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LONDON CLEARED
OF 100000 RATS
Rodent Army SuCcumbS to
MerciIess Assaults and
March of improvements.
of the Associated Press

Correspondence of the Associated Press
LONDON. December London is
minus 100000 rats that formed a
large section cf the rodent population
last year. The merciless assaults of a
rejuvenated city and the ardor of sew
eral hundred professional at-catchers
are responsible.
In the war days, when all of Lon
don's rat catchers changed their ulti-
mate object from the rat to the Ger
man, the pests multiplied unham-
peTed and after overrunning their ma
tural haunts in the poorer sections
of the city bordering on the river
eventually infested the older stores
and office buildings in the city and
West End. Like many other evils
which were rooted in the war 1t has
taken several years of postwar eff
fort TO again get them under control
building Program Rodents Foe.
Extensive building operatfons
which are being undertaken involving
the tearing down of many of the
city's old buildings, has robbed the
intruders of their abodes The newer
brick fireproof structures taking
their place offer no asylum to the
wandering rat. During the destruc-
ton OF row of buildings in Regent
street the rat-catchers of the CITY of
Westminster were kept busy for sew
eral weeks chasing and killing rats
as they ran from the condemned
building into the streets and alleys
The rat-ca tcher and his assistants
sent In bill to the city council for
the deaths of 1,752 rats and they were
paid shilling for each body.
The activities of the municipal rat
catchers have almost rid the shop
ping district of rats. Incidental to
their official labors the rat-catchers
have eNtermina ted water-bugs and
od-beetles. which for centuries in
Tested the old buildings and stores of
London.
Robbed of Subsistence.
With the substitution of brick and
mortar the beetle lost his subsistence
and gradually withdrew to more
fruitful places. The water,bugs
however have been eliminated by
new liquid discovered by a rat-catcher
during army service in India The
liquid is sDnly sprayed about the
pipes and drains, but il has such DO
tency that one Whit Is sufficient to
Kill a bug. In less than three years 1t
has been possible to entirely rid the
London area of this pest
Lack of other employment has
turned several hundred men into rat
catchers, who are mostly employed
along the river fronts and In the fac
tories and shops. There are about 900
OF these men and they have DESTROYED
about a million and a half rats dur
ing the last year The rat-catchfng
corps of the London boroughs and a
host of volunteer householders have
accounted for the other million and a
half. 1t cost nearly 100000 to war
on the rats during the last year.
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SITUATIONS-MALE.

ACC0UNTANCY STUDENT; bookkeeping and
general Office experience. desires employment
where earnest effort VIII lead to promotion.
Address Box SIT IL, Star office 20.
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MATTRESS MAKING AND RENOVATING-
Mattresses, box springs, cushions and pillows
Mattresses renovated s. 50 COLUMBIA RFH-
DING co. GIG -. NV. Phone Main 1928 2IS
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PAINTING. PApERING AND DECURATING.
The Enterprise DecoratiH Company. under
new management: stock reasonable
prices: all work guaranteed North 405l
Office 1929 14th ST n " TAMIL
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MATTRESSES AND PILLOWS renovated AZ
most reasonable prices. Let US call. give est
mate. Prompt deliveries and satisfaction as.
sured. Eagle Bedding Co.. 1923 18th St NV
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KEYS DUPLICATED WHILE TOU WAIT.
% cents. Also small machine work. s13 fl
at NV.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

AUTO PAINT SHOP. 25-CAR CAPACITY:
electric light. heat. elevator; ? entrances: long
lease if desired: rent reasonable. Apply y
s.. Garage. 635 It NV 21s
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| MAIL ORDER BUSINESS-Waut 10 purchaN"
small mail order Business immed'a ely. Ad-
! dress BOX 424-H. star Office 81
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A LARGE AUTO REPAIR SHOP and building
suitable for offices and sale Of accessory parts
for lease at reasonable price 10 a reliable
tenant. Located near DIST and l. sts. NV.
JAMES MORRIS WOODWARD, Realtor,
79g
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NEVER xal ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATIONS
on QppLnfnQ for emptoHment. Use COPIES.
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AGENTS to sell high-grade Christmas toy
around downtown section; over 1000 proht.
80 l. ST. 19s
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GOOD SALARY DURING
SHORT TRAINING
PERIOD.
REGULAR AND FREQUENT
INCREASES THEREAFTER
TELEPHONE
OPERATING
THE IDEAL OCCUPATION
FOR YOUNG WOMEN
APPLY FIRST FLOOR
I'D 18th ST. NV.
THE
CHESAPEAKE 4 POTOMAC
TELEPHONE COMPANY
CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC
TELEPHONE COMPANY

