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VOLUME XXVIII. LOUP CITY NEBRASKA, THPBSDAY, APRIL 2S, fflO. - NUMBER 25
COL ROOSEVELT I
SPEAKS III PARIS!
Addresses Distinguished Audience
at Ancient University. '
-ClTiZENSHir HIS SUBJECT
re » Stuce-ts and P'ofessors of Duty
c* F-.nct as hatidfi and Them
eei»*s as tndiaidaats to tne Wort a—
Peas* Them Lecture on Sterility.
Fans. April 23 —El Pres:lent Kaos*
*«it today lectured before aa mudleace
at lb* Sosfcaanc. that comprised tie
greatest gat tiering at tie intellect and
.earning at France that baa garnered
at aa ancient educational seat m
more than a ceetary. if eeer before.
Loeg beftge tie time announced for
tie beginning at Concoct Kocmerelt s
*ctsi* t«rj seat 3 tie great audi
torium. aas tiled. and thousands lined
tie aaUa and streets about tie um- '
•erait* Ctuanei Rcoseseft said:
Fiu-satitca c* Oar RepuW-n.
This aas tie mast famoos utirer
atty at matmtami Europe at a time
«tes ao amt dreamed that there aas
a sea acrid ta discover. Its semces
ta tie cause of iasan knoakdge al
ready stretched far back in to tie
remote past at tie use ate* tny fore
fr-tiera. tire* ceataries ago. sere
sir mg tie sparse band* at traders
»ood cioppsrs. and Saber
folk ait. ta a bard struggle attb tie
tree uafrseodiSneas of tie lndian
hasnted land, acre laying tie founda
trace at «tit nas soa become tie
giant irptiiic at tie sest Ta cam
vuer a rasuaeas. to tame tie shaggy
TQSgtme— at aild nature means grim
»a*tar* and tie g- i«nuooi engaged
ta s fits* keep still leas add la.
tie stores at garnered aisdos a ties
a*-e tierem. and a tick are still la
tie bands at tieir brethren a bo daeU
ta tie odd land Ta conquer tie
aildarneas means to a rest Tictory
from tie same hostile forces a:ti
«tm mankind struggled in tie us
tnemerta. infancy at am race. Tie
prtrfkral cnad.-was must be met by
primes ai qsalrties a bark are neon
tarmie attb tie rwemtloo at maefi
that has bee* painfully acquired by
hurra r iy as through tie ages it has
•+*** ^ irpaard toand c'silizaCMa
bo iaa^ a pinaiw cultare.
2- S »* tea H.g*e* i_-*e.
A* tie marry cron. It* people, vbo
save »cs success m so c.n a«4
tars hack to try ta recover tie pes
■ r-srln— at tie tkf ari tie spirit.'
■ kick perforce tieir tschem tire#
l.--> l» order better la sage tie tret
roues W.ta* far tie rautment tieir
ciiKSre* *smt Tie leaden of
ticr-gk: aa: of act c* grope tieir waj
i-raark t* a ir» tile. realizing. Kcse
tUaes dmay. anai'taH dear-ngk-ed
Ty. that tic Hfe cd material r***
sðer lor s ratio* or aa individual
a of rate* obj as s foundation. only -
as tier* t» added u a tie uplift that
»•* !roa feToclm ta keftier ideals
Tie se* fefe thus soagt: can it part
be ftrttjtpif afresh fro* • tat is
■wtad am# m the sea sarid. but
it caa be m fun only by
-rotij drasjng upon tie treasure
bwuaes of lie oA sarid. upon tie -
treasures store# 3 tie ancient abodes
A *jiue and eearr-rg. suck as tits
skere 1 speak today.
ft Is a r -.stake far say katloe merely
a copy another, ka ti uu ever
greater mistake. It is a proof of seak
seas It aay sailed, an to be anxious
A Mars from another. and sfJing and
side ta adapt that learning to tie aea
catioasi oosdues and make it frult
*— kid product.ve therein It is for
os ed tie se# sorid ta sit at tie feet
A tie Gamaliel of tie old. tie* if >«
Save tie ngtt stuff m us. se caa show
*iat Paul. m his turn, can become a
teacher as sell as a scholar.
