The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

boy was twenty-one when he married.
Twenty-one and nine are thirty.
Thirty from fifty-two leaves twenty
two. Supposing the boy to have been
! the eldest son of the governors chill
dren, he could not have been more than
j twenty when he married It was
manifest, at all events, that marriage,
in this case, had not been q failure
He bore about him every sign of being
5, a fortunate man, in domestic as well
as in public affairs.
II used to hang about corner
grocery store when was boy" said
| l. Whether your boy is portrait
or not, I am prepared to maintain that
your grocer is"
The governor laughed. "Well, 1
shouldn't wonder if he might be-
said he. II guess the corner grocery
man is pretty well known every
| where"
"You yourself would make tolera-
/ BILE likeness of friend of mine-Joe
Howard, the journalist" remarked.
| 81 know Joe WE'LL" he answered.
eyes, we do look good deal alike.
The side of the face"-passing his hand
over mis- cheek-'there'sa resemblance
there. When we arc around in the
same place a good many people get
; puzzled. We were at hotel here in
Chicago the other day. A man I'd new
er seen before came up to me and
| slapped me on the back and asked me
whether I'd take anything. ! said
yes, I will. He asked me what it
should be. said I'd have glass Of
beer-I was beer man. He looked
surprised, and wanted to know if we
hadn't better make it a bottle of wine.
told him: oh, no; I'd never cultivated
taste for champagne yet, and l
couldn't afford to now He stared at
me and said You tell me you don't
drink champagne, and you're Joe
Howard! Ny name isn't Joe How
ard 1 said. He asked me what my
name was and told him. He paid for
the beer" added the governor, with a
twinkle in his eye. "But when it
comes to people taking Joe for me,
and offering to treat him. to beer, it
goes the other way"
GA double is not always convenient
thing to have going about" said I.
There's another fellow that looks
like me over in Milwaukee," the gov
ernor rejoined. Hes lawyer by the
name of Milligan, and he has a sense
of hu1nor. He made it interesting for
me the time I was running for gov
ernor. A fellow met him on horse
car and said to him: We'll, what are
your chances? How is your canvass
getting on?' Oh Milligan said,
4 don't know. l guess it's no use.
give it up!' is it as bad as
that?' the other man said. Yes, sir;
nothing would surprise me more than
to be elected A few days later the
same man met me and said: We'll,
Peck, SO it isn't going to be any use,
eh?' What isn't?' said I. why, no
chance of your election 4 don't
know about that said I. It's the
first I've heard of it. I've been ex-
pecting to get there all along by
good majority you do? said he;
then what did you tell me you gave it
up for, the other day?' Il never told
you nor anybody else any such thing
said L; and haven't seen you for over
a month, either What! didn't meet
you in the horse car day before yester-
day, and you told me it was no use?'
No, sir, no such conversation ever
took place between me and any
man. DO you mean to tell me it
wasn't George Peck I was talk
ing TOP 1T does look that way
I said. Another trick that Mil
ligan would play on me was to be
offish and curt to people I know-act
insultingly to them. A man would
come up to him and hold out his hand
and say: We'll, old man, how are you?
Glad to see your Milligan would look
at him and put his hand behind his back
and say: 4 don't know you, sir, and 1
don't shake hands with everybody. 1
don't want everybody coming MP and
speaking to me- The man would
go off, feeling insulted. The next day,
perhaps, he would meet me, and /
would be cordial, and go up to speak
to him. He would say: oh, so you've
got over your sulks, have your When
was sulky?' / would say. Why, yes
terday; and as good as insulted me- 4
didn't see you yesterday We'll, I'd
have some trouble proving it to him;
and afterwards / would see Milligan
and say to him: Here. you are carrying
this joke too far He would laugh,
but of course he would make it all
right with the man later"
So it appears that practical jokes
can be played even on SO prolific a de-
wiser of them as the author of Peck's
Bad Boy. The whirligig of time brings
about his vengeance; and it might
even happen that Gov. Peck might be
made the victim of a prank derived
from his own too popular volume.
''Come and see me at Milwaukee"
said the governor. shaking my hand as
1 babe him good-by. Its only two
hours ride from here, and we think it's
a very pretty city"
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
Mistress-Who rang the bell then,