The Daily Favorite. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Monday, August 17, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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THK DAll.Y'FAVOHITK
One of th3 Strange Legends of
the Yuma Indians.
BY
THf f AVORITf PRINTING COMPANY
President |
...Editor
CAUSE OF THE GREAT STORM
E. H. Pritchktt
W. S. Spot is
and Bwinrii Manapr
Entered at the Postoffice at Bonham
Texal, a* Second-Class Matter
Satisfied
Customers
Is Our Aim
you are entitl
Hates’ Improve
by the Bates M
and genuine ar
It is good for r
household. O
bor. Guaranty
Drugs act of Ju
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your standing on our uuiwcription
looks by referring to date oppo
mtv address on margin of papei.
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ax a credit w itliin one week. I n
der the new postal regulations we
cannot m imI the jiu|kt to unjoin*
in arrears more than three months,
hence after that time your paper
will Is- stopped.
An Advertisement in the
FAVORITE reaches more
homes than any other pa-
per published in the coun-
ty. Our rates are ex-
ceedingly reasonable and
then our ads will bring
the desired results. In
advertising, as in every-
thing else, it pays to get
the best. Ours is the best
for Bonham and Fannin
County and we can
prove it, Mr. Advertiser!
J Guarantee li
tuuuv
17 DOfS NOT PAY TO Bf SOUR BRAINED
It is good to Ik* an optimist. It
you atv an optimist, you have no
cohwuks in your brain, your dig»*>
lion i- good and the burden of old
age rest* lightly on your shoulders.
Then* is a man in Memphis who
say> he is never iu a I>ad humor,
ib* is lifty-tive years old, admits
fifty, and he say s he enjoys every-
day of life. He says that when he
gets up in the morning, the first
thing he does is to shake hands
with himself and congratulate
himself that he has lived through-
out another day.
He permits nothing to disturb
him. It the eotton market goes
w rung, he does not hunt a wailing
wall or look sour at tin* dinner
table.
This man will probably live to
l*e eighty years old. Fifteen years
of this will Is* added to his life be-
cause of his cheerfulness.
It is foolish for any man to Ik* a
You cannot make mon-
Our Job Printing
[V[RrPACMGf BSARS 7/V/V
PROW ARP SI6NATVRE OF.
Department is complete in every respect and
is in charge of a man who knows the busi-
ness. All classes of Commercial and Society
nrintinir executed in a neat manner.
The folks who make
intakes are those who
vid instead of the hear
How to Avoid Appen
I Most victims of appei
nose who are habituall;
Id. Foley's Grino Lax;
pronic constipation bys
he liver and bowels ai
he natural action of tl
loley’s Orino Laxativi
Buseate or gripe and is
leasant to take. Kcfi
btes. Ho’d by Baunder
voure submerged there was a great
I calm, and u dense fog covered the
; earth. Then suddenly a mighty boat
r ■ • appeared to the awed view of the In-
dians. It approached and stopped at
• the several mountains still uncovered
by the waters, and at each point where
! It touched, as If guided by invisible in-
j telligence, the Indians, as if obeying
an unspoken but potent commund. en-
! tered the boat .
—————— j The boat rested first at a place called
A TENDERFOOT’S REVENGE. I Avee-qua-lul (mountain peoki. now Pi-
lot Knob, on the border of Mexico.
There was a mesa on the top of this
mountain, though at this day It does
not exist, and on this mesa the Indians
first celebrated their delivery. This
they did by playing sacred games,
chanting sacred songs, etc. On rocks
at the foot of this peal: there are hiero-
glyphics in an unknown language,
which some of the Indians believe were
made by those who survived the flood.
Petrified driftwood Is still to ire seen
two-thirds the distance up the sides of
Avee-beilnh. which drift, the Indians
say. was deposited by tire waves of tie
great flood.
The Indians, having rested for a time
on the mountain peak, again entered
the boat and were carried eastward,
eventually to a small valley. Here
and then, leaving
the liont. they wanderer! from one place
to another, after a time returning to
pessimist.
ey out of gloom, and in addition
to the !»ad humor that may Ik? on
you, you carry w ith you an addi
tioual load of anxiety and care.
This is a pleasant world and it
you keep yourself in a good men-
tal and physical condition, you
<*an eujoy every day of your life,
get happiness for yourself, and
make others around you happy.
The most unpleasant object in shivery tog.
the world is a sotir-faced and sour
brained man.—< 'ommercial-Appeal
excellent business men, whose
ability is too well known for com
Stop petidling disagreeables and of newsgatherers can be perfect
creating a social blanket of sticky, 1 without the aid of you, the people.
' , Don’t make a fool of We thank you in advance for your
[yourself and talk about blowing kindness in this matter,
your brains out. These are hard I
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
of it, w hole freight trains of it | -
Scatter it by the barrel? hag and ' Bonham & Trusl Company
ton. People won’t object to it. u u u .. c . _. .
