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the sight of us. Our company was augmented
by them to about fifty persons.
"On our pointing out to them our wonderful
capture they fastened to the stream. 1t was
amusing to hear them chatter over the sight
in a state of intense excitement The first day
left them in quiet possession. But when, on
the following morning, the ropes and chains
gave great jerk, a sign that the mammoth was
now quite tree OF the elrth, told them to use
their utmost strength to bring the beast to
land. AT length, after much hard work. II which
the horses were extremely useful, the animal
was landed, and we were able to roll tn carcass
about twelve feet from the water The decom-
posing effect OF the warm air soon filled us all
with astonishment.
Picture to yourself an elephant whose body
was covered with thick fur, monster about
thirteen feet high and fifteen long, with tusks
eight feet long, thick and curving outward at
their tips. stout trunk about six feet long,
colossal legs one and half feet thick and
tail naked up to the tip, which was covered
with thick, fluffy hair.
OVERTAKEN BY DEATH IN THE Full
NESS OF HIS POWERS.
"The beast was fat and we'll grown. Death
had overtaken him in the fulness of his power
His large, parchment-like naked ears lay turned
up over the head About the shoulders and
back he had stiff hair, like NAME about foot
long. The long outer hair was deep brown and
coarsely rooted. The top of the head looked
so wild and so penetrated with pitch (und nit
Pech so durchgedrungen) that it resembled the
bark OF an cid oak tree On the side it was clean
er; and under the outer hair there appeared
everywhere coat of wool, very soft, warm and
thick, of fallow brown tint. The giant was
well protected against the cold
The whole appearance OF the monster was
fearfully strange and wild. 1t had not the
shape OF our present elephants. AS compared
with our modern Indian elephant It's head was
rough. the brain case low and narrow, the trunk
and mouth much larger. Our modern elephant
is an awkward brute. but compared with this
mammoth he is an Arabian steed to a coarse.
cumbersome dray horse.
Il could not dvest myself OF a feeling of
fear as l approached the head. The broken,
wide-open eyes gave the monster lifelike as
pect, as though at any moment il might stir.
struggle to its feet and bear down upon us with
The bad smell OF the bc dy warned US that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
RESCUE OF A MAMMOTH FROM RIVERS HUNGRY NAV

Il was time TO ssve Of II What we could and the
swelling food bade us hasten.
INSIDE IMPORTATION OF DIS
AGREEABLE NATURE.
"We cut of the tusks first, and sent them to
the cutter Then the natives tried to hew of
49, ,--i '-'' -. it'st-n'rg their good will
this was slow work. AS the belly of the ami
NAL was cut open the intestines rolled out and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
A HUGE, UNSIGHTLY MONSTER IN
THE DISTURBED WATERS.

'The land on which we were treadng was
moorland, covered thickly with young plants.
Many lovely flowers rejoiced the eye in the
warm beams of the sun, that shone for twenty
two out of the twenty-four hours. The swirl
ing stream tore up the soft, wet ground like
chat, so that it was dangerous to go near the
brink. While we were all quiet we heard I'M
der our feet sudden gurgling and stirring.
which betrayed the working of the disturbed
water. Our jaeger. ever on the lookout, called
loudly and pointed to a singular and unshapey
object which rose and sank through the dis
turbed waters. / had already remarked it, but
had not given it any attention, considering it
only driftwood. Now all fastened to the
spot the shore. We had the boat drawn
near and waited until the mysterious thing
should again show itself.
Our patience was tried; but at last black
horrible gigantic mass bobbei up to the sur
face. We beheld colossal elephants head
armed with mighty tusks, with its long trunk
moving in the water in an uncanny manner
though seeking object it had lost
Breathless with establishment l beheld the
monster hardly twelve feet from me, with his
half open eyes yet showing the whites. 1t
was still ip excellent preservation.
"A mammont! Mammont" cried the Tcher-
onomor, and l shouted, Quick! Chains and
ropesP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20

!, an ephemera of life compared with this
prmeval giant, was sent here by Heaven just
at the right time to welcome him. You can
imagine how jumped for Joy.
During our evening meal our outposts an
nouneed the approach Of strangers. A troop
of Yakuti came up on their last, shaggy
orses. They were the people we had ar
ranged to meet, and they were very joyful at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
THE HUGE CREATURE
REFUSED, HOWEVER,
TO STAY RESCUED.
BY BAssETr DIcBY

~ ONT imagine that perfectly pre-
served mammoth. freshly yielded up
by the thawing toondra, is common
object of the wayside, mere incident
in the hodge-podge of queer sights any tourist
can see by poking his head out of Pullman
on the Trsns-Siberian. Some people get that
idea when one tells them that placer gold or
mammoths or sables or tombs of the American
Indians ancestors are plentiful in Siberia.
No mammoth in the flesh and mighty few
bones have been found within thousand miles
of the railroad zone. The finds are made most
ly within hundred miles or so of the Arctic
seashore, especially in and around the mouths
of the big rivers--the Obi, the Yenesei. the
Lena, the Indgirka. the Kolyma and SO on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
QUEER HUNTING AT
MOUTH OF THE YENE-
Sci AND THE OBI.

