The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-13
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.
Tho steamer Montreal clcnrcd from New
| Oritnns on the ith with 1880 mules hound
| Tor Cnpctown. South Africa.-Blanco News.
Most of these animals. IL not all of
them, were shipped from Texas. Gradual
ly the Lone Star is getting around to
where It exports everything instead Of re
naming an importer
~
The san Antonio city government does
! well II 1t keeps the city bridges in good
repair. The Express says there are over
! 1000 within the limits of the city.-Blanco
| News.
| IL In order, It might be well to find out
from the esteemed Express If these 1000
bridges were added to the population of
the Alamo City by the census enumerators
OF 1901
| The press seems to have forgotten to In.
| terview Mary Ellen Lease upon the sub
/ Ject OF Mrs. Carrie Nation. The woman
| of the tireess tongue has been succeeded
by the one with trenchant hatchet.-El
Paso News.
Meantime 1t may be remarked that the
trencltnnt Ratchet is more formidable
weapon toward successfully CArrc-ng the
Nation than is prognathous jawbone.
Hereafter Mary Ellen Will have no Lease
GU this Nation!
Rev. Sam Jones of Georgia, In a recent
vigorously indorse Mrs. Nations saloon
crusade In Kansas, and said that "she was
on the only path that would make prohibit
ton prohibit. "-Eign Leader.
II Is surprising what one lone person can
do. Mrs. Nation has done more toward
OF. atta.r ILL.,
other person. II Kansas officials and the
officials of every other State were made
of such stun as the hatchct heroine is
made OF, it would soon take Il microscopes to
ind rascal unhung!
Several counties in North Texas have
organized oil companies to put augcrs into
Mother Earth and see If they can not
ma spouting geyser of petroleum. a
good idea. If they don't find oil they will
he giving labor employment and putting
money IN circulation and that is better
than having 1t rust In bank vauits.-Deni-
son Herald
All of which is well said The chances
are IL they do not find oil. they will find
something equally as good. Coal. iron, gold
silver Enthusiastically every known min
eral. oil and water has been found In Texas
wherever the proper prospecting has been
done.
In commenting recently on paragraph
which appeared in the Fnrmcrsvile Times
concerning Congressman II. c. Decoration
reid, The Post said; In that case the
BLACK eagle Of the pincy woods will have
to dap his wings in the black land cotton
patches. The Dcnison Herald therc,pon
adds
Iii that case the "hlack eagle" viii do
wen to see that the legislature does moth
ing of the kind If he wants to remain ip
congress. The Fifth district has GooI
sized eagle Of her own. He is not black
but ready fighter and a hard hitter. c. b.
kanden VIII represent the Fifth district
Tor some time TO come.
Our brethren OF Indiana are not taking
kindly TO the solution of the colorcd prob
lem which appears to confront them rs #
was supposed they would Really they dc
not make MS many charitable allowance
Tor the weaknesses and infirmitcs of tho
nature Of the negro as the southern mai'
does. They should not forget that tn
negro liz Il negro and can bv no possible
means be expected to act and behave as a
white mon,-JohnSop County Review.
Just wait awhile longer until Sambo be
comes little more plentiful in Hocsicr
dom and then ultra critics Of the "bpr-
barous South" will come to a rcaliza tlon
OF their past sins. Chickens may roam Il
long ways ana larry long while on the
prairie, hut they invariably come home Ia
roost Kansas, Indiana and Colorado have
already found this out and It is highly
probable that these States viii learn more
| as they grow older.
~
The Hon. Temple Houston OF this State
says that The reason Indians are so long
lived aud healthy is that they use great
quantities OF pepper Ia every thing they
eat and drink, and further adds that he *
using pepper himself aud never fclt better
ms may knock the fellow out who was
getting corner on salt, to proong life, ana
YOU can look for mn advance in the price
OF pcpper.-Elgin Leader.
There Is no doubt about pepper possess
Ing medicinal qualities, but just how long
either pepper or salt will prolong life is
not yet very clear. Up in the mountains
OF Tennessee Kentucky, the Vrginias and
North Carolina people may easily he found
who are 100 years old And the ma or
portion of these old people, men and wo
men, attribute their longevity in part to
| their free Indulgence of pure ,homo-
made) corn whisky and home grown to-
bacco. 1t is a debatable question as to
what causes long life.