Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 351, 1 February 1908 — Page 7

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BY THEODORE ROOSEv'ELT Copyrighted, Century Company

ANIKL BOOXK will ,-Iways occupy a uni;ue place in our history as the archtype "i the hunter ami wiltlerr.es-.

wanderer. He was a true pioneer, and st jod at the head of that class of Indian-fighters, game-hunters, forest-fcile; and backwoods farmers who, generation after gen eration, pushed westward the border of civilization from tin- Allcghanics t the Pacific. As lie himself said, he ra "an instrument ordained of God to settle the wilderness." 1m. rn in Pennsylvania, drifted south into western North Carolina, and settled on .hat was then the extreme frontier. There 1 e married, built a log cabin, and hunted, chopped trees, and tilled the ground like any other frontiersman. 'I he Alleghany Mountains still marked a boundary beyond which the settlers d a red 1 1 t o; for west of them lay immense reaches of frowning forest, uninhabited save by bands of warlike Indians. Occasionally some venturesome hunter or trapper penetrated this immense wilderness, and returned with strange stories of what he had seen and done. In i(-0) Boone, excited by these vague ami wondrous talcs, determined himself to cross the mountains and rind out what manner of land it was that lay beyond. With a few chosen companions he set out, making his o n trail through the gloomy forest. After weeks of wandering, he at last emerged into the beautiful and fertile country of Kentucky, for which, in after years, the red men and the white strove with such obstinate fury that it grew to be called "the daik and bloody ground." P.ut when Boone lirst saw it. it was a fair and smiling laud cf groves and glades and running waters, where the open forest grew tail and beautiful, and where

!ierd of game grazed, roaming cease-

dong the trails they had trodden

during countless generations. Kentucky was not owned by any Indian tribe, and was isited only b wandering war parties and hunting-parties win came from among the savage nations living north of the Ohio or south of the Tennessee. A roving war-party stumbled upon one of P.oone's companions and killed him. and the others then left Koone and journeyed home; but his brother came out to join him, and the two spent the winter together. Self reliant, fearless, and possessed of Kreat bodily ftrength ami hardihood, they cared little for the loneliness. The teeming myriads of game furnished abundant food ; the herds of shaggy -mailed bison and noble-antlered elk, the bands of e'eer and the numerous b'ack bear, were all ready for the rifle, and they were tame and, easily slain. The wolf and the cougar, too. sometimes fell victims to the prowess of the two hunters. At times they .slept in hollow trees, or in some bush lean-to of their own making: at other times, when they feared Indians, they changed their resting-place every night, and after making a fire would go off a mile or two in the woods to sleep. Surrounded by brute and Iranian foi, thev owed their lives to their sleepier vigilance, their keen sense-, their eagle e e, and their roolute hearts When the spring came, and the woods were whi'e with the dogwood hloor.is. and crimsoned with the red bud. P.oone's brother left him. and Daniel remained for three months alone in the wilderness. The brother soon came back ..gain with a party of hunters; and other parties likewise came in, to -wander for months and years through the wilderness; and they wrought huge havoc among the vast herds of game. In IJJI Poo:-.e returned to his home. Two years !ater he started to lead a party of settlers to the

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Icssly to and fro

By Carolyn Wells THE ACQUIESCENT SNAKE. There once was a man who said, "Why Can't I bok that big snake in the eye ? 99 The snake said "You can' And he looked at the man ('Most any last line wifJ apply.) THE DISOBLIGING BEAR There once was a man who said, "Oh, Flease, good Mr. Bear, let me go: Don't you think that you can? The bear looked at the man, And calmly responded, "Why no!"

FOR THE VERY LITTLE ONES

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AN ELEPHANT TRAINED BY A CHILD.

How many children who have seen the great cTumsy elephants in the circus would .marine that hese animals can be trained to be the playthings of children. It sounds strange indeed, but it is true enough. There is at least one little girl who has trained an elephant to do all sorts of tricks r.d who has him as a daily playfellow. This little girl is named Hattie, and her father is a celebrated trainer of wild animals in a great menagerie. The

' tlephant was brought from Ceylon some years ago, and little Ilattic took a great and sudden liking t him. Whether this elephant prefers life in Ceylon to life in the menagerie is uncertain, though she appears to be perfectly contented. At any rat's, those who have a wide knowledge of such subjects Fay that this elephant 's tl j most intelligent and the most amiable elephant that can be found anywhere. The most amusing trick which the child taught

the elephant to perform, according to the verdict of many spectators. Is that of waltzing. Hattie amused many of her friends by taking a light wand in her hand, ar1 walking backwards while in front of the big elephant, whistling or humming a waltrtune. The elephant would follow his mistress, waltzing along in perfect time and really quit gracefully for such a huge creature. Another remarkable trick was that of playing on a mouth-organ while solemnly dancing on the top of a box two feet square. The seriousness with which the big animal did this musical trick alwaa provoked a laugh. l ittle Hattie always maintained that the elephant could play such tunes as "Star-Spangled Banntr and "Yankee Doodle, but eminent musicians vert quite sure that this was merslr a friendly theorjr rather than a fact.

