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portant problem. He reached the Such
river, which flows into the Bahr ell
Dur, and that into the large Bahr ell
GhaZal tributary of the Nile. He de-
seconded the Such till he came to the
point where his hotila might be launch
ed. Then he fioated down the stream
for about 200 miles, finding a clear
waterway for his gunboats He was
only three days descending the rapid
stream, but it took him IS days to pull
back to his starting point. He had
discovered that his equipment, weigh
ing some hundreds of thousands of
pounds, must be carried through the
scrub a distance of 90 miles to the
Such. The gunboats, the barges, the
baggage and stores were transported
over this difficult route, piece by piece,
on the backs Of some thousands of por-
ters. In November. 1897, the expedi-
ton reached the navigable waters lead
ing to the Nile. Meanwhile Captain
Baraties had followed the watercourses
all the way to the Nile and found them
navigabe. but he returned with some
exceedingly unpleasant news. He had
been unable to buy food, and had lived
on the smoked meat he had with him
and roots he gathered on the way.
Marchand had thousands of men in
his expedition, and he secured the
! country far and near to replenish his
| waning food supplies. The effort was
almost fruitless and it was soon ap-
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of green fruits, piles Of bamboo poles.
bales of charcoal and what-not-all
passed by in a tumble and hustled down
the narrow, tortuous. roughly-paved
street Then the narrow-guage car
struggled through the crowd or rushed
in helter-skelter fashion, the driver
lashing and urging the donkeys unmer-
cifully and with his horn footing piping
notes of warning that shrieked as ener-
getically as horn and torch celebra-
ton at national election in the states.
Gendarmes and policemen in gaudy uni
forms and carrying glittering sabres
and muskets were stationed along the
street or in squads of 10 and 20 lodged
in and out among the throng.
I finally reached a quieter and more
open avenue and decided to satisfy a
voracous appetite at the Sud Ameri-
cano hotel, one of two we'll appointed
hostelries in the city.
Weary from days continuous stroll
ing and sightseeing, l returned to NV
ship and turned in for peaceful slun,-
Der. JOSEPH |. MUENTZER
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chance she will show the new boat
great race.
BY this l mean the Manganese bronze
boat should be given a much larger
mainsail-Which she can easily carry
and with some slight alterations in her
head sails she would be a wonderfully
improved boat
while l don't know, ! have every
reason to believe that Mr. Iselin will do
his best to improve the Defender and
/ feel sure that if he gives Captain
Rhodes-one of the best shippers in the
country-a chance to use his own judg-.
ment with the Defender we shall have
some trial races down the bay this fall
worth seeing"
The British yacht will be given fair
field but no favor. We mean to keep
the cup if we can, but the better boat
and the better crew will get 1t. So
here's hoping the Columbia will prove
to once more show that Yankee yachts
lead the world
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This Is India.

Then suddenly the magician turns his
ring and new has become old, plain is col
ored, solid Is tumbled down, the West has
been swallowed up utterly by the East.
Cross but one street and you are plunged
in the native town-a fairy tale of cupo-
las and verandas minarets, a tulip garden
of turbans and shawls. The iutting houses
closed in on the procession. the flags van
ished away or turned to fluttering stream
ers of colored paper across the street; the
decora tor was henceforth the people.
Sparse at first, they ended presently
thicker and thicker: the windows were
frames for women, the streets became
wedges of men. Nothing is too bright for
the wife of the Bombay dock coolie or
cotton operative on a feast day. Under
the quaint wooden sun hoods that push
out over the serried windows of the lodg-
ing houses, along the rickety, painless
balconies and verandas, all over the tot
tering roofs Powered mauve or velvet
vivid grass green emerald Vermilion or
cherry colors: only the shabbiness of the
dust and dirty plaster relieved the gor-
geousness: in the gliding sunlight the very
arms and legs shone like bronze or amber
o. the bloom on ripe damscns. In the
street turbanS were mostly scarlet, or
hame-colOred. or brilliant yellow: till pres
entity mere gaudness began to give way
to the pcturesqueness of strange cos
tunes that meant strange races.
