Show mark twain more demons back in frisco without any regular business A writer in thi call of eliat city says he had prepared n lecture on hawaii and was taking counsel as to delivering it some advised eliat it be read in public and some opposed it we recollect lie night lie asked our advice on the subject it was raining heavily he camo into lie office clad in a iliin black coat buttoned up to the chin and feeling very dismal taking a mass ma s s of manuscript from out alie breast pocket of his coat where he had placed it for protection from alio rain lie threw it on alio desk and said I wili wi li you would read eliat and tell mo if it will do for a lecture A lecture yes itaf about the islands ive been to bowman and ive been to hartmand Hart cand the rast of tho fellows and they said dont do it mark hurt your literary reputation wo had glanced over some oj the pages in alio meantime and d a well constructed piece of work clemens blood with ins back to the fire in a cloud of vapor arising from liis drying clothes watching us intently mark mid we looking up which do you want most at present money or reputation money by we are sorry to pay lie confirmed hi words by an oath ho could bo profane on occasions then hire the academy of music on pine street and deliver aliis lecture you will crowd tho hous ho followed our ad vice and that of two or throe other newspaper men who thought as we did delivered tho lecture his first appearance before alio public in eliat capacity and realized if our memory carves ves some 1200 or 1400 it was said of john foster alie english writer and at one time editor of alio london eliat liis love letters acro th emott remarkable ever he called his famous essays lovo letters bc they were written at lie instigation of a young lady whom ho wished to mako iain wife but alio knowing liis habitual indolence and nt alie iamo tim eliis great talent refused to listen to his ad dresses till lie libin belf he did bo and won a bride who was phoud of him mr clamens cabo is hardly A parallel to this but ia bifilar in some respects we think bis innocents abroad wui a tibor of love in a degree it made fame aa a humorous writer and while all lie world talking aboul hiim and liis book ho camo to elmira accompanied compa nied by an editorial friend from cleveland and again renewed for miss mi ss Langdon hand aliis time tho old gentleman listened moro complacency alio young ladys brother pleaded for clemans hi cleveland friend who knew mr L ington very well also advocated his claims but more powerful plead era than either was the young badyn own heart and for her latair lat lir alie evidence of capacity mr clem ans had given and also of reformation of lilo A family meeting was held and in its charmed circle alif expectant bridegroom gladly stepped exchanging for poverty for wealth alie loneliness of bachelorhood for he society of married life ho intended eliat alio change be complete for on como of alio envelopes containing wedding cards cent to former friends frien ls in california and nevada lie added to alie n significant words gowl byo ton times |