Show MARK TWAINS S nAr Great Gr t American Humorist Has Lived Three Score and Ten Years RECEIVES MANY GOOD WISHES Hiis I HulluM Ho huM I J h Jut t About ns uS cis HO Ih lI il ev ew York 6 Mark Twain f to sva tho the tit of t honor nt Itt a din dinner dInn dinne ner n ne t nt lit I il given n by hy Harvey In hi honor of ut the f The flie guests were V confined cl ely to writer t of lit Imaginative tive tIo literature und find limit ITU liU authors vf re present pre lIt nearly lIerl of ot them wo woo women men During Durin the dinner II a congratulatory cable message l lIlI e received from Om Ig by 40 10 of ot the most mo l dl Wrt rH there Thomas Hardy Oer eorge e Merodith Al Alfred J 1 fred Austin Arthur Hu Anthony HopI Hope I Sir Gilbert Sir Conan Conin Doyle Dole Inn Ian rn Cu II MM Humphrey and ruel The Tho principal souvenir which each guest oue t received WHY wan wu a II bust bUHI busto of ot o Murk Twain halt half lire ife size tze President and J 1 Harris m II nt II und thoi thol who spoke or presented poem tIO wei AV v D Ii Wat Vaton mm hider Dr Henry Vim un Dyke Dk Math ewe OH Dr Ir Wi lr 11 Mitchell Kate CaI J John Johll Amelia W Mable Matiie Caroline Wells Irving Andrew Cur Car igie n 1 W V Cable oll Smith uund Mr Ir r wrote 1 I wish It I wet were in III power to lie he at III atthe the th Ih dinner held to the sev ses seventieth birthday of ot Mark It Jt t U Ic I 1 L to write rite ot of him hi ro by IJ lute his real name instead ot of that mum which hut lius become n a I household word vh wh r rever er tho thu EnglIsh language IN is He lie It is one of ot tho the citizens whom tilt all i ll Americans should lo tO tl honor for he has ban rendered IL u treat great and peculiar service to 10 America nuil his lI though uch fuch nil flA no ono onu but Lilt an 1111 American could written vet vot et emphatically come cOllie within that small list lIt which are writ written ton ten for tor no urn particular country but bUI for 01 nil all minifies and which tire lire not mere mers merely ly Iy written for tur f r the time lime but hut have an nit abiding and permanent value May MIlY he helb live lb e long by year may maj mn he add to ti the admirable work that he lie tins hui hll done yours joure 0 II If l When Twain arose to tu speak h hI ha could not hot proceed for tor several minutes on oil account of ot tho cheers cheor that were ere given llvell en ell In III greeting He saId The seventieth birthday It is II the tho time ot of lit when you nt at a it 1 now new and awful dignity when whon you may throw aside n till the decent reserves have you sou for or a Ii and onel stand stanc unafraid and unabashed up liP upon on oil your summit unit and look down ant teich You Youcan can rall tell tho the world how YOU got AOI ot hide tholo It IN is what they tho nil all do ito You Yuu never get Ket tired ot of telling by what delicate arts deep you 1011 climbed I up UI lJ to that great place You will ex ox explain i plain phalli the process and dwelt on un thu tho particulars with senile rupture rapture 1 I have been anxious to explain my own this tills long Ioni lon time limo mind and now at III last I have bave the tho right I have achieved my m 70 7 years oats In the too usual III I way wayby by sticking to n a t f my life Ufa which would kill any allY anybody body else ete It will like nn an exaggeration eXO exaggeration Ir but bul that In III b really tho the common rule for tOI or attaining old DIll age Vo Ve 0 lute have no permanent habits until vo 1 oro nio 40 Then they Ih y begin to harden presently they the petrify then begins Since 40 I 1 have been regular about go going ing In to tn bed hed and LIld getting tUn ti and In Is one ot or the main thIngs I have made It a rule rulo ni tn to go to to 10 lud when thelo lieto t not anybody left to sit Hit up thu with anti anil I loire have rondo It a li rule to tu get Jot up UtI when hert I hud hiatt to This juis resulted In an 1111 unswerving regularity nf lit If Irregularity In Iii II tho the matter matteu of ot diet which Is IH an all another other main thing I have Ion boon l cutly strict In III sticking to tn the hut things which with me pie until one olle or ur the thu other othor of us pH got tho bent of or It II Until lately I got tot the bout ot ut It myself Hut Hilt last spring I 1 frolicking with mince pie Ille after uttel midnight UI up to then I taut hail 1111 1 It loaded lor tor 30 io years I have ha t InKen lOt cot fo tro ft nod bread at III 8 I In till the morning and no bite nor sup HUlt till 7 30 In the evening I 1 have hO made It a n rule never to 10 smoke more thiu out one r at It a time I have no other restriction as ac le me gards As Aa for tor drinking I t no tin rule rille About that huh When the time others drink I Ilk to toh help h h otherwise t I remain dry Ir bj hy 1 habit and preference Thin di no o lots doe not lilt hurt me nu hut but It I could lR II hurt ou because you are You Irl It U It alone nione Since I wild ilK veti years yearn old idd I have havI seldom token taken I a IL m done doce nf lit Ic hui and auth have still seldom nestled needed one HU lIt to 70 0 I 1 lived on nn allopathic hi inos not t hue t I needed I hem for forI rorI I dont think I 1 It was a for 11 omy My ly Iy father took a drug tort store tot for fora tota a II debt and It loathe coil cod User liver oil heap cr or than tho lIm thi othor breakfast l fo I Ivas Iwu wu vas viLS the tIme 11 oil fill trust I Imd bitt It nil till Hy fly U thu thai time thus the th drug stars torI Willi is my Ill I iti WAN VILli c ecta hi multi I t hem never b been en much the thu t lIu mutter with me lute sInce Bluer I never nVer tAken All ex lat ex except x capt sleeping ond reiting PuIt I i Ier i r Intend to 10 take nuy e 1 I ii loath looth sourn Ami Ahll It Ian tail lint ant Iw liv 10 nf ot any benefit when h imen JI you ou ars III tired I HUH y UnI I l 1 a severely moral life If HUt lIUI it would It ht 14 a II for at 01 hr l ople to try It or fur for mo InO to it retool mend ll It Very ery few ew would You ha to have u It Ily tock Stock of ot moral and you run can not lot get it them on a margin mar you have hae to 10 hue have havethe the Ih whole thing and amid put them In III your ha biti tire are en 1111 n like Ilk music Ilk like a It foreign lan like pt ty pok r no luau 1 I a bom hom with them I waitt mv lf I started poor Threw score 10 jr ar ars and ten tie It 11 In Ic I the scriptural of ot limitation After fter that you ou 0 oe no settee duties tor for you the strenuous life ItCe la Is over or You u are air al a time lime expired nun man to uw use tutu mill military tary phrase You have served rv d your our term w wail ll or Im less 1111 and au i u me liIl It 0 1 out You are art become bom an hon bout honorary emery orar of th tM t republic you von are are arc not lIot for far foron you on ou nor any Imy bug hl I call all but Unlit You iou OU iy tNY th the tue in tidy duty bUh If you or It tf you and aud without 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