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Show UTAH, FRIDAY, CITY, LAKE SALT REPUBLICAN, INTER-MOUNTAIN THE 12, 1909. FEBRUARY WHY and L L¥COL? _ horn the | ZPWLROSE ALLTFCOA RUSSCL Wal laece LE2ZEC 2 re £82 L2IC LILO ATOZ Mat galebda Ds gpm: ARE % L228 CPEZAS AZZ const, spiders were captured ao mille from shore, salling on little br ‘ their own ail The great carthquake Concepcion, in Chili, too place nst heart, Infinite patience, devotion herole cournge, dauntiess battle mate victory! CAA70%eEF LAP WIPO that when God crented animals, and e Adam named them in tho Garden ¢ Eden, thelr characters had been eternally fixed. How could an elephant be evolved from an ant or a racehorse from a tortolse? to truth, and nit!- What Darwin Proved Darwin, who had been ridiculed and deNow the great achievement of Darwtu nounced all the latter years of bis lifo | lay tn his demonstration that such had as the ‘‘Monkey Man," was buried !n | actually been the process of nature. By X | | - ie by of ran . natural selection, the fittest,' In the ee ss = ally changing He showed the canses | @xlstence."" Thus, by way of Silustra- | selecting the Albinos, produced the snowy | that operate to produce these changes; | tion, the giraffe has a long neck, because | white polar bear. This explains why back of them all the great Initlal law of it feeds upon the tender folinge of the desert animals are mostly yellow like Natural Selection mimosa. The longest-neck Individuals of | the sand; why many butterfiles are like ‘ | ‘ ‘ s When a dog-fancler sets about to pro- | ®2ch generation had the best chance to | the flowers they frequent; it is a key to } wrote nearly a score of volumes based | upon personal painstaking research. His Wonderful Patience. parents with breeding for best-winded tion of bis character. He would watch | for hours the movements of vine tendrils, | study for years the habits of earthworms sclentists, and even ‘thoctontaba began to few years ago symposium walks was the ‘Outlook' from most peibtihed eminent of life, giving the what important men book ip each of process al! | nine- | tificial but another, It one of dog, will be the greatest fleetness the animals are produce dog selection, the through the selects several fleet-footed fancier desires, guided {ts | ®Urvive, care. If he fs | most agile and chosen. This | by buman spe- ore, om another or was thought | fantalls, frillbacks and because and food by the ‘"‘sur"struggle for wns within easler Teach, and also because from thelr living conning tower they could observe the apProach of enemies more rendily The gen- | Sborter-necked eration Ar- | ‘mine Inte}- | |.ligence, can thus produce infinite yarieties of forms. From the original jungle fow! all our known varieties of chickens were evolved. om the original blue rock pigeon came = the countless varie. ties-tumblers uters, carriers, capu- ight produce new | chins, mto breed of selection, erations, thought | deep-lunged the teenth century, Nine out of ten put "The Origin of the Species" first on the | list. This book, published in 1859, electrified | science, It had been a dogma that the | species of animals and plants are immut- | mak a new does vival were or Pivora. individuals far to Thns, more fall with a of likely prey each each to fierce the seeking | Darwin | had proving out more to the a Scientist . these wonderful them thousands was fallen of by of bits bitterly lot of any dis- | seneragion bad}a better Deed, artificin} | upon thelr showed, | chance of evidence, | a by better dual of scientist be- | of orthodoxy. But the Darwin incidents illustrate storm blew over. The became a synonym of pince than | bis represented and maligned by mistaken de- | of steallng | fenders prey unobserved and escaping detection Many to Inaboriously | jn his fower of assniled | Deck of the giraffe became longer and} fore, Not even Galileo wns thus reviled | | /onger, until the animal we know was | and ridiculed. Bruno, burned at the | y | ¢¥o!ved. stake, bad fewer detractors and foes. | Protective coloration is another ae From cartoonists to bishops, everybody | | t®0t factor. Why {s the polar bear | («ok s fing at the Monkey Man. He | | White? Because, ving amid and | was called Atheist ond Anti-Christ, mis- | hundreds | !ce, the light-colored individuals of each ; What the breeder does by selection, Nature, as Darwin coveries, to car- | passed only by his reverence for troth. the darker-colored | And perbaps