are afraid, and they generally vote the
Democratic ticket when in doubt. The effort to enforce the Sunday
law, to close the gardens, to make one day in the week desolate
and doleful, will give the Republicans a great deal of hard work.

_Question_. How about Illinois?

_Answer_. Republican always. The Supreme Court of Illinois has
just made a good decision. That Court decided that a contract made
on Sunday can be enforced. In other words, that Sunday is not holy
enough to sanctify fraud. You can rely on a State with a Court
like that. There is very little rivalry in Illinois. I think that
General Oglesby will be the next Governor. He is one of the best
men in that State or any other.

_Question_. What about Indiana?

_Answer_. In that State I think General Gresham is the coming man.
He was a brave soldier, an able, honest judge, and he will fill
with honor any position he may be placed in. He is an excellent
lawyer, and has as much will as was ever put in one man. McDonald
is the most available man for the Democrats. He is safe and in
every respect reliable. He is without doubt the most popular man
in his party.

_Question_. Well, Colonel, what are you up to?

_Answer_. Nothing. I am surrounded by sand, sea and sky. I listen
to music, bathe in the surf and enjoy myself. I am wondering why
people take interest in politics; why anybody cares about anything;
why everybody is not contented; why people want to climb the greased
pole of office and then dodge the brickbats of enemies and rivals;
why any man wishes to be President, or a member of Congress, or in
the Cabinet, or do anything except to live with the ones he loves,
and enjoy twenty-four hours every day. I wonder why all New York
does not come to Long Beach and hear Schreiner's Band play the
music of Wagner, the greatest of all composers. Finally, in the
language of Walt Whitman, "I loaf and invite my soul."

--_The Herald_, New York, July 1, 1883.

THE INTERVIEWER.

_Question_. What do you think of newspaper interviewing?

_Answer_. I believe that James Redpath claims to have invented
the "interview." This system opens all doors, does away with
political pretence, batters down the fortifications of dignity and
official importance, pulls masks from solemn faces, compels everybody
to show his hand. The interviewer seems to be omnipresent. He is
the next man after the accident. If a man should be blown up he
would likely fa