The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-17

~ appears mat secretary Root nc last
dropped persuasion aud showed tbs mailed
fst 90 helpless little Cuba. Congress
asked for "substnndal" agreement TO the
Platt amendment but the administration
demanded unconditional and absolute com
nliance MS no credit to Uncle SAM how
ever, 10 play the bully
The Crimes county grand jury has al.
journed after finding indications OF oil
'"close harmony" Is now said to exist
between the great railroad interests re.
Gently az war. OF conrse-moncy never
lets the main chance escape or risks It's
Fronts for long in anything Ike a war
Capital is something Ike politlcs-it Is al
ways making strange bedfellows.
Mrs Kennedy takes tho jury's verdict In
a manner which Indicates that she feared
one much more severe.
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The little Porto Ricans are literally hav.
ing patriotism drilled into them by their
American masters. The other day they
celebrated dag day" day wholly un-
known to most Of the people on the main
land But possibly machne.made patriot
ism is better than none.
Chinese now demand free entry into the
United States. Let's let the Indemnity 20
ana leave things as they were
or the seven members Of the new So.
preme court Of the Philippines four are
Americans. None Of our Federal supreme
courts arc disposed 10 give tie new sub
iceta a chance to assert themselves.
shelby cullom looks ike Lincoln and
Mark Hanna looks Ike lobster. Cullom
Isn't at all Ike Lincoln, though.
Tho new Italian princess with the long
sinuous, undulaung name has been chris.
tened. The nurse IS 20 get $1,000 Tor the
chld's hrst tooth. A whole set ought tc
be ohtnInsble for less amount
The doctors now look pleasant. 'Tls Az
unuclpatory smile caused by the knowledge
that the watermelon is in our midst.
A chlropodist has Just sued for divorce
because. AS he asserts, his wife kept him
from climbing the prospertys ladder. sh,
doubtless thought that the proper plac,
for chiropodist was at the foot.
Now our colored citizens viii take day
on for genuine old-fnshioned time, and
win come home tanned, frectled and happy
The canal commission has reported rs
follows: "If we could buy the Panama
plant for SioOOO.o0O it would be bargain
but we can't" oh, most potent, grave and
reverend seigniors.
II must be tough to get salary the size
Of Schwnb's. Il would cost o man so much
to lay or that he never could take mol
iday.
II Is expected that the judgment q The
Hague court Of arbitration viii meet with
the approval OF an Of the powers except
one. That VIII be the one that get.
bumped.
Now Instructors arc finding fault with
olr English. no they expect that we car
all attain 10 the purity OF George AIDE,
styiel
Despite the views OF Mr. Richardson thai
II Is too early 20 think Of the presidential
candidates for 1904. Mcssrs Roosevelt
Hanna and a few others are in brow
study.
Morgan's railroad trust. capitalized a
| s., 200. 100000, seems rather small Anal
| for a man Of his abilities to interest him
self in
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! A dispatch says Of captured crmina
probably he win confess who his ac
completes are. There are whole volume,
II meaning behind that innoceut-looldnl
word,
The ycrdict in the Kennedy case scarcely
moved the culprit But it wasn't neces
| eary that it should the sheriff will atten,
10 that
Now the sweet boy graduate has all tn,
world before him whore to choose Th,
trouble Is. however that ne always want,
TO choose place az the top OF tho ladder
De Wet says he Is coming over here about
the middle of July He must have mad,
lp his mind to quit dawdllng along ana enc
the war.