The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
DR.. LONG ON TEODY'S HUNT
ZINE SPECIMEN OF ROOSEVELT
BRAND OF STUDY"
REoPENS NATURE FAKE WAR

Or. Long Says That Roosevelt Will
Not Write an Article Telling of the
Habits of the Louisiana Bear-No
Use For Such "Heroism."
Stamford, Conn, Oct. 24.-The Rev.
William j. Long, the nature writer,
was asked yesterday if he had any
thing to say about President Roose-
velt's recent bear hunt in the Louis
lana Canebrakes.
oh yes, a little to say and a lot
to think" was his reply. ITS a fine
specimen of Mr.. Roosevelt's brand of
nature study. He went into the cane
brake, according to accounts, with six
or eight professional hunters, two sur
geons, sixty odd dogs, unnumbered
camp followers, camera men, and a
few dispatch bearers to carry out &C
counts of his heroism to breathless
world.
There was hullaballoo enough to
scare any bear from here to Texas
noise and excitement. It's a wonder
that he got one bear; that he ever
saw fresh track.
Long Has Killed Some.
"If there is real hunter down there
now, man that knows how to go into
the woods quietly and hunt, he would
probably get all the bears he wanted
But he would have to leave the brass
band and the applauding gallery be-
hind, and that Mr.. Roosevelt cannot
do"
DR.. Long was asked if he had ever
killed bear.
Yes" he answered eight or ten,
when | was younger, more of hunter
and less of a learner than now. Il
hunted them alone, however; no
guides, no dogs. A man who cannot
do his own hunting, but must depend
upon professional hunters and dogs,
has not much right to an opinion about
the habits of animals"
Does it not require a lot of courage
to hunt big game?" he was asked.
Courage your grandmother" eX
claimed DR.. Long. 1T takes some
nerve to catch a chicken and wiring
its neck, but the courage is in over
coming your own hearts objection to
the killing. | often have to hunt big
animals for food when | am up north,
but | never heard anybody but Mr.
Roosevelt brag of its heroism.
What a Bear Does.
"A bear, you know, takes to his
heels and runs to break his heart when
the dogs begin to yelp on his trail
When they tire him out and get close
and start to nip his heels, most bears
climb a tree, if they can; a fat one
often puts his back against tree and
protects its rear and fights the whole
snarling, yelping pack.
Then your heroic hunter comes up
with big repeating rifle and a cam
era outfit to take his picture and
shoots the poor beast while he is Who'll
ly occupied with the dogs and when
he would not, and could not, notice
the hunters if they started cakewalk.
LAS a matter of fact, this chasing a
IIiillu uhiihdl Will q pawn VI Jugs anu
then shooting him from a safe dis
lance, when he cannot do thing to
save or defend himself is pure brutal
cowardice. Some men like it, but they
do not brag, and | have absolutely no
criticism to make. Every man must
be happy in his own way"
Is Ready for an Article.
Did you notice that when the pres
ident finally killed his bear he is re-
ported to have Rugged somebody and
to have given big tip to a negro?"
was suggested.
Yes said DR.. Long. That's
Roosevelt clarifying butChery as US
ual. With him the object of the hunt
seems to be the killing The funny
thing is that presently he will be out
with a magazine article telling us all
about the habits of Louisiana bears
and incidentally calling some other
man liar, who has gone to the cane
brakes by a different route and seen
more than he has"
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