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Show NEW STORY BY MARK TWAIN Harpers Have It but it Will Not Be Published for Two Hundred Hun-dred Years. A great treat is in store for the lovers lov-ers of books who are on earth two hundred years from now. They will have a fresh story written by Mark Twain. Persons living nowadays never will know what the master wrote in this story, for it is sealed and is not to be read or published uutil two cen, turies have elapsed. The Harpers, who are moving their printing house from Franklin street to their new building uptown, possess the precious manuscript. In moving desks around in their old quarters the other day they found one with a secert drawer. When this was opened a sealed package was found in it, and a not written on It paid it contained a story or article by Mark Twain and was not to be opened or published for two hundred years. That is all that is known about it. The package is In possession of the Harpers, who will doubtless carry out the writer's intentions. It will remain unopened until well into the Twenty-second Twenty-second century. Then the citizens of this world wil have something good to read. Cleveland Plain Dealer. I |