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THE UPLIFT, PITTSBURG, KANS. nn r-T tii iTiinHi nrirn nsaMHHaMMMMBn LITTLE CHANGE IN MANKIND 1 'fl IM MM I A All! BASEBALL tfitiiftimutftin AFRD-AftflERICAN CULLINGS also at another time served with the Fifth Wisconsin regiment," Mr. Allen pointed with pride to his uniform, musket and other war utensils, and saifthat when he died he will be buried in his full Grand Army uniform. Mr. Allen does no wrork, living on the pension he receives, and he says it is quite enough, even in these hard times.

He has a son and daughter living. Miss Rachel Allen and Jacob Allen. Scifrritst and rSeparation of Races Was. Not Rapid Process. Though it is conceivable that mankind may have spread from a common center over the entire earth in a few thousand years.

Prof. Arthur Keith, in a Birmingham university lecture, has pointed out that the discoveries of the last 50 years clearly indicate that the dispersion separation into widely separated races has not been a rapid The inhabitants of the lower Nile valley, though immigrants have arrived among them, show clearly persistence of the old types for 8,000 years. The permanence of human types has been also shown in America, and a human skeleton of Yansing, found at a depth of 23 feet in a glacial deposit, probafbly dates back 12,000 years. The men of England of 5,000 years ago had the modern stature, with the form of head and strength of muscle of many men of today. Professor Keith declared that his audiences had representatives of the men of the Derbyshire cave, in America the red Indian preserves the form of men who lived before the last glacial invasion, and the predynastic Egyptian survives in tribes on the Red sea.

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Coinage. In the fifteenth century a skilled coiner, of whom there were but few, might be able to turn out by hand fifty or sixty coins a day, a result totally inadequate to cope with the vast quantity of treasure, chiefly silver, that shortly began to arrive from America. To multiply coiners was to multiply forgers, and thus the coining machine became a necessity of state. A laminating mill and screw coining press was invented in Italy, 1547; Spain, 1548; France, 1553; 1561, reign of Elizabeth. After several trials and abandonments the mill and press were established permanently under Charles II, whose golden guineas, struck in' 166,2, were the first regular issues of machine coins made north of the channel.

Biggest Talker in' the British House. At tnxrr? CI arrcr a Via nhonnallnr rtt nivj excne5fuer, is tue greatest taiKer in the British parliament. The chancellor spoke 170 columns of "Hansard," while the prime minister comes sixth down the list with 108 member who asked the most questions was Mr. Fred Hall of Dulwich, who put 359. In one sort of contest Mr.

Will Hall is easily beaten by Mr. Will Thorne, the Socialists. The ordinary rate of speaking is 100 to 150 words a minute. Mr. Will Thorne puts his questions tc the government at the rate of about six hundred w-ords a minute.

Mr. Hall cannot do better than a mere 45v words a minute. Perils of Bathing. "There's nothing I enjoy more thau splashing about in the ocean." "I once got a nasty cut that way." "How did it happen?" "I slapped a tomato can." MESMERIZED A Poisonous Drug Still Freely Used. Many people are brought up to believe that coffee is a necessity of life, and the strong hold that the drug, caffeine, in coffee has on the system makes it hard to loosen its grip even when one realizes its injurious effects.

A lady writes: "I bad used coffee for years; it seemed one of the necessities of life. A few months ago my health, which had been slowly failing, became more impaired, and knew that unless relief came from some source I would soon be a physical wreck. "I was weak and nervous, had sick headaches, no ambition, and felt tired of life. My husband wras also losing his health. He was troubled so much with indigestion that at times he could eat only a few mouthfuls.

"Finally we saw Postum. advertised and bought a package. I folloved directions for making carefully, and added cream, which turned it to the loveliest rich-looking and tasting drink I ever saw served at any table, and we have used Postum ever since. "I gained five pounds in weight in as many wreeks, and now feel well and strong in every respect. My headaches have gone, and I am a new woman.

My husband's indigestion has left him, and he can now eat anything." Name given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: Regular Postum bo well boiled. 13c and 25c packages. Instant Postum is a soluble powder.

