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THE. BINGVILLE: BUGLE!
The Leading Paper of tbt County I
Bright Breezy Bellicoaa Buatllog
How doth th bnsy little bee
Improve each bhlnlnf bonr
By gathering honey ill the day
From every opening flour.
Til diet pent advertising medium In fa
country. If yon bellere In adTertlalnf, come
and ee oa. For further Information call on
or address the editor.
For some time past it has been on
our mind to give the trusts of this
country a bitter arrainnient by
means of a red hot editorial in this
collum and we now take our pen in
hand to do so.
For. the benefit of our more ig
norunt readers who don't know
what a trust is we will explain.
Vhen several men gets together,
for instants, and buys up all the
hogs there be in the country and
i then boosts up the price of spare-
mhs and sawsidge to such a extent
that the common people haft to pay
I veral times what its worth for it
1 t go without, that is called a frust.
Most all trusts are hog trusts for
'hat matter because a trust alius
, acts the hog when it gets half a
chance.
Trusts is more common in this
countrv than they was several years
ag" We can remember when there
was no such a tiling as a trust in
our midst, but that time is now only
a sacred memory. Take the Stand
ard Oil TriM which John Rocke
feller got up for instants. John he
has a corner on about all the lamp
oil there is in the world, if we can
believe what we hear, and charges
for it whatever
per gal. Even
he filamed pleases
Hen Wcathershv,
prop.
ot our general
on!v store
has to buv his kerosene of John We
I don't know what Hen has to pav
wholesale for hi oil being as that
ain't none of our business, hut we
jkr.ow what we. have to pav Hen for
lit ' cts. per gaM which is some of
e-.ir business. What i the result?
The people of p.ingAil'e and vicin
itty i faying about twice as much
for lamp oil as the truck is worth.
P.v the time John and Hen get their
vrr fits lamp 01! becomes almost a
jluxurv as you might sav and con
lsc"p:ent!v it is cheaper to b :m taller
! candle than to burn lamp o;; Onlv
I the rich can afford to burn lamp oil.
'as it we-e. Taller candles don't give
quite as much light a lamp oil does,
but they give an all tiled sight more
l:ght for the money. Hen could
'ell more lamp oil if it wasn't f"r
ue oil tn:t. Hen might prohablv
V! a bar! of lamp oil in a year if
he pnre wafi within reach of all,
b- t as -,t i. he has ha-! a barl on
hand fi-r three years and it' half
ful' it vet.
W? are nt afeard to come right
out aTd dno-jr,ce trusts in this man
ner 't ha always beer, the policy
cf the Eule to cfencusce tAYthinf1
JT U W 1" O 1ST IV H "W"
that is detrimental to the commu
nitty, cspeshially when wc don't
own no stock in the trusts and have
no other valid reasons for not de
nouncing them. We understand
that the Standard Oil Trust has
paid large sums of money to the
editors of certain newspapers to
have them keep their mouths shet
and not say anything against the
trusts.
As for us, we have never received
any such proposition from Rocke
feller, although w go to the P. O
every day regular for our mail. Of
course if we should get such
proposition we would .consider it
conscientiously.
What do we care if this editorial
does injure the business of the
trusts in this country? We reply,
"Nothing!" On the contrary we
hope it will in jure them. We hope
that when the big trust magnates
read these lines they will cringe in
their boots and that their conscience
will pain them so that they will re
solve in their little shrunk-up hearts
to reform and lead better lives. We
believe in free speech, free press
and free lunch, but we don't believe
in free advertising, nor free sample
copies nor trusts. Let the trusts
beware of us !
Local Items
Hez Andrews, while etittine hay with
a scythe in hi hayfielri bark of his house
tother day, axidrntallv almost stepped on
a black snake seven feet long. This so
unnerved Hez that he dropped the sc the
and made for home, and is o weak in
the legs that he am t been able to cut
any hay since.
