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PAGE SIS. ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1904. PAPER BOX SALE See the Red Tags. They tell the tale. Do they intere t you? If you use paper they certainly DO. J. N. GRIFFIN ar Tbe smoKe or reace ana tomion o "I A IFfllOlIAi W flft A!) Dei gjfir iLumiL muMti Made by dean workmen. A simile trial will put np a good 6 argament for itself. SOLD BY EVEKT DEALER IN TOWN c, J. V. BURN S, Manufacturer Give them a trial 474 Commercial Street & MATTRESSES "Wool, Curled llair, Mohair, Spring. All kinds of Mattresses made to order. Prices the Lowest. L. H. HENNINGiSEN CO. 504 BOND STREET. ASTORIA, OREGON. PHONE, RED 2303 Brooks & Johnson, Proprietors. Phone No. 831 THE WIGWAM GIS BROOKE, Manager Great Palace of Art of the Pacific Coast Fine Bar and the Best of Liquors and Cigars SEE THE ILLUSTRATED PICTURES Eighth and Astor Sts. ASTORIA A'Guaranteed Roof .SSStffJJS. fiTS tbe wrong time. Something that will stand bard usage. ELATERITE ROOFING will satisfy these requirements and many more. It is guaranted to do what we claim for it It has been on the market for over twelve years, and is offered strictly on its own merit, not on the demits of other goods. Write for prices and inform ation. - s . 10 Worcester Bldj. Portland, Ore The Elaterite Roofing Co. 000 TONS BEST LUMP Free Delivery. Phone orders to No. 1961. Elmore & CO. ELEPHANTS AS LABORERS; THEIR WONDERFUL WORK. The New Wall Tint j? Calcimo All the colors of the rainbow FISHER BROS. Co. NEW ZEALAND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Of NEW ZEALAND. W. P. Thomas, Manager, San Francisco. UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS. Has been Underwriting on the Pacific Coast twenty-five years. S. ELMORE 6 CO., Resident Agents, Astoria, Or. HOTEL. PORTLAND The Finest Hotel In the Northwest PORTLAND. OREGON. The elephant ta a grand laborer. He seldom or never "strikes," belongs to no unions, requires no wages, and can do the labor of 13 or SO men all in return (or his maintenance, which, however. Is a cretty big Item. Of course all elephants, even those In shows, do work oi various kinds, such as hauling wagons and so on; but It Is In the east that one sees these mon ster regularly employed. There are yet living in India a great number of wild elephanta which are, however, strictly preserved by the gov ernment, which finds It profitable to use the huge beasts In hauling guns, building tanks, and also on famine works and fortifications. When vacan ctes occur In the ranks of these strange workers, word Is sent to the depart ment of woods and forests that more "recruits" are wanted, and forthwith an Immense elephant trap Is Bet up. This consists of a great, staked enclos ure whose wails are made of solid tree trunks planted close together, and having a widespread, funnel-shaped opening. On a day appointed the whole region Is alive with beaters carrying guns, gongs and fireworks, and sooner or later a herd of trumpeting and startled monsters find themselves. within the walls, and then they havei no other alternative than to rush Into the corral When they find themselves trapped, the elephants are of course furious, j and attack the palisades with their trunks and tusks. After a day or two they quiet down somewhat, and then a vast quantity of hay and green stuff Is fed to them. Next comes the pro cess of their breaklng-ln or taming. This Is done by means of tame work ing elephants, selected for their sagac ity and Intelligence. These carefully trained animals, without any mahouts. or drivers, on their backs, walk in stately procession to the corral among their wilder brethren, and deliberately proceed to talk to them and argue with them, and point out that after all their lot will be much better than It has been, and as to work why, they will never be taxed beyond their pretty large capacities. For some days the unhappy prisoners refuse to listen to reason; but grad ually better counsels prevail, and at length the prisoners come forth one by one, each of them carefully roped In between two tame, working elephants. It Is a fact that If the prisoner on these occasions does not behave himself, after repeated "warnings" from his brother guardians, they apply severe "persuasion" to him through the medi um of their tusks. Thereafter the beasts grow more docile, and within a week or two from the time of the entrapping of the herd the wild ele phants are at work with their neighbors. But to see elephants employed pre cisely as though they were human la borers, one has to go Into the great teak forests of Burmah, and Into the sawmills and yards of Rangoon and Maulmaln. Burmah teak, as Is well known, Is a wood as valuable as Hon duras mahogany; and In both upper and lower Burmah there are almost Illimitable forests, great tracts of which are leased out to private cor porations by the government of India. These companies find It much cheaper to employ elephants as laborers be tween the forests and the sawmills than to lay down even the cheapest of portable railways. The system of work is something like this: Expert men fell the trees much as they do In our own forests of the northwest, and then trim off the branches. No sooner Is this done than along comes an elephant trailing chains behind him, and with or without a Hindoo, Burmese or Siamese mahout on his back or head. If all that Is known of the