Show r 94 OF A I i l AT l r l r lir Jr ir rr rr f I TWAY WAY PR R Ron ton Pi PRINTERS T ifs TO TO I 0 kU BEAU D B i IN t f y M r BROADCLOTH t FOR VOR EVENING EN AND W WHITE t 4 11 w 9 DAr ATT 9 tZ I I if i In 1870 1 18 i fV i f rv J l About tso Int f Ato I tf i j bryn printers to accompany them to tobt tot bt St t Laala The lh hl quartet obtained d cm em on th the Christian Advocate the organ of or th the Methodist con conference ference ferenee and lived In an attic which soon tiro tha sky k parlor In III the theela elastic ela of ot the IhA four na ga loots from Hannibal It n s they that were nere re known In the nf nr the Advocate Advocat At this thle time tark Twain eras ras as the only ono of the th quartet who was not an un out and out t Droll he lie could not nol help heing 11 but hut his drollery ry pa IIII passed 1 for stupidity and h he cuss the th butt bUll of ot every JoVe joke the others chase he to perpetrate perpetrate One Once th they y roused rOIl him nt at i 2 In th the tha morning and an s sent nt him to the composing room romp on n i a I forged fored d order r from the tho th foreman ti to l set iel i certain cerIa In piece o of work before cla dalI daylight light ht That Thata nai 1 a as the cheerful che epher her In which tho the future lau of all the na lIa nations Ions passed sed some years ears fari of fC his hi novitiate ate How It lt Happened flow Hou Ho Twain ti b became eHin a river pi pl pilot lot Is told 1 best In his own v It Is Isan Isan an account that Is la less Ires 1 conspicuously humorous than ate are moil of th the per pr personal n r 1 reminiscences told lold In his later tel lire but It Is I with nUli the true Mark Murl felicity of or express I This period of the Treat great humorists life has been bren In moro morn or less lees obscurIty obscurity Ity and It has often orten ben affirmed that he hc never followed toll etl the thoe river at nil all The Tho follow following Inn statement made In I a a n re IC recent recent cent moment by hy ih uhs pel person son most interested must be bp ic re girded Barded as IU authoritative One Ono day jay In the midwinter of or 1St 1856 or 1857 r think It was as 1856 18 I was com coming coming ing along alons IanI th the main street t of or Keokuk I In tha middle of or the forenoon It was hitter bitter ither so hitter bitter that that street v was si 85 deserted almost ulmo it A t light dry dr snow HIOW no was WR blowing here and th there thereon r ron on the ground 1 and on nn the th pavement this way mud nn l 1 that way and nod tanking nil all sorts of beautiful but Iut very chill to look at nl Tho wind Wen blew hl w a II piece of paper papel past me mI and It lodged against lI a Il wall ot or A J house Something about the th look lonk of oe It II I A P n S n i T r r it li 1 Iii It waft wn a fifty fluty dollar bill hilt the only one I hid had ever Seen and the largest e t blas blage blage of or money mone I had ever evor encountered In one spot I 1 advertised it In the papers and suffered more mort than Ihan n a nd dollars worth werth of ot solicitude and l fear ar and ani die dis distress tress during durin the th next few lew days left l le i the th owner should see s tha the advertisement and come corn and take my mi m fortune away As teeny miny as four da days went by without tin an applicant then I t could endUre thle Und kind of misery no longer r I 1 felt sure that another four tour soul caula not RO go 0 bj by b In Inthis Inthis this sate KIP fa and secure way wal I felt that I 1 must Uk tk take that money nut out of or danger dangerS S So I 1 bought A Il ticket for tor Cincinnati and v went nt to that city I 1 worked there theres s I months In the printing ottice of if IC n A k Co fo I 1 had been read nd n Herndon account ot of othis othis his exploration of the Amazon and had been b en mightily attracted by what h he said of or coca I 1 mad made up my mind that I woul l RO go to the Hie Ih head waters of the tha Vin amazon tn zon and lito collect coca and trape trade trae In It and make mak a fortune I left Idt New Ne Orleans In th the steamer steam r Pant Fail Jane J with this great reat Idea tilling filling my mind l One On of ot the pilots of or that boat II t was Ia ns Horac lIrac Little by b lit litle I le I Rot got acquainted with him and ami pretty noon Bonn I t was doing a IL lot of or steer teer Inc hag for tor him In ht his di daylight watches When I r got sot to X Ne New r Orleans I 1 Inquired about ship ships leaving for Para and ana die cov cor covered r d that there I any and learned that there probably be any during that century It had not to I m rn me to Inquire about these particulars before leaving Cincinnati