Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-02-11

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rondcnt writing from Hannibal. Mo. "a vs..
ON 81 street, "a short distance from a cross
Strcet-it is Bird street. Rock street or Col
| Her street. no one seemed TO be certain which
was The correct Eame-Stands the building i'm
which Sammy Clemens lived twenty wears
ago. III l. a square twO-StOry frame house of
The plalnest possible architecture The half
decaycd Misunderstanding is daeply II ire; Six I
with moss. 1T has a stone FONDA ton Ia rae
brick chimney outside the building and
fronts eastward, being faced by four Spra AZ J.
ing locust trees. Otherwise there is not a
single Distinguishing mark. 1t has no front
yard, and the fences in the immediate vicipi-
~ are ancient and fr3il. The upper part of
Inc house Is given 10 old boxes and the
spiders, while the lower floor is used as a
cablnet-shop by some deSecrltOr OF regard for
button-burSting and Side-Splitting genius
Many OF the people OF the town remember
lhe boy but with different opinions.
one old lady. Mrs Martin. says he FUSED To
come up and play with her girls. and that he
weren't such AN awful smart fellow tin he
got away. ana Then folks began 10 see lots of
him. Another person. however. Of the mas
cullne persuasion. says he knew the hoy
we'll. ana that he was smart as SteeI-traD =,
\ third Says that old man Clemens marie
second cousin OF his tcitiZen'S) sister 81
mat he came that near being in the family"
sui another AYERS that an emiSSary of fhp
HarpefS came once To sketch the scene and
write an account, and had been willingly
informed that the house where the future
Mark Twain was born. in Florida Monroe
county, had been torn down; but thar he
lcItlzeni knew i To be in good preServa tiol
and that the Harper man had gone aw:, :
from the state without seeing it, Most a. rIp
Hannibal people. on being asked about Mark
twain, rchcctlycly eXciaim: Twain :
IWaln! You don't mean the man that boss -
smiths stone quarry. and uSei to work az
the l. W. and w shops, do you?''
BOYS IN BFD.-Whoever has lifted tho ,.fl--
tdlES OF boys aIcoVcS soon after their H.
mates have gone to bed, and has looked lo.--
ngly in. has seen a prettipr sight? Generally
their faces are lying most reStfully. wi n
hands under cheek. and i'm MANY cases tbnv
look strangely Younger than when awake
and often very iHtaniile. as if some trick of
Older eNpreSSi ion, which they had been taught
20 We't; py DAY. had been dropped the mo-
ment the young ambitious viii had lost
control The lids lie shut over bright busy
eyes; the air * gently famed by comin"a aid
going breathS; there i n little crooked
mound in the bed; along the beds foot Or
on "a chair beside. are the daV clothes
sometimes neatly folded sometimes hudtIcI
on IN hurry. bulgiDg with balls or i'm the
lesser fellows marble: stained with tine
earth OF many fields where wOOdchuck have
been trapped. or perhaps torn with the rough
ness of frees on which squirrels have been
sought; perhaps wet and mireI with the
smooth black or gray mud from marshes. or
In" OOZy tanks OF streams. where muSkrafS
have been tracked. Under the beds foot lie
the shoeS-one on its >ide-with the gray and
White socks. now creased and SOiled. thrown
across them; and there, in their little cells.
squared in the great mass of night. needless
now the earth whirls away with them or
how the world goes, who is thinking of them
OF what j doing at home, the busiest pe0pie
III The world are resting FOR the morrow.
THE UNHAPPY NILLAGE~-Show me two
villages, one emboweTed in trees and blazing
with all the glories of October. the other a
merely trivial and treelesS waste, or with
only single tree or two for suicides. ana /
shall be sure that in the latter will tie found
the most starved and bigoted religioniStS and
the most desperate drinkers. Every wash
tnb and milk can and grave stone will ne
exposed. The inhabitants viii disappear
abruptly behind their barns and houses. like
desert Arabs amid their rocks. and l shall
look 10 sec spears in their hands. They will
be ready TO accept the most barren and for
lorn doctrine-aS that the world is speedily
coming L. an end, or has already got 10 it. or
that they themselves are turned wrong side
outward. They will. perchance, crack their
dry joints at one another and call il spirit
ual communicat ion-ThOTe0a.