The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-01-16

two, then it may account for the I'M
usual likeness that has been found to
exist between Jack Dempsey, former
heavyweight champion, and Max
Schmelling, the Germany heavyweight.
But how can this be applied to ac-
count for the resemblance between
Senator Royal S. Copeland of New
York and Senator Hiram Johnson of
California. Did Mr.. Copeland have
an ambition to be like Mr.. Johnson or
vice-versa? Or does the fact that they
are in the same calling, /. e. being
United States senator, have some
thing to do with it?
Almost every famous man, it would
seem, has a double, and some Of them
have more than one. Str Charles E.
Madden, former commander of the
British fleet, is declared to be "per-
feet double for King Georve V of
England, as is Sir Henry Whitehead,
British textile manufacturer, who re-
sembles the English monarch so
closely that, arriving in New York
some months ago, he had difficulty
convincing shipnews reporters that he
wasn't the king incognito.
Another striking instance of resem-
blance is that of Winston Churchill,
the English statesman, who looks so
much like the bust Of Titus, emperor
of the Romans from A. D. 70 to 81,
in the British museum, that he might
have posed for it.
A half block away from the roar
of the Grand Central terminal in New
York city, man who is dead ring
err for Thomas A. Edison wears
porter's badge and pushes baggage
truck. A humble moujik was the
double of the late Gar Nicholas of
Russia, and petty swindler of Count
Leo Tolstoy, the great novelist. A
delicatessen dealer, a dentist and even
chimneysweep have been mistaken
for former Kaiser Wilhelm of Ger
many.
Lincoln had a double in Colonel FL
mer Loomis of Girard, Kan, whose
presence on the streets used to send
school children home declaring that
they had seen Abraham Lincoln in
the flesh.
He served in the Civil war and al
ways appeared on the streets in
high silk hat and long coat, similar
to that worn by the President. His
friends had often commented upon his
likeness to Lincoln.
Ont IN 20
more than forty years." said Colonel
Loomis once, they called me Honest
Abe! They sent me for three terms
to the Kansas legislature and 1 am
proud of my resemblance to Lincoln.
1 try to live as Lincoln did,"
An actor who took the part of Lin
coin in play of some years back was
a double of the Great Emancipation.
Impressed by his own impersonation,
he began to delude himself with the
idea that he actually was Lincoln. He
grew a full beard, he assumed the
Lincolnian mannerism of dress, gait,
speech and personal habits and in
time he seemed to believe that his
appearance ought to have been greet
ed with the respect due so important
a parsonage. So painstakingly did he
initiate Lincoln that a cynical friend
finally remarked: ''That actor will
never be satisfied until some one as
sassinates him ~
The uncertainty about the death of
John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lin
coin, made many people believe he
was still alive when one of his
doubles appeared. Booth, after his
flight from Washington, was trapped
by soldiers in a barn at Bowling
Green. The barn was set afire and
several shots were fred into it. The
charred body of man, presumed to
be Booth, was afterward found, but
it was beyond Identification.
One of the poose who fired into that
barn was Lieut.. William Allen, and he
may have been Booths executioner.
Some years later Lieutenant Allen
was passing the stage door Of Lon
don theater in cab just as Edwin
Booth, brother of the slain assassin,
emerged. The actor caught sight of
the face peering from the cab window.
"Wilkes!" he shouted. "wilkes! ~
Lieutenant Allen was q double for