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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
SOME PosTsCRIPTs.

This country consumed 9SOO0,0OO pounds
o. tea in 1897, valued at sl2,O00,O0o.
Great Britain buys more than 10000 horses
in the United States every year.
The most costly parliament in Europe is
that of France. 1t costs sl.500,O00 year.
A man walking day and night without rest
ing would take 42s days to journey around the
world.
The Friends have ninety colleges in the
United States with a total attendance of 10000
students
A new womans club to be started in Lon
don to which no one under six feet in height
will be admitted
The Lutheran church in Iceland numbers
about $4,000 baptized members, which Is about
the total population.
Dogs in Hamburg are taxed according 10
size-the bigger the dog. the higher the tax.
huge wine barrel at Nancy recently ac-
commodated at dinner $50 workmen, who had
been building it for the Paris exposition.
THE lies the blamed newspapers publish
about u.s." said one politician to another, lis
enough to drive man to drink" Eyes that's
so,' replied the other, but still we have no
cause for complaint" why not?" asked the
first In surprise. well. 1t might be much
worse" was the reply. They might publish
the truth. Chicago News.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
Campaign Fund.

The method adopted by the National
democratic committee to raise funds for
the campaign OF 1900 is an encouragine
sign of the times. The party can expect
nothing from the corporations and trusts.
II must rely for the sinews of war upon
the common people. The plan of direct
personal appeal to democrats has been
neer- adopted. They are asked to give af-
ter tin plan adopted by the churches, "as
God hath prospered them" They may
pay cash or sign note payable by speci-
ned installments monthly, or the entire
amount at given date in the future. 1t
is hoped to raise at least two millions of
dollars. This will be sufficient for legiti-
mate expenses. Yet 1t will be a small
amount compared with the ''corruption
Iund' to be raised by the republican. party.
That party can only hope for success bv
purchase, The trusts, corporations and
syndieates bought McKinley's way into the
Whlte House, as they have bought that
OF every other republican president ex
cept Lincoln. His success was due to
absurd divisions among democrats The
oniy limit TO the fund to be raised by
republicans is the amount they will think
needed. They can raise a billion dollars
as easy as million. They will get every
pnrchasable vote. II one price don,t 90,
him, they will raise 1t until tho dIviding
line between cupidity and patriotism is
reached 20
The democratic committee now has
representative in Texas. He was In Dali
las the past week, whence he came from
other towns OF North Texas. He Is meet
ing hatterlng success. Texas ought IA
raise quarter of a million dollars If
necessary, she'll do 1t, too.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
POINTS Apour PEOPLE.

| George Harris. a Boston cab driver. hal
accumulated a fortune of 100000 during Mi
lifetime by the investment OF his fares.
NJ. Mlllerand. the French socialist minis
ter Of commerce. is one OF the best informed
men in Europe with regard to American ar.
fairs
Rudyard Kiplng is at rockingham, neal
write any more this year, but will devote
hin time to rest and recreation.
Alison D. Matson. mayor OF Chicago In
lS4. Is still alive. and in perfect health. He
is the last surviving chief of the old fire de-
phrtment. and was a member of the nrst
bucket company formed In Chicago.
George D. Matson. the Mormon saint pio.
neer and Indian fighter, is now taking tour
through the East. He is a native Of Whining
tom Del. He was. when but is years DID, one
of the 144 men who started from Omaha for
Utah in 1s47.
William F. Coston, who designed the army
transport flag now in use on all government
transports. and who. In June last received
patent for the design. has assigned the pat
ent to the war department for the nominal
sum OF 81.
Colonel Albert A, Pope. the millionaire bi-
cycle manufacturer, first saw a bicycle in
Philadelphia ut the Centennial Exposition OF
1876 He was fascinated by the machine and
spent several days in studying its mechan
ism and unconsciously laying the foundations
of his great fortune.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
A Corporation olive Branch.

