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rrv lhuhbp lay september 20th j934 r the acton free press pia si in 3ta fiwif fcijnrt torg sneefus by c a stephens cfii t neefus founded a monarchy of his own far up in the maine woods he had eeenj all he ever wanted to see of the human race much more indeed what sneerus desired was a lodge in some vast wilder ness where sight and sound of mankind might never reach him more and he achieved it for six years truth to say he had pretty goodi reason for his misanthropy his inter course with humanity began under very trying circumstances when he was but eleven months old at that time he was fully half grown and tipped the scales at a hundred and fortythree pounds facts which make it advisable for me to explain that sneerus was not of the genus homo but of a genus shamefully oppressed by our own never in fact given a fair chance to develop and enjoy its inalienable rights to life liberty and tfie pursuit of happiness to put it a little more plainly sneefus was a pig an individual of the despised genus sus any good naturalist will tell you how ever that nature originally intended the genus sus for great things for high evolution and very possibly for the mas tery of this preregrine planet neither the dog the horse the elephant nor yet any of the camlvora was endowed with so keen wits or a finer brain if given opportunity to develop bub somehow in the mad scramble of primeval races for supremacy the poor pig lost his chance sank to a condition of abject slavery and settled to durance vile in filthy sties to be fed on refuse and inevitably have his throat cut worse than slavery however worse than bad food and a joyless life in dirty dungeons worse than death even were the indignities that drove sneefus to battle and to flight for they made a greased pig of him at the county fair shaved off his bristly white coat with sheep shears and dull razors covered him with slush even to his ears and in spite of his shrieks cut oft his beautiful curly tall what pig wouldnt have run away we young folks from the old squires place were much interested in the pig chase for it was our pig the committee had begged him of us during the previous spring sneefus was easily the finest pig in our litter the longestlegged largest and most vig orous and he was named sneerus from the pert manner in which he turned his head and wrinkled up his nose after a hot scuffle the committee had so far everything had gone against scaptured him under a tarpaulin hustled him into a crate and then wheeled him to the barn and shut fast all the doors sneefus meanwhile was emphasizing his protest to the proceedings viva voce five active young men had been requir ed to hold him down on the barn floor while two others essayed the task of shearing and shaving him they had been two hours about it four of them were bitten and they were obliged finally to muzzle him all the time too snee fus had made the barn resound with his yells throughout the following night he had languished in a covered cart evidently he missed his bristles next day look ing very red all over he had ridden in state to the fair grounds and as the appointed hour for the chase drew near two members xt the committee using longhandled swabs anointed him profusely with warm lard from a bucket ia procedure which seemed greatly to astonishsneefus ije was visibly amaz ed too when the event having been loudly heralded and all the gates to the race track closed- he found himself sud denly precipitated from -the- cait to the ground and surrounded on ail sides by eager dogs and bareheaded grinning young fellows for an instant he stared bewildered then scooted with a wild woof of terror and the fun if fun it coultt be called began sneefus came round the course fairly ahead of every pursuer then espying the cart from which he had been ejected and no doubt feeling the need 6f refug3 he dived under it and there among the wheels the first mixup occured boys dogs and pig tumbling over one another amid a roar of howls barks yelps and now and again a piercing squeal from sneefus as he struggled free from grab bing hands and snapping jaws dirt and gravel flew the cart was upset pin ning two or three of the pursuers be neath it but sneefus had broken clean away and started to run again thety- standers yelling delightedly and shorf- lng good pig bully for the plgl off along the track they all followed at speed in a thick cloud of dust but at length some of the craftier of his human pursuers started to run the other way in an attempt to intercept him in his flight discovering these enemies coming to meet him sneefus at first stopped short in fresh terror then turn ed back but finding himself surround ed and espying a chlrik in the fence about the track where a board was off near the ground he dived for it it often has been said that a pig will go through any opening through which he can push his nose sneefus under tull headway with his hundred and forty pounds carried away iwo more of the boards end issued among the wagons parked outside distanced for the moment his pur suers had to scale the fence and before they could again close in on him sneefus going like a streak amidst or under the obstructing vehicles gained that quarter of the grounds occupied by the sideshows and fakir- booths which was called the midway always a feature of our county fairs then active pursuers coming up nearly captured him there had him by one leg for several struggling squealing instants but sneefus slipped greasily away from them and seeing trie open flap of the fat ladys tent rushed in without paying admission sad things are alleged to have happened therein- the fat lady screamed repeatedly the tent yawned shook perilously and near ly collapsed in fact the fat lady subsequently sued the agricultural society and eventually i believe re covered damages or grease spots on her yellow satin gown and the loss of a whole stack of her printed descriptive pamphlets here sneefus escaped by the back side of the tent and being set upon by indignant fakirs with beer bottles and tent poles butted headlong into the booth of madame homer the blind fortuneteller who also sued the society later her complaint stating that a mad bog followed by a motley mob of crazy dirty fellows had pushed through her place upsetting her table and causing the loss of her precious crystal ball from which she read the future sneefus somehow got out of there and blundered directly into the anaconda charmers tent which abutted on tha- of madame homer at the back but perhaps he smelled the big serpent for he rushed forth shrieking and with a wild burst j of speed took refuge behind the