Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-09
HIS direction for HIS Mother.

Interview IN st. Louis Republican,.
I was born in Clay county, in 1S43.
see that that book ''Border Outlaws" which
is fiction almost from beginning to end
says that when was a boy my innate
cruelty found vent in robbing birds nests
and torturing cats and other domestic
animals. The man who wrote such trash
certainly never conversed with anybody
that knew me as boy, be they friend OF
enemy; or he wouldn't have made any such
statement. was born of strict Christian
parents, who were strait-laced in their re-
igion, and who always taught me that ii
was great sin to harm SO much as a fly.
I was always considered rather ''softy" as
a boy, and
HAD WEAKNESS FOR PETS.
The idea of any such weak creature as !
was always regarded, being pictured as fe-
rocious is absurd. I had in my whole
boyish career only one fight, which natur-
ally fixed itself in my memory. In fact
that was the only real personal difficulty
had in all my life. have no doubt that
from what you have seen of me, you Won
der how in the world support the blood
thirsty reputation that is given to me;
and the more you know of me the more
you will wonder at it. Those who have
known me all through the past twenty years
take no stock in these stories of my
ferocity. Up to the time of the war
q pair of better behaved boys than
we were, or boys who had better
parental teaching than we had, it would be
hard to find. I notice that some of the
papers had hard words to say about my
mother at times, but where is the provoca-
ton for it? Has she ever committed any
crime except to stand up fiercely in defense
of the children that she bore and that she
loves, all the better, as mothers will for
for their hayward course which has
CAUSED HEB so MUCH MISERY?
Do you suppose for one moment that
she approves the course of life
that Jesse and l have led? Don't
you think that, had she her own way,
she would prefer to have had us all these
years at home with her, soothing
the downward walk of her life
and worthy the respect of all mem She
is proud, and the more the world coz
dennis those who were once her darlings.
and who up to the time when they said
good-by to her, had done nothing to for
IolG ler love, the more StUDDOrDly she
fights for them. If you were to go to-
morrow to our old home, you would get
very unpleasant reception. She would tell
you that she knew you were detective,
that you need not come prying around
there in the hope of doing for Frank
what had been done for jesse. She would
be savage enough. But after all
THESE EXHIBITIONS OF WRATH.
that poor, desofate old woman goes out to
the grave of Jesse, and from there to the
grave OF Archie, who was, when killed by
the raid on our house, al rnofending
child, and she moistens them with moth
er's bitter tears. She turns to her house
where John lies with one lung shot away,
and ministers to his wants as tenderly as
any mother ever did, with never hint of
grief. And when the long day is done she
kneels down by her bed and, holding up
the stump of her poor old arm to God, she
asks him in his infinite mercy, to spare her
from further Christening, and to return to
her the one son, who wanders she knows
not where. Is there anything in all this to
warrant the belief that
SHE Is RESPONSIBLE FOB OUR COURSE?
I cannot understand how any man who re-