Show 1 DOUOaOCIT O I AGED BERRY PICKER LOCKED IN DARK CELLAR LEROV SCHMERY HAS HARD BATTLE BAT-TLE FOR LIFE FACE BITTEN BY ANIMALS Large Woodchucks Are Believed to Have Been Drawn to the Cabin by the Odor of Stored Blackberries Black-berries Lopez IaIt Is not generally considered I con-sidered in tho hills of Pennsylvania hat the woodchuck or groundhog is as much to be feared as the black bear but after the experience with three of these animals by aged Leroy Schtnery of the Bella Sylvn country no one will deny that the creatures ire far from being the peaceable fellows fel-lows natural history usually depicts them to be The Bella Sylva territory which is an Immense stretch of wild land running run-ning from Sullivan county Into Wyora ng Is a famous groundhog country swing to the prolific crops of buckle oerrles and blackberries that grow upon It and on which the groundhogs 3nd rich food Groundhogs weighing 50 pounds have been caught In that section and the animals killed there ire of n flavor beyond that ascribed 10 raccoon Old Mr Schmery has for many years gone into the Bella Sylva country on blackberry expeditions He and some ther parties several years ago built i log hut across a depression formed by the source of a spring so that by a little digging a quite respectable space was formed and in this they kept their berries stored for a week or more at a time while on a picking expedition adding each days harvest to the cellar stock then at the end of the week loading them on a wagon and hauling them home During the deer and bear hunting season this shack is used for a shelter for the hunters A short time ago two men who were on their wry Into the Terrell lumber woods passed the Huckleberry lodge as the hut Is called and were attracted attract-ed to the little cellar underneath It by the moans of a man They found Mr Schmery lying on the ground hi hands arms and face a mass of scratches and cuts and his eyes so badly bitten and swollen that he could not see A bushel or more 01 blackberries wero strewn over the place Schmery sald ho had taken a pall of berries into tho dugout but before be-fore opening tho door his attention wa attracted by a peculiar squealing which seemed to come out of the cellar cel-lar He peered In and could see noth 1 T fem tr 1 He Began a Hit or Mlss Battle wit His Enemies ing In the shadowy cavern althoug the moment the door was opened thE sounds stopped Fortunately the stick with which hi had carried his bucket of blackberrlo over his shoulder was within read and with this he began a hit or mist battlo with his enemies It was no long before ho fortunately made food I f-ood landing on one of the Creature but In the excitement of the fight hE slipped and fell Before ho could regain re-gain his feet he was attacked by Iht companions of the slain animal and was bitten In the face and on the nrms and hands So fierce was thE onslaught that he was nractlcally help less They bit his eyes and how loi tile pesky things kept up tho bati Use old man could not tell for IH thinks ho must have become unc1 fclous partly because of tho fwije of the fermenting blackberries tout partly because of the pain Inflicted bJ tho animals Ho made nofurther effort to get out for when ho came to tho animals bat gone The woodsmen who heard hilt and rescued him from the cello I found a dead groundhog lyingon tht floor of the cellar and It was in tilt I way that the identity of the animals tilth which the old man4nc boiti III larked was established |