The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-31
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1875.
the slave of euadruped whose
master was a brute.


the slave of auadruped whose
master was a brute.
Elephants are driven with rod
of steel sharpened at the end,
about foot from the end of this
weapon is large hook; by stick
ing this hook into an elephants
ear, and pulling it, you make her
sensible which way you want her
to go, and persuade her to com.
ply.
Armed with this tool, i walked
up to Dicks shed, and, in the
most harsh and brutal voice l
could command, babe her come
out. She moved In the shed,
but hesitated. I repeated the
command still more repulsively,
and out she came toward me very
slowly.
With beasts such as lions, til
gers, and elephants, great promp-
titude is the thing. Think for
them! don't give them time to
think, or their thoughts may be
evil. had learned this much, so
/ introduced myself by driving the
steel into Dicks ribs, and then
hooking her ear, while Pippin
looked down from a first-story
window. IfDjek had known how
my heart was beating she would
have killed me then and there !;
but, observing no hesitation on my
part, she took it all as a matter Of
course, and walked with me like a
lamb. / found myself alone with
her on the road, and fourteen
miles ofit before US. 1t was a Sc
rious situation, but / was ripe for
it now. All the old women's sto-
ries and traditions about an ele-
plants character had been driven
out of me by experience and
washed out with blood. / had
fathomed Elliot's art. ! had got
what the French call the riddle
key of Mademoiselle Dick, and
that key was "steeP'i
On we marched, the best of
friends. There were a number of
little hills on the road, and as we
mounted one, figure used to APP
pear behind us on the crest of the
last between US and the sky: this
was the gallant Pippin, soiicitous
for his friends fate, but DESTROYS
of not partaking it if adverse.
And still the worthy Dick and /
marched on the best of friends.
About a mile out of the town, she
put out her trunk and tried to
curl it round me in a caressing
way. met this overture by driv-
ing the steel into her until the
blood squirted out of her. If
had not the siren would have kill
ed me in the course Of the next
five minutes. Whenever she re-
Taxed her speed I drove the steel
into her. When the afternoon
sun smiled gloriously on us, and
thepoor thing felt nature stir in
her heart, and began to frisk in
her awful clumsy way, pounding
the great globe, drove the steel
into her; if 1 had not, 1 should
not be here to relate this sprghtly
narrative.
Meantime, At, her stage
manager and financier were II
great distress and anxiety; foul
o'clock, and no elephant. At last
they got so frightened, they came
out to meet US, and presently tC
their amazement and delight
DJsk strobe up with her new gen
eral. Their ecstasy was great tc
think that the whole bushes.
was not at a drunkard's mercy
"But how did you manage? How
ever did We win her hearth" ''Witl
this" said l, and showed then
the bloody steel.
We had not been in the town
half an hour before Tom anC
George came in. They were no
so drunk but what they trembleC
for their situations after my ex-
plot, and rolled and zigzagged af-
ter US as fast as they could.
BY these means l rose iron
Mademoiselle's slave to be hel
friend and companion.