an equal number in Quebec. An emigrant ship conveying the disease had meanwhile touched at New York, and the mortality soon reached 3,500. These figures will at least indicate the virulence of the disease, when once originated, and the rapidity with which it spreads.
In this account we see that every
place touched by the plague-ship or any
object from it became a new center
from which the disease spread. So
moral evil contaminates. Its virulency
spans the centuries and affects every
son of man. (Text.)
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EVOLUTION
Is the chimpanzee the coming man? The
thought of Superintendent Conklin, of the
Central Park Museum at New York, had a
cast of that hue. He was deeply interested
in the possibilities of the development of intelligence
and culture in the chimpanzee race,
and doubtless his dreams went far beyond
the daring of his spoken hope. "Mr. Crowley,"
a somewhat noted and remarkably intelligent
specimen of this exalted race of
monkeys, long adorned the museum, and at
the time a helpmeet for him was imported.
Dr. Conklin believed that their offspring
would inherit their sagacity, and with two
or three generations of careful training the
least he expected was "a chimpanzee accustomed
to wearing clothes, able to stand erect,
capable of being taught the meaning of simple
commands, and docile enough to obey
them." In the fifth or sixth generation, the
doctor thought he should have chimpanzees
able to perform to a limited extent the duties
of servants. Following out the idea, the
doctor predicted a gradual improvement in
their features and eventually a possibility
that they might grasp the meaning of words
and phrases. This is surely a very practical
experiment in Darwinian evolution, and tho
it may seem funny, it is by no means ridiculous.
If horses and dogs may be trained
and taught, why not monkeys? And how
much more useful would an intelligent
trained monkey be by reason of his capacity
to grasp and handle things? The story
came a few years ago from South America
that chimpanzees are already employed there
in picking cotton in place of the emancipated
slaves.—Springfield Union.
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Evolution, Objection to—See Brain in Man.
Exaction—See Ideal, The.
Exactness of Nature—See Individuality
of Germs.
Exaggeration—See Diminutives.
EXAMPLE
During one of the hill campaigns in India
some years ago, a British general was disgusted
with the unsoldierlike attitude of a
young Indian rajah who accompanied the
forces. He would only condescend to ride,
and never attempted to share the toils and
labors of the march. One day the general
decided to give him a much-needed lesson.
Riding with him on a very hot day, he
pointed out some soldiers on ahead pushing
a gun up a long white road. "Do you see
those men?" he asked the Indian rajah.
"Yes, I see them." "Well, one of them is
the grandson of your Empress!" It was
gallant Prince Christian Victor who delighted
to share the burden, and who laid
down his life later on in the South African
War. The young rajah took the lesson to
heart. Queen Victoria's grandson thought
it not undignified to help his brother soldiers
in the weary labors of the march;
henceforward, he, too, would help to "bear
one another's burdens." (Text.)
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The ancient Romans were accustomed to place in the vestibules of their houses the busts of their great men, that the young might be reminded of their noble deeds and illustrious virtues.
The deeds and virtues of living men
are still better examples. (Text.)
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People are just as prone now as in the days when Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians to insist on their "right" to do whatever they think there is "no harm" in. "An idol does not affect meat one way or the other," said Paul. "Very well," replies the Corinthian Christian. "Mr. A. invites me to dine with him to-night, and I am going. He will have on his table parts of an animal which he has just been sacrificing in the temple of Venus, but what of that? He might have sold it to the butcher, and then if I had bought it, no harm would have come of eating it." "Not so fast," says the apostle. "If that supper is part of the worship even of an idol, you may dishonor Christ, of
