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spade. preparing the ground to install
fountain which is now dedicated to ST.
Joseph. Their rifles lay at hand in readi-
ness for the ver-present dangers of the
bush.
There arose. in a small plantation near
by, the rOars and screams that told of sud
den battle. The clergymen snatched up
their guns and hurried to the scene.
"A gorilla and a chimpanzee were fight
ing, like two boxers, among the banana
plants. The noise of their blows sounded
like the roll of beaten drums.
While the missionaries gazed, the
gorilla's spirit weakened. He began to give
ground. The chimpanzee, with the air of
a man who is not content with simply
defeating an adversary, followed him. foot
by foot. still administering punishment.
The gorilla, a hulking giant beside the
slender chimpanzee, fought back, but now
only half heartedly, though 10th to suf
fer more, but equally reluctant to admit
complete defeat
After few Of these rallies. the goril-
las nerve broke and he tried to make speed
away. The chimpanzee swung a heavy
hand on him and clawed him until the
gorilla turned again and tried to fight back.
little contests, outpointing him at every
turn until at length the edge of the bush
afforded the gorilla his opportunity for a
dash into its depths to safety. The Chin
panzee halted, gazed after him in sort
of amused contempt, and leisurely departed.
That was undoubtedly an unavoidable
encounter, a meeting by mutual surprise
from which the gorilla's innate pride would
of
a fight. 1t was one that seldom occurs,
for the substantial reason that the gorilla
habitually endeavors to see the chimpanzee
filst and quits the dangerous neighborhood
as fast as he can. l have come across beds
in the bush, still warm from the bodies of
the gorillas that had lain in them over
night and, aroused by the voices of chin
psnzees at dawn, fed hastily and afsr,
although the gorilla is a sluggard who will
quit his bed for no other animal under the
sun.
'The social conditions of the jungle
may be defined, briefly, thus: Between
gorilla and chimpanzee there is hereditary
feud, with survival Of both species prac-
ticables through the discretion of the gorilla,
Between gorilla. and man there is like
feud, tempered by a certain discretion on
TUG part VI Sne soKhia elnce nreAfms maze
their appearance in the African interior
Between man and the ehimpanzee there
prevails certain tolerance, with the chin
panzee capable of adapting himself, once
made captive, in a marvellous manner to
the life and habits of mankind where the
gorilla remains forever untamable and
murderous. But between the leopard on
the one hand and man, chimpanzee and
gorilla on the other, there prevails q
quenchless hatred, the sating of which only
man, exercising the prudence born Of his
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Bald ehmpanzee, In
powerful Of all animals