Today, i shad speak to you on tie
satyect at individual cmxenship. tie
<me sat Met of vital importance u» you.
tty hearen. and to me and my conn
•ryme*, because you and se are Oil
sens td great democratic republics. A
democratic republic such as eacn of
oun—as effort to realise is its foil
sense go«*mment by. of. and lor tie
p~op>e—represents tie most gigantic
A ab possible saclai expert meats, tie
a#* fra-gts *«i greatest posaitu^tJed
aUfea for good and for evil
&c*at Lessons of France.
France has taw. c-ai< lessens to
-<her nations surely one at the most
important is the lesson her whoa his
tory tenches, that a high artistic and
Kterary drveiopioest Is compatibie
«l!h notat-je leadership la arms asd
statecraft. The brilliant gallantry of
the French sc idler has tor taaay cen
• tales been proverbial, and during
these same centuries at every court in
Europe the “tree masons at fashion'
base treated the French tongue as
thetr teams speech, a tile every art
ist and au of letters, and every scan
af science stale to appreciate 'S»» *nar
seiona Instrument at preddon. French
prose, has turned towards France for
i
stand second to certain other things. |
There is need of a sound^ody. and
eves Bore need of a sound mind.' But
above mind and above body stands
character, the sum of those qualities
which we mean when we speak of «a
man's force and courage, of his <gdl>d
faith and sense of honor. I believe In
exercise of tbe body, always provided
that we keep in mind that physical
development is a means and not an
end I believe, of course, in giving to
all the people a good education. But
the education must contain much be
sides book-learning in order to be
real’y good. We must ever remember 4
that no keenness, and subtleness of
intellect, no polish, no cleverness in
an? m»y make up of tbe lick of great
solid qualities—self restraint, self-mas
tery. common sense, the power of ac
cepting individual responsibility and
yet. of acting in conjunction with
ctbera Courage and resolution; these
are the qualities which mark a mas
terful people Without them no peo- *
pie can control itself or save itself
from being controlled from the out
side 1 speak to a brilliant assemblage;
I speak la a great university which
represents the Bower of the highest
intellectual development; I pay all
homage to intellect, and to elaborate
and specialized training of the intel
iect; and yet I knew I shall have the
assent of all you present when I add
that more important still are tbe com
mon;.ace. every-day qualities and vir
tues.
The Evil* of Sterility.
Is tbe next place the good man
eb._.d be both a strong and a brave
man; that is. be should be able to
fee should be able to serve
hi* country as a soldier if the need
»n*es There are well meaning phil
osoP*i*r* who declaim against the un
righteousness of war. They are right,
’“-f they lay all their emphasis upon
the unnghteousoess War is a dread
ful things, and unjust; war is a crime
aha-nst humanity But it is such a
crime because ft is unjust, net because
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favor of righteousness. and this
ether tbe alternative be peace or
wnether tbe alternative be war. The.
qaesric* must not be merely, is there
to be peace or war? The question
must be. is the right to prerail? Are
ne great -a«s of righteousness once
more to be fulfilled? And the answer
— 4 strong and riri'.e people must
**■ “Tes." whatever -Metcast. Every
honorsh e effort should always be
miM.- by the individual in private life
tr keep out of a fcrawL io keep out
■ "toui-e; bet no seif-respecting mdi
■ d aa: no f respecting nation, can
or ought ty sunmihgo wrong.
f T* mare important tbajf
*? week, ever more fmportadt
than ability to fight at need, is it to
■‘utsier that tbe chief of Pless.ifgi
—:r any ration is that -it shall leave its
f» inherit the land It was the
trews of blessings in Biblical times,
at d it is the crown of blessings now
greatest of all curses is the curse
cf sterility, and the severest of all
"jedemnat. tu should be that visited
upon willful sterility. Tbe first es
see-ia: in any civilization is that the
man and the woman shall be father
and mother of healthy children, so
*uat the race shall increase »nit Dot
de-crease If this is not so. if through
no fault of society there, is failure to
increase, it is a great misfortune. If
*** failure is due to deliberate and
w ..Ifni fault, then it is not merely a
m.^fortune, it ts one of those crimes
of ease and self indulgence, of shrink
ing from pain and effort and risk,
which in the long run nature punishes
more heavily than any other.
idle Achievements.
U we « the great republics. If we.
