Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — A BEAR WILL ATTACK A MAN. [ARTICLE]

A BEAR WILL ATTACK A MAN.

Anybody Who Say*. He Won't Is a Nai ure Faker. Says \\ oodehopper Farley. Harold 'Farley of Bingham is willing-. to take oath 'on a stack es Biff s v thiffe the hjfan whp says beats will not attack human beings are-j nature fakers' of the worst sort. Harr. ' Id was attacked; by a hear one night I . nd had to burn hi- shirt and near- i l.v •v. rything else he had on at the! line to save himself from the efit-1 : quick lunch counter. i As the hero of this astounding ' yam tells it, he was on his way to Preble & Robinson’s logging camp No. 1 in the Dead water region, eight miles above Bingham, where he is employed as a chopper. He had been home tor a change of underwear and hail started at dusk for the eight-mile tramp through the woods to camp, carrying a lantern to cheer and light his way. When within half a mile of camp Farley stumbled into a birch top that had fallen across his patch, and as he stumbled in an immense bear stumbled out—a sort, of superdreadnought bear——which gave a growl and one swipe, scaring Farley and putting his lantern out. Two niorc. "woof, woof remarks from the hear and Farley lit out for the nearest tree, up which he went with speed and aaility that astonished both hintself and the bear. Now comes the brand-new w aiid I red-hot part of the story—good for! moving pictures. Farley had climb-j ed high, but the bear seemed bound to get him. and There wasn’t even Drue for prayers. There was time, however, for Farley’s wits, sharpened by peril, to get busy, and he thought of ail old hunter’s remark bears can’t stand the smell of burning cloth. So he took one of the several clean handkerchiefs he had b: ought from home, touched a match to it and let it drop on the hear s nose. That helped some. Tim bear growled deeper than ever and paused 10 seconds in hi s climb. Thus went Farley’s stock of handkerchiefs, but the bits of flame served merely to postpone the dread moment when a bear worth not m-"-ban *:io would he lunching on a woodsman who could earn that much in a month, besides hoard. Farley decided to sacrifice his shirt—his outer shirt. That was more effective. it stayed the bear’s advance, fully one minute. Then a red flannel undershirt. About equal results. Next - —but at this moment the ! camp crew, who had observed the flickers of (lame in the treetop and i heard Farley’s yells for help, came : along with poles and axes and chased i the bear a wav. ■ : * % 1 hat s a true story every gosh darned word of it.” says Farley, i and them as don't take no stock into it can g 0 out there and see i what s left o’ them shirts—jest the . buttons, b'gosh.”—Bangor (Maine) ! Cor. X. Y. Herald.