Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-05-08
TWO TOO ALIKE.
franklin Fyles' Contribution to the
Possible Cases"
Il Startling Yarn of Twin Men-Remark-
able Disposition of n Superfuous
Foot-The Mystery of Joseph
and Jasper Haden.
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lcoPYRIGHT. 1871
The twin men who, at the outset OF
this possible case, were in the station
at the outer end of an Adirondack
railway, had been physical counter
parts at birth; but between the age of
forty winks and forty years they had
grown into a difference Of appearance.
This account will tell how they became
two alike again in q mannervery singu-
lar indeed Jasper Haden was lean
Joseph Hadcn was fat. In that dis
parity Of size lay the contrast which
had nearly ojl;terated all similarity.
Both had grown 90 precisely the same
height. and IL is not likely that their
skeletons, if the two hundred pounds OF
flesh had been removed from one and
the one hundred from the other, would
have shown any marked contrast-save
in one particular. Jasper had lost his
lett foot. II had been cut off at the
ankle. Nevertheless, he had won in
feet mercantile race for wealth, while
his brother had Jagged in poverty as a
physician and surgeon.
Two tickets for Tupper Lake and
return" said Jasper to the young man
inside the window.
The face of Jasper was emaciated,
and its complexion was wan. Many in
valids 20 into the Adirondaclxs and die
there. Jasper looked like that kind of
a traveller; but in fact he was not very
badly off for health; and he had an i'm
pulsivc way of using his fair degree of
strength.
did you say: And return?' the
ticket seller asked, with look and a
tone commiserative of the man who,
apparently, was buying a seat that he
could never sit in.
Jasper was sensitive about his false
show of illness, and very retaliatory,
too. He reached through the window,
gripped the young man, and hauled him
halfway out.
Don't hurt him." Joseph interp~sed;
''he is aware now that you're not in a
prccarious state Of health"
yes" the assailed fellow said, going
back into his seat like a rubber doll
that had been stretched and then go of.
''Yes-yes-I llnow-you're not in a
precarious state of health"
4 man with sidelong eyes and edge
wise attitudes watched the episode with
very conspicuous slyness- That man
was a private detective. Sometimes he
feared that people would not know it.
He liked to be a spy. When he was not
spying for pay he spied for pleasure.
So the Hadens had not disappeared
into the wilderness a week before he
knew who they were; how rich was the
one who looked poor in health, and how
poor in money the one who looked rich
in health; and that the reason why the
irascible one limped was that the left
foot was an artificial me mber.
The twins encamped on the shore of
Bascom pond, and fshed and hunted
with the help Of Reuben Brown, an
Adirondack guide. Reuben showed
them how to hook the trout and bullet
the deer, and he was their proxy in
much of the sports which proved at all
dangerous to the dumb creatures. But
he has never revealed the fact of their
failure as sportsmen, not only because
1t was a professional secret, but also for
a reason which will presently appear.
The hunting and the fishing, such as
they were, went on for few days ordi-
narily. The campers told one another
that they liked the discomforts OF camp
ing, and they convinced themselves that
the dampness Of the rainy days, the
chilliness of the windy nights and the
lack of sanitary things all the time,