The pony dealer from kabu in his blue
smock iostled his brother Mussuman and
brother horse breeder from Arabia in the
long black mantle and red and white hood
bound about with tufts of camel hair. To
them it was only snow for they are not
of India to the long-Tobed Persian and
pig-taed Chinee-and there We're many
of them--it was just a little more for
though not of Bombdny many of them
| Tt,.l
alone there were nationaIties on national
tiles, castles on castles. religions on reli-
gions. The sable-pcaked turban of Clutch
and the white howler-like turhan of the
Multan mark nationalites a great deal
more divided than English or French; the
Hindu. with a red parallelogram smeared
OH his forehead, Will not touch the Hindu
with a yellow dot; the Whitehead Mus
suman would gladly cut the white-robsd
Brahmin's throat.-From THE Installa-
tioE of Lord CurzOn as Vlceroy of India -
by G. w. Stevens, in the May Scrlbner's.
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see the new cup defender, and l proba-
bly, shall not be able to gauge her quail
ties until she is put in dry dock for
her final cleaning before the race with
the Shamrock but / think | can form
pretty accurate opinion of her build.
There We're points about the Defender
that I did not altogether like, and I
know that the Herreshoffs We're fully
aware of these defects and will see that
they are :remedied in the new boat. One
of these defects was that when she was
by the wind, in moderate winds and in
the jump of the sea, she carried strong
lee helm. This is a bad defect in any
boat, and particularly so in a cup de-
fender. The Defender was inclined to
fall off when going windward, and I
had to carry the helm lee to meet her
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sizes, colors and conditions stirred on
lounged about. The dark-eyed, sallow-
complexioned, proud and swell-dressed
Portuguese predominated. A few mer-
chants, with a smattering of French,
English or German, We're met with oc-
casionally. Second as to numbers were
the extremely black Indian or negro
natives, and these of two proportions,
viz: either of a haggard shriveled APP
pearance, or of a big, homely, elephant
like physique, sauntering to and fro.
The women We're scantily clad in light
pieces and gay gowns, often carrying
shallow baskets on their heads, filled
with bananas, green oranges, strange
fruits and pastries. Men and boys clad
in light linen came wabbling along
with headgear in the shape of crates
of chickens, sacks of meal or coffee, and
other luggage, some of the former so
gray-haired and feeble it seemed they
would topple over at every step. Blind
or lettering beggars, led by little boys
or sitting at some dingy shop door or
corner, besought for aims, and a gift
of a 200-reis piece (about three cents)
was gratefully accepted as big tip
Scores of black women sauntered along
with arms full of naked babies here
the black mother carries her offspring
astride her hips, and the tots hold on
as if riding In saddle. Unclad three
year-olds and fairly dressed youngsters
of fourteen We're running and yelling,
many selling native newspapers as in
dustriously as New York city gamin.
Jabbering drivers of two-wheeled bull
lock and donkey carts in plenty, haul
ing loads of green grass (the only hay
used here), barrels of produce, stacks
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across the city, and ever and anon the
explosion of fireworks could be heard
BY signs l made the Portuguese driver
of an approaching car understand that
/ wished to reach st. Catherine cathe-
dral. AS we rushed along occasional
and strange displays of fireworks from
the rear doors of churches engaged my
attention The object of all this could
not understand at the time, as the Por-
tuguese citizens failed to comprehend
my Americana" queries. This pyro-
technic display had just ceased at st.
Catherine as l entered. The priest and
acolytes, in shining vestments, APP
preached the glttering altar. The walls
and ceilings were exquisite in artistic
creations The organ and chimes pealed
forth Latin notes of apparently deep
significance, and the congregation with
bowed heads took turns at standing
and kneeling, for here the churches are
minus pews and chairs. There was no
sermon and but one person sang during
mass
learned later that the churches, be-
ing SO numerous and vieing with each
other for membership resort to fire.
works to secure the desired end. This
attracts many of the more ignorant
and superstitious by appealing to their
love of display, and also obtains from
them the greater portion of their hard
earnings.
This afternoon visited La Rue street
the commercial street of the city. and
for awhile imagined myself in the midst
of Latin pandemoniun, SO great was
the turmoil. An incongruous mixture
of everything and everybody presents
itself Humanity of all ages, shapes,
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parent that most of the party must re-
turn to the Upper Mobangi or starve.
,Marchand, however. was not to be de-
feated in his attempt to reach Fashoda.
