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IBOEATITUDE.
BX NATHAX ST. LETT.
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I've praised thee, love, in all the troys I know;
I've called theo ewcoter than the sweetest
song;
I've said all graces unto theo belong,
And yet no trace of passion dost thou show.
Ah, ine ! dear maid, love's ichor doth not flow
Within thy sluggish veins whilo on me
throng
Host ardent fancies earnest, deep, and
strong,
Thou e'er art cold and doth indifferent grow.
Consid'nng how for months 1'vo bought for thoo
Fans, ice-cream. ostcrs, bon-bons by the ton,
Quaint bric-a-brac, and 6tnng3 of shiny
? earls,
o find theo frowning thus on me,
" "When with such bait I'm suro I might have
won
Tho sweet affections of a dozen girls I
PANTHER JOE.
An Extraordinary Arizona Indian.
HOBTLY after
tho discovery of
gold at Antelope
Peak and along
tho Hassavampa
River, in 1SG3, a
Yaqui Indian ar
rived in that part
of Arizona and
engaged in min
ing. He bore the
name of Hijinio
Carabal.
In general ap
pearance the
t jgYaqui didnotdif-
S 't in r
iui xiuiu uLiiura ui
-sliis race, save
''that the right ear
was missing, and on that side of his
neck he carried three scars resembling
such as might have been left from knife
won ds. Like all his people he was
Eassionately fond of intoxicating liquor,
ut as he was harmless and inoffensivo
"when under its iniluence, and imposed
upon his fellow-miners no greater inflic
tion than was to be cieated by the
"weird music of his native tribe as pro
duced on an antiquated and discordant
harmonica or mouth-organ which he
always carried with him tho Indian
was regarded as a compadre and per
mitted to pursue his natural inclina
tions. Ho secured a good claim and
took out a laigo quantity of dust, near-
r ANTHER JOE, THE YAQUI.
ly all of which was spent, over the bars,
to his evident satisfaction and increase
of popularity Avith the miners.
Mexicans who came to the diggings
from Sonora subsequent to the arrival
of Hijinio told stories legarding him.
They asserted that lie had formed a
closo corporation "with the devil, and
was in the habit of roaming over the
mountains and through the forests
with wild and savage beasts with
which ho was on the most fiiendly
terms. His right ear, they said, had
been taken off by a stroke from the
paw of a huge jaguar, which also left
the seais on his neck. The Yaqui was
playing with tho animal in the timber
when tho accident occurred and he
afterward seveiely punished his rough
playmate for its disastrous careless
ness. This and similar stories pioduced no
further effect upon tho American min
ers than to cause them to apply the
cognomen of "Panther Joe" to Hijinio
Carabel, tho latter name being long
and somewhat difficult to pronounce.
It was six mouths after his arrival
that the Yaqui earned the title of
"Panther Joe,' and became a hero as
well as a mystery to every man in the
"diggings.' A family named Stapley
came out from California and estab
lished a station near Antelope, but
several miles from where any people
were mining or living.
One evening after sundown, and
when the men-folk were away, Mrs.
Stapley went to the corial for the pur
pose of milking her cows, taking with
her a little daughter 3 years old and
also a rifle as protection from the con
stant dangers of that country in that
period. Tho woman had proceeded
with her duties but a few minutes when
she was startled by a scream of terror
from the child, and upon turning in
the direction of the sound was horrified
to see a large panther jump over the
fence with her child in its mouth.
Picking up the rifle the thoroughly
frightened mother rushed to the gate
in an effort to rescue her offspring,
bufwhen outside the inclosure a most
unexpected, unusual, and startling
situation was met, and while hope was
inspired she was rendered powerless to
net herself and was compelled to suf
fer the most intense suspense. About
forty yards from her stood the panther,
with both front feet upon the child,
which was on the ground and crying
lustily. The beast was not looking at
the ohild, but had its head raised and
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yes fastened upon another form which
was slowly approaching it from a 'di
rection parallel to that taken by Mrs.
Stapley in leaving the corral.
