The Elephant's Intelligence.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8198, 26 May 1906, Page 2

The Elephant's Intelligence.

After the Shway Dagon Padoga the great eight of Rangoon is tho work of the trained elephants that pile the timber at tho teak mills. Mrs Ernest Hart describes tho elephants at work in her " Picturesque Burma " as follows : — " Two powerful male tuskers, nearly as largn tia the favourite and ill-fated Jumbo, and said to be worth £1000 tho pair, were busy stacking squared logs of teak, each of which weighed about two tons. Kneeling down, one at each end of a log, the elephants, on signs given by their drivers by means of voice, foot, and a hooked stick, insert their long tusks underneath, and, grasping it above with powerful and muscular trunks, lift it high in the air and plaeo it on the top of the stack. One elephant then backs to tlx? end of the stack, and neatly pushes the log forward with his irtmk, till it lies perfectly level with its fellows. These elephants have been more than a quarter of a century at his work, and are said to display extraordinary intelligence m the way they place and carefully adjust their heavy burdens; ihey are even credited by ■some admirers wi'h a conscientious desire to do their work well.'' At other parts of the yard elephants were dragging heavy logs about by i means ot a chain, and others were pushing beam* with tbeir feet and trunks towards tho tables of the cfrcular sawaor 'lifting them with their trunks. Thoy easily carricd logs weighing a ton or more. "Oftentimes,"-adds Mrs Hart, "tho animals are heard to grumble over their task, and when called upon to lift a specially heavy log protestations are made in ol«phant language; but their docility and quick obedience are what most surprise visitors." Those coolio elephants! aro trained to tho work when young, and aro said to give their attendants no trouble, It is uaid that they may live 130 years. a mother's iiecSmmYndation. Mrs Mary Gray, Wagonga (N.S.W.). writes:—"Chamberlain** Cough Remedy has a splendid reputation in tins district, and I know of many eases whoro acute Croup and .Bronchitis have been cured. 1" had been a sufferer from Bronchial Asthma for many yearn, and never found any treatment that would relieve me, until I commenced faking Chamberlain's Cough liomedy, and that completely cured me. It has never failed to cure coughs or chest ( complaints among the numbers of my, family. I always keep a bottle of Chambcrlain'tf Cough Remedy in tho house j and would advise all mothore to do ] uKowtso/' For sale by all chemists ui.d storekeepers.