Show I MASK TWAIN FREE AGAIN Mark Twain is now a free man as free as when he started out on lifes ourney with health and strength high hopes and high aims a stout heart and an unwavering faith And how did he lose his freedom and how regain it He made a fortune out of his earlier works and then ventured it in the pub Ishing house of A L Webster Cu The house failed and in the failure went Mr Clemens fortune That was not all The house had small assets and great debts and Mr Clemens as a partner resolved to discharge the debts and save his name as spotless as when his mother gave It to him And thereat I the-reat selfimposed task has been finished ished at last a task Imposed by a truly hlvalric soul and Mark Twain is once again a free man There was no legal responslbiIty resting rest-ing upon him to assume the debts of the firm In which he had been a partner part-ner and public sentiment would not have censured him In the least had he I not assumed them he assumed them In obedience to ths rules of his own high ethical standard His example recalls that of Sir Walter Scott and of General Grant The whole Englishspeaking world I will rejoice over his great triumph and I wish him long years full of happiness I and prosperity His country is proud of him as an author but prouder of I him as a man I |