The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-19

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Adieu, L II. l.. and s ]. NJ.
Lovelady, Texas Dear IIaphammer:
Please let me in out OF this warm sun
shine for 1t certainly is warm out here
live on a farm about quarter OF
mile from town. As no one has described
this little city / viii describe It, 1t has
nine dry good stored. two drug stores.
one restaurant. three churches, and one
school house, which has three rooms. This
is very good school the hest ever
went TO. Bat lIaps the best thing OF
all, we have no saloon. We had two TIL
about a month ago, but the good prohi-
bitionists voted whisky out and the saloon
is now carried TO Weldon. about twelve
miles from here. Papa was a prohb
and | certainly was glad. Well, the con
test is over and am sorry to know
: that the bravest hero did not win ami
she only got one vote. I think that is
too had for such a brave hero TO get only
one vote, for Miss Helen Gould WAS surely
the bravest hero In his cdnttet | love
flowers and ! have some, such as pansies,
phoX and honeysuclles. Can some one
tell me what has become OF Joe Cob?
Has he eaten pills enough to XIII him
And why docs Cornelius Cornbes never
write2 ! miss his letters very much. Some
of YOU Haps wake up and tell IFS another
dream. Well. Mr.. John Harrison did you
ever get the Quilt square sent your
Hope you will soon have enough 10 mako
a quilt Luther Smell, you told the truth
when you said what you did about tho
girls. Wen Haps ] will close. So good
bye. Yours for happiness.
Lillian Missile.
Fields store rexas.-Dear Haphammer:
II has been Ave years since J wrote for
our page My last was not in print, but !,
viii TRY again" | regret that did not
write in time for the contest. but there
Is no use in worrying about old things.
so won't worry. nv
Now we must have yell or give uli
trying one. Why don't some OF our poets
come out Of their hiding places ana wife
us yell?
would II were a poet, but am npt,,
so ] can only do my part Of the yeli g.
though / suppose Miss Fodren viii have
It all done by the time get started.
How many Of the Haps ever saw a
flying dragon? ! have never seen one
myself. but l will write something alb VI
them. The terrible name Of tying.
dragon belongs to a harmless lit le
lizard bearing small resemblance to the
terrific animal so graphically depicted by
Ritsch This curious little lizzad lives on
trees and feeds on insects instead of de-
youring pilgrims bound to the Gnaden-
bilde. The peculiar structure Of Is
body bears singular resemblance TO that
of the flying squirrel The first six false
ribs are greatly elongated and support a
wingIke expansion Of skin, which, when
stretched. serves to bear them up as they
skim through the air from one tree 10
another. While running about on the
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the side but when it wishes TO throw
itself from the tree the ribs are raised
and the wings expanded. 1t is common
in Java. India, Borneo and a few more
countries, With love to all the Haps and
the editress. l remain az ever happy
Hap, william Vaught.
| Gurdon. Ark--Dear Haphammer; Hob
son has wont Such was the news NAM
mas letter contained. Well, we the
SchIey and Dewey Haps are defeated,
Like the brave Southern hero General
Lee, we are defeated Like Bryan in the
presidential campaign OF 1896, Wa are de-
feated. While Schley was defeated. his
defeat has given another great man VIC
tory. Like our gallant Lees defeat gave
Grants vast number victory, over whore
| the Stars and Bars once hoated the
stars and Stripes" now float proudly. /
am glad a Southern man has won now
since our choice was defeated. We all
know of Lieutenant Hobsons brave deeds.
Since he is to forever have a place beside
our gallant Travls, ! viii inclose poem
| clipped from The Sunny South" about
Hobson's brave deed down at Santiago
Well, / am OFF on my summer outing now
having good time In general. One thing
miss is the Haps' weekly visit often !
think do they n ISIS me at home?" My
old a.n in In rNa lFasr hsff
side telling me about What Annie Lee
and Maggie are saying to their old dolls
don't like 1t. do you, Day?" aud OF
course. to please him, ! say no" What
Is our next subject for discussion going TO
be? Something o. interesting as he last,
| hope, for that has been both PLEASANT
and profitable. From the many letters
we see what the Haps can do when they
set their heads in that way | have ra-
Gently read Kings OF Capital and Knights
of Labor" and think it a good book. II
teaches a lesson II we would only heed
it, | see ia todays paper where the RUS
sian minister and his wife were horribly
murdered in Pekn. They were tortured
Is every way, then their bodies boiled
and given to the dogs. Oh. my, such hor-
rible things! What rs this world coming
war fearful thingY | don't believe In
war myself Well | am not In politics
this summer but who do the Haps think
will be- our next PRESIDENT Bryan hope,
as he vas nominated. What great his
torjcal event took place August 81, 1856?
That Il my birthday 1 Will be IA years
old. How time does hyl over four years
since Joined the club. and really Il
doesn't seem like sin months. Things
have changed Some OF our best writer's
have died some have gone int the cold