never was asenanint = to survive; Nature, personified than ifn this invalid, who mystertes. Martyrdom ; And for making | | gen- | perish to generation | innumerable Thus, likely me honor. b on of of his pots, tola told 7 and devyo- A fleld at Down, after voyage ‘Beagle,' life perseverance residence five-year the the : are was returning around the before Darwin t rea thought. While Darwin was Iving here he re ceived a letter from Alfred Russel W: lace, a young naturalist then away In the Malay Islands, with an article em ing the very theory on which Darwin | for years been laboring In secret. D win, with supreme unselfishness, fo warded the article to Lyell for the Li nean Soclety, and but for bis friends' In tervention Wallace would now be koov as the discoverer of the theory o covered with er of chalk and permitted years before he dug Into Humboldt and the encouragement of Professor Henslow, of Cambridge, who ommended him as naturalist to the com- | } } The voyage a lay- | of the Bengle ts told the of ur Haeckel are linked pions vindles itors today dominates ever All the world will celebra 1a® of Websonee: ha. echtens da ° ebruary, i@ ecentena In | wiy's one of the most Interesting travel books ever written. The trople life of Brazil, the treeless pampas of Argentina, the gla- bi8 | ofal from both hit upon the eame great troth about the samé -thet rh aaien indisgolubly Hnked. -{t s | | mander of the Beagle expedition, who | very nearly rejected him because he did not like the shape of bis nose, : : Five Years Around the World, wilds record world | young of of Patagonia, the Sonth America to He over 20 Galapagos, It to discover | Australia. thelr the revealed to secrets. Beagle Polynesia, New Everywhere this PACTS the OfBctal From | went to ame that the | AND statistics ‘Dp that i alst FIGURES. {ssued 9,927 20d Zealand and | Columbus of ( day to the world the other great eman or and martyr, Abrabam Lincolu > + = the rock-written Andes-all naturalist birth--on gaye cipat in t° evade¢ a As rench 0 for Wagales = * ep 7 show condemned punished » Berlin } attenDals BOFVIC re ce trams v our what change had been wrought by the ac- | gefence discovered new worlds with bis te thé people of ‘thowe far- away ies tion of earthworms. How many scien- | microscope; the coral reefs told him the were well scqoalnted with oe necessily tists could walt placidly for 20 years to | tale of their laborious building, forests of | for sterilizing drinking wate jearn the result of an experiment? stone whispered the mysteries of ancient For use oo rural deileees routes a During the whole crulge of the "Bea- | ,* he suffered severely from oceans. One time sensick- | rounded ss, b*t kept at his whrk nevertheless, Admiral Stokes bas tol@ how, after per- their sbi pred OM Gt by a cloud of butterfifes, extend- | which ing as hoppers s came the ere could reach, grassaboard 3870 miles from any gives the atte Se the houses some distance aWay when mall bas beer deposited by the carrier alarm ip matter } ( J aS Tire RELICS <a [Wraw AND Ly Weel Lor LAW CCE ‘ 1a as Sp SEs D, nA LE AALS oS "a - fee Ie Ltt x Dl? L009 LOSE OL? LF OSL MOPBE LP P2CCLI2 LUP $L2€ KCLEASC OL CP 00K WHO LAP DCC 72 i LPALCEL, LOR ELC A PLL INN \ LLP SE MEV2 [2 CP COLX. WiLC OL_LIPCOL?2F lighter LOQMZOLS IOZ ae Zins "ing a | | ---- | own enemies. | bears were less -_-__-______. covered the key to inorganic matter; the | other to the vefled portal of life Itself. y time oe died his theory | Evolution was Tally accepted by | to revelation or destructive of religion. He was acclaimed as the greatest a lishman of the olneteenth century. oa publication of his ‘'Life and {t also became knowo what a simple and sweet character had days point. Thus Darwi th dunce ecatae great naturalist. On bis return to \ land he married bla cousin, Emma Weer wood, and settled at Down, a quiet 1 filage in Kent, where be wro tl en trorks that have made him famou 1 revolutionized the whole of bun marked the great scientist. His home l!fe | theology. That he became neither doetue tion. As was, the two men, workiuz |} was Ideally bappy. His modesty was sur- | Dor preacher was due to his reading of | and thinking along Independent lines, b a thousand upon facts, that species see that it was not ip any sense inimical | duce concurrent proofs-he relied not eloquence- he showed do change and are continu- the grandly Westminster Abbey when be died. HI! | graye, by design, is only a few feet from | that