The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-08

TO make Of such strange antics when l
saw them flush a large slzeu RAJ from my
interior Of n trash pile on the sldeWnlk uI
Mistrot's dry good store. They both Joined
hands or teeth rather, in the comhat ana
Il was only for a minute or two that the
UNEQUAL battle waced. Dropping their Vic,
tim on tie sidewalk, they started off aud
made the rounds of the squares mentioned
lnti ,he usual hour of morning, wheh tney
separated. This thing was still going ON
when ! wns transferred and unless there
has been a dissolution of partnership or
nv successor has broken up the game,
guess # IS still going on. The number OF
rats killed during my time was 'consluef-
able"
u don't know whether you believe In
ghost stories al not" said we'll known
bayou shipper the other day, but whether
or no there Is a story going on down
stream that seems uncanny, TO say ths
least. Druing the September storm OF
1900 an oyster schooner, with two men
aboard was lost near Cedar Point. Inc
| boat was never found; neither were the
bodies OF the captain and mate, the only
| two souls aboard. Some weeks later the
! crew OF q schooner lying near the point
| declared they saw vessel OF the same
I style. make and rig appear out OF the
mist and sail toward them. They thought
| II was the lost schooner that had by some
| miraculous turn OF fortune been saved and
| they We're Just ready 60 shout the glad
| iGings when. 10. and behold. the craft dis
| the occurrence at the time, but II was for
| gotten as the months rolled 10y and nothing
| more was heard or seen Of the craft Now,
| Just year later the apparition-fOr APP
| partition the men who saw II swCTr it is
l-hns again appeared. While one of the oy-
| ster feet was sailing over the water the
other night in the locality where the boat
| was wrecked schooner appeared from out
the horizon and seemed 10 be bearing di-
dcctly down upon them. The captain want
cd to avert collision with the stranger
81 D "A 10
newcomer a wide berth. Then he awaited
| developments. The stranger came swiftly
on with all sail set and plowing the water
IL was all done so quickly that the crew
Of the oyster boat were stupehed. They
say they saw not soul on the stranger,
but that she sailed or seemed to sail, just
as maiestically over the water as II han.
died by clipper crew
~
They were on their bridal tour You
could tell that. You could also tell by
the cut of their clothes that they didn't
come from Boston, either. But you could
be given hundred guesses and you couldn't
tell where they did come from or how they
got here Did You ever take a bridal tour
ON barge or did you ever hear OF any
body else taking oneI NOT Guess not
Wen, this couple did. They came from
down the bayou and Just because 1t hap.
pens To be true story II Is just as well
not 70 mention names The leading char.
| acters In the story might not like n
lhey come of poor but respectable parents
do this couple. and for many ycars-not sn
very many at that-they had been in love
Ihsy were schoolmates together and It is
sain that IN this Instance they fooled the
story writer and allowed the course OF
true love 10 run smooth. She took In
sewing and he-well, that can he cut ont
too Anyway, they saved and saved and
hnally the time came when thew decided
10 rake the most serious step in life There
was nut one drawback To their happiness
s Esc - WanIea TO take bridal tour, tc
se tar away, 10 be alone with their own
sweet thoughts for once In their lives ms
question or money-that at all times an
sotul"s queStlon-,was the drawback They
were desp down In the slough OF desmond
wheh, happy thought. the groom had 1
friend and this friend had a barre-n bargS
lnal plowed the mighty waters Of Buiralc
bayou M to Houston He stated hIs cssn
Was warmly received and the barge turned
ever TO the happy couple. The barge wo.
nlIeu up Win a comfortable apartment an
ana ana Sgreensd IN from prying eyes by day
, anu projected ny only the blue cnnonv nj
nehNen ut might. They set sailor ratbc,
,rir slC9m saw that the heavy hawse,
Dy is mae IS. Isst to a friendly tugboat-nnt
~, ,us lapse OF two DAYS and two night.
,peN enloTed tho sights and scepas .,
houston aud two DAYS and two nirsfs I.,n,
t ,bet were back in-well let il 20 N
!
houston is catching 1t on all side
'nloush the medium Of her double healt,
oui'er attraction and not day passe
S put mat some witty paragrapher or catch,
n saying appears In tho state nr.s. a--'
I thlS UNIQUE spectacle. One day II IL RIM
? ny sna the next day 1t is BOYD, and ~ :
sstunE 70 DC something like the irish
y man nea: Now you see him ana nSr
: YOU don II remained for a local n ~,
pss'n ,Sa to make advertising capital On
! banner TO the fore at the corner a q, ha w
. she frairlc one day last week. read,ps ~
Z tSnows; 1t Is hard matter TO saw M o "a
7 the health Office is. but - tha N"eI
J is upstairs over - laundry 'ne -
~
y said well known dry goods mach.
d Yesterday; From all indIearons 49,
:, crowd Is going 10 be much lsrrsS I'm,
nsuat, In tact, the number OF stranrs-
. IA town last week far exceeded tha.s
q last year aud II the weather he 'e Ia,