A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a. delicious beverage 30c and 50c tins. The cost' per cup of both kinds is about the same. There's a Reason" for Postum. IPJEXD.TECT against the severe win-ter weather the quick changes in temperature, by keeping the system strong and well fortified the blood rich and A very reliable help to this end will be found by taking IHIosfetter's SffiK Mexico's Salt Producing Lake.

Though Mexico offers many wonders for the inspection of the traveler none is more interesting or peculiar than the salt-producing lake near Salinas station, on the Tampico division -of the Mexican Central railway, 72 miles west of San Luis Potosi. It may well be termed a two-story lake, for at times there is a lake of fresh water overlying the salt lake. A water-tight roof of green mud sepearates the fresh from the salt water. For a large part of the year there is no freshwater lake there. The sun licks it up soon after the rainy season is over.

The salt secured from this lake goes all over Mexico. The lake has been worked about sixty-five years. The whole town of 5,000 people makes its living from the salt. The property is owned by a family cr estate, but it is said that not one of the owners has lived there for years. Like Bread on Water.

He I gave a poor man a dollar yesterday and told him to come around and let me know how he was getting on. She That was good of you; like casting your bread upon the waters. He Yes, something like that. Anyway, he came back this morning "soaked." Boston Transcript. No News.

"Did you ask little Jimmy Wombat about the fight over at his house the other night?" "Yes." "And what did you get out of him? "Not very much. His mother is evidently an exceedingly strict tea- son Judge. Up-to-the-Minute. "He has a modern ballroom in every. way.

"That so?" "Yes. The smoking room has been enlarged three times to accommodate the husbands who don't dance the new steps. Cincinnati Enquirer. Her Talent. "Eve was something of a prestidigi tator." "How so?" "When she handed Adam the apple she turned it into a lemon for the race.

A versatile man one who can talk at the right time and keep still when there is nothing to say. Toledo Blade. If it a woman and the shoe fits, she takes it back and exchanges it for a size smaller. An alarm clock always acts up when a man doesn't want to be bothered. Wash day is smile day if you ufc Red Cross Ball Blue, American made, therefore the best made.

Adv. Some men succeed by taking chances with the other fellow's wad. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep It is vitally nec-essary therefore, that you take good care of your skin. ZONA POMADE if used regularly will beautify and preserve your complexion and help you retain the bloom of early youth for many years. Try it for 30 da3'S.

If not more than satisfied you get your money back. 50c at druggists cr mailed direct. Zona Company, Wichita, Kan. DEFIANCE STARCH is constantly growing in favor because it Does Not Stick to the Iron and it will not injure the finest fabric. Foe laundry purposes it has no equaL 16 oz.

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BRUCE COMPANY, 723-25 L.ve Stock Ex. Kansas City, Mo. Carlisle "who' was out' of the world's series, will be back as gfood as ever in the spring, say the bone sharps. Garry Herrmann, of the Cincinnati club, has signed Ivan Olson, infielder, who played last year on the Cleveland American league team. Olson was secured by the waiver route.

If next season is as bad as this year, the major leagues will have to send several food ships to the minors. Ralph Stroud, formerly of Detroit, will be McGraw's addition to the Singers' squad next season. Both Boston teams will train at the same place; are they conspiring to corner the pennant market? Rumors of internal troubles continue to come from Philadelphia concerning Connie Mack's action in cleaning out his star pitchers. James Frank, head of the Michigan league, says the minors are tired of being baseball goats. I PUGILISM California cut out prize fighting by popular vote.

Three world's champions once lived in the same block Frisco. It is libelous to say pugilists cannot earn a living if forced to work. Brad-dock, the English heavy, is cooking spuds for the British troops. In fighting the Germans Georges Carpentier is accused of violating The Hague military rules by using the kidney punch. Pittsburgh will have a commission to govern boxing.

The mayor of Toledo has appointed a commission of five to handle the boxing game in that city. HORSE RACING The change in administration in New York state is apt to give back to Harry S. Nealley his old job of bossing the races at Syracuse. Peter Farren, the three-year-old which Murphy will point for the Chamber of Commerce and other stakes, has been given a record of 2:10. William Russell Allen can put it over on any of the breeders when it comes to statistics.

