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...Abyssinia or Ethiopia, comprising the Kingdoms of Tigre, Amhara, Gojam and Shoa, survives as the one potent aboriginal state in all Africa. There human slavery still flourishes. There the most trifling jubilation provides an excuse for tearing out the entrails of a living cow, that they may be gorged raw by old and young, washed down with brimming cups of mese (mead) or bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House...
...sounded more like the real motive underlying his bill. He called attention to a Department of Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands to be acquired in tracts greater than 2,500 acres...
Krim Comes. At 5:00 on a raw chill morning last week the French sentry at Ize Marouene, an outpost north of Targuist, spied a cloud of dust which resolved itself into eight mounted men. Two were French officers, four were native riflemen. In their midst rode two portly figures in loose Riffian garments. One was the Sherif Hamedou Quedzani, chief of the Sanadas tribe, the envoy through whom the final details of submission had been negotiated. The second Riffian, a plump but well knit man with a shrewd impassive face and hard luminous eyes, was of course Mohammed...
...Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White Club because it admitted to its tournaments, on equal terms with nobility's whitest cockades, such raw cuts of butchers' meat as that which now faced him across the net. Wetzel said nothing. He was so angry now that he could not speak, nor could he see the ball. Nobility won the set 9-7 and changed courts for the third, remarking, as he sniffed...
Next in order came unmanufactured wool, dressed and undressed furs, standard newsprint paper, with raw hides and skins other than furs eighth on the list...