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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-09-25

Vsleria Taylor of Hardin would like to cor
respond with some of the liaps.
| Alma Spears OF Hocheim would Ike TO ex-
change songs with some OF the Haps.
Eena Stewart OF Farrsvile sends her love
and best wishes to the Happyhammer club.
Louella Whittle of San Pedro would like 10
correspond with few OF the Happyhammers.
Annie r. Cox of franklin would like 10 ex-
change songs with some of the Happyhammers
Julia Atkinson of Burnet asks this riddle:
White as white can be, and not white after
Thomas Taylor. Joe Farmer and other old
members
Katie Hillendahl who lives near Houston.
warts to know what has become OF Mrs.
Primrose.
| Florence Gentry OF Cego says she has been
picking cotton. Florence has some songs to
exchange.
Maud and Agnes Weller write from Sublime.
Ihey have two pretty dogs, one OF them be-
ing shepherd.
reaes the letters every week, and is very much
interested in them
Jackie" a seguin Hap. ought to know that
new rule OF the club does not allow the use
of rom de plumes
r. b. Harvey of Crosby says he has a friend
VINO lie q member of the Houston Post Rifles,
stationed at Santiago
Clifford Smith, who writes from Calvert
| is ieng distance telephone operator, and has
to hello" all day long
Lizzie Lowe OF Gonzales wrote again after
an absence of nearly two years. Lizzie hopes
we viii have contest soon.
n.llard Dalkopsky is the name of little
giri VINO VIII write the club letters from Tu-
MS Texas, She is u new Hap.
Belle and Ida Carpenter wrote from Thorn
Ton Belle would like to see a Happyham-
mer reunion. Ida is a new member.
iAi.nie Galloway OF Matagorda says she can
40 everything Miss Scofield mentioned In one
OF her recent poems and she therefore guesses
our poets age as Sweet sixteen
fellie and Dixie Kilgore of Glen Cove wrota
me- letters last MONTH but they got laid
asiae until too late to be printed, Polite says
sne Is gong TO piece crazy quilt and would
hfc for the Hnppyhammers TO send her a
few silk or satin pieces
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A BUTTON CHARM.

Lytle Texas.-Dear Haphammer: / don't
agree with you, sumpter Etheredge. l know
war Is bad but intemperance Ia worse than
war Any one can fight In the war and be
Christian hut no can't fight In the ranks Of
intemperance and be one. He has no hope
Of any better world than the bottomlees pit
when he is through fighting, but soldier
can have hope of brighter world than this
/ think like Gus Raney, the scars we have
10 take with us If we sin and they are always
making us think OF what might have been.
What has become Of Ora Dell, Cornelius
Combs Wiora Long, Bird Carl and all the
ola Haps9 I get lonesome and want to hear
from some of them. when ! wrote before,
asked for the words Of Some Mothers Child
and received four copies Of H. thank the
Hans Tor being 30 kind I'm going TO ask
each and every Hap TO send me three or four
buttons. am making a Happyhammef
charm string and want all Of the Haps TO
be remembered by H. Julia Gillespie and Mary
YarbrouGh have sent me some. Gus Raney,
would like TO correspond with you, II you
will write first. remain as ever, true Hap,
Bessie Chapman
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A WAVERLEY HAP

Waveriey' Texas,-Dear Haphammer; Here
comes stranger to Join your coy corner.
I've been silent admirer Of the Happyhau,.
mer page for long time, but never nave
written before ! see so many nice letters
every week from the Haps,
| spent two weeks In Huntsville and had a
nice time. | went to two dances and 10 a
birthday supper 1t was Miss Bessie fIol-
mans birthday. / correspond with her. I
think she Is such sweet. girl I was staying
with my cousins. Sue and Emma Jones Sue
came and spent two weeks with me this
sumner. will exchange with any Of the
cousins Sweet Bunch Of Daisies, 1.-THE
Dying Girls Message" and TOO Late and
the reply to Too Late" for Dying Ranger. :"
would like to correspond with some of the
Haps. Willie Winters.
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LIVES ON A RANCH