Horses bred at the Allen farm took part in 577 races this year and won $47,705. Sis Bingen is one of the likely yearlings. By Bingen, she is out of Sis Directum, and recently she trotted a quarter in 0:31, a 2:06 clip, at Lexington. FOOTBALL Brickley ought not complain about losing-his appendix; it probably would have been a leg had he played. The only ones who do not get excited over the discussion of the relative merits of eastern and western football players are the western boys on eastern teams.

By the way, what has become of the old college spirit that scorned to ask or take odds in wagering on its football team? Folwell, coach of Wash and Jeff, who was said to have been offered a position as successor to Gordon Brooke at Penn, states emphatically that he has received' no such offer and that he will prefer to retain his present position. MISCELLANEOUS I i The performance of Parker, the Frisco sprinter, in equaling the 220-yard record, received strong indorse ment for official credit at the A. A. U. meeting.

The Yale bowl is not the one in which the three men set out to sea. Six-day bike racing, tabooed in Elkhart, Waycross, and Kenne-bunk, Maine, is still regarded as a sport on the Isle of Manhattan. It takes something more than war, cholera and the foot-and-mouth disease to squelch wrestlers and six-day bike riders'. Boston has the fastest cinder path in the world. It merely requires a few ten-second men to prove it.

WRESTLING Why is it that city men will make fun of farmers who buy gold bricks and then put up real money to attend a wrestling match? GOLF Captain Anson is now one of the leading instructors in golf in Chicago, And is reported as doing well. Progressive Party Had No Place in American Politics. People Give Their Votes to Leaders Who Make Positive Declarations and Stand Upon a Platform That Can Be Understood. Amos Pinchot, who, with his brother Gifford, was a pioneer of the Pro4 gressive party which endeavored to give Colonel Roosevelt "a third cup of coffee," comes out in a magazine article practically admitting, what everybody knows, that the Progressive party is dead. It is evident that Mr.

Pinchot recognizes as the cause of the collapse the blow-hot-and-blow-cold policy of Colonel Roosevelt. He says: "The Progressive party should either have undertaken to go deeply and intelligently into the causes of the economic trouble which threatens the peace of society, as the liberal parties in England, France and Germany have done, or it should have kept its fingers out of the pie. It did neither. It contented itself with a series of unobjectionable reforms, supposedly adapted to vote getting from all quarters. Carrying a withered and decidedly suspicious looking olive branch to labor and capital, and to democracy and oligarchy alike, it pleaded for universal approval.

This plea was rejected." Americans do not want socialism, if that is what Amos Pinchot has in mind when he refers to the recent trend in England, Germany and France. If they wranted socialism in 1912 they would have voted not for Roosevelt but for Debs. Americans as a race are individualists, and a socialist heaven would be no haven of delight to them. It is because of the Progressive party's tendency to flirt with socialistic propositions and to appeal to envy and throttle enterprise that the voters have turned it down. What Americans of all classes desire is equality of opportunity and equitable common-sense government.

They are going to get what they want if they keep headed the way they were going as indicated in the fall election. Lest We Fcrget. Very little has been said on the subject. But the fact undoubtedly is that the relief given by the Aldrich-Vree-land emergency currency act was one of the most valuable agencies in tiding over the monetary difficulties of the last few months. Congress was so impressed with the need of relief that it amended the act practically remov-ing-all restrictions on the issue of cur rency.

The law in thecriginai forms limited the amount to $500,000,000. The latest statement from the comptroller of the currency shows that during the last three months the emergency currency put out amounted to $377,912,000. Much of this is now being retired, $58,000,000 having been turned in already. Most of the sums retired come from New York, showing that the strain there has relaxed. The 3upply of money for business needs will be increased with the new reserve banks in full operation.

But it is well to remember that the Aldrich-Vreeland measure, passed by the Republican congress, proved a friend in need. Yet it is easy to recall the bitter Democratic criticism with which the act was assailed. Troy (N. Times. Democrats Found Wanting.

