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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-31
Jed Peters Stung

Jed Peters, our intelligent school
teacher, had a very unpleasant expert
ence last Sunday. Jed, who is a great
lover of nature, was taking a stroll
through Brewster's woods a mile west
of Bngville when he suddenly come
upon large hornets nest on a bush \
little way from the ground.
Jed has collected quite number of
hornets nests, and being as this was a
big one he coveted it also. When led
didn't notice any hornet about he stuffed
a bit of moss into the hole in the nest
which the hornets went in and out of
and pulled it from the bush and started
home at a brisk walk, but he hadn't
went more than a few rods until some
of the hornets who had been out of
the nest returned home and seeing Jed
carrying off their nest they made for
him.
One hornet struck Jed right on the
back of the neck and most knocked
him down, while tother one struck him
lower and raised him up some Jed
was SO surprised that he dropped the
nest and it broke and about FIVE billion
hornets, he says, swarmed out and lit
into him with their croo1 singers.
Jed made tracks for Bingville as fast
as he could lick into it and he says h,
never did brag much about being a fash
runner, but he call1ilates he was going
at the rate of mile every two minutes
for several hundred yards.
Some of the hornets follered him
clean to the edge of the town and as
result Jed is considerably swelled uk
in spots even at this writing. He says
the next time he endeavors to secure .
hornets nest it will be a cold day
otherwise he will leave the nest alone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-31
EDDYTORIUL

In this editorial which we now
take our pen in hand to write we
desire to make a plea for new sub
scribers. No newspaper can thrive
and continue to do business at the
same old stand unless the number
of its new subscribers is in excess
of the number of its old subscrib-
ers who become extinct, as YOU
might say.
The loss of old and faithful sub
scribers by means of the Grim
Reaper must be made up by new
and fresh subscribers coming into
the fold to take their places. 9th
erwise a newspaper would drift into
obnoxious desuetude and become no
more. This last winter has been a
hard one on us, and as a result our
subscripshion list has dwindled
down to point below the general
average. and unless we can raise
some money soon from subscrip-
shions We shall expect to be called
on politely by the sheriff, and YOU
know what that means.
We have been threatened bv a
call from the sheriff on several oc-
fashions in the past, but by dint of
hard struggle have always man
aged to keep him at bay. Now,
however, our financial condishion
has become so stringent that we
make this publick appeal for new
subscribers.
On several occashions in the
past we have resorted to various
honorable means to acquire new
subscribers, but these methods have
never been what you would call a
very awful success. On one occa-
shlon several years ago we offered
a cash prize for every new sub
scriber which anybody would secure
for us. We offered a bonus of Is
cts. for every new subscriber. In
other words, we, at that time, said
to the publick- you get us So
from some person who has never
took the Bugle before and hand US
over $1.85 of this amt and you can
keep the rest"
This looked to US like beautiful
theory, but you ought to saw how
it worked out in practise. In some
cases we got the Is cts. while the
Lcanvasser got the $1s5, and in some
cases we didn't get anything.
So we are not a-going to offer
any prizes this time for new sub
scribers, but are a-going to put you
all on your honor to get us new
subscribers, as it were. If you de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-31

| By 2 o'clock in the afternoon there
| had been FIVE more moves made. II
| was then WesSe's move. but Yves took
so long that Hank went to sleep and
slept for two hours. This was a fine
chance for Yves to cheat, but how could
he do so when everybody was watching
him. 1t was after 9 o'clock p. m. be-
fore Yves moved, and Hank said that it
was then so late that he guessed he
wouldn't move until the next morning.
On Wednesday afternoon Hank he
got man into Wesse's king row, but it
didn't do him no good, because he
couldn't move it out again without get
ting it jumped. By bedtime Wensday
the game was fairly under Roadway, as
one might say. On Thursday five more
moves was made, but no men was
jumped. Friday Hank got two of
Wesse's men and Yves only got one of
Hanks. At that time Hank had six
men left and Yves had five.
The game stood this way when shut
ting Up time come at 10 p. m.
Hen he took the board very careful
with all the checkers on it just where
Yves and Hank had left them, and
started to walk to the counter with it,
but tripped over Lem Gookins' hound
dog, which was laying on the edge of
the counter, and throwed the checker
board clean over the show case, and tue
checkers flew in every direckshion. The
iangwidge Hen used was a sin and
shame to issen to, and everybody pres
ent went home in deep disgust, and
many of them said that they would do
their trading elsewhere than at Her
Weathersby's store in the future.
AS for Yves and Hank, they didn't
seem to care a mite. 1t is the general
opinion that they was both glad that
Hen spilled the checker board, being as
it was nip and tuck between them as to
who would win the game, and they
would ruther stop playing than take
any chances.
Hank, however, now calls hisse1f the
champion checker player of Bingville,
being as when the game was upset re
had enc man more than Yves had. Yves
won't admit this, and he says if Hank
Dewberry don't shut up about being the
champion checker player of Bingville
he'll be horrswoggled if he don't play
him again. Hank hasn't said much
since he got wind of this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-31
Personals & Local Items

