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stitute, F. LANCER: M. Harragan fur
nished substitute, James Coleman;
William II. Poor furnished substitute,
Edmund White: John F. Coyle, jr.,
furnished substitute, James G. Rog-
ers; II. A. Burgling furnished substi-
tute, John Mcdonald; Thomas Cole.
man furnished substitute, James Nc
Lochlin; David Semple furnished SUBJ
stitute. Henry Baird; George F. d.
Cook (colored furnished substitute,
James Turner; d. L. Perkins fur.
nished substitute, John Upshaw;
James Handley furnished substitute,
Charles Kurtz; Columbus Scriber fur.
nished substitute, John Reilly: James
w. Sephus (coloreO furnished sub.
stitute. Joseph Hammack: Joseph w.
Sephus (coloreD furnished substitute,
Tim Gray; John s. Sephus (colored)
furnished substitute, Joseph Graham;
James Gait furnished substitute.
Charles G. Conner; c. w. Goldin fur.
nished substitute, James Miller: A. L.
Sturtevant furnished substitute, Ed.
ward Harris; Noble D. Larner fur.
nished substitute, James Finnegan:
John Fl. Patrick furnished substitute,
Charles B. Ring; Robert D. Hoover
furnished substitute. George F. Scud-
der.
From the long list the Rambler
picks the following names of draftees
who furnished substitutes, the name
OF the purchaser of the substitute
being followed by the name of the
substitute: j. B. A. Queen. John Dew
lin; Richard A. Hill, jr., Timothy Will
liams; John Widemeyer, William
Wahl; William Gaddis, Patrick Ferry;
Charles Altman. John Hammit: Rich.
ard Hitler, c. g. Shuster; Julius
Ulke, William Hoffmann; Lewis Wal.
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walked with him. pointing the way
for his feet.
While with Braddock he had made
friends with one Finley, trapper
whose vagrant wanderings had car.
ried him into far places, and Ken
lucky became a name that held GU
rious fascination.
Night after night Finley told of
great forests swarming with every
kind of game from buffalo to bear
vast hunting ground held in COM
mon by the Shawnees, Delawares and
Wyandottes of the North, and the
Creeks, Cherokees and Choctaws of
the Southland it was vision that
had never left the young woodsman.
Kentucky! There was the Land or
Promise where men could win free
from his odious business of trucking
to distant king.
Many and various were Boone's
early adventures in pioneering. Cross
ing the mountains into those valleys
where racing streams gather to form
the Tennessee, Boone made the bold
explorations that pointed the way to
future settlements by Robertson and
Sewer. Another year he went south.
travelling as far as Pensacola, and a
later journey carried him across the
whole of Tennessee to the banks of
the Mississippi. But still Kentucky
called.
AT last, resolving to make the at
tempt. he set out alone, as was his
habit, but the way was badly chosen
and impenetrable cane brakes sent
him back to the Yadkin in deep dis.
couragement. Soon after his return,
by queer trick Of chance, gay, ire
sponsible Finley came to Boone's door
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Tune IN your searches you run across
anybody who knows what became of
those books, etc. 1 certainly will an.
preclate your letting me know. 80
always look for your articles
every Sunday and enjoy them very
much. '0fS
Yours very truly, ~s.
ao,o wv. w. BOWIE, -
"2630 University Place NV"
Here is another letter: za@
Dear Rambler: I think I can give
you little information about the
Piney Branch Race Track. NV fafLar
OFTEN told me about the great races
ana noted drivers and trainers af tho
track. 1t was bought about 1859 h,,
man named Rohr and owned md rnon'
aged by him until his death abo,,,
10 -. His widow rented the tract, and
mouse TO Lichau and Coffin. She soId
tne property about 1887. / think Sbo
Is dead. but 1 believe there was 70
daughter, who could no donbt a;;,a
you better information. The Mac
was very popular with Senator'S. Rsn
resentat1ves and Army men. co.,
now hear my father talking a.
owned several fast horses and sns,t
much OF his time at the track nfta,
taxing me with him. 1t is ca1Ied e.,
teenth Street Highlands now ana a.
Juuges stand was just about urhsno
.he church now is. Wish dad ,,,e.e
mere: he could tell MANY inferss.i,',
things of the Old Piney Rranch pns
Track" DiaIicn race
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with peddler's pack, and stayed long
as welcome guest.
