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Herd of Elk in Rock)^, Mountain Foothills.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Hociety, Washington. D. C.)
HE days of wild animals in any
region are numbered whenever
man takes possession of it. This
is shown most plainly by the his
lory of wild creatures in North Amer¬
ica. At the time of its discovery and
occupation by Europeans, this conti¬
nent ami the bordering seas teemed
with an almost incredible profusion of
large mammalian life. The hordes of
game animals which roamed the pri¬
meval forests and plains of this con¬
tinent were the marvel of early ex¬
plorers and have been equaled in his¬
toric limes only in Africa.
Even beyond the limit of trees, on
the desolate Arctic barrens, vast herds
containing hundreds of thousands of
caribou, drifted from one feeding
ground to another, sharing their range
with numberless smaller companies of
musk-oxen. Southward from the Arc¬
tic barrens, in the neighboring for¬
ests of spruce, tamarack, birches, and
aspens, were multitudes of woodland
caribou and moose. Still farther
south, in the superb forests of eastern
North America, and ranging thence
over the limitless open plains of the
West, were untold millions of buffalo,
elk, and white-tailed deer, with the
prong-horned antelope replacing the
white-tails on the western plains.
With this profusion of large game,
which afforded a superabundance of
feed, there was a corresponding abun¬
dance of large carnivores, as wolves,
coyotes, black and grizzly hears, moun¬
tain lions, and lynxes. Black bears
were everywhere except in tHe open
plains, and numerous species of
grizzlies occupied all the mountainous
western part of the continent.
Fur-bearers, including beavers,
muskrats, land-otters, sea-otters, fish¬
ers, martens, minks, foxes, and others,
were so plentiful in the New world
that Immediately after the coloniza¬
tion of the United States and Canada
a large part of (lie world's supply of
furs was obtained here.
The wealth of mammal life in the
seas along the shore of North America
almost equaled that on the land. On
the east coast there were many mil¬
lions of harp and hooded seals and
walruses, while the Greenland right
and oilier whales were extremely abun¬
dant. On Hie west coast were millions
of fur seals, sea-lions, sea-elephants,
and walruses, with an equal abun¬
dance of whales and hundreds of thou¬
sands of soa-otters.
W/ien Game Was Abundant.
Many of the chroniclers dealing with
explorations and life on ttie frontier
during the earl# period of the occupa¬
tion of America gave interesting de¬
tails concerning the game animals.
Ailouez says that in 1680, between
hake Erie and I.ake Michigan the
prairies were tilled with an incredible
number of bears, wapiti, white-tailed
deer, and turkeys, on which the
wolves made fierce war. He adds that
on a number of occasions t>ds game
was so little wild that it was neces
sary to fire shots to protect the party
from it. F’errot states that during the
winter of 1670-1671, 2.4(H) moose were
snared on the Great Manitouiin island
at the head of Bake Huron. Other
travelers, even down to ttie last cen¬
tury. give similar accounts of the
abundance of game.
The original buffalo herds have been
estimated to have contained from 30.
000.000 to 60,0(H),000 animals, and in
1S70 it was estimated that about 5.-
600.0(H) still survived. A number of
men now living were privileged to see
some of (lie great nerds of the West
before they were finally destroyed.
It is probable that antelope were
1 even more abundant on the plains
| than were buffalo. The latter, beli^g
! | large and black, were to he seen at
great distances, whereas tlip smaller
j “camouflaged” animals might be
| passed by unnoticed.
The wealth of animal life found by
our forebears was one of the great
natural resources of the New world.
I Although freely drawn upon from the
first, the stock was little depleted up
to within a century. During the last
! one hundred years, however, the rapid
! !y increasing occupation of the conti
i nent and other causes, together with
| a steadily increasing commercial de
mand for animal products, have had
j j an appalling effect. The buffalo, elk
and antelope aie reduced to a pitiful [
| fraction of their former countless
| numbers.
Practically all other targe game has
i alarmingly decreased, and its exter¬
mination has been partly stayed only
by the recent enforcement of protec¬
tive laws. It Is quite true ttiat the
presence of wild buffalo, for instance,
in any region occupied for farming
and stock-raising purposes is incom¬
patible for such use. Thus the exter¬
mination of tlie bison as a denizen of
our western plains was inevitable. The
destruction, however, of these noble
game animals by millions for their
hides only furnishes a notable ex¬
ample of the wanton usefulness which
has heretofore largely characterized
the handling of our wild life.
