Simon Kenton. ALL PiCTURE S COUR T Re - at josepn Di anc By ELMO SCOTT WATSON vials of hatred. people are no diffe any i galaxy of “sc if not actuall ing words” ninds an active feeling whenever they are the ng of the soften the harshness of our for as Robert W. Chambers, | of certain ters, other nat ation. do pass] Revolu “The failed are Judged by us they failed before day; the traitor, to us, is grotesque Guy Fawkes, but a Judas of today.” There was a time when the Amer fean frontier had its own particular villain, and he has been made the sub ject of a new biography, “Simon Girty. the White Savage,” written by Thomas 3oyd and published recently by Min- ton, and Company. In of this “backwoods roughneck, Boyd calls him, he “While |t would be fatal to defend him It may be interesting to see how far he ran be explained.” and in his first chapter, “Girty's Name and Fame" he about his task as follows: ary SAvVs, faint-hen the nation yester no Hving dalch writing as Mr. ” gavs, gets Ot all the men those vears Sime called the anomaly was perhaps the most w iy hated cahine used to remembered from nn hae been tern h ely and deep. Pioneer mothers in ke n Girty, w of wes story nely children into obedience by threatening them with the appearance of the dreaded G And afterward it was said of him “in other country ¢ \ 1 perhaps, 80 wicked a wretch a monster sought the blac unrelenting rapac the blood of a nugh, in fiendish agonies of a captiy writhing at the stake ness MNMOV ing women and childrer torture or of bloodshed ly horrible to excite co bosom.” And in “The Rom: West. ern History” it is told he wns “a wretched misereant” who had fled from the abode of civilized men. he became a RAV in manners and in principle, and spent his whole Jife in the perpetration of a demoniae venge- ance against his countrymen scare their brutal, ed the sacrifi ynce of that age Lincoln Repr ne year, 8 fw weeks before Thanksgiving, a friend sent a fine Jive turkey to the White House, with the request that it be served for President Lincoln's dinner. Tad. the President's son, who was the life oi the White House, took a great fancy to the bird, naming it Jack and feed. ing and petting it. He even taught it to follow him about, Just before Thanksgiving, while the vretched misereant r » ’ eve: xriy alway X fing the %, he pleaded or de- lives of s That intercede for fr white pr he often tes 385 rmer untrymen of his who had been taken and condemned by the Indians is proved by records , . . In short, Girty displayed too much humanity not to have champions among the hearted And one of thease, tar from believing that Girty's “hellish tandlor. came to his rezeue with the following lines: “oh. great-souled chief, so long maligned, By bold calumniators; The world shall not be always blind, } im thy haters, If ever on the field of blood, merits glory, name and Girty's fame e in song and story.” Nor all men be Men's alor Girty = That optimistic prophecy, made many years ago, has not yet been fulfilled. Nor is this t kK an attempt to do so Stubborn, bull-necked, proud of hie trot irderous yot merciful, Girty the trait can't be whitewashed But should be given to the who spent twenty ¥ with the vis and Wyandotia, rose tion of trust them and fact, white person one of their tribal war councils Simon Girty's career began at Cham ber's Mill, near Harrisburg, Pa., where wns born in 1741, one of four sons of Simon Girty, senior, an Irish and a packhorse driver in the trade. After the death of the the hands of a drunken Indian, Mrs, Girty married a man named John Turner who took the family farther west, During the French and Indian war the family was cap tured by the Indians, Turner was tortured and killed and the other mem ‘ers divided up among various tribes oth g . ontact among only them in the 5i* ns he im m unt Indian elder Girty at discussing with a cabinet into the room, anger. The turkey was about to he killed! And Tad had flown to the President to lay the cause before him und save Jack. “But,” sald the President, “JInck wns sent here to be killed and eaten” “1 ean't help It” blubbered Tad he tween sobs. “He is a good turkey and I don't want him killed!” The President of the United States listened gravely, and then taking a was important officer Tad rushed sobbing with bu iment of dny friend. the stake, when that renowned scout and Indian fight- by the hatred as to survive to this Although he saved his old mon Kenton, from or was he is to have torture of Col. William whose capture by the Delawares and death at their hands Is of the tragic incidents In border his- tory. By the time the Revolution was over Girty was so loathed In Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky that ref- uge among the Indians and British in Canada was his only safety and there he made his home, Still a leader among the Indians he fought beside the famous Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant when Harmar's army defeated and St. Clair's army was overwhelmed during the war with the Northwestern tribes, But the fate of the tribes who were try- ing in vain to resist the oncoming wave of white settlement was sealed when “Mad Anthony” Wagsne came in- to the Northwest to retrieve the Har- mar and St. Clair disasters And Simon QGirty fought his last fight against his countrymen in the famous battle of Fallen Timbers where Wayne won his quick and decisive victory over the confederated tribes, He was too old and broken by hardships and excessive use of liquor to have a part in the War of 1812, The end came one bitterly cold February day In 1818. A fever brought on hy exposure as he was returning to his cabin from =a tavern at Amherstburg, Canada, did what many an American pioneer would captured Shawanees, the Crawford, said consented to one most was it killed Simon Girty, the “White Sav- age.” card wrote an order of reprieve, Tad seized the card and rushed away. The turkey's life was saved.—Our Dumb Animals, A Governors-Presidents Seven Presidents had been state governors for one or more terms: Johnson, Hayes, Cleveinnd, McKinley, Roosevelt, Wilton and Coolidge. Two. Roosevelt and Coolidge, had been Vice Presidents. Kansas City Star, Criticism is easy, and art difficult. A SEVERE TEST “1 never had such a my life. First 1 get followed by arterio sclerosis “Ist as 1 wi 1 got and phithisls, podermics, time in tough angina pectoris 8 recovering from these tuberculosis, double pnuemonin Then they gave me hy “Appendicitis was followed by a ton silotomy, “1 don't know h it. 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