AS result of the Winters talk the
Great Journey was decided upon,
Boone going deeply into debt for am
munition and supplies, and on May /,
1863, party of six set out for the
conquest Of Kentucky.
* n
MOUNTING the Blue Ridge, they
AVA swung sharply to the right, and,
penetrating Cumberland Gap, came
out into a warrior path" hard beat
en- by countless years of Indian travel.
Game abounded. the earth shook to
the tread Of great herds of buffalo,
elk and deer, while the streams were
thick with mink and beaver; but there
were also redskins in large numbers.
The constant peril sent four men
back. and in December, Boone and
his one remaining companion had a
narrow escape from a Shawnee tor
ture stake. Even as they pondered
their wretched condition--for the saw
ages had stripped them bare-Squire
Boone and one McNeely rode out of
the forest, loaded down with ammu-
milton and supplies. Five hundred
miles of trackless forest had they
travelled, aided only by faintest signs
truly feat of woodcraft well
worthy of Daniel himself.
Trapping was resumed with new ei..
ergy. but one day Stuart disappeared
as though the earth had opened. and
McNeely, losing heart, set out for
home, never to be heard Of afterward,
only the two brothers were left. and
In May it was. decided that Squire
should go back alone to market the
Iurs and buy ammunition,
Daniel stayed behind, without
pread, salt or sugar, horse or dog"
even lacking powder and bullets for
MS rifle. Forest fruits and roots. to.
gether with such small animals as he
was able to snare. furnished his food
ana, with Indians all about him, he
MADE his bed in the heart of the
densest thickets, risking a fire only
at rare intervals. -
Innumerable were his hairbreadth
escapes. Even so, he recorded it as
the happiest time in his life. for at
least he was face to face with his pur-
pose-alone with the God that had
chosen him as IAN instrument for set.
tling the wilderness With growing
appreciation of the lands loveliness,
Boone now proceeded to explore Ken.
lucky from border to border, charting
1t as calmly as though he did not
stand in daily peril of his life.
Boone came again to Kentucky the
following year and picked a site for
the settlement that he was deter
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road, that wagon tracks might hide II
from the savages. A British defeat
but an American victory, for that
CHASTITY rout forever ended the super
stition that British redcoats were in
vincible.
1t is against this stirring back
ground that we are introduced to
Daniel Boone, a tremendous figure, as
important as picturesque. Usually
dismissed as a mere backwoodsman
he deserves to live in our hearts as
the American Moses, for it was not
until he blaZed trails through the
wilderness that the people of the New
World thrilled to the realization of q
continent all their own.
Let 1t be remembered that for $50
years after jamestown and Plymouth
the colonies remained essentially Eu-
ropean, eyes on England and ears
cooked to catch the whisper of kings.
Even when the population had grown
to million they huddled along the
Atlantic seaboard like sheep in a pen,
unwilling to leave the ocean that was
their touch with the Old World.
" **
IHE warrior path" of the Iroauois,
deep and broad, ran from Albany
to the Ohio, giving New England and
New York direct access to the riches
of the West. but no white man fol
lowed 1t, all clinging to the sterile
coast with the tenacity of limpets.
Only when the story of Boone's
colorful exploits flew from settlement
to settlement were the colonists
moved to throw off the bondage of
habit and shake free of old fears and
ancient submissions.
At every point in his adventurous
life, packed with danger, this mocca-
sined pathfinder is seen to have
shaped great events with his gnarled
hands, molding the destiny of a ma
ton. 1t was not only that he lifted
the souls of men above humility; had
it not been for his courage and vision
the Revolution might have ended with
England laying claim to the whole
transallegheny region by right Of un-
disturbed possession.
After the Braddock disaster Boone
went back to his home on the Yadkin,
Disguised with British arrogance and
incompetence.
And still there was no peace. In
famed by brutal treacheries, the
Cherokees and allied tribes ravaged
the western borders Of Virginia and
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Sponge Cultivation

y oN"ES are becoming scarcer and
Scarcer' the higher qualities fetch.
ing extraordinary prices as comnarod
with those of few years ago Th,s
condition has led to the snpgos.ior
that some artificial substitute fo,, a..
sponge be devised. or that sponge cul.
