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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Glddings Texas,-Dear Happyhammers:
wish to Join your happy club. have
putting 1t of. ] was years old the Sd
Of November. They have two railroads
through here-the Arkansas Pass aud Cen
trial. l spent Christmas with my grand
think the boys do the most work. new
Hap, Baylis Fletcher.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

nSet,v Nu' br srS, 1as no thintS he per
feet beauty 80 don't try 20 look any
better Isn't that the way Of IT, Arthur
I don't suppose there are very many OF the
painted powdered deceiyers crazy over
you. There Is no harm In becoming an old
maid, think our sex can pull through nj
right without your aid. so you needn
bother yourself Just rest easy, What
Kind Of times did you all have Christmas,
Haps7 | had real good time-best I've
hud since was tiny girl Artie Good.
man OF Medina. did YOU receive the song.
sent your What Is that thing there on the
door? Oh. excuse me, Mickey, ! didn't know
it was your foot. II looked as large ms the
stove, almost. | suppose II was on nc.
shoes WIN some one please land me my
hat2 This isn't it; It's Mikey's sailor.
That's It under the seat you're sitting on.
WoOdbine. Thauk you With much love to
YOU all. | am a true Hap, Fanny.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

La Grange, TexaA-Dear Happyhammers;
Win you please let a little girl IL years
old step In and chat while with you!
Here where ! live they are most all Ger
mans and the girls 60 to the ield and pillow
as wei as a man. They most always pow
with mules, and the girls jerk them around
Just like a man. ! ike to 60 70 school
and try 10 study my lessons well. l Ike
The Post very well. We do not take Inc
Post ourself, but my grandparents take ".
| am a great lover OF flowers and music.
Well, ] had not better stay to long. a new
Hap. Estelle Philips
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Jasper. Texas--Dear Happyhammers:
her pencil when such an exciting debate
is taking place on our interesting page! l
received my flower seeds on the 22d OF Jan
They were lust the very kinds l wanted
There were lots Of interesting letters on
the page this week one Of the best being
the club talk. With love 10 the Haps and
Mrs Foster RoXie c. Graham.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

valda, TexaR-Dear Happyhammers and
Mrs, Foster: Here ! come as a new
Happyhammer; please admit me. This
place Is saw mill town, named after a
little girl by the name Of Valda. My father
works at the saw mill. | went to a social
given by my cousin last week and enjoyed
myself very much. Your true friend,
LEILA SLrinEer.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Leesville, La Dear HRppyhammers;
Guess the most OF you have forgotten me,
but / haven't forgotten you. Joined this
band when ! was II years old and have
written several times since then, When
Joined, my postofnce was Woodyille,
Texas. Since then 1 have resided IN New
ton county, Texas. Last October came
TO Louisiana to live, but ] surely do not
wrote 10 this band Il mean while IN Texas
Mistress Primrose was our editress The
band has improved a great deal since We
have many intelligent writers at present
The contest is Which does the most work,
girls or boysT I vote for the girls, for
where girl is raised on a farm she has
more work to do than a boy. A true Hap,
Florence Conner.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Thornton, Texas.-Dear Happyhammers:
have been reading the .Happyhammers'
page for a long time and have intended
writing before, but you see I never did
IN now l will cast my vote for the
girls, for I think they do more work than
the boys They have to work In the housa
and In the field, too or at least l do, and
/ don't think any kind Of honest work IS
a disgrace. have done almost every kind
know how soon / VIII have to take the
plow handles for ] have no father to work
FOR me He has been dead almost three
years. There are great many girls that
sides the house work, and every Saturday
they have to wash, starch and iron their
brothers shirts. while the brothers frolio
around town, or with o gun go tramping
over fields and woods, shooting every little
harmless bird they see. Well, l wish
could write as interesting letters as some
of the Haps II You VIII excuse me for
staying so long I win 80. A new Hap.
Vera Belle Burns
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Nr.o,. TeTaE-Dear HhppyndInIltIH n
To nSToiis Is sunday and 1t is awful gloomy,
~ doo ,sy,-s l,te n l. going 70 rain. We have
Ind iog nice rains this fan and wintsF We we
have prospects for good s s ,a n1 nal I,
ana ana gd nSpS crens FOR several years. ! think
I nle b 1--WE nice contest this time, pnt j. y
Me- We M" 10 decide. ] think the drawing M V
Just splendid oant draw spS a. the ar poetry
s,inpie lsss' N the Haps have put on the
mage mage. We have a nice school up hsFe' Inc
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Huntsville, Texas.-DeAr Happyhammers:
viii Won please allow me among your hap
nv band2 ! think that 1t is so nice to be-
long to the Haps. have intended to write
for a long time. Well, Christmas is over
| hone YOU sI had a merry time; as for
myself. I passed of the time very pleas.
antly. well, Miss Tilibuster, am bound
to compliment your letter. It is as you
ever thew do. But, oh the boys! They
can have all the credit for their few hours
labor II IS Sister, do this and do that, y
and sister does It., but II she doesn't do IL
exactly like 1t should be. she is scolded
FOR ii, OF course she has so many cares
on her mind that she can't do Justice by
and bear 1t oil, we will come out In the
Zig end Of the horn some, some sweet
dav. We'll. as / have got brothers clothes
10 brush and his shoes to polish will have
to close. II you will excuse me for stay
ing so long l will go Alice Woods
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Mlllsap, Texas Dear HappyhAmmtrs;
Please admit me into your jolly, band. l
am small boy, only Q years Old. This Is
yHra I'm that great contest, Who Is the
most most Industrious the boy or the GRIP, l
viii say the girl, two TO one. Most boys
are lazy from start TO finish. OF course,
rhev win fish and chase o squirrel once In
a while but think of the girls all cooped
M In the house day after day. cooking
sweeping, cleaning, milking, churnine
washing sweeping, milking and cooking
again Yours truly, Joe bohueau'
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

