The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-01-28
as TO THEORIES - ESPECIALLY
TIE DARWTNTA

"a when skillfully handled;whe traced BY
inexperts, they become the chariots OF
Ph@ton. They do indeed. Ahl hum
sry bubbaboo
- You see, the moon belonged to Diana
and was her car. The sun in like man
. ner to Apollo. He, being near-sighted,
K. didn't drive the car himself, but hired 4
" man named Helias to drive for him. The
= world was considered a fat plate, with
Delphi in the middle and the ocean all
ID around. Chattanooga was then a small
y quite small-place. In the far east,
the dawn, Aurora. or Eos, opened the
= y gates with her rosy fingers and out came
the glorious car of the sun, with glori-
, GUS white horses, driven by Helias, at
!. tended by the Hours, strewing dew and
flowers. 1t passed oyer the arch of the
}. heavens to the ocean again on the west,
!. and there Aurora met them, took out the
{ team and fed it. Helias mad son nam
ed Pb@tsn. He had made several round
trips with his Pap, and one night he
asked the old man to let him drive day.
: The team started right, but scared at a
comet and ran away. One minute the
blazing chariot wheels would asp'gainst
. the earth and set the trees on fire; at the
next, the team would run up hill toward
: Olympus. Twas a plumb sight At
last Jupiter, who was sitting in his front
porch, drinking nectar for weak stom-
ach, noticed PhetOn's antics and let /
drive at him with thunderbolt, knock
ing him clean ont of his car. 1t was j. 3
intention to merely drop P. into the
ocean, but P, as he ''drapped," struck
his head against the corner of fish trap
and passed in his checks His sisters
wept till they were changed into poplar
trees, and their tears hardened into am
Der drops. It was very sad, indeed. 1t !
was
The origin of the North American In 1
dian has long been theory. A specific 6
number of the tribes of Israel were lost =
The red man was race unaccountable; 7
hence he was the lost lamb. Not the D
slightest kinship in race type. But one T
was lost, the other found That settled "
the matter. and Mr.. Lo! was an Isralite L
without guile. Having occasion to read n n
up Egyptology, in preparing my Alpha
bet lecture, found that the ancient al
Egyptians not only used the Papyrus for 81
their manuscripts, but that, of the same
reed they constructed their boats, with
the exception of the keel, which they ~
made of acasia wood. I had long been
familiar with the habits of the red man
and knew that upon birch bark he in
'cribed his hieroglyphs, which in many .
'eSpec.S strohgly resemoled the symbols WI
Of ancient Thebes. Further, that of
birch bark did he make his light canoe, ~
which bounded Ger the silver lake like
duck on wheels. The coincidence BaC
truck me, and had been younger :.
and should have yelled, Eureka p Bul
lifting Bull, my regards to your uncle, q
1elchisadek Gls:
Another favorite theory was the study oat
flint arrow-heads, ETC., which were Hs y
bought peculiar to this country. In 1857, L LrD
'itcairn, midshipman in Carteret's
essel, discovered from the mast head, LAT q
distance of 10 miles, the island But
hitch bears his name and which was O9if
I0S5A0J IL 100 ny ElSICuGE O1lTlSIIdu, Faa
&c Bounty mutineer, as place of re- APP
for twenty years was the fate Cab
Christian and his eight comrades I'M
nown. Yet upon this isolated speck
/ the vast Pacific Mr. Brodie, in 1850, G
iscoVered ancient burial places, hearth me
,ones DISPLACED bv hinge treas and flint the
= - VIII
'O AoAus onu stohe axes not
Vidently the remains of a people long sys
lteriOr to the visit of Fletcher Chris cor
an. Now what do you think of that hoI
But DarWin-dear Darwin. How he TIC TIC
as been Inisrepresented Darwin's the
leory was this: Everything started from
4 ovum or germ, and he claimed that
Iccessive favorable developments pro- I
iced gradual refinement or improve. sue
ent-as the peach developed from the or
mOnd, the dog from the wolf. The s ale
ondon Punch, always on the alert for tor,
oh things, caricatured Darwin's hypo. ters
esis, both in type and cuts. The pub uoS
, rarely think, when novelty is presen. aff1i
d, and the impression was fixed that wht
arwin had said imam came from the 9TH
Onkey." And hundreds charge Oar
in to day, who don't know D. from
yndale or Huxley, and are utterly ig- T
rant of the specially of the three sci abo'
fists. Yet form
Full many a shot at random sent, now
Finds mark the archer never meant" in Il
az not the public be right At least The
, find the negro and the monkey both S Sine
Id owners and householders in Africa II W,
jurors, so to speak The mar
ing crosses my mind like flash. The Sout
il is liftingsEI read ''Marmoset: ring P fsiu
baboon; Gorilla: negro, mulatto, from
adroon, mustee, mustafna, whitewash-
intelligent voter - Congressman
sss my wife's sisters cats peace of DC
jury for you / submit W
case. less
Trusting sincerely that in my efforts ings
throw light upon dark subject have Ia u
ID no word that would wound the orou
st delicate, and begging to assure S solns
l, my dear sir, of the highest cnnsid- neL =
ton of respect and esteem, and that "ate
ugh lost to sight you are to memory SEM 1I,.
r, l am very respectfully your most a -
.dient serVf,nt Brio A-BRAC SPlSL