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Show ELEPHANTS AT WOKKj AND THEV'RE NO IN A BERS In At 70 They're SAWMILL. I Are f ully p Their Own. l'ouirtnt (Special Letter.) F or LKI'HANTSr When a course! man rcih so fie doesn't like read ing about elephants -l- et Kntut Tti fr 1 gentlemen. To all intents and working elephant of purposes, the Hurniali, Slam and India are trained laborers of enormous strength, and frequently potu-sr- f more intelligence than their madrivers. houts, or The initial picture shows an elephant rolling a huge log through th .forest with his head and tuHks. When a clearing Is reached the great brute will be harnessed to the log, and will drag it down to the river, (heat raftsn of teak logs are floated down to and Rangoon, where they are re ceived and dealt with by other elephants, the mere recital of whose daily labors would cause the uninformed to gasp with Incredulity. When the trimmed and branded lo?n irwch Rangoon, tuey are received by working elephants who go to meet ,nem, so to speak, and land them dexterously, afterwards conveying them fco the sawmills. Young elephants are 2fi years old (when they begin nerious work, and are tt their prime fit 70, w hen an elephant can lift with his tusk a log weighing ton, or drag one weighing three ton:?. When au elephant gets to be a centeu-iaria- n ho begins to get ready to die. Some of the Siamese elephants aetu-ll- y feed the circular naws in the mill, Hnd ho marvelous is their intelligence lhat an astute little tusker was once observed to ceae the pressure on his log. (withdraw it anxiously and then offer mother part to the revolving sa.v, which was formerly going crookedly khrough the log. it Hinimln arrange fo ;iy (liar these elephants are very human, but it conveys the exact truth. At the sound of the dinner bell the sawmill elephants will Instantly drop their logs and scant per off, screaming w ith 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 wnd with his trunk and tusks, the trunk ic.hlefty serving to keep it from slipping from the tusks, and raises jt to the top if the pile. Then he goes'to the other nd on the ground. This, too, is lifted hiuI the whole pushed home -- y. In pulling a stack to pieces, or relieving a jam of logs in a flooded creek. iUio elephants pick out and remove the " key log" with an intelligence that Is .tbsolutely astounding. The key log Is, ,of course, that one which, when pulled out, eases and lossens the whole stack. The second picture represents n .cene on a siding on the Assam railway. A kind of inclined plane has been formed of two stout planks, and up these the great let: Is being skilfully rolled Py the Intelligent comrades. i tie eicptiants work three days and c'C O ' CHAW.' Mei.llon of tr A ' 1813. BONES IK LiUiUNLl I.OCS ( ASSAM RAILWAY. then rc.t thi"e days, more work would break their big brails. Although to the uninitiated veritable iiuMPiiiients of innocence and docility, (hci-workers are amazingly tricky. 'Vuey don't need a irade union, every cl pliant being very well able to look alter his own interests. A heavy chain is sometimes fixed to elephants that are turned loose to feed in the jungle that night; this Is In order that wanderers may be traced by the trail left Well it by thfl chain in the jungle. has been known that when an elephant has made up his mind to bolt, ho ha e arefully gathered up tho chain unl tarried it for miles oa his iuk Oritur m.l li... i utrl A SEA FOUND. t l"r-hlll- luinraiiy t 93 nl Who It Still In Active 9 historic period the sea serpent really lived. An almost complete fossil skeleton consisting 1 of ninety-tw- o 'ver tebrae parts of the skull, and arm bones, with several teeth as f()U11,i aiu presented to the The creature University f Denver. in life must have been seventy feet long. 1'rof J 0f ti,e University thus writes of Us: "Tho specimen is a gift to the university from John Keegan of Flagler. The manner in which it as 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 man picked up one of the bones and was surprised to find it as heavy as stone. fe carried a piece to the town, and Mr. Keegan saw that the bones might be of scientific interest. He drove to tieplacs and found alniut twelve feet of the vertebral column lying on the ground, as it had lain through countless thousands of years. There it had been left when 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, who sent it t 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 bones are from the uppermost cretaceous formation of that region. The place of preservation waj too near the division between cretaceous and tertiary reck that they could not determine the age. Further study, however, shows that the reptile is a cretaceous form. During the cretaceous time, not only greater part of Colorado, but the greater part of the western half of the continent, was a shallow sea, dotted here aud 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 as soon as the new conditions were inau gurated at the end oi 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 Mesasaurla. He gives three genera clldastes, platjcarpus and mesasuras. It Is In one of these genera or sea serpents that our monster must be placed. It is difficult to locate it definitely, because so many of the characteristic parts are destroyed. I sent some of the bones to the Department of the National Geological Survey at Wash ington, 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 and compression of this part of the body. After careful examination of the published descriptions I was led to the opinion that the species ha3 not been described heretofore. "If one can Imagine a long, slender reptile, sometimes seventy feet in length, not quite so lender a3 the mod ern serpent, and having two pairs of short, paddle-lik- e feet, one will have a fairly good idea of this class of rep tiles. They were groat sea serpents and were covered with bony scales, as I have reProf. Marsh has shown. ferred to as the ancestors of Ptiakes: 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 food whole. Their habits seem to ar.d they lived have bcrn during the ace immediately preceding the introduction of true snakes. It is an easy step from an animal like clidastes to the modern serpent. ill 1' mo- t'' ft W WTUiOlIiV and perfectly . 