52 THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



the skin into pouches, in \vhich they stored their "great 

 medicine." The claws were used as amulets to signify 

 the Indians' victory over the forces of evil, panthers 

 being supposed to have kinship to the ]\Iachtando or 

 Evil One. Panther oil was an efficacious remedy for 

 gall-stones and rheumatism. Hundreds of hunters — 

 among them Colonel Roosevelt — have been attracted to 

 Routt County, Colorado, by the panther hunting, where 

 these animals are trailed with dogs. Robert J. Collier, 

 a New York society man, headed a party of wealthy 

 hunters into this region in November, 1913, to hunt 

 "^Mountain Lions." Colonel C. J. Jones has proviiled 

 similar sport for distinguished visitors at his ranch in 

 Arizona, the pastime there Ijeing to rope the ''var- 

 mints." Pennsylvania can have all this and more, if 

 she will but set about to re-establish the superb sport. 

 In British East Africa, according to A. Barton Hep- 

 burn, of New York City, lions have been placed on 

 the protected list, the limit being four lions per hunter 

 a season. \\'hy cannot Pennsylvania follow this ex- 

 cellent example and protect the Pennsylvania lion ? It 

 is said that an old hunter named Noah Hallman. who 

 spent his last days near the Blue Mountain Amphi- 

 theatre in Northern Berks county, possessed several 

 trained panthers which he used to entice their wild 

 brethren out of the hiding places at the head waters 

 of the Lehigh River. Then the old Nimrod, who was 

 evidently an early prototype of Colonel Jones, would 

 lassoo the panthers and drag them back to his camp in 

 triumjjh. 



