The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-13
WITH PROMINENT VISITORS TO
THING INTERESTING TO SAY.

visited harvesting was just commencing and
that the prospects for a large yield were
generally excellent, although In some To-
calities the crop will he short as result
Of an inadequate water supply or in con
sequence OF the unskillful handling OF the
water. THE land Is HIl wight for rice grow
Ing" he Fald to n Post man yesterday:
There isn't the slightest doubt on lhat
score When the pumps aud other machln-
cry are of the proper kind and are Intel
llgently handled there Is no doubt that
results OF n most satisfactory character NAV
lies In the fact that the man who has only
small amount of land under cultivation
and whose means are limited, is able to
get plenty of water from artesian wells II
he can not arrange TO get bis supply from
canals or waterways. one well will water
100 to 200 acres and the total cost is only
satisfied with the prospects for the rice
industry In the coast country
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Mr.. whiting Allen. advance advertising
agent OF the Forepaugh-Sells Brothers
circus. who was In the city yesterday, had
some interesting things TO say regarding
life with circus. "There is," he said
to a representative of The Post, something
Of romance and mystery surrounding and
uuaitcrahly connected with circus people.
that eplists the attention and interest OF MI
classes The. questions that are asked us
as result OF ,ACse conditions are usually
amusing In the cNtrcme. The same ques-
lions are asked day after day. People want
to know how much hay an elephant will
eat In n day II the animal gets acquainted
with their keepers and lose their fcroclty
BY being Gagged: the present whereabouts
OF Dan Rice and II Barnum Is really dead;
! u circus people steal children and teach
them the business and a host of others OF
| like nature. We regard such queries as
merely Indicating the, interest the public
they are not Intended 10 he impertineut and
we do not consider them so by any mcaus 20
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81 had n splendid Illustration Of the value
OF newspaper advertising today" said Man.
ager Bergman OF Sweeney & COMBS
! theoter Yesterday "The paper for The
Burgomastcr' company was not put on the
/ hillhoards and I'm the windows until th y
forenoon The only advertising that had
been given the attraction was Through the
medium OF few lines in The Post Yet.
| within very few minutes after openinr
the sale ~ seats early this morning 2O0
tickets had been disposed or You may
put me down as being very firmly ~ the
opinion that newspaper advertising pays
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"one OF the maddest men ever saw. -
remarked a gentleman who has been proml.
neatly Identified with New York politics
to representative OF The Post AT the I.o
gan hotel yesterday, twas a fayorlte sou
Of New York. who. as he Is still living
and possessed OF considerable influence
shall be nameless. II was during the
fiower-Fassett guhernatorial campaign In
1894, aud The thing happened at Madison
square, whore there WAS erected an enor
nous platform with flags and lights. a
! magnificent hand and IN enormous con
course Of people II was Bourke Cochran
who perpetrated the Joke on the distin
gvished gentleman 10 yet even for his hRV