Show FROM 1 MARK TWAIN TWI Tells Gov Why Wh lit lie Exhibit at nt the rail Fair FairSt St t l loul uj Juno 13 A letter from Samuel L I Clemens Mark Twain written writ ten cli before 1111 Is HIM H death wan by h at tt atthe the worlds faIr today In III hart It fol Col follows at lows lous 0 Villa lIla ell til FIrma In 26 IDOl 1001 Dear I Governor Frauds It 1 huts hua been ben u IL I h of ot mine to 10 exhibit at itt atthe tin the Rient gorat aIr and get It a prize hilt but ilces beyond my SilO III oi htiu i and 1 mint t remaIn In Klor Fler cure enre Although I 1 have never nevor prizes iny elite elso el I used I to take them In school in III lIl Missouri half H II cen century tury tIny ugo mouth I ought to tn bo ho to them now If IC I could have havo II a chalice chanco I used to pet get Il the lie medal for tUI Rood good IC week and I could Ionic lie Iho medal too for conduct If It there loud had not been so all much mooch Ion In III In still I got Hot It times by hy trading boot hoot I nm mini willing td ii Rive give boot now nati If IC however days 1110 gone Kone by ly y In Missouri and roar per perhaps hops haps It Ills Is better no so Nothing over even H the tho wily way It was 1118 ae In this changeable world Although I r cannot be Ito at It the tho fair tom I Iam nm am goIng to Tm ro represented there allY 1111 way 11 by n a 1 portrait liy by II Prof Irot You Vail ou will iIII find ibid tt it excellent Good boot judges judge may cay It Is III better belter than the lie original Thoy They say III It loas nil all the merits of ot the lie orIgInal tOld ond still besides It sounds soun ls like Ilka but hut It Is Just true |