The Frostburg spirit., October 30, 1913, Image 8

About The Frostburg spirit. (Frostburg, Md.) 1913-1915

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HUNTING STORIES.
SEVERAL GOOD ONES FROM GAR
RETT COUNTY, MD., AND SOM
ERSET COUNTY, PA.
Noah Garlitz, an aged and respect
ed citizen of Garrett county, Md.,
tells the following interesting hunt
ing story:
He, when a boy, was out deer hunt
ing with his father. Noah scared out
a bunch of deer and was too much
scared to shoot till after they were all
gone. Then he “came to” and knew
that his father would scold him for
not shooting at the deer, so in order
to make his father believe he had shot
and missed, he shot into a big bunch
of laurel bushes where he had not
seen any deer, and to his great as
tonishment and delight killed a big
deer, but he didn’t tell his father how
it happened till he got too big to be
whipped.
None who know Mr. Garlitz doubt
his word in the least, as he is known
among his neighbors as a man whose
word is as good as any man’s bond.
Editor Also Has Strange Hunting
Experience.
The editor of this paper once had a
similar experience to that, of Mr.
Garlitz. It happened when the editor
was a lad 13 years old. He went gun
ning for wild ducks along the Cassel
man river, near Salisbury, Pa., one
day when the elements raged in their
fury and snow and rain fell at inter
vals all day long.
Eocating a big flock of ducks on a
big stretch of dead water known as
Flog Pond, ,he stealthily crawled
through the tall swamp grass of an
adjacent meadow until he came in
range of the ducks. Raising his head
and shoulders a foot or two from the
ground, he aimed at the ducks through
some brush growing near the water’s
edge, and fired.
The result was surprising, for he
killed three ducks on the water and
about a half-dozen quail that were in
the bushes through which the shot
was fired, but unobserved by the
youthful hunter until some unharmed
onesr in the flock began to fly away,
and the dying ones were noticed flut
tering in the bushes.
Reader, imagine if you can the
youthful hunter’s excitement at that
moment! He had read the life of
Meshach Browning, the great hunter
who figured so prominently in Gar
rett county during the early days of
Western Maryland, and up to that
time regarded him as the greatest
man that ever lived. But after firing
the shot from the old shotgun that
killed three ducks and about twice
that many quail at the same time,
Meshach Browning, the idol in the
writer’s youthful mind, crumbled and
fell. No more was he a hero, but
rather an object of pity, if not actual
ly of contempt, in the estimation of
the youthful hunter.
Soliloquizing, he said: “Did Mes
hach Browning ever kill that many
birds in one shot?” And he answer
ed: “Naw, bet yer life he didn’t!”
And it is a safe bet that old Meshach
never did. But how to get the ducks
was the next question. They were in
rfiid stream, where the water was
about 10 feet deep and very wide. A
strong gale was sweeping* up stream,
and the dead, ducks seemed to remain
almost stationary. Now, be it known,
the writer never was blessed (or
should we say cursed?) with, a very
large stock of patience. He wanted
those ducks, and being a good swim
mer almost from the time he was
knee-high to a duck, a graduate from
the old “deep hole” near Eittle
Crossings bridge, below Grantsville,
he just yanked off all of his clothes,
except underwear, of which he had
none to yank off, as boys in those
days had no use for such luxuries.
Yes, he undressed while the snow
flakes were falling thick and fast, and
into the icy waters he leaped and soon
had the ducks out on the bank.
Whether God tempered the wind
to the “shorn lamb,” or whether the
boy’s enthusiasm kept him warm, he
never knew nor never cared. It
just seeiped like those dead ducks
were saying: “The water’s fine, come
in!” And really it was fine, so re
freshing, ugh! and the experience
was along Meshach Browning lines.
Did the boy catch cold or get sick?
Not on your life! He didn’t know
how to get sick, those days, and he
enjoyed the swimming so well that
he played dog for another -hunter the
balance of the day, bringing ducks
out of the water whenever the other
fellow killed any, which was pretty
often.
This is also a true story, for editors
never—well, hardly ever lie, and this
is one of Ihe instances where the
truth is more interesting than a re
lated hunting incident that never
happened would be.
John Hawn Also Some Hunter.
John Hawn, a grizzled mountaineer
residing in the Negro Mountain region
about ten miles west of Salisbury,
can tell enough unusual hunting and
fishing experience to fill a book as
big as that famous mountain itself.
John is not only an ardent disciple of
Nimrod, the great hunter, and Izaak
Walton, but of Baron Munchausen
and Tom Pepper as well. Space will
not permit going into details concern
ing Hawn’s experience, but one of
his favorite hunting yarns is about a
certain time when he claims to have
killed 999 raccoons that he discovered
in one hallow chestnut tree.
The story sounds a good deal like
a chestnut itself, but it must be true,
for when anybody asks John if he is
sure that the number of raccoons kill
ed was not an even thousand instead
of 999, he gets “all het up” and angri
ly exclaims that he “would not lie for
the sake of one darned measly ’coon.”
Furthermore, as positive proof of the
correctness of his story, he is always'
ready to pilot you to the tree from
which the animals were taken, and
show the notches cut on the tree at
the time of the great slaughter, one
notch for each raccoon killed. What
better proof couid any one demand?
A Correction.
Several Allegany county newspa
pers, including The Spirit, were in
error in one respect in the mention
made of the death of Mrs. Sarah T.
Davis. Most of the papers stated that
Mrs. Davis was born near Boston,
Mass., which was not correct. She
was born near Boston Mine, in this
county.
THE BELT LINE.
C. & W. E. RAILWAY COMPANY IS
NOT CONSIDERING THE BUILD
ING OF A BELT LINE.
Much has been said and written
during the past few years about an ex
tension of the Cumberland & Western
port Electric Railway Companies lines
within the city limits of Frostburg.
Certain citizens are contending for
the extension of the system over sev
eral streets, forming a sort of belt line
that would make a very much larger
portion of the town accessible by trol
ly than is reached now. While many
favor the belt line, some opposq it,
and others are unconcerned.
But will the belt line be built?
That is the question that people are
asking, whether much interested or
not, knowing that the City Council at
its last meeting authorized a survey
of the proposed route. The Spirit is
in a position to inform its readers
that the C. & W. E. Ry. Co. evidently
has no notion of building such an ex
tension, and such being the case, the
expense of a survey will prove a
waste of money. In speaking to Supt.
Taylor of the Railway Company, sev
eral days ago, a representative of The
Spirit was informed that the building
of the belt line would be a losing prop
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who invest money; we will invest
where we think there will be returns
that will justify the expense, but
where we can see only a heavy loss,
we will not invest. We have laid all
the track our charter requires of us,
and until'we can be shown that an
extension of our lines would pay, no
belt line will be built or considered.
Could we see anything but a loss in
the investment, our company would
build the line without being urged.”
This seems to settle the belt line
proposition, for the present at least,
and it must be admitted that the rea
soning of the Railway Company is
about the same as the belt line boom
ers would put up if they were in the
Railway Company’s position.
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