The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-07-14
THE cALIFoRH1A DOUBLE.

THE CALIFORNIA DOUBLE.
dale two years ago from overtaxing his
strength and capacity for absorbing free
drinks, which resulted from his rese1n-
blance to the author, others have been
my UNDERSTANDS without my knowledge
or consent, and every last one Of them
came to grief up to date
When we remember that there arc
some $4,000, 600 people in tho United
States, it is not strange that score of
men should look like Mr.. McDougall'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 "a CHASTITY
cartoon of myself, that l barely reached
the water cooler ill time to save myself
from syncope-
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 rs it beat with
sort of dead beat.
He wanted to act as my advance
agent He wore large iron bowed spec
tacles, and it is said had induced a den
fist to pull most of his teeth so as to
give his face that cadaverous expression
peculiar to the newspaper cuts. He was
little shy ON brains, and this, of course,
had inspired him to enter the great field
OF humor, for some people believe that
the majority of Jokes are tho result Of
lncipient insanity or alcoholism, where
as the humor of the inebriate and Bloom
lngdale humor only please the depraved.
Ibis youth, however, enjoyed his car
toon and was humored and even fed
and watered by the kindly people of
California AS we approached Santa
CRUZ think, but there are so many
Santas in California that get mixed up
AS we approached Santa Cruz. people
We're more suspicious of me, and fought
Shy OF me, and did not have tho glee
club at the train when arrived.
at Santa Crnz tho sheriff met me.
said to our manager, Mr. Thearle: Zone
OF my doppelgangers has preceded us
along this trail 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. 1 gave him one of my cards,
printed in colors at the old Boomerang
Office with letters that would ON tho back
make an impression easily read by the
blind.
We'll, are you the genuine, or are You
one of these fellers such as we have got
up in jail?" he said
Il have no way Of concealing nv
identity, said I. II am the lecturer OF
the evening here and if you have time
Twill show parts Of the lecture; also my
full dress suit, with u Salt Lake egg
nog on the bosom Of it. Do the authori-
ties think that they cannot give me up?"
mo" said he kindly. eve have
Bill Nye in Jail here, and so we are
careful Would you like to come up and
see him? He came to town with big
valise that had your name printed on it
in 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 he got drunk and
quarresome. and while writing his au-
tograph 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 ever saw
him before.
did not recognize him. but man
from Joliet, looking for a counterfeiter,
did. and so the alias went back to COM
plete rather long and involved sentence
in the Illinois penitentiary.
Later picked up the Plninwell indie
pendent of Allegan county. Mich, and
to the Dorr correspondence found my
name signed. Some of the items read as
follows:
Brandigan Bros sawmill is running
regularly now and turning out first class
work "
Now, does that sound like my STYLE?
Again. the Dorr correspondent states,
Nellie Carroll visited in Hopkins the
fore part of last week
I did not know that Nellie visited
Hopkins either the Last part of four
weeks or the fore part of Last week. If
it has been done, it was done without
my knowledge
Now, my acquaintance mark the pa
per where this person appears and sar-
rasticany refer to the Improvement in
my style Here is letter from H I.
Potts Of Grand Haven, Mich. who is nc
mean humorist, often breaking out into