PAGE TWELVE AN AMIABLE BRUTE {The Black Bear Is the Happy Hooligan of the Woods. 'HE IS NOT A BIT FEROCIOUS. This Much Maligned Animal Is Just a Lazy, Playful Loafer That Avoids Men and Fights or Works Only When He Is Coripelled to Do So. The black bear is neither ferocious nor dangerous. The most fitting name I have ever heard given him is the Happy Hooligan of the Woods. He is a lazy, playful loafer and has no evil intentions; but, like a shut-in boy or a boy with a task to perform, he wants company--does not know just what to do with himself. The black bear has more human-like Araits than any other animal I know. He is a boy in disguise--will not work Jong at anything unless at something to produce mischief. Occasionally be finds things dull and simply. does not know what to do with himself. He is happy go lucky, find taking thought 'of the morrow is not one of his troubles. {He 1s afraid of the grizzly. and avoids man as though he were a pestilence. - Heé plans no harm. In other words, the black bear is just the opposite in character of what he had long been thought and is still almost universally believed to be. A million writers and spoken stories have it that he is fero- cious--a wanton, cruel killer. He fights or works only when compelled to do so, He is the most plausible bluffer I have ever seen. With hair bristling on the back, upper lip stuck forward and an onrush, with a rapid volley' of champing k-woof-f-f's, he appears ter- rible, He pulls himself out of many Ma predicament and obtains many an mnearned morsel in this way. Most of his bluffs are for amusement. He #will go far out of his way for the pur- pose of running. a A black bear climbs a tree almost as readily as a cat, and he climbs a small pole or a large tree with equal ease. The grizzly does not climb trees, but the black bear, with its catlike fore. paws, can simply race up a tree trunk, Much of his time, both asleep and awake, is spend in treetops. He might almost be called a perching animal. Like most animals the black bear has ® local habitation. His territory is twenty or less miles in circumference, and in this be is born, lives and dles. ithe earliest wild gardens of the foot: hills, : The black bear eats everything that "3d edible. Though omnivorous, his food is mainly that of a vegetarian. He digs out rich willow and aspen roots 4n the shallow and soft places and tears up or digs out numerous plants {for their roots or tubers. Often he eats grass and devours hundreds of juicy weeds. During autumn I have seen him jon the edges of snow flelds and gla- clers consuming thousands of unfor- tunate grasshoppers, flies and other in- there accumulated. He Is par ly fond of ants--tears ant hills and decaying logs to pieces and licks up the ants as they come storming forth to bite him. He tears hundreds of rotten logs and stumps to pieces for grubs, ants and their | He freely eats honey, the bees and their nests, He catches mice and of- ten amuses himself and makes a most amusing and manlike - spectacle by - chasing' and catching grasshoppers. {He will devour carrion. In a fish coun- try he searches. for fish and occasion- ally catches live ones, but he is too restless or shiftless to be a good fish- ' jerman. The black bear 1s or was found pret- ty well distributed over North Ameri- ca. His color and activities vary some- 'What with the locality, this variation being due perhaps to a difference of climate and in the food Supply. The black bear has &-well developed " brain and may be classed among the dlert animals of the wild. Its senses are amazingly developed. They seefn to be ever on duty. Young black bears have good tem- pers and are playful in captivity, but if teased or annoyed they become trou- blesome and ¢ven dangerous with age. If thine enemy offend thee present him with a blagk bear cub that has been mistreated. He is an intense, high strung animal and, if subjected to annoyances, teasing or occasional cruelty, becomes revengeful and vin- dictive. Sometimes he will even look for trouble snd. once in a fight, has the tenacity of a bulldog. The, black bear has never been pro- -- tected as a game auimal, Throigh all the seasons of the rear, with gun and dogs, the hnuter is allowed to pursue him. It would be well for a few years to have a closed season on rs. As he 1s verging on extinction and as he . gives to the wilds much of their 'spirit, there ought to be a closed season to Protect this rollickiig. fellow of the If 1 were askid to €elect the one em- blematic anjwal that best gives and suggests the spirit and the spell of the great outdoors I should select the black bear.--Enos A. Mils in Saturday Bveulng Host. -------------- Discoyragement in a Laugh, "Don't yon always feel encouraged when people lnugh? asked the man at the club of another, who had the repu- tation of an after dinner spenker. 3 "Well," was the reply. *1 once pro- posed marriage' to a girl, but it dide't encourage me when she therely laughs ed "=Yonkers Statesman. 