The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-10-30
At this there was O general roar of

Ger sald the bears had been put into n
stable OIL Barrow street, pending disposi
tion of the case. The old Savoyard, in
his grating patois, began to exclaim
against the outrage of taking away his
bears and locking the party up in cold
cells all night. He thought it was free
country, where the foreigner met with
kindness. AS it wasn't, they would all
go elsewhere if the judge would give
them the bears. His honor said that un-
less the Savoyards had money sufficient
for their present wants he would be
obliged to ship them back to Italy, to-
gether with their animals. One of the
prisoners produced bundle. 1t was
knotted bandanna, and when he united
it store of silver coins was disclosed.
The magistrate thereupon decided that
they must pay for the first experience in
q free country the sum of s., and he di-
rected the policeman to see the men,
women, children and bears over the Har-
lem River, at which the officer made o
very wry face. Five dollars to these old
world Migrants sounded like fiue of
cruel proportions, and there were fearful
and excruciating lamentations before they
paid it.
The bear which these people exhibit
for bread is usually OF the cinnamon va
riety, found in tho Pyrenccs or Vosgcs
Mountains. Not being essentially q car-
nivorous animal-that is to say, feeding
on fruit, honey, vegetables and smaller
animals-he is easily managed, and if
taken young learns few simple tricks,
such as climbing pole at the word,
footing a measure to the strains of an ac-
cordeon, counting up to ten with move
ment of his paw, marching with stick
for a gun, caching pole and making q
salaam. He is by no means an intellec-
tual animal, and it is only by great ex-
penditure of patience and constant prod
ding with an iron shod staff that he ac-
quires the tricks which so amuse the chill
dren. Old bears are not in demand for
show purposes. In their natural state
they serve to guide the mountaineer to
the cave where their cubs are housed. 1t
becomes an easy affair to capture the lit
tie fellows after the big ones are trapped.
The cost of cub is trifing to the French
Or italian stroller. A few dollars will
Guy one in almost any town in the Medi,
serranean districts. In America the deal
srs make you pay dearly for the privilege
Of possessinga q cinnamon bear. Out of
curiosity the writer asked we'll known
Park Row dealer in wild animals what
she market price of young cinnamon
bear was. "It will cost you $780," he
mid, "and you can't get one cheaper in
This country"
Tho common black bear of America
is sometimes carried around the country
by the French Canadians. They cross
tho line in the spring and exhibit
through the New England and New
York country places, working their way
70 the factory towns, where they have
,ompatriots. In the wilderness the black
bear is almost as timid as wild duck.
You may hear him breaking through
the brush in q numbering run as you ap-
oroach, and he will never face you un-
less he is come upon suddenly, or is
rendered desperate by hunger. The
dam, if her young are in the vicinity, is
apt to show her teeth to the intruder
she hos forty-two of them. In confine-
nent the American bear-likc true
lover of iberty-often grows morose and
vicious. It does not prove so tractable
As the brown bear of Europe. Not long
ago a sinewy French Canadian was EARL
ing q pretty penny by giving wrestling
exhibitions with his bear, an unusually
big black one. Of course the bouts were
farce. The animal had been trained to
stamp around on his hind legs, take hold
of his master gingcrly and do back
ward fall at the right moment. Occa-
sionally the man would go down and
bruin would paw the earth around him,
the while emitting q grumbling growl.
One day Jean had beaten the bear
savagcly, or it had not had its fill OF cab
bage and roots, and the pupil got his
instructor down and clawed and rcnded
him until ne blcd to death on the spot,
and the pumpkins gathered around
were too scared to interfere.
No one, of course, has ever attempted
to train and exhibit tho grizzly, "cow-
ard of heroic size," though Bret Harte
has called him. One of them has been
known to carry the carcass of steer
weighing 1000 pounds several miles to
his lair in the boulders. Wrestling
would be sorry business with this mon
ster, and to teach him tricks even when
an infant would be fraught with Too
much excitement for daily pursuit.
Next to the bear the monkey is the
animal which man finds most useful as
bread winner in a nomadic life. The
little ape, in greatest demand, comes
from Brazil. He has most whimsical
cast of countenauce, and is as harmless as
he is ugly. He can soon be taught to
wear q scarlet uniform-in fact, he is as
vain of personal adornment as dude
and struts around in feathered cap with
out the irresistible desire of most pet ami,
mails to tear it from his head. Monkey;
are comparatively cheap. For from S3(
TO $50 you can buy at the regular depot
diminutive ape whose hidcousness is
perpetual study. At the watersid
in New York along South auc
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