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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12
Hank Taking No Chanses

Hank Dewberry says he thinks its NJ
dicklus for ennybuddy to take 4 bath
every day like them two gentlemen sum-
mer boarders done who stopped At Cy
Hosl<ins two weeks last month.
Every day they would put on their
bathing suits and 60 in bathing in Snake
Crick below the bridge. 1t was quite \
specl1takle to see EN- splashing around
and nearly every afternoon when they
went in there was 4 big crowd of our
most respeckted citizens colleckted on
the bridge to watch EN-.
Hank says there is three reasons why
he wouldn't take bath as often as onct
a day. In the first place he says he'd be
afeard he'd step on snake or tortle
would bite off a toe or two and in the
seclsond place praps them City fellers is
more soiied than he is and needs bath
offener and in the third place if he TUX
bath that often he'd be afeard he'd rub
all his hide often hisself in the first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12
Happy Valley

Hame wilson put new roost pole
in his henhouse tother day. Hame is =
very enterprisin man and is allus max
ing some improvement or other around
his property thus beautifying it and in
ereasing it in value It would be good
thing If more hereabouts would foller
Hames example.
Mrs. BENZ. Gibbs Is laid up with a
crick in her neck. She think she got
it last Sunday at. church when she
looked around suddint to see who it
was that come in late. It was Mrs. Sim
Bean-Mrs. Sim Bean is most generally
allus late.
Eph Foster while driving Miss Milly
West through the village behint his new
trotting horse last Sunday and showing
off had the horse to cast shoe which
struck Eph q wallop on the head nearly
lenoclin MIN outen the buggy and con-
tusing his scalp good cal Better
drive slower after this. EPh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12
Personal BraafS

Mise spell of wether this we are hav.
ing after the rain. Well that's the way
it goes in this world darkness jest be-
fore the storm and sunshine after rain.
Hez Andrews says We may look out
for q couple of storms soon. Hez says
that We have alreddy had one and he
has a1lus notised that after We have had
one storm it is aflus follerd by two more.
Hez ort to be ashamed of hisself going
around perdicktin sich calamity ~ that.
Dad Henderson went hunting recent
after squir1s, bat Dad didn't happen
to see no squirls-ail he seen was hem
hawk which he Shot. Dad had his
mouth all fixd for squirt potpie and
when he didn't = squirt ne got mad
and mAde hfe uffe make hawk potpie
osaten the hawk. Dad says henhawk
potpie Amt = bad but he'd ha4e like
blazes - 8 g1pwn to Il every meat.
Bale - tha& II he had q
inowd fhat III sskty esop vas % dim
and poor he woaldnt Of bofherd 10 cut
being - It wassent worth cutting and
as result Bale expec1kts to haft to buy
his hay 10. ushuai this winter. Bale
thinks it was the drouth done Il.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12

thoat the more bushels of potsters he
bought for 81. and sold for IS cts the
worse off he was. When folks found
out what AMI was getting for his po-
potaters aein and AMI continued to
pay EN- 81. per bu until all the money
he had borrowed from Cy Hoskins was
gone and then he a nounced he was
busted and shut up shop.
Ami don't yet seem to understand
why it was he come out at the small
end of the horn in his potater skeme.
He says there must Of been screw
loose somewheres but he'll be switched
if he knows where it was. If AMI
wants to know the place where the
screw was loose was in side his own
head, that's where it was. Ennybuddy
with emmy bizness gumpshion = tall ort
to know that you cant pay 81. per bu
for potaters and sell EN- for IS cts per
bu and get rich at il. )
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12
APPEL EDDYTORIUL

