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Bessie Sinclair.
LIKES COUNTRY L1FE.

hutetsviile. exas.--Dcar Haphammcr: As
l haven't seen any letters from here vet
WI make an attempt 10 write one I have
neen silent admrer of the Hap letters.
mink they are so interesting ! live In the
country and like country life. ! guess a good
many OF the Haps live in the city. WIN any
OF you tiaps send me the words OF "Cute Lit
tIe Shoes and Stockings1" ! have a little
Dro,her and sister. AS this Is my first letter
VIII close with the wish to join the Happy
hammer band. With best wishes for The
Houston Post and all the Saps, | am your
true Hap Leonide Amberr.
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ANOTHER LOUISIANA GIRL.

Keachie, La.--Dear Haphamner: Here
come. little brown-eyed Louisiana girl
wishing TO Join the Haps. and spend few
golden moments In written conversation with
our boys and girls. have seen very few
letters on the Haps' page from our little town.
In fact believe one OF my schcnlmates Il
tha only one who has ever written from
Keachia We have baen taking The Post
seven years. and have spent many pleasant
hours 10 reading the bright. CHEEKY letters OF
Ire Hsps. 1 could never gain courage sui
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A LOUISIANA GIRL IN TEXAS.

Marathon. Texas.--Dear Haphammer; WIN
YOU please enroll mo as a Happyhammer?
am le years old and live in Shreveport, La.
hut am visiting out here. ] expect to stay
here two months and then go home. IN
mates and my teacher His name IS Mt Pass.
more. He is from Besville. Texas, and !
like him much better than my .tescher las,
YEAR nj home am IN the sixth grade and
~, very fond Of music and can play the piano
very We'll. II is quite different out here from
Louisiana. 1t is all prairie aud mountains
ny NY i ,.yar saw snv before I am learning 70
,ids horseback and am very fond Of riding n
,ha mountains. In Louisiana We have most
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A HOUSTON HAP.

Houston, Texas.--Dear Haphammer: II has
neen such long time since | last wrote that
surrose you have all forgotten me- I am
II years old and go TO the Hamilton street
school am in the high fifth grade and |
study history. GEOGRAPHY. reading, arithmetic,
sFpn mar and spelling have n very good
teacher Her name is Miss Edith Green.
70 10 church and sunday school. | was very
much interested In the Spanish and Ameri.
can war. Your friend.
Bessie Sinclair
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l,empstead, TeSns.--Dear Haphsmmer: I
Muoio ike to talk awhile with the Haps. l
VIII only make short stay Sunset Wood,
ennlvyed your letter very much, but take my
,,v'p TO Alabama. asked mamma why didn't
NY ssNe horns, as | was born In dear old Texas
sle SAID she guessed l was a muiey She
outht 10 know. spent the day. with my
S s,l last Sunday and had a splendid time
good bye Katje Nal, Kan
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SANDERS SECREST. = Luling, Texas,
October 2o.-Married, at $3.50 O'Clock on the
evening Of the 18th. AT the residence OF the
brides brother in-law. Mr.. NJ l.. snaveiy
Mr.. G. Il. Sanders. local editor Of the I1u-
ling signal and Miss Larkie Secrest Of Al
tair, Colorado county. Rev. Theodore Oh
lette officiating No cards The Luling
correspondent OF The Post wishes bon yoy-
age 70 the happy Signal pencil pusher and
his fair bride.
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A TRAGEDY.

They've parted little Evaieen and me,
And all the world looks confortless and ssd;
So II my dolly. and she used 10 be
The sweetest child person ever had
sbo's four years old this spring, and confess
She IL not much to look OF In the face;
Her eye ls loose aud one Is out and--yes,
think her font has been misiaid some place.
Her curls come on when take OFF her hat.
Tic pink IA faded on her lips aud cheek;
Bui shes dear, dear thing for all Of that,
And life without her IL forlorn and bleak.
Ny mamma says she's "frightful 10 behold.
II made me cry--I love poor Eyaleen--
She's not TO blame because she Is growing OLD,
u breaks my heart to have her treated mean.
pibttEmouth. Etb. Isabel Ricbey.
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HAP TALKS.

