The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 92, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 11, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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Remarks M« Natural Curiosity at Tan-
dll, Argentina, Has Toppled
Over atf Last.
To the deepest regret of Argentin-
ians, the moving stone of Tandil, a
ible natural curiosity, has
No one knows how many
this huge rock, which the
proudly proclaimed as
one of the seven wonders of the
world, has stood among the granite
hills of Tandil, perfectly poised *on
its narrow fulcrum less than eight
inches square. The Tandil quarries
are situated about two hundred and
fifty miles south of Buenos Ayres,
and every summer tourists have been
accustomed to make the pilgrimage
from the capital ‘ to carve their
names on its ancient sides. Stand-
ing in a certain position, a child
could cause the great stone to rock
op/and down fully four inches. Visi-
tors never tired of throwing under
ft as it swung upward pieces of glass
and small stones, which would be
crushed to powder on the downward
sway. Tradition has it that the ty-
rant B06&, a name of ill-omen in
Argentine history, in a savage mood
some thirty years ago tried to dis-
lodge the moving stone, using forty
yoke pf oxen to accomplish his pur-
pose. Whether the tale is true or
not, the old sentinel continued to
maintain his watch over the sur-
rounding fertile plains, apparently
undisturbed by either the friendli-
ness or the hostility of mankind. The
elements likewise were foiled in their
warfare, though once a bolt of light-
ning exacted tribute by ripping off a
piece weighing about three tons.
What finally caused the downfall of
the giant boulder is a mystery.
Frank (after she has accepted his
proposal)—But I’m afraid I’m not
good enough for you, dearest.
Tessie—I know; but you're too
good to be thrown away on some
other girl.
At A STRANGER 8EE8 US.
A famous European diplomat on a
visit to the United States was asked
his opinion of New York city. His
reply was:
“Oh, it will probably be a very
bice place when it is finished.”
Pittsburgh would have brought an
emphasis on this reply. For no city
Hooks much more unfinished than
this. The cliffs and ledges rearing
all about with nothing to relieve
their bare sides—houses at the top
and. houses at the bottom—give the
impression that the place was hur-
riedly dumped down in the most con-
venient spots. It detracts greatly
from the appearance of the city that
some genius has not fixed upon a
method to relieve the bareness and
ugliness of those ridges. It has been
done elsewhere.
AFRICAN DIAMOND8.
The newest diamond field is in the
Kasai River district, Belgian Congo,
West Africa. The famous De Beers:
group of mines at Kimberly, South
Africa, have heretofore furnished 95
per cent, of the world's diamond sup-
ply. Their annual output is about
{$44,000,000, and since their discov-
ery in 1867 they have produced
$600,000,000 worth of diamonds.
The remaining five or six per cent,
of the world's supply has come from
India, Brazil, Borneo and Australia.
There are many diamond occurrences
Bn the United States, but none so
far of any important commercial
consequence.
TARIFF EXPERT.
“What is your object in wanting
them to start a revision of the tariff
immediately?”
“I don’t want to start a revision,1
replied Senator Sorghum. “What I
want to do is to start the kind of an
argument that will be its own expla-
nation of indefinite delay.”
WANTED TO SELL HIS HORN NEW DEFINITION OF C. 0. 0. SLAVE FOR
.i
Instrumentalist Seemed Rather Disap-
pointed When He Heard His Play-
ing Reproduced by Phonograph.
TPR RQNHAM SEMI-WE^KTLY NEWS
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iTMAS GIFT
t Meant “Come Omediately Down”
When Explained to the Irate
Merchant Cohen.
There is a well-known artist of the f Mr. Cohen was a bankrupt. He
Metropolitan o^era forqe who, before had givjen the town of Lancaster,
he knew he had a voice, performed j Pa., a striking illustration of how to
upon the French horn. In this rela- 1 run a retail business on a grand
tion he tells the following:
“One day, as I was practicing
upon the horn, I received a call from
a salesman for a phonograph Jiouse,
scale until the wholesale houses had
lemanded payment of him for what
he had bought. He went to New
York and entered the‘offices of the
who endeavored to sell me a specie firm which had been stung by his
men of its latest and improved ma-
chine. I didn't want the phonograph
and repeatedly told the man so, but
to no avail. Finally he insisted that,
in order that I might fully appreci-
ate the quality of the records turned
out by his house and the superior
tone of the reproduction thereof, I
should give a selection on the French
horn. For some reason or other I
obliged him. When next he turned
up he had my horn solo on a nice,
new record, which he immediately
proceeded to play for me.