Intelligence of these working elephants was printed, It would be Incredible; and yet anyone who has to do with these huge crea tures will tell you that they act and deduce and reason precisely as human beings do. Chains are fastened around the pros trate log, and the elephant begins to drag it through the forest for many miles to the sawmill. Here the logs are squared by machinery, and other elephant laborers stack these logs for their reception on board ship. Now observe a couple of elephant laborers handling one of these squared teak logs. It lies on the ground. One of them, the "foreman," goes to one end of the big log, drives his tusks Into the ground at the side of it, curls over his trunk, brings one end of the log onto these tusks, and lifts the end slowly. Meanwhile, his mate has placed a stone or a block of wood un derneath the log, and this done one elephant goes to each end, and with a little screech of satisfaction curls his trunk easily around the swaying ends, and then the pair of them march oft with the log to the stack. Here again almost human Intelligence Is used, for the foremost elephant marches up and rests one end of the log on the wood stack and then retires, while the 'foreman at the other end of the long log drives It home with great satisfaction nor will he rest easy If even a few Inches of It sticks out Can you Imagine the scene T All day long, hundreds upon hundreds of ele phants, tuskers and otherwise, big and little, are hurrying backward and for ward, all bent upon doing their con scientious best to get the work done. There Is no playing, no wasting of time; and the celerity and proficiency with which the shifting and carrying and stacking are done has to be seen to be realised. ( One amusing thing Is that when the luncheon bell rings at midday, and again at S or 4 o'clock In the after noon, everyone of the hundreds of ele phanta will drop his log where he stands, and run oft trumpeting and screaming with delight like a small boy Just released from school. In many cases these elephants have no attendant at all; but the greater number of them have ft mahout to prevent fights over sharing the work. The animals get much attached to their drivers when they are kind to them, but when It is otherwise a trag edy Is likely to happen. It la notor ious that the elephant baa a long mem ory. Apropos of this, here Is a story from the elephant laborers of Ran goon: A surly little man from a village high up on the Irawadi some years ago applied for work to a big saw mill In the Burmese capital. It was an establishment belonging to a Liver pool house, and one of the superin tendents engaged the man as mahout to a hugh elephant employed In drag ging rough teak trees through the forest. Unfortunately for himself, this man was systematically unkind to the elephant, and was always goading him with the steel spike which these men carry. Many times did his big mount try to destroy him, and at last after a specially determined attempt the su perintendent discharged the man. die first drifted Into the Punjab dis trict; and It was Ave or six years be fore he found himself again In Bur mah, this time re-employed as an ele phant driver In Maulmaln. On the first day that his elephant was as signed to him, and on the first trip, the man noticed that at the sound of his voice the anlmul threw out his ears In a threatening manner. Noth ing further happened, however, until the animal had carried his mahout well Into the Jungly forest, and then with out a moment's warning, up and back ward curled the sinuous and sensi tive trunk, grabbed the mahout by the hair, planted him on. the ground, and In an instant feet and tusk and head had smashed him out of all human semblance. It wus proved afterward that by an extraordinary coincidence the doomed man had encountered the elephant he had been so unkind to years before. New York Tribune. WILL PATROL RED SEA. Russians to Keep Close Lookout for Contraband of War. St. Petersburg, July 18. Oeneral public satisfaction Is expressed over the decision of the admiralty to patrol the Red sea for the purpose of Inter ceptlng contraband of war destined for Japan. As yet, however, the papers do not discuss the subject. Copies of supplementary regulations for the government of foreign news paper correspondents at the front, dat ed Mukden, July 10, have arrived here. They require correspondents to pledge themselves, when given leave to pro ceed to certain points, to travel only by the route indicated; in no clrcum stances to absent themselves from the regiments, divisions or corps to which they may be attached; in case of their expulsion to travel by the route lndl cated to European Russia, and not at tempt to leave Manchuria except through European Russia. ' The beer that made Milwaukee fam ous Schlitz Is always on draught at The Grotto. Otto MlkkeUon. propria tor. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES WANTED Qlrl to do chamber work. Apply &9S Commercial It. The Leyde. WANTED Situation by Japanese to do cooking at boardlnghouie, hotel or family. Call at 434 Bond St., City. WANTED Girl to do cooking. Apply 508 Commercial St. The Leyde. WANTED Two housekeeping rooms, with sink and running water. Ad dress T. E. Pelssr, General Delivery, Astoria. WANTED Position by a thoroughly competent and experienced bookkeep er, with best of references. 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