The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-28
With IhE PASSING IHRONG


Talking about shoes" said well
known cotton man. "let me tell you abou,
pair had once" Nobody had sail
anything about shoes. but four or 1--WE msu
had their pedal extremitles elevated on a
table, and hence the thought. II went to
shoe store and bougat-that is, had
charged to me-Didn't know my credit was
good? Oh. that was long time ago.
Well, l walked off in the shoes, and wore
them all that afternoon. They were tan
SHOES and too nice Then | wore them
that night. Gee whiz, ten Thousand men
could have felt the blamed Shoes hur; by
bed time, and then l had seventeen blocks
TO walk home My brother-ln-law was
staying with me then, and the next morn
! ing l asked him, as he wore the same size
as my own, to take the shoes. off my hands
as gift. He had suggested he would
gladly relieve my feet OF them. SO he
put them on. At night he came home
with only his socks on and wanted me u
take the blamed shoes back. as he said
be couldn't hold his job and pay proper
attention to the wholesale hurt in his
feet. took them back, and the next Morn
Ing wrapped them in an old paper AMI
started down town. ! me- friend He
ANN4 q PAHNN 9%lOos INT ud9 W. Anu pre-
sented him with the shoes which he sa d
he would wear with pleasure. l doubted
this, however, and ! was right. | me-.
him next morning. when he told me h Z
wore the shoes all day aud ives IN such
misery that when he came across the
bridge he took them off and dropped them
over, just to get the drop on them
~
Have you seen a publication callin-
itself the Successful American" asked a
Houston gentleman of Post reporter. 1T
is most fearfully and wonderfully con-
structed journal, bearing on its front
cover the inscription BY newspaper mea
for newspaper reference and purp1rts 10
contain sketches of Americans who have
oeen successful. l mole. however. that no
American is successful from Is view un-
less he be affiliated with the republican
party, at least in its last issue out OF
forty or fifty sketches there Is not one
OF the subjects who is a democrat. In
, speaking of a prominent Texas repub-
lican, the Successful American, which is
, emlnently successful in crowding maxi
mum OF errors into minimum space, s'lys
the subject OF the sketch distinguished
= himself at the battle OF lucinda. Being
j Texan, / regard such ignorance OF one
OF the worlds greatest battles as crimi-
nal, especially when exhibited by writer
who proclalms that he is conducting a
journal for use by newspaper men for ref
erence The truth Is, learn from gocd
S authority. that the successful American
5 who gets his picture printed in this al
legged journal OF reference must first
, lubrlcate the wheels of Journalism with a
banknnte, the size OF which must b,
u guaged by the degree OF success to which
e he wishes to attain in the publication
mentioned. However, a man who writes
the immortal conflict between San Hous-
y ton and Santa Annals Mexicans down a.
8 the battle of San lucinda need MOI ex-
5 pect his publication to achieve an aston,
y lshingly large circulation in the Lone
(" Star State
Q We people who live in hotels are wit.
l. nesses OF unique incidents. sometimes, "
= remarked MIR. Louis DeNette of the Law
:, lor last night, Now. this afternoon, for
A instance a party OF ladies'. consisting OF
Mrs. Jim Maekerell of Victoria and Mrs
Lucy Brown and Miss Daisy Bankhead
It Of Ganado, came in and registered. They
d went up 10 me rooms assigned them and
k a short while later Mr. w ]. Fox. alsI
OF Canada dropped in and registered
>, lie loitered around the lobby. taking
: Things easy for awhile. when it was no.
uced that Rev. H, j. Bryan OF this
city had also come in. Pretty soon the
% duitted the lobby and went UP stairs
g they hadn't been gone long before Mrs
Brown came down her face beamine
with happiness. She walked straight
n up TO the register with merry twinkle
n IN her eye and taking up a pen with az
u eager stroke obliterated Lucy Brown
IS and inserted above, w, j. Fox There
+ now she joyously exclaimed, it isn't
= Mrs Lucy Brown any more: it's Mrs
Y W, j, Fox.