“As the sounds began to pour
forth from the instrument the sales-
man noticed a frown on my brow.
“ Ts that me?' I ashed, in response
to his look of inquiry.
“ ‘Yes, sir/
* ‘Realty me, just as I played?*
“‘Precisely, sir; precisely. 'And
now/ said hue, do you want to buy
the phonograph ¥
“ ‘No/ I said, T want to sell the
horn.'”—Judge.
HEARD HIS MISTRESS’ VOICE
Ponto, a Bad Dog, Listened at Phone
and Went Straight Home,
as Ordered.
“I left my dog accidentally at a
friend's house yesterday/' said a
young girl, according to the Cleve-
and Plain Dealer. “My friend tried
to get him to ran after me, but he
would not leave. He plainly held
that I would soon return—that since
I had gone without him I must inev-
itably return for him. And he stuck
to the room where I had parted from
him, feeling that such was his duty.
“Finally my friend called me up
on the telephone.
“ ‘Your dog won't go,' she said.
‘He thinks you will be back, and we
can't drive him out.'
“ ‘Hold him up to the phone,’ I
ordered.
“She held him up.
“ ‘Ponto, you bad dog, come right
straight home!' I cried into the
transmitter. Well, sir, he wagged
iis tail, wriggling out of her arms
and beat it for the door. He was
lome in less time than I could have
imagined.”
GENERAL BOOTH’S GRAVE. ^
General Booth's grave in Abney
Park cemetery, London, continues to
>e visited by people from all parts of
the world. “Each day we get many
inquiries for the general's grave,”
said the gate keeper* recently.
“People from Germany, France, In-
dia and America have already been
here; in fact, they come from all
over the world. Sometimes we hkve
as many as fifty visitors to the grave
in one day. All classes of people
come.” The other day while on a!
motor but in the city an Indian stu-.
lent who had lately arrived in Lon-,
ion asked a Salvationist the nearest;
way to Abney Park cemetery. He
laid he had attended the general's
meetings in India and wanted to pty:
lomage to the memory of one who;
had done so much for his country.!
bankrupt activities.
Throbbing with optimism, he ex-
plained to Mr. Oddenheim that he
intended to start a new business and
wanted to buy a long line of goods.
Mr. Oddenheim stuck his head out
of the door and yelled out abruptly:
“Isaac, come down here! Mr.
Cohen is here and wants to buy a
lot*of stuff. It is Mr. Cohen of Lan-
caster. Mr. Cohen, C. O. D.”
At this Mr. Cohen was greatly an-
ijered.
“What do you mean ?” he inquired
with heat.. “It not my credit good
for ninety days ? What do you mean
by describing me as ‘C. 0. D.' ?”
“Now, don't be alarmed, Mr. Co-
hen,” said the junior member of
the firm. “That ,‘C. O. D.' does not
reflect on your credit. When I
called out to Isaac, I said ‘C. O. D.'
That simply means ‘Come Omedi-
itely Down'!”—Popular Magazine.
MADE BY KING SENNACHERIB
Remarkable Series of Rock Inscrip-
tions in Turkish Kurdistan Are
Described by a Traveler.
An interesting paper was read the
rther day before the Society of Bib-
lical Archaeology; New York, by
Leonard King of the British nause-
am. The subject was rock inscrip-j
:ions of the time of Sennacherib, ;
ring of Assyria. They were discov- {
ired near Bayian, in Turkish Kur-|
listan, more than fifty years ago.
Sling recently came across the series
>f rock inscriptions and sculptures
>n the Judi Dagh mountain, in Kur-
listan, to the northeast of Jerizirehj
vhen traveling from Persia to Sam-
lun, on the Black sea. In the river
jorge near Bavian, Sennacherib
rarved a series erf sculptures and rec-
ords, giving information on the wa-
er supply of Nineveh, and on Ba-
bylonian chronology. Although the
jorge had been visited in recent
rears by many travelers, none had
mcceeded in reaching the inscribed
panels since the late Sir Henry Lay-
ird, when a young man, took squeezes
rf them. Their inaccessibility wasi
illustrated by the fact that when|
King descended the cliff face to one |
rf the panels he found on a lower!
