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I Syria and Turkey, as well as of Egypt and other Mohammedan countries of North Africa. Such merchandise was tion to the elephants tusks, called white ivory.
 l Since Germany has gotten posse ssion of ] the mainland opposite here the ivory trade has been diverted to Oar es Salaam, and a large part of the product now goes there. This trade will increase with the building of the railroad, which is now being pushed on toward Lake Tangan- yika. It will go to Tabora and from there probably on to Ujiji. with a branch to the Victoria Nyanza. The shipping of Oar es Salaam is rapidly increasing. That port has good harbor and the largest steamers are now calling there. Queer African Natives.
 The Germans are rapidly exploring their colonies and they are finding some strange things away out here in the Afri- can wilds They have altogether seven or eight million of these natiy es in their part of the white mans burden, and they are divided up into many nations and tribes. Some of the most intelligent are about Tabora, and it is from there that the colony expects to get the labor to cultivate the plantations along the sea coast. The natives of that region have I king and subordinate chiefs and women are so highly regarded that they are sometimes elected as the chiefs of their respective villages. These people believe in spirits and they think that the dead live again as spirits. Every chief has hut in which the spirits are supposed to dwell.
 They have medicine men and witch doctors, and they think that good medi- cine man can change himself into a wild animal at will and thus torment his ene- mics.
 Education of the Negroes.
 The Germans are ruling these people to some extent through their chiefs, and they are establishing schools to teach them. The missionaries are also at work in different parts of German East Africa and the government has high schools and manual training schools with European teachers who use colored assistants This work is just beginning, but it promises to grow. Fifty-two colored teachers are already employed and the schools have several thousand pupils
 There are but few whites in the interior of that colony and almost none excepting officials In Tabora there are eight for eigrers. of whom six are military off cers. In Ujiji on Lake Tanganyiki, there are only four white men. Two are civ ilians one being a doctor and the other a trader At Usamburu, at the head of the lake there are four Europeans, and at Bismarckburg, on the southern end. there are only two. both of whom are officials. At Mwanza, on Lake Victoria, I found about 20 Europeans equally d-
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 1000 mammoth tusks were sold in the year 1872. At present the greater part of said ivory is going to China. It does not compare in quality with our elephant ivory, the greater part of it being poor. while some is absolutely worthless.
 Zanzibar Versus Oar es SaIaam.
 The Germans are now competing with the British for the transcontinental trade of Central Africa The old slave route began at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika. and came across German East Africa to Bog omoyo and thence by boat to Zanzibar The slave traders loaded their slaves with ivory tusks and made them carry them across country. When they got them here they sold both slaves and ivory to the Zanzibar merchants. In such cases many of the slaves were females, and were used to supply the harems of Arabia,
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villages and stored away. Ivory has al- ways been an evidence of wealth in Afri- ca and some of the petty African kings have piled up ivory as our misers hoard money at home. Some of them have bu- ried 1t near their villages and others have made stockades of ivory tusks about their dwellings. During recent years some Of such ivory has been gathered together.
 put there is said to be much buried yet to be unearthed In addition to this is the ivory of elephants which have died natural deaths This is composed of the enormous tusks of aged elephants which
 have dropped in their tracks or have been killed by lions or other wild beasts.
 Their bones lie where the huge animals fell. and the earth and leaves have cov- cred them so that they are frequently hidden from view. I am told that the pygmies have killed many elephants
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Africa, in 18S6 and was shipped from there to Hamburg It was almost 10 feet In length.
