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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-17
RECOMPRESSING RULES.
Railroad Commission Heard Views on
the Question Yesterday.
SOME NEW RULES WERE PROPOSED
The Cement Rates and Rates on Prod
uots Of Petroleum Were Also Con-
sidered During the Day.

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pressing aud repelrlne of comprcsscd en-,
ton bales and COLLECTING chorgos horofor
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-17

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-17

Austin, Texas, October Hearing Of
the several matters pending before the rail
road commission having been resumed this
morning, consideration Of the question In
NolYcd In the crossing OF the TeXarkana
and Fort Smith by the orange and North.
western was set for Thursday. October "a
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-17

II. E. a w. It. II. II.

All these trains leave the Santa Fe Congress
Ave Depot 10 minutes later than the above.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
IAN MAcLAREN ON MARRIAGE.

WHY should so sacred q matter as
marriage be universally the subject
of foolish jestings and annoying
pleasantries? There is a wide dill
erence between the legitimate JOY
and Hght-heartedness natural to the
happy circumstances and the irrev-
erent and frivolous attitude Whlch
DR.. John Watson condemned in a
recent address at a marriage service
in England. Reminding the COM
pany of the solemnity Of the occa'
sion, he is reported to have said that
elf any person could speak lightly
of marriage he was cursed with an
impure frivolity and was a protane
nerson. No one ought to be able to
think of marriage without a just
and tender awe. It is o than q
social partnership it is the union OF
two souls, a union so intertw1ned, so
spiritual, so irrevocable, that 1t IS
the very sign and picture OF the
Heavenly Bridegroom and the bride
for whom He died" These are
strong words, but surely they are
also just. They carry a rebuke not
only for those responsible for the
impairment comments and the teas
ing and chatting to which betrothed
lovers are subjected, as we'll as for
the embarrassing practical jokes
which are not an uncommon feature
of wedding festivities.-Ex Elk.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
LEMONS.

It is said, on good authority, that
lemons will effect a cure for some
forms of dyspepsia and for rheuma-
tism. The juice may be taken di-
rectly from the lemons or that from
one-fourth of a lemon may be added
to a glass of hot u~nsweetened water
and take half an hour before meals
and before bedtime.
Lemons are fine for toilet purposes,
the remnants may be used to rub
over the hands to remove stains.
The hands may be kept soft and
smooth by the use at night Of equal
parts of lemon juice and glycerine.
A few drops of lemon juice in the
toilet water will serve to remove tan
and keep the face soft and white,
A bit of lemon juice or lemon juice
and salt makes a most effective den
trifce, especially if the teeth are
stained. It should be applied with
a soft cloth instead or with the
tooth brush, and the teeth rubbed
up and down, not crosswise, as is the
usual custom.
Either iron rust Or mildew may be
removed by covering the spots with
a mixture of lemon juice and salt
and exposing to the direct rays of
the sun. If the first application is
not effective it may be repeated,
and if persevered in will finally re
move the most obstinate of stains.
A little lemon juice will whiten
frosting and improve it's consistency
and flavor. It is economy always to
buy lemons by the quantity. If
each one is wrapped separately in
tissue paper and put in a cool place
they may be kept for a considerable
time.-EX.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
MAGNITUDE OF THE STARS.

Many, perhaps most, of the stars
are really much large and brighter
than the sun. Campus, it appears
to US, is the second brightest star
in the heavens. 1t never rises in
our northern ATTITUDES; to see it
we'll you would have to go at least as
far south as the Gulf States. AL
though it shines to us only as a very
bright star, it is really thousands Of
times as bright as the sun. If our
earth should fly as near to it as it is
to the sun, the whole sky would seem
to be ablaze, and everything COM
bustible on the earth's surface
forests, houses and fences-would be
burned by the fervent heat as if
thrown into a hot ire.-YOuth's
Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
GOOD ENGLISH.

In nothing else as in the words we
~habitually use in the common talk
of daily life do we show so plainly
our degree of refinement, our Gull
ture or the lack of it, and the plane
on which u thoughts move. It is
therefore worth our while, do you
not see, to take some pains with our
conversation, not in such a way as
to make US seem stiff and pedantic,
but to recognize the fact that here,
as in other departments of life and
learning, it is training that tells in
results.
knowledge of the Bible will re-
fine, enlarge and elevate the vocabu.
larry of any one, and the girl who
studies her Bible daily and reads
Shakespeare, Scott, Macaulay and
Ruskin will be d better talker than
she who limits her reading to the
daily newspaper or the latest agree
able book. Dickens, Thackeray,
William Black, Blackmore, Barrie,
Crockett, Mrs. Oliphant and George
Elliot are all helpful to those who
would be good, bright, varied and en-
entertaining takers, because in all
these authors you continually whole
some thoughts expressed in ~forceful
and strenuous English, and bit by
bit you receive of the wealth these
masters of English have so carefully
bestowed upon their work.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
HOLMES TRAVELLING.