•he free people who claim to have
emancipated ourselves from the thral
dom of wrong and error, bring down
on our beads the curse that comes
upon the willfully barren, then it will
be an idle waste of breath to prattle
of our achievements, to boast of all
that we have done. Xo refinement of
life, no delicacy of taste, no material
P" - ess. no sordid heaping up of
rp fa* - no sensuous development of art
and literature, can in any way com
pensate for the loss of the great
fundamental virtues, and of the great
'uncamectal virtues, the greatest is
the races power to perpetuate the
race.
I'ut If a man's efficiency is Dot guid
ed and regulated by a moral sense,
•bet the more efficient he is the worse
he Is. the more dangerous to the body
politic. Courage, intellect, all the mas
terful qualities, serve but to make a
man more evil if they are used merely
for that man s own advancement,
with brutal indifference to the rights
of others .t speaks ill for the com
aumty if the community worships
these qualities and treats their pos
sessors as heroes regardless of wheth
er the qualties are used rightly or
wrongly It makes no difference as to
the precise way In which this slnls
ter efficiency Is shown It makes no
difference whether such a man's force
and ability betray themselves in the
career of money maker or politician.
soiO!®T or orator. Journalist or popu
lar leader. If the man works for evil,
then the more successful he Is. the
more he should be despised and con
demned by all upright and farseeing
men. To_Judge a man merely by suc
cess is an abhorrent wrong; and If
the people at large habitually so Judge
meg. if they grow to condone wicked*
news because the wicked maw tri
umphs. they show their inability &>
understand that la the last analysis
free institutions rest upon the char
acter of citizenship and that by such
admiration of evil they -prove them
selves unfit for liberty.
The Idea of Trim Liberty.
The good citizen will demand lib
erty for himself, and as a matter of
pride he wrill see to It that others re
ceive the liberty which he thus
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as his own. Probably' the "best test off
true loTe of liberty In any country Is'
the way in which minorities are
treated in that country. Not onlyj
should there be complete liberty in.
matters of religion. and option, but,
complete liberty for each mazg/o. lead*
bis lifg.ps be des|res,4provided only,
that In* so doing* he does, not' wrong
his neighbor. Persecution is bad - be-,
cause it is persecution, and .VUhQuV
reference to which side happens at Chet
moment to be the ’ persecutor ’‘gj^
which the persecuted. Class hatred ls>
bad in just the same way. and witlfojlf
any regard to the. individual who. at
a given time, substitutes loyalty to h.
class for loyalty fb the nation, or sub ■
stitutes hatred of men because they,
happen to come in a certain social*
category, for judgment awarded them(
according to their conduct. Remem
ber always that the same measure of
condemnation should be extended* to
the arrogance which would look down
upon or crush any man because he la
poor, and to the envy and ' hatred
which would destroy a man because*
he is wealthy'. The overbearing'bru
tality of the man of wealth or power:
and the envious and hateful malice di
rected against wealth or power, are
really at root merely different mani
festations of the same quality, merely
the two sides of the same shield
The man who. if born to wealth and
power, exploits and ruins -his less
fortunate brethren is at heart the
same as the greedy and violent dema
gogue who excites those who have
not property to plunder those'who
have Of one man in especial, be
yond anyone else, the citizens of a re
public should beware.- and that is of
the man who appeals to them to sup
port him on the ground that be is
hostile to other citizens of the repub
lic. that he will secure for those who
elect him. tfe -OR* shape or another,
prcflr at the erpswse of other citizens
of the republic. - It makes no differ
ence' Whether lie appeals to class
hatred .or'class'Interest. to religious
or anti-religious ’ prejudice, the man
who makes such an"’appeal shoujtl af
ways be presumed tc make it for I he
sake of furthering his own interest.
. The very thing that an intelligent
and self respectihg . member' <«f a
democratic community sffould- not do
is to reward any public than because
that public man says he will get the
private citizen something .to''Which
this private citiaen is not entitled, or
, will gratify, some emotiflp or ani
mosity which -this private, citizen
. ought not to possess. * t
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A Ranch Story.
