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-HE news that the British
e@fIGM"M troops in Somaliland, in an
80 expedition against the ma
ON " tives down around the
3(N03@ Abyssinian and Italian-So-
~ maitland frontiers, have
met with severe reverses at
the hands of the mad mullah, whether
it shall prove true or false, has caused
great furry of excitement and serves
to call attention to one of the most in
teresting bits of British Africa. Ac-
cording to the reports, the natives
were out in a force exceeding 10000
men, many of them mounted, and it
was feared that their success in cut
ting off the expedition would arouse
the entire DOlbahanta and Ogaden ter
ritory, and plunge Great Britain into
another of her "little wars"
Concerning the nature of the war
like natives who inhabit the Abys-
sinian frontier-and who, tradition
says, are remote descendants of Solo
mon and the queen of Sheba-thOse
who have read Charles Lambs works
already have a lasting notion. His
characterization of the1p is found in
the first sentence of the Dissertation
Upon Roast Pig: Mankind, says a
Chinese manuscript, which my friend
M was oblinging enough to read
and explain to me, for the first quar-
ter Of a century ate their meat raw,
biting or clawing it from the living
animal, just as they do in Abyssinia
to this day" While Britain is in lit
tie danger Of entering into a war with
Abyssinia, many Of her present al
legged foes belong to Abyssinian ter
ritory. They are a mixed savage horde
in a wild and dangerous country, and
the boundary lines that distinguish
British SomaIiland from Italian So
maitland and these from Abyssinia
proper are plainly marked only on
paper, and on the latest maps at that.
OF the tribes which reach in a chain
through this region, many of them are
said to be welded into a strong con-
fedora ton.
The SomaIis have been described as
a half-caste race of Calais Ca strong,
well built and feroctOus nomadic peo-
pie, who once inhabited all the terri
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Perh p S VI r.
Cleveland will have to groan for a
Princeton defeat against Yale and
Harvard this year. Numbers are
telling against the famous New
Jersey college. For the first time
numbers are giving Harvard that
advantage in athletics which they
should have done all along. 1t
makes a great difference whether a
college can draw the best athletes
from 5000 young men, as Harvard,
from $500 as in Yale, or from / 500
as in Princeton.
The case of Columbia is peculiar.
In numbers she is next to Harvard In
Weekes and Smith she has the two
best half-backs in the Countrywide
former perhaps the best the country
ever saw. In past years she has all
WAYS taken high stand at the begin
ming of the season, but has fattened
out toward the end. 1t was the same
way last spring in rowing. The city
BOYS are lighter than those in the
country colleges; they seem to have
less stamina.
is trying the amateur coach system.
It seems to be succeeding. Sanford,
the professional, was abusive toward
players. Morley, himself the fercest
player ever seen upon a gridiron, is
gentlemanly in speaking to his men.
Yet there is no work he cannot show
them how to do, and they respect him.
A queer thing: Of the two Column
bia amateur coaches, one comes from
California; the other, Morley, from
New Mexico. Morley was in the south
west a deputy sheriff fearless one,
terror of eyil-doers. He is slighter
than Weekes. less swift in running,
less accomplished in 'Estar plays" but
he has the courage Of bulldog. In
play he is absolutely fearless. After
one great game a photograph was
taken of his battered countenance.
The hideous result has generally been
used when a picture of the great Nor
lev is wanted. Really, he does not
look like a desperate character. Only
when he is charging down the field
something that, as graduate, he can
now only do in practice games
Weekes weighs $50 pounds, and is
a splendid runner. He is one Of the
three strongest men in 5000 A man
beyond average weight, swift as
deer and strong as an OK, is valuable.
He can hop ten feet with a man hang
ing to one leg and two or three others
trying to down him. He can run down
a field and throw off the most expert
tacklers.
But the line-there's where Column
bia, with the greatest backs ever seen
in America-for Smith is star who
will shine brightly anywhere but by
Weekes' side--has always "fallen
down" Perhaps she will have better
luck this year. hope so; it would be
a great victory for gentlemanly coach
ing.
OWEN LANGDoN.
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vember back in town" and ready to
be seen. The horse is the pretext.
Plenty of people love horses.
Plenty of these people are women.
The Misses Twombly, nieces, of Van
Gerbilt; the Misses Hartman, daugh-
ters of the railway king; Miss Maud
Livingston, Miss Holloway, who last
year rode prize winning pony in the
ring; Mrs. Ladenburg and Mrs.
Hitchcock, who follow the Westbury
hounds; Mrs. Duryea and Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, formerly Gertrude
Vanderbilt, who during the Saratoga
season raced under the name of ''Mr
Roslyn"-all these know horses and
