The sun., 1919-03-16

It was the hardest work I ever did
Bears will go over the highest peaks
slide over fallen logs, climb UP places
that look impossible to reach and take
you through brush and second growth
timber that seems impa ssable.
we slept on the trail. night after
night, until when we reached here. the
other two outvoted me and we spent the
night at the Lewey Lake house. We
were not prepared really TO follow the
bear. We had no food and no axe. All
we had was a Ratchet r
I'VE took up the trail early next
morning. When We stopped the bear
stopped and we camped for the night 10
resume the trail the next day before
sunrise. All along the Blue Ridge over
-Celler Mountain and Snowy Mount we
followed that bear, and at ono place
where the bear climbed log and went
over followed. brushing more Of the
snow of. and when Abe Lawrence fol-
lowed me he left only the bare ice Bert
DanfoTth had 10 slide down on ice and
it was not the softest kind OF ice either
The bear hunt ended at Johnny
Mack's Bay, Indian Lake. We gave it up
we had 10 food and hardly any clothes
had been left on our backs. Bert Dan
forth was all in and wabbled like q
drunken man. and Abe Lawrence and
I were hardly able TO follow the trail
1t was the hardest hunt ] was ever on
and We did not get the bear"
Dead" Fish Come to Life.
This was the longest story Jim told
Life spent in the wilderness, such as
followed by Jim Sturges, does not tend
to make men chatty.
There Is something about fishing how
ever, that leads TO conversing.
Ever chloroform bait fish and use
them when they come to-" asked Jim
looking at DR.. Droogan.
at isn't chloroform that Is used" re-
marked "Tamarack," Just what 1t is ]
cannot say. but II you chloroform FISH
they will not come to life again"
We'll. don't know what the process
Is, but know that Skinny Van Aiker
OF Gloversville came up one night 10 go
fishing in Lewey Lake for pike. II
was o'clock when he stopped Mt Specu-
lator. and ne had In the back OF his
cutter these bait Ash. They looked Ike
river minnows to me they were strange
fishes for this part OF the country. He
offered me some OF the fish and took
them. He told me TO take them home
put them In salt water and then change
10 fresh. He said these hsh. Sat APP
pedreu CeHO. WOulu come 10 IRE.
IT took some OF these fish that were
lying in the back Of the cutter. mind
you, thrown In jrst as you would pu;
groceries in a sleigh. and carried then
home. don't know how long they had
been out OF water. Skinny told me tina,
ne had received them by express. put
the Ash In salt water, have forgotten
how many minutes, but I did as Skinny
said; t4SC. placed them in fresh. and
every one OF those dead nsh came &c
life
/. "These were the FISH that skinny
used in winter time for pike II
Lewey Lake and he caught fish witt
them"
DR.. Droogan and Bill Crockett will
hold UP their hands and swear that Jim
Sturges OF Spectator is q truthful man
DIR. Droogan has known Jim since boy
hood. when Bill Crockett was at Wells
eating a big slab OF one OF Riley Pros.
toms raspberry pies, ne remarked 10 a
stranger that he was going on a snow
shoe trip In the Adirondachs with Jim
Sturges. This man addressed remarked
There's one man that never in his life
told n lie"