A like disregard for the future has
been shown in the pursuit of the sea
mammals. The whaling and sealing
industries arc very ancient, extend¬
ing hack for a thousand years or
more; but Hie greatest and most ruth¬
less destruction of the whales and
seals has come within the last cen¬
tury, especially through tHe use of
steamships nnd bomb-guns. Without
adequate International protection,
there is grave danger that the most
valuable of these sea mammals will
lie exterminated. The fur seal and
the sea-elephant once so abundant on
the coast of southern California, are
nearly or quite gone, and the sea
otter of Hie north Pacific is danger¬
ously near extinction.
In Prehistoric Times.
The fossil beds of the Great Plains
and other parts of tHe West contain
eloquent proofs of the richness nnd
variety of mammal life on this con¬
tinent at different periods in the past.
Perhaps Hie most wonderful of all
these ancient faunas was that re¬
vealed by the hones of birds and
mammals which had been trapped in
the asphalt pits discovered not many
years ago In Hie outskirts of Los An¬
geles, Calif. These bones show that
prior to the arrival of the present
fauna the plains of southern Cali¬
fornia swarmed with an astonishing
wealth of strange birds and beasts.
Tlie most notable of these are saber
toothed tigers; lions much larger than
those of Africa; giant wolves; sev¬
eral kinds of bears, including tlie huge
cave bears, even larger than tHe gi¬
gantic brown bears of Alaska; large
wild horses; camels, bison (unlike
our buffalo) ; tiny antelope, tlie size
of a fox; mastodons, mammoths with
tusks 15 feet long; giant ground
sloths; in addition to many other spe¬
cies, large nnd small.
With these amazing mammals were
equally strange birds, including,
among numerous birds of prey, a gi¬
ant vulturelike species (far larger
than any condor), peacocks, and
many others.
The geologically recent existence of
this now vanished fauna is evidenced
by the presence in tlie asphalt pits of
hones of the gray fox, tlie mountain
lion, tlie close relative of the bobcat
and coyote, as well as tlie condor,
which still frequent that region, and
thus link the past with the present.
The only traces of the ancient vege¬
tation discovered in these asphalt pits
are a pine and two species of Juniper,
which are members of the existing
flora.
There is reason for believing that
primitive man occupied California and
other parts of the West during at
least tlie latter part of the period
when the fauna of tlie asphalt pits
still flourished. The folk-lore of the
locally "restricted California Indians
contains detailed descriptions of a
beast which is unmistakably a bison,
probably the bison of the asphalt pits.
The discovery in tiiese pits of the
bones of a gigantic vulturelike bird
of prey of far greater size than the
condor is even more startling, since
the folk-lore of the Eskimos and In¬
dians of most of the tribes from
Bering straits to California nnd the
ltoeky Mountain region abound in
talcs of tlie "thunder-bird"—a gigan¬
tic bird of prey like a mighty eagle,
capable of carrying away people in
its talons. Two such coincidents sug¬
gest the possibility that tlie accounts
of the bison and the “thunder-bird”
are really based on the originals of
tlie asphalt beds and have been
passed down in legendary history
through many thousands of years.
Baby’s Handicap
Generally the “only child” might he
called tlie “too much” child; the child
who has to endure too much training,
who is subject to too much anxiety,
too much interference and too much
observation.—Woman's Home Com¬
panion.
WHAT DR. CALDWELL
LEARNED IN 47
YEARS PRACTICE
A physician watched the results of
constipation for 47 years, and believed
that no matter how careful people are of
their health, diet and exercise, constipa¬
tion will occur from time to time. Of
next importance, then, is how to treat
it when it comes. Dr. Caldwell always
was in favor of getting as close to nature
as possible, hence his remedy for consti¬
pation, known as Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin, is a mild vegetable compound.
It can not harm the system and is not
habit forming. Syrup Pepsin is pleaaant
tasting, and youngsters love it.
Dr. Caldwell did not approve of
drastic physics and purges. He did not
believe they were good for anybody’s
system. In a practice of 47 years he
never saw any reason for their use when
Syrup Pepsin will empty the bowels just
as Do promptly.
not let a day go by without a
bowel movement. Do not sit and hope,
but go to the nearest druggist and get
one of the generous bottles of Dr. Cald¬
well’s Syrup Pepsin, or write “Syrup
Pepsin,”’ free trial Dept. BB, Montieello. Illinois,
for bottle.
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— soft, smooth, clear, “ pink and
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Barbara — Oh — er — I was rathet
hasty.—-Montreal Family Herald.
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