=... Aug. 7 "The Missing Link." 'lo the Editor of the Sranparp. Dear Sir.-- An article on the- "miss-- ing link" having recently appeared in the Toronto Daily News, will you kind- ly allow the followtng reply to it ? Another of those scientific repres- entatives of infidelity as voiced in the Toronto News, speaks of a surgeon, who is stationed withthe Dutch army in the island of Java, having just dis- covered, and beyonda doubt, the "missing link" between man and the monkey ; andnot in the form of a liv- ing. animal, bunt of petrified bones! Professor Marsh the author of the article, as quoted from the American Journal of Science, doesn't seem to ap- prehend the most obvious fact that if a developed and a developing '*link" really exist, it should, nay, must be a iiving one, and that, if true, there must be a universal and constant pro- cess of development, and, approxima- tion of the one form or species of ani- mal being to the other, going on in all parts of the world where such ani- mals are found. Both the ape and the man are living animals, and so must be the creature connection between them ifthereisany. A "'link" that is deve- loping into man and, is nevertheless, as was this fossil, dead and extinct, is absurd ; and the man that doesn't see it isa living development of human stupidity. This great discovery, whichis spoken of as being very important, consists, it appears, of apart ofa petrified skull and a few animal bones discovered and picked up at different times and at con- siderable distances apart ; and <alto- gether, if the missing bones could but be discovered somewhere it is thought they would constitute what they scien- tifically recognize as the "missing link." A wonderful discovery, truly! and still more wonderful the gentlemen who so highly appreciate it ! We would suggest thatit might be time those infidel wiseacres to be looking around also for an evoived "link" that-has developed a little beyond man, and that shall serve to connect him with"an order of evolutionised beings that is still higher in the seale of being than himself. But where shall they go to look for it ? Among living beings, of oo1.. e ; but shall the prototype, or this prodigy of evolution, be furnished by the Old or New world ? And who shall be ap- pointed to go asa research party ? What school of science will be likely to:'farnish the most intelligent-and re- liable discoverers in that line ? If one, there ought of course to be ahost of such living "links" discoverable. I presume, however, that the report of such scien- tifie gentlemen after making diligent search wonld be: We think on the whole, that the research had better be deferred toa distant age, and then, no doubt, it will be discovered by intelli- gent scientific explorers embedded in a petrified form some wherein the earth's strata. And if body, bones and skull have to be unearthed in different parts of any particular region, in order to now for scientific of them--thgf would be distinctively ape and irrational. creatures _ still. Every living creature after its kind entering life, lives but a short time and then dies the same creature that it lived. So it has been, and so it will ever be. The only "development" observable isin the direction of san improvement of the faculties possessed by each ; as, for example, in the scien- tific fool there may be a development leading to still greater folly. It is time, then, for men who think them- selves intelligent to give up all this twaddle and nonsense that they write relgtive to 'the missing fink ;" for sensible people well understand that the only "link" that is "mismng" is in the cerebrum, and the only way to "discover" it would be by a scieutific and phrenological aualysis of said gentlemen's craniums. Yours truly, In the interests of Science, E. Srerxens. 47 KILLED AND 44INJUR- A Reading Express Crashes Into a West Jersey Excur- sion Train. . A TERRIBLE WRECK RESULTS--THE BOIL- ER OF ONE OF THE LOCOMOTIVES EXPLODES, SCALDING MANY OF THE INJURED TO DEATH. Atlantic City, N. ¥., July 30.--A terrible railroad catastrophe occurred about two miles out of this city short- ly after 6.30 o'clock this evening, re- sulting inthe death of forty-two peo- ple so far as can now be learned, and the wounding of thirty others. * A train left here consisting of seven cars over the West Jersey R. R. bear- ing a special excursion of Red Men and their friends of Ridgetown, N. J., and Salem, and had reached the crossing of the Reading R. R., when it was struck by the 5.40 down express from Philadelphia, demolishing two cars and telescoping two following. The engine of the Reading train became a total wreck, killing the engineer and fatal- ly wounding the fireman, and the car behind it also was thrown from the track and many of the occupants killed or injured. The responsibility