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Show Letters Mark Twain Gets. Mark Twain is long suffering In the matter of a correspondence loaded with requests for favors from unknown un-known people. He has, consequently, received tho impression that when people find time hanging heavily on their hands they sit down and write a letter to him asking for something. These requests are always preceded by profuse compliments. "In my judgment," said Mark Twain recently, "no compliment has tho slightest value when it is charged for, yet I think I never get one unaccompanied by the bill." The latest letter he has received is somewhat in the nature of a climax even to those that have gone before. A school teacher asks for his portrait in oil. "There is nothing we would appreciate so much," wrote this admirer, with true naivete. "It could be used for years and years in the school." But the fact that it would cost the author a thousand dollars or so entered nowhere into the enthusiastic enthu-siastic brain of the correspondent. |