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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-22
President William n. Travis Chapter.
Mrs. Mia Towncs Morris. Secretary.
To the Secretary of the Daughters of TIL
Republic of Texas:

~ WV T'AifNAlN VI lht iFahchNNio Va AhN
Republic OF Texas:
San Antonio, Texas. April l6. 1871 re-
spectfully submit to you the following re
port of DO Zavaia chapter OF the Daughters
of the Republic OF Texas for the period
ending April n, 1897:
Our chapter Is in quite prosperous con-
dition, membership slowly increasing.
We decorated Bon Milams grave on the
9th OF March, In which patriotic commem-
Grafton we were enthusiastically assisted
by all the pupils Of our public and private
schools. Able ana patriotic addresses were
delivered by Hon, bryan Callaghan, mayor
Of san Antonio and Hon. Charles Bee
\ grand cotton ball VIII he given by tho
chapter on April 81. for which docdcd sue
cess is insured Hale the proceeds OF The
hall will he givon to charity. and with The
remainder We eNpec, 10 pay our pro rata
for the pictures received from the general
office. We VIII also then begin our actual
work OF marking with marble tablets the
historic spots 50 long neglected In our city
We extend NEST cordial greetings; may
tho earnest and patriotic efforts OF the
Daughters OF tho Republic OF Texas ever
be successful. Very respectfully,
Mary De Zavala.
Secretary De Zavala Chapter.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-22
WILLIAM b. TRAVIS CHAPTER.


Mrs Anson Jones' President of Daughters
OF the Republic OF Texas.
Austin, Texas. April 10. 1S9T--I respect .
fully submit the following report of the
| William +. Travis chapter OF the Daugh-
ters OF the Republic OF Texas from April,
| lS9G, to April 1897:
The officers elected In March. 1896, have
served 10 March. 1897. with the exception
OF the secretary Mrs. Ella Dancy Hall.
who moved to san Antonio, and Mrs S.
III. nardon first vice president. who moved
to Wharton. Mrs. Dora T.. Arthur. secretary
pro tom until January III, when Mrs. Mia
T. Morris was elected secretary.
The regular election of officers was held
March s, 1897, when the same were re-
elected, with Miss Julia Pease as first vice
president, to fill The vacancy caused by
Mrs Dardens removal from Austin. The
officers are as follows:
Mrs. Robecca j Fisher. presidents Miss
lula Poasc, first vice president; Mrs T.
X. Lubbock. second vice president; Mrs
Dora Il. Arthur, historian; Mrs. Hazen G.
Raymond. treasurer; Mrs. Mia r. Morris,
secretary.
Meetings have been held on the second
Monday in each month at the home of tho
president. The reading of historical pa
pers has been continued by the chapter
historian We have also received interest
ing letters from Mrs. j. p. Henderson and
from her daughter. Mrs, Adams. giving
sketch of Mrs llonderson's life after the
death OF her distinguished husband.
The chapter has been the recipient of
many relies and documents apperiaining
to tho Texas Republic. We trust we will
ultimately have a room set apart for us
for the preservation and safe keeping of
these valuable relies.
We hope that the department in the
Texas magazine, edited by ono OF our
Daughters. viii do much toward calling
forth "reminiscences of early Texans.
This year We have 10 deplore the death
of two distinguished Daughters Of the Re
public, members OF this cbapter-Mrs. Al
bert Sidney Johnston ard Mrs. j. T.. Hen
dorson. The early lives Of these patriotic
women were closely interviewer with Texas
history and their memory will ever he
cherished by the Daughters of the Repub-
lie, This chapter numbers thirty seven
$50, an increase OF thirteen tiSl mem
bers during tho last year, Thus 1t will be
seen that tho patriotic feeling is steadily
growing, and in short time tho descend
ants Of the noble heroes Of the Republic
viii he the proudost organization OF this
grand State, Respectfully submitted.
Mrs Rohecca j Fisher,
President William n. Travis Chapter.
Mrs. Mia Townes Morris, Secretary.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-22

