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AMERICAN ELECTION

ISSUES.

PROHIBITION AND THE LEAGUE-A TIME

OF CHAGS.

another, will also be an issue.

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DUCK'S EGGS.

A PADRE'S CRICKET STORY.

which movement

bill the ball

puzzled

me.

THE CRADLE OF THE

RACE.

THE CHINA MAILA

WIRE THERE TWO SEPARATE ORIGINS OF MANKIND?

The scientific world has been rudely startled by the enunciation of a new theory which threatens to

revolutionize all our present convie tions concerning the first appearance of Man on the earth, says a writer, in John & London's Weekly,

Ethnologists, after quarrelling for a century or two, had come to the final conclusion that mankind had single origin.

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EIGHT THOUSAND BLOOD TESTS. But in the Lancet, two doctors. representing a party of prominent in ternational pathologists, have hurled a bombshell among us. During the war, taking advantage of the assem bly there of an extraordinary and unprecedented variety of races, these pathologists went to Macedonia and made a series of eight thousand blood tests; the subjects being English, French, Italians, Germans, Austrians, Serbs, Greeks, Balgars, Arabs, Turks, Russians, Jews, Malagasies, Negroes from Senegal, Annamese, and

Indians.

These tests, made under conditions which preclude the possibility of error, showed differences between the blood of the different races of such a character as to make it a practical certainty that mankind had two separate sources of origin..

MAN OVER-BOARD.

EXCITING INCIDENT ON »

MAMMAKTUL”

SIR HENRY WICKHAM.

HOW RUBBER GAME KAST.

A COLD PLUNGE,

The story of a`remarkable resent from drowning in the Bay of Biscay is told by à Calcutta resident, who arrived on board the F. & O. steamer

Sir Henry Wickham's personal "Mantua." He says:As the vessel working acquaintance with tropical was steaming through the Bay about American rubber, forests, stretches 10 o'clock one night a passenger back into the sixties, when, to quote accidentally fell over board. An his own words "I was at that time alarm was at once given, and within as one before my time as one a few seconds a life-buoy was thrown crying in the wilderness. Dead. overboard and a boat lowered. The weight of inertia, got to say, opposi vessel made a big circular detour, tion prevailed. The idea of culti and after half an hour's search vating a jungle forest tree' was tpon as not less than discovered the man still swimming, looked He was in a very collapsed condi- visionary. The Association of British on board the Froduce Brokers looked with un- tion when taken "Mantua," but made a complete re friendly eyes upon the notion of covery within a few days. At the cultivating what had come to be time of his rescue the life boat which regarded as one of the staple world- had been lowered was two miles from products.”

Fortunately, says the Times of the spot. Fortunately, the passenger was a strong swimmer and had thus Colon, there was in Sir John Hooker been able to keep himself afloat with of Kew a man who looked upon the out the aid of the life-buoy. When matter in another light. He had taken on board again he stated that been endeavouring to obtain the he was very exhausted and bad al-introduction of the tree into India. most given up all hope of resche Mr. Wickham enlisted his support. when he saw the lights of the Sir Joseph Hooker interested in the "Mantua" and the ship heading subject Sir Clements Markham, then straight for him.

NOT THE WHITE MAN'S BROTHER. It is, of course, pure theory that the two races have been thus separat. the

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BARGAINS

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PIANOS

at the India Office, and so 3⁄4.com. mission for the introduction of the tree which produced the true Para rubber was given to Mr. Wickham We were on our summer holiday,

by and for the Government of India about 1871. Sir Joseph Hooker had writes the Rev. C. Carey Taylor

been endeavouring get the seed Spectator, and were playing The campaign for the Presidency the

The tests are of too technical a. THE OFFERS TO GOVERNMENT but without success. By that time Mr. Wickham had turned to planting DOCKYARD. has naturally become the most en- stump cricket in the stone-walled lane

character to be described here, but

near Santarem on his own on the grossing subject in America, and will that led to our farmhouse; our bat a

their meaning may be briefly stated.

