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Show LUKE SHARP, THE HUMORIST. bumethlng lnteratlii( About ths Welt Knnwu Detroit Free 1'reu Man. It waa once observed by a celobrated war correspondent that it took a Hiirgi-eal Hiirgi-eal operation to get a joke into a Scotch- ft man s neau, ami yet it seems that "Luks Sharp," tliecelebrated humorist hu-morist of the Detroit De-troit Free Pie.-s, is a Scotchman, born in Uhusjjow forty years njjn. Th:tt Komethini; is wrong in this observation is evinced by "Luke Sharp's" career, for coining to the United States when he was foar years of njra, his senso of humor seems to have received re-ceived an impetus from which, from nil appearances, it will never ro- ! scription or analysis of "Luke Sharp's" ! work. That speaks for itself. The pict-I pict-I ure of tho humorist which accompanies j this article has a history. It was taken j in the interior of a house in Pompeii, on j one of Mr. Barr's photographing expedi- t'ons, and the remarkable thing about it ! is that the cap was taken off the lens by ; an Italian soldier, who was sent with I him to keep him from photographing. "When the Italian army." says Mr. liarr, "starts out to prevent an American nows-pnK-r man from taking a photograph with his camera, it has to rise earlier in ! tho morning than is customary in Italy." ! Tom Masson. i I "IX'KE SHARP." eover. Twenty years after landing in America Mr. Barr for that is the real name of "Luke Sharp" Robert Barr in looking about for some occupation got work on the Detroit Free Press. Since 1S80 he has been the London representative representa-tive of that journal. "Lnke Sharp" is somewhat above the average height, broad shouldered, with striking head, brown hair, wida brow and purely Grecian nose, and eyes that look yon straight in the face. Ha wears a short, pointed beard, and looks as though he might bo a well to do fanner. Ho smokes cigarettes, which ho makes himself. Mr. Barr does all of his work by means of a phonograph, and he can be seen almost every day in the Detroit Free Press ollice, in the Stnmd, London, sitting in a corner of his sanctum engaged en-gaged in talking down a firnnel. "1 never could dictate to a stenographer," stenog-rapher," he said recently, "because I never could rind one who knew less than I did. Imagine dictating to a man who yon felt was infinitely your superior in every way! I've tried it, but I never had the cheek to continue it." Mr. B.11T is a great admirer of Killing, ' "who deserves all the fame he has got." Speaking of his own methods of work, he said recently. "I haven't any. I should take notes, but don't. The danger of taking notes iB that your things become too notebook'. note-book'. I get the illustrations of my articles ar-ticles from a portable camera." He has never been able to settle the question as to which he likes beat England Eng-land or America, "1 have given it up," ho remarked. "After I have been in London a year or two I think America is better and go back. When 1 am there a year or two 1 come to the conclusion that England is preferable. Last year the problem and the climate drove me out of both conn-tries. conn-tries. 1 sat on the shores of the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean and pondered and pondered and pondered, bnt it was no use. 1 returned to England because it was nearer than America." It is unnecessary to enter into a de- |