The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-01-31
THE BEAVER
The Beaver Coming Into its Own Protected Animal
in Uncle Sans Immense Forests
From Our Daomb animals

appropriate that Americas
choose the animal for its emblem For the beaver builder of
worker wood EARTH
No of the Massachusetts Institution of Technology does
world than the beaver in his
of them his in industry He strict vegetarian and
model will toward all Indeed if not for his action
might think him verabe fourfooed
Quaker in his non resistance o evil.
Predatory animals of the woods the beaver from the
otter; the when the
his ponds his making holes that wreck
engineering be rises his wrath and kills the muskrat he
drive him This ought allowable
Not long ago Massachusetts of Technology
celebrated fieth anniversary OF them
dignfed BELTS technical school, others
enough please undergraduate One day of joiy
Nanaket Beach, where class after class did stunts for the
admiration the throng assembled In OF these stunts
Tech figured imposing animalome thirty feet
ongwhch moved maecay beach acvaed by concealed
manpower.
has been of commercial value mankind
country settled One Of the first shipments which
pilgrims back England beaver
The little animals dwelt icy of their lives and
their under fur snguy soft firm and mpervous cold The
of this has made civilized the beavers
and has resulted almost in it's extinction.
The beaver throughout the United
with of the lower Florida and arid
Southwest Now he who would alive
the inaccessible
both fortunate and persistent.
shudde think the cruelty these
gentle ovabe the
in than offset by mankind
other For the beaver the
the of that existed Never small
through level meadow had built
thus along like
pearls These held
the all small of inemabe
stopping feshe and aaying droughs One study small
the today without finding the ndsputabe
of this work. the full Of beaver DAMS
brooks ponds To kill such animal for his fur
@ a crime against conservation.
Man beginning this least and
in States the beaver protected ANIMAL
only survivors dwell streams where the law known
skins still be sold markets.
this the
for most of he extinct animal We the long
mounds where his dams and the meadows which
his pond bottoms all and flower heckd to-day
But the gentle shy industrious animal gone
woodland probably That
fine is told well by Enos A. Mills in his interesting book In
Beaver World"
"One autumn following Clark trail with
packhorse Montana made evening with
apper who gave young He DID,
bark naturally though long
them named him DIVER and short he chummy
puppy. OF evening he played camp
often in the bywaers At times be played
building frequently displayed telling
wonderful that about the of lead pencil
failed promptly when whisted for him. night
camp usually packing himself edge
the which spread bedding Atop pack
evidently enjoyed He
hurry be taken off, and
always waiting eagerly be lifted
the pack he quite for
him. he extending his hands rapid beggng
and with whining Of pleaded
his on the pack.
He had bad fright evening. before
shutdown had alongside
the and after a 80
dives plain view only fifty
feet watched him he busiy Oregon
and then stopped eisuy Them thus
coyote made dash him bowlde Diver
lodged and the coyote Giving frightened
child, rolled the Presently he
scrambled out of the near me and FASTENED to unde
tail behind the log on which Isat.
The beaver pond a quarter of mile up stream
yet elapsed the time of Divers cr
when appeared cautiously in the
before later another in
ALI cced about swimming cautiously with heads
water coyote had attacked
Diver, and waddled
ashore the where Annarenv