Being as this is the month dur
ing which farmers & others here
abouts picks their appels often the
trees and puts them in barls for
winter use it ocleurd to us that it
wouldn't be bad idee if we was to
set down and dash off a edytoriul
on "The AppelEIts Use &. Abuse,
Et Cettery."
We have wrote eddytoriuls on
almost everything the injinuity of
the human mind could conceive of,
but so far as we can recolleckt we
amt never wrote one on the appel.
The appel amt vegetable SIGH
as the turnip or the onion or the
potato or punl<in-on the contrary
it is fruit & ort to be classed with
other fruits stitch as the peach,
plum, banana and peanut. The
appel is one of the first fruits of
which we have emmy record. In
other words it is as old as the hills
and then some. If you viii care
fully read the first few chapters of
Genesis you will find that appels
grwd & flourished in the Garden
of Eden when Adam & Eve lived
in that naberhood.
From what we have read we
Judge that Adam wasn't mulch of
a hand for appels, but Eve in
dooced him to eat one which made
him turrible sick to his stummick
and sinst then the appel has been
regarded as forbidden fruit. 1t is
our opinion that the appel that
Adam ct must of been green APP
pei which is why it affeckted him
as it did becuz ripe, meier, juicy
appel ort not to give ennybuddy a
pain to their stummicI<:
In spite of the appel being the
forbidden fruit however it is tur-
rible poplar with all classes and II
It wassent for the appel what would
We do for appel PIE in winter time
What is more sucl<ulent & delishus
than jest appel pie?. Appels j:
not only good to make pies out of
but for ether things as wen IN.
clooding appel sass, APPEL molasses
lapel jelly, appel butter and hare
lcider.
] There amt nobuddy of enn,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12
Now That
Winter Amt

50 turrible fur away 1t might be ws1
for you to keep in mind that
] Al IN de eobb1ing bisnose
in Bingville. l amt did much in mn
line for the past several wks. Some.
times
I ALMOST GIT DlscURRlDcRD
becuz Bingville is SIGH . poor eobbling
town and often have threated to 70
away from here to some more euter.
prising community.
HOW m SAM HIIl,
can . cobbler make . Twin in Bingville
when most everybody wears euD
boots in winter time and goes baro.
foot in summer7
amt half soled enuff boots ana
shoes this summer to sleeercely
Keep Body and Soul Together.
wish to inform You an that win
do cobbling work in the boot and shoo
line as cheap as ennybuddv aud cheepee
if necessary. l have been IN the eos.
bling bizncss in Bingvil1e now for near.
have eebblel a.i esSSl.a o.
COBBLED day in and day ont and I
expeckt TO continue to co6ble in youf
unless ! starve % doath-then I vim
leave.
Second hand boots and shoes bouRis
and sold or half soled jest - you de-
sire. If you buy pr of shoes that
don't fit you sell EN- to me and l win
sell EN- to somobuddy else ~ vvSll
have . Ct. You will find me IN M
shop Waiting for bizness from s !. n.
to s p. N.
Yours for more cobblinR.
ABE WINSIOW
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12

prominence in Bingvi1le who don't
make at least a bari or two of hard
cider from appels every fall then
put same away in safe place and
leave it unmolested until it ac-
quires considerable kick. When the
cold blustry months of Febooary
& March comes along when Bing-
vile citizens is shut up in their
homes & isolated from the outside
world so to speak their amt moth
ink will cheer UP their dropping
spirits on long winter eggs like a
few tin dippersful of old hard CT
der. After \ man has CUPID down
a pitcher of hard cider, he don't
lkeer whether he is isolated or not
and if the wind is bowling outside
he lets it howl for he is happy and
contented and joy sings in his
heart.
Hard cider Is also valuable dur
ing harvest time (perviding emmy
is left in the bari at that time) be-
ing as jug of hard cider took out
to the bayfield, and partook of now
and then by the harvest hands
seems to fill EN- with new life &
vigger and as a result each man
under the impetus of hard cider
vii do two or three mems work
and think nothinl of it.
Hard cider is a great boon to
them as are low in spirit & inclined
to look on the dark side of things.
As editor & Prop. of the Buggle
we wouldn't mind if we had swig
or two of hard cider at the present
writing for it would chirk us up a
good cal we persoo1n.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12
Bus TED!