 The ivory dealers here tell me that the best Of the ivory goes to America, and that the second and third class tusks ara consumed in Europe The fourth grade ivory Is sent to East India for filigree work, and the poorest of all goes to cnina' where 1t is used for inlaying fur nlture ana poxes. The very best quality or ivory IS employed in making piano keys and fan sticks, and also for the iit- tie statuettes cut out bv the Japanese. Much of the product goes into billiard balls, knife handles, combs and fancy ar ticles. During visit once paid to shef- field, England, was shown about $100,- coo worth of ivory which had been brought 1hss to them ussS ssss knife handles: ,: ntS
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with poisoned arrows. but, not knowing the value of the tusks, have left them lie idle where they fell. Some of this dead ivory has been injured by the forest fires. but that imbedded in the mud or covered with vegetation is still of great value
 Elephant Meat.
 I met the other night an old elephant hunter who has made many thousands of dollars in ivory. He has not only shot elephants, but eaten them, and he tells me the meat is not at all bad A good sized animal often weighs much as five tons. and when one is killed the natives come in for miles around and have a great feast. They cut up the huge beast with axes and knives and tear the meat off in strips and smoke it as we smoke beef. They make elephant steaks and roasts, and they cook the trunks and feet in holes in the ground. The foot is considered a
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| day to form an ivory monopoly. A great part of the elephants still living are in the valley of the Kongo, and so many have died that 1t Is expected that ivory will grow more valuable from year to year. As it is now the amount sold brings in millions of dollars, and most of this comes from the auctions of Antwerp. In that city there are several hundred thou sand pounds of ivory on hand, and sales are made about four times a year. These sales are duly advertised and buyers from everywhere come in to attend them. The other chief markets are Liverpool and London.
 During a recent visit to the Colonial museum at Brussels I saw one of the heaviest elephants tusks ever found. It weighs over 200 pounds, and as I stood beside 1t it reached high above my head. The biggest ivory tusk ever discovered was brought to Tabora, in German East
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head has to be chopped to pieces to get it cut.
 In addition to the tusks the elephant has six great teeth inside it's mouth on each side its jaw above and below, and these are almost as firmly embedded as the tuszs themselves. The tusks are hollow about half way up. The smallest forms big load for a man, while one weighing 150 pounds requires four porters to carry it. Such men are paid from 35 cents a day for their labor, so that the cost of transportation is not heavy.
 Dead Ivory.
 Have you ever heard of dead ivory? There is a vast quantity of it still left in Africa, and thousands of pounds are shipped to the ports every year. Dead ivory comes from animals which have nea d natural death. or from tusks which have been gathered by the chiefs of the
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strips for this purpose. Tn such work every scrap of the material is saved, the shavings and dust being valuable for making ivory black or artists pigments.
 Mammoth Ivory.
 Some of the most remarkable ivory used within recent years is that which has come from the mammoths found in the tundras of Siberia. This is from hugo animals which lived years ago, but whose bones, protected by the frozen soil of Northern Asia, are as good today as when the animals died. It is even said that in some cases the entire carcasses of the mammoths have been found, their frozen flesh, skin and hair having been thus kept for three thousand of years. The first of the frozen ivory was found over 300 years ago, and about 70 years since the annual output was estimated at over 100000 pounds. It is said that more than
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delicacy. It is prepared by making a fire in hole and laying the foot on the burn ing coals. Some sticks are then placed over the month of the hole and a layer of green leaves is spread upon them. A thick deposit of earth is placed on top and the meat is allowed to cook and steam for several hours After it is taken cut the skin is removed, when the jelly like interior Is ready for eating. I am told that it is so tender that 1t can be scooped up with a spoon. The ordinary elephant steak is black in color and when cooked 1t looks and tastes a little like corned beef.
 A Great Ivory Trust.
 The European nations which have colo nies in Africa are trying to keep the elo- phants from being destroyed. This is es- pecially so of Belgium, which hopes some
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-09-12
Personal
and
Otherwise
Local Mention

