The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 58, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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to their present force, making a
total in round figures of 650,000
men. In other words, with the
continuance of business confidence
A Honey Grove woman has
lost a broach containing seven
diamonds, and a Honey Grove
man lost three thousand shingles.
Another man in the same town
has a limb from a peach tree, ,
said limb having ripe fruit on
one end and blossoms on an-
other. A Honey Grove cat has
just weaned a litter of squirrels, -
and the Honey Grove editors still
tell the same old kind of freaky
stories.—Bonham News.
With the exception of the latter
all the above statements are true.
Honey Grove editors do not 'tell
old or freaky stories, but so mar*
velous are the truths about Hon-
ey Grove that sleepy Bonham
looks upon the mildest statement
of facts as a gross exaggeration.
—Honey Grove Signal.
These things may sound freak-
ish to a Bonham editor who never
gets outside of his town limits,
but to the average Honey Grove ,
man they are mere matter of
fact items, and he thinks them
nothing out of the ordinary.—
Honev Grove Citizen.
hearts may be enriched
harmony, and eloquence.
EVANS & EVANS PROPRIETORS
ASHLEV EV AR 6. EDITOR.
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All the friends of Red River
navigation are respectfully /re-
minded that one steamboat in
steady service beats a hundred
orators carrying freight.—Dallas
News.
• And- that is just what they are
preparing to do.
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It is understood that a bill will
be introduced in the next Legis-
lature consolidating the offices.of
countv-and district clerks, of tax
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It is to be hoped that the Dem-
ocratic party will have control of
the next Congress of the United
States, in order to look alter the
robber tariff question. It is esti-
mated that the protective tariff
is worth $80,000,000 annually to
the steel trust, end as the Repub-
lican party holds the reins of •
government this gigantic monpp-
ands of dollars into the Repubfi-
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Rusk County News ( Henderson)*
The Democrats will not control *
the next Congress. The^. people
have again spoken, and they have
denied to the Democratic party
authority to legislate the mani-
fold evils out of thetariff sched-
ules. It really seems that the
The percentages -majority favor high tariffs and
willingly contribute to .the ex-
actions of yhe steel trust and
other trusts. The prospect for
reform of the tariff ik not at all
encouraging, and the only de-
fense consumers have is in con-
suming as little as possible., It
is not at all probable . that “the
cost of* living^' will be reduced by
those now in authority.—Dallas
News.
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oly will continue^io dump^thous-
to,tbar"pres«t fotas
r.a‘ Dec. t, if nothing occurred Cc
» shake commercial confidence. A
resume of the information con-
tained in these replies is also
given bv ther magazine as fol-
lows: “The percentage of re-
plies received indicates that an
average of 135 men each will be
added to the majority of manu-
facturing plants- in the associa-
tion bv Dec. 1.
show that at least one-half of
the 3,000 members of the Na-
tional Association of Manufac-
tures expect to add to their
present force more than 200,000
workingmen.” “Taking this as
a basis,” savs the article, “it is
assessor and collector, and abol- safe to assume that the 13 000
isbmg altogether the useless of- ^manufacturing which, according
to the census of 1900, employed -1
an average each of 100 men or '
who desire to live among a high
toned, moral people; who desire
to have a first-class school where
he can educate his children—Bon-
ham is the place to come. Be-
sides the best public schools in
existence, we have Carlton Col-
lege, an institution of J forty-one
years standing. A school that
has given education to some of
the most distinguished men and
noble women of our State.
To those who desire to be an
attendant at church -services,
Bonham is the place where you
can have your choice. We have
church services bv the Episcopal,
Methodist. Baptist aq^fbri^tian.
The Cathol’ics have a xhurcb
building and a congregation, but official magazine, a continuation
do not have regular preaching
every Sunday. We have the
largest attendance at Sunday
school of any -town of its size
atiywhere. Each denomination
having a Sunday school well at-
tended, and besides all this. Bon-
ham is the capitol of the best
county in the best State on the
American continent. We there-
fore invite all good people who
desire to have a home at such a
good place to come and be with
us.
their dealings. The kindness
and hospitality of the citizens is
not excelled.
We have several manufactur-
ing establishments. Among them
is our cotton mill, the largest
and best one in the State.
To any one who desire a horn
in a town; who desire to have
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Bonham JlJetns.
UTVBE.
Do we fully appreciate the
things that surround us in every
day life? There is scarcely a
soot so bare but there is some
bright place, some little spot of
terests of the country will be en-
abled to increase their present
force by more than half a million
workingmen to meet the market
demands for their products. 1__
securing this conclusion/ Demo-
crats and Republican manufac-
turers were addressed alike. No
attempt was made to limit the
canvass to) any particular indus-
try or to any particular section
of the country, and the queries
sent to manufacturers w e r ej,
based solely upon actual business
conditions and better business
possibilities for the future.”
