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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
Real ESTATE Meas Meeting.

The real estate mems meeting to be held
tomorrow evening at 1880 ut the rooms of
the Business League will be especially In
terosting, as arrangements will be perfect
cd looking 10 the comfort and convenience
OF the homeseekers excursion parties which
viii arrive on the Sth and 9th. business
men ana all others who have an interest
in the upbullding OF Houston aud South
Texas are cordially invited to be present.
An especially urgent invitation is extended
to visiting real estate men.
MIR. j. l.. Mattingly. who has been the
principal factor In the organization OF tho
Fruit Gnd Vegetable Growers assocla-
tlon, has accepted an invitation to address
the meeting.
To Post representative Mr.. Mattingly
said,
II think the organization Of the fruit and
vegetable growers will prove to ho OF great
benefit to all concerned. The surplus prod-
ucts will find ready sale In Northern mar
kets, and In establishing this business In
Houston the city as we'll as the surround
ing country Will BIO benefited feel GER
tain that the effort will prove successful"
Leaky tin and felt roofs patched and
painted with cement paint Phone 4S5.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

~ =. re~roes ana young Ct that Few
men are ever found under the tnnuence !;
the women seem to take to It more
Her Her. heArt-renderns scresm carns
from the womsp's cell that made those
about the station start III
Don't mind that. said tine clerk. .naIs
-- Brought In here about three nouas
ago 10 full OF the poison that she coulu NOT
stand still, She Just woke up from her
sleep. ard Il suffering from bad case OF
tho cramps that always follows drunk
When they first open their eyes ana are
met with what seems to them to be eternal
dnrkpess. cry goes out for help and until
sometimes they fall from utter exhaustion.
| II lakes about three hours sleep TO wear
away is cents worth OF 'koke.'
How Is It purchased? That's easy. ANY
one who has the money can get 1t. There
are places in the city that keep open TOT
this especial trade. 1t Is usually purchased
in 10 and 15 cents worth, put UP In smaii
tin boxes. When that supply Is exhausted
they return the box and get larger one
filled for the game money. Here OF iate
they have adopted the rebate system WHICH
Is used as In most any other BUSINESS
when victims buy 10 cents worth OF CO.
caino they are given cent chech, or as
they would say IN an uptown store. you get
10 per cent on.
"These people seem to be hardened
against the efforts OF the church people,
he continued Every Sunday afternoon
the Crittenton mission workers come to
the Jail, pray and sing with the prisoners
many of whom are not users OF cocaine,
and tell them OF the power of Jesus Christ
to save. II we have good Saturday night
run there are twenty five or thirty negroes
In tho Jail, and on the following after
noon when the visitors get through the
services they sing some old time tunes,
that every one knows. and the chorus that
goes out liz full of harmony and music.
1.-THE work Of the Christian people Is not
always In vain. A man Will be here to-
morrow to lead the meeting who was con-
vertcd In this Jail. He had been a drink
Ing man, and for raising u row around the
house was arrested and locked UP. The
Christian people came around then as now,
and the result was he was converted and
now leads good life.
I'VE were told the other day that the
Crlttenton mission endcavored to reform
The woman who screamed just now up
stairs. They told her TO get her things to-
gether and como with them, and while alb
sent fell by tho waysIdo again." said the
night clerk as the wagon rolled up again
and deposited boy OF Is years on the
The boy is a slave to cocaine
and almost helpless In it, USE
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
suIfn EiIrd YcntcrInx.


