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cended from the east bound passenger
train one Sunday afternoon, took pos
session of the depot, drove the tele-
graph operator out and proceeded tO
amuse himself by clicking the keys.
Three weeks before, bad Man Fin
nigan had been ION "A tear at Medora
He wandered off toward the river and
went to sleep in the weeds. Some of
the citizens found him and reached
his hair with a pair of sheep-shears.
That is, they clipped it close on the
sides of his head and left it long on
top. AS the bad mans hair naturally
stood on end, when he awoke he
thought he was a Sioux chief, He was
not of romantic stamp, as "A real
bad man should be- Short was Elan
nigan, red-faced, sandy-haired, crook
ed d-nosed, alkali-stained,
Satisfied at length that he had sue
ceeded i'm causing a smash-up some
where along the railroad, by his indus
trious working of the instruments
Flannigan started out To settle his bill
against the town. AS he went out of
the depot to the platform, he saw half
a dozen men, headed by the telegraph
operator, coming toward him. 1t was
fldHHlSdH yen tHdt Hltut lilil ldlllouS.
When he saw the approaching dele
cation he let go "a string of yells, put
ting in the punctuation marks with his
big revolver. The men retreated hur-
redly and Flanagan intrenched him
self in ditch beside the railroad, from
which he could sweep the entire VIII
lage. There wasn't much To cover. Just
a row of poor little shacks facing
the railroad, the packing -house some
what to the left and almost beyond
range, and the brick church with its
Gilded cross. BY the time Flannigan
was comfortably settled there was not
IA living thing in sight in Medora,
I'm bring 'em out" said the bad
man, training his weapons ON the un-
protected windows. Instead of bring
ing them out he drove them To their
cellars. thuckling to himself, he
divided his attention between the line
of shanties and the slaughter house
For more than an hour the bad man
continued the siege. Then he began To
tire of shooting away his ammunition
at something that wouldn't shoot back.
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how he bears the news of our separ-
ation," and she glided into the room.
With blanched face he approached
her. For Gods sake, Gladys Morgan,
tell me you We're jesting. / heard the
words you spoke just now. Oh, tell me,
you We're not in carnest?'
But | was in earnest, Mr.. Stating
ton. If you heard my words. it is need
less to repeat them. You have my an
swer. Good night"
But stay" he cried. You have led
me ON. oh, Gladys, reflect ere you rem
der so cruel a decision. | lay the first
real love of my life at your feet. i"
Hold, sir" she cried, with an i'm
perious wave of her j ewelled hand.
Listen. Six years ago, when ! saw
my only sister die with Il broken heart,
| vowed she should be avenged, ! have
prayed for this hour for six years, but
never in my widest dreams did | think
my prayer would be so fully answered.
God has brought il about even sooner,
more complete than / have dared to
hope. If | cause you one hour of such
agony AS she suffered, | am content. If
you live and suffer on countless ages,
/ shall be better content My work is
ended. Goodnight"
Five minutes later the sharp report
of a pistol rang through the house.
Roy Slatington had taken his own life,
and the miners daughter was avenged,
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| The church offered four windows with
whole glttering panes. He argued that
| perhaps the priest would come out to
| protect his property if no one else
would, so he began picking out the
window panes, one by one.
The second pane had scarcely crash
ed upon the floor before the Marquis
] de Mores. who had been sitting on his
vcranda watching the bombardmcnt.
sprang to his feet. lie ran to the gate
where horse, saddled and bridled,
/ stood waiting. The next moment he
was splashing through the river and
galloping toward the spot where Elan
nigan lay on his stomach, blazing away,
De Mores dismountcd when he reached
the railroad cmbankment and started
on a run for the bad man, revolver in
hand. lie approached Flanagan from
the rear, so that that gentleman did
not hear his footsteps ON the soft
earth until the marquis was within two
yards of him. 1t was then too late
to get one of his guns into action in
the new direction; and before the bad
man could think twice the angry
Frenchman had him by the collar and
was pounding his head against the
ground.
You miserable scoundrel," the bad
man heard him say, you may break
all the windows in Medora and shoot
my slaughter house full of holes; but
when you turn your guns on that
little church you'd just as we'll turn
them on me-"
The desperate was disarmed and
hadned over to a deputy sheriff, who
came crawling OUT from under tho de-
pot platform, where he had been trying
To make a tunnel to open air through
which he might shoot,
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BAD MAN FLANAGAN.
How a Typical Western Desperate
Came to Deserved Grief.

