The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-03-04

who met in washington. And when you
read of how poorly armed the soldiers
were and how little money they had
to buy food and clothing and guns
and ammunltion-why II seems as
IL they were inspired by faith
and had gone forward trusting In
the God they had been taught to look to
as their best help in time of trouble.
You will see in the History of Texas
how they elected their president David
G. Burnett and all the other officers of
a Republic, even a secretary of the navy,
when all the navy they had was COM
posed of two war schooners,' the Lib
erty'' and the 'Invincible," with the hope
OF two more from New orleans, the In
dependence and the "Brutus." The names
were warlike enough, anyway, and the
courage of the American sailors was equal
to the names
Texas has changed greatly since that
spring day in Washington with the flow
crs beginning TO peep out on the banks OF
the Brazos and the trees putting on
their first tinge of color, all unheeding
of the muttering of war. and the stern
faces of the men who came and went, cary
ing the destinies of the country. The
name of the river, Brazos de Dios, means
the Arm of God" and II does seem as
If His arm upheld the struggling little
army of Texans and drove back the sol
diers of their oppressors. | love to think
of the faith of these forty-eight men and
how happy they would be to see that the
freedom they won for us is still ours. l
hope our boys and girls feel that they
owe 1t to the men who risked so much
and endured so much for US to keep the
Second of March in happy remembrance.
1t is the Texans Fourth Of July, and we
must show the day every honor.
Well, the contest Is over and the loco
mo hpc Ut IN
understand this, l will explain that our
club of boys and girls have been discuss
ing the subject, Which invention OF the
Nineteenth century is the most useful to
man." and they have decided that the
locomotive is In fact. the Iron horse"
was ahead from the very start. There
have been a great MANY interesting let
ters on the subject, and they are still
coming in. but the locomotive is so far
ahead that there is no hope for any other.
even If | should count the votes in the
letters that come after this. In fact, the
, locomotive had almost three times as
many votes as the one next TO 1.-THE
steamboat. So its victory is very clear
To Walter Farmer: Columbus had sail
ing vessels. THE locomotive is very use
full to the rich, but not to the poor. 1t
carries cotton out of the South to fac
tories, when we ought to have them hero
at our homes" Now. that is all wrong The
locomotive can not be blamed for carrying
the cotton away-that is the fault of our
own people, rich and poor alike. They
should build the factories here and then
the cotton would stay with thsm, or at
least large portion of il. But 1t is very
foolish to blame the locomotive for that
"A Farmers Boy" wrote of dream
in which he was engineer OF a train that
was late and was thrown from the track
The letter was good but the spelling was
so bad that could not give the time nec-
essary to correct it, wish that boy
would pay more attention to his spelling
for he has brains. ! can tell that BY
the letter
There was an error in the article on
cur page, last Sunday. entitled Progress
of the Passing Century" 1t was sta ed
that Sir Rowland Hill introduced the
postal system in 14S0-it should have been
1870. The printers have good deal to do
and sometimes they make very funny mis-
takes.
The day after tomorrow. March 6. is
arother big day in Texas history, and
hope to hear something about 1t from the
cluD' Margaret Hadley Eos err