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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-10
Promises Less Than He Can Do, and Satisfac.
tory Assurance Furnished for Prompt and
Perfect Cure in Every Case Undertaken.

sick. Honesty Of purpose must govern
ell transactions-to deceive others means
to deceive oneself--because 1t is the
preservation OF a good name and good
reputation for which everybody must look
to II DESTROYS Of being successful in bus
mess and otherwise. DIR. Mackey can point
with pride TO his ten years of successful
experience in the treatment of the follow
ing diseases Of which he makes speciality:
Catarrh, Deafness, Asthma Lung Dis
oaseR Rheumatism, Paralysis. Malaria,
Liver and Stomach Troubles. Kidney and
Urinary Diseases. Blood Skin and Nerv-
Gus Disorders Special Diseases of Men
slnd Diseases Peculiar to Women.
Patients living at distance cured at
home. Write for symptom blanks II
you can not CALL
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AyN's LETTER.
Concerning Irtman's Free Treatmen,
Women.

Concerning Irtman's Free Treatmen,
Women.
! received book on Gynaecolosy
and commeahe use OF your medi-
cine at onc<ook Ave bottles OF Pc
ru-na and / han-a-lin. l feel like
a new womVhen commenced TAX
ing Pe-ru-puld hardly walk acres,
my room; nm doing my own work,
can walk aand a halt to church.
shall never4o thank YOU for prescrib-
ing for med been under the treat
ment Of tytors, but never recei, ed
any benefit commenced taking vonr
medicine. now well and able 10 do
my own W wish every woman who
was sufferI was could send for n nv
OF your boGynaecology. IL lisa God
send to 81 women. May God hles,
you and sou many years to relieve
women wlsuffering as was. am
anxious 10 woman who IA suyer,ns
as | was ~ what YOUR medicine Ali
for me. Mrs. III. ID. An,nsx
A free written expressly for ~.
men BY ltman. will be sent "a srv
address 4e-ru-na Drug Manufsc,nr my
Ing comlolambus. Ohio.
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a business man. He prefers to promise
less to his patients than he can do for
them, and In doing 50 spares disappoint-
ment to the sick and afflicted who call on
him for advice and relief.
lie promises only that which he Is sure
OF accomplishing. No incurable diseases
taken. All cases carefully looked into and
diagnosed before being placed under treat
ment. IL he were to promise a cure of In :
durable ailments 1t would ultimately re-
suit in waste of time for him and
source OF serious disappointments to the
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A PEOR EGGS.

Be gentle to ttw-kaid egg,
For eggs arctic things;
They can not ,ntil they're Matched.
And have a of wings.
II once you bithe tender shelf,
The wrong yan't redress;
Tho yelk and will all run out,
And make asdful mess.
'Tis but n litpile at best
That hens power y lay;
Tomorrow egsy added be,
Although qfresh today.
So let the toe very light
That takes I'M the key:
There Is mol whose cunning skill
Can mend ken egg.
"A. @ in Hartford Times.
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A GONZALEEIRI.

Gonzales. Texas.--Misss Primrose: I
have been wanting to rite to The Post
for quite while. 81 the contest has
closed and Eddie Nor has had the
brightest eyes. l havee en- silent reader
OF The Pest, and Will for admittance.
l am IL years old. school will start
In about two weeks m now. am In
the sixth grade. Asiis is my first.
will close with ridd Round as a but
ternut, red as iidt got white spot
right spock in the nile. Good bye,
try Jungermann.
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ASKS ADDLE.

Rice, Texas. --Deaistress Primrose: 1t
has been some timlnce l wrote to the
Haps. My age is Il am not going to
school now and wogo before Christmas.
Won't We have time gathering pc
cans. as there are many this year?
Will answer MARTYR. Hilburn's riddle:
There was only ogoing to st. Ives. |
VIII ask = riddle;rmed long ago, yet
made today. empli while others sleen.
what few would Ito give away nor any
wish to keep. l wlose. true Hap.
Maud Morris.
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THE HEN.