Tidings of the find reached St. Petersburg
and in 1905, seven years after Schumarovs first
discovery, Professor Adams turned up on the
spot and collected what was left About three
fourths of the skin was saved, an inch thick
dark gray hide covered with reddish wool and
long black hairs. Sixteen feet four inches II
measured from the front of the skull to the
end of the mutilated tail, and it stood nine
feet four inches at the shoulder. The tusks,
which were traced to Yakutsk and purchased
on Adams's return journey, ran nine feet six
inches along the outer curve. They weighed
800 pounds, and head and tusks together
turned the scale at 4l4 pounds. Ten persons
had all they could do to lift the heavy side.
About forty pounds Of hair was collected,
though much more had been trodden into the
sand by wild animals. The mounted skeleton
is now one OF the most priced possessions Of
the Imperial Academy Museum.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
SECURING THE MAMMOTH WITH
CHAINS AND ROPES.

II will tell you of our preparations for secur-
ing the monster the water was trying to tear
from u.s. AS the creature again bobbed be-
meath the surface we waited for an opportunity
TO cast the rope over his head This was only
accomplished after many vain efforts. Then,
examining the ground closely, l satisfied my
self that the hind legs of the mammoth still
work for us 10 loosen them.
I'VE made rope moose fast around his
neck, threw a chain around his tusks, which
were about eight feet long, drove stake into
the ground about twenty feet from the shore
and made chain and rope fast to il.
"The day pass quicker than expected,
but still the time seemed long enough before
the animal was secured, as il was only after the
lapse of twenty-four hours that II, water loos-
ened it.
"The position of the beast was interesting
to me- II was standing in the earth, not lying
on its side or back as a dead animal natu-
rally would, thus indicating the manner Of its
destruction. The soft peat or marshland on
which he stepped thousands of years ago gave
way under his weight and he sank as he stood
on it, feet foremost, incapable of saving him
self A severe frost came, turning into ice
him and the bog which buried him. The 7ur-
face OF the bog gradually became covered with
driftwood and uprooted plants and sand, which
were swept over it by each successive spring
freshet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
THE SKELETON OF 4 hAttn0TH

AS I mentioned IN the preceding article, the
Samoyedes and Ostiaks, the nomad Finnish
savages who roam the toondra with their dogs
or reindeer, are far from happy in their minds
about the fearsome mama" Most of them
will summon up enough courage to lop the
tusks from a specimen they encounter, but
there the matter ends. They are not given to
rushing off to a Russian river settlement and
telling all about it DO the dirty work and
then let we'll enough aloner is their motto.
By no means, therefore, do the scattered Rus
sian officials and traders of Northern Siberia
hear Of every find. And usually when the news
does leak through so long period has elapsed
that the chances are strongly in favor Of the
carcass having been rotted by the summer sun
shine or devoured by wild beasts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
PRIMEVAL GIANT AND THE
MODERN EPHEMERA.

God only knows what causes worked for its
preservation. Now, however. the stream had
brought it once more to the light OF day And
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
CARTING FROZEN MAMMoTHS THOU
SANDS OF MILES.