1..... . it n'.. .1 he really is 't is only necessarv to state preserved I... that the doctor practices his profession as actively and with as much success as 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 Ohloan was educated at Guestrow and Parchini. He was a schoolmate of Von Moltke. He practiced medicine ia his native land until 1835, when political troubles caused him to emigrate to America. After spending a few years In the East, he 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 I.ovrr' Cowardice. AU Paris is talking of the brutal behavior of some of the men during the panic e.iused by the disastrous fire at the Charity bazaar. They Beem 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 man, whose name is suppressed, was present at the bazaar with his young fiancee. When the tire broke out, she naturally new to him for help and protection. He pushed her roughly aside, and leaving her to her fate, saved himself This girl, though bruised an scarred, was ultimately saved (by the exertions of some poor man. it is said)" In the evening, th gentleman, her betrothed, came to inquire after her health, and was told by tlu man servant at the oor that heneel not ever trouble him.e!f to enter tint house again. Surely mere death would bo siuiple in comparUm to the exigence on this earth bunded with the name "coward" for th rest of self-contro- l, mm-fi- t life! Calllnir the ll.uk n Order Once, while Mr. Webber w;'u the senate, th senate clo k commeuccd utriking, bu.t instead t striking twice at 2 p. m, continued to strike without cessation ;nore than fir ty times. AU eyes were turned toward the clock, and Mr. Wetuter rennined silent until the clock ha A struck about twenty, when he thu appealed to th. rhalr: "Mr. President tl v lot IS. OUI of ordr! I )iave the floor! " -- Schillings Best tea is not only pure but it ts because it is fresh-roasteis the missing v:ord - -- What d. ? Get Schilling's Best tea at your grocer's; take out the Yellow Ticket (there is one in every package); send it with your guess to address below before 'August 31st. One word allowed for every yellow ticket. If only one person finds the word, he gets one thousand dollars. II several find it, the money will be divided equally among them. Every one sending a yellow ticket will get a set of cardboard creeping babies at the end of the contest Those sending three or more in on envelope will receive a charming 1S9S calendar, no advertisement on it. 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. Cut this out. You won't see it again for two weeks. Bl BEST TEA SAN FRANCISCO. SCHILLING'S Address: - Dr. Charles Frederick Hermann Wullgoh is the oldest physician in Ohio, and lives at Doylestown, in Wayne cocnty. Although he has seen ninety-thre- e years of life upon eartb, DR. C. F. II. Who will get it ? J'urr, sea serpent is largely a myth, but a recent find in ('(dorado goes to prove that in a pre- ll. s (Columbus, Ohio, Letter.) he is well Time - Fre- uf 1110 THE OLDEST PHYSICIAN. I SERPENT rrutJ 1 rrt l oug In oloradu. 1 tell-tal- OF The i ye-m- e MUTTUNr STORY. til The earliest mention of tea b an KiigUshmai is probably that contained Vi khain, au in a leti.-from Mr. India company, agent of tlt- Ka.-.-t written from Firaudo, in Japan, on thp 27th of June, Kir,, to Mr. Katou, another officer of the ompany, resident at Macao, asking him to send "a pot of the best chaw," says Lippincott's. In Mr. Eaton's acecunts of expenditures this item: "Three silver porringers to dring chaw in." It was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that the English began to use tea. The first importations were from Java to 10 and the price ranged from per pound. In the Meiturius I'olltieus of September, lo", appears the following advertisement: "That excellent and by all physicians approved China drink, called by the ('hint ans Telia, by ether nations tay, or tea, is sold at the in Sultanas Head, a ciphee-hous- e Sweetings Rents, by ibe Royal Exchange, Ixnidon." I'epys enters in his diary on the 25th of September, lGt0: "I did send for a cup of tee, a China drink, of whh:h I had never drunk before." This ts proof of the novelty of the drink in England at that date. In 1064 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 tea and coffee became fashionable and the importations large in proportion. Mout-mel- trium-diliantl- BEST 3 ing the elephant" he's pretty down the valo of decrepimental The story tude. from here Riven Anstruther Keith Mr. of the experience r of Michigan and the Messrs. Maegreg conwho & Co. of Rangoon, gentlemen In duct great lumbering interest from twe who Northern Siani, Aula, and 100 to 150 elephants in their operations. The pictures that illustrate the article are from photographs lent by these 1 THE KC-ur- "see- nlone pot of - I iiUmib. Triad Thr to Uuld - Oout Their Prim cd Mrinlf1''P tlea NUM- BACK A th-?- CEO. M. JAS. SCOTT, Z'reklilenb 1L Or.KN'DlNVrXO. EUMFIELD, S. and Treat nt Secretary Geo, M. Scott & Co (INCORPORATED.) Hardware Bar and Sheet Steel Importers and Dealers In Iron, AGKNTS I'.uffalo Seale Company, Atlas Engine Works, Dodge Wooden Pulleys. 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