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Show HEROES OFTHE BORDER. fitting Honors to the Memory of the Brave Men Whose Daring Deeds Have Made Them Famous. DEEDS OF BOONE AND OBOOKETT. Kentucky and Tennessee Keepi Green the Memory of their Distinguished Children. ' The central west ts just old enough to begin the celebration of its centennials. Of the states there first admitted to the Union after the adoption of the constitution Kentucky in 1791, Tennessee in 17!MJ und Ohio in 1803 the Inst has lately celebrated the foundation of Marietta, Kentucky is soon to celobrate the 100th anniversary of n . i Killed one person In every ten days. Andrew An-drew Jackson testified that In other sections sec-tions the average los was five a month. The eloquent Felix Grundy afterward told in congress how he saw his brothers dying under the blows of the tomahawk, and was saved by the strength and courage of his mother. "Wo," he added, "are buta remnant who escaped the many massacres. On both sides of me I see the spared monuments. Ask my colleague what he remembers. He will tell you that while his father was fighting ono band, another came and killed his two brothers. Inquire of the gentleman from Arkansas what became of his brother-in-law, Oldham. He went out to battle and never returned. Ask that representative from Kentucky where is his uncle, the gallant HardinP He will answer that he was intrepid enough to carry a flag of truce to the savages, and they slew him. If I turn to my old schoolmate school-mate and friend, now a gallant senator, I am reminded of a mother's courage In the son whom she rescued from savage hands when In the very grasp of death." David Crockett's father, liko Andrew Jackson, was an Irishman of Corrickfor-gus Corrickfor-gus fighting stock which retained all its native courage in Tennessee. After boyish adventures of the most romantic nature-be nature-be ran away from home at the age of 12, and remained three years he became a noted hunter and Indian fighter. In the Creek war ho served with great gallantry under Gen. Jackson, and beside the gallant H-.uston. He served several terms in the Tennessee legislature, and from 1827 tol83l two terms in congress. He opposed Jackson and was defeated, but was elected again for the term of 18113-1835. He then went to Texas, and his strange, noble and adventurous career ended in the awful massacre at the Alamo. On the Cth of March, 1836, after a bombardment bom-bardment of ten days, Santa Anna's force of at least 3,000 men stormed the Alamo, which contained about 175 "sxatis. These fired ns long as they could load, then clubbed their muskets and fought on till ail but six were killed. These had been cut oil in a separate room and were promised prom-ised their lives, but Santa Anna ordered them butchered The Texan tradition is that as the order was given Crockett drew his bowie knife and dashed nt the dictator, when several swords were thniHt into him. All the slain were horribly mutilated, and KIT CARBON. the corpses were then piled and burned. Such whs the hero whom Tennessee is to honor in tho monument recently begun at Lawrenceburg, ouce his borne. The services of Boone and Crockett in the central west were repeated on a far grander theatre in the Rocky mountains by Kit Carson; but his experience was with Indians, so different and in a country so unlike Kentucky and Tennessee that no parallel is possible. J. II. Beadle. DAKIKL BOONE. Daniel Boone's death and Tennessee has with imposing ceremonies just laid the corner cor-ner stone of a monument to Davy Crockett. Daniel Boone was born in Pennsylvania Feb. 11, 1735, and died nt Charetto, Mo., Sept. 2d, 1830; but David Crockett wus born in tho very heart of the wilderness where his great exploits were to be performed, and save for a short experience as a congressman con-gressman his whole life was spent upon the frontier, and chiefly amid scenes so exciting ex-citing that the coldest narration thereof thrills the blood. Boone lived to the age of 85 and died In peace and honor, while Crockett fell by a murderous hand in what was to him the prime of life. Boone is perhaps tho more celebrated, but the life of Crockett was far more romantic, and affords the more material ma-terial for anecdote, as he was orator, politician politi-cian and humorist, as well as hunter and fighter; while Boone was a man of action only, saying little and writing nothing. Vet his fame bos filled tho world. Every western boy has listened to scores of anecdotes anec-dotes about him; how he lived so long in the wilderness alone with gun and dogs that he understood every gesture and tone of his dumb comptalons; how he walked backward as fast as most men walk forward, for-ward, to mislead the Indians on his trull; bow he cut the lower end of a grapevine grape-vine looBe and swung over a long space to "break his trail," and how he learned to nse every art of woodoraft better than the Indians, and so "beat them at their own game." Lastly his exploits were celebrated in Europe, on the stage and in popnlar romance, ro-mance, and the poet Byron praised the pioneer pio-neer hero in those peculiar stanzas beginning: begin-ning: Of all men saving Syria, the man slayer, Who posses for In life and death most lucky, Of the great names which in our faces stare The genial Boone, backwoodsman of Kentucky, Was happiest among mortals anywhere; For killing nothing but a bear or buck he Enjoyed the lonely, vigorous, harmless days Of his old age In wilds of deepest maze. The present case In point I Cite Is that Boone llvod hunting up to ninety. Not quite correct as to fact, for Boone dropped a few Indians as well as "bear and buck." In 1760, with five companions, he sought tho unexplored wilds of Kentucky Ken-tucky and within a few months be and a companion named Stewart were captured by the Indians. They escaped, but were soon captured again and Stewart was killed, lioone again escaped and, refusing to leave the wilderness with the others, lived alone for months in a little cabin. Again and again the Indians roconnoltcred the place, but they dreaded the sure rifle , of the wary Boono, who had trained his dogs to be the best of sentinels. He brought his family to the wilderness wilder-ness and, with other settlers, fought off the savages till 1773, when he was again captured. Such was the superstitious rov-erence rov-erence of the Indians for this marvelously , skillful pioneer that they took him all the way to Dotroit to refer his case to the British Brit-ish commander. Discovering that a move against Boonesborougb was on foot he escaped es-caped from the fort and made that wonderful wonder-ful Journey, which would be incredible if - not clearly proved. In five days he traversed trav-ersed the entire distancel Boonesborougb f-j was at ouce strengthened, and the attack " ' was repulsed. The Indians soon gave way on all sides, aud Kentucky was rapidly peopled. Then enme a cruel blow. The supreme court decided against "occupation titles." Boone's land proved to be in a strip bought by speculators, and he lost very foot of it. In 17U5 be took up bis gun and started agaiu for the wilderness, locating in the then Spanish territory of Missouri. The Spaniards made him commandant of the l''emui9 Osage district, and gave him a large tract of land. The region became part of the United States, and once more the old hero lost every acre by a conflict of the laws. In 1812, however, congress se- DAVY CROCKETT, eared him in the ownership of another tract, and he spent the remaining years of life with his daughter, Mrs. Flanders Callo'ay. In 1845 the remains of Boone and his wife were taken to Frankfort, Ky and buried with appropriate ceremonies. His descendants have held many places of honor in the west, and have maintained the Integrity of the pioneer. When one son visited Nashville to settle the affairs of his father Gen. Jackson gently reproached him for not coming directly to his house, and took him as his guest with the characteristic charac-teristic remark, "Your father's dog should not stay in a tavern where I havo a house." Limestone, in Greene county, Tenn., where David Crockett was born Aug. 17, 1788, was in a region far more dangerous than that about Boonesborougb. Every man and boy was a warrior. No one stirred abroad without being ready to shoot at a second's notice, and it was long noted as a peculiarity of Tennesseeans t hat when a group met they did not talk face to face like other men, but back to back, and each searching the adjacent country with eagle eye a habit created by long mstom in watching for lurking Indians. From 1780 to 17S4, within a circuit of even miles around Nashville, the Indians |