The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-14
OREITEOLOGY.

of the most interesting in college curriculum,
but the pursuit, practically, throughout the
world at large, is so enhancing, 50 absorbing
that once begun, it is difficult TO leave it off.
The people of this country, and it is the same
in all other juntries, no doubt, may be d.
vided up and classified into number of spe-
cies. There is the great American goose, of
the genus anser, for instance, or, In other
words, the politician, who is always willing
to answer when he is called TO office.
and a great many of them answer
when they are not called. Another
species of this genus is that which believes
that mnorities have any rights tina. the ma.
jority is bound to respect or recognise. They
hold caucusses, elec,ing some big goose to
preside and smaller one to scribble up the
pow-wow. Thea they gobble, gobble, COB
bic and squawk. and resolute and come to
al understanding and diSpecsc, feeling toler-
ably happy over the idea that they will be
able to do something. Thea again they so
into the big caucus along with the majority,
and they eQuawk there and protest and offer
resolutions, and gobble. gobble, gubbie, like
the world was coming TO Oh end, and they
offer platform and got left and
sat down upon by the previous
question, md they put one OF thei:
number to the front and flap their wings
around him and stick 10 him like high
minded geese of the minority ought to, but
all in vain. There is another species Of the
genus equus, the only four-leggedbird known
in all zoology. Although he has fine ear,
it il not musical one, and his voice would
PCS for u soprano, albeit it is heard in the
lend loft in the Silly night" This bird
sometimes takes the lead of the majority,
crushing by his vocferous voice the more
modest minority, and controlling tho geese,
who aro web footed politicians with scarlet
tcp-knots. He is always "a power behind
the throne greater than the throne ITSELF
and that directs the throne itself.
In the sublimitv of his assump-
tons, be thinks there is no here
after and that mnjoriues can always
be hoodwinked and minorlties brow.b beaten
by him. 1t is fact in natural history that
if you tie weight , his tall so that he can
not throw it up, ne can not sing, And this
fact came originally out of China as H.
remedy. His voice becomes in such condi-
ton powerle.s'o awaken the hlsides and
glades, and call forth his clans to crush
minori.ies, This bird may run considerable
ola career, but the people fa0lly put salt on
his tail, and then alas he is turned out to
pasture, to feed on thistles, and med tate
while he chews the cud Of bitter memories
and to reflect upor the glory the days when
he could bray for bale of hay from The
public crib. He himself is thence
forward evermore hopeless minority.
There is another species of the
genus corvus that is very interesting
about this fine of year, and then again, he
is not so interesting either. Corvus is the
Latin for crow. There are many kinds of
crow. The crow of chanticleer in the early
morning; the crow ofthe majority over The
minority; the chrome. While the majority
always has its crow, the minority has crow
too; but It cannot be said that the latter han.
kers after it. The passenger packets that ply
up Salt river SEW up crow in all styles of
cookery to their passengers, until the diet be-
comes motonous. The crow market is very
lively about now. for great many
gentlemen in this state are feed
ing upon them, gracefully, if not
voraciously. A square set-to at course of
crow is not the happiest occupation of any
mans life. He may survive il he may go
through with it in good temper; but deep
down in his heart, right WI err the fountains
are purest and well up strongest, he feels
like the monkey and the parro. did when
they had family disturbance. And ven
geance is born within right then. He deter
mines TO have his revenge, and forthwith pro-
cures him p.t crow and fattens it and
pampers it until its juiciness fairly oozes out,
and he SO ks his opportunity to serve it up
to the tormentors who prepared his dish.
The crow that the minority eateth may not
be like snipe on toast, but verify the crow of
which the bolter partaksth is of exceeding
great unsayoriness