A most extraordinary character who
actually attempted to remodel the west
was the Marquis DE Mores, who tried
to establish in the Bad Lands an i'm
mense fresh meal industry To compete
with the packing houses of Chicago.
There is picturesque story of this
nobleman's extraordinary ccareer in
Everybody's Magazine by q. w. Ogden,
the first time the episode has been told
with regard to its poetic and romantic
interest. Here is one excerpt:
A certain bad Man" Fannigan
undertook one day To forestall The
evolution of events and wipe Medora
off the map. lie had a grievance
against the Inhabitants. So he des-
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November and had nice little baby girl February fol-
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Change Of life.
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WOIndnS' Three Days OF Destiny.

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THE SULTAN A COWARD.
He Lives in Daily Horror of Assassi-
nation.

Though Abdul IIamd outdocs most pcrsonaGcs
of history either in cunning cruelty yct any
drama with him in the principle role would not
he a drama Of either ol these, SAYS Eugene T..
Lyle in ENerybodN's Magazine. II would he a
drama of cuwardcc, and the most fearful oi
dramas at that lcrror of man, of disease, of tho
calamitics OF nature, Of aught spelling death
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Six years have come ana gone since
Daniel Morgan was laid beside his wife
and daughter, and let us look in again
upon our Gladys, now Il thoroughly
educated and accomplished young lady
of twenty, Beautiful, strangely beauti-
ful, she reigns queen OF society, and
though sought after by the very cream
of marriageable young men, she has
remained Veritable iceberg until with
in few months. And now people were
beginning to say that her cold heart
was melted at last, and that Roy Slat-
inston, man a dozen years her senior,
was the lucky man. and that she who
had been so proud and naughty and
cold ana distant toward every other
suitor had allowed him to whisper
honeyed words in her willing ears, and
even now he is in the drawing-room of
her guardians home, waiting for her
who has promised that on this night
she would give him the answer that
meant life or death TO him AS he
waits, he hears voices in an adjoining
room and, rooted to the spot, he list
ems.
You must not detain me, guardy.
for Mr.. Slatinston is waiting for me in
the drawing room. You know, l am to
give him his answer tonight"
Yes, Gladys, | know What that an
swer will be. You will marry him and
go away and leave us"
Marry him? Bsai, lie is just tAe
subject for a grand Irritation but for
anything further-no. thanks. I'll see
you again in a short time, and tell you
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tlcipated would bring them such hap
piness seemed to him now hollow
mockery, ana but few months more
elapsed when another grave in the
cemetery, another empty chair III the
home, and Gladys Morgan realized that
she VAS alone in the world at fourteen
years of age, sole heiress to her fathers
immense fortune, which, according to
his will, was To be delivered to her un-
conditionally on her eighteenth birth
day. In the meantime, she was to
make her home with an old friend of
her parents, Il lawyer, whom her father
had named as her guardian and eX-
ecutor of his estate.
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Ella Gull
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suffered for monthly periods seemed though
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felt that he could foretell Just what
that decision would be. With the usual
lack of perspective which pertains In
youth Harry saw long vista of hope
less years stretch before him. all full
OF failure and misery That was in
the distance. but the immediate future
looked black enough to him. How
could he face his father after having
dragged their common name in the
dust-that name of which they were
both SO proud? And his mother-ah.
break down if he did
A wisp of paper floated down to him
from the gallery above Wauchope
looked up in time to note the swish
OF a disappearing skirt. A note was
penciled on the scrap OF paper.
Il shall be in the Annual otice.
Come to me as soon as you know the
decision. ALICE"
Harry flushed when he read it, and
then ne groaned. He knew that it
meant she was going to stand by him.
and he fought with a sudden lump in
his throat.
oh, you splendid girl. do you think
l shall let you sacrifice yourself for a
disgracsd man? l may be worthless
scamp, but I'm not such a hound as
that" he cried to himself, and set his
teeth bitterly at thought Of the futllity
OF too-late repentance.
The door of the Faculty Room
opened and professor stepped out
Mr.. Wauchope, can we see you a
moment?" he asked
Certainly. sir" answered the lad,
and followed him proudly into the
judgment chamber.
Five minutes later the door opened
again to let out young man with the
eager light Of happiness shining from
his eyes. He made straight for the
great stairway which led to the gal
lery and the Annual office, and as he
went up the steps three at a time his
heart kept singing:
Another chance. Alice. girl. Re-
prieved. Reprieved!"
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19
Harry Wauchope's Reprieve.

BY WILLIAM Mcleod RAINE.
Copyright 1901. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Harry Wauchope came briskly out
OF the Faculty Room, wearing on his
faos the boyish. defiant smile that was
meant to express supreme unconcern.
He stopped for a moment at the drink
Ing fountain in the great hall and the
.sniae died from his face as he filled
the cup. emptied 1t absently. half
flied 1t again, and then turned impa
tiently away.
bulletin board and read the students
lost" notices, wondering wearily why
people posted the loss Of such trivial
things as text books and society pins.
He read that III the person who stole
= tennis racket marked J. M. X. from
tia gym. last Thursday evening will
return same to 43 Elm street all will
be forgiven and no reward will be re-
'qutred." and 1t did not seem to him
bit funny. Beneath that was the an
nouncement of the football game at
Travis Field which was to decide the
class championship. He remembered
how he had looked forward to playing
IN It, and talked over the chances of
Winning. and hoped and feared. until
had become great thing with him
and with all the team that they should
win the game and the championship
for the class; now it struck him sharp
y that the game was being played at
that moment. and he was not in it"
and never would be again. He could
evan near tho dull yelling of the crowd
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19
How to Select Guests.