Tapaios plateaux, continue to be so from now until the stick, our wicket a narrow packing They show that the blood has two

In the House of Commons, recently While Mr. Wickham was thinking final election in November, says the Washington correspondent of the case, our-ball the lawn tennis variety. distinct and "different hereditary Viscountess Astor asked the First over the project, startling news came

ware I was wicket keeper, and a ball chemical properties, which the die Lord of the Admiralty whether he regarding the Amazonas" Observer. Two things become clear: one is that prohibition slipped past me into the scrub coverers distinguish, for the sake of was aware that the Cunard Company was the first of the us", which will be an issue; the ather that the beneath a bramble-bush. I turned. convenience as A and B. These two ofered to have the "Saxonia" and Inman Line of Steamship-Liverpool properties, it is contended, have been interent in the blood of two

were refused by the Admiralty; vessel had called a few days before then I say that prohibition will Presently I saw two very bright eyes separate and distinct races since Man whether he would give the reasons off Santarem and Mr. Wickham and a few other Europem -planters were be an issue, I do not mean that any gleaming in the shadow, and identified first made his appearance on the for refusal in each case.

Sir James Craig.The Cunard entertained at dinner. The ship serious effort to ando prohibition in a sitting duck who needed no instruc- the earth, the A property distinguist America will be made. The prohi tion in colour protection, and our balling on the the property dis Company offered the "Saxonia" for then left for the upper Amazon reconditioning on 7th April, 1920, and the news was received that bition of the sale of intoxicating was peeping out from under her tinguishing the other.

and on the 18th and 19th April she had been abandoned on MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. liquars is now incorporated into our wing. Now the bird furiously re-

conferences were held between the Captain's hands by the Constitution. This Constitutional sisted its removal, so we selected

company's' representatives gentlemen super-cargoes without so Amendment will last for as long a another for our game; but next time

to much as a stick et cargo for the period as can now be foreseen; but the ball entered the scrub I turned ed since the beginning of human life, and the Admiralty officers while the prohibition of intoxicating in time to see the duck leap from her but it is a theory that derives strong investigate the extent of the work returu voyage to Liverpool. Mr. into it, and support from the discovery of certain involved, the company's represent Wickham" determined to plunge for liquors will endure, the definition nest,

ber. brooding. Again, characteristics in the blood which ative being informed that the work it. It seemed to present an occasion of what constitutes an intoxicating resume

all to make my spoon or spoil the born." liquor allows elasticity for change furious resistance to every attempt was made in the earlier days of would be undertaken if at from time to time. For the present, to abduct. the latest little stranger pathological investigation, and since possible. On 19th April, it was It was true I had no cash in hand out during a ascertained definitely that the work there and to realise on an incipient Congress has defined an intoxicating After the game was over I pitched they have persisted liquor as one containing one-half of into the bush a ball of about six inches period of about 150 years it is could be carried out at Portsmouth, plantation in such a place and situa 1 per cent. of alcohol. The law con in diameter; in a moment she had it logical to presume that they have but on the same date the company tion was quite out of the question. taining this definition was passed in her zest and was trying to sit on persisted throughout the whole ex- decided to place the work elsewhere. The seed was even then beginning to

Alas! "she could not keep istence of Man on the earth.

In October, 1919, when the "Caronia" ripen on the trees in the high, forest. during wartime under such circum-it.

In the English race the amount of was offered for reconditioning, the knew that Captain Murray must be stances that laws were passed with her balance on such an object, so she out very intent scrutiny and without gave it the best she could, a motherly A in the blood is approximately 43 large amount of werk in hand in in a fix, so I wrote to hitn

chartering the ship much regard for normal public feel wing. Then came the farmer, de per cent, while in the Indians it is the dockyards and the shortage of boldly

of the Government ing. It is now realized that this lighted that we had found his best only 19 per cent. On the other hand, men in the particular trades required behalf

I- appointed to rigid definition of an intoxicating layer:" so she was turned off in the Indians have 41 per cent of B, for this class. of work rendered it of India. beverage as one containing one half disgrace-off a nest, that is, contain while the English hare only 7 per tooing two eggs and three balls. But cent. In the eight first-named of 1 per cent represents

wartime spitit, she had her revenge at 3.a. next nationalities classified as the Euro autocratic a and is disapproved by large day, and turned the farmer out of pean type, the proportion of A is numbers of people. The issue which his bed with her mournful lamenta approximately the same and the will arise in the coming campaign tions. Well, Sir, I want to ask your proportion of B is small. will be to change this definition to readers: (1) Did the duck (obviously something more reasonable. As one angry) believe that we were playing of the leading candidates on the so cricket with her eggs? (2) What is size-limit of the brooding called

