The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-28
THE BEAR CLUB.

Almost every village, town or city has
its local institution or pecuiarity-
something upon which it prides itself
that no other has its equal. The local
institution of Milan is its Bear Club.
It's membership is large andrespectable,
and its meeting rather interesting, not
to say instructive, If we may judge from
the following which we find in the Milan
Advertiser of the 22d. We give the ar
ticle entire:
At meeting of the Bear Club, the
White Haired Bear presiding, and the
Pet Bear, sect pro tenn; the subject of
discussion being 'the strength of the
sense of smell, as exhibited by different
animals, the blood hound, fox hound,
antelope, chamois, wolf, and gazelle had
been mentioned by different members
of the club; when at this time the
scientific Bear made his appearance, and
not fully understanding the question,
said that when properly stirred up, a
skunk smelled stronger than any animal
on Earth; thereupon the Chair, ordered
the Secretary to read the question, which
was done, and the Scientific Bear i'm
mediately apologized, and named the
poodle dog, as the strongest scented
animal that ever lived. He was imme-
diately called to order, by the Long
Tipped Bear, and the Chair called his
attention to the ninety-seventh Bylaw,
which forbids trihing conduct during
the deliberation of the Club; still, the
Scientific Bear repeated his assertion,
and asked to be heard in his defense
which was reluctantly granted. Where
upon he arose, and assuming the great
composure of countenance, for which he
is noted, said, that Notwithstanding the
great eminence to which he had since
attained in the arts and sciences, he be-
gan life as granger, tiller of the
soil; (here an incredulous smile over
spread the countenance of the Chairman,
and the Secretary reached for the By
laws; but he was allowed to proceed).
His father had on his farm a sugar or
chard, and in his younger days he had
to boil down the sap into syrup, for the
manufacture of sugar. He had always
been fond of eggs, and that one spring
while boiling sap, he made up his mind
to have one square meal of eggs. He
watched the hens nests until he had ac-
cumulated eight dozen, which he care
fully concealed in the barn. The decrease
in the usual yield of eggs had been
noticed, and when asked for the cause
thereof had told his father that it was on
account of the weather, which was bad
for hens. The night before the expect
ed feast, he had stolen pork, salt, pepper,
and frying pan, from the house, and
carried them with the eggs to the sugar
camp, and hid them. In the morning,
with an innocent expression of counte-
nance, he took his way to the camp, and
after getting the kettle well boiling he
put couple dozen in and boiled them,
and ate as many as he could in that
way, carefully putting the shells and
remnants in q pail, and leaving no traces
on the ground. After resting awhile, he
broke couple of dozen in the frying
ing pan and fried them, and eat
what he could, and put the balance
in the pail; then took another rest.
He then scrambled some and eat, aud
put the fragments in the pail. After a
longer rest, he poached some and eat,
putting the balance in the pail; after a
little longer rest and unbuttoning his
vest, the remainder of the eggs he
cooked, basting with pork sauce, and
eat until he was satisfied that he didn't
banker after any more eggs. He then
took a spade and that pail of eggs and
went down in the woods to knoll COW
cred with nice moss. He removed the
moss and dug hole and buried them,
carefully replacing the moss, and re
turned to the camp, cleaned up the pail
and frying pan, hid the frying pan, and
waited for his father to come and tend
the kettles, while he went to dinner, as
was his custom to do. He soon saw him
coming, followed by little sore eyed
poodle dog, called Pink. Casting a
hasty glance around to see that no frag-
ments of the repast were visible, he
pulled his vest as near together as it
would come and sat down with folded
arms, to wait the orders to start to the
house for dinner, his father came up
and looking around said 'Jack, my son,
bring me an armful or two of wood, and
then you can 60" 1 obeyed at once,
but the pressure of the wood against my
stomach was very painful. In throwing
down the wood my vest fell apart, and