He started most of his men to the west
and set out himself with a gunboat
and $50 soldiers for the north and the
Nile. He hoped he might find at Fash
oda the expeditions of Bonchamps and
Clochette that We're to cooperate with
him from Jiboutil and Abyssinia.. They
never arrived, and it devolved on him
alone to occupy the town, to fire upon
the only Dervish boat that came with
in reach of his guns and to keep the
French flag waving on the Nile till it
was lowered without wounding French
susceptibilities. Everybody knows Of
his triumphant progress 20 the Indian
ocean and the hearty welcome he re-
ceived in Abyssinia: and now he is 60
ing home on a war ship to be feted
and hailed by all France as one of the
nations heroes.
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or, in other words, keep showing her
stern to leeward to keep pace with her
bow. so that she was continually max
ing leeway under these conditions in
stead of going ahead.
IF what l hear about the Columbia is
true, and have every reason to believe
that it is, Herreshoff has proflted by
experience. In the Columbia he has
shortened the keel aft, thus bringing
the center of lateral resistance for
ward. which should have a tendency to
make her beat out to Windward, instead
of falling off like the Defender did.
The Columbia, with her finer under
body, more ballast and greatly in
creased sail area, should readily defeat
the Defender as she is at present. How
ever, if they give the Defender half a
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MARcHAND's GREAT WORK.
Has Won the Famous French FxpIorer
the Homage of His Country.

From the New York Sun.
Major Marchand and his expedition
arrived at Jiboutil, near the south end
of the Red sea, on Tuesday. Nav ia
Three years, lacking four days. had
elapsed since he embarked at Bordeaux
on mission OF great political import.
A French man-ofwar will take him and
his gallant comrades home. where they
viii receive the greatest welcome and
honors a nation can give to it's heroes
The story of those three years in the
African bush would win the plaudits
OF all men who admire unfaltering
courage and great achievements. AS
a tour de force. nothing in African
pioneering has surpassed it. AS 10
litical mission it was brilliantly sue
cesSful for though the French flag
does not wave through the upper Nile
| valley, the dream that sent Marchand
to Africa and spurred him on to Fash
: oda, the vantage ground he won and
| maintained there, gave to France the
| splendid prize of the Central Soudan
when she settled accounts with En-
} gland After all, France is ringing
with Marchand's praises no more, for
| the outcome than for the hard, plod-
ding, almost superhuman work that led
| to it.
On July 90, 1896, the leader with is
officers and sub-of1icers Of the French
| army and navy, a doctor, an interpre-
| ter and $50 native soldiers of Senegal
| landed on the west African coast 1t
| was over seven months later, March |,
| 1897, before he reached Brazzavllle, on
! Stanley Pool with his very large equip
| ment and was ready to steam UP the
| river on his way to the Nile He car
| ried in sections the two gunboats
| Faidherbe and LIE Nil and a dozen
| steel and aluminium barges. His seri-
| Gus difficulties did not begin until he
| was far ON his way and on the thresh-
| old of the unknown at the mouth of
| the Bomu affiuent of the Mobangi 1t
was desired to use this river as the
route toward the Nile, but no one knew
| whether it was practicable waterway.
| On May l, 1897, some of the officers
| started on a 20-day survey of the hy-
biography of the lower part of the
river. They found a series of five high
| falls and 80 smaller one extending for
| a long distance up the stream, but
above the region of cataracts there APP
| peared to be fair navigation. The stu
alton was almost desperate, but March
| and promptly decided that the route
must be up that river. Around the ser
| les of falls he laid trunks of trees,
stripped of their bark and smoothed SO
! that the boats might be hauled over
| them. Then he launched his boats
and barges on the river, and when one
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Woman Elected Dean.

From the Chicago Times Herald
DR.. Julia Holmes Smith was elected
dean of the National Medical college of
Chicago the other night. It is the first
time in the history of medical educa-
ton that a woman has attained such
a distinction in co-educational insti-
tuition
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sails, to ensure the cup staying where
il belongs

1t belongs.
AS to the chances of the Columbia,
they seem to be exceptionally good. al
though enough has been learned about
the Shamrock, in spite of secrecy OBJ
served regarding her on the other side,
to know that she is really a speedy
boat and a craft that will prove a sur
prise to many. There has been, of
course, the same carefulness on this
side to prevent the lines of the Column
bia becoming known, but enough has
leaked out in one way and another to
make it possible to form a fairly good
opinion. When Captain Hank" Half,
the famous yachting skipper, was asked
his opinion lately, he said:
TT has not yet been my pleasure to
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kyrie III. The pay of the men began
on April 18th. 1t goes without saying
that every man of the crew is as en-
thusiastic as a boy over the prospect
of racing, and is willing to do any
thing, from scraping masts to hosting
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There promises to be intense rivaly this
season between Mrs. Potter Palmer and
Mrs. StuyVesant Fish and the brIlliancy
of the entertainments to he given by these
ladies will probably surpass in eXtrava-
gance anything ever given in Newport.