lest like she did thin. Wei, VII hat ia
close. cos paw wants me 30 goe arter a
gSllen OF 'lasseS, soc gud by fur this time.
Iourn fur onest tretemept,
Milky Idlehrsad
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

Modest little violcts,
In your corner sweet;
To reGd your little letters
Is Indeed a treat
When ] turn the pages
or the dear old Post,
seek the chldren's letterui
They have for me charm.
You are such jolly Haps,
And seem 80 bright and gaJ,
From yon come many lessons
That nclp me every day.
When / am tired aud lonely
And life seems long aud sad,
turn 10 the Haps' page.
Which makes my heart feel glad.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

WheeIock Texas,-Dear Happyhamrners;
had nlco time Christmas. ! went up
to my auuts She hns little boy and ne ne
ne nond and watched them swim, and had
lois az fun You Hra an writing about
who does the most work, boys or girls
/ think the girls do, because there are lots
OF rainy days when she boys don 90 any,
en- there are some days that the boys
don't do anything. The girls have wors
at home. gardening, house cleaning yaIo
cleaning attending 70 the chickens c2OS
tb5Gnps Goodbye. A true Hap,
tuius9' Ruth Hanover.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08

ron she can read fellow the best lee
lures you ever listened to. II Is a great
nifty for them 20 be wasted on a chap Ike
me, but then ais says IT'S good for me.
vote for the girls. ] started for school
this morning and before l got there l got
caught in a very hard rain, and ! came
back home. II Is very muddy ana nao
here az present and has been Tor some
time. Your ever loving Hap,
Alvin l., Goes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
"THE AMERICAN MAN"


New York Mail and Express.
Before a myth passes into a parable and
the parable becomes history we wish TO en-
ter our protest against the American man
of the magazines, the cartoons and the
tailors' posters. We say the American man,
American men in reality there is only one
American man in the periodicals and fic-
ton books of the time. He Is the long
legged, broad-shouldered, square-featured
phlegmatic-faced young man of two or
three and twenty whom several certain
have been drawing for fifteen years or
more.
This particular type of young man has no
existence in fact, and as a piece of fiction
he is subtle but sweeping libel all
American men. He is so supremacy unin-
self-conscious and so Internally vain that
his pictured likeness is enough to stamp
the fashionable circle which ne adorns as
vertically lie monde ou Ton s'ennuie." He
is prettier than Americans OF real life,
but then some of the rest of us claim for
of shrewdness, some sense OF humor. some
perception that there are others In
these respects the rest OF differ-and
thank God therefor-from this bovine.
phlegmatic. altogether insufferable lay fig-
ure In evening clothes.
What the object of the school OF artists
that lave created this stupid Franken-
stein Is, is obvious. They have tried to
draw a Greek god in trousers: they have
given US a stevedore In sp!ketails. This
young man you would never imagine in
any scene requiring fire. passion. initiative.
tries to think, but gives Ii up. There Is no
evidence OF interest in external things in
II; Il might be called retrospective, save
that clearly there Is nothing inside worth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
Reoccupation Of the Strategic Chinese
Port Was Not Permanent, as
Feared by Several Powers.
SECRETARY HAY PLEASED
NO NEED FOR ACTION BY UNITED
STATES, BRITAIN AND JAPAN.
Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassa-
dor, Confident All Agreements
VIII BE Carried Out.

