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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-07

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-07

lNTEn Man or hoy TO drive tenm must
sober, honest, acquainted with city
1mes H. Thorn. Manager. Salvation
tmy Wood Yard. I
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-07

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am iron. Apply 1916, san Jncnto st. Z
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

OF his physical and financial ability, and
none was too poor to have his I'LL OF the
Christmas cheer. Open house was the
absolute rule. The wayfarer was well
come anywhere. the wassail bowl passed
from the hand of the king to his mobiles at
court, from the hand OF the baron TO his
retainers hilnrously celebrating with him
around the blazing Yule log in the center
OF his hall, the abbot's capons and good
ale warmed the heart of the pcnniless
wanderer IL he did not choose farming
house or hall TO spend the Yuletide in.
Anywhere he would be royalty enter
tanned, for every one had his own Yule
log and wassail bowl, and the average bill
OF fare may be judged from this gem
from Evans collection OF old ballads:
All you that to fessting or mirth are inclined
Come, here IS good news for 10 pleasure your
mind.
Old Christmas Is come for to keep open house;
He scorns to be guilty OF starving a mouse.
Then come. boys, and welcome, for diet the chief.
Plum pudding. goose. caPon. minced pies and
roast beef
The public pageants were masquerades.
each under the direction OF a lord of
misrule, or abbot OF misrule. as he was
sometimes called, who directed the sports
and mummeries OF the maskers and all
the festivities of the others. The lord
OF misrule who misruled in the court
had liberal appropriation from parlia-
ment for himself and his attendants.
The lords and barons had each their own
appointed mummers and there were other
bands OF them. self appointed, who
roamed about the country on grand
spree during the holidays. The excuses
OF these in time caused the custom to be
abolished by law.
In houses and halls. under the holly and
ivy and mistletOe, the merrymaking pro-
ceeded for the men in the old days, with
a kiss for Joan every time she was found
under the omnipresent mistletOc, but
there was no special part of the festivity
for the little ones, with the exception of
singing the carols in expectation of gifts,
until the prince consort OF Queen Victoria
introduced from Germany the Christmas
tree and Santa Claus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
AsbeStus.

An interesting distinction, though not
generally understood, is made in the
qualities of asbestus by those who are
engaged in the industrial handling of
that article. Though, broadly speaking,
this substance is silicate Of magnesia,
in some cases lime displaces the mag
nesia base. In rare cases alumina takes
the place of magnesia, and what is called
blue asbestus is silicate of iron, iron
in this case displacing the magnesia.
This blue asbestus or fibrous silicate of
iron possesses many times the strength
Of true asbestus, thread of it only one
twenty-ffth of an inch in diameter car
rying 100 pounds. but by reason of its
containing from 80 to 40 per cent Of
protoxide of iron it is neither fire nor
acid proof, norris it a good nonconductor
of heat; hence does not possess the val
liable properties of true asbestus Silica
and water are the only two elements
that are always constant in asbestus,
the silica rarely falling below 40 parts
TO the 100, while in some of the an
hydrous varieties the water falls as low
as ? or 3 parts to the 100.-New York
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