MILLINERY TRIMMER
Accustomed to the best trade 4 permanent
position for one who qualify. Address
Bax 4T9-H. Star office
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PARTNER-POol room and bowling alley: good
opportunity TO right man. Apply 9th and c
SITS. n 24A
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SITUATI0NS-MALE.
ICON timed,

BooKKEEPER-AUDITo aow employed, de-
sires evening work; very reasonable charge
references. Address Box 75-H, Star office.
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FOR SALE at a bargain account of sick
ness. Grocery. meat and vegetable market:
nice fixtures. $500. SI5 4 ~ St s.w 20"
GROCERY and meats; old established bust
ness; good location Address Box 34j-H, Star
office. l9s
AUTO GARAGE and repair shop equipment:
lease and business Camp Humphrey road:
price, $50: present owner going south at
once. Address Box 33aH Star Office PIE
BATTERY SERVICE STATION; 80 rentals;
full equipment; must close out 10y Jan /
This is one of our sub dealers and purchaser
must he satisfactory to Potomac Bat
terry Co. 1885 12;h st. NV
DESIRABLE CORNER GROCERY, doing nice
business must SELL illness 42l Il ST Sc l9s
CIGARS, tobacco and periodicals.: would be
int rested in well located going busInesa
Address Rex 4S7-H. Star Office. COS
IContinued ON AeAt I'aGe.I
Evening star., 1924-04-06

for seats or for pillows. They were
all crowded on to the upper deck at
the stern. There was absolutely no
accommodation for them, not even
room enough to stretch out and
sleep. They were to be given water
and rice, nothing else. They were
Just to sit there under the canvas
awning for five days.
| had made much better provision
than this for my animals. The mon
keys were not only to have rice, but
yams, either raw or half cooked, and
onions, which all monkeys love, For
the tapir ! had brought large quanti-
ties of jack fruit, which often grows
two and half feet long and eighteen
inches thick The tapir is very tifnfd,
but he is an enormous eater.
There was no difficulty in providing
for my cat animals with ii hundred
bulloeks on board, We had hardly
started before the Chinese butcher
hit one over the head with hammer.
Since my meat eaters were closely
confined, | gave them sulphur with
their beef. + had tarpauiin spread
over the cages and kept it wet for
coolRess.
Hsi Chu /, my Chinese boy" un-
derstood what the animals needed al
most as we'll as / did. 1t 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
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Where Cactus Is King

TN no other place in the United
- States perhaps is there such a
dense and riotous growth of plants
and shrubs of the thorny varieties
as in the lower valley of the Rio
Grande. It is only few years since
the agricultural development of this
broad scope of territory in far south
ern Texas was begun. A compare
lively small part of the land has as
of it is to be seen the primitive
wilderness of giant prickly pear and
many other species of the cactus
family, interspersed here and there
With towering yucca trees, or Span
7sh d4gger, as they are commonly
oa.lsd; nut palms. mesquite and
ebany trees and ether vegetation OF
q semi-tropica1 character, In most
places this growth is SO dense as to
be impregnahle except by following
the narrow goat and wild animal
Saais that wind through it.
Many of the prickly pear plants
are fifteen to twenty-five feet high.
FAey hear an enormous amount of
fruit known as the tuna, each year.
This fruit lis delicacy for the
myFiads OF birds and other animal
life that make their homes in the
ehAparraI It Is also relished BY tha
native llexicanx ana Ia ore OF their
staeDs articles ef food during the
summer and autumn, .
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Ivory From Tusks.
THE tusks of the long buried M

THE tusks of the long-buried NAM
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 States.
This enterprise is due to the fast
vanishing supply of the worlds ivory
and the wholesale extinction of the
African elephants, the tusks of which
for long time furnished the greatest
quantities of ivory.
Some years ago some nomadic va
kut natives, who roam and hunt for
the fur-bearing creatures in Arctic
Siberia, thousands of miles from
civilization, found the tusks of
mammoth protruding from the ground,
having been exposed by the melting
Of the ice. These were brought on
their reindeer sledges 10 the town of
Yakutz, where they were quickly sold
to merchants who shipped them to the
great ivory market of London. There
they were manufactured into plane
keys, billiard balls and carvings of
various kinds.
The bodies of these gigantic hairy
ancestors of the elephant have been
maryelously preserved for millions
of years by perfect freezing and cold
storage process through being buried
in the frozen soil and covered by i
she'll of ice hundreds of feet in thick
ness. The mammoths died out by rea.
son of a change in physieo- geograph-
ical conditions. Their bodies were de-
posted in cold region and gradually
buried in loam
Evening star., 1924-04-06