Caldwells Store, Texas.-My Dear Mrs
Primrose and Haps: / am seized with thu
aeslre TO write again TO you. AS so mapy
OF you are writing about birds. etc. and
see Mr.. Thomas Taylor has written up the
poor old crow with all his caw-caws.
VIII talk OF our barnyard fowl. the
American hen. who is much abused for
she rs never given her dues. Think what
would we do; If 1t was not for her wa
would nave no eggs to eat or cook with
ana as all cooks know the use of eggs
there is no need OF me telling what thew
are used for. And we would not have any
tried chicken Tor breakfast, no smothered
chicken for dinner, no pound cake TO eat.
no delicious egg custards, no good old egg
bread Think how many families have
been tded over hard times by her eggs.
how many times she and her eggs bought
dress for the farmers wife when she
was not able TO get It otherwise, and the
bugs and worms she destroyed which had
eaten up tho cotton. She has placed some-
thing to eat on many a table and made
good what otherwise would not have been
NJ 70 eat. and the. very bugs and worms
that eat up farmers cotton she lives
ana grows fnt on, and after she has done
an the good she can. she yields up her
sell TO be baked and stuffed and eaten by
hungry farmers and others. II Il was not
TOR the hen our tables would not have as
many danties, and then after all. she
gives her own life for the good of human
NY. SO let us forever sing "All Honor to
the American Hen." She Is the glory of
all the country barnyards and the pride
OF every farmers wifes heart.
Violet Houston
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IS IrRESTED.

Chappell exas.--Dear Mistress
Primrose: / harad your nice letfers
In The Post arave gotten so inters
ested in them, bought l would ioip
the Haps. l haat and read them ali |
Sunday afternosley are so interest,ng
am 10 years and ] hope yen viii |
be glad to have join the club Yours
very truly, Daisy Toland.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-10

DR.. Mackey, the
specialist, has al
really scored a
remarkable sue
cess in Houston
In curing many
stubborn chronic
diseases where
others have fail
ed. His unequal
cd success is due
to his skill and
ability as a phys
ician and to his
fairness. honesty
or1
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DR.. j. L. MACKEY.

Office permanently located in Houston at
rooms 3 and 0, Telephone building, corner
Fannin street and Prairie avenue
Office hours: o to IL, to and to s.
Sunday, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m.
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HER FIRST HITLER

yoakum. Texas.-Deai Mistress prtm-
rose: May l join your HAPPY band? am
a little girl IL years old / go TO schoni
ard l am In the fiftherade Nav 7
nasc pu.lotl II | sendhy dime? | do
not KNOW nuct about ids, but | have
two canaries. They archery Young vet,
They were given to meIy two frle15s
One Is named Trllby au the other one
Happr take music ktns and lilo ~
very much. | like to ri Very IYiurmfro
have read nearly all Ms Alcott's books
and great many othe. AS this Is nv
first letter | will close.
Epic Grove.
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A JOLLY HAP.

Dilworth, Texas.--Dear Mistress Prlm-
rose Guy Fagen, think you will find
the Pernin system OF shorthand better
than the one you are studying. There is
no shading In the Iernin. ! studied II
nye months and found II better than the
Pitman. Graham or Standard systems
Hurrah for our contest. II has been
splendid. Eddie Morris. congratulate YOU
for winning the contest.
Wen, how many Haps. know how MANY
species Of humming birds there are in
America! There are 500 species, In all
OF the bird talk no one has described the
swan. with It's snowy plumage and grace
fulness, floating. or rather. swimming.
about on the lake. calling to Its SNOWY.
downy cygnets or diving for the f,sh or
prey beneath the surface. Thoy do not
dive tho whole body. but Just the head
and neck.
The albatross is well described IN Tho
Rhine OF the Ancient Mariner"
Keep hammering. Haps.
] shall close. as my letter Is already too
long. but hope It win Jump over che
waste basket.
J VIII exchange recitatione or SOM.
with anyone who Will write for them.
a Joiiy HAP, Willie NJ. Mooney.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-10

