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transport and pile heavy Itimber, or to build brick and^stone walls. 

 He is also used in parades of the royalty or of the nobles in his 

 native land, and in circuses and menageries in other countries. 

 The African elephant, on the contrary, is not so amenable to kindly 

 treatment. It is fiercer, and wilder, and seldom captured for use 

 alive. Formerly elephants were killed by the natives by poisoned 

 arrows, or entrapped in pitfalls covered with branches. The 

 most common method now-a-days is to entice or drive them into 

 strong enclosiures. To capture elephants in such a manner 

 frequently requires over 2,000 men. The natives are glad to join 

 in such a hunt, however, for the elephants destroy their crops. 

 The priests of certain native tribes encoiu-age the killing of the 

 elephants, because they tear down and destroy the sacred bo-trees. 

 There are many interesting accoiuits of how elephants are 

 tamed after they have been caught, and of how they are taught to 

 take part in tiger himts, or to labor for man. It is said that the 

 elephant is an intelligent animal, ranking next] after the horse 

 and the dog, and by some is considered superior to these; he is 

 possessed with a good memory, instances have been known where 

 an elephant has cherished for a surprisingly long time, feelings of 

 gratitude or resentment. 



The Cabbage Butterfly-Caterpillar Changes Color 



Florence E. White 



During this last summer (19 18) an interesting thing came to 

 my notice. In a field of Danish red cabbage, Yorktown, West. 

 Co., N. Y., I noticed the cabbage butterflies flitting around the 

 cabbage plants. On further investigation the larvae were dis- 

 covered, but instead of being green as they naturally are, they were 

 of a purplish tinge so similar to the leaves on which they were 

 feeding that they were hardly noticeable. Whether the color 

 was due to the cabbage they had eaten or whether they have 

 some power by nature to change to a protective coloring I do not 

 know. The seed was imported from Denmark so it does not seem 

 possible that a foreign species could have entered with it. 



