Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-21

It looked like an array Of corpses laid
out for identification after some ter
rible floral disaster.
There Is always some man who mas
a mania for setting traps. AS soon as
he comes he notices the squirrels about
and he rushes into the office and wants
to know If he may be allowed 10 set
trap for them. l always say Certain
ly,' and I provide him with trap. II
is one which the little boy who lives
here in winter time uses, and there
isn't squirrel within a mile that
doesn't know that trap as we'll as he
knows a tree Occasionally, in the Win
ter time. when they get cold and hun
CRY they go into 1t and the little boy
feeds them and takes good care OF them
for a while, and let's them go. But in
summer It's different. The trap stays
out in the woods for weeks at time,
but never a squirrel does 1t catch.
Another common Adirondack men
tai development is the ability to see
visions. You'd be astonished 10 know
the number of bears which have been
sighted in these woods. Strangely
enough none of them has even been
killed or even been seen by anybody ex-
cept the man who tells the story, but ac-
cording TO statistic there must be a large
contingent Of bears in the woods We
also have tales OF wildcats which are
calculated TO make your hair stand on
end. The wildcat visions, however, have
somewhat fallen off since l lost, by
death, Jumbo. large black and yellow
cat Of the domestic variety. Jumbo
was a valuable animal. He had a way
OF scooting across the trail, flashing
along a log and disappearing in the
trees which was extremely favorable to
those Of the guests who were inclined
for visions.
'Apropos Of bears we had been telling
stories around the campfire in front Of
the house one night, and the prize seer
OF visions had given the timid spirits a
thrill OF terror by his description OF his
latest sight of a Sears tail. (They al
ways escaped him by running away
The next morning the lady who had the
corner room on the second floor came
in,o the Office in evident perturbation of
spirit.
Do YOU know, she said 4 don't feel
just comfortable in my room as it is?
You know I'm in the mountain corner
Of the house, and there is that veranda
by my window. I'm awfully afraid a
hear might come out OF the woods, climb
up on the veranda, and get right into
my room. Would you mind putting up
mosquito netting at the windows?'
" Not al all, Mrs Brown, l said. I'll
have It put right up.
Il did that afternoon, and at supper
she thanked me feelingly, and said she
should sleep much better now that she
felt protected Oh, It's fact, l assure
you! This mountain air plays strange
freaks with the Imagination.
Then there was the swell young man
who used to get little tin pail, an iron
spoon, a lump OF ice, and some maple
sugar. and go of into the woods TO
sugar off, He'd build a little fire. hang
the pail over il, boil his sugar and cool
It on the Ice eating It from the end of G
smooth stick. And there was another
couple who used to go off and pop corn
in the woods. and-well wait ill the
end Of this season, and perhaps" with
knowing glance at his listeners, 81 may
have some more manias TO add TO my
list. You ought to get up something
original among you. New York Sun.