The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-20
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why is it that tell of the unique in
animal life?"
1t was the Rev. William ]. Long, Phi
D., who was talking. He was in Bos-
ton filling a lecture engagement.
! Let me answer with a question OF
my own: Why was it that you first
became interested in history? I will
answer for you. 1t was because you
/ found there chroniclings of unusual
events, unusual achievements by un-
usual men. There you have your an
swer. / wish TO interest you in the
same way in animal life. l wish tC
send you out into the open with your
every sense alive to find there a broad
er life"
Aside from the fact Of his recent
wide differences from President Roose-
welt in regard to life in the woods,
Boston people are much interested in
DIR. Long. He is in a measure one of
them. He was born i'm North Attic
borO on April 8, 1867. He was gradual
ed from the Bridgewater State Normal
school in 1887. Harvard senc him forth
with his degree in 1892, and AndOvcr
Theological seminary graduated him in
1895.
He was given the Phi. D. degree by
Heidelberg university in 1897 and took
supplementary courses in philosophy
and history in the universities of Par
is and Rome in 1897 and 1898. He was
married in AndOver in September of
1900.
In 1898 he made a notable defense cf
ministerial liberty at the Cambridge
council. He is the author of eight
books on nature studies.
President Roosevelt said that some Of
Mr.. Longs books were not true to ma
ture. Mr.. Long says:
ITO know animal life as it IS, You
must creep close to it, you must live
with it and study 1t first hand, You
must make friends with the animal
that is the way to get at the heart OF
nature: but Mr.. Roosevelt gets al the
heart of nature in a different way. He
gets at 1t with a gun.
Il was out i'm the woods once with
a party. We We're hungry, and they
had been upbraiding me. saying that
could get them a nice deer steak if
would and that it was not fair that
refused. Finally l consented. / cir
cled around and came to the edge of the
wood just above small lake. and there
deer and two fawns were browsing.
l had exposed myself before 1 was
DIV oiS llldl lutS were LiitEEs uTODDGu
quickly behind a log. They had seen
me and stood with their noses in the
air. / lay perfectly still. l wanted
to see what they would do.
"A desire for knowledge, expressed in
curiosity, is the strongest trait in ami
NAL life. Finally the deer went back
to cropping the turf, and soon one of
the fawns followed her example, but
the other could not forget that he had
seen something unusual and wanted
to know what it was, what il meant
had hastily taken some loose moss
and put ii over my hair and threw
some leaves and pine needles over it.
peeked over the log and watched
them.
1.-The young fawn kept peering at me.
Straight as a plumb line his eyes looked
into mine. He went over to the deer
and nudged her nose with his, as much
as to say: Mother, what is this? Look;
we must find out She nudged back as
if replying: It's nothing, nothing;
don't bother me- Again he watched
alone, puzzled, anxious. curious. Again
he nudged the deer. She looked and
watched with him for time and then
returned 10 her browsing. But he was
not satisfied. He wanted to know and
meant to know what it was. He
nudged her again, this time very inn
patiently. They put their heads side
by side, pointing straight at me.