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FOREST AND STREAM. 



tDEC. 39, 1893. 



PALLAD. 



BT O. O. S. 



Di) vintry vind Ish plowin', 



Der croundt ish vite mit shnow, 

 De leetle pirds vot singen 



All to de Soud dit go; 

 Und in dere blace de rafens, 



Und ploochays vot can't sing, 

 la groakin' and a schreamin' 



Und all dat sort of ting. 



De vaggon vlieels go greakin' 



All in de schnowy roadts, 

 Und icigles so peaudifiil 



To de trifer's nose isb growed; 

 Und de horses mit dere noses, 



So pig und red und round, 

 Ish plowin' shteam like avery dings, 



Shoost like a enchine sound, 



De shickens not can scratchen, 



Und kitsomedings to eats. 

 So dey shtands demselves oopon von leks 



Und varm dere leetle feets. 

 It's fun do pe a shickens, 



Mit fedders shlick und nice, 

 Und pool your feed ub van dere cold, 



Id's de pulliest ding on ice. 



De caddies all ish hoongry, 



Dey don'd go far afay. 

 Bud go behind de vaggons round. 



All loaded fool mit hay. 

 Dat's easy way do fodder, 



Id dond cosht anydings; 

 I dink I knows some beoples 



Vat does shoost de same tinge. 



Somedimes.id's pooty vindy, 



At leasht vill bass for dat, 

 Ven id plow de hair ofE of your het 



Und plind you like a pat. 

 Mit dust a vlyin' in your eyes, 



Und shtones und shnow und shticks, 

 Und durn yourumpril inside cud, 



Ond all dese gind of dricks. 



De shtreams ish covered ofer 



Mit shrouds so cold und vite. 

 Bud lifeth, aldough in a crafe, 



Und bitten from de light. 

 Yfd, in de coming shpring dime, 



Ven natcher laughs mit clee, 

 'Tvill shparkle in deisonnenschein 



LXnd ripple merrily. 



So ish id mit each von of us 



Vot roams dis vorld around. 

 Ven fortune ish soom gontrary 



Und all our plans ice-pound. 

 Haf batience shoost a leedle vilel 



Id isn't alfays vinter, 

 De vheel durns round, our durn vill coom, 



Dere's notings den vill hinter. 



De dimes ish bassing rapidly, 



Ve don't got long do shtay, 

 A few short years of lapor 



Ve doo vill bass afay. 

 Id's hoory, vork und droubles 



De vhile ve lingers here, 

 Und of vhe dond look scharply oud 



'TvlU pe mooch more so dere, 



De old man Ninedy-dwo ieh cray, 



He's feeble ash can pe, 

 H« basses shwiftly oud of sight 



Und ender Ninety-tree. 

 So vhile ofer de fading pasht 



Ve drops a barting dears, 

 Ve hopeful say mit crasped hands, 



"De Habbieat of New Years!" 



THE HUNTING PROSPECTOR. 



(See Swpplement niustration.) 



The life of a prospector in the mountains of the forest 

 is a rough one, but one not devoid of charms and attrac- 

 tions for many. 



It is a life free from the restraints, cares, conventional- 

 ities and annoying trifles of society and civilization; and 

 there is in the soul of most every man a slumbering de- 

 sire to throw aside, for a time at least, all bonds and 

 trammels and become a salvage, once more living, as his 

 ancestors did in the ages past, the life of a free unre- 

 strained animal. 



The life in the open air, pure and free from all that can 

 contaminate it, and the necessity of a plain, though 

 hearty diet, serve to give the average prospector perfect 

 health, and while he may suffer hardships and be deprived 

 of all that to the dweller in the city makes life worth liv- 

 ing for, in the way of luxuries and even the common 

 comforts of life, still the prospector is ligh-hearted and 

 happy. He rises in the morning, and cooks his simple 

 meal, and eats it with a relish unknown to civilization ; 

 and shouldering his tools, proceeds to search for that hid-! 

 den wealth which he hopes to uncover with every stroke 

 of his pick, or lay bare with every "blast" he sets off. 



Buoyed up by hope, life looks rosy to the hardy toiler, 

 as he labors on in. the "drift," sinks his "shaft," or runs 

 his "tunnel" into the mountain side, and thoughts of how 

 he will spend his "pile" when made keep his brain busy 

 and drive away all loneliness. 



