The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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Dress Sale Prov
ed So Remark
ably Successful
Ji T THE END of the first three days sale of 40 consigned
U dresses half the lot were gone and we have decided to
keep the balance and give our other friends the benefit of
the GRANDEST SILK DRESS OFFER AND STYLE
ADNANTAGE EVER OFFERED IN BONHAM.
You can be fitted here in a strictly newaad up-to-the-minute
Silk Dress for the small price ot $16.50 from a stock that would
be a credit to a big city store, f
Nothing like this sale has ever happened in Bonham and the
advantages offered should not be overlooked by any lady who is
at all interested in correct dressing and price economy.
Silk Dresses for $16.50 that are worth $25.00 to $40.00 each as
long as they last at
THE BONHAM SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS
NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1866
COMSTOCK & DICUS,
E. B. COMSTOCK -
L. E. DICUS
PROPBIETORS
editor
- BUSINESS MANAGER
Entered at the Post Office at Bonham, Texas, as Second
Class Mail Matter
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One* Year . One Dollar
s£ Months......- - Fifty Cents
Three Months ------ Twenty-five Oents
J. K LUTON
SUBSCRIPTION SOLICITOR
CLUBING RATES
News and Farm News (Dallas News) - - - *1-75
News and Ft. Worth Record - - - - * }
News and Hollands, Farm and Ranch. - - * l-75
News and Progressive Farmer and Ferttliz'ng
for Profit......150
Friday, March 8, 1914.
THE END OF A USELESS LIFE
Last week Wm. Casey, a California bar-ten-
der, committed suicide, leaving a signed statement
that the reason for his act was an illness that pre-
vented him from following his usual customs, and
which deprived him of all his happiness.
He had a thousand dollars in the' bank, and he
ordered that this money be turned over to certain
of his friends to pay his funeral expenses and to
provide an entertainment for them when his body
should have been burned to ashes.
This man's ideal of the sum of human happi-
ness is clearly revealed in the instructions he left
to his friends and in the way they celebrated in
memory of him.
He wrote: “My passing out is not a signal for
sorrow, 1 want the friends that attend the funer-
al to enjoy themselves just as if I were among
them in reality, as I will be in spirit.”
In accordance with his wishes his friends
celebrated the occasion in the following manner,
as told by a San Francisco paper:
“A special car brought Casey’s body from
Salinas to San Francisco, where it was cremated.
With ashes in an urn, a score of Casey’s friends,
followed directions left by the decendent, pro-
ceeded to a hotel, the proprietor of which was an
old friend of Casey.
Before the party sat down to dinner, the urn
was taken into the bar-room and placed behind the
bar. TTien each one ordered his favorite drink
and this toast was drunk to:
‘Casey, who is still behind the bar.”
The party, carring out Casey’s instructions,
then sat -down to dinner and later went to a thea-
ter.”
Casey's conception of usefulness and happi-
ness, his idea of the purpose of life, was to “eat,
drink and be merry, far tomorrow we die-” ‘ And
his friends had the same views of life, for they
made his death the occasion of drinking and feast-
ing and revelry.
Casey found life not worth the living when
he reached the point where eating and drinking
and satisfying the appetites of the flesh no longer
brought their temporary gratification.
Such a time inevitably comes to every man
who finds no higher mission than to enjoy sensual
life, no nobler pleasure than that to be found in
satisfying his appetites.
How great the contrast between Wm. Casey
who killed himself because he could no longer find
pleasure in the glass or happiness in the halls of
revelry, and Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote
immortal stories and essays to please and bless
the world long after sickness and chained him to a
bed of pain! * -
See the difference in the result of Wm. Ca-
sey’s ideal of life and that of Alexander H. Stev-
ens, whose emaciatedjjody could not for years
bear him around while he did the great work of a
a statesman and historian. -
Compare Wm. Casey’s life and what he ac-
complished with the lives and accomplishments of
men and women like blind Milton, imprisoned
Bunyan, Fanny Crosby, blind and bed-ridden,
Helen Keller, blind and deaf and dumb, or scores
of others whose afflictions have made their bodies
helpless but left their minds and wills and courage
and dauntless spirits free.
Many who have been sick, or maimed, or
blind or afflicted have found great happiness in
the world, and have lived to bless mankind for all
time.
The reason that Wm. Casey lived a useless
life and died a recreant’s death was because of his
mistaken conception of what makes for happiness
and the reason others whose lives shines out as
great lights was because they understood that
happiness is not to be found in gratifying the ap-
petites but in doing righteousness. And this
right conception of life is here for every one who
will receive it
A year ago the city of Chicago had 5664 li-
censed saloons to furnish drink for its three mil-
lion inhabitants. The total number of its shoe
stores, dry goods stores, drug stores, restaurants
and grocery stores combined was 5634. In other
words there were thirty more places to supply
strong drink than there were to supply shoes,
clothing , food and medicine for the people. There
were six times as many saloons as there were
preachers of all denominations. Is it any won-
| der that Chicago is boss-ridden, thug-infested,
5mi3goverened and filled with all kinds of corrup-
1 ion? ■ -
Dallas Juvenile Courts are to try painting the
throats of Juvenile delinquents with nitrate of sil-
ver to cure them of smoking cigaretts- That may
prove effective, but parents could often save the
i courts this trouble if they would properly apply a
good strong shingle to that part of the Juvenile
anatomy that is best fitted for using a shingle on.
