The Daily Favorite. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. [293], Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 14, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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BIO REUNION
MODERN WOODMEN SOCIAL I
A Nice Program Consisting of Music
And Speeches. Refresh- .
ments Served.
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he to make it
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, —• n Favorite,
g» warm friends all
; “,. ho are using all
,,‘iNj ‘s to see me his elec
, lime is truly a grand
%r fe ,e who have
_ i 's l ongest ait* his Itest and
"i4‘nds. His character is
»2 . without hlemish. A1
' I' ,
- :V ..'-s opponent has sought to
/‘i him. his friends know
j • would not deviate from the
r,r‘st rules of integrity for all
y l wealth that could be given
■f i x. As attorney general he would
v to the line regardless of all
B se save the good of Texas.—Fort
« , .Vorth Star.
Thk Elks have got Dallas and
gone with her, and the watchword
is “Hello, Bill.’’
IlKAKHT says that Bryan will
not do. What he should have said
was, that he will not liable to do
Bryan.
Fannin county has never had a
congressman, but she will have one
next year if the Honorable A. P.
Barrett lives.
r
ison Has the Affair in
m t ‘ and it Promises
to be Successful
A Stevenson, in conversation
jjw' J Fa vokitk man this morn
/J''stated that he had perfected
Vns whereby he will give a big
I anion and old settlers’ picnic
!„•',' xt month. Mr. Stevenson has
_|, f(he Itack iug of some of oursulwtan-
tial citizens in his plans and it is
his pnr|H»sc to make the affair the
higgt'st thing ever pulled off in
Fannin county. The reunion is to
last four days, to commence on
August 2(>, closing on August 29.
He has already closed contracts
w ith several high class attractions
for this event, among which is the
Parker Carnival company. This
company is one of the largest on the
road. They w ill furnish the tent
shows, three riding devices includ-
ing the famous *10,000 Jumping
Horse Carry Us All, the biggest
machine of the kind ever made.
This list includes also, a merry-go-
round and a Ferris wheel.
It is Mr. Stevenson's plan to
make this event an animal institu-
tion and it is to l>e hoped he will
Ik* successsul in his first venture.
He should and doubtless will Ik*
given the hearty support of our
people and businesss men. The
Leonard picnic is a success and is
the biggest advertisement that
tow n ever had. People come from
miles around to attend. Why can’t
Bonham do the same? There is no
doubt but what such a thing would
draw the crowds, and crowds al-
ways spend money. It would ben-
efit all alike and in course of time
become as famous as the annual
Leonard entertainment.
“Steve” will commence the ac
tive work of advertising the reun-
ion in the near future and it will
lie done thoroughly too. He is to
have alwolutc control of the affair
and weather conditions permitting
he will make a success.
Hood reports are coming in from
the scattered showers in this coun-
ty yesterday. The rain was badly
needed in some communities.
Had Hon. Joseph Weldon Bailey
l»een able to have attended the
Denver convention things would
have been different with the Texas
delegation, and the little 2x4 gov-
ernor of Oklahoma would have had
his hand called in great shape.
How the report ever got out we
are unable to say, but there is a
report going the rounds that “Hon-
est Bob” from Black Jack drove,
really expects to carry his own
precinct, However, we are not
giving this out as official dope.
Bonham folks will please come
over and see a real, live street car
—one that does not have to “go
all around the public square to
damage everybody's business
alike,” as Jim Lowry, of Honey
drove, says. It starts somewhere,
goes somewhere and quits some-
where. So there! — McKinney
t Vturier-< iazette.
Just bo patient, old boy. We
will come through McKinney on
an intern rliati train so fast some of
these days that it will take Tom
Perkins and all the other members
of the Mothers’club put together
to see us coming. So Ik* patient,
for we an* going to Fort Worth via
.McKinney and the time is not long.
The Times-Herald says: “Dal-
las is to have a gas hearing .Inly
21.” If we are not. mistaken Dal-
las gas has IH*en heard around the
world for many months, advertis-
ing her big Klks’ National don voli-
tion, and, murk our word, she is
not only going to do herself proud
in the entertainment of the “Best
People on Lilith" but the State as
well.—Bonham Daily Favorite.
