Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 16, 1920, Page 7

BEARS IN COMBAT Savage Fight Put Up Between Two Caged Brutes.- Murvelous Strength Exhibited by Mad- -dened Brown Bear Almost Beyond Belief, According to Witness of the Struggle. “@nce we saw Ivan fight with a bear of his own size (at that time),” writes Dr. Williom T. Hornaday in dn article on “The Alaskan Brown Bear,” pub- llnhed in Boys' Life. -“It was a fear- some sight. It came about through a -lxup of cagemates. I cannot recall . why a change was made, but at al ‘events the fermalé cagémate of Admiral -lnothor big Alaskan. brown bear pldlng in the adjoining cage—was monrlly shifted from him into Ivan's den, “«Admiral felt that that was not a square deal and it made him furious. At -once he set to work to tear his way through the steel partition and get inte Ivan's cage. I reached the scene while he was in the very act of .finishing the job. . “The partition was made of flat steel bars, woven closely together: in _ & basket pattern, and set into heayy steel frames that were bolted into place. The ends of the flat bars were fastened by bending them over while hot; and everybody was quite sure that those panels were strong enough to hoid elephants. “Admirsl went. to work with his great strength and his enormous claws to pull one of those woven bar panels out of its frame, and thus make a hole in the partition that would let him through. It seems impossible, at he -did it! He -dld what a.steam roller could not have done. I saw him finish tearing' that steel basket out of its frame, smash it down and rush over it through the opening and into the pext den, “And then 1n an instant Admiral and Ivan were in combat. “A%t that time those two bears were of the same size and weight, and even- 1y matched. They iought strictly head to head and mouth to mouth. Not once did either of the fighters swerve by a foot and expose his body to at- tack. - Round and round they raged and the female grizzly shrank off in a corner, terrified. Presently the two fighters reared on their hind legs, each holding the other by a cheek, and in sileénce they waltzed and chewed. “And then the keépers had their . chance. Carrying their arms full of hickory pick handles, each one welgh- _ ing about five pounds, they slipped in at the front gate and took positions, They yeMed at those bears as If they meant-to teer thém to pieces, and.they ‘glammed those pick handles-into-them untll they won. The hickory hurri- . cane was too much to endure and the bears let go and fell apart. Then all attentlon—and pick handleés—was con- eentrnted on Admiral, who soon re- tired through the hole he had made fnto his own den, and the fight was ever.” Marinés Get Practice. * . Ten,, million rounds of ammunition were fired by United States marines “"on rifle ranges in the last 11 months, according to the report of the inspec- tor of rifie practice, given out at marine Zcorps headquarters in Washington. ‘This is the answer to the ques- tion: Why are marines always crack shots? which has been asked over and over again by their opponents at re- _cent military rifle matches, when they “saw the “sea soldiers” walk away with most of the trophies. Nineteen thousand of the 21,000 men who fired qualified as marksmen or bet- ter. In 1919 marines fired on ranges in ten foreign countries and posses- sions, as follows: Ireland, Siberia, Ohina, France, Germany, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Haiti, the Azores and Nieca- _ragua, and in 19 states, territories and . possessions of our own country. ‘Army Physique. A careful study revealed a gain dur- _ing three and one-half months at the camps, among national army recruits of 6.4 pounds aplece—almost entirely in muscular tissue; and 23 per cent increase in chest expansion. A similar investigation in the navy showed al- most the sameé average Increase, indi- vidual gains running up. to 33 pounds {ndividual benefieial losses reaching 23 pounds — and the aver age very Inadequately recording “the enormous benefit the . . . “life . . . has done these men phys- . eally” In fact, the driven chief of the medical department, hampered by the lack of statistical clerks (who cost $1,600 to $1,800 a yearl) remarked forcefully that the improvement in physique was so evident that details . are as needless “as to demonstrate mathematically that peas grow in a pod.” i Time’s Great Changes. When Queen Elizabeth was present {n the hall at Middle temple, in Lon- don, on the occasion of the first per- formance of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” it would bave been a rash man who would have dared to predict what would be the next occasion on which women would be permitted in the hall in an official capacity. Such a one would, in fact, have had to look forward mere than.300 years, for if historical records are to be depended upon, the ldtter occasion was when the four women, who have recently ‘been admitted as students to the temple, formally “dined in the hall” with the benchers. e diificulties. it WHOS WHO nthe\WORLD Hugh C. Wallace, ambassador to France, is mnch in the public eye these days, innsmuch as he now represents the United States in connection with- the activities of the supreme council of the allies at Paris. For instance, it was he who informed the council that the United States government has refused to accept any of the indemuity to be pald by Germany for the de- struction of the Germun fleet In Scapa Flow. ‘Germany, in compenlutlon for the Scapa Flow sinkings, is requested to deliver to the allles certain inland steamers, floating docks and tugs, and the council had” awarded: 2" per cent of this material to the United States. State department officinls have not explained the American govern- ment’s objection, but it was recalled that American peace representatives favored destructlon