Aside from the well-known fact
the radical and threatening poli-
tics of cheap and desperate dem-
agogues in certain of the States
had most to do with the destruc-
tion oi confidence and with keep-
ing out investments, it is gener-
ally agreed, whether justly or
unjustly, that the Presidential
contest has had much to do with
the prolongation of the distress-
ing suspense from which the
country has suffered. This be-
ing true, now would be a good
time the agitation of a movement
to make the Presidential term
longer, thus tov prevent so fre-
quent occurrence of the unneces-
sary and dangerous shocks and
losses that contests usually en-
tail. It takes almost four years,
as a rule, to correct all the mis-
representation ®and costly mis-
takes that are made during the
ordinary political campaign. Is
it necessary thus to destroy con-
fidence, credit and business and
to leave millions df men and wo-
men idle and helpless solely for
the purpose of satisfying the ap-
petite of the spoilsmen? Would
it not be better for the people as
a means ot self-defense to take
steps to render less tree uent the
opportunities to destroy confi-
dence and to stir up and harass
the people? It would be a good
thing for ninety-nine people in
every hundred to extend the offi-
cial terms in- State as well as
Federal service. Wild politics is
the chief panic-maker inv this
country.—Dallas News. \
We have always believed that
the frequency ot elections is det-
rimental to the best interests of
the people. It gives too great a
field and too wide a birth to
demagogy and opens the way to
the greedy shark, to take the ad-
vantage of the surroundings and
create, pan ips by which dishonest
men make profit and the honest
men suffer. Have longer terms
of office and fewer terms of office
and fewer elections, give the
people rest. Thereby causing the
demagog to lose his occupation,
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the trickster lose his trade and
the dishonest grabber lose mkny
of his opportunities and if tl|e
KEN UFE.
Our city is putting on new life;
business is reviving; everybody
is getting busy; trade is growing
brisk, and it begins to look like
the days of prosperity have re-
turned. Bonham is getting to
be itself again. The past six
years have been trying to its
ueryes, but new life has sprung
up. We are on the up-grade
again, and with such determined
energy as has characterized those
who have been here and borne
the reverses—the over-abundant
wet weather, loss of crops and fi-
nancial crash that almost ruined
our country, our city will now go
on in its growth and build up to
a higher standard than ever.
Now, that the clouds have
passed, the storm has blown over
there is no reason why Bonham
should not be prosperous and
grow in wealth, in population and
in prosperity. It certainly has
everything necessary to induce
good citizens to come and settle
here. We have churches to suit
the religious views of every de-
nomination. We have a people
noted for their morality. No
better people can be found on
earth. We have the best regu-
lated and managed public free officers; provided, that in
schools in Texas or anywhere
else and kept up for nine months
in the year. The healthfulness
of the city is excellent. Our
business men are honorable in all
beauty if we but look for it close
enough.
The trouble is, we do not
school our eyes to see, nor our
minds to conceive, looking
for the beautiful w'e look for
something above us, when if we
would but look at our feet we
may behold the world, sparkling
in the dew drop on a blade of
grass, or perhaps it is frost cover-
ing the dead leaves, making
thousands of figures which
sparkle like diamonds in the
sunshine.
In the spring we have all the
beautiful' verdure, and the many
colored flowers which present to
us a panorama too entrancingly
beautiful to describe.
In summer we have the bright
sunshine, blue skies and gor-
geous sunsets, followed by the
glimmering moonlight while the
mocking bird trills its sweetest
melody to the silent world.
Then comes the autumn, with
its glorious days, making us feel
the exhiliration ot the cooling
breeze as it steals upon us, giv-
ing to the world the gorgeous
tints that so gradually comes up-
on the foliage of the country,
making a kaleidoscope more
beautiful and changeable than
any ever made by man.
What can be more beautiful
than a drive in the country on a
balmy sanshinV1 day in Novem-
ber. I know of nothing. I took
such a ride Sunday, and at each
turn in the road the bright
leaves of the trees or the softer
shades of the glasses presented -
a continuous spectacle of beauty
no one could look upon it without
exclaiming* oh, how beautiful!
But they will pass away and an-
other form of beauty will come,
covering the brown earth in a
shroud of shimmering whiteness,
the emblem of purity, causing us
to think ere we step upon its
smooth surface—how our track
will mar its majestic beauty.
- 5 Jn all these changes^of nature
our lives are influenced, though
often unconscious of it, yet if we
had the same thing all the year
round what a difference it would
make*in our lives. Let u< try io
stay closer to nature, to see its
beauties, so that our minds and
by its
fice of county treasurer. Such a
law would no doubt prove a great
saving to the people ot the State, over will add at least 50 per cent
and the county machinery would
in all probability move along just
as smoothly. The Denton Coun-
ty Record and Chronicle in
speaking of the matter says: the important manufacturing in-
“The county and district courts
meet at different periods, the as-
sessor’s busy time is at a different
time of the year from the collec-
tor’s, the idle time of the one
agreeing with the busy time of
the other, and the office of coun-
ty treasurer,/ since the county de-
posit law was passed, has no du-
ties that could not be performed
by some other official satisfactor-
ily and easily. The only bad
thing about such a law would be
the putting nut of easy positions
something like 500 good pie-eat-
ing Democrats.”—Ladonia News.