3dge the remains of a complete j
packet of squeeze paper, which Sir;
Henry had inadvertently left behind
him.
DID THE BE8T HE COULD.
EVOLUTION.
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The law of evolution is either uni-
versal or it does not exist. The well-
known generalization of Spencer,
that things do not “drift,” but “pro-
ceed,” is as inseparable, if evolution
is true, from the development of the
moat magnificent commonwealth as
from the lowest animal cell known
to the biologist. Whether we find
the law or not, it is there—just as
the rolling planets of the universe
held their positions in the great
spaces ages and ages before NeVton
iiscovered the law of gravitation.
You are wholly wrong in thinking
that the feeling in evolution is de-
tractive of theism. Some evolution-
ists have been firm believers in an
overruling God. ✓
DISTANCE OF THE PLANET8.
The distance of the sun and plan-
ts from the earth may best be per-
ceived by the following fact: A train
of cars 'going at the speed of a mile
a minute would reach the moon in
159 days, Venus in 50 years, Mars
in 76 years, Mercury in 110 years,
the sun in 175 years, Jupiter m 740
Yeast—A new cap for motorists j ^are, Saturn in 1,470 years, Uranus
am be made to fit any size head byj;^ 3>160 years, Neptune in 5,055
in adjustable strap that encircles it. j . yearBt To reach the nearest fixed
Crimsonbeak—It must be eape- j itar our train, steadily maintaining
•ially adapted to joy riders. ; ita mile-a-minute speed, Would re-
{ ijuire about 40,000,000 of years.
* You may rely upon the general ac-
curacy of the above schedule.
“All I demand for my client,” de-!
manded the prisoner's counsel in the J
voice of a man who was paid for it,;
“is justice.”
“I am very sorry I can't accommo- j
late you,” replied the judge, “but{
the law won't allow me to give him >
more than fourteen years.”—Stray
Stories.
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LET IT OUT IN THE MORNING.
Now the Old Negro Who Was Pro-'
’sented Believes He Was Well
Remembered, Too.
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I was an only child, reared down
in . Virginia, ' and! I always had
Christmas gifts galore, says a writer
in the Baltimore <News. Had to
hang up a shoe bagjwith ten pockets
in it. Then the gifts would spill
odt. But I remember ione Christmas
gift my father gave me.
'■ I woke up bright and early one
Christmas morning to find a jet
black negro boy I had never seen
before standing by my bed. He was
grinning from e*r tp ear.
“Where did you |»me from V*
“Out of the Jonefi family, sar.”
“What are you doing here?”
“Your father done give me to you,
sir, as a Christmas gift, yas sah. He
said I was to be your valise, yes sah.
I sure am yours:” j i
“What's your name?”
“Henry, sah.” 4. ! ;
And we played * together many
happy years in the dear old Virginia
sunshine. Henry is an old man now,
a porter On the pennsy. I came over
from Philly with him the other day.
“Henry, I am going back to the
old town.”
> “Gard bless you, sah ;. give 'em my
love. Mr. Hawks, do you remember
the .morning—the Chris'mus momin'
old master gave me to you?”
“Indeed, I do.” I ’
“Well, sah,* I think we both got
a Christmas gift that momin'.”
INDULGED SELF TOO MUCH
TEAR OF THIRTEEN MONTHS
-!-
How Dr. 8. Weir MiteheH Was Grave-
ly Reproved byl the Late
John Bigelow.
—mf :
The late John Bigelow, the patri-
arch of diplomats ..and authors, and
the no less distinguished. physicain
und author, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell,
were together, several years ago, at
West Point. Dr. Bigelow was then
nihety-two and Dr. Mitchell eighty.
, The conversation * turned to the
subject of age. [ “I attribute my
many years,” said Dp. Bigelow, “to
thejfact that I have been most abste-
mious. I have eaten sparingly, and
have not used tobacco*, and have tak-
en little exercise.”
“It i& just the reverse in my case,”
explained Dr. Mitchell. “I have
eaten just as mucl} as I wished, if I
could get it; I have always used to-
bacco, immoderately at times; and I
have always taken a great deal of ex-
ercise.” i ■
With that, Ninety-two years shook
his head at Eighty Years and said,
“Well, you will never five to be an
old man.” *
THE ONLY THING.
“There is only one thing for a j
nan to do when he goes all to[
pieces.”
“What is that?”
“Pull himself together.”