We regret to . nounce herewith that
Ami Cookins one of our most re-
speclted but irresponsible citizens has
been overlook in his. mad career by 4
financial catastrophee which has made
Ami menny yrs of struggle Z self
denile to recoop his shatterd forchune
as we might say.
Ami is one Of these kind Of fellers
who allus has some skeme or other
which he believes will make him rich
beyant the fondest dreams of avarice
but somehow or other his skemes don't
never pan out as he thinks they will and
Jobs turkey all his life, bat he amt never
lost hope No matter how clost Amzi's
nose is KEEP to the grindstone you'll allus
find him Jest on the verge of maxim =
forchune which will enable him to quit
work and retire and live life of luck
shury for the rest of his days.
A cupple of wks ago AMI got the
idee into his head that he could make
hisseif a rich man BY buying up all the
potaters he could buy in Bingville and
selling them at the co seat where there
is more Of a demand for potaters than
there is around here.
First thing Ami done was to 90 to
Cyrus Hosleins our richest citizen and
borrer 500 which Cy lent Ami right
off without questshion when Ami give
Cy 4 mortgage on his house and lot.
Soon a. AMI had the money he =
nounced that he would pay 81 per bu.
for this yrs potaters and would call for
same and take EN- away.
This caused good cal OF excitement
in Bingville being IS 60 cts per bu for
potaters is As high rs they have sold
for in Bingville & vicinity 50 far this
season. When them a. had potaters
found that Ami was paying 81. per bu
there was 4 scramble to sell potaters to
him. Some even hauled their potaters
to AMI in whee1barrows or lugged EN-
on their backs to save him coming after
EN-. In every case AMI paid in cash
and no questshions aslrt.
Soon as AMI had load of 50 bu of
potaters he took EN- to the co seat and
sold EN- all out. 1t TUX Amzi all day to
make the trip and when he got back
to Bingville and folks found that he had
sold the hull load of potaters and was
ready to buy more at 81: per bu them as
had potaters to sell begin to hold back
They begin to think Ami must be max
in turrible big profit per Blu on their
potaters and they hggerd if he could
do that why couldn't they also? Curl
ossity was at a high pitch in Bingvil1e
to find out how mulch Ami was selling
his potaters for at the co seat but i
diddent leak out until next day after
he had come back when Amzis wife told
Lem Browns wife and in hour it was
all over town.
Soon a. Amzi got home his wife ask
him what he got for the potaters pei
| bu and Amzi told her IS cts. Then Mrs
Gookins lit into Ami - follers: ANN
Goolcins, you are fool to pay 81. pei
bu for potaters and then sell en- for =:
cts per bull"
lyon run the house and lie run my
own bizness,s says Ami. Il may b
payin 81. per bu and getting only Is ct'
per bu for potaters, but look how menn1
bushels I'm sellin! Its only questshior
of time until lie begin to git ahead a
this rate and then can quit work and
live like king"
] Ma. Cool<ins couldn't convince ANN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12

Heck Peters is filled With deep dis
gust these days. Heck has . old spot.
ted COW who come in fresh about ! wk
ago whilst she was turned out in .
and part pastchure.
Although the CAT must be week old
by this time Heck amt saw hide. nor
hair Of It being - the mother went and
hid her calf away somewheres IN the
woods unbeknownst to Heck who was
hunted high and low but without result.
The COW has been to the barn . couple
of times and Heck has tried to foller
her back to where she has her calf hid,
but the COW 10 too smart for Heck and
wont 60 to her calf long - Heck IL
around. Heck ssys ii ridickius to have
= fresh COW and then let the calf take
all the milk from her. Heck 10 talking
some of getting up = hunting party
amongst his nabers to hunt for the calf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-12
Local SquIbs

Miss Phronicia Watkins sung solo
in the church choir last Sunday and
screeched so loud that she like to of
busted the eardrums of them who set
clost to her We seen moren one men,
Der of the choir holding their fingers
in their ears. When the rest of the
choir is singing Phronieia allus sings
away above the rest, but person world
nacherly think that when she was sing
ing alone and had no compensation as
you might say she would tone her voice
down.
Jed Peters, our intelligent school
teacher, opend the Bingville school for
the winter term last Monday morning
at 9 o'clock 4. M. Jed says he got =
long first rate for the first day. Jed
licked FIVE skollers during the forenoon
not becuz they had did annythink wrong
in particller but jest to show en- who
was boss. Jed says he finds its a1lus a
good plan to thrash few pupils the
first day jest for example sake and to
git his hand in.
Harve Hines our tonsorisl barber
busted the G-string on his catarr tother
day and Harve says he'll be lost until
he gifts a chanel to purchase new G.
string at the CO.. seat being as he don't
skeercely know what to do with hisself
when he amt cutting sumbuddys hair,
shaving boards or sfampooing. Harve
puts in his time playing on his catarr
during his leeshure time
Bill Virgins has a sick horse on his
hands. Bill fixd up dose of liquid
medisin for the horse in a ct whisl<ey
bottle and was jest agoing to administer
same into the horses mouth If possible
when without no warning the horse up
and sneezed right into Bills Ease, skeer-
ing him outen his boots and nearly
blowing him often his feet. After. that
Bill got mad and refused to give the
horse emmy medisin. Bill said a horse
that would sneeze in his Ease like that
could git we'll or die whichever it per-
ferred 1t died.
These seems to be about all the "Lokal
Squibs" which happens to occur to US
at this writing If we think of emmy
more of same before we go to press we
will save EN- and print EN- in next wks
Bugle
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26
FROM THE GATES OF DEATH
at Sight of Object He Desired
to Possess.