champions in any conflict with gorilla OK
chimpanzee. To quote him verbatim:
II was on an expedition from the coast
Of the French Congo to the Esyira country,
some $50 miles inland, on the chance OF
finding companion for Susie. had many
friends among the African chiefs along the
route. 1 held none in higher regard than
Maguanga, of the otombi. I was shocked
on nearing his village, to learn that he had
been killed by a gorilla, the third man to
perish by gorillas Of the vicinity within q
few months. His son, on whom the indirect
responsibility for Maguanga's awful fate
rested. told me the appalling details.
The son owned gun, proud posses
sion among the natives Of the interior.
Hunting in the bush he came upon q 60.
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De merely plaything in the grasp of either
animal.
Both gorilla, and chimpanzee, lined up
against Jefries or Willard, would be
rated as deceiying antagonists. The 60
rilla, always walking, stopped because Of
the high ridge of bone surmounting the
spine at the base of the neck, stands no
more than Eve to five and one half feet in
height and appears to be all paunch and
hairy arms. Strengthened out, as many
specimens have been after death, the actual
length runs close to six feet and the shoulders
are seen to be twice as broad as a mans,
The weight averages from 800 to $50 pounds,
the largest gorilla ever slain having weighed
400 pounds.
The chimpanzee, shorter by half head
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and nearly 30 per cent less in weight, IL
much slighter in the body and longer IN
the legs. He might be regarded as the Bob
Fitzsimmons Of the fighting anthropoids.
where the gorilla is a combination Of
Jeffries and John L. Sullivan. Physically
and in physique only, for their skin,
strength and endurance remain to be dem
onstrated-the parallels for the coming in
ternational contest would liken Carpenter
to the chimpapzee. Dempsey to the gorilla.
The one man now alive who knows most
intimately the animals of the African jungle
is Richard L. Garner, student Of animal
speech. who brought to this country from
the French Congo the famous chimpanzee
Susie, very good friend Of mine before
she entered the University of Pennsylya-
mia and later the Bronx Zoo. In many talks
about the fighting qualities of the great apes
of Africa, Mr.. Garner made clear what
would happen to the mightiest of human
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bare knuckles against either of them?"
The answer, to be scientifically true,
however painful it may be to mans conceit,
is this:
EmbOdy in one man the size of Willard,
the fighting fury of Sullivan, the lightning
adroitness of Corbett, the terrific punch of
Fitzsimmons, the strength of Mike Dorizas
and the wrestling skill of Frank Gotch;
put him in the ring with any ordinary
gorilla. and he would have no more chance
Of victory than a child against a grown
man.
Incidentally, he would be stone dead dur
ing the first round unless rescued by his
seconds, and the seconds would be stone
dead, too, unless they used explosive bull
lets on the gorilla.
An acquaintance with African explorers,
ranging from the late Paul du Chaillu,
the discoverer Of the gorilla, to Richard
Garner, the special student of the chin
panzee, together with some near observa-
tion of the great apes themselves, has left
me convinced that this opinion is an under
statement rather than an exaggeration.
And it is among the least surprising of
the actual facts regarding the fighting
qualities Of all these ''lower animals''-as
they are classified by the species that has
vaunted its combativeness among its high
est virtues from time immemoriaI on m
to the close of the latest great world war.
Terrible as is the gorilla, the champion-
ship Of the jungle is not for him. II roes
to the chimpaazee, in proportion to his
weight.
Destructive as are the blows of the
modern boxer, murderous as were those of
the ancients re-enforced with the metal
cestus, neither prizefghter nor gladiator
has ever developed, or has ever possessed
the power to develop the human hand as a
weapon along the lines of its true often
sive as it Is employed by every child and
almost every woman.
There is an astonishing similarity-al-
most an identity-of method between the
blows delivered by such great apes as the
gorilla and chimpanzee and those used BY
the very young of the human species, more
especially the females.
THE angry child strikes with the butt of
! the opened hand-the true gorilla and
chimpanzee blow, an atavism barking back
to the origin Of the race that perfects itself
rapidly in the case Of the girl and the woman
into the clawing slap. 1t constitutes one
Of the most conspicuous evidences of the
scientific thesis that, where the male prin-
eiple carries the initiative Of the future. the
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rilla. fired at and hit him with the one
bullet Of his old muzzle loader. and fed
back to the village. A hunt was promptly
organized, all the fighting men of the dis
trict nrming themselves and arriving at
the spot where the wounded gorilla was
hiding. deploying as beaters, their chief,
Maguanga, at the middle of the line.
Il remembered Maguanga well-a giant
of a man, six feet two in height, built like
an OK, supple as a panther, in the prime of
his strength, a veteran hunter. He car
ried q weapon ideal for such an encounter,
a long, keen knife lashed fast to a heavy.
seasoned stick three feet in length.
Alert. every muscle tense, his stabbing
spear held in instant readiness for the death
stroke. Maguanga was within a yard of a
tree when, from behind it. the wounded
gorilla sprang to the attack. Magunaga.
wholly in readiness. drove' his knife blade
straight at the broad, black chest.
ut was a lightning thrust, downward,
with all the force of a powerful, practiced
arm. Yet before the knife point touched him
the gorilla had wrenched the spear from the
hunters grasp, seized him by the ankle
with a prehensile foot, and in the act Of
dragging him to earth struck him on the
thigh a fail-like, clawing blow that
stripped off every vestige Of flesh from the
BONE Another blow, as Maguanga reached
the ground, disemboweled him. Before the
nearest warrior could reach his side the
gorilla had disappeared in, the bush.
.'That incident, think answers the
question whether the man has ever been
horn who, unarmed, could defeat a gorilla
in open combat. Every, advantage lay with
my friend Maguanga-the gorilla was even
seriously wounded. The issue Of any such
encounter would resolve itself into the sim
nile matter of coordination between brain
and body. Mans reaction is absolutely toe
slow to have the slightest chance against
the unbelievable quickness of the ape.
ssx1ET the gorilla, powerful and quick as
i he is, invariably proves. inferior as a
fighter to the smaller, less heavily. thewed
chimpanzee. More than that, he knows it
and for all his ferocious courage avoids bat
tie whenever his self-respect can be pre-.
served from the appearance Of cowardice.
"This may seem strange language to apply
to an ape. But my observation, extending
over the ownership of nine gorillas and
similar relations with many chimpanzees,
has enabled me to discern in them prac-
tically all the moral attributes We are prone
to ascribe exclusively to man-some Of those
attributes highly developed, others more or
less rudimentary. As an instance:
"I planted the first Of the steel cages I
used for my studies of animal speech in q
jungle in Odimba, near the grounds of St.
Anne's Mission, in Fernan yaz. Ny friend:
Pere Buleon, was at work beside another
priest Of the mission with mattock and
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WILLIAMSVILLE

