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Show NOT POPULAR. Mark Twain Says the Author. , Ofllclom. Samuel L. Clemens has spent a -deal of time of late working for copyright law, and is one of the hn of the following story told in uW ington Gazette: ."Yes, I am in lm an international copyright law's a member of congress who is 'h with both tongue and pen. really, the literary lobby if I m ply such an epithet to the gmtta who have been urging the bill in s son and out of season are overt it. I don't mind receiving ci on business at a very early or evtt very late hour, but I must say th hate to have 6hop talked lo W 11 dinner party or any other social ow sion. When I have my white cn and clawhammer coat on I want p pie to forget I am a congressnm they can. Now, two gentlemen, t of whom cams with his pen about I times the salary of an M. (,'.,havel particularly noticeable for the breac: of etiquette and good macnen have named. They almost mailr change my mind on the copyright I And do you know, while they talked if in the most disinterested way al the matter, and said that our "En;; cousins would be more benetitcd It any one else by an international m right, I was afterward told by a pi lisher a constituent and good friend mine whom I recommended to dx them off that they were paid a 1 diem and all expenses for their In work." |