A motion was made by Miss Bette Bal
lingcr of Galveston that a statue OF stephen
f, Austin be placed In the niche given 10
the state in the Hall OF Statuary in Wash
ington. ID. c.
Mrs. j. j. McKeever moved that the sec
ond niche be applied for, as the report tnat
it already has been filled is false; and that
it be occupied by a statue of General sam
Houston.
All of these motions were carried
Miss Halle Ballinger Bryan reported
that the executive committee had set aside
March & Of each year as Texas Heroes day
the decorations on the graves to be the
flag and seal Of the State
Tho treasurer's report then followed:
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Balance cash on hand last report,
Galveston. 1896 .................S17 5 20
Receipts
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N'A'' Va h"AAN - '''''' : :. fi~''- wv
Respectfully, Belle Fem.
General Treasurer u. r. r.
a vote of thanks was made to Mrs. Mary
Saunders OF Walnut Grove for her poem.
spirit OF Freedom inscribed TO the
Daughters of the Republic of Texas. 1t is
as follows:
Spirit of Freedom. at whose shrine
Are worshippcrs forovermorc;
Whose affairs blaze with fire divine.
Whose rays extend from shore to shore
Whose sacred name has littoi men
And women from LIES lowest plane
Tho Greek and jew thine Influence knew.
For thee they diod. nor died IN vain.
And downward IS the centuries roll
Shine deathless names, each name star,
beacon for the struggling soul
\ torch to kiudle Freedoms war;
Whose weapons oft are winged words.
Words rich with Freedoms vital breath
Sometimes crushed hearts and broken
Victorious in the hour of death.
Eleasa' Thermopylae!
Has Time DER words like these power?
When Freedom calls, Arise for met
Then ripe fruit falls from mem'rys
flower.
OH Liberty! how high the faith
Thou givoSt TO them who letters break!
For free in life or free In death
Is he who hears thy word Awake"
Leonidas and Macoabee
Though vanquished, yet victorious they:
And Winkloroid. whose doathless deed
Opened for Switzerland way.
oh, radiant gems in Freedom crown;
oh. fadeess flowers IN glory's wreath;
Tho richest treasures handed down.
The grandest themes the heavens be-
meath!
But is our century then so roor
1t has not given son TO Fame?
Are Freedoms mighty struggos o'er9
Do clouds no moro obscure her flamee
Alas, while tyranny has life,
In peace she may not hold her own.
Her fire must still be famed by strife
And heroes blood cement her throne
Freedom, the ssa Kissed Use OF Croto
Has flung her banners out for thee:
And death for thy dear sake were sweet
II such the bitter end must he.
still Cuba lifts her mailed hand
Though rough with graves her tlowery
tgeast
Tho nations st,ll suninely stand
While sink thy martyred sons to rest.
Thank God, such men and women we're
When Texas. our beloved, WAS born:
Such precious blood was shed for her.
Such names her book Of gold aiorn.
We're every battlefield but one
BY Lethcs waters washed a,vav.
Jacinio's glorious growth alone
Would yield her sons today.
Were every moment laid low
Der parted warriors towering hlsh.
Thy orumhlins walls gray Alamo.
Would teach patriot how to die.
Ger martyrs dust are carycn tomhs
And stately d0mos abnve them rise.
on Goliad's plain the Wild flower blooms
And DER II bend the starllt skies
our martyrs names are household words
Borne by our sons, to whom was sealed
LIES hest gift won by pens and xw,,a.
In council hall. on battlefield.
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Receipts
From general secretary for dues. $3.50 90
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1866 so
Expenditures
Printing proceedings annual meet
ing. 1896 ...................... s37 30
Medals for essayists ............... 90 60
Biography Of C. y. Raines ...... 90
Stationery postage, etc, on histor
ical essays Observation-Disclosures. Is %
Badges, ls97 Observation-Disclosures. L. so
Ribbon, paper. etc, used In copying
minutes of convention of $780,. -
Memorial to legislature requesting
room in capitol building for relies
of the Republic of Texas ......... 7 25
Expressago on essays and medals.
stamps, printing and stationery. SO co
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
The Question of Luck.

In replying to the query, docs
not luck sometimes play a goodly
part in a mans SUGGEST" Edward
W. Box, in The Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, writes:
Never. Henry Ward Beecher an
swered this question once for all
when he said, No man prospers in
this world by luck unless it be the
luck of getting up early, working
hard and maintaining honor and in
tegrity.' What so often seems to
many young men on the surface
as being luck in a mans career is
nothing more than hard work done
at some special time. The idea that
luck is a factor in a mans ucces
has ruined thousands. 1t has never
helped a single person. A fortunate
chance comes to a young man some
times just at the right moment. And
that some people call luck. But that
chance was given him because he
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
Lay of the Boarding House Bard.