PEKING, May 9.-The official at New
Chwang who sent yesterdays news of Rus
sia's alleged action at New-Chwang and
elsewhere in Manchuria telegraphs to-day
that the occupation Of the forts at the
mouth of the Lao river was temporary and
that the Russians have now withdrawn.
Official circles at Picking are mystifed.
Their subordinates at New-Chwang have
not reported the reoccupation of that place,
hence there is a disposition to question
the correctness of the information, al
though the author of yesterdays story is
considered to be one OF the ablest and
best-informed foreigners in China.
WASHINGTON, May e.-The State De-
partment has received from Minister Con-
ger confirmation of the press dispatches
from Picking that the Russians re-entered
Nieu-Chwang and then retired. The receipt
of this advice late in the day brought relief
to a strained situation, and it was decided
by the department that there was no longer
occasion for action, even automatically, at
this stage. Count Cassni, in the course Of
his talk with Secretary Hay to-day, very
earnestly impressed upon the secretary his
conviction that the Russian government
had lived up to its agreements, and, In view
Of these representations, Secretary Hay did
not hesitate to dissipate the impression that
might have existed that there remained any
need for diplomatic action relative to Man
churia by the United States, Great Britain
and Japan. The situation consequently
lapses back TO where 1t was after the orig
inal Russian disclaimer, which followed the
demands upon China two weeks ago, and
for the present the attitude of the United
States government will be simply one Of
observance.
Count Cassini said to-day: when the
whole truth is known 1t will be found that
Russia has not violated a single pledge
made to any nation, nor does she intend to
do so. Moreover, whatever steps have been
taken in Manchuria are only in self-de-
fense."
ST. PETERSBURG. May 9.-The Foreign
Office here strongly deprecates the excite
ment concerning Manchuria- 1t believes
mischief makers are responsible for the re-
ports, and says the arrival Of troops at
Nieu-Chwang was due to the retirement of
troops from Moukden province southwark,
instead of northward. The troops depart by
sea. The other alleged warlike preparations
OF Russia are ridiculed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
RODE ALONG HIGH CLIFF
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GIVEN A
VIEW OF THE PACIFIC.
Travelled Over a Coast Line Railway
Between Los Angeles and Mon
terey-EnthusiasticG Greetings.