Let me 'Illustrate, -this - by -on*
anecdote 'from t£V tfjrtj 4* oerter ce». A
‘Eumber of yepys ago 1 whs "T'ninyrAf
.in cattle-ranching onjhe. s^eaT*piains
of the western United States.. Th^re
ire no fences. The cattle wandered
free, the crwnership-ofreacb being. de
termined by the brand: «the--calves
• were branded- with the brand of the
..cows Aiey followed . If, oar the round-'
up. an. animal, was passed by. _the fol
' lowing year It would appear as* an nn
branded yearling and was. then called
a maverick. By the custom of the
: "country tbes^ mavericks were brand
ed with the brand of the .man on
whose range they were found- One
day I was riding th£ range with a
newly .hired cowboy, and we- catne
upon a maverick.
1 said to him'. “It is_soand-so's
brand," naming the man on whose
range w e happened to’ be
He answered: "That's all right,
boss. I know my .business."
In another moment 1 said to him:
'Hold, on. you are putting on my
brand."
10 mis ne answered: "mats an
right; I always put on the boss'
brand."
I answered: “Oh. very well. Now
you go straight back to the ranch and
get what is owing to you. I don't need
you any longer.”
He Jumped up and said: "Why,
what's the matter? I was putting on
your brand"
And I answered:* “Yes. my friend,
and if you will steal for me you will
steal from me.”
Now the same principle which ap
plies in private life applies also 1n
public life. If a public man tries to
get your vote by saying that he will
do something wrong in your interest,
you can be absolutely certain that if
ever it becomes worth his while he
will do something wrong against
your interest.
France and the United States.
And now, my host, a word in part
ing You and I belong to the only
two great republics among the great
powers of the world- The ancient
friendship between France and the
United States has been, on the whole,
a sincere and disinterested friendship.
A calamity to you wduld be a sorrow
to us But it would be more tban
that In the seething turmoil of the
history of humanity certain nations
stand out as possessing a peculiar
power or charm, some special gift of
beauty or wisdom of strength, which
puts them among the immortals,
which makes them rank forever with
the leaders of mankind. France is
one of the nations. For her to sink
would be a loss to all the world.
There are certain lessons of brilliance
and of. generous' gallantry that 6be
can teach better than any of her slater
nations. When the Frenph .peasantry
sang of Mai brooks It was to tell how
the .soul of this warrior-foe took flight
upward through, the laurels he had
won. Nearly Steven centuries ago
Froissart, writing of a time of dire
disaster, said that .the realm of
France was never so stricken that
there were not left men who would
valiantly fight for It. You have had a
great past. 1 believe that yon will
have a great future. Long may you
carry yourselves proudly as citizens of
a nation which bean a trading part
In the teaching end uplifting of ■»»»
kind.
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FAMOUS HUMORIST AND AW>
THOR PASSES AWAY.'
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It Was Known, However, for Many
Hours TMre Was No Chance
for Final Recovery.
Redding. Conn.—Camuel Clemen*
i (Mark Twain)'died painlessly at 6:30
o'clock Thursday night of angia pec
toris. He lapsed into coma at 3
o'clock in the afternoon and never
recovered consciousness. It was the
end of a man outworn by grief and
. acute agony of body. ,
Wednesday was a bad day for the
' little knot of anxious watchers at the
bedside. For long hours the gray,
arquiline features lay molded in th*
inertia of death, while the pulse
sank steadily, but late at night Mark
Twain passed from stupor into the
first natural sleep he had known
since he returned from Bermuda.
; and Thursday morning he awoke re
1 freshed, even faintly cheerful and in
* lull possession of his /acuities.
He recognised his daughter Clara.
Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitch. spoke a ra
tional word or two and. feeling him
* self unequal to conversation, wrote
out in pencil: "Give me my glasses."
They were his last words. Laying
them aside he sank first into a rev
( erie and later into final unconscious-,
ness.
There was no thought at the time,
however, that the end was so near.
-V 5 o'clock Dr. Robert Halsey, who
.-bad been, continuously in attendance.
. said:
"Mr. Clemens is not so strong at
' this hour he was at the corre
sponding hour yesterday, but he has
wonderful vitality and he may rally
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> * Albert * Bigelow - Paine. Mark
. Twain's biographer and literary ex
ecutor. stiff to a caller who desired
to inquire fer Mr7 Clemens: ”1 think
* you will no*, -have to call often again."
