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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-04
Fosterls Local Eorecasts.

Fosters Local FORECASTS.
weather changes noted below win occur
within twenty-four hours Of s p m. OF
dates below.
January Cooler.
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MOVED.

The Texas Optical Go arr now In their
new quarters, Solts Main street.
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Texas Optical co. greets you with s
happy Now Year from their ueW quarters.
boiis Main street
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Suits Filed for the County Court.
A. H. Lincoln ys, Eliza Sanders, debt
Probate Court.


state Of TcxaS We Rosie Johnson, charg}
of iun1cy; tried and dC'cudnut found Of
state Of Texas VS.. ". \. Morris charge
a. unaCy. jury cmrauVied and sworn,
evidence heard verdict of iury that de-
ic aus ". j. Norris is insane.
,h.rge Of mnucy, the defendant WAS ar-
DO ted ON December -. ordered that
dsf,ulan' having 'ccOvcrcd aud hnNi"c
been discouraged th! cause - dismissed
and ordered dropped from The docket
Transfers Of Real Estate.
Il, Hanson, to Max, NeG ana wife,
lots and 3, block u of the sub
division 81 loacre lot 20, Holman
ana Smith surveys ......... ,..... Sl,4OO
Mrs Aal :, Link to Charles \.
ClapVard, lot 10 block >, ElouNtS
addition; other valuable consIdcra-
Mrs. Ida ~ !. Link to Is i. Hlmcn-
torf lot 10, block =. Rlouuts ad-
dition other valuable consdera-
tious and ......t. ............-,-.. 100
John W. Writ 10 Harry SERIES, 40
acres OF section 70, block ? Wash
inron County Railroad company ,oo
e. t. Gushing 81 al 10 win Powars
nort Of LOT 39 OF the o. smith I'M
7. NJ Rowcrs, Ir and wife 10 G.
II. Wunshrougb, part Of block
south side Buffalo bayou ........ $500
John McMahan to William II. Bauer.
north half Of LOT II in Cypress NO
Bewardo Guzzordq and wife 20 3.
Field and wife that part Of lot g,
block 1876 30 feet from: on Char
tres street. running back II feet
inches on Prairie avenue ...,.. 1900
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The Royal BAKER aai 7Ja.-y Cook"--ovcr
500 practical 3ud valuable cooking receipts
--irec 10 c.ery patton, Send :Gii Address.
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NoUl BAKING rowosR co. 100 wrllrAs "sw vo's-
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Some baking powder makers claim their powders
ar g ,Gper, They can be cheaper only il made
+ m cheaper materials TO cheaper the cost of
article ( food at the expense OF It's healthfulncss,
IS is done in alum baking powders, is a crime
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There were three eases Of lunacY heard
before Judge E. H. vAsmsr in the probate
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14
DER GERMAN COBBLER.
He Becomes a Philosopher and Finds
That It Works All Right.
Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.)

Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.)
Sometimes. when 1 vhas putting a
cement patch on a shoe for feefteen
cent, dot old bum comes in und sits.
down und groans und signs ind sheds
tears. vhas so busy / don't look up
at him. ind maybe it vhas ten min
utes pefore he says:
..All mans vhas porn free und equal.
but how vhas it? Was l der presi-
dent of der United States, nit a salary
of feefty tousand dollars a year. or
vhas I some poor, unfortunate mans
mitout one red cent in my pocket?
How does she come about? If | vhas
porn equal, Why don't 1 be equal? Can
one mans hat feefty tousand dollars
und some other mans be dead brokeg'
l don't say nottings to dot, und he
groans und weeps some more. When he
sees ] do not mind him. he pounds nit
his fist und shouts: 1T shall not be so
any more! Der peoples vhas driffen to
der wall. und now der people vbas
going to turn l vhas some peoples.
Too long hat / toiled und shaved dot
SCl AlSA hight SIOW AtCltCI uAtl QOt
der millionaire might put his foot in
my neck Now shall a revolution come
und all der money ind der cocktails be
divided o0p, ind in two days you see
me riding in my carriage nit sefen
diamond pins in my necktie. Cobbler.
lend me a nickel to start dot revolu-
ton ind arouse der patriotism.
l don't look -oop. 1 don't speak nit
him. I keep right on NIT dot cement
patch und whistle some tunes to my
self. Dot old bum calls me names ind
shakes his fist at me, ind he says der
frenzied peoples shall demand my life.
but he gets tired ind goes AWAY, und
l vhas peaceful once more.
In two days more when put a half
sole on a shoe. dot old mans Snyder
comes in und sits down. He don't
speak, ind l don't speak. Maybe it
yhas twelve minutes before he says:
s'Cobbler, vhas dis autocratic Russia
or free America? Was we serfs und
slaves or freemen una patriots? Must
we bend our necks to tyrants, or can
we speak oop like meng'
| don't say nottings. 1 drive some
more pegs in dot half sole ind mind
my own peesness. IN seEen minutes
more old Snyder says:
81 yhas going along when a police
mans meets me ind says if / don't
clean der snow off my sidewalk next
winter he Will make my heels break
my neck. Does ne hat some right to
spoke to me like dot?"
I don't say nottings some more pc
cause I don't know about dot snow
next winter und in a little While der
old mans stands oop und pounds on der
wall und says:
BY golIy, but I goes out und arouses
der peoples ind tells 'em dot liberty
vhas in danger und freedom vhas be
ing chosed to death! Der American
patriot vhas on his back ind being
rolled in der mud, ind if nopody don't
do nottings peoty soon dis country
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and the old woman wasn't around TO
Encourage me. / went into the state
house with the crowd, and I'd just
found a seat when a Teller comes
around and says.
Excuse me. but amt that a rife
yo've got tharg
g She be- says I. It's a rife which
has killed mo- bars and wildcats than
20 could count in an hour, and she's
still ready fur the next varmint
But yo' can't bring no deadly
weepins in we're, he goes on. This
amt no jumpin' match nor boss race,
but the legislachur of Tennessee
ST told him I knowed whar was, but
that | should keep tight holt of that
rifle till I knowed I was out of the
woods, and he goes away growlin' to
hisself. Mebbe it was half an hour
arter that when a Teller stands up on a
platform and looks at me and says:
Does the honorable member from
Beaver Cove expect to find any bars
on the fiooh of this housey
s. I amt sayin' as I do I answers,
but if thar is a riot over moonshine
whisky I might want sunthin better
than a club
with that they all laughs and be-
gins to pick on me. One asks if
brung my dorg along, another moves
that / git up and tell bar story, a
third wants a pattern of my coonskin
cap. and so it goes for ten minits
Bimeby that same teller stood up ag'in
and says. as slick as yo' please:
'Mebbe the honorable member from
Beaver Cove would like to be excused
for half an hour while he takes his
gun homer
. Do any critter we're want to pick a
fuss with Zeb Winter says I as I
stands up.
Everybody laughs and claps his
hands, but no one comes nigh me, and
1 puts on my cap. shoulders my rifle
and says as 1 walks out.
It's an onery crowd, and thar amt
a man among yo' who kin pull a rabbit
out of a boiler log
4 went straight to the tavern, and
thar I found the old woman shiverin'
and shakin' fur her life.
" What's the matter?' says I.
They've put pillercases trimmed
with lace on our bed says she, and
the gorgeousness of it viii bring on
heart disease. Zeb, fur the Lawd's
sake. let's go back homer
But I'm we're to watch moonshine,
says I.
Never mind moonshine nur nuthin'
else on the face of this airth, but let's
be a-gittin'. This world amt fur US,
Zeb. We is like two lost children wan
derin' through the woods and expectin'
to be eat up any minite, and I'm 50
skeart and Illustrated that I shan't live
two days longer. Zeb, if yo' love me-
come home
"'Fn do it. says I, and she got on
her poke, packed our earbetbag, and we
was out of that town of Nashville befo
shutdown, never to go back"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14
TALES OF THE ORIENT.
Things Happen to Kings the Same
as TO Other People.

Copyright, 1902, by G. B. Lewis.)
One day as the king rode forth in
disguise and unattended on his bike
he came upon a peasant who was cut
ting grass by the roadside and stopped
to enter ipto conversation with him.
by the way remarked his high
ness after some little talk. Il have
heard on all sides that our king is one
of the wisest men of earth. What is
your opinion about it?'
"a man is either wise or an ass, !"
sagely replied the peasant.
-sBut that is not an answer to my
question. What do you caEi. that thing
hanging from that limbo 1t doesn' t
look to me like a birds nest 2
No, I shouldn't take it for a bird s
nest myself, and should also let it
alone. As to your question"
wait a minute, my fHiend I'm
bound to see what sort Of 4 thingama-
jig that is up there I'll get a club and
knock it down. If the muskrats Of my
kingdom have taken to building houses
in the air, the price of pelts shall be
advanced from this day
The king sought for a club and the
peasant stroned away. In a couple of
minutes the nest was down and $3.50
hornets We're doing business with his
royal highness in a way to jump him
over fences and run him over brush
heaps. When the high tea was over
and the last guest had departed. the
peasant came sauntering back, and the
king doIefully exclaimed:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14

