The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-12-02
December Magazines.
SCribner's,

! Scribner's.
The December Scribner opens with finely
illustrated article on EBAY Shooting" which
will both amuse he genera! reader by It's fun
and anecdote, and interest the sportsman in
its vivid portrayals of the real exclements OF
coast shooting. Other humorous papers are
Nj Quattys Great Speech, by VIM. Baker,
and James T. Fields sketch of Cyrus j.
Muchmore, peculiar Case'-of laziness,
He was awful lazy. The writer tells US:
His dilatory habit rose sometimes to the
audacty of genius. He could consume more
hours in gong a mile to the village post
office and returning with the mail than one
would credit unless his gait came under per
sonal observation. we took kind of exas
perated delight in watching him trailing
along the ground, and we felt fresh wonder
every day at his power of slow procedure. 1t
seemed a gift, an endowment, now for the
first time vouchsaied to mortal ihcrtness
The caterpillar would have been too rapid
for him. he would lose In race with that
dull grounding. He seemed to be counting
myrlads of something in the road. When he
cautiously and labOrously lifted up one foot,
it seemed an eternity before the other follow
ed it. lie would frequently drop asleep in
getting over stone wall, and his recumbent
| figure was imprinted under all the trees
| by the roadside.
| Probably the most important article IN the
present number is that entitled "Toadlane,
Rochdale," IN which Charles Barnard gives
much curious and valuable information in
regard to the cooperative system which has
of late made such favorable Roadway among
the working classes of England, and which
our own Patrons Of Husbandry are closely
investigating with view TO imitation. The
educational paper of the month is given
to Lafayette College, which is described as
an attractive and growing institution. Mrs
Herrick writes about Singlecelled Plants;
Eugene Schuyler gives the experiences Of An
American in Turkestan; and Charles Dudley
Warner tells us some more about the Turk
in his Saunterings about Constantinople,
few pages further on. OF the serials, Philip
Nolan's Friend is completed The Lass
o. Lowrie's Is continued, and Nicholas Min
turn is the beginning of a new story by DR..
Holland There Is poetry by Annie r. An.
NAL, ieose hciiy Nooh, Diaiy Ia biaulcy anu
Ellen Gates. In Topics of the Times, DR.
Hollands best article relates to Mr. Huxeys
late visit to America, which he regards as
disappointing in its results. Says he:
1t was to be presumed that Mr. Darwin's
principal apostle would present his facts and
his arguments in the most convincing way
possible to HIM He took three evenings for
the task, and had the field all to HIMSELF but
we do not hesitate to say that he failed III the
administrative evidence" offered IN his clos
ing lecture to fulfill the promises made in the
first two. Had he demonstrated the sound.
ness of his theory the people would have be.
lievcd in it, That the most of them did not,
ought to be regarded by Mr. Huxley as evl.
dence-worthy, at least, of his consideration
that his administrative evidence" demon.
srated nothing. For, let 1t be remembered,
the religious mind of the country is not as
much afraid of the theory of evolution as 1t
was, and is not proof against conviction, as
it might once have been. 1t has apprehend-
ed and accepted the fact that it takes as great
a power to originate an order of beings
through evolution as by a direct act OF crea-
ton, and that to bind up all the possibilities
and potenc'es of life in protoplasmiC masses,
or ascidian cells, is as marked an exhibition
of Almightiness and infinite ingenuity as it
would be to speak into existence the perfect.
ed creatures which we know and which we
are.
The Old Cabinet and Bric.aBrac contain
their usual amusing variety of verse and
sketches, and in the other departments i'm.
portaut topics are ably and suggestlvely han
died.