The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-11-01

lyccddled him in way quite unusual
with cat men for more than two years.
But the leopard brushed all Of that
by when he got his crouch against the
cat man on account of the burning he
had got from him with the hot irons.
He remembered only the injury.
In Topeka, Kan, couple of years
ago a little devil Of small boy,
wearing a green peaked cap, some
thing like a Jockeys, stood in front
of the cage of one of our lionesses and
furtively amused himself by popping
at her eyes with buckshot, which he
fired from a beanshooter. 1t was q
pretty strong cage that she was in.
but she snapped two of the steel bars
in her madness to be loose and get at
the boy, and bent several others. A
keeper booted the boy with the green
cap all of his way home. From that
day to this that lioness has got into
a rage every time shes spied any sort
of green headcovering in the crowds
in front Of her cage. She will launch
herself against the bars and roar at
he sight Of a green veil on wOman's
hat. and while parading. when she
sees a raised green parasol, she scares
timid spectators by her fury. The boy
with the green cap gave her her hat
red for the color green, and it has now
become a sort of madness with her.
She hates green worst than bull does
an auction flag, and she thereby shows
not only that she's got a memory but
that she possesses a sense Of color
Lam convinced that elephants have
just as good memories as human be
ings | could name thousand IN
stances of the sharpness Of their
memories. We've got seasoned
old peanut cruncher of an African
bull elephant that probably knew the
flavor of the circus sawdust long be-
fore began to teeth--and I'm no gos'
ling-that showed me last fall what
rafting good memory he's got slowed
beneath those two knobs on the top OF
his conk. Six years ago we made a
fall tour of the northern provinces oi
old Mexico. There were not many
railroads down that way then and we
made a lot Of our towns by overland
hikes, in the course of which there
was a heap of fOrding to be done by
the big animals. This old bull ele-
plant got begged in sort Of quick
sand in the bed Of a 100 yard wide
creek which the show was fording IN
Chihuahua. We had to do lot OF
hurry work in the way of rigging up
block and tackle paraphernalla to yank
that old chap out of the mire, and ne
had crouch on for several weeks
after the incident. 1t happened, how
ever, that that was the last ford we
had to make during the tour.
We'll, we went down to old Mexico
again for the tour over the same
ground two years ago last fall. The
old elephant made all of the fords IN
good shape and with perfect willing
ness, but when we came to the ford in
which he'd got mired four years be-
fore he bucked, ard he bucked hard.
There was nothing doing. He
wouldn't reford that creek under any
circumstances.
GAS soon as he got to the verge of
it and looked it over out of his beady
red eyes he recognized the stream,
and he trumpeted and swished his
trunk for a quarter of an hour. We
gave him the CAD in all parts Of him
at once, but it was no use. He just
leaned back on the CAD and made nary
a bulge.
I'VE had to go four miles upstream
and charter float for him and pole it
down to where he stood like stone
elephant He went aboard the float
without a kick or a renege when he
saw what it was for, but he would
have allowed himself to be slivered to
ribbons before he'd have waded again
into that stream, the bed of which had
let down on him and thus abused his
confidence four years before. "-Wash'
ington Star.