Hen Weatl.ersby, prop, of our general
store, says that trade is very dull with
him at preset. t. But Hen s.ivs he don't
rare much hing as he like? to take it
easy during Me hot summer weather and
don t like tr be annoyed by having to
wait on customers When a person goes
into the store to purchase anything they
usually find Hen asleep on some bolt
of muslin on the counter Hen says if
folks don't stop wakitip bin up he's
going to loc'-c the door on 'em.
Our cor: espondent from Calamity
Corners who signs hiself "Fro Bono
Publico" in the Bugle paid us a lengthy
rail last Tuesday. "Pro Bono" says
that every! ting at the Corners is in
stato quo a you might say.
Jed Pete', our intelligent school tea
rher who t-ached the village srhon last
winter, is s' present studying up to take
the teacher;' examination at the Co seat
next monti and if he passe successful
there is no doubt Jed will be re
elected to -each again the riming term.
Jed it a kood writer and reader and
speller an-i he ain't so slow at ntr.ires
either.
Hoke Smi'ey is thinking some of bar
ing liable -.ing rods put onto bis barn
j to avoid ' aving it struck by lightening
dunng th nder showers. Hoke says it's
the thund r that skeers him and net the
lightening
Subcn e fot the Bugle it is grv- to
read, gooi to advertise in. fine to lav on
cupboard shelves or put under carpet,
useful to wrap up things in, or to build
f.rei wit I . Subscribe at once.
Personal
Tbe weather in Birgville at present
it very ot and Yusinest it almost at a
tandsti 1, as yea might say especially
in t-e heat of the day Day before
yesterday we walked down to the P. O.
about nnon and the ody person we met
was a hrtund dog
You rstr know k't.tumVe hot
weather when LetitU Tone cf Sorrow
HoUow iSartad tor ttzfrH'.$ iut Sat
BUGLE!
It I IX It
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WHEN A PERSOri-GOE"b INTO-THE STORE
TO PURCHASE ANYTHING THEY USUALLY
FinO'HEri ASLtEP ON ' TH E ' COUM T E R
urday with 11 lb, of butter in basket
to exchange for groceries nt Hen
Weatheribs itore, and that when he
arrived at the store the butter had all
melted and run outen the basket and
had likely trickled along the road all
the way from Sorrow Hollow. Letitia
returnefl home in disgust.
The Bingrville church stiil looks some
thing awful in one spot right over the
Amen corner. Last Sunday it rained
during services and Deacon Butter
worth, who was asleep, got so wet be
fore he woke up that lie had to .go
home and change his clothing, thus
missing the latter porshion of the ser
mon as well as the first porshion.
Brad Hinsley's brood mare was seized
with the colhck the other night and
Brad went and got Doc Livermore and
told him that Alvira was sick and Doc
he hurried home with Brad and was
surprised to find the mare, sick instead
of Brad's wife. Doc never knowed
that the mare's name was Alvira.
Arioch Tucker lias took off his boots
and is going in his bare feet. This
may be comfortable, but how does it
look for a growed up man to go around
in his bare feet?
Mrs. Bill Hepburn, wife of our tal
ented and' arti.stick blacksmith, g.u e
birth to a bouncing baby boy last wee.k
and announces that she is goiiiK to raise
him on the bottle. Editorially speaking
we do not think this is a good plan.
Bill Hepburn hisself was raised largely
on the bottle, and look at him! Bill
ain't missed going to the Co. seat and
coming home full every Satterday for
the past 15 years as regular as Satter
day comes around unless it was be
cause of circumstances not under his
control. If we was Mrs. Hepburn we
wouldn't raise that child on the bottle.
The chances is it will; take to the bot
tle soon as it is old ert'ough without be
ing teached. It will probably come by
its appetite for a bottle honestly.
Trampsd Up by a Cow
Wat Osgood had a curious expon
ents last week. Wat has four cows
which he milks reglar twice a d.v.-.
