Hypnotized The Bears

J. E. Newsome is a Port Arthur Canadian and Ales Anderson comes frora Pearl River. An Englishnian named Atwell wanted to get a bear, and An derson tried to gratify his desire. Newsome told Forest and Stream about it. Atwell was the kind of man who wonld like to kill a bear in a trap, so Anderson took two bear traps and a lot of bait up a gully near Ouimet, looking for a sign. The Englishman went looking for bears and left Anderson to set the traps. All of a sudden a big she bear appeared before Anderson at the foot of a tree between a couple of whose roots one trap was to have been set. Not having any gun, Anderson, so Newsome says, determined that hypnotic force had to be used, and that suddenly. An derson looked the bear in the eyes, and the bear paused ; then Anderson made three passes with his hands. The bear leaned its head forward and its eye bulged out. Having satisfled himsel: that the bear was proper ly influenced Anderson yelled for Atwell, but Atwel was a good way off, and before he coulc arrive 'the she bear's 2-year-old and yearling cub came out of the tree at th same time. A yearling cub alone would be a pretty bad fighter at close quarters especially with a hypnotized mothe bear near by liable to come to at any moment, but a 2-year-old cub and a yearling both at once made a mighty serious matter. But Anderson was fnlly equal to th emergency. He managed to look at th bears' four eyes at once 'and soon hac them subjugated. Newsome says tha he would not have believed Anderson' tale only Anderson is now cross eyed which he wasn't before, owing to hi looking both bears in the eyes at once.