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 sunbaked limestone cliffs of the
Valley. of the Kings, where literally
not one blade of grass or even a sin
gle shrub of any kind is growing any,
where, is entitled to absolutely every
thing.
1t was certainly only polite that
under these circumstances Mr.. Carter
should stay away on this occasion.
AS matter of fact, politics played a
great part in the ceremonies, de
spite the fact that the inauguration
of the tomb was claimed to be purely
an official, social function. The king
was not present, nor did he delegate
any one to represent him from the
| palace. 1t is believed that this was
done so that there should be no ques-
tion of precedence between his repre-
sentative and Gen. Allenby, the high
commissioner.
Gen. Allenby himself remained in
his private car until in the after
noon. avoiding any possible demon
stration on the part of the natives
He arrived at the tomb of Tut-ankh ;
Amen 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, mob broke
into a frenzied tumult tie cries that
went up in Arabic were, Egypt. for
the Egyptians" Freedom for Egypt,7 p
Liberty for the Egyptians and
shouts of a similar nature.
Saad Pacha Zagloul. the very popu-
, lar leader of the nationalist move
ment, who returned in December after
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. Even though there
are a few British troops left in the
country, Great Britain has completely
turned over the reins of government
to her former pretege. This was
learned from the most authoritatrye
source in Cairo and 1t disprsyes ssi
stories that the British government is
really pulling the strings and press
ing the buttons and acting as the
! power behind the throne However,
very few of the middle class and still
fewer of the lower classes really ae-
preciate this fact, and they are most
apt to break put with a demonstra :
| tion against their supposed "oppres-
sors,' the British, at any time.
! The sacrificing Of the bulls was in
reality a symbol of old Egypt, Nand
| showed, in cruel manner, the desire
! in the hearts of the natives for a
return to, Egyptian rule and return
to the power that is their heritage
from olden times
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Modern Noahs Ark Is Lashed at Sea While Facing Furio

bunk. ] went to- look for the captain
and ran into him on the bridE&
Mayer" he said. this - old tps
is leaking. She's beaten usr
"Copra" 1 answered. "Coprar'
was crazy.
Burn it, man. burn it.''
-" he hollered- why cou1an't
the mate have thought of that?" Then
Why couldn't ] have thought OF 1t
MYSELF" He eyed me rather sheep
ishly. Mayer" he said. Il naver saw
copra burn. How does she act-'
Burns like candle grease"
He looked as il / had handed him
thousand dollars. He was a man
of fifty, but he ran aft like boy.
The Poo Ann steamed into Singa-
pore two days late, beiching heavy
black smoke from the engines stocked
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
board when bit of railing broke
When L went into Mr. John Ander-
sons office he jumped when he saw
me. Mayer he cried. II thought
you were dead. The Poo Ann was re-
ported lost"
She's out in the roads" ] said,
but eighteen cases of animals are
riding the waves" ] felt as If | had
robbed the kings treasury
Don't pull such a long face" he
cried. You ought to be thankful to
be alive. I'm thankful you are, any
way"
"If you feel that way about it, I
answered, I'm thankful, too
Copyright, 1s24.)
Evening star., 1924-04-06

NTHEN the animals had been set
W tied, the human cargo came
aboard. There must have been almost
a hundred men and women and few
children, all Malays. going back to
Singapore. They carried their be-
longings and food, done up for the
most part in bundles. A few small
boxes tucked under their arms served
Evening star., 1924-04-06

BagSins sixteen uIspnants is no
mean achievement even for so famous
q wild animal trapper and trainer as
Charles 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 flghting bull of
the herd, Mr. Mayors men man.
aged to get ropes around his feet,
whereby they caused the beast to
move against his will by hauling
ahead one huge foot after the
other with rattan, lines passed
around the stakes.
This is the third of>a new series
of articles by Mr.. Mayer dealing
with his many years experiences
in Malaga, Sumatra and Borneo.
Barely had he broken the spirit of
the big bull elephant in question
when he received "a summons from
the King of Siam to report at
Bangkok for an important assign
ment.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