The mother at once recognized the
person nearing the brute as "Panther
Joe," and with intent fascination, the
greatest dread, and fearful suspense
did she watch his every movement. He
was stooping over to" about half his
natural height and had his eyes, which
in the closing twilight were blazing
like coals of fire, riveted upon those of
the beast. "With his left hand he held
between his lips the mouth organ on
which he was playing some low, strange
and weird music, while in his right
hand he held a switch cut from a mes
quite bush. He placed his feet upon
the earth with the greatest care, mak
ing not tho slightest noise, and with
each step he took he crouched lower
and the monotone notes of the rude in
strument grew more soft.
The panther lashed its tail gently,
and its eyes never left those of the Ya
qui while he so slowly and silently ap-
sNw?-
HE WAS PLAYING SOME WEIRD MUSIC.
proached it, yet it kept its feet upon
the child all the while, and did not
show the slightest inclination to aban
don its prey. As Joe drew nearer and
nearer the savage animal became less
at ease, but his actions were more that
of a dog punished into submission by
its master than of a wild and ferocious
beast seeking a meal on human flesh.
Its power to move seemed lost; it
appeared to be under a fascination as
strong as that wliich serpent ever ex
ercised over bird. "When within about
six feet of the panther Joe stopped
playing on the mouth organ, and while
uttering some words in a low tone,
slowly straightened to his natural
heighth.
At a single stride he was at the side
of the brute, and with an exclamation
of reproval he hit it a sharp blow over
tho head with the switch. The pan
ther took first one paw and then the
other from the body of the child and
walked away doggedly for a few yards,
when it stopped, turned around and
licked its chops, as though it was not
yet disposed to abandon its meal.
However, a sharp "Hi-yi !" from the In
dian caused it to take a trot and quick
ly disappear over the hills.
Picking up the child, Joe returned
it to tho delighted mother, who has
tened to receive it, and without wait
ing for her thanks he turned away and
followed the direction taken by the
anther, vouchsafing the compli
mentary remaik: "Usted brave goo
man; listed no shoote; usted no
holler."
The miners all heard the remarka
ble account next day when Stapley
came up to the diggings for the pur
pose of thanking Joe. But the Yaqm
was absent, and it was two days be
fore he again put in an appearance.
"When he did so he showed signs of dis
sipation, but, as it was known that ho
would have been unable to reach any
place where whisky w as to have been
obtained without the miners learning
of it, this condition was attributed to
his experience with the panther at the
time the child w as rescued or after he
had followed it from Stapley"s place.
Nothing could induce Joo to converse
on the subject until some weeks after
ward, when one of the miners killed a
panther, over which fact the Yaqui
grieved greatly and stated that the
animal was his friend and tho one from
which he saved tiie little child. .
The next winter was a dry one and
tho placers did not pan out well, so
Balpli Smith, who is j-et a resident
and prominent citizen of Arizona, or
ganized a party of ten men, Panther
Joe being of tho number, to prospect
for gold in the Mongollon Mountains.
One evening, a few days after reach
ing the desired locality and making
camp, Smith and a companion named
Phil Teal, while returning to supper
from a disappointing examination of a
gulch which from all ai)pearances gave
much promise of containing gold, had
their attention suddenly attracted to
the bottom land of a mountain stream
by a humdrum, monotonous song, fol
lowed by a particularly hearty laugh.
Feeling the necessity of ascertaining
THE WHELP WAS BIDING OX HER BACK.
if Indians had a camp in that vicinity,
they cautiously penetrated a willow
thicket in the direction of the sound.
"When they reached the creek they
found themselves at the edge of a
green open space in the shape of an
amphitheater a bend in the stream
and high precipitous walls of rock,
vari-colored with mosses and delicate
mountain wild flowers, forming an al
most perfect circle. In its wild beauty
and usual solitude the scene would
have been sufficiently striking and ro
mantic, but a central group served to
make the picture one of the most
peculiar that the eye of man evar
gazed upon.
The two prospectors were amazed,
awe-striction, and spell-bound, for sit
ting on a rock in the grassy glen was;
"Panther Joe," holding a switch in his
hand and in a peculiar gibberish com
pelling a large, full-grown female
cougar the dreaded American lion
to circle around him in the manner of
a circus horse. "With young at her,
side there is not a more dangerous or
fierce animal to be found in the wilds
of the American continent than the(
cougar, and this one not only had a!
whelp, but, what was more marvelous,'
it was riding on her back, where placed
by the Indian. The mother watched
Joe's face as a bird-dog does that of
its master, and its submission was more'
through fear than inclination. The re
verse was true with the oung one,
which entered heartily into the enjoy-
mentof the romps and would leap from?
its mother's back into Joe's lap, only to
be returned again to its perch and ex
ercise of bareback riding.
