The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-26

: mark in the woods and I preserved
every stick religiously."
"Why?" l inquired. sleepily.
Saved It All For Baer.
Because / knew that the day was
/ coming when the same omnipotent
power would. long after had departed.
turn il all over TO Mr.. Baer on the
same terms, and l wished il TO go to its
owner unimpaired. that's why.
well. what are you crying about
nOw?" ! asked.
AT the habbiness of the modern YER
I tebrate. upright animal called Baer.
| Why does he not protect the. property
as i did? Here he is running around
/ calling upon the government for help.
/ asking for more troops and believing
/ for the police instead OF wading in as
/ / often did and hurting the trespassers
/ skyward."
Have you ever seen the animal
| called Baer?" l inquired.
Il have not but. according TO the
/ law OF evolution, as my successor he
| ought 20 be a wonder" said the Pale
Ozoic Man.
well. as far as that goes he is. but
/ in a different way. His whiskers are
/ Superior to yours, I'll admit. and his
/ jaws are slightly prognathous, but as
grand stand hurler he is far in the
| rear"
Then how can he manage TO hold
/ the property" asked Old Paleozoic, in
a surprised tone. "Has he more back
| bone than -"
by actual count, believe not"
Then wherein is he so superior that
/ he can overcome the other men who
wish 10 occupy the forest? Are they
weaker or without claws?"
Shielded by Charter.
mo. Personally he is rather a poor
| specimen of the species. but he is
/ shielded by a Charter"
That's an animal that did not exist
in my time. How big is it?" asked my
| visitor.
/ It's a tiny thing, but its powers are
I enormous. and IL Is sacred. II a Char
| ter once gets anything from the People
/ il never lets go its hold"
Indeed! And from what protoplas-
mic germ did this wonder develop? I've
watched the horse evOlute from the
/ lemur-like creature and the clam de-
| velop into the terrapin, but l must
| have overlooked the Charter"
1t was a gift enterprise. by which
the railroads got your Carboniferous
preserve with the willing and confiding
consent of everybody who had 10 use
coal in the future. and once given, II
cannot be redrawn. or. at least, such Is
( the claim Of the holders"
/ "Ah, I begin 10, perceive. 1t is fur
Their progress of Evolution. Man has
developed into a higher and nobler
thing. and it's called a Charter" said
! PaleoZoic Man thoughtfully; that's
| wonderful. indeedi Marvellous and stu
pendous is Evolution. but I never con-
| ceived the thought that II would ulti-
mately create a being superior 10
Man.
Indeed. Man himself. although a
! somewhat puny animal, is in many re-
spects a little beyond me; but when /
recollect what he was. or rather what
l was myself. / am filled with aston
/ ishment at what he has done. Why, I
remember when Morgan. that gigantic
being whom 1 have not had the honor
/ Of ever seeing, was but a protozoid,
/ wallowing in oozy mud in the Mesozoic
period.
Fata Morgana Was Boastful.
''Fata Morgana we called him then
In ironic reference 10 his boasts that he
would develop into a giant octopus and
grapple the earth. and this man Baer,
the partner of Providence. was only
biological snystery, to be examined
microscOpically. a tiny bit or jelly,
| shaped somewhat like a tadpole, all
mouth, surrounded by agitated ella,
] from which his whiskers have undoubt-
eddy developed He hadn't risen then
70 the rank of the gasterapods, or all
stomach creatures. traces of whom are
stin perceptible in Morgan, l under
stand.
Gates. Schwab and Carnegie were
| simply bIobs Of misshapen cell-agglOm-
nations. while the Vanderbilt was a
| mushy COB of tapiOca-like stuff that
hadn't even been seen by the eye.
| Markle was merely an atom and VIII
cox a mOlecdle with red specks on its
back. All of them were practically not
In the race at all, and yet TO think that
such indeterminate invertebrate and
protoplasmic objects could finally de-
velop into Men that can nil a 6b hat,
and then eventually produce such a
marvel as a Charter! It's incredible!
1t must be the most wonderful power
in the world
IT would seem so" I replied.
The Characters Parent.
And can you tell me- asked my I'M
couth guest "the immediate predeees-
scr of the Charter. It's parent, In
fact?"
Yes, its parent and creator was the
Legislature, a creature with an Inn
mortal body, but no soul TO speak OF
A hundred headed, thOusand-aTmed
creature. mostly mouth and stomach
and very little brains, which has new
litter OF Charters annually. all OF which
grow bigger and more powerful than
their parent. Some of them lie low and
last year the records show the disposal