THE TOOTH OF "COLUMBUS"
How Circus Men in Mexico Managed to
"Pull" the Mighty Molar
Pulling an elophant's tooth Is not
fho easiest task In tho world. This
was discovered at tho Orrln Brothers'
circus, now traveling in Mexico, when
two well-known and experienced Bur
geons and dentists worked for two
hours boforo they Bucceeded In remov
ing the hugo molar.
Thti patient In tho operation waa the
big Asiatic elephant Columbus, who for
years has been ono of tho leading at
tractions of tho Orrlns' circus. For
over twenty yeara Columbus has been
with tho show. Ho figures In every
parade, does his little act In the ring,
and being as docile as a lamb has car
ried hundreds of thousands of children
on his back. In fact, there are grown
men and women In Mexico and other
parts of the world who have been car
ried by Columbus when they wore kilts
and pinafores.
Consequently mere is noi a cnuu in
the fetate of Mexico who does not know
Columbus. Tho elephant man with the
Bhow never had tho least trouble with
Columbus. Consequently, when he re
ported to tho owners that there was
something tho matter with Columbus
tho owners of the, circus were sur
prised. They wont to his quarters and
found Columbus sitting back on his
haunches swinging his head from side
to side. His trunk was swinging
around like a hugo pendulum. Every
now and then ho would bellow ns if in
groat pain. Tho elephant keeper or
the owners had no Idea what ailed tho
oven-tempered Columbus, who now had
hpirnmn rather llirlv. In fact. It WttS
deemed safe to chain htm, something
unusual for Columbus, who was In the
habit of going about very much as he
pleased. For two days he was not on
exhibition, and the children were not
permitted to ride on him.
Several veterlnarles were called In
and examined Columbus, but they
were unable to tell what ailed him.
The elephant keeper, however, noticed
that when he watered Columbus the
latter would All his trunk and blow the
contents Into his mouth and permit it
to run out. This was reported to Dr.
.i?atM. Mia wfill.Vnnwn veterinary sur
geon, who-madj9 an examination and
found that Columbus' guln was swollen
in a torriblo manner and he was con
fident that a huge tooth was decaying
at tho root, and this was the cause of
tho, troublo. An operation was decided
upon and Dr. Patchek was called in.
It was a new operation for tho sur
geons, hut it proved successful. Pain
was relieved by tho frequent applica
tion of cocaine. This was applied by
using a big syringe. As soon as It be
gan to ease tho pain Columbus began
to grow quiet and he" was then chained
down on his hnunchoa. His forelegs
were chained closely to a couple of
stakes, nnd being safely chained his
trunk was strapped up and held tight
by a ropo around his hack. In this
position ho was put at the mercy of the
surgeons, unless he should manage to
hrealc loose. Tho doctors then went to
work.
Tho gum was soaked with cocalno
and then a three-quarter inch augur
was brought into uso. A spot several
Inches from tho gum was selected and
a hole was started. Boring through
solid Ivory Is no easy work, and each
doctor took his turn at the Instrument.
Every now and then work would bo
suspended, as Columbus would bo get
ting nervous. More cocalno was In
jected around tho spot, and tho work
of drilling through tho big tooth was
resumed. For nearly two hours tho
Burgeons worked and finally tho hole
was completed. This done, they rested
Xor a whllo, and then tho real work
iwas begun. A small Iron rod was run
through tho holo, the ends projecting
v about four Inches on either end. An
Inch rope, heavily soaked and smeared
with tar, was then wound or wrapped
around the tusk, the tusk preventing It
from slipping. While all this was go
ing on tho cocalno was being applied.
When all tho preliminaries had been
completed tho tarred rope was run
through a pulloy. It was then carried
out and attached to the traces of four
big horses. When overythlng was in
readiness tho doctors and attendants
retired to a eafo distance.
Tho othor attendants were armed
with elephant hooks, and not a few
had Winchesters, as thoro was no tell
ing how Columbus was going to tako
tho real thing. Finally tho word was
given and tho driver whipped up his
THE CRITICAL MOMENT.
horses. As soon as they began to pull
the elephant began to bellow. Ho tried
to release himself by bracing his front
feet against the stakes. This was Just
what was wanted. Another crack at
the horses, and, amid a torriblo bel
lowing, out came tho big tooth. 'A pro
fuse hemorrhage and a great deal of
matter from tho ulceration followed.
But the extraction was a relief, and
Columbus, after a few bellows, became
quiet. Tho surgeons then washed out
tho cavity with a strong solution of
creollne, and then dressed It with a
solution of perchlorldo of Iron to stop
the hemorrhage. Tho tooth was twen
ty Inches long and four Inches In di
ameter at tho root. It had commenced
to decay, and this caused an abscess.