Joe would laugh loudly at theso play
ful antics, which afforded him thot
greatest amusement, and to all appear
ances he was free from apprehensions
of danger, although he had a watchful
eye upon the mother, and kept up that
constant, weird and peculiar chant
which first attracted the two mountain
eers. To them the scene was more
wonderful than any described in tho
"Arabian Nights," and, whilo at first'
they were held spellbound by a strange
fascination, their natural feelings soon)
asserted themselves. To play with an
animal which would stealthily pursue
a human being, pounce upon him, feed
on his flesh and drink of his blood was
unnatural; it was disgusting and re
volting soi'ceiy, and the one who pos
sessed such powers and took such
enjoyment deserved fd live no more
than the brute itself.
The report of Teal's rifle rang,
through the mountains and forests, was
echoed and re-echoed from a hundred
canyons, and the lioness lay dead at
the Yaqui's feet. Quickly crossing the
creek, Smith killed the young one with
his pistol, and then the two men se-i
verely rebuked and reprimanded Joe
;for his conduct, telling him that in at
tracting the stealthy and voracious ani
mal to the vicinity of the camp he was
endangering the lives of every member
of the party, as in an unexpected mo
ment any one was likely to be attacked
by it and killed.
The Yaqui was also terribly indig
nant; his frame shook, his eyes flashed
fire, like the animals with which he had.
been associating, and he was scarcely
able to articulate. Taking a hasty and
sorrowful look at his two dead pets, he
told the prospectors, in a voice mixed
with indignation and contempt, that af
big cat was no worse than a house cat,
and if treated the same would do no
more injury, and started off.
"When Smith and Teal readied camp,
it was to find that Joe had rolled up
his blankets and departed, whither no
one knew.
After the discovery of tho Tombstone
mines "Panther Joe again appeared
in the territory, and for several years
was employed by the largo companies
operating there. "When Cole's ciicus
was in San Fiancisco in 1S80, Joe con
tracted, thiough a fiiend, for the de
livery to them of two panthers for the
sum of $300. In going East the circus
company side-tracked a car, with cage,
at Diagoon's summit to receive the j
animals, and the man in charge was I
surprised to learn that Joe had. them '
a mile from that station, simply held
bv chains attached to collars he had
placed aiound their necks, uncaged
and untamed. Obeying the instructions
of the Yaqui, as conveyed through
a messenger, he left the cage open the
following night and kept all persons
away from it. The next morning it
contained a fine specimen of an Amer
ican lion and a female jaguar the
dreaded tiger of Mexico.
"When the Mexican Government de
clared war against Cajeme, tho chief
of the Yaquis, a few years ago,
"Panther Joe" returned to Sonora and
was one among the first that fell in
that unjust and unequal waifare.
A Great Pipe Collection.
One of the finest collections of pipes
in the world isto be found in the En
glish residence of Capt. Biagge, well
known to every antiquary and bric-a-brac
dealer on this terrestrial sphere.
He has clay pipes from the sixteenth
century, wooden pipes from Switzer
land, very ancient German pipes of
china and porcelain: French pipes of
great antiquity, made from curious
woods now unknown to growers; Swe
dish pipes of copper and stone; Rus
sian of silver, niclo and malachite;
great, seductive Turkish pipes of glass,
metal and clay, nargilehs, chibouques
and hookas; Italian pipes, centuries
old, of terra cotta and olive wood; an
tique Spanish pipes, that might have
been smoked by the Moorish dons after
the invasion, and which were formed
of various woods, and of a material re
sembling meerschaum, that is still
found in Spain : Afiican pipe, brought
by traders from the interior, where
they had belonged to kings and chiefs
in the Black Country; venerable Chi
nese pipes, said to be of almost mythi
cal age; and those that the Hindoos
use in their temples.
