The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-05

time. We send our best wishes TO Mrs
Foster and the Haps. We are your true
friends. Nora and ella Young.
Bremond, Texas.--Dear Haphammers.- -.
Will you once more allow me a few min
utes' chat with the Hsps? IL SO / viii
promise not to stay long. l have been
reading The Post ever since could read.
and still | love 10 read its pages Hello
there i see you have another contas {,
open Will YOU allow Sand-lopcr 10
vote? / am p and think / am entitled to
vote. / know when my vote is cast
some one will say you have thrown your
vote away, as Dewey Is going TO be
elected. No. sir. l can not believe il.
as Wiley u. Kennon says, Hobson was
In more danger than Dewey, as he faced
Cervera's fleet and MORO Castle with
only seven men. and | agree With MIR.
Kennon. Enclosed find cents for the
helping fund. DO the Haps like to read
temperance matter? II So | have a lot
on hand and will send some OF IL 10
every one sending a 2-cent stamp to help
pay mailing. / will close. for am atrai ID
of the waste basket. Much love 10 all.
J. d. Caldwell.
yolney, Texas,---Dear Haphammer: IL
has been almost a year since | have writ
ten to the page but have been con-
are all yelling SO ! will yell. too. Hap
pyhammer yell:
He he! hel no! hoi hot
Merrily on we go;
We're the Happyhammer band,
And are all over the land
Chairs to the crlpples are given,
Which is a toretaste OF Heaven.
We've helped a good many and are help
IN ma
And the future has something very bright
in store
For us Haps II wen only continue TO be
So useful in the land OF the free,
So como and join and your services rem
der
And you'll never regret being a member.
Hol no! hol he! he! he!
We're the II. II. c.
Well, suppose had better close, a
true Hap, lchabod Crane
Sealy, Texas.--Dear Haphammer: IL Is
something over year since l wrote 10 the
club page. have made only one attempt
since TO write and that was last fall dur
Ing the animal contest. l wrote long
letter praising the cow and reeounting
her many superior qualities. but before |
had a chance TO copy and mail IL | took
fever (caused perhaps by the strain on
my bralnl.
was sick &wo months and missed ten
weeks Of school come this time to vote
for Hcbson. know Dewey won great
victory, but speaking of heroes l think
Hobson the greater hero OF the two Those
men that went with Hobson 70 sink the
ship were Just as brave men as either,
though the leader always gets the praise.
Wake up, Haps and send In your money
and let's get Arthur's chair before he be-
comes disheartened. inclose cents, It
1t money I earned myself and am glad l
can use It in so good cause, ! am afraid
we do not think enough about the little
crdpples IN our State. With the best
wishes for the page.
BrAnon whitfield,
Perrys Landing TeNas.--4Dear Hapham-
mer saw a Houston Post today. for the
first time in three weeks. Arthur Daw-
son, you certainly give the girls down
the country" don't think all girls are
like you say they are. know IL l were
to wait for my brother to work the flow
ers l wouldn't get them worked, Come
again with one OF your most delightful
letters. l know tho Haps appreciate
them, especially the girls, Erin Carey
Simpson, ! think your yell" very good,
| declare il some OF the Haps don't write
some nice letters we will all be disap-
pointed Yes think It shame thet
the Haps don't send in theirAmonsy and
get Arthur's chair, We have such 4
large band that 1t looks like We could
get the chair in no time. My, but aren't
we having some hot weather! There are
not very many flowers now. II is 100
hot for them, Mine are nearly all dead,
Alice Hooper. YOU haven't deserted us,
have you? Well as the Haps are getting
tired, and so am I. l will bring this I'M
interesting letter to a close. Lovingly
Bessie Smith
p s.--Find inclosed 10 cents for the
helping fund. Rs.
EasterIy, Texas.---Dear Haphammer
Here comes another little country girl "a
Join your happy band of bays and girls.
1 have never seen a letter from this place,
SO | thought ! would write and let you
know such place as Easterly does exist.
1t is a very small place indeed, only one
store, one blacksmith shop and gin, bar
it is a very busy little place after all.
Well, the contest is over and l didn't
write in time TO cast my vote for my
fayorite hero, Lieutenant r. p. Hobson,
but he won anyway and guess my vote
will never be missed. Arthur Dawson
come again, but please don't hit the old
maids quite SO nara dooui tnclE PANT VI
we will think you are an old bachelor,
You seem to think that all girls duub and
paint but II you could see that Big brown
freokle on the end OF my nose you would
think needed a daub or something to
hide that nose Of mine. ] think the girls
will like you better of you write on some
other subject. Yes. ! am almost sure
they will. What has become OF Cornelius
Combs? He used to write TO this page
when I first began reading the department.
Come again. Jimmie Edwsrds and Edna
Fowler ard in hact all the old time writers
and new ones too. Hoping TO be enrolled
as a new and true Hap,
Sallie b. Johnson.
Blfalis, Texas. Dear Haphammer' Here
come again TO have a little chat on our
page The contest Is getting very inter-
esting and l am glad 70 see Lieutenant
r. p Hobson has won, but atm not par
tial at ell. / believe every man is hero,
who. when HIS country calls for his aid,
does mot shrink from duty, but goes at