c. II. Styles has finished work for the
West River Basket 90. and has gone to
Brattloboro to work.
Rev L. L. Gates Will give an illustTat-
ed lecture on South America III the Meth
odist church Sunday evening
Mrs. c. A. t. Goodwin If Brattlebaro
is a guest this week Of Mrs l. w WI
Hams Mr.. Goodwin is here doing elcc-
trical work.
Mrs. Fred NJ. Chase returned Saturday
20 her home in Revere. Mass. after 2
weeks visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. c. X. Lewis 81 East
Mortified, Mass, are spending the wecl.
with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. lew
is. Mr.. and Mrs. p G. Thatcher. who
were guests there last week, went sat
urday to Concord, \. H.
T. H. Gray Of Easthampton. Mass.
has bought 4. +. Halladay's farm in the
Parish The sale was made through tho
T. A. Strout Farm Agency by tie locaI
agent. l.. W. .Iackman. Mr.. Gray and two
sons were in town the first OF the week
Last week Mr. Jackman sold Bert
Rhoades's farm in Newfane to Mrs Lii
liam Edwards OF Fitchburg. Mass
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Today S Events

Centenary Of the birth OF James r.
Graves, a prominent leader in the acti-
vities of the Baptist denomination.
Democrats Of Alabama are to meet in
state convention today to select their
delegates to the national convention.
The Democratic territorial convention
Of the Philippines will be held at Manila
today for the choice Of delegates to the
national convention.
Prominent speakers are to be heard at
the annual banquet to be given by the
National Democratic Club in New York
city tonight in celebration of the l77tl
anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jeffer
son.
Sir Auckland Geddes, the new British
Ambassador to the United States. anC
Lady Geddes, viii sail from England o,
the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria today 70
New York,
\ commission Of representative Amer
can business men and iinanciers, heade,
by Frank A. Nanderlip, is to sail fror
Seattle today for Japan, on mission t
| promote 4 better mutual understandin
between the two countries.
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In the Days News.

