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Show MENTiVL TKLLGUAPIIY. INFLUENCE OP MIND ON MINO STUONOLY ILLUSTnATED A Alfftni Plttir nf Tlnutht Trniull-l Trniull-l ..,-T lf.ll Kuanu Un I -i.e.l.. Ih .m- ,U. HAUi.1 II.. K.in. Ihiie. All It 1 1 rirlnca ol Mail Twain . Now I oo na lo the oil leet thhiK that ever ImpittnHl to me. Two or II rm )nHl naalylnitiiitKvllilly imuinit ouo tnomlnir It wan Iho 5 1 of March-when March-when an Utnl a red hot new I len came whutllnz ilon n Into my oiinp ami ei r.lMe 1 with iuch ooin rehirnlve ellei tivenem iu to meeii tin lelnlty clean of mill Uhy reflectloiunn 1 fill the air with their iliwt MiJ flyhiK frnjimtuli. Dili Idea, Hated In aini lo plir.-w, was tint Iho time ai rlw and the market ready fornctrtaln lolt ii Iwolc willed ought t. lie w rllun at oneei a book which mint commin 1 attention mi 1 I t f peculiar Interval to wit a book nlmiit tl lso-valialln.rinlnes( lso-valialln.rinlnes( fhiUreat Uonanza was a new noo- r then, nnl enrylxly waa talking wit It U tveinril tu me that the jr Kin Lett qualm. I to write Ihtt lxk wiu Mr William II Wright, a jonnmlUl of Irtilnla, Xo , 1 y whom IJo 1 lia-1 cribhliil nuiiy mmiha when I wna a rtiorti r there ten or twelve before Ho uilltht l nllm itllli hu might 1 doadi I eotll 1 IiOt telll but 1 vrntild urrlli lilr-i myway. 1 lgin by merely nn 1 inedtly auij. getting that Ira make rich n book, but ni) Intereat grew I wont on, ami I en-turedtomnpoiit en-turedtomnpoiit what I thought ought lo I the) Ian of Hie wo k, he beiiiguli ol 1 friend and not given to taking gvoil Iu leullotiH f r III I men ili-ult with ileUlli anl tugreitwl the inlir an 1 twiuenco which tin) h ml I folluw. I wm about to put tho mamuKrlpt In nn enilniv, tt hen the. thjilglit ocinrrtj to me that If thUbookihimllbewrltleu at my am, rwtlon, an 1 then no il.lllir liapivn to want It, I ihonl.t fl uiiooiiifortable.aj I condoled to keep my lotter liul. until I hould have mural t pul llilier itritivu ax Kori.sn) ijittik. 1 1 tgeonhotal my dooument an 1 tlron ' wl n in to to mj own lubttahir, iKklni llmtoiiMueatta) foruhiulileMeoniult. tlou Ilowaaontuf to noun far Jnnr-i Jnnr-i e My note rrm ilueil nn irim ami, ami I at lira m 1 of three or four day tho wholo . mutter had paw il out of tn mln 1 On I tho (ih of March till oatman brought three or four lutti n, an I among them a I think i it whow aunra.rlptloii wm Iu a ' haul which kcuuuhI dimly familiar to ' in I conl 1 not j lace ' It at flret, but preeeiillj I ancie-led Then I mild to u tldtlntr retail ra who wai prew nt: ".No I will dj a miracle I will tell you iierythiug thie lettir coiiUIn date, tilyn ituro and all wlthont break-lug break-lug the m1 It Ii from n Mr Wright, uf Virginia, Uj , and U dateil tho -M of MurJi eoiMi il) ago. Mr Wright I roiwtaa to inakn n Inok uluiit theallvor ininea an 1 the Orent llonuliaii, and aiki wlmtl.iu n frlen 1, think if tke Idea, lie aayi lila iuhjcti nro to l eo nod in, their i rder uu 1 aeiiuence ro nml ao, and how 111 clow with n hl.tory of thl chief feature of the boo, tho Ureal Domtnza." IttAll ATIUIIT I oiane-1 the littler an 1 howel tb it I II 1 1 elated the date and tho coliUuta cor nttl Mr WrlglVa letter fluiplj ion-tilueilwliat ion-tilueilwliat myown letUr, written on tho Kilne diteooutalneil mil mine ktill lay III Ha Igeonhole, whereat had lnn 1) lug during the wiwn d i)s bIiu'o It wiu written There vu no cliln oj ant nbont thle. If 1 rightly coinlircheud v hit clalrvo) unit) U. I think the clilnojant to fe to attuilly rm concialnl writing nnd mi 1 It oiT or 1 for w on! Thl wai not my (am 1 onlyMvmrd to anw, an 1 to know nbwduuly, tho con'cnt of the letUr in d-l ill ami duo order, 1 ut I hi 1 to won) them myrelf, I translated them, w to apeak, oat of Wright a Ian-gn Ian-gn ivi into m on n Wright a lotter mi 1 the ono which I lul ttrltun to lilin, 1 ut nererteut, wtro iu subaUnce thtf aame r,eoeeiuirily thla (jul 1 not como u) nc clliulieucheltliornte lucllenti cm not ln wn Chanoo inhtht haro tlnpll mtol ouo or two i f thn d.tulli, hut tire would Invo broken down on the rt I could not doubt there vraa no tentble renaou for d mbtlng tint Mr. Wright a mini ar linlnohallmnln clou nnl cr)Ul clear comlnunlcitlon with each oth r ncrott 0 000 mllea of mount dn anl d rt i u the morning i f March ! I did not conil Ur that both mln 1 orlfclnulcl th t tnccoa-Iou of Ideaa, but th it ouo mln 1 1 rlginated them nu 1 lm ly telo-gr telo-gr iphol them to tho other in.STAi, Truaiuriii Iwa curiou to kuow which brain wai tie lihgrapherand wlmha4lhb nxeltcr, sol wrote anl naked for jir th,nlir. Mr. Wrlghta ril (.howel that hli mind had doao tho orlgluitlng and tolerai hlng un 1 inluo tho n celvlng Mark that tlgnlHcaut thing now: Ooutllrr for a moment how man) ii 1 len 111 'orlgluar Hen haa ln un-conn un-conn lon-ly ttolen from aman 3 (XX) miles away. If I uo ahonl 1 qucitlon that thla la so, lethlni lunk into tho ccKi.lln anl ton om.o more that cnrlom thing in the history of luientiom whkh has puiiU-d i e-j one no much that U, tin f niui m. j with which tha tamo machine orothir contrlvmco hai been Imenlel nt tho anno time by kereral ixraona In differ nt quarter of the globe, rhi world was without an tlcctriu telegraph for aevtral thounan J ycarii Uu n 1'rofVaaor Henry Do Ameilcan, Wliontatono 111 LiiBlan 1, Mono on tho m i, an I n Oir-luin Oir-luin In Miinkh nil lincntwl It nt tho name time Mark Uwaln In HarperB |