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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04

student poet OF the Texas University
writes the following, which appeared in the
University Calendar OF January 9;
SIGNAL FLAPS.
with apologies to the Weather Bureau
The flag hung lightly in the genial sun
White flag that proPhesied weather fair;
Gladly | took my faithful dog and gun
And wandered far into the rural air.
Soon shl too soon, a thunderstorm arose,
where
The sun had burned his passage through
the west
Each forest beast sought hastily his lair
And every bid sped swiftly to her nest
While / alone was let without coat and
vest.
The flag wa we'd Ger the observatory tower,
Dread warning Of storm that would ap-
pear
What time the hrebells tolled the midday
hour.
The dreaming sky lay soft and calm and
Like one who sleeps and knows not danger
ReIuetantiy wore my overcoat
And muifled closely each expeetsnt ear
p,t still the blizzard seems as far remote
AS when the signal flag high Ger town did
float. /,
n ,hou that lookest at the weather maps,
And dost regard the hass with credulous
In nromised calm expect thou thunder claps
And when storm is threatened serene SKY
When from the station MI aAs ~" -
M, ~ tho, sure the weather Will be 1ry
=, MIR me signal be Of white ana blue
nrsams maids and weather MAPS VIII never
tell thee true.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04

built at Camden and Bath. There Is talk.
however. that New York men are 70 build IN
Camden a six-master. which is to 90 about
s46 feet on the keel. sss feet on top. Is feet
beam and 30 feet depth OF hold. registering
about 5000 tons net and hav.nE a carrying
capacity Of fully 600 tons dead weight
~
What 10 the tonnage Of the Sues canal,
K.O.K
From 1870 to 1898 the net tonnage passing
through the suez canal annually has risen
gradually from 4ss.eo9 to e,23s,so3 tons, and
the receipts from the special navigation duty
canal rose in the same period from 4,345, 1853 10
s2.657, 40 francs. The number OF passengers
increased from 2s,75S TO 2ls, 5e4, and the re-
ceipts from passenger tax from 2es .5ss to
2,1s5,5f5 francs.
What are the KaYir runneru? ROB.
They are native messengers that travel on
foot with remarkable speed. who are capable
OF covering by relays. sometimes 100 miles a
day; and such services. have been used In
South Africa. not only among the Kaffirs
on the west but the Basutos and zulus OF tho
east.
Is It possible to use barbed wire fence for
q telephone system? C.w.A.
Yes. under favorable conditions; and there
are several "long distanced telephones" In the
West. covering distances of twelve to fifteen
miles. where the upper wire Of barb feues
is used for this purpose.
~
Hod did the forget-ne-not get its name?
TIT.
The forget-me-not was taken by Henry Nv
OF England as his emblem. with the motto
'souviens do moi"-remember me. This cav.
the familiar name to the flower.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04
Freedom of the Press.

Detroit Free Press.
In so far as the press extends freedom int
rnwarrRnted license. where II attacks prl'
yste character. except as move made es
sentisl to the public good, whore u seeks Z
sacrifice the individual to vent personsl ami
mostly or promote selfish interests Of ans
nature, whore II will serve sensstionahsm a.
the expense OF justice and right, Is without
Justification and should be summsrily re
Etricted. But within the neld 10 which by fal
the major portion confines itself Its estao-
lished rights should be held inviolate~as
bulwark Of the people against any and al
movements tending 10 the usurpation. abuse
or impairment Of their supreme authority
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04
sbouIa protect It.eIf Also.

ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
when Federal Treasurer Roberts converted
$4,000 Of his sisters money to his own use
the offense was in the family and the supreme
court compelled him 70 return tho amcunt ~
had taken. why can not the Fsdsfu trsAaury.
80 we'll a. members Of family. - Ssstsofso
from unsorupuicus palftiotAAss
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04
wheeler a squeezed Lemon.

