Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1915 — Elephant Office Boy. [ARTICLE]

Elephant Office Boy.

A few years ago, when Lord Duf« ferin became viceroy of India, among his gifts wad a young elephant whose tusks had beep sharpened and who had been taught to open the daily mail of his master. (Mental rulers in all ages sought collections of wild animates whose savage instincts have in some way been overcome and made, to do the bidding of man. In 1897 the people of Beirut saw a wonderful collection of tamed animals sent by the negus of Abyssinia to the former saltan of Turkey. I once helped tame a small bear from Mount Hermon until he was as playful as a kitten, though not easily handled by reason of bis strength. The promise in this reign of peace is not the extirpation of predatory animals, but having their habits and instincts changed.—Christian Herald.