All the omens point to Republican success in 191G. Democracy as interpreted and exemplified by President Wilson has not satisfied the country. Its policies have interested the people, but they have not convinced them. The results of the election enforce a fact which many had been in the way of forgetting, namely, that Mr. Wilson is a minority president.

The vote by which he was elected was a minority vote, and now at the first opportunity the country has declared, not for, but against him. Anything like a prudent course on the part of the Republican party between now and 191G will make its success in the next presidential election an absolute assurance. Country Calls Republicans. The returns of the election represent a picture of the Republican forces, long divided, marching to their tents and mobilizing for the great contest of 191C. The mobilization shows that the party, when it is able to call out its reserves, is unconquerable.

This is a fine outlook for the Republicans and for the country. The Democrats have, been tried and found wanting. They have failed to 'give satisfaction and have insisted upon using the powers of office for the perpetration of partisan novelties. The country does not want, has suffered from and will not tolerate the concoctions that the Democrats have prepared for it. Truly a Great "Victory." Secretary Daniels admits that the Republicans have "come back," while I Postmaster-General Burleson speaks of an overwhelming Democratic vie- I tory.

A few more such victories and' the Democratic party will be more than undone it will be annihilated. Crie Tribute That May "Bo Paid. The Baltimore American pays trib-putes to President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. It says: "When it comes to letter-writing and lecturing this ad-j ministration is a great success." Richard Holmes Allen, ninety-nine years old, who was born in Baltimore October 17, 1815, the son of Richard Allen and Jane Wilson, is thought to be the oldest colored man in Boston. He lives at 1 Hope place off North Russell sereet, West end.

"It was only the other day I made up my mind to tell my life story, for I wanted to wait until I was 100 years old, but everybody that comes to see me said I ought to tell it said Mr. Allen, who, in spite of his age, looks well, sleeps well and Is without a pain or ache, except once in a great while when he has a slight attack of rheumatism. Mr. Allen told the Globe reporter all about his war record, as well as his early life when he was very cruelly treated on a farm five miles out from the city of Baltimore. His story is as follows: "My grandfather, grandmother and mother's two sisters were stolen from Africa and brought to Baltimore and sold in the Woodfork jail.

"A sea captain by the name of George Thompson bought them and set my grandfather and grandmother free. My mother's two sisters were in the service of the captain's wife for LS years. "After my mother was set free I was born. My mother bound me to her mistress until I was twenty-one years old. Her mistress' name was Elizabeth Southcomb, and her husband's name was John Plummer Southcomb.

"In 1X24 Captain Southcomb was lost at sea. I was put out with another man named Johnson a white man, of course in 1827. "I endured great hardship while with him, lor he treated me very creully. I stayed with him until 1S35. He often camo home drunk and abused me.

"Once he came home from the city, and being enraged at something that happened to him, he took revenge out of me. This time he locked me up in a smokehouse for an hour. It was in the month of August, and it was the hottest day that summer. "lie made a fire in the smokehouse. He called an old lame man named Stepney and told him I was baking to death in the smokehouse.

Then he opened the door and called for me to come out, but I didn't come out fast enough to please him. "He had an Idea that Mr. Stepney would highly approve of his cruel action of me, but he didn't. Instead. Mr.

Stepney and Johnson got into an argument, Stepney telling him he had no right to treat me in such a cruel manner. Mr. Stepney, as a result of the argument, struck old man Johnson several blows, knocking him down. "I was a small boy when I became free, and started out to make my own living. I have been with all kinds of people in my years, bad and good, with sailors, gamblers, thieves, and have been with the very best people in the world.

"In 18(53 I came to Boston and enlisted to fill up the quota of Ward. six. under John S. Damreil. At that time I served in the Fifth cavalry.

