Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-08-01


New York and reads as follows:
Seven years ago the Rev. William
j. Long, the naturalist, presumed to
critisize T. Roosevelt, then president,
for certain things he said about ami
mails.
Biff, bang! There was Rooseveltian
broadside against DR.. Longs own ami
NAL stories.
The Rev. Mr.. Long was jabber-
wocked. He was branded as the origi-
nal "Nature Faker.D
Seven years is long time to wait
for revenge, but Long waited patient
~. Once more Teddy drifted into the
wild animal kingdom. Boiling the
| Chicago convention, he announced
himself as leader of third party.
81 feel like bull moose" he re-
marked. So the "bull moose party"
was born.
Then DR.. Long landed.
| Here's the Long vengence in the form
Of an article on the character and
habits Of the now famous bull moose
in the current number Of the Indepen-
| dent:
by Rev. VIM. j. Long, d. D., M. A.
Phi. d.
| The bull moose lives on the public
domain and is a very wasteful feeder.
At the present time he is one of the
luxuries of democracy, which supports
and protects him that he may minis
ter to the vanity of the few sportsmen,
mostly of the tinhorn variety, who
think it brave thing to follow hiM
and hang his grotesque head in their
!! homes.
| With such an emblem the new party
may well inscribe "Thou shalt not
steal' upon it's standard. The bull
moose never steals; he simply takes
what he wants. He has fed on public
/ property so long that he considers it
all rightfully his.
AS T. Roosevelt writes, "the bull
1 moose is never found in great herd,
but always alone or in small family
parties" In these respects he is an
excellent votem; he typifies the long
lexpected politician who shall settle
all affairs himself, or in select tennis
cabinets, taking no heed of courts or
constitutions.
At times the bull moose rampages
violently through the woods, exalting
his horn, grunting, squealing, stamp
ing the earth with his hoofs, and
|thrashing the unoffending bushes with
his antlers. Meeting him now, you
would think him champion, a Hot
spur, a very devil of an antagonist; but
he is at heart an arrant coward and
braggart, without spark of real-that
is, moral-courage. He will roar &C.
fiance at all rivals and at the universe
itself; but snap twig sharply or
bark like small dog, and all the
rampant egotism oozes out of him.
| Another notable characteristic OF
the bull moose is his inordinate self
| ishness. Whether roaming the woods
in solitude, or tearing up the earth,
or coming headlong at the call, he is
thinking first, last and all the time
of the safety of his own skin and the
lfullness of his own stomach. l rever
vet saw bull moose do anything for
anybody but himself.
| He cannot tolerate rival, but flies
into a jealous rage at the first sug-
gestion that there is any other bull
moose in the universe.
The bull moose is easily fascinated
by too bright light. Occasionally
when am studying the animals at
night with jack in the bow of nay
canoe I meet bull moose that stares
too long at the light, much as pol
itician might look too long upon glory.
| Our renowned authority is in error
when he speaks of moose "galloping'
away when alarmed. The bull moose
often BOLTS, as he has strong ten
dency in that direction, but he cannot
"gallop."
Note that the bull moose always
makes a crooked trail, wandering
about as if lost in the woods. Though
be travels a great deal, he never
makes any real progress, but always
swings around to a point not far from
where he started. You shall never
find him at the end of a straight
course.