The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-17
SEEN AND HEARD.

The other day I read magazine article
burdened with the argument that the mar
on horseback ruled the world. The i'm
posing picture of Alexander bestride Blu
cephalus might have included Murat.
''Jeb' Stuart, Phil Sheridan and Theodore
Roosevelt OF modern times in the back
ground, and lost nothing in effect. From
the first Aryan chiettain who led his tribe
in Central Asia, before Homer sang of
Troy, until King Gustaf Adolf fell from
his good steed at Lutzen, the children OF
Japhet had led civilization on horseback
through the glory that was Greece and
the grandeur HAT was Rome" Caesar
spurred a horse through the Rublcon and
from horseback Atili led the "scourge oil
God until Charles Martel stopped his
murderous career on the plains of Chalons.
But Rome never broke Phenecan pow Ell
until she built ships after a captured
model and after the first naval engage
ment Carthage was doomed and Regulus'
bitterest curse was fulfilled. And when,
first, the Athenian and later the Roman,
mastered the mysteries of navigation the
eternal dominion OF the Aryan race be-
came fact. Columbus De Cana, Magel-
Ian Drake Hudson Frobsher and other
daring spirits opened new avenues OF nd-
venture and enterprise, and from the time
OF Nelson, dead on the deck at Trafalgar,
new epoch of history began. Paul Zines,
Admrals Semmes and Farragut gave the
evidence of their lives, and the echoes from
Manila and Santiago tell that TIE mdn
who PAGES the bridge rules the w-T1L.
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Not long ago I saw a kind action. It's
not too often you see them. 1t was po-
lice officer who did it, An old old man,
sick, respondent, pennless, weary of life,
lay down under the San Jacinto bridge to
die. Some children playing along the
banks of the bayou found him and reported
the case to the officer who was Just COM
ing on duty ! don't remember ever hav-
ing seen minister OF the gospel take a
more kindly, tenderer interest in case of
charity than this ofhcer did. He had the
old man conveyed to st. Josephs infirmary
! don't know whether he is living or rot
don't know the policemans name-in
iact' have not seen him since. learn
that in discharge OF duty he was seriously
disabled few nights later. | don't know
what church, If any, he belongs 10, but /
do know that he is very nearly a follower
OF the Carpenter of Nazareth.
A down East Yankee by education and
training but who is a southerner by birth.
ancestry and tradition, told me the other
day that he had looked at the Alamo the
missions and the San Jacinto battlefield
and wasn't satisfied, and l don't blame
him, If San Antonio viii forever waive
its opportunity TO make the Alamo his
torical museum, then the old lnIildInp
should be picked up bodily and rebuilt on
the San Jacinto battlefield. History Will
preserve the name of the Alamo as long US
ilIne snail last, but that is no reason why
"S s'ones should not be held In re- erence.
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rev days ago a Texas jury-no matter
what county-gave a boy four years in the
penitentary because he stole small rcr-
ton Of food and milk from a dairy fout-
"lthout leaving the box, or ,,hlu,lng a
man TINS same jury tried a man for muir
uer IL was what you might call dead
open ana smut case-either the man mer-
lted capital punishment. or he should have
oeen acquitted without a word. rhe ,urv
STOOD all the way from ninety-nine wears
TO acquittal, but finally compromised on
two years. or course the defendant ap-
pealeu ana VIII finally get a long term or
, TOine GEAR A good honest intellectual
uiaChsmlth, unhampered hy motb.enten
traditions, would have made an bnntst
equitable disposition of this case or,nt
fourteen minutes after the evlde 1ra was
tesehteo' and 1t wouldn't lave been far
rom right Things like this sometimes
makes a man wonder why DeooIe who
neitAsr Know or care anything about II
oolect TO new constitution -. in fact
gnE other Kind of progressive legislation
ta,,. arguments OF this kind call for more
-.--- SIC.