Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-07-13

IS W EUNESDAY, JULY Is,
!; Bpfaloes and Bears in Yel-
4 lowstone Park.
IDear Advertiser:
The animals of the Park are to m,
lamcng the most interest features. T,
Stsee elk, bear or buffalo Gagged is quit,
different matter from seeing then
troaming wild and unafraid in theil
itoWn native haunts, unafraid Of {
Iguns because they have never heard
|Eone, land unaccustomed to. attacking
imam because they have no need, anc
tbecanse they are scarcely conscious
|Df their native strength and power
0ice in this same west any uses
lor sRns, of modern civilization were
EcuriGities, when the Indians in tribes
and buffalo in herds roamed plains
Ian thousands. Now the reverse is the
case and an Indian tomahawk is a
lcuriSity, arousing admiration where
0nceait aroused fear in the hearts of
the iorty-Niners. Now the National
fParkprides itself on the herd of six
bundled buffalo which it keeps on a
large ranch. Fifteen of them are
kept near the Mammoth Hotel in
Whatfs known as a corral, a fenced
of psture, for the enjoyment of the
| thousands of tourists who travel
through the Park each season. Last
year3here were thirty-fve thousand.
sTht buffalo is an ill formed crea-
ture, Beautiful in the way that some
Epeopl consider storm beautiful,
|Withs sort of grandness that borders
on th terrible. To say that the buff
falo ) mostly head, would convey
the ida that he has sense, but my i'm
pressSn is that his characteristics
are a3ombination of unused strength,
tendijg toward laziness, and slow
|stupidty. / sat in the hot sun this
|mornig unmindful of sunturn, for
afmos an hour, fascinated, watching
these animals which were too lazy to
|eyensstand. Like person suffering
|frpnl emu, the paid Eel j atten-,
s. fs;ssS uTTIsss Esdaeu.ygss
thefence and were rather Bored atts
the idea of being admired. From a
disance they looked like large, brown
boiders lying in the grass, so bulky
an immovable were they.
he ranchman who takes care of
then seemed to have rough, though
sinere affection for them, telling of
thir various merits in sort of faith
erf way, and remarking every now
an then, what very fine looking buff
fa,es he though they were. To him
thy were like another division Of
tn human race, fully as interesting
asthe people to whom ne showed |
tim.
When sufficient number of peo-
pl had gathered at the edge of the
corall, the keeper would open the
gse and ride in on his tall mountain
hose, to stir the buffaloes up and
nike them stand, so that they could
bimore easily seen. They arose with
ts alacrity that a small boy shows
ven the school bell rings in the!
frly morning and enticing visions
fishing ponds and swimming holes
tise before his eyes. The effort to
Iand up Immediately was too much,
he expense of energy all at once en-
rely too great, so they each took
1mble, raising clouds of dust, and
nally when the urgency of the COM
land had at last penetrated their
eads, they arose and stood in mass
d formation, shaggy heads all in a
DIV, as though they had taken mill '
Try tactics from some brave officers
Fort Yellowstone. They seemed to {
e actually posing for pictures, so {
ill did they stand, and many kodaks
ere busy getting pictures of the {
!onstrous, sleepy creatures. Almost
) soon as the keeper had ridden out S
nd closed the gate, they were set {
ingdown again with the solid COM
,rt of the hot sand and grass. S
The keeper remarked on how hap I
Y he would be to have nothing to do
ke the buffaloes, and my companion \
that human being with \
othing to do would become stupid
i'd useless unless he had something \
keep him mentally fit. A buffalo \