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A HANDSOME APOLOGY
Mark Twain Story of Sweet Though
Long Delayed Itcvenjre
My experience as an author began
early In 1SG7 I came to New York
from San Francisco in the first mouth
of that year and presently Charles II
Webb whom I had known in San
Francisco as a reporter on the Bulletin
and afterward editor of the Califor
niau suggested that I publish a volume
of sketches I had but a slender repu
tation to publish it on but I was
charmed and excited by the suggestion
and quite willing to venture it if some
industrious person would save me the
trouble of gathering the sketches to
gether I was loath to do it myself
for from the beginning of my sojourn
In this world there was a persistent
vacancy in me where the industry
ought to be Ought to was is better
perhaps though the most of the au
thorities differ as to this
Webb said I had some reputation in
the Atlantic states but I knew quite
well that it must be of a very attenu
ated sort What there was of it rested
upon the story of The Jumping
Frog When Artemus Ward passed
through California on a lecturing toui
in 1SG5 or GG I told him the Jumping
Frog story in San Francisco and he
asked me to write it out and send it
to his publisher Carletoh in New
York to be used in padding out a
small book which Artemus had pre
pared for the press and which oeded
some more stuffing to mrk it big
enough for the price which ws to be
charged for it
Webb had made an appointment for
me with Carleton Otherwise I never
should have got over that frontier
Carleton rose and said brusquely and
aggressively
Well what can I do for you
I reminded him that I was there by
appointment to offer him my book for
publication lie began to swell and
went on swelling and swelling and
swelling until he had reached the di
mensions of a god of about the second
or third degree Then the fountains
of his great deep were broken up and
for two or three minutes I couldnt see
him for the rain It was words only
words but they fell so densely that
they darkened the atmosphere Finally
he made an imposing sweep with his
right hand which comprehended the
whole room and said
Books look at those shelves Every
one of them is loaded with books that
are waiting for publication Do I want
any more Excuse me I dont Good
morning
Twenty one years elapsed before 1
saw Carleton again I was then so
journing witn my iamny at me
Schweitzerhof in Luzerne He called
on me shook hands cordially and said
at once without any preliminaries
I am substantially an obscure per
son but I have at least one distinction
to my credit of such colossal dimen
sions that it entitles me to immortali
tyto wit I refused a book of yours
and for this I stand without com
petitor as the prize ass of the nine
teenth century
It was a most handsome apology and
I told him so and said it was a long
delayed revenge but was sweeter tc
me than any other that could be de
vised that during the lapsed twenty
one years I had in fancy taken his life
several times every year and always
in new and increasingly cruel and in
human ways but that now I was paci
fied appeased happy even jubilant
and that thenceforth I should hold him
my true and valued friend and never
kill him again North American Re
view
Precipices In the Himalayas
There is one remarkable peculiarity
of the series of Himalayan ranges be
tween the vale of Kashmir and the
central Asian watershed They are one
after another cut right across by ridges
The reason for this is that the rivers
were there before the ranges were
formed and as by the crinkling of the
earths crust the ranges were raised
the rivers cut gorges through them
and maintained their flow Nanga Par
bat is part of the true and principal
Himalayan range and its summit rises
to the stupendous altitude above sea
level of 2GG30 feet Close to its foot
not more than ten miles in horizontal
distance from the peak the Indus
flows through a desert gorge and here
the height above sea level of the river
bed is not much above 3000 feet It is
easy to conceive from these figures on
how vast a scale natures architecture
is here set up The path along the side
of the gorge is in places perilously nar
row and carried across precipices oi
such appalling character that at one
point a man who lost his footing fell a
mile in vertical height and was of
course smashed to atoms
A Wreck In the Potato Field
An old salt after sailing the sea for
years thought he would try a life
ashore for awhile He looked around
for a job and was engaged by a farmer
saying as he had plowed the deep for
years he thought he could plow the
land He went home with the farmer
and after a good nights rest and
breakfast started out to plow The
farmer hitched up a yoke of oxen with
a horse on to lead Taking two turns
around the field and then turning the
team over to Jack he said he would go
to the house for family prayers It
was plain sailing for a short time but
the team didnt like Jacks way of nav
igating The oxen turned the yoke and
things became snarled up Jack hove
to and went to the house asking for