America contributes jade, flint, and
hard stone pipes from Mexico; but
how pipes were carved from jade is a
mystery. It is the hardest of all ma
terials, and wa3 used in Egypt and
Greece for certain weapons, and it is
even to-day esteemed as so valuable
that the Chinese hold it as the equal of
gold. Also Indian calumets made from
the pipe stone or catlinite. Others
were of Aztec clay, similar to our pot
ter's clay, and having the general char
acteristics of all Aztec pottery work
manship. From the Lake Superior
region came many pipes artistically in
laid with copper and lead, and along
the lower valley of the Mississippi the
pipes of the mound buuilders, some
what similar in form to those of the
Aztecs.
This collection bas been repeatedly
loaned to exhibitions, and contains
5,000 specimens, and is considered wrv
valuable as showing the progress in art
development in the past. Tobacco,
THE FIRST STEAMSHIP.
THIKTT-ONE SATS CROSSING THE AT
LANTIC OCEAN.
The Famous Voyago or tho Savannah A
Brier History or Steam Navigation
Crude Devices or the Pioneer Inventors
Wonderful Development of Ocean Navi
gation. AKLNG into view
the enormous extent
of steam traffic be
tween this country
(jand the old world
at the present time,
it is difficult to
realize that the
wild waste of waters
was first traversed
by means of this
agent only seventy
one years aco,
while it is only half a century since
ocean steam navigation became really
an accomplished fact.
Though steam navigation is of very
recent origin, the invention of the
paddle-wheel for propelling vessels
antedates tho Christian era. Soger
Bacon anticipated the earliest applica
tion of steam to turn the paddle-wheel,
and various endeavors and experiments
toward a practical application of the
idea were made from Bacon's time
j23fBS
HULL'S STEAMER 173G.
down to 1736, in wliich year Jonathan
Hulls patented a marine steam engine,
his design being to employ his vessel
for towing purposes. In the following
year ho published a descriptive pam
phlet containing a sketch of a New
comen engine. As will be seen by
reference to the illustiation, it con
sisted of a series of counterpoises, ropes,
ratchets and grooved wheels, giving a
continuous motion, and, in its day, was
regarded as a wonderful and compli
cated machine, but in our time would
no doubt strike one as a very crude,
simple, and commonplace affair.
In 1763 one William Henry tried a
model steamboat on the Conestoga
Biver, in Pennsylvania. In 1774
Count d'Auxiron, assisted by M. Pcrier,
made a similar attempt in France.
The Marquis de Jouff rey was engaged
in the same work in France from 1775
to 1783, meeting with what was re
garded as encouraging success. In
our own country, James Bumsey was
riTCH'S STEAMBOAT 176G.
A ' I II 1 1 Miff Effl1 mWMH i "
THE SAVANNAH-1810
engaged in experiments lookingto the
development of steam navigation as
early as 1784, and in 1786 he succeeded
in driving a boat on the Potomac Biver
at the rate of four miles an hour by
means of a water jet forced out at the
stern. Bumsey subsequently went to
England, and continued his experi
ments on the Biver-Thames. John
Fitch worked at this problem at the
same time w ith Bumsey, and had an
experimental steamer on the Delaware
in 17S6. His propelling instru
ments were paddles suspended by
the upper ends of their shafts,
and moved by a series of cranks.
Fitch's steamer, which is herewith il
lustrated, was sixty feet long. In 1796
Fitch resumed his experiments in New
York, using a screw. In Scotland, in
STEVENS' ENGINE, BOILER AND SCREWS
1804.
1788, a speed of five miles an hour was
-attained by a steamboat consisting of
two connected hulls driven by a single
paddle-wheel placed between them and
turned by a small engine. A few
months later a larger vessel, propelled
by an engine of twelve-horse power,
attained a speed of seven miles an
hour. 1m 1801 a Scotchman named
Symington constructed for Lord Dun
das a canal steamboat with a stern
vkeel driven by a steam-engine
twenty-two inches in diameter, but it
was laid up soon afterward because it
was feared the banks of the canal
might be injured by the waves.