Who gives us hash each blessed day
And says we in advance must payP
Who grunts when asked for towels, "Nayi'
Thu landlady.
Who washes plates both night and mornf
Who meets with everybody's scorn?
Who wishes ne had ne'er been bornS
Her husband.
Who pounds the piano all day longY
Who sings for hours, with voice that's strons
That "Tell Them That You Saw Me" songf
Her daughter.
Who holds the boarding house In thrau3
Who's full of Irish wit and ganf
Who won't stand "no back talk at alle
The cook.
Who at six per wears many a gownf
Who on the young men e'er looks DOWN.
Who hopes to wed her boss down town.?
The typewriter boarder.
WIN gets the finest cuts of meat
And all the sweets he cares to eat2
Who pays a little more for heat2
The star boarder.
Who's scented, collared and mustachedt
Who always says some girl he's mashed
Who ought to be severely thrashed?
The dude boarder.
Who hates young girls and always tries
The parlor to m~onopolize?
Who opes at scandal wide her eyes2
The old maid boarder.
Who wears n faded wrapper blue
And novels reads the whole day thruughs
Who dyes her hair a taffy hue?
The grass widow boarder.
Who, when his board is nearly due,
Gets apprehensive, nervous, bluef
Who is an ass to stay here-whoY
Me, the ballroom boarderi
New York Sunday Journal
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
Grant,s Toilet In CANA

General Horace Porter, in his
campaigning With Grant" in Tho
Century, says: In the night of tho
14th Lee began to move troops to his
right. Grant I ow directed Hancock's
corps to be withdrawn and massed
behind the center of our line, SO
that it could be moved promptly in
either. direction. When the general
got back to camp that evening, his
clothes we're a mass of mud from
head to. foot, his uniform being
scarcely recognizable. He sat until
bedtime without making any change
in his dress. He never seemed par
ticularly incommoded by the travel
stained condition of his outer gar
ments, but was scrupulously careful,
even in the most active campaigns,
about the cleanliness of his linen and
his person. The only chance for a
bath was in having a barrel sawed
in two and using the half of it as a
sort of sitz bath. During most of
this campaign the general, like the
staff officers, used this method of
bathing, or, as u English friends
would say, clubbing" Afterward
he supplied himself with a portable
rubber bathtub.
While campaign life is not a good
school for the cultivation of squeam-
ishness, and while the general was
always ready to rough it in camp,
yet he was particularly modest in
performing his toilet, and his tent
fronts were always tied close, and
the most perfect privacy was secured
when he was washing or changing
his clothes. While thus engaged
even his servant was not allowed to
enter his quarters.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
The Loon.

The loon is found in all the north.
ern states. 1t is a very awkward
bird on land, but a graceful and
rapid swimmer. 1t is a rema rkable
diver, and tits thought thatno other
feathered creature can dive SO far
beneath the surface or remain SO
long a time under water. A speci-
men was once found attached to the
hook of a fisherman's set line in
Seneca lake, it having dived nearly
100 feet to reach the bait. 1t feeds
on lizards, fish, frogs, all kinds of
aquatic insects and theroots of fresh
water plants, usually swallowing it's
food under water. 1t is a very large
bird, about 3 feet in length, and
spreads it's wings fully s feet. It
builds its nest in marshes, neal wa
ter, of rushes and grass, which it
twists together in a huge heap on
the ground, usually among tall
reeds. The eggs, usually three in
number, are a little over 8 inches
long and in color of a dull greenish
6cher, with indistinct spots of dark
lumber, most numerous toward the
broad end. During the winter this
bird lives near the seashore, espe-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
His Question.

Sunday School Teacher (who has told
one of the new boys the beautiful story
of David and hopes she has made an
impression)- IL am glad to see you so
attentive, Jamie. Do you understand it
now? Is there any question you would
like to ask me?"
New Boy-Yes'm. Dye reckon Go.
Hath could "a licked Jim Corhett?-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Testing an Atlantic Gable For Leaks.
When the insulated strand, OF the
core of the cable, as it is hence
forth called, passes from this opera.
ton, it must go to the testing room
to determine if the insulation is
really perfect, or if a little ~electrici-
ty still a escape from the copper.
1t would be useless to make this test
In the air, since even without an in
sulator the current does not pass
readily into air. 1t must be tested
under water, in the medium in
which it is to be employed. Shallow
tanks filled with water receive each
section, and after a section has lain
"a hours in the water in order to
come to the same temperature as
the water" the test is applied. If the
effect which ought to be produced
on his galvanometer by passing in
to the core a certain quantity of
electricity does not result, the cleo.
trician knows that there is a flaw
and that the insulation is imperfect
that is, that the electricity is es-
Gaping.
There is nothing that can be
measured with more accuracy than
electricity. The laws which govern
its flow in a body + perfectly I'M
derstood. The electrician knows
how much he pours in. He can draw
it out, measure it, treat it, in short,
as If it were water in a pipe. A leak
in an electric wire is dealt with al
most as a leak in a water pipe and
can be located quite as exactly.
When nee located, it is easily re-
paired.-McClure's Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
Official Importance.

