Show MARK MAC VA T TWAINS TWAIN'S S 'S REST BI WORK ORK ORKIn In a t publication called coIled the tho Sunday Magazine and circulated as a supplement to a I. I number of newspapers In tho the larger larter cities Mark Twain Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Langhorne Clemens Is presenting serially his biography In the current number number he pays pas the following tribute to his wife Tomorrow will he be the thirty sixth anniversary ary of our OUI marriage My Mr who passed away from this Ufo lifo ono one year ear eor and el eight ht months ago oso in Florence Italy tab after ator an nn unbroken illness of two twenty months' months duration Mrs Clemens died on June 0 G 1304 I Iw saw caw w her hN first In the form of an ivory miniature minia minla- ture turo in her broth brother or Chanteys Charley's stateroom In the I steamer Quaker City in the Ua Bay of or Smyrna in tho the summer ot of o 1867 when she was In her hor twenty-second twenty year I saw her In tho the flesh for tho the fir first t time in New ew York in the following December She was slender and beautiful and girlish girlish and and she the was both girl Irl and woman She remained both girl and woman to tho the last day of or her life UCe Under a grave and gentle exterior burned Inextinguishable fires firos of sympathy SrI energy devotion enthusiasm and absolutely absolutely ab ab- limitless affection She Sho was always frail In bod body and she sho lived Il upon her spirit whose hopefulness hopefulness hope hope- and courage were indestructible Perfect truth perfect honesty J perfect candor w were ro qualities qualities of or her character which were born with her Her liar judgments of or people and things were sure and accurate Her intuitions almost never novel de deceived de- de her hr In her judgments of tho characters and acts of both friends and strangers there was always room for Cor charity and this charity never nc I failed I have o compared and contrasted her with hundreds of persons and m my conviction remains that hers was the most perfect character I have over el met mCL And I ma may add that she was tho the most winnIngly dignified person I have ever known Her character and disposition were of the sort that not only invites worship but comman commands s It No servant ever left her service who deserved to re remain remain remain re- re main In It And as she could choose with a glance of her e eye e the servants she selected did in almost all cases deserve to remain and they did remain She I and she always ahva's able to was ah a always s 's cheerful was communicate her cheerfulness to others During the nine years that wo we spent In poverty and debt she Rho was always alwa's able to reason me out of m my de despairs de- de spall and find a bright side to the tho clouds and mal make e mo me see seo it In all that time I never knew her to utter n a word vord of regret concerning our al altered altered al- al circumstances nor did I lover ever know her children chil chil- children dren to do the like Fo Fe sho she had taught them and they drew their fortitude from front her The love which she fhe bestowed upon those whom she he loved took tho the form orm of worship and in that form it was returned returned b by relatives friends and tho the servants of her hou household It was n n. strange combination which wrought Into ono one individual so to speak b by marriage her disposition and character and mine Sho She poured out her prodigal affections in kisses and anel care caresses ses and In a vocabulary of ot endearments whose whoso profusion profusion profusion pro pro- fusion was always alwa's an on astonishment to me I was born reserved as to endearments of or speech and caresses and hers broke upon mo as tho the summer waves break upon Gibraltar I was reared in that atmosphere of or reserve As I already aid In another chapter I never knew a member ber or ber-or of in my fathers father's family to ki kiss another me mc Ac er of Jt It except ex once once- and amI that at a n death bed Ant And our our r lage lag was not a kissing community The kissing and caressing ended with courtship along courtship along with tho the deadly piano playing of or that day Sho had tho the heart-free heart laugh of ot a n. girl It camo came seldom but when It broke upon tho the ear car It was as inspiring Inspiring- as music I heard It for tor the last time when she had been occupying her sick bed for tor more than n a year car and I made a written noto note of ot It atthe at atthe lt the time time time-a a note noto not to be repeated It Is the best hest passage in all his writings One can not nol re read d it and ond escape the assurance o of absolute absolute absolute lute sincerity of that fidelity which true manhood manhood man man- ho hood d insures It is not so o much that the tho tribute Is deserved Of or course It was deserved desen But that may bo be said of ot many women It Is true truc of most mothers Tho The Impressive thing Is that n a husband so thoroughly appreciated her so highly prized her I In his case caso there thero pro Is little to stand as a a. debit side to tho the account He has treasured that wife wiCe as she sho deserved to lo bo ho treasured has lias been to her all aU that constancy and service could co require But tho the reading of It will t como come with mixed nixed sensations to many another r man Few of ot U us will wUl follow th the lines of or that beautiful tribute tributo without remembering remember remember- ing failures of ot our own own Incidents Incidents that ha have never been mentioned and yet ct which must havo have left their sting Mark Twain has done Bono much to endear himself I Ito to the men and women of America But nothing in his whole life Ufo will remain more e expressive of tho the good that Is In him than the time passa passage e quoted above Ho Is nearing nearing- the tho end His Ilis white hairs and his massive frame framo will lion ajon be known only In mem mem- or ory There are aro a few tow things that will stand as his monuments in the recollection of the public Ono One Is the fact tact that he much after the fashion of ot Scott met a a. financial reverse of tho the most crushIng crushing crush crush- ing character and sturdily set to work to redeem the credit of or his house although he was In no nowise nowise wI wise so blamable for Its failure And unlike Scott ho he was enabled to pa pay ore oft his obligations to the uttermost farthing and to accumulate a fortune fortune- the fruits of his own exertions That is a good passage in the career of ot an any man With It ft will go gothe gotho gotho tho the memory of hl his manliness his fidelity fidelity- to everything everything every every- thin thing that was good and true and beautiful And this tribute to the wife wite of his bis heart will willbe willbe be bo remembered with the deepest affection |