tdge of the countr-, and his ability to travel through it, in spite of the danger from Indian?, created much demand for his services among people who wished to lay off tracts of wild 'and for their own future use. But whatever he did, and wherever he went, he had to be sleepiessly on the lookout for his Indian foes. When he and his fellows tilled the stum; -dotted fields of corn, one or more of the jarty were always on guard, with weapon at the ready, for fear of lurking savages. When he went t the House of Burgesses he carried his long rifle, and traversed roads not a mile of which was free from danger of Indian attack. The settlements in the early years depended exclusively upon game for their meat, Doonc was the mightiest of all hunters, so that upon him devolved the task of keeping his people supplied. He killed many buffaloes, and pickled the buffalo beef for use in winter. He killed great numbers cf black bear, and made bacon of them, precisely as if they had been hogs. The common game were deer and elk. At that time none

The guide, who tells about all the wonders of the visitors through Fairvland cf lhe hunters of Kentucky would waMe a shot n ,,. , . - - , . , . i? w anything o smad as a prairie-chicken or wild duck; now calling out, Turning now from the palace of the Fairy Queen on the but thev sometime killed geese and swans when

rieht. we see, on the left, the roval candy factor3r, absolutelv the largest and tnt" canie south in winter and lit on the river. But busiest place in Fairvland. Go on, Mr. Motorman. Our next stop will be :vhe,ne;er B';0Re1wem f lhe :h frT:: A 1 ' J r !'e 111 perpetual y to keep watch iest he himseit Aladdin S Cave. ' might be hunted in turn. He r.ever lay ;r. wait t a gamc-iick. save with ears strained to hear the ap- ... 1 proach of some crawling red foe. He never crept

up to a t'JTKey ne neara caning, wiir.01.1 exerci;r:

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tew country; but while passing through the frown-

es c: v itmncruud Uap, tney were attacked

-two of Boone's own

The nest lew years were passed by Boone amid

oct

Indians, and driven back-

the utmost care to sec that it was not an Indian;

.-ons being slam. In 1775, however, he made another attempt; and this attempt was successful. The Indians attacked the newcomers: but by this time the parties of would-be settlers were sufficiently numerous to hold their own. They beat back the Indians, and built rough little hamlets, surrounded bv log stockades, at Boonesborough and Harrodsburg; and the permanent settlement of Kentucky had begun.

unending Indian conflict?. lie was a leader anions for one of the favorite devices cf the Indians was to the settlers, both in peace and in war. At one time imitate the turkey call, and thus allure within range he represented them in the House of Burgesses of some inexperienced hunter. Virginia; at another time he was a member of the Besides this warfare, which went on in the midst first little Kentucky parlament itself; and he became of his usual vocations, Boone frequently took the a colonel of the frontier militia. He tilled the fie!d on St expeditions a-ainst the savages. Once land nd v- rWrwrl th- r. Hm..t. - u.,. when he and a party of other men were making

was a

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.o uuu luc UUu., ..u w:;n ms own by thfi ind:ans. Th.e old hunter hands, wielding the long-handled, light-headed w'ith them for some menti s, but

frontier ax as skillfully as other frontiersmen. His escape and came home through the trackless v.o,-d main business was that of surveyor, for his knowl- as straight as the wild pigeon flies. He was ever

f.r.a'ly made

on the watch to ward off the Indian inroads, an! to follow the war-parties, and try to rescu the prisoners. Once his own daughter, and two other girls who were with her, were carried off by a band of Indians. Boone raised some friends and followed the trail steadily for two days and a nigbt; then they came to where the Indians had killed a buffalo calf and were camped around if Firing from a little distance, the whites thot two of the Indians, and, rushing in, rescued the girls. On another occasion, when Boone had gone to visit a saltlick with his brother, the Indians ambushed them and shot the latter. Boone himself escaped, but the Indians followed him for three miles by the aid of a tracking dog, until Boone turned, shot the dcg. and then eluded his pursuers. In company with Fimon Kenton and many other noted hunters and wilderness warriors, he once and again took part in expeditions into the Indian country, where they killed the braves and drove off the horses. Twice hands of Indians, accompanied by French, Tory, and British partirans from Detroit, bearing the fiag of Great Britain, attacked Boonesborough. In each case Boone and his fellow-settlers beat them off with loss. At the fatal battle of the Blue Licks, in which two hundred of the best riflemen of Kentucky were beaten with terrible slaughter by a great fore of Indians fro-.n the lakes, Boone commanded th left wing. Leading his men, rife in hand, he pushed back tna overthrew the force against him; but meanwhile the Indians destroyed the right wing ami enter, ard get round in his rear, so that there was nothing left for Boone's men except to flee with all possible speed. As Kentucky became settled, Boone grew restless and i!l at ease. He loved the wilderness; he loved the great forests and the great prairie-like glades, and the life in the little lonely cabin, where from th door he could see the deer come out into the clearing at nightfall. The neighborhood of hi own kin 1 made him fee! cramped and ill at ease. So ht moved ever westward with the frontier: and at Kentucky filled up he crossed the Mis:ii:p: and et:!od on the borders of the prairie country of Misso-tri, -v'.ri Spaniard;, who ru!ed the territory, r.tad; him in al:a!de, r r judge. He lived to a great age, and d:ed out t n the border, a lackwoods hunter to the