SUMMER IN A BOG. 49 



conventional designs common to architecture. 

 They were in natural gray, red, and pale green 

 colors. 



"Experimenting, Professor." The young 

 man was somewhat apologetic, yet a tone of 

 satisfaction indicated that he was pleased with 

 the result. 



But my own affairs called upon me to be 

 on my way. Congratulating Mr. Wier upon the 

 success of his artistic designs and the promising 

 field which lay before him for their use, I gath- 

 ered up my portfolio and took leave of my new 

 friends. 



What is more interesting than the road are 

 the people who travel it, even as the houses of 

 the inhabitants predicate a deeper concern than 

 the terminal moraine and the adjacent swamps 

 and fields. All the changes hinted at by geolog- 

 ical discoveries may have preceded the advent 

 of man upon the earth. 



How and where the human race first ap- 

 peared, whether one or several varieties, or 

 whether it is a continuation and higher develop- 

 ment of the animal kingdom, through the ages 

 of invertebrates, fishes, reptiles, birds and mam- 

 malia, there is no satisfactory proof. Scientists 

 present hypotheses on the subject more or less 

 satisfactory — usually less. 



