12 THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



Chatham Run. Though within twenty feet of the 

 huge female, the animal made no ettort to molest the 

 gentleman. So much for the great danger of approach- 

 ing where "a panther has its young!" Dr. Caspar 

 Wistar, Professor of .Vnatomy in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, originally owned the land on which the 

 towns of Loganton and Carroll, in Clinton County, 

 now stand. As there were no railroads in those days, 

 Dr. Wistar, when on his periodical visits to Sugar 

 Valley, drove in his own conveyance, accompanied by 

 Hercules, his faithful colored servant. Just previous 

 to one of his visits, Henry Earner, a pioneer, whose 

 "old homestead," near the mouth of Carroll Gap, is 

 still standing, killed a panther in his front yard. He 

 shot the monster, it is said, as it was about to spring at 

 him. It was found to measure more than eleven feet 

 from tip to tip. Upon reaching the neighborhood Dr. 

 Wistar soon learned that an unusually large panther 

 had been killed by Mr. Earner, and immediately pro- 

 ceeded to the home of the settler to ascertain the 

 particulars of the capture. As he approached the 

 dwelling he saw lying in the yard the grinning head 

 of the panther in an advanced stage of decomposition, 

 but, being prompted by a desire to further his scientific 

 researches, he desired to procure it for dissection, re- 

 gardless of its condition. Accordingly he ordered his 

 servant to place the head in his carriage that he might 

 take it to Philadelphia. This the Negro did, but for 

 years afterward he would laugh about "dat limburger 

 smell under de seat." This Nesfro's son became so im- 



