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Tell a Missnurian what the Keutuckian has said. txfzZsJl ami his comment may pos- I ' fribly be the traditional, "Show me!" Itend any of the dozens of biographies of Daniel Boone and you'll probably find a statement something like this: 'He was buried in Missouri but in 1813, at the urgent request of Kentucky the bodies of Boone and hiH wife were removed to Kentucky and reburied in Frankfort." But it's Just possible that ull of the histories and that Daniel Boone still bleeps beneath the soil of Missouri Instead of the blue grass of Kentucky. Surprising as that statement may be, there seems to be some foundation of .fact for the belief that "somebody blundered" in 1S45 and that, as a result, the body of an unknown stranger, insteud of the body of the famous 'pioneer, rests beside that of Rebecca Boone In the Kentucky capital. All of which came ubout through the discovery recently in an old hair trunk in the attic of a farmhouse near Boonville, Mo., of several letters written to Capt. Nathan Boone, Daniel Boone's son, by the governor of Kentucky and other distinguished men In that state, asking Ids permission for the removal of the bodies of Daniel Boone and his wife to Frankfort for burial. The discovery of these letters started a representative of the Kansas City Star upon an Investigation which has raised the question of where Daniel Boone is actually buried and has uncovered evidence which indicates that it is In Missouri and not in Kentucky. As a necessary background for a consideration of this startling theory, It may be well to go back iuto some of the familiar history of Daniel Boone. It will be remembered how the infant state of Kentucky, displaying an Ingratitude not at all unusual In the history of America, failed to confirm Boone's title to lands within Its borders. So the old pioneer took bi3 family to Missouri, which was then Spauish territory. The news of his coming had preceded him and the Spanish governor gave blni a grant of h thousand acres of fine bottomland on the Femme Osage creek and made Mm syndic (an ofllce combining the duties of Judge, Jury, military commander and sheriff) for his district. Here he lived happily for several jears, but when Missouri, as a part of tiie Louisiana purchase, came under the American flag, roisfortuue overtook Boone. The federal government refused to recognize the title to the acres granted him by the Spanish and again he found himself landless. He sent In memorials to both the Kentucky legislature and congress but It was not until six years had passed ttmt congress took action to confirm lit Spanish land grants. After the oeaih of his wife, he made his home with his son, Nathan, in St. Charles county and there he died September Li'.. 1S20, at the age of eighty-six- . When Rebecca Boone died in 1813 l:e was buried in a cemetery on n 1 noil upon the bank of Teugue creek t ii.iiit a mile and a half north of the j.icm nt town of Martbasville in War-- J ii county. Mo. It had been Booue's oft repeated request that he be place 1 t.esi.ie t er when he died and by the M.!e of her grave he had marked a f art-wron- . " piaep for ids own. It is at this point in the narrative that the possibijity that "somebody bhmdi'rod" enters, ac cording to descendants of Boone wlnf live in Missouri and who have made a careful Investigation of the circumstances connected with Hie burial ami removal. Oue of these is Jesse 1. Crump, vice president of the Kansas City Title and Trust company, director in Missouri of the Boone Family association and an authority on the life of his Illustrious ancestor. From his statements and from those of David Gardyne of Martbasville, Mo., who has spent years tracing up every item connected with the life of Boone, as presented by the Kansas City Star writer, lle evidence sums up as follows: When the grave diggers had nearly completed the grave beside that of Rebecca Boone, they uncovered a human skeleton. So the grave was refilled and this unknown preoccupant was left in possession. They then attempted to make a grave on the other side of the Rebecca Boone grave. But here the lull sloped sharply away, making it unsuitable for a grave. So they had to try again and a grave was dug either at the head or the foot of Rebecca's grave (no one knows for certain which) so as to carry out his request to lie beside his beloved. There Daniel Boone was buried and there, his descendants believe, he sleeps today. The next chapter in the "somebody blundered" chain of events occurred a little later when headstones were placed at the Boone graves. The stones were dragged to the graves by a yoke of oxen, driven by a man whose name Is lost to history. When he arrived there he was not certain as to the placing of the stones and went to The woman a farmhouse nearby. there