Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1924, Page 76

Z THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., 'APRIL 6, 1924—PART 5. Modern Noah’s Ark Is Lashed at Sea While Facing Furious Gale Bagsing SIX(een wepounis s no mean achievement even for 50 famovs & wild enimal trapper and trainer as Chares Mayer, yet he succeeded in doing it, and the facility with which he accomplished this feat was described last week. By using tame elephants to bump and pum- mel with their trunks and knock down and hold the fighting bull of the herd, Mr. Mayer's men man- aged to get ropes around his feet, whereby they cuused the beast to move against hix will by hauling aheud one huge foot ufter the other with rattan lines passed around the stakes This is the third ofw new seri of articles by Mr. Mayer dealing with his many vears' experlences in Malaya, Sumatra and Born Barely had he broken the splirit of the big bull elephant in question when he received a summons from of Siam to report at Bangkok for an important assign- wment By CHARL COMMISSION from the Kin Sinm was @ big stroke of luck for any man. If the king had contidence in him, he was hand and the order to was delighted. letter 1 38 MAYER given a free spare no expense. | therefore, when | got & Mr. John Anderson, the z pore, telling me that a royal gift of wild animals was to sent from Siam to Alfonso of Spain, and that I was to be responsible for them. 1 decided to Ko to Bangkok, to see that the animals were started right and to stick by them every foot of the way. The commission fell in well with my general plans. The monsoon sea- son would soon be breaking, and this always stopped my business of ani- mal shipping. I liked to spend the winters in Burope, and usually man- aged to do it When I got back to Singapore after my successful round-up of elephants, 1 found out that a small coast steam- er was leaving for Bangkok the next day 1 had & fine trip 1o Bang ing there in four days. Th was away al the time. He imabit of going on short trips to pore and Java. So I conducted regotiations in regard to the wild an- fmnals with Prince Damrong, the brother of the king, who had the title of minister of the interior. Tt was arranged that I was to have $2,500 Mexican for my work, all ex- nses paid, and first-class passage to Spain and back to Singapore. He re- ferred to a successful delivery of ani- mals 1 had made for the king, years before, to the old Austrian emperor. When I inspected the present ship- ment I found that it consisted of two tigers—fine big ones—six leopards, four of them spotted and two black fellows; one tapir, four civet cats and four small tiger eats, two gibbous ind twenty other monkeys, some of them long-tailed and some pig-tailed. Enough there to start a small zoo. There is a great variety of animals to be found in Siam, and they have been sgent as royal presents all over iurope. Queen Victoria got her share and Edward VII and even the late Czar of Russia—cat animals can stand a great deal of cold. * % % THE animals of which T was to take charge were housed in a shed in the courtyard of the prison. They ‘were in cages ridiculous from a ship- per's point of view—great iron things with balf-rotten wooden bottoms. A tingle leopard, for example, was in. be ok closed in a space six feet by six feet, | made of iron bars not much more than an inch apart! There was enough room for the animal to injure himself in a half dozen ways, the floor on which he stood was unfit for travel and the weight of the whole thing absurd. 1 should be obliged to transship the animals at Singapore, where local steamers lie out in the roads. I should have to have the cages loaded on lighters, unloaded on shore. put on bulleck carts and loaded again on to a big liner for their trip to Burope. Where this sort of handling is neces- sary, every added pound means added danger. Tt was no wonder that the King of Siam had had bad luck with his shipments. T decided to have the best Chinese earpenter I could get hold of make an entirely new set of cages, and do 1t quickly. 1 made a diagram and let it be un- @erstood that the order was for the king. The cages were to be of heavy seraia wood, one and & half inches thick—top, sides and bottom—and the ends closed with eme-inch iron bars, They were to be sufficiently high to allow the animal to stand, but not wide enough for him to turn round in. Hach beast was to have a separate cage, except the monkeys which were put into two large boxes, ome for the long-tailed and one for the short-talled variety. there must be enough space to climb about in, but with the cat animals a narrow eage, while they are on the road, gives the best results. The beasts are stiff for a time when they arrive, but they soon limber up. I had wooden covers made to be used over the barred ends