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Show GIRAFFES EAT THE POLES One of the Difficulties Faced by Men Who Built Telegraph 8ystem In Africa. lcry Industry has Its troubles. Homo of them can bo foreseen nnd some of them cannot be. It Is doubtful doubt-ful If the men who tolled to lmlld up a telegraph system In equatorial Africa Af-rica foresaw tho pecullnr difficulties' they wero to havo from wild animals. ani-mals. In several provinces of nrltlsh East Africa the glrnffo and elephant ore given speclnl protection by law. It costs $80 to get u license to kill a bull glrnffo nnd $150 for a license to kill n pnlr of elephants. In many parts tho killing of giraffes is forbidden entirely. en-tirely. Consequently In this vast game preserve elephants and giraffes tnko special heetl to tho voice of the Creator Crea-tor as transcribed In the first chapter chap-ter of Genesis: "Be fruitful and multiply." mul-tiply." The lions hnvo dnno llkcwlso nnd thoy hnvo caused real Inconvenience Inconveni-ence to Genernl Smuts moro thnn once In his recent military operations, opera-tions, besieglnp tho genernl himself onco In his motorcar. The elephants nnd giraffes, however, mnko a specialty spe-cialty of t olograph poles. According to n zoologist who writes In the London Lon-don TImc, tho giraffes havo been giving trouble by pulling down tho telegraph wires nnd thereby Interrupting Inter-rupting communications. The beautiful beauti-ful creatures, which habitually feed on the ncncln, stripping It of Its leaves as high ns their long necks mid prehensile pre-hensile tongues can reach, rarely resist re-sist such attractions nnd, ns mnny of the telegraph poles In this region of Africa sprout with lenvcs each yenr, their temptation Is easily understood. Current Opinion. |