The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-27

CUSTOM DAILY Pc:
cent net. on the investment That's doing
good deal better than good many corpora.
lions have done. Wisely managed beney0Ien,
work pays in every sense Of the word
| President Mckinley has let tho Philippin,
cat out Of the bag and pointed to the ''oper
| door"
chauncey Dcpew will read with Joy tn,
| news that either Joseph II. Choate or Elihu
Root Is likely TO be ambassador TO Grea,
Britain. 1t would be hard on the doctor.
| though. II one rival should be made British
ambassador and the other should get the New
York senatorship that his peachship covets.
The Jurisdiction OF Judge Lynch seems to
have been extended TO take In quite num-
Der OF the Northern States.
Hon. winbourne Pearc generously withdrew
his application for appointment to the Say
els cabinet In order to heip the chances OF a
frisbG from the same county. 1t was just like
this blk hearted democrat MIR. Pearce is quite
young yet. and there is something good com
ins To him after awhile.
The Post Ia candid enough to admit that
this talk Of erecting a monument to the late
Mr. eiDbs is somewhat premature.
Any white man who wants TO marry an In
dian woman In the Indian Territory Is bound
by law to pay $500 for marriage license.
This may be called race prejudice among the
only real native Americans" inasmuch as 1t
uaa uh f~h al
the enactment.
The Now York Sun has worked the expan-
sion proposition on Senator Ioar to the point
of inducing the cid man to think 1t over.
Judge Mccall proposes deep water con-
vention at Houston In the interest OF the
Buffalo bayou enterprise. The suggestion is
all right, but bless your life, Judge. well have
that appropriation before you could get the
delegates together.
Major Sayers has announced the members
Of his cabinet. 1t is not supposed that the
also-app'ed crowd will apply for n recount
After thinking the subject over all summer
the Chicago ice companies have Just an.
nounced reduction In price. II properly APP
preached the Coal Trust might be Induced to
cut down It's price for the summer months,
About as near as we can figure 1t out Mr..
McKinley's open door policy means that
we are to pay the expenses at free-for-a all
dance.
II Is n matter worthy OF note that mos,
of the department reports this year par
tisan arguments instead Of statements OF facts
about the government This is party ad-
ministration. all right enough.
1t is said that q well known London bank
Ing house Will convert the Venezuelan debt.
A converted debt Is not very apt to backslide
subsequently.
Hctty Green and her husband arc said to
havs made rp after arrangement Of many
years, But her husband is so. and an in
valid AT .ha;. the reconciliation is shorn of
most CT Its romance.
Yesterdays dispatches reported earthquakes
In Virginia the day previous. Not ahead of
Texas. We had several the day Sayers made
his appointments public.
II Tho Post were asked by liberal minded
citizen of Houston where he could make a
little generosity do a great deal of good. 1t
would tell him to help along tho Young Meas
Christian Association.
Differences are said to exist among the
members OF the war investigating board. Per
haps Captain Evan Howell has taken the
floor for few remarks
The democratic party had rebellion In
1896 on account OF the silver question. 1t be-
gins TO look like the republican party Is In
for similar experience In 1900 the
panslon question.
Vienna scientist has at last announced
that love itself is microbe." AS II always
attacks the unhttest. what chance Is there
left for poor bachelors uow7
Editor John Grant of the Texas State Jour
nal Ia so busy squirting Ink ut Ex-Governor
Hosg that ho may overlook a bet lie is
liable to forget to do Messrs. Hawley and |
Green.
And the New York journal. It also got out |
an advance notice of the presidents message
The next thing we may expect to hear Is |
that tho editor OF the Journal wrote the mes |
sage.
Over 1900 applications tor pensions growing |
out of the war with Spain have already been |
filed. And yet some people would seem to in
fer that tho expense account of the war is
all In.
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KIND WORDS ron TILE POST.
Fairfield Recorder; The Houston Post |
should be highly commended for the grea |
light II has made In The lnterS6t ot de-
N 4cracy.
La Grange Jouraal: Bastrop has had her
hane OF visitors the past week MAJOR |
sayaIs doubtless Thanks so Any way ThA
Houston loyts cartoon on this subject was
a daisy,
Gainesville Messenger: The Houston |
Posts can,oon on pie hunters was good and |
the rebake WIS deserving Such a mad |
rush for government jobs would ind clte
want OF Individual ability 10 make a living |