Hampson. Gary, who has been nomi-
mated by President Wilson to he United
States Minister to Switzerland, has had
several years experience il the diplomatic
service in the post OF agent and consul
general at Cairo, Egypt Mr. Gary IS a
native Of Texas, born at TYLER, that state,
IN 1873. After graduating from the Uni
versity Of Virginia he took UP law as a
profession and was admitted 10 the bar In
1924 lie has also had experience as a
banker He early identified himself with
the Democratic party, was elected 70 tie
Texas legislature, and served for some
years as a member Of the state Demo
cratic executives committee Of Texas
He first became connected with the de
partmcnt Of state in 1914 when he wa,
appointed special counsel Shortly after
wards he was made assistant solicitor q
the department, and the Egyptian appoint
ment followed.
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OF investment 1t gives information
about mortgages, stocks, bonds, etc.
The Modern Bank, by Amos Kidder
Fisk
:" A description of its functions and
methods and a brief account Of the de-
velopment and present systems of
ton which includes a new chapter on
the Federal Reserve System.
Budget Making in Democracy, by Ed
ward Augustus Fitzpatrick.
The author considers the budget not
as an incidental thing to government,
Il mere matter of finance and figures.
but OF prime Importance to the health,
education and welfare of the citizeI,S
It is well written for the average IN
dividual who docs not have a techni-
cal knowledge of political science.
General Methods of Teaching in Ele-
mentarv Schools, by Samuel Ches-
ter Parker.
This book has much to offer any ele-
mentarv teacher in pointing clear aims
Of instruction. Based largely on work
done at the elementary school at the
University of Chicago-its distinctive
features are the application of pupils
lessons to social needs and to reality,
the emphasis on individual capacity
and expressive work, and a basis Of
experimental psychology and business
! like management. For the first SIX
grades.
AUGMENTATION and Citizenship, by
Hanson Hart Webster
1 =
and National Ideals for New Ameri
cans Sub title). 1t contains an ex
cellent selection Of patriotic article.
designed to instill admiration and r.
| spect for this country III the heart o.
the foreigner.
The Girl and Her Job. by Hoerle.
For suggesting the vast number o
| possibilities open to girls, their require
ments. difficulties and rewards. This /
a useful prevocational book for teach
CT Of girls, and for the girls themselves
in upper grades of high school age.
In connection with this one shoul
read Vocational Civics. by Frederic
; Mayor Giles and Imogene kean Giles
A study of Occupations as Back
ground for the consideration Of Lii
Career (sub- titlel For Young pee
pie of high school age 1t describe
: government service. agriculture, foI
: estry, mining. transportation and bank
ing, manufacturing and the buildin
trades, the professions II dressmakins
millinery, and many other occupation
and industries.
| Philosophy of Conflict, by Havelock
, Ellis.
Deals with the problems of soci;
evolution which the war has brougl
f into prominence, the psychology of IL
0 sexes, eugenicS and also contains
number Of chapters on purely literar
2 topics
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Tcday's Anniversaries.

l71S-William Hazlitt, eminent English
critic and author, born Died III
London, Sept Is, 1890
l785- Hortense &c Beauharnais. mother Of
Napoleon III. born in Paris Died
IN Arcnberg, Switzerland, Oct 3,
1897.
iS45-Fire in Pittsburgh DESTROYED 1000
buildings and caused property loss
Of s6,0O0000
1913 William Quarter, first Catholic bis
hop nj Chicago, died in Chicago
Born in Ireland, Jan q. 1906
lS63-Salah Bush Lincoln, stcp-mother oi
Abraham Lincoln died Born il
Kentucky about 1855
1883 Precautionary Of Hugo Grotius
Dutch jurist, celebrated al Delft
lseo-'New Tipperary' a collection o.
cottages for evicted tenants in Ire
land, was opened.
1925 American Line steamship St -au
was launched at Philadelphia.
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Library News

These books on sociology and related
subjects have been recently added TO
the library:
Man to Man, by John Leitch.
The author propounds a solution of
the labor problem which he has put into
successful operation in over twenty
industrial plants. It is well deserving
of consideration by every industrial
executive. \ very interesting book
even to those who are not well informed
on the subject.
In this connection it is interesting
to read Winston Churchill's play DR..
Jonathan, an entertaining study of in
dustrial democracy in New England
town.
Creative Impulse in Industry, by Helen
Marot.
The book is the result of a survey
made for the bureau of educational ex
periments and the final chapter de
scribes a plan for education in cooper
ative productions which is now being
tried ont. One review says it is boob
for educators, for employment manag
ers, for all those who admit that thu
psychology Of the worker is the really
vital factor in the all important ques
tion of labor efficiency.
Law and the Family, by Robert Grant
In series of essays, Woman an,
Property; The Thirdl Generation ant
Invested Property, Perils of Will Max
| ing; Feminism in Fiction and Rea
Life; Domestic Relations and the child
The Limits of Feminine Independence
and Marriage and Divorce, judge o
the probate court tells his reader
what he knows of the law as it stand
with regard to these subjects and Wha
the actual practice is in the courts a
illustrated by individual cases.
stabilizing the Dollar, by Irwin
Fisher.
The writer believes that tn
" shrunken dollar is at the bottom o
the high cost of living and suggests
remedy. The book is well arranged fo
summary or detailed reading and cor
tains documents and an annotated bill
, biography.
, Putnam IS Investment Handbook, b
: Atwood.
: Is a simple book on the principle
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nomination is notable chiefly
for his outspoken opposition to the
Sheppard amendment to the federal
and the Volstead enforce.
ment act. Those who consider this q
state issue of sufficient Importance to
overshadow all other issues viii doubt
less give him their support. We have
an idea, however that a majority of
the Republicans of Vermont will see
that the prohibition issue is one which
the state has ceased to have voice
except through its representatives in
congress, and viii wisely decide to
choose as their candidate fer governor
man who not only holds sound views
on state questions but possesses the
tact, acquaintance and ability to get
those views enacted into law. Nothing
that has thus far developed in the cam
paign has altered our conviction thai
Frederick H. Babbitt best measures W
to these qualifications.
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nv milk so I started 10 give him two
bottle feelings day. After taking
three bottles Of lydia 2. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound ] felt ike new
woman. full Of life and energy. 1t IS 3
pleasure TO care for my children and
am very happy with then ard feel fine:
! nursed my baby exclusively again and
cant say too much for your medieine.'
Mrs. A. J. MILLER, $500 7. path St,
Minneapolis, Aiinn.
Since We guarantee thai al testi-
monials which We publish a~' genuine,
is it not fair B suppose that j lydia F..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound his the
virtue to help this woman ii Will help
any other woman who Is suffering n ?
/ ike manner!
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Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.
The Park Ave. News.

