Show f NARK MARK TWAIN Mr Paine a friend of Mark Twain has writt writ- writ t V ten i his l life fc AYe We find a review of or it in the Out- Out V ji-V F r f look in which the thc writer under the title of Mark fark Twains Twain's Portrait gives his personal persona ideas of what Mark i Twain was and where 1 his I Jv place is among the great men nin n of our century and v it t seems to us he is a little incoherent in places T- T He Hc begins by Benjamin Franklin stands for lor the thc practical genius Js of the American rf j Emerson for foi his power of vision Lincoln for the fr i romance of the man with slight opportunities r i V nd Mark rii i Twain for humor Ji And then farther s Mark Twain l o on sa says was all IllS his life an m exponent of or the pioneer qualities quah- quah E ties lies of ur time the Mississippi valley tile the large free un tin 3 conventional r col humorous point of or view of the tho men ff who 1 Crossed th time the built up Uj the central west cst and und southwest and created in the and t MOs 1105 of the thc last century a world of their own I t i. i If Jf Mark all Twain had remained in the Mississippi doubt h whether he e ever r i J sippi ippi valley we very mu would lc have hac written a humorous book at all His us experience on the Virginia City Enterprise set sett t him im going There he hc learned new vocabularies i there he lie found men different from what he hc had hadlY hadr lY r r er seen he lie found a largeness of heart and an Extravagance of expression which he hc was brilliant enough ough to utilize And that refined down in the tN st i made hint him Mark l Twain This article tells of his exalted patriotism At Atthe l' l the same time it says he hc had no flO reverence for Anything which we wc think is a contradiction because because bei be be- i cause a n man maim who has no reverence for anything not even pel the good God has nol not much reverence I his c country t and Mark Twain Twain- never Im had If Jf liu i dt h i rt rC lS- lS so sooner ncr or th years cars ht h had d li one fas s' s n ue of i those men nicu who Mho lived i in I tho north and d h hoped p d tho f. f bouth would win in iii the thc great war and whatever er erI I of patriotism he lie had bud was at least vel very Y much cli di- Had he lie been obliged to he lie would have done as Mr MiS Cleveland did hired a it substitute to go g t to the thc Will tai ar that is js after he lie reached the north l lie He excellence humorist There arc t. t e was par pal a t ta ia Da David DaIel Iel in t the he world Y We Vc c find I f tl in ill almost every cry town in the northern states probably in the south but hut oI only one man was was was' ever eyer I t 1 J. J able to tu give full expression to what the real 1 David Da Dad d Harum larum is And nd so as us a u humorist Mark t was ras t the one man who ho could put itt his 1 humor humors ff s i in a form orn to catch cath the whole world 0 11 d The lh humor I was in in him before c he lie left the Mississippi valley ille but tt he he lie could not give it expression in such form f t J I tile the world ivorid could grasp it It was yas in his every every- rl r- r l l speech always The old pilot that that- taught him what l at he lie knew about the thc business said that he lie told told r f lWI J l that he lie never could make a first class pilot he was altogether too funny There Phere were two great turning points in Mark alk Twains Twain's life lie He was born a humorist or rather rathel i lu His Ills gO going to Virginia Ci City tj cn- cn 1 him hun to put that humor into extravagant ot then his meeting with and marrying 0 the thc It w wife fc he did sobered him down clown just enough gh to l keep CP his humor within the proprieties and mid to male it as nearly as ns such suel things can be made immortal l |