The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-10-15

from that butter and cheese are made and
Is fine for us school boys dinner. Even
the horns are useful to make combs OF
and you know how useful their hides are-
have three pets. cat, pig and a little
puppy; his name is Singer My cat fol-
lows me Ito milk" every evening and
when get to the house she begs for milk.
You see the COW is useful to the cat. My
papa works in Yoakum every day and this
leaves me at home to work, though l had
much rather so to town with him. How
many of the Haps like to live on the farm?
for one. | much prefer farm where
you can get cool fresh breezes, go hunting,
kill squirrels and quail. and drink fresh
water from the springs and wells. You
can go fishing and go hunting wild fruit
and swimming, and have all kinds of out
door sports. One can sit under the cool
shady live oak trees and listen to tho hap
Ply hooking bird singing his Makers
praise from sunrise till sunset. Well,
Mr.. Hap, am too small to occupy so much
room in the dear old Posts columns. so
will close. From a new Hap,
George Gill.
Deadwood Texas.--Dear Haphammer: I
am so very lonesome away out where I
am debarred the exquisite pleasure of hav-
ing tete-a-tete with any Of the dear old
Haps personally. SO IllE.ist walk in aud
have an imaginary chat. as / observe that
the editor has very pleasant smile on her
face today, the cause, suppose. being
the interest shown in the present con-
test
After much consideration l cast my vote
for the lazy but ever nsedful old COW.
Thomas Taylor, 1t is true that mother
of pearl. aluminium and celluloid, etc,
make articles that are much more useful
al Jaci rab han al nf &c
horn. but they are more expensive, too.
and II we didn't have the Cheap John
kind ! am afraid there would be some OF
the poorer class who would be destitute
of combs and buttons and such like
When Joshua commanded the hosts
around the city of Jericho with a ram'H
horn, perhaps they hadn't found the ne
were the only kind they could find. But
now we have more cows and now you
never hear of rams horn, but when tho
hunter calls his dog he always blows a
cows horn. or at least the majority do
There are SO few goats that you never
see any goat cheese. but all of the de-
licious cheese we are so fond of is made
of cows milk and cream. Almost any
animals hide will make splendid leather
II properly tanned. but II is a difficult
task and cows hide is so easily tanned that
it is used almost exclusively. or course,
there are substitutes for every part Of
COW, but they are seldom used. The most
OF the household furniture is glued to-
gether and the glue is made from the hoofs
OF the COW, Their hair is used for stufing
furniture and even some of our mattresses
are padded with their hair
That buggy that Thomas and Miss
Nancy went driving in was made Of cows
hide the harness they worked and prob
ably the shoes they wore.
49,, ,t,,a, tyai sol Tod hx.
Thomas Taylor would afford amusement
for the buns" of the town. and they don't
care what kind of an animal is the most
useful, anyway. So what's the difference.
With the eloquent writer's. like Philip
Webster, Beulah Mathews and Karl
Schoppe. we can convince the Horse
Haps" Of their mistake. Maurice Murdoch,
your dream was nicely written; yours also,
Dorah Nc; you two girls must tell liz
another.
Willie Carpenter has decided to be
lawyer, since his mamma has made him
some long" pants. Ell Willie?
Sunset have you learned How to put
on airs" yet? If You have let some of your
bright rays CLEAN in Hspdom, and bring
Nettie with you.
Prairie Fairy your letter was perfectly
sublime Your faithful Hap,
T. E. La Grone.
P. s.-Ten cents for Helping Fund.
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean
And the solid land
Send in your little mite Haps.
T. E. l..
Tyler, Texas.--Dear Haphammor; want
10 Join your band TO throw my weight in
the balance in favor of the most useful OF
all the animals--the horse. Tho the horse
now seems to be In fair way to be
beaten. i shall hope for the usual result In
race between the two animals--horse and
COW. think the match Is not fairly made
in that 1t is to be decided by vote and
not the argument. II is noticeable fact
that mosr OF the COWS votes come With the
short letters, and from the girls and small
boys The real arguments are In favor OF
the horse. The horses friends can IND
a substitute for the COW, but there is no
animal nor invention that VIII replace
the horse The friends OF the COW forget
that nearly all OF the good qualities OF the
cow can be found In the horse They
must be joking when they speak OF doing
without the horse as draught animal.
The fact that oxen have been used is no
argument People have done without milk
and butter and "cow foot oysters" when
they could do no better. Somebody said
the mules could DO the hauling. perhaps
they do not know that the mother OF the
mule is a horse. So the horse can't be
replaced, except by the OK or 'burro." A
horse's hide is as good as cows Tor leath-
err. and there is more OF II; his bones are as
good. and there are more of them. He
has no horns to make buttons and
combs" etc. Of but neither are needed nor
wanted. They were useful al the time
when oxen were used to draw the plow and
wagon. but the mobile cow has lost her
usefulness in those lines. What about but
ter? Nearly all the best COOKS uee rotto-
line for baking, and great many use ole
omargarine. ! have eaten lots OF nice
cakes made with lard; all OF these are in
dependent Mrs. Cow. But maybe a
friend OF the COW will say what about
bsef? Did you never hear OF the flesh OF
the horse being used for food! have,