~ the Haphammer Has to Say to
Our Boys and Girls.
pr Happyhammers: This is the time
" year when tho woods are strewn
leaves, forming a carpet for the
Md and blowing into every nook and
n. How many Happyhammers ever
~ 70 think why leaves fall? The
" Of d leaf Is brought about by the
nrsion Of thin layer of vegetable It's
u the point where the leaf stem joins
brunch Of the tree. After a leaf ceases
ME starch and sugar for the tree this
begins to grow and actually cuts the
"a. It is, therefore, not mere break
away on account OF the wind bending
area stems, but an automatic severing
as member no longer useful. After a
has fallen the scar left in the end of
txig becomes entirely healed over.
iAling Of ripe fruit is dependent upon
sane process.
|cck at your own nose. Do you know
lnlng about the inside OF it? Here are
facts about that useful appendage on
lielf aud other animals that may in
st you:
nsfe are fourteen bones in the nose.
= Psychologists assert that the olfactory
sa are destitute OF the power of SEN
e otherwise than TO detect odors.
O'osy' is not, as some might suppose,
G'ence OF noses. The term comes from
useek words and signifies the scientific
Sucailon Of diseases. In the finny tribe
10 communication between the
cA'Aies and the mouth. Fish do not
~eir noses in breathing, but breathe
Meir gills, so no communication Is
'y' Holsters can smell as well as
mat live upon the land. A piece Of
sea meat suspended in the water in
s."'s where Holsters are abundant will
I'D 0ipieteiy surrounded by greedy,
'4s crowd. The swordfish uses his nose
weapon of offense and defense. This
u often several feet long and
= On each side with strong horns.
/ 'uniiower. like the lily of the valley,
- neither does it spin, but for all
1 = useful as well as ornamental. In
~ iar does it carry its usefulness
sone portions OF the globe 1t ceases
= ornament and becomes altogether
Of utility. People in those sections
4, about the poetical fanoies in
sunfiower figures as the true
with its face turned ever
. the god of Light and cultivate it in
iact way for what it is worth,
ICY 40 potatoes and cabbages and
le most important part of the sun
"e seeds. They contain albu-
se quantities, a substance that
essential in sustaining life. The
lulactured from these seeds have
''eh to be of very superior quail
n economists who have Experimental
induction claim that when made
aaiiy cultivated sunflower seeds
s'raoie for table use, being a good
~ Tor olive oil in all salad dress
|, .ses cows and chickens evinee a
|. Saaness for sunflowers. So rapa-
ler appetite that they do not con-
&, seives TO the seeds alone, but de-
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A coon DOG STORY.

Houston Tcxas,--near Harhammer; WI,
you please excuse me for coming sgan 10
socns Since reading Ellen Smiths letter |
don't feel that can stay away. any longer
Yes, Ellen. the tables have surely turned on
us the majority OF our best letters are con-
tributed BY the boys; Two years ago the sirls
some good letters from the boys then, but
they did not write often. Guy Fagen was the
most frequent writer: Then our page was
qaito feminine; now II is very much mascu-
line. Yet must say that ! never enjoyed
reading our page more than ! do now. After
having read NIL the letters feel that have
boys. Their letters tell us they are gcntoe,.
manly and Intelligent, yet something within
mo whispers. "How wish more OF our good
girl writer's would return"
Georgia Wells, what has become OF you
Wien think OF tho nice. sweet letters you
wrote during the color contest, just want To
hug you, Please como back. ! hope Ellen's
letter will wake up our girls and cause them
to write more frequently.
J krow prairie Fairy" and Nettio and I
are going over soon and give her real good
shaking up for not writing oftencr.
MIR. Hap says dog sotrics are good subjects
for letters Here Is one which ! read some
tine ago.
An Englishman tells OF a fun loving skye
terrier that he once had. The dog used TO be
vary fond OF catching flies upon the window
panes and II rdieuled when unsuccessful WIS
order to see what he would do. his master
puiposely laughed immediately every time
ne ihilcu 10 eaten ny. IL 30 happened that
he did so several times In succession mud
eventually the dog became distressed that
he positively pretended 20 catch the n.y. golnp
through all the appropriate actions with his
lips and tongue and nfcrward rubbing tho
ground with his neck, MS II to XIII the victim.
He then looked up at his MUSTER with n tri-
umphaut air OF success. SO we'll was the
wEolo process simulated that HIS master would
have been deceived had he not seen that the
ny still upon the window. Accordingly
h. drew the dogs attention to this fact as
well rs to the absence OF anything upon the
floor. ard when he saw that his hypocrisy had
been detected he skunk away under some fur
ntur. evidently very much ashamed OF him.
self.
liaps. Houston can grew hne bananas ms
well ns some other things. Netiie Sconoid
sent mo the largest one yesterday | ever saw.
She pulled II from tree In her yard true
Hap. Sunset Wood.
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AnnIIr pRAIRIE DOGS.

