The sun., 1894-05-12

hot, Be,ss = wioksd Elephant, the Bis Fei
low Hsd 90 Die, AND Die Aeeordisg 20 the
Prosr.m-e Adopted by the Mes of Sell
snce, His Ohneisi Exeeutiorers-Tims ssa
AEsir His sasseity Ostwitted Ther-, -ra
the Hiddes Poi.ou w.s Cast Aside, Unt,i
the Doctors snd Their Ar,ed Attendants
Were In Despair At Last. Ausr the
Doo-ed Ari-.i HAD sick.nsd with The
Few Grains ne Had Swallowed, =
More Successful Dseepiio. We. Devised.
Tlp was killed yesterday. He had been .
wicked elephant all his ll'e and the men Of
science wanted TO kill him In such a way that
they could examine his organs and determine.
II possible. what II was that made him so
wicked. To be sure. other elephants had died.
and in the course Of time more would die. but
Tip was wicked. and Science was interested in
him So they killed him carefully.
They gave him . deadly poison which, II
properly taken. would prepare the body for an
interesting Autopoy. Tin. however. being =
wicked elephant, did not take IL properly. On
the contrary. he took IL In such q way that he
became very sick. OF course. IL would have
been an easy thing to have shot him and ended
his agony. but that would have injured his
skin. and then It would not have been so nice
to stun.
30 they waited until his agony had subsided
q little and then they tried again, and again.
and again. and again to make him take the
poison properly. An ordinary elephant might
have grown furious, ana In his rage might
have exerted his colossal strength to bring
the heavy roof Of the building crashing down
upon his executioners. But Tlp being wicked
and, as the experts said. crazy beast. tried
again. and again. and again, and again to take
the poison properly. And although the dense
crowd Of men that stood before his cage. and
the chatter OF q thousand voices outside the
building. and the dlsaRreeabls taste OF the
poison, and the strange effect OF the small
portion he had taken-impropsrly-
him and made him daEed and sick. he re-
sponded to each call Of the mon Of science and
made another attempt to eat In the right way
the poisoned morsel they offered him
For nine hours this lasted. and Tip grew
steadily weaker and weaker. The action Of
the poison was not a. powerful as the men Of
science had said II would be- but nevertheless
they were pleased to SEQ that IL was slowly
but surely taking effect The nine hours
dragged along. and Tip. great big TIP dazsd
with q sensation that no elephant had ever
experienced before. felt his life slowly slipping
away. They gave him carrots. and apples.
and bread. aud peanuts. Just as tho children
who came to the circus those days before TIP
was wicked used to do. but the children had
never given him poison. and these things all
| tasted different now. At last they gave him
bran. his favorite nourishment. and. being
hungry. he swallowed It. and for tho first time
| took the poison the right way. In . few
| minutes convulsions seized his mighty frame
| He staggered toward the furthest end OF his
| cage to get away from the men who had been
| feeding him. The chain upon his leg tripped
| him. and. forgetting In his dizziness that he
1 could snap that chain as n IL were hlmsy
thread. he fell upon his side The poison. now
srp srsse Ias, wbish A. that momsnt ] % mo- Sundr.S red
sun IN pain. 70. lew minutes a. no iAy mo-
two WV" Iona @ ' tpumns. bisst. pssounasa throu@n
the building. and with last eonvulsion that
snapped in two the heavy iron chain which
| bound MIN rounc IT'D lay dead:
1t had been snnoanS.d n,a Dy n; 81 members s,e .,
o'clock in the morning. In order to witness
case % S o, an Unforeseen eontipssne, con- s,sr1 on. Of
m. thrss seora nevspaper men Who aathsrsd
outside the elephant house remained up all
night so as to be on time. And to
these men the silent change from night
to dawn was lnexpressihiy impressive.
All the rass as,... wa. . and .: the sun
ioee o'er, oo'oos SN s' pi'So
light as n their tons touched the heavens. and
,S. ,ronn =, h,,SI,.. in -hJ.h ~. .nJm.I.
the eroup Vi ouhuinks AZ .nion Ine eu"es
| are kept grew into great city. But slowly
| the mists were dispellsd by the suns warm
- - oh,a.. o,.I,,.a w,,h ,.,.n,I
rays ana each oo'ec@ outuneu Win pa,niul
sharpness. fell into its normal shape 10 those
| Tin WAS confined through an hour Oh darkness
| the change seemed unnatural and weird.
The crowd grew until there were fully 100,
mSse 9r ,h them nswpapsr men: s
q New York but Of all the United States No
| widesprsad Attention Even Tip. when he had
| Killed men. had not excited as much Interest
as upon this occasion when men we're going
10 Kill Tin There WAS one man there who
represented a score Of nswspapers in western
| Tor pesspspers In Chicago. Milwaukee
| St Louis and Indiana Apolis; another who
newspapers on the Pacific slope and another