To the memory of my 

 FATHER AND MOTHER 



pioneers of the backwoods of South- 

 ern Indiana, who taught me the homely 

 duties of cultivating the fields they 

 rescued from the forest, reverence for 

 truth and to battle for the right, and 

 illustrated by their example the dignity 

 of labor in a hard environment, 

 I dedicate this book. 