In tho operation thero were used six
gallons of cocalno, ono quart of creo
llne and two quarts of perchlorldo of
Iron. Tho doctors received ?300 for
their work.
A Wonderful Cluck.
London Special: The Royal Society,
at its annual conversazione, Burling
ton houso was shown a remarkable
new invention in the shape of a clock
controlled at a distance by wireless
telegraphy of tho Herztlan wave sys-
Baroness, for Whom four men Were
Killed, tics Dping in Kizza
Wealth and splendor havo gone, tho
man who killed four others for hor
lovo lies moldcrlng undcrgroiind with
his victims; the world that bowed be
fore her beauty has forgotten her, or,
If It remembers, remembers only to
pity for a passing moment; tho beau
tiful eyes that onco wero watched
eagerly by hundreds for a glance are
sightless. It Is tho end of the glory of
the Baroness Jenny von Rahden. She
lies In Nlzza blind, miserably poor
and dying. The magnificent trained
horses whjch she loved passionately,
nd with which she won applauso from
tcm. Tho great potentialities of tho
invention may bo understood when it
13 explained that under tho conditions
which tho exhibitor. Richard Kerrags,
propose, it will be possible for all the
clocks In London to bo simultaneously
adjusted by ono clock to which the
necessary contrlvanco Is attached. To
render a clock sensitive to tho In
fluence of tho wave system It will only
be necessary to affix tho receiving In
strument with a coherer arrangement,
which might bo extended, not only to
the public clocks but to those In pri
vate residences.
racking llntter In (Hum.
A new uso has been found for glass.
It consists in packing butter In n box
made of six sheets of ordinary win
dow glass, tho odgcB being covered
with gummed paper. The closed box
Is then enveloped in a layer of plaster
of parts a fourth of an Inch thick, and
it is covered with a specially .prepared
paper. As the plaster Is a bad con
ductor of heat, the temperature inside
tho hermetically sealed receptacle re
mains constant, being unaffected by
external changes. The cost of pack
ing Is only about 2 cents per pound.
It Is used to a great extent in Aus
tralia. Butter hus been sent from
Mclbourno to Klmborloy, in Africa,
and tho butter was found to bo In a
perfectly sound condition. Cases are
now made which hold as much as 200
pounds of butter. Scientific American.
Tcrrlhlo Now Women.
A woman made a spectaclo of tho
Sioux City convention, women aro an
noying tho Methodist conference at
Chicago, and women havo become a
terror to tho British officials in South
Africa. "What's got Into um?" In
dianapolis News.
Slio of Audiences.
Max O'Rell, who was so ill that he
had to give up lecturo engagements
in this country, has recovered his
health since hlB return home. Won
der if the size of the audiences made
him sick? Indianapolis News.
1
all of Europe, havo been sold long ago
for debt, and sho does not know who
owns them now,
Sho has mado with barely ono step
the voyage from magnificence to bitter
misery.
It was as the high school equestrian
Jenny Weiss that sho first became one
of the celebrities of tho continent.
Many wooed her. Of them all none
wooed as did the big, handsome, dash
ing, prodigally rich Russian, Baron
von Rahden. He won her, nnd be
camo as fierce an adorer of his wife
as he had been her adorer during
courtship.
WHERE HEPER DIED.
Anniversary of III Death Celebrated In
a Church In tendon.
April 3 was tho seventy-fourth an
niversary of tho death of Bishop Ho
ber, author of tho missionary hymn
"From Greenland's Icy Mountains,"
which Is known aB widely ns tho Esg
llsh langungo is spoken. This anni
versary was last month celebrated in
a church in London, nnd on tho occa
sion the particulars of his life and
death wore brought forward again.
Reginald Hobcr was tho second
Church of England bishop ot Calcutta.
That church had then but ono bishop
for tho wholo of India, tnstend ot ten,
as in tho year 1900, including tho Is
land of Ceylon, from whoso cinnamon
groves "the spicy breezes blow," nnd
Burmah, adjoining the mainland of
Indln on the northeast, and which
Britain from the very year of his death
through tho next half century gradu
ally annexed as tho result of bucccs
sivo wars. Ho traveled indefatlgably
through all parts of his unwieldy dio
cese, and on Saturday, April 1, arriv
ed at Trichlnopoll, a town of now
somo 90,000 Inhabitants, about 200
miles southwest of Madras, and thero
next day he preached and administer
ed confirmation. On Monday morn
ing he confirmed again In tho Fort
church and visited a native Bchool.