A scene reported by a French pa
per as occurring in a camp of ire
servists," a military body which
corresponds in some degree with our
militia, indicates that the officer
who is clothed sin a little brief au-
thority" is often as absurdly insis-
tent upon that authority in one
country as another.
A lieutenant of these r~eservists,
bursting with Importance, calls out
to a passing soldier:
"Hi, there, barber, barber! Send
me the barber!"
Eyes, sir. Yes, lieutenant" says
the soldier, saluting and starting off
on a run. Presently another soldier
arrives and salutes the lieutenant.
Barber, eh2" the lieutenant.
"Y-yes, SIR
"Then take my and things
here and shave me quickly"
but, lieutenant
mo butts about it, l tell you to
me
I'm afraid id. lieutenant
What business have you to be
afraid9 I tell you to shave me right
OFF,
The soldier seizes the razor and
at the first movement cuts the lieu
tenant badly on the cheek.
"Blockhead! Scoundrel!" shouts
the officer. Don't you know how
to shave any better than that2"
"No. sir, r.
"You what2 Aren't you the com
pany barber2"
mo, sir, I'm not a barber at all,
only my names Barber, sir. l play
the fife in the band, sir"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
A DESPERATE MAN.
He Feared a One Eyed Woman n,
Wanted q Cell.

He Feared a One Eyed Woman and
Wanted a Cell.
A man with a wild eye and a look OF
melancholy desperation on his face
walked into a police station a few days
ago and said to the sergeant in charge:
"Have you a nice, quiet cell that you
could lock a man up in for a few hoursi''
PLENTY of them," said the sergeant.
whats the %trouble?'
TITS a case of desertion, divorce and
assault with intent to kill. Are you sure
you have a cell where a man could get
way back in a corner where a tall woman
in a red shawl couldn't reach him
through the bars with an umbrella?"
II guess so. Who is the cell for?''
tits for me. Put me in right away
and If a woman with one eye, about 8
feet 8, chewing a match, with a pair of
b ounce wooden mitts ON comes in
just tell her that you never saw me-"
Il can't lock you up without some
cause. Can't you explain?"
The man tiptoed to the window, and
after gazing anxiously up and down the
street tiptoed back.
"Did you ever hear Of Samuel It'd.
bald?''
"Never did"
1.-Two months AGO., sir, Samuel It'd
bald was the possessor of a happy home
in this town. The angel of peace had
alighted above the door of his humble
but happy household and never once
thought of coming off its perch. But,
alas, the trail Of the serpent was soon
to destroy this Eden. His wife, whom
he adored with all the intensity of a
strong, confiding man making So. so per
day, became infatuated with q reckless
character named Thomas Gilkey and
abandoned her husband and home, sir,
to fly with this rash %adventurer. She
went to Oklahoma and secured q divorce
and married Thomas Gilkey. Think of
the agony and sorrow of Samuel It'd
bald, left alone by his faithless wife,
with his household goods shattered
around him and his most deeply rooted
affections all busted up!''
1T was, though, and no mistake"
said the sergeant, "and L sympathize
with you. What became Of the coupler
Two weeks after they were married
they qdarreled, and Thomas Gilkey ran
away from her. He led to this city,
and his wife pursued him. You can i'm
agine what | have suffered, sir, if you
have ever been a husband. Lock me up
right away in the darkest cell you have
with spiders and mice in it, or there'll
be a case of manslaughter before night. ~
just then a woman's shrill voice was
heard arguing with the policeman out
side the door, and the man made a break
for the window.
eff I were you, Mr.. Tidbald," called
the sergeant, II would''-
Tidbald, thunderl' said the man as
he dropped on the brick wall outside.
my names Thomas Gilkey. detroit
Free Press.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
Thoreau at Cane Cod.