All g.e* manufacture!* areaway
from tin*city. This is Klks’ week
and politician* must sing low and
plu> second fiddle. 'I Ids wet k the
IDI I’topic on Until. Next week
The Modern Woodmen enter
tallied a few of its friends last
night at the hall in Unwell build-
ing. Despite the inclement weath-
er the attendance was good.
The ever popular game of “42”
and dominoes occupied the atten-
tion of those present for a short
while and several short talks were
made by the members of the order.
After w hich all retired to the ban
quet hall where an elegant supper
awaited them.
This is the first social for the
benefit of their friends given in
this city by the Modern Woodmen
ami by it they have proven them
selves ideal entertainers.
WOULD NOT ISSUE LICENSE
Young Couple Apply for a License
To Marry and are Re-
fused.
This morningabout noon a young
couple appeared in the county
clerk’s office and applied for a li-
cense to wed. The gentlemanly
and courteous young man who pre-
sides over the license factorya.sk
ed thorn if they were of age they
said they were not. He asked if
they had an order from their re-
spective parents. They said they
had not. The clerk then refused
to issue the necessary papers that
would permit them to Ixjcome one,
thus crushing at one fell swoop, as
it were, love’s young dream.
The young people were from the
Leonard neighborhood, and when
refused the license left the office
presumably for home.
Philadelphia Items.
July l.V—We had a nice rain
yesterday that was a welcome vis-
itor to everyone. We would have
been glad had it stayed longer, but
probably we’ll have another show-
er t<Klay.
Mrs. J. L. MeC’luny visited Mrs.
Jim McMurry Sunday. Mrs. Me-
Murry is recovering from a severe
illness.
Little Lilith Neighbors was very
painfully burned last week. Her
clothing caught fire while playing
round the wash pot where her
mother was washing.
J. M. Vaughan and family vis-
ited at Holier last week.
Bill Porter and family and Miss
Kssie Pass, of near Cooper, Delta
county, are visiting friends and
relatives here.
<). S. Johnson and family, of Ho-
lier, visited friends here last week.
Jim McMillcn and wife, of Augie, |
visited his brother, C. A. McMil-
len, here Saturday night and Sun-
day.
finite a number took advantage
of a few spare days recently ami'
went fishing. Some had success
and brought home several real nice
fish.
Bro. Lee Cunningham will preach
at the church Sunday at 11 a. m.
Some from here have been attend-
ing the revival at Gober.
Catherine.
flow a "Scold" Used to Bo Punished In
Old England.
It Jk intereeting to conjure up a pic-
ture of a "ducking" a* practiced in
England at the end of the eighteenth
century.
When the "•cold" had been properly
tried and convicted, she wai enrolled
by a crowd of her neighbors—In fact,
by the whole Tillage-to the neareat
pood, and the greener and slimier the
pood tba better. A long plank wao
produced, at one eDd of which waa the
docking stool, and in this the scream-
ing. struggling victim waa securely pin-
loo ed.
The chair end of the plank waa then
poshed far over the edge of the pood,
and at a signal it was tilted deep into
the green oose until the ecoid waa
completely immersed.
When the dripping, half drowned wo-
man waa raised to the surface again
to the Jeers and laughter of the on-
lookers it can he imagined that her
tongue wagged to some purpose. Aft
er a second dose ahe emerged more
subdued, and after a third or fourth
she was as penitent a woman as the
village contained and was allowed to
proceed home a sadder and wiser wo-
man until the next time.—London Tit-
Bits.
DEFIED THE JUDGE.
He Got What He Needed.
“Nine years ago it looked as if
my time had come,” says Mr. C.
Farthiug, of Mill Creek., Okla.
“1 was so run down that life hung
on a very slender thread, It was
then my druggist recommended
Electric Bitters. I bought a bottle
and I got what I needed—strength.
I had one foot in the grave, but
Electric Bitters put it back on the
turf again, and I’ve been well ever
since.” Sold under guarantee at
Saunders Drug Company’s store.
A lieauty specialist sometimes
encounters hard lines.
Just Exactly Right.
“1 have used Dr. King's New
Life Pills for several years, and find
them just exactly right,” says Mr.
A. A. Felton, of Harrisville, N.
Y. New Life Pills relieve without
the least deseomfort. B<*st reme-
dy for constipation, biliousness and
malaria. 25c at Saunders Drug Co.
Joint Debate.
Since t he speech by Hon. C. B.
