Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-07-30

-foa ElEss have began family lite
pretty easiy." I renaar&es.. g.xneing II
BIS fresh snd raaay face
I'm ffty-tso." he replied made
. rapid men.al calculation. say The
boy was ssenty-one when be HaErrief.
Twenty-one and nine are thirty.
Thirty froua Gfty-t~o leaves twenty
two supposing ths boy 10 have b-ea
the eldest son Of the governors chill
drea. he could hot have been uaorst hsn
twenty when he married. 10 was
manifest. - all eventA- that marriage,
in this case, had not been failure.
he bore about aim every sign OF being
a fortunate nan. In domestic rs well
"a ia public afsairs
Il used % hang about corner
grocery store when was . boy" said
l. Whether your boy Is a portrait
or not. am prepared 10 maintain that
year grocer Is"
The governor laughed. "Well.
shouldn't wonder Ii h might BE-
said he. II guess the corner grocery
man Is pretty well known every
here"
You yourself would make tclera-
BILE likeness Of friend of mine-Joe
Howard, the journalist" / remarked
Il know Joe WELL" he answered
"yes. we do look a good deal alike.
The side Of the fsee"-passing his hand
over his cheek-'.there'sa resemblance
there. When we are around IN tho
same plsce good many people get
puzzled. We were az hotel here Ia
Chicago the other day. A nan Ia new
cr seen before came mp 10 me and
slapped me on the back and asked me
whether Ia take anything. l said
yes. l win. lie asked me what IL
should he. said I'd have glass Of
beer--I was beer man. lie looked
surprised. and wanted 70 know IL we
hadn't better make il a bottle OF wine.
told him: oh. no; I'd never cultivated
taste for champagne yet. and
couldn't afford 10 now lie stared at
me and said: You tell me you don't
drink champagne. and you're Joe
| Howard" My name isn't Joe How
ard | said. He asked me what my
/ name was and told him. lie paid for
the beer" added the governor, with
comes 20 people taking Joe for me.
and Offering 10 treat him To beer. it
I goes the other way"
"A double is not always n convenient
thing To have going about" said l.
There's another fellow that looks
| like me over in Milwaukee," the gov
/ ernor rejoined. lies a lawyer by the
/ nsmc of Miliigan, and he has . sense
/ of humor. He made IL interesting for
me the time | 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 Miiligan said,
4 don't know. l guess it's no use.
give IL up rs IL as bad as
that the other man said. yes. sir;
nothing would surprise rnc more than
to be elected A few days later the
same man met me and said: Well,
Peck, SO il isn't going to be any use,
chi? What isn't?' said /. why. no
chance Of your election 4 don't
know about that said I. It's the
first I've heard of IL. I've been ex-
pecting TO get there all along By n
1
then what did You tell me yon gave 1t
up for. the other day?' Il never told
you nor anybody else any such thing
said L: and haven't seen you for over
Q month. either What. didn't meet
you in the horse car day before yestcr-
day. and you told me IL was no usen'
No. sir. no such conversation ever
took place between me and any
man DO You mean To tell me IL
wasn't George Peck | was talls-
ing TOP 1T does look that way,
said. Another trick that Mil
ngan would play on me was to DC
o:iish and curt 20 people know--act
insultingiy to them A man would
come up To him and hold out his hand
and say: Well. old man. how are yoa?
Glad To see YOU, Milligan would look
ut him and put his hand behind his back
and say: Il don't know you, sir. and
don't shake hands with everybody. |
don't want everybody coming np and
speaking tn me-. The man would
go off. feeling insultcd The next day,
perhaps. he would meet me. and |
would be cordial. and 90 up 20 speak
W Allul- ftt W. - ,ftG W
got over your sullSs, have your When
was sulkyY would say. Why, yes
terday; and as good as insulted me- i
didn't see you yesterday We'll. I'd
have some trouble proving ii 10 him
and afterwards | would sec MilligaT
and say 70 him: Here. yon are carrying
this joke too far He would laugh
but of course he would maize IL al
riyh, with the man later"
- il appears that practical joke,
can be played even on so prolific de
wiser Of thom as the author OF Peek
Bad 10y. The whiriigig of time brings
about his vengeance; and il migh'
even happen that Gov. Peck might b,
made the victim Of prank derives
from his own too popular volume.
Come and see me at Milwaukee. >
said the governor. shaking my hand a.
babe him good-by. Its only a tw,
hours ride from here. and we think IL,
n very pretty city"
JULIAN HAWTHORNE.