The following suits were filed yesterday
In the office OF ]. b, Williams, clerk OF tho
civil district courts.
FIFTY FIFTH DISTRICT.
Ella J. Caraway vs.. Andrew j. Cara
way. suit for divorce.
The city is plaintiff In the following
cases:
Elizabeth Acton ct al. lot ., block 453,
Baker addition. north side OF Buffalo la
you. SIG.
Mrs, Ellen Dunlop ct al, part of north
east quarter of block No. 6, Hailey %
Franklin addition. south side Buffalo ba-
you: $40.
James II. Fletcher ct al parts OF lots
4 and 8. block g. subdivision OF holman
l0-acre lot %. south side Buffalo bayou;
IS.
Mrs, Troderka Rompel ct al. lots 6, 6.
and IL, block b. of subdivision of Hol-
man l0-acro lot 2, south side Buffalo ba-
you, IS.
John II, Kirby. lots 6. 0 and 10. block
3. Holman l0-acre lot 10, south side But
fplo bayou; $2i.
Sarah Kuhlman. lots 4. s and = 8,
block A, Holman 10-acre, block 6. south
side Buffalo BAYOU; SIS.
j. j. Sohol ct al, lots and 3, block l.
Holman lO-acre lot 20. south side Is Iifalo
bayou; $3.50.
Nora Valentine ct al. lot !, block 25b,
Balm addition. north slde Buffalo ba-
you; 50.
j. 7. Bell ct al. lots G and 7. block I,
Holman l0-acrc lot 81 SIS.
William a. Heidelberg ct al. all OF
block 47S, south side Buffalo bayou; 81.
j, w. Johnson, all OF block 80, Had
" Franklin addition; $50.
Unknown heirs of August preuss, de-
ceased. lot 10. block A. Iiutchins addl-
ton. Holman l0acIe lot 81, $40. ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

Tho following transfers OF real estate
were filed yesterday in the office Of Ed +.
Dupree, county clerk
y. +. Warhnn and wife. Angie.
TO j. J. Sweeney and Gus Fred
cricks. lot i, block 2b. Sweeney
addition, north side Buffalo ba-
you ....... ........... ........... $3.50
w. X Mcclellan to John b. Cor
liss q stee, lot 8, block 76. Brun-
Her auuitlon ........ So. ~
Henry ilurlimanu, by attorney, 10
Myrtlc u. HELEN. let's s. o. 10,
block 3S, La Porte ..........,.. 10000
II. Il, Rumpel to Froderika Rumpel
block L. Young Mems addition;also
also lot s. block isa. south side
Buffalo bayou ..,..... ....... 80. B
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

Lealiy tin and felt roofs patched and
painted with cement paint. Phone 4S5.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
ALBERT CHMENE 1905 Congress AvenI
Chapman's second addition, north side
Buffalo bayou. 81.

The following marriage licenses were
ISSUED during the week from the county
clerks office:
james Miller and Mary Farmer, Henry
b. Ammell and Miss Ida Krummel, Phi
iandus Counesel and Adie Bright, Charles
Henry Orr and Miss Grace Lee Hender-
son. John Artic Smith and Mrs, Mary
Matthews, William Mcdonald and Mrs.
Lula Fields, Herbert j. Follett aud Miss
Lellie r. Eatwell. Bennett NJ. Wopdson
and Miss Isabel f. Spencer. w. II Pier
son and Mrs. NJ. C.. Sullivan, Ciemmie
Il. Starnes and Miss Minnie Sattcrwh;te
Edwin y. Britain and Mary Adelaide Mar
IL. Wright Goodman and jennie VIII
Hanson. Anders Petersen and Lucy Eos
ter, Frank II. Fisher and Miss Leslie
Phillips Henry jackson and Mary Davis
G, w. Rodearneal and Miss Zelma C.
Orillion.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

Yes. indeed, these goods are first
class in every respect. We tolerate
no seconds in our stock. Remember,
also, that our Granite and Galvanized
Ware costs no more than q good grade
OF TIN and II wears much longer These
prices Tor Monday and Tuesday only:
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
Postochcc VIII Close.

The rostoffice will be closed Monday,
September &. on account of Labor day. Car
rlers In residence districts Will make one
trip tho-e in tho business districts tho
first tvs trips
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

The following suits were filed yesterday
In the office Of ]. b, Williams, clerk OF tho
civil district courts.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

Boys, want YOU to look at the card OF
the Llnce'l hotel. J. c. Short, pronrietor
ana see what old man Short Is going 10 do
build brick hotel. $3.50 :"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
TO THE pIrpLIC.