What the passion for collecting is
no n except perhaps the born col.
lector can really know. Sir Martin
Conway. in The Sport of Collecting"
writes:
Il once knew an aged collector who
was suffering all the ills that nature
accumulates on the last years of some
nonagenarians.
His sight was feeble; he was deaf;
he was often racked with pain. 1t
seemed evident hat his end was at
hand. His days and nights had to be
spent in an armchair, and each gasp
ing breath seemed likely to be his
last.
To him entered a dealer Of his &c,
quaintance with n splendid K'ang Hsi
Eanille verte vase. which the old man
had long wished to possess. The sight
OF 1t revived his forces; his breathing
cleared; he sat erect in his chair, and
presently, in the excitement OF the
bargaining, was upon his feet striding
about the room.
The struggle and the victory re.
vived him, and he lived on for several
years before death finally won him
and the British museum entered upon
its inheritance"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26
Why Are Fruits Colored2

The attractive and appetizing out
ward appearance of most fruits is gen.
orally explained by %supposing that its
function is to attract animals, which
eat the ileshy portion and carry the
seed away from the parent plant, thus
aiding the distribution of the species.
The red cheeks of a peach are so en-
ticing that this explanation probably
finds acceptance. But why that bril-
liant red color where the flesh meets
the kernel? The bird that pecks at
the flesh OF the fruit does not strike
this colored layer until the work is
practically accomplished.
Certain trees that furnish the So
called dye woods deposit pigment by
the hundredweight within their stems.
The woad or indigo plant and several
others contain n substance known IA
"indican," which is normally color.
less, but Is transformed by a fermenta.
ton and oxidation process into deep
blue indigo. This case IL particularly
puzzling. since the color OF the dye
stuff is not even developed In the liy.
ing plant.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26
DELuGE BEFORE MANS FALL
sumerlan Inscription Reverses tho
Accepted Order Of Bible
Narrative.

According to a translation OF a re-
OF the Sunerian tablets Professor
Langdon OF Jesus college. Oxford. says
the deluge preceded the fall OF man,
according to the Scientific American
The tablet, which has been almost
completely restored. contains six fine
ly written columns OF about two hun
dred and forty lines. most OF which
are intact. It begins by describing
the land OF primeval bliss. which 1t
locates at Dilmun. an island in the
Persian gulf. In this paradise dwelt
mankind, whom Nintud, the greatness,
with the help OF EMIL had created.
After the deluge this king is called
Testug, the divine. And this Tagtug
lives in q garden. is himself q garden
er, and the wise Enki reveals unto him
wisdom. The Greek historians. too,
preserve this legend in the story of
Cannes, WHO rose from the Persian
gulf to teach men wisdom in primeval
times. Ana SO Tagtug, as in the He
brew history OF Noah, plants n garden.
anne the trees and plants and is
permitted u eat OF all but the cassia
tree, an herb of healing par excellence.
or this PLAT TaEtug was not to eat,
for thereby no would obtain eternal
life. Mankird until this time possessed
extreme longevity, but not immor-
tally. Tagtug on his own initiative.
takes and eats Of the forbidden tree.
He is cursed by Nintud and becomes
a prey to disease and ordinary NOR
tality. Th:s N the original Sumerian
story Noah, the survivor of the flood.
is the one who eats from the tree of
life. No omar is concerned in this
disobedienCe which resulted in u
loss for perfect health peace and
countless years.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26
HAD REAL CAUSE FOR GRIEF
Happy Event, Under the Circum.
stances Brought Reverse Of Joy
to the Small Boy.

"Boo.hoo." yelled the small boy dis
consclately, as he wandered down the
street, kncading his eyes with his
knuckles.
my dear little chap, what's the
trouble?" asked u benevolent old gen.
tleman, stopping a momen for a bet
ter view OF the small, miserable one.
my sisters getting marie, to-
day!" broke out the youngster wrath
fully, and then again made the street
resound viii his lusty lament.
"But. my dear little chap" exclaimed
the kindly old soul, bending down to
stroke the youngsters head co~nsoling-
ly, you ought to be very glad your
sister is going TO be happy. Anyway,
it's nothing to cry over"
The dear little chap" jerked his
head free and burst into more violent
II ear-piC.rcing music as he splut-
tered sarca5tically:
"Oh. ain it? lift you'd been paid
q quarter q week TO k-keep out OF the
way when her young m.man came to
the house. you wouldn't be sorry when
YOU sister had gone and g-got mar
r:ed, would y-you?"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26
BARQUETs THAT ARE FAMOUS
old Romans Would Send to the Ends
Of the Earth for Delleaeies That
Appealed to Them.

