The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-14
TAMPERlNG WITH TRIPLES.
BEN MILAN.

BEN MILAN.
AS long as Texas pralhes bloom beneath
blue Texas skies
AS long as men continue men and brave
deeds win spplause:
As long as lovers hook fer love deep in
heir sweeth saifs eyes;
As long as han1 can raise sword TO
ehanapqcn patriot cause;
SO long as children lisp prayer beside
their me- hers knee,
Their ciild sh tongues shall utter pray
ers in haldng tines and slow
Fer thoze VITO dared give up their lives
that TEXTS mll.c zoe tree
The men who went VIA Milan into San
An1onio.
Can't you zee the grlzslei veteran step
out before his men,
The waywcrn remnant left to him, and
look adGwn the line;
The hagsard and discouraged troop pre-
sentng arms again,
And see beneath his shaggy brows his
old eyes CLINT and shine?
See him lift his old sombrero; see tine
soldiers crowd to hear;
See THE laugater chase the wrinkles n
his old cheeks to and fro
Can't you hear him put the question in a
ringing v.ice and clear
who win go with Old Ben Milan into
San Antonio?"
who will go with Old Ben Milam?" All,
the wait ng had been long,
It's fhe canker born of waiting that
eats out the hero's heart;
It's an easy thing to go to death; but
when the heart is strong,
Oh. tits worse. tits dar, FAR worse than
death TO play the waiting partl
With tlhe battle tremor in mis- yoioe-who
wouldn't go with him?
Who would dare to be a coward look
ing in his eyes aglow?
And as his brave hugza rang out, through
eyes grown strang. y dim,
The souls of heroes Il ,ed atar to San
Antonio!
Four days and nights ePe battle waged
and four days '$eSSby side
Thro' San Antonio'Esy 'oked ways they
won from stre street;
For ew'ry Go-t OF q" re gained som,
man Icy down gna1ied,
And eItu.bIbo,n dill tGe Toe contend eacf
foct CT their retreat;
And each man gIaved fer aye that day
tis name on histry's scroll,
AS one who went with Milan into Sa1
Antonio!
And wttta one last long gagping cheer spec
n1ilam's dauntless soul
To blaze THE way for those who dice
within the Alamo!
Tt is said that the Chinese nation uset
clocks -four million years ago From
their lack OF progress one is inclined t,
think that perhaps their timepieces al
ran down about that time.
80
Grand Rapids, Midi. has free skatin,
rink; but If Mus. Carrie of Kansas wer,
to operate in that city for a day or tw,
the inhabitants would find 1t somewha
hard ITO get skates.
There was a young woman of Perth
Whose features would move you TO mirth
Her eyes weren't mates
And, truly, her skates
Seemed TO cover an acre of eanth.
Bmporia, Kansas. WAS founded forty
four years ago. and unless it learns t,
sldestep on It's Joints" 1t stands a fai
chance CT soon being dumfounded, for j
is hardly probable THAT Carrie, the sa.
loonatic, will overlook so shining a light
~
A New Jersey man has adopted ca
diet and 1T isn't costing him cent t.
live in fact. the very perceRtlble thin
ming out Of backyard providers in Newarl
is causing him to be regarding as a pub
lie benefactor.
The story is once more going the round
that Mrs Florence Maybrick has beer
fH''OhNh Wy hht iNhSiloh aubllViltltS lux
is soon TO be released 1t is easy to be
leye THAT which one wishes TO believe
but this oft-recurring story has grown Il
have the same cheAtnutty flavor tina
characterzes a pr.ma donna's farewell ap
peararce. 1t seems settled fact tina
England is going TO permit this mucl
wronged woman to end her days In
ielon's cell, and her death to stand Tor
ever monument to their Johnny Bull
headedness.
Poor old Bleeding Kansas has been KEEP
so on the jump OF late THAT she is gettin!
very weak and wClbbly in her Joints"
Sad Ithe maiden TO one of the roomers,
These blooms are my own; my perfum
ers"
Said he. you look well
In your garden, Estelle;
Or, to he more exact, in your bloomers.
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MAXIMUM FREIGHT RATE.
Letter In Favor of the uili Now He
fore the Legislature.
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