The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-17

THE CALIFORNIA DOUBLE.
. dale two years ago from overta1ing hi
! strength and capacity for absorbing free
drinks, which resulted from his resem.
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 are
some 1000, 900 people in the United
States, it is not strange that score of
men should look like Mr.. McDougall's
caricature of me, even il ] have out
grown it myself.
In San Francisco / got the card Of q
stranger one day at the hotel and soon
after was confronted by such CHASTITY
cartoon of myself that barely reached
the water cooler in time to save myself
from syncope.
He was about 90 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
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 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 or brains, and this, of course,
bad inspired him to enter the great field
of humor, for some people believe that
the majority of jokes are the result Of
inclpient insanity or alcoholism, where
as the humor Of the inebriate and Bloom
ingdale huinor only please the depraved.
This youth. however, enjoyed his car
toon and wac huinored and even fed
and watefed 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
were more suspicious of me, and fought
shy of me, and did not have the glee
club at the train when 1 arrived
AT Santa Cruz the sheriff met me. I
said to our manager, Mr.. Thearle: lone
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
nay name. l gave him one Of my cards,
brihted in colors at the old Boomerang
Office with letters that would on the 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 iail'" he said
81 have no way of concealing my
Identity" said L 81 am the lecturer Of
the evening here, and if you have time
Twill show parts of the lecture; also my
full dress suit, with q Salt Lake egg
nog on the bosom of it. Do the authori-
ties think that they cannot give me up2"
No" said he kindly 1--WE have a
Bill Nye in Jail here, and SO we are
careful Would you like to come up and
see him? He came to town with a 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 eccentficity of
genius. But finally he got drunk and
duarrelsome, 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 as if you ever saw
him before.
l did not recognize him, but man
from Joliet, looking for counterfeiter.
did, and so the alias went back to COM
plete rather long and involved sentence
in the Illinois penitentiarv.
Later / picked up the Plainwell hide
pendent of Allegan county, Mich, and
TO the Dorr correspondence l found my
hame signed. Some Of the items read as
follows:
Brandig.n Bros sawmill is running
regularly now anc turning out first class
work.
Now, does that sound like my style?
Again, the Dor correspondent states,
Nellie Carroll visited IN Hopkins tie
fore part of last week -
/ did not know that Nellie visited
Hopkins either the last part Of four
weeks OF the fore part Of last week II
il has been done, it was done without
my knowledge.
Now, my acquaintance mark the pa
per where this person appears and sa--
refer TO the Improvement in
my style Here is q letter from H. 7.
Potts Of Grand Haven, Mich who is no
mean humorist, often breaking out into
a rash hunor during the pancake sea,
sun ard then relspSing into the Crays
and serious again. The re1-der must beg,
in mind that NJ Potts l. szrrcasric q,
he VIII lose tie effect:
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