However, several white men and few in
telhgent natives have examined mammoths III
the flesh and even carted them back, sawn
into frozen sections and loaded on to long
caravan of sledges, for thousands OF miles to
ST. Petersburg, for the famous museum OF the
Imperial Academy Of Arts and Sciences.
Some of the most learned Of these favored
mortas left the dullest and most prosy ac-
counts Of what is surely one of the most in
teresting and wonderful experiences that can
befall man in this age. The informal letter
written by young Benkendorf, Russian sur
vey engineer, to a friend in Germany in 1916
remains the best existing description of the
discovery of mammoth in the flesh.
Benkendorf was employed by the govern
ment TO map out tracts of the Arctic coast of
the mouths OF the Lena and Indgirka rivers.
I'm 1896" he wrote, there was unusually
warm weather in the north of Siberia. Already
in May unusual rains poured over the moors
and boys, storms shook the earth and the
streams carried out not only ice to the sea, but
also large tracts of land thawed by masses OF
warm water fed by the southern rains.
We steamed on the FIRST. favorable day up the
Indigirka, but there were no glmpses of land;
We saw dIOunu Us OiiiJ q SSo VI my O'S""
water and knew the river only by the rushing
and roaring of the stream.
TRAVELLING FOR EIGHT DAYS
THROUGH FLOODED COUNTRY.
Against us the stream rolled trees, moss
and large masses of peat, so that it was only
with great trouble and danger that we could
proceed At the end OF the second day we
were only about forty versts (about twenty
sven miles) I'D the river. Some one had to
land with the sounding rod in hand continu-
ally and the boat received many shocks that
shook her to the keel. A wooden vessel would
have been smashed. Around US we saw moth
ing but flooded land. For eight days we met
with the like hindrances. until at last re
reached the place where our Yakuti were to
have met us. Further upstream was place
called Ujandina, whence the people were to
have come to US; but they were not at the
rendezvous, prevented evidently by the floods.
AS we had been here in former years, we knew
the place But how il had changed! The In
digirka here about three versts wide, had torn
I'D the land and worn itself a new channel,
and when the waters retreated We saw to our
astonishment that the old river bed had be-
come merely that of an insignih: II stream
This allowed me TO cut through the soft earth,
and we went reconnoitring up the new stream
which had worn its way westward. Att~f-
ward we landed on the new shore and sur"
veyed the undermining and destructive opera
ton Of the va waters, that carried away WITH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20

extraordinary rapidity masses OF SOFT peat and
loan.
at was then that we made wonderful dis
covery.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
PRESBYTERIAN Church.

Corner Eighteenth street an,
Washington avenue. Rev. Alfred NJ
Eells pastor.
Regular hours of service: Sunda,
school at 9.45: service with sermo'
at II o'clock; Christian EndeayO
at 6.45; evening preaching servic
at 100; Wednesday night praye
meeting each week At 1880.
In the morning the anthem will
be More Love to Thee by Brewer
There WI be reception Of member,
at the morning service,
In the evening Mrs. Robert Tolar
will ling a solo, TO Thee Savior
Call Tho anthem will be Thine
Forever. by lioyt The solo IN IL,
anthem Will be song by Mrs. Claud,
Wintcr.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Experienced Women
Advise Mothers Friend

Because 1t Is 20 perfectly nnfo to u-c
and has been of such great help to a
host Of eypectsnt mothers. these women,
experienced in this most happy period,
adyise the use Of Mothers Friend"
Applied externally to the abdominal
muscles its purpose Ia TO relieve III 5
undue tension upon the cords and fgn-
rlerlts resulting from muscular expansion
Seneath the surface r. network of ffnc
nerve threads and the gentle. soothing
embrQtation, Mothers Friend" "a
Designed to SO lubrieate the muscular
flbres as to avoid tho Unnecessary and
continuous nagging upon this myriad OF
nerves 1t is a reflex. action.
Applied to tho breasts II affords the
proper massage to prevent oaking.
Thousands OF women have reason TO
believe In this splendid help under the
trying ordeal OF motherhood Their
letters are eloquent evidence OF its great
value to women. In use for many years
1t has come to be standard remedy for
the purpose.
There Is scarcely well stocked drug
store anywhere but what YOU can easily
obtain bottle of Mothers Friend" ami
IN nearly every town and village IA .
grandma Who herself used II in earlier
years Expectant mothers are urged IN
try this splendid assistant % ease. com
fort and safety.
Mothers. Friend is prepared b. Brad
held Regulator Co, $40 Lamar ndr
Atlanta, Ga. Send for our little book
II should be remembered that what ~
said OF Mothers Friend" IL the thought
expressed by the thousands OF women
VINO nave successfully used II and recon-
mended 1t through two generations.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07

streets; Rev. r. n. Kennedy, pastor.
Residence 360S Elm street. Bell
Phone 800.
Regular hours of service; Sunday
school at Gao a m. Preaching at
4 o'clock; Junior Epworth League
It . p m; class meeting at 3 p. m;
senior League at 4:&0 p. m; preach
ing at 1880 o'clock Prayer meeting
ach Wednesday evening.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Emmanuel Lutheran.
Trinity Sunday.

