THE SUNDAY OREdOKIAK, PORTLAND, MAY 8, 1H& "DAM BEAD'S BOy HOOD PETS FAMOUS ANIMAL ARTISTS AMUSING REMINISCENCES" OF HIS EARLY MENAGERIE H i OW1 did I happen to take up the study of animals?" A reminis cent twinkle came into the eyes of lan Beard, the famous, animal artist. "How did I? Why. I didn't. It fast grew up -with me; my first recollec- 1 done are of animals and of drawing them." Jr. Beard paused for .a moment. "Tes," he continued, "nearly all that I can recall of my childhood days concerns Bsy boyish love for the animals and in sects of our neighborhood, and I knew about them before I had learned my alphabet. 'It seemed to come naturally to me to study an Insect or an animal, a great deal more so than It did to say 'A, B, C and '2x2 is V I even went so far as to call tiP7 oy names all my own, because no one, my mother included, who always en couraged mo In my boyish passion, could always tell me their correct names. "What the names were I have forgotten, except that I often called my pets after cattle or the race horses of the day. You see, I spent my boyhood in Cincinnati and in Covington, Ky., so I was In the center of the horse-racing country. Racing- Grapevine Beetle. "One of my earliest recollections is that at the age of 7 I had discovered the grub la Its various stages of development Into the beetle. When I told my parents what I had found, they laughed; they couldn't believe that beetles were the result of such evolution. But I knew, for I had hatched them. -'I had a lot of fun with my grapevine beetles. I made little carriages of paper and slivers of wood and hitched the beet ties to them and raced them for all they were worth for hours at a time. Fact is, I guess, I raced nearly every pet J owned. "And they were many. " I had crows, wild pigeons, fish of various kinds, foxes, squirrels, 'coons, bullfrogs, snakes, rob ins", catbirds, chipmunks, rabbits; owls and what not. Oh.'yes, and there was a lot of toads, with a five-legged fellow among them. "I charged five pins to view the freak in my circus, and, as a result, my family never had to look out for pin money. I Hooded them with pins as long as I pos sessed that toad. Tito Tricky Foxes. "Get In trouble rtth my menagerie? Well, I guess I did, but not with my moth er. Bhe didn't seem to care how much I stocked the house and the back yard with all ports of creeping, crawling and walk ing things. But my neighbors weren't al srays bo indulgent. I distinctly remember how they got after mo about my two foxes, Faust and Marguerite. "I kept them in a box somewhat sunken in the ground, with the earth slanting up Jrom the door. A peg was driven in the center of the box, and to this I fastened the chain which held Faust and Margue rite. Therefore, Imagine my indignation when a neighbor came to me and accused xoy foxes of stealing his missing chick ens. "Tain't to' I declared, 'they're chained'; and to back up my words Faust and Marguerite came out of the kennel as Jar as the chain would let them and then went back again. " There,' I said, triumphantly, 'can't you see they're chained?' The man went away half convinced, aad I thought no more of the -matter ntll the next day when he and another neighbor hunted me up and again accused the foxes of stealing chickens. ' "Tain't so,' I said, 'they're chained;' and Faust and Marguerite showed the gentlemen that I spoke the truth. "Well, they couldn't say anything more, so they went away, but bright and early the following day one of the men showed up again. " 'Bay,' he said, 'your foxes are steal ing my chickens.' " 4 Tain't so.' I said, 'they're chained.' "Then, as I spied Faust lying Just out side his house, I said to him: " 'Have you been stealing chickens, "Once before I had asked him that question, and he had got up and walked around and showed that he was chained. J3ut this time he didn't move; Instead. he had a sly look in his eye that made aa think. "After I had got tho man away, I went tmlctlv to Faust and shoved him to one side; and then I found out why he hadn't moved he wa s hiding a big chicken feather under him. - "If somebody had picked up that feath er and aimed it at me, he could have sent me scrawling with it. How. in the name of goodness, I asked myself, could that chained fox have got that feather? Bright and early next morning I got uo to investigate. I found the loxes in their den, and I was about to turn back to the house, when I discovered the trail of a -dragged rope or chain leading across the yard in the direction of a neighbor's chicken coop. I followed it; it led to the chlekery. I followed it back; it led to the foxhouse. "After I had -hastily obliterated the trail I went to the den, and what do you think I found besides several ,of my neigh bors missing hens "burled? In the earth? Why, those foxes had worked the chain from tho peg "and, la order to be free to rob hon roosts, they hail deliberately put bp the trick of coming out of . their house -wha I "was. around only! -.6b ,far as tho jDfcaln, When, fastened would let them. - 'T, sir; -tHat'o what- ihey did;" and C- Beard chuckled over 'the cunning of bis1 foxes. Tie Pet CrbTv'a Antic. Thea there was my pet crow," he con tlnucd. after another chuckle. "He was always up to some sort of mischief. 