Handel I in Bonham last Saturday,
Somebody took a dark mahogany
cane from the court house that 1m*-
Innged to me. Please return same
to L. P. Thomas.
it has been variously talked that au u«m« w m
Barrett would not meet Kandell in|T*»und of tuition,
joint discussion. All those who
would care to hear joint discussion |
between Hon. B. Kandell and |
A. P. Barrett, can have the pleas j
tire of hearing them in joint dis- |
mission on July 17, at Nevada, Col- \
lin county.
Kandell opens the discussion
with one hour, Barrett answers
then 4wlth <*m* hour; Kandell
has a rejoinder of t'*n minutes,
Barrett closes with five. The
speaking will commence at 2 p. m.
J. C. Carieton.
An ounce of intuition is worth a
FOLEY’S
KIDNEY CURE
' WILL CURE YOU
of any case of Kidney or
Bladder disease that is not
beyond the reach of medi-
cine. Take it at once. Do
not risk having Bright’s Dis-
u hen you stop at a country inn1 ease or Diabetes. There is
you must put up with tin* inn <on nothing gained by delay,
venienw*._____ §0c. and f, 00 Bottle*.
Lost—Pair of gold rirnglm- » in •»•""•"••*
biuck i us". Leave ut Ponvofllee. I Sdundcrs Drug Company|
A Fin* For Voting That Suaan B. An-
thony Never Paid.
"It has been so many years ago that
most people have forgotten that the
late Susan B. Anthony was fined $100
or a year’s imprisonment for having
dared to vote for General Grant for
president,’’ said a Chicago Judga.
“Miss Anthony was as brave as she
was intellectual and asked to be al-
lowed to speak a word In her own be-
half. Permission being given, she told
the court of the struggle she had In
keeping a little newspaper going from
which ahe made her living. ‘Your hon-
or,’ she said, holding up her right hand,
‘I am due my creditors not iesa than
$1,000. This money I expect to live to
l>ay, but I am willing this arm shall
wither from my body before I pay the
$100 you have so unjustly assessed
against me.’
“The court realised the deep serious-
ness of Miss Anthony’s declaration,
and though she could have been or-
dered to Jail for nonpayment of the
fine his honor did not have the nerve
to enforce (he extreme penalty. Miss
Anthony lived for many years after
its imposition, but tbe fine was never
paid.’’—Baltimore American.
Cobra's Fatal Bite.
One of the deadliest snakes in India
Is the cobra, wblcb claims hundreds of
victims every year. An English offl
dal once saw one bite a fowl, and, be.
ing curious to learn how long the ven-
om took to act, he timed it with his
watch. The moment tbe cock was
touched It screamed, but at once ran
off to lta mates and began picking as
If nothing were wrong. In thirty sec-
onds the comb and wattles changed
from red to black. In two minntes it
began to stagger and fell down in con
vulsiona, struggling violently until it
died, three mlnutee and a half after it
had been bitten. On plucking tbe fowl
n wound not bigger than a pin prick
was found at the extreme end of the
wing. Round thla spot the color was
very dark, but the rest of the bird's
body, excepting comb and wattles, waa
of a natural color.
The Bribe Thet Failed.
Among Father Dempsey’s steady
boarders waa a fellow named Delaney.
He waa drunk aa often aa ha could
get that way. Father Dempsey tried
all manner of means to get Delaney
to quit drinking. At last ha aakl to
him:
"Delaney, my man, if you’ll atop
drinking for aix months I’ll give you a
check at the end of that time for $50."
“Indeed, if I stopped for six months
I could write you a check for $100,”
answered Delaney, and Father Demp-
sey in telling of it later added:
"And inueed he could, too, for he’s a
No. 1 mechanic.”—8t. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
A Rapid Rhymer.
In illustration of the working powers
of George It. 81ms, the dramatist and
poet. It is said that one night a new
piece was produced at a leading theater
in London. Sims aat It out and then
returned to his office, where he wrote
a column and n half of critlciam In
rhyme. It was near the time for the
paper to go to press when he began,
and the boy took the piece verse by
verse from him to the composing room,
the boy walslng continuously from one
to the other for an hour.
Takes Up Book Writing and Out-
lines Plot of First Volume.
SEES FORTUNE IN VENTURE.
A Hint to the Old Man.
“I hope you appreciate the fact, sir,
that in marrying my daughter you
marry a large hearted and generous
girl.”