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the
poet, philosopher and essayist, was a
great lover of home, and he never
liked to travel. Writing to his friend
and publisher, Mr.. James T. Field,
he said: "Don't talk to me about
taverns. There is just n genuine,
clean, decent, palatable thing &C.
casionally to be had in them-name-
Iy, a boiled egg. The soups taste
pretty good sometimes, but their
sources are involved in a darker
mystery than that of the Nile.
Oemlettes taste as if they had been
carried in the walters hat, or fried
in an old boot. l ordered scrambled
eggs one day. 1t must be that they
had been scrambled for by somebody,
but who-who in the possession of
sound reason could have scrambled
for what I had set before me under
that name? Butter I am think
ing Just now of those exquisite little
pellets I had so often e e at your
table, and wondering why the tav-
erns aLocays keep it until it is old.
Fool that l am AS if the taverns
did not know that if it was good it
would be eaten, which is not what
they want. Then the walters with
their napkins what don't they do
with those napkins Mention any
one thing of which you think you
can say with truth that they do
not do
"Every six months a tavern should
burn to the ground, with allits traps,
it's properties its beds and pots
and kettles, and start afresh from
it's ashes like John Phoenix Squibob !
No; give me home, or a home like
mine, where all is clean and sweet,
where coffee has pre-existed in the
berry, and tea has still faint recol-
lections OF the pigtails that dangled
about the plant from which it was
picked where butter has not the
prevailing character which Pope as
signed to Denham where soup could
look you in the face if it had eyes
(Which it has nOt), and where the
comely Anne Or the gracious Mar
garet takes the place of those nap
kin bearing animals"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
STRANGE INDEED.

A Denver man went upto Boulder
some time ago to attend a conven-
tion of church people and was struck
with the beauty of the little town.
He had plenty of time and while
wandering about walked into the
cemetery. The delegate walked
around among the graves. He saw
a monument, one of the largest in
the cemetery, and read with ur-
prise the inscriptian on it GA Law
yer and an Honest Man" The del
egate scratched his head and looked
at the monument again. He read
the inscription over and over. Then
he walked around the monument
and examined the grave closely.
Another man in the cemetery ap-
preached and asked him: "Have
you found the grave of an old
friend?" "No," said the delegate,
"but I was wondering how they
came to bury those two fellows in
one grave. '-Denver Field and Farm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
RESIGNED.

A young fellow who drank much
more than was good for him was ad-
vised by his friends to take the gold
cure, but he refused. "But," pro-
tested his friends, ''your physician
says that if you keep on drinking
you will surely soon go blind. Now,
the question is simply this: Do you
prefer being cured of the drink habit
and retain your sight, or do you
prefer to keep on drinking and go
blind?" The young man paced the
floor for some time and was in a
brown study. Finally he turned
to his friends and with a resigned
expression of countenance, replied {:
"Well, I guess I've seen about every
thing. Elk.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
AN UNSAFE CRITERION.

A story is going the rounds which
illustrates the vanity of estimating
numbers by noise. 1t sets forth
that a Yankee once went to a hotel
where he tried and liked a dish of
frogs legs-for which, however, he
had to pay a large price.
"What makes you charge so much
for emp" he asked the landlord.
Because they are scarce" an
swered the hotel keeper.
Scarce !" exclaimed the Yankee,
"why, I'll agree to get you a million
of EN-"
"Agreed," said the landlord; elf
you bring me a million I'll find a
market for them"
Cali right-I'n have EN- by to-
night, sure"
The Yankee went away, and at
night came back with eight pairs
of frogs legs.
"Where is the rest of the million?'
asked the landlord.
"Well, to tell the truth, answered
the Yankee, Horned my judgment
of the number by the noise Elk.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
HIS REVENGE.

Arthur, who is forbidden to speak
at the table, had his revenge the
other day. AS dinner began, he was
uneasy, and finally said:
"Ma, can't l speak just one word?"
"You know the rule, Arthur"
''NOt n word?"
"No, Arthur, not until your father
finishes the paper"
Arthur subsidized until the paper
was finished, when he was asked
what he wished to say.
ooh, nothingl Only Nora put
the custards outside the window
to cool, and the cat has been eating
them up!'-Ex.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
& HUMBLE REQUEST.

