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The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21

They were exceptionally clever people.
for anthrOpOiGS and they had reason TO
be proud of themselves. inasmuch as they
were-if they had only known 1.-THE su-
periOrs. Intellectually aud otherwise, OF
all other existing animals. In Il word,
they were at the tip-tOp of the geological
heap. OF course they lived in tree--a
very convenient kind of dOmicile under
primitive conditions, by reason Of the pro-
lection il gave against enemies. while af
fording a large outlook. All Of the great
man-like monkeys, such as the chimpan-
zee and orang, seek safety in trees. Bat
this particular pair had less trouble 10
get along in the world than their siInian
acquaintances, because they were smart
er; they were more clever a procuring
and storing food supplies. and the gentle
man Of the household knew how to use Il
club.
The first human-lke family increased
rapidly. and soon spread over a wide ter
ritory, being much helped toward survival
by the superior cleverness and prowess of
its members. From generation to genera
tiOn they improved, physically and men,
tally. Their arms grew shorter. their legs
longer, and their brain pans bigger, un-
til at length the type represented by the
bones dug up in Central Java-the Pithe-
canthropus crectus, or upright monkey
men. as scientists have named the ami
mal-was evolved. Here at last was the
destined ancestor of the monkey-like Ne
gritOs of LuZon.
All of this took a great length Of time,
and hundreds of thousands of years may
have elapsed. dating from the first hu-
man-like pair. before there came into ex-
istence that wonderful species of ape
called by science homo sapiens. The earli-
est man, il is true, was covered with hair;
but so, likewise, is his modern descend
ant. though the hirsute covering of the
latter has been reduced for the most part
to a slight down.
Now. this early man, Ike his anthrOpoid
progenitor3, lived in trees, finding such an
abode convenient for the same reasons as
they did. And one reason for assuming
this to have been the fact is that the hu-
man baby of to-day. which in many phys
ical points is mOnkey-like-fOr example,
in respect to its over-long arms and over
short legs-has feet so formed as to indi-
cate the tree-climbing habit, the joint of
the ankle being so arranged that the
foot odn be turned inward, while the BIS
toe is almost as Independent in its move
ments as that of the ape. Attention has
often been called to the wonderful way in
which the youngest infants are able to
hang from sticks, supporting their own
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
Il Alaska Growing Warmerr

FrCm leslie = weekly
Prospective visitors and gold-seekers in
the KlOndykc region may extract some
comfort from the discovery. made by the
Hartman Alaska expedition, that most OF
the glaciers which abound I'm that terri
tory are receding. The fact is an indica-
tinn that the average weather there IS
growing warmer. II Il were growing cold
OF the glaciers would be advancing; while
II IL were about tho same one year with
another they would maintain the same
general position. neither creeping nearer
70 the sea nor melting away from their
terminal morsines. The rate of glacial re-
cession s. 50 slow. however that fur over
coats and warm sleeping bags are likely
20 remain as a part Of the necessary
equipment Of Alaskan travel or some
years 20 come Nothing. IN may b. added
IS slower than the movement Of a gls-
cier except the settlement Cf the Alas
kan boundary dispute. The controversy
over that question H. the Wdrrnest thing
Ihat Alasks II likely 20 see for some time
II certain Canadian Statesmen will 10 up
there aad talk as hOtly as they did re-
Gently q Ottawa the climatic change will
f,a ON q once.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
Life Insurance Facts.

From GUnton's Na, szine
it is difficult for the mind 20 grasp these
figures-still more difficult 10 grasp their
import. They mean that the American
people are paying each year nearly two
hundred and fifty million dollars for prem
iuns. and that they have one and one
third billion dollars invested for the ben
'ht Of their future widows and orphans:
that American companies paid out, in the
year 1897, one hundred and thirty-nine
million dollars mainly 10 the families Of
their deceased pOlicy-hOders. These last
ngure5 mean also that there Is scarcely q
family in the land which Is not interested
IN them. II is certain that the hopes
and happiness and interests Of millions OF
our citizens are involved IN this great
economy % life Insurance. II IS crr,afn.
TOO, that there Is scarcely = family lfi the
land which could not. with advantage.
avail itself Of its brucfiCent provisions
To the wealthy a large sum Of money com
ing al a critical time may be most timely.
To those in moderate circumstances m.
proceeds or a life Insurance policy NAV
mean the difference between comfort and
hardship. between competency and D0y-
erty, between happiness and misery
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
GLIMPSE OF A STRANGE THEATER.
Where Hebrews of New York see Plays
Written i'm Their Own Tongue.