TOMORROW.
“My dearest, do not keep me wait-
ng any longer. When shall it be?”j
“Oh, Jack, I couldn't possibly)
narry you this year.”
NOT ENOUGH BACKBONE.
“Do you think you will many
iiim?”
“No, I think not He is too easily
iiscouraged.”
“How's that?”
“He tried to kiss me last night,
ind he quit because I struggled.
And I didn't struggle much, either.”
GULF.
“But now that these sisters are
married, a social gulf separates them
hopelessly.” 1 P
“Indeed?”
“Yes. One of them iharried a me-
1 I ;
riianic and the other a mechanician.''
—Puck.
LIFE ON THE FARM.
“Hiram wore a mustache last
pear. This year its chin whiskers.”
“|Ie always a great hand for ro-
tation of crops”—-Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal.
Perpetual Calendar Proposed at bn
International Conference Hae
Also One Extra Day.
An international conference was
leld in Switzerland last summer for
fie consideration of the adoption of'
i perpetual calendar. The change
proposed would make the year con-
sist of 13 months of 28 days each,
making a total of 364 days a year.
The day left over would not be
counted in any month, but would
orecede January 1 and be called sim-
•>ty New Year's day. In leap years
the extra day would not be counted
ji any month, but would follow the
last day of December. The new
month would occur between.June
md July. -
As an illustration of how this
vould work in practice let us begin
jvith the year 1916, which will com-
mence on Saturday. This day in
the new calendar would be simply
the opening day of the year; Sunday
vould then be the first day of Janu-
ary-
Each month in the' year would
lave an equal number of days—28;
lie months and weeks would always
>egin on Sunday and end on Satur-
lay, so that any particular week day
>f one month would fall on the cor-
responding day of the next and of
jach succeeding month. It would
hen not be necessary to have a cal-
fhdor month, as the days of each
month would be identical with those
if the first month.—Harper’s Week-
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THIS CROOKED WORLD.
Crawford — Everybody wonders
at your good judgment/ : How do you
manage it?
Crabshaw—Just a little system I
worked out. Whenever I find I'd
like to do anything I make up my
mind it's something I'd better not
do”—Puck.
HIS IDEA OF HOLY
Sunday School Teacher (to new
scholar)—I suppose you are a good
little boy.
Willie (aged seven)—Yea'm. Why,
papa says I'm a holy terror.
MAKES COMPLETE JOB.
Mistress (to new butler)—Oh,
James, I found this bowl chipped
and cracked in the pantry this aft-
ernoon. . j
James—I am not the culprit,
madam; I never chips nor cracks.
When I breaks I smashes utterly.—
Punch.
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A8 GOOD A8 BUCKWHEAT.
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People who are fond of buckwheat
:akes are reminded that something
at least equal, if not superior, to
buckwheat is flour made from sor-
ghum seed.
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NEW POETESS.
Miss Amy Lowell* sister of Presi- l
lent Lowell of Harvartj, has issued!
i volume pf poems. >
PROOF.
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QUEER REGION OF THE SEA
Mysterious Phenomena That Are 0
served Where Twenty-fifth Me*.
ridlan Crosses Equator.
Mariners say that in the midst of
:he Atlantic, about where the twenty-
ifth meridian west of Greenwich
crosses the equator, there lies a re-
gion of mystery. It is ou the line
:hat ships take from Madeira to Bra-
sil. Only within the past half-cen-
mry has it been sounded, and its
itrange phenomenal reported.
One investigator declared that he
?aw the 6ea about half a mile from
bis vessel suddenly disturbed. For
ibout two minutes it boiled up vio-
lently as from a subterranean spring,
rhroughout th^ day there were ob-
served great patches of discolored
ivater, which had exactly the appear-
ince of extensive 6boals.
These and similar phenomena are
frequently observed in this part of
rhe ocean. Often a ship reports that
ihe has experienced a violent shock,
similar to that which is felt when a
rock is struck. Sometimes a great
rumbling is heard, like that of a
aeavy chain running through the
hawse-pipes, and the vessel quivers
like a leaf in the wind. At another
time, in smooth water, a vessel has
been known to heel over suddenly,
is if she had ran on a sand bank.
Before this part of the oqean -was
is thoroughly sCbnded and surveyed
is it is now, these phenomena were
ittributed to the presence of un-
narked sand banks and rocky shoals,
ind the old charts were marked ac-
cordingly. But it must have aston-
tshed the mariner somewhat to find
that he got no soundings with his
leep-sea lead immediately after ex-
periencing one of these shocks.