On Douglas street between Wash
iugton avenue and Walnut street.
Rev, c. Robert Dunlap, pastor Bell
phone $50. Residence Az Douglas
street
Hours OF service: Sunday school
at ~ O'Clock a. m; preaching at II
O'Clock in the morning and 1880 In
the evening.
In the morning the festival Of
the Holy Trinity will be observed
In the evening the Wocdmen of
the World viii worship with tn e
congregation.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Cairo BAPTIST.

Corner Tenth and Poplar streets.
Rev. A. 7. Garrett. Pastor. Hours
OF service: Sunday school 1900 a.
m. II. Y. +. U. $3.50 p. m. Juniors
2.3O p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday
7:45 p. m. Hours of service: Morn
ing worship. 400 a. m. Evening
worship 1880 p. m.
In the morning nr l.. y. Lamktn
will preach his Subject to be God
Appointed Witnesses.
Tho evening subject will be rs
Hell Place or "A Condition." Miss
Lila S+e!nel will sing a solo at the
evening service.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
ALL HAVE SOME CHANCE
NO MATTER WHERE LIVING
Enlist Friends in the Greatest of Voting
Races, Which Starts Next Satur-
day, June Is

That the magnitude of Tho Rnlle-
lctin's Big Circulation Campaign in
which hundreds of dollars is Yal-
liable prizes will be given away ali
sClntcly FREQ to the ambition and
popular young people of this section,
has caught the fancy of the resi-
dents OF cairo and surrounding ter
r.tcry, Is indicated by the number
of inauirles received since the first
contest anncuncemnt in yesterday >
isgle of The E1lletin.
The territory of the conte-t will be
$50 divided and arranged that no
matter where a candidate lives. the
opportunity will be eq"al foi win
ming any CT the prizes.
This campaign is great big bust
ncss proposition which appeals only
to sober serious minded people Il
will require no special energy. rco-
Pie of ordinary attachments will be-
found among the winners at the
end. But back Of IT all must be 4
determination to own one OF tho
awards the spirit that inspires con-
hdence in ones friends aud causes
them to manifest the same interest
shown Ivy real active candidates.
A circulation campaign is like a
gigantic snowfall. It grows larger
the longer it is rolled Those VIII,
enter this biz race with fun un-
dergtanding of the costly prizes to
be won will md that they have un-
consciously formed an endless chain
Of friends who are working for them.
Your own intense earnn tncss will
show these friends that they arc not
wasting their support and they will
soon begin to feel the same interest
as yourself.
Get An Early Start
II YOU are considering the matte"
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
RELIGIOUS NEWS
First Methodist Episcopal Church

Corner Of Eighth and Walnut
streets. Rev. NJ. I'll. Loar. pastor,
Phone Bell 175. Parsonage No. 4OS
Eighth street.
Hours OF service: Sunday school
3: 30 a. M. a graded school. Preach
ing 1915 a. IN. and 1880 p. m. Spec
ial music at all preaching services
Junior League p. N. Epworth
League $50 p. m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday 1880 p. IN. The official
board meets on the first Monday CT
each month at 7:30 p. m.
Sunday evening the pastor viii
deliver a special sermon on VIVA
is ths Matter With Cairo and the
Remedy"
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07

In New Zealand the postoft'ce pro-
vfdes big firms with machines. with
which they stamp their own CORE.
spondence A specimen letter re-
ce'ved bears an oblong postage
pc stamp which is put on by ma.
chi In the business mans Office,
PERI Ideally postal collector calls
round. rePds the total on the machine
ard collects the money.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Church Of God.

Service Sunday at 325 Thirty
fourth street will be as follows;
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preach
ing at / a. m. and 8 o'clock In the
evening. Young peoples meeting az
6 o'clock, l.. II. Morgan, pastor N
II. Manson, assistant pastor.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Calvary Baptist.

Corner of Sixteenth and Poplar
Rev. ]. II. Pennock, pastor; resi-
dence, 232 Sixteenth street
Regular hours of service, morning
Sunday school at 9:45; preaching al
II o'clock; evening at 7:45; YOUNG
Peoples meeting at $50. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening
at 7:45.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
st. Patrick's Catholic Church.

Father James Downey, pastor.
Regular hours Of service: First
mass and sermon. O'Clock; high
mass 10 o'clock; Sunday school
o'clock; vespers and Ienediction at
S O'Clock.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
NEWS OF THERvERS

STAGE OF river 16. feet fall OF :
during the preceding "A hours.
River Forecast.
No very important change is cx-
pectcd within this river district dur
ing the next two or three DAYS, eX'
cept that the Mississippi, from below
st Louis to Cairo, will rise at n slow
rate. 'r
r. T. LlNDLEf,
INV Local Forccastcr.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Christian Science.

