New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
HN HERE is race-old desire to kill bear.
4 Persons who are neo-Brahmins will
Va kill or dream Of killing bear. The

Ia Kill or dream of killing bear. The
reason is psychological, From the be-
ginning bear has typfiicd ferocity, and The
ard as deadly enemies of man. You remember
the children who called out to Elisha go to,
thou bald head; so to. thou bald headl' "Two
she bears came forth out Of the wood and tare
5orty-two Of them" (Second Kings, ii, 24.l
When Saul pooh-poohed David as the Phi-
stnes were pushing Goliath out to battle,
David replied that lion and bear took d
.aplh cut of his flock and he pursued them
took them by their shaggy coats. smote them
anl delivered the lamb out of their mouths
hat was Just to show Saul he had nerve and
was some lightweight scrapper. (First Samuel
Wi, S4.) Uushai told Absalom as an example
a fercescss "T'hey chafe in their minds as
lear robbed of her cubs" (Second Samuel
Nyii. s.
Let bear robbed of her whelps meet
nan" is warning in Proverbs xvii, II. Also
Proverbs xviii Is, classes a bear with lion
Snd q leopard. The Lamentations of jeremiah
T. 10; Isaiah, lix, Ii: Daniel vii, 5; Hosea
", s, and Amos, ), 10, all use the bear as
an example of something TO strike terror
human beings. SO you see there is basis
running through the centuries for the state
OF mind bear produces in man. Out of this
has come bette moi5-hlack beast or bugbear---
which has been incorporated into every lam
Ndage.
Ny earliest remembrance has to do with
hcar. One mornbg some one ran into our
ilttlc log house on d backwoods homestead in
Indiana and shouted that bear was crossing
cllr deaaeniGg. Out he ran with a homemade
r.hc that was supposed to shoot an ounce
d dead IL one bullet, leaving us children shiv-
G. ing WIN fear mother FASTENED to Join in
the bear chase. She grabbed an AK as she
passed the woodpile Maybe that is why |
tnnN of an AK even before gun when bear
IS suddenly reported
y few days ago when saw bear swim
ming in st. Marys River / did not think
of gun at all as | went after The animal
Nor would it have done any good for I do
not Keep 4 gun in tame camp in closed
season. The press report, rewritten on the
sausage and hash desk, stated that | choked
the bcae to death. A man cannot do that, even
70 Il swimming bear 1t might have seemed
70 oDlockers that I choked the bear because
grabbed him by the head and, pushing him
under the water, drowned him. Twice now 7
have used grabbed" instead of grasped, be-
C4Ise one does not grasp things in q bear
hght ne grabs them. To come to close quar-
'cls with Il swimming bear is fine business,
aHd seme pretty good men have been thrown
into the water and drowned in such a game
hat IS Why MY Indian, who is good man
and Well disciplined after twenty five years
IN my service, refused to get into the boat
with me although there is much less risk for
two than one, as then there is one to manage
the beat and one to fight. 1t is quite easy to
c'y. The throat of Il swimming deer, but a bear
tasashe@ around so actively and ilrcsponsibly
With his paws and long claws that it is neither
easy to drown him nor cut his jugular.
have killed BY shooting and trapping more
tnan half 4 hundred bears, and have shot
lens and Ieopards and elephants and cape buf-
ialo and tigers, and ! have come nearer to
being ldlled by a bear, at least twice, than bv
any ether animal. Bears arc just like human
beings. it seems when it comes to courage I
na'e seen bear run from Il swarm of bees
and cry like a baby when they stung him
Other bears stealing honey pay no attention
20 al The bees that can get on them. Caught
in trap some bears Will give up at once
aud othcrs will fight to the last
he frst bears killed gave me one of the
NEST memorable experiences OF my life Ac-
ti-l, plenty of action, and youth that is inn
pfessionable are the things that dwell in
memory | was twenty-three wears cid and
iWcd in the back-of-beyond woods of Wis
con%n OAc day my neighbor. Bill Noyes,
ca'ne in ard said his mother-in-law was COM
irg and his wife said they were out of meat,
meaning venison. Bill was as fine hunting
partacr rs the woods held in any day and it
W1s great compliment for him to invite
anybody to 90 hunting with him. There were
many better hunters than / in those days, and
! was tickled TO death to have him pick me.
He said we would start that afternoon in
time to so into camp at beaver dam on lie
Page Greek and get mess Of trout for sup
per. We went by woods road as far as we
could, and then put our packs On our packs
and got TO the spot in good time Rolling
country, sand dunes covered with Norway
pine, lmpd waters full of trout, beaver eet
ting things ready for winter and kingly
carmine pine, grosbeaks on poised wing
Lovely! While gathered wire grass to make
4 bed Bill got the trout. No tent. Just the
hig blue and the starsFand pack sheet over
us. and we slept like the animals We were.
Next morning more trout and while we were
y