'iVat1on take on new and bettor
phase. anu oet'er
sb nAperlments in the Mediterra moo -
SHOW tnat the cultivation of snonao
may De undertaken with evcoiiaet
poospects pa OF success off the Franct
not &c any ~ tnat such cultivation need
finea ~ was first feared, be CON
Snor 20 the Tunisian shores
tba WeS;tm rom the opposite shores Of
carried to France and nlantaS uee,' i,,
coasts. 1t is expected that fn ~; y,
sponge industry will be rraatiy
strengthened by these methods '''
fragments of sponge transnorto,l
70 another locality heal in sLo,'.
tnree months, when thew again beeir
70 grow. irregular bits soon bacon,,
innerieai and rapidly increass
o,ze' o addlng twenty-five times tnei
ewn VaIue IN the course of four 3
~, siHe years. The growth is, OF cours.
Sow especially during the FIRST Yea,
hlnainIy because of the necessity f.
t.ieaiing tng the wound caused by ii,
ig reaiiIhg on OF the fragment from tn
main body for transplanting.
The character of the sponcv tissu.
IS Altered by cultivation, the darl d
TINT becoming much clearer II ha
not as yet. been ascertained whctTie,
tnere is sufficient change in this re-
spect to alter the commercial value
Of the product.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
BY GEORGE CREEL.

~ EN-. EDWARD BRADDOCK,
as brave as aSinine, was
r come to drive the accursed
~ French out of America, and
Fort Cumberland flashed
with the color of marching red
coats, colonial buff and blue, hairy
men in buckskin and blanketed In
dians riotous with paint and eagle
feathers.
TO a certain gaping woodsman,
leaning on his long rifle, it seemed
that the whole Of creation was
gathered in the one spot, and the
boyish face fell into forlorn lines.
Looking for any one?" 4 stall.
wart young Virginia major stopped
his horse and looked down with
kindly eyes, for he himself was of
the forest breed
mo one in particular" soft
drawl answered Il come up from
the Yadkin to get chance at the
f1ghtin', that's all. My names Danl
Boone"
Mine is Washington - George
Washington. AS for fighting
he flushed as if at some angry men,
ory-"I don't know about that. Gen.
Braddock has d mighty poor opinion
of us colonials. However
his swift glance rake the narrow
street, he beckoned to tall, broad
shouldered youth. Here's a. North
Carolina recruit for you. Dan Nor
gan. Good-by. Friend Boone. and
take good care of that rife. British
regulars may find it useful yet"
Whats he mean?" asked Boone.
following his new friend. Don't
they like us?"
We're dirt under their feet"
raSped Morgan. I'VE don't drill an
our boots amt polished. All of 'em
think this is a sort of dress parade.
After they take Fort Duquesne they'll
capture Niagara, Frontenac an
Crown Point, an then have an hour
left to get ready for supper. Maj.
Washington's only man that can even
talk to Gen. Braddock. an he amt
listened to-"
AS the weary march began at
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WP of he Ire -BainB Red Td-ToG atkrRao

| last, many a campfire must have
| warmed the friendship of these three
| Washington, Boone and Daniel Nor
gan--for all were trained woodsmen,
similar in temperament and expert
enCe.
! knowing Indians and forest war.
, fare as they knew the backs of their
| hands. how they must have groaned
| as they watched the doomed Braddock
blunder forward. his line four miles
long and cluttered up with carriages,
soft beds and table delicacies.
Only resolute when wrong, the stub.
born general sneered at the suggestion
Of using scouts, and alienated the In
dian allies by his arrogance and con-
| tempt. What more simple than the
defeat of a few hundred French and
some beggarly savages, all that Mar
quis Duquesne had been able to send
down from Canada?
SO dawned the soft, sunshinv morn
ing of July 9, 1855. After three daw-
ding months, the scattered, strag-
Cling army was within 10 miles of the
fort that guarded the junction of the
Allegheny and Monongahela. Wash
inston. racked with fever and barely
able to back his horse, urged caution.
Wdl illfls ol Il possible dnlDuSn, out was
laughed at for his pains.
Even as Braddock and his titled Of
ficers yawned in anticipation of an
easy victory, a bedlam of war cries
broke the peace of the forest, and
from every thicket poured fire that
laid the British ranks in red Win
drows. Gallant Beaujeau, with 200
French and 700 Indians. had set a
trap and Braddock was we'll caught.
