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THE BONHAM NBWS FEBRUARY 13. 1903.
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LANDS! LANDS !!
VOW JS THE TIKI TO GET YOU
A BOnE TO1E YOU CAJf.............
1200
mile
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Acres cut into blocks of 50 acres or more, located within a
and a half of Lamasco are now on the market for sale.
91 2-3 Acres of the Julius Bullock Survey, ail fenced, situated on the
Telephone and Lamasco road, about S miles due north of Lamasoo
known as the McRae land^re offered for sale, This tract is just
north of the Widow Ca9tlebhry homestead
Acres fine bottom land on Bo is d ’Arc and Timber Creek out of
the P. 8. Young survey. Two good houses on the land. All in
cultivatioq.
Acres out of the David L. Pettit Survey on Bois d ’Arc Creek
about 18 miles north of Honey Grove. This is a nice little farm.
Acres 2 miles northwest of Bonham, 3 tenant houses. All in
cultivation.
Acres, Jabes Pitsgeraid survey, 18 miles north of Bonham on Red
River . *
Acres 4 miles southwest from Ladonia. All in cultivation.
Acres, William Branch survey, on Coffee Mill Creek, 18 miles
northeast of Bonham, 60 acres of fine bottom land.
Acres. EL H. Lock survey, 14 miles north from Bonham, 60 acres
in cultivation. x '
Acres, 5 miles aorth of Bonham, known as the J. B. Watkins
land. 80 acres in cultivation.
Acres, Jesse Favors survey, 2 miles south of Monkstown, 55 acres
second bottom. All fended.
Acres, more or lea?, Wm. Redfield and Mckiiftiey and Williams
surveys, on Red River 14 miles north of Bonham.
Acres, F« Herman Survey, 16 miles northeast of Bonham.
■eoey to loan on well improved real estate secant
at 7 and $ per cent interest according to the - amount
wanted.
HENRY G. EVANS,
BONHAM, TEXAS.
Fannin
County
Abstract
Company
Owns the snly abstract of land
title in Fannin county, and will
famish complete abstracts of titles
to any tract of land
or town or city lot
in the county, on
OF BONHAM,
- TEXAS.
short notice, guaranteeing the ac-
curacy of each abstract furnished.
Have your land titles abstracted
and perfected. #
IUHUTTE t WJtm
PROPRIETORS
ELECTRIC
LIGHTED
TRAINS
TEXAS
North and East
BIRMINGHAM, MEMPHIS,
Nprth and West
•KLAIMMA
North_and Bast
Observation cal* car*, under Cm
management of Fred Harvey. Equip-
ment el the latest and beet design.
Fast Time
Fast Service
C
Tbe Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Offers the Fastest Time and Finest Ser-
vice from New Orleans to all points in
the North, East and Northeast. Double
daily trains of magnificent Pullman
-Bleeping Cars, Electric Lighted Dining
Cars and Free Reclining Chair Cars to
Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville and
Chicago, and to Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia ane New York. This is
IrWi Matchmaking.
Judge Adams, the county court
Judge of Limerick, in presiding at a
lecture on Irish humor at the Irish
Saei^LClub in London, spoke of the
hamors of Irish matchmaking. Ac-
cording to the well known proverb
marriages were made in* heaven, but
anybody who knew rural Ireland
knew that very often marriages
were made in public- houses. They
were generally made on Shrove
Monday, and the talk between the
parties concerned was not of love,
or constancy or of blue eyes and
golden hair, but mostly about cows
and sheep, pigs and feather beds.
It often happened that a bride and
bridegroom met for the first time at
the altar. A young girl once rush-
ed into the house of a girl friend
of her and said: “Mary, Mfery,
I’m to be married in the morning!"
“Yerrah, to whom?” inquired her
friend. "To one of the boys of the
Donovans." “To which of them?"
asked her friend. “VVTell,’ said the
bride, “ ’twas rather dark near the
fireplace and I didn’t rightly know
which." The judge mentioned an-
other case where a woman called
out to her daughter an hour earlier
than usual of a morning: "Mollie,
get up at once!" "Yerrah, for what,
mother?" “You're to be married
today, Mollie." "Indeed, and to
whom?” inquired 5lollie. “Now,
Confederate Veterans Attention.