| GATHERING THE HOLLY AND MISTLEToE.
financial coup, but the fun was of a
boisterous kind, quite inconsistent with
the crowded way OF living these days,
says the Washington Post. If one of
/ the old merrymakers could come to
| life on Christmas day and celebrate
the festival in the way fashion and
custom demanded in his time, he would
probably find himself in the lookup
charged with rudely disturbing the
peace.
Noise, buster, feasting, drinking and
| horseplay were the chief features of
the old time English Christmas. Gift
making existed as it had for many pre-
yious centuries, but that was merely
an incidental feature and not nearly so
| important as the work of the pOmpous
butler, upon whom devolved the re-
sponsibility of carrying into the dining
/ hall the great boar's head.
The oldtime Christmas began n week
before the arrival of the day, just as
the shoppers of today rush out with fat
purses to lure the holiday bargain But
purchasing gifts did not bother the
heads or weary the bodies of the old
world folks.
tletoe for the decoration of house and
church was their initial task, and it
was performed by the village en- masse,
headed by brave pipers and fiddlers,
who filed the forests with the joyful
melodies of Christmastide. 1t was the
pagans who first used holly and mistle-
toe for obServances, and the practice
was adopted by the early Christian
churches. The Greeks and Romans also
used them in their religious ceremonies,
as did the Druids and the Celtic and
Gothic nations. So the young maid of
today who stands alluringly under a
sprig of mistletoe may find satisfaction
in knowing that she is following the
precedent of centuries.
In Druidical times the simple peas
ants focked in crowds to join the pro-
cessions, in which the Druidical priests
were the foremost actors. The train
was headed by the bards singing canti-
cles and hymns. y herald preceded
three Druids, furnished with nipple
ments for the purpose of cutting
the mystic plant-upright hatchets of
brass, fixed to slaves. Then follow
ed the prince or chief of the Druids,
accompanied by all his flock and
followers. The chief mounted the
oak, with n golden sickle detach-
ing the mistletoe and presenting it
to the priests, who received and bore
the branches away with deep rev.
erence. On the first day Of the year
-. &C
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
XMAS FEASTING
IN OLD ENGLAND

rcoprrfeht. 1eo1. b. HamIlton MusI.. }

Copyright. 1901. by Hamilton Musk-1
When. in 1647, Puritan sentiment
caused the parliament OF England TO
abolish Christmas formally. on the
ground of pagan origin and what it deem
ed pagan observance, most Of the people
grieYed sorely and yearned with such
good effect for the return OF the old Gus
tom that today the season is kept as their
chief festival by English speaking people.
About that period there was published
ut Oxford q document entitled IAN Hue
and Cry For Christmas" which reveals
quantity the popular yearning.
ANY man or woman that
can give any knowledge or tell any It'd
fngs OF an old, old, very old, gray bearded
gentleman called Christmas, who was
wont to be a verie familiar CHEST and
visite all sorts OF people, both pore and
rich, and used to appear in glittering
gold. silk and silver in the court, and in
all shapes in the theater in Whitehall and
had ringing, feasts and jOllity in all
places, both in the cite and countrie for
his commiug whatsoever can tel
what is become Of him. or where he may
be found, let them bring him back again
into England"
So back again he came, but not to the
same honors as of old. Never again was
there to be such feasting as in the old
days, all the public ceremonial which
used to greet him was gone forever. To-
day the Christmas celebration is an event
of the home and the children among re-
united families instead of the gay street
pomp OF old.
The English lore of high Christmas
feasting goes back beyond history into
the banquet hall OF King Arthur, and
having read it the reader wonders no
more at the mighty deeds performed by
the lance of LaunceIot or the broad Ex-
calibur. Whistlecraft thus sets the leg
end in rhyme:
They served Up salmon. venison and Wild bears
BY hundreds. by dozens and by scores,
Hogsheads Of honey, kflderkins Of mustard,
Muttons and fatted beeves and bacon swine,
Herons and bitterns, peacocks. swan and bustard,
Teal. mallzrd, pigeons. widgeons and. in fine,
Plum buildings, pancakes. apple pies and ctIstzrd,
And therevithal they drank good Gascon wine,
With mead and ale and cider Of our own.
For porter. punch and negus were not known.
In the middle ages, beginning with the
king. every one Toasted during the two
weeks Of Christmastide TO the very best
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

his sleep, rushed out In MS nignIsnnT
and climbed the ladder TO the hurricane
deck.
The promenading passenger was
frightened half out of his wits by the
specter in white climbing up the lad
der, but was somewhat reassured when
the specter bawled out:
SAY, you; where are you goingr
ITO st. John" replied the promenad-
er.
''Got a ticket?" pursued the ghost.
"Of course L have"
"well, then, you COMPOUNDED fool, go
and lie down somewhere-you needn't
walk all the way 10 St. john" roared
the enraged Deering, and the prone
nader stopped right there.-Baltimore
Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
MERRY XMAS WAYS.
HOW THE ANcIENTS CELEBRATED
THE COMING OF YULETlDE.

