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Show LANTERNS KEEP OFF BEARS West Virginia Stock Kaisers Havo Novel Wny of Protecting Protect-ing Sheep. In tho, Williams river country of West Virginia tho bears aro greatly on the Increase, nnd tliorn Is a blue grass settlement about tho extreme head of tho river called Heaver Oam which has all but been driven out of the sheep buslnoss by bears says Ileare ntlou. This Is n hardship to small landowners whose farms He at too great an clovatlon to raise grain. On tho Illack mountain run one man clnlmcd to hnvo Identified the signs of 117 lx-nrs In ono day's hunt. That seemii a good many benrs, but I have hunted and fished so long and told about my adventures nt so many camp-fires, camp-fires, that I cannot consistently deny anything. Nevertheless, every now nnd thtn n hunter runs on to a bear nnd kills It. Premeditated killing of hears Is rnrely known, ns this wisest of tho forest animals known woll how to avoid men. A rabbit Is courageous compared to n black bear. This shows tho superior Intelligence of bruin. About 20 years ago, nn unnrmoi flih-crmnn flih-crmnn killed a bear with n large Htone nt tho lied Hole. Ha was resting at tho top of n precipitous lnnk of Mntich Chunk Rhnlo when a bear, chased by dogi, came Into the river nnd passed at the foot of tho hank. Tho man cast n large Rtone down upon It nnd stunned It so that he wns nblo to kill It. It was n two-year-old. Tho occurrence oc-currence Is well authenticated. Tho sheepklllnrs ore generally tha biggest bears of them nil. and are very wlie. They never enter a field without with-out first making a completo circuit to pee If n man has crossed tho fence. If ho hns they "withdraw." Ono sheep raiser found that hanging half a doz en lighten lanterns about bis farm caused tho bears to leavo his flock severely se-verely ntono. |