The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14
, You aimed at hearts-for You were blind
| But now that you are Old
| y OH see the hearts so hard TO pierce
| Your arrow must be gold.

understand the mechanism of snares and
pitfalls in ali details, and under every con-
ceivable disguise. AZ Peels river says
Mr. Frederick Lockhart IAN old cara
Jou, as my French partner called a glut-
ton, discovered my marten road ON which
1 had nearly $50 traps. ] was in the HABIT
OF visiting the line about once a fortnight,
but the beast fell into the way of coming
oftener than did, to my great annoyance
ana NeXation. determined to put stop
to his thleving and his life together, cost
what ii might. So | made six strong traps
at as many different points, and also set
three steel traps. For three weeks ! tried
my best to catch the rascal, without sue
cess, and my worst enemy would allow
that, am no green hand in these matters.
The animal carefully avoided the traps
set for his own benefit. and seemed 10 take
more delight than ever in demolishing my
marten traps and eating the martens,
scattering the poles in every direction, and
burying what bats or martens he did not
devour on the spot. As we had no poison
in those days, ] next set a gun on the
cealed in some low bushes. but the bait
was so placed that the carraJOu must see
il on his way. up the bank l blockaded
my path to the gun with small pine
tree, which completely hid II. on my
next visit 4 found that the beast had gone
up to the bait and smelled it, but had left
it untouched. He had next pushed aside
the pine bush that obstructed the path
and gone around the gun to cut the line
which connected the bait with the trigger
just behind the muzzle. Then he had
gone back and pulled the bait away and
carried IL out on the lake, where he sat
down and devoured 1t at his leisure. There
Il could Scarcely believe that all this had
b cen done designedly, for il seemed that
faculties fully on par with human reason
would he required for such an exploit if
done Intentionally. /, therefore, rear
ranged things, tying the string where it
had been bitten. But the result was eN-
aCtiy the same for three successive occa-
sions, as / could plainly see by the foot
prints and what is the most singular of
all ooh. 80 Iaa hN4r fall
cut the line a little way back of where il
had been tied before, as If actually reason
mg with himself that even the knots might
be some new device OF mine and therefore
source of hidden danger he would pru-
IDENTIFY avoid. ! came TO the conclusion
that a carraiou Of such abilities ought to
live, as he must be something a. least hu-
maii IL not worse i gave IL up and aban-
doned the road for a period"
The wolverine is neither a wo.f nor a
small bear but giant weasel and its
smaller relatives have a fun share of its
cunning The yellow breasted pine mar
ten is extremely hard to trap, and app
proaches a hen roost only in the small
hours OF the morning. when watchers have
retired and the dogs Indulge in nap over
come by the drowsy influence OF the night
mist In Switzerland, where they are az
common as foxes they venture out in dav-
time chasing squirrels from tree TO tree
and into the deepest recesses OF their Fam
liz nests. The poor rodent seems to know
that a oul de sac retreat would terminate
It's career and Keeps skipping IN and out
OF hollow trees, ana from branch 10
branch With dying leaps, but on the
appearance of a hunter the noise OF the
hfe-and. dc ath race comes TO a sudden
stop. the marten fattens himself unon
some broad fork and remains invisibho for
minutes tooether. while the squirrel Kails
itself OF tho timely respite 10 make a dash
for the next thicket
Poison often fails to suppress the little
cousin of Mr. Lockhart's friend Taste
less arsenic has the disadvantage of opcr-
atlng like an emetic, end thus defeating
It's purpose In many cases. while strvch-
nine hetrays itself by the intense and m
disguisabe bitterness OF its taste. liz
effectiveness for wolf killing is limited TO
the midWinter season, when the raVentIos
hrutes deVour small pieces OF flesh without
mastication; but martens and wease.s are
lunch fends of different type They
too. will kill ten times as much as thev
could possibly eat or stow away for future
reference, but on squattns down TO re-
gale themselves they proceed at leisure
and stop at the first suspicious symptoms
An often robbed hen house having been
turned into a poison trap. the nocturnal
marauder made away with the solitary
rooster left by the strychnine experts and
dragged 81 about a hundred yards 10 the
next hedge, where lot of scattered
feathers proved that he had stopped 10
sample his prize. The rooster, though