Sixty-Five
C . --..
a 1. '
&7
1
a
. .if
PORTERS WITH IVORT
(Copyright, 19M, by Frank O. Carpenter)
ANZIBAU (Special Correspond-
Ay I once of The Bee.) Sixty-five
W I thnnnind nirnhnnta urn kinH
I i - . .. . .
HI AiriCR M J e fl.l, anO mOre
than 1,6 O.CrO pounds of Ivory
were taken from them and
shipped off to Europe. Of this fully one-
third came from Zanzibar another third
wss from Portuguese East and Went Afrl a
and a large part of the balance was from
the valley of the Congo. Cune Colony fur-
nlshed 100,000 pounds, Egypt 300,000 pounds
and a large part came from the Niger
territories and Logos. During the lust six
months I have been traveling through the
lands of Ivory and elephants. I raw tusks
for sale In the Egyptian Sudan. At Mom-
baaa I was shown J50.0M worth of ivory
tn one jitle, and durin my travel through
T'ffftnHa And flnrm O m TTanf A pIb T n a mmA
many long lines of porters carrying ele-
phants' tusks on their heads or tied to
long poles, which rested on their shoulders.
Great Ivory Market.
Zanzibar has for years been one of tha
chief Ivory markets of the world. There
are companies here which have their
buyers and traders scouring German and
British East Africa, as well as the For-
tuguese possessions, farther south. These
chandise to trade with the natives, and
When they have accumulated a cargo they
end It on the heads of norters down to
the seacoast. Much is now coming to Lake
Vlotorla and over the Uuganda railroad to
Mombasa. A great deal goes to Tabora. In
tho center of German East Africa, and
thence on east to Bogomoye, on the coast
opposite Zanzibar, while other caravans
bring Ivory to Mogroro and It Is sent
There are herds of elephants about the
vjt ittuiuau 10 uar es baiaanu
lopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, and the hunt-
, .u . m - . , .
phantf
there, and the aume regulation: prevail
111 TTsTMllla. Tn tha T J 1 1 1 r K O J 11
cense" is reaulred to .n v, "
- v
LlfT tram A. anrl thin clan , D.ui.k
n ' " - wa- aiu
..y.. -l,, iu uerman umi Africa
w rupee, ror men-
elephant shooting licenses, but they must
pay a royalty to the government on all
the Ivor they get. As It Is. there ts con
slderable profit ln the business, and in the
German colonies a fairly good hunter often
makes big money. A .Ingle elephaut may
give tusks worth $1,000 and upward, and
an old bull may produce 800 or 400 pound,
of the choicest Ivory.
African Ivory the Beat.
This Afrlgan Ivory brings the highest
prices ln tha market. It Is superior to any
other ln tha size of tusks. I have seen
some which were Dine feet long, and there,
are some which weigh as much as 200
pounds each. The average weight of a tusk
is much less
than this, and one of 100
, ...
pounds U quite valuable. In India th.
average tusk does not weigh fifty pounds.
but that of the African elephant U much
heavier. Many of the tusks are broken
when they are brought Into the market.
The elephant, use tlu-m for plowing up
roots and tearing clown trees, and also
for fighting their eremies. The average
tusk Is strong and elastic; but It can ha
broken, and the ends are sometimes snapped
off. Ivory tusks are always sold by weight,
and the traders tell me that In buying them
of the natives they have to be careful to
Me that pieces of Iron or bits of stone hav.
, not been driven Into the hollow, of tha
horns to make them weigh more.
Pallia am Rlephaat'a Tooth.
Many of you have been In th. hand,
of; a dentist and have seen how he almost
break, your Jaw In pulling a molar with
long root The tusk, are really elephant's
teeth and It 1. difficult to get them out ec
a dead elephant. They are fitted Into a
bony socket, and the root, go almost up
to the eyes. A tusk eight feet long mar
have two feet of Its root Imbedded ln th.
kull and If It 1. taken away at one tha
head ha. to be chopped to piece, to get
It out.
In addition to the tusks th. elephant haa
Is great teeth Inside Its mouth on each
Ide It. Jaw above and below, and these
are almost as firmly Imbedded a. tha tusk,
tbemsalves. The tusks are hollow about half
way up. The amalleat forms a big load
for a man, while one weighing 110 pound,
require, four porter, to carry It. Such men
are paid from t to I cent, a day for their
labor, so that tha coat of tran.portatioa
ts not heavy.
