New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-15
A STRANGE LOT OF PETS.
TWO YOUNG BEARS, A DOVE AND A SQUm.
REL THAT LIVE IN AAlITY.


REL THAT LIVE IN AAlITY.
Clifton. Penn. Dec. ii (speciaD. Cass.
who lives in The Beech Woods. three miles west Of
this place. IS great hand TO catch and tame young
wild animals His little menageric Is very INTEREST,"
ing, and Mr. Cass and his family take good deal Of
comfort with the INTEL gent members OF tbs collection
of quadrpeds. First In order two tame yearling
bears named Nick and Tige. They plump. playful
and cunning black fellows, and the in which
Mr.. Cass got possession of them Is worth telling.
A year ago last May. George Leashcr. OF Mr.
Cass's nearest ncghbors got sight of she bear and
three Cubs while he trudging through a piece Of
thick hemlock woods the west side OF a mountain
that IS locally known Panther HILL Leasher
didn't modest the mother bear and her young ones
then, but he told Mr. Cass about her. and in day
or Mr. Cass, Leasher and a woodsman named Jeroms
Multer took couple of dogs and went in search OF
the old bear and her three little ones. Mr..
Cass carried rife, ard they started out
with the Intention Of capturing the cubs
and letting the mother 1.-Two In case she
shouldn't give them too much trouble. Her hide
good for nothing that time in the year. and they
made up their minds to let her live If she behaved
herself
The three surprised the old bear and her cubs
at about the spot they expected run across them.
Mr.. Cas- led the dog. Leasher and Multer carried
They came upon the mother bear and her
young so suddenly that the cubs sought safety by
deserving their mother ard climbing TO the top OF big
hemlock tree. The cubs were three months old. and
they TO the top of the hemlock in short order
At this the old bear mounted log directly underneath
the tree where her cubs were. walked back and FORTH
snorte1 grOwled and showed determination TO stay
there. The dogs wanted TO get at her, and after
awhile Mr.. Cass let them loose They soon drove her
from the log but she wouldn't leave the neighborhood
and In the rumpus one Of the dogs got hurt Then Mr..
Cass fired off his gum and the old bear tore through
the woods and disappeared.
It sixty feet up 10 whore the cubs were huggins
the limbs and how TO get them down without in
iuring them as the next question The men finally
decided that II would be necessary 10 have bedcod
and Muter started of after one While he was gone,
Leasher chopped a hemlock that its top lodged
against that of the tree in which the young bears
trembling, and when Multer returned. Leasher
took the BEDFORD climbed up the santing tree, and
got into the top with the cubs.
He wanted TO hitch the cord around one cub at Q
time lower It from the tree but the first cub that
he tried 70 catch scrambled out too far on the limb
lost its hold and tumbled to the ground. Mr. Cas-
put out his hands 10 catch It, but the cub falling
pretty fast and It went right through Mr. Casss hands
struck the earth and stunned. 1t soon came to
all right, and Leasher let the other two down with
the cord They the cubs that Mr. Cass now
owns The other one Leasher kept but before It was
six months old got tangled in the rope that held 10
to its pen and hanged itself
tanned them inside Of a month. He began to call
Of then Nick right away and the other Tige. ard 10
wasn't long before they answered readily to their
names. Then he trained them 10 follow him, taught
them be kind TO his other animals and made them
know their places. AT times Mr. Cas- confines the
bears in log pen with fiat roof. Whenever he
doesn't care TO let them tag him over the place
through the woods he chains them to the side of the
pen with chains so long that they climb upon the
roof II they want 10. Mex and Tige fond OF
cheese all kinds Of meat, and above all Of honey and
maple syrup. At the upper side Of the yard thai
slopes down to the fence there is little trough. Both
bears cannot get their noses in 1t at once
and the moment that their owner lets them loose in
the yard and places little honey IN the trough thero
is a lively sQuabble. II Nick reaches the trough
first Tige grabs him around the neck with his paws
pulls him away from the sweet morsel, and down the
slope they roll and one another, until the
fence stops them Then up they spring. ard for the
trough they scamper, ending up the bout by another
tumble down the hill. And so it goes until Mr. Cass
puts bit of honey another spot. where OF them
can lick it while the other is Messing in the trough.
The most interesting creatures on Mr. Cass's place
are tame doe named Roxy, and spry, a very INTEL
ligent setter dog Roxy has been there year longer
than the bears. but she has never given birth TO
fawn. Two years ago last summer, when Roxy
a very small fawn, spry caught her In the woods
PeachstOne Mountain. Mr.. Cas- was rambling through
the woods at the Time The dog accompanied him,
and every and then spry uOtted ahead OF his
master, darted among the thick. low LEAKAGE and
out OF sight a good part OF the way. Presently Mr..
Cass heard doe snortlng furlously In the bushes q
short distance to his right lie hurried TO the spot,
and there stood the doe Stamping vciousy with her fo
feet and snortng as though something had molested
searching around quickly, Mr. Cas- soon found tho
fawn. she lying by the side OF log, and spry wa
holding her down with his paws lie had NOT IN
lured her at all, and be didn't orcr TO bite her.
He seemed TO regard the helpless little animal as
nice playfclIow, and when Mr. Cass spoke 10 him;
he wagged his tai, licked the fawn ana missed her
over very tenderly. Mr.. Cas- ugget the fawn nss
has shown most remarkable affection Tor hcr, :.
beat from Roxy wa bring sprs 20 nsf abuses
the doe. They play together gleal uoa as, "
night spry and Roxy sleep N ,ns ear M and walk
WI %Y LON ~, M' dc on Der hind feet whcneyer
she does This spry without being pia s,sd poyy
hind feet too, AID ma rnder on INTO the woods when
the doc s near her he hssenS % nun pnd the
soon a. he hns lust found OF spry as he Is Of
her, and their i0;o' 6a e se ea"shp fine gray
Last wnier ~ Il into the house D, the nape Of
squirrel ana ass hadn't hur The slurrsl very much,
aud she Piso,e She Killed a. Mis- Cas- turned tbs
It spef doors aud, seeing that there was sun soma
cat Out , Gs Squirrel she placed IN basket Of Oil
raSS r e. came TO-, and with a hue nursing
Mrs. Cas- ss, ,A eur esis teeth had @S ae t. S'ss
MOI, he placed IL IN cage, ard gradually sh iauehe
hn cal wouldn't DO wei for her 70 raise Paw
lac and runs wherever IL chooses 10. The old cas
ats IL as kindly she does on, OF her own kittens.
70 enjoy en sssps s aO esss owns tam.
.oon named Dick. The coon's home Is In big
hollow tree few rods from the house; ne comes 70
~ never tired 60 OF into the woods and get Wild
3 In. Deh Keeps b- himself good deal OF the time
81 occ asonaliy be- plays around the dog and doe.
eldom going near the bears. Mr. Cass cot him out II
nest when he was less than forth ght old. and no
ays he had no trouble to tame him and make hin