The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-26
FAMOUS HUMORIST
 AT JACKSON'S TONIGHT
A Few Anecdotes of Marshal Wilder by
 Ebert Hubbard.
Funny Liiile Man Who Has Made Nations Laugh Returns Here After
 I4 Years.

Ebert Hubbard. the head of the Roycroft shop has the following to say. of Marshall Wilder. who appears at Jackson's this evening and again tomorrow matinee and night as an added feature for the local engagement fo Mildred and Rouelere. in their fam tasy. .'The Flight of Princess Iris.''
 ''Some folks feel sorry for Marshall wiider-I don't. It Is heart and brain that counts. not body.
 The first time Marshall arrived here. he came up to me and said in James Whitcomb-Riley voice, Pa couldn't come. and so he sent mel
 No visitor in the Roycroft Shop ev- CT captured the hearts of our girls and boys like Marshall Love just flows to that rogue
 I use the word rogue advisediy. A woman from Buffalo came to see us With fat friend, and as they walked thorugh the bookbindery they spied Marshall perched on a high stool in- tenrly at work tooling a book
 The Buffalo lady looked at him. had another look. and turning to her friend whispered in stage voice. T always heard they hired q lot of disreputable people here-just look at that face there is crime written all over 1t"
 One visitor with a turn for econo- mics. going through the place with a straight-edge and notebook. stepped up 10 Marshall and asked him what wages he got. "A dollar a month and board-such as 1t isr was the lugu- brious reply Then he got the mans large furry ear and poured into it the worst call-down the Shop ever got Marshall told tha man that I had kid- mapped him from his parents and kept him and many others in peonage- In fact that as a kidnapper I beat Col Grove of Omaha, and those Turkish patrols who captured Ellen stone and regretted 1t when 1t was daylight. were not in 1t with me He declared that corralled hoboes. scrubbed them with sapolio and threatened to kill them If they did not make beautiful | jimcracks rocroffie-in fact had ev- erybody scared stifr. so they just had to get busy. and If f9low did not take the proper amount Of joy in his work I would kick him all over the place
 Marshail's tale of woe seriously and went away and printed it.
 | I was justly put out and had very plain talk with the little man in the | woodshed. And all he would say was l"Nigodt how about you and Paul Bart lett taking me into a dining car. ty- me up into a high chair and ordering the waiter to give me a bowl of bread and milk while you two sat opposite and ordered fried chicken and every lHinS on thc bAAA VI A1Ac A~1 So@. fselves."
 x That was the tIHe took the. little man to New York with me on hall rate ticket.
 Marshall and I are the same age.
 The conductor came around and N handed him the tickets He looked at me and looked at Marshall and lfhen said. ssHow old is your son, Col Little Journeys?"- +.
 He's seven all right," | answered l and Razed out of the window indff- \ ferently. settling myself for nap.
 He needs a shaveF' said the con-
 ductor as he punched the ticket and
 started on.
 When we got nearly to New York stopped the conductor as he walked | through and asked. .If you thought fthe little fellow was average why didn't you ask me to pay full fare for hfm2-
 'TWeu,- he said. "ft was like this.- | thought that any one who had as much assurance as you two have, should be rewarded"
 Marshall Is worth. oh. something over a hundred thousand doliars.--al made out of honest inuocent laughs. The man has intellect sympGhy. af- | lection. wit. He has simply cashed in This disabilities and worked his woes un into fun. Had he belonged to the court of Phillip the w. he would have been companion and brother of Vel asouez. A half hour with Wilder Is an absolute cure for the blues"