Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-19

His slides incluOeO happenings IA 'ii@
! life of the little bear from the time
he was found by the woodsmen until.
after his adoption by Mr.. Underwood
himself, the bear reached weight OF
around 500 pounds, and many OF the
incidents in the life of the little ami
NAL were ludicrous and amusing in the
extreme.
And the oldest feature Of this odd
tale was the outcome, in which the no.
BILE woman was repaid for her unusual
kindness to a dumb animal. 1t seems
that her husband was injured and rem
dered incapable of work by the remov-
al of one leg at the knee. and she was
left with her five small children to
support Mr.. Underwood got her per-
mission to give this lecture and has
since taken in considerable amounts of
money from sympathetic audiences.
with which he has been able to aid the
poor woman very considerably.
During the course Of his lecture he
shows scenes in the daily life of the
lumber-ja on the drive. in camp, In
the woods. and at play. He also shows
very remarkable series of animal pic
lures which were taken by fiashlight
hunting at night, pictures of bull moose
and deer, and daylight pictures of a
group of owls that proved very anus
ing to the large number of school chill
dren who attended the lecture. 1t was
a most unusual and very instructive
lesson in nature lore. and will not soon
be forgotten by any of those who wit
messed 1t.
The Banquet
The grand finale of the annual meeting
of the band of true sporIsmen and good
fellows who. constitute the Maine sports
mems Association came at O'CLOCK
when nearly hundred of the members
gathered at the Augusta House to en-
Joy a fine banquet which had been ar
ranged by the genial host. Wlipur l.
Emerson, who is also an active memper
of the association Following a delight
~, sumner. the smoke from dozens OF
fine cigars waited above the heads OF the
assembly. and the buzz and hum OF con-
yersation was interrupted by the Dang
of an improvised gavel in the shape Oh
tumbler. as former President Hodgdon'
acting as presiding officer, called the
waiting 70 order with a few well chosen
words.
In opening he thanked the lecturer OF
the afternoon, Mr.. Underwood. for one
of the sweetest animal stories that 1t
has been nv good fortune to hear" He
then emphasized the Importance OF the
two laws which were suggested In re-
gard to hunting and fishing licenses our
ing the afternoon, and introduced ). fut-
nam Stevens, who told two very hunioF-
Gus stories and closed with a sugges-
ton that the meeting would De giad 10
hear whatever John NJ Glidden' the loA-
hunting sportsman from Lincoln county
h,d To saw in defence of his favoritc
snort Mr. Glidden said that he hau
hoard so much of the eloquence which
eows around the Capitol City that ne
could hardly realize that ne was ao'-
ually about to speak there, ana SAID ina.
his predicament reminded him Oh story
told about Lew Dockstader. Irlehu VI
LEWIS asked him how he would reel IL he
shor1d wake up and find a roll of $500 in
his pants pocket some morning ana Lew
replied that he should feel as II ne nao
somebody else's pants on
Mr.. Glidden then spoke briefly in de-
fense of fox hunting in the usual man
ner and said that trapping or poison
;np of these animals is not a sporting
nroposition and should not be INDUCED
in unless absolutely needed.
He added that he believes it TIE duty
of every true sportsman to do all IN MS
r>a,,.or n assist the wardens to enforce
the laws.
Mr.. Free of Lewiston was the next
speaker. and he said that ne thouSh'
no could illustrate the reason for the
success of the retiring president, MI
Hodpdon. which he did as foilo"s:
"There was once little boy who FOUND
n little red worm, with when ne
caught a smelt With the smelt he
caueht a mackerel, and with the mack
crel he caught Goldfish, with the cod
fish he caught a shark, and with the
shark he in turn caught whale. He
emf omen the whale and took out the
shark. cut open the shark and removed
the Goldfish, cut open the goldfish ana
xtracted the mackerel, amputated the
mackerel and recovered the smet'
opened the smelt and found the little
red worm, with which he commenced
again and caught whole mock OF
whales? Not the Goldfish, nor the mack
erel nor the shark. nor even the boy
with his wide knowledge of fishing,
not even the little red worm. But l
can tell you what it was. 1t was the
wiggle that was in the little red worm
that did the trick. And, gentlemen. 1t
was the wiggle in our retiring presl-
dent that made it possible for him to
land the whales in the way of MEM
bership for the association and the
improvements that he has achieved
Applause greeted his remarks. and the
next. speaker was Doctor Phillips of
Bar Harbor. who spoke briefly on the
difference between a sportsman and
sporting man. He said that this dehni-
ton is 1.-The difference between a gen.
tleman and man who is not like
him" and went on to state that the
finest work that the association can
possibly do is to make sportsmen out
of the men of Maine.
Commissioner Harry Austin was the
next speaker and he told the wittiest
story of the evening. and then gave
the meeting some solid truths to think
over. among other things speaking of
the demands for fish which are being