Miss Amelia Tucker. our society
queen, is laid up temporary with tooth
ache. She would have it pulled if it
wasn't so painful.
Amos Hil1yer, our J. of the P, has
two lawsuits in prospect for the near
future if he can bring them about
Cy Hoskins is painting his buggy.
Well the buggy needs tilt hasn't
been painted since Cy got it IA years
ago.
1t is reported that Miss Tabitha
Jones will be married soon. Who the
unfortunate party was we did not learn.
A stranger whose name we did not
learn passed through our midst one day
last week. which day we forget
Lem Brown, our carpenter. is making
plans for henhouse for Deacon An
drews. Lem makes all his own archi-
tecktural plans
Mrs. Samantha Deevers is still on the
sick list as usual.
Jaspar Hawkins brought 10 dozen
eggs to Hen Weathersby's store last
Monday. How's that for eggs?
Doc Hepburn, our stalwart & arts
tick blacksmith, was incapacitated for
work on Monday and Tuesday of last
week Bill was to the Co. seat Satur-
day and it usually takes him two or
three days to get over it.
Harve Hines, our tonsorial barber,
saws that work in his line has begin to
slack UP. Harve saws in order to in
troduce shaving and haircutting to those
who are not familiar with it he will
cut hair for II cts. and shave for 8
cts. until further notice. Here is a
chance to get your hair cut or shaved
at a bargain. (Adv)
Rev. Moore, our beloved pastor of
the Bingville church. will preach q ser-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-31
Society News

Society news are very scarce in our
midst this week, and as result we have
nothing especial in that line to make
mention Of We are now just between
hay and grass, as you might say-the
gayeties of the winters social whirl
are over and summer picknicks have
not yet begun in earnest but will soon.
When they do we hope to be able to
furnish you with a large amount OF
social news. ~~---~~-~-'-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-31
Country Correspondence

We regret that we have no countr4
correspondence to offer you this week
The reason is that we have not THU
week heard from any of our correspond.
ents and we hope you will regard thi,
excuse as sufficient for not giving any
We presume that the rush of sprina
work is responsible for this, but We
hope to be able to give you some news
from nearby towns in our next issue.
EDITOR BUGLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-31
! GAMING and FALLING!

This is to notify the public that L have
went into the Teaming and HaIIinx
business have bought two horses
and n heavy road wagon and 1 am now
prepared to do your halling for you II you
wish to.
Anything IN the line Of haIIfnR ston0
bricks, merchandise, lumber, house,
hold goods, hay, grain other eat.
abIes cheerfuIIy done by me,
1t don't make any difference where vou
desire what you have hailed to. L will de
it,
will deliver from the Co. seat to you or
do your local halling for you
Prices halI1ng furnished with
great cheer.
If you have not team of your own privm
me a chance and l trust 1 will nrovs
sa tisfactory both regards price and everv.
thing else
Yours for halling,
BINGVILLE. PETER CROWLEY.
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18

The accompanying portrait is that OF
Miss Annie Evans, an eighteen-year-
old cardroom worker of Stalybridge,
England, who has just won the Her
bert Rhodes scholarship founded to
help promising Stalybridge musicians
and tenable at the Manchester Royal
College of Music. Miss Evans worked
until recently in a cotton mill, and RI
though she left home at $50 each
morning found time to devote a part
of the day to her musical studies. She
has a soprano voice and is a clever
violinist
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
ToADSTO0L PARK, NEBRASKA

