Show THE MAN FROM TEXAS I Washington Reporter Stumbled Against Transplanted Bostonian Washington Star He was registered from Texas and the hotel reporter being anxious to see a Texas fresh from his native heath asked he clerk to point him out and at once proceeded to interview him You aro from Texas I believe he said in his winning reportorial manner as he stood in front of him I beg Jowr pardon responded the gentleman with a aught frown Im a reporter hurriedly explained I Interviewer somewhat abashed and I would be clad to hao a little talk with vou on Texas matters How aro times down there Oh ah I beg your pardon said the Texan I did not thorouehly comprehend compre-hend the purpose ° f your approaching me and being somewhat apprehensive of strangers I felt a natural hesitancy dont you know in greeting you with that bon I homie not to say camaradieri so characteristic char-acteristic I believe of the gentlemen of your profession Now that I am appraised of your identity I shall be pleased to communicate I any information t may pos I I scss and in resaonse to your eminently i I pertinent Inquiry I may say that as far as my knowledge extends the times in my poltical division of the Union are notably not-ably salutary I The reporter wondered If the clerk hadnt made a mistake I BusineSs 1 presume he said is goodThe I I The commercial industries of Texas responded the gentleman exhibit a most I lnglIr eh I mpt encouraging alienee of those phlegmatic conditions which certain individuals who I are prone to look upon the Tartarean side of every entity have persisted in prophesying I proph-esying would necessarily follow certain i political coalescences with capitalist com i binatlons which it Is not exigent at present pres-ent to designate or discuss It is sufficient to say that the calamitous climacteric which they were so bombllatlous in fulminating I ful-minating has signally failed of eventua tion in my own or any contiguous communities I com-munities I I am glad to hear it gasped tho reporter re-porter How are the crops As the duties of my vocation are rather subtegulaneous than extraforane I owl answered the gentleman from Text Tex-t as with cautious discretion possibly I I am not entirely competent to become conclusively con-clusively respondent to your Indurations In that direction However from the presentments pre-sentments of responsible and reliable de latent I ajn constrained to believe that our agronomic conditions are impeccable I and that predial protits are no less sure f I than they will be superlative Indeed I am profoundly impressed by the resultant I efforts of every Trintolemus of Texas of whom it has been my fortuitous fate to have eognofceneo that agriculture and its concatenated coUaterallties in our state are destined to wield a plenipotentiary I puissance in politics as well as In all pragmatic and professional pursuits I have predicated upon this a bell boy here announced that the gentleman was wanted at the telephone Pardon me a moment he said rising to pro Certainly certainly said the reporter and as the gentleman disappeared in the i box tho reporter disappeared through the i I nearest street door Gee whiz he exclaimed J ex-claimed when he reached the open air JIA wliat has ever happened to Texas Won I der If Boston has slipped a cog and 1 dropped down that way |