of the cages while they were being handled. Air holes were bored in these. Where Cactus Is King ‘N no other place in the United States perhaps is there such a dense and riotous growth of plants and shrubs of the thorny varieti as in the lower valley of the Rio Grande. It is only a few years since the agricultural development of this ¥ 1who got it from a Chinese, that the For monkeys ! o transter a wild animal from one cuage (0 unother 5 a simple matter, Fo0d is placed on the floor of the new cagn and this is backed up to the open end of the old one, the bars are lifted and the beast walks into his new quurters, Nothing could be casier, and yet at the time of which I am writing 1 still felt twinges from | an almost fata! that Lap- |pened to me when I was putting an utan into a larger py 1 house at Singapore t of fuil Tt of feliow, age at s ju t she own. i His favorite was In bis new was pushed up wgainst | 1 was on top of this, burs to let him move UL The iron sockets were rysty. and | I had some trouble in shaking the | lbars loose. At last there was only | pIefl but that was stuck fast. While | ‘l wag trying to shake it free with {both hands, my left hand fortu- nately grasping and covering the end of it, suddenly the thing shot up d—my hand still covering the end— ¢ Mut wgwins: the side | and sent me rolling, un- | conscious, off the cuge VW UAT had happencd was this: The orang, having watched wme pull up the other bars, caught the idea of what | was trying to do. He fmpatient tu get at that tempting cnion, he grabbed the bar and shot it up. If my hand had not been {over the top of it he would have killed | | mé. Certainly the beast had dreadful | strength. My nose is still crooked as | mark of it, It {5 just this unex-| | pected thing that is alway; lmppcn-; | ing with animals. 1 | The finished cages arrived from the | Chinese carpenter shop on hullock | {carts. The carts were drawn by pris- | | omers ot another class—shackied ana | | voked together two and two. They | | were really loaned by the street-| ‘leaning department. For one year ! | they were condemned to draw a bul- | {lock cart, after which they would be | |put to death. This was the punish- | Iment for two offenses—murder and | gang robbery There was much shouting and jok- ing as the first cages were delivered, and I found out through Hsi Chu 1, | a lurge onion, which d cage pulling up the was nen who drew the carts were to be | executed the next day. “They make ! :jnhva, sir,” he said, “because tomor- | | row these men will have a fine feast; | more than they can hold, sir.’ The next day I heard so much talk of “execution” that I decided to stop | work long enough to it. The ! Siamese made a sort of holiday of it This was te be a three-day festival Thirty-six men in.all were to be [lul’ { to death, twelve a day. Squatting in | !an open pavilion, with all their rela- | jtives and friends squatting around | | them, they were given their last meal. ! All sorts of food and delicacies were brought, and every one concerned had ia “grand feed.” At the appointed hour !the procession formed to walk through |the town from the pavilion to the execution grounds, which were about ! 2 mile away and near the palace. | After the execution it was difficult ‘iar me to get my mind down to the {recaging of the animals, but it was finished without mishaps. The wood- | | en coverings were put over the ends lof the cages, which were loaded into bullock carts. There were plenty of condemned men left, it seemed, to do the street-cleaning work of Bangkok | {and the department still had men to | lend. Two in front of the bullock } carts and two behind, yoked together, they pushed and pulled the king's animals to the dock, where the Poo {Ann was waiting. | 1 had not got within sight of her| |before I knew she had copra on beard. Copra is the meat of coconuts, | | taken out and sun-dried. To the oc- | | cidental nose it has almost the mean- | | est smell on earth. Blachan (rotted ! ifish), the oriental delicacy, has the worst, but copra is worse than the. durian, which deserves its name, | “stinking durian” given to it by ! travelers from the west. All these ithings are perfumery to a native. | There were sixty tons of copra in the | 1ear hatch of the Poo Ann. | She was also carrying a consign- i ment of beef bullocks, one hundred in | \all, Jo the Singapore market, and the | 1ast of these were just being loaded | as we ecame up with our cages. A sling was put about the horns of the | 1 bullocks and the animals were hoist- | !ed into the air and dropped down on | | the main deck. They were tied to the outside rail by a rope that went through their rattan nose rings. My animal cages were hoisted on board and lashed to the hatch that was amidships. 