Mrs Fish is determined that the coming
out ball to be given in honor of her
daughter Marion, in point of originality
and elegance, will have been unequaled
by any similar function ever hell in New
port.
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First mate Allen; second mate, Scott;
quartermasters, Haskell Scott, Fifield
and Staples; charge of lazarette, Mar
shall and Seaman Bray. These men,
with six others, served on the Defender
three years ago when she beat the Val
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SHIPPERS AND NOTES.

Henry Steinkirchner Of Newton was IN
win q car Of mixed hogs. the large end
O. which sold at the car tops and without
dock, they being mediums.
Paugh & Co.. OF Sedgwick were ship
pers Of & mixed car OF hogs. mostly
fights. and small end of extra hesvies
The large part Of the load went at the
top OF the day
E :. Allen OF Rremlin was on the mar
Eet Rt-h a car load OF mediums which
sold without dock at a good, stiff bulk
price This firm have been shipping their
hogs to other eastern markets lately buc
after trying this point a few times, were
convinced that no better market was Of
fe-ed anywhere. and Mr.. Allen now de-
cIares that this point viii hereafter get
all his shipments, and he is one OF the
Oklahoma large dealers.
". E Peckham OF Burton was n with
e car Of heayies which sold at good bulk
figures.
Joe Scott Of Peck was a shipper Of
heavy hogs which sold at q good bulk
price.
T z. Cooley had in a car load OF heavy
hogs whica sold at once At strong bulk
prices.
Joe Kirk Of Kingman was in with 2 car
lead Of medium heavies which sold az the
popular bulk price.
w. :. Thomas q Ponca City was
shipper Of heavy hogs which sod az bulk
prices.
The Dold shipments yesterday were
Ra3ye the average The straight cars Of
mixed packing house products were very
good and the jo55ing trade was strong
There was in addition a large line Of pro
duce sold for immediate delivery.
The cattle trading yesterday WITS prac-
ss.arTrr mo- -fDo There r70r-fr7ey ~
Tered OF any Importance, and the few
scattering sales were either private deals
Or else Gamers and thin stock
Provisions opened steady. q shade 70
rents over the day before. Hog receipts
were moderate. Liverpool unchanged for
American products. The chief strength
ening feature was the buying OF January
ribs. Cash lard closed steady AZ 81. s1l3,
and cash ribs up - cents. az s4-S1is.
Yesterday the hog market, while lower.
Twas strong comparatively. There were
three buyers II the field for the hogs
which were received. and they would have
taken three times The number received,
had they appeared The supply was far
ilnder the demand and the buyers remain
81 until late 20 set al that might come
r. The tone of the Wichita Darks- Is
very frru and the prices pair for hC-s =
Al classes approach closer to the Kan
SIS CRY point than they have ever done
s. the history OF these yards. NJ snip
Per in Oklahoma or from the southwest
can afor1 20 pass this point. 4 study q
re conditions operating here ard at tDa
prher western markets VIII soon co1vi-ce
any one ~ the absolute truth OF tbs
statement
Exports Of pork. lard. and bacon from
the Atlantic ports % Europe for the week
ended NOVEMBER r. We're as follows n
totals; Pork E.t1a Barrels; lard IN pounds.
y, $500; meats, In boxes. @.S-6
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The WEArRE
Wichita. kan. Nov. Il.

Wichita. Kan. Nov. =. Is9s-
Local forecast for Wichita and vicinity:
Fair and cooler urIu sunday night
During The past = a1arS The highest
temperature has been = the lowest ..
and the mean g. Win a dense FOX AZ g
a. r.. followed by clear. warn weather
IiEhr southwest wind uncI Iisht. then
north.
on this date last year the highest ten
ue-ature vas 50. the lowest g. and the
mean a. or Is degrees colder than t1is
year
- far tais month the average temperz-
ture has been =. Which IS : degrees above
the normal and degrees warmer than
The same period last year.