EIOH Leslie weekly.
Going out of the darkness into the SUM-
light and turning into the Bowery again.
you presently find yourself outside the old
Bowery Theater, still the best-built house
in the city, and in these days the home of
i the Hebrew drama. The Hebrew drama,
unlike the Hebrew audience, has
TO distinctive character. 1t is drawn
impartially from the literature of
all nations and all tongues. | rernem-
ber dropping into the theater one Friday
night about four years ago while a play
of the domestic pattern was in process of
development. The house was packed 10
the doors with the men. women, and chill
dren drawn from the world east of the
1 Bowery. Something in the situations and
in the business OF the scenes IMPRESSED
me with a sense of familiarity, and then,
presently, oCt of the mists of memory
there arose, hidden under the Hebrew
tongue, by friend ."Fhe Willow Copse" in
which pood old CouldOck drew tears from
the BOWerv in the daVS long gone AMI
the simpl, humanity in the pit and gal
lery laughed and cried by turns as the
BoWery audiences Of thirty years ago
laughed and cried over Couldock The
play, breathing a sentiment that couId
ind no response in the hearts Of the men
and women of these degenerate days had
lost none of its power of truth TO these
tOlIerS OF the sWeat-ShOp and the factory
Each father in the audience had brought
his family with him-from the shriveled,
haggard little figure of a woman on his
arm, right along the line of nine chill
Gren 10 the last new baby Between their
tears over the SOrroWs of the wayWard
daughter they munched apples or ginger
bread cakes. The voice of the man with
the apples and oranges wandering from
pit 10 circle and circle to gallery was
heard in gentle appeal to come and be re-
freshed. For the Hebrew. ever faithful TO
ancient tradition. clings to this good old
custom. i"rg fali~T into dis"arute liLn al
else Hat telcnged 10 3 better time. And
watching their toll SOrn faces a. they
file out of the theater back to their hoy
els behind the BOWery. one wonders how
much Of the lesson Of simple love and
faith and truth may be learned by Fash
ion and her MOrshipers.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
HOW HE CATCHES HIM.

weight for a long time, just as MONKEYS
do in trees. The Australian natiye-one OF
the most primitive OF human beings, who
climbs as an ape does, possesses this ac-
comDlishment.
Islands Were swamp. Once.
OF coure. there IS no telling whether
earliest man did actually originate In the
Philippines, In Java, or In Sumatra but
the birthplace OF his kind was some
where in that neighborhood, according 20
the view Of Dr. Becker The land bridge
10 Asia, by way OF BOrmeO, afforded IA
cilities Of travel and for the spread q the
newly developed species Of anthropOid.
who, though truly human, vas pure
beast-a monkey with a bigger brain. His
weapons were stones and branches broken
from trees. Living in the tropics. he never
felt the need Of clothing. and he did not
understand the use Of FIRE. His descend
ants, learning By slow degrees the use Of
tools, were enabled 70 improve their con-
ditlon and developed gradually into Great
ures OF reason
a million or 80 years ago according to
Or. Becker. the Philippines consisted
largely OF swamps and shallow seas There
was an immense lu1ursance OF tropical
plant growth IN the sWampy regions,
where accnmuiations Of vegetable debris
were eventually covered with mud and
transformed into . kind OF coal called
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
There Was Sorrow There.

The colonel halted his horse in front of
a Dakota dugout and uttered a vigorous
"Hellon' and after a minute @ headed
girl about sixteen years Of age showed up
and looked him over and said:
Now, then. what ye whOopin' fur and
who be ye%'
'Can l get anything to eat here?"
Not a thing"
ANY water for my horse?'
THE springs gone dry
How far is it to the river?"
Dunno"
please ask your father to step out"
Pops bin on a drunk feg week"
"And your MOTHER"
"She's got the toOthache. That's her
crying"
Haven't you got a brother"
Yep, but he got snake-bit yesterday
and don't feel we'll"
We'll, what about yOu?" persisted the
colonel You seem 10 be all right"
"Oh, but ! amt" she replied, as she
made ready to disappear ] was TO cit
married yesterday, but my feller got shot
by an Injun, and it'll take TWO weeks TO
ketch onto another. This ar a house
of sorrow, sir and you will please t. ride
on and not ask any more fool questions"
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
he Was Taking Chances.