for the collision has not yet been placed, but Wm. Thurlow, the operator at the block tower situated at the crossing, has been apestee by order of the coro- er. Leaving this city the tracks of the West Jersey road run parallel to those of the Camden and Atlantic until after they cross the draw-bridge, when they switch of the south crossing the Read- ing road atan obtuse angle. John Creiner, the engineer of the West Jersey train, saw the Reading train approaching the crossing at a swift speed, but as the signals were open for him to proceed on his way, he con- tinued. His engine had barely clear- ed the tracks of the Reading, when the locomotive of the latter train, which the completion of the evolutionised skeleton, they will havea precedent for their scientific determination in the scientific records of the year of our Lord 1896! Some of us will think, however, that the ape remains distine- tively ape through the ages, and that man remains man without evolutionary or scientific change. Ifthis evolutionary correct one, living apes the world over theory were a would as a matter of course still be developing into what they call the "missing link," manifesting manifold stages of development, not excepting its final passage from the ape to the man, with, at least in embryo, all the characteristics as to language, reason, a moral sense, capacity for rationai in- tercourse, the acquirement of general knowledge, ke. This would uecessari- ly be everywhere apparent, and every- where to be scen where such creatures exist. But whoever saw such since time began to be, either in reference to the transition stages' of theape or of man ? _Notone. The idea is there- fore a myth, and the conception of it, in the face of ages of observation to the contrary, an absurdity. Take an 'infant from among the most intelligent and barbarous tribe of hu- man beings in existence, aad in twenty years yon may edueate him into a ci- vilized, christianized, anda more or jess refined human intelligence. But tuke a baby monkey, ourangoutang, or other of the ape tribe, and what can you make of it? You may teach it tricks, &c., by its faculty of imitation ; but this no more approximates it to, or identifies it with, the hnman than does the teaching of sych and suchlike things to « pig, a horse, an elephant, &c. Thence the marked diftinction be- tween the two ; and if you were to adda million years to the instruction of these creatures, it is all that you could make left Philadelphia at 5.40 p. m., struck the first car fall in the centre, throw- ing it far off the track into a near-by ditch and completely submerging it. The second car of the West Jersey train was also carried into the ditch, the third and fourth cars being telescoped. The engine of the Reading train was thrown on the other side of the track, carrying with it the first coach. A few moments after the collision, to add to the horror of the situation, the boiler of the Reading locomotive exploded, scalding and casting its boiling spray over many of the injured passengers. several to death As soonas the news reached this city thousands of peuple flocked to the scene. The road leading to the place of the collision was a constant procession of hacks, 'busses and bi- thousands of pedestrians hurried a- long the path to render what assistance they could or to satisfy their curios- ity. Darkness fell quickly, and the work of rescning the injured and the dead bodies was carried out under the lurid glare of huge bonfires. It was a grue- some sight presented to on-lookers as the mangled and burnt forms of the dead were carried from the wreckage which bound them and Inid side by side on the gravel bank near the track, with no other pall thau a few newspapers gathered from the on-lookers. They were quickly gathered together and carried by train and wagon to the Atlantic City' hospital, where six of them died shogtly after their 'arrival. The old excursion hotel house at the foot issi avenue ted intoa morgne, and hither the dead were taken. At a late hour this evening there were 29 bodies laid out there, none of whom are as yet identified. cycles, and all kinds of vehicles, while" pital, as well as the roafl Jeading to the scene of the accident, being packed with people anxious to Jearn the latest news. The Bridgetown and Salem excursionists who eseaped injury were brought back to this city and sent home ona special train several hours later in the evening. 47 DEAD AND 44 INJURED. Atlantic City, N. J., July 31.