Have you ever heard of d.id Ivory t
There I. a va.t quantity of It .till left la
Africa, and thousand, of pound, ara
hipped to th. porta .very year. Dead
Ivory oome from animal, which have
died, a natural death, or from tusks which
have been gathered by the chiefs of tha
village, and stored away. Ivory baa aa
way. boon aa evidence of wealth tn Africa,
had Htni of the petty African king. h.v.
piled up Ivory aa our misers board money
at home. Some of them have burled It
aaar their vUlacas, and others have madf
Ing goes on ln the forest, of the Great the Jelly- Ike nterlor U reldv for Z Z J! r0 abUt ,eventy J""8 ,nco thoy are establishing schools to
Rift v.ii.v t t..t(Ji. i... . 6 Jelly"UKe 'n16"0' "adjr for eating, the annual output was estimated at over them Th.
cost. W for the right to shoot LooTd unit h . TJ?" " " Bald that than In different parts of German Et
and a hunter dares not kill more than two elephant steak is black w d h A 1 " Were 0,d ,n the and the overnment has high school
during a season. It 1. against the law to cooked It ooka an" tte a Rttl. Hk. It" ,V .'- Pre.Bent th ""ater Pn tralnln BChools w,th Eur
kill the babv lrnh:,n. o I J! i00M and tastea a lltUa llha ot 8ald vry I going to China. It does teachers, who use colored assistant.
' iiiiiniis t:uriiRU riffsr.
Thousand
'ft
AT A WAREHOUSE.
stookados of Ivory tusks about their
dwellings. During recent years home of
Buch Ivory has been gathered together,
but there is said to be murh buried vet to
v.. makaji t. . i i n ,1,1. i .1.-
V HUCMMIVU. &U BUUIUUH IU Villa la I LIU
Ivory of elephants which have died nat-
Ural deaths. This Is composed of the
enormous tusks of aged elephants which
nav dropped in their tracks or have
b9en kllIed by Hons and other wild
Dea8ts- Their bones lie where the huge
anIml 'ell, and the earth and leaves
have covered t"em so that they are fre-
luenUy hidden from view. I am told
that tha Pytfmles have killed many ele-
Phan,s wttn Poisoned arrows, but, not
knowlnK tho vaua or the tusks, have left
th'ra Ue ldl wher they ell. dome of
thl" dea(1 ,vor)r haa b,en '"Jred by the
Auicsb ii. eei, uui lutti lmDeaaea in ine
mud or covered with vegetation la still
0f gTtat vaJue-
Elephant Meat.
I met the other night an old elephant
u , .. ..
hunter who has ipade many thousands of
dollar 1". Ivory. He has not only shot
lePhants, but eaten them, and he tells-
m9 1116 meat ,s at all bad. A good-
"zod anlmal 0"n welghb as much as five
tons.and when one Is killed the natives
oome ,n Ior mues around and have a
great feast. They cut up the huge beast
Wlth "es and kn,ves and tear the meat
" " "'yn . " WB xmoao
"e)r "laKO elcPnsnl alea"
T,' and they cook the trunks tcot
ho'M ln ,the round- Th8 ,oot con-
B,d"ed jeccy. It Is prepared by
maklng ,lp ,n, a hola and IayIn the
foot on the burning coals. Some sticks
are then placed over the mouth of tho
noie ana a layer or green leaves Is spread
upon them
A thick deposit of earth is
L . ' i' aIl0W!lt!
it 1. ..u-JT.Tr.i,. .
icmuvcu, nutn
cornd htf
a
. -
. 'T' . .
a. 10 uuiuytjtui imiiuns wincii nave colonies
I. a a . .
in ah ilk rtj try in it 10 Keep me eiepnanta
rrom being destroyed. This is especially
m or Belgium, which hopes some day to
Some Groups
NE of the fixed event, of tho
year ln Omaha I. the picnic by
the retail grocer, and butchers
of the city. For many years
the members of the association
IMi'i'lU
have taken one day off for the
purpose of rusticating amid sylvan sur
roundings, and for that day they .imply
go out of business. The Omaha housewife
has learned that this Is one day on which
there'H nnthlnff dnini? at thm ornenr'o n
-. . .
