The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-10-17
As In a Looking Glass


man who, having to leap a ditch, went
back three miles that he might nave
a good run; and when he arrived at
the ditch, found himself so complete
w out o: breath that he was obliged
to sit down on the wrong side and
rest.
Proper preparation in youth for the
battles of life is splendid thing; but
now and then the average man Won
ders whether there aren't a good
many "Dutchmen" among the lads so
industriously preparing. For this rea-
son the story of the lad with the
courage, the calm resourcefulness, the
rugged determination, and the irwin
chile purpose to succeed; the lad that
gets his preparation for the bigger
things by conquering the common
everyday problems; is one that strikes
a responsive chord in every human
breast.
Back in Kentucky, the land of Col
onels and kernels-the latter through
proper distillation becoming closely
identified with the former-a little tow
headed tad was promised pair of
boots by his father This was way
back in l848. The father returning to
the farm from his trip to Owenton,
brought the boy a pair of shoes, not
being able to get the right size in the
more lordly boots. This didn't suit
the boy who had been promised boots
but he was told emphatically that
shoes was what he drew And what
was more, that if he dared to ex-
change for boots he would further
draw a large. full-grown. pure-bred
thrashing.
The youthful sense of fairness was
injured Soon the lad went to town
and then and there he acquired as fine
a pair of boots as the heart of boy
hood could desire. He was riding his
own horse-the gift of his grondfa-
Their. He started for home all right
filled with admiration for his new
boots. As he neared home this filling
became displaced with large-sizee
apprehension, for he had wholesom.
respect for his fathers good right arm
and accurate eye. At the fork in tn,
road he branched off and thus at tn,
age of IA years started out to teacl
the cold. cruel world just where tt
head in.
Entering Louisville, he saw an illu
minated cock fight sign and the door
keeper being engaged in watching tn
combat, soon our hero was an inter
ested spectator. From a spectacle
with more enthusiasm than wisdom
he extracted a real, live dollar. H
couldn't live long on one, lone simo
leon, SO he apprenticed himself to
blacksmith. receiving $l.25 per weel
for the first year.
His success in wooing the Goodies
of Chance led him to the world ia
nous race track of Louisville. AS h
entered the track he noticed a nice
revolving roulette wheel preside
; over by benevolent looking old gen
tleman. Steadiness of purpose wa
ingrained, SO he proceeded on his wa
to the track and wooed successful
$500 worth on the races. The pic
ture of the roulette wheel persisted
ter few revolutions the kindly oil
gentleman-who had long since d
vorced the Goddess-became the sol
surviving heir to all the cash on tn
, crestfallen person of our hero, VIII
manfully set out on his three-mil
walk back to town. From that me
-nent to this, there is one particula
Goddess who could never get S
much as flicker of interest from tina
| boy.
3 For seven years the lad worke
early and late, learning all there wa
to learn in his trade, and building
! rugged, muscular, hard-hitting fran
. that was to carry him through TIL
struggles and dangers of pioneer lif,
Howard Sebree was born nea
Owenton, KY, March 9, 1884, of
! B. and Permelia Owens Sebree. Whe
/ IA years of age he left the parent;
roof as outlined above. and when {
age left Louisville for Paris, III
where he met, wooed and won for hi
: wife, Lucinda Ellen Bell.
The young couple moved westwar
to Leavenworth, where the stalwal
young blacksmith opened a shop O
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