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The Lamar register., 1901-12-04

Presents for the holidays at McLeans.
Look out for the "Two Merry Tramps."
Window shades from DC up at Buffers.
Have you seen the new skirts just in
at Irwin's.
Children's hats 5, 10, 10, % and 75 cts
at Buffers.
For sale two teams. Easy terms. Ap-
ply to DIR. Fewkes.
Special shoe sale at Irwin's this month.
Very low prices given.
Santa Claus headquarters as usual at
McLeans' drug store.
DIR. Bryant the dentlst, will be In La
mar Dec. 20, and remain days.
New line OF school shoes at prices to
compete with the best at Buffers.
Johnston's suits and overcoats fit you
and the price fit your pocket book.
Wood and Ward, the "Two Merry
Tramps," will be here next Friday, Dec. 6.
Mems clothing cleaned, pressed and
repaired at first house east OF south
school building.
For full blood bronz turkeys see G.. S.
Blosser or address p o Box 7G0.
All kinds of Lumber at the right kind
of prices at Markers Lumber yard,
southwest OF the depot.
you get the famous w. L. Douglas shoes
opI Swaaf Orr & Cos por1u rpy pantS
Coffee kings and king OF coffees. Cox
& Sloan are the coffee kings and Bell
Brand coffees is king of coffees.
Strayed, one large red helfer. Brand,
circle 3 on left side. Last seen on Sand
Creek, Nov. 20. w. p. MARTIN.
For broken limbs, chilblains, burns,
scalds, bruised shins, sore throat and
sores OF every kind, APPLY Billiards. Snow
Liniment. 1t will give immediat relief
and heal any wound. Price 25 cts. and
so cts. 1. H. Myers.
Don't send away for your Xmas cards
we can give you lower prices than any
| catalogue house.
McLEANs Bros.
Fl. It. Mcintyre, st. Paul, Mimi, who
has been troubled with disordered
stomach, says, Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets do me more good than
anything / have ever taken" For sale
| by 1. II. Myers, Druggist.
There is but one point about coffee
that is the drinking quality. Bell Brand
| is the best drinking coffee that can be
bought for any money. For sale by Cox
& Sloan only.
In billiousness, HEROINE, by expell-
ing from the body the excess of bile and
acids, improves the assimilative process
es, purifies the blood, and tones up and
strengthens the entire system. Price so
cts. I. H. Myers.
Millions of people drink the Bell
Brand coffees and teas, because they are
the purest and best. Why don't you
| Join the happy throng. Cox & Sloan
will be pleased to introduce you.
There are few ailments so uncomfort-
able as piles, but they can easily be
cured by using Tabler's Buckeye Pile
Ointment. Relief follows it's use, and
any one suffering from piles can not af-
ford to neglect to give it a trial. Price,
| 80 cts. in bottles, tnbes rs cts. |. Ii.
Myers.
| Inc lasU NnBCallmenG OF our nolludy
goods are now in and we have on dis
play the finest line of holiday gifts ever
shown in Lamar. Call and see our goods
and compare prices.
MCLEAN Bios.
In sluggish liver, HERBINE, by its
beneficial action upon the hillary tracts
render the bile more fluid, and brings
the liver into a sound, healthy condition,
thereby banishing the sense OF drowsi.
ness, leteargy and the general feeling Of
| apathy which arise from disorders Of the
liver. Price so cts. I. H. Myers.
The Lamar register., 1901-12-04
For sale by Mclean Bros.

DR.. A. w. Seabury, physician and
surgeon. Offices on second floor of
Irwin building, East Main street.
The Lamar register., 1901-12-04
For Sale Cheap

Three-room dwelling house, stable
trees, block of lots. In good location
Reasonable terms. See,
G. b. THOMAN.
The Lamar register., 1901-12-04
For Sale,

80 head of excellent native steers, also
the finest 80 acre farm in Prowers coun-
ty for sale.
A. F. CRAWFORD
The Lamar register., 1901-12-04

