The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05

1ank, DlS-Doneu, nuge-eareu, good
natured African, who had been
caught in trap-hole, when a calf,
on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. He did
not appear in the ring, but he did ap-
pear in the parade and in the news
papers. For every "big show" with
any self-respect possesses an elephant
which is positively "the largest ele-
plant on earth" And with the
Jungling Brothers Show that ele-
plant was Chang.
"Ballyhoo" Jackson-a "ballyhoo
man" is one who has once acted as a
lecturer" for the side-show-was
Chang's keeper, walked beside him in
the procession, saw that he ate and
drank all that was good for him, and
slept with him in 1.-THE monster, spe-
cially constructed private car" at
night.
In the case of most big elephants
this would have been good deal of a
bore, for in the main they are likely
to be stupid. But Chang was not
stupid. He had two nightly up
swelling, gray-black bulges on the
top OF his Uranium. like the gun-tur-
rets of battleship in their war
paint. He had the vacant space for
education; he had an elephants nat
ural desire for it, and Ballyhoo be-
gan to give it to him.
But he did not teach him any of
those foolish fancy trick which take
the public eye. Other largest ele-
plants on earth might be taught to
push baby carriages and carry doll
parasols. Ballyhoo aimed to give
Chang a chance to show that he pos
sessed the kind of brain one actually
thinks with. So he taught him how
to line up the four-ton pole wagons,
and tote" ring banks, and load "Old
Hundred which is the wagon that
carries the quarter-poles, and the
heaviest of them all.
But the thing to which Ballyhoo
really pointed with pride was this:
He had taught Chang how to warm
and ventilate that monster, specially
constructed private car" At least.
Chang had come to comprehend that
when the air began to feel raw and
chilly, he had only to stuff the fan
light with some old sacking piled in
the corner. And when it grew un-
comfortably hot, he had only to take
the sacking out again. The sight of
Chang doing that tickled Ballyhoo
nightly. This was in the Eastern
States, where it was never very hot
or cold that summer, anyway. But
when there was change of tempera-
ture, Ballyhoo called on everybody to
come and see.
II Chang was SLOW IN noticing the
change himself, Ballyhoo would re-
mark, "Ah, Chang, old pardner, don't
you think it's gettin' q bit sneezy in
here?" Whereupon Chang would
start for the sacking at once.
And for the rest of that day Bally-
hoo would so round shaking hands
with people he was not acquainted
with. did you see that? Did you?
Tchck! And it's just the result of
teachin' an elephant somethin that
it's worth his while to know
Only there is this to remember.
When you have taught an elephant
anything, he is never going to forget
it. Indeed, the elephant that ever
forgot anything would be curiosity
among all his tribe. If, moreover,
you have once appealed to his sense of
pure reason, you need never try to go
back on it. ! If, again, what he has
learned is something in the way of
useful information, he is going to put
In hours of spare time rejecting upon
the advantages of that useful in
formation. He is going to act accord
1ngly for all time to come. Nor need
you ever expect him to do the con-
trary.
The summer after that, the Jung
ling Brothers Show was billed to
close its season in Seattle. 1t spent
two months in swinging back and
forth across the plains. 1t loitered
Tor another month below the foot
nils. And then one night it began,
In long two days Jump" to climb
the Divide.
About o'clock the next morning
from his shake-down in the corner
Ballyhoo heard Chang moving rest.
lessly about. Opening an eye, he saw
That he had begun to stuff that sack.
ing into the fanlight. And that
pleased PoIIvhoo even ,,ox. 49,. =,
mad done in the beginning.
For, "Shivering shakes" he
thought, we've only started up the
climb! And this is sure going to be
tne coolest thing in refrigerator-cars
before were rolling down again! II
comes Just the way I told them all
II hadn't showed Chang, I'd have tc
De rustlin' out and shuttin' that fan
light myself"
That was Ballyhoo's idea of It
And he hauled up his old checker
board quilt and his two big gra,
army blankets, snuggled his feet into
them, and went to sleep, telling him
sell that while Chang might not mucl
take to the Rocky Mountain tempera
lure, little of it would very likel,
do him good.
mat was Balyhoo's idea of it. Blu
as II grew colder and colder, ant
colder, Chang's thoughts ran some
Ining this way: well, don't know
mat l understand this. It's the sam,
Ola car, all right" and he stood fol
a while on the other forefront arp,