| Show AMERICAN HUMORISTS e OF FOUR GENERA GENERATIONS L may bo Mill Bald ol 01 o American humor there Is i na no w doubt as ad a to Its t distinctive quality It II In Is of 01 the thU noil U It hail an hold hoM Its lIs It own for tor moro than thon a n 1 and it Is tn today as III tt fresh and ns ti wholesome as n a tho ho air we VO there ther fire some who affect to believe that American humor Is IU In Sn a n state ot of and that In Inu u It l tC few yara It will become Ilko tho dodo doo there thoro ara they thoy largely In tho th main maintain tain that It was wa never more mor promising than at III present At AI nil events there thero Is Isop l op nii In III the subject by hy hyi reason i or ot the announcement by n IL prom of a series or devoted d to toa a It 1 nt ot humor nod It U la l worth ft R 1 examination literature In Its il II youth had Ind inu na nt 0 distinctively dl humorous phase though It its play a n vein In ot of Inny have i for lor humor The rita oar ear early onrI ly I WriG given to poJ In I io las i they 4 wrote with ft 1 purpose 1111 n n I that purpose waa to 10 1 if polish ort oft I other ot fellow Illow I L with neatness II and cA Tho Qt of today follow Collow tilt IlIC 1 though their ob oil CJ Joe t may In 1 Y be he 4 the lb I Millo pher tier Benjamin I Franklin born horn noar nw the l I twin I III ji I n II I rt g ot of the t ii e eS S i N ecu a 1 tury tory may Inny bo liD called our list filst c famous humor hu In I tut It nt at nil events oven Is Isho e he lie wrote hk had tho humor humorous ous vein de do developed doI I and was Va continent to tho the 1 I last I J In III what hu been called the t first II tilt period of ot American litera I 7 SQ turo tito were Pre pub 4 V Joel Jod liar Itar lows low 1 r r r I bulls 1 r gall bolh Joth hefty I i II It I I f also iilo tha the r tint first American 1 by Chartee Charle til H Brown This period Is III b supposed to 0 olid I i about 1820 after I which rome raino tho ho hoI I moro pro in lotion and abundant in hu humor I mor Inor To 10 tills po Pc I belong J 1 K Ki 1 i lou og born porn c 1119 and Wash WashIngton RS Ington I Irving I 1 j ti born brn Jorn 1 whose I History of ot I Now York Torte wn wan JI lie tho first book ot of the tito Mild WI Itlen In lit America with hu hUe humorous Intent It took 1001 anyway nod and our mothers too for tor that matter enjoyed many loony a 11 laugh at Its Ito and nn Then ritsu thieve there was Beba Smith author of or witty witt though vulgar Major Jack I Downing a t 1 captain oke WAS WI he Ill and he ho hall had a u most wondrous vogue Another was no Judg T l C who a n Nova NO by b birth gave New Nell l n a do of 01 h her r own In itt his hi nl ni Sayings and Doings of 01 Stun Slim Slick Tha lit Humorist woe was hard ly Iy appreciated In tn the United Hint WinteR OH es e In itt the lie portion and went ent to England where ho died In 1806 only six sir yuan alter i Irving paus paused ed Nl away Otto One of ot our first fint nineteenth century humorists nii 0 n I I 1 n born Lorn In Connecticut tRot who hll acquired his hiM lii po ee Utility lift no the tho leading lending humorist of ot tho ho country while n a of ot Kentucky and In 1870 1070 Five Piro 1 yean Yoo later Inter In III Now Nol Hampshire was woo burn DOrn Joseph Neal au nu author thor of ot thorn Charcoal kotcho ap op appropriated without credit o by 1 for tor his Two years titter after him followed Oliver Wendell holmes Cambridge Mist MaR 1809 1800 wl 9 become a n skilled anatomist Ana 1st pot o t prose lIto author Inimitable ble hIe humorist Autocrat of ot the I fast fait Table etc eta What boy of at tho ho last had hod not recited bin hili Won Wonderful One Shay he left leU the public school j Have you o of the tha wonderful one hem 11 IhA That VM vao A built In such a I way It 11 n a 1 years year to a day Osy S e SAnd And Ami then ot of n a sudden ludden lt It Itoh b h but tut stay Ill toll tell you IOU what happened without de delay deIsy lay Isy II the