G. B. Thoman has the best line OF
fire insurance. He writes farm risks,
The Lamar register., 1901-12-04
A. T.. CRAWFORD.

For cheap town lots see Q. B.
Thoman.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
A Few Points About Funerals.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
bill which has just become law in New York NH
the funeral expenses of deceased person payable iron
estate before any other debts. 1t is suggested thas
have tendency to encourage simplicity in funeral dEx
and il it does it will be good thing.
There is perhaps item of civilization Wild I
marked by more foolish expenditure OF money than iun
There people who will deny themselves all that en
and rehnes life buy books to no concerts ndur
dantiness OF living who will if they see Mt have q
weddings before justice of the peace and dispense vh
honeymoon journey but when any one dies IN 'hef I'm
there must be expensive coffin, full suits OF momlR
loads of rapidly whitening flowers and long line o 81
rages following the hearse. 1t seems as any reas
deceased person. if he the display, and had learned VI
thing by his transition to the other world would want q
them take OF that money and spend 1t on 40 0'
which would do the living some good.
More than this there people who will leave me ~
unpaid and live charity in order to make all TINS iua3
display In fact the undertakers make most OF Their nh
OF who are not rich, often not even wee
but who determined show what they think is proa
spect to their dead.
There is pathetic and touching side to all THIS pu
not common any other sort OF sense II mo'
than absurd relatives quarreng like cats and d0s
their lives and then avowedy for the sake o. saas
ing the demands of pubic opinion and avoiding inc ss.
ton OF stinginesS than for anything else spend as x
OF the family income funeral he really useiui W
OF showing respect the dead would be to carry 0u y
wishes in family affairs-which is not always done-41
to conduct ones self as to have for selfe''V'
on their account.
The average funeral i'll civilized lands is rather n'"s
sh performance considering the words of the burial
Everything is shrouded in black, and the white wax, ~,
are the only CLEAN of light in the midnight OF crepe
most beautiful blossoms which the hothouses can pV
arc ruined for many people because of their assoe
funerals All the conventions of the funeral tenu :" =
the thought of death gloomy, gruesome and hplf'"s
mookery OF the doctrine of resurrection and PEI
denial OF the existence of heaven. These customs WV"
eminently suited to community which believed y -
limitation OF the soul or its condemnation to u'''
eternal suffering they consistent with the "M
creator al-wise and all-good Gayety 1t is uue, ,so
improper on such occasion, but there IS ioTs Tx
tween gayoty and absolute, Enlightened gloom saria
death impressive enough in itself 1t should DC "a
with things solemn, but beautiful and ennobling s
whole elaborate and costly parade of crepe in,
funeral wreaths which distinguishes the Ordinary ~
there is nothing OF the kind.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL "a, 100
is PAGES TODAY.
WELCOME VISITORS.

We will have within our gates today distinguished
company of visitors to whom The Post feels assured
1t can offer in the name OF the citizens of Houston
most cordial welcome and bespeal for the guests an
entertainment betting the object of their visit.
These from New York come to Texas for bust
ness. They no idle sghtseers, merely on pleas
ure bent. Hardly one of them but has left private
business of large behind. and, possibly. daily
needing his attention They are making this sacrifice
of time in order to thoroughly understand this
derfu field for investment to which their atten-
ton was so directly called some months ago by the
governor of this State They have come to study our
development, resources and laws. So much
has been said in Eastern circles that has been hurtu
to Texas and unjust to people and codes that
these visiting capitalists have determined to "see for
themselves" just what we have here and what the
States future promise is
1t win be seen that under these circumstances no
citizen of Texas, with its interests heart
pecally Texas business who desires the
further commercial development of the State feel
other than deep concern in these visitors and their
mission This unique tour by visiting capitalists is
traught with vast possibilities Texas. 1t may mean
the investment millions from Eastern money ceners
within very short time. 1t will at least have the ef-
feet of setting Texas right before portion of the
country looked upon with suspicion il not
Indeed, certain degree Of hostility.
Houston is glad to have these New York gentlemen
in her midst We feel that we have here the begin
ming of the future great metropolis of the Southwest
We have some things to show to these visitors and
tale of steady progress to relate that may asonish
them The city has, too been famou for its hospitality
its open-armed reception OF all worthy bodies OF Wis
tors of whatever description.
Gentlemen of New York, you are therefore more
than welcomethe town for the time is turned over
TO YOU May your stay not only prove pleasant you
but profitable to Houston and New York alike,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
SOME PosrscRIPTs.