co so 0 there I t was Kits a I get to 10 the Amazon I r had no friends In New Ne Orleans Orlean and no money to speak or of I t went In to Horace fishy BIxby and asked him Im to make mak a It pilot out nf or me roe H Ho He said e he h a do Il II for tor a It hundred dollars cash In advance So I steered for tor hint him lup up to St Louis Loul borrowed the mon mone money j from rein OIl my ni and closed clo d the bargain I t had acquired this brother r inlaw several years ears before This was nan William A a n merchant a II Vir lr a line fine man mm In every way wiy ay I Within eighteen month months I 1 become became a I j MId and n J I served that thai of DC 01 flee until tho the Mississippi river was ui brought to J a a standstill by the Uia breaking out of the civil war More Mare Interesting Than Ever EverIt It ItI itle In only the coming generations that will be taught the story of or the evolution tion of tho thu greatest American humor humorist let It the long and fascinating process which has hus fashioned out Jut nf ot the crude cruda little specimen of humanity launched in an obscure tillage over seventy evenly years ear ago the most polished wit and sagest safest salt PSt tunny funny man of or his hi ag agAll age All ill his hi know the story of lC the transformation tran of ot the homespun clad and markedly unprepossessing lad Ud Into the stately v septuagenarian septuagenarian narlan who has solved oled the problem of ot all the requirements oC ot the tha most exacting social usages without re cc relinquishing un an atom of ot Ills his laugh lauch pro producing producing producing power powei Ills His is the genius that easily tull mi hl override all purely social conventions but Mark T Twain aln shows not the tha slightest slighted Inclination to make makl ute use of ot his hili Immunity It ft Is only In the matter of ot color colot that he betrays n a dl die dla to exercise his hU right rl ht Instead of ot the somber comber habiliments habiliment to which man haa haB doome I himself elf lr and aDd hi his su suc successors not forever let m us hope he has hag chosen spotless 8 white soft loft nannel for tor day weal near and snowy broadcloth broa for tor evening It Is his present that concerns concern us that Interests and fascinates us Every lel move mova he makes from now until the end will be fraught with burning Interest When he goes to England a Il little later Inter In th the season to receive the doctor Ie which Oxford wishing to do herself an especial honor will confer on an hIm we W shall want nant nl to be b kept posted potted ai u to tl everything that happens from the moment mo ml moment ment Twain sets seta toot foot on h soil until he be U Is rate fate at al home again W We fo shall not only want ani to know all this I but we e shall want to have han It told In his inimitable way wayA wayA ay ayA A Recent Re nt Outbreak stark Mark Twain It s seems Mm It is I vice Ice president president dent of If the Robert Fulton Pulton Memorial Of association Ian an r organization Jr which Is III charged charled with h 11 uty al of ra raising sonic same L it l r r qt y l ef 1 r a v u r a Zeven Yens tl f o r r rf 1 r U V e d or orr r rS tj r J r 4 r sl c ci I r I f c cM i i I I J tat t 1 1 i t f I j f t f I r I 7 M f 1 a fr IrOSE who hB knew me Mark fak Twain v THOSE as a n bov thero are still sUII n a tow low at ot them In to the lI can ceo aeo clearly now nou be it noted that he h Oho tho earmarks of ot genius It Is It a n well recognized fact that between genius and congenital slowness of nt intellect there ii is only an Ii almost Indistinguishable line Mark lark Ise early associates alm almost sl with without without out nut exception placed him on the wrong t side aide of or that faintly defined dividing line II lie For or his slow slon shambling gait galt his hU halting speech hh his hI peculiar manner and queerer sayings mule him an exception exception exception tion among the bovi boy of or the little Mis court hamlet ot of I I In III which h he was born nn ns long Jons ago nn M It is also lio rem nt of him that at al the tho period of al his hili early youth luth he was so BO in tn person erson that thul h ho o won on the sobriquet of nt it lank ungainly lad lath with a l bushy head of or sorrel hair and and n fI face so IJ plentifully besprinkled with freckles that Clint the 01 m mt t appearance of his akin was ol nl most moot lostIn lost 1081 lostIn In the little log loR schoolhouse at al Han Hall Hannibal In ht which the th pupils pupil nero taught t to sing and ami to recite the mul multiplication I table with n 1 United 4 that must have hav been un tin excellent thing I for lor the