The Happyhammers are the younl
people who read the Youths Department
Of The Houston Post There are no fees
or charges OF any kind connected WIN tne
club. Boys and girls who read the pos'
may be enrolled as active members Dy
sending name. age and. address.
1t d the object Of all Happyhammers 70
"hamner happiness when and wherever
possible" Hence the club name and motto.
The club flower IL the violet. the club tree
Tho 1.-Two oak, and the club pet is the mock
1ng bird, all being chosen by the members
themselves. The favorite dog OF the Hap
pyhammers is the Scotch collie, or shep-
herd.
The club colors are rose and gray. These
rolors are intended to be worn with or
without the club button or pin. They are
made into a badge by pinning or sewing
together two pieces Of narrow ribbon, one
of rose pink and the other OF light gray.
The club button Is made of celluloid. The
ground Is white, with the words Houston
Post II. II. Club painted In violet color.
The club flower Is engraved In the center
and Is OF violet color. The letter ~ in N
large type on each side OF the violet. ~
makes q pretty little badge and VIII be
sent to any Happyhammer upon the re-
cc.pt OF 10 cents. In ordering a button'
address your letters TO the Haphammer,
care The Post, Houston. Texas.
For every new subscriber sent by
Happyhammer for the Semi-W Weekly Post.
a club button will no given free. The sub
scriber secured can be either for three
months. SIX months or year; no matter
which OF the three It is, your badge VIII
not cost you anything When sending a
subscriber send your letter to the busl-
ness office of The Post
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vclope 10 mail, but as live In the coun
try. ! do not get to town every day. sc
somehow or other l couldn't mail 1t unit
II was too late. am sofry didn't send
II, because know would be on the roll
of honor. and this would perfectly satisfy
me.
Although the interesting bird contest is
over am continuing to study about birds
for am deeply interested IN studying the
feathered tribes. ! hope tlat we will have
a fruit contest after tbs. or, contest
like we had. about wild }nimafs. and find
out who is the smartett member: We
could have'a horse contett. a mineral con-
test or anything like tint. | must also
congratulate the Haps wlo are on the rolI
OF honor. Isn't our bandIincreasing? Last
week there were thirty tew members. all
willing to hammer happiness when and
wherever they can. | viii describe my
home. We have a lot Of trees in the yard.
We 1--we on the public rold. between Fay
etteville and Ellinger. there are a lot of
me cking birds here, SINGING all day.
Grover @. Boyer, l sawh letter from you
In The Post, and was klad to see that
you had become a member. hope that
you may be an active number some time
in the future. Effe Dat, why don't you
write ID Tho Post? Dice more I con-
graduate Eddie Morris. with best wishes
to everybody who read this letter.
lenry II. Beyer.
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CoULnN,T MAIL Ir

Eilinger. Texas.-Dear Mistress Prim.
rese. After an absence OF quite whiia
! come again to congratulate Eddie Mo-,
ris upon his great victory. Just think
a victory over 5000 bright, brainy hovs
ana girls Eddie. you may feel proud Of
y1ursen. You are now the smartest n
az The members. according to your crsst !
v,cisory. Why didn't send In my list Of
niras VIII immedlateiy tell Ii was 81 this Il
, wny' , nea nnished my list. containing
o'rds. ana had sealed It, ready ia an en- ~
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Work Of DR.. Mackey

His New and Better System Of Treatment for Chronic Diseases
Not One Cent Charged During the Month Of October for Con-
suItaton and Examination and to Those Who Take
His Treatment Only Merely Nominal Fee
Charged to Cover the Cost of the
Needed Medicine for a Cure.
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LIKES THE WappooRw1LL.

