The sun., 1885-06-28
LYING PICTURES OF GREAT MEN.
Unknswn Connecticut Yankees who Rsssn.
ble rresidents and senators.

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Unknswn connecticut Yankees who Rsssn.
bic rresidents and Senators.
Among Gen. Garfleld's intimate friends in
| Washington we're young Ohio man who was
proud ofthe resemblance between his physique
and features and those OF Garfield.
Yes" he would say. people toll me that
look very much like the General"
When Garfield was told Of 1t he laughed. and
said: "Yes. have heard so. but strangely
| enough. nobody ever told me that looked like
him. though they say he looks like me-"
There are to be found here and there
| throughout the country obscure men whose
| countenances strikingly suggest that OF some
| one Of our noted public men. but 1t would be
| hard to ind a community where 80 many
counterieits Of all types OF men Of prominence
| are to be found as in Connecticut This Is the
more remarkable when We remember that the
| genuine Connecticut Yankee is believed to
have his nativity and his generations OF Puritan
blood rs emphatically marked in his features
~ the most impulsive Latin or irascible Colt.
Yet some OF these resemblances arc so striking
that it almost seems AZ though thero must be
| near tics Of blood to account for them. Cer-
| tainly they show that In this rural community.
| where people have lived with but compara-
| lively little intercourse with tho great world.
there may be found types Of almost all kinds
There, are msn to be found everywhere who
are said to resemble Blaine. Tho absurd
likeness mads his features tolerabiy familiar.
90 that In almost every town there Wns some, mo,
eyes Of one who had known Blaine; but up on
Would S fs' BE- apt to to- be admitted to tho senate
Chamber without hesitation on the part Of the
| ponted out from the galleries rs the Plumed
Knight He has ,p0uThsd amNng hp rough
hills for liity years. so that his manner Of life
has been different from that OF Blaine
snd wh nSas W
careless care. the oval eneeks with the close
white ,h the
SSieaa ss h5s @a%s hs IA ns
iarmers lsia % hands "a are y large % and hbroSs. Banes
are small and soft: the farmer is sluggish in
blance is striking enough. Yet Blaine is q
this farmers ancestors have sustained them
selves on Litchtied rocks from the time when
spsaKs taa Illusion @ % is Disbelief The resam res an.
blAnco is only skin deep.
life @ were upon the village street in Greenwich
some time ago. when one Of them stopped sud
,Thsrs is Judge Thurman. rod bandanna
and all. for all the world: :"
It was no wonder that he 30 spoke. for there
riding by was the rugged, granite-ike face.
the coarse. tawnyish gray beard. the smooth
Iy shaven long upper lip with itS peculiar
coat collar the strong Roman nose. and the
dsep-set small. piercing blue eyes that were
man was ON his way to his humble avocation as
house painter; He was true Connecticut
had n rsy in his lie b be-
man whom his features suggested was by birth
and long descent q VirginiGI. though tempered
nv Innfy radt fAnn ~ IuJ n fAr hnt
unc cultured and undisciplined ia mental habit.
had a keen mind. with ORIGINAL and ,g genuine
type is not found with weak intellect
It ts pc ner%haps % not SO ,o surprising that there
Cleveland as his family for many years were
Connecticut people. Yet tine President varies
and and would M more readiiy be elassei. both men: nH:
tally and physically, with that large -imbed.
ana nSnsst p peSpe .a5 re
is thought strikincy TO resemble Cleveland.
barring his youth. having in marked degree
that peculiar expression about the eyes and the
uplifting OF tho upper liz, which arc so notice.
all the likenessos of him.
John Sherman comes nearer to the traditional
Yankee type than anyprominent man in public
life. much nearer than any prominent Connec-
tcut man. You Will tinh his double IN Il Hart,
iignre and comparatively sma head. with
almost in'antile features. except that III. under
Jaw is heavy and firmly held in placs: the Same
sandy close-cut beard. and small eyes that
suggest so strongly that they are merely eur
tains to, conceal the acute and intricate ma
louuacious. while sherman is seeretive: the
agents tempcrament is mrrcurinl. while Sher-
normal rate. Sherman is II splendid bccan,e
true and perfect tyne Of tn" abest men i.at
Yet the Hartford agent IN his own sphere Won
6s ShsrmnnS rnIa ana ~ = would be- an sy%n H;,
II hs spread his own particular net for tile
great rcsumptionis'.
The nggresssye: en~rrgetic. icon oclastic coun.
counterfeit in that of Nianus wagon maker
There are the same wiry. unconIucrnbe
and angular features with tho square chin. the
same dark and fierce eyes behind steel bowed
and legs that seem ever to be trying to squire
a circle. Van Wyck is a Now YorEcr whose
ancestors were settlers with the Dutch con
uuorors along the valley OF tho Hudson. The
Mlanus wagon maker is II son OF Connecticut.
when Cromwell was kins in fact il not mi IN name. ,i.
judge thnt the two men arc somewhat al ke
mentally. for nothing makes the wagon maker
angrcr, or his shop more lively. than the dis
covery OF = dishonest piece OF work in wagon
brought there for repairs.
pIexion. hesp set blue eyes from above which
line Of hair, the massive and irregular bumps
upon his smooth and shiny, scalp thereby being
dersd; and he seems n reflective and uninpas-
sionabe man: We're he to walk into tho SCH;
Rle chhnlDer ana tuke Idmnnds' : seat casual
glance would not hs apt to betruy him. Yet
this man Keeps a small confectionery aud fruit
store. md plOds ,laiiv about his business year
in md yeRr out with automatic regularity.
There Is in Round Hill rs Jollvn nan as ever
set shoes on n stubborn OK. whu has yet to
learn that II hc wers TO exchange places with
Tom Reed OF Maine nothing but the inaxu"rt-
ness oi each of them In their new vocation
would be likely to betriy them. Ila is sharp
one. too like Heed. and has the Maine lawyers
expressly. ana resonant nasal ut'crance
Van u. Mann ing. eN-Congr"ssman from Mis-
StSSlnpl, has been Regarded tho tyurnl
Southerner whose likeness MIST used In his
cartoons. Yet II Is easy to lind u dozen Con-
necticut Yankees whose resemblance to Man
ming Is SO great as 70 cause comment among
those who know the Mississiplian.
There arc two men who hav1 enjoyed great
notoristy whose count"rparts | have never
ssen In this State. nor, In fact. anything In the
countsnance or physique of any one that could
IN the slightest suggest either Of them. Roscoe
Conklings double has yot To hs found and so
has that ~ that curious exhibit OF humanity
Billy Malone. though these two mon are as
antirolai in ability. learning. Impress war oss
and attractivensss rs the north and south poles
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