Show OF TWAINS WORK AS A REPORTER I Mark TwaIn was the guest of honor bonor at ata ata a dinner recently given by the Press Pr s club and the Manhattan Dickens Fellowship in 10 inthe the Press club rooms to commemorate the anniversary of t the birth ot of Charles Dickens In the course ot his speech the humorist saId that he had at aI ways taken an Interest In young people who wanted to become poets He that he was particularly Interested Iii one budding poet when he was a re reporter reporter porter This young oung poets name was But Butter Butter ter Butter was out ot of a Job and Butter came around to him one day and said dIsconsolately that he was going to corn com commit mit was tired Of life lite not being able to express his thoughts In poetic form Butter asked Reporter Clemens what he thought of the Idea Said th the speaker I said I would that It was a good I I idea You can do me a friendly turn I You go off In a private place and do It I there and Ill ru get It all You do It and Ill do as much for you OU some da day The speaker said he told Butter how lie lId would write up his death how he would make a spread of it how It would appear on the first page of the paper and it cheered Butter up so much that he went off in a joyful frame of mind to kill himself Butt Butters rs idea was to kill himself with witha a revolver but Reporter Clemens and the tha poet have enough money to buy a revolver and the reported per th the to drown himself Drowning is so nice and clean and writes up well In the newspaper But said the speaker things ne nedo do go smooth smoothly in weddings sUicides or courtships Only there ii 3 the edge of the water where Butter 11 fis S to himself lay a life Ufe preserver a r canvas one which would float fter ft r th trot ir u was soaked out Of It Butter kIll himself J with wi h tb the life preserver In sIght and Reporter ens had an Idea He took It to a pawn pawnshop pawnshop shop and soaked it for a revolver Th The pawnbroker think much of the ex exchange exchange change but when Clemens c explained the situation he aCQuiesced The reporter and the poet DOot went up on top of a high building and this Is what happened to the poet He put the revolver to his forehead tl and blew a tunnel straight through hIs head The tunnel was about the size or of your finger You could look through It The Job was there was nothIng in iL Well after that concluded the hu hii humorist that man never could write prose but he could write poetry He could write It atter he had blown hii brains out There is lots Of that tale talent t all over the country but the trouble is 19 they dont develop It About O persons attended t dinner I George Cary Eggleston was the toast I naster laster |