uuunrr Alio svurv is cioseu ,ine marKei
,tall u ,hut uj. delivery wagon
ueuvery wagon
Rrr;,Jr'-,-v
a);
Elephants Are Killed Every Year for Their Tusks
jKi&p- faibi-s-iJr ivau1 . -i-fi'.- u-:
' 'lit" .tl 1'"-.' H.j- ..Ab
' I. ! hi -i i- .I ' i ii i I. ' -fWJ
form an Ivory monopoly. A treat part of of Central Africa. The old ilave route elnera, of whom ilx ara military offl
tlie elophanta atlll living are In the valley began at UjlJ;, pn Lake Tanganyika, and cers. In UJIJi, on Lake Tanganyika, there
f the Kongo, and so many have died that came across German East Africa to Bogo- aroonly four white men, two are civilians,
It Is expected that Ivory will grow more
valuable from year to year. As It is now
the amount sold brings in millions of dol
lar, and most of this comes from the auc
tions at Antwerp. In that city there aro
several hundred thousand pounds of Ivory
on hand, and sales are made about four
times a year. These sales are duly adver-
Used and buyers from everywhere come
1 nto 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 elephant tusks ever found. It .
wnns over JX pounds, and as I ntnnn tip-
" -
side 11 reached high above my head,
Tne 1:lrsest Ivory tusk ever discovered was
Dr"Pnt to Tabora In German Bast Africa
n iw ana was snipped from tnare to Ham-
Durs. It was almrst ten feet In length. on toward Lake Tanganyika. It will go and upon them stand hundreds of
The Ivory dealers here tell me that the to Tabora, and from there probably on to thatched huta, an Indian business section
best of the ivory goes to America, and that I'JiJi, with a branch to the Victoria Nyanza. and a fort beonglng to the Germans. The
the second and third class tusks are con- The shipping of Dar es Balaam is rapidly PeoP'e are somewhat like the KavironJo
sumed In Europe. The fourth grade Ivory increasing. That port has a good harbor, and a little llke tn Masai. They are
Is sent to East India for filagree work, and the largest steamers ure now calling da,k Drown ,n color, are well formed and
and the poorest of all goes to China where there. of Koa height. I talked with one cTIIef
It Is used for Inlaying furniture and boxes. 3. who was fully seven feet tall, standing
The very best quality of Ivory is employed Queer African Natives "k9 a Klant aove his fellows who aver
In making piano key, and fan sticks, and The Oermang are ,,,; PxpIr)r nK tnelr ed. I J"da. -bout five feet six.
also for the little statuettes cut out by the co;onlrS, .m l the are fimlin f-to - m The Wishashl, like the Kavlrondo. do
inr!"11,', "i? r.r,dUCt BOe" ,n' things away out here In the African wild not worr' over thelr "drobes. Those
billiard balls, knife handU-s, combs and llL.y llilve aUoUic, , . j- 1 ,aw wer almost naked. Many of the,
ITVZ, a1Cl!' PurlnK a v,Hlt 1 on(, M t0 000 of these natives In their iar't of" the women had on'y a "Ing of beads about
B 1 WUS "llOWn aboUt wh"a " burden, and they are divided t,,em and BOIU wre fringes of beadb
1100,000 worth of ivory which had been i .,. ...k o two or three Incnes Ions: hanln finm
, 1 . . , , . ,
j 1 " " eu Ior Knue nanQlea
s,r,p" f"rl puri,08e- In euch work 6very
,crap or the material Is saved, the shav-
f"3 1 aw them sawing up the tusks into
J"8 a"d dust being valuable for making
lvory b,aclt or artists pigments.
9
Mammoth Irorr.
Some of the most remarkable lvory used
within recent years Is that which
came
from the mammoths found In th tundms
ot Siberia. This Is from huge animals
which lived ages ago. but whose bones
protected by the frozen soil of ' northern
Asia, are as good today as when the anl-
mals died. It Is even said that ln soma
cases the entire carcasses of the mam-
moths have been found, their frozen flesh
skin and hair having been thus kept for
the" thousands of years. The first of
lnl" IroEen lvory was found over J00
years aao. and ahnnt uvamv !..
not compare In quality with our elephant
..-. v. , r yari or n oeing poor,
"hlle 8ome 8 absolutely worthl.sa.
al.ih
zansmar Versos Dar es Salaam.
The Germans
re now competing with
the British for the transcontinen.-T t-.
Caught at the Omaha Retail Grocers' and Butchers' Annual Picnic
stands Idle, while the horse munches hi.
feed at hi. leisure and sleep, away the day,
while the clerk, and the cutters and the
delivery boya and the butchers' and grocers
all have an unlimited deal of fun. Their
friends Join with them, and wife and
child and sweetheart go along, and business
and all Its cares and troubles are for
gotten ln the dance, the ball game, the foot
race and similar diversions.
