TWO SIDES OF LIFE, There is a shady side of life, And a sunny side as well, And 't is for every one to say On which he'd choose to dwell; For every one unto himself Commits a grievous sin, Who bars the blessed sunshine out, And shuts the shadows in. The clouds may wear their saddest robes, ‘I'he sun refuse to smile, And sorrow, with her troop of ills, May threaten us the while; But still the cheerful heart has power A sunbeam to provide, And only those whose souls are dark, Dwell on life's shady side. Then wear a happy heart, my friend, And fix your faith above; A heavenly Father may afliiet, But does it all in love, And they who strive to do His will, And read His words aright, With songs of triumph on their lips, Walk always in the light, ~The Ledger. STRANGE ZENAS COWLEY, A TRUE HERE are a few men yet living who have STORY. killed panther in this | Pennsyl- | State and vania, but I don't be- lieve there is one, ex- cept myself, who can boast of having caught one of those fierce and now almost forgotter beasts alive, * handicapping by snare | or trap or cripy with gun,” said Ze: C. Cowley, of Wyom. Ing, N. Y. Mr. Cowley is in his nis first year, and, says a place to the New York Sun mind and body as a man s (Fen ps a NT ee Va Cattaraugus Count six years ago | but four y¥ Stamford, was born parents | g from th place with all their belongings to Cayuga village, at the head of Cayuga Lake, 120 miles distant. The plucky four-year-old wulked nearly the whole distanc ing the sheep. At the age o his father an i drowned 1a Cs came and al Until 1828 he forests whicl Genesee Vell gest and most § mous ri great salt naturally to the life game was still a 1828. In that most unbrok headwaters of Potter and M falling in love witl pioneer in that wild and he married | famous Cowley Run, until named, received its nas having put the stream pine forest a pose in going Pennsylvania wilderness was the capture of s panther alive, which, with the aid of a compan fon, and after the most extraordinary adventure with one of those fierce beasts on record, he succeeded in In the fall of 1827 he had met a huster pamed Hubbard Stark weather, and they hunted together successfully in the Genesee country, had a areas of { weiss er and up Dis cabin i taken up doing. Etarkweather been down in the Pennsylvanis wilder- ness hunting bears, and his stories of bear and panther that abounded there so interested Cowley that he determined on the trip of 1528, *‘I bad never yet seen a wild panther,” says the nonagenarian hunter, *‘but I made up my mind that I could capture one alive, and that was my special pur- pose in going down on the Sinnema- honing that year. Starkweather and | got into camp on the head of Potato Creek and the Sinnemshoning on the day Jacksou was elected President in | 1828. We were right into the great paather country, but although we hunt. ed faithfully until January we never came across one, and packed up to leave the woods; greatly disappointed. But the day we broke camp, and on our way to Elk Lick, much to our delight we struck a big panther's track in the snow, we followed him, The plan I had thought for catching a panther alive was to get one up a tree, then climb the tree with a big steel trap, get within reach of the panther, and hold the trap toward him with the jaws set From what 1 had learned of the nat: c¢ of the | panther I knew thas when the trap was thus stuck under one's nose he would resent the familiarity by striking the trap, which would spring and catch him by the leg he siruck with, Then we would have him a% a disadvantage, and could manage to bind him so he would be unable to do us any harm, It was a first class plan, but swing to some little objection on the part of the panther it didn't work. “We followed the track a couple of miles and come up with the panther curled up under the roots of a tree, Ho bounded away through the snow, but our dog pressed him so closely that he treed, That was according to . . We had left our trap Where we started on the track, not to be bur. dened by it, and I intended to go back and get it should we succeed in putting the panther up a tree. Having suc. in that, I concluded to climb the tree and see if I couid get close enough to the penther before 1 went back through the deep snow and lugged the The panther was going west and | trap up. I climbed the tree and soon found that the trap part of our pro gramme would have to be abandoned, for as I drew near the panther he kept backing away toward the small end of the limb he was on, and the trap could not have been shoved near enough to him for him to have the chance of re- senting it. I noticed that my move- ments in the tree shook snow from the limbs above him down upon him, and he didn't like it a bit. We could have shot him easy enough, but I was bound to bave him alive. We had to get him out of the tree first though, and so I went down out of it, and telling Hub Starkweather to cut a stout crotchet stick, I threw clubs in the tree, so as to knock snow down on him and in front of bam, This kept him backing still further out the limb until he got so far that it was too small to hold him, and pretty soon he came tumbling down into the The tree was on a steep side hill, and I had gone up the hill until I was on a level with him. When he fell the dog pitched into him, and I rushed to the aid of the dog. I grabbed the panther by his long tail. He turned like a flash on me, and but for the dog would have had me foul before I could have swung out of his way. The dog seized him in front and the panther turned back in an attempt to get his claws on that foe, of which, fortunately, he stood more in fear than he seemed to do of me. As it was, I had all I could do, aided by and wary dog, to keep in the panther, so agile was he under all of his Was on fnow, rear of the handicapping and so flexible his ; body. I was battling at the il end of the panther to Hub " } $ ich ha stick, which he up with his crotched was an awful getting, J A8 wing not a little | uneasy over that perilious tail hold, I] | myself, and ot him to fete run, shove it over t a purchase with | around ia t » ¥ f | the end of th I was at rot It ready and came to the first put the b rwmnthor’ panthers He : panther s neck and and hold him be hel ald. down ove down that w ay, ] heavily lown on his sto interferred with his wind, we had him at a great for he couldn tt turn back the string tty near had the hed , and the string that Ihe active hind feet were « 3 crote stick, held 