The Christian Science society
meets at the Jewish Synagogue los
commercial avenue, every Sunday
forenoon at If o'clock and every
Wednesday evening at o'clock.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Salvation Army.

Hall ff06 Washington avenue.
Hours of service: Week days, open
air, 1880 p. m: Sundays, open air.
1890 a. M; 2:30 p. m; 7:t5 p. m
at hall II a, M; 1880 p. M; $3.50
p. m. and s p. IN. All are welcome.
charge Capt. Giberson and Lieut. FL
lott.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07

Advertising makes more business,
You will be comforting favor on
us In reporting promptly any delay
in the delivery OF your paper.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Church Of the L ndeemer.
(EDjscopa' }
Tt. CD.


Corner OF W ashtnston avenue and
Sixth street,
Rev. L. ] Ratty. recor. Rectory,
500 Washington avenue.
Holy Communion at q. m, Sun.
day school at $50 a. M: Morning
Prayer at HOO a. M; EvensonR
with SERMON son n. m.
0W.nG the summer the e:cniny
eryirc vii begin at s O'Clock and
instead cf the e,rmon there viii be-
? five minute. talk on Christian
Heroes. Fer this SUNDAY tha sub
jest is '5avonarola
At thh morning service Mfn
PAUL. will sing God Shall Wipe
Away All Tears" Hacker.
The choir will render Stainer's
Mass in +.
Southern Methodist.
rprnpr pf rrhirt y siStth and Tim
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Never

"What VAS that sentence 'he choir
repeated so often during the litauyY
AS near as | could make out II was,
We are miserable singers '.i'oston
Courier.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07

Want to get what you want? Try
a Want Ad.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Excaas az prnrrastlnatIn

Excess OF REORGANIZATION,
Some people put OF TN tomorro~
the things they should have done last
week
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07

of starting into the contest and wish
to begin right, send in your nominal
ton blank at oICc. This first few
days will be largely occupied with
arranging the prize list, dividing
the territory into districts, prepar-
ing subscription receipt books. and
other contest material, hut~by the
end OF the present week, the contest
VIII start right.
Next Saturday the Opening Day
Saturday, June 49, mas been dcsi1
mated a. tho day when this big race
starts. 1t will continue for the
short period of only ten weeks clos
ing on Saturday. August % at nine
O'Clock p. NJ
Free Newspaper Coupons.
A &C non good for ten votes will
be printed daily in The Bulletin.
Any number of these coupons may
be sent in if neatly trimmed and NIL
cd in with the name and district
number If the candidate.
Friends Will Help.
Hundreds of people Will have NJ
personal friends in tho campaign.
You can secure their friendship ami
g descriptions if Won win only as,
for them. A little organization
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07

Local Data.
1913 1917
Highest temperature '....91 30
Lowest temperature LII IS
p. m. temperature .,...75 81
Character of day .,....... Clear
"a hour precipitation ...... 80
Sunrise and Sunset.
Sun will rise today ......... 4:S1
Sun will set today ...... al
,,~ Esh.D
Local Forecast.
Cairo and vicinity; Partly cloudy
Sunday: probable showers.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-07
Get An Early Start
No Necessity for Stamps,

II you are considering the matte,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-19
KNIGHTS OF PY1HIAs OBSERVE
 sEHI-CENTENARY OF SOCIETY


 EMBERs OF THE order of Knights of Pythas will eele WI to-day the of the founding the society lodges throughout United states will m the observance of day which ate the principles of friendship charity and benevoenc at Washington, D. G. Feb 19 1864 H. Ratbone cred the founder of the organization which with small lodge in and has spread in half century 10 every State of the Union Province
 The growth of the Knights pythias rapid almost from the first owing to the attracveness of policies principles and the honesty and ability after it's founding the secret atefna order claimed membership of d60O00 lodges membership is about three-quarters of a
 The Knights of Pyias has it's greatest membership inc central West Ohio leading with about S Indiana Illinois second third respectively and the following States in the order gven Pennsylvania Massachusetts Missouri, Texas New York; California and Michigan ada the order most in British Columbia although large time Provinces
 The secentenary celebration of the by lodges to-day general jubilaon coming biennial enion, to be held in Winnipeg gust is expected that the conclaye ffieth vsrsary will greatest history
 attract thousands the Chicago Of Canada Knights Pyfias department members carrying ins surance of $100000Ooo.