Show DOUBLES IN QUEER Comedy and Tragedy in Stories of Current Life f Philadelphia North American stand up At the crisp harsh command of the tha judge a man wearing wc a mustache and imperial rose in the dig dignity di dignity of o his 55 ii years yrs and made as If to utter a protest James Janes the judicial sentence I cut him Mm short with merciless severity you have Men been found guilty of o forgery the work of or a habitual criminal engaged en cn engaged gae In 10 a peculiarly J heartless swindle perpetrated ted upon the honest people peole of his neighborhood There ie is nothing not to he Ite said w or ur heard now no in yon often s You ire fare re sentencer u to fiver fir years y imprisonment in the penitentiary penitential penitentiary The convicts energy eOff in defense had been utterly exhausted He led away 1 a crushed and broken brok n old oW man manFor manFor manFor For a year ye r and a hah until totS IDAS in fact he served that heavy beay term In the Ute penitentiary Then there came to the jail from the I governor a full pardon the t e acknowledgment ed nent of the great preat commonwealth which had imprisoned him unjustly that th t the he was all not Jim Riley the professional crook for lor whose crime he was paying PRying i the thc penalty but J Cr c f White respectable ble business man of New ew York City whose whOle misfortune ml a it was to have a ras ms mecal rascal cal for his double Was he alone in his hie misfortune So I far from alone atone that th t many tany another American has paid as heavy hoo a price for tor fora I a resemblance while all over the world the counterparts l of famous personages I hat haij become sueh such familiar nuisances 1 I that even royalty royal ty has the saying that a i double J 1 doubles trouble II I A Close Call I Months after Mr White was released from his Pennsylvania prison Captain I Kuhne of the detective bureau in Brooklyn Br had his attention called to toa toa toa a photograph of Jimmy Somers an ex expert expert expert pert burglar of or New ew Rochelle Blamed if he a ringer for fer this Dave McGonigle he ht mused who did the job at Summerfield McLeans house at Ocean avenue McGonigle had bad been a convict convi t too Arrested Arre too at his home after a burglary had been committed committal he was identified by Miss 8 Ma Masten ten Mr lIr McLeans niece nie e as th the intruder who bound and gagged her protesting earnestly that I he had reformed and was at home with his mother at the time the crime took place was on the eve live of or conviction I when Captain Kuhne discerned his like likeness likeness ness to Somera Somers the burglar For once police zeal seal was Will tempered with intelli intelligence I gence gene the ex but now sincere sincerely ly Iy honest man went free tree Only a year earlier Thomas Quinn being landed tended in the Tombs in New York I for Cor safe Afe blowing had the belated grace to confess a crime for which his double James Jam Courtney Courtne was vas serving time at I Elmira while in Maryland Joseph Luery Lu Luery Luery ery received pardon from front Governor after four years Imprison Imprisonment Imprisonment imprisonment ment out of the six to which he had been sentenced for the offense of his counterpart The same ame year brought from President President President dent Roosevelt R velt a pardon for Captain George B Boynton Bonton for the crime of counterfeiting because became his release was j I petitioned for by many men of prominence fleece nence who ho were ere convinced he was Cap Captain tain tamn Charles M Boynton Bonton and not the theother theother theother other Everyone Has a Double Criminal records rd afford similar cases tases tor for every year through which the re research research research search may be carried until the aver average average age man becomes convinced that he lives in constant danger dan er of or stumbling Into some orne entanglement His apprehension Is well grounded Whatever his hi social position pO it would i appear that the old belief that every human hums n being has a double life liCe some somewhere somewhere me where is correct Few Ff men have bae attained matur maturity maturity ity It have hae failed to confront at some ome sometime I time another whose host presence made him i iwonder w wonder onder whether they were facing their twin tin tw in Their only hope must br bl that tIll the double d able will iII live a life of de det t and ard an refrain retrain from overwhelm overwhelming I niB ing in them with unearned disgrace T That hr jr i ie it most dearly cherished however by b men in distinguished BOS BOStion gosi i tion Uon but the possibilities of The Mar Mas qu and The Prisoner Pr of or Zinda are always there ht re like an explosion in ina ina ina a stick of dynamite 1 1 Take King Kill Alfonse of Spain for ex example example r ample he of or the gallant ways with the fair of the romantic devotion to his i j beautiful be young queen and now of the i I primly proper demeanor which his hill youthful paternity surely should en entail tan tall Only a little hll ago the cable had bad hada bada j ja I a charmingly Bohemian adventure to j tell at of the gallant pliant young you Spanish monarch mon monarch arch and Mile MIe tIe the pretty who ho plays the leading role rolela la to pe tot toi d at the Theatre des had bad quite quile a popular P vogue on the strength of her attractive adventure Her taxicab inextricable among mass many halted baited vehicles in the Boulevard des te lichens Italians was crowded against a huir r moue tous touring t car whose hose young youn tall and aad smartly dressed occupant Ant smiled 8 upon her most agreeably i Jy Could the tM leading I lady hId of the do less than r rt re return t turn rn that friendly overture More o i smiles miles more happiness h everything progressing fascinatingly when W 11 tile the heart of Mlle Kile C he gave a sudden bound and