1saw to it that they were | |firm and that they were placed so | that the beasts could be easily fed, | watered and eleaned. Since there were | eighteen cages in all, this required ome ingenuity. * ¥ * 'HEN the animals had been set- { tled, the human cargo came !aboard. There must have been almost 2 hundred men and women and a few | children, all Malays, going back te ! Singapore. They carried their be- longings and food, done up for the imost part in bundles. A few small boxes tucked under their arms served | see broad scope of territory in far south- . ern Texas was begun. A compara- tively small part of the land has as yet been cleared and on every side of it is to be-seen the primitive wilderness of giant prickly pear and many other species of the cagctus family, interspersed here and there with towering yucca trees, or Span- 1sh dsgger, a5 they are commenly oalied; nut palms, . meaguite aheny trees and other vegetati & semi-tropical character, places this growth is so dense as to s Impregnable except by following the narrow goat and wild animal piis that wind tirough it. Many ef the prickly pear plants are fifteen to twenty-five feet high. Whey bear an enormous amount of fruit, known as the tuna, each year. This fruit .is a delicacy for the myriads of birds and other amimal life that make thelr homes in the ehaparral It is also relished by the | bunocks With Wild Beasts of Jungle, Presents From King of Siam to Alfonso of Spain, Noted Animal Trainer Sets Out From Bangkok in Steamer Which Is Described as Decrepit Old Tub—Unusual Display of Nerve Made by Malay Sailor Who Undertakes to Conquer Enraged Beasts in the Midst of Turmoil—Tiger Begins to Howl Qut Its Wretchedness and Then Is Joined by the Other Cats Aboard-Ship. for seats or for pillows. They we all crowded on to the upper deck at the stern. There was absolutely 1 acgommodation for them, not even room enough to stretch out d Kleep. They were to be given water and rice, nothing They were just to sit there the canvas awning for five days, 1 had made provision | than this for my anin The | keys were not only to have rice, but | yams, either raw or half cooked, and | oniens, which all monkeys love. For the tapir T had brought large quanti- ties of jack fruit, which often BTOWS | two and a half feet ng and eighteen | inches thick. The tapir 1o very timid, LUt he 1s wn enormous exter. There was no diffficulty in providing for my cut unimals with u hundred on bourd, We hud hardly started before (he Chinese buteher hit one over the head with a hummer. Since my meut eaters were closely contined, gave then sulphur with their beef. T had a turpuulin spread uver the cages and kept it wet for coolness Hsl Chu I, my Chinese “boy." un-‘i derstood what the animals needed al- | most as well as I did. [t was safe| enough to leave him In charge, with | a man or two under him to do the | work, This left me free to play crib- | under much better I mon- “BULLOCK: bage with the English captain. | knew him well and liked him. Busk, | his name was. I shared his cabin with him. He wanted to play cribbage from morning till night. We were at it_before we had finished steaming dd%wn the Menam river, and when we got out into the Gulf of Siam we were still_saying, “Fifteen, two: fifteen, four.” It was the first week in November. The northeast monsoons had already broken, but it was too early in the | season to look for any serious trou- ble. It was the second day out that | 1 heard one of the tigers give a long, sickly yowl. “Mayer,” the captain said, “we are going to have some dirty weather, and that tiger knows it.” “He's seasick,” T answered, “that's &ll that's the matter with him."” "Well, he's not as seasick now as he's going to be. He'll be a sailor tiger before he gets out of this.” T thought I would take a look st the monkeys. Some of them were echattering, but most of them had their eyes shut, and their heads were nodding. I had an enion in my hand. Even the chatterers took very little notice of it. Some of them were holding their stomachs. In the other cages there were a lot of sick cats. * ] WENT to find Hsi Chu I He was doubled up in the mate's bunk. I decided to lie down for a while. When I got up the wind was rising. I went to the cabin and found the captain busy there. Most of his clothes were thrown around. “Getting ready asked him. “Yes, & of a party!” 1saw then what he was doing. He had taken out all his bottles of whis- ky and gin and was wrapping them in his clothes and ramming them tight into his locker drawer. He shut it with a bang, turned the key and went out without another word. T threw myself down on my berth. Y for a party?