50 far thts month the rainfall has beer
. inch below the normal
FRED L JOHNSON. Observer.
washingtsn. New I7--Forecast for Sas-
11r5zy ard sunday
Kaasas-Eai- Saturday ard Sunday:
cooler in eastern portions sunday varfa-
be winds.
Okrahsza ard Indian Ts-rstory-Fa,r
Saturday ard Sunday; IgaI, variaole
winds
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HIIG- AlREFT LOVER
Demand Greater Than the
Supply.
TOPS SETTLE ON 1892 10
More Hogs Wanted--NO Cat
tie Market.
TOPS SETTLE ON 1892 10

The Wichita hog market yesterday wss
quoted as steady 10 p. cents lower. Tie
general trend Of the market all through
the trading was. ~ cents lower in sym
patty with the other live stock markets.
The Kansas City market went TO cents
ton 10 lower prices. The quality Of the
hogs received at this point yesterday was
generally good The average weight was
only one pound more than the average
for Thursday, it being 245 yesterday, ard
IA for Thursday. The receipts fell Of
az this point, as they did elsewhere, CHI
cag0 being 500 short OF the receipts Of
Thursday. There was a good live de-
mand for all classes Of hogs at this point
yesterday. and everything on sale was
disposed OF al the best prices This mar
ket IN point OF strength and tone com
pared very favOrsbly with all the rest Il
the western markets. Everything offer
I'd both from the wagon trade and the
car lots, was sold at once. and the supply
was very greatly below the demand.
s. .s21z was the wagon tops and 3. 80 the
tops for car hogs. The bulk was withi1
z ~ cent range, running from S. 72.z 20
s5-5u- There was not the large volume
OF receipts that appeared on the day be-
fore. bur what did come IL were sold at
the best market prices. and stronger than
most OF the other western receiving
points Al the several buyers were
present and eager and keen for hogs,
and al classes, from light, thin stock 10
heavies, we're wanted and al mat came
IN were taken az once, and many times
the number were wanted Il was 4 sCrd
day for the shippers and all Of them who
had hogs OF sale were welf pleased With
their deals, but the buyers were disaO-
pointed II not getting enough hogs The
supply OF al kinds Of hogs is right row
FAR below the demand for them, and ship
pers n this southwest country can not
afford TO 60 by here, as their offerings
vii be taken readily and at the best mar
ket figures.
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s4-s5GS-S5; grass Texas steers, 50 .25a4- 3;
western range beeves, 81. 0od5 3d.
Hogs-EarIy market strong, closed
weak Mixed and butchers, s. s0a4 %;
good 10 choice heavy, s.. sGa4 %; rough
heavy, 81 7503.S5; light, 3.75d4.eo bulk OF
sales, $. sG4.O0
Sheep-Heavy sheep dull and weak;
lambs steady; native wethers, s.. 75G4.59
lambs, s4.0Gd5-25; western wethers, g. SCG
4-I5; western lambs, 81. seas TO-
Receipts-CattIe. ESQ; hogs. 1900; sheep
1000.
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, No, Nov. T.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 5000; best steady; others weaker;
Native steers, A55G5.70; TEXAS steers,
g. 6a5. a; Texas cows, s2-55d3-C9; native
cows and heifers. S1.5of4 50; stockers and
feeders, g s0G5. 10; bulls, g. 56G3- 80.
Hog-Receipts, 11.0o0; market steady to
strong; bulk Of sales. g S063. IS; heavy,
s.. S5Q4 %; packers, g sed5. 971z; mixed,
3 .S71zd3 s21z; light, g. 70Q3. 50; workers.,
s3-Sea3- IS; pigs, g. 1913 $.
sheep-Receipts, 2.0Go; market steady;
lambs, s4.O0q5.5; muttons, g. 0Oq4- 10.
ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis, Nov. T.-Ca ttle-ReceiDts. l.
600; market steady; native shipping and
beef steers, S3.556S 50; stocke-s and fezd-
ers. 8. 5cd4 70; COWS and hetfers.f 8. Goa
4.I5; Texas and Indian steers, g. -3oT4 80.
Hogs-Receipts, $50; market strong:
pigs and lights, 81. S5d3 %; packers. g. So
3 50: butchers, g s5G4. g.
Sheep-Receipts, 5ag; market steady; na-
tive muttons, s2-75G4.Oo; lambs. 5000