Bonham, Tex., Feb. 6, 1903.—
Comrades, again it becomes my
duty to revise our fast fading
rolls of members, Sul Ross camp
No. 164, U. C. V., members ot
the grandest army ever assem-
bled. Lot each member come for-
ward at once, enroll bis name for
our great reunion at New Orleans
May 19, 20, 21 and 22. Before
another year some of you will be
“Sleeping on Fame’s Eternal
Camping Ground/’
We desire to haye the rolls
completed in order to hftve our
per capita rax paid to general
headquarters by April 1st, as is
r*quirei by Sec. 3. Art. 1, of
c msTtru’iou and by-laws. The
tax is 15 cents for each member
per year, and no name will be
placed on the rolls who does not
pay. .
By order of commander.
M. A. Bridges, Adjt.
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Knows the Senate Well.
Elmer Dover, Senator Harma*§
private secretary, went home to
Cleveland for the holidays and
while there met a Toledo lawyer
named Cooper. In the course of a
chat Cooper declared that he could
name every man now in the United
States senate and every man who
had served in the senate at any time
The Fellow Who Fights Atone.
New York Sun.
The fellow who fights the fight
alone
With never a word of cheer,
With never a friend his help to lend
With never a comrade near—
’Tie he has need of a stalwart hand
And a heart not given to moan—
He struggles for life and more than
life.
The iellow who fights alone!
The fellow who fights the world alone
With never a father’s smile,
With never a mother’s kindly tone
His sorrowful hours to guile,
Who joins the fray at the dawn of day
And battles till light is flown,
Must needs be strong, for the fight is
long.
The fellow who fights alone!
Ah, bitter enough the combat is
With every help at hand,
With friends at need to bid godspeed,
With spirits that understand;
But fiercer far. is the flight to one
Who etruggles unknown—
Oh, brave and grim is the heart of
him,
The fellow who fights alone!
God bless the fellow who fights alone!
And arm hie soul with strength I
Till safely out of the battle rout
He conquering comer at length,
Till far and near intoevery ear
The fame of his fight Is blown.
Till friends and foe in the victory
know
The fellow who fights alone!
President McCosn’s Only Joke.
Presiden* Woodrow Wikon, of
in twenty years; also that he could Princeton university, says that his
name two-thirds of the present predecessor, the late President Mc-
members of the house of represen-
tatives, together with their states.
Mr. Dover laughingly offered to
bet him a box of the finest cigars
on this proposition and a number of
others made the same offer. Coop-
er‘accepted all bets and called for
a pad of paper. In just half an
hour he had made good his boast
and now he has cigars enough to
last him all suihmer.
No Inaugural Ball for Mickey.
Governor-elect Mickey, of Ne-
braska, persists in his refusal to al-
low an inaugural ball in Lincoln
this winter: He says: "I am op-
posed to dancing. I am a trustee
of Wesleyan university, and it
would be as much as my good \aante
is worth to countenance such a func-
tion, much less attend it." Mr.
Mickey was reminded that a Meth-
odist president of the United States
had been elected in 1896 and again
in 1900 and that there was an inaug-
ural ball on each occasion, but the
Western man refuses to budge.
He Hates Daylight
Among the many human curios to
be seen at Monte Carlo this season
none attracts more attention than
M. Yturbide, an eccentric million-
aire, who shuns daylight as he
would a plague. Jn his splendid
villa he has placed an enormous el-
evator, into which his curtained and
shuttered carriage is driven and
raised to his heavily draped apart-
ment when he wishes to take a
drive. His rooms are always kept
at a Turkish bath temperature, and
as conditions in the garrtbling rooms
of the Casino are about the same,
he sometimes ventures there in the
evening.
“Berthage” and •‘Birthright’*
Female suffrage sometimes leads
to amusing mistakes. A candidate
at a recent election in Australia,
where the women have votes, tells a
story- in this connection. The con-
stituency was a seaport town, and
one of the burning issues was the
question of berthage rates. A wo-
man voter came to him and asked
Cosh, is known to have made iust
one conscious joke. It \«as at a
meeting of the Evangelical Alli-
ance. In commencing the exercises
the presiding officer, a Baptist, said
that though there^ might be differ-
ences of denomlrattonal belief it
could be safely said that the apos-
tles’ creed was a platform upon
which all could stand. V.'hereupon
Dr. McCosh whispered to a Meth-
odist minister who sat next to him:
*T should not care to descend into
1
nell with an Episcopalian.”
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Pertfcular Mme. Humbert
The Humberts are furnishing no
end of amusement for the Parisians
Mme. Humbert, for instance, com-
plains that the sentry who paces
the stone pavement of the Concier-
gerie prison m fropl of her cell
keeps her awake at lights by his
heavy step. But the governor of
the prison graciously allows that
he is powerless to stop it. There-
upon Mme. Humbert suggests giv-
ing the sentry a pair of goloshes.
