The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
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n vas not more than half . oOEen year,
later that poor old Adam. Eve. the serpent
and all tho rest had to give up their places
% respected ancestors. Darwin had made
thesSress discovery Of cur psrsatsss with The
Macacus rhesus, the long tailed monkey.
am passioaaisiy fond Of animals and
have had every kind Of pet. from q canary
bird 20 . grizzly bear. but I had q dialiks
20 monkeys and doubted the posaibllity
Of our descent from them. Ny dislike did
not 20 20 far - to hinder me from being
sincerely sorry when I saw a sick monkey,
poor sick monkey u q melancholy sight
indeed Poor little beasts. they nearly
all become consumptive In our northern
climates; they SILVER. they cough. their
little breests heave painfully. and they look
~ you with human eyes and seem TO say:
Man. help me; ! Am suffering because
thou hast taken me away from my beauti-
tul tropic forests Just to amuss thee. thy
women and children. TO be jeered and
laughed At though am thy elder brother
and am cleverer than thou art. I can
live without the MAS Of useless things
thou wantest. but ! want my glorious south
eTn sun. my endless forests. my gay CON-
panions'-
Not 70 speak Of the unha pplest Of monkeys.
who pay too dear for their aimiIituds TO the
genus homo by the AtrOcious martyrdom
they have to suffer at the hands Of physi-
oloeists professors and students who
Try on them hideous experiments. results
OF which often become precanoua TO mis-
cradle human sufferers They often do
not give themselves the trouble Of putting
more or lcsS merciful end TO their suffer
ingsl I have seen 10, and my heart bursts
from pain at the recollection OF these
horrors and 90 the idea that they are still
goinG on everyW here and In the name of
science and of civilization. How many men.
women and children have Z seen succumb
to treatment and operations that the poor
apes had survived. owing 20 their healthier,
more rational mode OF livinGi
Darwinism r. gone out OF fashion. Now
we have developed new fsdS thar shall be
believed and NeBerated. disbelieved and
FORGOTTEN. and esol has drop OF truth In o.
that will perhaps remain TO M the cup Of
knowledge. I Learned all about Romulus
and RemuS and their mother and the kind
she wolf who brought them up. Nous
avon~ change tout celia said Moliere' =
peasant. the msdsciH malor6 hi. after
somebody had politely remarked tn him
that the heart was TO the left and the liver
10 the right when he had emitted tho con-
trsry ubiQustion OF these organs
As every good Russian princess, Z had
been taught that belonged To one OF the
thirty flour prtncely families Who descended
from hurtk. and I had to learn the tort Of
Nestor. the old monk who lived In the
catacomhs OF Kief and wrote IN the year
=. y. iee1. III our land the people ws.s
all qUarreiling they sent messenger 20
the Vsress with the following message:
Our land Il great and fertile. hut there -
M order therein. send ~ princes who shall
reign over u.s. And the varegz sent prtncs-
Rurik and Siaevs aud Truvor. and the Lars.
vas div ided, &C.
We therefore held up or noses a. high
~ they ,Ould conveniently be held lpl
The teHt has been revised by modern
historians. by GeTman sayants ,GermAns
like to put their noaes into eveTythingl and
the new reading runs and the
NAreas sent Prince TuhTig uRd seine ge-
Teusn Prime Active and his true Onesl--
we have no articles In Russian. and ue hold
uD our noses a. high as before j6st bscssss
We are In the habit Of doing 80
And how many doubts swaited mo in
Rome