MNBEARD 

 1AND1UEM 



SONS OF DANIEL BOONE. 



Recreation's ''Sons of Daniel Boone,'' is 

 destined to be a big success. Letters are al- 

 ready coming in asking for information and 

 telling of the fact that the local branches are 

 being formed in various parts of the country. 

 There is a Fort Pike branch, in Pike cjunty. 

 Pa., and the Recreation Camp, in Connec- 

 ticut, already named and others are appeal- 

 ing to us for names for their local councils. 



Since Daniel Boone, himself, was so inti- 

 mately connected with a fort by that name 

 it has been suggested by one of our corres- 

 pondents that all the various branches estab- 

 lish forts. It is not to be understood by 

 this that they will necessarily build forts, 

 but that each branch or organization shall be 

 called a fort, as, for instance, Fort Mar- 

 quette, Fort Davy Crockett, Fort Lewis and 

 Clark, Fort Washington. In fact, the coun- 

 cils may appropriately name their forts after 

 any well-known scout, explorer, back woods- 

 man or naturalist. This is a rattling good 

 idea and I would suggest that it be carried 

 out by the various branches now starting 

 councils. 



When people began to settle in Kentucky 

 one of the first acts of old Daniel Boone 

 was to advocate laws for the preservation of 

 game animals, and this is one reason why we 

 love the memory of the old pioneer and why 

 we call ourselves "The Sons of Daniel 

 Boone." 



Recreation proposes to give a prize to the 



the gun keeper and be used as a tally 

 to keep record of praiseworthy acts of 

 the council to which it belongs. In olden 

 times, our pioneer ancestors were wont to 

 keep a record, by notches on the stock of 

 their rifles, of the deer or bear killed; and 

 even in times of savage warfare of the num- 

 ber of Indian scalps taken. But in these 

 days we do not "propose to hunt the poor, 

 persecuted Indians or scalp them as our half 

 savage ancestors did, and while we want to 

 emulate these ancestors in all their sturdy, 

 manly qualities we will only use our tally 

 gun for a record of good deeds we do in the 

 preservation of game and farests. 



An official rifle consisting of a picture of 

 a gun will be furnished by Recreation to 

 each Fort, and every time the Fort does 

 some notable deed in the way mentioned, 

 Recreation will send them an official notch, 

 consisting of a stamp to be gummed on the 

 picture, by the Gun Keeper in the presence 

 of the club at a meeting appointed for this 

 purpose and then, when directed by the presi- 

 dent of the Fort, the notch shall be cut by 

 the Gun Keeper in the stock of the tally gun, 

 to correspond with the official stamp. 



For the fun of the thing a little ceremony 

 is necessary and the old tally gun should be 

 treated with great respect by the members 

 of the organization, not because there is any- 

 thing respectable in its appearance, for it 

 may be battered and disreputable, rusty and 

 apparently fit only for the junk shop, but the 



fort containing the largest number of active respect due to the tally gun should be of the 



members by September ist, the prize to con- same nature as that due to our national flag, 



sist of a council tent, to be used on camping The flag itself is nothing but a patched piece 



excursions. For the fort that can show the of bunting, and as such, deserving of no more 



greatest number of official notches on the reverence than your mother's bed quilt, but the 



stock of its tally rifle Recreation 

 will also award a handsome prize, 

 the nature of which will be decid- 

 ed later, after we hear from the 

 boys and learn what would most 

 please them in this line. 



Each Fort must secure an old 

 gun of some kind. The gun must 

 always be unloaded and need 

 not be a good one or even one 

 capable of being fired. All that 

 is necessary is that it have a stock 

 and barrel and the more it shows 

 the signs of wear and service the 

 better it will be for the purpose. 

 This old gun will be in charge of 



A SON OF DANIEL 

 BOONE 



521 



flag represents and is the symbol of 

 country and the grand principles 

 of human justice upon which our 

 nation is founded, and because of 

 that we treat the flag with rev- 

 erence and even fight and die for 

 it. The old tally gun is the sym- 

 bol and record of the Fort and of 

 the noble deeds done by the Fort, 

 and hence we treat it with cere- 

 mony and respect and look upon it 

 the same as a soldier does upon 

 the medals which he has won, 

 with which to decorate his uni- 

 form, and as the savage does upon 

 the tattoo marks, which represent 