The MistIetoe and the Yule Log Were
In Evidence-FestIvitie Began N
Week Before Christmas Day - But
There Was No santa Claus.
ut is said that the American ,cus-
toms of celebrating the greatest
of all festival days, Christmas,
are descended from or are sur
vivals of the old world customs which
existed in England a couple of CEN
turtles ago. Yet when these latter are
examined into it requires wide stretch
of an unusually elastic imagination to
link the ways of the present day with
those of the seventeenth or even the
eighteenth century.
1t seems probable that the folks Of
half a dozen generations ago crowded
more merriment into the Christmas
season than we Of this age do, and they
went about it with the same prear-
ranged systematic care that CONNER
cial prince now devotes to some great
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

block. of elm or the rugged root Of a
tree of fantastic and grotesque form.
Formerly the members Of the family
and guests sat down in turn on the
Yule log, the throne of the master of
the revels, sang Yule song and drank
to n merry Christmas and happy new
year. AS part of their feast Yule
dough or Yule cakes were consumed
These bore impressed figures in the
shape of an image. Sometimes they
were made in the form of an infant
Nor was the manger overlooked.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
The Promenade stopped.

1t is related of Captain Deering that
once when he was in command of a
steamer running from Portland to st.
John, he was unable TO sleep on ac-
count of the ceaseless tramp. tramp OF
some star gazing passenger on the hur-
ricane deck overhead. After turning
and twisting in his berth for half an
hour, and the tramping still continuing,
Cantain Deering. enraged at the loss of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
slirhtIx Mixed.

Marjorie-Yes, Carrie is engaged to
a physicist.
Grandmother Slightly deaf - And
what is that?
Marjorie-Why. don't you know he
teaches physics-the law of forces.
Grandmother-Physi horses! Well,
1 don't think much OF that for n pro-
fession.-New York Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

at such maximum as is consistent
with the equality of economic liberty
Within three months the founders of
the association expect to have 5000
members. That means 100000 or it's
equivalent in labor-to be done. Then
it will buy township in Rhode Island
and there establish an economic Utopia
for women and men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

Group instantly relieved by DIR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil. Perfectly
safe. Never fails. At any drug
store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
A UTOPlAN SOCIETY.
Peculiar Organization For Amelio-
rating the His of Life.


4 Utopian organization, the Free
land Central association" came into
being at 80 Fourth avenue, says the
New York Journal. There Alexander
Horr. the philoso2hic founder of the
association, has a profitable second
hand book store Nine persons, includ-
ing two young Won en-, boy. n minis
ter Of the gospel, the Rev. Stephen L.
Byington, and Mr.. Horr. were enrolled
as members, and applications for men,
bership of half n dozen others were
considered. Any one may become 4
member by agreeing to abide by the
constitution and bylaws and by paying
500 or proving that he can do work
so remunerative that he can soon pay
500 out of his earnings.
"The plan we have adopted" says
Mr.. Horn, "is simply that of co-opera-
IA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

Ses lOullueu OH
entitled to its
Fill have two re-
Sages higher and
mOnOpOlies will
Sc wages TO our
Sistence. When
ed, freeland Will
The associations
al association is
rpose of serving
perty holding, &C.
Ouse and statis-
ITO perform such
he bylaws may
escribe. provided
authorize the as
.ember's property
and that each
Derty will be kept
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16
AGUINALD0's PEACE ADDRESS.
able Figure in the Filipino
Rebellion.