The new addition TO Hotel
Parr is nearly completed.
We carry the best 10 be had Ia
shoes the Stilson-kellogg. O..
q. Lapp Co., Ltd.
j. q. Lynch is hauling material
10 build two residences on bis
lots across street from Mining
News Office
Fred Shissler has sold BIS
Peoples Meat market " Perry
Bros who took charge the irst
" the week
y. ~ falnier returned Non-
day from Stitee where he accom-
panlod Ms fainter 0n her Trip
NJ Illinois.
There WI be q b'g game n
hall IA busief base Dali park
SUNDAY by the Buster leaD aud
lAe 'lll Ciiy teaH
4 an n0b prepared ~ supply
ut Vla cusiomoIa nnN al| 0.tefH,
Wlih bread and a0 lalne Al fae
paY lln HhiHfN AuNHn
a. $500. 81 ..... ...I . al.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-09-12

C. E. Haffey and Mike Hogan
left Sunday on a hunting trip to
Salmon river and Chamberlain
basin.
The local store Of 0. c. Lapp
Co., Ltd, has installed q new
fire-proof safe that weighs 225O
pounds.
Mrs. J. S. Driscoll, sister Of
B. B. Scott, arrived Friday Of
last week from Reno, Nevada,
and will make Elk City her home
and assist her brother in the
store.
Billy Myers has on exhibition
at the Elk hotel a fine specimen
each Of elk and mountain sheep
heads whose owners We're victims
of Biliy's unerring shot when he
was on a recent hunting trip IN
the Salmon river country.
u. W. Conrad, a mining man
of Spokane interested IN the
Occur d'Alene district, here TO
report on properties, left Satur-
day after being IN the district a
week. Before coming here M.
Conrad had not b UGH faith in
central Idaho as e mining dis
trict, but now his ideas have
changed. Ne saw more ore in
the FIX City distrief than he bad
eyer seen in one district lie
thinks There Is . great future Tor
mining in central ldai0.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-09-12

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John Day country Oregon
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on d business tip ~ talIe Mon
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
WE'LL KNOWN
MANI ASStOAWAY
HARRY ROPP SUCcUMBS AFTER
LONG PERIOD OF Ill HEALTf
-INTERMENT AT LAWRENCE
VILE.

Harry Bopp, a we'll known young
man aged % years, died yesterday
afternoon at O'Clock, at his homo Sl9
Twenty-third street, after a long per
iod # i'll health. His final illness
however. confined him to his hom"
about ten days.
The decedeut is survived by his
mother Mrs. Josephine Bopp, five
brother. Alfred, Jesse, Fred, Otto an !
.Llyod and three sisters Miss Gertrude
Bopp of Cairo Mrs. Laura Shoulder 81
.Lawrenceyille. ILL.,, and Mrs. William
Eastridge Of Detroit, Mich.
The deccdent was an exemplary
v-ung man and was employed by the
Clark Danforth Handle company
The remains will be taken to Law
rcnceyille for interment in the family
hurying ground. leaving on the Biz
-Four train at O'Clock this morning
The Uniform Rank, Woodmen Of the
World. will accompany the body
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
UNION MEN WANT
NEW LEGISLATION
or FIREMEN AND
ENGINEERS SEND RESOLU-
TlONs TO SPEAKER CANNON
AND FAIRBANKS.

Washington March Come thou
sand delegates representing the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen
and Euglaemaa from thirty states,
concluded their meeting here today
and decided to hold the next meeting
It Altoona, Pa. on the fifth Sunday
in May Resolutions fayoring the
passage by congress of the Hemenvay-
Graf bill requiring the equipment OF
iocomtiyes with self dumping ash
pans; the La Notwithstanding employ
ers liability bill AMI such legislation
rs will prevent the abuse Of power of
injunction in labor disputes, were
adopted.
A resolution was also adopted oppos.
ing the Townsend bin providing for an
investigation Of controversies affect.
ing interstate commerce, which is De.
tla5rd to be Il measure aimed at gov
arnmyntal REGULATE n and control OF
abor disputes and a step in the direc
ti9n Of compulsory arbitration.
The resolutions will be- presented to
Speaker Cannon and Vice President
Fairbanks by a committee Of the or
.nization tomorrow. This afternoon
tie delegates were received by Presi
leAt Roosevelt at the White House
rhe reception being quite informal
NJ speeches We're made.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TO GOOD RESULTS
LACK OF ABILITY TO CON
TROL RESPONSIBLE FOR FAIL
URE AMONG TEACHERS.