of Sir Isaac Newton. Tho one dis- of 4 ‘| Wo HARLES DARWIN was born on the same day of the samo year as Abraham Linecolo - February 12, 1809, just a bumdred years ago. It is one of the most remarkable conjunctions of all history-the emancipator of a mce and the liberator of thought ushered into the world together. One is almost persoaded that there must be something in astrology, a8 one compares the character and destiny of these two great men- akin In so many ways, in kindness of few haps an hour's application, he would say: take the horizontal! "Old fellow, I must the best relief from for it,"' that being ont on would stretch ship motion He one and side of the table for some time resume his Inbors when he felt a little to combetter All bis life long he bad bat more serious disease In the aame way. Apparently bis genius was, Indeed, the outcome of his "infinite capacity for taking pains."" He was considered dunce a at school. His father once told him he would be "a disgrace to yourself and all your famlly."" He was also quite gullible Once bim a youthful comrade told he could get cakes without money n tain bakeshop by moving his hat in co rtain Darwin way tried it, and rowly escaped the wrath of the baker. He was destined at drat for the tlee of medicine, then for the stu the keyThe Darwinian theory became A phalanx stone of all scientific thought Spencer, of great thinkers-Herbert Haeckel Thomas Henry Huxley, Ernest up arms and Alfred Russel Wallace-took against bigotry and ignorance, Gradually the truth prevailed, as meu saw it was not a question of Moses versus Darwin, of science versus religion; but simply a new and wonderful addition to man's knowledge of God's eternal law. Canon Forror was one of the pallbearers at Darwin's funeral, James Russell Lowell, at the time tho American ambassador to England, was another All the world volted jn mourning and praising the man it langbed at and decried a few DAPFWI? 8 L7HLEC BE LOW Of Chr? ery Hegoes me COLPCER,gy patiently CAl Wit? I2 CF C0. 0 F the men Abraham now living who Lincoln personally and knew intt- mately, none can rival Col. William H. Crook in the possession of vivid and anique recollection of the martyr president. Colopel Crook was the bodyguard of Pree!dent Lincoln during the most interesting period of Lincoln's life, and naturally he came more closely and continuously in contact with the great American Colonel Crook ts now in his sixty-nintn year and was thus little more than 20 years of age when the Civil War broke out. At 21 he enlisted In the Union Army and served for some time In the ranks. At the expiration of his enlistment he sered a ition on the police force at od national lhl It woe e eligible the goara to the Piesiécat a rotation of service Elphonso ander Dunn, Smith-al, also detailed the president, stances Croo elated witb oth and war president Jobo long In order to enable three other men, Parker since and dead, Alex- to act as spe clal guards for but i vaiek various circumcloser asseLincoln than any of the wi the company of the on a: the most loterestiug vecasiong of is Jat by thus that he position of soap. er. Poszibly tho paleo attention ng mig Lincoln upon Crook was due in rt 7 AEPZEBH? LIEOCOT L9ORW" T7072 EL22 LCTFCTELOL? OF L229 ALL DOLV GULP L ot least to the fnct that this particular bodyguard was comparatively young aot as he himself now confesses, had thing of attitude of a bashful sboy toward the tall President. Lincoln did everything in bis power to put protector at bis ease, ond in thelr waiks to and from the White House kept up a rupning fire of conversation panion, relates the topic discussed concerned the possibility of an attempt on the part of any person to do harm to the President A circumstance that contributed to the lutimacy Colonel Crook varlable practice of haying his bodyguard walk by bin side Instead of some distance in Lis rear-after the fashion of an ormerly & has been the custom o resident ee and other receot chief mwagistra Linco gl never liked the iden o clous White House escape from grounds, a bullet and fred o ot very carrow him as he to each protestant the that frequently he could bear the great mon sigh or moan in his sleep after a day of wousual anguish and anxiety. Occasionally be would have to nwake the sleeper to dellver some ‘Smportant teleeee COPPA gram, but Crook decinres that Lincoln 2" KMALOASL FAWCSIS } never displayed any irritation at such Interruptions. He tells, too, of one