These experiments toward the appli
cation of steam to water navigation
bring us down to 1803, in which year
the immortal "Robert Fulton appears
upon the scene. Fulton built a steam
boat and launched it on the river
Seine, at Paris, in 1803. In 1806 he
ENGINE OP THE CLERMONT 1807.
returned to the "United States, and
with Chancellor B. Livingston had a.
boat built 130 feet long, called the
Clermont, which made a successful
trip from New York to Albany and
return, accomplishing a speed of five!
miles an hour.
The engine of the Clermont, whicli
is shown in the illustration, had a
steam cylinder twenty-four inches in
diameter and a stroke of four- feet.
The boiler was twenty feet long and
the wheels fifteen feet in diameter.
The Clermont, after having been.
lengthened ten feet, made regular trips
to Albany in 18 OS, and was the first
steamboat ever made commercially suc
cessful. Col. John Stevens, in ISOi, experi
mented with encouraging success with
a small vessel driven by a high-pressure
engine, a sectional boiler, and a.
single screw. He also tried twin
screws, the steamboat having a length
of sixty-eight feet and a breadth of
fourteen feet. This machinery, which'
is shown in the illustration, is retained,
in a good state of preservation, at the
Stevens Institute of Technology, in"
Hoboken, N. J. In 1844: it was placed
in a new hull and produced a speed of
eight miles an hour.
Almost simultaneously w ith Fnlton's
Clermont, Stevens brought out the
Phoenix, a side-wheel steamer, which
was taken by sea to Philadelphia and
placed in the Delaware Biver. This
was the first sea voyage ever made by
a steam vessel. From this time the
steamboat was rapidly introduced, and
it was not long before ocean naviga
tion was made an assured success by
the voyages of the Savannah in 1819'
and the Boyal "William in 1833.
The experiments and inventions of
Hulls, Jouffrey, Fitch, Fulton, Ste
vens and others had been watched with
intense interest, but there wero few
who anticipated any considerable
success, and those who predicted
that, by this imperfectly under-
stood means, the great seas would be
ploughed by myriads of keels were re-,
garded as visionaries. There were
some, however, who dipped into the
future far enough to catch a glimpse of
what is to us no special wonder. The
eminent scientist, Dr. Lardner, is on
record as believing that steam naviga
tion of the ocean was impracticable, j'
due ne connneu nis pretucuou io ves
sels of the size then built. Yet so gen
eral was the unbelief in the success of
such experiments, that the voyage of the
Savannah appears to have caused little
excitement, until it became known that
she had safely arrived at Liverpool.
Newspaper enterprise was at a dis
count in those days, and we' find little
material from which to write a history
of the event. Our engraving is taken
from an old picture, wliich has the fol
lowing legend: Steamship Sa
vannah, Captain Mo3es Bodgers. The
first steamship that crossed the Atlantic
Ocean. "Was built in New York, and
sailed March 28, 1819; arrived in Sa
vannah, after a passage of six days,
thence to Liverpool in thirty-one days.
"When entering tho St. George's Chan
neLoff the city of Cork, she was descried
by the commander of the British fleet,
lying in'that city. Seeing, a volume of
smoke ascending from the steamer, he
naturally concluded she was on fire,
and with commendable promptitude
dispatched two cutters to her relief ; on
boarding they found her all right. She
steamed for Liverpool"; on nearing the
city the piers were thronged with
thousands of people, who greeted her
with enthusiastic cheers." The regis
try of the Savannah, made March 27,
1819, the day before she left New York
for the city after which sue was named,
states that she was owned by a coax-
pany of which "William Scarborough, of
Savannah, was President; that she was
built in New York by Samuel Fickett
and "William Crockett, master carpen
ters; that she had one deck and three
masts; was ninety-eight feet six inches
in length, twenty-five feet ten inches
in breadth, fourteen feet two inches in
depth, had a burden of 319.70-95 tons,
and was a square-sterned ship. As will
be seen by the picture, she carried a'
good load of canvas, and, according to
the best authorities, this helped her to
England more than her steam, as a mat
ter of fact. She left Savannah May
22. 1819, and did not reach Liverpool
until June 22 a trip of thirty-one
days. She subsequently visited" St.