-.1' "fnt 10 ask a question or two"
... o4 man with the bundle under
-." "' the man who sat with a grip
."'.l Lls feet IN the depot.
about trains you'd better go 10
' ..-.' Once" was the reply
... h-' 70 isn't about trains / know
o. about when my train goes and when
.' INTO Jacksonville ~ she keeps on
'"' rails What I'm a leetle shaky on,
"-f' ] want 10 be sure about. is who
0.a'ur't American
'- i' possible you don't know ex-
...''ra The man with the grip as he
..-.iiari Iu his seat
think ! know. but / don't want 10
...tIr DO mistake about IL. Il vas Co
'-'1. .s wasn't itg'
Hf course"
ai apn,r Columbus2"
'.f'. uiy. Seems 10 ne that a man
" t..f age ought 10 be posted on such
'f'pr..aI facts"
fr BAT you see I've been mighty
'-ss. and though I've allus had a sneakin'
'.'t iha' 90 was Columbus haven [
gone riaht 10 work 10 glt the thing down
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
EYerybedy U.ing the Telephone.

From Lezlie's Nfssly.
The telephone has become q necessity OF
modern life, and whatever tends n
cheaper the telephone service and en-
large its sphere Of operations deserves
support and encouragement There has
been a rapid increase Of independent tere-
phone companies. II lg stated that the
close Of the year will see 800 independent
telephone exchanges IN operation having
over l5o.UtD Instruments In Iss0 there we've
under rental use in the country G0g73 tel
homes. One year later the number had
Increased % L. esz. In iSs the number %
telephones in use was over l.CD0.Dy0. IL isSj
mere vas IN Ise ~ tAe various systems
ephone wire. 81 the beginning Of thls
yesr the mileage had increased 20 ] rs 90
miles The use Of the telephone = more
common IN the United States than In any
other country
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
THE SaNDmAH's ARRIVAL.

sun am aess 3 ruShln' home,
Rvshin' home 70 bed;
stars am dess tWlnkerlln'.
Wander, overhead
Frsggies in a med1er-Po0l
Chuutn' up so9gi
TWuiEh. am sissin kase
p.ssen't linger long
nsbv b5y an rubin az
sone'nn' IN be eyes,
q IL star & Sink Al say,
Ysuder In a skies.
wa for 70 doin dat.
Wee llI baby h0y7
Rubbin' den eyes Of gr,y7
Yo- AIN .ub Gcm. rub DEN.
Rus der nah f5-sg.
Bat 20 kant ru5 er Sandman erEsyF'
Birds zone put dab Ill sezds
Uu'nerueath eT EiLg.
Hop-tuld sr,t.n CT er vine
W.Shiu' he coul4 eng.
St,dders crreg.n' dCSa e. kil
Bl8stln' 0uI e. light.
Darkness maxim " its a!ad
GWiusr stsy as aigkL
Baby ued he o. head
Rub be III esess
LIT stzF IL za!sper low.
WAY Up "a a skies;
'.wAa' FOR 20 doia' dat.
Wee III baby boy2
RabliH' d-l eyes q gray's
Yo kin rlb dsn. rub Gen.
Rob dem msh honey.
but 20 kaiag rub CT Sandman >rWayf''
GEo. V. HOBART.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
Nr. BOaOser and HislO,y.-By III. Oaaa.

fine. There's fifty dollars in # now. and
/ want to come home with that money
In my pocket"
How f. there hf;y dollars In Itgr asked
the man with the grip.
SSH, Don't give Il awsyI NY son
Eill got married last year and went to
Jacksonville TO live. As long as he was
home he stuck 20 II that George Wash
ington diskivered America. and he's bluff
fed me and the old woman and the nay
burs down into our boots a hundred times
over H. His father-ln-law gave him a
hundred dollars the other day. and I'm go
ing 10 Kit half Of H. III co il sures you're
born. I'm going up on a visit and I'll take
hoe and 20 out into the coTnfield with
him, and after we've worked awhile III
say:
Bill, I've most forgotten about George
Washington. What aid ne do%
q" 'Diskiyered America Bill will say.
" cant be-
% But h dId.'
" I've got TO doubt IT.
Then Bill will out with his wad Of
greenhacks and peel of so and shake II
under my nose and dare me 20 bet. I'll
act kind o frustrated and onsartin. but
jest as he thinks he's bluGed me down III
pull out my cash and take him up. BIZ
never goes back on a bet II he bet a
hen had four legs he'd stick right 20 It,.
I'll scoop him out Of half a hundred as
easy as roIiln' OF a log. He'll give up the
money after a dozen different folks have
told him that II was Columbus instead Of
Washington, but, come to think OF it,
dunnO-I dunno"
You think something may follow, do
you?"
That's H." replied the father, as his
face grew little anxious. The last time
i won bet of Of Bill he handed over the
money all right, but he tore down the
hog-pen and the smoke-house. pulled all
the doors OF the barn, Unroofe9 the milk
house, and sent me to bed for six weeks
I've got 10 Be a leetle coy with Bill
may stick 20 Columbus and win SO but
II he lets 20 Of Washington to wreck the
town Of Jacksonville and cripple all the
Inhabitants for life may not be so much
ahead Of the game"
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
geaec,lsH- of n Bachelor.

