Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1913 — Caters for Elephants. [ARTICLE]

Caters for Elephants.

Strange traffic originates on the railways of the Malay states, as shown in a recently published schedule of freight rateß, among which such items aB these appear: Elephants, 20 cents per mile each; alligators, bears, hyenas, panthers, tigers and similar animals, 10 cents per mile each; monkeys, one-half cent per mile each; snakes in baskets, parcels rate. From a further perusal of the volume one finds that; It is better to send an elephant to a friend than a corpse in a coffin, sor v the latter will cost you 60 cents each per mile, with a minimum charge of five dollars. Tom-toms go at 1% cents per pikul per mile. It is obvious that people who send snakes or tom-toms by rail might want to have a procession. Therefore it is enacted that a license for every religious or other procession of over 500 people, for 12 hours or less, with music, costs $25, or, without music, $lO.