Well, the other ev'g Wat' went out to
milk and he had milked three of the
cows leaving old Brsndle until the last
being as she is such an ornery rriu-r
and usually kicks the bucket over, While
Wat was milking her sbe histrd and
come down with her foot right on Wat's
foot and kept it there and him holler
ing and yelling for help as loud as lie
could holler and pounding her with hi
fists and tryiug to push her often him,
but Wat says she merely stood there
with almost superhuman intelligence, as
it were, on his foot peacefully chewing
her cud and switching off the flies. As
old Brindle weighs probably 900 lbs.
Wat's feelings can better be imagined
than described. After she had stood on
his foot for two or three minnits she
eot off and Wat limped to the house.
He now says he is going to sell that
cow and if he can't do that he will
give her away.
Ben Hot Under Collar
Ben W'ade of Snake Bend called at
the Bugle office recently to inquire why
last week's Bugle did not reach him.
Ben was purty hot under the collar
and talked in a loud tone of voice that
all the neighbors heard and said that
when he subscribed for a paper he ex
pected to receive it regular, or words
to that effeckt. We to d Ben thot we
did not know the reason why his Bugle
didn't reach him unless it was lost some
where in trantmishion. We tried to
impress on him that after we Imd
folded and put a wrapper on his Bugle
and then wrote hi name on the wrap
per in a plain hand we had d:d cur
duty and angeli could do no more a"d
if the Bugle failed to reach, him after
that ther. it wain't our fault. We alsi
told Ben that we didn't knew the rea
ton why since he has been regu'ar
subscriber for the Begie for the pat
ll yeart h had never paid us a red
cent ither and lie went aray threat -eckg
to stop his paper. Very well, let
M EXMUREDhOMErw;TH RA
: INSTEAD Or R.R A Pi ,,cr eCf.
AND'
K ri E. W E. O THE -MAR
him stop it. If he doej we may have
something further to ay about his past
in later copies of the Bugle,
Country Correspondence
SLAB CITY.
Mrs. Jemima Pepperi of Hickory
Corners spent two days last week vis
iting Mrs. Phebe Hinds of this place.
Jemima would of remained longer, but
the two wimmen had a falling out
about something, and Jemima went
home much to her own disgust and
to Phebe's relief.
Jaspar Tarbell had his hay all cut
two weeks ago, but owing to so much
wet weather it ain't all dried out yet
and still lies in the field. Jasp says
that if the sun don't shine out pretty
soon he calkilatc3 the hay will rot and
be useless.
Aiioch Wilkins killed a beef critter
last week and peddled it out from house
to house. It is quite a luxury to get
beef in the summer time.
Hester Jones who was widdered aome
years ago had some new clothes made,
and it is rumored she will be married
soon. We don't blame her. It is no
idle joke being a widder.
Jabe Hotnans who lives near here
arrived home late tother ev'g and see
ing what he thought was a cat on the
front piazzer kicked it off, but it wasn't
a cat it was a skunk, and since then
Jabe and his folks can't scair.sejy liye
in tneir house. VOX POPULI.
HAPPY VALLEY.
One of Hame Wilson's yoke of oxes
broke into his orchard last week and
ct green apples until it foundered and
nearly died, llnmt says this ought to
teach that ox a lesson to pause in eat
ing green apples when it has had
enough.
Benj. Ciibbs ground his axe last week.
Benj. savs it has needed grinding for
the last two years, but he has been so
driv up with work that he couldn't find
tune before to do it before.
Miss Mary Ann Green, the bell of
Happy Valley, come out last Sunday in
a new lawn dress that became her very
much, exciting the admiration of all
our voung men. Fine feathers make fine
birds. EXCELSIOR.
LAND'S END.
Bill Henshaw swopped horses with
Sam Wilkins last week. Both men
claim they was cheated.
Kufe Atkins has been offered a
lucrative posishion at Hardscrabble as
assistant in a livery stable there at $3
per week Rufe has not decided
whether he will arrepr it or not.
Mrs. lien Jordan while making soft
snap last week had the kettle to upset
spil'mg all the soap on the ground.
Shortly after it rained and the yard was
full of suds.
,cws items is very scarce in our
midst at present. W e hope to have
more to send in by next week
LUCIFER.
