincerity have stood the test of the
manifold temptations of term in the
senate, decides that better and quicker
results can be obtained by himself and
the other progressive republicans by
remaining in the republican party than
by going out of it and organizing a
third party. He says;
81 do not believe that it is possible
to build up a third party in this coun-
try which can get hold Of the legisla-
ton within the next 20 years. If
thought that by joining third party
/ could more effectually do what ought
to be done, that by it we could more
effectually legislate for what the peo-
Pile out to have, l would not hesitate te
join it. But do not believe that it is
the best way to accomplish it,
In SO saying Borah is in harmony
with action of Senators La Toilette anC
Cummins, who bear the scars of battle
for progress extending through man.
years, and of many other leaders of tn,
progressive movement, His judgmen
is worthy of the respect due to vet
eran in the senate.
We have just had practical demon
stration of the soundness of Borah
Judgment in the passage by the senat
Of bill reducing the tariff on sugar
one of the first neeessaries of life
By compromise with the regulars tn
progressives obtained substantial re
duction in duties and the abolition O
the Dutch standard, which now shut
out a great volume of cheap foreig
sugar. 1t is extremely doubtfr
whether the standpat element woul
have agreed to such a reduction had tn
progressives been. a separate party
and the latter alone would have bee
powerless to pass it. The progressive
therefore obtained quicker results
lifting the toll from the consumer
following the course favored by Boral
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
His Brand of WHISPERS.

Governess-Who can make sentence
with the word "grewsome" in it? Little
Willie-I can. The man stopped shay
ing and grewsome whiskers.- London
Answers.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
Not a Failure.
Answers

Young Wrymer-l tell you. marriage
takes all the poetry out of fellow.
Friend-Then it can't be failure Bps-
ton Ira nscript.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08

Everything great y not always good,
but all good things are great-DenSos-
themes.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08

Old papers for sale at Mining
News office, 10 cents a bundle.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1912-07-27

within the constitutional limit (35
years. and much nearer than his op.
ponents to the popular demand il
point OF age. He intimated that
Judge Guion might employ himself
much more profitably in explaining
why he voted, as a member of the
State Board of Liquidation to give out
the states funds without competitive
bids, prior to the last meeting, at
which time he reversed his vote, l.
though both instances were alike in
their possibility of benefiting the
state by large sums. Judge O'Niell
remarked that in the meantime the
campaign had been fought out, and
the former administration had been
retired by the popular vote. In like
manner, the speaker suggested that
Judge Guion should explain how he
gave decision with regard to the
primary election law i'm such terms
that in the recent campaign, both
factions in New Orleans used it, as
fortifying their opposing contentious.
Also when Judge Guion was a candi.
date to succeed himself four years
ago he made no issue with the pri-
mary law, although it was the same
law on which he delivered an opin-
ion in the late campaign. Top
les such as these would interest
the voters more than the youth Of
himself.
Judge O'Niell deprecated the plank
in candidate Judge EdW N. Pugh's
platform, embodying the charge that
only one of the Supreme Court judges
reads the recods. Judge O'Niell be-
lieves that this can only occur where
there is no question Of fact but only
of law. He believes that the Court
is thoroughly conscientious and at
tentive to duty.
Referring to Judge Robt r. Reds
plea that the Florida Parishes should
support his candidacy, Judge O'Niell
said that this was not wise argu.
ment, not only because it appealed
to local prejudices, but if carried to
it's logical conclusion would defeat
Judge Reid, because if the Florida
parishes supported him, and the par
ishes of the district on the west side