They’ll take all you can give th.m. j Ff n„ ’ to
Quarantine your sour feelings. Put UCCI UliKaS
your dumps in the calalroose. (live
that old liver a good shaking and The stockholders and directors
chew some dyspepsia lozenges. ofthe Hon ham Bank and Trust
Ami let loose all >oui giggles, Company held a meeting Saturday
winks and dimples. You’ll catch af^ru0on at their place of business
more tiles with saccharine pap«*r for the purpose of electing new of-
than you will with a threshing jjc«»rsand directors for theensuing
machine. Ikrn’t Ik? a peevish,1 „r
bristling, disagreeable, disgruntled. A’ A Beasley wap elected cash
obi porcupine, or a night owl, or ipr to succeed G. 8iler> who re.
'a bat or a weeping jackal or a t|y signed to go to Dallas.
| howling hyena.-Western Ghris- J G (*lark was elected assistant
tian Advocate. w o siim- «■,,.
Sully of Nsw Mexico Town Had the
Table* Turned on Him.
The average tenderfoot is not a cow-
ard. He simply lacks ranch experi-
ence. An illustration of this fact oc-
curred down in New Mexico several
'years ago. One day a pale looking.
District court tregan it’s third thin and sickly young man alighted
week’s session this morning, The from the train and put up at the lit-
court is still occupied with civil tie adobe hotel at Bernal Springs. The
bus'n *s« Thecasc of JeffHouea teDd*‘rfoot walked up to the bar and
VV- I Arl.vie, o, u| tlfMinANK 08lled f0r 8 b0ttl* °f 8°dn
vs. \\. L. Alledge et al. tix*spass ...Taln.t aUowed to drink ,hat Mrt 0-
to try title has been on tual today. atuff out hcre •• sald a t0ugby. - what
Uilf T RCI |CVC pipYe 1 Y°u want is a stiff drink o’ red liquor.
WIAIVC DCUCVL uirid. Mr Barkeeper, wt fhe for
, _ . _ . .v - , . this young feller." "You have the best
A C-rwu. Custom at the Curt, ef „f J %pHed the Underfoot, "and
East Indian Prism. r„ have t0 drlnk the bnt , bope
There Is a curious custom at tfco |be tlme lnay when j can niake
I Nearly every girl get*
men she neither has a m
flirtation to think of.
servative hands.
A new business venture in Ht.
Louis is that of an establishment
which proposes to furnish old
shoes and rice for weddings. The
rice, of course, comes from Texas
and the shoes formerly constituted
the hides on the iKKlii*s of Texas
steel’s. It is a wonderful good luck
combination.—Houston Post.
Great is Texas. Hhe lends the
world in c\ cry thing.
A Boon to Elderly Pee
Most elderly people i
dney or bladder disort
kh painful and dangcroi
idney Remedy has prov
many elderly people a
Kites the urinary organ>
regularities and tones
hole system. Commem
key’s Kidney Remedy
d be vigorous. Sold by
rug Co.
they again rested,
courts or me inaian prince*, w neu n yo„ drink my cbolcc of liquId ••
British officer or a physician calls >rbe f?nderfoot raised the glass and
upon a rajah he is shown into the re- down ,1* whisky. Sandy had .fhe valley. To their surprise, the boat '
eeption or throne room, where sits the bad b|a way abont it, and he made no was gone. It could not have floated
rajah, surrounded by the great state Pjfort ,c comprehend the vague remark away, for the land was dry whereon
officers. After the exchange of the cf tbe stranger. The tenderfoot left *hey had left it, (be flood having sub-
nsual salutations one of tbe officers jor a rancb ,iown the Pecos tbe next sided after a great calm of its waters,
brings In a tray on which are display- day aftPr the Incident in the saloon. The boat could not have crumbled to
ed Jewels and golden ornaments stud- and be wag forgotten until one after- pieces, for there had not been time for
ded with valuable stones, perhaps noon ra0re than a year afterward a Ita decay. They could only conclude
worth £50.000 or more. The tra.vful of strong, healthy looking young man that tbe mysterious boat, having ful-
valuablee is supposed to be a present lode up f0 the hotel on a broncho, filled its mission of preserving a few
from the rajah to bis visitor, and It Is dropped the bridle reins upon tbe of ibelr race, bad dlsapjieared as mi-
offered first teftbe gentleman, who. In- ground and dismounted. He bad the raculously as It had appeared,
dining bia bead, touches the edge of appearance ®f-n typical youDg man of The spot w here the Mysterious boat,
the tray with the tlpa of hla fingers, the range. His fsce was bronzed and or ark, had rested was marked by the
and it la then passed over to the lady, bis eyes clear and penetrating. *T owe Indians placing there n huge log Thev
who invariably accompanies the Brit- * fellow a debt which I believe I will called tbe place Qual-Jo-para (boot’s
lab officer. If be Is married, on aneb oe- pay right now," the stranger said. resting place?. This spot is held sacred
caslona She follows tbe example of n0 aooner bad be made tbe remark by the Indians, who will seldom point
her husband, and the tray and ita con- than be walked off In tbe direction of It out to strangers. Not many hundred
tents ore then returned to tbe Jewel Sandy, who bad his gun in his right years ago, it is said, some Indian war