! new YORK Journal.
The Pennsylvania railroad has taken
long step on the road that leads TOWARD
| industrial peace 1t has established a sys,
tenn of retirement and pensions. not BULL
upon sums compulsorily held out from the
wages OF its employees, but paid for by
me company Itself. 1t Is estimated tina,
the expense to the corporation will be
about 100000 a year.
Every employee who has served for thirty
years, or who has reached the age of 70,
is to be retired on a pension. the allow
ances to be based upon length of service
and the average wages received by the
pensioner during his working career
The cost of this arrangement to the
Pennsylvania railroad will be trifing in
comparison with the benefits the corpora
tin Will receive from the plan. II the
scheme is carried out in good faith every
employe Will gain interest In his work
His position Will become property. like
an insurance policy. which will increase
in value from year to year. The company
Will be insured against frivolous strikes.
IL will know that nothing except serious
grievances can induce its men to risk their
places, and II strike Is threatened 1t will
know that some substantial wrong has
been committed which ought to be re-
dressed.
On their side the men will have sense
of security that is seldom felt in this era
OF unbridled competition, on the principle
of every one for himself. They will feel
reasonably certain of holding their places
as long as they are able to work, and OF
enjoying peaceful old age afterward.
The Pennsylvania managers are wise in
their generation. They have adopted the
only course that offers any hope of de-
laying the approach of public ownership of
railroads
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.

Life lies deeper than Its leaves.
The present needs patriots as well as tn,
past.
Enthusiasm is the fountain of perpetual
youth.
Your opportunity is balanced by your oSli-
cation.
creed works better as an engine than as a
track.
II is not history alone that has room for
the heroic.
The room for improvement is usually a
spucicus one.
Man is not a candle that burns out. but a
lamr that God refills.
II truth is broom one end Is to hold and
the other to sweep with.
Tho men who make the world are the men
who are not on the make,
God shines after the storm and the rain
drops of tears become diamonds.
Adversely is the grindstone on which we
lose enough TO put an edge of usefulness on
our lives.
The doubt that is an interrogation may be
blessing, but II 1t is determination II is a
curse
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

purpose OF breaking up or destroying union
labor in Colorado. Again.. says the POST
Dispatch. that the trusts and combines
are determined to break down labor
unions seems evident from the fact tina,
there have been eight street railway
strikes during the past two months
nearly every one OF which involved the
question of recognizing the employees
unions" In CHATTANOOGA the company sim
ply and boldly ordered the men to drop
the union or quit the service OF the COM
panyl
1t will be easy enough for the employers
to spend millions to win such a struggle
they will quickly get 1t back from I'M
protected and helpless labor.
1t looks from these cited instances as
II the fight were really on. The working
men who voted by thousands for McKn-
ley in, 1895 are just now beginning to reap
pathy for them were not other thousands
who were true to their interests involved
notable feature about these strikes
is the ease with which in every instance
non union labor is being secured to take
the place of the strikers. The country
appears to have idle men by the thousands
ready to work at anything, take low
wages and subject themselves to danger
of great bodily harm and even to loss of
life to get these vacant Jobs.
Does this look like widespread pros
perty?
Are these the good times McKinleyism
has brought?
But the most significant fact OF all is
that one of the great administration pa
pers, the New York Sun, is doggedly and
Openly opposing unionism! Will labor con-
tinue TO remain blind politically?
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
Should BE Promoted.

Judge Force Of Dallas county has ruled
that newspaper editor arraigned ON an
Indictment for trial, has the same priyI-
iese IN the trial court as has any other
citizen who may be indicted for crime.
Inc ruling was made In the HAYDEN Gran
MI libel suit, which is now on trial in the
Dalias county court, Hayden, at the in
stance OF Cranfll, having been indicted
tor libel Judge Force ruled that the de-
lenaant, under the constitution, has the
right 10 prove the truth OF the alleged
,ioeiious publications. This privilege has
neeh heretofore denied newspaper pub
hsners and editors. not only by trial
Judges, but by judges of the superior
courts. In making the ruling Judge Foree
ueeiafed that one Texas court, at last.
would respect the constitution and that
any defendant in his court might plead and
prove the truth in justification Of the act
On On winch he stood charged. Citizens of
texas who desire that courts shall mete
pu' justice should remember Judge Force.
ne is much too large for county court.
re, Win two other men OF equal ability
ana Individuality, as judges of the court
VI criminal appeals or the supreme court
VI Iexas, would do much toward making
respectable the judiciary OF Texas.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