the deacon He was told the family
was at prayers but pushed in and
hailed the deacon Say deacon the
starboard ox is on the port side and
the port ox is on the starboard side
The old mare is athwart the bows and
the whole thing is drifting to hades
stern first Belay your prayers and
come down and clear away the -wreck
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SOME GIANTS OF OUJi THE bird of freedom
NOTEWORTHY SPECIMENS THAT ARE
TOLD OF IN HISTORY
The ProdigriouM Strength of Polyda
mns Who Rivaled HcrcuIcH FeatM
of MuxlmlnuM the Imperial Giant
of the Third Century
If there is one thing iu the show
business which can be depended on to
draw it is a giant provided always
that he be big enough
But giants existed long before this
profitable business was invented and
the names of many of them have been
handed down to posterity sirnply be
cause they were of huge proportions
and combined with their abnormal de
velopment a proportional amount of
strength Thus It is probable that had
Goliath of Gath whose height the
ologians place at over ten feet not
been the strongest as well as the big
gest warrior among the Philistines we
should never have heard of him The
same argument applies to Moab king
of the Amorites and Og king of Ba
shan Orestes too was eleven and a
half feet high according to the Green
legends and he together with Ajax
the Greater had they not beey gifted
with strengtii in proportion their
bulk would have been only ordinary
soldiers of the Grecian army before
Troy
When history begins however that
is when Rome began to reach its high
est point of civilization in the time of
Augustus and learned men began to
write about the times they lived in in
stead of the times that had gone by
long before they were born we get
authentic records of giants In Au
gustus time for instance there were
according to the authority of Valerius
two giants in Rome who were over ten
feet high Their names were Idusis
and Secundflla and they were keepers
of the gates of the gardens of Sallust
Then again we havo a record in
Pliny of one Polydainus the son of
Nicas wiio wns over nine feet high
and whose strength rivaled that of
Hercules himself Polydainus used in
fact to boast his superiority to that
Roman deity and perform his special
tricks For example he once slew a
lion with a blow of his fist and scat
tered its brains about the arena He
could with his hand stop the swiftest
chariot dead and on one occasion
seized a bull by the hoof in order tc
carry it away but the animal strug
gled so violently that the hoof was left
in his hand In the end he was killed
by the falling in of a cave When his
companions noticed that the roof was
falling they left but Polydamus was
so vain about his strength that he
thought he could not be killed So he
stayed and was finally crushed tc
death
The Emperor Yitellius sent to Darius
by way of a present a Jew named
Eleazer who was seven cubits high
that is reckoning the cubits at eight
een inches ten feet six inches and a
giant who is mentioned by the his
torian Tacitus was over nine feet Hii
name was Corbulo and he lived in
Neros time and was a more than usu
ally skillful general and soldier be
sides being an enormously strong man
An account of the ancient giants
would be incomplete without mention
ing Maximinus the imperial giant of
the third century The most extraor
dinary stories are told of this emperor
of Rome His height was eight feet
ten inches he could draw unaided a
loaded wagon which six oxen could
not move while his appetite was so
great that his usual rations for the
day consisted of forty pounds of meat
and a whole amphora of wine besides
bread and dried and fresh fruits
Mediaeval giants are plentiful but
strange to say the records of them are
not so authentic as those of the times
of the emperors Funnian a Scottish
giant who flourished in 1S27 seems to
be the most authentic of these but as
he is put down as being over eleven
feet high the statement should not be
criticised too closely Still more star
tling however is the following wlncli
is vouched for by a monastery full of
monks In 1509 some workmen dig
ging near Rouen came across a cave
in which were some human bones and
a copper plate bearing the words
Here lie the remains of the great and
mighty Chevalier Ricon do Yallemont
The skull was large enough to have
held a bushel of wheat and the shin
bone was over four feet long It the
bone was preserved by the above men
tioned monks and it was estimated
that the height of the defunct knight
must have exceeded eighteen feet A
stranger though somewhat similar
legend comes from Ireland but in thi
case the discoverers thought that they
would to use an expression popular
some years ago go the whole hog or
none It happened in 1G08 Some men
were digging in Ireland when they
came across a brick tomb which con
tained a human skeleton no less than
120 feet long But there is a raison
detre for all these legends Accord
ing to a German professor these bones
which were supposed by ignorant per
sons to be those of human beings were
probably those of mastodons or some