dc not need to dissemble interest in
their PAGES.
Good horse shows are now given in
half dozen smaller cities. That in
Richmond in October was especially
brilliant, with Mrs. Langhorne and
her beautiful daughters, wives re-
spectively of Gibson, the artist, and
Perkins, the Boston millionaire,
present, with the Brookeses and
Shaws, and Lord and Lady Gordon
Lennox to exclaim upon how like it
all was to England. And all these,
and the contingent from Philadelphia
and Morristown and the like will be
in New York. The hotels will be full
of people-so they all say. But if
numbers count, not well-known faces
ard better known names, there will
be fewer than in August, when New
York enjoyed it's annual influx of
summer visitors from the country.
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tory from Abyssinia to Mombosa) and
the South Arabians; and certain 1T IS
that in many ways they are the finest
type of native in Africa. The Calais
themselves, though negroes, are IS
race Caucasian, this being evidenced
by the straight nose, pointed chm ana
intellectual forehead. The Somalls
are an excitable people, who become
almost demons when aroused, but who
in peace are mirthful and trusty. They
are chiefly MohammedanS, and cling
to the most fanatical forms of that
worship mixed with the lesser forms
of weird fetishism, their dances and
ceremonies being often repellant and
hideous. Some of the tribes practice
the circumcision and other customs
revealing a Jewish ancestry. In war
the Somalis use a large spear as the
principal weapon, and secondly small
throwing iavelin. He carries small
shield of leather and for lesser wea-
pons has the dagger and small club.
Not infrequently the warriors fight
on horseback, and they are most excel
lent horsemen.
Somaliland is said to have been ex-
nlored to some extent during the
reign of the Ptolemies in Egypt, but
modern exploration of the country
dates from 1854, when Richard Fran
els Burton, an officer in the Indian
army, and John Hanning Spoke, a
companion, undertook journey to
the holy places of the Hedjaz. For 80
wears thereafter little progress was
made in the exploration of Somali-
land. although later expeditions, one
of them under these same explorers.
discovered the great lake of Victoria
Nvanza and Albert Nyanza, to the
southwark, and the Abyssinian
sources of the Nile to the north. In
the SOS, however, three parties-one
English, one Italian. and one French
nenetrated Somaliland, making i'm
nortant discoveries. Then followed
numerous other expeditions to the j.
terror, the present Col. (then Capt
Swavne heading some of them. Thu
Somaliland may be regarded as a re
zion of comparatively recent explora-
tion and settlement.
In 1857 France had purchased of a
native chief the Bay of Obok-close
to the Straits of Bah ell Mandeb. But
this she did not effectively occupy I'M
til 1888, after Britain had overthrown
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and the boundaries of the Ital-
ian colony were contracted. Brit
ain, in a friendly treaty, also yield
ed some of her claims in Somaliland.
Russia and France were in high glee
over the discontinue of Italy, and
chided that country for having
pressed her claims contrary to their
wishes.
On the southern Somali coast, how
ever, Italy had better success. In 1899
she began to make treaties with the
various chiefs in that territory, and
within a year had laid claim to the
whole coast from Cape Guardafui to
the mouth of the, River Jube; and
these claims became permanent when
agreed to by England and the sultan
of Zanzibar - whose influence had
once extended over all Galliland and
Somaliland, and whose direct rule had
been restored in British East Africa
under British officials. Thus it will
be seen that the present divisions of
Somaliland are of very recent origin,
and the newest maps only have them
correctly marked.
Berbera may be considered the chief
port of British Somaliland and one
destined to be an important CONNER
cial center, when trade with the in
terror is upon a systematic and perma-
nent basis. The Importance of this
territory to the British in the event
of the perfection of railroad route
from the Mediterranean cannot be
Overestimated. Berbera, in addition
to being a center and a port for such
trade as has been developed with the
interior. has heret ofore been the chief
Quitting point for hunting and scien-
tifc expeditions. Mr.. \. d. Smith, who
led such an expedition into Somali-
land. says of the country:
"Somaliland may be roughly divided
into three parts as regards eleva ton
and climate. First the maritime
plain, the evils of which it would be
impossible to eXaggerate; then a
broad plateau extending inland some
80 miles at an elevation of $500 feet,
where the atmosphere is dry and not
uncomfortably hot; and after this
the highlands, or second plateau, en-
bracing all the central part of Somali-
land, where the aneroid will register
from 1000 to 5000 feet above. the sea
level"
MILTON MARKS.
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EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS TO COOL
Lava streams from Mexican Volcano,
JoruIIo, still Hot Beneath
the Surface.