Dallas, Texas, August %, lS9T.-We no
ticc in The Houston Post that the New
Home sewing machine is being advertised
at sga al Houston. and to protect those who
intend buying New Home In that vicin-
ity we wish to state that @. l.. 4 THEO.
BERING, JR., OF Houston are the only au-
thorised agents for the company at that
place, and no ono else can. under any cir
cumstanoes, obtain the New Home machine
(genuine) made and held under signed
guarantee. at Houston. except the above
firm.
We furnish them the New Home machine
complete. and guarantee them to be new
machines, and to do good work for the
term Of five years, and. to avoid future
trouble, We ask you TO buy from them and
b. protected. and suggest that you buy
no machine purporting to be New Home
that Is being advertised at s2a, expecting
us to be responsible In any way for It.
Yours truly,
NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE co.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
] IAE SLAVES I 10 COCAINE \
M dope" iiatlt Growing to an
AIsfmiaa Extept.
49, the PerRicious Results % the
0ispensation NJ shown by Prac-
teal Observation-The slaves.

ing OF the city council directed against tho
indiscrimInate sale OF cocaine in Houston
has awakened the public to the full reaIt-
cation OF the enormity Of the traffic ana It's
pernlcious results. To no one lis this more
apparent than the police. who have applied
every city ordinance. invoked every state
law to check the dispcnsation OF the inno'
cent looking crystalline substance, I'M
maculnte in appearance. but deadly In Its
effect.
1t has created state OF affairs that baf-
/fles philanthropis.s all over tie world, and
I go extensive has become its use. aside from
medical purposes, its slaves have fallen so
low that save q few notable instances they
are absolutely imperyious to the prayers
OF tho godly or associations OF the refined.
There are some instances where thought
ful prayer and earnest communication with
Christian workers have brought about
reformation, but, without attempting TO
create the slightest disbursement, II Is
safe to predict aeven-eighths OF the cases
are "backsliders," who find their evil asso-
Citations and great desire for the drug
huge mountain in the path OF total aDeti-
hence.
Since the reputable druggists OF Houston
have taken the iDiatiye by requesting city
legislation to check the sale OF cocaine,
there has been quiet organization In the
ministerial circle, the members OF which
pledge their aid and prayers Tor the sue
cess Of the movement.
Cocaine has supplanted morphine Ten
years ago where the latter drug predomi-
mated among the lower classes, now exists
nrnyn IN th, aytr.act NJ pnQna leaves
which Is purchasabe from dspensaries In
Houston in small quantities as one
cents worth. This enables the poorest Of
the lowly TO relieve their cravings at a
nominal cost. and while the amount appears
small and Insignificant, the Joint dealers
find prosperity In business OF preying az
yultures upon society
The habit is not confined to people OF |
any one stage OF life. Young, irresponsible |
children are supplied with The drug II they
have tho coin us readily as rOunder not
accountable for his sins While in tho
South the use of the drug seems to pre-
dominate moro than In other sections. 1t
is by reason OF the Increased colorod popu-
lation. and, strange TO say, II III u very rare !
case that males are addicted to the habit |
The negro women. as well as many of the |
whites In tho lower walks Of life. find an
much pleasure In a high faiutln Jag that |
COSTS but dime as an up-to-date young |
man would a quiet champagne supper at
DelmOnico's.
The writer recently spent Saturday
night around the police station to note the
action OF cocaine fiends. who are usually
doomed TO arrest on that evening. when.
perehance, money flows a litt.n freer than
usual. 1t was between IL and 70 o'clock
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

Messrs. Craig & Fuller. who are hand
ling the Magnolia Park company property.
have just finished grading the streets be-
tween Angsrhoefer's and Dumbier's, and
during the past two weeks have sold the
following property: G. NJ. Kilgore, lots |.
?. and I, block 8. $1,000; II, T. Warner,
lots 3, 10. II and ~, block 2, sl050; George
W: Heyer. acre tract. $4,000, Total,
s5050.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
THE p CROP