crates of turkeys geese and other poultry ranged against the high fence of the lair grounds here his panting followers believed they had him corn ered and closed round him en masse the wildest mixup of all then followed every crate was overturned for sneefus dived behind the entirerow of them twice he was caught by the legs his desperate squeals rising above the cackle of the disturbed fowls here too he lost nearly all of his right ear to a bloodyminded mastiff yet once again that valiant pig slipped through them all and emerging unexpectedly from the melee dashed clean across the grounds poor sneefus as he now neared the front of the fair grounds however his luck turned the entrance gate opened to admit a gala party arriving in a barge drawn by six horses fast pranc ing animals and rattling barge wheels scooted sneefus to liberty outside the gate before it could be closed against him accounts vary as to where he went next but apparently he crossed the lawn of a dwelling on the opposite side of the highway and tracks were seen in a vegetable garden in the rear beyond was a pine woodland and a straggling squad of pursuers trailed him there but among the pines all trace of him was lost neither boys nor dogs were able tojfind him that was the last seen of sneefus in this part of the country we thought that he would return home after his first fright wore away since it is well known that every pig carries a little compass in his- head or what answers for one that will un erringly direct him to the place of his birth even when transported to a dis- tance of miles in a sack or basket but sneefus did not come back evid ently his fear or his hate for mankind ran deeper than the homing instinct he seems to have taken to the depths of the forest and as time passed fled farther and farther away a railway extends from montreal through the northern portions of ver mont and new hampshire and down thrpugh maine to portland it was on this line nearly a yeakkpreviously that a stock train transporting eight or nine carloads of live hogs was derailed in a woody region near the maine boundary several of the cars were overturned and the frightened hogs strayed off into the woods exasperated trainmen and others were said to have chased hogs there for days afterwards but numbers escaped to long distances and were never retaken there is pretty good evidence that sneefus found and joined himself to certain of these fugitives of which he became leader from being occasionally shot at they grew so terrified at the report of firearms and perchance from having been wounded that as time passed they ranged farther and farther north into that then unbroken wilder ness along the canadian border eventually they appear to have found sanctuary in the never fully explored tract known to lumbermen and timber cruisers as the great- bog a district as large as two or three townships situ ated at the- headwaters of the west branch of the penobscot and the upper st john river to the northwest of moosenead lake although conversant with the north ern portions of maine the writer never visited the great bog and my know ledge of it is derived wholly from what has been told me by my boyhood friend wulis murch one whiter willis had made his camp on the eastern border of the bog to trap beaver and so far as he knew there was then no set clearing within a hundred miles he was there fore much astonished one morning the 21st of november to hear hogs squeal ing at no great distance he had traps to look after that day for a snowstorm was evidently pending but later on he became so curious about thosetiogs that he took his gun and set off in the direc tion of the sounds he had heard soon he stumbled upon something queer nothing less than ah immense heap of dry swantp grass there was willis affirmed enough of this to make a big load of hay it lay in a circular pile on the ground higher than his head and thirty or forty feet in diameter at first he supposed it to be a stack of hay cut by some person but while he stood viewing it wondering who could have done it he heard rustling noises within he drew back a little and re mained watching for some moments he now fancied that he could perceive movements inside the heap and thought he heard the heavy breathing of some animal concealed there he cocked his eun then glancing about found a clod threw it into the pile and gave a yell the effect was magical the entire mass stirred at once and an instant later disgorged a drove of hogs that streamed away into the swamp giving vent to wild woofs of surprise and terror while close in their rear scurried a shrieking mob of little pigs there were ten or twelve of the old hogs one apparently their leader being of greater size than the others this one faced about several times as if guarding the rear grunting savagely and lasting foam clots from its tusks willis noted that it had but one ear and a mere stump of tail not mere thnn two inches long that stood straigit up from its rump could this wild boar be sneefus willis account of that big heap of dry marsh grass in which the hogs were lying up in shelter from the storm at first appeared to border too much on the marvelous that the hogs had col lected it themselves seemed unlikely but an acquaintance who made a busi ness of raising hogs in western kansas informs me that just before a blizzard he had seen a whole drove of hogs work ing busily for two or three hours fetch ing mouthfuls of dry grass corn butts and jimson weed and making a pile of sufficient size for forty hogs to nestle hi completely out of sight 1 it was no part of willis plan to remain there after deep snows pome he left a week later without seeing anything further of the hogs and probably we never would have heard more of them but for a french canadian who sub sequently worked at one of the old squires logging camps this woods man whom his mates called olam mercier hailed from the parish of grandes coudees on the chaudlere biver in the province of quebec two winters prevlousls he had been so he told us of a party of six hunters who sad gone from his parish on a hog hunt over the boundary into maine they had heard of a band of wild hogs in the great bog and went there during the month of december taking six long narrow handsleds for drawing thr pork from the woods to a point wher they had teams waiting to smuggle it they finally surprised the hogs root ing beaver illy from the bed of one of the muddy ponds ice nearly a foot thick had already formed there but owing to the water beneath having been drawn away by beaver hunters there were wide open spaces here the ice had not settled down the hogs had worked their way beneath