Houston has moro than qaadruplcd In nearly
all directions and In sections there are twenty
reople where there was one or none before
good roads were built. This county has now
the best roads in the State.
~
The Colorado Citizen indorses Editor ouslcy
as follows:
Editor ousley OF the Galveston Tribune
has been prominently mentioned by number
OF our contemporaries as a suitable gentleman
fol- appointment to the presidency OF our
state university An experienced teacher. a
profound scholar, clever and polished gem
tlcman, close student and resident OF Texas
the Citizen is OF opinion that his appoint-
intnt would not only give general satisfaction,
but add TO the scope and verge of the uni
Nersty's usefulness
And The Post heartily Endorses what the
Citizen says.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
r1eHrrNe rnApEs-uNIoNIsM.


There is one thing standing in the way
now that the St. Louis Post Dispatch
thinks these giant combines OF wealth
would and could afford to give millions,
II not billions. to get rid of--organized
union labor! II they could only reach a
point whore they could freely use unor-
ganized pauper labor they could call the
world their ownl
Apparently the combines have control
OF the high officers of the National gov
eminent, largely OF the Federal judiciary
the most important fact OF all--of con-
gress, and majority. possibly, OF the
State legislatures. That they will be put
down except by full democratic control
OF the government they never fear, and
In their power and arrogance they feel
capable OF always retaining republican su-
premacy In ono house or the other of
congress. There Is but one thing else to
obtain absolute mastery of. and that is
labor. But once let trade-unionism be
broken OF It's strength and the masses of
the Nation are at the mercy OF the trusts.
With pauper labor they could cut down
wages while raising prices and thus drain
the wealth Of America into their Golfers.
The United States would then indeed be-
come plutocracy, Or government of
wealth. instead Of democracy. Of for
and by the people.
That there Is now being witnessed the
beginning OF this great fight to disrupt
unionism. our St. Louis contemporary sees
abundant indications. 1t Is said that tho
Shelter Trust In Colorado has. with the
mine owners, lost 100000 since the be-
ginning Of the lockout Of the smelter men
thsrs. and Ores and Metals. Denver min
Ing journal, says the lockout IL for the
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
Legislative Manual.

One Of our esteemed exchanges devotes
column to telling the origin of the
slang phrase laying down. 1t originated
In the Texas legislature, aud was used OK.
tensiyely by the Twenty-sixth. II is when
you have got s23 In the pot, draw 10 a
three-card flush and catch spade ana a
heart Then you ''lay down
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
Only Range Delivery.

Corsicana Sun.
A New York paper says We bought m.
Filipinos from Spain at SO per head and
they arc ours. II seems. Admitting ,ha
statement to be correct. That We only 90,
range delivery, and that the purchase ~
not profitable. Tho rounding UP and brand'
ing IL costing world OF money.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11
rlIE HOUSTON DAILY POST.
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

A successful experiment has been made In
rice culture down about Esxle Lake. The
fact Il II proper preparations for irrigation
are made this whole coast region can be
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

II Is greatly to be feared that the soldiers
who are returning from the soaked phiip.
pines will have greater contempt or fear OF
water hereafter than ever beforci
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

MT Bryan is still addressing audiences mum.
boring thousands wherever he goes. There Ia
evidently great curiosity among the mnsses
to hear dead man" talk!
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

1t is said that there is n prospect of the
revival of the iron industry at New Birm-
ingham in this State III convict labor can be
secured" The iron industry is booming every
where else in this country without the use
of convict labor. New Birmingham can pos
sibly make a success with free labor II others
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