There pottery workers in the United States
There is lively fight in London against Sunday con
certs,
The Authors club of Minneapolis has monthly organ
named the Stub Pen.
Louisville will so into the enameled brick business
company there has invested 100000 in the enterprise
Marine insurance companies scent the off YES
sells leaving the Pacific for the Orient pay at the
rate Of war risks
Judge Spence who died recently at Paducah KY was
once prominent in the politics of the county and held
for sixteen years and yet when he died he had money
with which to the funeral expenses He buried at
the expense OF his neghbors
John d. Rockefeller will put up in Cleveland Ohio the
largest department the country. The plans call for
the erection OF teusory business house 100000
It will have the largest ground OF the CITY,
as the lot is ,2eNoso feet and contains three
There is much in this world which there not
somewhere Claimant At Springfield, Ill., heir has
turned for the $4,000 left years ago by woman
who was in the executive mansion when Palmer
of that State The money has been held in
trust by a bank in pittsburg
Flowers will be in full bloom about the time the president
reaches Chicago and paper there says "A floral parade
that Will urpass anything of the kind attempted
West is one OF the features contemplated for the entertain
meu oil President Mckinley when he visits Chicago June
What is needed among of the colored people OF In
dependence Mo, is strong infusion OF civilization.
port from there is that during taotonal church fight the
pastor the Rev J, r. Fits and his vile both colored
dragged along the street with ropes and beaten with barrel
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
MORE COOP NEWS FOR TEXAS.

1t developed yesterday in this city, that the very
thing coming pass speedily in the iron district of
East Texas which has been outlined in The Post
one the possible consequences of the great oil dis
coveries.
Ex-Governor James s. Hogg has secured control of
the New Birmingham iron district, in Rusk county,
comprising $4,000 of the richest field and
including the famous iron mountain. Ex-Governor
Hogg win be backed by unlimited capital and will be
come the promoter of a supendous enterprise at New
Birmingham that will undoubtedly again turn the at
tenton of the whole country upon Texas.
Oil viii be sought for the property and it is pos
sble another great gusher may be secured there At
any rate oil will be used in briqueting the Ignite for
the reduction Of the and to furnish the fuel for
the many branches of the great iron and steel indus
tries which it is proposed to build up
And better still is the that this huge
terprise will not be delayed but will be put on foot
at the earliest possible day.
This will not only be good news for New Brmng.
ham and Rusk county, but for the whole State of
Texas 1t is further demonstration that the new in
dustral and development awakening in this great State
has solid foundation and has come to stay 1t means
progress prosperity and vast wealth 1t means that
Texas does not intend longer to sleep upon her match
less resources!
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
WHERE THE NEXT BOOM WILL OCCUR.

There is apparently to be no limit to the supply OF
the oil to be found in the Texas field Gusher follows
gusher with bewildering frequency and rapidity The
only great question that remains is to find uses for
what promises TO be inexhaustble quantity OF a
and cheap fuel
On several occasions recently The Post has called
attention to the iron interests of the State especially
those of East Texas. What is said to be the richest
in this country can be found in practically limit
less quantities in of country at no great dis
lance from tidewater the Texas coast. This iron
field, too Is naturally tributary to Houston with It's
numerous railroads, Its of the and it's assured
manufacturing prominence in tho future
Near this iron uexhaustibe beds of Ignite
The problem has been TO in way utilize this lig
mite fuel for smelling purposes. AS The Post
has shown, often Ignite when briquetod or com
pressed into solid bricks furnishes the fuel required
for smeltering,
But how briquet the Ignite?
The fuel oil reaches the solution
high authority says il win be possible to utilize
the oil in briqueting the Ignite and at a cost that will
render the Ignite bricks when ready for use far
cheaper than coal any description that could be used
for smelling purposes
Here then is vast field of Industrial possibilities
opened by the discovery OF this great abundance of
fact oil that only few of the knowing ones have
dreamed of. II the oil viii serve to make the Ignite
and the iron of East Texas valuable or bring such
another unmeasured of wealth into notice and
development the oil field will prove doubly a won.
derfnl piece of good fortune for Texas 1t Is possible
indeed. that may yet, and at no distant day rival
Pennsylvania not only in OIL but In iron and steel in
dustries.
The next great boom Is more than likely to be In
the ironore field of the State. few years ago such
boom was started and for while it looked as il it
might develop into something substantial in the way
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