A state exchange, we forget which, a
ton as to good apple growing:
1.-THE reports Of fine apple crops in
the mountains are nOt exaggerated, so
Rev. r. p. Smith tells us. In an or
chard he knows of, there are 700
trees with the finest kind of crop on
them. In one community the apple
crop is greater than can be used or
fed to hogs. A distiller moved in t.
make the fruit into brandy. The neigh
bors told him to move on, they'd let
the fruit rot on the ground"
For thirty years perhaps his writer
has been holding up North Carolina
as a great apple producing state in so
far as special adaptability is concern
ed. We have mentioned several times
in print that at the first Worlds fair,
held in New York, about 1851 or 1852,
two Guilford county pomologists took
respectively first and second premiums
beating all rivals in the north and
west. What was done forty-five years
ago can be repeated if our people would
do their very best in apple growing.
About 1875, we saw at the state fair at
Raleigh, some western Carolina ap-
pies that were exceptionally fine, the
largest by odds we have yet seen
grown in any state. Not only can be
produced apples Of extreme size, but
of finest flavor. We have nothing
from abroad brought into out state for
sale in the way Of apples that eclipse
the best favored North Carolina pro-
duct. The winesap, the greenskins,
and other kinds are of delicious flavor
and external beauty. It is only an
other instance of North Carolina in
difference to se~lf-interest that the ap-
pie crop today is not ten or twenty
times larger than it is. One skilled
in handling apples, and doubtless 9TH
er fruits, said to us perhaps two years
g that the people who grew apples
did not know how to handle them for
market. That is doubtless so, and he
explained to us why.
What is said of. the a~daptability of
North Carolina climate and soil to ap-
pie growing Ia be as we'll applied to
other fruits-to the grape, the pear,
the peach and others. We say again
that the best pears we ever eat were
grown in this state. We heard a rep
utable Caswell farmer, a kinsman of
the distinguished General Tom Per
son, say h a he had 200 varieties of
the pear on his farm. This was in
1868. The scuppernong grape grows to
perfection up to the northern border
line. We never saw finer than some
in Halifax county grown within a mile
OF Roanoke river and within some two
or three miles OF the Virginia line.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
CENSURE OF EX-NINISTER TAY.
LORI

The Spanish organs censure ex-min-
of his paper in the North American Re-
view. There are some American news
papers that are doing the same thing
but for a different motive. The Span
iards are censorious and complaining
because Mr.. Taylor reveals to his coun-
trymen facts that show UP Spanish
policy, incapacity and savagery. 1t is
natural, Is Sam Jones would say, for
1.-The hit dog to hollow" The American
newspapers that censure are republi-
can mainly and they do it because Mr..
Taylor is a southern democrat. The
anti-democratic organs say it will start
afresh 'jingoism-" The opposite of
what they call "jingosin," borrowing
a coinage in England for political pur-
poses, is always the right American
policy as they see it. The charge is
that ex-Minister Taylor has betrayed
secrets that came to him in his official
capacity. So charge certain English
papers not specially friendly to the
United States, and the charge is taken
up and echoed and Endorsed in this
country.
Has there ever been an American
minister to any foreign court in a time
Of governmental complications, when
there was a threatened crisis, and his
country was to be seriously involved
probably, who failed to acquaint his
countrymen with the condition OF at
fairs as it appeared to him, and re-
vealed any facts, reports or conclusions
that came to him while among the enc
mics at the court as an accredited of
fetal Of another country? Is it censur-
able for a foreign minister, after his re-
call, and he is no longer an official but
once more a private citizen to tell his
countrymen of what he knows of the
plans and policy of the. enemy of his
country? Is it not his duty to put
them on guard, and to put them in
possession OF facts and observations
that will enable them to see what their
duty is, by enabling them to more
clearly understand the points at issue
and the Vaccinations of a hostile
power? Or is all his knowledge gained
from close contact from and observa-
ton abroad to be locked up in his own
breast, and his countrmen to be kept
in the dark as to what are the probable
plans, the actual or the mean
ing OF the actions of an enemy distin-
guished for brutality through the cen
turtles? If so a dummy would be the
best minister to represent a country
abroad.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12

They grow equally as well in Warren.
Franklin, Wake and Granviiie-large.
sweet, lucious. When the frost has
fallen upon them and they are russell
colored with channels in the skin, they
are simply delightful beyond descrip-
ton. And yet North Carolina, with
all Of its great advantages for fruit
producing. is comparatively but little
Of a fruit growing state. Strange neg
lect. What a source OF revenue could
it be made. Recently one Of the judges
told us that a leading farmer and citi-
e in Granville told him so unprofita-
BILE had tobacco become he had ceased
to grow it and was now relying upon
he apple crop for his money. That
cigarette trust hit b farmers up there
a heavy blow indeed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
WHAT THE ELECTIONS HAVE
DONE