try Heaps of critters come around
and Encouraged me and offered to lend
me money. but l didn't borrow a dollar.
Coons and possums was plentiful that
fall, and l sold huff pelts to pay our
railroad fare down to Nashville. We
didn't hev very good clothes. but when
spoke to the old woman about it she
said:
.Zeb, we ar jest poor and honest
people. We amt gwine down to Nash
vile to swell around, but to be very
humble and to do the best we kin.
Well jest put on our Sunday clothes
and let it go at that If anybody don't
like our looks, they kin look the tother
way
WAL, we started off one day and
got aboard of the railroad kyars. I
was a leetle narvous, and the old wo-
man braced her feet and hung on
with her hands, but we got along with
out any calamity. In about an hour.
when she dared to open her eyes and
draw her breath. she says to me:
sZeb. how many houses hev yo'
seen since we left homer
-" -More'n a hundred says I.
's And how many peopleY
More'n a thousand
g Shoe! Then we must hey got clear
around the world and back home ag'in-'
when we got down. to Nashville,
thar was so many people and so many
houses and such movin' around that
I got the old woman behind me and
prepared to fight to the death, but not
eritter laid hands on us. Some of 'em
laughed at my cowhide boots and some
Of EN- grinned at the old woman's poke
bonnet. but everything was, good ma
tured. We went TO tavern to get
board. and when the old woman sees
the carpets on the floors, the stuff
cheers standin' around and the loolxin
glasses as big as a tablecloth she turns
pale and puts her arms around me and
says:
q sZeb, kin now see why thar ar SC
many sinners in this world If a crit
ter kin hev all these things, he don't
keer a pesky drat about gwine t.
heaven. I'm afeared Wen be bad 'nuf
to steal hawgs in a week.
ssThar was a good deal of winkin' and
smith, around that tavern said Zeb
land I was skeart and mad and nary.
Gus all the time. but 1 hung on and
said words to brace the old woman up
At the end of three days the Iegisla-
/ ehur opened, and had to go up to the
statehouse. Iordy, strangef. but I'o
rather tackled three old bars to Ok
l / had goosenesh as 1 struck that crowd
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bed? De you want to get the Odors of
the barns along the alleys?"
.'I am looking after my health, if
you want to know-a matter that does
net seem to concern you in the least.
I am ordered by the doctor TO sleep in
tent for the next thirty nights to
eure my asthma"
But L haven't. seen a sign of asthma
about YOU protested Mrs. Bowser,
..and / don't believe our family doctor
advised any such thing
Woman, you seem to forget whom
you are talking tor he said after Civ
ing her long stare. please recolleet
that my name is Bowser and that I run
this house. When I am no longer
capable of it, you may take charge.
Until prove myself to be a fool please
keep your placer
Mrs. Bowser was crushed. She said
nothing for the next FIVE minutes, and
Mr.. Bowser magnanimously forgave
her and finally said:
My asthma hasn't fully developed
yet but unless take due precautions
1 shall be victim of consumption in
less than a month. A doctor happened
to ean at the Office today, and, MOTTO
ing my condition, he made an examina-
ton and recommended the tent. 1 see
nothing to cali for any sarcasm on
your part. Our own doctor. if con-
suited, would recommend the same
thing. Plenty of fresh air is the only
remedy for asthma"
4 thought people were short of
breath, like a horse with the heaves,
when they had asthma, she ventured
to remark
Thank you for the comparison. AS
to shortness of breath, Eve been in
such a state for the last month that ]
couldn't speak for five minutes after
climbing upstairs. 1 have said nothing
to you because I didn't want you to
be worried. but the time has now come
when I must take sharp action. Have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14

