The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-16
THE PAINTED ''-..' =. - g
i BABY ELEPHANT.
A Moral Ta'e Of the, Unistt:ssd
Circus Press Agent and
New Law.

Tody Hamilton. the greatest Of all circus
press agents, is perturbed over the new
Virginia law which makes II an offeuo, .
punishable by a fine Of 500 for any Giro q
TO display posters OF any feature whici
II does not actually exhibit. Mr. Hamilton
is aging rapidly over the thought IT what
might happen II this law should spread
TO other States.
Il hope II doesn't spread. I d. for
fact, he said recently, In an alarmed tone.
IA 1t Is. the greatest OF all showe viii have
to duck Virginia. .sM.
The man who introduosd that bill and
saw 1t through must have wanfed &.power-
full big 50 cents worth Great csesar! II
they'd fine US only two cents, tnslead OF
500, for each thing wa edyertise and thsn
don't show up with, II would ,cestus about
H.5e7, sa1. 1875 to put up. The tsntstn every
town we struck. .ef5YJSsFy
'Cirous posters are not meant n b tsken
literally. There's bound % " q certain
amount Of airy perslhags sbout them,
OF course. But they do take the posters
literally In the wayback regiona.
Most OF the Hey. RUDE battles be-
tween tho merry villagers and tho CIRCUS
men have been oaueed by the cirous's
failure to exhibit features that were ad-
verified merely In Pickwickian or u
| such-things-could-o nly-be sense. Before I
had the honor TO represent the greatest
aggregation Of curiosites on the habitable
globe, comprising, DO, DO. did tho adj
vance work and the experimenting Of the
bill boards for a considerably smaller
circus Well, the big ahow was then ex-
hibiting the white baby elephant and Of
course It was up to us TO f1s UP q white
baby elephant, too. 49,
I'VE did. 1t went with i1lsh fora while,
that white baby elephant. but after couple
Of months the many thicknesses Of vhite
lead applied to the baby elephant's hide
began to poison the poor little paohydsrm
pup u soms and he looked 90 sad ahd
done up over the closing up Of h pores
with the paint that We decided we'd have
TO let up on him for while. Us I
-We we're In the middle Of ooprgia when
We reached this decision On the day
we failed to exhibit the narvellous white
baby elephant, the Pet Of his Imperial
Majesty the Shah Of Persia, the play thing
of P. incesses, and sacred to the high priests
Of the great temple Of Ia-loop, the Fire
King-why. there was an immediate crouch
on the Fart Of the Iopulace Of the little
Georgia town that had dug up their two
bits to see the show. They demanded the
white baby elephant in loud, raucoLs tones,
and when the Sit alton looked serious, the
ringmaster bad to app ear in the menagerie
and attempt to quiet the crowd with an
explanation.
Ladies and gentlemen the ringmas-
ter sang out when he had obtained silence
n the menagerie. I grieve to be compelled
TO state that the mary ellous white baby
elephant obtained at enormous expense
and a. ter immense negotiation with the
G and VLier of his Imperial Ma}eety the
Sha b OF Persia-i grieve to state that enc
tender and sacred ami nal 10 s.u4 eIing from
an illness to-oay which will preclude the
possibility Of his being publicly exhipitAd'
The ring masters announcement was
received with boots and Jeers. and II sss
plain tnat the cit alton haont set <been
! cleared. There were loud demands tpT
details as to the nature Of the marvellous
white baby elephant illness. the ring
master, a quick thinner thought he saws
ladies' and gentlemen he sang out.
again taking his stand on top Of a barrel
the illness Of the cherished pet Of his Ina
perial Majesty the Shah Of Persia ID due
guarded moment, while being loaded on the
cars, the tender animal espying an opep
barrel Of tar, Iartook of the same in. SUCH
large Quantities that his system has been
thoroughly impre- mated and soiled With
/ the forei gn substance, to which, I need
not say, he was wholly unused as an article
Of diet. H..
Nay, not only did the unwonted meal
OF common paving tar SUI Use Cieastrolfsiy
the internal economy of the petted play
colated throughout his entire system. to
such an extent that at this very moment
the young and paInpered animals eriderris
IL az dark as that of any OF the other ele-
plants connected with the renaferis,
and the veterinariee in attendance st5fe
that it will be some weeka. or until tbs
tar has bsen completely eliminated from
the pachydern's system, before his COAT
will resume its usual lily whiteness,'
1T was bold play. that Of the ring
ticss-,. Thev der anded to zee the AMIR nj.
ANYHOW. With its ter TIRED hite ccat.
Thew Sidnt care II the Shab's ret haf' turned
az black as stoveT lie, they declared
they wante1 el.-rae Q, hi-'. -.
n~ite finished washinc the white rsint.od
tn, rarvellous rachvd er'n With Iihted
solution Of t,'rr entire, but the crowd Vas
| i-ratientlv de- an'' ing SIGHT ~ the tar
trane'or led ani'-al. s., the alcphsnt ran
into the nena~erie. The crowd rre.eed
| forward n see hi-,. and several Of than
caught si~ht ot so~e re~ nsrts OF white
lead still clinging to the pups long African
ears.
'raNei re ncthin' b'-t eaintr they
bawlsi, and then the fake. cry was talpeu
UT a'l over the tent.
sTha-, the c'-,'rs r>en rave fhe Tey,
R"be' rel~, grabbed tent ete'-~a ard ws1ou
tororea and e~erth',r el-e handy, end
stoed h. m await the onelanrht ~ the
~err- VILLAGERS Fer twenty Invite. 10
"a sho',t ae 1i-el- hcai hraaniro csc
a~ hai see- IN FL ~ 'o''r 'ars-'rr that
sho-- --a4 = ---ra e~~"~h -~ters ~re Fcr +he
n,,-.bar - E-A.~ra !. ~~--,' rrd the fro
c,,,~~c-- a. H. ~-e- R''ha' -i--,~a ..;.-,
at ho-~ ~ mo States S~-" cot r. re-
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