3 got those the same way and tied them to the fore feet. got the koapsacks and drew it down as far as 1 could over panther’s head and fastened it there, and we had the king of the forest a help less prisoner, If any one ever captured a full-grown and savage panther with. out the sid of a trap, before or since that time, I never heard of it. Blind folded, and his four feet bound, laid the panther on of our blankets, tied the four corners to. gether, and, running a pole through, carried our prize to Bizerville, five miles down the Sinnemahoning portage, put { him in a and shipped him by | wagon to Wyoming. man in Batavia, who went about the country peddling. This man killed the panther the next summer by dousing it with water in its cage, he thinking he was doing the animal a kindness by thus cooling it off as it panted with heat, He couldn't have taken a surer way to kill | » panther than that. They can't stand | water applied in that way, But | caught bim another one | years after that, It was the next year after] had gone back into Pennsylvania to | settle there. You see, when Stark weather and I were there, in 1828, there was a family named Sizer lived five miles from where we camped, We wed to take our washing down there to be done, and | ==well, I went back to Pennsylvania, and, in 1830 I married Mary Sizer, i built a sawmill at the mouth of a big run that came into the Sinnemshoning where the village of Sizersville, Cameron County, is now. The stream bad no pame, but it soon becmne known as | Cowley run, and has been that on the | maps ever since, I put up a hewn pine | loghouse, rnd in course of time I owned { 7000 acres of the best pine land that lay | in that country. If | owned it now I'd be the richest man in Wyoming County, Yaat's a2 much as a whole township. Of a little wore than one-soventh of it that I sold for a few thousand dollars, the purchaser cut 30,000,0 0 feot of pine alone, worth about $1,000,000, “When we went to housekeeping on Cowley Run the wolves weed to come right to the door aud carry off geese. I've trapped wolves within fifteen rods of the Louse. 1 killed and trapped 150 wolves before thoy all disappeared, and as there was a bounty during that time ranging from 88 to $25 a that kind of hunting was quite The year the bounty was $38 [ teapped one of with we one cage, the quick | | McKean County, a few had I kept shouting | | was go 1 dee while in | {| had an g crotch over his hands | the | tied in | | t | prisoner, as Hub Starkweather and [ had | | | : : st last, and drew them up | Then I | | country. We sold him to a | | banks of three or four | fourteen wolves in McKean County, and the county officers protested, saying that I would ruin the county, and begged me to quit trapping. There was very little money in those days, but the county orders for woll scalps went as good as currency. Wolves were the shyest ani- mals in the woods, and they were ex- ceediugly hard to trap, I shot and wounded a big wolf once, and as it lay on the hillside where I had shot it I be- gan howling up the rest of the pack to which it belonged, and I could hear them howling in a hollow some distance away. They kept answering my howls, apd drawing nearer. | expected to get a shot at one of them before long. They had got quite near, answering me every time, when suddenly the wounded wolf dragged itsell down the hill directly toward me, and when it was quite near me it gave a peculiar howl, evidently di- rected toward its companions, Whether that was a warning given by the wounded woll or not I can't say, but I know that I could not get the pack to answer my howls again, and Isaw and heard no more of them. “Elk were still plentiful years after I went into Pennsylvania. Ibere were scores of natural licks all around in the locality where I lived, and elk used to visit them in herds, 1 have killed many, sand could have killed a great many more, but I never cared much for elk, The common pas- ture for cattle in those days was the John Chadwick, who lived miles from me, cattle running in the of the birth to an elk Deer were more than abundant on for several a good woods. in some young wo ple one 8CAROU, and one heifers surprised him by giving calf. the hills and in the valleys, and there r huating on o grow slim elsewhere in Cowley Rur when it beg Potten an Counties. Ti because 1 never hunted de wer hunters ir dogs in those were woods } mngeable law of secon 1 to the i " } : 1 he saw th one tremendous | ordinary sized Next day ywed Lhe i one, 1 foll ’ nd we cornered it. With : I made this ne \ Goss one =» he big one two years before. I kept | the panther in a cage in my cellar until he following spri g ng, sod thea sold lam | , | to the Batavia peddiar, and got a Bible the | { or it-~this same family Bible, and I | | bave read it through a good many times | | since ti en. “My earliest recollection ® says Nono- genarian Zonas Cowley, **is of the im- menses rambers of trout with which the headwaters of the Delaware swarmed, and of going into the woods and cutting a fish pole. I cut my big toe nearly off at the same time, and carry the scar yet. [ couldn't have been much more than three years old then, for it was a long time before we started for the lake I remember one day, early in the winter, being with my sister on the the Delaware, The ico was thin on the water, and we were amusing ourselves by throwing up stones so they would fall back on the ice and break through. At last a stone I had thrown in the air fell and made quitea big hole, and out of it popped a hig trout, and flopped about on the ice. We got it ashore. My father took the fish aad used it for bait for his mink traps, and caught threo minks with it.” When he was seventy-three years of age Mr. Cowley went out on the plains buffalo hunting, and killed six fine speci- mens, Many years ago some one stole one of his bear traps 1n Pennsylvania. He has lately obtained what he believes is 6 olue to the thiel, and if the evidence should be substantiaated the veteran de. clares that be would travel all the way to Cowley Run to have the thief pun. ished. Mr. Cowley never used liquor or tobacco, and has been an ardent church member for more than sixty years, He returned to Wyoming County with an ample fortune from the Pennsylvania forest thirty yetrs ago, and is living in Wyoming with his second wife, uni. versally esteemed for his sterling quali- ties as a man and citizen, EE ———— Large Nallma king Machine. 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