The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-05
SOME fOSTSCRlPTS.

JIM.
Thanks, young man, I'll sit awhile,
And rest while Betsy trades a bit.
We've druv bout twenty mile today.
I'm real tired. Just think of It!
me restln on this here bench
'Mongst all these trees and flowers and
A park you say? It's a nice place
To drive your team and stop and hitch.
Farm? Yes we've got good one;
Two hundred acres as fine MS you'l see.
We're purity well fixed as TO worldly
things.
We've worked hard for it, Betsy and me.
but there's one thing keeps us mighty
sad.
We can't get over 1T, night or day.
Never an hour we don't think of jim
Ten years now, since he went away.
Dead mo: just got mad and left.
Never n word have we heard from him
Ten years OF waitin hopin' and prayiu'
jest fur one more sight of jim
Jest about your height, young man:
Slender and straight as stalk of corn.
Good as gold, but quick to get angry
Bat. then he was mine and Betsys first
born.
IL think II could git holt OF Jim's hand
And kinder explain the words ! said
He'd know his old dads heart would ever
"or he neVcr-Whats that you say, sill :
You Jim Ally God,--it can't be true!
Come to my heart boy-closor closer
Can it be Jim-Oh' can it be you?
"Run quick and cali your mother;
she's in the store-Comc quick again;
IN wait here for YOU
Icrel Police Polcel
That young feiers got my watch and
chain!'
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vending his way homeward last night
when he was approached by a very gaunt.
hungry looking man with wild eyes ana
an cmacIlted face.
can you tell me, sire" he inquired
where / can lind in Houston a family OF
low-horn scrubs?'
II don't exactly understand" said the
reporter.
Let me tell you how 1T ia" said thu
cmaciatod man. II came to Houston a
month ago, and l hunted up a boardin,
house. "a / can not afford to live at "a
hotel I found nice, aristocratic looltiui
place that suited me. aud went inside. Tpo
laudlady came In the parlor and she wa
yrry- stately lady with a Roman nose.
asked the price of board and she said
Eighty iollnhs per month foil again
Tho door laub with duh thud. and She
said:
" YOU seem surprised, sab. You Will
please remember that am the widow OF
Gov, rnah iidd!o of Nirgiuah. My family /.
very fghly connected, give you board ar
"A fay4h. / never consider money an equiv
aleut To advantage OF my society. VII
you have room with door in it?'
I'm call again | said, and got out o
the house, somehow, and went to anothci
/ fine thrcc-storicd house, with a s'fq
Board and Rooms on It.
"rhe uoNt lady saw had gray curls. an.
Il soft ga2c.lc-likc eye, something lik'
! General Alahry's when he gHaos upon pill'
| fighters. She Vas a cousin of General MA
| hone OF Virginia and wanted $40 per werl
| for a little back room with II pink mott
| and picture OF the battle of Chancellor
| willie IN II,
| "a went 10 some more boarding houses.
"'rho next lady said she was descende'
/ from Aaron Burr on one side and Captain
/ Kidd on the other. She was using m
| Captain kidd side IN her business. Sh
wanted TO charge M GD cents an hour 70
/ board ana lodging. | Travelled around al
over Houston and found nine widows o
/ supreme court judges twelve rellctS q
/ q VcrncrS and generals, and twenty-five
1 ruius lrft by happy departed colonels, pro
/ icssors and majors, who put fancy nsure
! ON the benefits of their society. ana CARRIE
! victuals Simply as side line. | hnall
! crcw desperately hungry and engaged 4
/ weeks board at a nice, stylish mhnslon II
! tine Third ward. Tho lady VINO kept IL wa
/ tail ana Imposing. She KEEP; one hand ~
! tng across her waist and the other held
/ PRAYER book and a pair Of ice hooks. Sa
/ said she was an aunt OF l'aNy CrocNrt'
and was still I'm mourning for him. lie
/ family was ono Of thr nrst IN texas.
wax then supper time, and | went In I
/ SIMMER supper wac from G:a0 20 /, am
consisted of bakers bread PRAYER ana COZ