"Then I could sleep and the sentry’s
feet would be warm,” says the dis-
tinguished prisoner. Meanwhile,
she and her family languish in the
cells once occupied by Marie An-
toinette, Mme. Danton* Mjne. Rol-
and, Mareschal Ney, Prince Louis
Napoleon and the Due d’Orleans.
And they seem to be rather enjoys
ing the distinction.
Reoeiving a Hand in the Mail.
Representative Brown, of Wis-
consin, last week received in his
mail a human hand, carefully rolled
up in cotton and neatly ~ ’ed, It
was something of a
upon opening the pad
expectation of finding
present, the gruesome re . dis^
closed. A letter accompanying the
package threw light on what prom-
ised to be a mystery. An old sol-
dier in Mr. Brown’s district was
wounded during the ci\H war, and,
a few years ago the amputation of
his hand became necessary. He had
carefully preserved it in alcohol,-and
now has sent it to his congressman
in Washington to be used as evi-
dence in a pension case.
j The “World Do Move."
Elliot Woods, architect of the
capitol, is preparing to demonstrate
(that "the world, does move” during
the meeting of the American Acad-
emy of Sciences next month. A wire
cord 158 fee* long will be suspend-
ed from the ceiling of the capitol
dome to the floor of the grand ro-
tunda. On the end of the cord will
be a large iron weight, which shall
have an index point. This will be
hung directly over a table ten feet
in diameter and covered with sand.
The movement of the earth in its
rotation will be traced by the point
of the weight in the sand. It is an
old experiment, but it is interesting
and valuable.
A Russian Croesus.,
Mr. Harry de Wlndt, the Arcthc
explorer, lecturing in I ">ndon, told
a curious storv of a Russian Croe-
sv,s whom he met during his over-
land journey from Paris to New
York. It was at Irkutsk, in far dis-
tant Siberia, and the man of mil-:
*
lions, who lived in a fine house and
employed a French chef, proved an
excellent host. Luxuriously fur-
nished rooms were placed at the dis-
posal of Mr. de Wihdt and his com-
panions. As for the millionaire
himself, he took his nightly rest
upon a couch formed of three chairs
placed side by side, and never trou-
bled to undress.
Indiana Going to Work.
Secretary, Hitchcock’s recent or-
Mutebility of the Senate.
The mutability of the United
States senate is well illustrated by
a musty roll call discovered last
week. It was used January 13,
1877, almost twenty-six years ago.
The roll shows seventy-five names.
Of these but five are now members
of the senate—Allison, Cockrell,
Jones of Nevada, Mitchell and Tel-
ler. Allison and Cockrell are the
only ones who have served contin-
uously since that date. On the roll
call are the names of Bayard,
Blaine, Burnside, Conkling, Fre-
linghuysen, Hamlin, Ingalls, Logan,
McDonald, Morrill, Oglesby, Sauls-
bury, Sharon, Sherman, Thurman
and Windom.
The Czerlna ar Vandal.
A peculiar akeration made by the
dcr that Indians must support them . czarina has been much talked about
selves has driven a number of dig- , and criticized in St Petersburg. She
nified savages to the desperate issue ( has had the study of Alexander II.,
of going to work. Quite a lot of j which up to now has been preserved
them along the state line of XebraJ- , untouched, turned into a bath room,
ka and South Dakota have "accept- . In this room Alexander II. signed
ed positions" involving manual la-^ the manifesto which abolished serf-
bor on the railroad tracks in that
section. Young Sitting Bull, who
inherited his celebrated father’s
name, has gone to work as a coal
heaver on the Fremont, Elkhorp &
Missouri Valley road. He handles
his shovel with a stoicism and self-
control which is impressive to the
residents of that country, most of
whom are familiar with his family
history.
dom in Russia, anti thus gave liberty
to 23,000.000 of his subjects. “How-
ever long I may live I shall never
be able to dp a better deed,”’’ Alex-
ander said when he had signed it
He expressed the wish that the
room should remain just as it was.
For forty years nobody touched this
sacred spot. But now, by order of
the czarina, all the documents and
historical relics have been put'into
a lumber room. The Imperial li-
brary in St. Petersburg has taken
Bad for a Republican.
•!sssa 5ss«£
whose skill in woodcraft is fully
equaled by his absolute veneration
for prominent persons. It is re-
lated that Grover Cleveland once
The Blind Chaplain’s Reason.