returned with him to the graves and after discussing the situation for a time, finally pointed to the two graves side by side and said "I think those are the graves." Accordingly the headstone for Rebecca Boone was placed correctly but the one for Daniel Boone was placed at the head of the grave occupied by the unknown - stranger. The final "blunder" (If such It was) was made in 1343 when Kentucky, In an effort to pay its tardy honors to the man to whom it owed so much, started the movement to have the bodies of Boone and bis wife returned to the Blue Grass state. As the result of the letters from Kentucky ofliclals to Nathan Boone such as those recently discovered, the Boone family finally gave its consent to the removal. A delegation of Kentucklans arrived to obtain the bodies. They opened the grave of Rebecca Boone and found the coflin In an excellent state of preservation but when they opened the grave beside her, which they believed to contain the body of the old pioneer, they found only a few pieces of the coffin and the larger bones of a human skeleton. Apparently no one at the time was struck by the inconsistency of this fact: bow could Rebecca's coffin be In such perfect state of preservation, while the other, supposed to contain the body of her husband, who was buried seven years after her, had so At any rate the nearly perished? contents of the two graves were placed in elaborate coffins and carried to Frankfort. The ceremony 'of reburial at the Kentucky capital as described in au article In Harper's Magazine in lS.'O tells us that: Having obtained the consent of the relatives of the pioneer for the removal cf the remains, f, committee, charKed with the execution of Hurvlvintf herds until now the old extinct in practically States. First 'long Horns" The long horned cattle r re the de. Mi'iidants of the nlj Spanish cattle broi.-gh- t to Mexico by the early x hirers (known as the ConiiuisUi'icires). Hoi!w of these cattle were brought Into the region row know as Texas and Mexico find Became UM jind fonin-.the Ktnrt of flu? long horned cattle. They were i.umerous ,'n the .Southwest tuifll a ft.-years ago. M'odcru beef-brebulls have bteu used with these 1 l d S.Jtfirr long-horn- s the What Shape Face? THE the will of. the legislature, appointed the 13th of September, 845, as the day when public funeral honors should be paid to the illustrious dead and their remains he dfepowited in the bosom of Kentucky. The events of that day will ever form sn Interesting page In the annals of the .Hate. On that occasion historic men men whose names will lever be forgotten gathered around the coflin of a more eminent historic character find bore It to the grave The pallbearers were fitly chosen from anions the doers and the honored men of the commonwealth. Thousands of people had gathered from all parts of the state to particiA pate In the solemn funeral riles. of procession was formed, consisting military companies, Masor.ic and other societies In regalia, and a great number of citizens on horseback and on foot, in making the line more than a mtle two the length. The broad grave for coffins was ciug In a lovely shaded hollow near the banks of the Kentucky river &nd around it the multitude gathered. The religious ceremonies were Godell of th performed by Rov. Mr. and were followed by Baptist clur-can oration by Hon. J. J. Crittenden, the able representative of Kentucky in the senate of tne United States. When the and closing prayer had been offered, the benediction pronounced, the coffins were lowered Into the grave and over yat them was piled a mound of earth the marks the only monument that ' are spot where the noble pioneers buried. What was true in 18:9 was still true 'JO years later that this mound of earth was "yet the only monument that marks the spot where the noble For, strauge pioneers are buried." to say, having paid these signal honors to its great pioneer, Kentucky again showed a strange indifference to him and it was not until 1SS0 that the present monument was erected In 1 ... are you are both qukk and steady. 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Daniel Boone has been honored by memorials in many other places in the monument which marks the site of Boone.sborough, the "station" which he established in 1773; in the statue of him in Cherokee park In Louisville; in the mouument which stands in Cumberland Gap, where Boone stood and looked Into his land of promise, even though it was the "Park and Bloody Ground," and which may some day be replaced with a heroic statue of the great pioneer; and In the Boone Trail highway which follows his path into the West. Bast year he became one of America's Immortals when a bust of him was unveiled in the Hall of Fame at New York university. But to Kentucklans the monument in Frankfort (an unpretentious