Tucker. Texas.--Dear Haphammer: II has
been some time since you have heard from
me- but l hope have not been forgotten, !
know how to sympathize with Guy Fagen 5
family from the very depths OF my heart, as
death has visited our home twice this year,
First Il took my dear grandmother In April,
and then on the 9Th OF August II took my
baby brother. aged years. Oh, 1t seemed
so hard for us 20 give him up, as he the
idol OF so many hearts.
I live in the country on o ranch on Trinity
river. There are number of beautiful lakes
within a milo Of u.s. and ! do wish some of
the Haps could VISIT me. We would have 50
much fun boating, horseback riding and fish
Ing. ! attend school in Palestine and was
promoted to the seventh grade and received
The highest honors In my classes. | love pets
and have two canary birds named Rock and
RAGS. and have great time with my dolls.
have written enough for this time. With love
and good wishes TO ALL / remain,
Gertle Grigsby.
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LOVES TO RIDE HORSEBACK.

bedias Texas.--Dear Haphammer: WIN
You welcome into your merry band another
little 1S-year-old glrl2 | live In a small
country village, where we have good
school. nice literary society, two churches
and two good Sunday schools. Ny papa Is
a physician ans We have pleasant. happy
rome. Our Jcncol has been taught the past
three sessions by Prof. C. NJ. Henry and
wife. ! dearly love both my teachers. who
showed their pupils Daught but love and
kindress for three years DO any of the
Haps Ike riding horseback? do. My little
brother, Lamar. and myself enjoy many a
pleasant ride together, and are often Joined
by some CT our little friends which. OF
course, adds TO the pleasure. Lamar has a
Newfoundland puppy named Dewey"
Love and best wishes OF
Vera 3. WeatharobeN
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LOTS OF GEESE AND GAMBLERS.
THE HAPHAMMER CLUB.

Written by a Happyhammer for The Post
Thousands of their hammers do ring,
While we hear the mockingbird sing,
And the violet peeps up from the ground
While the oak waves its branches around
And the shepherd dog tends to the sheep,
While the farmer his Indian corn does reap
Down the road goes boy wearing rose
AMI gray
And hammering happiness every hour and
day.
Our motto and selections we must not
forget.
And our contest we must have the time act
We must all hammer happiness when and
wherever we can"
And let our hammers ring throughout the
land.
Philip Webster.
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OVER A HuNpREp YEARS OLD.

Davilla. Texas,-Dear Haphammer: Here
come two more little girls 30 ask for little
space in the Haps page Pearl Jamison, you
asked how many OF Us girls would like 70 be
nurses I (Lenal would certainly Ike 70 10
one. / think It Is such a grand calling, Just
to give your whole life TO wait on sick peo-
pie / like TO wait on sick people so much.
Haps. there is an old negro woman living
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WAR THE GREATEST EVIL.

+, Paso, Texss.--Desr Haphammer: In my
last letter promised to give my reason why
wa- is worse than intemperance. but TO those
VINO read the daily papers my argument viii
be useless. II Is only few weeks since our
owl. brave boys who were wounded In battle
were left on the battlefield for nearly twenty
four hours without food, wetar or medical aid
and some OF them were unable TO even crawl
TO the shade Can those Of the affirmative
side imagine anything more terrible than a
day and night spent on battle-ground?
Thirsty and almost overcome by the Intense
heat for hours. and then when night comes on
he Is chilled by the falling dews SO that day
light finds him stiff. weak and almost dead?
Lot those who have taken the affirmative
SIDE imagine they have father. brother,
friend or sweetheart Ia some battle and see
him fail seriously but not fatally wounded.
His comrades pass on and he is left IN his
fate His injuries render him helpless aud he
is tortured by heat and mosquitoes Jointly
tin he Is almost driven mad. Then the for
ests catch fire from some cause ia common oc-
cur ence during a battlel and when he is
forrd the iifeless body has been burned TIL
his comrades can not Identity him. You may
pniut out an occasional Instance OF equal guf-
fering, caused by intemperance. but doubt
IT and you must remember that the soldier
has no choice but to go. while there are
thousands striving daily 70 save the drunkard
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HAP TALKS,


