Largest Bear in Captivity

DRIFTWOOD. s'X\ give 'em the slip," the words were almost hissed in his earnestness, "begin a new game, start all over again,and play straight, so that some day you kin come back to her with clean hands, and not come sneakin' either. Will you try?" The slanting rays of the setting sun fell full upon the pale, agitated face of Andrews as he rose to his feet. "I promise you," he said slowly, with twitching lips, "that I will try —God h? lping me, I will try!" Hesitatingly he held out his hand, and the big fingers of the tramp closed over it, then, without further words, each man turned and started on his endless journey. The railroad tracks stretched out, converged, and melted into the fading horizon, and two black spots, like huge ants, crawled slowly on their lonely way—driftwood from life's wrecks! (the end.) Centervili.e, Utah. This is one of the largest bears in captivity. It weighs 1,160 pounds, and is as big as a good-sized ox. Its home is in the National Zoological Park at Washington, D. C, where a visiting friend of the Era caught a kodak of him.