The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-07-24

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lie WAS CONNECTED WITH THE DAILY tut
DERSTORM.
bookcase, and when | had been looking
six or seven minutes / found / was
obliged to refer to the young man. l
said:
"How do you spell it?'a- .
spell WHAT"
"Interview."
ooh, my goodness! What do you
want to spell it for?"
II don't want to spell it. I want to
see what it means"
"Well, this is astonishing, I must
say. l can tell you what it means, if
you-if you"-
"Oh, all right. That will answer,
and much obliged to you too"
Il H., in; t g +, ter; inter-
"Then you spell it with an 'i?'"
"Why, certainly"
ooh, that is what took me so long,
"Why, my dear sir, what did you
propose to spell it WITH"
"Well, I hardly know. I had the un-
abridged, and I was ciphering around
the back end, hoping I might tree her
among the pictures. But it's a very old
edition"
"Why, my friend, they wouldn't have
a picture of it even in the latest e..
My dear sir, I beg your pardon. l mean
no harm in the world, but you do not
look as-as-as intelligent as l expect
ed you would. No harm-I mean no
harm at ALL"
"Oh, don't mention it. 1t has often
been said, and by people who could not
iatter and who could have no induce.
ment to %fiatter, that am quite remark
able in that way. Yes, yes, they al
ways speak of it with rapture"
II can easily imagine it-but about
this interview. You know it is the Gus
tom now to interview any man who
has become notorious"
Indeed! | had not heard of it be-
fore. 1t must be very interesting. What
do you do with it?"
"Ahi Well, we'll, this is dishearten-
ing. 1t ought to be done with a club in
some cases. but customarily it consists
in the interviewer asking questions and
the interviewed answering them. 1t is
all the rage now. Will you let me ask
you certain questions calculated to bring
out the salient points of your public
and private history?"
"Oh, with pleasure, with pleasurel I
have a very bad memory, but I hope
you will not mind that. That is to say,
it is an irregular memory, ~singularly
irregular. Sometimes it goes in a gal
lop and then again it will be as much
as a fortnight passing a given point.
This is a great grief to me-"
ooh, it is no matter so you will try
to do the best you cam"
II will. will put my whole mind
to it."
Thanks, Are you ready to begin?"
"Ready."
Question. How old are you?
Answer. Nineteen in June.
Q. Indeed. l would have taken you
to be 30. Where We're you born?
A. In Missouri.
@. When did you begin to write?
A. In 1886.
@. Why, how could that be, if you
are only 10 now?
A. l don't know. 1t does seem curl
Gus somehow.
Q. 1t does indeed. Whom do you con
slider the most remarkable man you ever
met?
A. Aaron Burr.
@. But you never could have met
Aaron Burr if you are only 10 years
A. Now, if you know more about me
than | do, what DO you ask me for?
@. Well, it was only a suggestion,
nothing more. How did you happen to
meet Burr?
A. Well, happened to be at his flu
neral n day, and he asked me to
make less noise, and
@. But, good heavens, if you were
Mt his funeral, he must have been dead,
and if he was dead how could he care
whether you made a noise or not?
A. I don't know. He was always a
particular kind of a man that way.
Q. Still | don't understand it at all.
You say he spoke to you and that he
was dead.
A. | didn't say he was dead.
Q. But wasn't he dead?
A. Well, some said he was and some
said he wasn't.
Q. What do you think?
A. Oh, it was none of my business.
1t wasn't any of my funeral.
@. Did you However, we can new
er get this matter straight. Let me ask
about something else. What was tho
date of your birth?
A. Monday, Oct. 81, 1893.
@. What? Impossible! That would
make you $50 years old. How do you
account for that?
A. / don't account for it at all.
Q. But you said at first you were on
- 10, and o you make yourself out
to be $50. 1t is an awful discrepancy.
A. Why, have you noticed that?
: Shaking hands Many a time it has
seemed to me like a discrepancy, but
somehow | couldn't make up my mind.
How quick you notice a thing.