The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-23

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empaneled a jury, but aside from that had
never mixed up with carnage.
you arel exclaimed Coleman Younger.
" Well, On you, prAyl"
He was almost morbid on the subject
of prayer, Coleman Younger. He did
much harm, l think, by suggesting it at
the most i~nopportune times, and showed
great tolerance that way.
What do you mean p asked the tremb-
ling wretch.
l mean you have just ten minutes by
our large and choice assortment of
watches to get ready for the other world,
and l don't want to send any man to the
other world u~nprepared."
He was always that way. he did not
want to see a deputy sheriff die in a crude
state. Ten minutes soOn passed, and
then the men were blindfolded. They
were not far + on the steep bluffs of the
Missouri, some Of which were 300 feet
high. The three n en-, with their eyes
~bandaged, we. e taken to a cliff and swung
over 1t so that they caught by their hands.
Below was a perpendicular wall.
Hold on As long as you can" said the
eccentric robber, and when you fall that
will be the end of you"
With that the helpless men were left,
and above the tumultuOus beating Of Their
own hearts they heard the clatter of re-
treating hoofs. You can dimly imagine
the borrow of such a situation. The cold,
glittering stars looked down upon them,
but they saw them not. With ~bandaged
eyes and sinking hearts they chung to the
verge of life until their ~nerVeless fingers
one after another relaxed, and with a deep
moan they fell to the bottom, a distance
of nearly four feet.
AS soon as they rec vered they went
home with a feeling toward the Younger
boys which almost amounted to resent
ment.
The book is full OF interest, and shows
that the James and Younger people re-
gard themselves as more sInned against
than shining. They always excused
b themselves for killing people on the ground
that society nad not treated them well.
They foolishly kept alive the old war SEN
timent, and instead of burying their
sectional animosity they allowed their
strong political likes aud dlSlikes to warp
their better judgement.
John Younger was less dlgnlhed than
Coleman. He was more apt to be mer-
curial, and ais impu,sive. One night in
a barrOom at Dallas he was feeling quite
clipper under the influence Of Texas vint
ages when he proposed to shoot just
near enough to brush the nose of an old
gentleman who sat around the place. John
made a bet with anOth,r man that he
could do so without shooting Oft the nose.
The bet was accepted, but greatly to tie
general regret, a regret which was also
shared by the old man, JOhn lost.
The volume contains a good, full-page
picture of Jesse James taken after death.
it is well worth the price of the book,
and has been a source of great comfort to
many people who survive him.
1t is doubtful if this country will ever
again produce the same aggregation of
highway robbing talent again. Mr.. Gould,
with his active little Western Union tele-
graph, did much to cut short the career of
these men, and for this, if fer nothing
else, | feel for one like taking i'm by the
hand and saying to him, : Jay, you are
the foe Of crime, and with your justly
celebrated electrical appliances, penetrat-
ing even to the hea t of the forest and the
depths of the desert, you pace the burn
ing brand Of Cain upon the brow OF the
felon, til every child seems to read it, and
the warning thus precedeS the arrival of
the or minal."
The author says: "The fate of the
Younger brothers should be a terrible les
son to Jackson, Clay and Galloway coun-
ties Had they-the Youngers-nJt
been petted and practically encouraged,
at least had they not been harbored and
their sins condoned because they were
once with Quantrell, they might have
been stopped early enough in their career
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instead of being doomed to pass their
lives in prison. Who are to blame for a
child being willful and disobedient? It's
parents and guardians. The same is true
of the outlaws. When the YOungers or
Jameses were charged with a bank rob-
berry, Clay county rose Indignantly to de-
nounce the charge, or declare that the
robb, ~ and %murderers were being perse-
cuted because they had been under QIan-
trelI's black flag. Thus encouraged they
went on from bad to worse, robbing,
plundering AID killing, while many of
the residents of Clay, jackson and Gala
way counties shielded them and declared
they were prosecuted for political rea-
sons"
Ali this may be true, but it is Of little
use, I find, to appeal to the moral nature
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NAV talk to a county and appeal to it's
better nature till you are black in the tace
and it will not even feel ashamed of it.
self. 1t is a good deal so with congress.
[ have lone much to prevent congress
bringing my gray hairs with sorrow to
the grave, but what has been the result 4?
Members have gone to pairing with each
other in a brain sapping way, while as a
body l can truthfully say that congress
never even went away by itself for a
single moment to consider what I have
said
Returning again to the subject of a tacit
endowment of lawlessness on the part of
communities or parents, I must say that
they are the parties who suffer at last.
Willful blindness to the defects and mis-
demeanors of a child especially brings its
sorrowful reward to the parent at last,
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