Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — BEAVERS INSPIRE RESPECT. [ARTICLE]

BEAVERS INSPIRE RESPECT.

A Professor Who Was Afraid to Kill So Knowing an Animal. "I have yet to meet the man who can walk for the first time through • bearer works, as the range of a colony of bearers is called, and not foci something of the sentiment of human association,** says a writer to Bally's sensation rosy similar to what wo feel when we come out unexpectedly into a woodland clearing after a long day spent la the unbreto en solitudes. "I once stood with a learned professor of Columbia College on the bank of a stream in eastern Canada and looked down on a freshly made bearer dam—one of the best in point of earn stroction that I had over seen. It was indeed a really stupendous affair for a bearer to hare made. Built oi alder poles and brush, weighted with mud and small stones, it was fifty feet long, six feet high and raised the level of the, wafer by about sixty inches. “Seen from the upstream side it presented the appearance of a mors or less erenly disposed array of short sticks protruding from a long mound of mud just lerel with the surface o| the restrained water; from below the brushwood supporting the dam proper was plainly risible and the Ingenuity of its placing at once apparent •There was of course none of that •pile driving* or *basket wearing* which at one time played so large a part in the picturesque descriptions by fanciful writers, biit despite its roughness It was a really remarkable piece of animat engineering. My companion inspected it for several minutes in impressed silence. ’**l should be afraid to HD such a thing that knew so much,’ ho said thoughtfully.**