CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

THE SET OF CHINA By Eliza Leslie

SUPPRESSED CHAPTERS [1] By Carolyn Wells Zenobia, they tell us,

OLD GRIMES By Albert Gorton Greene Old Grimes is dead, that

MISS LEGION By Bert Leston Taylor She is hotfoot after

HAVE YOU SEEN THE LADY? By John Philip Sousa "Have I told you

THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW By James Whitcomb Riley 'Twas a Funny

MUSICAL REVIEW EXTRAORDINARY By John Phoenix

THE RUNAWAY BOY By James Whitcomb Riley Wunst I sassed my Pa,

THE DRAYMAN By Daniel O'Connell The captain that walks the

BILL'S COURTSHIP By Frank L. Stanton I Bill looked happy as

THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED AN OWL By Anne Virginia Culbertson

MR. DOOLEY ON EXPERT TESTIMONY By Finley Peter Dunne

LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY By John Phoenix Introductory

AT AUNTY'S HOUSE By James Whitcomb Riley One time, when we'z at

WILLY AND THE LADY By Gelett Burgess Leave the lady, Willy, let

THE ITINERANT TINKER By Charles Raymond Macauley

THE STRIKE OF ONE By Elliott Flower

SIMON STARTS IN THE WORLD By J.J. Hooper

A PIANO IN ARKANSAS By Thomas Bangs Thorpe

WHAR DEM SINFUL APPLES GROW By Anne Virginia Culbertson Ol'

A NIGHT IN A ROCKING-CHAIR By Kate Field

ROLLO LEARNING TO PLAY By Robert J. Burdette

MR. HARE TRIES TO GET A WIFE By Anne Virginia Culbertson

THE CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPERS [2] By Elliott Flower Ten

A COMMITTEE FROM KELLY'S By J.V.Z. Belden

QUIT YO' WORRYIN' By Anne Virginia Culbertson Nigger nuver

HER "ANGEL" FATHER [3] By Elliott Flower "My Papa is an angel

ESPECIALLY MEN By George Randolph Chester

A LETTER FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SON By George Horace Lorimer

FAREWELL Provoked by Calverley's "Forever" By Bert Leston

MY RUTHERS By James Whitcomb Riley

THE DUTIFUL MARINER [4] By Wallace Irwin 'Twas off the Eastern

MELINDA'S HUMOROUS STORY By May McHenry

ABOU BEN BUTLER By John Paul Abou, Ben Butler (may his tribe be

LATTER-DAY WARNINGS By Oliver Wendell Holmes When legislators

IT PAYS TO BE HAPPY [5] By Tom Masson She is so gay, so very

THE MOSQUITO By William Cullen Bryant

"TIDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-BUM! BUM!" By Wilbur D. Nesbit When

MY FIRST CIGAR By Robert J. Burdette 'Twas just behind the

A BULLY BOAT AND A BRAG CAPTAIN A Story of Steamboat Life on the Mississippi By Sol Smith

FOOTNOTES:

Title: Evolution An Investigation and a Critique

Author: Theodore Graebner

Language: English

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E-text prepared by Kurt A. T. Bodling, formerly Director of Library Services at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, USA

EVOLUTION.

An Investigation and a Criticism

by

TH. GRAEBNER,
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.

Milwaukee, Wis. Northwestern Publishing House, 1921.

Species tot sunt, quot diversas formas ab initio produxit Infinitum Ens. Linne.

To the Memory of my teacher (New Ulm, 1892) John Schaller Educator,
Theologian, Student of Science these chapters are dedicated by The
Author