Omaha world Herald
Having been used with skui 70 oo's,sr W
.,,,rr homs with an adequate idea OF the
80" ,ra.reiai value Of q squeezed lemon
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04

The pearl fisheries in the bay of Panama
pay about $4,000 IN pearls and $4,000 ip
sheils per year. The shells are sent 20 New
York, Paris aud Antwerp, where they are
used for making buttons, knife handles, or
naments and for all sorts Of purposes The
pearls 10 70 Paris, whore they srs distributed
70 other markets. Very few are sent to New
York or to other ports OF the United States
because Of the high duty. There Is, how
ever. more or less smuggling. as a pearl can
be concealed from a custom house officer
about as easily as any merchandise that can
be imported.
Pearls are Increasing In value for TWO rea-
sons-the growing scarcity and the growing
demand. Forty people can afford 20 buy
pearls today where one was able to do SO
twenty years ago. a hne pearl commands
any price the owner may ask for II. although
pearls are not considered safe permanent
Investment like diamonds. because they are
perishable and decay with time. None OF the
celebrated pearls Of today are old, and heir
looms that have been kept for several gen
erations gradually lose their luster and their
value Pearls that have been buried In tbs
darkness, either in the earth or In safes and
caskets, suffer in their brilliancy. Archseolo-
gists frequently ind pearls In sresvatins pre-
historic mounds aud ruins which would have
been Of immense value II they vsrs enduring
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04
POEM BY A TEXAS STUDENT.

A student poet OF the Texas University
writes the following, which appeared in the
University Calendar of January 9;
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04

Captain Percy was not long IN discovering
the score, Of this beautiful womsn's past III
went % jamestown some two weeks after
their wedding cay. and she bessed to b.
taken along. The kinrs ship came IN whils
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04

ts,J ~ The carrying distance OF the orti-
suns used in the Boer-British war?
~. T.A.W.
n Il. apnel shells Of guns in the hands
,ra, .usls have been found fused for $500
e,ss T.. as English field gun shrapnel is
t-u ~ wv Yards. Boer shrapnel. possibly
\ i, $50 y the seige variety. though there
~ s"e Information on this point has
sras aa effective at 800 yards: in other
srsns,.s range OF 100 yards beyond thr
ss Of the English held guns.
~
any sis-masted schocners anaat'
~ Ian.
= n,. 'ssstfui u ther. 10 anything anost
WITH two six-mAsters now being
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04

ION her way back to the door she brushed
against the rack wherein hung my weapons.
Among them was a small dagger. Her quick
eye caught It's CLEAN. and | saw her press
closer TO the wall, and with her right hand
strive stealthily to detach the blade from It's
fastening. She did not understand the trick.
Her hand dropped to her side, and she was
passIng on. when crossed the room. ioosening
the dagger. and offered 1t 10 her. with smile
and bow She flushed scarlet and bit her
lips. but she took IL.
There are bars to the door within !
said. Again. goodnight
" Goodnight. she answered, and, entering
the room, she shut the door. A moment more
and heard the heavy bars drop into place.
Captain Percy was not long in discovering
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26

were again under arrest and marching
Off to camp.
1.-THE %conscript officer has got them!"
shouted q dozen voices.
1t was even SO. The men had not
been out of the Confederate service two
minutes before they were in it again
They had been drummed out in military
fashion, tarred and feathered by the
civilians, and now they r%e-entered the
army with an opportunity to die like
heroes OF perhaps desert at the first
favorable chance.
Which would they do? never heard
of them again, but 1 feel confident that
they We're inside of the Federal lines
in less than a month from that day.
Although it was the j%olliest Confed.
crate holiday ever seen in that part Of
the South. and l doubt whether any
thing like it occurred in any other city
while the var lasted.-Wallace Putnam
Reed, in Chicago Times-Herald.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
COAL STRIKE is OVER.
OPERATORS AccEpE TO THE De.
MANDs OF MINERS.
{. Conference of Operator. at Philadelphia
Arrives at an Agrecment-Will Abol-
ish Sliding Scale of Wages and Give
an Increase of Ten Per Cent.