--Asa result of the collision last evening be- tween the Reading R. R. express from Philadelphia and the Bridgetown ex- cursion train, 47 people are dead, and 44 are lying in the hospital here, more or less seriously hurt, Of the injured in the hospital several are expected to die. Besides those seriously enough hurt to be in the hospital, a score or more of people were bruised and shak- enup. The fearful shock of the col- lision isillustrated by the fact that of the 47 dead 42 were killed out-right. Of the dead 42 have been identified, and the bodies of three women, one man anda boy are awaiting claimants. The responsibility for the accident is hard to place at this time, but the burden of it seems to rest upon the dead engineer of the Reading train, Edward Farr, though an official in- vestigation may clear his name. About the Army Worm. The army worm is from one to one and a half inches long. It has asmooth skin, varying in color between a dark brown and blue, with a lighter stripe on each side. It possesses eight legs and an enormous pair of pincers, Men who are wise in the habits of the army worm assert that the aggregation of wrigglers does not move so long as food can be had without migration. But as each individual member of the army basa tremendous appetite, visible supply of food soon becomes a thing that was, and then the army must forage. When ready to move some signal that all seem to understand is given. Observers say that simultaneously they all raise there heads and wag solemnly to and fro. Thenthey begin a march that does not end until morefood is sec- ured. When they start to move the worms seem v0 have some definite ob- ject in view, and they always move to the soutbeast. _ _ The army worm'is a species of cater- . it depos- |, ane a night fiyiog moth. Like the moth, the caterpillar prefers the night for labor and ordinarily remains quiet during the day. The hot sun is dis- tasteful to the worms, and they die if exposed to it for 'a considerable time. The moth that lays the eggsis nearly one inch loug and is one and three quarters from tip to tip of wing. The eggs are deposited in rows of from fifteen to thirty near the roots of grass and grain where they will be protected. More than 700 eggs have been found in the body of a moth when dissected. So earnestly does a female work while laying eggs that she dies after two nights of hard labor. The worms hatch a week or ten days after the eggs are laid, the time depending on the chmate. When their lives as cater- pillars are ended they burrow into the ground and remain their until spring, when they emerge es moths to lay eggs to produce more worms. The army worm has appeared eimost every year, according to the United States bureau ofagriculture. Only oc- casionally, however, have they been numerous enough to do serious damage to crops. In 1876 the entire west, was over-ran with the pest. So numerous were they that they stopped railway trains. They crawled on the tracks in such numbers that the wheels of the locomotives were unable to obtain a x stip on the rails. "They have alow order of laidTtigunce. When they encounter a tree they do not go around. They climb up one side and down the other. As they move from two to six rods an hour, they often lose considerable time, but they do not mindgha they appar- ently get much enjoyment out of the knowledge that they have gone straight ahead and have not been turned aside by obstacles. Fpeaching A good preacher can do much to add to the pleasure and satisfaction 'of our lives by discoursing in an intelligent, graceful way. There is an art in preachixig, which all of us have seen at times, and the right kind of preach- ing does much to make. the world brighter, happier and better, and makes us all better satisfied with ourselves, but preaching is 8 vain and futile thing, 'anless it can succeed in* establishing belief in the aesurrection of the Chaist. --Rey. M. B. Wharton, Norfolk, Va. the. Dr. Barnardo's Work. It isidle to attempt to describe all that Dr. Barnardo has done and is at- tempting to do. He is acenter of spiritual, social, intellectual activity, perpetually in motion.. He began by caring only for the saving of the city arab ; he: now finds the whole social problem onhis hands. He is facing the whole vast complicated congeries of difficulties which baffle churches and governments, and facing them also with marvelous success. Round his Homes have grown _up a_ veritable church militant, the most amazing oc- topus ofour time. Nothing that is human is aliento Dr. Barnardo. He imports cargoes of timber from the forests of Norway, and plants out human seedlings in the prairies of Manitoba. He is surgeon, editor, preacher, teacher, jack-of-all-traders, and a past master iu all. One day he brings 3,700 of his children from all his Holmes to the heart of the West End. It is a small army--a larger army than that with which Britain has won many of her most brilliant victories. Under his able direction they concent- rate at the Albert Hall to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales, bring- ing withthem a vast paraphernalia il- lustrative of all their enterprises, their