the ice sheet and were evidently subsisting on the succulent tuber wrenched up from the now shoal water and mud where the ice had broken down there were cracks and crevasses and- through these the hog hunters were able to fire upon the terrified animals as they at tempted to escape still farther under the ice but the ice ere long broke up about them and the beleaguered hogs were at last brought to bay they de fended themselves valiantly the flerclest battle of all glam said was waged with the leader of the band a very large hog with one ear and a bobbed tall the last to succumb this hog had tushes at least two inches long on each side of its jaws and would have weighed he thought five hundred pounds we had little doubt that this was our lost sneefus he had perished like a patriot hero defending his clan but not till he had enjoyed six years of glorious freedom from the ruthless enslavers of his species tliojork hunters reported that they had caught glimpses of a number of little pigs that escaped too far beneath the sheltering roof of ice to be cap tured i have always cherished the hope whimsical perhaps that this was so and that somewhere in the far depths of that northern wilderness a drove of gallant free- descendants- of old sneefus still survives the maple leaf western lambs come east persian balm is irresistible fra grant as summer flowers cool as a mountain spring wonderfully invig orating softens and whitens the hand makes skin softtextured and youthful used by women as a powder base and as a peerless aid to lovely complexions used by men as an effective hair fixa tive or shaving lotion and for chil dren nothing soothes and protects their tender akin like the delicately cool per sian balm canadians are maple leaf minded magnificent autumn leaves tinted with all the flaming colors of early fall aro being received in ever increasing num bers for judging in the nationwide competition being conducted by the canadian national and canadian pacific railways this years competition for the most beautiful maple leaf and for the largest leaf is going to be excep tionally keen according to reports from the- railway officials in charge hun dreds of beautiful leaves have already been received from appreciative natuve lovers in the provinces of nova scotia new brunswick quebec and ontario while leaves from the prairie provinces and british columbia are beginning to put in an appearance more than 10000 leaves were received in first competition held last fall and this year present indications lead those concerned to the opinion that the total will be far more than twice that number with the sweeping ridges of maple trees already showing splendid vistas of color and with an everincreasing num ber of people making it a point of en joying fall outings in the country side those in charge are making prepara tions for a deluge of specimens from now on until the competition closes on oc tober 15th when judges from the royal canadian academy will commence their exacting task the first prize for the most beautiful leaf in all canada will be 50 the second prize 20 and the third prize 10 the first prize for the largest leaf is 15 and the second prize 5 ten distinct types of maple trees are found in canada including the red sugar silver mountain striped block manitoba broadleaved vine and dwarf it is not difficult to distinguish between them the seed wings of the silver maple are more widespread and the leaf more sharply indented than the sugar maple aithough both have a high sugar content in the sap the broadleaved maple leaf is generally the type drawn by every school boy with five prominent lobes and is more deeply notched than the leaf of the sugar maple the leaf of the striped maple is entirely without the lower lobes that of the red maple with faint evidence of them and the mountain maple with slightly more pro nounced lobes in these leaves there are three main veins running to the upper lobes with no lower lobe vetoing in the striped maple and slight indica tion in the red and mountain species the leaves of the red and dwarf maples are- often hard to distinguish the lateral lobes of the latter are generally more prominent with a greater tendency to broadening the leaf of the vine maple is much rounder with seven main veins in the leaf many consider the silver maple leaf the finest in outline of all the maples in canada but the red maple in autumn the finest in coloring the habitat of the mountain maple is that area from the northern part of lake winnipeg to gaspe and south it is a small tree rarely growing by itself in the open the striped maple like wise a small tree similar in habits to the mountain maple is found from nova scotia to lake superior the broadleaved maple makes its home on the british columbia coast and on van couver island its leaves are the largest in canada the vine maple also makes its home along the lower british col umbia coast and on vancouver island and rarely grows erect the dwarf maple is found from alaska down the british columbia coast and in the southern parts of the province the sugar maple is found in ontario feeder lambs from the ranges of west em canada will be fattened in the east ern provinces under arrangements which are being worked out bythe canadian department of agriculture members of the ranchers association have agreed to consign lambs for fattening under an arrangement whereby the valuation of three cents a pound is placed on the lambs at the moose jaw saskatchewan stockyards where official weights are to be established eastern farmeri who apply for feeder lambs will not be required to lay put any cash but must have suitable equip ment in the form of feedingsijsheds and plenty of hay and good water they will also be required to feed and market in- accordance with procedure prescribed by officials of the department of agricul ture ranchers retain their ownership ox the lambs until marketed in 1933 about three thousand lambs were fatten ed in ontario under a similar agreement and larger numbers are expected this year quebec and the maritimes and the silver maple south of a line running from georgian bay to about quebec city with many in western new bruns wick the red maple ranges from nova scotia to lake of the woods but cannot be said to be very plentiful the home of the manitoba maple is in the prairie provinces hi the area absorbing almost half of manitoba and saskatchewan slightly intruding into alberta while all these trees are to he found in other parts of canada they do not grow there naturally and are often transported fr decorative purposes to later spread throughout the community 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