Hod Digging His Well
Hod Slocomb has resumed digging
his well again after a lapse of a year.
Hod left off wrrk on it about a year
ago this month, and owing to otWcr im
portant work has not touched it since.
It has been five ycari since Hod be-gin
to dig this well and a person would
nacherly think Hod euH have it fin-
iVd by this time. Put them as are
acq-.iainted with Hod knws that be
alius takes hi? time about things. Hod
says he needs water on h' place tur
rifie bad but that's no reason why he's
going to hurry and sweat himself all
jp and not half do the job He says
he has got along so far by carryirg
water from his neighbors and he per
soomes he es cojitifiu to da to for
a while longer if be baa ta 1
:o: WE PRINT tor 2
Accident!, Marriages and Scandals with Great-Cheer
Because Wa Know Whir Our Subscribers Is Z
me print J ob ork J
E rA m a c. fC. rtPl ERI
Don't Go and
Get All Bit
rp by muokeetcT., And flies nd Bats aa4 feci
oC rarloya kinds.
What's the Use
Of letting- all klnda of lnaeekta Into your bonl
when jou can kev? them out Just aa well a 00 1
I now hare a lot of winder acreena on dlaplal
These Winder Screens i
All First Glass Goods
Which I ordered two yea ra ao and diVi't bnl
no rail for and which baa Ucu In t att I
of my atore. all winter. I
Bat I fot them out tother day and doited tk'l
orr, and now
I Offer Them to the Public Who
Being Awful Bit Up
Br ronakectrr and other which la thicker th I
hop a In a bop patch.
A mnkter ta a powerful emery rrlttw r I
wll taa n4vanrf or a person wnenov(r he ci I
but a muRkeeter will not take advantar of j I
it jou hare aom of tnj winder fteTfeu In yil
house. I
These Screens is Mad
to Fit Any Winder
If they don't fit bring them beck arM I
ninke them fit or tiuat them all to thumler. 11
risk la all mine.
What You Want is to Have a Fit
3 I will fuaranie you will hay one If
your winder fccreena of me.
There ain't no muskeeter In Bingvlllej
Con jot through one of my acrerna and T d I
yfni to r-rnte It. Call and aee tlnt-e k reem ; I
mien, tMH.-eue aa ioon aa the public Rnow I h$ I
mem uu unwiw arj win btj iik oor cusea.
Hen WEATHEIiSBi
rrop. BlcfTllle Oeneral Stnro.
PlnirTllle
Profit by Hen's Experience
Hen Billings went and had his wl
kers shaved off and his hair cut
Harve Hines, our tonsorial artist 1
week, and as a result Hen has 0
traded what is probably the worst C(
he ever had in his life. Jim is
stopped up in his head and can't ta
anything nor hear much (he can't hi
very w ell wdien he ain't p t a cj
being as he is some deaf) and ha
bad cough and is very miserable.
is afeard the cold w ill settle on lus lui
and give him newrnonya or c.vui
shion or something Ime that. He
took a oath that if he recovers fr
this cold and he gets to be a v. e I rri
again, he wnl never hive h's hair
nor his whiskers shaved off ncain
long as he lives no matter what
style is.
Ransa Got Stock Up
Hen eatnersby. our popular e?r!
keeper, left a sheet ef r;;;irr layj
on a chair, and about nfon when
got thawed out n.ce'y l,r'e Hiij
came into the store ar.d like a b'.arj
fool set right down on it Ransc ne
does look where be sets and it wc
be better if he did. Rar.se gt r
of the fl.i-paper off. but tbe mt o
is sticking to his parts as yrt. 1
wanted to rbarge Karse for ti e sbl
He teld Ranse that tVe regular rl
of the fh-paper was 10 cts. per '
buvbeirg as it as him be mould
him have it for 5 etv K;re sai-
alreadv had the flypaper and d
ar.t it and be d be go-hed to Vrr.
if he'd pay fof it either llri n
to b more caref-1 her he kJ