Then, having returned homo, ho took
n cold bath beforo breakfast, ns on
tho two preceding days; but his ser
vant, thinking him longer than usual,
entered tho apartment, and thero
found tho body ot his master lifeless
In tho water. It was a'fterward dis
covered that a blood vessel had burst
upon his brain. Ho was burled on
the norfli sldo of tho altar, or com
munion tablo, In St. John's church, nt
that same town, whore his monument
marks tho spot. But tho most famous
of his hymns wns written long beforo
ho thought of being called to such for
eign work. No mercenary motive In
duced him to accept tho blshroplc,
about which ho hesitated, for ho In
herited through his mother, tho cstnto
and living of Hodnet, in Shropshire
whero, however, he onco almost com
plained of his odd twofold position aa
"half parson, half squire," long bo
foro Charles KIngsloy lived to des
crlbo such a combination of title by
contracting them Into tho term "squar
son." But If tho duties of theso differ
ent positions scorned sometimes dlfll
cult from Incompatibility, yet ho ex
changed them for the ceaseless caro of
a diocese, In which, besides Christians,
Mohammedans and Buddhists, thoro
aro now 207,731,727 Hindoos who, as
his famous hymn says, "Bow down to
wood and stone." Chicago Record.
KITCHENER'S READINESS.
Waa Willing to Black Lord Roberta'
Hoots or Do Other Work.
On tho steamer which convoyed him
to Gibraltar, whoro ho was to meet
Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener was ac
costed by an officer who Introduced
hlmsolf with tho reminder that ho had
onco been Intrusted by Col. Kitchener
with a messago to tho then command-er-ln-chief
In India. Lord Kitchener
recognized his old ncqualntanco lmmo
dlajfly, but could not recall tho mes
sago referred to. "It was 15 ycarB
ago or more," said his friend, "but I
recollect it. You askpd mo If I had a
chanco to speak to Lord Roberts on
your behalf and beg him to find you a
Job In tho East, near him, If possible
You told mo to say you would black
hla boots or do any earthly thing for
him then." "I'vo no doubt I said that,"
replied Lord Kitchener, "for I would
black his boots or do any mortal thing
for him now." Sphere.
Hinging Canaries at School.
Andreasberg, in the Harz mountains,
Is always musical with tho songs of
canaries, and tho best singing canaries
In tho world. Every year 250,000 of
the golden birds aro reared, trained to
sing nnd shipped to various parts of
tho world. Two hundred thousand of
them -go to America, 27,000 to England,
10,000 to Russia and the rest to vari
ous countries, excepting 10,000 of the
very best singers, which aro kept In
Germany. Theso accomplished birds
become teachors, and as soon as tho
fledlglng canary is old enough to havo
a deslro to sing ho, with numbers of
others, Is put In a darkened cage, thero
to listen to tho singing of his teachor,
a thoroughly trained singing canary,
Tho dark cages keep tho young birds
from trying to sing, but do not Inter
fere with their listening. After a few
dnys of this twilight Instruction tho
young bird Is taken Into the light and
given an opportunity to show how
much he has learned. So, from week
to week, tho birds aro given lessons
until they aro good singers. Then they
aro put In little wicker cages nnd sent
away.
Monument nt Wntorloo.
M. Qerome, tho French sculptor, has
been commissioned by n French mili
tary and historical club to design n
monument to bo placed on tho field of
Waterloo nt tho spot whoro tho laBt
squares of tho French army fell under
Napoleon. It will bo tho first French
monument on, tho Held.
Aged I.lternrjr Woman.
Julln Ward Howo celebrated her 81st
birthday the other day. In girlhood
Bho and her two sisters wero known as
tho Threo GraccB, but In lato Ufo sho
becamo equally Identified with tho
Muses and has been an Important fig
ure In the social progress ot her time.
Tier Unfashionable Figure.
Emma I must'go right away to a
euro In Marlcnbad.
"Indeed! What doctor ordered
that?"
"No doctor; my dressmaker."
Fllegendo Blaetter.
mam
gjBOOj AGE
"Jim," said Mr. Perkins, to his of
fice boy, "put on some more coal."
"Yes. sir."
"And do you hear? Tako this pack
et of papers nround to Ponn & Ink's,
nnd nBk 'em what they mean by send
ing mo such n blotted plcco of work."
"Yes, sir," said ,11m, evidently pre
ferring tho snow-freighted nlr and
slippery sldownlks of tho outer world
to tho closo Httlo law office, darted off
like an arrow out of a bow.
Mr. Perkins took out a fresh bundlo
ot quill pens and a qulro ot legal fools
cap and began to work in good earn
est, when, nil of a sudden, a tap camo
to his offlco door.