1 made a pond out of two old washing machines placed side by side, and in It I put ,309 or 400 red eyes, or black bass. A red eye is fiat like sun fish, and mine. when they got scared, would throw their bodies on their sides between the crevices ef the rocks in the pond. "The aquarium was. tho favorite bathing place of tho crow. Of course, whenever he smarted to take his bath the fish would get between the rocks. He would pay no at tention to them until he was through with his preening, whea ,he vould pull several fish out from their hiding places and At with them to the rabbit house where he would secrete them. B.efore I got sb te this trick, he had nearly depopulated tae pond. "He did another mean thing, did that rW. He pounced down" on a nest of new 'horn rabbits, skinned them, and delib erately put them among my father s Ehotoe&t books. In a day or so the house got In a pretty bad condition, but it ras a good deal worse before the crow's Jwork. was discovered. And then there was a lrray time all around. A Vicious Ovrl. Xy Virginia owL as fierce a specimen m I ever seen, also kept me in hot water. VLs an Illustration, he got loose by knock Jar my aunt down, and, when a man tried to eatch him, sent a talon clear through the fellow's foot. I finally chased him ttewa, and much to the surprise of the Jeekers-oa, who expected to see me vosaded, the owl did not even try to In Bfe men. I Just picked him up and held Mb as a game cock is held and that keeps ft, Mrs. from using beak or talons. Bt I cot orettv badlv bitten br urlsy buzzard, and I still carry the scar a y wrist, for a vein was completely Jewed. The bird got at me while n, man trying to sell him to me for an eagle. "Ok. yes. evervbodv for miles around. wSwa he caught anything in the bird or anwtMti une. hunted me up and tried to Mil it 4q m. But J caught, most oX mjr is ?! -i a sin OS? D AIT 'BEARD, SKETCHED 3Y HIS BROTHER. FRAWK. the boat a day or two later, ho started some, pleasantry at my expense. " "Why, gentlemen,' he said to the crowd around us. 'I dare say he has several snakes In his pockets this morning.' And with that he dived a hand Into the nearest pocket. "A second later the man gave a howl that was heard all over the boat: and then I remembered that lust before I Mt hnmn I had. put several crawfish into that pock et, one or the fish had nipped the man's hand, but it took me some time to con vince him that ho had not been bitten by an anaconda." WHAT GREELEY SAID. Go West at Aay Rate an Admirer Thinks He Shoaia Have Said. PORTIiAND, April 30. To the Editor.) I notico that Horace Greeley Is jip once more ror review and discussion, and as usual grotesque and absurd statements arc made respecting his character and work. The New York Press goes further than, that, and utters several outrageous falsehoods about him. It says ha "was ono of tho most profane men that lived." This is a gross slander. Greeley used profane language sometimes, as men of intense feelings and convictions aro gen erally inclined to do, whether they give way to the impulse or not, but that he was conspicuously or generally profane is not true, and It Is an ungracious false hood to attribute such a habit to him. The same paper says: "When he realized that he- was dying he said aloud. "Well. the devil's got you at last, you d d old This exclamation is wholly un like Greeley, and Is a dirty invention by soma conscienceless scamp. Greeley was full of kindliness and civility to all men except scoundrels, whom he scolded with out stint, but he would hardly hand him self over to the devil on his deathbed, when he did not believe in the existence of a devil at all. He was a TJnlversalist in religious faith, believing that the ills that afflict mankind can be reasonably accounted for without invqklng the theory of diabolism. He believed in practical righteousness and good works, and in veighed against dishonesty and hypocrisy in all forms. And I see, too, that William A Ldhn has written a new biography of Greeley, in which the author says Greeley took tho ground in December, 1SG0, that if the colonists had a right to rebel against Great Britain, under the "consent of the governed" clause of the Declaration of Independence, then by virtue of the same principle 5,000,000 Southerners would be justified in withdrawing from the Federal Union. I do not believe that Mr. Linn can successfully deferd. that charge by any quotations ho can mako from Mr. Greeley's writings. Greeley was too clear headed to make a blunder like that. He felt the full force of the war threat knew the terrible sacrifices and losses war would Incur with the final outcome in doubt, end he was anxious to avoid the collision. He believed the great mass of the Southern people were at heart loyal to the union, and would show that they were so. If a free public expression could be given, and if for a time they could be kept out of the hands and from under tho Influence of xancey, xoomos ana other secession leaders, who were only too anxious to sprinkle their cause with blood. Mr. Greeley, like many others, hoped that the war might bo averted through delay and the prevalence of cooler coun sels, but ho never made such' a blunder as Linn charges him with. The Revolutionists had not been con sulted, and their consent had never been given . to the government that was over them. When they worKea up into con scious being, they found themselves the subjects of a hereditary government in which they had no voice, and feeling that they were men, they rebelled .against It, in the name of manhood and of liberty. 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Tenia 3s Co., Sjdscy. PeUt tad Chemical Corporation, Solo Proprietor, Boaloa, U. fl. A consent to tho Government, of -which they tvero a part. Nay, indeed, not only a part, but a very Important and prominent part. They had been leading and promi nent In tho formation of the Government and they had far more to say In the ad ministration o the Government than any other section of tha country. And they had enjoyed a full share of all the advan tages and of all the glory of the new Government, and were morally and legally bound to help carry out all the obligations of the Government In whatever form they might appear. Every state that rebelled had sought to become a part of the Federal Union, and had consented to como in, being given full citizenship with all the rest, and had received all the rlght3 that belonged to all. Georgo "Washington and his compa triots had a right to rebel against a gov ernment they had not helped to form, and that did not consult their Interests or wishes, and In which they had no voice, but the case of the Southern