a Happyhammers: One of the best let
{ Ms week was that descriptive of oysters
@Aeir mode of living. Letters and stories
n the things of nature are always read
interest and animal plant life could be
n the subject of many good letters for
l8age. There are many queer things on
and in the water for the Haps to learn
q and members who select these QUITO
~py objects for their descriptive letters
Hgood taste. You will all Learn some
n today from that oyster letter. There
Ekeveral other good talks from the Haps
Neek and the page Will no doubt contain
hing for all to read with pleasure. The
4mmer has nearly caught up with his
&though some OF the letters printed today
@r!tten In August.
hing about queer things, what DO YOU
Rof an egg that sold for nearly 5000? You
probably do great deal of thinking
|alking before you paid that price for
Xgg, yet a certain Mr.. Field paid that
|and thought he was getting a bargain.
egg was sold at Stevens auction rooms,
Pn Tho opening bid was about s26250
ping in dollars and cents, or so guineas.
h money, The bidding was kept up
/ lively for some time. but when Sir
said. I'll give ss40'--or its equivalent
binds and shiIllngs-the offer staggered
>mpetitors and as no one considered 1t a
3 Investment to give more than that for
g 1t was sold to him.
II think for a minute that this precious
Vas laid by common barnyard hen to
I'VE the commonplace end of omelets and
fds. Oh. no. The great aux was re-
1ble for it. and the great aux, which was
ristocratic sort CT bird OF the aquatic
Is, being the northern branch Of the pen
4amily. didn't condescend to lay eggs for
ory purposes. when the great aux laid
&g 1t was an event. She left the water
4urrowed deep holes in the send for her
Ind deposited an egg the size Of a swans.
are very few Of these eggs owned by
hllsts and museums, comparatively
Ping, sixty being the number so far
Down. and there Is little chance of more
secured, as the great aux is supposed
extinct.
all know what the Fahrenheit Their
Eter is. no doubt, and pretty soon you
pc looking at the one that hangs out
fhe front door to find out how cold tho
Der Is. and II there is danger of frostIng
4 nose II you so skating. Prior to the
teenth century people had to trust to
feelings entirely to ascertain the tenn
pre- of the weather, or OF anything else,
bat matter. But in 1920 Gabriel Daniel
enheit invented the mercury thermom-
the one that is In common use today
f-perlmenters had indifferently sue
- making Instruments that would
differences in Temperature. These had
Rbes filled with OIL spirits of wine or
tances and were uncertain. Fahren-
native Of the German town of Dan
re he made failure as a merchant
turned his attention to mechanics
lly Invented the Thermometer thst
name and which soon became pop
pushout the civilized world He re-
Amsterdam. Holland, shen a great
center. The Inventor was such q
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state of Texas, County OF Harris. IS.
J. w. II. Palmer, cashier OF the above
named bank, do solcmnly swear that the
above statement Is true. 10 the best of my
knowledge and belief.
w II, PALMER, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before mo this cath
day OF September. 1895.
NJ. sTUBENRAuCH
Notary Public. Harris County, Texas
Ccrrect--Attest;
A. F. ROOT,
Angus ST herring.
q. j.. COCHRAN.
Directors.
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quiet, unassuming man that little is known
about him. the date of his death even being
a disputed question. II Is generally believed.
however. that he died September i6, 1855.
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LIVING IN AUSTIN NOW.

Austin. Texas.--near Haphammer: | haye
rot VISITED the capitol yet. 30 ! cant tell you
anything whatever about II. | am going TO
make my home in Austin but. how long 10
see Gear old Houston once more Austin seems
much healthier than Houston, but then there
Is not place SO dear TO me as the Magnolia
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near us who says she is ia years Old Her
head is as white as II can be. How many o.
you ever saw any one that old.
Mrs, Lewis, will you allow little girl ia
compliment your poem which appeared on our
PAGE not Long ago. ! can't call TO my mind
the name. but thought II was the swcetos,
so much
Fannie Lee walker) would like very
much to correspond with some OF the Haps
II any OF them will write hrst Elolse Nor
ris. allow us to compliment your letter or
the Evils OF 1ntemrersnce. Your argument
was splendid. tLena) am so glad the Haps
ARE sisnng their true names ,d ih y $50 %
another letter from you. For fear OF wearing
out our welcome we VIII close. Two happy
IIaps
Lena Gregory and Fannie Lee Walker.
HE HAS TRAVELLED
Louise. Texas.--Dear Haphammer: VIII you
please admit another stranger into your happy
band of IIappyhammers? ! read the Hsps'
page every week and think 1t the incest page
father takes Tho Pest. | have been travelling
ali summer and visited ST. Louis; Chicago,
Memphis and other large cities. Elo'se Nor
rs, | agree with you about intemperahce
being greater evil than war. When a
drunksrd gets down In the world, everybody
shuns him and nobody cares whether ne lives
or dies. But soldier Is cared for ana Is re
spectcd BY everybody. He can so In the very
best society. And soldiers grave is honored.
whereas drunkard has few tears shed Tor
him. The cost Of war is great. but the cost
OF drink is greater. There are destitute fam
lilies caused by the father and husband being
q drunkard. And they are driven to shame
and crime and their aouls lost forever. what
Is psltry few millions OF dollars comparedi
to the souls OF women and children ana men
AS this Is my first time and We can't write
long letters will close, wishing best luck
for the Hans Blum Chlttum.
LOTS OF GEESE AND GANDERS
Calvert, Texas.--Denr Hapbammer: have
lust returned from an overland trip TO Sutton,
1exae enjoyed the trip there aud back very
much and would have enjoyed 1t more II ore
of the mules had not taken the collie aud died.
Pa made good deal of money going down
there, selling settings of goose eggs.
We have tho largest drove of geese and
gancers In the county, Our flock numbers 4i+
and We have seven settings now. Some very
rade boys thai live IN town killed nine OF our
gees. list Saturday. l have to work hardfrs
papa is sick nearly all the time with asthma,
and when one OF those smothering spells como
on kim in the pea patch he has to get right up
and come to the house. Your true Hap,
Turtle DigSers.
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San Marcos, Texas.
CRAWFISHING.