1t is scientifically reported that the
lava streams from Vesuvius in 1858
were so hot 10 years later that steam
was issuing from the cracks and crew
ices. while the lava beds from the erup-
ton of Etna in 1887 were found to be
steaming hot just below the top crust
as late as 1S4o, says Stray Stories.
But still more remarkable are the
scientific reports of the volcano
JoruIIo. in Mexico. This sent forth
immense streams of lava in 1859. In
1880 the lava beds were examined by a
party of scientists, and it was found
that stick thrust into the crevices in
stantIy ignited, although there was
no discomfort experienced in walking
on the hardened crust.
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the Egyptian Soudan empire. In fact,
it is from the fall of this empire that
the Somaliland protectorates may be
said to take form. All before that
had been rather vague claims to ter
ritory of underlined extent, by France,
Great Britain and Italy.
After the esta blishment of an eff
fective protectorate in Egypt Britain
began to see the advantage of COM
ing to a definite decision concerning
a strip of territory on the Som9Ii
coast as a commercial base. In 1894,
therefore, Great Britain announced a
protectorate over some $4,000 square
miles of territory and fortified the
ports Of Zeyla, Bulhar and Berbera
with garrisons of Indian troops under
British officers.
In 1870 Italy had begun to send her
expeditions into Somaliland and Abys-
sinia in much the same syst emless way
of the other powers except that Italy
probably had the best notion ct the
value of the country as colonial pos
session and also had the greatest de-
lis upon IL. IL IuI LLNl ~
which contemplated the esta bllsh-
ment of a protectorate over Aoys-
sinia, she purchased a coaling station
at Assab bay, on the Red sea. When
Egypt fell, the Italians rapidly extend
ed their occupation north and south
from this station. As result OF TINS
expansion the Italians secured a strip
which is now known as Eritreo. Tins
was chiefly valuable as the approach
to Abyssinia-a matter which the
Abyssinia1s fully appreciated, for
they soon rose in rebellion over the
implied insult. A war seemed immi-
nent, but the conflict was temporarily
prevented by Great Britain, which,
with Germany, officially recognized
the Italian protectorate over Abys-
sinia. But this compact the Russians
and French refused to acknowledge
or sustain. The Abyssinians' chafed
under this condition of affairs until
1896. when they again rose against the
Italians, whose army they met and
so severely defeated that all idea of
an Italian protectorate was aban-
dOned, and the boundaries of the Ital-
ian prOtectOrate was abandoned
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Tt is the opportunity of the mil
liners. Two or three thousand of
them at least visit the garden and
study the gowns of rich and famous
women. There is no danger of get
ting the great names mixed. The
newspapers considerably publish the
names and numbers of the boxhold-
ers. You hear women disputing
about them in shrill voices, audible
to the subjects of their discussion:
mo, Jenny, that's Mrs. Gould; see,
the list says No. 81. You've got
things mixed up
NO, l tell you it's Mrs. -. /
don't know, though. Maybe she's
sent one of her poor relatives to-
night. My, amt she homely?"
"Oh, you're right. That must be
Mrs. Gould right up there"
Pleasant, isn't it? And absurd?
If Macaulay's intelligent New Zeal
ander reads literal description of
the New York horse show he won't
believe it'll
Yet there'H be something worth
seeing, too, in the ring. Any one
who has watched Heatherbloom go
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TRUST GOODS SEIZED.
Illegally Packed Cigarettes Are Com
fiscated in Chicago by the Gov
eminent officials.

