The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-13

e sI year, but Just as Il was ready te
t6s s aue BIRDS picked II every bit out al
set Wood and a host Of Others Ai ny c Snn
again. loyal HaHp, Pearl Elkins.
piSS m!!tn WI Texas; Dear Haphammer.
de"t,.s Aoo regret TO hear OF our noble presi-
e e.but ueathf Oh, wasn't II awfulf Ouf
o'cloct % gong 10 turn out today at 1880
oneyo anu service is to be held In the
Va resident Mckinley. How many OF Won
ssTulHk maps have read Tempest and SIM
wans / have and think 1t is Just hnc /
want 10 exchange some songs with snrns
vi you iaps, but | guess II won't do any
fuou TO want. | have so many of the
,"uceSt songs but there are few more /
talks are Ay SO 'G ip, esSei think the club
H. tbr.tea d the rules aud their letters are
ITTitioWn away. Winter has almost begun.
tn US uVthlhg 1t was so cold | did not like
set up nut had TO. and hurry on to
Scnool' ! will close now. An old Hap,
Wanderer,
pSusartown, La. Dear Haphamner.
Iiease DO not think / am coming too often
/ M} Iather takes the dear old Post, aud /
i've H'nA in ,b lS ,ne best paper ever read. !
/ bern" t tuS country and think II is much
dowCo,rs tnan llllhg In the city; Haps. my
noWerS are just lovely. | wish YOU all
5ou'q see them. imagine Mrs Foster
mas lots Of pretty flowers, don't Won INNS
How many Of the Hans IKE 10 raod
I dreams: do for one am going TO
/ ffC"o 90 ana having a nice time. | love
! 20 go TO school; ! think everybody should
10y an interest in trying to get an edu.
fSS9ioh' don't you Hapsf And not only
/ EnaL nut to learn how to work IN nt
nous, mouse and in the field and if they know
thSt much think they Will get through
ms Q9id world all right, don't your notice
/ NGouOine, our most faithful writer has
nbau16 her lqsJ Letter TO the llaps. Bad
Guuugn isn't III Come again Joe Farmer
I rear Epperson and all you good Vritprs
Lovingly, Dora Cole.
IaNior Texas.-Dear Haphammer: As |
nave been absent about three months. |
WIN eudeavor to write again. IIaps, /
guess some OF You have been picking cot.
ION ] have picked little this year, hut
! begins. ! guess our school will begin next
month. IT is very bad about our president
very nlce to fence the San Jacnto grounds
then We would have the pleasure Of know.
ihg nat our large band OF boys and girls
hhaau IL done. ! think we viii have to do
pelter about the helping fund or We will
6e all the year getting a chair for Algie
DeEeney. | know he is getting tired OF
waiting for i. and just thlnk, he is need
ing his chair. Now come on llaps and
let us Try to do better, for | know we can
40 better If we will try. Well, | will
ciosg, hoping the waste basket will spare
ny lctleE with love to all the Haps aud
Lucy snavcIy.
Krlegel, Texas.-Dear Haphammer: It
certainly was cold the last three days
almost froze; How many Of you all like
winter? do. If it Isn't so cold; hut
IKE winter better than | do summer
Ike to 60 TO school, If many children are
~ school, but there are SO few people here.
we h4d eight scholars, last year. | hope
we VIII have more this ycar. | think
eleven will 90 to school this year: il is
twelve with myself. ] think we will have
church out here In our old school housc.
! never have been to Sunday school IN my
ne; mat Is the reason thar want 10 20
now, hGt cant get to 20 because my
larger sisters want to go: and so | cant.
them Witty" Sometimes I don't ansvc7
II they call me Negro hut they won't
stop IT, Papa went to El Campo today
! wish he would come home to-day Well
waste basket is hungry. A true Hap,
Nara Krlegel
Linn Flats, Texas. Dear Haphammcr:
VIII you admit another rough boy into
Sony cyl. IN OF HappyhammerSt am II
all kinds of farm work / can plow and
hoe, | picked liy pounds OF cotton in one
day Ii has been dreadful dry here th.s
summer, but the drouth Is broken now as
I Is ralDing aud has been raining all day.
We'll Haps ! just want to talk with you
all a llu!e about signing your real name
am trying 10 advise you, for ] AM too
young Tor that, besides / am not capable
of giving advice; | just want to give
little boys views. ] think 1t much nicer
to write your name than to sign a nom de
plume for when we sign our own names
everybody knows who IL Is, and / surely
wouldn't write anything that / was
ashamed for people to know who wrote H.
This Is not intended for the contest as it
has closed. Wake up, Haps, and let MS
send In money enough to get Algle Devency
chair. Wen. for fear OF the old basket.
for It's sets right under the table ready to
catch everything that looks like this let
ter, so will close, with best wishes TO
Mrs. Foster and all the Ilaps ! remain
yours cordially, Arthur Lylcs.
short, Texas-Dear Haphammer: Well,
| viii tell you about my trip 10 Center
last sunday, il had been raining ever
since Thursday. My brother wanted to 60
TO Center to start TO school Monday morn
ing. Papa and myself were going with
him Sunday morning, so we started early
and it was full of water and one end of
the bridge was gone, so e couldn't q oss.
Papa drove up the creek to an old ford
but he failed to lind the ford, and drove
out into deep hole one of the horses
went almost out Of sight and one end Of
the wagon did too and we came mighty
near not getting ont; but by hard work
we at last got out and went on. About
mile further we met a wei known gentlr-
man, and papa asked him If the next creek
was up. lie told him IL was all over the
ground: so we turned around and came
back When we got back to the creek
there was another gentleman who showed
US the ford, so we went across all right
and came back home, and ! don't think |
will ever want to start anywhere else
when the waters are mp. | have been pick
ing cotton some this fall. | have picked
$50 pounds. ! will close, with best wishes
to the Haps and Mrs. Foster. A true Hap
Ethel f. Whttlesey
Houston, Texas.-Dear Haphammer:
wish 10 ask II you will let me join your
club. | would Ike to join very much for
read the Haps' letters ami take pleasure
in doing so. / have lived IN Houston a
very short time, but have lived here before,
aud like this place very we'll. | am 4
little girl II years old. Did you ever think
how hard II will be 90 decide which was
the greatest man born In tue Nineteenth
century, There are 50 many brave men
born In that century that I think | will
leave that question 70 some one wiser than
l. The Haps spoke about novel reading l.
ike Mrs Foster. don't think II will harm
any one II the books they read are written
by good authors ] have read z eat
many and the best among them Is "Miil on
the Floss Papa doesn't mind II | read
novels II | let him choose them I think
the piece Of poetry by the name OF The
Old Stone Fort was very nice and hone
Mrs HAMLET will write more poetry for
our page enjoy reading II and think
doches, where the odd fort" Is, aud was
inside of the fort Itself. He thinks II is
such a pity TO tear II down. They can
rake the stone and build II elsewhere, but
IL will never be the same. I Will end my
iattFr for 1 sae tho waste haskell sfarfny