AT the famous banquet of Trimal-
chic which. It should be remembered.
was not merely a banquet, but a bur-
lesque. and was given by a multi.mil-
%lionaire, as We shoGld call him today.
the gustus would have served the most
OF men for a dinner. A donkey Of
Corinthian bronze held two baskets Of
olives, white on one side. black on the
other. Then there were dormice cov-
cred with honey and poppy seed. hot
sausage on q silver grill and beneath
them damsons and p~omegranate seeds.
But a Roman dined with Trimalchio
rs rarely as with Lucullus, and the
freedman's fancy was separate and his
own.
After the gustus came the regular
courses tfercuia they are called,
which might be three, or even seven,
In the houses of e%picures. the satir-
lists and historians. as we know, con-
denim the extrnvagance. which vastly
increased under the empire, and which
babe the wealthy Romans send for
their priceless ~delicGcies to the ends
of the earth. Satire had no more effect
than suInptuary laws, and the BAN
Quets of thu rich patriciaIs and
wealthy freedmen are legendary. First
came the fish. for poor al for rich a
necessity of the dinner. Sea barbel and
the turbot of Ravenna we're the favor
ties, and the paddock was not dis
dained.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26
WE WANT YOU TO GO TO
THE DICKENS

play that We are going to show on
Sunday afternoon and evening. the
9th.
THE CHIMES, Is one of the sweet
est stories ever penned by this quaint
author.
IF YOU LIKE really good things.
things that make you wonder why
everything in the world cant he as
good as that" you ought to satisfy
your taste by dropping in Sunday af-
ernoon or evening.
THERE ARE THOUSANDS of mis-
takes made in this world, and made
under less fortunate circumstances
than were "Trotty's" lot in THE
CHIMES" There have been many
advocates of the idea that lit is a sin
for the poor to we'd, and their idea
has often been carried out, but had
the perpetrators mind been imbued
with the little experience that Trotty
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26

dress, did on December s, 1914, Ale
In this office his duly CorrobOratcd
application TO contest and secure the
cancellation Of yUur homestead Entry
No. Elko 072l, Carson City G6gSi
made April 6. 1912. for list i-7gl. uu.
surveyed parts OF Section 1929. Town.
ship 81 north, Range 81 east. Mount
DiablO Base & Meridian, and rs
grounds for his contest he alleges
that applicant james Burke. has
abandoned said claim. has never lived
thereon and has not complied with
the law as required for homestead
entry n at present is not living on
the land O has he lived ttrcon
be In the state.
You are, therefore, further notified
that tho said allegations will BE- taken
AS confessed. and your said entry will
be Cancelled without further right 10
be heard. either before this Office or
on appeal, Il you fail 10 file in this
Office within twenty days after the
FOURTH publication Of this notice.
as shown below, your answer. under
oath. specifically responding to these
allegations of contest. together with
duo proof that you have served &
copy OF your anawor on tho said con.
testant either IN person or by rcgist.
cred mail.
You should state in your answer
the name Of the pOstonice TO which
o desire future notices to be sent
to you.
JOHN Il. ROBBINS,
RogIsler.
ASHLEY @. DAWLEY,
Receiver.
Dates of publication. Dec. Is. Dec. 81.
Dec. %. 1914: Jan. 4. 1916.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-12-26
Children and eronchitis.

The treatment of n cold which "runa
down into the bronchial tubes" re-
quires local as well as internal medi-
cation. A warm bath at bedtime Is
very necessary to relieve the nervous
ness and irritability; after the bath
the chest and back should be we'll
rubbed with a mixture composed of
II tablesI oonful of spirits Of turpen-
tine and three ta]blespoonfGls of sweet
oil, Let tbs child woa Il cotton night
gown next to the skin and warm ilan.
mel gown over the cotton gown. Be
sure the feet are kept warm. The
hot water bottle wrapped in n towel
may DO placed under the feet and legs
for warming purposes. To relieve the
thirst and dryness in the mouth giyo
the child bits Of chopped ice to suck.
The Ice also relieves the tickling in
the throat and lessons tho tendency to
cough.