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Show slcepleysness at tho heriJj of bis bed the Blblo and Innocents Abroad. I "And Darwin said he did not know which ho read the most," continued Mr. Choate, "but the story that earned earn-ed undying fame for the author was the Jumping Frog story. Not even Lincoln's two minute sjH-ech ut Gettysburg has been read so much or committed to memory so often as that remarkable story." I'nrlo Joo Cannon was warmly greeted. ' I'll read my remarks," ho Bald. -It is the first time I e ever read n manuscript to an uiidUnce and I convince you on the fnct that it won't be lone." The shaker said that he know Mark Twain personally and he received receiv-ed Clemens when he came to Washington Wash-ington In the Interest, of the copyright law. -'Finally" said I'ncle Joe. "he tried to persuade me lo allow him to lobbv on the very floor of the congress and wrote nie ;( letter and brought it to mo in the speaker's room." Mark's Letter to Uncle Joe. The lei ter ran : " 'Dear I'ncle Joe. ricase set me tho thanks of congress. not next week, but right awav. It ia very necessary. nec-essary. DL( accomplish this at once, by persuasion if you can. bv violence if von must, for it is absolutely necessary nec-essary that I get en the iloor for two or throe hours and talk to the congressmen, con-gressmen, man by man. I have arguments ar-guments with me. Also a barrel with liquid in It. 1 have stayed away from congress nnd left It alone f'.r 71 yc irs and 1 am entitled to its thanks. Congress Con-gress kfiowR tblR well and it never has publicly acknow le ige, its np-preclat np-preclat .Ion. Send me a reply at once with an order 011 tho sergeant-alarms. "'With love anil benediction. Mark Twain.'" Van Dyke's Poem. Mr. Henry Van Dyke, read the fol lowing original poem entitled "Mark Twain." "We knew- you well, dear Yorlck of the west The very soul of larve and frlendlv jest That loved and mocked the broad grotesque of things, In this new v-rbl where all the folks arc kings. ' Your bree.v humor cleared the air with sport Of shams that haunt the Democratic court For ocn where the sovereign people rule A human monarch needs a royal fool. Your native drawl lent flavor to your wit. Your arrows lingered, but they always al-ways hit. Homeric mirth around this circle ran But left no w ound upon I ho heart of man. Wc knew you. kind In trouble, brave In pain. " Wo saw your honor kept without a strain We read thl3 lesson tn our Yorick's years. True w Isdom comes with laughter and with tears." .HONOR MEMORY OF MARK TWAIN .VEW YORK, Nov. 30 The Intellect, Intel-lect, the power and the wealth of the land gathered at Carnegie Hall tonight to-night to pay tribute to tho memory ( of Mark Twain. Wro. Dean Howell? presided Joseph Jos-eph G. Cannon, ppeaker of the hetise ef representatives, and Champ Claik, speaker-that-may-lo. spoke from the fame platform. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Henry Wattcrson, Goo. W. Cable. Booth Tarkingtou, J. Iler-polnt Iler-polnt Morgan, John Luther Ixmg and iiativ others were among those invited. in-vited. William Dean Howelle Spoke. The meeting was tinder the auspices aus-pices of the Academy of Aits and Letters. Mr. How ells spoke briefly. 'T believe I can safely promise," said, "thai the commemoration lll not .do formal or funereal. The man himself could no more be formalized form-alized than flame. His vivid genlu ranped at will thrvuRh all the ways of llfo Xow that it irt freed to the pathless amplitude of the 6kkp, it rould hardly offer the pattern of a conventional observation. If the mind and makeup of our com-eorumeniorntlon com-eorumeniorntlon could be left to him, e might Imagine him sayine; " 'Why, of course you must not make a solemnity of it: ou must not b.'U'e it that sort of obiequy. I should ant you to be s-eriens about that J. sincere and you could not be sincere sin-cere If it ran to eulogize.' . It seem to me that we are met tonight not bo much to commemorate with a great man a on who still lives In us as a contemjiorary. Other hereafter may prove him the greatest humorist, the kindest and wisest moralist who ever lived. We who were of his acquaintance ac-quaintance can best offer in our collection col-lection reminiscences a composite likeness of him which will keep him real ajid actual." Joseph Choate't Remark. Jos. Choate recalled that Darwin .used lo 6ay ho kept two remedies for |