The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-07-12
WHITE MOUNTAIN BEARS
And an Tx Clergyman Who Makes
C Living Killing Them.
Ia-hcaitli and Love Of Nature Cansed
Tim to Eorsake the Pulpit for
the Forests and the
Riils.

= 'ie''fLi% bears H7as in the Pequake
!N,s.EFAic. DO not picture grizzly
picturesque character, fond of relatins
! aaf>rtlWes and hnirbreadth escapes
F@FIl2p3 yoa will lit your incredulou.
eSct''27s when it is said that he is /
;feu'l man and scholar and has beer
q q erSgman! Yet it is true. lie is !
fati, thin man, with bright, intelligent
eyes, digniiicd bearing and gentle man
ner, says Portsmouth IN. H) CORE.
sp1ndent Of the New York Sun.
i y not necessary TO enter into de-
sf.!la el hos7 he happened to abandon
~ iG3Se3sian beyond saying that ill.
ln':'rsl was tac Chief cause; and it NAV
e '"lsi2tl taat he has always been DOS.
'ss''.sd VIII OH intense fondness for ma.
ture, rlore especially the wild and sol.
itaNy fastaesscs Of mountains, only TO
be found IL following the trail of sueh
game as bears, whose haunts thew arc
de has also hinted that, brought IN IN
1arnl In region where game was
abundant, his earliest sports and iovs
we're trapping and cunning; and later
IN life, when settled in more serious oc.
cupaaons, an unconduc.,:.: hla lnnc,s.,,
Tor tine free life Of woods and fi.Ids
often overcame him, and at length tic
time arrived when he could not resis,
it, and his health seemed also to re-
qalre an open-air life.
"; though not now clergyman he
IS sslil ascholar, especially in all that
pertains to woolcraft, hunting and
traa9iaS. For he knows, for instance
not only the habits and traits of the
bear, but has alao a scientific knowl-
edge OF its anatomy. In this he is self
taight, chiefly by dissecting the ami
mails which he captures. C,fcourse the
money value Of the bear ID
him is in the pelts and the state bounty,
In addition he does quite business in
selling tlc skeletons to museums. nr;-
vate students and sculptors, and h.
keeps On hand an assortment of tba
differeht bones, 50 that he can supply
any particular bone required.
This hunter is also an expert mo-
chanic. He designs, forges and puts
all his own traps, and has
made various improvements in thcE.
They never lose him a bear, ono,
sprung upon him, and the COUNT,
peorle, mountain climbers and ans,
teur sportsmen are more afraid Of
them than they are of the beasts them
selves. They are terrible to look aG.
and make one think Of the torturiny
implements Of the inquisition. Ther.
is really very little danger to travel
ors, however, from the hunters trap,
Tor the ways of the bear are not tlloso
II men. He haunts the most inacces.
'lble' rocky and rugged portions Of tho
White mountains, coming down rarely !
. the lakes cornfelas end sheep pas i
,ures. In the summer one occasionally
meets stray cub, usually pair, in
he roads, as yet ignorant of the dan.
fefs OF civilization
Nh. M, to give him at least an
initial, hunts and traps over about
lfty miles of mountain territory ex.
ending from the southwest to the
lorth Of Pequaket Interyale, but most
y over the Choeorua range, in which
aay be included the Chocorua noun
ain itself and its various spurs, Pa;
us sometimes called, in consequent
4 les humpy character and its INN.
late proximity to an inevitable com
arison with the splendid peak Of Ch.
orua, "the Mountain that Failed,
'assaconanoy, White Face, and th
Dome, He knows the no..
ecret and untrod recesses of all thi,
istrict1probably as no other man know,
reyef has known them, butpreciselva
he bear and other wild animals knc
lon. lie follows their trail whcrc,.
may lead, with an instinct like
adams, He notes the slightest tny
leaf or twig, the fresh mari, OH
'tton log, the footprint on moss v),r,
lother would soa nothing. He selloH
lits his traps knowing pretty neorl
here the bears foot will fall. It is /
wonder how a man of hia
ight physique can tramp his forts
lles a day cTr ihe rouebest ana