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Show ELEPHANTS AT WORK AND THEY'RE NO BACK NUMBERS IN A SAWMILL. At Prime Han't Trail I'nluu. BtnuN They Are Fully Cuuipcient to Bold Ip llii-l- r Own. TO They're In Tlii-lMeed Mrualierahlp In r (Spiels! loiter.) 01 T LEPHANTS? L-When a rumse! I man gels so lie JL doesnt like read-- f ing about elephants seelet alone the elephant ing hes pretty fir down the vale of decrepimental The story tude. here given is from the experience of Mr. Keith Anstruther of Michigan and the Messrs. Macgregjr & Co. of Rangoon, gentlemen who conduct great lumlierinK Interests In Northern Siam, Asia, uml who use from 300 to 150 elephants in their operations. The pictures that Illustrate the article are from photographs lent by these gentlemen. To all intents and purposes, the working elephants of Ilurmah, Siam nd India are trained lalsirers of enormous, strength, and frequently possess more intelligence than their or drivers. The initial picture shows an elephant rolling a huge log through the forest with his head and tusks. When clearing Is reached the great brule will be harnessed to the log, and will drag it down to the river. Great rafts n of teak logs are floated down to and Rangoon, where they are received and dealt with by other the mere recital of whom daily laliora would cause the uiiiuformed to gasp with Incredulity. When the trimmed and branded log1) reach Rangoon, they are received by working elephants who go to meet .1 hem, so to speak, and land them dexterously, afterwards conveying them to the sawmills. are 25 years old Young elephants when they begin serious work, and are ut their prime at 70, when an elephant ran lift with hig tusk a log weighing u ton, or drag one weighing three tons. When an elephant gets to lie a centenarian he hegina to get ready to die. y Some of the Siamese elephants feed the circular aaws In the mill, sind so marveloua Is their Intelligence that an astute little tusker was once observed to cease the pl easure on Ills log, .withdraw It anxiously and then offer uuotlier part to the revoivlug saw, which was formerly going crookedly through the lug. It sounds strange to say that these rlephants are very human, but it conveys the exact truth. At the sound of the dinner bell the sawmill elephants will Instantly drop their lugs and scamper off, screaming with glee at the welcome respite. The stocking of heavy or square logs is wonderfully Interesting, The animal pushes a log to the pile, raises one vnd with his trunk and tusks, the trunk chiefly serving to keep It from slipping from the tusks, and raises it to the top f the pile. Then lie goes to the other end on the ground. This, too, is lifted und tho whole 1 r pushed home triumT ma-liout- a, ed Moul-liiel- ele-'hau- ls, POT OP THE BEST CHAW. Tbe Ktrlkil Mention of Ten la the A V ear 1UIS. The earliest mention of tea by an Ihigliidiniau U probably that contained in a letter from Mr. Wickham, an agent of tho Hast India company, wriuen from Firuudo, in Japan, on the 27ib of June, 1G13, to Mr. Eutou, another officer of the ompuny, resident at Macao, asking him to send a put of In the heat chaw, says Lippini-oit's- . Mr. Raton's accounts of expenditures otrurs this item: "Three silver to tiring rhaw in. It was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that the English began to use lea. The first importations were from Java sud the price ranged from i to 10 per pound. In the Mercurius PolltUua o September, 1G83. appeals the folThat lowing advertisement; sud by all physicians approved China drink, called by the Chineans Telia, by other nations lay, or tea, la sold at the in Sultaneas Head, a cophee-hous- e Sweetings Rents, by the Royal Exchange, London. Pepys enters In his diary on the 25th of September, 1CG0: I did send for a cup of tee, a China drink, of which I had never drunk before. This Is proof of the novelty of the drink in England at that date. In 1GG4 it Is recorded that the East India company presented the king with two pounds and two ounces of thea. About this time, however, the consumption of lea and coffee became fashionable and the importations large in proportlop. pur-riLge- rs exc-lle- ut THE OLDEST PHYSICIAN. I 93 sail VVliu I Mill In Ai-tit- Tree-th-- a. (Columbus, Ohio, Letter.) Charles Frederick Hermann Wullgolie is the oldest physician in Ohio, and lives at Doylestown, In Wayne county. Although he has seen ninety-thre- e years of life upon earth, Dr. actu-cill- phantly. In pulling a stack to pieces, or re- lieving a jam of logs in a flooded creek, ithe elephants pick out aud remove the "'key log" with na Intelligence that Is absolutely astounding. The key log Is. eourse, that one whleh. when pulled out, eases and lossens the whole stack. The second picture represents a scene on a siding on the Assam railway. A kind of inclined plane has been formed of two stout planks, and tip these the great log Is being skilfully rolled by the Intelligent comrades. The elephants work three days and ;f DR. C. F. H. Wl'LLGOIIS.