"Ma, may 1 go out to playa"
''No; you must sit still where you
are"
Pause.
"Ma, may 1 go down into the
kitchen?"
"No; I want you to sit perfectly
quiet"
Pause.
"Ma, mayn't 1 sit on the floor and
play marbles"
81 have told you twice that 1 want
you to sit just where are and be quiet,
and I mean exactly what 1 say"
Pause.
"Ma, may 1 grow?"-Collier's
Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
CONsOLING.

A prison chaplain recently related,
at a religious meeting, one of his ex-
periences in a convict prison. He
had visited a sick prison, and told the
warden that if the man grew worse
in the night he-the chaplain-was
to be called. In the morning he
found that the prisoner had died in
the night and calling upon the
warden to account for his neglect,
the latter assured him that it was
all right, for he had "offered a few
words" himself. The following ap-
pear to have been the words of COM
fort that the warder found apprO-
pirate to the occasion:
Observation-Disclosures, you have
been a bad 'Un."
Prisoner, YEARLY: Eyes, sir,
l ave"
Warder-"'Awkins, there is no
'ope for you"
Prisoner, sadly-"No, sir; no
'ope."
Warder, Observation-Disclosures,
you will go to a bad place"
Prisoner, turning relentlessly-
"'Awkins, be thankful that you
have a place to go to."-Household
Words.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
The Home Circle.
TO A WATERFOWL.

Whittier, midst falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the last steps Of day,
Far, through their rosy depths dost thou pursue,
Thy solitary way?
Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As darby painted on the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along.
Seekst thou the plashy brink
OF weedy lake, or marge of river wide,
Or where the rocky pillows rise and sink
On the chafed ocean-siIe?
There is a Power whose care
Teaches thy way along that painless coast
The desert and iQimitable air
Lone wandering, but not lost.
All day thy wings have famed,
AT that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere,
Yet stOOp not, weary, to the welcome land,
Though the dark night is near.
And soon that toll shall end,
And soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest,
And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend,
Soon, DER thy sheltered nest.
Thour't gone, the abyss of heaven
Hath swallowed up thy form yet on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,
And shall not soon depart:
He who from zone to zone
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that l must tread alone,
Will lead my steps Alright.
-WUIiam1 Cullen Br
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
AS TO SUPERSTITION

"Queer, isn't it, how superstitiOus
some people are, sensible ones, too?
Why, I'd no more trust a man blythe
name of links !" said the intense
man, as he focused his features and
Missed out the last word. GIVE been
cheated by every man of the name OF
links that [ ever had anything to 90
with y Just then another man joined
the trio. He was a dentist of the So
Letting kind. AS he strolled away
he shouted back, "Come up and have
a tooth pulled some day"
The intense man smiled glO0mlly
and then resumed the expression ne
a assumed before the phOtogra-
pher had asked him to change It,
"Humph Very jolly, but doesnt
he know that a man with Il long
black beard can never fill teeth Tor
me? Why, [ never in my life kne"
a dentist with long, black whlskeIS
that could fill a tooth successfully
"Well, said the other man, who
happened to be a railroad magnat0'
81 was going to talk to you on a mat
ter of business. 1 was going to offer
you a position as my confidential
clerk with a fine salary, but n9
continued, warming up a bit, =
wouldn't have d superstitious man
IN my Office for a thousand dollars d
day. I have lost more money by SD
perstitious persons than by all the
Jinkses and black whiskered men IL
the country.-Ex.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28
TIL EVIL.

A paper 6ha6 Will interest all phvsi-
cians-and thousand of laymen 90
WELLS contributed to the April Ro
view of Reviews by DR.. Augustus
Caille, of New York City, on '"Tbe
Relation of the Family Doctor 10
Recent Progress in Medical Science ,,
DR.. Caille shows that the old-time
family doctor still has a place-and
an important one-in our social econ.
omy, despite the inroads of Especial.
ism" Of the ''drugging evil" he
says:
We cannot with good grace dis.
miss the general practitioner and
his requirements without speaking
in plain language in condemnation
of the drugging habit, of which he
is still guilty too remarkable degree
Cabalistic prescriptions are still a.
thick as flies in summer, and the
majority of our patients pay viii
lingly and handsomely for our wis
dom transmitted to them in the
shape Of nauseating mixtures from
the time-honored shelves of the
apothecary shop.
I know from personal observation
that our cousins across the water do
not prescribe or swallow o~ne-fourth
as much medicine as we do in orr
country. With but few exceptions,
the entire vegetable and mineral
kingdoms have given us little of
specific value but still, up to the
present day the bulk of our books 0 n
material medica is made up of q de-
scription Of many valueless drugs
and preparations. Is it not to be
deplOred that valuable time should
be wasted in our student days bv
examining into our heads a lot of
therapeutic ballast?
If our professors of materia medica
in the ungraduate colleges are
reticent in advancing the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, then it is time for us to tell
them that they are to a large degree
responsible for the desire on the
part of the many practitioners to pre-
scribe frequently, and without good
cause, an unnecessary quantity of
useless drugs. Every few weeks
new drugs and combinations of
indictments are forced upon physi-
clans with. the claim that they are
specifics in the treatment of disease;
and the physician, in his anxiety to
alleviate his patients sufferings, be-
cause the simpler and more reliable
agents have failed him, is gulled into
trying the newly extolled remedy,
only to find that it is still less effca-
cious than the old one.
The cOmmOn-sense practitioner
knows by experience that the con-
slant, frequent prescribing of in
Vulnerable drugs only ends in detri-
ment to his patients. A working
knowledge of hygiene and dietetics,
climatic, hydro, and mechano-ther-
apeutics, simple medication, and few
drugs r the successful agents in
internal medicine and the sooner
the physicians will condense his phar-
macopOeia and materia medica to a
vest-pocket edition, the more readily
will his efforts meet with success in
the practice of his profession, and
the sOOne will the ''Christian Sci
enoe" delusion disappear.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28

