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Boston Traveler Claims to Have Discovered Darwin's Ape Man.

Charles J. Frewen of Boston, an extensive traveler, is an ardent believe in the theory of Darwin. Recent investigations on his part in Africa have convinced him that men originally sprang from what is now known as the ape. He is registered at the Windsor and is on his way to the Phillippines to study the natives of that archipelago and the conditions under which they live. He says:

"I have just come from Africa, where I studied all types of human beings. Some of the negroes there are very akin to the ape. They dwell in the Congo forests of central Africa in the western section. These ape-like people do not seem to dwell in organized communities, but hang about the edges of the forest. They speak a sort of dialect that is of the most crude form. Some of them are not really black, but have a skin of dirty yellowish-brown hue. Their bodies are covered over with a yellow down. Their intellect is not developed and their morals are on a parallel with those of the lower animals.

"Human instinct are prominent, of course, as they are human, but their stage of development is so low that they border on the edge of the brute world. It seems, however, that as time advanced that these primitive people have intermingled with superior tribes and, where intellectual advancement has been attained, the characteristics of these apelike people will crop out a following generations.

"Where or not this section of Africa is the cradle of the human race I am not prepared to say. Certain it is, however that these primitive people are the nearest to the ape of any on earth." – Denver News.

--The Sioux County Bee, Rock Valley, Iowa, June 26, 1903, page 1 (doesn't actually look like a page 1.)

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Lecturing at the Royal institution on the retardation of the earth's motion, Prof. George H. Darwin said the time would come when the length of a day would be prolonged to fifty-five of the present days -- "a very leisurely age to live in," he interpolated -- and when the moon's journey around the earth would occupy fifty-five days.

--The Racine Journal, Racine, Wisconsin, July 14, 1903, page 7.