Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-17


 dule two years ago from overtaxing his strength and capacity for absorbing free drinks, which resulted from his resem- blanco to the author, others have been my undorstrNlies without my knowledge or consent, and every last one of them came to grief up to date.
 When we remember that there arc some G5, ,000, 900 people ill the United States, it is not strange that a score of men should look like Mir. McDougall's s caricature of me, even if I have out grown it myself.
 In San Francisco got the card of stranger one day at the hotel and soon after was confronted by such q ghastly cartoon of myself that I barely reached the water cooler in time to save myself from SynCopo,
 He was about 20 years of age and had studied my justly celebrated cartoons thoroughly, for his head was completely shaved, so that you could see the artery on the side of his temple as it beat with a sort of a dead beat
 Ho wanted to act as my advance agent. He worc large iron bowed spec taclcs, and it is said had induced den
 
 givc his face that cadaverous expression peculiar to the newspaper cuts. Ho was little shy on brains, and this, of course, had inspired him to enter tho great field of humor, for some people believe that the majority of jokes arc the result of incipicnt insanity or alcoholism, where as the humOr of the inebriate and Bloom ingdale humor only please the depraved
 This youth, however, enjoyed his car toon and was humorod and even fed and watered by the kindly people of California. As we approached Santa Cruz-I think, but there are so many Sant;s in California that I get mixed up -as Wo approached Santa Cruz, people werc more suspicious of me, and fought shy of me, and did not have the glee club at the train when I arrived
 At santa Cruz the sheriff met me. I said to our manager, MT. Thearle: "One of my doppelgangers has preceded us along this trail I can tell by the arid conditions, Even iced tea was scarce, and the school children did not follow us up to our hotel. "
 The sheriff approached me and asked my name. gave him ono of my cards, lJI III CpIOIS at lIlS JUL office with letters that would OH the back ! make an impression easily read by the blind
 Well, are you the genuine. or are you one of these fellors such as we have got up in jail?" he said.
 "I have no way of concealiug my identity" said I. "I am the lecturer of | the evening hero, and if you have time | Twill show parts of tho lecture; also my full dress suit, with Salt Lake egg nog on tho bosom of it. Do the authori- ties think that they cannot give me up?"
 "No," said he kindly "We have a Bill Nye ill jail here, and so we are careful Would you like to come up and sec him? He camo to town with a big | ValiSC that had your namo printed on it ill big letters. He looks some like you did when you were on earth before, and he had an appetite like quartz mill. { But we took that for eccentricity of ! genius. But finally ho got drunk and l quarrelsomo, and while writing his au- tugraph in an album wrote his correct name by mistake and then dropped off ! to sleep. We wish that you would come and see him and tell us if you over saw him before
 did not recognize him, but a man from Joliet looking for a countcrfeiter, did, and SO tho alias went back to com plcte rather q long and involved sentence in the Illinois ponitcntiary
 Later I picked up the Plainwell Inde pendent of Allcgan county, Mich, and to the Durr correspondence I found my name signed. Some of the items read as follows:
 "Brandigan Bros. sawmilI is running regularly now and turning out first class work. ''
 Now, does that sound like my style Again, tho Dorr correspondent states Nellie Carrell visited ill Hopkins tho fore part of last week. '
 I did not know that Nellie visited Hopkins either the last part of fou, weeks ov the fore part of last week. I it has been done, it was done withou my knowledge,
 Now, my acQuaintances mark the pa per where this person appears and sar castically refer to the improvement il my style Here is letter from H. T Potts of Grand Haven, Mich, who is n mean humorist, often breaking out int a rash humor during the pancake sea son and then relapsing into the gray and serious again. The reader must bea in mind that MF. Potts is sarcastic c he will lose the effect:
 GRAND HAVEN, Feb. 29, 1895. Edward W. Nye, Esq:
 DEAR SRI have long been an enthusiast admirer of your deep and boundless humor, an many times it has seemed to me that you ha reached the very pinnacle of abandoned hilar | ty, but the inClOsed from the Plainwen Ind pendent, Alcgan county, Mich, in clean cl and pungCnt humor far exceeds all your pr | vious efforts. The paper came into our fami simultaneously with preparations to attend funeral, and the funeral had to be abandone
 We got to laughing and could not stop. Eve our infant son went into convulsions and cou not be induced to como out.
 Finally, having remembered that ShalI spearo has said that the hair of a dog wou ' cure the bite, finally succeeded in composii myself sufficiently to substitute the readh of one of the most humorous of your produ tions up to the inclosed for morning prayer and it had A sufficiently soothing effect upC their nerves to partially allay their mirt and we hope in time to recover. although fea ful that the effects of the shock will remai Yours truly, H. POTTS.
 There is yet another party who r = sembles me in a photograph, and WI is giving himself up to the false jo, of this resemblance. write these lin | in order that may be relieved of ,t double responsibility. It is sad enoue to be responsible for what one does hiI