A pretty extensive observation has
led US to suppose that the man who is
a tyranti is usually also a sycophant.
If he kicks everybody below him, he
likewise fawns on everybody above
him. His temper is essentially that
of the slave, cringing and abject.
The only show of courage that he
ever makes-and it is only a show
is toward those that have no power
to resent his insolence. When he is
confronted by a man who he knows
will not submit to his domineering
ways, he can be Is gentle as a tur-
MISUNDERSTANDING Advocate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28

even touching the glass ses
Armed men are in different parts of
the room, so the slightest attempt to
overpower the guardian of the jew
els would meet with instant death.
In this way all crown jewels of
Europe are guarded. Yet no gems
are as valuable as character, and how
earnestly we should say David's
prayer, "Set a watch, o Lord, before
my mouth; keep the door of my
lips"
My children tell me that they often
hear words from their playmates at
school that they do not hear at home.
All the more reason why children
and young people who know that
bad language is wrong should keep
from even slightly Objectionable
words. l was reared in a State
where everything is "mighty" nice
or mighty" something. I used
this favorite adjective freely before
an old lady in the country where
other prOvincialisms were used, and
at last she said, cit seems to me you
call on the Almighty pretty often"
l learned then that a 'Eby-word" that
would pass un~challenged in one
place would shock people in another.
Some expressions that belong to the
"slang" family may be used at times
for the sake of humor, but nothing
is more to be Stunned than a vocab-
ulary made up of "the language of
the street."
The habit of e~xaggeration is about
as bad. Boys who are "worked to
DEATH, and girls who are "fright-
ened to death" still walk among US.
Boys who have frozen" in winter,
and girls who were "dying" for
a new dress still in existence.
When one gets careless about ex-
~aggeratiOn, it is not long before the
granite pillar of truth begins to
crumble, for lying is a habit easily
cultivated.
But avoiding coarse and untrue
words is not enough. The habit of
Swapping up" everybody is a sad
one. 1 have heard lately several
young girls speak to their mothers
as they would not dare to speak to a
servant. The other day l heard a
young man say to his lovely sister,
eff 1 had known you were so anx,
ious for me to do that, l would have
done differently just for spite" And
that young man calls himself a Chris
tian
Some people think they can speak
to those they love in a way that
would lose every friend outside of
the home, 1 was taught as a child
that my best behavior must be at
home, and 1 cannot understand how
anyone expects love after speaking
unkindly to those nearest and dear
est to him. There is an old story of
Il lady who entered a little German
church where everyone was trying
to sing a hymn in a different key.
She began softly to sing the right
tune, and soon all we're singing with
her. II you are in a home where
others are cross, or careless of speech,
try using only kind and beautiful
language. Someone will join you if
you give the right pitch to the tune.
-Myra q. Plantz, in Young Peoples
Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-28

Gossip may be friendly and neigh
borly. 1 like the word because it
conveys a suggestion of good news
or good comment, but it is no longer
gossip when it ceases to deal with
pleasant happenings and loving
wishes, and becomes critical or CEN
serious or lapses into SANDER. The
most unworthy talk in the world is
that which is carried on in whispers
and semi condolences, and which re-
tails the unfortunate errors of people
whom we know. Never to suy an un-
kind thing, never to imply an un-
friendly thing even by our silence
are rules which we should make and
to which we should scrupulously ad-
here.-Margaret E. Sangster, in
Ladies' Home Journal.