Fro=s the Nes YORK Presz-
Most persons 0f quality end by having
quantities OF person
Every man either suffers from rernorza
or wishes he had risked having IL himself
Love your nelghbor. especially II you
don't think sne Will want you~to marry
her
II some women saw a notice OF their
funeral in some Newspaper they would be.
lieve taey were dead.
Ia a giFi'g studio" sou can b. pretty
sure that half or the fans tackled asoang
are there % hide spots on the waslpapeF
aud the fSSi " cover ~ st0yep.pe hOies
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21

a better living: he learned how 70 grasp
a stick ard use 1t as q club, and thus be
was enabled 10 whip all comers in =
fight.
Now. this missing ling is no theory.
That he and his kinda whole tribe, con-
stituting a new and improved speci-s-did
actually exist has been proved By the
discovery, IN Java, not very far from the
Philippines. Of a fossil specimen. One
should rather say. a few bones OF al In
dividual but they were enough 10 shO@
his physical and even his mental charac-
terislics in 4 rough way. There was the
upper part OF a skull, mOlar tooth. end
a left tnigh-bOne-all completely fossil
lied, and found in a volcanic deposit Of
approximately known age, on the banks
of the Bengawan River The earth sur
rounding these interesting remains had
turned 10 solid rock, and IL Is a surThlse
that the cataclvsm which destroyed this
Individual may have wiped out an entire
nation OF his kind Certainly the cTea-
tuTe in question was not human. but in
size. brain power. and erect posture he
APPROACHED much nearer 10 man than any
other animal hitherto known. The capac-
ity OF his skull seems 10 have been about
tWo-thirds that OF the average human
being.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
The Innocnous Dum-dum.

From Golfers Weekly
The notorious dum-dum bullet, which is
TO be used against the Beers according
10 an English apologist, is merely the or
dinary bullet In use by British troops at
home with the casing at the top filed
away. The French delegates TO the Peace
Conference az The Hague endeavored to
prove that IL Is an explosive bullet. and
that, therefore. Great Britain was break
iEg the terms Of the convention OF 1858
binding her not 20 make use Of explosive
bullets The end is filed 20 that on i'm
pact the bullet breaks up instead OF pass
ing right through the body Of an enemy.
pound OF metal makes today more
than thirty such bullets. whereas nifty
years as jf made less than half that
number.
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
Goddess of Liberty.


EflE Lie.
4 soldiers monument. with the Cod
dess Of Liberty on the top
TWO small boys gazing up az Il With ad-
m.TaJion.
Johnnie very gOlemnly)-Is that God up
fhefeZ
willie 0ull OF patrlotlsm)-No: that's
.Jesyey'a mother
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
4 Bad Pan.
Fom LIZ

Fron Lits
Cholly-what Is the difference between
a man who lives AZ his mothers. and one
VINO has intermittent rheuma tiSm
Tolly-One Is well All the time and has
rooms az his mother s-the other Is well
sometimes .na IA. rle eumalism olhsra
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
Not I nexpected.
Fsrn flfa

FEon Lie
ORansrty-'Twas a sad blow thot be-
fen Cassidy. I'D ye not hear
McGlnnls-SOrra tn word as ut.
sure he'A dead. Sthruck be lightnin'.
ne Was
"Oh. my. On. my, Bot m not surprised.
Faith. be had slekiy look the lashl t0lms
! seeu him
The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-21
MAY Have Lived Necr Manila.

