The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-17
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The young moose thought this allen sound
Meant some. new breed Of wolf or hound
But the bull who led them understood
And made for the north and a wider
wood,
The lynx cat snaried bis hate ana fear.
snorted shrill the listening deer
a uneh or gray, Fash OF red,
Showed where lynx and red deer ned.
Out. from his lair the black bear dung,
Left his mate TO carry her young
headlong fled TO a distant den
he knew TINS sound was sound OF menl
Soon but faint, recedlng tracks
Remain TO forest plagued by the AK!
-Lppincott's.
WOMEN AND MEN AS AUDIENCES.
American audiences are strangely alike
In some things aud strangely dissmllar tn
others. A good committee viii take as
much pains In the arrangement Of It's audi.
ence as OF It's speakers. An audience seat
ed without crowdlng Is seldom enthusiastic
Neither IS an audience whose hands are
occupied with bundles or umbrellas. an au-
dience largely composed Of women, or an
audience In cold room. The easiest audi.
ehccs to address, the most responsive and
crowded and packed together and warm.
Women naturally do not applaud OF
cheer. They are by instinct more sclf-rc.
strained IN the public expression Of their
emotions than men Every public speaker
is complimented by their presence know
Ing that their quiet word NJ home Is often
times more effective In results than the
! most enthusiastic shouting on the street
corners by the other sex. In public meet.
Ing. however, the audience gets its cue
from those nearest the speaker. ] remcm-
her well two audiences both from the same
social class. both crowded, both In large
theaters md both largely attended by wo.
men One happened to be Ia Colorado,
one In Massachusetts. IN one meeting the
orchestra was reserved for women In the
other meeting the men had the orchestra
and the women had the lower gallery aud
nll the boxes In both casee the audiences
were entirely friendly 10 the speakers. The
second meeting was marked by Wild en-
thuslasm; the hrst one, by respectful at.
tention IN the second case the mass OF
men In the orchestra urged on the speakers
10y continued applause. In the hrst case
the men In the galleries who started to
applaud were checked because between
them and the speakers was mass Of abso.
utely silent femlninlty IN the orchestra.
Curtis Guild. Jr. in scribner's.
BY DAMASCUS GATE.
OFT times when tho days are bitter, aud
the pulse Of life is low,
And the wheels Of toll In their dusty course
drive heavily and slow,
When the meaning OF all Is blurred, and
/ the Joy Of seeking pals,
Outlines in my desert places a miracle
hcfalls.
Is It trick OF the blood, clearing clot
Sudden the iood Of being flows free in my
veins again
] Some far-on shower unguessed has Allied
the choking stream;
! Some rift IN the gray horizon let through
! a crlmRop beam.
! Once more Tor me the sky is blue; / guar
the wine Of the air,
I And taste the force tang OF the sea, and
ind the wild rose fRiri
| Once moro walk the allotted round with
unrcluctant feet.
! And daily bread has scvor and love and
labor are sweet
o. once In centuries oldcn, before Damas-
Gus Gate.
\ y, dreary heart Of hate;
4 When glory shown -rnnnd about him, and
1 In one wohdr1us hour
| He had passed from death into life. Then
knowledge and grace md power,
And new word allied bis lips and Joy and
courage and love
Were born henceforth In his heart with
the vision that fell from above.
/ And still when days are bitter, and life Is
cogged with care.
And tho heart is salt with unshed tears
mud ieadcn With despair,
, An angel stirs tho sugnHnt pool, and 10!
there is healing there,
once more my song Is looseued, and life
and labor are sweet;
Oncn more IN the tuugled Wcft the pattern
And know TINT the selt-same grace on
my soul hns been Outpoured,
My spirit by Damascus Gate, has heard
the voice OF her Lord
George Moason WhicleE In scrlbner's
POLITICAL PARTIES or JAPAN.
The sudden and rapid growth Of japan
into one of the great powers may be re
garded Ms one OF tho modern wonders Of
the world There is one white man living
but only one, who at a danlo's capita
saw the working OF the Japanese feuda
system That man is w, p. Grifns, tnt
author of "The Mlkado's Empire" Fa
milar with the old order In the Island EN-
pire or the East, he has watched VIII
close attention the gradual adjustment o.
It's political afalrs In the metnods OF th'
advancement Of the nations OF the West
and his article In the November number q
the North American REVIEW on fIhe De
yelopment OF Political Parties possesse
interest as the history Of process whici
Is absolutely without parallel. Referring Z
the results or the elections held IN Angus
inst, Or. Grifhs says:
THE last house OF Representatives
though the only one that lived the ful
length of Its legal life, did no partie
ular credit TO parliamentary institutions
and the nation saw It's dissolution withou
grief In the elections OF August, 100
the new law OF voting went into operat
lion for the hrst time. II was more favor
able TO the expression OF minor CONSTR
ueneies II required candidate 70 appea
10 q whole prefecture instead OF TO sinai
district while the ballot instead OF beins
stnmped and open, was secret. win com
mendable order, the elections were held
throughout the empire, though the great
rain storms IN the South prevented the rul
| results from being quickly known. The re
. suits show that, while almost eli OF the
old members OF the lower house stood fol
election, only about onefourth OF them
were returned other Interesting results
followed, but what Is OF supreme impor
lance Is that government By party ls nov
possible to the Japanese, because for tue
irst time In their history, one party is par
amount The Ito Association OF Friends
OF the Constitution dominates the situation
4 Above progressists, Independents imperi
allsts and minor groups, the Seiyu.kai hu'
not only a majority, but a pluraliy. Never
theless, the pr0gfessists have a minority
so respectable In numbers, strong IN or