Lynchburg. Texas.-Dear Haphammer:
Here l come again after a long absence
Well. Haps, how are YOU all getting alonl
now! ] guess you have forgotten me, bun
| have not forgotten you yet. Come again
lnez Bell, and tell us about crawfishing
| like to crawfish myself. but mamma sayy
am getting too large for that now.
think that is good place where you live
to catch crawfish. / was at Crosby once
and 1t seemed as If there was a crawfish
for every foot of land. | am glad you all
got to your picnic all right and had nice
time. have sister living at Lynchburg
and when | go down there have a fine
time Grabbing with my nephew and nieces
But we don't catch them as large as the
crabs in Cuba.
am going down to Lynchburg Sunday
ard go boat riding. What has become Of
joe Farmer and the Price boys. Come
again boys Tom Jacobs
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Berta Clark.
WHERE THERE ARE MAD WOLVES

Cotulla, Texas.-Dear Haphammer: II has
been long time since wrote to your bappv
band The last time / wrots you were having
dog contest and | voted for the shepherd
ana was SO glad he won. II is getting mighty
Dry out here. but we have plenty of water
and grass. / live close to the Nueces river.
and not far from big lake called Ancenia
We mad plenty Of water about two months
ago. II rained so much that the river got un
so niRh that the water came right I'D close 10
the house. and think that there is enough
water TO last
All YOU can hear about out here In this
country ia mad wolves and war The wolves
are taking the country. they are coming to
peopie's houses and biting. They have BIZ,
doSs and several persona but none have
gone mad yet. One bit a Mexican the other
day and the doctor said he would go mad Ia
less than two weeks. One went IN a man :
house whore he was sleeping but | don t
think be gave II time 70 bite him, for he got a
QUIT and held II between him aud the wolf,
ana begaIpto jump and boiler He said that
be muFt have the best bedstead In the world,
or he would have broken II down | saw IN
Thomas Taylors letter where he said that
there was nothing but Jack rabbits and donk
eya IN Maverick county. ! live in Dimmitt
county and II Joins Maverick. | guess II he
was to see this county he would ray 1t had a
few rabbits itself. You can see cotton tails
by the Thousands and lots OF ''muley ears
out on the prairies. The cottor tails prefer
the brush and pear and the muley ears the
prairies Robert II. Tramnell
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RIDDLES ASKED AND ANswEREn


Baale Lake Texas.--Dear Haphammer.
Here Is another little -year-old girl knockiny
at the door for admittance into the band Of
loilV lttle Haps, Long have | wanted to
Join, but the lack of courage kept me back I
live three miles from the town of Eagle Lake
The country is very pretty and the lake Is a
thing OF beauty, covered with tall rushes and
lilies. How wish the Haps could have their
reunion here What a great time we could
have fishing and boat riding. Mr. Hap. cant
time7
Adine Addicks, ! will try TO answer a few
OF your riddles and ask a few myself
Coffee aud dull az each need to be ground
to make them useful.
Dead in the middle and alive at each end
man blowing.
will ask few: /. Where did the coc,,
crow when every one In the world heard him !?
2: What two letters tell the fate OF every
thinsE .. why do white sheep eat more than
black ones? A. Why does a mans hair turn
gray earlier than his beard? With love to ali,
the Haps. am, your friend,
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REPORT or THE CONDITION
--OF~-
The First Natl Bank OF Houston,
EsoljRCEs

Al Houston. In the State Il Texas, at the close
OF business, September 20, 1888,
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NEW HAPPYHAMMERs.
SOME SHORT LETTERS,

Number Of Happyhammers
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-10-19
At the Telephone Exchange.