™ I | Every minutp the wind grew worse. We were going before it. It was plain that Busk was afraid to turn and face the storm. Above the roar I heard the sound of screaming from the stern. The canvas covering had been torn away from the rear deck. The passengers were now exposed to the wind and rain. My animals seemed to recover from their first stupor. One of the tigers la little water from a stone filter. | We planted out f AND C FULL OF HOWLI began to howl out his wretchedness. the other cats joined in. But the wind rose still higher and made it impossible at last to distinguish be- tween the sounds of the storm, the yowling of the beasts and the eries of the deck passengers. In the middle of the third night T turned over in my bunk and saw the captain on the floor with his ehart, trying to find out where he was. “Where are we?' I yelled at him. “If it keeps on, man, we'll land in Borneo or Australia!” He rolled up his chart and lurched over to a five-pound tin of biscuits. He took a handful of them and drew I undid the straps that held me in the bunk, crawled out and got down on the floor. I braced my back against the locker drawers. The captain leaned against the side of the cabin. t together to keep us from pitching onto each other and began a long, slow “feed.” We Soon {were still grinding biscuits when day- light eame. The Malay mate put his head in at the door. The wind blew in with him and he held on to the door frame. But even in his struggle to stand up he managed to salute the captain. It struck me as funny. “Trouble, captain!” he shouted. “What—more trouble?” the captain bawled at him. b “Bullocks!” he screamed back. ‘Some are loose, sir. Legs broken. Sliding over deck. Knocking down everything. Breaking legs of others.” “Mayer,” Busk yelled at me, “those oxen are going to smash this old iron secow!” He acted, somehow, as if 1 were responsible. His feet pushed mine as if he wanted to ram me into the locker. “Get them overboard,” he roared. “How do it sir?” yelled the mate. “Throw every bullock into the sea.” * F K * \HE situation was so bad that it did one thing for me. It made me forget to be seasick. I pulled myself out on the bridge, where I could see what wap going on below. Bellowing cattle were rolling over the deck and pounding into each other and into the boat. It would Have been death for any sailor to go in among them. But I saw one fel- low erawling along the rail, and I then observed that a long rope was tied to him under the armpits and il BEASTS WERE IN A SLUEING that two standing not far from me on the Lridge, were holding the end of it. A hammer was tied to his wrist, and he was Eoing to try to open the gang- way. Idon't believe any but u Malay sailor would have made the attempt. While I was watching him he BY PHILIP . KAUPFMA Stafl Correspendent. LUXOR, March 6. USTOMS and traditions of thousands of years gone by were re-enacted in the offi- cial opening of Tut-Ankh- Amen’s tomb, whiech has been closed since February 22 and padlocked by the Egyptian government, for the first view fhe high dignitaries and foreign officials In Egypt have had of the world-famous sarcophagus. The quiet little town of Lusor, basking in the sun on the banks of the majestic Nile, was astir with ex- citement and hubbub from daybreak this morning, in preparation for the most illustrious assemblage that has ever gathered at any time here, as no archeological discavery has been s0 important to the Egyptian govern- ment, and the finding of no previous tomb has ever brought together such an official gathering for its commem- oration as assembled here this morning. At the invitation of the govern- ment all the mest illustrious sheiks of Egypt, the Egyptian ministers, members of the cowncil and other Egyptian statesmen, all the foreign ministers stationed at Cairo, Gen. Allenby, British high commissioner in Egypt, and ranking Egyptian army officers, together with their wives, arrived by special train as guests of the government at an early hour this morning, and shortly after lunch were taken to a great silk pavilion, erected near the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen. During the afterncen each had an opportunity to see the magnificent golden coffin lying in state. In the evening there wers speeches and 3 magnificent display of fireworks im- ported from Switserland. From daybreak crowds thronged in the streets and schoolboys were formed into gayly colored eompanies, practicing cheers for the arrival of the dignitaries. During the walt the crowds were kept amused by excellent feats of horseback riding by natives on Arab ponles, with long sticks, putting their horses through clever capers and fancy steps, much to the amusement musicians playing weird Arabic strains. Then, a{ the arrival of the officials, was staged a barbaric, eruel and cold-blooded spectacle, such as one would scarcely expect to see any- where within the whole civilized world in this twentieth century. * k%2 HE town bad bean gayly desprated. Japanese lanterns hung along the main street