Superintendent T. c. Clendenen OF
the Cairo Public Schools has the FOL
lowing in the Hin is School News Of
recent date:
The ability of n teacher to govern
and control should not be less than his
abaility 10 impart or instruct. Ii SO
instruction is weakened because @.
the distractions growing out OF mat
tention OF the large breed Cf disorders
that troop in iuattention's train. Col
onel Parker taught that government
and control had no place in the school
room. except that ensuing from active
school emplovments. There are many
supporters of this idea j. G.. keep the
children busy and the order viii take
care OF itselg. Ii is q beautiful theory
but the experience OF the great army
of successful teachers leads to a con
verse idea i. e. keep the children in
order and wisely employed and results
will be satisfactory
The better the order the stronger
1.-THE control of any teacher. Better
Icontrm secures better attention. Bet
tier attention gives more concentration
of mind upon the thing at hand. the
lefort will be more active and In con
Iseuuencc more enthusiastic. Activity
land enthusiasm are necessary factors
lin mind development Let MS have the
factors in their more intense form
The ability to control is q desirable
lquality in every teacher After de
Itermining the educational fitness Of an
Iapplicanr for a school room position
the next thing Of Importance is the
liability to govern.
"Many Of the scholarly fit are found
Ito be wanting in successful experience
that is to hold the children in order
land put them forward in school work
Every school board. board of directors
and supervisor looks upon disciplinary
ability as the one essential quality in
the teachers makeup And it Is saio
to be afact that want Of control-exe
cutiye ability-causes more failures
among teaching aspirants than all 9th
er wants combined. il is the one thina
no successful teacher is able TO i'm
part to a learner. It must be w-rke,
from within after being perceive,
clearly. It is largely q quality Of minr
and in time develops into ability O
lower or higher degree-markng the
degree Of success of the possessor.'
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
INSTITUTE NOW
IN SESSION HERE
w. C. T. u. or THREE COUNTIES
HOLD CONVENTION IN
CAIRO.
HAVE MEDAL CONTEST
Number of Earnest Women Here
Whose Motto is Fer God and
Home ard Native
Land"


The iIfN"uht} institute "' Tue "
&c. T. L, Of Alexander, Massac and PA
,1aski counties opened yesterday after
nm, ar tho First NJ i cb,rrb
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program as follows was ihiei'Slhb'
Praise Service,
HYMN.
or.a,;,ats,, - 1,.,i,n,a
r..7.tf,,s.- p. ,r,nn4,. presfJa,t
,f.. ,,,.r~,,,, r-aeborr,,
r,,,r,i+,... for IN, Institute were
..l.c,al as s,I,,,,s.
cn,,,r,itt,, an coyr+ae, -- Mos.
I'm, nnn.t,rt,. ami WOOD
IIor,ha,.sbtr con,,nitfas- \fssdames
ca11t..n Crianoo p,s..11 ana sony
.9arir,lico1 :. ,,zyitt,,a-,riss Katb-
,-,.p Sau-ya,. of Chiragn aoI Mrs Rur.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
ACCIDENT At
BRIDGE APPROACH
CLARK ARM STR o NC, HURT
WHILE TRYING TO BOARD
ILLINOIS CENTRAL FREIGHT
TRAIN

Clark Armstrong, a young man re-
siding at Mounds. was painfully in
jured yesterday afternoon abb ut 3:f5
O'Clock at the bridge approach while
trying to board Illinois Central extra
freight train. No. G. which was north
bound.
Armstrong was hurt about the head
and received other injuries the full
extent of which was not learned. He
was taken to Mounds on the suburban
and was ram we'd 20 the home of his
mother Hc is about - years of age
and is unmarried He formerly was
employed by the Illinois central as a
sWitchman.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
SOCIETY NEWS
FortnlohtIy Club.