The colonials, falling fiat, fought
from tree and rock with cool valor,
but the dazed regulars, huddled in
platoons. were shot down almost with
out resistance. Sir Peter Halkett and
many another officer fell--a bullet
gave Braddock his death wound
panic spread and the British veterans,
flying like sheep before the hounds"
sent back aimless volleys that put the
colonials between two fires.
Twice was Washington's horse shot
from under him-four bullets pierced
his coat. but he kept retreat from
turning into a massacre. and led
remnant from the bloody field
Four days later the young Virginian
read the funeral service over ill-fated
Braddock, making a grave in the open
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der the draft act of 1863 be-
gan in Washington August 3,
Il 1863, and the draft board end.
ed it's sittings September 30,
1863 The Star of the latter date said:
This is the last day appointed for
persons to report, and the board. as
far as hearing causes for exemption
is concerned, win close its labors to-
day and those who were drafted and
have not reported will. after today. be
arrested as deserters."
The Rambler thinks that while the
draft board was in session the i'm
portant topics in home and shop in
Washington were physical disability,
the purchase of substitutes and the
payment of communication for eXemp.
ton from military service.
I have copied the following adver-
tisements from The Star of August
and September. 1863
Get Substitutes! The only way to
put the Rebellion down is to put men
in the field. Therefore it is the duty
of every Loyal man who is drafted to
assist the Government by getting Sub
stitutes if they do not want to serve
themselves. Apply for Substitutes at
w. B. Lewis & Co.'S Auction Rooms,
AIT Seventh street, between G and II
Streets
Substitute Headquarters The
highest prices will be paid for Sub
stitutes for Drafted Men. Those in
want of Substitutes will find it to their
interest to apply at the Intelligence
and Real Estate Office, No. 81 Ninth
street, near Pennsylvania avenue. N.
II. Miller"
"a number of Substitutes on hand
strong, healthy men that are sure
to pass. Apply to William II. Hope,
$50 E street. Highest prices paid for
Substitutes"
"Drafted Men, Look Here! You can
be furnished with Substitutes (able.
bodied exempts) by immediate appli.
cation at the Office of William NJ.
Robertson, corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and Fifteenth street. T. A.
Mitchell"
Substitutes Wanted Immediately
Highest prices paid! Call soon. Call
early. First come, first served. Sub
stitutes furnished. Exemption pre-
pared and filed. Lower than else
where. Emory & Jones, No. 2 Law
Building, st. Paul street. Baltimore.
and No. Parker's Building, opposite
Metropolitan Hotel. Pennsylvania ave.
nue., Washington"
The Rambler took the following
news paragraphs from The Star of
August II. 1888 1.-The substitute
market is more active than for the
first few days of the sitting of the
board, and on Saturday there was a
decided advance. Those willing to be.
come substitutes have learned their
own value in the market and seem
inclined even to advance it. Some re
ceived, on Saturday. as high as $27S
in hand, exclusive Of the margin
of the agent. Notwithstanding this
every one that desires a substitute car
be supplied. Very few persons are
paying the $500 Communication money
preferring the safer plan of placing
men in the field that are certain tc
them for three years"
think the following item from The
Star. Thursday, August 20. 1868, vii
give you little picture of how things
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the Carolinas, driving the Scotch.
Irish back to the coast. Again in
1853, the flaming Pontiac led Senecas,
Mingoes, Delawares, Shawnees, Mi
amis, Wyandottes and Ottawas against
the white men, only Detroit and Fort
Pitt withstanding the fury of the saw
ages.
Now indeed was expansion a word
that rested on no mans tongue. The
brave plans Of the Ohio company fell
to nothing and the various other trans
allegheny grants became mere paper.
New England colonies hugged the sea.
coast with renewed fervor; Albany
and Fort Pitt were the outposts of
New York and Pennsylvania: Virginia
and the Carolinas had their fill of
pioneering, and the colony left by
Oglethorpe in Georgia lived timidly
under the protection of Indian trea-
ties.
Moreover, royal proclamation
eSta blished imperial control over all
of the vast territory lying west Of the
Appalachian divide. exempting 1t from
settlement and setting every charter
right aside.
Only Daniel Boone dared to dream.
AS child he had helped his family
cut way from Pennsylvania to
North Carolina, and on the wild banks
of the Yadkin the woods and streams
had been his books.