The conference between the individual
coal operators and the representatives Of
the big coai-carrying companies with Il
view to bring about the termination Of
the anthracite coal strike was held in
the private Office OF President Harris Of
the Reading Railway Company at Phila-
, de!Dhia. The meeting was secret. The
conference resulted i'll an agreement to
accede to the demands made by the mine
workers convention.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company ut once issued the follow.
ing. statement:
1T hereby withdraws the notice
posted Oct. 3. 1900. and, to bring
about practical uniformity in the
advance Of wages in the several
coal regions. gives notice that it
will suspend the operation of the
sliding scale, will pay 10 per cent
advance on September wages till
April i, 1901, and thereafter until
further notice; and will take up
with its mine employees any griev-
ances which they may have"
The Lehigh Valley company, in whose
region the sliding scale is also in opera
ticm, will issue a similar notice, as
will also the individual operators who
We're represented at the meeting. This
meets all the demands of the strikers and
means the immediate ending Of the
Efrtl.o
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
Alice Orr, II, Chicago. was killed BY

Alice Orr, II, Chicago. was killed BY
n train.
Morris G. Curtis, Berea, Ohio, oncs
wealthy. was stabbed to death at a dance
by an unknown person.
Ed Gwiley, insane negro, Algiers, La..
cut his roommate's throat. A crowd pur-
sued him and beat him to death.
1t was estimated that 10000 troops
would winter in Pekin, the German force
being the largest.
BY n vote of 80 to 1 the St. Louis
(Mo) P~resbytery has decided against auy
revision of the creed.
Francois s. Jones. secretary Of the
United States legation ut Buenos .Ayrcs.
II s'drowned at Charlottesville, Va.
Seventy-two new coal mines have been
opened in Prussia this year. increasing
the output for 1900 by 100000 tons. :
Twenty-Five men of Battery o, First
Artillery. and three men Of the hospital
corps were lost in the Galveston disaster.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
Brief New. Items.

French wine will be cheap owing to the
great grape crop.
Fred Berry, Pittsburg, Me-, killed a
moose in his own dooryard.
Twenty natives were drowned and
thousands made homeless insthe floods in
India.
Two children of George Sharp. Point
Pleasant, w. Va, started u fire with
kerosene. Both dead.
Boxers are pillaging the provinces of
Shan-tung aud Chill and are said to have
secured more than 100000 taels in recent
raids.
Capt. Liddlc of the British steamer
Bleddyn, has located n submarine vol
cano ut the edge Of Campeche bank, gulf
Of Mexico.
Harry Weller. Putnam. Ohio, shot
Homer Goodhart at the home of Miss
Minnie Davis, to whom Goodhart is en-
gsged AL prominent
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
The Engaged Mans Gifts.

There is nothing that pleases tae en-.
gagged man more than to shower gift
upon the he hopes to marry,
but very often it happens that he
spends a great deal of money aid anx,
;ous thought over the purchases. ano
often fails to get what is most suitable
or wished for. The engagement rims
proper is one of these innocent pitfalls
and 1t would be far wiser to get a litti.
instruction on thar momentous subjca
before buying it: il not from his lance.
herself, why, then. from some ubligin1
sister or cousin or aunt in her conf
dence.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
There are $1,000 union carpenters.