Dynamite is still being used in Cleveland.
either by strikers or their lndiscreet friends.
But 1t is having its effect--it is arousing the
citizens. and especially the merchants, against
the strikers and boycotters. No strike was
over won against the law and the forces
back of law and order.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

The nut which the administration will never
be able to crack is the point that they would
give Cuba independence and subiugate the
Filipinos. There are not wanting many men
who know both peoples who maintain that
the Filpinos are the more capable OF the two
of self government.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

made a great rice producing section. Rico.
sugar, tobacco. corn and vegetables. melons
and fruits ought to be our mainstays and
make the Texas coast region one OF the richest
on the continent
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

THE DAILY POST. n the SUNDAY POST.
sEMi.wHHKLy POST, ns Coils. PEI Week
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

Main street is paved from Franklin to Me-
Kinney now with asphalt and when a few
nnishing touches are made and the side
walks next TO the curbing properly attended
TO- there Will not be handsomer business
street anywhere, II is contamination thar
has long been devouty wished. Now for more
OF the same kind OF work on other streets
badly In need OF It!
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

In comforting additional authority upon the
health officer OF the city. the council acted
wisely. 1t serves to locate more directly
the responsibility for the cleanliness and
health of the city. The public will know bet
ter who to praise or who to blame in these
matters
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

Some expert who is familiar with the track
is trying to get Senator Burrows to hedge.
and the senator is doing the best he can
under the circumstances. He still sticks to
his original proposition. however. that the
war in the Philippines must be ended soon or
the republican party will hear something
"drap."
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

| Tho South Americans are easier to get at
than the Filipinos and South America is an
easier fighting ground than the Philippines
They will have to 20 slow with that alliance
against the United States. The whole OF
South America has less than 5o,oOO.o0o popu-
lntInn.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

her old servant. Nance" who had
grown up with her and had been her maid
from her young ladyhood to the time that
sickness prevented her further service
in that capacity, was stricken few days
ago after Mrs. Pickens' illness with the
same malady that laid her mistress low.
Love of the beautiful, best exemplified
In flowers, and a rare charity for the I'm
fortunate. were the marked traits in Mrs
Pickens character. ~.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

me riekens mansion is an ideal old
IIy ys nome OF the ante bellum period.
many OF It's kind. 1t shows rayages
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-11

Emperor william expresses himself on all
occasions as friendly TO the United States
The United States will always meet him half
way. but we never go any further and we
generally know where the half mile post
stands. The fact is there is no cloud on the
horizon Of our foreign affairs now in any d.
rection--not excepting Canadas big brave
talk
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-10
CHEAP WAY OF MAKING ICE
Man Fills His fcehouse at the Cost of S
 Cents Ton.

An interesting and novel process oi producing ice by natural methods has been put in operation in this town by 8 resident .sear ago he had a build ing specially constructed for his nse. The experiment house is unique. Il has no windows, but is four square, with door in each side. The owner says he can make ice faster in house with doors at the corners rather thaL ln the middle of the sides; still this one does the business. Inside the house is what might be termed another hoase-a -water-tight, and built so az to avoid rigidity of angles, and to allow of the expansion of the wa ter in freezing. The expansion is one twelfth, so the space to be left between tho sides of the crate and of the house pr5per is easily determined. In the carly days of experiments more than one house was smashed by the bulgin9 proDensities of freezing water.
 At one end of the house is a stand pipe from the main of the Glaremont water works. The water is spring Wa ter. but an application is made of cleo triesty to sttll further purify it as it stands ia tanks after being drawn from the source Of supply. It rushes frst through a rubber tube to tank sixty fec from the main and on the second floor of the building. Another tube sixty feet long, takes it to a second tank. A third lets it run to floor of the crate. As it runs out it moves slowly and more slowly, like clear cold, crystalline molasses-stilI more slowiy-and stops, frozen. The ice huiIds upon itself in the erate-forming anchor ice, not a top film, and the end is crate of pure. solid ice of such color as no OF , ever saw who has been lim.,ed to ice cut from oIdinary ponds and rivers. The tubes are arrangc1 with respect to the openings in the building so as to get the maximum amount of cold wind blowing on them. One days experiment illustrates the process of freezing. The water in the standpipe was at 45 degrees. It was eighteen minutes passing through the tupe 5, anu lts temperature as IL lSsueu upon the floor of the crate was 30 de grees, or two degrees below freezing, and total reduction of fifteen degrees. The out-of-door temperature was at about freezing. If anyone visits the experiment house today the owner will show him crate full of ice-one solid block of about 300 tons weight. The erection of houses of the type required Is easily accomplished anywhere, and the ice can be manufactured at a cost of about five cents 3 ton.-Boston Her &ld.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-10
ALWAYS X DOUBLE.
For Persons Who Gain soeial or Poutl-