SANTA BARBARA. Cal. May e.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt to-day rode along the high
cliff that overhangs the Pacific ocean be-
tween Monterrey and Los Angeles, made
few brief speeches, took several drives
along ways lined with semi-tropical trees
and flowers, and received a cordial well
come from thousands Of persons in Santa
Barbara and Ventura counties. Sunday will
be spent in Monterey.
The Presidents special train left Los
Angeles over the coast division Of the
South Pacific Railroad early this morn
ing and made it's first stop at Ventura,
where the President made brief speech to
the crowd at the station. At noon the
train reached Santa Barbara. The Presi-
dent greeted with great demonstra-
tons. Fully fifteen thousand persons at
tended the brief exercises in the Plaza del
Mar, where the President delivered a brief
address and witnessed the parade through
the main thoroughfares OF Santa Barbara.
The President and party were met at
Montecito station, south Of Santa Barbara,
and were escorted to Santa Barbara by a
large delegation of citizens. mounted police
officers and forest rangers from the Santa
Inez and the Pile mountain reserves.
On the way TO Santa Barbara the party
was taken over drives In one of the most
beautiful suburbs, the trip being extended
over that portion of Mountain boulevard
that commands a view OF the city, the sea
and the channel islands. The President
was in best OF spirits and expressed him
self as having enjoyed the day immensely
After the ceremonies in the plaza the
President was taken on drive over Santa
Barbara viewing points of historical in
terest. He spent considerable time at the
Old Mission as the guest of the Franciscan
fathers and viewed the burying grounds
where hundreds of priests have been buried
during the last century and which no
woman has ever been permitted to enter
ceeded directly to his special train at Vic
toria street station and left for Monterey
az . o'clock
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
OUR CONTEMPORARY ANCESTORS.
Kentucky and Virginia MOuntaineers
of Colonial Habits.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Many people understand in a vague. way
that the purest American strain OF the
United States is found in the Southern
States. In some of these the proportion OF
foreign born is minute fraction. or
course, in the Atlantic coast and gulf line
States there is a large black mixture, but
in the Appalachian mountains the white
Anglo-Saxons are found almost pure. This
is enormous region, stretching from
Pennsylvania to Mississippi and making up
the mountain hinterland Of nine States that
front on the ocean and on great navigable
rivers.
The president Of Berea College, which
lies near the Kentucky mountains, describes
the people in a recent lecture In the North
phrase describes them like picture. These
mountaineers, to the number OF several
millions. are living in the precise manner
and amid almost forgotten conditions of
colonial times. Industrially, the women
retain the art of the spinning wheel and hand
loom; the men are clever in the use Of the
whip saw for getting out lumber and the
hand mill for grinding corn. The noun
tain stills use the primitive methods or the
last century, and the mountain potteries
make open lamps in which grease is burned
with floating wick. intellectually they
have rather degenerated than developed
from the Scotch-Irish ancestors Of the
eighteenth century, but they have retained
strict though narrow, religious ideas.
What is to be the future history of these
colonial Americans of pure blood, hardly
changed for five generations, who thrive
anu multlpiy III lOuely MONIES, only a ody >
journey from modern civilized life? They
have physical vigor and latent intellectual
power. The few individuals. like Andrew
Jackson and Lincoln, who have risen out
of the mass, have left the strongest mark
upon our national life and history. 1t is a
common question, in playing with historic
analogies, where the barbarians are to
come from to renew decayed American
civilization as the Teutonic tribes renewed
that of Rome. Perhaps they will pour
down, when the time is ripe for them, out
of this mountain backbone of the continent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.

The Oklahoma & Texas Railway. the
Frisco extension from Cement. o. T., 10
has begun the grading to the northward
from Wichita Falls.
One OF the outcomes of the visit to Salt
Lake Of General Manager Russell Harding
Manager Edison and Engineer Yard, of the
Denver & Rio Grande Railway, is an or
der that has been issued to commence work
on the Salina cutoff and the other project
ed improvements on the main line.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railway on Saturday announced a
reduction OF fifty-five minutes in the run
ming time OF the limited train from the
twin cities TO Chicago. The changes went
into effect to-day. The limited will leave
st. Paul at $50 p. m. and reach Chicago at
$50 a. m, a run of twelve hours.
Oklahoma & st. Louis Railway officials
announce that an agreement has been con-
cluded whereby road is 10 be built from
Oklahoma City northwest to point on
one hundred miles. The line is TO be COM
pleted within two years, and in operation
between Oklahoma City and Kingfisher by
July ], 1904.
Company has served notice on the city of
Milwaukee that it claims possession of all
the land along the lake shore east Of its
tracks for distance of mile. The COM
pany goes TO the length Of declaring that
the water works pumping station on the
ground known as Mckinley Park Is only
there by sufferance and that the land be-
longs TO the company.
The st. Louis Southwestern Railroad one
of the roads accused by the Central yell
low Pine Association of granting rebates 10
connecting tap-line logging railroads in sew
eral of the Southern States, in its answer
filed with the Interstate-commerce Com
mission, makes counter charges of violation
OF the interstate-commerce law, but admits
that IL allows a division of the through
interstate rate TO the logging railroads con-
nected with its line as compensation for
the lumber business IL gets.
j. f. Stout. OF Helmet, Riverside county.
California, has filed with the Interstate
commerce Commission complaint against
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe, the
Santa Fe Pacific. the Southern California
and the Southern Pacific Railroad compa-
MES. alleging that the freight rates on dried
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
WHITE GOODS