“I do, sir.” with emotion, "and I hopp
she inherits those qualities from her
father.”
Expressive.
One morning when little Edna's
mamma came down to breakfast she
was so hoarse she could scarcely
■peak
“Ob. mamma," cried Edna, "what s
sore voice you've gotChicago News.
Story as Planned I* Full of Thrill*
and Something Now In the Literary
tine—Mre. B- Look* *n Venture as
a Joke.
ICopyright, isos, by T. C. McClure ]
Mre. Bowser was watching from the
front steps when Mr. Bowser got off
the car the other evening, and ahe ob-
served au unusual exhilaration in bis
step aud carriage. He came swinging
along with a smile on bis face, and as
ghe looked at him for nn explanation
be said:
"It will keep until after diuuer. and
then you shell know all about it."
“It isn’t au auto, Is Itr sbe asked.
“Oh, no."
“Nor a new milk cow?”
“No."
"Nor—nor a balloon?"
“No, nothing of the kind. You shall
receive full explanations after dinner,
and I think you will be as much
pleased as 1 am.”
During the dinner
out bis chest.
He also grinned,
lie also chuckled.
He also looked ut Mrs. Bowser in a
patronizing and a pitying way.
She was full of curiosity and very
much puzzled and finally made up her
mind that he had Invented a process
to make sweet cider out of turnips and
was going to make a million dollars
within a year. That didn’t turn out to
be the idea, however. After they had
returned to the sitting room he threw
out his chest to the limit and said:
“Mrs. Bowser, you have known for
years that I was of a literary turn of
mind?"
"Y-e-s.”
“I take it from my mother, who was
a poet My father also wrote several
Mr. Bowser threw
Extremely Prosperous.
Mrs. Rrown-Is your husband's busi-
ness growing? Mrs. Smith Ob. dear,
yes! Why last week his receipts were
eo large that be had to here s receiver
appointed to take rare of them!—Clere
laud Leader,
No grand doer In this world can 1#
a copious speaker about bis doing* —
Carlyle.
thk old ma* pbbkuis rosbii* his sum
TO If ARBT POLLT.
article# for tbe newspapers. But for
circumstances over which 1 bad no
control 1 should have taken up litera-
ture aa a profession."
"You don't mean bookkeeping?" she
Innocently asked.
"Madam, I said literature,” he replied
aa be turned on her. “You should
know that there la a difference betweeD
figures and literature.”
“Yes, I see. Well, you didn’t take
up literature?"
“Up to this time I haven’t, but I be-
gin right here and now this very even-
ing."
“Are you going to get out some cir-
culars or something?”
Mr. Bowser glared at her while the
clock on the mantel ticked off twenty
seconds and then said:
"Madam, another break like that and
there will be an end to this conversa-
tion. I am not in the circular busi-
ness.”
"1 beg pardon for my stupidity. You
are to begin literary work this even-
ing. What has happened to decide you
all at once?”
Fifty Thousand Dollars In It.
"I received a call from a publisher at
the office today. He wns In search of
some one to produce a popular novel.
We hadn’t talked fifteen minutes when
he said I was his man. Mrs. Bowser,
there's $50,000 In it for me."
"Is It possible!”
"And fame and glory and renown.
If I write one successful book three or
four others will follow It, and tbe roy-
alties alone will bring me in $10,000 a
year. It's the sure road to wealth and
fame.”
"My, but I should say it was! And
,you begin tonight?”
"At once. I want to outline the plot
before I go to bed, and I want your
help.”
"You shall willingly have It How
large Is tbe book going to be?"
"About 450 pages, and it will be a
love story, of course. 1 shall go to the
office during the day, us heretofore, and
write the story evenings and Sundays.
I think I ought to turn out the manu-
script in a month. You know what, a
hustler I am when I get started at any-
thing. Now, then, what would you
suggest as a plot?"
"Why, dear, you can hardly expect to
get a plot In five or ten minutes. 1
have rend that novelists were some-
time* months adopting and worklug
out s plot."
"Then they were doughhseds. I did
n Illile thinking coming home on the
nr. uud this Is what I’ve got so far:
A rich man's son named i’rlvr l’erkina
falls in love with a poor widow's
daughter named Polly Taylor. Hee'f”
•'But you must have more romantic
names than those, Mr. Bowser, for
hero ami heroine.”
