Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — HE RESEMBLES HARRISON. [ARTICLE]

HE RESEMBLES HARRISON.

‘A Georgia County Editor Who Is Very Like the Celebrated Grandson. The editor of the Cedartown (Ga.) Guardian gives the following points of resemblance between himself and the President-elect: “He wears a 7| hat So do we, of the vintage of the summer of 'B7. “He wears a 6| shoe and "ban wear a €. We wear slippers—odd numbers, one a 5 and the other a 63 —but we could compromise on a 6 if it was a good wearer. He has a bunion on the right foot and no corns. There’s where we differ with him. We sport corns on both, ahd a sore on our heel where the ventilation was placed in our sock. His neck measure is 16|. Don’t say whether inches or feet, perpendicular or circumference- If either inches or feet up and down he beats us to the tank. If it means circumference, we repeat what we have said before, that he is a sort of bull-necked old structure, anyhow, and we are not built that way. He w r ears open front shirts at $27 a dozen. We wear them open front and rear—especally rear—and if we ever own a dozen we’ll pay the price and ask no questions. He seldom carries a silk, but usually a linen, handkerchief. We carry none at all, but we wipe our tears away on our coat sleeves just the same. He keeps one horse. We haveaneighbor who keeps one, but he keeps it awful close. Perhaps he knows best He smokes small cigars and does not smoke to excess. Small are the cigars we smoke, and it ever we smoked one to excess we are not aware of it. His whiskers are getting gray. Ours will get that way. Only a question of time. He uses bay rum on his hair and no oil. We use cammen water week days and neatsfoot oil Sundays. He is fond of base-ball. So are we, at a safe distance. But there is one thing, he certainly made a base-hit this time. His chest measure is his waist forty-two. Ours fluctuates, and we have not figured out the average. He has a good deal of stomach, and we have a very good one, too, but it is patient and long suffering. He weighs 180 and appears to be five feet seven and a halfWell there are times when we feel ten feet high and weigh a ton, but not ordinarily. He does not fancy jewelry. Neither do we. It is money thrown away, and our preacher denounces the custom of wearing it. Another thing, we never could endure a S4O saddle on a S2O horse. He wears high-buttoned coats, and seldom arrays himself in suits of one piece. That is our way precisely. High buttoned coats tell no talk, and suits of different pieces are extremely convenient. He reads for recreation. Is fond of Scott, Eliot, and Thackeray. We read for the recreation of clipping from our exchanges, and we like all of them that get up good stuff. He goes to bed at 10, gets up at 6 or 7. Sometimes we go to bed, but it is nobody’s business what hour. As to getting up it depends upon the condition of our conscience and the state of the weather. The family cooking is done by an old “aunty. ” Ours is, too, but we have to change them about once a week. They are such sticklers about , financial matters. He is a Presbyterian deacon, Well, some of our best subscribers are Presbyterians, and we make no invidious comparisons; but we’ll just bet him a year’s subscription to the Guardian against the Hong Kong Consulate that we can beat him taking up a collection with one hand tied behind us. In some ways we resemble each other, and in others we bear a stronger resemblance than he does.