The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-19

laps how many OF YOU like to, rcadf !
Inc y very much, aud hare read q great
mahy good books, Among the hest were
Nfhclma," scottish Chiefs "iVRnhue Z
Dora Thorne which Loved INN iiesty'
ana many Others Too numerous 60 name.
neer letter was very nice aud interestng.
schooi GlrG' please come again, Z Miss
Eva know yen felt very had when yop
M0h get 30 10 20 the prairie, hut such Is
htr. Your letter was very nice; come
aERin like an the letters and think tue
Hap club grand thing; u makes the boys
and girls all over the state feel like they
knew each other With hest Wishes / viii
Roy carson
Frauklm, Texas Dear Happy hammers,
May | come ia Just long enough to suggest
y subject for the next contestf Who Is. or
was tue greatest poet " the Ninetcenth
centurN How would that doy II some OF
the other liaps eau not think of something
better than the one / suggested, think
y would he interesting love TO read
nope she VIII favor us every week with
Inscriptions. etc | see that Gertrude Mi.
Ter wrote that she was going to try 20
nrg9nlEe a HNppyh0mmer club ! certhin'
nope she VIII succeed ! VIII try to
describe our little town, II has seven dry
goods aud two drug q ores. nostofhce, depot
ana two hotels We haven't any saloons.
am glad 70 say ! wish every town IN
Texas could say thnt Franklin went dry
inls lust summer Come again, Mr. VIII
NhGclCssi We are always glad 90 welcome
an old Hap What has Income of the Beau-
mont lmppyhammer cluhl IL seems that
the helping fund Is growing very slowly.
think II would grow faster II so many
9,%ys and girls did not love ice cream can.
~ wax, etc. So Wei, lho drawing FOR
August Ia fine. / certainly wish could
uruW that wen, but haven't any talent
Tor drawing at oil. Have any OF you llaps
mace any plans for lifo3 My ambition is
TO get musical educntion. | think that
music Is one or the sweetest thugs In Tie
world Where have the "Snipcs' gone to-
CAN'T Mud them somewhere school Olri, 49,
agree with Won IN saying IL Is no dis
gr0ce for boy 20 accompany his sister
anywhere. and / thlnk 1t is right for boy
70 treat his sister nicely and politely. and
DO as good 10 her Ms he can aud in return
girl Should be Kind aud good TO her
brother II she expects him 10 love and
repect her promised not to stoy longer
than 70 suggest subject for the neat
contest, SO ! win close with much love
'Mayhene."
short Texas Dear Happyhammers:
Hero ] come from the cotton Held, just Ns
tfgd and hungry as bear TO write you all
9. few lines from the little town pf Short
wouldn't hurt you for anything. / write
ana tax Just like ! feel, aud I feel Just
IKE o catamount see some Of the Haps
dream such horrible dreams that really
think that II I wcrc TO dream such stun
as that my hair would be white before
could wake up 70 save my life. Well I
VIII tell YOU about fishing expedition /
took one Fourth OF July Bright and carly
that morning brother and ! went over 10
our fflends home aud started on Tor the
creek, whore we arrived snfe ana snund
hyerythmg went all right TN after dinner.
then the troubles and trials began, we
decided We would 20 down the creek, So
OF we started We didn't so far before
the people at the place whore we had eaten
dinner called u.s. hut We didn't nuswcr.
They called for use 60 come back and 70
home. for II looks like Il is going 10 rain
We Just kept on down that creek. We were
going down the creek N there came q
cyclone, We tshod n little while ana Il
went ~ sprlnkHng. We thought II would
quit after little, but, TO our surprise, 70
Just went on raining like rip. Thc longer
We stayed the harder II ranod We struck
out through the bottom JUST Hs fast as we
could go, We came 10 fence: leaped
over into tho wet cotton, ran across Tho
field 10 an old ncgro's house whom wH
they told us that II Ne Ind come when
,hey wanted Us 70 We wouldn't have got
wasn't any chairs, SO we hCd 60 sit on the
floor With tue other negroes We went
home through the woods We was sure
II did get wet My birthday Is ON De
ccmbcr ~. ! want an tho Haps to give
me letter party and send your pictures
II you have any remain; true llap,
" ''''" - " Ahth''
May, Texas. Dear Happyhammors; /
decided ] would dron I'm and chat awhile
and pay mp my dues Well, ! see the con.
test is closed and we are now IN need ot
another good subject Mrs Foster let's
let the historical subjects rest awhile oiid
discuss something u different nature
that all the lIaps viii take an interest in.
Here are few suggestions. Which Is the
most henehcal ia mankind, books or news
pnpersf which Is 90 most useful article
nffmNHRAlIF la al Al
80 make tho helping fund grow faster IN
the future. We can all send or 40 celta
per month and not miss IT,, aud Just think
Of the good u would DO, I know what Il
ls 60 be cripple without chair and also
know what II II 70 have chair TO get
service and Is the greatest pleasure | have
No one but cripple can know what a
hard NE y is to be a cripple md do with
out a chair so ! urge all you dear Hnps
TO send 40 much as van can 60 the fund
every month Let 0s get Milan Bcmis'
Win be lust as thnnkful 10 you as ] am.
Haps. ! am publishing q small umutfur
paper. called the Texas Leader. subsuip.
nj for your subscriptions aud to on who
viii subscribe J Will make and send free
a nice erh pin with the letters III II g."
monty worked iu gold wire, or ! viii send
you q pin by Itself Tor Ne cents My price
until now has been II CENTS. All orders
thankfully received viii tell you how
Iuult n fANif 10 N1t ~ INC nNNNHs J LOOK
n common house choir, put an nxle through
the front post and procured two common
little wagon wheels for the side wheels;
fixed poet on the back Of the chair ond
nut a bed roller az the bottom aud lSed
foot board in front | can 50 about IN
the house without the least trouble br
turning The wheels with my bands who
has a small printing press. about Axe, 20
exchange for sSN0 10 lady'e gold watchl
a thapkful Han. Arthur Weathergby.
Rancho Texas Dear Happyhammers;
Rapa-tetoptnp Good evening 20 each and
every one III only you viii allow, I VIII
take my seat way hack here IN this dark
hut coy corner. listening steadfastly 20
that merry conversation which ~ now IN
progress between those thousands Of merry
Haps from on portions Of the land q the
free and the home Of the brave" bringing
with them glad tidings and hammorng hap
pinesB when and wherever possible. After
returning from the Arctic regions, and hay.
ing all u my generators reconstructed,
started on my southwark Journey 70 make
some explorations While ! was Ia the
temperate zone ! was very much delighted
by the vegetation, but, oh N.Y. that tOrrid
zone. shall not tel my trials while ex.
plorlng its almost blazing land. which you
know extends around the globe from east
-. TH..N. IN no frHfs srNu