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Show TRIBUTE OF ROOSEVELT TO GENIUS OF TWAIN PARIS, April 22. Former President Roosevelt was greatly pained to hear of the death of Mark Twuln. He said: "It is with sincere grief that I learned of the death of this gTcat American author. au-thor. His position. (Ike that of Joel Chandler Harris, was unique, not only In American letters, but In the literature of iho world. "He was not only a great humorist, but a great philosopher, and his writings writ-ings form one of the assets In American contributions to the world of achievement, achieve-ment, of which we have a right as a nation na-tion to bo genuinely proud." In the pigskin library which Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt carried through the Jungles of Africa were two of tho late author's books, "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer," nnd Mr. Roosevelt says he rend both of them sovcrnl limes and always with the gi-eatciit Interest. |