occasion when entering the President's room in response to the usual "Come in," he Dight, often remaining until long atter | to find Lincolo busily enoperators at their ; was surprised midnight beside gaged in sewing a button on bis trousers. keys. Colonel Crook's recollection of the | Just repairing damages,"' explained the President on these night pligrimages to| droll chief magistrate, with a half smile. the news center preseuts an unusuul picColonel Crook was frequently called upoo ture of the mighty Lincoln-the tall figto act as messenger between Mrs. Lincoln ure striding beside him in the gloom, in the private apartments at the White wrapped In the rough gray shaw! be InHouse and the President in his private vorlably wore og guch night expeditions, oflice, and these interchanges gaye bim and with bis tall beaver hat emphasizing an Siluminating fosight into the bumor enormous height. Witbal, Liucolo's Lincoln found in yielding to the petty kindliness of heart shone throvgb his tyrannies of his wife. Once when his was driving In the outskirts of Wasbingpreoccupation, for occasionally be would spouse had sent for him repeatedly and ton, he finally did consent to special prodraw his bodyguard to big side and walk evidently to the Hmit of her patience to some paces hand in band or arm {to arm tective measures, but he insisted that no accompany her op a promised drive, Linpublic announcement should be made rewith the younger man ecoln arose from his desk with a resizned garding these precautioos; that the guards It fell to the lot of Colonel Crook, expression, but with a merry twinkle io shoul] wear plain clothes instead of unlim his coreer under to inaugu his eyes, and remarked to Crook: ** forms, aud that the guard who what bas since an invariable guess I would better go. panied him on his walks about the "‘eap!the White House-that against Lincoln's fondness for Crook waa probtal should ever remain at his aside permitting guests at the White House reably partly attributable to the fact that after the fashion of personal friend, ceptions to enter the resence of Crook and little Tad Lincoln, the apple and with no suggestion of that protection, President clad in voluminous cloaks or of the President's eye, were fast friends other garments readily conhich was obnoxious to Lincoln, because Incidentally, it may be mentioned policeit seemed an admission of lack ot conficeal weapons car: men seem to possess an especial fasclunTrying his haods dence In the people of the countr tion for the young sons of our presidents. thrust deep into the pocket of an overColonel Crook declares that vc gained Readers of the pewspapers may remember coat would be permitted to approach the perhaps his best tosight Into the genthat during the early days of the Roose President, but ontil the latter part of nature of velt administration the then very onthe the Liscoln administration such precauful Quentin and Archle were the ata tlong had oot been dreamed of. On the Lincoln to the War Depertmest In those luseparable compcoions of certain bluenight on which Colonel Crook first put days, be it explained, ther no telethe Innovation into practice be encouncoats on duty at the White House graph and telephone station in the White tered some vigorous protests from some grounds. Tad neoln was 10 years old House, such os there is today, and the of the White House guests, notably tic at the time of Colonel Crook's first recolPresident, when he wished to get, fresh famous Kate Chase Sprague, who entered lection of him and the veteran White from the wires, the latest news from the wearing a wrap that completely bid her House employe adds his testimony to that front, bad to go to the War Department dress, but the young and rather nervous of other intimates of Lincoln In the deéceae w here the telegraph office was locate This Lincoln did almost every bodyguard kept his temper, and when he | laration the enad-faced President's = than did any otber individual, At the time he was A young man, obeervant and keenly recepUve of impressions . Fortunately there. bas also been an opportunity for Lincoln's bodyguard to supplement bis close-range lrst impressions with an estimate of Lincoln formed from the vantage of greater perspective and rendered convincing by eomparison with other Presidents. The lutter has been posi osslble because Colone! Crook has been continuously an employe of the White House from the days of Lincolon to om present