Aguinaldo's address to the Filipinos
is contribution to peace, but it is
not of supreme Importance. The war
was over long ago by the writer's own
confession. The cause of peace, he
says, has been joyfully embraced by
the majority of my fellow country
men, who have already united around
the glorious sovereign banner of the
United States" Then to make the
confession still stronger he adds:
THE country has declared unmis-
takably in favor of peace"
These admissions are interviewer
all through with panegyric of the
conqueror, whose rectitude and gen
erosity now seem entirely satisfac-
tory to the man who confused them
so short a time ago with tyranny
and oppression. 1t would be idle,
therefore, to pretend that there was
anything edifying in the exhibition,
even if it have political effect that
is advantageous to the United States.
Aguinaldo is not the kind of patriot
over whom it is possible to grow
enthusiastic, whether his mood is de-
fiant or submissive. He had absolute
" no ability as an administrator, was
ii contemplate soldier and general
who left all the fighting to others
while he was in continuous retreat,
and in the retrospect he cannot be
credited with "A single heroic action.
To call such a vain and thoughtless
agitator another Washington is lit
tie less than sacrilege and the mis-
take will never be made again. His
true measure is fixed forever in the
address, which forbidS comparison
with any of the men of iron will and
consecrated lives who have devoted
their great hearts to a great cause
and proved its greatness in their
persons.-Chicago RecordHerald.
UTNo other president of the United
States within the experience of the
present generation of voters has had
such evenly distributed support. re-
gardless of sectional geographical
lines. as was given 20 William McKin-
ley in November, 1900 His greatest
gains, compared with 1896, were on the
Pacific coast-19,G00 in California. In
Utah the Mckinley vote increased from
1900 to $4,000; in Colorado, from &C.
coo to $4,000; in Montana, from 10000
to $4,000; in Idaho, from 6,000 to 27,-
90, and in Washington, xrom 2y eco tc
57,oO0.-N. y. Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16
THREE BEFORE VICTORIA.
None Of the Three Kings Did Any
thing 40 MAXI Ssis Reign Great or
Glorious

Victoria ascended the throne at an
inauspicious moment. Kingship had
fallen into miserable disrepute. The
last three monarchs who had sat
upon our throne had done little to
make their Office easy or glorious,
says Blackwood's. George III. had OBJ
scured whatever virtues were his by
an obstinancy of opinion which lost
us a vast colony, and which might
well have enslaved us to foreign
power. George ". had died unwept
and unpitied. As he had made his
distinguished Office a scandal, as he
had made his throne ridiculous by
deplorable levity of taste and con-
duct, so he had forfeited the affection
of his people, and alienated their
sympathy long before death overlook
him. There never was an individ-
ual," proclaimed the Times but a few
weeks after bis death, less regretted
by his fellow-creatures than this de-
ceased king. What eye has wept for
him? What heart has heaved one
throb of unnecessary sorrow?" And
the Times expresses in these bitter
words nothing less than the popular
judgment. Nor can it be said that
William ". graced the throne of
Britain. Loved for his homely yir-
tues, he raised smile of kindly con-
tempt by his lack of dignity, and his
frank misunderstanding of kingly
ceremonial. On the day of his ac-
cession he escaped from his council
and was found throwing shillings to
a noisy crowd in a back street, and
never did he acquire the rudiments
of tact, which should be the first wis
dom of kings.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16
800 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Cacarrh
Cure is taken internally acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system tb HEREBY desd5royng the b
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in it's cura.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. j Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

From the latest othcial reports in
the British war office it is ascertained
that the total killed, wounded and
missing among the army during ac-
tions in South Africa up TO March 81
was 1893 officers and 27,952 noncom-
missioned officers and men. In addi-
ton III officers and 1851 noncom-
missioned officers and men have died
of wounds or disease, making the to-
tai casualties foot up to the enor-
nous total of 47,637.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16
The Very Man,

A Glasgow gentleman recently recon-
mended to the notice of a city merchant a
young fellow who was looking for a clerk
ship. Some few days later they met again,
and the gentleman asked if the selection
had proved a wise one.
Not at all" replied the merchant.
Dear mel" said the other. 81 thought he
would have suited you down to the ground
so full of GO
YES" responded the merchant, che was
too full of go. Why, he's clean gone, and a
thousand pounds of my money, too"
you don't say so! Why, thought he
was exactly the fellow you were looking
for"
so he is" was the emphatic reply-"so
he is."-London Answers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

