St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-03-30
LOOK MUCH ALIKE
MANY MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE HAVE
THEIR "DoUBLEs."
Resemblance So Striking That Queer
Mistakes Are Frequent Among
Statesmen and Officials at the
National Capital.

Striking facial resem dances of men
in public life and in official circles in
this city are frequently commented
upon. There are three men widely |
known whose similarity of face and |
form is so striking, says the Washing |
ton Star, that queer mistakes of iden- /
tity are experienced every now and
then. The resemblance of the president
| to his distinguished secretary of the
navy and attorney general, Mr.. Moody,
has always been the subject of remark
and now and then of humorous mis-
takes. Now that Mr. Moody has been
elevated or at least transferred to the
supreme court of the United States he
has come across another double in the
person of James Maher, clerk of the
supreme court.
The resemblance Of Senators AL
drich and Foraker is also striking. If
Mr. Foraker's well covered head were
matched by the hirsute adornment OF
Mr.. A1drich the resemblance would be
complete. But standing side by side
they appear as brothers and their sim
ilarity is frequently commented upon.
Now and then Representative Adm
B. Capron of Rhode Island Wanders
over to the senate end of the capitol,
and whenever he does SO he gives
shock to some one who upon seeing
him is startled at his striking re-
semblance to the late Senator Quay
of Pennsylvania. He is more robust
in appearance than his prototype from
Pennsylvania and much younger. But
the resemblance was always striking.
Two senators stand as competitors
In the degree of their resemblance to
the pictures of a widely advertised
doctor, the virtues of whose remedies
are announced in the public prints in
connection with picture Of the doc
tor in an attitude of attention with
uplifted hand admonishing the sick.
These senators are Clay of Georgia
and La Toilette of Wisconsin. They
are enough alike to be brothers were
. it not for the fact that one is of the
, most generous build, while the other
is below the average height. Both
wear their hair pompadour and both
can defy the senate when they make
up their minds to.
Senator Carter, of Montana and
Representative Livingston are rivals
in the role of replicas of Uncle Sam
When Livingston went to Venezuela
some years ago to observe conditions
there he was warmly received by the
people who knew the United States
chiefly by having seen pictures OF
Uncle Sam. When they saw Living
ston they declared that he was Uncle
Sam personified, and some of them be
Iieve him to be the owner of the
United States. Either Carter or Liv
ingston could pass anywhere as the
prototype of the typical Uncle San
without adding any stage parapher
MALTA.
The likeness between Senator Cul
1om and Speaker Cannon is also fre
quently remarked, and Mr.. Cu1lom'
resemblance to the venerated Lincoln
has been commented upon ever since
the two knew each other in the stir
ring days Of the war.
Representative Lacey and the lat
Senator Alger were strikingly alike
WheneveS Mr.. Lacey visited the sen
q ate and sat on the divans at the rea
n Of the chamber back of the desk O
10 the Michigan senator the resemblanc
s between the two was remarked by pee
10 pie in the galleries.
Since Senator Du Point of Dels
ware, the head of the great powde
er company, took the oath, of Office h
is has been mistaken on many occasion
e for Admiral schley. Not long ago hi
- right to the floor was questioned b
t. some visitors, who declared that the
at knew no reason why Admiral Schle
lg should be on the floor, and they fina
n ly accounted for his presence there b.
cause of his having received by nam
I'd the thanks of congress. Later the
III learned their mistake.