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than that of the Post man? There is no
loop-hole through which he can crawl out.
HE MUST TAKE HIS MEDICINE.

HE MUST TAKE HIS MEDICINE.
Sharp. witty, bitter-he must take it
though it chokes him-the readers Of the
s'News" laugh-the lawyers and judges
laugh, the doctors, ministers, macha 1ics,
merchants and farmers laugh, all Texas
laughs, and the Houston 'Daily Post'' Ia
splendid daily, however) will go down in
history as the Norman maxim newspaper
of Texas.
EXTRACTS OF WHAT SOME OF THE PAPERs
San Antonia Express" Like
Tenpyson's Knight, who barred the pass
age of the river Gareth, "The "News" is
an old damsel, old and hard, old with the
wit AID strength Of twenty boys.
If this does not cause cousin Rienzi to seek
his back yard and there repeatedly assault
brick wall with his head, he is, indeed.
like Napoleon, stern and unmovable, the
man without a country and without a
shadow"
Brennan "Bsnner": "The Houston
post is the victim of one of the most
cruel deceptions ever practiced upon the
unwary and unsuspecting" rs SIT
is too good to keep"
Columbus "Citizen" ''The Galveston
friends of the "Post" the other day which
was rich, rare and racy," ~ "Of
course the Post" explained and explained,
but the gang has the laugh on that
paper"
Galveston "Tribune": ssThere is no
truth in the rumor that the editor of the
Houston "Post" employs an extra hand to
read backward all the clippings from the
Galveston "News" in order to guard
against any future trouble with Norman
maxims.
Marlin "Ball": "The Houston "Post''
should change it's name to the Daily
Norman Maxim"
Houston ''Post" The hysterical old
thing"
Galveston "News': "'Tis sweet to
steal, but not so funny, to be caught at it,
is it sonny"
Houston ''Post' Tt don't require
Norman MAXIM to catch "News man."
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Galveston ssNews": "The
culprit hid himself under the bed, when he
was peoked by setting hen, under the
new alarm, he sung out, T'm snake-b
and don't care Who knows it,
Houston "Post'' "Yes, yes, it does
take thief to catch a thief"
Galveston "News": "The "Post" even
adopts that Norman maxim and glories in
its work"
Houston "Post'' "It is the gored OK
that bellows loudest."
San Antonia Express" "The greatest
trouble with the Houston "Post" il that
when it gets hold of the hot end of the
poker it does not know enough to let CO."
Galveston "News" "There is no
fall hot xvyl do uoB
y "The esteemed contemporary up
the bayou is still floundering."
Houston s'Poss" man is pounding head
up against the cold and unfeeling bricks,
but it belongs to the "News mep who
imagined that one poor little Norman
maxim was sufficient to shield that pa
per's many pretty tricks from public
scornD
San Antonia s'Times" "The "Times'
is panied to note the unpleasantness ex-
isting between the Galveston "News' and
Houston "Post." If one newspaper can't
purloin little from another, from whom
can it filch?"
Galveston "News" !: "No unpleasant
ness on the part of the ''News." The little
privilege of purloinlng was extended by it
unasked. The Norman maxim was manu-
factured for the benefit of its esteemed
contemporary at the head of navigation"
Galveston "Tribune" "The Galveston
sNews" has dropped its end Of the con-
troversy. but the Houston ''POst" still
continues to have the last word. The old
Norman maxim as joke was clever; as a
chestnut il has lost all interest"
Brenham "Banner': "With reference
to that Norman maxim the Houston "Post'
ought to apply another maxim-the least
said the sooner mended."
Houston "Post" SIT is human nature
to abuse a successful rival. There was q
time when the old lady by the sea ignored
the "Post'' aud carried her nose in the air.
How that nose has come down, to be sure
Aud so it goes. The old order of things
in Texas was "coffee and pistols for two"
Now it is, 'you did," and 81 didn't" and
''you are thief' and ''you are another"
and all about "Norman maxim"
C.L G.