The illustration accompanying this is no fancy scene 

 ■but was taken from life in the mountains of Idaho, near 

 the South Boise River, about 100 miles from the Union 

 Pacific R. R. 



The amateur artist who made the photograph, was liv- 

 ing in th*^ mountains in a little outside mining camp, and 

 the "subject" was camped near by. One momir^ when 

 our prospector arose to cook his bacon and coffee the 



camera was placed, and when he seated himself, the lens 

 was uncovered an instant — and we had him. 



In the foreground sits the prospector, just in the act of 

 pouring out his coffee. His tin plate lies on a convenient 

 log. At his side is his bread pan, with his "sour dough" 

 cake. Above his head a primitive shelf holds the syrup 

 jar and the sugar bag. At the extreme right can be seen 

 the "fireplace" and cooking pots, while on the left the 

 entrance to his sleeping hut or "wickyup" made of fir 

 boughs, shows darkly. In this hut he slept during rain 

 and snow storms in September and October. The pros- 

 pector's "gold-pan" leans against the boughs of the 

 "wickyup'' and his axe is where he can easily find it. 

 Though the morning is cold and frosty , a pair of overalls 

 and a shirt were all our hardy prospector thought neces- 

 sary to don as a breakfast toilet. No one objects to his 

 "stvle" and he is "monarch of all he surveys." 



When ready to move his camp, his little pony is brought 

 in from some neighboring gulch, all the camp equipage 

 is packed on its back; and off goes our ■ prospector for 

 some new camp. 



If his larder is growing low, he shoulders his rifle and 

 hunts a day or until he can hang up a deer: then with 

 plenty of venison, some flour and coffee he is happy, until 

 the deep snows of winter drive him to some mountain 

 town. Or he may put up a little log cabin in some valley, 

 where the game "signs" are good; and here with a winter's 

 supply of grab he stays and traps and hunts until spring, 

 when he goes to some frontier city and sells the furs and 

 skins he has taken during the winter. If he is of a more 

 industrious nature he gets work, doing anything that 

 turns up, generally preferring, however, to work in some 

 mine in some large "camp." In either case he saves his 

 money; and when spring comes and the snow has disap- 

 peared from the mountain sides, our prospector starts out 

 again to seek his fortune, "Hoping on, hoping ever." 



The subject of this sketch is a man who has a hunting 

 record that few men can equal, as he killed in fair combat 

 with a club and a common butcher knife a silvpr-tip 

 grizzly bear. Prairie Doa. 



THE CHARMS OF LAKE WORTH. 



Anglers and tourists to Florida hear of the beauties of 

 the Indian River, and apparently with the satisfaction 

 that they have "seen it all," terminate their trip either 

 at Rockledge or Juniper Inlet, thereby misFing Lake 

 Worth, the gem of the South Atlantic coast. It is easily 

 and comfortably reached from Jupiter by a narrow 

 gauge railway, eight miles in length, to Juno, where 

 small steamers are in waiting to convey persons and bag- 

 gage to points on the lake. 



The lake is a salt water lagoon, about twenty-two miles 

 long and one mile wide, formed by the ocean receding, 

 and forming a narrow ridge of sand, now about one mile 

 wide at its widest part. It is connected with the sea by 

 a shallow inlet at its northern end, through which the 

 tide ebbs and flows, The channel in the lake is 200 or 

 300ft. wide, with water 6 to 8ft. deep, decreasing very 

 much in depth at the southern half of the lake. 



The cUmate is very greatly influenced and tempered 

 both in winter and summer by the Gulf Stream, which 

 passes close to the shore at this point. The normal 

 winter temperature is about 70° to 75°, falling to 40° 

 under the influence of "cold northers," and probably 

 once a winter the very tender leaves of the banana trees 

 will be lightly touched by frost or affected by the low 

 temperature. 



