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WILD ELEPHANTS BY TRAIN. 



THERE is no wild animal that takes to captivity 

 so kindly as the lordly elephant. An elephant 

 farm is an unknown institution. It is even very 

 generally doubted whether these huge animals 

 breed in captivity ; but instances have been re- 

 corded where domesticated females have had 

 young, although the instances are so few that 

 there appears to be reason for the accepted 

 belief. As far back as recorded history, it can be 

 shown that the elephant was the servant of man. 

 Some of the earlier Egyptian inscriptions, going 

 back to B.C. 3,000 years, exhibit the elephant as a 

 beast of carriage, and, strangely enough, these 

 early drawings all depict the Asiatic variety, 

 although Africa produces the lordly pachyderm 

 in enormous numbers. That the African elephant 

 has been tamed we know, from the fact of his 

 having been used in the triumphal processions of 

 several of the Roman emperors and generals. Thus, 

 though thousands and hundreds of thousands of 

 these animals have done man service, yet their 

 ranks have always been recruited by capture 

 from the herds of wild elephants that roam the 

 forests of tropical Asia and Africa. Now, if the 