En- Speaker Reed has been elected director OF the New
York Lie Insurance company and it limited that he
tuledgcd member Of the inner circle of financial
mates headed by Pierpont Morgan
The sultan of Turkey of the most enthusiastic chess
players in Europe lie will play the for hours without
nermsson and will allow matter OF state inter
ere with the problem in which the time he is engaged
Rev Dr. Edward Everett Hale OF Boston celebrate his
10Th birthday Wednesday, April in the South whittier
he has for and recreation. His Boston friends
are planning for big celebration of his Soth birthday
year, when they intend to keep him at home
Hiram Crouk OF Hekimer county New York is the only
surviving pensonsr OF the of 1919. lifelong demo
eat he cast his FIRST for Andrew Jackson and his last
for Grover Cleveland When asked why ne did not to the
polls nowadays the old gentleman said when got to
Grover thought ii time call half day and quit
deacon OF the church which Russell Sage attends
telling friends in New York the other day that the Wall
street veteran OF puts and calls deeply interested IN the
welfare OF his congregation He takes the collection
every Sunday morning said the deacon with pride An
regous broker suggestion that they ought
make the old man bell punch
President Mclinleys Western trip is arranged
give him three days in Colorado or these will be
al Denver Colorado Springs and at Pixies Peak
While in Denver the president will be the OF
partisan committee OF twenty citizens OF that place Just
selected The list includes United Senators Teller and
Patterson, eNSenator Woeott and Consressmcn Bell and
Shafroth.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
TAMPERINC WITH TP,r,



When you've suffered reverses of fortune ~
Far away from the world all alone
And all the old doubts of yourself whichsh,.l
Claim your heart and your mind fof Aha.
And you're blue and distressed, and YOU e.,. IN
On the slips you despair to retrieve ~
All then it seems good for your wife to s,..a
And Loyalty say 81 believed"
Let the world faunt you then, let your wav III,
Lie meath skies that downcast and p,..' ~
Why, you'll just give a shrug and 60 at il as,;,
With a laugh and song by the way
Tho you doubt your own strength and Fo.,n..
And your life doth seem wrecked and YOU s,. A'u
All isn't it sweet in discouragement's hour 80
To hear your wife say Il believer
You doubt your own strength, and disrrst vo,,
When temptation doth trip by your side.
Or may yield to the tempter and sink, bit by b,
Till you feel yourself whened by the tide
But tho far you are swept in the murk and The ~.
And tho passion your eyes may deceive -
You know there's chance to win back to the -.
When your wife steadfast says 81 believer ~ \
Then here's to her in hours OF ease or distress
Here's to her in sunlight or shade,
In the towns narrow ways, or the wide wder,.
Wherever your footsteps have strayed;
Whate'er be the struggle, for honors or pelf.
Whether broadcloth fustan your sleeve
Here's to the wee wife, all forgetfu Of self,
Who steadfastly says Il believed"
Il Il
Vassar girl has invented a condensed food 4 I
USE We haven't sample but dollars to dou,s.s
either like chewing gum young wifes first bisIs
x Il X X
Crazy Snake in a moment of sobriety promised /, !.
the Buffalo exposition, but now that he has regaine M
NAL condition he is hiding out.
81
A news article in New York paper tells Of a ma
vered in that city at the West Side Boys Home i (
Roosevelt After describing how Teddy told the bm
his dogs climbed after mountain lions the arrt
on to say THE boys eyes as large as sauceT
such a strenuous story that it is wonder that s
not as large soup plates.
Methodist minister in Chicago has been robtd
times within the last month All he needs now to 6ns
Job completely is an old-fashioned donation party
81 Il
One of the New York magnates of the blion.doHr
trust has Just been mulcted of $4,000 by faro pay
old adagc of setting thief to catch thief still holds
Il &
There's a moaning
And grooming
And a midnight grim atoning
Stirs the murk.
And your slumber
Splits asunder
AS the April green cucumber
Does its work.
]. NJ LEV
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24

LET'S PERSUADE THE RAT TO GO.