The scenery of this section is entirely tropical, the 

 native palmetto palm, with its bunchy, plumelike!top, 

 being very conspicuous above the other foliage; with 

 numerous cocoanut palms, in the vicinity of each settle- 

 ment, lifting their graceful fronds above, entirely differ- 

 ent from any other foliage. Behind these are frequently 

 seen those red and golden tropical sunsets, where every- 

 thing is still; the smoke, rising from a cottage chimney 

 while the evening meal is being prepared, apparently 

 stands up in a straight, perpendicular line, with deflnite 

 and sharp edges, until it vanishes 50ft. above; a synonym 

 of silence. To this tropical foliage and scenery must be 

 added at day dawn the sonsrs of mockingbirds, robins 

 and catbirds; numbers of redbirds, crested woodpeckers 

 and other birds common to the North, who are also en- 

 joying the climate. At night the whippoorwills keep up 

 a continuous condemnation of poor William. Almost 

 any day the strange and apparently awkward -looking 

 pelicans may be seen feeding in the lake, and flamingos 

 ranged in line on the sandbars. 



The cocoanut palms, as nearly every one knows, origi- 

 nated here by a Spanish bark being wrecked on the coast 

 in 1879, and the nuts were washed ashore and scattered 

 along the beach for mUes. Cocoanuts are now shipped 

 North in large numbers, amounting to over 2,000 barrels 

 in 1891; besides, considerable numbers are sprouted and 

 planted in the vicinity. 



The strip of sand, one mile wide, between the lake and 

 the ocean for about five miles of its length, appears to 

 have the richest soil in this section. Here are located the 

 extensive tropical gardens, costly mansions and tasteful 

 cottages of the Northerners, a number of whom come 

 long distances and have braved many discomforts in 

 years past to enjoy six winter months of ideal out of 

 doors existence. Visitors must not forget that they are 

 near the frontier in this section, and that all the comforts 

 and conveniences that the natives and land owners now 

 have and enjoy were brought from and produced mostly 

 m the North, and the skilled labor from at least as far as 

 Jacksonville, 330 miles. 



A description of these tropical gardens would alone 

 make an interesting article. Those of Mr. Cragin of 

 Philadelphia, Mr. McCormick, of Denver, and Mrs. Lane 

 of New York, are the most extensive. Some of these 

 gardens are said to be worth $80,000, and land near the 

 hotels $1,000 per acre. Tropical plants and trees from a! ■ 

 parts of the world are gathered here. Walks shaded by 

 groves of cocoanut palms are laid out in geometrical pat- 

 terns bordered with concrete curbs, and with the lawns 

 protected by curved sea walls of concrete and coquina on 

 the lake front. Oleanders, hybiscus and passion flowers 

 are m bloom Mangoes, guavos, limes, lemons, oranges, 

 figs, sappadillas, date palms, bananas, pineapples and 

 early vegetables are common in all the gardens; some 

 have strawberries ripe in February, and tomatoes in 

 abundance m March. Rubber trees, roval ponceana, 

 paradise, coffee, travelers, and numbers of curious trees 

 ornament the gardens, and the gnarled straegling arms 

 of great hve oaks covered with knobs and bunches of two 



varieties of orchids and hanging moss, by weird contrast 

 add to the beauties. 



The cacti garden is alone worth an extension of your 

 trip to gee. Walks 20 feet wide and one mile long, bor- 

 dered with cocoanut, palms, oleanders and azaleas, lead 

 from the lake front, where are located all the residences 

 and hotels, to the ocean front, which is almost a perpen- 

 dicular bluff from 10 to 15 feet in height, with a steep 

 and narrow beach of crushed shells and little sand, upon 

 which with a magnificent surf the ocean breaks, in color 

 a clear, bright, ultamarine blue, entirely different from 

 the dull, green color of the ocean on the New Jersey 

 coast. In a ditch along one of the avenues may be seen 

 two alligators, each 7 feet in length, with their young; 

 somewhat tame, being accustomed to being fed, so that 

 you can approach within six feet of them. 



The western shore of the lake, and for four miles into 

 the interior, is occupied mostly by homestead settlers, 

 many of the most .recent ones being negroes. Here are 

 large pineapple plantations, each year increasing in num- 

 bers and in production. Thirty miles to the west is Lake 

 Okechobee and settlements of the Seminole Indians, who 

 occasionally make their appearance at Fort Worth, gen- 

 erally dressed as the "white man." A short walk of two 

 miles takes you into the Everglades,where you walk ovf r 

 the dazzling white level sand, with a hard crust like 

 snow, in which your foot makes only a slight impression, 

 the toe of your shoe cutting a little cup in the sand as 

 you walk. Here are the dwarf evergreens of several vari- 

 eties, that for ornamental purposes would make a quick 

 fortune could they be transported to and withstand the 

 climate of the North. 



