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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.
using the very best ticking and giving full weight and conscientious work-
manship in all instances. They make all ordinary sizes and any extra size
that may be required. They make a specialty of woven-wire mattresses,
the perfection of all mattresses, in all styles—single weave, double weave,
adjustable, etc. They use the best tinned steel wire and specially selected
material. They also make woven-wire camp stools, woven-wire cots, duck
cots, cross-leg cots, etc. ; bolsters, pillows, etc.; box spring mattresses they
make only to order. This is the most extensive factory in these specialties
in the State of Texas, and their trade radiates throughout the State, the
transactions reaching $15,000 annually. Messrs. Phelps & Freeman give
their constant personal supervision to all work done in their factory, thus
ensuring honest work and satisfaction. From their well-known character-
istics of honesty and mercantile honor, their promptitude in filling and
executing orders, they have gained a prominent and most creditable posi-
tion with the trade and in tire estimation of their fellow-citizens.
OLSMITH ARMS CO.—Gunmakers, and Dealers in Guns, Pistols, Fish-
ing Tackle, and Sporting Goods; 240 Commerce Street.
Manly sport has not only been popular from the most remote ages,
but the most intelligent nations of ancient and modern times encouraged
them by laws. The most cultivated and enlightened people of ancient
times, the Greeks andRomans, bestowed especial attention on athletic and

recreative sports and pastimes, recognizing the principle that grace and
physical perfection, contribute more to the power and fame of a people,
than mercantile or maratime renown alone. Games, sporting and muscle,
and mind developing exercises were cultivated, and he who excelled, en-
joyed civic and social prominence. In latter time, the nations who were