The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-10
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.
A GLANCE .Ar rAE eEAUr!FOL spor
where and How ons Nay Jos Along eaietly And
Have Good Tins-A Brief Budget OF Current
Snake LItsraturt-SOu Psr.Ouai POlnts.
Tho Lake and Some other Things.

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BY faith Euoch was translated, by the loco
motive we; and ours is translation not
without bliss from the smoke and heat and
business care Of smoky, hot and busy
city, From town 10 country, and not
only SO, but 10 country where health and
rational pleasure and the pursuit Of better
things make up all'w need to tllihksbout,
where the tonic mountain air is an ever
passing breeze. The sun shines here as
elsewhere, but abundant shade will break
It's force and cooling currents take oEthe
sharp edge. They are very fortunate who
can pass a summer here, or week, or a
day; every prospect pleases, and the genius
OF the place reminds man that he needn't
put himself out Of the way to be vile. So
lar as am able 10 see and learn the require,
ments will fret no welldipposed person.
Nobody is put in straight jscket-even
| the preachers wear loose fitting blouses and
smiles, and crack jokes until the forest rings
with the sound thereof. Nobody is re;
ouired to attend devotional exercise; vet
here, three thousand feet above sen level
and that much nearer heaven, there is q
very general attendance uponthe means Of
grace. Thtre seeln 10 be no more rules
and regulations" than are required TO make
0 sober, orderly community-a place OF
safe deposit in which man will be con-
tent to leave such valuGbles as his wife and
children. There Is no dancing, but
croquet, lawn teunis and other field sports,
boating on the lake, walking, riding, driv.
ing over these mountain tops-leave to
sleep twenty hours out OF the tweuty,tour-
here are some compensations. under
stand there are no restrictions on. love-
making, diversion held in very high
esteem when some Of Us were young.
Loye-making has begun for the season.
MOUNTAIN LAKE's GROWTH. Nt..
am very much pleased with Mountain
Lake Park as it is. 1t looks to me as
thought has come to stay. Perhaps sbalI
not like it so we'll ten years hence when d
populous mountain town shall have grown
up here-more houses, more people, not
so much OF that sense OF unGisturbed vast
ness which carfits out hear enough To- in
fnity tho idea Of ''plenty Of eibow-room." I"
There can De no actual crowuing-the
Association has provided against thai; but,
certain works oflneCetHitS having been ac-
mplished, In way, however, TO spoil as
little as may be OF the fair lace and form OF
nature, new summer resort is TO be pre-
ferred. For my own enjoyment Mountain
Lake Park is Just new enough, But it
must grow; only stupid management could
/ hold Il back, and am renc0uraged TO be:
lieye that the management will be euliShI-
ened and progressive The start is good
and lusty. lam told that seventy. five cot.
tsges have been built. l have not counted
them, but there may well be that number
Few ofthem cost so much rs $1,000, iegeE
cost more, some very neat little b9mes cost
less than half that Fun. The hctel IL, q
model in its way, not large, but apPalntet
and conducted With view to1he comforts
able entertainment oil sojsnrneH atmodtr..
ate cost. Has some one said that a hotel
man Is born, not madt? sach an one Is
mine teeT Van Meter, who keeps the hotel !
Now the hotel keeper who takes special
care OF everybody, makes himself agree
able to everybody without prosecuting
with polite attentions, and thoutneRlstt.
| ing the rooms and the table-ho ii tie one
who is born, not made. Moreover | take
! Il that there is some inbred good i'll man
who provides for every body big, ligh-
backed, welLswung rocking chair, chair
which, II you please, does It's own rocking,
and does II so quietly aud upostentatousily
that there ia ineithcr cFeak nor Jar. Edo
suppose that il anything can justify a cigar
"a thoroughly good cigar, wel!-!ighted so
that it will burn With full.orbed regularity
and hold It's ash-I do aupRlse that thing
to be such q chair. Du'ce et dec0r.tm eSt,
though other joys ars for women and
children.
o~t5 ( "a NATURAL, HlsToRI. a. Fnrr=a
Several gentlemen were sestpd in. as
many Of these chairs on the hotel piazza,
when somebody rashly asked there were
any seats about the pax.
"No," said one, "but l can take you
about twelve miles across the mountain
yonder, where there are thousands of them,
and rattlers at that" I-,' ,,at
SMust be god many acres OF those
snakcsPn .E 'tfa' i
I"No there aip't-lhey'fe, In y pocket,
piled on top OF each other, and I've been
told that four thousand OF thetn have been
seen there at once"
I The address OF the person who had the
nerve to count them bad baen mlal4id. :.
,"WelI, | don't think it eau require a
great deal OF nerve 10 .iaGe rattle Gpskss!
A preacher oncs told mo tliati 1t was all nom
sense about rattle understanding THE pow
er 70 CHARM said the landlord. = AL he
wanted vas stick five ieet long, anale
take care oi the ,chArmeiB-only five Jeet
long and he'd ,slay his thousands II they
came fast enongh.". 81 ~ NJ.
A West VirgiDian whose reputation ior
veracityiis rated high, said he Hasn'Einuch.,
Oh rattle snakes, but could recall q tOurnlngj
incident Of lis in the pins woods OF North
CArotina, where black SNAKE elgb,y i've
| feet long was Ri'lsU, ripPed opeu, aud
twenty seven 'yUung turkeys, thirty tive
spring chickenF, two or three toGds and
china nest eYR laken pDt 7ar .r.
,lmposRiolt !" In rhOru:. y, ,A,.
'T.negletted to sd,t,' Eentletnrn, "lhat
several li the chickens were dead"
This brought OUT britf thAr,Sr in the
history OF Il man who dI've his wagon over
two mics uf rattle snakes Ia tbe tcluded
belief that the county lad Just built . hne
corduroy road.
1t Ia never sale 10 talk snake 70 PFouiis-
cuous company. wN
sE4T ALI SORTS
The new LAKE spreads out oar seven or
eight acrs. The boa..Lottse Is rapidly APP
preaching completion, ani tha lake is go
ine 10 hUAg great attraction.
> nr, u, ,sa1's . halc OF his beautiful cottage,
pui. hSseti,iY ihe r v. Dt JON +. GJntl'
or, Of otBiHSniGre; is ng tael by eytry Gody:
/. ia lessh,d Wiih sa,iaiattlVni however,
that DR.. Lqgan's daughters ara coming up
with q party OI younE adirs, among Them
the idGtiSht, tt'f ,srv, nr. Smith, ot The
Foufih Street VI. L Clutch, 10 dCcnpy
cottage, probably tHatici Oh. Y u. Beaier
ECf Brooke county.
MIR. b 0. Lisl, Jr.sfrmily sra occupy
ltheir h,NulifIl c.Ilage, nea, 10 Which "a
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