In past years the grocers and butchers
have won the name of being the champion
JBVCH XOM
ttaA Jm aeOOt
TTTE .OMAnA SUNDAY BEE: JULY
PORTERS WHO CARRT IVORT TO THE BEACOAST.
movo, and thence by boat to Zanslbar.
The slave trader, loaded their slavea with
Ivory tunks and made them carry them
acrosa country. When they got them hers
they told both slaves and Ivory to the
Zanzibar merchants. In such cases many
of the slaves were females, and were
used to suiiply the harems of Arabs,
Byrla and Turkey, as well as Egypt and
other Mohammedan countries of North
Africa. Such merchandise was known as
blai k ivory. In contradistinction to the elo-
phants' tusks, called white Ivory.
Since Germany has gotten possession of
t h mainland nnnnuttA hnra tha li-nn- tm .1
I I - - - v' ... a. u.j .1 uuu
has been diverted to Dar es Salnam, and
a large part of the product now goes there.
This trade will increase with the build ng
of the railroad, which Is now being pushed
r "i nil HVfllJ 11 11 1 lllUCl. OUIIIILN
of the most intelligent are about Tabora,
and It Is from there that the colony cx-
pects to get the labor to cultivate tho
plantations along the seacoast. The na-
tive8 of that Ttgion have a klng an1
subordinate chiefs, and women are so
highly regarded that they are sometimes
elected as tha chief of their miwrtiv.
vlllae"- These people believe In spirits.
and the'r thlnk that the dead live again
as spirits, mvery chief has a hut In which
the spirits are supposed to dwell.
They have medicine men and wltoh
tors, and they think that a good medicine
man can change Mmself Into a wild anl-
mal at will and thus torment bis ene-
nilefc
Education of the Negroes.
The Germans are ruling
these people to
some extent through the
t ...i.n..i ,
Leach
Africa.
s and
rope an
Thf
work Is Just In the beginning, but It
promise, to grow. Fifty-two colored
teachers are already employed and the
ftChOOla hAVA IPVPrj t thmiuanrl nnnll.
-- ..v. kui""'
There are but few white, in th im.rinr
of that colony and almost none excepting
,,:;.
. In Tabora there are elaht for-
rainmakers of the west. Not a date ha.
been et for their annual outing that wa.
not attended by a downpour of rain. Some
years as many as three dates have been
tried. But this year the event was held
at Krug park, and the weather man smiled
as he thought of the merrymakers, who
were patronizing home Industry, and held
out only the brightest of days. Tho
pictures show some of the Jolly groups
that spent the day amonfc the tree, and
flower, of tha popular resort.
5, 1903.
one being a doctor and the other a trader.
At Usumburu, at the head of the lake.
there are four Europeans, and at lT.a-
marckburg, on the southern end, there are
only two, both of whom are officials. At
Mwania, on Lake Victoria, I found about
twenty Europeans, equally divided be-
tween the military and civil branches of
tn government.
Amons; the Waihuhl.
There Is a queer town on Lake Victoria
belonging to the Germans, which I have
not mentioned in my previous letters. I
called there durine fnv tour armmi tha
- ...... u -.
lake- 11 is known as Shlratl and It lies
near the boundary of British East Africa,
Tna country about Is beautifully rolling.
1 ne nlus 8'P gently up from the lake
. w---m
u,clr walst belts. The men Were often
clad ,n ,lnKl8 Katskln, which was
Bnlfte1 that It covered now the back
a,ld now the front of the person. All
wore Jewelry. I saw many dandles who
ha1 on reat colls of wire, and one whoas
"rma ana le'h were wrapped with brass
w,re the size of a lead pencil. Another
"olne-
man W colu of thln wlre uPn ,hl WPP8
arm and that so tight the flesh seemed
"u over mem. 1 couniea in
strands on one woman's oalf. It had
Mtea parallel strands of the thick-
neaof al Pencil, from where tha
"welling began to the knees. Otherwise
th woman was bare to the fringe apron
wnlcn ran arouna her waJt-
Many ' these natives had shields of
enormous size made of skins fastened to
"amewr na painted ln bright colors.
,a- au aicssyu Ul 1DW VI VJ IrlUI!
fa mtViwm wKInk ll. J a J . s.
v"' "v.n iuvaou uuu m conirui
with their nude bodies beneath. They all
carrle1 Pa nd wer celebratinff a war
Abomt tha Horn.