One day, after the kings courtiers
had been telling him that he was all
the show and had power over every
thing on earth, he walked ont IN his
park and commanded a big oak tree
to-come to him. As it did not come he
said to his prime minister:
How is this, my friend2 I have
commanded the tree to obey me, but It
viii not"
But trees are inanimate," protested
the diplomat
so they are. I viii ask the fountain
to stand on its head
But that is the same. Orulers
Il see. now command that pleas
ant to rise in the air
But a bird canpot understand your
words"
NO? Well, bid that COW jump the
fence
~she would obey, o ruler. but she is
like the BIRD
.But if 1 am such a devil Of q fellow
will order the sun to stand still for
an hour
But the sun is a part Of the maehln-
cry of nature" answered the willy old
P. NJ.
Won't water run up hill IL order
it top
Il hardly think So
Nor the clouds descend at ny com
mandg'
Not right away
'sThen how do you fellers make out
that / am such big thing on wheelsg7
Why. your majesty, you get dead
head tickets to all the shows and don'k
have to pay any gas billsg'
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Jon any more sarcasm or insults to
oher2"
u simply asked for explanations. If
you have asthma and if sleeping under
a tent viii cure it, haven't the slight
est objections"
After dinner Mr.. Bowser 1ugged the
tent into the back yard and erected it.
When he had put in a strip of carpet
and set up his cot, things looked home
ike, and he rubbed his hands and
smiled and said:
1T viii be cool and peaceful and ro-
mantle. shall sleep like a top in here,
and I expect that even one night will
have a good effect on my asthma"
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lifted up the cot and bore him away
up the alley Fearing for my life.
objected not"
Mrs. Bowser shut and locked the gate
and returned to the house, and half an
hour later the following advertisement
was ready for the papers:
'Reward.-The sum of $50 win be
paid for the return of Mr.. BoWser, VINO
was carried off last night while sleep
ing in a tent in his own yard to cure
his asthma. Must be returned IN as
good condition as when taken. Can be
delivered ut either front or rear door,
and need not necessarily be aeeompa-
MED by more than two fell villains"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14

We feel that we owe an apology to
AIr. Sam Dark, the genial proprietor of
the Red Dog saloon. Last week we
stated that Sam was a renegade from
Utah. where he was wanted for three
different murders, and lnat he was a
man on whom our vigilance committee
would do well to keep an eye. Mr.
Dark interviewed US soon after the pa
per was out, bringing along certain pa
pers to back him. and we find that the
only thing he can be charged with in
the last thirty years is that of the
death of a Chinaman in New Mexico.
Even in this case he makes affidavit
that the heather had collie and would
have died half an hour later anyhow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14
FEB WHITE.
How He was Elected to the Legisla-
fure ana why He RESIGNED.
Copyright, 1902, by G. B. Lewis.


Copyright. 1902, by G. B. Lewis.)
I'll. was ten or twelve vars ago. be-
gan the old possum hunter of Ten
nessee. when our member of the legis-
Iachur turned ag'in moonshine whisky.
That meant that somebody else must
be Elected in his place, and what did
the pesky people around yere do but
come to me and want me to stand!
They come to my cabin a dozen at a
time, and they shook hands and called
me an honest man and all that; and the
mo- I hung back the mo- they wanted
me to run. When they got me into a
tight co'ner. I says:
:. I can't skassly read, and can't
skassly write, and | can't git up befo'
that 1egisiaehur and speak ten words,
and what good could / do down to
Nashvilleg Besides, I hain't got no
good clothes, and thar wouldn't be no
body to talk about bars and wildcats
with me, and I'd be as lonesome as a
sick coon in a boiler tree. Then tharss
the old woman If she went along with
me. they'd make fun of her, and il she
stayed we're she'd be all alone. I'm fur
moonshine whisky, as yo' all know,
but can't take no office
'grhey purtended to give in at that,
but what did the critters do but put
me up to be voted fur when the time
come, and the fust thing I knowed
was 'lected by 400 majority! When
heard the news. 1 told it to the old
woman and said:
3" WAL, what am I gwine to do about
lit? I've either got to hunt fur cave
and hole myself up or go down to
/ Nashville.
...Yo'll go to Nashville says she.
And what'u yo' do?'
I'll go with yo'. I've bin thinkin
this thing over, Zeb. Thar is sieh q
thing as Providence. and Providence
appears to have picked yo' out to &c
down to Nashville and keep them crit
tiers from incouagin' the revnoo ag'ir
knloonshine whisky. I don't know how
20 ar gwine to do it. but as Provi
dence has helped yo' out when yo was
tackled by bars and wildcats and roar
in bulls it viii help yo out now. Wher
we once git down thar. Providence vii
pint the way, and we will foiler.'
4 felt purity skeery about it, sale
Zeb, ..But the old woman talked so bolC
that made up my mind to give it {
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Many robberies having been COM
mitted on the kings highways, and
the complaints being numerous and the
language vigorous, the king called in
his prime minister and said:
Ben Hassan, why don't you get up
and hustle and catch the chief Of this
robber bandg'
He could be caught. o ruler, but
this very day he left 500 ducats with
the public executioner''
"A bride, ELI? Then shall the public
executtiieEer be made -headless with his
own sword"
But he passed all but 3 ducats to
our Just and beloved Judge
"And so the judge is selling justice?
Let him be executed at once.
Hear me, o ruler" continued the
P NJ. THE judge reserved 10 ducats
for himself and passed the rest on TO
our lord treasurer"
what! My treasurer in it too9 BY
the horn spoon, but it win be a day for
heads to fallr'
'gEhe lord high treasurer, o ruler,
did but count the ducats and reserve
10 to pay his tailor's bill, and the rest
came on to me-"
'S'deathi And you boldly aeknoWl-
edge that you are a thiefY9
Far from it, 0 ruler. I. took from
the bag 20 ducats with which to build
a new picket fence in front of my resi-
denee-2O ducats and no more
"And the $50 remaining9" queried
the king.
went into your own private cot
fers, 0 ruler, and you can now get
that diamond sunburst your fifth wife
has been bothering about
sUmw said the king as he hitehed
about uneasily.
.sUmr' replied the P. NJ. as he turned
to the window to watch a cat walking
! a clothesline
ben Hassan,'' finally remarked his
majesty. 'are we in hole or notg''
Not on your life, o ruler. / came to
say that I have already issued a proc
lamation to the people saying that
these robberies were only another form
of tax gathering and would continue,
and 1 viii now go out and raise my
salary as an honest man and give at
tention to the commercial interests Of
the country at large"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14


