Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-24
A FACT FOR DARWIN
Descriptions Of a Unique Species Of the
"6eEus Homo"
The Human Fungi that Breed Out Of tn
Kansas settems.
Something About the Raw lateral of Bush
Whackers and GusrriIIas,

a Kansas magazln1st, who evidently
paints from life, depicts the inhabf-
tant of the low bottom lands of his
State in the following spirited and
realistic manner:
Malarious brakes and jungles sud-
denly exhale from the black soil, in
whose lOathsome reeeSses the pools OF
pure rain change by some. horrible
alchemy into green OOze and hubby
slime, breeding reptiles AID vermin
that creep and fly, injecting earth and
air with their venom, fatal alike to
action and repOse.
Gigantic parasites smother and
strange the huge trunks they en-
brace, turning them into massive col
umns of verdure, changing into a
crimson like that of blood, when smit-
ten by the frOsts OF October. Eendu-
lous, leafess vines swing from the
trees like gallows without their ten
ants. Deadly vapors, and snaky, re-
voting odors, begotten of decay,
breed in the perpetual gloom.
II not too soon undermined by the
insidious chute, gnawiug at its founda-
ton Of quaking quicksand, tn is loul
alluvion becomes subject to local gov
eminent, and, under a mistaken. idea
that it is a part of this sure and firm
est earth, is surveyed and taxed. Its
useless forests are deadened, and the
ruined bole5 stand like grisly phan.
toms in the waste.
A zig gag pen of rotten rails creeps
around a howell of deeayed logs with
mud-daabed interstices, that seem to
spring like a congenial exhalation
from the ground. In the unCouth
but appropriate phraseology of its
denizens, it is "cleared bottom" and
has become the abode of the catfish
aristOeracy. It was amiQ such sur
roUndings that / first met Shane,, the
grand duke of this order of nobility
thus he had always lived; thus his IAN
ces'ors, If he had any, and thus he and
his successors, his heirs and assigns,
will continue to live until education,
religion and development shall rem
der him and his congeLers as inlpos-
sible as the monsters that tore each
other In the Jurassic period.
THE FOES OF DARWIN,
are accustomed to assail the deduc-
tons of that impolite philosopher by I
the assertion that beings are nowhere
to be found in transit from type to
type, either auhong the higher or low.
er orders Of existence. In their efforts
to escape the irresistible conclusion
that their own immediate ancestors
were monkeys rdonkeys,t they affirm, |
II this continual evolution were pro.
ceeding, we should find a fish with
feathers, & bird with fins, q horse with
OF nan with impaired claws,
and q prehensiIe tail.
Those high-prairie logicians who
Lhus attempt to salve their wounded
r possibly honest, but their
horizon is narrow. They Illustrate
he ERRORS arising from imIper-
iect generalization. If they would
descend from their attitudes toI
he jewellers along the creeks and
lpOn the bottoms, such sophistical ar
'ument would cease. In Shang they
would find the long-lost brother, the
: connecting link between man and
he gorilla"
The Esquimaux could not exist at
he equator mol the Hindoo at the
'ole. No man Of genius or power in
arts, OF arms has ever been
'orn outside of narrow zone Of mean
emperature. Whether soil, climate
nd diet produce their own peculiar
pecies Of the human animal, or HPhe-
her, being created, he seeks the con-
itions to which he is specially
dapted, Is q matter Of doubt, but the
act admits of no question. The Iaost
ursOry observer cannot fail to notice
he difference, even in the same toWn.
hip, county or State, between the far.
lers who live in bottoms and those
tho cultivate the prairie; between
ommunities that congregate under
ne bluffs and those that dwell upon
IGN and airy sites; between the cat 4
81 a~ristocrat aud the Yankee. Per. =
aps the most marked and ineradica- !
le outward distinction Is the manner !
/ which they respond to questions =
nperfectly understood. The One, !
q gourdful of tobacco Juice I
Ito the jimson weeds, with 8 pro- s
,nged rising infection, drawls out Z
Whi-i-i-ich?n The other stops
hitting, or lays down the newspa. .
or, and jerks out "Haow?"
BEWARE OF THE CREATURE
lat SAYS which" and shun the
wherein he dwellsi He
'ects no church. To his morals the
Is unknown. To his intellect
e alphabet Is superfuous. His
have neither barn, nor cellar,
u well. His crop Of corn stands i'm
In the field. He packs water !
III a mile from the nearest branch OK
ring. His perennial diet is hpg,
noked and salted In the summer, and
ssh at killin' time. He delights In
and spare-ribs..a Crashing Il
8 tusks upon the impenetrable mail i
his c~orn-dodger, he signs for the !.
ne of roas'n ears. He has q wesIk. +
IS for cowcumbers and watermelhis.
It when he scars above the gross
eds Of his common nature AID
lives to prepare q feast that shall
val the banquets of Lueullus, he
reads his festive cottonwood with p
fish and pawpaws.
From such q protopiasm, or physi-
basis OF life, proceeds an animal,
ped, long. hsiEed, unaecustonaed TO
3 use OF soap, without conscience Or H
shf roooOu CFo0oFioua unOn hrfforn cl