There are $1,000 union carpenters.
New York State claims $4,000 union
lists.
Vienna w-asherwomen get 40 cents q
day.
Frisco is to have a Chinese daily pa,
per.
Dayton. Ohio, has abolished bakers
night work.
A copy Of the British museums cata-
logue costs $500.
Brooklyn painters are paid So for
eight hours work.
Lynn, Mass, carpenters have been
conceded eight hours.
Frisco plasterers' day consists Of
seven hours. for which they get $3.50.
The street railway employees of Day.
ton. Ohio, receive 20 cents an hour for
nine hours, and % cents an hour for all
lime over nine hours.
London is putting in its w tele-
phone system and expects to furnish
10000 subscribers ut nominal prices.
The cost is S5,OO0,O0O.
A referendum vote has been taken in
Switzerland, which resulted in the re
lection of the proposed law for com-
pulsory insurance Of w%orkingmen.
Morehead, Kan, has O cooperative
notel, laundry, creamery and canning
factory, and a cooperative dining hall,
With several cooperative farms near
oy.
y Hungarian has discovered a meth.
I'd Of spinning wood pulp into yarn, SO
hat it can be woven into n fabric that
nay be converted into various articles
II clothing.
There are nine branches in New York
State Of the Women'S International La
,or League, whose object is to persuade
w%orkingmen and women to buy only
goods bearing the union label.
The Brooklyn Department of Chart
lies and Corrections has agreed to rec
sgnize and pay the new scale of $500
day to carpenters. being the standard
wage scale. and also agreed to the Sat
arday half holiday.
AulCl4NdA llNGlllNG ScIluS ID ulOlo
lctive than that of all other countries
combined, and for the year ending July.
1900, has been more in evidence than
sver, patents granted for the period
numbering 26,54O, or more than 5000
owe those of previous years.
A Detroit man has perfected an in
vention by which two men a do the
work of twenty-seven, with q cash saw
Ing of IS per cent, in the manufacture
Of brass castings. 1t is so much in adj
vance of the old method that 1t prom
lses to displace men all over the world.
The filming of help in shoe factories to
the extent to which 1t is carried in
many places Mt the present time is little
short of an outrage. A superintendent
in one OF the large factories, and a nan
Of many years experience, in speaking
OF the evil, says he has never seen the
necessity for any such extreme course
as is now practiced. That there are
cases coming up at times that only
treatment that touches the pocket will
seem to cure cannot be denied, but that
filming for everything, little and great,
from the time the shoe is cut until 1t
is finished, is not only unjust to the
workmen, but an injury to the bust
ness. for the reason that with the al
ready too low wages paid the nervous
! dread of the workman that he will be
further reduced by fines makes him
prone to do the very thing sought to be
avoided.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
EIGHT PERISH IN THE FLAMES.
Terribly Fatal Fire in a New York Ter.
ert,ent House.

Eight persons were either burned or
suffocated in a fire in the three-story
frame double tenement house, 45 and
45A Hester street, New York, early
Wednesday morning. OF Charles Fass'
family of six, only himself and his 4-ycar-
old girl, Pauline, are alive. Fass threw
his child out of n second-story window
and Policeman Peter Hunt caught her.
Then Fass escaped. Mrs. Anna Horo-
witt met a horrible fate. Her night robe
caught fire and she was burned to death
on the fire escape i'll sight of the helpless
crowd. Firemen and policemen made
frantic efforts to save her, but the flames
drove them back and she had to be left 10
her fate Policeman Fitzgerald rescued
W persons overcome by smoke.
The house in which the catastrophe oc-
Cured was a ramshackle frame building
which for many years has been u land
mark on the East Side.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26

Never ask what you have no right ia
know; never tell other people what they
have no right to know.-Theodore L.
Cuyler, d. ID.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26

A new electric motor for automobiles
has been devised which restores energy
to the storage battery when the vehicle
d running down hill.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
Heavy sentence Tor a Whi.ky se1ler.

AT st. John, Kan, for selling whisky
In violation Of the prohibitory law, Chas.
Steinbrink has been fined $4,000 and sen.
fenced to %forty-nine months in Jail. He
cannot pay his fine and will, under the
law. have to serve it out at the rate of
so cents a day, making his total sail
sentence practically thirty years. He was
convicted on forty-nine counts.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
Ordnance Survey Mar.

The largest map in the world is tn,
ordnance survey map of the British
Isles, which contains 10000 sheet
and cost f200,OO0 a year for twent.
years. This scale varies from ten fee,
to one-tenth of an inch to the mile. The
details are SO minute that maps having
q scale of twenty-five inches show ey.
cry hedge, fence, wall, building and
even every isolated tree in the country,
The plans show not only the exact
shape of every building, but every
porch. area. doorstep. lamp-post. rail.
way and fire-plug.-Golden Penny.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
(shaded Territories Have No Vots.)