und I vhas fixing COP der heel of q
shoe, When tall und solemn looking
mans comes in und looks all around
und says:
"cobbler, Why do you put oop dot fly
screen door?'
ITO keep out dies,'' I says.
'But Why keep out hies?'
Because dey bites me on my bald
head"
But vhas a fly to blame because
your head vhas bald? A fly vhas porn
to hat some freedom und good times
He yhas merry ind happy. He vhas
no wickedness. I like you to under
stand, old mans. dot I yhas a friend
of der fly, ind if he don't hat a fair
chance shall know der reason Why"
He goes outdoor und catches a fly
ind brings him in und let's him loose
in my shop und says:
dot vhas me. So long ash live on
earth der fly shall hat fair play. If
liberty vhas for mans, it vhas also for
flies, und What shall you do about her2''
/ don't do nottings. It vhas my pees-
ness to work und support my family,
ind I can't be in quarrel all der time.
Dot same day a womans comes in my
shopenlit tears in her eyes und says:
stGobbler. maybe you peIieve dot a
husband has right to box his wife's
ears ind tell her she yhas a COW? p
"Umr' Issays.
"Und he can come home drunk und
lick der children und break oop der
chairs und tabless'
ssUmp' I says again.
''Und knock down der clock und
break COP der cook stove und jaw und
jaw und jaw?'
'sUmr' 1 says some more.
"Und make dot wife feel she vhas
only dirt under his feet? Tell me if
you pellet all dotr'
'sUmr'
..How vhas dot 'Umg"
"It vhas 'Umr
"Oh. it vhas? Well, so vhas dis und
dis und dis, und if you say two words
/ pull down der front of your shop
und you vhas a dead mansr'
She slaps me three times nit her
hand und vhas ready to fight, but
don't do nottings9 nor say nottings. It
vhas my peesness to mind my peesness
und be some philosophy.
It vhas shust der same when dot fat
policemans comes in und says:
.'Cobbler, see a box out here on der
sidewalk
"Yes?"
q don't hat no beer dis morning.
ssNo?"
If l hat sonie beer. der box vhas all
right out dere. If l don't hat some
beer
you Will took him avhay?'
Il WILL What do you says''
Il don't say nottings."
"0h. you don't! Well, maybe you
vhas a fool
He goes out ind stops a wagon und
takes dot box off to der police station
ind grins at me, but I yhas shust der
same as before. Dot box belongs to
der drugstore next door, ind in two
hours der policemans brings him back
und makes one hoonered apologies. II
you shusT keep cool und say nottings
to nobody. you vhas all *. o.