. Self-made men. SELF-MADE MEN. made it a matter of honest pride that he had risen from the busi-ness of a ship-carpenter to the honors of knighthood and the gov-ernment of a province. Soon after he was appointed to the chiefmagistracy, he gave a handsome entertainment to all the ship-carpenters of Boston ; and, when perplexed with the public busi-ness, he would often declare that it would be easier for him to goback to his broad-axe again. He was naturally of a hasty temper,and was frequently betrayed into improper sallies of passion, butnever harbored resentment long. Though not rigidly piou
. Self-made men. SELF-MADE MEN. made it a matter of honest pride that he had risen from the busi-ness of a ship-carpenter to the honors of knighthood and the gov-ernment of a province. Soon after he was appointed to the chiefmagistracy, he gave a handsome entertainment to all the ship-carpenters of Boston ; and, when perplexed with the public busi-ness, he would often declare that it would be easier for him to goback to his broad-axe again. He was naturally of a hasty temper,and was frequently betrayed into improper sallies of passion, butnever harbored resentment long. Though not rigidly pious, hereverenced the offices of religion, and respected its ministers, Hewas credulous, but no more so than most of his better-educatedcontemporaries. The mistakes which he committed as a publicofficer were palliated by perfect uprightness of intention, and byan irreproachable character in private life; for even his warmestopponents never denied him the title of a kind husband, a sincerepatriot, and an honest DANIEL BOONE. Daniel Boone, the mighty hunter of the West, and pioneer ofKentucky, was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the monthof February, 1735. His parents were of English birth, and Dan-iel was the sixth of a family of eleven children. Of education hereceived but little, at least of the kind then taught in the hedgeschools of the frontier settlements. Perhaps book-knowledge wasof less value to him than that other knowledge which he seemsto have picked up from his earliest youth, namely, the knowledgeof directing the rifle with unerring precision, of observing thehabits of wild beasts, and of noting the least indication of the ap-proach or presence of an Indian. At a time when the only guar-anty of a mans life was his ability to keep it, these points of apractical education were all important. When Daniel was in his eighteenth year he removed with hisparents to North Carolina, and settled on the waters of the Yad-kin, where he had ample opportunities for ind
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