Into Inlo fits mi out o or of their you jcu cv over r hoard of ot that I J say All Au have wo we never noer And the tH t and one other things that 1 by that vivid Imagination of oT the little doctor lilt lBs life lite on all for tor more titan than eighty years with brain and pen len working to tho ho very vory loot last ono Uno of It the very vory few tew women humor lots Ism Miriam Whitcher wee wot born In 1811 1011 and though she ahe died at the age of at her Widow Papers quite famous In ISM ISH rollicking I II P 1 woe was born at Portsmouth N II 11 Ho Ito was Will raised rained Ill bed ft n printer became nn on editor and acquired famei OH SIN Mrs Hu lie died HO cc recently ns as 1800 1890 yet yot may bay bo be said eald to hOve have belonged to tho the previous generation of ot humorists I dont ilont blame blomo Alfred ald AliI MM Mr for lor hot wishing wish In to take tako the throne of ot hod hlll oft off ottto as to nuro CUFO a n ItS you live Mie hp preferred the Ito Venus Venue da tie d Medicine to any ony other statute she ahe know knew of ot otAn An erratic appeared all PM red In the of or John Q A Blixt 1816 who woe was admitted to 10 tho the bar In 1813 1043 owned and a n paper am net 1301 t the country agog with his lilo hl poetry witty anti and not lacking In III polish H lie dl d It If not of at melancholia tn yet yOt IL i titan man In 1107 In 1817 1811 wiLl was n born T Fields n II native of ot Portsmouth famous publish publisher or er elf cit f Boston a writer who delighted to tho the muses fancy With qu tr conceits Clone Cloo upon the Ih heels hie of 01 Fields trod trial the quaintest anti and most moat philosophic humorist America oVer ohr saw HIllY henry Wheeler l who his bla hi rightful name nottie In the he or It Josli There was wn never nett MI such as JQ h except o It IL be War Wan ard He UI 11 woe was y years ar Out old when he hI gave Josh Joeli Jo h to lh Ih the world und and was Wall when Im he died l In lOOt Titer lher Is Ie a II heap heul of ol Humor In Joeli not nol Acau e of tit It but hut their phonetic tiling Tn 10 T prove this lilt look up tip Uncle In itt which the tho hart hard In te op parent without tho the aid nh of ot Imagination In IRIS lRi also leo botn V l 1 8 tt author of at Urn lie once unco famous hASH ISM i A Sojourn Among the The next year tho the world was Manned with tho the birth of at ram Janies a Lowell hardly second Jn V p holmes aa ns a II humorist as nil those Iho e ac ito acquainted life Vapors can call testify In III him an as nillo In minor and 1111 pathos uro exquisitely and It Is la doubtful If II either has bits been jeen greatly Both Holmes anti nn Lowell w sero ro first of it till nil men man of ot lot tere lers and oil either olther her would have IIno become fa to famous mOils without the expression of ot the tho hu hUe quality Tho Papers abound In orthographic peculIarities for Cor an nil American to 10 swallow hut but buther her ther titers are arl many gums geln of ot purest ray se so retie reni Lowells birth year Mr woe was also tint that of ot W v It 11 Travers moro inure of wit than hiatt hu Itu humorist but one who matte made lie many laugh Donald 0 a Mitchell Uk Ik Marvel who vho was years old last displayed n a quiet humor of ot the gentle sort In bin hIli of It n Bachelor nUll anti other 01 her always classically ol at though hound of at tho the old oh school style stylo 0 I 1 H Ii Derby Y later laler and better batter known l OH OR John was wn born In 1823 isn and tiled died a II few yearn after tho the appear appearance AlIce ance ot of bin hili anti and an SquI bob boh Papers 1856 anti ISM 1551 Americas ripe rille scholar anti and genial hu humorist monet of ot ho Chair sOrt coro W v Curtis horn lortI 1821 lOll a 1 hit In hili published years ago Like ninny many another humorist however ho ruttier rather looked askance at fun tun tilt In lu his loiter latter years yeats Ho lie died tiled In 1802 1892 but a 11 humorist of ot tho Ito rollicking sort