San Angelo Teaas-Dear Haphammer;
am at the door again, begging for admission.
My, how our band Il growing am really
afraid there isn't room fer me, but you know
there is always room for one more Allow me
to compliment you all on your nice and inter-
esting letters
j will write something about the prairie
dogs. which are very plentiful on our broad
Western praIries, They live In holes, rang
Ing from 30 10 $50 feet In depth; Their color
is reddish gray. resembling squirrel very
much being Just a l'tle larger They have
a peculiar bark, something Ike that 81 q
puppy They live mostly or grass When
rrsss In scarce they eat roots and mesquite
bark. Sometimes they make raid on fields
and almost destroy them, as they are yery
fond OF wheat, oats and corn. Their enemies
are badgers wolves and rnttiesnakes. the
latter especially They 20 from hole 10 hole
and are very often stopped up by them end
left TO die OF staryaton. Their friendly COM
panions arc the burrowing ones and rabbits
bark while the others get 10 their holes and
take up the same chorus They are very hard
10 KIN One OF the most effective plans OF
discriminating them is draining water Toto
their holes but II Is rather difficult TO I'LL
some holes Each burSsw In surrounded by
a mound 4 to IL inches In height. This serves
10 keer rain from running into the holes
Where their holes are numerous they make
fast riding dangerous, as horse VIII fan
almost every time II steps In them They are
undesirable for food. Are very easily tanned,
but they are very misehieyous had rather
have A Iet rat than prairie dog. believe
that Is all I know about them.
II any one will send me the words TO MY
Sweetheart Went Down With the Malne,'
will send in return Just Tell Them That You
Saw Me-" From a little Han,
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sick aud afflicted Now. winic Carpenter. |
admire your pluck and courage In taking the
affirmative side OF the debate; ''Resolved.
that intemperanco Is n greater evil TO mankind
than ~ef. /. toe take the affirmative al
wsys, Nothing viii change me
spent the day with Niora Long Sunday
last and had nice time. Soon We win all be
back TO our studies again--the books we love
50 we'll. Henrietta Shrader. that was very
sad about your tathehr being Killed | was
so sorry when read your letter. Now. dear
Haps. have had rather q good chat with you.
30 think had better close. am your true
friend. A girl Of thirteen summers,
Mabel 1itsnn
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WORSE THAN WAR.

Bertram, Texas.-Dear Hsphammer: oh IL
is raining so hard out here, won't you let me
In? 1t has been raining all day nearly and
am so lonesome. ! think you viii let me
have a little chat with you all Our school
begins the LIST OF November. shall certainly
he glad. for ! am tired of vacation. Haps, !
would like for ycu to guess how much cot
ton have picked. The most have picked yet
Ia 800 pounds In one day. My sister has pick
cd AGO In one day this year, | am going 10
come up with her before wo quit picking II |
can. think l can. I am 80 sorry did not
get to send In my contribution for the monu-
ment. ] know all the Iiaps are glad that Mre.
Fagen has had the words carved on the tomb
OF her beloved son Guy.
Well, as the question is discussed which Is
the worst, intemperance or war, ! will say in-
temperance 10 the worst. a ran Ia called 10
fight for bis country and Is looked upon a.
an honorable man, but drunhard Is Just the
reverse He Is looked upon with shame and
dies almost without friend. A soldier has
many friends.
Haps, there was soldier OF company X
that was sent home dead. knew him we'll
Walter McClanshan OF Liberty Hill Ills
mother was n widow. She has three children
alive now. He died OF fever. Your friend,
Lille HuttO,
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ApMIREs THE HAPpYHAMMER SPIRIT.

Eigin. Texas.-Dear Hgphammer; II has
ben such long time since | wrote the dear
old Haps that fear many Of you have for r
gotten me. Nevertheless I am going to be
gin anew. You may expect 70 hear from me
often do SO admire the spirit OF hammer
ing happiness OF the Haps that I would like
70 be with them In their great. good work. and
help them some. as every little helps" Well
now the boys talk much about war that
xlrI / wanted 20 go right 10 var. hut ~
course bciuS a girl I stayed at homo. II
bnd been little older though. ! would have
Joined the Red Cross. for 1t would BIZ The
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A WEST TEXAS BOY