put it: the 'wet' platform "Prohibition has come to stay; the instinct? Would she have tackled a saloon has been banished for, good football? whisky, brandy, and other strong liquors has been banished-for-good;! but some legal.and harmless way

must be found for the sale of beer way, attended to some public busi and light wines." That substantially ness; but on the whole the executive ary" branch of the Government has gene is the so-called "wet" versus issue which will come up in the along loosely, without firm direc tion. -About two months ago it was Amercian election this year.

announced that within a week thei President would call a meeting of

THE PRESIDENT AND THE LEAGUE.

- It is not quite so clear in just

of Nations the Cabinet. That meeting has never

In the next four, the intermediate types; Arabs, Turks, Russians, Jews,

on

Costs, are Rising,

Later you will have to pay morel

impossible for the reconditioning of meet him at the junction of the The Present is your Opportunity. this ship to be carried out without Tapajos and Amazon by a certain prohibitive delay, and the offer was date. There was no time to lose. therefore unavoidably declined.

BIG GUN MONITORS.

the proportion of B shows a steadily TO SURRENDER ARMAMENT rising value, and continues to rise through the Asio-African types till it

reaches its maximum in the Indian.

So all the fat is in the fire and the apple-cart of the single-origin scientists is upset again. The black man is not the white man's brother, and

East is East and West is West,. And never the twain shali meet.

JOHN ELPHINSTONE-

ROBINSON PIANO CO., LTD.

A DEFENCE OF PORT SÁID.

Wrong

IMPORTUNITIES PREVAIL.

Hurriedly getting an Indian canoe, coasting up the right bank of the Tapajos and traversing the broad river (rather ticklish work in a small cance at that time of the year) I struck back from the left short for the deep woods, the Monte Alto, The British. Admiralty announce wherein I knew were to be found that the "big-gun" monitors are to the big full-grown heves trees. Work surrender their armament and then ing with as many Tapuyo Indians as return to the Humber pending, the I could get together at short notice, decision as to their disposal. There I daily ranged the forests and packed "THE WICKEDEST CITY."|___It was expected that our cleans fore it is rather interesting to enquire down on our backs in panier-baskets

ing measures', would call forth a what is to become of their guns, as heavy loads of seed as we could

chorus of protestation. But this was Those which received the old twelve mach under. I was working

not the case. Instead, the profesta- inchers removed from obsolete battle against fime.”.

tion came from an unexpected ships of the Majestic type will turn Once on board Mr. Wickham had

SHAME GIVEN WAY TO SHAM. quarter. It came from an English them over to the old-iron merchants good cause for anxiety. They were

curate. I have kept a copy of his straight away and the same fate will bound to call at Para in order to

Mr. E. Halford Ross writes to a letter addressed to the late Sir Eldon probably befall the fourteen-inch obtain clearance before they could Home paper-

Gorst. It runs what shape the Leaguepaign. The been called-a circumstance which WHAT THE PUBLIC READ weapons which we purchased from get to sea. Mr. Wickham feit pe-

"I would be grateful if you would

"We were so sensibly disappoint. general feeling is that disapproval tends to confirm the public in its

America, when Germany seized the fectly certain that if the authorities allow me to reply to Brigadier-General ed to find all those amusing, interest Greek battle-cruiser should be visited upon whichever belief that the President is seriously

Salamis, for there guessed the purpose of what he Bateson, Wesleyan Chaplain to the in. and Oriental sights which used party is responsible for the failure to ill.

