teen years of age. Her absence was noticed, and a searching party of natives went to look for her; everywhere that anyone could be located. The search was fruitless. The girl returned later with her story of her capture by the gorilla. She said he carried her many miles far into the jungles, away from any possible discovery by any of the tribesmen. She said he was kind to her. That they moved every day; that at night the gorilla would build a rude hut for protection by gathering boughs and palms. He would gather food for meals. Yet they kept moving constantly. One day they came upon a large snake. He beat it to death with a club. One day while following the edge of a stream, they came upon a crocodile. The gorilla was amusing himself by breaking the legs of the crocodile, by pressing them across its back. While he was thus amusing himself the girl started for home in all possible haste. She had kept the direction of her home in mind and she lost no time in widening the distance between her captor and herself. Through thorns, over rocks, through tangled brush, she traveled as fast as her strength would let her go. The sun was going down as she was making the last lap for home. She gained her home and nearly exhausted-she fell in the rude hut of her parents.

A watch was kept for the return of the gorilla. They had not many days to wait. He appeared on the edge of the forest and was killed by the hunters. He yet longed for his common

law wife and would have carried her away again had he captured her. He possibly had reckoned on having trouble with her parents, so took her to a safe distance as he thought. She was not happy and longed for home. The scientist would not call this reason, for it was an animal that has not been accredited with reason-so instinct was all the gorilla could have had.

History tells of a great warrior that took a wife from a lot of prisoners that he had taken in battle. While he was away at battle some one stole away his bride. He lamented over the loss; the great wrong done him, and it was this, I presume, where the quotation, "man's inhumanity to man makes countless legions

It is a noticeable fact that as animals stand erect, that the degree of intelligence is in proportion to the perpendicular standing of the animal. The horizontal must be raised to the perpendicular," the man is the crowning victory of reason.

If one will take a bar of iron two feet or more in length and stand it up or suspend it by a cord and place a small pocket compass to the iron bar, that the bottom of the bar will be indicated to be the south, that is the south point of the compass needle will cling to the lower end of the bar, and as the compass is slowly raised and the center of the bar reached, the needle of the compass will slowly turn about, and when the equator, or center is pass

ed and the top approached, the north point of the needle will cling to the top of the needle. Is it that man is thus polarized? It he a north and south pole magnet. When the queen of Sheba came up from the south, and when Solomon showed her the secret passages to the temple that it referred to the polarization of man? What is in the economy of man that he must thus stand erect and that a snake is cursed and must crawl on its belly?

No sane man denies the law of evolution. Darwin has lost out on the theory of the survival of the fittest.

W. Hanna Thompson in "What is Physical Life," said, “opinions the world over have little connection with evidenee, so that many of them have instead geographical boundaries. This of itself, is enough, for reason as such has no more connection with geography than with meterorology. Opinions, on the other hand, come usually from the interest engendered by circumstances, such as birth-place, inheritance, historical influences, party or sect. One would not expect that a native of New England and a native of China would have any opinions in common. And so the great conflicts of history were not settled by reasoning. One such conflict lately occurred in America, in which two branches of the same race, one as well equipped. with reasoning power as the other, entertained such opposite opinions, according to the side of the Mason and Dixon's geographical lines,

that finally their opinions were settled-not by argument-but by powder and ball."

Flakes of Gold.

In early childhood, while living on the plain,
In a sluggish stream I found flakes of gold.
The gold was not plentiful-was hard to find;
The flakes came from the mountains, I was
told.

The time seemed to drag, wore slowly on;
My thoughts were constantly of the West-
I longed to go for an abundant supply

Of wealth, that I might be rich at last.

With that thought in view, I started West,
Leaving the valley of golden grain;
And by slow marches reached the foot hills;
Keeping ever in view the richer gain,

As I journeyed, the mountains came in view;
The snow-capped peaks reaching the sky.
In the streams I found nuggets of gold,
And gems in the gravel deposits near by.

As I toiled up the mountain's side,

The scenery became beautiful and grand.
I met many returning, faint and weary
From efforts to gain the enchanted land.

Others were returning with rich treasure,
Going back to their old native land;
Bidding farewell to the mountain-forever,
And to the delights of that fairy land.

CHAPTER IX.

Compensation.

It is asserted, by one school of metaphysics, that there is nothing in the law of inheritance or hereditary gifts. Possibly this may be true in the broadest sense; but after ages of reasoning from cause to effect, we have become set in that belief and cannot depart from that idea. We have been instructed that to raise a child properly we should begin with it's grand par

ents.

In the history of the children of Israel, we find them rebelling against the guidance of the teachers refusing to be guided by reason. When Joshua lead the hosts across the river Jordan, there became the same want of faithful following after the counsel of the leaders and the destiny of that race had been written in dark colors; they were lost and no trace of the fost tribes is known in all the earth.

There lived two farmers adjoining, a wagon road divided their farms. They were well equipped with all that could go to make farm life happy and prosperous, and the broad fields of each told of their earnest labors. One had five boys and one girl. There was a want of due affection on the part of the husband and wife; the wife stood apart from her husband in supposed rank and station in life. The chil