Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-17
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some Memories Of the Fanny Csss,
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"Know Mark Twain? Well l used
to know Sam Clemens quite well when
he was out there. saw him once after
he became Mark Twain, way down IN
San Jose, lecturing, | think. Funny
cuss. Don't Think he'd recognize me In
these toys, habiliments of civilization
if you please. remember one day Sam
and started on trip across the SER
ras; of a sudden and tremendous snow
sGuall came down upon us. l stopped
short, and he stopped and stared at me
81 see" he draw led, "by the stern com
preston of your lips that there's dan
yer" "Yes," exclaimed. there's ne
nse in poking around 10 snow storm
Oh these mountains. II you would
lea e the long line of the Clemens un'
broken you will stop right in your
tracks, or you might find yourself fly
ing down the side of an ugly canon.
"Do you pray" he finally asked. "Well
come Of praying family | said.
The three brothers who founded The
family in this country came from Eng
land and settled in Kittery, Me-, where
they gave rise to a numerous and hap
by progeny. Religion runs in the branch
to which belong, and l told Sam
could pray little though it had been
some years since my voice had pipei
much in that particular vein.
"Let rs pray them" raid Sam and
down we went on our knees. prayed
vigorously aud vociferously, we sang a
hymn and our voices reverberated
among the Seirras above the blasts of
the tempest l prayed largel y for our
family aud its particular member who
was now in distress, and incidentally |
mentioned the name of Sam, He never
forgot that, and | think he felt some
What hurt at my neglect at the time, for
after had reached the amen, he, too,
opened an account, and If remember
,aright neither our family name nor
mine appeared in it. But the storm
cleared away and we got down on the
other side, thankful enough to escape
being burned alive or slowly frozen to
death, sam called all the miners to,
se,her in the next settlement, and there
related the story, to illustrate, he said
the saving power OF prayer. And he
laid particular stress upon how near
came to missing him IN my petition
Twas n narrow shave for us, that trip
across the Sierras, and | don't believe
Sam would care to make 1t u gain except
in a railroad car.
"But thers was another little incident
which | call to mind Old Bill Nye, of
Nevada--every body knows who he was,
appointed Sam Clemens aud School
Committeeman for our district Well,
we had a few Pluto young ones ard one
or two white ones, enough to make a
nucleus, as Sam said, 40 we hired fe.
male te -cher. She was considerable on
Morals, and suspect Sam had intima.
led that this branch of their training
should Not be neglected. IL was a pref
ty barren soil to SOW ideas on, but the
teacher was AS cute az they make them,
and she was b ,und to pIeasa or perhaps
astouish the committeeman. so she
goes to work and stands them up like a
lut of sticks and practices moral iuStruc.
ton upon them. She always ranged
them in exactly the same order, aud
ike young colts, the youngsters SON
learned - know which was their p tr.
ticular stall or standing post. For boy
No. ! she always had one question,
"WhO made you?" OF course there was
but one answer, and tina, was God. This
was tho al phaand omega of hat youth $
mora requirements, 50 to spetk. We'll,
boy No, 2 wasn't any brighter and 50
he has his question and answer drilled
into him
"WLo was the strongest man" was
the question and Samson was the an.
swer. Boy Mr.. +. was the son Of pluta
sluaw an | n white mat. He was dull
and his ideas were terribly difficult TO
cultivate. 50 suppo,e Tor that reason
the schoOlWarm assigned him to say
that Job was the mos Iatleut man.
Well, sam came down one day to see
how things We're progressing at schO d.
Ihe teacher stood her three particular
pupils up III a row On the SIDE OF the
Ios cabin, and ,intlmaiing that the com,
uitteemin could pull oat slowly on Ie
latecnism and moral instruction, inv.t-
ell him to steam ahead. Boy No. |,
meantime, had complained of taintne, -,
a suddep feeling no doubt inspired by
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no 'a,nei o'uSheI an" even oa'h was
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,tl! VINO maze you; .taid sam TO boy