Petersburg and Stockholm, and did
not return until December. Her vov
age occupied so much time, and was so
expensive, that it discouraged, rather
than encouraged, attempts at ocean
steam navigation, and it was not until
1833 that any further serious attempts
were made at ocean steamship navi
gation. In that year the Boyal "Wil
liam made the trip from Quebec to
London in twenty-five days. In 1838
regular voyages began to be made, the
pioneers being the Sirius and Great
Western, the former of which made
the distance from London to New York
in seventeen days, and the latter from
Bristol to Now York in fifteen days.
This was a great advance on tho time
made by the Savannah and the Boyal
"William, but seems slow, indeed, com
pared Avith the rapidtransit of the pres
ent time. The last-named steamers
were much larger than the craft of
Capt. Moses Bodgers, and we may pre-""
sunie that Dr. Larduerwas less skepti
cal as to tho ultimate success of the
enterprise, when he witnessed or learn
ed their proportions.
It is claimed by some "historians that
the Savannah was not, in the strict
sense of the term, the first steamship
to cross the ocean, but that the honor
belongs to the Boyal AVilliam. which
was built at Quebec in 1S30-31, and in
August, 1833, sailed for London, where
she arrived after a prosperous trip of
twenty-five days. It is claimed and
we believe it is true that the Savan
nah was not an ocean steamer, but a
regular-built, full-rigged sailing ship,
and that she depended more largely
upon her sails than upon her crude
paddle-wheels. In fact, it is averred
CAPT. JAMES GOUDIE.
by many navigators that without her
sails she would never have been able
to reach tho shores of England. Theso
'claims are borne out bv the fact that
on her return to New York, after her
first and only voyage across the ocean,
her engines wero taken out, her side
wheels unshipped, and she resumed
her place in the lino as a regular sail
ing packet.
On the other hand, the Boyal "Will
iam was built expressly for an ocean
steamer, and was the first of her class
to cross the Atlantic.
James Goudie, the man who super
intended the construction of tho Boyal
William, is still living in Chicago, and
in excellent halth and spirits, al
though over 81 years of age. In a let
ter written by' lim not long ago he
says: I proceeded to Qncliec in M y, 1150, and was
engaged to carry oul tho plum- ndc nstructiou
of vessel. Sho was laid down i tho f ill of 1633.
and completed in 1S31. Tho Into, .of tho sea
son at which tho ship was got reudy precluded
her from doing much that season. Tho ne6
j ear opened up with icry poor prospects. Chol
era had inadu ita appinrancH at Quebec, and
lmsinoss was almost entirely suspended. So
sho was run at a great loss, ultimately being
laid up. Tho following year sbo was run a low
trips at a loss, and it wno decided in tho month
of August, 1S3 i, to send her to London, Kngland.
for sale. Sho arrived out after a prosperous trip
of twentv-flve days. Sho was pnt np for sale,
and was finally sola to tho Spanish Govornmenc
for 10,000 sterling, having coot in building i.'1'J,
000, Halifax currency.
The Boyal William was by the Span
ish Government rechristened the Isa
bel Segunda, and added to the Spanish
navy. Thus she was tho first steam
ship ever employed as a man-of-war,
ancJ the first in any service to be un
der fire. And she was designed and
constructed on this side of the Atlan-
tie, and by an American shipbuilder.
A Singular Community.
The valley of Gressoney is one of tho
most beautifid localities in the Italian
Alps. It also has a curious history.
In the eleventh century it was coloniz
ed by German soldiers, to whom it had
been given by King Otto in recogni
tion of their valiant services to him.
The descendants of these soldiers,
though in a strange land, have stuck
fast to their German traditions. They
still speak German and keep up the
closest connection with Germany,
which they consider their fatherland.
Their daughters are educated in the
best German schools and seminaries.
When the young women come borne
from the big cities of the north, how
ever, they are compelled by their par
ents to lay aside their fino Berlin and
Frankfort garments to don the curious
costumes of their forefathers, and to
learn to bake, scrub and wash as their
mothers 'and grandmothers did before
them.
The cleanliness of "Gressonari" has
made them famous throughout Italy,
ft 13 a proverb that their barns are
cleaner than other people's houses.
German is spoken in the family,
French in the churches, and Italian
in the schools. Consequently all the
Gressonari know at least three lan
guages. l
The wheels of matrimonial life run
more smoothly where there is alittla
juvenile.
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