running beside the banks of the Nile, and poles erected along the way decked with palm leayes and colored ribbons, all very tawdry, but very festive and gay. 1 ‘When the procession of gutomoblles besring high efficials of the Egyptian government reached the archway that had been erected across the main strest great srowds of patives surged forts, surrepnding them and step- ping thelr grogroms. Into the midst of %o meb ywre other sailors, who were|slipped and fell of tha hundreds of natives, and by . SLIDING MASS."” into the sea. men on the bridge hauled him back. This time he reached the gangway. When his side of the boat was high he hammered on the iron pins that held the door fast. I could not see that he was making any progress until suddenly the door swung back dragged two oxenm, amid tumultuous checring and yelling. The animals were thrown to the ground, and butchers with long knives pushed their way through the mob and with one great hack after another chopped the heads completely off the strug- gling, bellowing beasts, blood spurt- ing in every direction. At the sight of this the crowds went mad with excitement, smeared their faces with blood of the slain animals, went into a perfect frenzy and be- sieged the carriages of the officials, clambering ail over them, yelling and shouting at the top of their voices. This was supposed to be a sacrifi- cial offering, following the customs of religious rites cf 5,000 years ago, but in truth it was the most revolting and disgusting sight imaginable. There was nothing ceremonial about it, there was no altar, nor any sem- blance of sacrificing. The main object seemed to be to get it done and done rapidly, and with the howling mob all about it appeared to be morye of a barbaric orgy than the opening ceremonies on a festive occasion in a nation civilized enough to attempt self-government and take its place among the nations of the ‘world. True enough, the oxen were later quartered, one leg being sent to the mosque and the rest given to the poor, an ancient Mohammedan cus- tom, but this was the only sembiance | to a sacrificial offering. At first sight of the affair officials in the foremost car arose as if to pro- test, but seemed to think better of it and sat down, watching the spectacle in unprotesting silence. All of this took place within sight of the luxurious Luxor Winter Palace Hotel, where aristocratic visiters from all over the world spend their winters. _Hundreds of sensitive el- derly women from America, England and the continent might easily have seen this gruesome sight from their ‘windows, but fortunately it was too early for them to be abroad. * X ¥ ¥ FTER luncheon the party was conducted across the Nile in a 8ayly bedecked side-wheeler, where thirty gutos, especially imparted from Cairo, were waiting to take the vis- itors acros: country into the desolate Valley of the Kings, where all the Pharaohs of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twen- tieth dynasties were buried in tombs carved out at the end of long tunnels into the mountain sides. Hrected on a stony hillside near the tomb was a great pavilion of magnifi- cent Egyptian hanging draperies, red and gold, with huge shields hung on the gides as decoration. Fifty or more tables were set for the 150 dignitaries and 20 pewspaper men present, Tea, iced drinks and a variety of delica- cies were served, and it was a cool and delightful looking oasis in the midst of sweltering desert land. Ministey of Public Works and Mme. Marcos Hanna Pacha were host and hestess at the reception, and it was a The ! five miles of hot, sandy | l and out went the bullocks that were | nearest to it There were four gangways on the Poo Ann, two on each side of the lower deck. One by one they were opened. Some of the poar bullocks that had life left in them, seeing their companions going through the open- ing, struggled toward them and dropped overboard. Now that the deck was partially cleared, four sailors ventured on to ;it and tried to work the dead and half dead animals toward the nearest sangway. Sometimes when they had pushed a bullock almost to an open- ing the roll of the boat would throw it back. I heard some awful sounds frqm m cages. They had begun to mov |about. They bumped one another, and then in a great slide, all together, slid along the deck, They began to beat and pound the old hoat 1 was not surprised to have Busk 1 | | ear, “Your z | or no kings Appalled and grieved as I was at this suggestion, there appeared to be no alternative. I was obliged to assent. Bullocks with broken legs and eages full of howling beasts were in & sloing, sliding mass. All hands were called out to help the Poo Ann rid herself of her half-living cargo. 