Lady Northcliffe, president of the whom they were intended. But there had on board they should be detained Forces, who states that he saw more to help us to while away an hour et Das the League in some form and footedness of our people, and to their Society of Women Journalists, was still remain the most interesting guns under plea of instructions from the sin and appearance of sin in one hour Port Said gone. They were so in compromise, and for the failure to It is a compliment to the sure-

in the chair at 2, Tudor-street, when of the whole collection indeed, in Central Government at Rio, if not al-in Port Said than in all the rest of structive at the gateway to the East, But it out of the way. The difficulty stability in a time of chaos, that we the subject What Editors and the whole world, in the shape of together interdicted. He had heard his experience.

and gave all - the' passengers som is that the public is not clear in its have become so completely reconciled Publishers Want" was dealt with the two 18 in. mastodons which of the difficulties in the Clements For five years I was health officer ides of their life to come in distant own mind as to just which party is to the conditions imposed upon us responsible for the failure to com- by the illness of the head of the by bar. Sidney Dark and Mr. Herbert were mounted in the General Markham introduction of cinchona of the Suez Canal zone, and I think lands. Now the gaiety of the port is

Jenkins. Mrs. E. A. Binstead, hon Wolfe" and "Lord Clive shortly Any such delay would have render that General Bateson, like many replaced by dullness." secretary of the society, and many before the Armistice. The former ed my precious freight quite valueless others, has received a promise. A close "analysis of the nation. situation at the end of the THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT.

well-known women novelists and

never used hers, and the latter and useless," to give his story in his impression. In reality. Port Said "Next came complaints from many debate would show that long

One fact in the situation that is journalists were present.

only had the opportunity of firing own words. "But again fortune · a quiet place a few rounds before the Germans favoured me. I had a friend at size of Oxford, is a growing port tions to the Governor of the Ser

about the other persons, and there were depute

•President Wilson is the one who is

conspicuous everywhere is the Lady Northcliffe said she was an responsible for the final failure to absence of any such radical move imposter for presiding, as she could evacuated the Flanders coast. With Court in the person of Consul Green possessing pleasant, industrious Eri Canal. Men and women demanded, situation was sa involved that it is ment as is troubling so many Eur- contribute nothing to the discussion out official information it is impos- He, quite entering, into the spirit, tish and other European colonies, & } exhorted, implored to have theft compromise; but the Parliamentary not easy for the public to grasp this. Opean countries. There is literally and was as anxious as anybody in Sible to say how successful they were, went himself with the on a special delightful climate, now completely amusements back again. For a time The general public feeling has be nothing in the way of a radical riove, the room to hear on what grounds j but it is very certain from the shell-call on the Barao de S, Chief of free from fever, and only showing to we stood firm; but they were too Alfandiga, and backed me steamship passengers a film of wick strong for us, and those who 23 power of their projectiles was trem-up come one of indifference: the main ment in America. Among some ten manuscripts were rejected and what holes examined that the destructive the

to I represented His dress in the shape of harmless before were pure becae prodigal wish is to get a painful subject men who are striving for the Pre editors and publishers wanted.

sidency there is not one who can Mr. Dark (editor of John o London's endous. Even the Americans have Excellency my difficulty and anxiety. casinos, sham gambling dens, faked in their claims for what they out of the way. What will pro- be called radical, who can be said. Weekly) said that outside contributors pot.. yet designed a gun to approach being in charge and having on a ship photos, and mimic brothels made arti- called their entertalpments. They bably happen in the future is that for example, to be in favour of even who sext MSS. to editors did not take them, and there is considerabile anchored out in the stream exceeding ficially by the request of its passers even called us names, said we were President Wilson will go back, to

prades upon our vituous prowls," something like the original form of mentor radiccia policy as govert. enough trouble to study the character speculation in naval quarters as to delicate botanical specimens, specially br

tannic Majesty's own Royal Gardens house, every room, every cellar was They rots to the Govern of Kew. Even while doing myself examined, because the place was went, and at last their importunities it into the elections in that form candidates who is called the most were frightened If he does it will probably be deadical is Senator Johnson of Cali- newness, but they would often con-

the honour of thos calling en His feverstricken-malaria, dengue, and feated, for the long debate has led fornia, and the form of his radicalism sider an original idea within the try, if one had the eyes to see it and Excellency I had given orders to the three day fevers were sife, while moe prevailed; we were ordered to give the public generally to a sense of is not so much economic as concerned scope of the paper if it had behind it the news seast to grasp it and the having so far ventured to trust that abounded. There is no doubt that or two show houses of entertain Captain of the ship to keep up stern quitoes, files, fleas and piagues We compromised.-- We left one cistrust of the original form of the with the League of Nations. He is the strength of personality. The manner to express it. While there His Excellency would see his way to vice, in the past, abounded also, but meat containing fear ancient League. Since the final defeat of

an out-and-out opponent of the League new journalism, represented by the was a crowded market and- a. great Leir weeks ago President Wison has that he gets the favour of the radical sonality into description; any idiot great demand for articles which got motion at Kew as they had to turn scenarios and made the most of it for registered at the police station, and

in any forms, and it is 'on this point Northcliffe papers, introduced per shortage of paper, there was still a furnish me with immediate despatch." its extent was much exaggerated inmates who were under consta the League in its amended form a

