Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-07-11
SDAY EVENING, JULY IL, 1895.
Mistakes I'm Identity.

1
There is a story told of guest al
ball who was so imposing i'm ap
pearance that his host, walked up tC
him and inquired.
Sir, are you anybody in particu.
lar ?"
Much attention has been paid to
very ordinary men because of q
strong personal resemblance to dis
tinguished persons. A Boston hack
driver once carried humble private
individual, who bargained for his
fare closely in advance, to distant
point, for mere trifle. When his
fare descended from his coach, the
hackman asked the privilege of shak-
ing hands with him.
But, my good man, you don't
know me-" said the surprised man.
Don't l? It's meself that has
seen you too often not to be known
you at first sight, General Butler.n
And the stranger did not have the
heart to disappOint the man who was
SO sure he was the great Boston law
yer.
During the life of Horace Greeley,
man who resembled him-and
nearly every town of any size had
one such citiZen-fOund his way i'm
peded by attentions thrust upon him,
and which were intended for another
man. He was a commonplace person
who took no interest in the questions
Of the day, but possessed the famous
facial resemblance which impressed
strangers. Such double of great
ness had only to keep silence and
look wise to be mistaken for his dis
tinguished prototype.
When Henry Ward Beecher was
at the height of his career, there
were few men who resembled him
near enough to be able to duplicate
him in public. Among these was
Judge, Of Buffalo, who sometimes
found the likeness a source of annoy
ance. At one time the Judge was
travelling with party of ladies who
were under his care. He gallantly
ascribed the attention he received to
them, but on an occasion when he
retired to the smoking-car the riddle
was solved. The moment he left
the parlor-car, a couple of strange
men hnrried in, and after apollo
gizing to the ladies for their intrusion,
asked very earnestly if the gentle
man in their company were not MIR.
Beecher. Upon being assured that
he was not, one man turned to the
other, and handing him roll of bills,
said:
Take them; you've won;" then
turning to the ladies he explained {:
" / bet hundred dollars that your
friend was Mr.. Beecher, and I've
lost )" and he followed his companion
from the car.
The judge laughed heartily when
told of the incident, and said it was
not the first time that another mans
greatness had been thrust upon him.
SUCCESS OF SOUTH CAROLINA's
LIQUOR SYSTEM South
Carolina question deserves word in
passing. 1t seems to have been taken
for granted throughout the North
that the South Carolina State Dispen-
sary system is a dismal failure. The
people of South Carolina, outside of
the old liquor interest and certain
political circles, have become almost
unanimous in the opinion that the
system is splendid success. Gov
enor Evans, when in the Legislature,
was the echeifpromoter of the Dispen-
sary law, and now that he is in the
Executive chair, he is quite as
staunch in maintaining and enforcing
the system az was Governor Tillman.
Railway road-masters, and other men
familiar with conditions throughout
the state, are enthusiastic i'm their ac-
count of the good effects that the law
has already produced. Drunkenness
and disorder have decreased to re-
markable extent and whereas the
negro laborer was formerly accus-
toned to spend his weeks earnings
in carousing on Saturday night and
Sunday, he is now spending more
upon his family, or else saving his
money to buy land. The ten or
twelve State dispensaries in the city
of Charleston, which have taken the
place Of scores or hundreds Of saloons,
are as openly and as orderly kept as
any drug store, and are absolutely
closed at SundOWn. The effect upon
the quiet and order Of the city has
been too transforming to admitOf any
denial. Reports from country towns
throughout the State are to the effect
that the closing of the old barrooms
in favor Of the new dispensaries has
been attended with results that have
converted almost every good citizen
to bcliefin the present system. In
view of the widely circulated reports
in disparagement of the South Caro-.
lima dispensaries, these facts ought to
he given wide publicity ReuieW OF
Reuie,CS.
FOUND THE MISSING WORD.-A
hotel clerk told this story: Three
men from the country came into the
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