other fossilized remains which to the
uninitiated would look exactly like
those of a man London Standard
An Amiable Dnel
There was a duel in Edinburgh re
cently between two Italians over a girl
with whom both were smitten It tool
place at midnight in the presence of a
party of friends The duelists had but
one revolver and drew lots for the first
shot The winner shot at forty paces
and missed Then he walked up to his
opponent and politely handed the pis
tol over When the man had walked
back to his station the second shot was
fired and also missed So the two men
rushed forward and embraced each
other and the feud ended
ilude of Life of the Famous Bald
Headed ICaprJe
Eagles are popularly supposed to bo
quite different from hawks but In a
word they are nothing more than largo
aawks They reach sometimes the age
of nearly 100 years They live singly
or in pairs and dwell in the wilder
places in all kinds of country from
tropical deserts to the arctic regions
In their search for food however they
often wander far and emboldened by
hunger even approach the abodes of
man In story books and newspapers
eagles have many times been accused
of carrying off young children but
such tales are unreliable
The bald eagle white headed eagle
white headed sea eagle or bird of
Washington is of particular interest
to Americans as the national emblem
of the United States to which dignity
It was eldWted on June 20 17S2 The
name bald eagle originated from the
white head and the erroneous impres
sion of baldness it gives at a distance
This bird measures about three or
three and a half feet in length from
six to eight feet fn extent of wings
and weighs from six to twelve pounds
Under most circumstances wary and
difficult of approach this eagle never
theless is often surprisingly tame and
unsuspicious Unprovoked it rarely
attacks man although such instances
have been reported It prefers trees
for watching and roosting but in
spring sometimes descends to ride the
cakes of ice in the river apparently
looking for fish
This species breeds throughout its
range wherever suitable places exist
and it has been known to lay and hatch
eggs in confinement In the southern
part of the United States from Florida
to Texas it breeds very early deposit
ing its eggs usually during the first
half of December in the middle states
and in California it lays in February or
March about the middle of April in
southern Alaska sometimes in May or
even June in the arctic regions
The nest is located nearly always in
the vicinity of a stream or body of wa
ter The favorite site is the top of a
tall tree Where there are no trees a
rock or a niche in a cliff serves the
purpose
The same nest is occupied year after
year and annually repaired or aug
mented until it becomes an immense
structure five six or even eight feet
high and as much in diameter contain
ing fully a carload or two of material
It usually forms a strong platform
with only a slight depression in the
center and easily sustains the weight
of a man
Ducks of various kinds fall regularly
a prey to the bald eagle and they are
stolen from unwary sportsmen just as
readily as larger birds Wounded
ducks with those purloined from hunt
ers form at some seasons a good
share of its food At favorable oppor
tunities this eagle preys upon fawns
and pressed by hunger will sometimes
attack a full grown deer particularly
if the latter be wounded
In most of the states of the Union
and in many of the Canadian provinces
the bald eaale is protected by law ei
ther specifically or by general enact
ment but in a few it is still specially
exempted from the provisions of the
general nongame protection acts Bul
letin by the United States Biological
Survey
Origin of a French Disli
The names bestowed upon certain
dishes have often an origin entirely
distinct from technical consideration
This is true of the well known epi
grammes dagneau a la Michelet or a
la Toulouse as it is more frequently
called Michelet was the cook of a
young French marquise of the century
who was noted for her lack of educa
tion On a certain occasion she gave
a dinner to the officers of the regiment
Choiseul Cavalerie During the func
tion her guests spoke of a banquet that
they had attended on the previous
evening at which the host had enter
tained them with many new and bril
liant epigrams The marquise suppos
ed that epigrams referred to culi
nary surprises Consequently she sum
moned Michelet her cook and ordered
him to prepare some epigrams for din
ner on the following day Michelet
was greatly troubled as to how he was
to obey the order He recollected
however that he had in the larder
some very superior lamb lie braised
the breast removed the bones cut the
meat into pieces and bread crumbed
and fried them He then cooked the
cutlets arranged them on a dish al
ternately with the braised breast and
served them with a suitable garnish
under the name of epigrammes dag
neau a la Michelet by which name or
a la Toulouse the concoction has ever
since been known
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