June, 1876, was a time of com Novelists used it sometimes for their observation; the guides were element. But Senator Johnson is not could do a verbatim, but only a vital at the soul of their subject. regarded as having any probability of journalist could make a report of a Mr. Herbert Jenkins said the recipe out orchid and propagating houses their appertunities. It was a result then allowed to conduct pe success. The truth is that is the pre meeting which, while presenting for the length of a novel depended and to make room for the inroad of of this exaggeration that the Govern over the town, and to sell them their This inaction would be inexplic seatstate of feeling in the United States essentials, escaped dullness by giving on how long the writer could hold Hevea. The Hevea seeds did not fament directed us to make a clean faked wires as absurd prices

the interest of the reader. If they felt to respond to all the care that Mr-sweep at Port Seld; and this we did. was a place of shame converted ints able were it not for the fact that the the popular bid for votes consists atmosphere

Lord Northcliffe had discovered they could hold readers for 80,000 Wickham had devoted to them. ARCIZANSWERS

a place of sham #seas public explains it as a result of in catering, not to the radicals, but the President's Aloess. The truth to the conservative. Of course, we that no one read reports of the old words, let them make it 70,000 and fortnight afterwards, the glass houses "A year or two before the war the “It - seems -- probable: that

that the President's illness throws have some economic conditions which school, with columns of verbatim, let the readers want more. He did at Kew afforded him a pretty sight town, was swept clean,The houses Brigadier General Bateson had ex much of our public business will make trouble for us in due time, but they would read reports of meet not believe that the pulic would not tier upon tier rows of young Heves were cleansed, new ones were built, traded his hour's experience at Port mosquitoes were abolished, fevers Said he would have found more into an abnormal condition. The notably the rising price of farm land. ings if they were vitalized by the read first novels, he had tested Plants-70,000 odd of them.

cleared away, and more than thirty appearance of sin there than the public has come to believe that In the better farming districts of personality of the man who did them them with an excellent

houses closed, entailing the depta reality, and he might then has been Mr. Wilson is permanently and this country farm land has gone from and could establish a contact between novel, having waited two years to

tion of 200 women of various nation- seriously impaired in health, and we pre-war prices of about one hundred the audience at the meeting and the find it, and had sold 73,500 of that

at Cairo, Calentts, Bombay - or all reconcile ourselves to more or less dollars an acre to a present basis of reader next morning at his breakfast book. The publisher's traveller who A GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME alities. This was done, only after se amused that he was apparently When personality is strong went to a bookseller with a book MAKE tarule of your house to always considerable difficulties had been Madras, which seem to fase dis letting everything drift until a new three or four hud.id dulars an acre. table.

create.'.'a demand about the war would need courage.] 1) Keep on hand bottle of Chambor overcome, because Perpt then was appointed hits. election gives us a new administra- Obviously in the course of time this it can Son It almost exactly six months will cause us trouble, but for the for a particular form of jour The public bad been ill for five lain's Colic and Diamboes. Remedy governed by the capitulations, and

Rafeguard against bowd complaints. It mace President Wilson was first taken present the outstanding aspect, both nalisde wares. There was tragedy years, and at the present moment always cures prompily and no household each colony was controlled by it IL During the latter months of his of politics and economice, in the and comedy in every house and of cravalescence wanted light, is made without it For Ae by all own Consul General, who

every room, in the city and the coun- breezy books.

Commists and Biorekeeperi..

much persuasion. allness be has occasionally, in a fitful United States is its opnservatism.

the League, and will try to throw ment or municipal ownership of of the public to which they were the use to which they are to be designated for delivery to Her Bri-During my service 'there every and labelled "hypocrisy our own.

done nothing and said nothing about

POE “STAGNATION OF PUBLIC BUSINESS,

public utilities. That one of the appealing. A number of editors put

any form of

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