The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-06

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of am other kind and he worked
with his elder brothers all day for
the privilege of running across fields
to the schoolhouse that he might
kee? his place in the spelling class
the last to recite before dismissal
Yet Sam learned to read, to write
and TO cipher, and reading was, in his
hands, the key to unlock storehOuee
of wonderful treasure. OFTEN ana
often had he heard from his mother
stories of the brave Scotch Highland
ers, who were his ancestors, and
many a detail of the famous siege Of
Derry In which his forefathers took
part, where the gallant defenders
fought and starved and prayed ana
hoped till at last relief came
When Sam was thirteen his stud
les and sports in the old Washington
College building were forever inter
rupted. His father died and his
mother was left with nine children to
face the future.
There were fertile lands on The
Tennessee, ample enough 10 furnish
home for each brave son who =
scented to leave the home in that
beautiful valley AMI cross the Allie
gheny Mountains. 1t was a perilous
undertaking and full of wild adven-
ture. but they rested at last not many
miles from the Tennessee.
Herd work and plenty of it, young
Sam shared cheerfully with his broth
ers; but he was able to give some at.
tendance at an academy, too He
had read and reread an English
translation of Homer until his mind
was filled with the desire to read the
poems in the tongue in which they
were written. He asked his teacher
In the Academy to instruct him in
Latin and Greek, and was promptly
refused. Perhaps, long afterwards,
wAen the man saw what a great ca
reer opened before his young and
hashful pupil he repented his decis-
ion.
About this time an opening that
was thought very good one
presented itself. A man who kept
a small trading store, was in need |
Df a. assistant, and brotherly infu-
ance prevailed to put Sam in the po-
sition. Just the number of days it |
-ook 70 fill up the measure of his dis |
gust is not recorded, but Sam sad |
lenly disappeared, and with him his
life and his much loved books.
Beyond the Tennessee lay the
of the Cherokees, a brave and |
powerful nation, living in peace and
abundance on their own hands. To
hem Sam went and they received
lin with much friendship, and tn cir
HE, the stately and revered OoloO-
eka, in course of time, adopted him
IS his son and gave him a place in the
yigwam, bestOwing on him the name
# COlonch-the rover.
BY the friendly fire of the Chero-
tee chief the young white stranger
cad Homer's Had and learned 20
onvarse n tongue In which the
'ilAu bdiu never listened. lie dC- |
uired, too, a knowledge of the In
ian character, which made him in
fter years, their truest friend, their
lost dangerous enemy. Three or
our years passed, and the young
tower must have thought as he grew
ldeT, that his true home was with
is own people, for he returned to |
We among them.
The war of 1912 had begun, and
I the first call for troops in the near
st town the tall young hunter en-
sted--to the modification OF his
-iends-as a private soldier But
e sturdily declared: Il would rather ,
onor the ranks than disgrace an
prominent"
He soon rose from the ranks. how ,
yer, Ind wearing an ensigus uni ,
,rn. won his first lauTals under a ,
eneral so stern and unbreakable 6