Chicago, Nov. 1O.-Confiscation of il
legally packed cigarettes, most of
which are trust-madA goods, is being
made in Chicago by agents of the in
ternal revenue department under in
structions from Washington. Dealers
and distributors of such goods are
stampeded. Over 100000 paper
pipes" have already been impounded
by A. L. Davis, of Ohio, and H. n.
Schlosse, deputy in the office of Hen
~ L. Hertz, collector of internal rev
enue, and Saturday additional quanti-
ties were seized.
The work will occupy the attention
of the revenue agents for about a
month and meantime they will collect
evidence upon which to base prosecu-
tions in New York and other places.
While tobacco depots are being
searched in Chicago other revenue
agents are working elsewhere through
out the country
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SLEEPING GIRL DEAD.
Nellie COrcoran, Who Puzzled New
York Doctors. Dies After Twenty
Days in Coma.

New York, Nov. 1O.-Nellie Cor.
coran, who for 20 days lay in a mys-
terious state of coma in st. Vincent's
hospital, died early Saturday. Her
case was an extremely puzzling one
to medical practitioners throughout
the city. The girl fell into her state
of unconsciousness October Is at the
house where she was employed as a
servant. At the hospital where she
was taken heroic efforts to determine
the cause of her condition met with
little success.
Hundreds of physicians examined
her and every known method was
tried to awaken her, but with little
success. Two or three times she was
aroused and spoke a few words, say
ing she. was sleepy, and again became
unconscious.
Electricity was applied and in hard
doses, but ineffectively. Neurologists
and pthologists tried to diagnose the
girls condition, but could not. Spe-
cialists of nearly every medical field
were called in, but they arrived at
no conclusions as to the cause of the
coma or it's proper diagnosis.
1t was even suggested that some
enc had hypnotized her, and efforts
to throw off such spell were made,
but to no purpose. Her temperature
increased rapidly, she became ema-
ciated and finally stopped breathing
after having slept continuously 20
days.
An autopsy will be performed by
one of the city's leading physicians
in an effort to solve the mysterious
cause of the girls death
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Dies Shielding Her Mother.

IGan attempt to protect her mother
from being assaulted by her step
father, Myrtle Boyle, little miss of
II years, sacrificed her life. The trag-
edy was enacted at the home of John
McFarlane, the stepfather, in Ashland.
HcFarlane quarreled with his wife
and threw lighted lamp at her.
Myrtle, noticing the action, jumped
in front of her mother and the lamp
struck her in the chest The oil from
the lamp spread over her clothing and
Immediately she was surrounded by
flames and burned to death.
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For the first time in the history of
Wisconsin women entered the polling
places and cast their ballots at the
last election Under a law passed at
the last session of the legislature
women were given the right to vote
on school questions and for the can
didates for school offices. Hence they
voted for the state superintendent OF
schools. the county superintendent OF
schools, and on an. amendment chang
ing the term of Office for school SUI
perintendent of schools.
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1Ndlll, bOD LII - 'SSSSS'S'' -
coin, a Harvard rr'"'e'0"'
man himself; Wayne MacVeagh. j. p.
Morgan, Park Goodwin and half dozen
bishops.
The campus these men marched
throughis the most beautiful in Amer
lea. Harvard has more buildings, but
some are away in Boston, others are
in Cambridge, but crowded off the
grounds, and those which huddle to-
gether there are badly crowded.
Princeton's 40 buildings are finely
spaced, and beyond them is Brokaw
field, given in honor of a Princeton
boy who lost his life from drowning
on the Jersey coast.
Mr.. Cleveland is the most popular
resident of Princeton. He is by all
odds the most famous, but the town
is so small and peopled by persons
of such good sense that no one follows
him about as if he were Bob Ftzim
mons on Park Row in New York. Col
lege boys touch their hats to him re-
spectfully, merchants say "Good-day,
Mr.. Cleveland" when the burly figure
passes along. That's all. The express
ident always attends the football
games, and there the boys give him
bit of good-natured cheering. Twice
year he lectures to them; the sub
jects and the style are dry, but the
attendance is full
Mr.. Cleveland's home life is that OF
other retired lawyers of modest but
sufficient means. The former county
Judge in any of thousand American
villages lives in such fashion. His
house is plain, not large beyond its
needs. His horses are serviceable and
few. In one respect his surroundings
are unusual. Few men of his age are
blessed with such handsome group
of children as make the old house
their headquarters.
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DoukhobOrs COraIed.