He could race the forest aisles with.
out breaking a twig, dive with the
beaver, hit the bull's.eye from in.
credible distances, catch fish with a
horse-hair, and outwait and outwit
any brave that crept the thickets in
full war paint.
Solitude drew him, and as he
trapped and hunted. broiling his veni-
son over Goals in some safe covert, a
feeling grew that God called from
the mountain tops. bidding him cross
over and blaze trails that a people
| might follow. Born of Quaker stock
the savage life Of the woods led Boone
far from that gentle faith. yet never
| did he lose his kinship with the stars
| the serene conviction that the Lord
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were going in the draft: "There have
been rs cases before the board today,
of which AZ were exempted and II
colored men and l white accepted,
with colored and II white substi.
tutes, making % soldiers"
The Rambler found this in The
Star Saturday. August %, 1868: 1.-THE
market for colored substitutes is not
as high as that for whites, ranging
only from S25 to SIS, though we learn
that some of the $25 ones have not
always come to time per agreement
with employers"
You Will see from what follows from
The Star, September 4, 1868, that sub
stitutes were not all reliable and that
some were shot: 'In addition to those
obtained here, conscripts continue to
arrive to some extent for the Army
of the Potomac from other quarters,
There is some difficulty with the sub.
stitutes. many of whom have to be
watchfully guarded, and a very con-
siderable force has to be employed in
this city. The recent executions are,
however. exerting an influence against
desertion and restraining parties from
offering as substitutes those who do
not mean to serve in good faith"
THE Rambler found the following
in The Star Of August IA, 1868:
| Thus far, but few of those drafted
in this city have been accepted into
the service Of the United States. They
have either procured exemption or
/ have furnished substitutes, while a
few have paid the Communication
money. The most common
| inftrmity is hernia, and persons
afflicted with this are, of course, un.
fit for active duty and are at
! once proclaimed exempt. =
Advanced stage Of consumption is also
! a cause for exemption. Mr..
| Clephane, the receiver of commuta.
ton money, has, in addition to the
communication list Of Wednesday, re.
! ceived $500 from each OF theN follow.
ing to exempt them from the draft:
Proctor, Henry P. Gilbert, Law.
renee A. Oddie, Silas II. Moore,
! Francis Burke and Henry B..
McElfresh. Mr.. r. B. Hoover also
! paid his communication money and took
his receipts to the board of enroll.
ment and asked for papers exempting
him for 3 years. This he was in.
formed could not be done--that he
was only entitled to exemption from
this draft. Mr.. Hoover then returned
to Mr.. Clephane and got his money
back in order that he might secure a
substitute.
There have been up to this hour
94 cases acted on today by the board.
which has yielded is soldiers-13
white and 3 colored-all being SUBJ
stitutes."
The Rambler will give you a few
results of the action of the board of
enrolment, believing that they will
help you to understand conditions
in Washington. late in the Summer
Of 1853. The following cases were
disposed of by the board. Friday,
August II, 1868: p. Carren, only son
of widow; Henry G. Whiting furnished
Substitute, w. Smith; Joseph F.
Lucas, only son of widow; John
Kafer. only son of widow; w. r
Gapin, disability; John NJ Becker fur
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Daniel Boone Was Man of the Wilds Who Fashioned

This is the second of a series
Of articles dealing with adven-
turous high spots in the lives
of historical characters famous
in America. The authors ex-
tensive literary and editorial
experience led to his appoint
ment as Chairman of the Presi-
dents Committee on Public In
formation during the World
War.
Mr.. Creel is a native of
Missouri. He married Blanche
Bates, the noted actress. He
has done much newspaper and
magazine writing.
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LOOKING FOR ANY ONE?" A
STALWART YOUNG VIRGINIA
MAJOR STOPPED HIS HORSE
AND LOOKED DOWN WITH
KINDLY EYES.
mo ONE In PARTICULAR" A
SOFT DRAWL ANSWERED. my
NAMES DANL BOONE"
mine is WASHINGTON -
GEORGE WASHINGTON"
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Some Results of Draft Act of 1868 Are Shown bv the Ramb

1" HE drawing of conscripts un.
der the draft act of 1863 be.
gan in Washington August 8,
Il 1868, and the draft board end
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EN-. EDWARD BRADDOCK,
as brave as asinine, was
r come to drive the accursed
French out of America, and
L,ort Cunaherland flashed