The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-05-05

Mani" she said passionately.
Man." she repeated over and over
again.
And then the unexpected happened
After innumerable cultural attempts,
her unwilling pupil managed to ar
ticulate something that bore a dis
tinct resemblance to the clearly cut
monosyllable.
Mani" he said at last
1t was tremendous step in evolu-
ton, almost too great for any untu-
tored human brain, for at ohce the
man before her received a name and
the idea of name as well. In that
instant, on the heaven kissed hill,
he was differentiated from all the rest
of creation forever. ills consciousness
hitherto vague, floating, incoherent, in
definite, was localized, given a habita,
ton and a name. He knew himself
in some way to be.
Mani" he cried, growing more and
more confident With every repetition
ap-I ~aore and more P-ccurate in catch
ing IAe very intons tion with which
she spoke.
Mani" he cried, laying his hand
upon his breast. Mani"
He leaped to his feet and stretched
out his arms. The doors were open
little way Ideas were beginning to
edge their way through the crack.
Man! Man! Mani" he cried again
and again, looking eagerly at her.
She rose in turn and patted him on
the shoulder encousagingly as she
might a dog. And again the touch,
the second touch that she had given
him, affected him strangely. so
strangely that for moment she felt
the soul within her shrink, but rGaliE-
ing instantly that her domination over
him was spiritual and immaterial and
that the slightest evidence of timidity
would be translated into universal Ian
guage which even the lowest creation
understands and that her dominion
would go on the instant, she mastered
herself and mastered him. Although
she was but woman whom he might
have broken in his hands, she DOM
mated him as the conscious soul ever
dominates the unconscious soul.
She essayed no more lessons, but
turned and retraced her way to the
shore where she had landed, which
because she had landed there, she
called home. On the way she attempt
ed an experiment. She plucked from
low bush a bright colored fruit OF
whose quality and characteristics she
was ignorant and slowly made as if to
convey it to her lips.
Mani" cried the voice behind her,
uttering its only word.
She turned to find her companion
looking fixedly at her and proffering
other fruit which he had quickly gath
cred. She handed him that she had
plucked in exchange. He shook his
head, not in negation but rather in
bewilderment and threw 1t from him,
and then she understood in some way
that the fruit was not good for food,
How he had OWNED It, she could not
tell. Some compensating instinct,
sharpened by use into a protecting
quality, had taught him. She had no
such instinct. She had learned to de-
pend upon reason end observation,
and these failed her In the presence
of this unknown. She was humbled
a little in this thought
She craved meat and salt, having
been trained to these things, the arti-
fetal diet and stimulaht to which she
had become accustomed, and her crav-
ing was the more insistent because she
had been without them all that time
in the boat. And yet when she had
eaten the fruit that nature had pro-
vided in that tropic idland, her crav-
ing was abated and ske was satisfied.
She felt that she could soon grow ac'
customed to such diet if it were nec'
essary. So musing she passed on un.
der the trees and sat down on the
sand again.
CTo BE CONTINUED)