The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10

riosities on the habitable globe. com prising. etc, did the advance work and the experimenting of the bill boards for a considerably smaller cir GUS. Well, the big show was then ex- hibiting the white baby elephant, and Of course 1t was up to us to fix up a white bably elephant, too.
 We did. It went with rush for while, that white baby elephant, but after couple Of months the many thicknesses of white lead applied to the baby elephants hide began to poison the poor little pachyderm pup up some. and he looked 50 sad and done up over the closing up of his pores with the paint that we decided wed have to let up on him for while.
 tfWe were in the middle of Georgia when we reached this decision. On the day we failed to exhibit the marvellous white baby elephant, the pet of His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia the plaything of princesses, and sacred to the high priests of the great temple of La-loop, the Fire King why, there was an immediate grouch on the part of the populaee of the little Georgia town that had dug lip their two bits to see the show. They demanded the white baby elephant in loud. raucous tones, and when the situation looked serious the ringmaster had to appear in the menagerie and attempt to quiet the crowd with an explanation.
 Ladies and gentlemen the ring master sang out when he had obtained silence in the menageries, I grieye to be compelled to state that the marvel ous white baby elephant obtained at enormous expense and after immense negotiation with the Grand Vizier of His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Per- sia-I grieye to state that the tender and Sacred animal is suffering from an illness to-day which will preclude the possibility of his being publicly exhibi- ted.
 "The ringmasters announcement was received with hoots and jeers, and | it was plain that the situation hadn't
 yet been cleared. There were loud de-
 mands for details as to the nature of | the marvellous white baby elephants s illness. The ringmaster, a quick thinker, thought he saw a chance to
 get in one on the crowd.
 !" Ladies and gentlemen he sang out, again taking his stand on top of a
 barrel, the illness of the cherished pet Iof his Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia is due to the fact that last even ing, in an unguarded moment, while
 being loaded on the cars, the tender
 animal, espying an open barrel of tar lpartook of the same in such large quan titles that his system has been thor oughly impregnated and soiled with the foreign substance, to which, need not say, he was wholly unused as an article of diet.
 Nay, not only did the unwonted meal of common paving tar suffuse disastrously the internal economy oi the petted plaything of Oriental prin-
 cesses, but 1t percolated throughout his . Ientire system to such an extent that al this very moment the young and pam pered animals epidernlis is as dark as that of any of the. other elephants con 1 lnected with the menagerie, and tht l yeterinaries in attendance state that il
 will be some weeks, or until the tar ha: [ been completely eliminated from tht pachyderrn's system, before his coai resume Its usual milk whiteness Tt was a bold play, that of the ring } master. but the crowd still exhibited
 skepticisna. They demanded to see tn } animal anyhow, with it's tar turnei ] white coat They didn't care if tn t shah's pet had turned as black a , stovepipe, they declared -they wantet -f q glimpse of him.
 '0The baby elephants keeper hadn' quite finished washing the white pain : off the marvellous pachyderm with diluted solution of turpentine, but tn t crowd was impatiently demanding , sight of the tar-transformed animal , So the elephant man led the dopy ant : dropping little chap out into the me nageries. The crowd pressed forward