The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-18
The Origin or Man.
BY Darwin.
CHAPTER 1.

ma dropped from the tree above her
"My daughter" said the Duchess
de Chimpanzee, "why that sigh?"
"Ah, mamma. look at me- said
Lady Adeliza. "See how different !
am from the rest of our tribe. See
how white am becoming"
ANY daughter" said the duchess
lanRuidly, as she seated herself on a
convenient boulder, s'you should BE-
proud of that difference. We are a
higher race
81 don't know, mamma. See wha,
little caudal appendages we have: all
the other folks can hang from the
trees By their tails, bu, we are com
PEELED to sit on the limbs
I'VE are advancing, my dear. You
are whittier than am; you can talk
in your youth, could not till middle
age; your grandmother as you kno =
can only grun, it. You are moving
in higher sphere
swell, mamma, none of our folks
will marry me-" said Lady Adeliza
pouting.
"No. nv child; it has been dccrecd
that there should be selection OF
| the fi,test in marriage. We have
offered you to the Prince d'Ourang
Oniang, who is even winter than you
are. AS wife"
"Oh, mamma, gushed the Lady
Adeliza, "ihat's splendid. VIII he
come soon?'
"Restrain yourself. People Of high
blood and short caudal appendages
never get excited. He will be here
in a very short time
Lady Adeliza went away to look
for cocoanu,s; the dutchess sat on the
rock and refectively scratched her
| head.
CHAPTER II.
The Duke de Chmpansee was
chief Of very large tribe. II he had
been in the show business he would
have MADE his everlasting fortune
He had bus one child, the Lady Adel.
liza, and, as she would inherit the live
stock over which he ruled, many oi
the neighboriug chiefs desired to
marry her. Her parents, however, re
solved that she should be, if possi-
bic, the fountain head of the new
race, to which all their traditions
taught them they were working up
They determined tha: she should
we'd the Prince d'Ourang Outang
The duke proposed the matter to ,h'
prince.
"Aw!" said the prince, as he ad
justed his eye-glass. SIS it nice?'
"She is very beautiful" replied
the duke.
cav" said the prince, give it
aw-much stamps"
81 shall give her all Etophia," re.
piled the duke.
81 wiIl--aw-step down, and aw-
look at it, murmured the prince car.
lessly. "By surprise, you know"
This was agreed upon and the
duke departed.
The prince knew his worth; he was
quite white, and he was not troubled
with the slightest particle Of cauda
appendage, but Etiopia was a big
prize, and he resolved to win it.
One week after the duke had offer
ed his daughter, the prince started
for Sengambia with the intention
of looking At the fair face of Lady
| Adeliza.
! CHAPTER Ill.
The prince was wandering through
the woods of Senegamba, gaily hum.
ming:
! I'D be butterfly
born In a bower
when his eye fell upona lovely chin
panzee, sitting in a shallow brook
sucking cocoanut. She was the
loveliest creature he had ever seen
His heart was touched at once. lie
raised his eye glass and stared at her
until her eyes fell i'll modest confu
sion.
"Fair chimpanzec, said he, 'wil
you not-aw-tell me 1our-aw-
name"
"Adeliza," whispered she.
The Duchess de Chimpanzee, who
had witnessed the meeting from be
hind clump of bushes, chuckled, anc
slid off on her left ear.
"Adeliza,' sighed the prince, ,"thou
art-aw-beau,iful. Wilt thou -
aw marry ms?'
The Lady Adelzia threw the re
mains of her cocoanut at the head o
chimpanzee who was loafing in ;
neighboring tree, fell in the arms o
the prince, and murmured, 81 an
thine"
They were married in great splen
dor The Right Rev. Bishop Ba
boon, assisted by the Rev. Simiada
Ape. performed the ceremony. Th'
bridesmaids wore their natural clothes
The choir sang that lovely anthem
"Monkey married the baboon's sis
ter Lady Adeliza and her parent
rubbed noses, and then the brid
started on tour on an elephant witt
one trunk.
CHAPTER ".
The seasons changed; summe
lapsed into autumn, autumn int
winter, winter into spring. The
there was great rejoicing, for the La
dy Adeliza gave the prince an hei
The child, however, was an anomal
in that region; it had no tail, it ha
white skin, it had no hair on it
body. All the wise men examines
it. 1t was not An ourang outang,
was not chimpanzee; it was ev
: IDENTIFY new species. Then fam
ly conclave was called.
"What shall we call it?" aske
everybody.
The Duchess de Chimpanzee, wh
was languidly making mud pies, sait
; "Let's call it-Man."
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