In entertaining small companies do
not make mistake Of inviting the
same people to meet each other too
often. If you have a party of six mus
fcal people 1t will be enjoyable for
them to sing, play or talk music to one
another once or twice. But remember
that many people who can neither sing
nor play an instrument enjoy music
passionately. Invite these non-musi-
clans to meet one or two of these who
make music. If you know two or three
people who love books and reading,
bring them together some evening. Ask
one Of them to read aloud new short
story or magazine sketch, or an old
but perhaps unfamiliar one. II you
have among your friends two good
story-tellers. do not invite them to en-
tertain each other, but ask people
whom you know will enjoy their
stories to meet each from time to time.
Everyone loves an appreciativs listen
er. especially one who Is free from the
uneasy spur of competition-Ada C.
Sweet in Woman's Home Companion.
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LONGING.

OF al the myriad moods of mind
That through the soul come thronging.
Which one was e'er so dear. SO kind.
So beautiful as Longing?
The thing we long for. that we are
For one transcendent moment,
Before the Present. poor and bare.
Can make its sneering comment.
Still. through our paltry stir and strife.
CLOVIS down the wished ideal,
And Longing mods in clay what Life
Carves in the marble Real:
To let the new life in, we know,
Desire must ope the portal
Perhaps the longing to be 50
Helps make the soul immortal.
Longing Is Gods 8 fresh heaVenward Will
With our poor earthward striving
We Quench 1t that we may be still
Content with merely living.
But, would we learn that hearts full
scope
Which we are hourly vronging,
Our lives must climb fran hope to nope
And realize our longing.
Ah! let us hope that to our praise
Good God not only reckons
The moments when we tread mis- ways
But when the spirit beckons;
That some slight good is also wrought.
Beyond self-satisfaction.
When We are simply good In thought.
Howe'sr we fail In action.
james Russell Lowell.
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ing to each other. What? Jack fired!
Poor devil! Well, it had to come soon-
or or later"
He had made few close friends. but
he knew a good many who would be
glad to see him humbled; and he re-
solved that they should never know
how hard he was hit. He would carry
himself with the same jaunLy levil-
may-care insouciance he had always
worn, so that no man could say he
WINGED lnyoluntarily he Strengthened
himself. thrust his hands deep into his
coat pockets, and lounged over to the
large western windows overlooking the
Gym. :Ourts.
His restless fingers, unconsciously
working, clutched piece of cardboard
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19
vegetarIans Expect Golden Age.

The London Vegetarian Society
which held its annual meeting on
January 26, adopted remarkable re-
port. 1t congratulated itself upon the
fact that 1t enters the new century out
of debt, and well organized for the
work before it, and then says that the
days are drawing near when the hy-
dra-head horror Of beef, beer and bac-
cy will be revealed in all its native
hdeousness. The three-bottle man, it
continues, has long passed into OBJ
livion. and the cruelty of the shambles
will soon pass into the same obscurity.
AS result the constitutions of our
children will be cleansed, the cigar,
cigarette and the cheroot will be ban
ished from our midst, the world will
become healthier and happier and all
hearts will be in tune to the music OF
the golden age.
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19

and drew it out of his pocket 1t was
and the sight Of it gave wrench to
his thoughts that hurt with a sharper
pain. He remembered just how Alice
had looked, how beautifully sweet and
serene she had appeared in that fetch
ing light gray dress of hers. how she
had seemed so much less reserved and
more friendly than usual. 1t had
swept across his mind at the time that
possibly the thing he wanted most in
all the world might some day be with
In his reach, and he had resolved that
he would make such a man of himself
as would be worthy of her.
But that was nothing new. Ever
since he had come to thinking of her
in this way he had found himself bent
on high achievement. He knew his
work in the classroom had steadily
improved He had surprised more than
one professor by his sudden keen ap-
plication. Yet he had been surprised
to find bow hard 1t was to drop his
old, unthinking, recklessness, even
when he had set his face steadily in
the other direction. He had never
taken niTself seriously before. Nat
urally other people had accepted him
as Joke and a lawbreaker, and now
refused to consider him seriously.
They had thought it was some new
grind" he was getting on them And
when they saw he was in earnest they
raIIeu him about his reform, asking
him how long it was since New Years.
until he was forced almost in self-de-
fanse tito occasional lapses.
Why the deuce was 1t that he could
never keep his fingers out of a bit of
tempting mischief? If Gray and Tom
Gnson wanted to kidnap the president
1T the IunOr class what business was
It of his? He might have known that
It was Just his luck to come to grief
over the affair
He had known from the first that his
case was hopeless. His msdeeds had
been up for consideration too many
times before for him to expect any
mercy now, The moment he had en-
tered the Faculty Room he had seen
That he stood no chance. If they had
been severe he would have felt it
hopeful sign, but this cold. business
Ike air showed only too plainly that
his hearing was a mere formality
They had CALLED him inexpressibly by
their coldness, and he had been in re-
turn politely insolent and unconcerned
Yet he would have given anything for
another chance. though his pride
would not let him ask for it.
They had asked him question or
two, and he had answered them. Then
they had permitted him to retire while
they made their decision Wauchope
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19
!Hatrimony by Assess ment.