On the west shore of Lake Worth are at least two 

 oyster shell mounds 1 0 feet in height of pre-bistoric origin , 

 and several canal-like excavations, both objects of inter- 

 est and study. Nearly all the sea lish are found in the 

 lake, such as blueflsh, spotted sea ttout, cavall6, gray 

 snapper, barracuda, pompano, sawfish and mullet, only 

 the three first kinds were Caught by me during my visit 

 last winter, as they were the most numerous, or at least 

 the easiest caught. Mullet or cut fish was used for bait. 

 Red fish or channel bass were heard drumming, but none 

 were caught, as suitable bait could not readily be obtainedi 

 Tarpon are not found here, although they are caught 

 north and south of this point. For the angler or epicure 

 who is fond of fish food, the delicate and delicious pom- 

 pano fresh from the water will be a revelation. These 

 are generally caught in nets and served on all the 

 steamers and at the hotels. During a " norther " which 

 lasted three days, mullets could not be caught for bait, 

 and the game fish would not bite. To a northern person 

 until acclimated, these cold winds are very unpleasant. 

 The visitors from the Northwest, with clothing suitable 

 there for temperatm-es 20° or 80° below zero, were Un- 

 comfortable and hugged the stoVe * while the native 

 without any underclothing on, would .probably wear his 

 coat for a change or stay indoors until 9 or 10 o'clock a. m. 



The largest fish caught were 111b, bluefish, 171b. ca- 

 valle and 8lb. spotted sea trout. Nineteen bluefish, 

 weighing from 3 to Bibs, each, were caught in less than 

 two hours with rod and line without chumming, by two 

 persons, one a novice, and we quit fishing because we 

 had as many as could be used, and not because they 

 ceased biting. AU the fish were fat and in excellent 

 condition. For the hunter innumerable flocks of ducks 

 are at times on the lake, mostly bluebills. Deer are found 

 two or three miles in the Everglades. 



The last of March is the end of the visitors' season for 

 several reasons. The principal reason is that continuous 

 south winds then hold the water out of the Indian River 

 and make the water so low as to seriously interfere with 

 navigation by the steamboats, which, although only 

 drawing 3ft. of water, makes the time and length of 

 their trips very uncertain. Another is that the sections 

 further north are becoming more jjleasant. From my ob- 

 servation, there is no place on the east coast of Florida, 

 north of Lake Worth in the winter where the air is so 

 soft and balmy, and in which invalids recover their 

 strength so quickly as here. The air is so dry that beef 

 can be kept indefinitely, and cured by simply hanging it 

 in the open air. There are numererous hotels and board- 

 ing-houses ranging in price from $2 to §4 per day. Among 

 them are the Cocoanut Grove House at Palm Beach : Lake 

 Worth Hotel, Oak Lawn House and Pitts's Island House. 

 The last two are nearest the inlet and therefore most 

 suitable for anglers. There is a daily mail to and from 

 the North and telephone from Juno to the telegraph sta- 

 tion at Jupiter. 



For those who care to venture further south without 

 going to sea, to Miami and Biscayne Bav, there will this • 

 season be operated by the J. T. & K. W. R. R. a stage 

 line trip of two days from the lower end of Lake Worth, 

 J. M. T. 



AN INDIAN RIVER CRUISER. 



I SEND you a photograph of the large sharpie Bristol, 

 formerly owned by the lateEdwardlngraham, of Bristol, 

 Conn. The Bristol is a typical Florida cruiser, being 



THE BRISTOL. 



built for the Indian Rivpr and similar waters. She i=! 

 77ft. overal, 73ft. l.w.l., 24ft. beam, 6in. draft forward 

 and 27in. aft. She was built by J . McFadden, of Mel- 

 bourne, on the Indian River, in 1891. She is schooner- 

 rirged and has a large cabin house elegantly furnished, 

 offering accommodations for a large party. The yacht cm 