" Nevertheless Mr. ana Mrs. jS. E
j Loomis.-who had come up from New
York to give their love in person left,
. Stormefild. Mr. Clemens* house -wKb
* out seeing him ^nd only heard t# hi*
death they were 'tiding the train
; to New York again^Mcs* £<^mis. was
was >lr. Clemens', tavorig nWca and'
* Mr Loomis--is vice-president of the
j Lactafwana raRrbad. • - ; .
At'the death bed .Osere'only Mrs.
'■ 'GabrJelowitSch * (Clara * tpiemeWM her
\ husband. *Dr. Robert** ’Hilsey. DT.
Qumtard..Albert Bigelow 'Payne, who
will write Mark Twain's' biography
and the two trained nurses. «
' Mark Twain did not die in anguish.
‘ Sedatives soothed his pain, but in his
* momebts of consciousness the -meo
' tal depression persisted. On the way
' up from Bermuda he said to Albert
* Bigelow Paine, who had been his con-’
t slant companion, in illness: 2
"This is a bad job; wall pull
through with it. « ;
Oh shore once more and longing
for the serenity of the New England
hills he took heart and said to those
| who noted his enfeeblement in *sor
I row: -
"Give me a breath of Redding air
once more and this will pass." But
i it did not pass.
TRAIN BOBBERS ESCAPE.
Life Convicts Make Break for Free
dom at Fort Leavenworth.
Leavenworth, Kan.—Five train
-obbers serving life sentences es
caped from the federal prison near
■here early Thursday. Within a short
time two of the men were recaptured.
At 11 o’clock the three others were
surrounded in' the brush within a
short distance of the prison, and It
was believed all would be taken.
The men recaptured are Bob -Clark
; sent up from Tyler, Texas, and John
Gideon of Moscow, Idaho.
Later—Two of the six convicts who
escaped from the federal penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth by seizing n
| switching engine and threatening
| prison guards with dummy revolvers
made of wood are being sought by a
posse of forty armed guards and
scores of citizens. Four of the con
victs were recaptured after but a
few hours of liberty.
Mr. Bryan at Home.
Lincoln. Neb.—“Nothing to say ex
cept that I am not a candidate. You
see, I don’t know much more about
conditions here than when I left in
November.” said W. J. Bryan when
he arrived in Lincoln at 5:45 Thurs
day. . No effort had been made to get
a crowd together to welcome Mr.
Mr. Bryan, but a hundred or more
Lincoln people were at the train wait
ing in an erratic dust storm for his
coming. His daughter Grace first
met him. then Mrs. Bryan and Mrs.
C. ; W. Bryan.
Rooeevelt In Paris. .
Paris.—No reigning sovereign even
received a more enthusiastic wel
come to Paris than dM Theodore
Roosevelt Thursday. He reached
here at 7:30 in the morning, and van
rreetd by the representative ef the
president of the republic and the
cabinet, American Ambassador
lacon. M. Jusserand, the French an
taseador at Washington and n great
-oncourse of people, which the cor
ion ot troops surrounding the rail
say station had difficulty ta holding
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
'MARK TWAIN." '
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LIFE OF “MARK TWAIN,” THE
GREAT AMERICAN HUMORIST
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Early Struggles and Adventures, Fol
! lowed by Yecnrs of Successful Liter
ary Work-Later Days Saddened by
Deaths and Financial Reverses.
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Samuel iAnghome. Clemens. Ameri
] ca*s foremost humorist and known the
world- over-as "Mark Twain" was l^ora
, in'the little town of Hannibal. M04 on
Noveinbe£*3tF. 1S35. » '
; His father. John Marshall Clemens,
• came frgm an old Virginia family, and
with his young wife,,Elizabeth Lamp
, ton. a descendant of the early .settlers
of Kentucky, he Joined the sturdy
I hand of pioneers who pushed over the
Alleghknies in the early part of the
last centuTy and settled along the
banks of the Mississippi river.
In the uncouth environment of the
then little frontier town of Hannibal
the famous author spent his boyhood
days. Here he fished, bunted and
lounged along the river banks with his
sturdy companions, living a healthy
outdoor existence, which undoubtedly
accounted for his long life, it the face
of his many afflictions.