Washington special New York Mail and Express: It has always been notable fact in Washington that when ever a man or woman gained especial prominence in politics, war or society, there appeared on the streets of the capital his or her double. All the presidents have had their doubles, and Cleveland used to he greatly annoyed when told that Lawrence Gardner who was connected with the Demo cratic national committee from che district of Columbia was his exact image. EX-Congressman Fowler of New Jertey look the greatest delight in being mistaken for President Me Kinley, and it is said he affected the presidents style and dress to heighten the resemblance. One of the female clerks i3 the treasury department dur ing the Cleveland administration se- cured many invitations to social en- tertainments simply because she look ed like Mrs. Cleveland, and certain hostesses wanted her presence at their functions to make the unWary believe that Mrs Cleveland was one of the guests. There have been many fac simiies in human form of the various army and navy heroes of the late war constantly seen a5oHt Washington and their doings have often caused stafies 10 be circulated about the original which. at times. Wefe. embarrassing to the latter But SO Gar as known, the gripmaa who looks like Dewey had not traded On his resemblance. but 2eems content with attending to bia work as Dewey does.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-10
Namea in the rns,nl Gnide.

The following nalues of postofices appear in the United States posta guide: Mud, Twin Sisters, Texas Mule, Oregon; sodom. New Mexico Yellowjacket, Idaho; Ioyalsock, Op tion, Pennsylvania; Wax, Iowa; Peb ble, Sawdust, Florida; Seven Guns Quality, Kentucky; Virtue. Tennessee Wit, North Carolina; Zero, Mississippi Love, Colorado; Oats, South Carolina Pluck, Virginia; Pure Air, Rocltycom- fort, Peculiar, Lick Skillet, Missouri; Sassafras, Maryland; Pious, Ohio; Roll ing Stone, Minnesota; Peppertown, In diana
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-10
spurning s1Oo.o0O Year.

Says the London Christian Common wealth; Fred Charrington's temper ance badge costs him about f20,O00 a year. At least this is about the income he would have received had he sue seeded to his fathers business, instead of going over to the temperance ranks. The work which he organized twenty four years ago in a tent meeting in Mile-end road, Bow, has grown stead fly, till now he has, in the great assem- b}y hall. ethe largest mission hall in the world"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-10

The Rev. W l. Costley. of Stock bridge Ga, while attending 10 his pastoral duties at lGllenWoOd, that state, was attncked by cholera morhus. He says: By chance I happened to get hold of bottle of Chamherlain's COlic, Cholera and Diarrhoca Remedy, and I think it 0 as the means of saving my life. It relieved me at once ? For sale by W. l.. Dewoody X Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-10
Mice That Manufacture Thread.

A Scottish artisan has conceived the ingenious and economic idea of em- ploying mice in the manufacture of thread. The small quadrupeds are made to turn wheel with their feet. and in this manner, and by means of simple mechanical contriyance, they are able to make about 2,800 reels of I37 yards each daily To produce this quantity it is estimated that they cover g course of 18,O00 yards.