The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1868-12-10
IDAHO WORLD.
From Wilkes Spirit of the Timesl
PRIVATE HABITS OF HORACE GREELEY.
By MARK TWAIN, OF THE TR1BUNE's STAFF.


morning; for it was one of his tavorlte m 1a
that onlv early rising can keep the health un-
impaired and the brain vigorous. ile Ihon
wakes nm all the household and assemblies theiil
in the library. by candle-light, and, after quot
ing the beautiful lines:
s.Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes man healthy, wealthy and Wlse'
He annoints each individuals task for the day,
sets him at it with encouraging words, anu
ooes hack to bed again. mention here, IN no
fault-fnding spirit but with the difference Justly
duo q man who is older and wiser and Worthler
than T that he snores awfully. In moment
If irritation. once I was rash enough to say
never would sleep with him until he broke hlm-
Salf of this unfortunate habit. Ihave kept my
word with bigoted and unwaverng determlna-
ton. co,o,, .;sos
ooain. He shaves himself. He considers that
there is great virtue and economy in shaving
himself. He does it with a dull razor, some
times humming part of tune, (he knows part
of tune, and takes an Innocent dellSnt III re-.
qarding it as the first-half of Old Hundred DuS
parties familiar with that hymn have ielt ooliSe"
to confess that they could not recognize IT, ana
therefore, the noise he makes IS dOuDliess oil
unconscious original composition OF MT. Uree-
ley's.) and sometimes, when the razor IS esPe-
cially dull. he accompanies himself with q for,
mnlo like this: "Damn the damned razor and
the damned outcast who made 1t. ii. VI
He then goes out into his model garden, and
applies his vast store of agricultural knowledge
to the amelioration of his cabbages; after which
he writes an able agricultural article for the
instruction of American farmers, his soul cheer
ed the while with the reflection, that II can
boors were worth eleven dollars piece his
model farm would pay.
He next goes to breakfast, which Is frugal,
abstemious meal to him and consists Df nothing
but lust such things as the market affords,
nothing more. He drinks nothing but water
nothing whatever but water and coffee, and
tea and Scotch ale and lager beer and lemon
ade with fly in it-sometmes house NY, ac
cording to the amount of inspiration required
to warm him I'D to his daily duties. During
breakfast he reads the Tribune all through,
and ENJOYS the satisfaction of knowing that all
the brilliant things in 1t, written by Young and
Cooke, and Hazard and myself, are attributed
to him by conidng and internal public.
After breakfast he writes short editorial,
and puts a large dash AT the beginning OF II,
thus (-l, which is the same as II he puts II.
G. after it, and takes a savage pleasure III re-
fleeing that none of us understrappers can use
that dash, except in protane conversation when
chatting over the outrage. lie writes TINS ell
torial in his own handwriting. He does 1t be-
cause he is so vain of his penmanshp. lie al
ways did take an lnordlnatc pride III MS pen
manShlp.
He hired out once in his young days, rs 4
writing master, but the enterprise failed The
pupils could not translate his remarks with any
certainty His first copy was Virtue is its
own reward" and they got it :" Washing with
soap is wholly absurd" and so the trustees dis
charged him for attempting to convey bad
morals, through the medium OF worse penmau-
ship. But, as | was saying, he writes his
morning editorial. Then he tries to read 1t
over, and can't do it, and so sends it To the
printers and they try to read it, and can't do
iC; so they set it up at random, as you may say.
putting in what words they can make out, and
when they get aground on a long word they put
in /" reconstruction" or universal suffrage.
and spar off and paddle ahead, and next morn
ing. if the degraded public can tell what it is
all about they say H. q. wrote it, and If they
can't, they say it was one of those lmbcclc I'M
derstrappers, and that is the end of it.
On Sundays Mr.. Greeley sits in prominent
pew in Mr.. Chapins church and lets on that
he is asleep, and the congregation regard it as
an ecccntricity of genius.
When he is going to appear in public, Mr.
Greeley spends two hours on his toilet. He is
the most pains-taking and elaborate man about
getting up his dress that lives in America. 1t
is his chiefest and his pleasantest toiblc. He
puts on his old white ovcrcoat and turns up his
collar He puts on q soied shirt, saved from
the wash, and leaves one end of the collar un-
buttoned. He puts on his most dilapidated
hat, turns it wrong side before, cants it on to
the back of his head, and jams an extra dent
in the side OF it. He puts on his most afro
cious boots, and spends fifteen minutes tucking
the left leg of his breechcs into his boot top in
what shall seem the most careless and unstudied
way. But his cravat-it is into the arrange
ment of his cravat that he throws all his SOU,
all the powers of his great mind After fixing
it before the glass for forty minutes it is per-
tect-t is askew every way-it overflows his
cOatcollar on one-sde and sinks into oblivion
on the other-it climbs and it devcs around
about his neck-the knot is conspicuously dis
played under the left ear, and it stretches one
OF its long ends straight out horizontally. and
the other goes after his eye, in the good old
TOodles fashion-and then, completely and
marvellously appareled, NJ. Greeley strides
forth, rolling like sailor, a miracle of most
astounding costumes; the awe and wonder of
the nations!
QUININE is produced from forest tree in
South America, known as the chinchona, OF
which there are many varieties, but the chm.
chOna cansaya and the chnchOna rubra yield