such useful intelligent animals as ele
phants. In destroying tigers and other
strictly wild and des;ructive beasts, the
sportsmen perlorm a puouc service, anu
this knowledge doubtless adds additional
zest to the enterprise; but the whole
sale destruction of these huge and valu
able assistants to man, on the plea of
sport, when their hunting and capture
for domestication would be equally ex
citing and far more instructive, is a
proceeding repugnant alike to the teach
ings ot our nag, and to our nuniaue
ideas of advanced civilization. If the
risk of life from the furion9 charge of a
wounded bull elephant is required to
establish the courage of their future
king in the eyes of his Eastern Empire,
let some other plan be devised, and let
his millions of half civilized subjects
practically associate his visit with re
collections of mercy rather than with
the wantou slaughter of animals almost
idolized for their utility, and tractability
the most powerful, and yet the most
docile, creatures in the universe. Wau
ton waste brings woeful want. The
commercial loss, though large, in an
elephant battue is not of so much eon
sequence as the example. The wanton
slaughter of buffaloes of late years on
the American prairies, and of moose
deer in Cauada, has already excited the
action of their respective Governments,
and nearly every State of the Union has
been compelled to pass severe repressive
game laws to prevent the extermination
of many of the indigenous birds and
beasts, and this, too, in a wild country
with almost unlimited range. We trust
to hear that the royal party will have
plenty of sjiort in every legitimate sense,
but elephant battues are not legitimate
sport. fport Is a misnomer : it is simple
butchery.
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