man balances slices of ofral on a long
'ole across his shoulder: thew daneie he
e ano oenind; he swings cheerfuIiv with
Its Ms p y. through the crowd Your feet
bles or In the gaps of the road a dne S S1y
q q, req wound behind his ear and a long strip
t ~ NANCY skin on his back lies asleep in
the road to avoid the dogs and the hamals
s Slau wneeis and horses are upon YOU. A
oeegar with handless arm rounded into
away in the cavity of the hood wh,ch shs
e eaws BACK before you, appears suddenly,
nlnng what had seemed the only avenue OF
ssSape. Inc sun soaks down into the mar
INTO your nostrils. mingled with those un-
s Anown smells which. in Constantinople.
seen 10 ooze upwards out Of the ground and
uow' ana pour out OF every alley. and rise
me cloud out OF the breath and sweat
ana foulness Of the people
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
Other Deaths.

ST. JOHN. N. b.. May 9.-The Rev. j.
Michael Corduke. head of the Redemptorist
Order of Priests I'm this district and late
rector of st. Peters Church. died to-day of
cancer of the throat at the age of fifty
four. He came to st. John three years
ago from Baltimore.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, May 9.-Mrs. Daniel
Shaw, president of the Eau Claire Chill
dren's Home Society, widow of the founder
of the Daniel Shaw Lumber Company and
Shaw, died to-day, aged lightweight years.
SANDUSKY, o., May Capt Henry
Kelley, the Oldest shipbuilder on the great
lakes. is dead at his home in Milan, aged
eighty-seven years. He was widely known
I'm marine circles
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
Action Of MachinIsts.

MILWAUKEE. Wis. May 9-The In
ternatsonal Machinists' convention to-day
passed Section /. Article 1 OF the sub
ordinafe lodge constitution admitting all
employees of a machine shop to the union.
BY this step the association expects to in
crease its membership in two years from
1900 TO 10000 and In five years TO be equal
in number TO the miners union. This ac-
tion let's down the bars which prevented
any except all-around skilled mechanics
from joining the union. Hereafter the
helDer9 and handy men or one machine
specialist viii be admitted. They will be
membels of the same unions as the ma
chinisLs. but will probably be divided into
separate classes. indicated on the union
cards which they carry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10

souri, river and Eastern points are unreas-
enable and unjust, compared with the
rates on lemons and green apples, and con-
stitute unjust discrimination.
AS the result OF application by the COM
bined trunk lines entering New Orleans,
Judge Parlange. in the United States CIR
cult Court has issued an order TO all the
ticket scalDers doing business there 10
junction should not be issued restraining
them from dealing in any manner whatever
In the reduced tickets which the railroads
are 10 put on sale for the Confederate re-
union here on May 15 The companies al
lege that they have arranged TO sell tickets
at one-third the usual rates and unless re-
lief is granted through the courts the re-
of these tickets will be fraudulently ac-
quired and disposed OF by the scalpers,
causing losses through damage suits and
otherwise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10

looking at Intellectually the young man
is pathetically inarticulate. He is a coal
HEAVIER with the correct manner. Such
man men dodge tnstinctively and women
ind impossible. He is socially helpless.
The paradoxical thing about the Ameri-
can man OF the magazines is that, with all
his thews and sinews. there Is something
feminine about him. He is not q mans
man; he does not enjoy Kipling, A sar-
castle Englishman has pretended to dis
cover that i'm America as the girls are
growing boyish, the men are growing girl
ish Unquestionably this is generaliza-
ton from the magazines The American
they picture Is a sublimated man-milliner
with pink shirtwaist and decorative socks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
Foreigners Not Menaced.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 9-The Picking
correspondent Of the Associated Press, writ
ing under date of April 16. says the alarm
ing stories emanating from certain quar-
ters to the effect that massacre of for
eigners by Chinese is contemplated, are
untrue. The correspondent wires that the
reverse of this picture exists in Peking
Never since the legation was established
here have foreigners gone about the capi-
tai and the surrounding country so free
from molestation and insult The tolera-
ton is inspired by the knowledge of the
foreigners power to hold his ground.