"Como In," said Mr. Perkins, In a
voice that sounded considerably moro
llko "Clcnr out," and a young lady
entered, dressed in n currant-colored
merino, with a little plumed hat and
a neat looking flat satchel on her nrm.
"I haven't anything to give," said
Mr. Perkins, sternly,
TJ10 young lady sat down uninvited,
and then Mr. Perkins saw that Bho wus
pretty.
"I was not begging, sir," sho said.
"May I ask, then, what was your
business?" said Mr, Perkins, moro
frigidly than over.
Tho young lady took a parcel from
hor bag.
"I don't want to buy anything," said
Mr. Perkins.
"I am not soiling, sir," said tho
lady.
"Ploaso explain your business nt
once," ho said, tartly. "I havo no
tlmo to sparo."
"Pleaso allow mo to do bo, then,"
said tho young lady, "I was soliciting
subscriptions for "
"I don't want to subscribe," hastily
Interrupted Mr. Perkins.
"How do you know whothor you do
or not," Inquired the young lady, with
Eomo spirit, "until you havo seen tho
work, at least?"
Mr. Perkins smiled a little. Sho wns
brusque, but ho didn't altogether dls
llko that. And, besides, sho waB do
cldedly original.
"Because thoro havo bocn at least
threo ot your craft boforo you this
morning," said ho, "all selling 'Illus
trated Lives of Great Men.' "
"But mlno Is quite different Mine Is
'Careers of Famous Women with
steel plate engravings," perslated tho
young lady.
"Your business is overcrowdod,"
said Mr. Perkins. "No, you needn't
take tho troublo to show mo tho book.
Why don't you do something else?"
"Will you tell mo what?" Bald the
young lady, despairingly, "will you
help me to get anything whereby
may support myself?"
"Can you wrlto a clear and legible
hand?" Mr. Perkins asked.
The young lady Bat boldly down at a
desk by the chimney-piece.
"I'll Bhow you what 1 can do," said
sho.
Mr. Perkins looked over her shoul
der as she wrote, In a quaint, distinct
otylo, tho words:
"Aiy name 1b Amy Archdalo, and I
want to earn my own living."
Mr. Perkins looked medltatlngly at
her for a second or two.
"I should think you might teach,"
said ho,
"I did try It," said Miss Archdab,
"I was governess in a prlvato family."
"And why did you give It up "
"Is this a catechism?" said Miss
Amy smiling. "Well, I havo no objee
tion to answering. Do you want mo to
toll you the plain truth?"
"Certainly."
"Woll, then, It was becauso my lady
employer did not llko to havo her
grownup son address mo with common
politeness. Perhaps sho thought I was
endeavoring to fasclnato him, but sho
wns entirely mlstakon."
"01" said Mr. Perkins. "P'cnso
wrlto down your address."
"Aro you really going to give mo
somo copying to do?" Bho asked cag
erly.
"I'm going to try you."
. And so Miss Amy Archdale walked
off with a red-tape-Mod parcel of pa
pors under her shawl.
"If sho docs them well and prompt
ly," sold Mr. Perkins In a sort of men
tal soliloquy, "there's no reason I can't
let her havo somo more work. If sho
doesn't It won't bo tho first caso ot
feminine swindling In Now York. But
sho had a pretty, Innocent llttlo face,
too hang It, I've half a mind to go to
her nddress on tho sly, and see It she
really is a deserving objoct of charity
I was going to say. But It Isn't. Sho
wants work, not alms. There's always
somebody wanting something in this
great, chattering Bedlam ot u city of
ours," added Mr. Perkins, Irately, as
be drove off two match boys, an applo
girl, and a vonder of pins and shoe
strings from his doorstep.
Sho brought the folios next day,
neat, legible, and without blot or eia
jfijpl
:hdal
TfT
sure, and Mr. Perkins gave hor somo
more work.
"You needn't bring It," said he. "I
I havo business that way, and I'll
call for It myself."
"Wo haven't seen your Undo Kllahn
lately, dear," said Mrs. Molynoux Mar
tin to her eldest daughter. ".Knto
must work n penwipor for him, nnd
you must embroider him a pair ot slip
pers. It won't do to let him loso sight
ot his nearest relatives."
"Ma," said Miss Kathertric, "It's a
pity you discharged Miss Archdalo so'
suddenly, becnuso she waB so handy at
fancy work."
'And besides," added Edith ' Rosa-
belle, "It roally and truly wasn't her
fault bccaiiflo Walter choso to mako
eyes at hor!"
