The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-11

1isey - Tsla BY TAenselves-
s Cersses $50 Csaseal Mistakes
Gress1ng Oct % TAear Likeness.

10 VWs - N1eA9 Ltke0eoos
There are avtng In Michigan today two
men - aitks h form and feature that
net wives and children have great
dimculty In telling them apart. For
this reason their dives have been fired
sitn Incidents that 1t Is the privilege of
very rev persons in she world TO have ex-
Sekssnced. and every day adds to the queer
sppensnsa These men are William IL
~. Of Sparta. Mich. and James H.sey. 81
rae, Mich. Each b IN the milling bs,si-
ssss. ana oddly enough. each has achieved
70 same degree Of success In ME.
II - eften the case where AZURE p:avs
% queer prank ~ TO make children ex-
sctiy AIR. that ~ the years come to
e. ana snsironmsut eiGefA the faces
tne two eecome dtsamiIar tn such an
Hseat ~ to render Il c6mparativelY EASY
% 1bein9uis6 one from the other In the
sss q tAs niseys. however. the hines Of
sesr rss have fallen In almost sinss,as
3c Ana. their tastes being largely fhs
mueA the MnAe faahion. TAk remit 81 an
:his = that the rsssmhizncs u childhsoc
Of Maturity.
The following nasratives. written by ~.
wins. arr unvsss1AAsd seateme nts Of fse,
IAsy are Given jun a. the writer's peul,ed
.ncm The asst 4 that az William Hssey.
Of Sparta.
Willfam nlsey's story.
NY twin brother and I look 70 much
- a.. s' os'e pefs0n our OF thousand
o.a..sSa, - Apas1 we were born near
. . sHs0a: on . farm. We were
49,, ,ose.ner ootn at home and at
1911. 49,. aIways averaged the same In our
studies. always dressed alike ana wesghsd
- We were exactly the same
80 ne our voices wee precisely alike.
.uu* - Saake tns resem6iance more per-
.ss - Iss q otney people were eoneerned,
s1s rscn as1 pecvdar cough.
were Boys our ambition
h.sa = NJ, Earn .ne milief's trade. and we
n eo1a kra.ihec IL We remained at
none unth lsss wheK we went to the
town OF Inecrson. Ont. to learn the MILL
ef trace We began work the same day.
put ~ aanerent mills and there was not
E soul IN the town who could tell as apart.
Farmars would 60 To- the one min and then
10 the other and would be puzzled 10 find
what seemed 10 be the same miller IN two
different places. each Of whom tod them
he had been there at the same time.
+ when we went out IN the evening In
company. we had more fuA than can tel
YOU Even our most intimate friends In
| fneersoil could not tell u apart. II would
Q2D0SH
young lady to a Marty After v,e were
all in one room neither OF the s,rls could
tel which one Of us she had come win
often We would make some excuse and
leave the ladies We were with for n mo.
ment and change partsers The girIs would
not know II. and one Of them would talk
on a subject to me which I knew nothing
about. as 1t was something she had been
dfscusslna with my brother. / would carry
Al Inn az kcz \ -
then would let the girl be as sweet to
me as she wanted to. After while
would tel her at the change.
l. Ia UN / left 1neeYsoll and settled
(rdown IN Aeurhs. Mich. soon koY ac-
anainted with the vo1nG people, and after
o6ing there more than'A year. became en-
gased TO young lady. A few weeks be-
tore the wedding my brother paid me .
siAt. ana Tor the HE OF her my sweet
neat c0uia not tel US apart AZ all. nor
eOulo ner peopie. Nnen sne wanted 20
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