Colorado. Texas Dear Haphammer: May
] join your band Of boys and girls? | live
two miles from the town Of Colorado and like
to live here very much. will tell something
about cowboys. They get on their horses and
ride all day sometimes without anything TO
eat and maybe not get TO their homes until
dark BY the time they get their supper II
morning about o'clock and start out again.
But understand that am not cowboy. !
live on farm aud pick cotton. My father
has been taking The Post for long time and
enjoy reading tho Haps letters very much.
have been thinking Of writing 10 the Hnps
for some time. Cecil Horton. | enjoy reading
your letters very much. | like TO hear some
thing about the war. | read everything about
the war In all the papers, and find that tho
best war news Is In The Houston Post
Well. | will tell my age before | close I
am IA years old, and am In the Sixth grade
used to go TO school ut Boyce, Texas. and
moved 10 the town of Colorado. and I Ike
the West better than there Gus O'keaie.
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h 70 write to the Haps' corner before,
uut !, mas grown into such an Interesting
elnp ! can no longer keep silent II Is 4
very interesting debate the Haps are discuss.
Ins now. take tho affirmative side. be,
cause sincerely believe ,ntemperanve is by
fought A' '''' 'ee'
The word intempernncc alone speaks Tor
nseii. rink OF the homes that have been
oriven TO poverty on account OF whisky
nine millions OF dollars arc spent annually
Tor whisky IN our own country Just think
OF the schools that could be established aud
the cniidren that could be Clothed and adn.
Gated with that amount
lntemperance is exactly the cause OF all Tho
originated
war has horrors, but intemperance has more
than any other subject under the sun
All the Hap boys should be very careful
how they consider this subject
what has become OF all the old HIPS
Louisiana Girl" your last letter was splen-
did. How many OF the Haps attend school
I'm 80 glad the required sum was raised q
nuy Guys monument, II Maurice smith
sumpter Ethcridgc or Louisiana Girl will
write to mo I'll correspond with them. III
ASK a question; Where Is the longest verse
~ the Bible foundf With love TO all the
maps Itasca LaGronc.
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TRAIN WRECKED BY TRAMPS.
RUNS INTO A SWITCH WHILE GO
ING A MILE MINUTE.

Engineer, Fireman and brakeman
Injured-The Engine Blown to
Pieces. Coaches TeIescOped and
Tender nVerte6-Tramps Had
Thrown Open the switch, Cnusin 3
the Wreck as Well TO Others
Farther NOrth-Great Speed of the
Train Caused the Engine TO Leave
the Track at the Switches short
Turn.
Fulton, N. Y, Sept. 1.-Train No on
the New, York, Ontario and Western Rail-
road, known as the Chicago Limited, was
wrecked at ingalls, Crossing, four miles
south of this village. at 8 o'clock this
morning.
The wreck was doubtless due to the
dastardly work of tramps. who threw open
the switch at which the train was wreck
ed. as well as two switches to the north
of the wreck.
The train was an hour and quarter
late and running nearly sixty miles at
hour when 1t struck the switch and was
thrown over to the side track.
L he Idpll SIStN htdttS IL 4AAEO9SabAC ~
make a sharp turn and the train left the
track when it struck the safety rail.
The engine was thrown twenty feet
and blown to pieces
The tender was inverted.
The trucks of the baggage car were torn
off and the head coach telescoped the
baggage car.
A vestibuled chair car and the sleeper
Farragut were derailed but neither was
badly damaged
Engineer Dowd and Fireman Hall both
jumped, and were found under the wreck
age of the tender by passengers from the
sleeper Both were alive at the time, but
Dowd died in a few minutes and Han
succumbed to his injuries three hours
later.
The body of Brakeman Osborne was torn
into two.
The dead are;
ENGINEER B. c. DOWD, Oswego.
FIREMAN WILLIAM HALL, Norwich.
BRAKEMAN AL. OSBORNE. Wal
ton.
The injured:
York, three ribs broken.
David Mills, Oswego, face and legs
bruised.
John Golden, Oswego, burned about both
wrists.
/ C. A. Pitten. Ontario, Ont, hip strained
John Ross New York shoulder bruised
Peter j. Hawkinson, Swede, Wellesley
| Mass, scalp wound.
| c. A. johnson, Swede, Wellesley, Mass.
| scalp wound.
Gustave Magunson, Boston, injured
! about head.
Carl Svenson, Boston, injured internally
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New York, Sept. Following were the
results at Sheepshead Bay to-day:
First Race-Five furlongs. Anagram
to 5. won, with Helen Thomas, to 1
and to l, second, and Gaze, to /, third.
Time, 1902 AS.
Second Race-One mile and a furlong.
Laverock, to 2 won, with Hanwell, II
to 1 and to 2, second, and George Keene,
II 10 20, third. Time. 1:55.
Third Race-Six furlongs. Swftmas, g
to 3, won, with Harvey to l and to 2,
second, and Kinnikinnic, Y to l, third.
Time, TIA Is.
Fourth Race-The Reaper Stakes, one
and three-sixteenth miles. Latson, u to
/, won, with Candeblack, 8 to and l TO
2, second, and Mirthful, to /, third.
Time, 204.
Fifth Race-One mile. George B. Cox,
to /, won with Oxnard 20 to l and to
/. second, and The Winner, to 3, third.
Time, 40 3-5.
Sixth Race-The Partridge stakes, six
furlongs. King Barleycorn, to l, won,
with Himtime, to l and 6 to 5, second,
and Mr.. Phinizy, to 8, third. Time, LIS.
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SECRETARY HEsTER's REPORT.
He Makes the Actual Cotton Crop of
Georgia, 100000.

