Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
CHILD MADE
COLE YOUNGER PATRIOT

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The tender influence of Il blue-eyed
girl of 6. who sings all day like Il bird.
has. little by little, melted as implac-
able a heart us ever steeled Il bandit
to war on society. The child is Pauline
Eenton, of Lees Summit. Jackson
county, Missouri. The regenerated out
law, her uncle. Is the once redoubtablc
desperate, Coleman Younger.
For love of this little child the word
OUTLAW" has become to him "a coal
OF living fire" In her name he has
~renounced all thought of reprisals upon
fury he spent as a convict at saltwater
prison, Minnesota. To cleanse. for her
sake. upon the field of patriotic glory
the stained name of Younger. he has
now volunteered at the & of 81 years.
to recruit Il regiment of rough riders
arise.
As an earnest Of his reform. of his
ambition to serve that society upon
which for IA years he waged lawless
and murderous war. Younger dispatch
ed the following letter to President
Taft:
Judging from reports from the MeM-
lean frontier. l believe there is trouble
In store. and l desire to offer to you
my services to raise a regiment of
rough riders. such as Roosevelt raised
for the Spanish American war. l can
raise Il regiment IN ~ Gays.
AS to my ability to accomplish what
I propose. l refer you to Senator War
ner. Senator stone and Senator James
"A. Reed and to Congressman w. 7.
Boreland. all Of Missouri.
AS to my ability to command. will
refer you to my record as AN efficient
soldier i'm the confederate army during
the civil war;
Still Formidable.
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Younger is still IL formidable figure of
a man, fitted to ndure the dangers and
1atigues of war. He is AN inch above 6
feet tall. His narrow-lidded blue eyes.
though in repose mild, could easily be
imagined as faring ferociously in
anger. Younger's moath is but a
straight line. and his broad face re-
sembles the moon-ltke visage ascribed
by Stevenson to Silver. the pirate chief
of Treasure Island"
Yet. putting with a domestic air a
huge meerschaum pipe which once be-
longed to Jefferson Davis. the former
outlaw delights to prattle-if "prattle'
can describe the rumblings of his rau-
cous vofce-about his little grandniece.
1T would be a fine thing for Pauline"
ne said to Il Post-Dispatch reporter, IF
! could go to war, turn over a new leaf
and make people forget that 1 was
YOunger the bandit"
an e,n,,,,o,s. r..nh H. "t.a W. poehss
which We're two portraits of the child.
DO you KNOW" he exclaimed. as IL
the fact were too much for his under-
ndf " she can write as we'll as I
ever saw "i ""oN"o'i' YOU
A Natural Singer.
Il said to her teacher: "Well. how do
you like my little PETE She's the
brightest thing the teachei. said. and
=. n.sps me mp around TO inns her
so.1etnins 10 DO.
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sn ~ =" ,taNe q M~'ass"uflah 'oT a mn,her
" Wv = aai.hse ior a la.ner. Hef father,
shes he.. . ,I ,'nt, ,iu'. a1, .onhe a.n ILL.,, -,
ton " h,,. - sna 'taIl mao amy ,hst'uc-
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a p !, suum 'lnc o't ,ie stoMs IL. Sen
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VIZ. w. "u iour re p.a.nas wrong.
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And sba ,N v,e sm. en- si's-ses, SIR
sn.,a 81 sne i'akes gestures and acts the
~ Aa' ~ ~ sous JUST as VI she We're OH
.i ..Ys 1ase.
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,,nois :" " aule ." sing ,hl"s's her old
..,rI ea.. ulio.rs-aNd
ne ilelLe g!TiLha! ha!-was crying
aireaay when 1 left home. She said
sne didn't want me to go 70 war. she
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wears agn and We. /" elsh,
times Welded IN s,,,,am ,,omo ne 1 1s,nu
ike Oscar WIZ .,aen ha ne nad.
fundis." In which hh re,,a nn p S,s r TO
and the ie.soms -. ' v, .sv'e !, ms me
by the .horrihie ax.n,nIa. .,atSNa a.eu