The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-01


II those late reports from Pekin, or sup
posed 10 be from Pekin. be true, new as
pect entirely is placed on affairs The powers
can not delay to push forward Immediately
with a relief force. And yet pssh forward
will undoubtedly cause another assault upon
the embassies with all the might and all the
! fury Of Pekn. Ammunition being low, now
can the legation guards Withstand such an
attack for 1--WE or six days longer? The situa-
ton is such that the beeaguered foreigners
in Pekin may be slaughtered. after ALL and
while relief is actually knocking at the gates
of the Chinese capital The vengeance of the
powers would then doubtless be more terrible
than II the legationers had been murdered in
the first fury of the mob
Telling It to the MARINES" means business
these days
The Mexican Herald vouches for a story
THAT a Mexican editor In a Mexican town re-
Gently lighted his cigar with lottery ticket
and was informed next day that his ticket had
drawn $4,000. After the profanity and tears
there was nothing to do Of course, hut tt
swear of from smoking. We are trying tC
figure out whether this is lottery advertise
ment Or an ant-tobaccO tract.
Teddy's trouble will come when he is forcet
to reduce himself after the campaign.
The New York correspondent OF the Phia
delphla Ledger says that the majority OF thu
streets in Brooklyn are so bad that the higl
death rate is attributed to that more than t
any other cause. This is pointer for peopl
down this way who have bad streets unde
their charge
The crowned head has troubles peculiati
! its own
) Having had large party OF Cuban tsacher
, under special instruction at Harvard this sum
ner. Boston wants the experiment repeete
with Filipino teachers. Boston cares not ho'
! many lands We annex II only Boston is ri
lowed TO teach the young idea how to shoot.
, When the powers get ready TO move It
going to behooye China to keep the BAG
e door open.
" Bishop Huisey wants q separate state 81
: apart for the negroes and would permit Il
l. white man to enter it. The Indian Territor
and the separate coach law, to say nothlr
II of China, illustrate the degree OF practicable
n ty in this idea.
t. II, however the foreign ministers are save
j., the powers will find sufficient provocaton
the scare they have received.
They are still finding new and richly paylr
H. gold mines in Australia, but the -.us5ralis
& steamship lines do not seem to be so badly
% need Of business as the Cape Nome al
Klondike transportation companies.
=. When you come to think about It, you hr
that America has had more mobs In ten yea
than China has had in two centuries,
We China can hardly afford TO ignore the di
c. tIngulshed services of tho Beers in comp
IN eating existing situations. A ball and cha
on John Bulls leg is not to be desplsed
ne military and diplomatic calculations.
eh The Cramps have Just built a cruiser (
ne Russia that could run away from any OF t
~ ships they have ever built for this COVER
- ment
great many American cities and tow
= have had mobs but none of them except M
st Orleans have been unable to prevent t
v wholesale looting Of business houses
in Tho anarchist ought to BE maio to ,
everywhere. His very profession of fal
"a renders him an open and dangerous enemy
~, the government,
IN The Quincy Gn) Journal very pertinent
en- wants to know why the republican pai
-. retains and uses the ratio OF l6 to i il it
dishonest and dangerous?
nd -
In view Of the threatened campaign nec
u stiles, some of the syndieates and trusts mis-
as prohtaby apply to Tom Reed for the rec
=. for how to he ignored