works, and their sports. With a skill the late Sir Augustus Harris could not have excelled, he puts this gigantic troupe through a program lasting nearly four hours, a program that goes without a hitch, that keeps every one from Prince to pressman en- thralled in noflagging interest, and that fascinates and delights every one, with one of the prettiest spectacles ever seen in London. Andthe troupe, what is it? One and all they are children, some mere babies, but all, whether old or young, perishing fragments of ship- wrecked humanity, snatched one by one from the maelstrom of our cities. But for him these little ones would have been in the workhouse, in prison, in the grave, or, the kennel and in the slum, preparing, be- fore they were well in their teens, to perpetuate their kind. And _ then, after having given the world this gi- gantic object-lesson in organized phil- anthropy, the company disperses. The mammoth tronpe of 3,700 silently and swiftly retrace their steps. As was the concentration, so is the dis- tribution. In twelve hours all is over, the Homes are again full of teeming Jife, and not a child has been lost or has even missed-its way.. Those who have attempted to convoy a party of ascore of boys and girls from the circumference to the center of London in mid-season alone can appreciate what was involved in the march of the 3,700 to and from Albert Hall.--From 'Dr. Barnardo, the Father of 'Nobody's Children,' " by W. T. Streap, m August Review of Reviews, worse still, in Whys and Wherefores for Hot Weather DR. 8S. H. PLATT. Because every ounce of fat that eats gives to his system 264 units of heat, and because each onnce of nitrogen and carbohy-drates (sugar and starch) yield but 61 units of heat, therefore the same amount of the fat foods that make him comfortable with the mercury at 30 degrees, will make him very uncom- fortable with the thermometer regis- tering 90 degrees. It will be like building a hot fire and closing all the doors and windows in midsummer. Because the skin exhales so much watery vapor in hot weather, the blood thickens faster and its call for water (thirst) is more frequent and urgent, therefore, much water drinking is sea- sonable ; but because the stomach can only digest when its contents are at about 98 degrees while most of the water used to assuage thirst is from 40 to 50 degrees, therefore, the drinking of a goblet of water about meal time is rendering digestion impracticable until the heat of the body can raise the temperature of the stomach 40 degrees or more, before which time chemical fermentation may set in. Therefore, again, the water drinking of summer should not be lessthan an hour after meals, nor less than 20 minutes before meals, unless its temperature is about blood heat. Because sudden contact of cold with a warm surface only stimulates, while long continued contact first abstracts the heat, the lowers the vitality of that surface, therefore the continued ex- plosure of the chest, arms, side, back, head, etc, to a temperature low enough to abstract the heat, is if prolonged but little, sufficient to devitalize the partand induce nenralyia, lumbago, bronchitis, ca catarrh, rheumatism, etc. Therefore again, beware of the dense shade, the "refreshing" swim until the teeth chatter, the breezy ride without adequate protection, andall other a- greeable exposures that chill the sur- face below its normal condition, ¢ Young trees that will not bear this year, may be in just as great need of spraying as are the older trees. COUGHE, Colds, Sore Throat, Asthma, Gron chitis, and all Lung Troubles are quickly cured by Hagyard's Pectoral Balsam. Joseph Dietrich,jun., of Carric ,was unloading grain when his foot slipped through the rack on the wagon. The limb was broken below the knee, Constipation Curep.--Gents,--I was in very poor health for over four years, the doctors said it was Constipation. jot want" yng to spend too much cash, I got three bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters and took them regularly. Ican certify that I am now in the very best of health and feel very grateful toB. B. B. ALFRED MEkovx, ontreal, Que. Walkerton school board will require $3,- 782,24 for 188 Public school this year. Of this sum the township of Brant contributes 3113.47, or 3 per cent, Mr. Thomas G. Baker, late of the Paris public school staff, bas been appointed principal of the Elmira public school, and will assume his duties after the holidays, TU DESTROY WUHMS and expel them rom childrenoradulte .Dne Lrow's Worm Syrup Wallace--Aae you superstitious ? Ferry--Only reasonably so. If some men I know were to try to borrow $13 of me on Friday I would refuse.--Cincinnati En- quirer. Norway Pine Syrup cures coughs. Norway Pine Syrup cures bronchitis. 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