Show HIS WORST ENEMY I Luke Sharp Sleets a Stranger Who Talks About John R Fellows I The other day I sat down to dinner in the Gait house at Louisville Nest to me sat a gentleman whom at first sight I thought 1 know The second look and his own glance of unrecogultion at mo showed me that I was mistaken After a few moments I saw why it was that I thought I recognized him He bore a singular likeness to tho cartoons of Mr John R Fellows the district attorney of New York Fellows picture bad appeared In many of tho comic papers and my neighbor neigh-bor at tho dinner fable hero a great resem blanco to the cartoons At last I said Do you know that you look very much like John R Fellows of Now Yorkf Yes he answered I have often been taken for him Do yon kn w him No I do not but 1 have seen a good many pictures of him in the papers Do you know him 1 am slightly acquainted with him I regret re-gret to say Then he is i not a friend of yours On the contrary an enemy Well it must bo rather embarrassing to look like a parsons worst enemy Oh 1 dont know that Fellows is my worst enemy although perhaps he is Then I imagine you didnt vote for him on the occasion of that memorable struggle No sir I did not Still I did not vote tor Mr Nicoll KO it isa sort of saw off between be-tween Fellows and myself Well 1 would have gone further I would have voted for XieolL ily sympathies were with hinvin the contest Then you era not a Now York manf No Im from Detroit l Ahl 1 did not think local election would save had any interest so far west Far west Bless you Detroit is not far west Detroit is an eastern city It has tho stability of tho cast with the enterprise of ho wcsjr Must bo a wonderful town Oh it is What is Nicoll doing now I believe ho is practicing law He is a good lawyer 1 should think you would have been sorry soil did not vote for him when yon must have felt that it was the right thing to do Well none of us do aa we should you know Besides a person seems to see these things clearer after they are over than he dou at the time Anyhow it would not have made any difference with tho result Thats so By tho way what sort of a district trict attorney is Fellows making How does the average man regard him Well its like this Fellows is very much like the rest cf us He is neither as good as his friends try to make him out nor is ho as bad as you or I might think him to be In a word lies human Ho likes his friends and tries to give his enemies as good as they bend 1 suppose you know that Well I ought to Fellows has done me a cod deal of harm in his time and yet I will say this for him that if I wanted a dollar I dont know any man who would let me havo it quicker than John R Fellows I ont wonder a man like that is popu TarVJThats Thats tho sort of man ho is Sow ho knows very well what I think of him yet ho would just as soon take n drink with me as with you The stranger and myself then talked on other subjects 1 found him to bo a very well informed man and a most fascinating ts1Jcpl HB was ill i fact one of the most genial ra enTejeriuet 52 2R 23iHji S J ltttf l ralyzeJ to read the follo > u > ii item in this CourierJournal John R Fellows the district attorney cf New York city passed through Louisviiw yesterday cu his way cast Ho stopped at the Gait house and left l on the L and N train at midnight Mr Fellows has been visiting his family who have spent the winter at Now Orleans He thinks Louisville is a wonderful city with a great future Ho said that ho regretted very much not having had time to meet some of tho citys prominent men but added that ho had been very much entertained enter-tained by a Detroit man whom he had the pleasure of meeting at the Gait yesterday at dinner Luke Sharp in Detroit Free Press |