Marriage is admittedly always a haz-
ard; but in Servia it has been made
the basis of novel variation on the
usual modes of speculation. says a
local correspondent There societies
for providing bonuses on marriage
were formed, and hourished to such
an extent as to greatly accelerate the
marriage nte. The funds. were OBJ.
tanned on the assessment system, and
as many members who got bonus and
bride abruptly stopped their contri.
buttons, the aspiring celebrate sub.
scribers who were left found their OBJ.
legations increasing more rapidly thar
IL the experience Of most married men
Consequently, liquidation has set in
among these companies with great
severity, and the boom in matrimony
Is likely to be followed by slump.
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19
MOTHS AS FEATURE OF MENU.
Ns..s~. -.-..i'p,nr i,.nnn> Consider
the Insects y Food DeIicacy.

the Insects y Food Delicacy.
An article of food which is relshed
by the natives OF the Philippine Islands
Is procured by collecting large guam
titles of moths from the rocks Of the
mountainous regions. In several spots
in the mountains in Panay and other
islands of the group saw moths ex-
isting so thickly in the rocky tissues
that they could be scraped off into
buckets by the quart. The moths
seemed to mass in the crevices and
hang there. The natives have not
failed to Investigate the worth of the
moth as an article of food. and they
use the insects in large quantities.
Their mode of catching consists in
going to the hills in parties of dozen
or more, with the proper bag and ar
ticles for collecting the moths. The
dainty natives will not eat the wings
or the heads of the little moth. and so
they now take steps to remove these
Objectionable parts. This operation con-
ststs in creating heat to such an extent
that the tissues in the heads and wings
become baked and crumble of. Tho
natives accomplish this end by cutting
holes in the EARTH in which hot fires
are burned until the earth is quite hot.
The hot Goals are taken away and the
moths are put into the highly heated
openings The intense heat crisps the
head and wings to ashes, so that when
removed from the hole and subjected
to sitting operation through netting
the powdered parts are sifted off. leav-
ing only the body. This process also
does away with the legs. Often the
moths In their present stage Of prepar-
alton are eaten with sugar or other ar
ticles OF food. Again the moths are
used 10 conjunction with other mix
lures af food in the form of pudding
and prepared dishes. The cocoanut is
literally used in mixtures with the
moth, and cocoanut cake and pie and
moth allings are common. Then in
some instances the moth Is again
baked and reduced to powder by
pounding in ce-pounding bowls. The
powder obtained in this way is sweet
ened and used in various forms.-Chi-
caSo Journal.
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19
More UsefuI as Conceit DimIuisbsx.

James B. Dill. one of the GREATEST
corporation lawyers in this country,
says that corporations prefer to tako
college graduates for their young msn
employees. but only after they have
been away from college for about two
years. ut takes about two years" says
Mr. Dill. "for the dazzling halo Of the
senior year at college to fade away
from their eyes"
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19
The Paris Police Force.

The cost of the police force of Paris
grows steadily year by year. In 1872 it
was $4,03l, ,725. of which $2,237 300 was
paid by the city and the rest by the
government; in 1885, $4,96l 300 10
1899, $6,44S.17O. In 1872 the tota,
strength Of the police force was 7.756
for a population OF 1851, 1872. In 1898
it was 5000 for population of 2.as3-
O00
The Grit-advocate., 1901-04-19

He stopped at the drinking fountain
on the side lines. Occasionally there
came to him the short. sharp. triumph
ant TX, c, VIII" which told him
that his class was winning.
Wauchope thought of all he would
miss. how the strong bonds of fellow.
ship he had formed on the ball ground
and in the societies and at class meet
inss would be snapped when he went
away. and not soul among them
would care anything about him after
tho hrst feeling Of regret that their
reckless. lawless classmate had been
expelled. He could imagine them say