Show OM OOllSllHTSTOBI S 1 His Interview Iterew Washington Star t Look here said Bronco Bob to the hotel clerk Ive stopped here every time Ive been east havent I I think so sir was the answer At any rate I hope so Well I notice that when a citizen arrives from elsewhere it is customary to get his views on various subjects and publish them Now Ive neVer been interviewed in-terviewed once Mind you I havent any personal feeling in the matter When 1 see all these towns like Keo kuk and Oshkosh and Schenectady boosted into print with a big advertisement advertise-ment free gratis I cant help sayin to myself where at is Crimson Gulch Aint Crimson Gulch destined to be the proud metropolis of the greatest state in tile west Aint the sunlight wlch gilds its new adobe barroom more ca ressln in its salutations at morning and more llngerln in its farewells over Crimson Gulch than over any other town on the map Aint the atmosphere atmos-phere more bracin to honest Invalids and more deadly to hoss thieves than that of any other section of the conti nent Aint the community a thrivin progressive one where the good man gets a show and a sinner Is made to repent pent or move on Now what I want is fur you to see to it that Mr Robert Robertson the distinguished and well informed exsheriff of Crimson Gulch is now in our beautiful city takin in the sights an scatterin information broadcast Certainly 1 replied the amiable clerk I think i will be easy to arrange an interview On what topic would you like to express yourself I doesnt make much difference tome to-me I dont care what you say I said so long as you work In the advertisement advertise-ment for Crismon Gulch the garden spot of the west where there is a boom just as soon as the public awakens to its enormous resources But youll have to express an opinion opin-ion about something the public Is interested in-terested in What do you think Is a good one Well everybody knows all about Cuba Id have been down there myself my-self and helped drive out the Spaniards only onlyOf Of course of course Thats past and gone But you might make a few observations about General Gomez refusing re-fusing to give up any money to insurgents insur-gents unless they are armed I endorse the generals position unreservedly un-reservedly He knows what he Is talking talk-ing about Theres no use of giving up your money easy Hes evidently had experience and you can put me on record rec-ord as not blaming him 1 makes no difference what a reputation a man may have for being bad dont pay to hand over your bundle until he pulls a gun Then its perfectly proper t < throw up your hands and do nothing except lay for a chance to get even Those are my sentiments about General Gomez and if anybody wants me to sign my name to em Im always wait in to be found Gilmore and Nordica In Paris I was at the time when Gilmore was at the height of his Paris engagement engage-ment says Lillian Nordlca in Ains lees Magazine that his agent ran f with his funds and left the old bandmaster band-master almost stranded Despite his sincere trouble he retained his imperturbable imper-turbable good nature and came out of it successfully He came to me one morning smiling good naturedly as usual After greeting me and inquiring after my health he said My dear child you have saved some little money on this tour I told him yes Now I would like to borrow that little from QuI Qu-I was very much surprised at the request for he said nothing whatever of his loss Still he had been so uniformly uni-formly kind and generous and had won our confidence and regard so wholly that I could not hesitate I turned over nearly all I had and he gather it up and went away simply thanking me Of course I heard of the defalcation defalca-tion later I was all around Our salaries aries went right on however and in a few months the whole thing had been quite forgotten when he came to me one morning with money ready in his hand handTo To pay you what I owe you my dearOh Oh yes I said so and so much naming the amount Here it is he said and handing me over a roll of bills went away Of course I did not count it until a little later but when I did I found just double the amount I had named and no persuasion would ever induce him to accept a penny of it back A Bad Boy Johnnie Is a bad East End boy He Is never so happy as when annoying somebody i some-body He is old enough to play practical I jokes on the household and his favorite I victim is Mary the faithful domest Last Monday Marys mistress came I into the kitchenIt was early in the morningand found poor Mary storming I storm-ing about with her best clothes on Why Mary she cried what is the matter Where are you going I I was goin to church maam said I Mary I To church On Monday morning I Yes maam I was But how could that happen I I was Master Johnnie maam He worrked me wid last years calendar I maam an tol me I dramed that yesterday I yes-terday was Sunday And Master Johnnie will be sent to punishment church twice next Sunday as a fitting I |