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Show MARK TWAIN'S TRIBUTE TO ft DAUGHTER. In Harper's for January is printed f the last thing that Mark Twain write, a touching and beautiful tribute to Lis daughter, Jean, who died Just one yoar ago. It -aae written on the day of her death. He says: "Jean's dog hts teen wandering nbout tho grounds to da)', comradelesa and forlorn. I ha,e een him from " the windows She sot him from Ger many lie bu tall ears and looks exactly ex-actly like a volf. Ho was educated lu Germany, and know no language but the German. Joan gate him no i orderb pavo In that tongue. And so, ' when the burglar-alarm made a fierce clamor at ralda!j;ht a fortnight ago, the butlor, who Is French and lenows no German, tried in vain to intorest tho dog In the supposed burglar. Jean wrote mo, to Bermuda, about lha incident. in-cident. It was the last letter I was --V-WCfto receive from her bright head nndfrercTfcjEftent hand. Tho dog will not bo nesnJid. "There ai neverVj kinder heart than Jean's. From her"NjHdhood up , she always eptnt the rw6tf h0r al lowance on ciirltlpj of one knrA-iiJJ another After she bfcamo secrctary-and secrctary-and had her Income doubled she spent her monoy un these things with a free hand. V3Pi t00 j am glatj and grateful to a;. "Sbo whs i lojal friend to all animals, ani-mals, and die lored them all. birds, beasts and mrything even snakes ' an Inheritors from me. Sho knew I nil tho blrti; tho was high up in thai lore. So became a member of various bnaioi societies when sho was still a !ttle girl both hero and f abroad ani she remalnod an active i member to tie last. Sho founded two , or three aoditles for the protection of animals, litre and In Europe "Sho vu in embarrassing secretary for 8ho fbitd my correspondence out of tho wast baBket and auswercd the letters. Sit thought all letters deserved deserv-ed tho coartttr 0f annwor. Her mother moth-er brougtl her up in that kindly error.' |