Fortnightly Ilup.
The Fortnightly Musical Club VIII
meet this afternoon at he home Of the
Moses L.ansden, 3l5 Fifth street. The
pengram will te devoted entirely to
The works Of Schubert aud Ruben
stein and is as follows
Sketch of Schuberts LAfe-Mias
Turner.
Schubert COMPOSITIONS.
Hark Hark the I.arK-Miss Zephia
Smith
Ave Maria-Mrs Wyman.
Imprompu on. go--Miss SchIosser
Valse Mobiles, op ~, No. Airs.
Read,
The Wandered-Mr Holt,
March Mlitaire-Mrs. Profllet and
Miss Nanderburgh
Rubenstein Compositions.
Sketch of Rubenstein's Life-Mis'
Enie Lansden.
Etude No. l D Minor-Mrs Dodds.
yalse Caprice-Aprs, c. f Gallagher.
Du Dist vie cine blume-Mrs.
Staehle
Polka-Mrs. W F. Smith.
Romance in f flat, op. i4-Mrs.
Denison.
Golden Rolls Beneath Ne - Miss
Emma Lansden.
Toreador ct Andalouse, op. los, No.
Mrs. b. r. Thistlewood,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
WIN Not Be Candidate.

Alderman Thomas. Of the Seventh
Rard. decided some time ago that
ha would not stand ror reelection at
th, coming election and SO declared
himself repeatedly Iie lis regarded
as a pains-taking conscientious mem
beer OF the council aud his services
have been appreciated The illness
e. Mrs. Thomas and the demands Of
bis business have moved him to de-
cline 90 stand for fc election
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

J. =. Fleishman of Goldfeld, New,
who has been the guest Of his sister,
Mrs Richard Franklin OF Eleventh
street, has gone to st. Louis on bust
Eess before returning to the west He
is interested in mining in Nevada and
this is his first visit to his sister In
sixteen years.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
MINISTERS IN CONFERENCE.

Bloomington, III. March 2o-Thc
Central Illinois Ministerial Institute
began its twcnty-sixth annual meeting
in the First Christian church Of this
city today and will remain ia session
in session over tomorrow. The attend
anee at the meeting Is large and the
program embraces many interesting
features.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

T. II. Williams Of Twentyffth
street. has returned from a business
trip to points in Alabama having been
called home by the serious accident
to his little son Theodore who was
injured by a Big -Four train last Fri
day.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31
Dress Very SimnLY.

Nine. Cana, a high.class Parsee
woman, travelling in this country. says
that the dress Of the Indian women is
simply six yards of silk. satin or
crepe, OF which the women have hun
dreds. and ii is draped to fit the form
every time it is put on.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kimbrough
and James Mitchell AMI mother Of
Clinton. KY. who have been guests
OF Judge and Mrs. A. J. Ross have
returned home.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Mrs. J. II. EZell and son have re-
turned from a visit with relatives at
Poducah. Ky. They were accompanied
home by the formers sister Miss
Brittle Newman who will visit here.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Miss Ina Whitcaker, who has been
visiting her grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Whitaker of Thirty
fourth street, has returned to her
home in Willard.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Miss Belle Cunningham and guest
Miss Frances Jones. of Chicago, aud
Miss Pearl Mulberry have returned
from a short visit at Paducah with
Mrs. Carey formerly of this city.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Mrs. Harry Miller Of St Louis, is
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs
W. II. Geiscenhof, OF Seventeenth and
Poplar streets
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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Mr., and Mrs. T. r. Reese have re-
turned from Hot Springs, Ark, where
the latter spent several months.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Rev j. A. Scarritt, n. y. who has
been the guest Of Mayor George Par
sons and Mrs Orland s. Peabody has
returned to his home IN Alton.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Frank Koehler spent Sunday here
with Mrs. Koehler who is visiting
their daughter, Mrs. Frank David
son.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Mi and Mrs, John Howard and
daughter Catherine and Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Ince have returned from a visit
at Mound City with the family of Mr.
John Read,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Mrs. Patrick OLoughlin is serious
ly i'll ut her residence, 22S Twenty
first street.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Aliss Pauline Davidson has returned
rrem a visit with friends at Wickliffe
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-31

Miss Charlotte Taylor OF Third
street. is very i'll at her home.