Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-12-16
THIN-sKINNED PEOPLE.
ken Who Think Themselves Carl
i. catured by Authors and Actors.
S"thern's Romantic Experience with tho
Count Joannes-A Frenchman De-
mands Satisfaction from WiIJ<io
CollinS-Other Curious Cnses.

One OF tho most popular entertainers
tho world has seen, says Casselrs Satur-
day journal, suffered greatly owing to
the persistence with which people would
see likenesses to themselves in the croa-
tions of his fancy. If he chose the name
of Brown, Jones or Robinson for one of
his characters, some real cognomcn
wrote to him, complaining bitterly
against his ''satirizing q Glass;" and
then pointed out certain of their dis
tiuctivo peculiarities which were, they
alleged, burlesqued.
On the other hand, II he invented, as
he thought, an uncommon namo, some
body wanted to know how it was he Sc
lected him for ridicule. Why, asked
tho indignant writer, did not the enter
tainer choose some common name, such
as Brown, Jones or Robinson, and not
that borne by him? 1t was useless to
point out to such people that the enter
tainer had never heard Of their exist
cncc oven, each of them firmly believed
that he was the original of certain
character.
Sothern again; what curious exper-
inncc was his! The actor, when play
ing in America as Fitzaltamont in ''The
Crushed Tragedian," one morning was
told him that Count Joannes, once an
actor of tho old school of which Sothern
nado fun, had brought a suit to stop tho
performance of tho piece on the ground
that tho comedians makeup maligned
him and burlcsqued his identity. Soth-
crn thought the affair was joke, but
whom the reporter assured him it was
serious, he said:
I RI to fhot 10
show cause, by George! pity the man
while his worried life clings to him. lie
shall get kilograms and postcards
+ ON this timo on for ever. Do about it?
Why, shall appear, Of course"
Presently another reporter was an
nounced. Sothorn again protested never
to have heard of the suit brought against
him.
''IIow would you fight it if tho Count
should challenge you?" asked the press
man.
Il should prefer the date to be tho LIST
OF April, and, although l haven't very
fully considered the question, l think
tho weapons should be cannon. Yes, on
reflection, / am sure I should insist
upon those cannon that discharge ITO
shots n minute. lie should sit upon one
Of those engines and I upon another,
and we should continue to discharge
them until there should be no remnant
of either Count or Sothern."
ALI this, and much moro, was pub
1ishcd under startling headlines on the
following morning. Count JoanncS,
however, was terribly in earnest, though.
Of course, nothing came of his suit cx-
ccpt Il capital advertisements, Of which
fail advantage was taken.
or modern authors, Willlie Collins
decidedly had the most remarkable Sc
rieS Of encounters with the class of peo-
pie who identify themselves with purely
Imaginary pcrsonaGes. ga bourgeois of
Paris" he himself has told us, reading
Tho Woman in White in a French
'anslation, wrote to say that he had
IL ing the book to tho othcr end of the
room on discovering that Fosco was an
absolutely perfect likeness Of himself.
lie naturally insisted on receiving salts
faction for this insult, leaving the
choice of swords or pistols to mo, as the
challenged person. Information on
"lIich ho could rely had assured MIN
that meditated n journey to Paris early
III tho ensuing week. Il hostile mect-
ing might, in such circumstances, be
"Gsily arranged" Arrived in Paris,
Niihie Collins looked for his honorable
opponent in vain. -....
Again Mr.. Collins invented charac-
scr who was so careful about tho uuan-
'ity Of his feed that bo weighed it in lit
tic scales at table. Shortly after tho
publication Of the novel gentleman
called upon tho author.
You hove no right. sir, to caricature
HIo!' exclaimed the c4llcr to the aston
ishcd novelist. II weigh my food in lit
Ito scales, sir. Hcro they arc, sir. 1 al
ways carry them about with mo by tho
;.dvice OF my physician, but Is that any
reason why should DO hold up to ridi-