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." Boone lived hunting up to ninety; And, what 's still stranger, left behind a name Without which glory 's but a tavern song,- Which hate nor envy e'er could tinge with wrong; 'T is true he shrank from men, even of his nation; But where he met the individual man, He showed himself as kind as mortal can. The freeborn forest found and kept them free, And tall, and strong, and swift of foot were they, Of care or gain; the green woods were their portions; Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles, Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes -Byron. DANIEL BOONE AND THE FOUNDING OF KENTUCKY ANIEL BOONE will always occupy a DAN 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 Pennsylvania, 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. Occasionally some venturesome hunter or trapper |