The Massachusetts senate by an
overwhelming vote has decided not to
correct the error of punctuation which
accidentally crept into the states
liquor law and changed its entire
meaning. The measure is known as
"the semi-colon bill" because the
wrong and unintended use Of semi
colon makes it unlawful for hotels to
serve liquors to their guests after II
o'clock at night. The state has de-
cided that the blunder is good one,
and the law will stand.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

President David Starr Jordan, of
Stanford university, who has accept
ed I'm offer from the United States
fish commission to take charge of an
expedition for the investigation Of
she fish of the Hawaiian islands, will
devote two months to the investiga-
ton, following WHICH a report will
be made out ana forwarded to Wash
ingtOn, to be used as n basis for a
general plan of extending the work
of the federal fish commission to the
islands
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

"Tme trouble at Troy" said the professor,
"appears to be that feeling OF inaction
seemed to take possession of the Trojans.
They were, so to speak, seemingly under the
influence G fate from which there was no
escape This was plainjy shown when the
wooden horse was u,.c2vered outside cf the
walls. What is it, Mr.. Blinghorn!'.
liant young o"it--. a. tt4st as soon as they got
the " -en horse inside, all the Trojan
women rushed away to get on their loveliest
clothes and all the men toddled off to get
their tall hats and their Inverness over
coats"
And why should they do that?" cried
the astonished professor.
Because they thought it was horse
show" replied the bright youth.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

Abe preparation of simple and
cheap artificial stone is becoming an
important German industry and like
ly eventually to suppiant brickmak-
ing. The ingredients are only lime
ana sand in the proportion of from
four to six parts ca the former to be-
tween 90 and "a parts of the latter.
The materials are thoroughly mixed
and shaped into blocks of the desired
size. The latter are then put in boil
er which is sealed, and submitted to
q steam pressure of from 12o to $50
pounds to the square inch. This gives
3 Ainty character to the blocks.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

Among the second ieutenants of
the marine corps ordered to Manila
is young ]. p Y. Gridley, the son
the late Capt. Gridley, who comman
ed the cruiser Olympia in the rerrcra-
be fight at Manila, and to wh5m Dt "
ey addressed the famous commands
"9ou may fire when you are ready,
Gridley." Young Gridley has been
in the service only year and half,
but he has conducted himself in such
a manner as to win the highest praise.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

People of cupers titious turn of
mind who believe that i'll luck is asso-
ciated with the number 13 may per-
haps derive confirmation of their
opinions from a study of the history
of the Irish Hunt corps, which formed
part of the Imperial yeoDanry. The
Hunt corps was modified in Dublin
on January 13, 1900. On March 10 it
sailed for South Africa and on arrival
at the Cape was attached to the Thir-
teeuth battalion of Imperial yeoman-
ry. In their first encounter with Beers
13 men of the corps were killed and the
rest were forced to surrender.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

DIR. Thomas ID. Crothers, Of Hart
ford, Conn, says: 'Cocaineism, alco-
holism and morphineism are the
three scourges of the world He con
siders cocaine the most dangerous, and
condemns its use even as a local an
esthetic for surgical purposes. Large
importations have decreased the price
of the drug from six dollars per ounce
less than five years ago to rs cents per
ounce, and the lower price has largely
increased the consumption.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

Bunker Hill chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, has decided
TO mark the spot from which Paul
Revere started on his historic mid
night ride on April IS, 1775, to warn
the inhabitants of the towns between
Boston and Concord that the British
were coming to destroy their stores
and munitions of war
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-16

TESTS that Miss Waite? She's getting
awfully big and stout, isn't she!" Jess
Eyes, ridiculously So" Tess-"Ridicu-
lousy? Why do you say that" Jess
Her first name is Birdie Philadelphia
Press.
Don't you know you've been bad
going to spank you?" NO, thir.' why
amt l." "Cauth you can't catch me"
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