one, it would seem, considering the worth of his services to that commonwealth). Is something of a state shrine. It will be startling news to Kentucklans if It is ever definitely proved that Daniel Boone does net sleep beneath that monument. There were times during the bloody years of the Revolution In the West that Kentucky owed her very existence to the strong right arm and stout heart of Daniel Boone. Yet for all that he did for her she allowed him to be defrauded of his lands and saw hlra, saddened by her Ingratitude, set forth to, seek a new home In another state. A quarter of a century after his death she paid hi in tardy honors, then neglected his memory for another 35 years. If, as the Missouri descendants of Boone believe, it Is not, only' possible but probable, that Daniel Boone stiil sleeps in Missouri and not In Kentucky, how Fate must smile at the delicious irony of the situation Kentucklans of today making a pilgrimage to this state slirine, unconscious of the fact that they are standing in reverence at the last resting place of an unknown stranger and not that of their great hero whom the Kentucklans of yesterday denied the full measure of honor and the rewards which he so richly deserved I sturdy little tree three to four feet high, its branches touching those of its neighbors in its row and almost meeting the branches from plants In rows on either side. . How the Boils Develop. The first blooms appear in the southernmost part of the cotton belt about the middle of May and sweep to the northern edge in northern Tennessee and southern Virginia by the middle of July. They are beautiblossoms at first, then ful snow-whit- e change through pink to red. They never fade, but the red petals fall, leaving at their bases little green "squares" in the center of which nestle the green ""bolls" about the size of a finger end. These swell steadily through the warm summer weeks if does not punclu-at- e the dreaded them until they are the size of an egg, when they are tinged with reddish brown. They then crack open along five lines and expose in each orange-lik- e segment a closely packed, moist white substance. In a few days the segments have folded back, the moisture has evaporated, and a ball of fluffy white cotton rests in its fragmentary saucer. If left unpicked too long the cotton hangs downward from the open bolls now dry and brown like snowy moss. Cotton-pickintime is as much a nature-markeseason in the South as is the overflow of the Nile In Egypt or the appearance of the summer sun in the Arctic. The work appeals to the southern negro. Industries lose their employees, housewives their maids, when the late summer exodus to the cotton fields begins. Many of the pickers camp out for weeks near the fields In which they work and look upon the outing as a sort of holiday. Even children and aged persons take part in the work, dragging their canvas sacks behind them. A generation ago pickers received 40 to 50 cents for each hundred pounds picked, but the pay has increased greatly In recent years. Last year pickers received 51.25, $1.50 and mal fattened in part on cotton-seeeven $1.75 a hundred in some regions. meal. If he goes to the "movies" in The average worker picks about 200 the evening he Is patronizing a huge pounds a day, but experts pick 500 industry Into whose miles of film cotpounds or more. ton enters as the chief raw material. Put Through the Gin. The seat covers, the hangings, and s Approximately by weight even the screen on which the story of "seed cotton" the cotton as It he has come to see unfolded owe comes from the bolls is seed, d their allegiance to King Cotton. lint or liber. The latter adheres Mrs. Average Woman leans even tightly to the seed, growing out from mere heavily on the royal and potent all parts of It In tiny white hairs. To Gossypium llirsutum. The shelves of separate lint from seed the seed cother "linen" closet are stacked high ton must be passed through a "gin." with white cotton goods used In bed The pickers have their sacks weighed and bath rooms. In her clothes closets when they have picked down a row hang dress after dress of the same and back, and dump the cotton in while her dressers are great, deep bedded farm material, wagons. When filled with coiton garments. Her 1.500 pounds or more of this has acdishes are dried on cotton dish cloths, cumulated It Is hauled to the gin, her laundry (itself largely cotton) town. usually located at a near-bhangs on cotton lines, she darns and There a movable suction pipe sucks mends with cotton thread, and retires up the still Intimately mixed seed for the night to sleep In and between and lint to an upper floor where It and upon cotton. falls into a hopper and starts on Its From where does this indispensable journey through the whirring, humcotton come? ming machinery