then sank In awe Her vie vis avis avin was Alfonso king ki of or Spain II She bowed to lo him then t en oh very ery re respectfully respectfully And he bowed ti t her Mr with as iU the cable unctuously re remarked remarked I marked the most mOlt amiable amia deference But just then his beast of a chauffeur saw M a clear space p ahead and remorse I saw laude ce alid y him awa ay from fr m her lier ana allt at u i UM the best beat hr he h could rould do was jump to tu h hi feet turn to look after her het and a as hv hl hI 1 parting compliment fling her hr a ro roya roa a kiss DId Mile CaMi neglect ne lect to tell al all Paris about it nIlde of fifteen minutes I INet Net Nt if the drama in her h r pretty person knew know Itself and the drama usually I does in Paris It was a grand adver ader advertisement I tl men t I But what of the Spanish king when hen his lovely but wroth young queen q UK the t tale of his hill flirtation echoing from front Eu Europe Europe Europe rope to America Amt and her beautiful blue blueeyes blueeyes eyes ablaze with the escapade and its notoriety called h hm him m to the conjugal confession Ah Alt my adored one he might pro protest protest test till his bis black hair turns turn gray never nev never never er believe such a thing thin of 0 your faithful devoted husband Why I 1 wasn t or on j the Boulevard des Italien Ive le never neverseen neverseen t ver seen Mlle Mile CAve I would not flirt I with an actress in the green room much less lefIS upon the streets Can you believe It of your our own darling etc But Jut what husband Is III there who can imagine acquittal under such evidence in a jealous wICe eyes There ought to be a law to prevent dashing young youns Parisians from damaging da daInS lug InS the innocent hearts of French act actresses actresses by masquerading as 8 royalty royally But law tew cant reach them What t safety fety can th there re be for the king kin of Spain when President him himself himself himself self is ia the victim of a double who hi It hs ha living image in face and portly figure Who wile designedly dresses precisely el like him and daily dally takes a promenade along the French presidents favorite streets street and aRd gathers in advance of or the real per personage the respectful homage tendered by bJ the passing paa ing proletariat The Kaisers Double Every Enry year too toc Paris has a sPasm spasm i over the report that Kaiser Wilhelm has nag slipped sUpped in under an aD incognito Oh I h he be has been seen everywhere going about with witha a studious assumption of the theair I f air all of a quiet French I The double of nf the th kaiser has bas never yet ft been o called to account in Paris be bet bej j t I cause the likeness is ill so eo perfect Ct that levery I every e r official in is more mOle than hair afraid j I the tile man is the th kaiser al r himself and then thEli t U if any dispute should arise phew th I I II troopers r over the be border j I jf f r But in sn hi in Germany everybody v r body i knows Max the chimney chimneysweep i sweep honi v Y nobody can tell apart I from the emperor except ept that Max ax wilt clean their chimneys and 11 I wont ont Can It ft be bi that the StIes Sites an in chimney sweep 81 p after working A year or orso orso so 80 invests in a it take cake ke of soap ap and eo so oT ofT for and some fun with the UK i I French There is no doubt something like that I i happens bappe every evy ev ry little while in England j although King K Edwards dou I is III on a aI J higher plane than the kaisers kaiser s chimney chimneysweep I sweep i He to Is Sir Ernest Emest Cassell King Ed Edwards I I wards anIa particular chum a banker The Th j king depends dope upon the likeness so ao much that h b often oCt n cans calls on his double for fOT relief from hom om onerous public appearances a p where It is not essential that he bt be I seen seat at close range iwho I In the United States every eYer bookmaker who Ite happens to meet Robert S Hughes I of Beaver Pa looks longingly lo at his solar plexus after arter the first glance at his whiskers fighting mad on the spot r n his fancied recognition of f Governor Hughes of or New ew York In congress the visitors can never tell which is ie the august personage who is holding the floor with eloquence and both feet Senator LaFollette of Wis Wisconsin Wisconsin ill or Senator Clay of Georgia Ge and some of them are profoundly shocked shock over the political heresies uttered b beach by each with the face of the other oUter I By B some IOme blessed bIe ed d daP the theM same came M stalwart brand of Republicanism streams from Senator Briggs of or New I Jersey and Senator Du Pont of Dela Delaware DelaWare Delaware ware the only difference In their looks I being that Briggs Brins seems rather pep peppery peppery pery while Du Pont is Together they might pass as the able ble but inflammable twins As for nt t Roosevelt ROOI lt the casual c oal Washings ns used to tOM toss cents to determine whether they were I reverencing the president or mere merel merely ad admiring admiring miring his hit attorney general Moody MO Since Mr Moody became one of the su supreme supreme supreme preme court Our the hosts of or appellants there cant tell it is the Netlee jus Ne justice Justice tice who shall decide their fate o or James Tames Maher Mahr his clerk whom they the pass pans in the corridors s The meanwhile is free fret freeto freeto I to wander off into Africa or anywhere else eIe safe sate from any really near double I excepting sways always the city eft of Florence Floren Florenin in Italy There if he should happen In Inthe Inthe inthe the picture frame shop of one hustling I dealer named Pietro Cassini and the t proprietor should hould hold up his wares for fAr inspection the distinguished traveler traveler would be likely to exclaim See here her signor I asked to be shown n II frames not nut nir t or I |