One of the strongest formations in
The west Is known as Toadstool park,
In Sioux county, Nebraska. This
park Is distinctly in a state of ma
ture. There are no fences around it
except the natural mountain boundar-
les and no signs OF Keep of the
Grass" In fact there is no grass to
keep of, for the segion is one of
sandy aridity. The toadstools are
formed Of sandstone, thu under por-
tons having been eaten away by wind
and weather, leaving caps which make
the rocks resemble huge toadstools or
Mushrooms. The park" is several
acres in extent ana is a part of the
formation constituting the Bad
Lands" of the Dakotas At a remote
geologic period this entire area was
covered by layer of this soft sand
stone many hundred feet in thickness.
but the great bulk of it has been worn
and washed way during the slow prog
ress of the ages until only relatively
small portions now remain as natural
wonders. This singular region was a
generation or more ago infested by
stage robbers and other bad men"
who utilized this uninhabted portion
OF the country as a retreat.
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
IN THE PRISON OF SILENCE

Entombed in a grim castle on the
outskirts of Lisbon are some OF the
most miserable men on earth. These
are inmates of Portugal's Prison Of
Silence" In this building everything
that human ingenuity can suggest to
render the lives of its prisoners a hor-
rible, maddening torture is done. The
corridors, piled tier on tier five stories
high, extend from a common center
like the spokes of huge wheel.
The cellars are narrow, tomb-like.
and within each stands a coffin. The
attendants creep about in felt slippers.
The silence is that of a grave. Once
a day the cell doors are unlocked and
the half a thousand wretches march
out, clothed in shrouds and with faces
covered by masks, for II is part of this
hideous punishment that none may
look upon the countenance OF his fell
low-prisoners. Few of them endure
this torture for more than ten years
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
PECULIAR HOBBY OF A KING

The late king of Siam had an ex-
traordinary hobby-that of collecting
empty match boxes of all nations. In
this connection an interesting story is
related. During one OF his visits to
England the king. while passing down
Bond street one afternoon, accompan-
led by two members of his suite, es-
pied an empty match box. which had
been discarded by its owner and
thrown away into the middle of the
thoroughfare
Without a moments thought the
monarch dashed into the middle of the
crowded traffic, grasped the much
coveted treasure, and was nearly run
over by passing cab. The fact, how
ever, that he was able to add a new
specimen to his collection-gathered
in such rcumstances-more than
compensated him for the risk which
he had run.
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
AEDeEHoGs AS CLEANERS

Backwoodsmen, when In camp dur.
ing the winter, entertain many strange
guests-hedgehog among them. One
woodsman, on leaving camp on a Sat.
urday afternoon, used to neglect. pur.
posely to close the door OF his shack
in order that the hedgshogs might en-.
ter and clean his floor
lnasmuch as the principal constitu-
ents of the camp menu are pork and
beans, bacon and other dishes rich in
fat, considerable grease is spilled upon
the floor In the course of a week, and
a hedgehog will risk his neck at any
time for a bit of fat.
Just as soon, therefore, as this par
ucular camp was deserted by its oc-
cupants the spiny gluttons would
hasten in and begin To plane off the
surface Of the floor with their chisel-
shaped teeth, eating away all the
wood that held trace of grease On
his return to camp the owner could
sweep up and enjoy the comforts of
a clean house for another week.
The only serious objection to this
method of house cleaning lay in the
TACT that 1t was necessary to lay new
camp floor rather frequently.
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18