He attended the little school, but
not being of a very studious disposi
i tion, be learned far more from eon
. tact with the rough companions whom
he immortalized in later years as
“Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Saw
yer," ard others of their type.
At the age of twelve bis meager
school education was brought to a
sudden close by the death of his fa
| ther. . •
His older brother. Orion S. Clem
ens, was the proprietor of a printing
shop in the village, and young Sam
Clemens began his journalistic career
there as a “printer's devil.'' In the
coarse of a few years he learned the
trade as a compositor, and In 18S3 he
left his native town and began a wan
dering existence. He journeyed from
place to place, working at his trade in
New York and the principal cities of
the middle west ,
But while he gained a vast amount
of experience during his travels, which
proved of the greatest value in the
preparation of some of his works ip
later years, this period was rather os
profitable-from a financial standpoint
and he was finally compelled to return
to his home-along-the banks of the
gfeat river, in rather straightened cir
cumstance. ■* *
The life of a steamboat pilot had al
ways appealed to his youthful Imagtna
ticm. and now that he had grown to
manhood, he resolved to realise his,
ambition. He was fortunate enough to]
befcome a pupU-of Horace Bixby, and
he was soon guiding the awkward
-river craft along the tortuous channel'
of the*muddy streati
The idea of his becoming an author'
had never entered his mind at that
time, but he absorbed enough of the
pilot life to enable him to describe the
difficulties encountered in guild;cg a
boat along the great river in his "Life
on the Mississippi River." which he
wrote many years later.
First Literary Work.
In 1862 he began his first regular
literary work on the staff of the Vir
ginia City Enterprise. He wrote a coF I
umn daily* dealing with the. political
situation in the state, that attracted j
wide attention. These articles be
signed with the nom de plume * Mark
Twain," which he had heard sung out
on the Mississippi steamers to let the
pilot know that the sounding showed
two fathoms of water.
In March of 1867, “Twain" published
his first book, "The Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County." The book made
quite a stir in that part of the coun
try, but only 4.000 copies were sold.
It attracted the attention, however, of
the editor of the Alta. California, who
sent the author out as a newspaper
correspondent on a steamboat excur
sion to southern Europe and the Ori
ent.
his letters were published from time |
to time, and in 1S69 the- author re- j
vised them and published them In
book form under* the title of “The In
nocents Abroad.” This work made
“Mark Twain" famous and compelled
his recognition as America's foremost
humorist. In the first 16 months. $5,
000 volumes were sqld. and many
more subsequently.. This was a record
sale for those day\
Marries Miss Langdon.
It was on his trip in the Mediter
ranean that "Mark Twain" met Olivia
L. Langdon of Elmira, N. Y They fell
in love with each other, and in 1S70 ■
were married. Their married lire was
one of perfect harmony and four chil
dren blessed their union.
Ur. Clemena resided in Buffalo for
a year after his marriage, and was
nominally the editor of the Buffalo
Express. In 1S71 he Jotned the liter
ary colony at Hartford. Conn, where
he lived for a great many years, and
where he did the greater part of the
work that has made his name Im
mortal.
In 1S7I "Roughing It" appeared, and
In thjj same year "The Gilded Age.”
written in collaboration with Charles
Dudley Warner, was* published. “Tom
Sawyer" came in 1$7«, and "Huckle
berry Finn" nine years later. Of the
stories with an historical setting "The
Prince and the Pauper." "A Connec
ticut' Yankee at the Court of King
Arthur." and "Personal Recollections
of Join of Arc." appeared In 1SSJ,
1SS0 and ISM respectively. In 1SS3
that curious philosopher. "Pudd'nhead
Wilson." made his bow
Misfortune Dogs Him.
But while the great humorist was
meeting with well-deserved success
from a literary standpoint, the imps
of misfortune seemed to do* his very
footsteps.
In 1SS4 he conceived the Me* of
reaping the publisher's as well as the
author's profits from some of his
works. Accordingly he organized a
stock company known as C. 1, Web
ster & Co, in which he was the
largest stockholder, to publish his
works. He had accumulated consider
able wealth and was rated as a mil
lionaire.
His financial ability, however, was
none of the best, and In ISM his en
tire fortune was swept away by the
failure of the publishing house. Mr.
