Year: 1877

about 10 arouse him to realizing sense of his responsibility. At last the old Rip Van Winkle came 10 hls senses aud un- folded his tale. He had been In Q fair way of development, had come through all the changes from chaos, and had just emerged from the tadpole state (and that was the reason why he was still Il little tender and had 10 sit down carefully, and was hopefully looking forward To higher life, when he unfortunately got stuck in the mud, and his development was arrested. The mud gradually hard ened around him into stone, and in the course of ages he became embedded in solid rock, and had thus been put back in the march of improvement some mil. lions of years and he enyiously alluded to his twin brother tadpoIe, who kicked off his caudal appendage the same time he did, but whose development had not been checked. He went on to perfec- ton, and became the honored sire of the scientific Darwins and Huxleys of the presen! age.

 His frogship spoke with difficulty and evidently on an empty stomach, not hay. ing tasted food for ages. He was dis gusted with he way things turned out with him and regarded life as failure. As he closed geam of hope seemed to light up his coupenance. He said he might yet in the course of ages become the father of race of scientists that will discount his brothers posterity and throw their philosophy into the shade, and he looked over his shoulder and winked at his scientific audience, and remarked that every frog must have his day. And he hobbled off 10 some safe retreat for undisturbed meditation, and to wait for something to turn up.

 Our. scientists clipped out the hole where the frog had lain and saved 1t

 They examined it spht strata and noted the wrinkles, counting first from the earth's surface downwards, and then from chaos upwards, and from the rent each way, and then proved it by the prophets stone. They they made cure | ful mathematical calculation based upon these data and demonstrated that it is one hundred and seventy-six millions seven hundred and sixtyseven thousand years since this layer began to harden. AS his frogshir and his brother, the ances- tor of the present race, had just then shed the tadpole and taken to themselves legs it is clear that they had discovered the time when the first step was taken in the great races.

 With an enlhus iasm born of success our explorers now nervously grasped the

 prophets stone, the marvellous scientific

 key, and eagerly plunged again into the

 bowels of the earth and thrust around in

 formation of later date, and with un'

 paralleled success. Uncapping a cave

 they surprised the great ancestor just al

 the time when he had struggled through

 his lower life and graduated complete

 man. He seemed quite embarrassed and

 looked worried and fsligued, and deci

 dedly primitive, as if he had had llarl

 struggle of it and barely pulled through

 He was rough and unpublished, but h.

 bore himself proudly erect and apolo

 gised for his uneou,h appearance. H.

 stated that he had recently had a fall

 and received considerable injury, iron

 which he was still suffering. He said h.

 had seen better days. (This was human.

 He had been living, sole lord and master r on fine estate with beautiful gardens : and magnificent parks, and murmurini

 fountains that played increasingly ant

 mingled their gentle music with the mu

 sic of the zephyrs that were waited ove the enchanted scene Birds of gorgeou : plumage and heavenly song continual poured forth their lays. The atmosphere !, rich and mellow with the golden light q the fegiving sun, was ever laden wit

 the sweet perfume of flowers of ever , hue. Breathing was a luxury and ever } breath pledge of immortality. For lime he tried to solve the problem of Tiff alone in this garden f sweets. One ev' ming as he fell into gentle sleep. ju! 3 as the sun was giving the groves uf pa adse it's last gliding touches and sprinl E ling gold in the blue of the skies e'er Il 2 stars came out, an angel left the poT;s g of Heaven, for the gates of Heaven we , always open then. and came where f was sweetly dreaming and gently smo 6 him and cleft his side, and immediate '- there sprang out from his side new b N ing, and waking he found compsniC s so like the angel that flew from the gai e of Heaven that he knew not whether !, was new creature, or whether the a E. gel had remained. And he called h l. Eve because of the beautiful eyenir e season in which she was given to hin It ('Gas," suggested our skeptics, in e whispered 'aside'D Fora brief seasc l. their happiness was perfect, They re Y elled in heaven sent delights; their lab n was mere pastiIns; theiI food fruit fro