and relief from payment of contribu-
lions. 1t is estimated that when the
scheme is fully at work million
mothers in Great Britain will each
year receive this benefit at a cost
to the nation, on this account
alone, of $7,5OO,OO0. Under the sana-
forum benefit the state provides for
free treatment and care, in sanatoriums
or at home, of persons who contract
tuberculosis. The insurance commits.
sioners may schedule other diseases
also for institutional treatment. These
are the minimum benefits. Other ben
efts, possible with prudent manage
ment of the insurance funds. include
larger old age pensions and higher
sick, disablement and maternity pay
and convalescence allowances.
Administered Through FraternaI Soci-
cites.
The administration of the act is
through the government, which util-
ICES the friendly societies, trades
unions and other approved organiza-
uons-and through the postal savings
bank for deposit contributors whom no
friendly society would insure. The
friendly societies correspond, to a de-
gree. to mutual insurance companies
In the United States. The insured thus
control the working of the scheme
The act makes safe and solvent the
fraternal or friendly society and in
creases Its benefits, provided upon re-
peated examination the society or
lodge shows approvable management
But how does the insurance act ben.
eft the employer? What does he re-
ceive In return for his contribution of
six cents a week?
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
U1Orld:
INSURlNG A NATION.
By LDALTER LDILLIRMJ, Ii. Z
Dean Of e School of Unaeuv of

q week are insured without cost to
them. Contributions are not paid by
the workman during sickness or unem-
ployment and cease entirely when he
reaches the age of seventy years. The
act makes 1t illegal for the employer
to deduct his own proper contribution
from the workers wage; he must de-
duct only the workers share. A spe-
cial provision mobiles contributions in
cases where employers maintain their
workpeople in sickness. Men and
women of all ages up to sixty-five
years are treated alike in respect to
contributions. Insurance cost is no
more at forty years of age than at
sixteen. The age handicap, necessari-
ly imposed by private insurance com
panies, is entirely absent from the
British scheme.
What are the beneflts?
The member of parliament from
Northampton, II. B. Lees Smith, and
the managing director of a great
wholesale establishment of London,
Wilkie Calvert. (brother of DR.. Sidney
Calvert, professor of chemistry at the
University of MissourD, summarized
these benefits:
Sickness and other Benefits.
The workman pays eight cents
week or less. His benefits are the
same whatever he pays. These bene-
fits include free medical attendance
and free medicine, sickness benefit,
disablement or invalidity pension, ma
ternity benefit, sanitarium benefit.
Free medical attendance and free
medicine are provided to the worker
who becomes i'll. This provision has
been sharply attacked by the British
doctors. The sickness benefit varies
in amount. Ordinarily it is $3.50 a
week for men and $1.75 week for
women for 26 weeks. Sickness bene-
fits cease at seventy years of age
when the old age pension becomes
payable. If sickness continues long
er than 26 weeks, $1.25 q week is paid
during the remainder Of the sickness,
however long it may be. Provision is
made for certain reduction in benefits
when members are in arrears with
their contributions, but no one is sus-
pended from medical, sanitarium and
maternity benefits until more than 26
weeks in arrears. Insured women,
married or unmarried, and the wives
of insured men, whether insured or
not, receive a maternity benefit of
$3.50 in addition to sickness benefit,
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18

became effective only in July, 1912
Under the act, every employed person
rom sixteen to seventy years OF age
whose income does not exceed $500 a
year, is compulsorily insured against
sickness, in whatever manual or other
occupation engaged, with certain
rather unimportant exceptions. Those
earning more than $500 a year by
manual labor alone are also compul.
sorily insured. In British population
of 45,000,000, the act includes, approx
mately, 100000 in its provisions.
The act also provides that other per.
sons not included in the compulsorily
insured class, may join under certain
conditions.
"1e Cents Worth for 8 Cents"
The insurance fund is derived from
three sources, the worker the employ
er, the national treasury. Here arises
one of the strongest criticisms of the
act, both employer and workman
claiming his contribution to be too
large. The weekly subscription of the
workman earning more than 1915 a
week is IS cents, of which the work
man pays eight cents. the employer
six cents and the national treasury
four cents or its equivalent. In add
ton, the state pays the cost of central
administration and large grants to-
wards hospitals and medical benefits.
When a workman's wages are less
than 1915 a week, he pays less pro-
portion to the insurance fund and the
employer pays more. Insured women
pay one-fourth less than insured men.
The vorkman thus buys Is cents
v rtn OF insurance for eight cents.
hose wages are less than S1.75
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
ADVERTISING IN TOXIC

