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‘•Wlier»!!Soevcr tUe Ku<in*»liNt turns his eye, life or the germ of life lies spread before hiiii.”--Uuiiiholdt. 
Single Copy, CHARLES P. GUELF, 50 Cents per 
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VOL. II. BROCKPORT, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1886. NO. 4. 
The Zoologist’s Wooing. 
When first I saw you. Eland deer, 
My Hart it did repine, 
Because I Gnu how good you were, 
And wished that you Ermine. 
When I your Tapir fingers dressed. 
Upon that eve in May, 
The glance you gave me Seal-ed m}' fate, 
And I’m still yours to-day. 
I’ll never break Ape art the Lynx 
That bind my Hart to thine. 
Till I shall Lion my last couch 
And in my grave recline. 
Gaze, Eland deer, upon me now! 
(That’s Civet pleases you), 
One glance from your bright eyes will light 
This Mole-dering fire a-Gnu. 
And if it is for Porcupine, 
Though it should ruin me. 
I’ll bring as many Hamster you 
As one could wish to see. 
But then, of course, weak Antelope, 
For that would be a Boar, 
But we can stay right here Rat home. 
And I’ll never leave you Mohr. 
—Hoosier Naturalist. 
EVOLUTION; 
ITS PHASES, THEORIES AND RELATION TO 
RELIGION AND MODERN SCIENCE- 
BY “FRANCIS. ” 
f ^RY to evade it as we will, do our 
best to escape the discussion,there 
is one question that must sooner or 
later be met, and that question is as 
regards the theory of Evolution. 
Ever since science first began to re¬ 
veal itself there has been a long andbit- 
ter struggle between it and the Bible; 
and now,although all the ancient points 
of dispute have been settled, and al¬ 
though it has been proved to the entire 
satisfaction of both scientists and the- 
ologists that science has thus far fully 
corrobated the Bible, yet in this strug¬ 
gle with this comparatively recent the¬ 
ory, the old warfare has been renewed 
with increased vigor. Ministers, even, 
will stand up in their pulpits and 
preach Evolution at the expense of the 
Bible; nay, some ev^n go so far as to 
renounce the Bible entirely, so blinded 
and infatuated have they become with 
their new hypothesis. 
With a foe like this, and this appar¬ 
ently is a foe, it is indeed time that 
churches should be waking up to the 
clanger that threatens them, and in 
truth they are. But let us see if this 
theory is as much of an enemy to re¬ 
ligion as it appears. If it is, then 
3 ’oung scientists are placed in a very 
dangerous situation; they cannot help 
seeing and hearing more or less of this 
controvers}", and if they are to be 
taught that one must be true to the ex¬ 
clusion of the other, then it is very ob¬ 
vious that the Bible is in great danger 
of being overthrown, with an adversary 
as powerful as science. 
But science is by no means an adver¬ 
sary of the Bible and religion; quite 
the contraiy, the two should go hand 
in hand, and I am going to make a very 
bold statement, and am prepared to 