Pennington. Texal-,Dear Mistress
Primrose: have beerh silent admirer of
your happy band fo1a long time, but
conduering my timidk ! come with
note, hoping to be ahitted to the chill
dren'S page. Mamma takes The Post
All | world want to b would be to set
under some shady TIP perusSlng inter-
esting letters till the ai would be disap-
pcGiing In the horizon lasting a shade of
melody upon the land. You all had such
am interesting contest hat | wish l mad
written sooner. Whiprwtll is my IA
yorIte bird. am 10 ye3s of age | would
IKE TO correspond VISIT any of the boys
ana girls of my age Wishing Mistress
Irlinrose success, l vi close. A true
frie nd Rove Roth
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INDUSTRIOUS LITTLE HAPs.

Pleasant Grove, Texas-Dear Mistress,
lrlnI oSe: The time Is here when we will
sec In the next paper whether birds won
we had nice rain the other day and il
made everything look 50 tnuch better
waj glad to see It and hope everybody
else was have to pick cotton every
summer and also chop cotton in the
sprnE My father and mother are both
getting old and love to help them do ali
! an. There is a sunday school within
Two miles OF us every Sunday morning I
was q member of IL but could not go every
Ssnncay, which would like to have done
s My mamma IS old, but her eyes are good.
Sne Is learning me how to quilt. EN-
oroider, piece quilts and knit. | can also
t tin,yor and draw neariy any ,kind or
iiower want TO. Our school begins Mt
iieasant Grove In November. would
TX to start tho first day II / can MIR
Long wlll be our teacher and Mrs. Glass
VIII he the assistant ! have n little
SISTER who wants to join the happy band
iier name is Alder Yankle. her age Ii
years. Love to all the Haps and Mis-
tress Primrose. Your true Hap,
Minnie Yankie.
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wished He WITS a hoy.

The following is traveing the rounds OF
the country press and many a big boy
will appreciate 1t:
I'd like to be a boy agin without a woe
or care. with freckles lcattered DER my
face. and hayseed in m, hair. I'd like to
rise at 4 o'clock and dosa hundred chores
and say the wood and Iced the hogs and
lock the stable doors I'D herd the hens
and watch the bees arb take the mules
to drink, and teach tn turkeys how to
swim 50 they will notsink, and milk a
hundred cows and brint IN wood to hurn.
and stand out In the suiall day and churn
and churn and churn, fear my brotherv
cast-off clothes and wk four miles to
school and get a Ickig every day for
breaking some cid rule, ind then get home
again at night and dI the chores once
more, milk the cows hd feed the hogs
and curry mules a scde, and then creep
YEARLY upstairs TO SEEK my little bed
and hear dear old dadbay: '',rhat worth
less boy. he doesn't etr his bread" I'd
like to be q boy againA boy has so much
fun. His life is Just me round OF mirth
from rise to set of Sn. l think there's
nothing pcasanter ham closing stable
doors and herding hos and chasing bees
and doing evening cAres.
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JOINED IN THE EARIy nAvs

