Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-29
God around this premises. God did not


make the horse The horse came of the
pilohippus, and the pilohippus came
from the protohippus. and the protohip-
pus came from the miohippus, an the
miohippus came from the meshohippus,
and the meshohippus came from the
orohippus, and so away back, all the
living creatures, we trace 1t in line
until we get to the moneron, and no
evidence of divine intermeddling with
the creation until you get to the none
ron, and that, Huxley says, is of SO low
a form of life that the probability is it
just made itself or was the result of
spontaneous generation What a narrow
escape from the necessity Of having a
God.
AS near as I can tell, these evolution
lists seem to think that God at the start
had not made up his mind as to exactly
what he would make, and having made
up his mind partially, he has been
changing it all through the ages. be-
lieve that God made the world as he
wanted to have it, and that the happi
ness of all the species will depend upon
their staying in the species where they
were created.
Parliament of Beasts.
Once upon time there was in nat
ural amphitheater of the forest con-
vention of animals, and gorilla from
western Africa came in with his club
and pounded -f'Order!" Then he sat
down in chair of twisted forest root.
The delegation of birds came in and
took their position in the galleries Of
the hills and the tree tops And dele
cation of reptiles came in, and they
took their position in the pit of the val
ley. And the tiers of rocks were occu-
pied by the delegation of intermediate
animals, and there was a great aquari-
UNI, and canal leading into it, through
which came the monsters of the deep
to join the great convention. And on
one table of rock there were four or five
primal germs under glass case, and in
a cup on another table of rock there
was quantity of protoplasm. Then
this gorilla of the African forest with
his club pounded again, "Order, order ~
and then he cried out: ooh, you great
throng of beasts and birds and reptiles
and insects, have called you together
to propose that we move up into the
human race and be beasts no longer.
Too long already have we been hunted
and Gagged and harnessed. We shall
stand it no longer. " At that speech the
whole convention broke out into roars
of enthusiasm like as though there
were many menageries being fed by
their keepers, and it did seem as if the
whole convention would march right
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the human race. But an old lion arose,
his name white with many years, and
he uttered his voice, and when that old
lion uttered his voice all the other
beasts of the forest were still, and he
said: "Peace, brothers and sisters of
the forest. think we have been placed
in the spheres for which we were in
tended. I think our Creator knew the
place that was good for US. He could
proceed no further, for the whole con-
vention broke out in an uproar like the
house of commons when the Irish ques-
tion comes up or the American congress
the night of adjournment, and the rep
tiles Kissed with indignation at the
leonine Gambetta, and the frogs croak-
ed their contempt, and the bears growl-
snarled their disgust, and the insects
buzzed and buzzed with excitement, and,
though the gorilla Of the African forest
with his club pounded, "Order, order, -
there was no order, and there was
thrusting out of adderine sting, and a
swinging of elephantine tusk, and a
stroke of beak, and a swing of claw, un-
til it seemed as if the convention would
be massacred.
Just at that moment at the door of
this natural amphitheater of the forest
the curtain of the leaves lifted, and the
bolts and bars of the tree branches were
showed back, and there appeared Agas-
siz and Audubon and Silliman and
Moses. And Agassiz cried out: "Oh,
you beasts of the forests, have studied
your ancestral records and found you
always have been beasts, you always
will be beasts. Be contented to be
beasts" And Audubon aimed his gun
at baldheaded eagle, which dropped
from the gallery and as it dropped
struck a serpent that was winding
around one Of the pillars to get up
higher. And Silliman threw a rock of
the tertiary formation at the mammals,
and Moses Numbered, "Every beast
after it's kind, every bird after it's kind,
every fish after it's kind" And, 10, the
parliament Of wild beasts was prorogued
and went home to their constituents,
and the bat flew out into the night, and
the lizard skunk under tie rock, and
the gorilla went back to the jungle, and
a hungry wolf passing out ate up the
primal germs, and clumsy buffalo up
set the protoplasm, and the lion went
to his lair, and the eagle went to his
eyrie, and the whale went to his palace
of crystal and coral, and there was
peace-peace in the air, peace in the
waters neace in the fields Man in his