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Show IN THE PARK. It is a pity that Kipling was not with the President Pres-ident In Yellowstone Park, for his description of how the elks and bears and buffalos looked upon bis visit would bo delicious reading. It would be easy for him to describe a bear convention presided pre-sided over by a big grizzly, to devise ways and means for self-preservation when the mighty hunter should appear; their looking to their entrenchments; en-trenchments; their putting out sentries and making mak-ing arrangements for a retreat if the battle should become too sore; the wild appeals of the younger bears, to be true to their ancestors, the wise counsels coun-sels of the older ones, that in as much as they had lost no presidents, to stand purely on the defensive defen-sive and do nothing rash. Then when a gray wolf that had been wrung in as a scout appeared and told the breathless assembly that he naa seen the great President, that he was not much to look at and more, that he was coming without a single gun, how the convention was resolved into an old fashioned bear dance, and how they said to each other as they swung their partners, that he did not dare to bring his gun for he knew wnat bears really were when they got mad. Or how the elks whispered to each other that it was a pity that their antlers were not nearer their full length that they might show off better when they saluted his excellency, and how it was a pity that he should come so eany berore the snakes could give him a rattling good time. Or how the eagles had been practicing for days that they might greet him with a scream that would make him glad that he, as President, was com- ., mander-In-chief over all the eagles in America. Or how tho song birds had been rehearsing for days their solos duets and deep wood anthems' i to make the tired man wish that he could forever i give up the politicians, the honors and vexations J of office and with his old friends around him eschew state dinners; the petitioners for place; the cares, the vanities of the Inside refined world, and be where he could every day pitch quoits, run racs and climb trees for exercise and Tor excitement ex-citement watch the 'geysers that can out-spout a woman's convention and out-gush a Country lawyer's law-yer's speech in introducing the President to a congregation of yaps, and make him feel that the office of President has so many drawbacks that while It may be acepted as a duty no one except Mr. Cleveland could ever look upon it as a snap. f t |