"Don't uso Buch vulgar expressions.
my dear," said the mamma. "8ho waa
a pert, bold faced thing, nnd would
havo doped with your dear brother
It sho had remained In tho houso an
other wcok. And I told hor bo, pretty
plainly, too. Who's that? Tho post
man? Give tho letter at onco. Edith
Rosabcllor
"Somebody has sent us wedding
cards," said tho youngest hopeful of
tho fnmlly of Molynoux Martin. "Opon
it, mamma, quick, and let us sea
whom they aro from."
Mrs. Molynoux Martin toro open tho
envelope, and giving one glanco nt Its
contents, fell backward with a hys
terical screnm.
"Ellsha Perkins!" sho shrlokcd.
"Girls, It's your undo. Alas! my poor.
disinherited pets!"
For Mrs. Molynoux Martin had edu
cated her daughters In tho full belief
that each and every ono of them was
to bo an heiress In tho right of Undo
Ellshn Perkins' money.
"But, mamma, who's tho brldo?
Whom has ho married? You don't tell
us tho nnmo," norslatod Kathorlno,
who wns endowed with a goodly uplco
of Mother Evo'b bequest.
"I don't know I I don't enrol"
screamed Mrs. Molyneux Martin, tap
ping tho solos ot her slippered feet on
tho carpet In a way that threatened a
yet moro violent attack ot hysterica.
"Pick up tho cards, Kathlo, and
look," urged Edith Rosnbelle.
"Amy Archdalo!" sho read aloud.
Why, ma. it's tho governess you dis
charged! It's our Miss Archdale!"
"The old fool!" shrieked Mrn. Moly
neux Martin. "To go and marry a
girl young enough to bo hla grand
daughter! Well, that caps, the cli
max!" "You forgot, ma," said Edith Roaa
bello, "Undo Ellsha's only two years
older than you arc. I heard you say
so lots of tlmos."
"Hold your tougue, you ungratoful,.
undutltul dnughtcr," ejaculated Mrs.
Molyneux Martin. "I'll novor speak
to him again.
But sho did. Sober, second thoughts
convinced hor that it waa better to
submit to tho Inevitable and Bho was
ono of tho first to call on Mr. and Mrs.
EllBha Perkins In tho elegant brown,
stono houso that tho lawyer bought
and furnished for his bride.
And perhaps ono ot tho most trium
phant moments of Amy Archdalo's Ufo
was that in which she oxtended a gra
cious and patronhlng greeting to tho
woman who had turned her out of
doors scarcely three months before.
"Things do balance themselves even
ly In this world, if ono only has tho
patience to wait!" she said to hor hus
band. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
I
Bchool la Oarmaajr.
The collogo man, Bays, Prof. Hugo
Munsterberg, who specializes la pefHl"
cal economy or philosophy or chemis
try from his freshman year, knows, in
hla special. field, far more than any, ono,
ot us know; but it we tako d compos
ite picture ot all seniors tho boy who
lcavea the gymnasium Is not at a dis
advantage in the comparisons of Intel
lectual physiognomy, whllo ho Is, oC
course, far less mature, according to
his much lowor ago. If any man in
Dartmouth or Amhorst takes his bach
elor's degree with that knowledge in
muthomatlcs, hlstoiy, geography, lit
erature, Latin, Greek, French or phy
sics' which wo had on leaving school
ho Is suro to graduate with honors.
Our going to tho university can thus
bo compared merely with tho entrance
into tho post-grnduato courses. Our
threo highest gymnasium classes aloiio
correspond to tho college, and whoever
compares tho German university with
tho collcgo distend of tho gradunto
school is either misled by the ago ot
tho student or by tho external forms of
student Ufa and Instruction. Atlantic
Magazine.
Generous Nw York (livers.
Now York city unquestionably leads
In tho bestowal of charities nnd In tho
generous naturo ot its contributions to
overy deserving cuuse. It la tho center
to which the collectors of money for
educntlonnl, benevolent, or relief pur-'
poses first direct their steps,. Now
York, ns tho reservoir of the nation's
wealth, la constantly giving, and inont
of Its gifts go unrecorded. Its annual'
contributions to tho hospital fund, its
Easter day collections and many othor
special contributions foot up In the ag
gregate to amazing figures, For In
stance, the Easter collections of d few
of tho leading churches In New York?1
city aggregated over a hundred thou
sand dollars, Including nearly 120,000)
at Grace church, 112,000 each at Cal
vary, St. Bartholomew's and Holy
Trinity; $11,000 at St. Thomas' and St.
Andrew's, and nearly 111,000 at St.
Ann's, Brooklyn.
