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Show No Advance In Wisdom. Mark Twain tells how four years ago ho was Invited by tho University of Missouri to go out there and receive tho degree of I.L. D. At tho some timo ho visited Hannibal, his boyhood home. Just ns ho was about to leave, being accompanied to tho station by a crowd of citizens, Tom Nash, a schoolfellow, school-fellow, camo up white headed, but still a boy. Ho shook hands with his friend of many a year and nodding toward tho crowd snld: "Peoplo of this town aro tho samo blamed fools, thoy alwaya were, ain't they, Sam?" |