room In lieu of the unaccepted Jewels hand and was firing It into tbe air rlora were passing the upct and one of
a long necklace of tinsel, of little value, *Tery few steps. Tbe stranger sp- them to show his skepticism shot nu
to placed around the neck of each, pronched Sandy, pulled bia gun and arrow Into tbe aide of the greit log
where It remains during their stay unceremoniously dragged tbe bully up Immedlatelv a stream of blood cashed
within the palace. There to a very to tbe saloon and led him In that fash- from the spot pierced aod the skeoiic
strict law agaloet any British officer ton np to the bar. "Get me a pan of fell dead. Tbe atory of the eveDt was
accepting a gift from a native prince, water and set It upon tbe floor.” he carried to all tbe near tribe* and .in,*
Even when a doctor may have per said to tbe l*arkeeKr. ,hen Indians passing the pla.e fear b»
formed tome serious operation upon a Tbe order was complied with. Sandy even look leisurely at the 1 a”
njab. who. being grateful, wishes to standing there meekly, wonderlug what a reason given by the Indiana as the
give-exclusive of a money fee, vary- was going to happen to him. ’’Now. probable cauae of the flood w.. th„t
Inc from to *1000. according to get down on the floor and drink water the-., was a tribe of IndUo. i,w^
tbe operation performed-a present of ont of that pau like a dog." the former Columbus believed that the e.rth wav
a shawl, golden cup or some similar tenderfoot ordered. Sandy at first re not flat, but round and to prove wbetb-
valuable, tbe doctor mutt obtain ape- fused, but when tbe stranger began er this theory were truL^hLTulda
rial permission from tbe viceroy before twirling his gun around on bis forefln from the different trthe.
be dare accept tbe preaent. If any ger and said the order must be obeyed er and started out on a loorotw bffind
officer accepts a gift of any value with- tbe cowed fellow unlimbered and lay the edge of the earth tr”^* « eT
out such permiaetoo be may have to down upon the floor and began drink Tbe flood occurred «« .L fL t, '
resign This role was made because In lag water out of tbe pan.- Itonver Field dlana started on
the old days, when tbe East India ootn- and Farm. tbpT
pan, governed Indto, an offieer a.ptok- - SSn JS ^ch2 H 'f'Z
52. ‘Z lyrs.•SytK *•>■« <"•> - -3X2 5.
more to Nut tbau Itto salary.- l.oodou Into nothiiiK t« Ktmr, thut in not "l?T
Tit Blta “
ii'tarryjug ior utoiiey
Irse than marrying lb
rh a thing in possible.
Attention, Asthma Sufft
p oley’g Honey and Tar
hmxliate relief to asthr
V and has cured many <
I1 refused to yield to’otl
I'd. Foley’s Honey a
f best remedy for couji
|1 all throat and lung
ktains no harmful dru|
spasms, atttl freckles ana moles,
and eardrums anti quinine pills, The F t voritf wantx all the lo
and utter absence of joy in the eal news of this city and county,
stomachic regions, but he needn’t It wants it ltadly, too. We are
hire the town-crier to go altont making an extra effort on this end
with a bdl proclaiming it all. Ho of the line to make a good paper
need not Ik* pouring it into the ear for you and if you on that end of
of tvery unwilling, button-holed the line, no matter whether you
victim, who f« e s afterwards as if are in Bonham or out of it, in the
ho ha l visited all the hospital in country or any of tjie tow ns, will1
curable* or rest! an advertisement do a little as your part, we will
of “IsThis What Ails You?’’ Take suci-ecd in having one of the best
a brace—a strong ore! Smile on, papers in the State. And what
xmile ever. Groan not! Whimper will b* our gain will Ik? yours also,
not! Blublwrnot! Grumble not! as you will get a b *tH r value for
Hay you’re feeling O. K.—gay, job your money. If you have a visitor
ly, right-flldc-up with-rare, salu- phone iu the name, send it in,
brious, never better in your life, mail it in—anyway, just so it gets
I^augh—lau ;h out loud—real loud, arouud here in time for the paper,
Risk the blood vessels and have a and we will gladly do the rest,
good snort and chuckle for ouee. Parties, weddings, happenings—
Snicker, an I the world snickers anything that will make u news
with you, item is what we want. We have
Whine, and fju whine alone. what we call a competent force,
Burn your own smoke. You an* also a Hue list of regular corrr*
not the only Job on tbe ash heap, pondents, but no newspaper force
Saunders Drug Co.
Rust Ix'eauNoa married i
p things his wife want*
is no sign he. is stud
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\e to Ik* the proper thii
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writes Mr. >
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Nobody is good whenasl
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uoccMNitrily the uakcsl truth
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Spotts, W. S. The Daily Favorite. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Monday, August 17, 1908, newspaper, August 17, 1908; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth981810/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.