The maps displayed herewith indicate the States claimed by the W. political
parties at the Novenbere election. In the Republican map the States claimed By
the manager Of that party are shown in black, and in the Democratic map the
States that party hopes to carry are marked afhr he same manner. In this
showing only the States which the party managers think they have a reasona-
bic chance OF carrying are given, the wilder claims being ignored. The result
shows:
Electoral votes claimed by Republicans, o96; electoral votes elaine by Dem.
ocrats. 2S3; sam votes claimed by each, 1872; total number of votes, AT; neces
to elect 224.
States Claimed by Republicans.
The States claimed by the Republicans, With their electoral yotes. are al
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26

London ncwsboys are now prohibited
from yelling forth the contents of their
wares.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
Married After FIFTY Years.

The elimination Of a romance of fifty
years standing was witnessed in the
= county recorders Office Mt Kansas CITY.
Mo, the other day when Sherman L. N.
Foote, aged q, and Mrs, LIZZIE d. Ba.
ker, aged 6S. were united in marriage.
Mrs. Baker when q girl of 10 taught
school in the East and among her pupils
was L. N. Foote, a farmer four years
her senior. The two fell in love and be.
came engaged, but a quarrel separated
them. Both eventually married other
parties and lost track of each other.
About three years ago Mrs. Bakers hus.
band died and a year later Mr.. Foote
lost his wife. Then Mr.. Foote learned
the address Of his sweetheart Of long apo
and opened up a correspondents with the
result that they have been married at
last.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26

Memory is the treasurer and guard.
ian Of all things.-Cicero.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
KILL AND Capture AMERICANS
Detachment of the twenty fourt,, Reg.
imcnt Oyerpowcrel hy Eilin;nos.


4 detachment Of twenty men of the
Twcnty-fourth regiment, while engaged
in repairing telegraph wires Oct. 10 mt
a point near San Jose, Nuevo Ecija PROV
incc. Isle de Luzon, were set upon by 200
rebels and were overpowered and scat
tered. Seven of the Americans reached
tSan Jose, but it is probable that the re-
maindcr were captured.
The enemy surprised n party of scouts
Of the Forty-third infantry ut a point
three miles from Takloban, Leyt Island,
killing three of the Americans at the first
volley. Two escaped and gave the
alarm. but the enemy succeeded in
evading their pursuers. The native po-
lice of Takloban had conspired to sur
prise the Americans. The bodies of the
dead soldiers were badly mutilated.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
MRS. WILL WOOD.
avoided

She was Blanche Daily, of Lebanon,
Ind, only daughter of the Indiana ex.
State Auditor. She eloped with VIII
Wood, who figured in the Pearl Bryan
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26

Give cheerfully with one hand and
lou will gather abundan.ly with two
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26

The Republican managers are disposed to scof at the Democratic claim 81
New York and Illinois, and they also claim Kansas is certain. On the othsr
hand, the Democrats deny the Republican claim that Bryan will lose any of IN
Stats west of the Missouri he carried in 1886. and base heir hopes on shane
in the East.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-01
Manchester Chosen.

The Republican committee of the Third
Congressional District met yesterday in
the law offices OF A1essrs. I. A. and w. +.
Wickhan.
The object of the meeting was to elect
officers and select q place for meeting
for the purpose of electing delegates to
the Republican Convention in Norfolk on
April 10th.
Mr.. J. w. Southwark, who has for some
time been chair,nS n of the committee re-
signed his position, and Mr. John Grubbs
was elected to fill the vacancy.
The committee decided to call a conven-
ton to meet in Manchester on April
9th for the purpose of electing delegates
to the Norfolk Convention.
A committee consisting of Cornelius
Mi1nms and 3. B. Weisiger was appoint
ed to select q suitable hall IN Manchester
for the convention.
S. c. Scott was elected to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of Albert Carter,
OF Henrico county.