I am a member of Grand Army Post Robert Bell, whose headquarters are on Joy street. "During the Civil war I served in the Bucktail regiment of Pennsylvania under Captain Taylor. I was with my regiment at the battle of Bull Run, 1 During the National Negro Business league convention at Muskogee, it was stated that 2,000,000 Negroes living in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas now have under their control, as owners and renters, about $300,000,000 worth of farm property and own GO, 000 farms, containing 0,000,000 acres of land, with farm property, land, live stock and farming implements worth Eight million of the colored people of the South still live in the country districts, sometimes in the ratio of six or seven to one white man. Steel water mains which have been in constant use at New Bedford, during the last 17 years, have recently been Inspected and show evidence of a life of more than forty-five years before corrosion destroys them. An apple tree owned by S.

W. Alexander of Los Angeles, is exciting interest through the fact that, in the last year, it has had two crops, giving each time a different variety of apple. J. B. Reed of Ithaca asserts he has trained rabbits to dig up, and eat all the weeds 1n his garden without damaging valuable plants.

Two girls in Budapest who had decided to fight a duel over a young man with whom both were in love, have settled the matter by becoming engaged to the two men who volunteered to act as their seconds. The Jordan is the world's most crooked river, wandering 213 miles to cover GU. Almost 8,000 young men and women, including 1,200 Indians, have already gone from Hampton institute into the South and West, equipped in body, mind, and heart to help their race get land; build better homes, schools, and churches; and improve social and economic conditions. Many of the Hampton students have literally reconstructed, in many places, the existing community life and have brought prosperity to men and women by helping them increase their earning power, and showing them how to use to the best advantage the resources at their doors. Hampton institute aims to train Negroes and Indians to earn an honest living and serve unfailingly and unselfishly their respective races.

The best white people throughout the South and West testify that Hampton has realized its aims and that they are firm believers in the value of the so-called Hampton idea of education. Hampton institute has set the pace for that form of vocational education which fits young people to work with skill and persistence, and also gives them a broad and sympathetic outlook on life. For 45 years under the efficient leadership of Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong and Dr.

Hollis B. Frissell, Hampton institute has been training boys and girls for safe and sane leadership in business, in home-building, in improving church, home and social life throughout the South and West J. E. Thompson of Clearview, which is one of several prosperous Negro settlements, represents the idea of big business among Negroes. Thompson controls 5,000 acres of farm land; furnishes employment throughout; the year for many members of his race; grows crops that are worth selling, and brings the market to his products; employs the methods of scientific farming, and preaches the doctrine of keep a-pushing.

The son of a slave woman, be began at the age of thirteen to farm. Today, at the age of fifty-five, Thompson actually owns 1,800 acre3. He raises mules, horses, hogs and cattle. This is in contrast to his condition in 1871, when he stood on the porch of a renter's hovel and, looking longingly with his sister into a garden full of mustard, sighed: "If we only had some meat, we could cook it in plenty of mustard." Logan Morgan, who lives within four miles of Muskogee, finds that no color line is drawn in the market against his 12 and 14-ounce Alberta peaches, which bring $2 a bushel in the orchard. His 21 years of experience in the Southwest have taught him the value of remaining quietly at work and of producing among other crops "peaches that can't be beat." Morgan was married 20 years ago when he had only six bits and an $18 pony.

Now they own 1,400 acres of land. A large, rich deposit of phosphate has been discovered in the valley of the Hausco river, about three hundred miles north of Valparaiso. Government engineers are preparing a report thereon, and it is believed to be of much importance, since the use of phosphate on the farm of Chile is increasing rapidly with good results. A New York homeopath, speaking at the recent convention in Atlantic City, said that conserving the eyesight was a phase of health conservation often overlooked. He said that 50 per cent of the blindness in this country was due to conditions that might have been avoided.

According to figures published by the Monetary Times of Toronto, the sum total of American investments in Canada was $636,901,000 in 1913, as compared with $417,143,000 in 1911, and $279,075,000 in 1909. Eleven surveying parties will be sent out this year by the United States Geological Survey to investigate the mineral resources of Alaska. The "safety first" idea has recently come into general practice on most American roads is an old one in Germany and other European countries where the practice extends to every form of industry as well as the railroads. There are 692 pawnbrokers" shops within a radius of ten miles from the Royal Exchange, London. Egypt is adopting modern agricxil- i tnrnl rmnhiiiprv after usinc'' th mnst primitive binds for thousands of years, i-sold by Grocer..