- he Is well preserved and perfectly healthy. To shew how well preserved he really Is t Is only necessary to state that the doctor pructlces his profession as actively and with as much success os might a man of half his years. His father was a surgeon In the army of Germany. He was killed at the age of 83 while riding a horse attending to his duties on a battlefield. The aged Ohioan was educated at Guestrow and Parchlni. He was a schoolmate of Yon Moltke. He practiced medicine In his native land until 1835, when political troubles caused him to emigrate to America. After spending a few years in the East, h? came West, and settled in Ohio. The doctor has smoked regularly since he was 53. but never indulged in tobacco before that age. He is up to date In his knowledge of medicine, and looks forward to many more years of active life. A Larm Cowardice. All Paris is talking of the brutal behavior ut some of the men during the panic caused by the disastrous fire at the Charity bazaar. They seem to have lost all and to have struggled, and hit and bruised and knocked down the women in order to save themselves. On all sides we hear tales from the friends of those who were saved of these men's selfish and cruel efforts to save themselves. One mail, whose name Is suppressed, was present at the bazaar with his young fiancee. When the fire broke out, she naturally flew to him for help and protection. He pushed her roughly aside, and leaving her to her fate, saved himself. This young girl, though bruised and scarred, jras ultimately saved (by the exertions of some poor man, It is said). In the evening, the gentleman, her betrothed, came to inquire after her health, and was told by the man servant at the floor that he need not ever trouble himself to enter that WAY. then rest three days; more work would house again. Surely mere death would break their big hearts. Although ap- be simple In comparison to the existveritable ence on this earth bunded with the pearing to the uninitiated monuments of innorenre and docility, name "coward for the rest of mortal these workers are umazingly tricky. life! They don't need a trade union, every I'Vpliiiiit being very well able to look Calllnc the ('lock to Order. otter his own interests. A heavy chain Once, while Mr. Webster wag adii sometimes fixed to elephants that dressing tbe senate, the senate clock ure turned loose to feed In the jungle commenced striking, bid Instead of that night; this Is In order that wan- striking twice at 2 p. m continued to derers may be traced by the trail left strike without cessation more than forly the rhaln In the jungle. Well, it ty times. All eyes were turned toward has been known that when an elephant tbe clock, and Mr. WeWter remained has made qp his mind to bolt, he haa silent until the clock had struck about carefully gathered up the twenty, when ha thus appealed to tha Mr. President, the dock is out I bain and carried it for inilei on his chair: tusks. of order! I have the floor!" self-contr- ol, ed tell-ta- le A RATTLING BONES OF SEA A STORY. SERPENT FOUND. u Tba Creature Seventy Fart aud Lived In l'rrtiiaturlr Tine l.ons lra-krut- ed Who will get it? to tba I'ulvrraiiy ut Braver, 8 Colorado. HE serpent is a largely myth, hut a recent find In Colorado goes to prove that in a prehistoric period the sea serpent really lived. An almost fossil complete skeleton consisting verof ninety-tw- o tebrae parts of the bones, with several teeth was found and presented to the The creature 1'nlverrfity of Denver. in life must have been seventy feet long. Prof. Lee of the University thus writes of us; "The specimen Is a gift to the university from John Keegan of Flagler. The manner In which It was found Is Interesting. One day a Mexican herdsman rode Into Flagler and reported that his horse stumbled and fell over a long string of bones. The mun picked up one of the bones and was surprised to find it ss heavy as stone. He carried a piece to the town, and Mr. Keegan Baw that the bones might be of scientific interest He drove to tin placa and found about twelve feet of the vertebral column lying on the ground, as It had lain through countless thousands of years. There It had been left wben the rock