"Why are you willing to leave
the flower garden of oratory in the
house of representatives for the
graveyard of the senate ?’’ was ask
ed of the Rev. Henry N. Couden,
the blind chaplain of the house, who
is an aspirant for a similar position
in the senate. "Because one stays
longer in a graveyard,” answered
the humble man of God.
"Now, what’s that
plied the mother.
to you ?
Roasted Bull.
An official of the house has re-
turned to Washington from a trip
in the West and, meeting Congress-
man Bull, of Rhode Island, began
telling him of his experiences.
Read No New Books.
In answer to the academy’s an-
nual question to eminent English-
men as to the new books they have
read with the most pleasure the past
year, Herbert Spencer writesMhat
... . , , . he has not read any new books,
whether he was in favor of impos- jwhik Professor Skeat, of earn-
ing t ese berthage rates, because if bridge university says that he has
Z™?* g0Od, Car' ««. having -quit, enough to
do to read the old one*."
that neither her husband nor hesefl
would vote for him. A little dis-
cussion of the matter revealed the
fact that the woman was- under the
impression that the question of
berthage rates related to a poll tax
on babies. .
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Emerson Overlooked.
We have lately had the hundredth
anniversaries of the births of Bal-
Among other things the returned
the route of the Fast Mail between New told of a barbecue whi'J he attended zac, Hugo and Dumas. ' The fol-
Orleens and New York. Rock ballatv in Colorado, where they roasted the | lowing are not far distant, an Amer-
free from duet and dirt, and the P inest fjne,t ox ^ ever saw The Rhode ican newspaper points out: Bulwer-
2^ zi w-* -an. ,ho t** *»»«
by his democratic opponent in Xo-
Bouth. Fo rates, teme tables and fur-
ther Information, address below named
representatives of
L0018T1LLE & NASHVILLE R R.
p. W. Mornaow. T. P. A., Hocbto*. Tbxas.
T. H Khkmi.it, T. P. A., Dallas, Tbxas.
K. RtDGBLT, D. P. A Raw OBL BABB T*X.
Lytton 1903, Beaconsfield 1904,
Hawthorne 1904, Whittier 1907,
vember, interrupted: "Don’t want Longfellow 1907, Tennyson 1909,
to hear about your roast ox. You
should h*”e been in my district last
election and seen how they roasted
Thackeray 1911, Dickens 1912. It
is remarkable that in its list this pa-
per overlooks Ralph Waldo Emer-
Bull to a turn, but not to a return." son, bom in 1801.
The Passing Georgia Colonels.
This is the last year of the free
and unlimited coinage of Georgia
colonels. , The new law which for-
bide the governorifrom having more
than twenty-eight officers' on his
military staff does not apply tcvGov-
ernor Terre’l, who will luxuriate in
a staff of 133—and every one a
colonel. Because of the time limita-
tion, the pressure to get a colonelcy
under Terrell has been severe, and
the governor has yielded gracefully
to it. He does insist, however, that
each new colonel shall buy a uni-
form before April next, a condition
which may reduce the noble.band of
133 to smaller proportions.
Living War Secretaries
tThere are now three ex-secreti-
lfllcu U1*L oruver Cleveland once rie? of war in the United States sen-
mad^a hunting trip under the guid- atcU-Mr. Proctor, of Vermont, whd
ance of “Chick" Bruce. While wait- • served from March, 1889, to No-
ing for the dogs to bring a fat buck: veqiber, 1901; Mr. Elkins, of West
within gunshot the chief executive Virginia, who succeeded Mr. Proc%-
calmly sat on a log basking in the' tor and served till the dose of the
sun with the muzzle of his shotgun Harrison administration, and Mr.
resting over against his heart. Alger, of Michigan. General Al-
Chick noticed the situation and gef is modest in his movements
roared: "You - old food Is about the senate. Most of the time
that gun loaded ?’’ to which Grover, he l|eeps at his desk. He dresses in
in a very humble manner, replied dark clothes and looks as trig and
that it was, and found both barrels* neat as a new boy in school. He
at full cock. "Well, suppose you seerps to find it more pleasant ITs-
had killed yourself. What, do you ten ng to the proceedings than in
think "they would do to me? Don’t joining the cloakroom groups in
you know I’m a republican & front of the glowing grates.
Fifty Years the Standard
Awarded
Highest Honors World’s Fair.
Highest Tests U. S. Gov’t Chemists
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1903, newspaper, February 13, 1903; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth914266/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.