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 poor bullocks
that had life left in them, seeing their
companions going through the open
ing. struggled toward them and
dropped overheard.
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
Gangway. Sometimes when they had
pushed bullock almost to an open :
ing the roll of the boat would throw
it back.
heard some awful sounds from my
cages. They had begun to move
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 boat.
/ was not surprised to have Busk
come up behind me and bawI in my
ear, Your zoo has got to go, kings
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
cages full of bowling beasts were in
= sluing, sliding mass. All hands
were called out to help the Poo Ann
rid herself of her half-living cargo.
The men did what they could, but
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 fioated, of course. / could see
some of them bobbing about on the
waves. / watched them for a while
and then went back to my bunk.
r r x
7 STRAPPED myself in and lay there
for hours in a sort of half doze.
Every now and then 1 would pull my
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 heard his angry voice talking
to the Scotch engineer. The storm
had calmed down little, and they
did 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
hunks: burn everything"
Scotchman knew lit. The captain
knew it, too. There was not enough
wood on that old iron steamer to
carry us ten knots. But, useless as
the idea was, sailors came with an
ak and carried the door away.
When it was gone a whiff of dis
gusting odor was blown in to me. 1t
seemed to lift me right out of my
Evening star., 1924-04-06

bage with the English captain. I
knew him we'll and liked him. Busk.
his name was. |, shared his cabin
with him. He wanted to play cribbage
from morning till night. We were at
down the Menam river, and when we
got out into the Gulf of Siam we were
still saying, Fifteen, two; fifteen,
four"
1t 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-
Bile. 1t was the second day out that
! heard one Of the tigers give long,
sickly yowl.
Mayer" the captain said, I'VE are
going to have some dirty weather,
and that tiger knows it,"
"He's seasick," / answered, that's
all that's the matter with him."
We'll, he's not as seasick now as
he's going to be. He'll be a sailor
tiger before he gets out of this"
I thought l would take a look at
the monkeys. Some of them were
chattering, but most of them had
their eyes shut, and their heads were
nodding. 1 had an onion 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.
= < 4
T WENT to find Hsi Chu I. He was
doubled up in the mates bunk. I
decided to lie down for a while. When
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 for a partyg" I
asked him.
YES, - of party!'
saw 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 1t with a bang, turned the key
and went out without another word.
I threw myself down on my berth.
Every minute the wind grew worse.
We were going before 1t. 1t was plain
that Busk was afraid to turn and
face the storm. Above the roar /
heard the sound of screaming from
the stern The canvas covering had
been torn away from the rear deck.
the wind and rain.
Ny animals seemed to recover from
their first stupor. One of the tigers
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Rf PHILIP G. KAUFFMAEN.
STAG CorresPsndeat.

LUXOR, March 6.
~ usToMs and traditions of
I thousands of years gone by
were re-enacted in the Off
cial opening of Tut-Ankh-
Amen's tomb, which has been closed
since February 22 and padlocked by
the Egyptian government, for the
first view the high dignitaries and
foreign officials in Egypt have had
of the world-famous sarcophagus.
The quiet little town of LUXOR,
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 illustTious assemblage that has
ever gathered at any time here, as
TO archaeological discovery has been
SO important to the Egyptian govern
ment, and the finding of no previous
tomb has ever brought together such
an official gathering for its commem-
grafton as assembled here this
morning.
At the invitation of the govern
ment all the most illustrious sheiks
of Egypt, the Egyptian ministers,
members of the council 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 afternoon each had an
opportunity to see the magnificent
golden coffin lying in state. In the
evening there were speeches and a
magnificent display of fireworks i'm
ported from Switzerland.
From daybreak crowds thronged
in the streets and schoo1boys were
formed into gayly colored companies.
practicing cheers for the arrival of
the dignitaries.
During the wait the crowds were
kept amused by excellent feats of
horseback riding by natives on Arab
ponies, with long sticks, putting their
horses through clever capers and
fancy steps. much to the amusement
of the hundreds of natives, and by
musicians playing weird Arabic
strains. Then. at the arrival of the
officials, was staged a barharic, cruel
and cold-blooded spectacle, such as
one would scarcely expect to see any
where within the whole civilized
world in this twentieth century.
= r 4 4
THE town had been 82yiy decorated.
Japanese lanterns hung along the
main street running beside the banks
of the Nile, and poles erected along
the way decked with palm leaves and
colored ribbons, all very tawdry, hut
very festive and gay.
When the procession of automobiles
bearing high eficials Of the Egyptian
government reached tho archway
that had been erected across the main
street great crowds of natives surSed
forth. surrounding tham and step
ping their peogFeaA
into tAa miaHt - ~ 1nb yoee