The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-04
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

The farmer who buys the latest improved
riding cultiVators, sulky or else plows ana
uiber !alor' saving farm mach merry. while
his wife has to sew en- an old rattletrap
Of machine and wear her life away rub
ting clothes on washboard isn't "todn'
far, to say the least OF it.--G5rland News
Indeed he is not. The good husband will
realize that iabor-say.ng machinery is as
welcome to his wife as to himself ard then
will act accordingly. Ard, Of course as all
Texas husbands are good husbands there
Is no doubt as to the manner IN which the
wives of the state are provided for,
The Huntsville Item became so years old
not long ago it having basn established on
august 20, 1880. In announcing the fac, Ed
tor Robinson takes occasion 20 state that the
policy pursued in the past will be continued
which meas thai, notwithstanding its age
the Item will be as Young and vigorous as
ever
/ with the present construction OF the state
/ llhc law, newspaper hardly dares to tell
the ruth about itself for fear some Of its
EDITORS relatives will take umhrase at thu
[ statement and institute suit for DAMAGES 10
the family character Herald.
That the Texas libel law is as bad as pos
sibe no one will deny but It is, neverthe-
! less, somewhat hard on It 20 make such a
oharge against it as the above. However.
the Herald's paragraph is OF interest as e&-
planning why some newspapers do not tell
the truth about themse.ves-or any one else.
FOR that matter.
r. e, Yants has sold the wins Point Van
zandter to c. f Gilmore who will consol-
date 1t with his other paper. the wills
Point Chronicle Mr. Yantis has purchased
the Athens Review and will conduct It here
after.
Houston has begun working IN her Fruit
Flower and Vegetable Festival and from all
Indications i Will be one of the best they
ever had,-Conroe Courier.
Houston never does things by halves and
II is her intention to this year make her
Festival the biggest and best on record. II
the meantime she appreciates all the kline
things her friends in the interior say abou
her.
over In Arkansas the other day the publ,
school money was apportoned and each chile
within the scholastic age will receive 81
cents. In Texas the State school fund ap
portionment is s476 per capita, FIVE times a.
great as the children OF Arkansas receive
notwithstanding this. many men with 81,
children in school kick worse that fretfu
COW in flv time when thew are called upoI
Signal.
The public school system OF Texas is on,
, OF the many institutions of which the Stat
is Justly proud. 1t 10 particularly fortunat,
in the matter pointed out by the Signal an,
as long as they are kept free from politiea
entanglemeuts the schools will continue to Sc
a paee Worthy of emulation by other States
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Rice is now being featured In the marke
nago OF The Houston Post, Az present onl'
The nr.ees prevailing at New YORK and iNSey
orleans are given but as soon as the Hin
ana jain mills begin operation the Biau
mont market will be the one 10 which TeNa
rice farmers will look 10 for prices Beau
mont Journal,
Editor MeGary has, perhaps. dreamed tha
Houston. Lake Charles and some OF the olha
milling eentors have suddenly disappeared
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Up to noon Yesterday tThursday; our tw
gins had turned out 1875 bales OF cotton an
9 the hooks OF Weigher Key show that L.
bales have been marketed. Since the open
Ing OF the market this season the PR q
: have ranged ircin SN to cents per pound.-
s ouinlRn Review.
All Of which Of course. has been brough
|, about by this wave Of nrosperty OF whlei
d the republicans are talking so freely. serl
G ously. though Quinian is 70 be congratulate
q on its excellent record
4 = 4 y
a Two hundred Thousand bushels Of Texa
wheat went from Galveston 10 New York th
other day aud Yves, Texas has not vet HI
: the. market with It's wheat, oats. milo maiG
3. and kanir corn.--Colorado Spokesman.
9 And IN addition TO all this grain there az
: the cotton and the rice crops 70 come. an,
the fruit crop gone by and the dozens 0
oyaers which are raised in such protus o
: in Texas. one can scarcely realize the mag
: niiude OF them al nul one Goes 8
one can have no conception OF the wonder
full resources OF the State.
4 10 own Water Works.
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