The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-09

enough fall into line. Here are fourteen
sood rules to begin with;
l. Hat lifted IN saying "Good-by," or
"llow do you do?"
2 Hat lifted when Offering seat In a
train or omnibus. or in acknowledges "
favor.
3. Keep step with anyone you walk with
l. Always precede lady ur stairs, and
ask her ii you may prccede her In passing
a crowd or public place.
.. Hat off the moment YOU enter street
door and when you step into u private
hall or office.
g. Let a lady pass first always. unless
she asks you to precedc her.
/ In the drawing ROOM stand till every
lady in the room IL seated, also older
people.
s. Rise II a lady comes in after you are
seated and stand TIL she takes seat.
Look people straight In the face when
speaking or being spoken TO-
10, Let ladies pass through door Hrst.
standing aside for them.
II. In the dining room take your seat
after ladies and elders.
y. Never play with KNIFE. fork or
spoon.
10. DO not take you napkin in bunch
IA. Eat as fast or as slow as the others.
and finish the course when they do.
ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST
Santa Cruz. Cal.--Desr HaphammW: A
have not written letter In a long
time, 1 thought I'd write one now,
guess YOU iiais have fors Item me. Wi.
II you have. 4 haven't forgotten you. /
tifllik Lee Stuart Writes ihSv letters. uOn'
you Iiaps?
Since i lest wrote, have been camping
up the coast here ana have seen lots oi
things There was our family ANA TWO
othr girls, Bertha ana Ida Folsom. Bet-
tina and 1 hal buggy and horse, OF
course; Ida and my sister hsd another,
and my mother ana father hao a bigger
wagon. with tents aud tlhigS IN II. We
drove to a place called Wadell creek,
twenty-five miles from here, UP the coas,.
ana made our camp their.
Jus; three days before a steamer went
on ;he locks nine miles above there. our
ing 1t fog. 1t was the steel steamer Co.
ihmbia, from New York. THIS was her
first tip On the Pacinc. she Is quite near
the shore. any one being alrie to distinctly
understand what is being saio across the
water. She looks as though she was just
anchored there, with tugs and sehooners
around her. She can not be gotten on,
so they are taking ell the movable oh-
loc,s on hcC, There is a rock seven feet
high sticking IN her hold and her stern
rests in between two other rocks 50 you
see she is there to stay TN the winter
storms.
She stopped at Panama and took on n
lead OF fruit-limes "a kind of lemon)
fourth day after she was wrecked. The
rlost Of htr cargo was thrown overheard.
one day The Columbia was about ai5
feet long, drew something over 23 feet Of
water and was nearly a new boat she
was owned by G.. J.. Huntington, that
the Pacific Mall company. When she went
on the rocks she was steaming 10 knots,
or about il miles an hour.
one day we Drove on up the coast to
Pebble Bcach. beach that instead of
having sand has pebbles. There is no
other place around that is lke 1t. There
are all colors and shapes of stones. Dia-
monds and valuable stores of all kinds
have been found there Moss af7,tes, or
something Ike those, are common. | dug
down about two feet and still found peb-
lles. and as / didn't have an X rays TO
see how much deeper they extended. I
can't tell YOU.
real, live whales-and they would shoot
way up IN the air, and they were so his.
Sometimes they'd only spout up water',
or show their big black backs on the
rum their heads way mp IN the air, and
some Of them were not more than 5vl
yards from shore. ] remember when |
was about 10 or IL yeors old, n car or
two--l believe there were three--came to
Denison, Texas, and they advertised hav-
ing n whale: Well. my sister and l
thought we'd 20 and the whale. MS
We had a chance; thought I'd 70 there.
expecting 10 see a live whale swimming
| around. I didn't know where he'd swim.
| spouting water all over ON tho street
water spou,ing water. and | thought I'd
find htm ooine the same, but Imagine my
SURPRISE When rcacnen me INSIDE OF
the car hy seeing stuffed whale on n
Platform with signs all over him. saying
Hands on Fuisoni'
our school hogan July a. and have
Latin this year. All the boys said II was
hard hut don't SEQ anything so very
hard about II iar
Has any Hap got song with the chorus
Ike the following, and II you have, ia
like to change It FOR any song that I've
got:
And the band began 10 play,
All the darkics marched away,
And You hear the people shout,
Stand back. coons. and give mo some
room. 80
For / haven't got long to stay"
Well Haps, must close now. as know
you arc all tired OF reading. 40 good by.
Gus Fagen.