Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — DANIEL BOONE’S LIFE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DANIEL BOONE’S LIFE.

ROMANTIC CAREER OF THE PIONEER. , i Stands Prominently Forward Arnone American Adventurers—Captured by Indiana and Adopted Into Tbeir Tribe —Escaped and Saved Settlement. Died in Missouri. AMONG the romantic characters which the early history of our country has furnished Daniel Boone stands prominently forward. He was one of that large band of pioneers whose tolls and privations, heroism and courage have gone far to make the country what it Is. That we to-day enjoy civilization and peace Is due In a great degree to these men’s labors. 1 Daniel Boone was In Bucks County, Pa., Feb. 11, 1735. His father was an Englishman who had come to

this country with his wife and here settled. Daniel received the barest rudiments of an education, but he became well versed in ;all the knowledge jof a trapper and hunter and Inured 'to the sufferings land hardships of ‘pioneer life. When ’he was 18 he moved with his family Into North Caro-

llna and here he married Rebecca Bryan and passed several years as a farmer. After a time this life palled on him and he wearied of the monotony even of this seml-clvllizatlon. Accordingly when he was Invited, in 1769, to loin an exploring party to Kentucky, he eagerly accepted. Boone in Kentucky. The party traveled to the banks of the Red river and there they halted for several months. Hunting, fishing and encounters with Indians filled their days. In December Boone and a companion named Stewart were captured by the Indians, but with great Ingenuity managed to escape and rejoin their friends. They were soon recaptured and Stewart was this time killed, but Boone got away again. In 1771 he returned home with the spoils he had taken and settled down again for three years. The spirit of adventure still was strong In him, however, and In 1773 he sold his farm and In company with his own family, bls two brothers and five neighbors and their families started to Kentucky to settle. They met with much opposition from Indians on the way and were even forced to retreat to the Clinch River In Virginia, where they encamped for several months. However, they all finally arrived safely at their new home and began preparations for a settlement. Boone erected a stockade fort on the Kentucky river, which he called Boonesborough, and hero the family made their home. Captured by Indiana, In 1778 Boone went to the Blue Licks to obtain salt for the settlement, of which It was greatly In need, and here the Indians captured him and took him to Detroit. His knowledge of the Indian character enabled him to make his captors friendly to hhn and he was adopted into one of the first families of the tribe. He had not been

living with the Indians long when he discovered that the British had laid plans for an Indian, attack on Boonesborough. He managed to elude his captors and returned to his fort, making the journey in the short space of five days. lie successfully repelled the attack which was soon made, and achieved a great victory over his enemies. While he was at Detroit, Boone’s family, hearing no news of him, supposed he had been killed, and moved back again to North Carolina. Here Boone found them, and great was the joy of all at being once more restored to each other. In 1780 the family returned to Kentucky, where they continued to live until 1702. Kentucky was at (that time admitted into the United States ana much litigation arose as to the titles of lands held by settlers. Boone lost all his possessions and in disgust he retired into the wildness of Missouri, settling on the Femme Osage river, about forty-five miles west of St. Louis, where he resided until 1804. This region belonged to Spain, and Boone was appointed commandant of the district, receiving a large tract of land for his services. This also he subsequently lost possession of. In 1812, however, Congress bestowed on him another tract in recognition of his eminent public services. Boone’s later years passed uneventfully at the home of his son-fn-law, Flanders Callaway, in Missouri, and here he died Sept. 26, 1820. His remains are buried in . Franklin, Ky., wherv they were removed from Missouri in 1845, and over them an appropriate monument has been erected by the people of that State. Food and Wages Two Centuries Ago. “’The question of prices in those days, the first quarter of the seventeenth century, as compared Id these lFfiill t>f

Interest to and It Is satisfactory to find that food was not fabulously cheap in the days of our forefathers. aa wo <re often led to believe. Mary Verney writes to Ralph at Blois complaining bitterly of the dearness of provisions in London. Beef Is 4d., veal and mutton Bd., while Pen Verney reckons Bs. a week too much for her diet, which is afterward fixed at £6 a year. Twelve pounds a year seems a great deal for willful little Betty, aged 13, to spend on her dress, but country bred as she was, she declines, Mary writes, to wear anything but silk. The sum of £3O claimed by Nancy Denton, who was a,spoiled child and rich man’s daughter, is far more appropriate to her position. In fact, the febs earned by physicians in those days were far in excess of what we should give now, in spite of the exceeding simplicity—not to say remarkable unpleasantness—of their pharmacopoeia and treatment Dr. Theodore Mayence, the fashionable doctor, left £140,000 (equivalent to over half a million) behind him, and Sir Ralph is miserable because he cannot afford to pay Dr. Denton the £SO which Is the ordinary fee for a confinement A Venetian mirror costs £4O, a portrait by Van Dyke £SO. A maid’s wages come to £3, but the pair of “trlmed gloves," with which It is the fashion to reward any extra services on her part, come to £lss.—an absurdly disproportionate present. The price of Sir Edmund's Covent Garden house is £IOO, and many horses fetch as much, while £2OO a year is the usual price for a boy’s board and teaching in a good French family.—Longman's Magazine.

DANIEL BOONE.

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