Mnnedosa, Man, Nov. 1O.-After
one of the most exciting incidents in
the history of the northwest, the
Doukhobor fanatics have been forci-
bly, entrained, loaded in cars like cat
tie, and were guarded by large de-
tachment of mounted police, who were
kept busy preventing the guarded
Russians from throwing themselves
from the car windows. A military
special of ten coaches left here with
the army at ten o'clock and unloaded it
at Yorkton early to-day. The mount
ed police will drive the Doukhobors
to their northern villages, ending per-
haps the most remarkable experience
in Canadian history.
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Girl Stabbed

Mary Larsen, aged 13 years, was
stabbed and perhaps fatally injured
in Kenosha by Herman Braem, an
11-year-old boy. The two children
were walking home from school.
when the Braem boy got to quar-
reling and struck at her with a
knife, which entered her body just
under the left shoulder blade, pene-
trating the lung.
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Again, some 40 years after the erup-
ton, it was visited by scientists and
reported to be steaming in many
places, and even 81 years after the
eruption two columns of steamiHg va
por were found to be issuing from the
crevices. Sometimes the upper crust
plants and lichens make precarious
growth on the surface, while a few
feet beneath the lava is almost red
hot
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Lnmned on the Rrfdce

New York. Nov. 10.-An unidentified
man killed himself by jumping off the
Brooklyn bridge into the East river
Many persons saw the man suddenly
climb the high railing and throw him
self down, head foremost. He APP
peared to be about 25 years old. The
BODY has not been recovered.
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Peculiar Accid emit.

Michael Peplinsli, eight years old,
of Milwaukee, met death in peculiar
manner. His body was found pinned
between huge wagon and pile of
lumber. He was playing on the wagon
and when the driver backed it against
the lumber pile for the night the child
was caught there and his chest caved
in so that he could make no cutlery
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Killed His Father.

George Bowers, Sr., "A years old, died
in Waukesha after an assault by his
son, George Bowers, Jr., SO years old.
Young Bowers also seriously injured
his mother. The son returned from
Milwaukee quarrelsome and began to
smash furniture. He then attacked
his parents with cordwood stick. He
was arrested.
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about the great
ring with their
backs to it and
their g a p j n G
mouths turned
full upon t h e
boxes, w h e r e
w j t h i n plainest
view and illumed
by pitiless cleo
trio light, the
leaders of society
will sit on view, it
is safe to say. So
it has always
hpan
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wisconsin ConEressmen.

The state sends the following dele
CATION to the Fifty-eighth congress.
All are republicans except in the
Sixth district: First district, H. a.
Cooper; Second, II. c. Adams; Third
j. w. Babcock; Fourth, Theobald OF
ien; Fifth, w. H. Stafford; Sixth, c. III.
Weisse; Seventh, j. j. Esch; Eighth,
j. H. Davidson; Ninth, f. S. Minor;
Tenth, w. f. Brown; Eleventh, j. j.
Jenk ins.
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over a bar-seven feet five inches he
topped at Philadelphia, and he can
do better if he wants to-will go 4
good distance to see him try again.
And if Hewlett again gives his mar
velous exhibition of driving a four-in-
hand about in figure Fights, grazing
posts, missing obstacles, it will be
worth looking at.
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Sized Tn.

Mrs. Nagg latter visiting Mrs. Mex
dore)-Mr. NeXdore's salary is more
than $4,000 year.
Mrs. Nagg-Indaed?
Eyes, and I'd just like to know why
1 shouldn't be able to say the same
Of you"
''Simply because you're more truth
Jul than your neighbors, my dear
Catholic Standard and Times.
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Austin, Tex. Nov. 10.-A dispatch
from Guadalajara. Mexico. says that
a violent eruption of Colima volcano is
threatened and the people living in the
valleys at the base of the mountain
are fleeing to Manzanillo and other
DointS of safety