ZOO BEAR SAVES
’ LIFE OF K PER
Man’s Kindness to Animal Is
Repaid When Trouble
Comes.
ATTACKED BY MATE
Attendant Was Cleaning Cage When
Female Grizzly Pounced Upon
Him—Male Fights Frenzied
Mate Until Help Comes.
St. Louis. Mo.—Louis Spero, forty
nine years old, 4400 Enright avenue,
bearkeeper at the zoo, Forest Park,
?wes his life to the practically human
and humane assistance of the male
grizzly bear, who intervened and saved
ftlftt; aovhen he was ferociously attack
ed by the female grizzly at the zoo.
Spero got a long, deep gash in his
right arm, a similar wound on his
right thigh, and several minor
scratches to attest that Kipling knew
of what he spoke when he wrote, “The
female of the species is more deadly
than the male.”
The female grizzly made her unex
pected attack on Spero as he was clean
ing the grizzly cage. The attendant
has been doing this work for many
years, and always considered the bears
*afe—indeed, believed that they wel
comed his presence in their cage.
Blow From Behind.
He was not paying any attention to
the bears when he was struck a ter
rible blow from behind and thrown flat.
He found the female bear standing
over hip\ growling fiercely and evi
dently in a terrible temper. There
were several sight-seers about the !
onge at the time. These ran horrified,
calling for assistance. Spero was not
knocked unconscious, and retained
presence of mind to lie still.
At this crisis the male bear inter
vened. He strode across the prostrate
body of the keeper and shouldered the
female away. His interference was
resented with fierce growls, ships and
bites, but he persisted, and by his
superior strength pushed the female
far enough away to save Spero from
her claws.
The cries of the keeper and of the
spectators brought Edward Hampden
and William Basten, woodchoppers,
who were working close by, to Spero’s
rescue. The woodmen poked the female
* His Interference Was Resented.
bear with their hooks and axes and
diverted her attention long enough to
pe**iit two bystanders to drag Spero
out of the cage.
M. C. Angermeyer, superintendent of
the zoo, said Spero was known for his
patience with and kindness to animals,
which explained the grateful interven
tion of the male grizzly in his behalf.
The grizzly, Angermeyer tays, is al
most human in his ability to think or
to reason.
Smartest of Carnivora.
Observers of animals give the grizzly
credit for being by all odds the smart
est of the carnivora. The pair at the
Forest park zoo are said to be fine
specimens of their species. The female
has been well thought of by attendants
and was regarded as amiable.
The temper of all wild animals held
in captivity is testy, Angermeyer said.
They will be perfectly safe and affec
tionate for long periods, often for
years, and will then attack a favorite
keeper without a moment’s notice. As
^>ears are hibernating, or winter sleep
ing, animals in their natural habitat,
Angermeyer said, they were subject
t% fits of ill temper during the winter
months.
Hen Saves Home.
Fulton, Mo.—The home of J. TB.
Blankenship was saved from destruc
tion by fire by a hen. Mrs. Blank
enship put the hen and its brood of
chicks in the kitchen where it was
warm. In the night there was a ter
rific squawking. Blankenship found
the kitchen in flames. The alarm was
given by biddy in time to extinguish
the blaze with only small loss.
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Annexation to United States Favored by
People of British West Indies
By B. C. FRITH, Legislative Director
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People of the British West Indies, even those of English birth, favor
for economic reasons the transfer of a portion of the islands to the United
States as liquidation of a part of Great Britain’s war debt—the sugges
tion made to parliament recently by Lord Rothermere.
It is a foregone conclusion in the minds of every man who is familiar
with the West Indian situation that they will some day become possessions
of the United States. It does not matter what England wants nor what
the natives want nor what America wants. Their position and their con
dition make its ultimate end American. It may not come in my time, but
it will come. It is inevitable.
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The residents of the Turks and Caicas islands realize the inevitable
ness of the transfer to America. They are heartily in favor of it. As
strongly as we love Great Britain—I am a born and bred Britisher_the
advantage of having a home country nearer than England is essential to
our prosperity.
The islands mentioned by Lord Rothermere include the Bermudas
the Bahamas and some of the other West Indian islands, but not Jamaica,
Barbados or Trinidad. In some of the islands excepted by .Lord Rother
mere I believe that there would be objection to the transfer. In Jamaica
I believe it would be very strong.
Perhaps Bermuda would have a less enthusiastic feeling about the
advisability of the transfer of allegiance, but I think that I voice the
feelings of the business men of my islands, and I am in a position to know,
having lived there all my life, when 1 say that they would favor the move
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