In Cape Cod, Thoreau gave his
natural drollery full play-an al
most antinomian liberty, to take a
word out of these ecclesiastical his.
tories with the reading of which
under his umbrella he so patiently
enlivened his sandy march from Or.
leans to Provincetown. LAS Isat on
a hill one sultry Sunday afternoon, 2
he says, "the meeting house win.
dows being open, my meditations
were interrupted by the noise of a
preacher who shouted like a boat
swain profaning the quiet atmos
phere, and who, I fancied, must
have taken off his coat. Few things
could have been more disgusting or
disheartening. l wished the tithing
man would stop him." Charles
Lamb himself could not have bet
tered the delicious, biting absurdity
of that final touch. 1t was not this
B~oanergian minister, but a mar of
an earlier generation, of whom we
are told that he Wrote a "Body of
Divinity, book Frequently sheer
ed at, particularly by those who
have read it," The whole Cape, past
and present, was looked at half quiz
ideally by its inland visitor. The
very houses Seemed, like mariners
ashore, to have sat right down to
enjoy the firmness of the land, with
out studying their pastures or ha-
biliments"-a description not to be
fully appreciated except by those
who have seen a Cape Cod village,
with its buildings dropped here and
there at haphazard upon the sand.
Atlantic Monthly.
A Little Too Smart.
An Irishman's idea of what consti-
tutes a successful stratagem is some
times most amusing.
And how is your wife afther the
weddin and all?" inquired Mr.. Murphy
of his friend Mr.. Doolan, whose daugh-
ter had been married two days before.
"She's well enough, exceptin that
she's grievin over a pair of illlgant new
kid gloves that got lost on her that even
in. responded Mr.. Doolan. "She's feel
in bad about thin, but I've advertised
in the paper, and I'm thinkin she'll get
thin back again befoor long. They cost
Mrs. Doolan two dollars and forrty-iive
cintsi''
"Ain't you afraid whoiver got thin
will be slow to answer the advertise
ment?'' inquired Mr.. Murphy.
"It's mesilf that knew how to fix
that" returned Mr.. Doolan. 81 adver-
tised thin illigant gloves 'as an ovid
cotton pair, burrstin away at the seams
and wurrth nobody's keepini'"-
Youths Companion.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-03
DANCING TURTLES
The Curious Training to Which They Ar.
Guhianfnd In IL Enn Eat


The Curious Training to Which They Arc
Subjected In the Far East.
The spectacle of an old, bearded
man, with long, tangled locks, dress
ed in a fantastic costume, attracted
the attention of passersby one day
in one of the large seaports of ia
pan. Some said he was an Aino,
pointing to his long hair and beard,
and that he was a bear worshiper
from Nagasaki.
The old man stood on the deck of
a houseboat quite as disreputable as
he himself appeared and gave an
exhibition that was in every respect
remarkable. He held an old brass
drum, upon which he beat with sew
eral sticks, keeping time with his
foot, and in obedience to this strange
summons a number of common high
back river tortoises of various sizes
crawled out of a box, and, forming
themselves in line, began to march,
one after the other, to the slow, dis
cordant music. Around they went
in a circle, the big ones ahead, the
smaller ones following on behind,
and at the word of command the
larger ones took their places be-
tween two boxes and formed a liv-
ing tortoise bridge, over which the
small ones passed from box to box,
the others then following suit.
whereupon all the tortoises arranged
themselves in groups, like plates
about a table.
The Japanese have another tor
toise, which they train to perform
simple tricks in the water. It is a
little creature, about three or four
inches long, that from q life of in
activity has become covered with a
long growth of green pond weed,
which streams behind like hair as it
swims along.
These people T also famous for
their strange fishes of the carp fam
lily. Some are short and chubby,
with eyes that protrude SO far from
the head that they look like tele-
scopes or the stalked eyes of some
crabs, with which the little crea-
lures can see in every direction.
Others have o broad lacelike tail,
that hangs gracefully like a mass
OF lace and appears to be divided in
to three parts. Others have a per-
feet black cross marked upon the
back, which, against the deep red,
which III the prevailing color, pre-
sents a magnificent appearance.
Others L called tho fish of the
white cross, the latter being white
against red.
These beautiful creatures are
trained to perform a variety of
tricks. They rise at the sound of a
bell, ring a bell themselves, follow
one another in a row at the signal,
and then in many ways show their
remarkable intelligence.
The Japanese also import the
famous fighting fishes from India,
which they keep in an aquarium
and match in contests, which are, it
must be said, decided without blood
shed, though the little creatures
show no little ferocity.
The tortoise and crane are both
sacred animals in Japan, and the
former is often seen with the stork
walking about the villages, paying
no attention to the people, and as
safe as is the sacred OK in India
New York Sun.