The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-12

iioH AASt lIIS SdfdSeS III many HSII. This was in Kentucky which he had long considered his home. Beggared by
 lawsuits and losses, he removed to Ohio about the year of 1900.
 In Ohio for time he was held in much regard, notwithstanding his pov- erty. He was a soldier in the war of
 1872, and for time was a brigadier- general in the State militia. After the war of '12," as it was called, he re- turned to his cabin in the woods near Ur5ana. O. n 1920 he moved to Mad ;; River, in sight of the old Indian town of Wappatomica, where he had once 1 been tied to the stake.
 Even here the poor old man was pur- sued by judgments and executions from the Kentucky courts. He still had some tracts of mountain lands in that
 State, but they had been forfeited for taxes, though the amount of such taxes would to-day be considered ridiculous ly small. He tried boring for salt
 These ventures were failures His last
 resource was to apply to the Kentucky Legislature to release the forfeiture In 1924 broken old man of seventy years, mounted on e bony old nag,
 started southward from the little cabin
 in the Mad River woods. At last he
 reached Frankfort, the capital of Ken
 lucky. There. in what he had known
 as an unbroken wildwood stood a city, with towering church steeples, busy factories and the homes of a thriving,
 happy people.
 ] He rubbed his eyes as he looked at 1 this scene of entertainment. As he rode
 into the city his strange appearance
 and ragged attire. the shaky bony old
 horse whose ribs were so strongly out
 lined against the hide, brought hun
 dreds to their doors to see the aged Wanderer.
 There was not face he knew.
 There was none who recognized in the ! broken old man the hero of whom all had heard, the Simon Kenton of the laughing gray eyes, the curling red locks, light of heart, ready of hand, fleet of oot. At last one in the city of strangers recognized him. It was Gen. , eral Fletcher, who had baen a compan- ion-in-arms in the war of '12 He grasped the veteran by the hand with
 a generous warmth that brought tears to the wan and Wrinkled cheeks of the old man.
 General Fletcher saw to it that the
 second man of the early history of the State, Boone having been the first,
 should have a true Kentucky welcome.
 He made the old man the lion of the | day. Kenton was taken to the State House He was given the place of hon.
 or, seated in the Speakers chair, and
 here legislators, distinguished judges,
 and citizens were introduced to him. He had been fixed up" by General Fletcher to meet this company, the general having bought him suit of
 new clothes, new hat and a shirt with ruff1es. Better than this, his lands were released, and shortly after ward by the exertion of number of
 men of influence and position, the Con-
 gress of the United States voted him, in recognition of his great services to the country, pension of S250 a year, enough to secure his old age from ab- solute want.
 1 The simple minded old man during the ten or more remaining years of his l life, wore it is said the same clothes
 and hat that he wore when the guest
 of the people of Kentucky and he al-
 ways declared that his visit to Frank
 fort was the greatest and happiest period of his life.
 | He died in 1886 at the age of eighty one years in his little cabin in the
 woods. surrounded by his family and
 in sight of the very spot where, nearly
 sixty years before he had saved him. self from the torture fire by means of
 his wonderful burning glass.--Indian- apolis News.