time. Indeed, January of S yenr marked the completion of his ‘tordtaoutin year in the White Tlouse. explained reason for the new rule he succeeded is inducing them all to comply, How intimate was Crook's association with Lincoln will be the better underrt when it is explained that at night he en moods were in no wise so pleas- provost marshal general when Crook and other his bodyguard, Alexander Smith were drafted for service in the Army. Che President wrote that he could no spore thes® men and asked the offictr above-mentioned "please fix' the maf fer, This precious bit of paper reposed guard Crook, made frequent visits to a for years in the War files, quaint little toy shop, still In existence, Department a couple of blocks from the White House, but when Robert T, Lincoln, son of the and there {n bis rare Intervala of lelsure martyr President was Secretary of Wa! sought new playthings for the little lad be gave {t to bis father's old guard. Anwho occupled tbe largest place tn bis other of Colone) Crook's is a souvenirs - mahogany cane made from the rail rook, who had been on duty with the Linthe little spiral stairway whereby Sresiduhe all day, did not accompany coln reached bis office and which bas coln to Ford's Theater the night of the long since been torn down. assassination, He alwnys refers to his ab- } Colonel Crook has some almost price sence with a certain regret, for he had a | ot his own for guarding |x i specimens of the ehina service whi special system ire, Lincoln selected for the White Hous: tbe Chief Magistrate on such publie aparances, and he Crook which Colonel declares t is convinced to this | end day that if he had been at his usual a | bave been more beautiful tb in any tion at the door of the President's ware purebased before or since | Booth would never have -- the Presidential table | on There is There would seem to be some und for dalnty cup and saucer and a plate whl Crook's confidence, for the Sods cuaee did | Lineoln used all ornamented by th frustrate the plans of a n who sought maroon band and the to gain audience with Lincoln during the | broad eagle Ai latter's famous visit to City Point, and coat of arms tn colors, Old photographs who, when refused admission, made of Lincoln, ineluding the favorite or threats against the President. At the of the President, with Tad and other me time the man gave the name of Smith, mentoes, Also bave place In the hom but Crook has alwuys been confident that presided over by Colonel = ind it was other than the notorious second wife, who was Mrs Clare Robes Surrat, 1 whose appearance Priddy, when Colonel Crook married be: mal conditions through olne yenrs 0, having lived In the same county fo MaryOne possession of Colonel Crook': land before the war. which, though not a relle of the Lincol: After the death of Linco!n Colonel Crook erie y 16 +} accompanied Mrs, Lincoln to Chicago, ‘and Polin' which ac "Bae "Bie Ingly disclosed as when he romped up and down the long upper corridor of the White House with Tad, playicg all sorte of juvenile games, It was for Tad's sake, too, that Lincoln. accompanied by body- later returned to the White 5. te as the | Bull, Colonel Crook ison * fier," he Stalled him in a arbauuae Harkahio at 4 a oe ante and he bas indulges the White House, and he continued !n t le plays entire! I et Bete awit this cnpacity during the forepart of the | ae a note éf meal butt meves having Grant regime. In 1876 Grant appointed ceptional talent M o pre = Crook acting secretary to the President, business ts not ae a ear oy and in March, 1877, appointed bim dls. House oang the officioa preming bursing officer of the White Bouts. fa | | dente on duty atat .the-: the Whit Pres which position he bas continued ever | br tal | appeal to Colonel Crook since, having lo the aggregate expended hundreds of thousands of dollars for the maintenauce of the presidential establishmént. Crook's home {no the clty of Washington is ‘fled with relics and mementoes of Lincoln and other Presidents. Probably the most prized of all the keepsakes is o card Lincoln's aa ae ae which the President addressed to : y telephone at bis bome he: wil {u response to thetr entreaties, be kep playing far into the night while eaci member of the White House staff. a tele phone a er Las bis ear, enjoys the lousisa istauce cone | &® A Union Pacific lareidinn bas equippe locomotive with wireless telegrapby, tu enable touch train with dispatchers trains whieb It to hauls keep iu |