"Not «t all. Tbo publisher and l
agreed that the public had become
tired of romantic names. The old uuu
Perkins forbids his son to marry Pol-
ly. The sou says he will do It, and
the father drugs him and hires a sea
captain to carry him over to Afrles.
He la there raptured by cannibals, but
as he plays on a Jew-sharp and sings
tropical aongs they spare bis life- thut
Is, they do not eat him."
"I see.”
"By and by old Perklna has the
mumps and become# conscience strick-
en. He goes to Polly and confesses
bis crime and tells her that he will
bring Pete back and turn over all bis
wealth to them. 8be calls him a mur-
derer and scorns him; but, having
learned that Pete la in Africa, she
goes Into dressmaking for a year to
get the money and then starts for
Cape Town. Do you follow7”
"Perfectly,” replied Mre. Bowser,
with averted face.
-Meanwhile old Perkins has started
for Africa and arrived there, but It Is
six months itefore he hears a word of
Pete. Then he gets news and starts
up the country. He finds Pete and the
tribe and makes a big cash offer for
ransom. The savages refuse the dough
and make him prisoner. He is old and
lean and tough, aud they begin to fat-
ten him up. In about six weeks be Is
In proper condition.”
“1 hope you won't let them devour
him. Mr. Bowser."
“But I shall. The publisher said It
was time for something new in the
plots of love stories, and I am going to
spring this on my readers. Yes, sir:
when all is ready they run Pete into
the bushes out of sight and make
away with the old man. Then Pete
escapes. He has Journeyed about 300
miles toward civilisation when he is
attacked by natives. He not only de
fends himself, but puts them to flight
and pursues and makes a capture. Who
do you think ho rescued?”
“It couldn't have been Polly?"
"Polly Taylor and no one else, but he
didn't recognize her at first slgbt. In
traveling through the foreets she hail
encountered great hardships and had
donned man's clothing .to get along.
The publisher enid the public was tired
of heroines iu dresses, and so I have
worked this situation In. I look for the
public to grnb at It."
"And then they come home?” asked
Mrs. Bowser.
"Not right away. They wait till Pete
discovers n diamond mine and sells it
for $10,000,000. He is determined not
to have anything to do with the old
man’s money, you see.”
Saved the Furniture.
“B«t then they come?”
“Yes; then they come, and they ar-
rive in Scottaville Just as tbe widowed
mother's furniture Is going to lie sold
at auction. You can Imagine the rest.
There's a plot for yon, and what do
you think of it?”
Mrs. Bowser asked to be excused for
a moment and passed Into tbe parlor.
Mr. Bowser followed a moment later-
to find her in a heap on the floor and
a handkerchief staffed into her mouth.
Her shoulders were shaking convul-
sively, and at first he thought eke was
sobbing because old Perkins had gone
to bts reward. Then be understood,
and be turned away and walked down
the hall and out into the walling and
tbe glooming and tbe darkness of the
night perhaps never to be seen of men
no more on earth. Pete end Polly had
brought him face to face with doom.
M. QUAD.
A Sad Case.
A story Is told by a lawyer of Little
Rock. Ark., about the sad case of a
native of that town who Bought justl> #
by reason of tbe tbeft of a horse be-
longing to him. As, however, the man
who took the animal returned li to the
owner, tbe lawyer advised the aggriev-
ed one to let the matter drop.
“Can’t 1 have him arrested for usu-
ry, then?” demanded tbe man Indlg
nantly.
“What on earth do you mean?*’
“Daggone it, mister; he used tbe
hoss, didn’t he? Yes, sir; he used him
mighty bard by the looks of him!”
Defined.
’’Pa. what's au infidel?”
"A man who has never had reason
as yet to believe his time bad come.”—
Chicago Record-Herald.
"8ay, Want Your Scissors Ground?"
— Harper's Weekly.
The True Summer Girl.
In the glorious summer time—
In the balmy month ot June
Or July or Auguat fair—
To be born Is sure a boon.
Glrla that com* In summer's lap
Of her nature havn partook.
Birds end flowers, playmates sweet.
Teach her much from nature's book.
■wejt of temper, kind of heart
Many graces she can boaet—
Te express It In a Una.
Of the best ahe ha* the moat
Many maldrna I have met
Bore In winter, spring and fall—
In the glorious summer time
Mummer girls are eueen of aH.
^a. - Uiicaso Mevuri UeraiA
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