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Show CANDY AND M I WORTH MORE I THAN SOLO I 1 Money Refected But Sweets H Eagerly Taken By South I Sea Natives I EXPLORERS SUCCEED :. Remarkable Discoveries Are ! Made in Distant Parts of Globe HONOLULU. Ti H.. Dec. 30 (Bv Hie Associatrd Preeajrf-Rapa, the ls-land ls-land where mm are outnumbered fon-alderahly fon-alderahly by women residents, also Is i lie Island Where jam and candy are far more precious than much fin cold. accordinK to j. F . Stokes, sci-entJst sci-entJst attached to the Bishop museum, who conducted an extensive lour of investigation of the Austral ialandfl in iynnection.9 with the museum's efforts to establish the origin of the Polyne sian Stokes said that offers of money had no effect upon natives of Rapa v. hen they were requested to obtain1 mm Bpecimene, relics and other fragments a lost civilization. But there were torthcoming instantly when candy1 was, offered In exchange. As a result. th; mm supply of candy oon was exhausted. Then Mrs. Stokes came to the rescue. ( mm The natives would furnish no more specimens unless they were supplied With sweets. Mrs. Stokes hit upon naking jam out of the oranges which I (TDW In abundance on Rapa tikf s said that ihe jam ' as considered consid-ered more valuable than the candy, i, FOSSIL TUSKS APPEAR. LONDON. Dec SO. The latest ad-'!iiion ad-'!iiion in 'he natural history depart-J uient of the British museum ia th9 I skull and tusks of a Siberian mam- , moth, the first ever brought into i western Europe. The skull was dug out of the ice one of the Siberian i inlands of the Arctic. Preserved as j il .as in cold storage through count leas ages, it is remarkably fresh, even :'j5& to the fragments of skin still attached to the great jaws. --IK By examining t ho teeth, which are :-vSl m excellent condition and about six :'':M Inches in diameter, experts have estab- ""4B lished that they belonged to a fuil .'i grown female mammoth. The bones q ihe head are snow white In con-JH con-JH ail 1 0 the usual fossil bones, which jam are stained brown or black. Tbe tusks are 12 feet lone, and the 3jfl vorj if in perfect condition. Their -bBi value as ivory is placed at $1500. JH Large quantities of fossilized ivory, ,nx u pin various parts ot Siberia, . re now coming to England for sale A : hip load of these remains arrived re-1 'B! i . ntiy and was sold for prices higher lhan paid for Indian ivory tusks. The s'.-pply of such ivory, nowever, la limited and it will not have any material effect on the market. M REMAINS FOUND IN MALTA. VALBTT, Malta, Dec. 30 Scien- j A lists digging for prehistoric records In ln a cave on the inland of Malta have j&M found teeth which they boliee be-1 jB longed to a man who lived contt m )H mot. an-ousl with the "Neanderthal JB . n." The Neaderthal skull was found -H n Germany in 1856. and is said to be .he oldest record of the human rare in Europe. ijM The teeth were found in a remote 3fl tlon "f the much frequented cave called Ghar Dalam. The visits of many souvenir huntis have made j &fl morn difficult the labors ot the inve Wm tigators, but nevertheless the are pre paring to excavate further in the hope MB) ot finding more evidence of prehistor- 00 |