The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-26

70 have taken the liberty and turned my
dollar from Il. F's account over 10 Eana
Fowler. l lost my horse Sunday night.
October %. He got the collie and died,
which was a great loss to me, because II
was present made to me by Captain j.
II. blackwell here andI could iitt do With
out him. Although 1phave new one--a
bay now. my iret one was dun. Colonel
Lynch made me q present Of the bay. !
think because am Hap. God bless the
colonel. Say, Haps, what do you think
about the war In the Philippines, DO you
thing we have any right 70 take them away
from the Filipinos? think not McKiu
ley did not have any business to send his,
or TO be right about 1t III say our. sol-
diers there. Haps. II YOU look at IL right.
he is Just sending our boys there TO tell
the Filipincs to get out; We want your
land, your money and more, your lives.
Why might just as well go to Washing
ton and tell Mckinley to set out Of his
house get of the throne, I want t. bat
II you'll stay here and do as tell YOU
III let YOU stay. give you good food and
let you take care OF the house. II YOU
are not satisfied I'll kick you out Could
a man do THAR Dc you think he would
like that Well, It will never come that
Tar, for he won't be elec.ei seconl time.
The late war has given him tims--no, he
will get time after the nsxt e ton Is
oVer--to think over what good he has de-
rived from the Philippines. Hopiag fer
w. j. Bryan to win the next race and the
horse this one, l remain this time an I'M
called true Hap, Arno L.niua.
Dallas. Texns.--Dear Editor and Haps:
wrote to The Post few weeks ago and
was so overjoyed to see my letter in print
that thought ] would climb upon the
straw stack in the pasture and try TO sail
down to the ground like an old setting
hen. thrilling n few notes as sailed, but
upon second thought decided that 1T would
be more conductive to longevity to write
again and leave the sailing for the old
setting hen. | have just gotten home from
work Work is q good thing to make one
ENJOY ones lunch and sleep we'll at night.
Work and success go hand In hand. When
an Individual. community or a nation
quits work he signs his own death war
rant. starts upon retrogressiQn from
which they seldom turn. Imperial Rome,
by issuing daily an allowance to her citi-
zens, passed her zenith of power and glory.
AS the velocity of a ball rolling down hill
is accelerated so was the downfall of
Rome accelerated by the vice and corrup-
lion of her people. which was augmented
by luxurious living and idleness. So Haps,
let's be up and working, and whatever
may We UuJ lOt. ltt uS uAiuNi eohN ~ " 49,
the determination to overcome all OBJ
stacles 1t will expand and strengthen
mind give us the stamina, courage ana
ability to meet and surmount the difficult
ties that cross every ones patch. Here l
am giving the Haps lecture and this Is
only my second letter: but II you viii
forgive me this one time ! will never,
never do so again Well, Haps, | went
fishing the other day and stayed three
days. There We're six of us in the crowd
We drew lots to see who would do the
cooking. and. of course. drew the fatal
lot that condemned me to the Kitchen,
while the others were enjoying themselves
fishing | became an expert in preparing
boiled tea kettle, Those who have tasted
my boiled teakettle say 1t Ia fine some
times would make coffee in FIVE minutes
and sometimes in the coffee pot Never
theless. we all enjoyed ourselves hugely
The only thing we caught was a bad cold.
Minnie Shannon. come again. liked
your letter very much, We have very
nice subject for our next discussion, III
will be instructive as we'll as interesting.
! will ask question before l close IL
the world was to come to an end whiie
man was UP in balloon what would DC
land upon when he came down
George Ford.