The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-11
BEAR CUB NURTUREO
BY MAINE WOMAN
Fuzzy Cub Mothered with
Baby-Now in the Bos-
ton Zoo.

New York. March 11-One Of the
oldest stories that ever came out of
the north woods was told for a second
time after a lapse of many years, at
the annual dinner of the Camp Fire
club of America at the Hotel Astor.
Five years ago William Lymon Under
wood, of Boston, told the story for the
first time at a camp fire dinner. This
time he told what may be called a Sc
quel to the story. backing it up with
a series of very remarkable photo
graphs.
The story concerns woman and a
bear cub. The woman in the case is
still in the Canadian woods and the
bear is living a life of ease and lux
ury in Boston. 1t was by request that
Mr.. Underwood consented to tell the
story and show the pictures again. OF
tomar H. Van Norden. who was the
POSTMASTER. in introducing Mr.. I'm
derwood. called the story the most
wonderful THAT ever originated in the
snowy north.
Several years ago." said Mr.. I'm
derwood. Il was in little settlement
in New Brunswick, and while there 1
was told that in a lumber camp, about
twenty miles away, there was wo-
man who was nursing bear cub. The
story was SO remarkable as to be al
most unbelievable. but l decided new
ertheless to go into that lumber camp
and investigate for myself. So early
7 ,xo %1@ f~v $ho
reaching it shortly before nightfall.
1t was the typical lumber camp of the
north In one of the little log cabins
found the woman with her own three
children, all under five years; two 9TH
ers that she had adopted, and the lit
tie black cub. One of the children
was a nursing infant.
"She was the only woman in the
camp, and was the wife of the cook,
big, good natured fellow. A good
cook, you all know, is a treasure in
a lumber camp, and SO when this one
insisted on bringing his wife and little
ones into the woods with him the ow-
ners had no alternative but to grant
his request or else try to get another
cook. So they built little cabin for
our friend, and he and his family
moved in. And now comes the bear.
The lumbermen found the den a
few hundred yards distant from the
camp They yanked the mother bear
out, not knowing at the time that
there was a twelve-ounce cub within
| the cave. 1t would have made no diff
ference, however, whether they knew
| it or not; the old bear would have
been killed just the same, for the lum-
bermen needed meat and they wanted
the pelt. After the mother bear was
killed the cub was brought out. 1t
was a poor little fuzzy thing, weigh
ing not more than a pound. When the
men returned to the camp one of them
brought with him the cub and dropped
! it in the snow in front of the kitchen.
The little chap was helpless, and there
was not a drop Of milk in the camp.
Wife Rescued It.
| The cooks wife came out of her cab.
in and saw the cub there waiting for
death. 1t was such a soft, fuzzy little
thing and SO helpless that she picked
it up tenderly. She knew there was
no milk in that camp and her mother
instinct told her that if the cub was
to live the nourishment could come
from but one source. Poor little
thing she said, I am not going to let
him die. He shall share with my
baby
Here Mr.. Underwood threw on the
screen a wonderful picture. 1t was
that of kindly faced woman. In her
arms was a baby girl and tiny bear
cub. Both we're nursing. Other pic.
lures showed the cub a few weeks lat
err, then a rollicking, happy little bear
In the second picture he was eating
jam. In another picture the bear was
kissing the bay girl. Mr.. Underwood
added that it shared the crib with the
baby when the night got cold.
The cub grew rapidly and one day
he scratched the face of the bay and
the woman realized that the time was
at hand for the bear to get a new
home and so Mr.. Underwood bought
him and took him to his home near
Boston.
In the winter of that year, which
was when I told this story to you the
first time" Mr.: Underwood added
You will remember that you tool
up collection and l sent the money
to that family up there in the woods
1t will interest you to know that ad
versity had overtaken them at tina,
time, the father had injured his foo,
and was unable to work and the two
adopted children had been intruste6
to others. With the money you raised
medicine was provided for the man
warm clothes for the children, and the
adopted little one were returned t.
them"
But the man never recovered and ht
recently came to Boston and had his
leg amputated. When he recovered
Mr.. Underwood took him to the place
where the bear, now a four hundred
FOUNDER, was.
Il know him, but he don't know me,
the woodsman said to Mr.. Underwood
and then turning to his friend he ex
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