The following advertisement Of a
Toxic bookseller is worthy of being
passed on:
The advantages OF our establish
mept: l. prices cheap as a lottery; 2.
books elegant as a singing girl; 3,
print clear as crystal; 4, paper tough
as elephants hide: 5, customers treat
ed as politely as by the rival steamship
companies; 6. articles as plentiful as
in library; Z, goods dispatched as ex-
peditiously as a cannon ball; s, parcels
done up with as much care as that be-
slowed on her husband by a loving
wife; 8, all defects, such as dissipa-
tion and idleness, will be cured in
young people paying us frequent Wis
its, and they will become solid men:
10, the other advantages we offer are
too many for language to express"
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
BAN PUT ON MILITARY DRUM

1t was some time ago that, acting
upon the recommendations embodied
in report by a military commission,
the French government reached the
conclusion that the drum was no long
er a necessary article of military equip
ment. The report set forth that the
drum was a serious encumbrance in
marching; that rain impaired it's use
fulness: that it's calls could not be
distinguished in time of battle; that II
consumed a period of two years to
turn out an efficient drummer; and
that by abandoning the use of the
drum many thousands of youths and
men would be released for active serv-
ice.
Since the decision of the French
government other European powers
have followed its example in decree
ing that the drum must CO."
The history of the drum is both an.
cient and honorable. The Egyptians
employed it. and the Greeks ascribed
its invention to Bacchus. The Span
fish conqueror Pizarro is said to have
found drums in South American tenn
pies. The snakes of Ireland, we are
told. fed from the Emerald Isle be
fore the drum-beats OF st. Patrick.
The Puritans of New England used
the drum as church bell. and IL fig.
ured frequently and romantically all
through the wars of the revolution and
rebellion in America.
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAYSOlOOL
LESSON

tBy f. o. SELLERS. Director OF Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago.)
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18


enacted it into law. It will ruin the
nation, assert in public the Conser-
Vatives, who opposed it's enactment.
In private all parties appear commit
ted to acceptance of the general prin-
ciples of the National Insurance Act,
as 1t is popularity called. though as to
some OF its practical workings there
is fierce contention. II does not ap-
pear probable that the act will be re-
pealed, though il Will doubtless-to
quote Bonar Law, the Conservative
leader-be "drastically amended" If
his party, turning out the Liberals,
Is placed in power at the next general
election.
The insurance act became a law De
cember 16, 1911. 1t was a government
measure presented and supported by
the Liberal government. Such a
scheme" said Worthington Evans, M.
p, one Of its most vigorous critics,
could never have been brought in ex-
cept by one with the pluck of Mr..
Lloyd-George, and with the help OF
those connected with insurance" In
many respects the original measure
was crudely drawn, showing the marks
Of haste in its preparation. Some of
the crudities have been corrected by
supplementary legislation.
Compulsory Insurance Against Sick
ness.
What is the purpose of the insur-
ance act ana what are its practical
wo. Kings since it has been British
law? While the act was passed in
December, 1911, the insurance features
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
LESSON FOR DECEMBER Fl
DIVISION OF THE LAND.

LESSON TEXT-Joshua 14:1-I.
GOLDEN TEXT-"Seek ye first the
kingdom Of God and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto
you"-Matt. 6:33.
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18

London, Eng
land. AN Act
to provide for In
surance against
Loss of Health
and for the Pre-
vention and Cure
Of Sickness, and
for Insurance
Against u n g M
pl oy m e n t"
such is the COM
prehensive title
Of the most am
bilious measure
for social reform
yet attempted in
Great Britain. 1t
will make over
the United King
dom, declare the
Lii erals and
their allies, who
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18
BED AS A PUNISHMENT

No more fantastic punishment can
well he conceived than that melted out.
a while since, by a magistrate at Ben
nington, Kan, to a man charged with
being intoxicated. The prisoner was
sentenced to seven days in bed, and
was conducted home by policeman,
who stood by while ne undressed him
self. and then tucked him up snugly
between the sheets.
The Yale expositor., 1913-12-18

When Lord Rosebery visited Selkirk
recently to take part in the celebra-
tions connected with the four hun.
dredth anniversary of the Battle OF
Flodden Field, he received the token
of the burgh with the usual formali
ties, including the licking of the
birse," a shoemaker's thread with Is
bristle point This serious custom is
a survival of the time when nearly all
the burghers of Selkirk were shoema.
kers.
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