sibilities, just to others as to himself, and thus winning alike in war and in peace.

He gave dignity as well as victory to his country and his cause. He was, in truth, a "character for after ages to admire."

DANIEL BOONE

AND THE FOUNDING OF KENTUCKY

Boone lived hunting up to ninety;

And, what 's still stranger, left behind a name
For which men vainly decimate the throng,
Not only famous, but of that good fame,

Without which glory 's but a tavern song,—
Simple, serene, the antipodes of shame,

Which hate nor envy e'er could tinge with wrong;

'T is true he shrank from men, even of his nation;
When they built up unto his darling trees,
He moved some hundred miles off, for a station
Where there were fewer houses and more ease;

The freeborn forest found and kept them free,
And fresh as is a torrent or a tree.

And tall, and strong, and swift of foot were they,
Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions,
Because their thoughts had never been the prey

Of care or gain; the green woods were their portions;

Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles,
Though very true, were yet not used for trifles.

Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes
Of this unsighing people of the woods.

- Byron.

DANIEL BOONE

AND THE FOUNDING OF KENTUCKY

ANIEL BOONE will always occupy

a

unique place in our history as the archetype of the hunter and wilderness wanderer. He was a true pioneer, and stood at the head of that class. of Indian-fighters, game-hunters, forest-fellers, and backwoods farmers who, generation after generation, pushed westward the border of civilization from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. As he himself said, he was "an instrument ordained of God to settle the wilderness." Born in Penn

sylvania, he drifted south into western North Carolina, and settled on what was then the extreme frontier. There he married, built a log cabin, and hunted, chopped trees, and tilled the ground like any other frontiersman. The Alleghany Mountains still marked a boundary beyond which the settlers dared not go; for west of them lay immense reaches of frowning forest, uninhabited save by bands of warlike Indians. Оссаsionally some venturesome hunter or trapper