00 hus got to go, kings it was the roll of the boat and the open gangways that did most to clear |the deck. One by one my seraia | cages bumped, slid or were pushed into the China Sea. They floated, of course. I could see some of them bobbing about on the waves. 1 watched them for a while And then went back to my bunk. * % * J STRAPPED myselt in and lay there Every now and then I would pull m; | self out for water and to chew a few biscuits. Half the time the captain was in the room with me. I didn't | know whether it was day or night | when T heard his angry voice talking to the Scotch engineer. The storm had calmed down a little, and they ldid not need to yell themselves | hoarse. The Scotchman had come to say that the coal was almost gone. “Burn wood,” Busk was ordering. “Burn that door, burn the sides of the bunks; burn everything." That was no solution, and the Scotchman knew ,it. The captain knew it. too. There was not enough wood on that old iron steamer carry us ten knots. But, useless as the idea was, sailors came with an ax and carried the door away. | When it was gone a whiff of dis- gusting odor was blown in to me. It seemed to lift me right out of my tumes of every eastern nation and totally alien in appearance to the surrounding land. During tea the guests were taken into the tomb, seven or eight at a time, for ad inspection, the first to enter being the American minister, Dr. Howell, and his guests, Dr. Oscar Straus, former ambassador to Turkey, and Mrs, Straus. . To any one reading for months past of the splendors of Tut-dnkh-Amen's disappointing. The entrance, which was found right in the middle of the road, directly beneath the tunneled grave of Rameses VI, the excavated ankh-Amen’s tomb, kept it success- fully hidden for over 3,200 years, is not imposing. of steps leading to a hole in the side of a mountain, guarded by a wooden door similar to dozens of other tombs in the valley. The tunnel is a steep rations. Other tombs in the valley have en- trance tunnels.as long as 300 feet, completely carved and painted. The tiny antechamber is now filled by a railed-in platform to view the cophagus from. It scarcely large enough to hold one-tenth of the fabulous amount of furnishings that have been taken from it. At present the fourth or inmost shrine is still in place around the golden coffin with glass over it Pieces from the outer shrines are still leaning against the walls, heavily wrapped in cotton. With strong elec tric lights and all the woodwork built around, the impression is as of seeing the sarcophagus lying in some {aleove In a museum. According to one of Howard Car- ter's assistants, who accompanied this correspondent and two other newspaper men inta the tomb, it will be impassible [leave the mummy in its present posi- tion, as was previously decided, be- cause of climatic conditions. The plan of the archeologists now Is to Xray the coffin and see if it contains jewels. If mot, it will be left in the gold case undisturbed. M. Pierre Lacau, director general of antiquities of Egypt, did the hon- ors in receiving the guests at the en- trance to the tomb. It was the first time that any distingnished visitor has ever been received by any ome except Howard Carter, the American discoverer, himself, and there was a | somewbat pathetic scene enacted | when each of the native workers j slipped quietly into the assembly and who were there for news of Carter. They all worship him. RING * % % DU all these festivities Carter was lost somewhere Cairo. Esgyptians say he is there “pouting.” Om the other hand, his friepds say he was simply shoved into the background. The truth is that the presant misundepstanding which inas arisen between Carter and.the Mr. come up behind me and bawl in my | The men did what they could, but | for hours in a sort of half doze.| to| tomb, the present sight is apt to be | earth from which, thrown over Tut- | 1t ig just a short flight | descent of thirty feet with no decc- | iasked the English correspondents | in! bunk. I went to-Jook for the captain and ran into him on the bridew. “Mayer,” he said, “this old tud king. She's beaten us™ Jopra!” 1 answéred. “Copra!™ He looked at me as if he thought I was cragy. ‘Burn it, man, bura jt!" “——!" he hollered. “why couldm't the mate have thought of that?" Then “Why couldn’t I have thought of it myself He eyed me rather sheep- ishly. “Mayer,” he said, “1 naver saw | copra burn. How does she act?" “Burns like candle grease.” He looked ax if 1 had handed him & thousund dollars, He | of fifty, but he ran aft 1y | The Poo Ann steamed iuto | pore two days late, belchin black smoke from the engines stoked | with cocoanut. “The Chinese sampans | gathered about to take us ashore, We | got into them, but the boats that had counted on cargo went back empty. We had left in the sea one hundred bullocks, thirty-nine wild animals and three deck passengers, carried over- bLoard when a bit of railing broke. I went into Mr. John Ander- jumped when he saw he cried thought The Poo Ann was re- is l you were dead. ported lost.” "She's out “but elghteen riding the waves.” T felt us robbed the king's treasury “Don’t pull such cried. “You ought ta be thankful to I be alive. I'm thankful you are, any way.” “If you feel that way about it.” I | answered, “I'm thankful, too.