decayed from around It. About four feet of the tail was still embedded In the solid rock. This was carefully dug out, and the whole skeleton preserved by Mr, Keegan, whtf sent it to the uniMr. Keegan reports that versity. while the specimen was in his possession It was examined by several geologists. From them we learn that the hones are from the uppermost cretaceous formation of that region. The place of preservation waa too near the division between cretaceous and tertiary rock that they could not determine the age. Further study, however, shows that the reptile Is a cretaceous form. During the cretaceous time, not only the greater part of Colorado, but the greater part of the western half of the continent, was a shallow sea, dotted here and there with islands. Those clumsy, overgrown monsters which we are familiar with as In habitants of the Denver region, had reached their culmination, and were ready to pass out of existence forever aa soon as the new conditions were Inaugurated at the end of the age. Among these reptiles forms we find the ancestors of the modern serpents. During the cretaceous period the seas were Inhabited by long, snake-lik- e reptiles, called by Cope Pythonamorpha or Mesasauria. He gives three genera clidastes, platocarpus and mesasuras. It la In one of those genera or sea serpents that our monster must be placed. It la difficult to locate It definitely, because so many of the characteristle I sent some of parts are destroyed. the bonas to the Department of tbe National Geological Survey at Washington. 1). C and received word that the specimen is probably clidastes, although the jaw Is more massive and the teeth more compressed than in the only specimens, we have. I think that you probably .have one of the most complete vertebral columns of this group of marine reptiles in existence. The tail is particularly fine, and gives me a much better Impression of the depth aud compression of this part of the body. After careful examination of the published descriptions I was led to the opln'on that the species has not been described heretofore. If one can Imagine a long, slender reptile, sometimes seventy feet in length, not quite so lender as the modern serpent, and having two pairs of feet, one will hare short, paddle-lik- e a fairly good Idea of this class of reptiles. They were great sea serpents and were covered with bony scales, as I have re' Prof. Marsh has shown. ferred to them as the ancestors of snakes: the form of the body was very snake-lik- e and the long jaw shows a mechanism similar to that of serpents which makes it possible to swallow the Their habits seem to food whole. and they lived have been serpent-likthe preceding Immediately age during the introduction of true snakes. It Is an easy step from an animal like clld antes to the modern serpent. V ' e-- ), ,jrisu but it Schilling s Best lea is not only pure because it is is ? - fresh-roaste- What vord ? is the missing Ticket Get Schilling's Best tea at your grocers; take out the Yellow address below (there is one in every package); send it with your guess to before 'August 3 1 at. One word allowed for every yellow ticket. If only one person finds the word, he gets one thousand dollars. Il several find it, the money will be divided equally among them. cardboard creeping Every one sending a yellow ticket will get a set of Those sending three or more in ons babies at the end of the contest advertisement on it- envelope will receive a charming 1898 calendar, no Besides this thousand dollars, we will pay $150 each to the two persons who send in the largest number of yellow tickets in one envelope between June 15 and the end of the contest August 31st. You wont see it again Cut this out. for two weeks. SCHILLINGS BEST TEA SAN FRANCISCO. Address: GEOl M. B, KUMFIELD. H. S. JAR. GLEXDINSIXO. nail Treat SCOTT. PrehlUont bccretarf Qt Geo. M. Scott & Co (INCORPORATED.) Importers and Dealers In Bar and Sheet Iron, Steel Pipe AGENTS FOK Detroit Stove Cn John Yun - Home Steel Ranges Coles' Air Tight 11 raters, Buffalo Scale Company, Atlas Engine Works, Dodge Wooden Pulleys. California Powder Works. Celebrated Anchor Brand Cylinder and Engine Oil, Howe, Brown A Co., Drill &. 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II p I r mm halt Til Ong WHO II tile ifxiiut the (ivmiimmi LAKE CIT Claims will wntu to Irnkfii 1,'rll,,rS. Wntio" and Patent Att'y, HI 10., Washington, D.1..,Uh-- t will leertve a prompt mat DROPSY qm)kiIMndmnIn .1.. cam. Head want for bouk of tmtlmnnlal. and nr. M.n.aawamxa. aumm, Z. treatment Free, CANCER W. N. U., Whe. Salt Lake-N- o. 29, 1897 UB4'y |