Weather Continuous
EXter! Pubs Simkins Living in Hopes,
Pubs Simllinses father and mother are
tawting about buying patent dish wash
ing masheen, which if they do Puds wont
half to dry them eny more, so every time
he sees a Advertisement for one in the
paper or enywares he cuts it out and
hands it to his father, witch he has handed
him Is allreaddy and is living in hopes
Music Notes Lew Davis found a 2nd
hand mouth organ in the street last
Wepsday and gave himself lessins on it
till his mother found out ware it came
frum and took it away frum him on ac-
count of the germs in it, Lew Davis say.
ing he hasent felt envy biting him Vet.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Practice Makes Pcrfeek
He packed his. new sootcase careilly
Saying, 20 well, wat do | care2
I'm ony doing this for pratice,
| aint going enyware.
Sissicty Last Satidday diffent mem
bers Of sissiety was comparing the diff
trent time they was born at, Mr.. LEROY
Shooster being the luckiest on account Of
being born at halve past Jest in time
for suppir. and Mr.. Benny Potts beinc
the unluckiest on account OF being bour
Satidday mite Jest in time 70 take a bath
Lost and Found Lost. paper ha.
containing 4 chocklits. Finder can keel
bag.
Found. Nuthing.
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Eugen D'Albcrt, celebrated pianist and
composer, born III Glasgow, Scotland Sc
years ago today.
George Arliss one of the foremost actors
OF the English-speaking stage, born in
London, . years ago today.
Henry r. Fletcher. late United States
Ambassador to Mexico, born at Green
Castle. Pa. A. years ago today
Purley A. Baker, gecIal superintendent
Of the Anti-Saloon League Of America
born il Jackson County, Ohio, g year.
ago today.
Robert Hunter, noted sociologist and
onc-time Socialist candidate for governor
OF Connecticut born at Teue H1we, Ind
10 years ago today
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Agan S Platform.
Burlington Free Press.

The Hon Frank w Agans platform
appears in our news columns this morn
ing. Mr.. Agan stands among other things
for the right of every state to admins
ter It's own internal affairs, and against
the federal prohibition amendment, as
well as the N+olstead act of enforcement
II Vermont We're TO stand strictly on it's
own bottom and be a wet" oasis, while
the rest of the country was dry. mani
testify it would be necessary to establish
breweries and distilleries in Vermont in
order to be absolutely independent III
our own internal affairs, for we have
neither OF these sacred institutions rep
resentmg individual liberty" at present
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A Gutter.
Rutland Herald.

No announcement from Senator Villas
of Burlington having been made in regard
to runnig for lieutenant governor, it
might fairly be presumed that the sen
ators recent marriage has given him
other things to think OF He might para
phrase scriptua excuse thus; Il have
married wife and therefore / cannot
run