The Washington herald., 1915-03-28
Edited by MARY MARSHALL

| OD from MS lONS "iHtcE SiCcp. Auo "Ao
hungry. or he would not have been SO
bold. 1t is probable that in proving
shout in search OF food he had come
to the mill and had smeit the oil in the
engine room. and. finding the door a
crack had pushed it open wider and
stepped in. when he saw the lights
! and the engine. he had tried to back
out. but had run against the door. caus-
Ing it to slam and the spring lock to
| catch.
Failing in his attempt to get out Of
this dangerous trap. tho bear turned
around In great wrath. determined to
take summary vengeance on the aHt
| thing he could get at Unfortunately
the first object that caught his eye was
the engineer covering against the wall
and he started for that individual with
out delay. AS he lunged across the floor
| he gave a tremendous growL and lifted
his lips like a spiteful dog. showing
| terribly long and sharp teeth.
| Tho engineer lost no time in getting
away from there. and ran around the
| cylinder end of the engine like col
! lcse sprinter while the bear demolished
the chair with one stroke OF his paw and
tore the paper into shrcds. After con-
scientiously completing this destruction.
! tho grizzly looked around for more
worlds to conquer. and. seeing the en-
ginecr thought he would do. and start
ed fof him again. As the bear rushed
! around the cylinder. the engineer ran
toward the fy-wheel. and as the bear
raced down that side OF the engine. the
, man jumped the belt and started up the
other side. The bear paused only an
instant when he came to the flying belt.
then over he went. and chased the man
on around the cylinder end.
Round and round the engine they ran
jumping the belt. slipping and sliding
on the slick. oily floor. but getting fast
er and faster all the time. There was
nothing In the room that would do for
a weapon, and Russell could form no
plan of escape. his greatest desire at
the moment bcinS to keep the engine
between him and the grizzly. Even this
became impossible, as the bear gained
on him. and the distance between them
gradually lessened till they were run
ming only a few feet apart.
The engineer shouted again and again.
but he had very little hope of any ones
hearing him because of the great noise
made by the machinery; and even if
they did hear they could not get in to
hrl, !, II, 10 ln.k
he could not spare time to fool with
that lock just then. 1t was simply mad
deninS to him to think that there were
twenty men in the mill only few feet
away, all ready and willing to help him
IL he could only let them know OF his
plight. and yet to have that relentless
brute chasing him around like a rat in
a trap.
\ few minutes Of this wild running
exhausted the engineer and he would
have stopped and let the grizzly do his
worst had II not been for the dreadful,
blood-cTrdlng noise made by tile ami
mails claws as he scuttlcd over the slip
perry floor. The bear hinged and plunged
along lik" a great awkward calf. growl-
jng prodigiously the while, but he made
astonishing speed for such an unwieldly-
looking beast. and was fast overhauling
the man in spite of his utmost efforts.
Once. as the exhausted engineer
lcaped over the belt, he thought that to
drop on il and be crushed by the fly
wheel would be an easier death than to
he torn to pieces by the bear and he
almost decided to end the dreadful chase
the next time he came around. But
when he saw the belt running so swiftly
TO certain death his heart failed him. and
he waited TIL next time. Not so the
bear. Almost "a the mans feet touched
the floor after the leap he heard an aw-
full roar. and the next instant badly
mashed bear struck the ceiling and
dropped like a shot.
That timely event is easily explained.
As the man and bear ran around. GEN.
trifugal force caused them to swing out
farther and farther from their center
of motion. the engine; and the bear.
being heavier than the man. flew farther
out till ne came to a place on the slant
ing belt where IL was too high for him
to jump. Then he put his forepaws on
il. intending to climb over. and that
was the last OF him. The belt. running
ut that high speed. jerked him In like
a feather. and ran him through between
it and the fy-whcel. When the fy-whccl
got done with him. it threw him Off at
tho ton as dead as a herring and not
much thicker than one.
Tho engineer. however firmly believed
that the spirit Of his little daughter in
fucrced the engine to save his life BY
killing the bear. So the next week he
sent to Chicago and had the silver fiate
made and put it on old Alice" and he
declares that she Is quite proud OF IL.