. Wit, humor and pathos . er, sir, with favor. Your officer ? My offer, madame—my offer of marriage. I loveyou. I adore Goodness gracious! and Miss Johnson fell faint-ing to the floor. A GRATEFUL MAN. One day oneof the JamesBrothers, thefamous bandits,who have filledMissouri withterror for years,rode into KansasCity daring theState a price was set uponhis head by the Governor, and a halfdozen of Pinkertons men had bit thedust hunting him down, this bravebandit passed on through the town inopen daylight to the place where theywere holding the State Fair. Then,quietly riding through
. Wit, humor and pathos . er, sir, with favor. Your officer ? My offer, madame—my offer of marriage. I loveyou. I adore Goodness gracious! and Miss Johnson fell faint-ing to the floor. A GRATEFUL MAN. One day oneof the JamesBrothers, thefamous bandits,who have filledMissouri withterror for years,rode into KansasCity daring theState a price was set uponhis head by the Governor, and a halfdozen of Pinkertons men had bit thedust hunting him down, this bravebandit passed on through the town inopen daylight to the place where theywere holding the State Fair. Then,quietly riding through twenty thousand people, hewalked his horse straight up to the treasurers standseized the cash-box with three thousand dollars init, and rode quietly away. It was a Claude Duvaladventure—a wild, devil-dare deed. All Kansas Citywas filled with amazement. The newspapers foamedand fretted about it, the Governor proclamated, andthe mayor offered rewards, but all to no avail. Themoney nor the man ever came back again. Among. 112 the newspapers which were abusing the James Brothers, was the Kansas City Times, but one day the Times said: It may have been robbery, but it was a plucky, brave act—an act which we can but admire for its splendid daring and cool,calculating bravado. A week after this article praising the James Boyspluck and daring appeared in the Times, two horsemenrode up to the Times office at eleven oclock at a watchman, they asked him to tell the editorto please come out. Tell him somebody wants to thank him, theysaid. When the editor came out on the sidewalk one ofthe horsemen beckoned him up close to his horse,and said, in an undertone: My friend, you said a good thing about me theother day. You said I was brave, even if I was arobber. You spoke kindly of me. It was the firstkind word I ever had said about me, and it touchedmy heart, and Ive come to thank you. But who are you, gentlemen? I am not aware towhom I am talking, said the astonished editor
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