Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-06-15

inteiiigence. Even the compare
lively degraded monkeys Of India
which have been long domesticated
are taught to sit at table and to us
finger-bowl and napkin with muel
dexterity.
At the same time, it is not i'm
agined that man is descenaed from
the chimpazee. Both are believed
to be derived from common ances
tor. That progenitor is the long
sought Missing Link--a man .lik,
ape, of whose species no remains
have ever been found. That tn,
pcreature viii be discovered in fossi
shape some day is not unlikely
Many of its kind must have fallen
into the water and been drowned
That is the way in which animal:
are usually fossilized and preserved.
Sinking to the bottom, their bodies
are covered up with mud, which
subsequently hardens into rock.
At length the water dries up and
the fossil remains are dug out.
Animals which die on the land are
destroyed by decay or by ether crca-
lures, which devour their ca9casses.
The reason why the Missing Link
has not already been found, is that
he is too recent. The water in
which his fossilized representatives
lost their lives, or into vhich their
bodies were carried by streams and
floods, has not had time to dry up
and disclose them to view.
Science declares that on the earth
there will never be higher species
anatomically than man. Evolution
on the old lines has stopped. 1t is
now going ahead on the intellectual
plane. The lower animals develop
as man wants them to, or they die
ont. Man is exterminating all an
imals for which he has no use, and
is domesticating the few remaining
ones. He is wipping out all plants
which are not valuable to him. and
is cultivating those which he can
utilize profitably. The "Rev."
Sam Jones asks: "Do you know
anybody who ever saw anything
evolute?" The question shows that
he has failed to consider the breed
ing of animals by man, who by u
tilizing the processes of evolution
has transformed the ravenous wolf
into the faithful dog, and has Great
ed score of varieties of pigeons
from the wild and unornamental
Blue Rock. Evolution still goes
on, but under control by man.
The anthropologists say that 500
years hence man will be far more
intellectual than he is now. He
will be more vigorous physically,
and will enjoy longer life, because
he is making study of health laws.
The female of his species will be
handsomer, because life will be more
easy fer her. Comfort and ease are
the conditions which produce beauty
in woman; savage women are almost
never pretty, even in their youth,
because they work hard and live
roughly. Through the aid of the
telegraph and modern means of
rapid locomotion, man has become
almost independent of time and
space. The earth is now what he
chooses to make it. If lands are
non-productive, he fertilizes them.
IL the climate is not suitable for
growing products of the soil which
he requires, he alters it by conserv-
ing the solar heat under glass. 1t
is.not unlikely that all the northern
part of New Jersey will at no dis
tant day be under a glass roof. for
the purpose of supplying New York
with vegetables, fruits and flowers.
An interesting exhibit at the Ma
tional Museum shows the physical
ingredients which 60 to make up the
average man, weighing 154 pounds.
A large glass jar holds the SO
pounds of water which his body con-
tains. In other receptacles are
pounds of white-of-egg, little less
than 10 pounds of pure glue-with-
out which it would be impossible
for him to keep body and soul to-
gether-344 pounds of fat, 81 pounds
of phosphate Of lime, pound Of
carbonate of lime, 8 ounces of sugar
and starch, z ounces of fioride OF
calcium, 6 ounces Of phosphate OF
magnesia, and little ordinary table
salt.
| Divided up into his primary
chemical elements, the same man ID