It is now generally believed that
rubmarine earthquakes are the true
;ause of these convulsions.—Youth's
Companion.
WHEN UNDERWOOD WON OUT
Knicker—Is Jones original?
Bocker—Very; he never describes
limself as a live wire.
HE WA8 A GOOD SLEEPER.
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The lawyers got a Tartar when, m
i recent trial in a southern city, they
summoned to the stand an aged
darky who had been an eyewitness
pf a fight that had occurred between
a number of persons. “Tell us what
you know about this fight,” said
counsel, when old Moee had been
placed upon the stand.
“Fight?” asked Moee, apparently
greatly surprised. “What fight?”
“You know very well what fight
is meant,” said counsel. “Tell us
about it.”
“I don't know nothin' about no
fight,” insisted the witness. “What
was it?”
“See here,,Moses!” exclaimed the
lawyer; “no trifling! The fight day
before yesterday. You know aU about.
it. Tell us—”
“Oh, de fight day befo* yisterday,”
said Moses. ‘Well, suh, you see I'se
slept since de day befo' yisterday,
and, and I never kin rickollect any-
thing after I'se been asleep.”
And that was all they could get
from him.—The Green Bag.
CO(A)LD DEAL.
“Oh, papa,” she said, with a blush,
tyoung Mr. Chestnut, who owns so
many coal mines in Pennsylvania,
is coming again this evening, and he
says he wants to see you on impor
taut business.”
“All right, my dear,” responded
the old man, chucking her playfully
under the chin, “I know what tbs
young man wants.”
i That evening Mr. Chestnut came
to the point at once. “Mr. Hen
dricks,” he said boldly, “I want to
ask you if you have laid*ln your sup
ply of coal.”
antique.
! ‘This inn must be very old,” re-
marked the tourist.
“Very old,” assented the landlord.
“Would you like to hear some of the
rid legends connected with tits
place ¥*
“I would indeed,” said the tour-
ist. “Tell me the legend of this cn-«
rious old mince pie. I notice it ev-
gry time I come.”
■low President of the EHe Persuaded
Bankers to Lend the Road
$10,000,000.
‘When Underwood was made pres-
cient of the Erie road,” said a Wall
itreet man, “certain things were
promised. Roadbed and rolling stock
svere in rotten condition, but b?
vas assured that the money would be
forthcoming for betterments. After
Underwood had taken the big desk
die bankers' attitude changed.
Money was tight—the Erie was a
rery swamp for swallowing dollars—
md they suggested that Mr. Under-'
wood sit tight and refrain from'
peevish movement in the canoe. It,
went on for a time until conditions
began to .improve. Then Mr. Un-
derwood renewed his demands.
“‘Impossible/ said the bankera.
“The following day there was a
meeting of the directors. Under-
wood called it to order and then laid
two folded papers on the table.
“ ‘This road needs $10,000,000 in;
improvements or a new president/
said he. ‘Here is a resolution em-
powering me to borrow that amount
of money. There is my resignation.
I will leave the room for five inm-
ates so that you may act/
“In two minutes the door opened
and an elderly banker thrust his
head out. “Come on in, Underwood,’
said he. We've adopted your resolu-
tion—and burned your resignation.
You win.' ”—New York Sun.
HINT8 FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.
Always keep choice books of poetry
In the house. They impress callers
favorably.
Leaving a tough and overdone
steak in the pantry window over-
night will sometimes discourage
even the boldest burglar.
A close, heated atmosphere is un-
wholesome. Still, ‘your Chinese
laundryman never seems to get side.
Politeness is a quality that enables
a housewife to be as considerate of
her husband when be upsets his cup
of coffee on the tablecloth as she
would if ee were a visitor.
Sometimes the only way to get rid
of an accumulation of garbage is to
move.
MISERABLE GRAFTER. r
“That looks like some crib to
crack,” said the first burglar to hie
pel as they paeaed a suburban man-
sion.
- “None o' that for me,” said the
pal. “One of the biggest grafters ha
the United States lives there.”
“How do you know that?” asked)
the first burglar.
“I broke in there once and he
caught me witf the goods on,” said
the paL “I had to pay him $15 tot
let me go ”—Harper's Weekly.
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