That would be pretty much
after the order of the legislatures
of the past few years, to pass
laws in violation of the State
constitution. Sec. 20 Art. 5 of
our constitution savs, “There
shall be elected for each -county
by the qualified voters, a county
clerk, who shall hold his office
for two years, who shall be clerk
of the county and commissioners’
courts and recorder of the county
whose duties, perquisites and
tees of office shall be prescribed
by the Legislature, and a vacan-
cy shall be filled by the commis-
sioners’court, until the next gen-
eral election for county and State
coun-
ties having a population of less
than eight thousand persons
there mav be an election of a
single clerk, who shall perform
the duties of district and county
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clerks.” Therefore it is only in
counties, having less than eight
thousand inhabitants that such a
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law can apply, and the c institu-
tion has. already provided for
that, our statute law as it now
stand, also provides for that, see
Art. 1152, Revised Statutes see
also Art., 10% Revised Statutes,
the benefit of the best society; In regard to tax assessors, Sec..
14 Art. 8, State constitution pro
vides tor an assessor and says
one “shall be elected,” and Sec
16, Art. 8, provides that tfie sher
iff shall be the tax collector bu1
in counties having ten thousand
inhabitants a tax collector shall
be elected. How will the legis-
lature pass a bill blending, the
two clerks into one and assessor
and collector in one office?
$ Repeating Things Said $
Nothing can prevent the suc-
cess of the man who never loses
In c<>n**£e an<I who never quits
, | work.—Bonham News.
Sti.cktoitiveness and nerve ustt-.
ally win out especially when
backed by good judgment.—Den-
ison Herald.
TbmplE has started a cream-
ery. Whv can not somebody
start one in Ron ham?
Mas. Carrik Nation says that
she will m ,a tew days sail for
Scotland, wlfere she will lecture
on proibhitioa and instruct the
Scots how rto destroy Salobns.
Some enterprising yankee stands
a chance to make a fortune out of
that trip bv buying a boat load
of hatchets. iand peddling them
in that country. Carrie’s plans
cannot be executed without
hatchets.^______________
6WE VS StnSMEE.
There is one thing necessary
toJanimal and vegitable growth.
It cannot be done without. That
necessary thing is sunshine. The
field, the orchard, the forest
must Ake if or death comes.
. Tjhe flowers would lose their
bekuty and fragrance and wither,
mould a nd deca y. ' No pl ant 'life
can Ipng exist without it. But
the greatest amt* .most necessary
place for simhiiite 1b with titan-
kind, it mttrt stewte ifitbeiir faces,
fill their aMs and shed, it’s
radience all around a tac^ upon
'which the rays Of sunshine are
always plan ng. Carries warmth
and cheerfulrifcsfd into evtry place
, {tenters. Ic’4 Ittfht enters and
* warms up the soiM of every one
it meets and it gives ' comfort to
the heart of those tn sorrow and
gnef. It makes the* suffering
forget their pain. . It makes the
s'ad rejoice. It makes lighter the
burdens of thqse who are1 heavy
laden. It glared rest to the weary
aqd causes the afflicted to forget
their pains. Whenever a face
full of sunshiiie enters it carries
peace and happiness along with
it. Let a cheerful sunshiny face
enter a sick room where the
patient is suffering, whose body
is full of pains* whose Hood is
heated with feker whose face is
drawn with misery dnd - that
moment the face enters a change
comes, the face of the sick relax-
es, the pains are' forgotten, the
gloom passes away, the heart is
filled with gladness and the soul
of the afflicted is filled with light
and the body is eased of its
misery. If we would* have our
own souls full of sunshine let us
carry it with us. Let us make
others glad atftdiappy. Let us
shed our lightKfpbn them. Then
we will be rffeuBdantly supplied
with sunshine and light that
will drive away our own gloom.
Those who wear sunshiny faces
are God’s, ministering angels,
heaven’s, messengers of peace,
sent into the world to bind up
the wounds of the broken hearted
to dispel the clouds ot gloom that
over shadow the s<d and^ lonely,
to turn darkness into light, to
give joy and peace and make
glad the heart of man. Let us
have more of that sunshine and
heaven will smile with pleasure
and the earth rejoice and be full
of pebee.
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Trade conditions continue t
improve, the ending of the great
Lancashire strike and the reopen-
ing of idle mills in New England*
haying added -preceptibly to the
hopeful feeling over the South.
Recently the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers published
in the American Industries, its
of the statements on trade condi- °®cer elected does not do his
tions contributed by its 3,000
members, representing ‘ every
branch of industry. The ; first
series of<these statements show-
ing improvement in commercial
conditions appeared in the Oct.
15. issue of the magazine. The
series now published indicates a
continuation of this improve-
ment, for the most part an opti-
mistic view of the business out-
look. Telegrams were also sent
prior to the election to a number
of the association’s mem^rs ask-
ing them to state specifically bow
many workingmen would be
Dec. t, if nothing occurred 'to
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 58, Ed. 1 Friday, November 13, 1908, newspaper, November 13, 1908; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1365418/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.