GeOFBIas A,O0O,OOOs
New Orleans, Sept. 1.-The totals of
Secretary Testers annual report of the
cotton crop of the United States were
promulgated to-day. They show receipts
of cotton at all United States ports for
the year of S,769 800 bales, against 6,S29, 100
last year; overland, 1881, S13, against 940,-
1872; Southern consumption, taken direct
from interior of the cotton belt, 1,192, S21,
against 382, making the cotton crop
of the United States for the year 1928
amount to II, 199994 bales, against S,7J7, 964
last year and 9,901, PSI in 1895.
Mr.. Hester has made his usual investi-
cation into the Consumption. of cotton by
every mill in the South, nsluding wooden
mills that have used cotton, and the re-
suits show a total of 1921 81. but of this
H,O3O were taken outputs included in port
receipts. This total shows that the mills
Of the South have used up 1879 40 bales
more than during 1869, and that the
South has nearly reached the one mil
hon and a quarter mark, against con-
sumption by the North of 1,S75000.
He makes the actual cotton crop of
North Carolina $4,000 bales; South Car
DINA, 1908, 900 bales; Georgia, 1886, 900; Ala
6ama, 1,159,000 bales; Florida, 10000 bales;
Mississippi, 1627, 900 and Louisiana TAO 900
BALES; Texas. 3,0T60O0 bales.
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A Reported Remedy for the Opium
Habit.

w. W. Winthrop, NJ. D.. in the Texas
Courier-Record of Medicine.
In an unclassif1ed plant, probably indl-
genous to the everglades of Florida, exists
one of the most perfect antidotes extant
for the various forms of the morphine
habit. 1t is known by the name of husa
and is of a dirty, whtish green color
about two or three inches long. Ii has at
its summit bah like, white formation
Where the flower should be this is hard
slightly lobulated, and is to all appear
ances like a small caulihower 1t grows
in clumps in moist, shady places partic.
ularly on the hHnNnocksF &C the ro6ts' OF
the cabbage palms. II is of q low ORDER
Of pIants. shove the moses; it is, be.
lieve, a cryptogarh. 1t is possibly indi-
gerous to,the1 everglades, for l hunted for
it in vain. in many large hummocks in
Florida. From DR. McGregor / learned
that it is a perfect antidote for all snake
bites, stings of insects, etc; also an anti
dote for narcotic poison. 1t is the most
diffusible stimulant known, acting imme-
diately. 1 have subjected the plant to
various tests, and found it an infanble
cure for the opium habit. 1t takes the
place of opium or morphine. Supporting
the patient fully, il is sedatv but net
narcotic. 1t produces slight citation. but
no somnolent effect To use the illustra-
ton of one physician who cured himself
of the opium habit with 1t, a habit of
twenty -three years standing, one who was
using forty grains of morphine sulphate
daily: 1T makes a man feel just as easy
and comfortable as one feels after a sat
isfying meal AS soon as / learned its
properties / sent some Of the husa plant
to several doctors I knew who used NOR
phine; they one and all pronounced it a
perfect success 1 have never known
OF failure when the patient wanted 10
be cured. In the hands Aof a careful ply
stefan this remedy will be found efficient
in the worst cases Of drug addiction"
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MESSAGE TO MISS BARTON.
President Advises Her to Cooperate
With Spanish Authorities.

Havana, Sept. This morning Miss
Clara Barton received a cable message
from President Mckinley telling her to
act in perfect concert with the Spanish
authorities and to turn over the Red Cross
Society's supplies to them if convenient
for distribution, helping them as far as
possible in this work, owing to her thor
ough familiarity with it.
All reports as to the conduct of the Gu
ban troops agree that they are we'll be-
haved and are observing the rules of civ
ilized warfare during the armistice.
The occasional report of violence and
robbery must not be laid at their door.