SPRING BARGAINS
— AT
WEINGARTEN’S
You Can Save Money on New Spring Goods
Our showing of Spring Goods is far ahead of any of our previous, offerings and with our system of
buying we can save you 25 to 50 per cent on your purchases.' - ' - - ’
Sale Prices Continue All This Week
35c Brown Linen per yard,........ 77. .. ........ 19c
25c Men’s Balbriggan Underwear, per garment 19c
35c Figured Crepes, this week per yard . . . .... ......... .. ..... 25c -
$2.50 Brocaded Silk Mull Petticoats . . i........... .$1.49 J
Lot Men’s Blue Work Shirts . .. f............. * . ....... . 25c
10c Ladies’ Elastic Ribbed Vests . 7rjc •
Newest Styles Ladies’ Waists 49c, 69c, 98fc and . 7. .. ... .... ... . . $1.40
34c White Voile, 40 inches wide, per yard ., .'.........~. ....... 19c
Men’s Athletic Union Suits................. ........ 50c
$2.00 Silk Waists, special............... .. 98c
75c Boy’s Wash Suits....................................... 49c \
35c Bleached Table Linen per yariL ........... .. . . .. 23c
20c F laxon, all colors, per yard .......... .. .. • 10c -
75c Laundred Shirts ...................................... .Y 43c
Middy Blouse, special................. .\ .... . .. . s . 75c
Ladies’ and Children’s Slippers all reduced. •_ , ... -
See our Men’s Suits, special ....... . . .. . .. . . .7.0.......7.98
SEE OUE MILLINERY IF YOU WANT TO .SAVE MONEY
Our Motto—“Sell the Goods Cheap and Sell them Fast.”
J
PARIS OUTDOES
■ ALL OF THEM
SECURED THE ST. LOUIS SYMPH-
ONY ORCHESTRA OF 60 MUSI-
CIANS FOR MAY 14
The coming to Paris on May 14 of
the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra of
sixty musicians and four solo vocal-
ists marks the greatest musical event
j ever attempted by any small city.
This orchestra, admittedly one of the
four great orchestras of America, and
the equal artistically of any, has been '
engaged to play at the Dallas Sanger-
| lest two days preceeding their appear
ance at Paris. The Paris Board of
Trade, determined that Paris people
and their neighbors should have the
privilege of hearing this orchestra,
engaged it for two performances, ar-
ranging for the players to stop in
Paris on their way back to St, Louis.
Thursday, May 14 at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon, will be given an orchestra
j concert, including vocal solos by Mr.
j Marion Green, one of America’s great
baritones, and Mme. Marie Syndelius, '
• soprano. The program, under direc-
tion of Max Zach, is one of the most
| artistic ever prepared by that great
rconductor. At 8:15 wifi be sung by a
j chorus of 50 Parts voices the oratorio
“Elijah” accompanied by the full or- '
j chefetra. The solo parts will be tak- '
! en by Mr. Green, Mme. Knight and
: Mr. Arthur Hackett, who are on this 1
hear this orchestra- and the “Elijah”
at such a price. The Board of Trade
has made this possible, not as a
money making project' but to give
pleasure to the people and as a tri-
bute to Prof. Shaw’s excellent work
as a musician.
7 It is understood that tie railroads
will give the usual reduced rates for |
this occasion, and inquiry shoud be
made of the local ticket agents for de-
tais. *
EGGS! EGGS!
Barred Ringlet Rock, White Wyan-
dott and White Indian Runner DuCk
eggs, $1.50 per setting prepaid.
JAMES MAYES.
No. 4-4t Ector, Tex.
Everybody Knows
About tie
Y.VEUE & MOON::
BUGGIES
WE Sell Them £
V. A. EWING
IMPROVED SEED CORN.
Beth white and yellow of the very
best varieties grown.—Rogers, Wood-
ward, Roberts Co. 4-28-W-tf
1 JAMES PAM
52348
Will do service the balance of the
son at the KING WAGON YAM
(back of jail, Bonham.) A great oppor
tunity to get the best blood in Tex
now, the bargain o'the year at $25. ^
J. H. BUHLER.
his chorus !
J. Emory
presenta-J
s :
HOG - FENCE i
WE HAVE IT
BONHAM’S NEW IDEA STORE
• - -
Northwest Corner of the Square.
: • ASM
tour with the orchestra. '
has been trained by Prof.
Shaw, wno will ^conduct the
tion, and who has demonstrated
ability in this work many; times
Only 700 season tickets fo this Mu- ]
; sic Festival will be sold at;$2.0O each, ]
with reservation of seats. jThe Arena
j where tie Festival will beiheld, seact
2500 fery Je, an 1 after dhe sale -of j
700 seasor, tickets at $2.00|the admi.;-
vc n will be SI .00 for the I afternoon
rr.d $1.50 for the night performances',
without reservation of seats. Out of
town orders Tor tickets-map be placed )
by letter or telephone wit! the Secre-
tary of the Board of Trade or the
Mayer Music House.
Paris invites the people of neigh-
boring towns to come and hear this
j great musical event. Now tere else in 1
America has it ever been
26-inch El wood with barb at bottom
18-inch Elwood with barb at bottom
Also have the 80-rd Barbed Wire,
both light and heavy.
We Will Appreciate Your Trade
Keene & Keene
GEORGE KEENE, Manager
West of First National Bank
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Comstock, E. B. The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914, newspaper, May 8, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth913666/m1/4/?q=coaster: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.