MONDAY, Texas.--Dcar Mistress P,sm.
5pae: ! can imagine NOW thar / hear the ths
letter and see my name signed ~ t y ny ny
e, InsS VIII know AZ once there IS NOTHING
y, n1o. =: But 8 that as u may, / Wal
HsSSsee: HAD ! not been busy I would
Letter Ion1 ago realize that our DAP psSs
4 or,9nter every day. % YOU noe
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New members this week.. ."....
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| think so. my little fellow Haps? haYe
never had cause to regret my having
! joii ed the band. ! well remember the
| tho rage had no name. no motto had been
| selected. and there had been no contest.
| In fact. Joined in the early days"
been standing off, watching tho won
| derfu! growth Of the band. Not long al
ter I commenced my connection With
them; Mr.. Hap Cas he Is now called
the club and he would select name.
Among the many names that were sug-
gesled. there was the name 'Happyham-
and web I'D he. for the word contains
a great deal. Then several suggested
moftoes. and this was selected: Ham
Can The name and the motto go hand
In hand Now the contests begin. j do
not now remember the first contest. But
they, were all very interesting. ! am not
at ali ashamed of the stand / took In any
of them. In the bird contest ! worked
and voted for the dove. favored the
oak in the tree contest. I didn't take any
plr In the flower and dog contests Then
In the last contest / favored cotton. so
you see only one time my favorite won.
However. am very wei! pleased with the
choices. ] had just as well he, fer !
couldn't help myself II ] WIS dspleased.
II Is a pity we haven't mors writer's like
Guy fagan and Thomas Taylor. One real
Interesting letter H. worth twenty times
least had rather read one. Fellow IIaps,
there Is one thing that Is prevalent among
tls we should stop 1t Is this: Many times
when there Is a contest in progress and
we have a favorite that we would like
to see prevail, we go around among our
friends and ask them to give us permits
son TO send their votes for our favorite.
MANY of these friends will do this SIM
ply as favor, without ever thinking of
the Qualities of the plant or bird or what
ever 1t may be, and without any idea
whatever OF ever writing or having my
ihinh TO do whatever with the band There
Is hardly one out of ten that will ever
thtnl any more about II. / enter my
solemn protest against any such thing
Tor II Is wrong, and not strictly fair. IL
you WIN only think about 1t. think that
possibly some one has already said some
thing about this but II 80, 1t is my con
Nlct'on also. Dear Haps 10 you ever
TANK OF tho beauties of nature? DO you
ever think about the many lovely things
mat God put close about us? All about
us are blessings OF God, but how little do
we ever realize IT,
iaps, viii you allow yourselves to think
about II new question? Which is your ia
Vorite season OF the year? | think that
would he u nice subject for a contest: but
Whateyer tho choice should be would cut
lttIe figure for we have to put up with |
all of them anyhow. But my favorite Is |
autumn, 1t is. surely the most pleasant |
wen, ] have been writing for a consid- |
crhble time, ana haven't said anything |
yet so suppose | had better give YOU |
o. rest. AS ever and always a devoted |
nap Maurice o. Smith.
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SHAKERS AND DOCTORS TALK TO
GETIIER.

In his able article on Longevity"
published a few years ago. Or John
Gardner. OF England, predicts that 4
vegetable agent will yct be found that
shah SO retard the9e changes that bring
about old age as to prOlOnE human life
much beyond its present limit
Acting. perhaps. upon the impulse
produced by this thought, many emf
nent physicians have called from time
10 time upon the Shakers OF Mt. Lcban-
on TO inquire Of them concerning the Sc
Crnts OF medicinal plants, in which these
sincere. supplemented and GOd-fenring
pcupl. are known u be wise and skill
fuI beyond All other men.
The Shakers willingly l0lA what they
had learned. ana In return received from
their visitors much valuable inrorml-
ton about disease; which they At once
made practical use OF. The most impDr-
taul point was that II genuine and Ger
tain remedy could he found for indgcs-
ton and dyspepsia. and the ailments
growing out Of IT, a long step would be
Iakeu in the right direction. Old age.
said these physicians. begins In q fail
IRE OF the digestion, and 80 do most dis
eases at any and all periods OF life. The
result Of these consultations WAS the
discovery by the Shakers OF the desired
specific, made wholly from herbs, and
now known as the Shaker Digestive
Cordial Its action il magical and
worthy OF It's origin.
Where there is distress after eating
heartburn. sick headache. bad taste In
the mouth. biliousness weakness and
WEAKNESS, cold hands and feet. aversion
TO food, nervousness, or any other symp-
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its curative virtues, Behind Il IS the
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defra,Idcd or deceived their fellow men.
In order 10 test whether this remedy is
adapted to your case. at practically no
cost, you may procure trial bottle FOR
ten cents OF almost any druggist
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The SANE OLD STORY.
Told on the streets Of Wheeling the Same
as Elsewhere.

a. Elsewhere.
Some things YOU cannot tell TOO often
Repetition gives them added strength.
The same old storg Is pleasant to hear
When Il brln4s happiness to home.
Brings Joy 10 the afflicted.
Tells how burdens can be- raised.
How the back can be relieved
An the pains and aches removed:
Proves how easily It's done
Wheeling people tell this story
Friends and neishOprs iaik Of Il.
They tell about their kidney ILL.,,
How they suiTered--how the cures came
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