Bart Charles Godfrey Loland who was tag born tho sonic year ns no Curtis Is not only onh living hiving lull ban hns Just revised his fa Ca a InDUS muus linn Hans a bounds ballads which first appeared more than lion thirty years ago aRO Bill Arp Aill Charles Chance Henry SmIth who o humor has hn the Iho genuine southern k to It II watt was born hom In Georgia In 1820 where he stilt still lives hives in Major C U 0 i better bolter known aa liS Private MII was one aile of ot tho the few lew American ot of foreign birth having ha como front from Ireland In UT Ho died In U 1868 1058 S at nt the early ago age of ot but another humorist Charles Charlea Dudley Warner born the tho same maine year ns as n 1020 nearly reached the writer r but Lut Warners humor N is for lor nit nil time lime having baring In It tho the of at peren perennial nial youth Ills Hla delightful Summer Bummer In Inn Ina n a 1 Harden appeared In lit and his hlA equally attractive Backlog Studies In 1010 He lIe traveled l much wrote much and In lii the fullness ot of years yearl anti and Knowledge l ge Th rIte fhe decade opening with 1830 1810 yields a n bailors doren of ol humorists who nc no worldwide fame nt on the list 1st being J Knott author of or tho ho Duluth h In congress Ho lie M born lOrn In Kentucky 1830 mo and In In 1832 appeared one who tho wrote voluminously In after afterlife life as ns Q K I J I P H IL born Thompson Mortimer an on alleged aliened humorist who during wartime had quite n a vogue but who at nt his death dAth loll little that thaI will wilt long outlast the century In 1813 1811 was wan born David hose Hosa Locke who lItHe gave oise to the world the th unctuous Petroleum V Nasby o of X Hoods heath fame lottie lie He swung round the ho with President Johnson ol of whom by lIy the way WilY ho once ones remarked that Hint It II would have been Ito 10 In III Andy And Johnsons pocket If II hed hell never been born and anti published Iron From I rom Kentucky In as ns wall willi KS as u it 1 tender cutler poem called Hannah Jane Jan Locke Locko Nasby NaNby died lIe In ISIS aft utter after er r a tery busy life The Tho Th year 1031 was made malle notable In our If tr for tor nothing else el by the births bithe of ot Art Arte tte I moo mus Ward Frank I und Charles It H Webb John Paul The Tho first two ore are known tha tM wid world over If it tho the third is III riot not but b t what Is better tho the la last t two tIVO are Ile yet alive und find I Ivery very much tot veterans of nearly threescore find And ton ten was born lorn In Maine Webb In New York and Stock Stockton Stockton ton Ion In Philadelphia Tho rho first t named died In England In Irs 1507 the second after aUr Inventing m veral useful lI machines anti publishing pu books bouks In II rose antI and verse erse now hOW at lit Nantucket Mass MlIss Masslie lie He claims the Pie proud distinction of oC hay hav having ing lily edited 1 Mark Twains fIrst book Tho Jumping FroK Fro FroIt It II superfluous to moro moo mo o tItan than mention the lie name ot of Artemus Ward a II downen born Browne who achieved as ns arel a 11 reputation abroad ns na In this country and a greater Kreuter In n this country than any other othur humor humorist lal st of his hIli ulass Ho Ito may limy perhaps ho bo ticketed aa ne tho the first of ot his genus to tomake make nulo humor a is profession or to a Illi gu u Into I it t with malice Ho lie began I t tt It t II II uI I A I i it C t j cAMEL cAMELy IiA z y zw r tI k i i t aI 8 4 Ii 4 1 t L D UN l I life lito na nt a 1 printers devil on em thiS the th gao gan Me Ite Clarion und and won a 11 u reputation reputation tion by his hIli Artemus Ward In Inthe Inthe the Cleveland Clev Plain Dealer Thero There must have havo been real reo I wit In III those pa vera for tor they overran the Ito country like liken n ft 1 prairie fire firo nail then the II leaped heaped across tho tie Atlantic where they made tho lie au nu author thor a n reputation In I London ondon anti and