The first is that he is getting blacker in the face every day, which suggests that there is in him somewhere a strain of the AEthiopian, none of which he gets from me or his grandmother, who was an Albino.

And the second is that his father will not allow him to be spanked, a very strange inhibition, I think, unless that operation would disclose the boy's possession of the Missing Link.

Indeed, I should not be at all surprised to discover that the lad is either an AEthiopian, or a direct descendant of Adam's old friend and neighbor, Col.

Darwin J.Simian, of Coacoa-on-Nut.

In all of my reflections on the subject of the training of the young, manual training has always seemed to me the most efficacious, especially if in applying the hand you do not restrain its force, and are not loath to use the hair-brush or a good leathern trunk-strap as an auxiliary.