Clemens was abroad at the time, and
although t* years cd age. he started
out on a tour of the globe, delivering
lectures and writing articles In order
to pay the debts of the defunct firm.
He had scarcely begun his great
task when fate struck him another
hard blow. This was the death of hta
eldest and most accomplished daugh
ter. Mtss Olivia S. Clemens, who died
In August. ISM. at the age of 74 Bro
ken In spirit, he continued his great
task and in two years he had paid off
his debts.
Wife Passes Away.
As If tn sympathy with her hep
band's misfortunes, his wife's health
began to. fail. He moved to Florence.
Italy, in the hope that the mild climate
would restore her. but it proved of no
avail, and on November i. 1AH. she
died in that far off land.
About this time the humorist met
H. H Rogers, the Standard Oil mag
nate. and the men became fast friends.
Rogers gave his literary friend the aid
of his financial experience, and Clem
ens was soon In posseseio* of a ccte
fertabie income.
And now misfortune selected an
other weapon with which to attack the
white-haired author. Heretofore his
books had escaped harsh criticism*,
but in November. ISO?. Tom Sawyer”
ar.d "Huckleberry Finn.” his boy mas
terpieces. were withheld from youth*
by the Brooklyn public libraries, a*
"unfit for young minds " Comptroller
Joy of Detroit. Mich, declared hta
work. "A Double-Barrelled Detective
Story” was "literary Junk, unfit for a
public library.” and a Massachusetts
public library refused to give shelf
room to bis “Eve's Diary.” declaring
that the book was "shocking "
Worn out by his lectures, after din
ner speeches and misfortunes. Twain"
purchased a farm in Redding. Conn,
and erected a $40,000 villa, which h«
called "Stormfield." With his two
daughters.' Clara and Jean, he moved
there in isms. and settled down to a
Ufe of ease.
But a series of fresh misfortunes
was in store for him. He had vigor
ously denounced the rule of the law
King Leopold II. tn the Kongo Fre#
State, and Just when the reform move
ment was at Its height, his 111 health
compelled him to abandon his work.
The "Children's Theater.” which
was founded by "Mark Twain" In New
York, and which represented one of
his life-long ambitions, was forced to
close through lack of funds.
Then the humorist and his daughter
Clara became Involveo In a lawsuit
over a farm which he had presented
to his former secretary. Mr*. Ralph
Ashcroft, on her wedding day; and
which he later attached on the advice
of his daughter.
The facts regarding this disagree
able affair were aired in the press,
much to the humiliation of the veter
an humorist.
iu mf toi it pan oi iws ms stanca
friend and adviser. H. H. Ropers, died
suddenly at his New York home. This
great financier and the white haired
humorist had been inseparable com*
panions for a number of years. They
had made trips to Bermuda together,
and when Ropers opened his railroad
In Virginia, “Twain" was one of the
guests of honor. The author was
greetiy affected by the financier's sod*
den death
In the latter part of ISOS. “Twain
made another trip to Bermuda, and
on his return his feeble appearance at*
tracted a great deal of attention. Then
the Iasi crushing blow came the day
before Christmas, when his youngest
daughter. Jean, was found dead In the
bath tub at his Redding home. The
young soman had been a victim of
epileptic Sts,
Tw* of the WerM*» Natures.
There are in this world two toads
«t natures—those that, have wings,
gad those that have feet—the winged
aad the walking spirits. The walking
hre the logicians; the winged are the
iaatinctl'ee aad poetic. —Harri et Beech
er Sthwa:
l; 'Teacher Should Rank. High. : •
If education la to do what we hope
for our children. ft ft imperative that
the beat and moat gifted men nnd
women should bn attracted into the
tanka of teachers and that they should
be regarded as filling one of the most
highly honored positions In the
•btp* In English Churchyard.
BSlhu Tale, from whom the college
fa New Haven took Its name, sleeps
In the graveyard at Wrexham church.
A Reason.
"Do be quiet. Don't you knew
that there's a visitor in the next
room?- said Frances to her little
brother. "How do you know? You
haven't been la." "But." said Frances.
"I heard mamma saying *My dear' la
papa." —Tit-Bits.
Gaily Colored Baboon.
In the Bert la too Is a baboon with
a bright bine aad purple face, bright
red nose and grayish-white beard aad
whiskers.