paved i aved the tie way tor for his lectures there which were Immensely Immense popular While It Is 18 I doubtful It If Artemus Wards work would on tho lie whole pass muster at nt athis this his tUne time stIlt still there thero Is t In It savoring of or wit It If not of wisdom Like Ilke Josh Hillings he played tho the tool foul In or order order der tier to attract popular attention Like the tho great grent trio of humorists Twain flu lings hogs anti and Stockton he was WaR very ory thrifty thrim nt at his death leath leaving 1010 a property tot for the founding of an nn asylum tot for superannuated printers printer and print printers ers orphans As to his hum humor let a few telY specimen bricks attest She played the accordion divinely Ac I her hiI They have hlo quo r hotels hotell In Oregon I re remember remember member one where they cave gye me mo in a 11 bag bail bailot of ot oats for Cor a 0 pillow I sail Imil nightmare of ot course coume COli rae In lii the morning the landlord 1 said aid How lIow do Oo you fe feel leel l old oil host hoes hay hayI hil hilI I told toM him I felt tell my oats outi I t like music mOlle I t cant nt line 1101 sin As a I am DIU not a n t am om saddest when I t tsin Ising sin sing Illig So Bo also n o am are thOM lies who hear henr me inc They y are aro madder even than Ihan I am urn Young It Is married Hes lie tho ho mont married ll man I ever cvar saw law In InIn Inlay my lay In life I aw hl hi I IonnI cant onnI exactly Ml tell you how li is I of or her but It 1 U Is I u a Jen delli I I lIy By y the this way 10 S iro Ho Ito speak of or tho the Merry of ol Wind 1111 our Mir How flow many wives did Mr Windsor hate Hut Well l lei It t that puss little Tho llio Pretty girls rIft ot f Utah mostly murry Poor Inor died bravely ns nil he Ito had lived merrily u II Jest on hii hi lips almost nt it the last lait It Jt seems a I loni whIle since Chico the he news came caine over that ho lit loud had passed IJ away yet et ns as already Mated his broth or Ut humorist Stockton dating from the same name year 1831 still survives Frank It Stockton began his hlA lite life work vork ns no a 0 journalist t and his bIn literary career by contributing to 10 tho the magazines Ills His hUe hu humor mor taur was not nt at nut first suspected sUa pee ted It U wan of ot so 0 quiet t a n sort like hike certain liqueurs almost Insensibly warming tho the cackles of Dt the heart henrt but warming thorn thom Just JUlit tho ho same maine When Whan however the public caught on to 0 his hili peculiar style they thoy became be quite hungry for tor It and the au ott author thor titer of ot fodder Orange Tho Thu Ih Lady or the ito Tiger Tiller anti and forty other books Is Isnow Isnow isnow now a 11 very wealthy man mall Ills address Is In l Charl W tV Va VR Posterity will probably award the tho palm to the group ot at humorists com corn rIsIng Artemus Ward Vard Josh Hillings Stockton nod and Mark Twain Had Each has hns a n different rent humor but bul each Is U superb When Artemus was ns In California he ho and Mark Twain came come Into conjunction In fact act they not only met but they wrote pretty much the same samo sort of ot tuff stuff only Mark did not attempt to tomake tomake make his writing popular p by b bad ball spell spellIng Ing log It was about that hat time Ward wrote The Pacific railway Is now completed from Sacramento to Folsom I Cal which leaves 2221 2211 miles nilles to go by coach This breaks tho the monotony It came near breaking my back bock Twain woe was born tho the year after Ward Word and anti Stockton Stock lon or In 1835 1035 and everybody knows his life IIII by b heart henri so 80 It Is useless to 10 repeat I It here It U Is ho a n matter ot of that tho the author of The Tho Jumping Frog rog Innocents Abroad It 11 etc otc Is still with us IS n a magnificent example of ot tho the sterling cit citizen izen Iz n as Well voll as a lonely specimen of the theold old nit time humorist Is to not so very |
