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Show TWAIN SPEAKiS FOR DEITY Asks What Almighty Has to Be Thankful Foi. CHICAGO, Nov. 2x. A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington. D. '., ays: Mark Twain, who took luncheon with President Roosevelt yesterday gne the following sentiment: "Every year, every person In Amer- j lea concentrates all his thoughts upon one thing cataloging his reasons for being thankful to the Deity for the j blessings conferred upon him and up- . on Ihe human race tim ing the expiring j twelve months. "This is well, and it should be; but It is too one-sided No one ever seetna to think of the Deity's side of It; apparently ap-parently no one concerns himself to inquire in-quire how much or hOW lit 1 1 he hns had to be thankful for dining the same period. How About Russia? "We may be unstintedly thankful, but 'an that really be the case with him" If he had a voice, how would lie regard the year's results In Rusla'.' "H" will have noticed hat life Insurance In-surance In New York has gone tolerably tolera-bly rotten, and the widow and orphan have had 8 sorrowful time of it with the hands Of their thoHcn protectors. Doubtless the most be is thankful for Is that the rottenness and robberies have nut been absolutely complete. Noticed Political Smell. "He has noticed! the political smell as. ending from New York, Philadelphia and sixty or seventy other municipalities municipali-ties has been modified a little temporarily tem-porarily and doubtless Is thankful for that transient reprieve. "He has observed that King Leopold's Leo-pold's destru' i ton of innocent life on the Congo Is not as great this year as It was last by as much as 100. 000 victims because of diminishing material. ma-terial. ' Without doubt. He himself Is thankful thank-ful that matters In the Congo are not as Irretrievably bad as they might be and that some natives still are It fi alive." |