States was altogether different. The people of the Revolution had not consented, but the people of the South had, and that con sent had placed them under moral and legal obligations that were In the nature of a contract. Obligations may be taken on at will, but they cannot be put off at will. A man may bo free to enter Into a contract or not, as he may choose, but the obligations of the contract, once Incurred, he cannot put them off at pleasure. The South could not go out of the Union with out the consent of all the parties to the original compact, and that were mem bers of it at the time of the attempted secession, and nobody knew this better than Greeley, or could argueylt more vig orously and lucidly than he 'could; I ven ture the assertion that Mr. Linn cannot make his contention good by any fair rendering of what Mr. Greeley has writ ten. Men think carelessly sometimes. It has even been argued that the United States had the same right to subdue the people of the Philippine Islands that it had to put down the Rebellion of 1SSL Of course j the trouble with that contention Is that 1 the cases are not alike. The Southern people, as I have shown, had been con sulted and had consented to come' into and to be a part of the territory and peo ple and Government of the United States, but none of these conditions -was true of the people of the Philippine Islands. They had never asked to como nnder the Juris diction of the United States, nor to -be connected with this Government in any way. They had never been consulted about it, nor had given consent in- any form whatever to any such relation. If our claim to these Islands can be Justified on other grounds and I do not say that it cannot be well and good. "We are there now and in possession, and let us see how it will work out; but tfiey could not bo held If we had to base our right solely on the ground that we had the same right to subdue them that we had to compel the Southern States to remain in the Union. The cases are not alike, and the logic that fits the one will not apply to tho other. LEVI W. MYERS. The colonists' ground of revolt was not "consent of the governed," but certain specific acts of mlsgovernment' which they submitted "to a candid world." This ade quate basis of revolt did not exist in tha case of the South or that cf the Philip pines. Pine phrases do not count in these matters. Cession of territory, whether Louisiana, Canada, Alaska or Luzon, does not in Itself furnish cause for revolt of the ceded territory. Inheritance. If a man dies, leaving a wife, but no will and no children, is- the widaventl tled to all the property,- both real an personal, according to tha lawa of . Ore gon? I. D L. If he leaves no children or lineal de scendants, both the real and personal I property would descend to the wife. Jl THE OLDEST AND BEST PURIFIER pets myself with my own hands, and not with traps. That sounds rather strange, but it's true, and I'll tell you how I did it. Catching: Animals "With His Haads. "One day I saw a cat creep upon a bird. I noticed that she would creep only so long aa she was not noticed approaching by her Intended prey. The second she was observed she would stand motionless, as If in an endeavor to give- the impression that she were inanimate. Then when the bird was not looking, she would creep a little closer, and again stop when the bird's attention was attracted. She kept this up until at last she was near enough to spring, when she pounced down upon her prey. " If a cat can do that, why can't I imi tate her and do the same thing?' I asked myself. "I first tried the scheme on bull frogs. I waa successful almost from the start, and I soon had the depression by the cellar door well stocked with, frogs caught by my hand swiftly shot around them. "Then I got more ambtiious, and the result was that I caught a gray squirrel and a chipmunk, and even a 'coon. "Catching that 'coon was hard work. I trailed him- into a hollow log and then I lay down on my stomach on that log with my hand poised above the hole out of which lie bad to come. I lay there, quiet as a mouse for over two hours jraitins with my; eyes nvc oft .the bole. Finaljy the 'coon ventured forth, but no r sooner bad his body got half way out j than I grabbed him and carried him home . In triumph and added him to my circus. , "I wish I had the art now, but my hand has lost its cunning. Only once in recent . yeara.bave I been able to catch an animal. I was fishing in a trout stream when I noticed a black object In among some rushes. A second look told me it was a muskrat, and that moment also the in stinct of my boyhood's cunning rose in me, and, almost before I realized it, I had dived my hand into the water and pulled out as fine a specimen of a musk rat as any one could desire to sec An Aaaceada Story. "Another achievement of my young days, of which I am still proud, was my taming of robins and cat birds. To tame a bird is hard work, and to tame either a robin or a cat bird is the hardest kind of work. But, after days of effort, I suc ceeded in getting several of them to be pets, and they would come to my call and sing for me and eat crumbs out of my hands almost as willingly as a trained, canary. "Snakes?" Mr. Beard laughed. '1 had many kinds, but one of my latter-day ex periences with them will Illustrate how I treated them In my youth. "I managed to secure a baby anaconda aey.ral yean ago and kept him for a loos. time in my studio in New York City. One day, -however, I wanted to remove him to my home in Long Island, so I stock the little fellow he was about three feet long In an overcoat pocket, put a soft glove over him and made for the ferry boat. "A short time after I was seated and engaged in reading my paper, I noticed a man by my side get up rather hurriedly and take a seat In a far corner- Pretty soon another neighbor did the same thing, and then the whole cabin stared in my di rection. 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