The recent elections promise great re-
suits. They are a signal
They contradict all the blather-skites
who have been saying that "silvel is
dead" and there will be nothing heard
sIf it in 1900. Even Henri Watterson,t the
violent, the abusive, who wrote more
vile denunciations of the bimetallists
thnn even any red-moUth, c~antanker-
erous radical sheet did, and that too
after being intensely the other way,
has at last succumbed, and has pro-
snjsed never to do so any more. The
truth is the new democratic Dispatch
has been roping in Watterson's sub
sxrzibers by the thousands, and if the
.Courier-Journal does not cease to revile
Nmetal1ists and to fight the democratic
party and policy it will lose it's sub
$srrlbers and either Ave to set up as a
Mckinley organ or play out" COM
psefeiy. 1t is not conscience or prin-
sx-sple that COWS the back-down of
WA1terson & Co., but salvation from
Nreckage. Watterson is out in a screed
sxcmising to stand by the party here
AMER. If he and his crowd had done
fbeir duty last year the country would
INIT now be afflicted with such bale
EnI administration as McKinley's, with
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
Another Advertising Triumph

AnOtn0E AOV0Ft1SlOR triumph
Il love your daughter, sir" said he;
M love will never falter,
And with you kind permission I
Will lead her to the altar"
Not quite so fast, aspiring youth;
Before the knot is tied,
On certain most important points
l must be satisfied.
You do not smoke, nor drink, nor chew
Quite right-and quite surprising;
But now, yOung man, / van your views
On modern Advertising
The sutton blushed-"O! honored sir!
1 trust there'll be no friction;
But that good advertising pays
Is my most firm conviction.
From boyhood, sir, I've noticed that
From seasons dull and trying,
The men who advertise with skill
Gene out with colors flying.
MY business, too, at first so small,
Now rapidly is growing,
And well I know to printers ink
All my success is owing"
Enough, enough, o, wise young sir;
You need no sage advising:
Get married, sir. but don't forget
To keep on advertising"
Printers Ink.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12

It's high rObber a and dts 50, 101 new
pension seekers and other evils and
wrongs. too tedious to mention" It Is
better to have Watterson's help than
his opposition whatever the motive
prompting. 1t is better to have an
united party. working and voting for
the common good than to have ever a
small part split of, and antagonizing.
billigerent. striving to undo and to de-
stroy.
The opinions OF the meaning n out
come of the triumph Of h democrats
in the elections are many and varied.
That 1t is for the good OF the country
is made certain by the irate vaporings
of such papers as the New York Tri-
bune. The New York World is not an
oracle and it is no leader for the nation
a. democracy in journalism, but 1t sees
the truth in this-that the very objec-
tionable course Of the Mckinley crowd.
it helped and strove to elect, has pro-
duced the results that have but lately
followed. 1t calls it political lun-
ICY. we III "llo( ~ AiAo ~
course last year? 1t was surely neith-
er wisdom nor patriotism. Even the
able, extreme mugwump New York
Evening Post, that helped might and
main to elect Mckinley, is frank to
say that the verdict was a severe re-
buke to the republican party and the
new administration. No president has
received so heavy q blow at the polls
so soon after his inauguration. Con-
gress has not met in regular session,
and will no meet regularly till next
month. Yet it is already weighed In
the balance and found wanting. g"
= No one can doubt that
these elections nave given a fresh i'm
petus to Organism. They make 1t GER
tain that the next elections, congress
sional and presidential, will be fought
on that issue. What a change in opin-
ion-how a fact Knocks the life out OF
a theory. But all clear-sighted people
not looking into a cloud or trying to
survey the whole sweep of the political
heavens by peering through a keynote,
know that the republican gang have
been repudiated and that too without a
CLEAN of hope. The sky is all dark
now to the gang of plunderers and tools
and blunderers. Nothing short of a
miracle of wisdom and the rarest COM
bination of circumstances a possibly
bring to the rejected, incapable, un-
faithful, reckless party n nance of
success. The democrats get to-
gether and keep together. No gain to
them or the country will come from
republican supremacy.