It may be imagined-gdeh a notion being
not in the least improbable-thatt the first
really .man-like monkey Ind his vile re-
sided In the nrigho0rhoOd Of Manila
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-12-21
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W ftten for The Prison Mirror.
"There are some queer people in the
Wo Id" said the drummer as he seated
himself and began smoking. "Some
mighty queer peop'e. When l hrst
CINE to this state, there were lots OF
good people who had never been out
side the borders of their native state
and who hail but vague idea OF dis
tances except those that Travelled on
horseback. [ remember one man IN
particular, large cattle owner ana
reputed very wealthy. Actually this
man, although he shipped annually
hundreds of cattle to Kansas City, st.
Louis and Chicago and nearly every
year sent large herds up the trail to
Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana, had
never been farther north than Dennl-
son or farther east than Marshall. vi
course he had been west to Ell PaSO
and south to the Mexican line, but
these localities being so much like that
part of Texas he was raised in, didn't
Count.
Zone fall, lobe, for such was his
name, took big bunch of beeves to
Fort Worth, which at that time was
his nearest and best shipping point.
Having fed at the yards there, the cat
tie were loaded and billed through to
Chicago. Now Tobe's ranch was about
forty miles from the Fort and he usu-
ally made his appearance at the ranch
two or three days or a week after
shipment But on the occasion l speak
of, week went by and no Tobe made
his appearance. Ten days and his
brother, who was his ranch boss, begun
to think that he had got off on big
skate and after two weeks had passed,
he set out one morning for Fort Worth
thinking perhaps lobe was in trouble,
as he had habit of occasionally shoot
ing up the town.
"Arriving in town he soon found out
that lobe had n vt been Sc en- since tie
day of the shipment of the cattle. Be
coming really alarmed, he at once set
out for the ranch, giving the alarm to
such as he met on the road, and after
hard ride of half the night, reached
the ranch. Once there, it did not take
Iong for every one to get in the saddle
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-12-21
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81 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

| and without waiting for daylight they
started out on the hunt for the miss
ing man. Ned, his brother, felt sure
he had met with an accident, for there
was no danger of him being lost as he
knew every COW trail all the country
over, and could find his way anywhere,
even on the darkest night. Daylight
found the searching party in one of
the numerous canons to be found in
that section and plan OF campaign
was decided on. Part of the searchers
were to explore the canons in the i'm
mediate vicinity, while the rest were
to scatter, and all were to meet at
shutdown at ranch house close by.
"The days search, however, was
frultless, as. was the next, and the next,
and the next. Then the tired men
made up their minds that further
search was useless, and with saddened
hearts and weary aching limbs they
rode slowly back to the ranch.
"What was their unbOunded surprise
and delight to find lobe seated in an
old saddle, calmly smoking his pipe as
though nothing had happened.
"'Where in h, have you been ?
cried his brother who was the first to
see him.
"'Chicago,' said lobe.
"Chicagop repeated his brother,
dumfounded by this assertion.
cat first no one would believe it.
But after a while Tobey convinced
them that he had really been to Chica-
go and that it was heap bigger than
Fort Worth and Dallas both together.
"And,' said lobe, there won't be
any fall roundup on this ranch no
more
"'No fall round up?' exclaimed sew
eral of the boys in a breath.
"No,' answered lobe, mo more fall
roundup. And I'll tell you why.
When 1 was up there to Chicago, [ see
enough people in one day, to eat every
cow critter in Texas at one meal. Why
the first thing you know, folks'll be
shipping their beef cattle to market in
Pullman palace cars, and having the
money sent back in box cars"
And the drummer lit another cigar.
j. S. B.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-12-21
From Other "Pens''

The British who thought that
Dom Paul's hand was bobtailed
have found out their mistake by
c ,lling-St. Louis (Mo.) Repub-
lie.
The man who is always bucking
against stone wall may think he
is manifesting a commendable
spirit of perseverance. But most
people would call him a fool for
his pains.-Elk River Star News.
Quite a portion of the British
army have gone to South Africa,
where they will spend Christmas,
but they have not gone there for
the benefit of their health it is
needless to mark.-London indie
pendent.
Gen. Reeve has moved his
household effects over from Mime
apolis but will not occupy the
warden's residence until after
some needed repairs can be made.
In the meantime he and Mrs.
Reeve will occupy apartments in
the executive building Of the
state prison. They are no longer
Flour City den.zens. Saltwater
Gazette.
The pessimist always sits and
bemoans his fate, which he could
easily change, if he would look at
the world with eyes of another
color-Windom Reporter.
An Eastern clergyman was re-
Gently highly scandalized by be-
ing asked what he found to do on
week days. AS a matter Of curl
osity the Globe would like to
learn how many people know what
parsons" have to do on week days
The ideas Of the average layman
on ministerial duties and labor on
other days than Sunday might
throw some light on the reason fol
there being so many non-church-
goers.-St. Paul Globe.
Gov. Leary's latest demand is q
library for Guam. Surely never
was such case Of rapid civiliza-
ton as this. It is less than two
months since he was just persuad-
ing the natives into the advantages
Of working for a living.-Pioree1
Press.
Owing to an unusual press Of
other matter, tribute to the
memory of the heroes who fell or