5 A He alware has A certain amount _ of weight with thuse who wish to be lieve it-- Rice. -~ nders, Mont- Berlin, Ont, has been promised the 73rd Royai H nted chaplain of BAGGING A HIPPO. How It is Done and How the Flesh of the Animal Tastes. There are two ways of bagging a hippopotamus, says a writer in the Wide World Magazine, and neither is justified unless the sportsman is sorely in want of food, for its meat is very poor indeed and wants a" good, deal of preparation to be palatable to any one except the starving. It has a taste I can only describe as fishy, 2 etiing what beef would taste like &fter being wrapped up for a couple of days with a Scotch haddock of doubtful fresh- ness, The hippo may be shot in water. When mortally wounded he will sink and will not reappear on the surface for several hours, consequently a tiring lookout has to be kept for the carcass. If he is only slightly wounded he may ! charge, but more often he will flee and die in the reeds to serve as food for scavenger birds or crocodiles. The other and more sporting way is to shoot him on land. This is, as a rule, only possible at night or late In the evening and early in the morning. It would not be wise to find oneself between the river and the wounded hippo, for he at once makes for the water by the shortest route, and he goes so fast that getting out of his way requires 'pretty speedy feet and great coolness of nerve. FORCES OF NATURE. Soft Their Touch, but Constant and Effective Their Work. What adds to the wonder of the earth's grist is that the millstones that did the work and are still doing it are the gentle forces that career above our heads--the sunbeam, the cloud, the air, the frost. The raln's gentle fall, the airs velvet touch, the sun's noiseless rays, the frost's exquisite crystals, these combined are the agents that crush the. rocks, pulverize the moun- tains and transform continents of sterile granite into a world of fertile soll. It 1s as if baby fingers did the work of powder and dynamite. Give the clouds and the sunbeams time enough and the Alps and the Andes disappear before them or are transformed into plains where corn may grow and cattle graze, The snow falls as lightly as down and les almost as lightly, yet the crags tumble beneath it; compacted by gravity, out of it grew the tremendous ice sheet that ground off the mountain summits, that scooped out lakes and { valleys and modeled our northern land- In springtime he descends to feed on y scapes as the sculptor his clay im- age.~John Burroughs, The Distinguished Guest. Captain Raabe was"% man whose name had weight in the French cav- alry. He was a tall man, belonging to the middle aged trooper type. With military qualities of the highest kind, he had a singular bearing, a savage ' sort of misanthropy and a cynieal tongue, which steed iii"the way of pro- motion. When he was in the Sixth lancers, on garrison duty at Com- mercy, one of his comrades brought his father to dine with him at the offi- cers' mess, a man of humble position and unpretentiously dressed. Captain Raabe, considering that this guest had not been fitly received, gave expres- sion to his opinion, saying that if the executioner of Commercy had come in evening dress he would have had a bet- ter reception. The officers demurring, he made no rejoinder, but shority aft- erward came to mess with a guest whose dress was Irreproachable. Every one lavished attentions on 'the un- known. When dinner was over Cap- tain Raabe, raising his glass, proposed the health of "the executioner of Com- mercy." Sir Isaac Newton. The discovery of gravitation was the first of many great ideas that came to "the greatest original thinker of all time." Newton was also the pioneer in announcing the physical properties of light. His epitaph, translated from the Latin, on his monument in West- mipster Abbey describes in a few words the greatest accomplishments of Newton. It reads: * ' "Here lies Isaac Newton, who by vigor of mind always 'supernatural first demonstrated the motions 'and figures of the planets, the paths of the comets and the tiles of the ocean. He discovered what before his time no one had even suspected. that rays of light are differently refrangible and that this is the cause of colors." An Eye For an Eye. The law of Afghanistan is In theory the same as that of Mohammedan countries in general--that is, of the Koran. This is an éye for an eye, 8 tooth for a tooth, and enables the par ty wronged to avenge himself on a relative if circumstances prevent him [tains from reaching the aggressor fu person ) hence revenge becomes among the Afghans a point of honor, which ae man may waive except with disgrace They Knew. Fag 28 1 if | Ts 8 N thelr: trade ver eas card \ iE DAILY + AY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. 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