There was excitement among
the boys at the Telephone Elk
change yesterday afternoon. A
citizen, very much incensed, walk
ed directly into the room where
the boys do their work, notwith-
standing the fact that there is a
sign of "no admittance" near by.
He found the operator he wanted
and began on him. The latter
answered politely that he had
made a mistake and had corrected
it Immediately. There had been
no back talk. The other operators
could testify to that.
The citizen continued to Jump
the operator when the chief opera
tor took a hand and delivered him
self as follows: a. want you to
get right out of here. You have no
right to come into this room. Now
get out. You say L won't be head
operator if L am not careful.
don't care a snap of my fingers
about thai l am in that position
now and You've got to CO."
The citizen left and hunted up
the superintendent. Matters have
been settled. No one has been dis.
charged.
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THE MYRTLE PLANT.

In the window of the Pacific
Hardwa Co. will be seen another
production from the pen of Viggo
Jacobsen. 1t is an honorary mem
bers' roll of the Myrtle Boat Club
artistically illuminated. Mr..
Jacobsen gives the following in.
teresting history of the myrtle
plant and its Significance:
II don't know how the Myrtle
Boat club came Ivy its pretty name,
but it is a marvel to me that the
flower never seems to have been
used as by tn members as their
emblem, since it is to be found all
over the city, and also lends itself
well to decorative purpose.
Without wishing to be pragma-
teal, | may remind you that the
proper home of the shrub is on
the shores of the Mediterranean,
and that the classics held it i'll
special veneration. 1t was dedi-
Gated to Venus, the goddess of
love, whose temples we're general
" EMPOWERED amid myrtle groves.
The Magistrates of Athens wore
myrtle wreath as their badge of
authority, and victors in war or
athletics were decorated there
with.
"These ancient traditions are
by no means worn out. Thus, in
Northern Europe, where the shrub
is hot house production, it takes
the place of the orange blossom.
| have a vivid recollection from
my childhood of witnessing my
sister receiving a deputation from
some humble village folks, with
whom she had became a favorite,
and being presented by them with
a myrtle in flow pot, the custom
being that the young lady careful
ly nurses the plant until her wed.
ding day, when she wears a wreath
made up of Its leaves. Again,
the successful competitors at the
Olympic games in Greece a few
years ago, were handed a sprig of
myrtle by King George himself,
and | venture to say that those
among them who were of the
Latin races at least, valued this at.
tentlou by his.Helenic Majesty a
great deal more than any prize Of
money or trophy that they might
receive in addition"
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Grand Military Ban.

Invitations to the military hop
given by the officers of the Ma.
tional Guard of Hawaii to the
United States Army and Navy
officers now here, were issued
yesterday. The dance is for Fri
day evening and will take place in
the drill shed. Evening dress"
and Military in fatigue"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-09-17

No-To-Bac for rffty cssss.
ousrsuteed tobacco habit cure. makes weaA
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WATER FOR
THE CITY
Condition of PaWtuXet
River Improved.
VERY LITTLE POLLUTION.
What There Is Does Not Come From
the Big Corporations.
PATROL SYSTEM IS MAINTAINED
PATROL SYSTEM IS MAINTAINED

Since ex-councilman Whiteley has
been employed as one of the inspectors
of the Pawtuxet river water there has
certainly been a great Improvement In
the condition of things. particularly at
thelyillages of Fiskeville Natick, Phe-
nix. Lippitt. Riverpoint. Centreville.
Anthony, Quidnick and other places.
For a long time there has been a will
ingness on the part of the manutac-
turers to comply with the request of
the inspectors in constructing tight
vaults OF cement on property situated
near to the banks of the river.
1t Is stated upon what appears to be
good authority that what pollution Is
caused today does not come from the
property of the corporations so much
as from individual property owners,
and IL is to prevent sewage matter
from being carried by lesser streams
into the river that gives the inspectors
the greatest trouble. In almost every
instance the wastes from dye houses
along the stream are run into settling
basins, and only after sedimentation is
the LIQUID allowed to run into the river.
The patrol system on the banks Of
the river is certainly a most excellent
thing, for through IL a large amount of
Objectionable matter can be kept out of
the river, which, IL the city ceased its
vigilance. would be carried down to the
pumping station. and whatever system
of filtration is used, II any. the patrol
system will be kept up.