Fearless Animals

From the St. Louis Republic: "The most vicious and fearless of the brute creation is the peccary, or wild hog of Mexico," said C. W. Bartlett, of Lare&o, Tex., who is at the Planters'. "This animal seenis utterly devoid of the emotion oí fear. I have never eeen it turn a hair's breadth out of its path for any living thing. Man is its special bete noir. It displays an intelligencc in lighting the human strangely at variance with lts apparently complete lack of any mental attrlbutes, save the very lowest order of instinct. They are rarely found singly, but go in drovea ol from a hundred to thousanda. Their ability to scent man is particulaiiy marked. 1 have known a drove of thom to scent a man a mile off and strike as straight for Jiim as the arrow nies. There is no use to try to frighten them with guns. The cannonading of a íull battery would have no more effect on them than the popping of a firecracker. The only thing to do when they get sfter you is to run away from them afast as a norse can carry you. And then there k no certainty that Uiej won't catch you. They are nearly as swift as i horst, .".na iheir endurance is as great as the r . ii.'iuueness." "A tv'.ná of mine encountered a drove in a wild part of Mexico a few years uo, and nis escape was miraculous. He very foolisuly shot and wounded a number of them. Then he took refuge in a tree. The peccaries kept him in the tree all that day and through the night. They circled arouivl the tree, grunting r..:i jquealing their delight at the prospc. of a feast. He soon exhausted his aimunition, aml brought down a peccary at each flre. But this had no teTors for the beasts. Along toward morning the brutes began to eat the ones he had killed, and when they had thus satisfled the cravings of their stomachs they formed In line and trotted oi'. If they had not had some of their o"n number to devour they wouliJ ir-ve guarded that tree until my fried, through sheer oxhEUstion, dropped from his perch allowed them to make a meal of him The wildcats and tigers that infest the Mexican wilds fles from the peccaries with instinoave iear, and even rattlesnakes kc-óp ol. of their path."