The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-12
BRIGHT ANIMALS THESE
Sometimes Instinct Comes Pretty
Near 10 Reason.
ACROW CALLING AT DANCES
Bruin Gets His Breakfast in Spite Of a
Pack of Wolves.

Fishes that showed They Had Lots or Sport
lag Biood- Career and Death or mn Old
Main. Benr-A Law er's Attempt 10 skin
an Eei-Aceouut or an Elder Duck Farm
Farmer Fleming. Right Ear Warns Him.
"Thc boldest. most impudcnt bears to DO
found anywhere are tho bears OF Mainc.' said
q sportsman who hns hunted NIL kinds OF bears
but polar bears. Tho Maino benz doesn't
care q snap for man. and that is rather queer.
for The bears must know that there is n big
bount= on their scalps Bears know every
thing. when say that the Maino bears don't
care q snap for man don't mean TINT he Is
any more apt to tackle man than any other
boar Ia. but that no will Go into n mans barn
yard aftor n calf or sheep or n pig. into his
orchard after apples. into his corniled
or into mis- yard and knock over tho
hoe skips for the honey. although tho
man may DO standing not throo rods away.
with a gun ut that. This brazcn imrudence on
the part Of tho Maine bear is what makes him
such terror to tho farmers in that State. and
It moro than anything else led to the putting
OF n price on hls head. 1t has also led TO tho
invention Of many devices for DESTROYING the
bold marnuder by tho farmers themselves.
Tho favorits ono Of these is the trap gun.
This is simply IN ordinary gun. charged
heavily with buckshot. baitcd. and pnced
in n cornncd or other place whore tho
bear is likely to pny n visit with foraginG
iutent. Tho bait and gun arc so arranged
that tho instant tho bear touches tho former
the latter is discharged. and in nine cases out
Of ten tho quantity OF lead bruin receives IN
his hcad and face loads him down SO Of
fectunily that when tho farmer goes ont In
tho morning he finds tho bear dead. and the
carcass Is more valuable crop TO him than
ANYTHING any two acres OF his land could yield
ought to represent $40 or 500 in cold cash to
:" Tie trap gun doesn't always do its work so
thoroughly though that the farmer finds the
snw was a farmer named Simon Harvey. who
nude a little miscalculation once on u bear
set Tor him. Harvey WINS u backwoods farmer
who lived IN tue Wild region n back ac OF Bangor
1S n S' 9owns
crops and 1.-Two stock. the farmer rugged ,up a
trap gun to SEQ what it could 10 toward rid
ali other nieans to that end having failed. He
was helped in rigging up the gun by on% s,! Bi;l
nateiy for Harvey. went, with hi when he
started to visit the gun the morning after.
spot whers h0 ta WAS When they heard
bear tremendous tsll9w. writhpg p, on the
Wien he saw the two men. he could get1uickly
lie threw himself upon Harvey and feled him
hs tRs sssr sGs
and ripped Harvey to such an extent
that when Johnson had succeeded In killing
on h. 3 onck for dead and carried him homo;
His Iace was torn out Of all recognition; and
was stripped to the bone in many places. and
his chest was friehttully lacerated. In sewing
four speols Of six thread The farmer vas
ssid TbftSss hs So ns S sss
weighed over 400 pounds.
The country around Bangor. say within
rise up es out d sSe s5oani and look a You as
protest. The lust time was over there the
people in the vicinity Of Maxfied were all
& FAD S
orchard thief. and had escaped from no end
Weight not less s than ten IN
that had been shot into him any time within
the nye years then past: The whole oi Penob.
entire porulaco until a farmer named sawyer
got 40 mad one day. over some, especially
agsrayatinc degradation, the . old bear had
; would 60 n out :. an and lay . 81 Hanger aa ~
ing the hoar three days. modified his oath
@ "rS a%e sT hs ns he
.waksnsd by noise and h9 ar, reeognizedh in it
Sawyer nwoke his farm hands and stole to
some OF his nciHhbors and got together u
pitcniofks. and other weapons. and carrying
Lozop lanterns. the hostile forces surrounded
timo in Tia lie the tough and Willy hear found
himself in corner Ihero was only one out
lot 7" the Wed. 1 ht the "ESharh amt tn9t
ing Sawyer with his moose gun;
The display Of lnntorns had evidently
why he couldn't have got OUT OF the orchard
and away imt" tho w.".i- itrfnre he was sur.
discovered tho danger he was in and mado
break Tor the path; h. hn,l to run desper,st",
the eight guns. including Sawyer moo moose gun.
nat TO- I'm t." ga;;ntrt hna Kept tight on Tor
n lively rhnso Of nearly three miles into the
Woods Woods. betor" they cana ~ with him;
the iarces and suddenly was was tr"uehtt
nnalI 81, standing ng roar and a snort and 2
S1 seaTH"F S' siH nrt ami f Hssd not ct
twenty feet ahead stood Old hanger his bncE
aFnnft rock and I'm ,n'WnT and tsr
thrmsr Sawyer sayeth" bear both barrels ' II
by moose gun. and Old hangers r.co WAS run.
and the great carcass was borna into MaXcld
by the triumphant hunters Whom Il IL people
al the village hoard that Old Ranger had been
fiil,l sleep was given over for thc, night, Hnd
daylight ipnnl the populare still rejoicing
oyur the downfall OF tho dreaded ma rnuIer.
Old RANGER weighed 400 pounds"
The Geese Were snly. bat They Knew
Where 10 Draw the Line.
Tho wild geese OF rhe Roanoke River. In
Warren county. \. C.. are Just as biz nnnics
q any members OF their race anywhere else
ever were." said Col. Garrett OF North Carolina.
but Just the same the Warren county geese
know where to draw the line. There IL no
cholcer haunt for wild geese on tho continent
than Is that curious stretch OF stream which
the Roanoke Is formed into by the rocky bed
over which 1t passes on Its way through War
rem county. 1t is u succession OF falls and
rapids. and is utterly unnavigable except by
the peculiar fatboats used by the natives. and
itrequires an expert to get up tho river--or
down 1t. eithsr-even In one Of those. The