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Show Elephant at Wort.. Tbe Hon. Carter IL Harrison, in "Race with the Sun," describes a visit to tome timber yards and saw mills in Rangoon, Ran-goon, where he saw what he calls the lions of the city the working elephants. Th lumber is not sawed into boards, but th slab is taken off and the good staff left ia the form of square timber. The logs ara many of them three feet in diameter and thirty or forty feet loDg. These the elephants ele-phants draw from the river and pile in systematic order. TheD, when they art needed, they roll them to the ways and assist as-sist in adjustinr them for the saw. After the log 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 from a particular log which was under several others. One of the mousters rolled the upper logs off and pushed the chosen stick to the mill. The way was not clear the log butted against the ethers. He pushed t hese aside and guided h5s piece through thf m with a sagacity almost human. hu-man. His stick became wedged. He pushed and tugged; it would not budge, but at a whispered word from the mahout and the promise of nice food he bent to it. Still It stuck. With a whistle audible for half a mile, he got on his knees, straightened out his hind legs, and put his whole force into a push. He was successful. "We could almost al-most read his satisfaction in the gentle flaps of his huge ears and the graceful curve of his proboscis as he put it up to the mounted mahout, asking for his reward. Sticks more than two feet thick and twenty feet long are lifted bodily upon the great ivories, and are then carried off and laid upon the gangways bo gently as not to make a jar. Ve saw one of the elephants carrying such a titnber alonj a path not three feet wide among masses of loose logs. He had to plant his fore feet upon the logs, and thus walk a considerable distance. dis-tance. He looked as if he were walking upon his hind legs. The corner of a frail little bamboo hut stood in his way. He .ifted the log over the roof, and bent his body so that his sides gently scraped the sorner of the house and did not shake it. A hundredth part of his weight would have caused it to topple from its pile foun- I dation. |