Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-01


Mr.. Edgar Nye. more widely and
iamiliarly known as '.Bill Nye. of the
Laramie boomerang, is spending the
week with relatives in. Englewood A
representative of the Inter Ocean paid =
visit TO Mr.. Nye last evening, and found
him engaged in game of whist with
his cousins. ~
Il should like to interview YOU. Mr.
Nye," said the reporter.
The funny man of the Boon,cra,,1
pulled his long blonde mustache gently
4 and tenderly, curled one of its ends mn
around his nose, and remarked, with =
quiet CLEAN in his hazel eye: a..Pm
sorry l didn't know YOU were COMING
i should have had my teeth fled. and
would have written you out an inter
view, questions. and all correct
What Is your opinion of Interview.
ing?" - ~ .'.,''' :.
That depends upon the interviewed.
like and respect newspaper men. /
am newspaper man. myself joseph
Cook says we ought to be hung, and
Freddie Gebhardt says we are scala
ways Now think Joe and Freddie
are great horrid things, do"
Again that Characteristic tWirl of the
mustache, as the interviewer asked: ~
GLOW do you like Chicago?'' aal i.,l1
ayes. 40 ~ z ls'.,s1 l..r, p
'How long have you been here?"
"a week. i came visiting for my
! health. / fell i'll in February. iai Tho
boomerang went back on me, Kicked
recoiled yoil might say. The Laramie
doctors are peculiar set. One of them
dOet0red me for malaria, and another
for inflammatory rheumatism; then,
they shipped what was left of me TO
4 Greeley, Col, and they have sent the
rest OF me on here, But I'm getting
better, and after Northern trip shall
go home.
] Who is running the Boomerang In
4 your ABSENCE" .'. ~ F'Hn
go, its running" tff -"~
Seriously, who is taking Your
work."
Nobody is taking it. very seriously,
but it is good deal more serious than
when was there. ",e.v .--.t.- = -,e.......
Who is your candidate for the Pres
idcncy?" --------------
well, if You WON'T give it away,
wifftelf YOU / should like TO see Lydia
Iinklmrn at the head of the Govern
ment.''ni stVr.f .....r.f.tr .-.- ...
Lydia Pinkham?
| Eyes, Lydia, the same. She and l
used to be engaged, hut broke it off
because she was such giddy young
thing Stin, feel that she lost a good
deal in losing me, and l should like to
see her have. something to make up
for it." NC l7A1 t1o u 80 ..s -21H
"What is the rest of your slate?"
" You may make that out. Pm only
particular about Lydia.
1T is rumored that you thought of
running Yourself? /"
81 did, but was only fooling."
What is your opinion of Mrs. Lang
try?" s-,......'=',
"She died easy"
How do YOU regard Garter Harri-
SOM" -1os a
Garter doesn't know me. He
hahn t-had the pleasure of meeting me,
and | won't commit myself just yet"
GLOW do you class the dude?"
IL don't class him. / Just call him
go. Cali him pet names; call him
dudy"
what do YOU think of the Cars
coronation?''
I'D rather he should be coroner
!
stupid interval coming on. Remember
l am an invalid, and go easy with your
questions. 1 know the trying situation
in which you are placed. There is my
cousin and his wife gazing at you as if
you were an escaped curiosity. l know
how it is myself. The general public
looks on. newspaper folks as peculiar
specimens. 1, have had people before
now look at me as if they wondered how
got away. 1t is painful, shudderine
curiosity, similar to that with which a
smallpox doctor is generally regarded.
Don't stare at my bald head. 1t won't
do you any good TO ask me where lost
my hair, for won't tell you, and 1
won't tell you, either, what is making
it grow in again. You don't take me
for a patent-medicine advertisement,
hope?' 5~
mo. Is it true that Wyoming wom-
en- like to vote?"
Eyes, but that's got nothing to do
with the condition of my cranium.n
''How do they generally vote?"
lin ballot-boxes.n Z - 3
mo, but which party?"
depends on whether the party is
sweetheart or husband. They often
vote against the latter party if he
doesn't go all right on temperance
questions. There used to be a woman
Justice of the Peace out there, and she
fined her husband for getting drunk.
Women are eligible rs jurymen in wv
oming. They ride to election in car
riages, and seem to enjoy it"
"What sort of weather do you have
in Laramie?'i VIZ D. ttAltLf al 81
! sit SHOWS pretty muchly. Electric
blue is my favorite color. / don't know
how old l am. Transatlantic travel is
looking up. I haven't seen the Bar
tholdi statue Oscar Wilde is an easy
man to interview. If he hasn't any
thing more to say he looks over your
head and doesn't say anything. l in
terviewed Oscar" .--ittTA.H Z
Would you intimate, sir, that you
have no more to say? L wished to ask
your opinion of the Presidential success
sion if anything had happened in con-
sequence of the shrimp salad Mr.
Arthur took at Savannah the other
dayjlE .2IpNO0 .G4o,dc4e ANru
~TookP He didn't take it." A slow
smile oyerspread the face of Bill Nye
His kindly eyes cleaned He pulled
his mustache ends up around the corner
of his nose. He didn't take the salad
He only borrowed it. Going? Don't
hurry. Stay and beat me at whist
You can do IT. easy enough. Anybody
can Goodbye; sorry to have seen you
in ench an. unpleasant capacity Good
night. Sweet dreams. - Chicago Inter
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