whose development Most of It from American cotton made possible the great cotton Indusfields of the South and Southwest. try. Numerous whirling saws tear the The first little green plants whose fiber from the seeds. The latter drops lives and progress will mean so much into chutes whb-carry them to huge to niarket exchanges and commerce gray-greepiles In the seed room. The In the summer and fall, have been lint passes on belt conveyors In a broad pushing through Dip black earth in endless stream to the presses where it Texa' Kach week, as the is sqti"oxed into bales weighing apmm gets warmer, will see the green proximately 5(i() pounds. Thes" bales army advance farther north uiuil it are covacd with very coarse brown will ptni'd in possession of close to Jute bagging and hound with Iron 40,0no.t'0 acres of the South. This Is hands. It Is In such hales or In bales to 02,500 square miles, and still further equivalent compressed that cotton If it were n single field it would be moves to American cotton mills and to cover large enough every square across the oceans to the mills of foot of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Europe ,',nd Japan. Delaware, and mo.st of Connecticut. Until after the Civil war the vnlue The little plants which will supply of cotton seed was not recognized. the great American cotton crop of Millions of tons were thrown burnt, 1027 ("great," because even in poor aside to rot, or shoveled Info rivers. American is cotton seldom Now the seed from between three years and worth less than billion dollars) are four bales of cotton are worth as growing In rows ,'! to 4 feet apart. much as a bale of fiber. They are They tire planted rather thickly; but passed through a super-glto remove when they are several inches tall the the short lint known ns "tinterV farmers and their laborers go along Tliis Is valnahlo for dozens of uses the rows with hoes, chopping out sur-plfrom making gnti cotton nnd matseedlings, and Incidentally, weeds tresses to preparing surgical dressings find grass, leaving the plants from and photographic films. The brownish-gree12 to 18 Inches npnrt. seeds are thetl iuilflfj nnf (he After this most of the cnlilvnt'nn Is kernels a,,, preyed between caineN-hai- r gfv 'rt with broad shallow plows and pads which hold the golden yob rldinu cultivators. Under the warmth low meal and of the southern spring mid .summer I he bulls make express the oil. nV(M, good caule feed, whtlo the plants grow rapidly. When they the meal nn.l oil furnish buses for reach maturity each Is virtually a Erowmg number vf valuable products the Nitlonul Geographic (Prersred by Washineton. D. C.) Society. United States is the realm of King Corton His Gossypium llirsutum, to use his technical name but his tower Is felt throughout the world. Night and day the average man seldom escapes the influence of King Cotton. He sleeps between cotton sheets on a mattress stuffed with the fluffy white fibers. After he discards his cotton pajamas and takes his morning bath, he uses a Turkish towel made of cotton ; he dons cotton underclothes; and if it is summer, he probably wears outer garments at least partly made of cotton. The celluloid comb and brush which he uses in making his toilet, and even the handle of his tooth brush, are probably made from the same Indispensable fiber. Breakfast is not entirely cottonless even though the table is spread with linen. If margarine Is used Instead of butter it is probably made largely oil ; while the same from cotton-seeoil or solid shortening made from It may be used In griddle cakes, biscuits or muffins. The morning paper, too, which Mr. Average Man thumbs through. Is dependent on cotton for the film from which Its photographs are made. If he motors to town, he rides on tires that could not be so cheap and strong and durable except for their "carcasses" of cotton fabric or cords. Perhaps the upholstery, the brake-liningand even the lacquer finish on the car have drawn upon cotton as raw materials. Arrived at his office he makes use of cotton in sonm of his stationery, his telephone Insulation, his typewriter ribbons, his window cords, his shades, and probably in numerous other ways. Cotton All Day Long. At luncheon Mr. Average Man doubtless- eats from a table covered with cotton and uses a cotton napkin, for most restaurants and hotels use cotton "table linen." More than likely the roast of his dinner is from an ani- g d d two-third- one-thir- lots of i i it. Lueb's Quick Recover Suffering from Nervousness, n Stomach Trouble and Condition, Colo. Springs Woman Restored to Health. Thanh Tanlac. Ilun-Dow- The recovery of Mrs. J. J. Lueb, S. Cascade 708 Ave., Colorado Springs, has excited much comment. "Tanlac caved me from permanent disability," says Mrs. v Lueb. 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