of the German ships on the ground that their division WALLACE ANSWERS FOR UNCLE SAM among the other powers would make it necessary for this country to greatly enlarge its naval building prograin. T A N e L L S e T MADE OUTLET FOR SEEPAGE Engineering Skill Does Away With Overflow That Threatened Loss to Farmers. The waters of the Snake river in gouthern Idaho have for years been impounded for irrigation purposes near T'win Falls. ago a fruit grower with trees in Rock Creek canon, at.a lower level and several miles to the south, remarked that he had found it unnecessary to water his lands. The next year the canon bottom became so swampy that his orchard was ruined. Other farms began to suffer and the com- munity grew alarmed. Investigation then showed that water was seeping copiously through the north wall of the canon. Neveral preventives were tried, but all failed. At last, how- ever, the experts engaged for this vital work evolved a solution of the They dug wells every- where. In these pits the scepage wa- ter accumulates,‘overflowing into contiguous ditches, which lead it harmlesly out of the canon.—Popu- lar Mechanics Magazine. CALL INSANITY FIXED ERROR How Physicians Determine Absence of Normal Mentality Revealed as a. Simple Matter. The sole difference between a sane and an'insane man is that the former retalns the power of adapting himselt to his cllcumstlnces, whlle the latter has lost it. This is the definition of an English authority who says that as long as a man is able to alter his actions to sult any change in himself or his en- vironment, so long is he mentally nor- mal. A man can effect such -altera- tlon either by changing his circum- stances, or by changing his own actlons. The madman. fails to make the proper adjustments and he does not recognize such failure as an error, but persists in it. Thusg insanity might be defined as permanent error. Here lles the boundary between mistake and madness: If a man's circumstances change in such & manner as to affect his wel- fare, this writer goes on to explaim, he will, as long as he is sane, alter his action so as to adapt himself to the change. If the weather becomes cold, he will light a fire, or put on more clothing, or both; and vice versa if the. weather turns hot. If his income increases or diminishes, he will increasé or dimin- ish- his expenditures accordingly. Tf a new law that affects him is passed, he will alter his conduct so as to con- form to it. As his children arrive at an educable age, he will take mensures for their education. Normal action is such as to, adjust the relation between the self and the circumstances, either by altering the “eircumstances, as when we put on more clothes in cold weather; or by altering ourselves, as when we learn a new language on going to & new country; or by altering our action, as when we stop at home and go to bed fnstead of going to business when we find ourselves suffering from" fever. Malarla and Gulnlne. Many cases of “malaria” are relny quinine poisoning. The amount of qui- nine admlnlswred is often large, and the lll'l er doses are continged for In ‘consequence, a ¢ondition fs induced, which, as its cause con‘!inues, also persists, Such is the conclusion of Drs. J. Cowan and R. H. Strong of London. All drugs, they say, are of little value if attention is not puid to rest.and, next, to pro- tection from the sun and ehill. Subscribe for The Ploneer. Several seasons | Qualified. A northern vicar, having advertised for an organist, received the following reply: “Dear Sir—I noticed you have a vacancy for an organist and muslce teacher, elther lady or gen'lemnn Aav- Ing been both for several y:a to offer you my eervieen."-—l‘earsnn’s Weekly. ! Hungary. : 1 beg |, MIXTURE: OF MANY NATIONS On Street of New York Almost Every Type of the Human Race May' Be Met, Walk - through Grand ‘street from Third avenue to Clinton street, which is not & long distance, and you have the types of the whole world béfore you. They are not in concentrated form; they are diluted. But if you analyze, even hurrledly, you will soon be able to know the components of each one of them, according to “Dust of New York,” by Kounrad Bercovicl. A remote Tartar ancestor of one of the pushcart peddlers Is plainly séen fn the small, sunken black eyes. In another the straight !ine of the back of the head tells you that his mother or his grandmother had lived once In In another one the Slav type, the flat, fleshy nose is mixed with the Wallachian strong chin. Teuton blood calls out through the heavy cast of an otherwise typical-Austrian Jew. A Spanish geandee, a3 if come out of a page of Cervantes, is selling shoe laces and cutt buttons. And a Moroc* can prince, i1l at ease 1n his European garb, 1s offering to the passer-by some new-Burbankian fig-plum-orange com- bination. The vendors call out thelr wares in what seems at first a tongue all their own. But a tralned ear soon discov- ers that it 1s English, or, rather, that English is the essential component of the chemistry of their language; the rest being words of their own creatlion, or scraps from a dozen other languages which stuck to the people of woe in their 2,000 years’ peregrination froln land to land. THE REAL LACK. “There appear to be a great many X’s among the European sover eigns.” “More ¢ 'v’.'l » Subscribe ,’ spparently, than for The Dally Ploneér’ cents an inch. | | | cents an inch. Stands for a Fair and Equal Taxation to All Election February 17, 1920 ‘J .P. LAHR . Candidate for Assessor . EF February 17th, 1920 For Impartial and Fair Valuation of all Property. The amount of property you own will regulate the amount of taxes you will pay. E‘ndorfsed by the Labor League - POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT—Inserted by W. C. Klein in his own b ~ VOTE FOR WM. C. 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