™ (Copyright, 1924.) Ivory From Tusks. ‘HE tusks of the long-buried mam- moths found on the shores of Arctic Siberia are used to make piano | keys, billiard balls and many erna ments for use in the United Statex | This enterprise is due to the fast- vanishing supply of the world's ivory |and the wholesale extinction of the African elephants, the tusks of whiel Ifor a long time furnished the greatest quantities of ivory. Some vears ago some nemadic Ya kut natives, who roam and hunt for the fur-bearing creatures in Aretic H Siberia, tho nds of miles from | elvilization, found the tusks of mammoth protruding from the ground | having been exposed by the melting cf the ice. These were brought on | their reindeer sledges to the town ¢ Yakuts, where they were quickly sold | to merchants who shipped them to the | great ivory market of London. There ithey were manufactured into piane keys, billiard balls and carvings of various kinds. | The bodies of these gigantic hairy ancestors of the el hant have been marvelously preserved for millions of years by a perfect fre ng and ecold- | storage process through being buried in the frozen soil and covered by a shell of ice hundreds of feet in thick- ness. The mammoths died out by re gon of a change in physico-geograph ical conditio Their bodies were de posited in a cold region and gradually buried in loam said the cases roads.” 1 mals 1 hatl in a long face,” he Blood . Sacrifices Are Barbaric At Tut-Ankh-Amen Tomb O Speeches and Firewc’;rks Follflow View of Coffin pening unable to come to any agreement as to who is to receive the admission tax on visitors. Egyptians says that Car- ter already has asked too much, whereas his adherents maintain that any one who spent sixteen years in the sun-baked limestone cliffs of the | Valley. of the Kings, where literally not one blade of grass or even & sin= | gle shrub of any kind is growing any= where, is entitled to absolutely every- | thing. It was certainly I 1 only politic that under these circumstances Mr. Carter | should away on this occasion. As a matter of fact, politics played a |®Feat part in the ceremonies, de- e the fact that the inauguration | of the tomb was claimed to be purely |an official, social function. The king s not present, nor did he delegats one to represent him from the | valace. It is believed that this was done so that there should be no ques tion of precedence between his rep sentative and Gen. Allenby, the high commissioner. Gen. Allenby himself remained his private car until 3 in the after- noon, avoiding any possible demon stration on the part of the natfves He arrived at the tomb of Tut-an Amep at 4 o'clock, after all of the Egyptian dignitaries had had their view of- it, so that there could be no question of the right of precedence between him and any of them. From inquiry it was learned later that the demonstration made at the sacrificing of the oxen was of & pq- litical nature. When the.mab braks into a frenzied tumult the cries that went up in Arabic were, “Egypt.for the Egyptians,” “Freedom for Egym,” “Liberty for the Igyptigns" and shouts of a similar nature. 8 Saad Pacha Zagloul, the very papu- (lar leader of the natiomalist move- ment, who returned in December affer his release from prison in Gibraltar, was much in evidence and was given a great demonstration everywhere, crowds turning out at every town.on his trip from Cairo. Gen. Allenby was completely ignored. As a matter of fact, Egypt is ruling herself practically entirely at the present moment. Eyen though there are a few British troops left in the country, Great Britain has completdly turned over the reins of government to her former protege. This was learned from the most authoritative source in Calrg, and it dispreves sl stories that the British government is really pulling the strings and press- ing the buttops and acting as the power behind the throne. However, very few of the middle class and still fewer of the lower classes really ap- preciate this fact, and they are most apt to break put with a demonstra- tion against their supposed “Gppres- sors,” the British, at any time. | 'The sacrificing of the bulls wasiin [ reality a symbol of old Egypt,sana | showed, in a cruet manner, the desire !in the hearts of the matives for a return to. Bsyptian ryle and.return to the power that is their heritage most colorful social event, with eqos- | Bgyptisn government ia that they are | trom olden times.