--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 10 published: 1911-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Largest Bear in Captivity," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 10 (August 1911): 893.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14010unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera14010unse start_page: 893 end_page: 893 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14010unse publication_year: 1911 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # 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.