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Show i:icptiaiits i iTorlv. The lion. Carter IL Harrison, ia bis 'T, ice with the Sun," descriixs a visit to Ecme timber yai di r.r.rl saw mills ia Rangoon, Ran-goon, where he saw what hi- calls the lions of the city the working elepUanis. The lumber is not sawed into hoards, but tha slab is take a oil and the good stuff left ia the form of square timber. The logs aro ru; ny of theri thrtc feet in diameter and thirty or furty feet lung. These the elephants ele-phants draw from the river and . pile ia systematic order. Then, when they are needed, they roll them to the ways and assist as-sist in adjusting them for the saw. After the Ing is cut, the elephant goes among the machinery, takes the slab away and carries the good timber and piles it up or lays it gently upon the ox carts to be hauled off. While we were present a carpenter wanted want-ed lumber iVo:n a particular log which v. .3 under several others. One. of the monsters robed the upper legs off and pushed the cho'T'.i stick t? the mill. The way was not clear th les batted against the others. He pushed these aside and guided h:s piece through th m with a sagacity almost hu-tuan. hu-tuan. IMa stick became we lired. lie pushed nrd tugged; it would not budge, but at a whispered word from the r.iahout and the m-e-:mse of idee fend he bent to it. Still it Muok. With a whistle audible for half a mile, he get on Lis knees, straightened out his hind legs, and put bis whole force iuto ft push. He was succ essful. We could almost al-most read his satifn nion in the gentle fir.: s of his huge ears .and the graceful curve of his proboscis s he put it up to the mounted mahout, asking for his reward. Sticks more than two feet thick and twenty f.et long are lifby.l bodily upon the m-eal ivories, and are l hen carried off and laid upon the gangways so gently as not to make a 'jar. We saw one, of the elephants carrying such a timber aloe;- a path not three feer wide amte.i masses of loose logs. He had lo plant his fore feet upon the logs, mid thus walk a considerable dis-'..-uKe. He looked as if he were walking upi.n his hind legs. The corner of a frail little bam hi -o hut stood in his way. He due l the log over the roof, and bent his hody so that his sides gently scraped the corner of the house and did not shake it. A hundred:;: ;ait of his weight would have caused ir to topple from its pile foundation. |