Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-14
MAN AND APE ARE LINKED OKCE
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Disciple of Darwin ReiterateS Statements of Latter and Explains Further the DeS- cent of Man.
Special Cable to Review.l By Walter DunKirk.


 apes from the University Museum. to illustrate his theory of the descent of man.
 Darwin" said Professor Haeekel, twas the man who established for all time the morphological relationship of men and apes. It is not to be un- that man has descended from some existing type of ape, but rather that he and the existing anthropoids have one common ancestOr-perhaps in the remote ertiary period-that this ancestor was descended from a still more remote 'half-ape' which in turn descended from some insect-ea ing beast of mamal affinity.
 This line of descent is now ac- cepted by scientists with greater cer tainty than any theory about the des- cent of the elephant or the whale. for the religious or philosophical consequences of such a theory, 1t is immetirial whether mans origin is found in the region of apes or that of any species order of mamalia; for example, the sheep, as Professor Vir- chow once sarcastically suggested. However our pride may rebel against this theory of descent, it remains a fact that no group of animals ap- breaches nearer to man than the apes
 Those who are opposed to this the ory lay stress on mans consciousness of good and evil, his sympathies, his nobler feelings, and his genius; but although these objections have my entire sympathy there would be more intellectual pleasure among men on s this subject, if they freed themselves from the binding influence of tradi- tionai prejudices; and if they recog- nized in their lowly origin the best evidence of their brilliant faculties and in their progressive past a req sonable ground for belief that their future will lead them to still loftier heights
 One of the wealthiest and bluest- blooded of German aristocrats is now a monk in the Dominican monastery at Venlo, a haunt of ancient peace" near the Dutch frontier. This is Prince Carl yon Lowenstein-Wert- -Rochefort, who has renounced the vanities of the world for the holy calm of convent life.
 Prince Carl, who has reached an advanced age. is head of the Catholic branch of the family, and derived an income of ST5O000 year from real estate scattered all over Germany But he has devout unwOrldly soul, which has led him to seek peace in the church, and to give S750,000 of his fortune as a donation to the church funds.
 The Prince for ten years carried on a vigorous campaign against duelling, and was leader of the Anti-Duelling League. Three rulers of German states-The King of SaXony and Wur- temberg and the Grand Duke of Hesse-he had converted recognition of the duelling system, but he could never win the support of the Kaiser, whose tacit opposition is said to have been the cause of his retiring from the world.
 Another story as to the reason of his renouncing the world is that he was in love with a beautiful woman of humble birth, and was in despair because he could never make her wife.
 . tending the Royal Opera House must appear in decollete gowns, as at Co., vent Garden. Wilhelm II is determin- ed to have brilliant audience at the opera, but his edict has been receiv- ed without enthusiasm by the Berlin society women.
 These are perhaps less like society women as known in New York and London, than the upper class wo- men of any European capital; they are in fact too domesticated to be smart" Their regulation costume for the opera is dressy blouse and skirt with an attractive hat. They would never thinkof barring their shoulders except at ball or court ceremony.
 The Kaiserin is responsible for a good deal of the dowdiness of the women of Berlin. Any attempt at brilliance meets with her disapproval and she is especially severe on any lady of the court who appears in a gown too decidedly decollete.
 Another vanity her majesty abhors is any advertising oneself in the pe- pers. She will not have any of her circle permit themselves to be ad- mired in print, or their photographs to be published. 'It is too much like the vulgar ways of English and Am erican women!" says she.
 The result is that the Berlin court is quite the least brilliant in Eprope, the Kaiserin having succeeded in making every woman aim, not at so- cial eclat, but at the idea she follaws herself, Kinder. Kirche und Ko- chen" (chfldren, church and cook ing)
 A request has just been presented to the German government for the payment of a sum of 10000, GOO francs to the descendants of Russian statesman. Field Marshal Count Nun nich. Among the claimants are the members of two well known French families.
 The field marshal who was a couT- fer of Phillip the Great, was presented by that Monarch with an estate in recognition of his having concluded an advantageous treaty with Russia. The count did not accept the estate and it was transferred to Frederick with the consent of Empress Anne of Russia to the counts son.
 Later the latter obtained from King Frederick William the written prom ise of payment of three hundred and