The houses of Shlratl ara round huts
with thatched roofs and walls of unrlaht
sticks chinked with mud. The Interior of
. .. l. V. J I I . . 1 . .
ca.wu uiiun im uiviucu into i wo compari-
m.nt. it.. .v,.
the oattle. The cooking fire Is mado ln
the eentr Af thA hut thn hlnva Ktalnir uaii-
''v-"
I (O.-r. '.',., t. I ft
4hA '-:i A' v.
. v, - hi
4 i'J iM ;
J )
' '
DOOR dP AN IVORT
ally started by means of friction. Just as
our Indians made fire before Columbus
came. The people sleep on the ground,
using pillows of wood.
ii . , t t .1 r u . . t t ... n n
WU.JIU 1 II 1. 1 1 J J . . 1 1 II 1 1 U ! a n "I
arles. These are tall, round wlckerwork
baskets made of cane or plaited rushes,
Prattle of the
LIZABETH'S mother did not
teach her little daughter much
that she should have learned
about religion; nor did the
father.
The other day a guest said to
E
SM4
tint little girl: "Elisabeth, ' does your
father say grace at the table?"
"What grace?" returned the girl inno
cently. "Why, thanks for what you have to
eat."
"Oh," replied Elizabeth, now enlightened.
"We don't have to thank anyone for what
we have we always pay cash."
"Did It sting you. Aunt Jane?" asked
the precocious child of the rich but cranky
eld relative of whim tha fa.mllv hud
peotatlons.
' T- I A ,.sf MA Y. 1 1 .4 O't l,ia ,k.
old ,adyi trasclbly.
"The bee pa says you've got tn your
bonnet"
Harry's father was bald and one day the
little fellow said: "Papa, It wouldn't do
for you to fall asleep In the desert, would
It?"
"Why not?" asked the father.
" 'Cause an ostrich might sit on your
head and hatch it out," explained Harry.
Mamma Margie, I thought I told you not
to eat your candy till after dinner.
Margie I'm not eating It, mamma; I'm
only sucking the Juloa.
4
A clergyman made an unusually long call
at the home of a parishioner recently. He
talked and talked, until finally little Edna,
who was present, whispered, "Mamma, did
the preacher forget to bring his 'amen'
with him?"
Little EOmer Mamma say. you are a
duck of a doctor.
Pompou. M. D. (greatly pleased) In-
V
UTTLE UNB OF LITTLE FOLKS.
grnn vuri'tarm could run Bonn.
-''"Sv.-:. rr.
MERCHANTS HO USH.
chinked tight with cow dung. They at
raised upon poles a foot or so from the
ground and have conical roofs of thatch,
There Is a little door at the tOD of each
.-.... , v, , , . . u ... v, 1 . , v. ka rn 1.
l l.ll.l J 1 .111 uull TT .111.,. hul U . U . m fu
In or taken out.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
... - . , . . .
Youngsters
deed! How did she come to say that?
Little Elmer Oh, she didn't say It Just
that way, but I heard her tell papa you
wore a quack.
Nebraska Pioneers
(Continued from Page One.)
cheerful old age than that which tha Ne
braska pioneer, are living. In fact they
don't know they are old. They are not old.
"Old Time la a liar" " as Oliver Wendell
Holmes exclaims ts his poem, "The Boys."
Nothing can expres. better the spirit of the
pioneer, than that poem written by
Holme, at Just such an anniversary a.
the one to take place at Mllford, except
that It lacked a feminine element:
lis there any old fellow got mixed up
with the boys?
If there has take him out without mak
ing a noise;
Hang the almanac's cheat and tha cata
logue's spite
Old Time is a liar! We're twenty tontghtl
We're twenty! we-re twenty! Who say.
we are more?
He's tipsy! young Jackanapes ! show him
the door!
"Gray temples at twenty?" yes white. If
we please;
Where the snowflake. fall thickest
there's nothing can freeze.
Ten, we're boys--alway. playing with
tongue and with pen
And I sometimes have asked, shall we
ever be men?
Shall we always be youthful and laugh
ing and gay.
Till the last dear companion drop smil
ing away?
Then, here's to our boyhood, Itis gold and
Its gray!
The stars of Its winter, the dev. of lt
May!
And when we have done our life-lasting
toys,
Dear Kather, take care of Thy children,
the boys!