From the Richmond Dispatch
DR. N Nagusha the eminent Japanese bacerioogist now
visiting in Chicago rough He says the loathsome
rodents disseminate diseases and attempting to inaugu
rate an international crusade against them According to
his statements Japan already begun an effort TO rid the
land OF the long tailed varmnts which are held re-
sponsiblc for the spread of the bubouic plague
DR. NaSusha despite the unpleasant suggestivoness of the
last two sylahes of his surname is said to be practical
man. with absolutely sentiment and but few vagarie In
deed his views concerning have been Endorsed many
physicians OF the Windy City and this time soul
has had word to in defence of the pestiferous little
quadrupeds which excite our disgust
1t does take an educated mind to understand bou,
contagious diseases OF all might be spread by rats but
r Nagnsha in sounding his warning has left out some
very important inomaonhe has forgotten 10 say how the
rats can be eNterminatcd
We may safely that the rats themselves will not he
IN accord with the proposed movement yet without their
concurrence little he The willy rodent has
never mad friend in man, and what Is he always
mas nec able to shift for himself without asking avors In
snort the rat has progressed with civilization In certain
sense he has had college education at least he has at
tended educational institutions as we'll as other nloces ~
srnns and he has gotten the best in the way of edbe
a' hey could afford If there is anything going beg
e'nng he is very apt get his share of it.
% Is SAID by the encyclopedias that are supposed N
nave had had their origin India and Persia and thar thew
since emigrated into all other lands At any rate
are oorn sailors and quite willing new homes and
y new countries And herein lies the difficulty of ger
d OF them We might kill billion of the little scavenqer
" tne onion today, and the incoming ships of tomorrow
would bring thousands And among the newcomers
we would md the cunning and skill which have ever
e"Alao'erlzed the grsy lshmaee,
ne RAT unlike good many people profits by experience
ana observation II his persisted in
sp ne VIII instruct his children unto the third and
ou'h generation beware of cheese with wire accessor
~ inc Youngsters will follow his advice, too If "a, i;
m ON the premises the whole colony will abdcate and le
y. entire held to Tabby. Occasionally we can decov them
WIN poison but II the mortality becomes marked the
Wl migrate and meanwhile We hold our noses and
are sorry We so cruel
es' Or Nagusha the is "a mean one" and we ave i;
., ms OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES plague--b,t Won
ven US how TO about the business The dav Of pI
dio s vanished and ratterier has gotten too a.,
ncL, ~ handle this particular line OF business Is ~
to lie down we're not so eosnopolitan might ask them
der ~ and die through mere love OF country b,, -
lows in circumstances we don't know whether the ver s
or Patascnians. '"ss'"s' " t"p'hos' or Japanese
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News

chicago News -.
beautiful needs letter Of intronu' \; .Fssra
good-natured friend is sometimes an eresS hadt -
Never judge mans character by one g9'1.s. rxpect
him. ~, NJ
woman doesn't have to he goodlooking in order '
good, !. ~
What most people need is less good advice ana r.
examples. - nd
The pleasure OF doing good is the one pleasure ~
more than he thinks VI. ~ ~
An Irishman's toast MAY you live to eat us VI
scratches your grave"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
Anacreon Ode XXI.

Some the tale of Thebes relate
How its heroes met their fate.
Others all their skill employ
Singing deeds in fated Troy.
!, ah, me can only tell
How fourished once and fell.
Not upon the crimson field
Was l ever forced to yield
Troops OF horse ne'er me o'erthrew,
Nor did footmen pierce me through;
Not from ships that fighting 20
Did get my final blow.
Soldiers with a weapon new
Did assault and me undo,
And the arms these yictors used
Were alone by love diftused,
Chicago Record.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24

OF an Industrial awakening but the fuel problem met
the boom in its ncipency and It collapsed. Now that
the fuel problem is longer in the way, the possib
ties in iron fields second to those of no similar
field in America The Post confidently expects at an
early day to large blast furnaces and iron
and steel mills within comparatively short distance
of Houston and indeed in Houston. that will rival
those OF any other section Of the country.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
up.to.pate Mother Hubbard.

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
10 get her poor dog bone
but when she got there the cupboard was Dare
And so poor doggie had none.
but old Mother Hubbard resourceful was,
~ SC she went to the nearest saloon, .,. sfcsz
here she found 'night-ower" who was ming -
- And she found not moment too soon.
She made of him a Butfalo--hrst degree
lie handed out five dollars for the fee
- She LETT him with eyes all agog,
for the change that he would see,
And returned with five bones for the dog !, : coos.
From Up-to-Date Smother w.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-24
less resources!

THE friends Of Colonel Joe Rice beginning mention
his favoraby in connection with the governorsp
succeed Governor Sayers. Colonel Rice has and de-
voted friends in every portion OF the State and should his
cans be presented the people he will prove very
candidate. He is only of ability but in every
sense splendid gentleman and well equipped for the
position