The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-20

| parlOrE asked a red-haired, freckled-
faced lady coming into the room at
this juneture.
why, this gentleman is a reporter" /"
explained the tall stout lady, land he
has come to interview us. Mr.. Report
er, this is Mrs. Lucy Young, my Brig
hams second wife,"
Mrs. Lucy Young bowed stiffly and
sat down upon a hair-cloth sofa.
81 am not going to be interviewed"
she said. "If there's any interviewing
to be done, Briggs got to do it,
Hello. girls, anybody down here
want to see mep"
The inquirer was curly-headed, red
checked young lady, who came bounc-
ing into the room very unceremoni-
ously.
ats reporter come to interview
US" said the freckled-faced lady.
a reporterp" Why, how funnyl"
exclaimed the curly-headed red-cheeked
young lady, laughingly heartily. She
sat down next to the reporter.
"Tm one of the Mrs. Young" said
she, but | mustn't say a word that is
liable to be printed. Brig would never
forgive me if | did. I'm his fourteenth
wife, you know, and he's awful jeal-
ous. Oh, there you are Emma, Come
in dear. Here's an neditor who wants to
interview us.
Emma was another wife-the eighth.
She was cross-eyed, but otherwise
comely to view. She was followed by
Rachel the third wife. who was brown
haired and blue-eyed, and demure look
ing, They were duly introduced. The
reporter felt himself called upon to
commence all over again.
"Mrs. Young" SAID he addressing the
group, 81 have called to ascertain your
views on questions involved by poly
gamy and other institutions peculiar to
the Mormons."
Wouldn't 1t be better to call the rest
of us before we attempt to be inter-
vlewedY" suggested the eight Mrs.
Young.
Perhaps So" said the reporter. "But
but - but = how many are there of
you?" 4
"Oh, we're quite a family said the
fourth Mrs. Young; and going to the
parlor door called out: "Maud, Jennie,
Clara, Rebecca, Harriet, Mabel, Ruth,
Julia, Frances, Mary, Caroline, Esther,
come into the parlor, and bring the rest
of you with you.
The reporter pinched himself to dis
cover whether he was awake. There
was no doubt about it.
Mrs. Young began to stream into the
parlor. There was every variety of
her. She was tall, short, fat, lean, red
faced, pale-cheeked, plump, scrawny,
old, young, sour pleasant, vivacious,
stupid, graceful and awkward. The
parlor got crowded-why don't they
have bigger parlors at the American
House, anyway? The idea of expect
ing reporter to interview Mrs. Young
in a room not more than 6xS The air
was sitting. The reporter felt as If he
was going to faint. He began to regret
he had ever undertook the novel task
of interviewing Mrs. Young.
"Oh, girls, girls, here comes Briggyp
cried one of the ladies who had been
looking out of the window.
"Where? Wherep scrt amed the
rest, rushing pell-mell to the windows
there were seven of them-and cram
ing their necks to get look at their
husband. Such scrambling and hust-
ling never was seen before. Mrs. Y oung
pushed, crowded, slapped, and scratched
one another in their attemps to secure
a view,ot her liege lord.
"See, he threw kiss at me-" exclalm-
ed Mrs. Young.
"He didn't eitherl 1t was for mel
cried Mrs. Young.
And Immediately the rest of Mrs.
Young Indignantly asserted the kiss
was meant for her, and then ensued a
war of words, In which such endear-
ing epithets as you "You saucy jade,
"You pert mink" "You mean thing"
and "You cross old hen," figured con-
spiciously. The reporter crept wearily
away from the scene. AS he tottered
through the hotel office Mr.. Smith stop
ped him.
II hope you succeeded in getting the
interview you wanted" said Mr.. Smith
"I did the best l could under the cir
cumstances, but the fact is quite num-
ber of Mrs. Young have gone out shop
ping and others were feeling too much
under the weather to receive callers.
Denver Tribune.
An itinerant preacher was holdign
forth in crowded street in a western
town the other day, when an irreverent
hoodlum interrupted him with: Say.
mister! do you think it is more blessed
to give than receiver" "Of course do,
my son" replied the evangelist. "Well,
then, old hoss, Just give us a rest !" YELL