lungs Kings Mark Twain received all 1111 the education ho he ever eyer hind had from loI 1 sources ours s To attempt the Its hll inn to of oC the Murk Twain of that period would be he n Il York work of supererogation for lor lorIt forit It II Is I recorded In Tom rom Sawyer lawyer with a r ri i i and grace of o expression slon that IhaL no noman noP P maw man may mal h the tho author t of or that Hint t Inimitable production has hAil been IF chary hal of o his Identification of or himself In tn th the her hem who has haK been this the delight of or such Ruch multitudes of boys boyn of ot all ages es esthre i there them are still living at Hannibal i r tale haired min coca and p omen who are perfectly willing tl lb vouch for lor the truth of the essential part ol ot that wonderful won wonderful wonderful recital t Alter After five I yearn rears car experience in n o local th the usual exp experience of oC n a ar r printers devil I rf who was waR believed tr to be he tit endowed endon with no especial capacity f rr for rrth forthe r the th Marl Man T Twain was v W ti In III ty 1 4 f ti w I It t S I r t r t I If f ark ata I i t r Q is v r iJ S r fit memorial to the late man who Tho is responsible responsible sible for steam navigation on vat water r Lust nt year jear ear the humorist was by bythe bythe the a i to deliver doller a 8 lecture for Cor Corthe forthe the b benefit of the memorial enterprise which was In need of ot funds Those Thoss having the matter in charge chance made him nn no offer oer of at if Ie he ne would 1 deliver d lver lvern n ii lecture In Carnegie liall rall New York Tork Mark Twain replied that he had ceased ceJ ed tanking talking tor for money and that he did not lIot c rare to resume such uch a II que after he had bad actually reformed H He Admitted that he loved 1 to Irene hear bc him himself himsel self sel talk because he got sn so much In Instruction Instruction and moral u upheaval hanl out of ot It ItHe itHe He HI said he thought It was time for tor him to make an 1111 end n l to public speaking on the lecture platform He received an in avalanche or of letters from lilt alt quarters imploring him brim to re reconsider reconsider consider his determination One jot jol them was Willi from tram Frederick I 1 Grant begging hint him to 10 change his hl mind The old humorist replied I mean the pay Ia platform I shant retire from Irom ihn gratis platform until after I 1 am burled hurled and courtesy ourley requires require mo me mt to td keep still Mill end and not disturb the others What shall hall I talk about My Idea Ideals is this Tf To Instruct the audience about abort Robert Roberl Fulton and tell mo nu mowan was wan that his hi real name or 01 was waa 15 It his nom de do plume plum However never mind It Il Is I not nol Im Important important I can skip kip It anti and the house will think I know knew all about bout It and for forgot forgot got rot Could you find And out for lor mo me it if he heun un was one Olle of ot the signers ot of the tha Declara Declaration lion tion and nna which one But it If it In is I any an trouble let It alone and I Iron eon can skip It Was he gut cut with Paul Jones Will you ask Porter And ask him If IC h he brought both of ot them home These will 11 be he very Interesting farts facts If they can Cn be established hd but never mind minI dont trouble Porter PoTter I can es establish e s them anyway Tho way 1 I look at l It H they arc aro historical gems gems ot of the very first water Well that Is la my Idea an as I have bavo First excite erella the tho audience with a spoon spoonful lul tul of or Information about Fulton and then quiet them down dc with a barrel of or Illustrations drawn drams by mommy memory from my books book II and If It you dont say lIay any anything anything thing the house hou 1 will think they thoy never D er heard It before belore because people dont really r read adour d your books book they only say uy they do to keep keup you from feeling bad Next the house houlle with another spoonful ot of tact then tran them Ulem Hi em with hh another barrel of oC il 11 illustration I and anti so on nil all through th the evening v nimr and anti It if you are jre discreet and dont tell teU that the Illustrations dont dout Illustrate anything they wont ont notice IL It r t will send them home homo as well inform informed ed lid about Robert Fulton a all as I 1 am my myr r lr Dont bo he afraid I know kno all an about audiences They The believe belleve you vou s saV y Kc when hn you Y lU are telling th UI the truth troth P P T S S1 tArk nil all th It p Private and Confidential Jl otherwise the people wont rend read them GEORGE U it PICARD |