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Have It painted and varnished now. Get our lasting? good work and you'll get lasting satisfactPrompt ion. Low estimates. WOlk SCHEFSKI AUTO PAINTING CO. 812 So. State Phone Was. 1550 aa. greatest literary figure America has he told Paine which became for him a permanent role of ceremony. And Mark Twain at seventy-twone of the most celebrated men in the world, could not have cared so much lor it if it had been a vindication merely in the eyes of others. It must have served in some way also to vindicate him in his own eyes; he I 1 dared, o, IMIIHHIWW; L.(..iimiiiiuiiuuiunuiiuu t Your Automobile Troubles Are at My Fingertips j I s I seized upon it as a sort of talisman, as a reassurance from what he considered the highest court of culture, that he really was one of the elect. Mark Twain found himself at an early date in sharp conflict with ana- tional life that had passed, says Mr. Brooks, into the condition of a neu- rotic anemia in which it has remained so largely to this day: produced, but however history shall classify him among the immortals of STOP WORRYING This explains the notorious petrifaction his century, he will long be recognized of Boston, that petrifaction of its higher as a commanding genius. In these rec- levels which was illustrated in so about the grief and trouble! i tragiollections he is pictured as a giant comic a way by the unhappy episode of of your car. Bring it to me Mark Twains Whittier birthday speech. held in leash by pigmies. and I will hand back youi It is surprising to learn that he of It was not the fault of those gently Emerson and Longfellow men, car more satisfactory that I the leonine heart and mind was so charming and Dr. Holmes that he was made to feei, timid and wavering in his manner of in his own phrase, t like a barkeeper in you can imagine. to to no heaven. or had wish life. and be, They Despite his triumphs meeting was like the subit idols; appear, graven Particular Work for the joys they should have brought him sidence of the flood of life beneath them he made life cruel for himself. A royal that had left them Particular People. high and dry as tiie jester, bitter at heart, ne is shown here ark on Ararat. They continued, survivQUALITY FLAVOR . My Customers Come Back. as the victim of disappointment, dis- als as they were of a happier age when I Try MAID OCLOVER BUTTER- i Like a whole outlying population had in a illusion and even on hot biscuits, muffins, waffl.es shared their creative impulses, 1 0r wheat- cakes. Spread It thick to solve measure he I sought every great spirit to to think and dream, of s nod those and let it melt Into any sipne, the riddle of the universe. To find him- just as if nothing had happened. They delightful breads, and youll swear theres nothing to equal it. g self witn no Successor to adequate solution, baffled were not offended by Mark Twains unwas Boston Boston offended, and beaten, left him in that saddened lucky wit; Mutual Creamery Co. 1 no longer open to the winds of imwhich, HARRY E. 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I whom he I to make himself a motley to the crowd. pinned his faith were usually anxious that he should conform, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiNimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiMiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiir Falling almost accidentally into the that ne should be respectable, that he role of humorist, he found himself should march with the crowd. Mr. When Buying or Selling Stocks I I forced to sustain a part which he deThe Scenic Line to It was always Mark Paine says: Phone 1373 or See spised and he ended by despising himTwains habit to rely on somebody: self. B. B. COLE & CO., BROKERS And with it all came a sort of deWhere Copper Is King The list of those to whom he deferred Room 1, Stock Exchange Bldf. Salt Like generation; first a toleration of the is a long and varied one. In later years, he did not always consult his financial PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULE conventions that he had despised, then NOW IN EFFECT Mr. Rogers, we are told, any adviser, an acceptance of them, and at last a more he always consulted h.s spirthan Leave Salt Lake City Open All Night Tel. Was. 6616 s love for them. Mark Twain learned to No. 109 6:55 a.m. itual adviser, Twitched, or his literary adUNDERTAKERS AND No. Ill 1:15 p. m. love money, to love praise, and at last viser Howells, when he intended to comEMBALMERS to in Arrive provheresies their surrendered mit He Bingham snob. respective he became a No. 109 S. D. EVANS 8:25 a. m. ...e exceptions were But inces. these for too No. Ill 8:85 p.m. strong forces that had become Modern Establishment the rule; in general, Mark that proved New Building thus for Leave Bingham him and he despised himself 45 State St. Twain abandoned himself to the will and Salt Lake City No. 110 8:45 a. m. ideals. his won his who of No. 112 had word those 4:00 p.m. allegiance. abandoning of was Anthere was Artemus characteristic Their as notes Ward, author The I Arrive Salt Lake City was Henry Ward No. 110 10:05 a.m. the megalomanac the action of Mark son Burlingame, there WE PRINT THE CITIZEN No. 112 5:10 p.m. told what him, and how he Beecher; they Twain in arranging for the publication obeyed, we have just seen. There was of his memoirs after the lapse of a Bret Ilarte, who, he said, trimmed and trained and schooled me patiently untii century. he changed me from an awkward utterer of coarse grotesquenesses to a writer of But does that sort of megalomania exDoes it paragraphs and chapters that have found press a genuine W. G. ROMNEY J. Q. RYAN a certain favor in the eyes of even some not suggest rather a profound, uneasy de- self-contemp- t. Edward Moyle - ; i BINGHAM GARFIELD RAILWAY Second East t BINGHAM . i self-confidenc- Century printing Company e? sire for corroboration? Of this the famous episode of his Oxford degree is the most Although I wouldnt striking symbol. cross an ocean again for the price of the ship that carried me, I am glad to do it," Many he wrote, for on Oxford degree. American writers have won that honor; it is, in fact,- almost a routine incident in a distinguished career. In the case of one of the Mark Twain at seventy-twan of exceptional him. plainly, it was for for love his gorgeous significance, ami all the deaccount for never could trappings I light he hail in that doctors gown I If all time. the would dross that way - n. W. STOUTENBOROUGH, o, Assist General Passenger Agent, Deseret Bank Bldg. Phone Was. 140 Salt Lake City, Utah 1207 iiiiiiiHiiiiiHimnnnnuiiiiniiliHuiiHHiiliiiinniiii 1 mini, miiuiii ilium? of the very decentest people in the land. Above all. and among many others, there was Mr. Howells, who, from the first moment, won his absolute and unvarying confidence in all literary affairs; indeed, adds Mr. Paine, in matters pertaining to literature and to literary people in general he laid his burden on Villlam Dean Howells from that day. It was to Howells that he said, apropos of a he Innocents Abroad: When I read that review of yours I felt like the woman who was glad her baby had come white. 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