Telegram-herald., 1889-05-23

MARX TWAIN WRITING UNDER DIFFICULr
stopped for weeks at that same inn and was
well known to the landlord and citizens.
His effrontery was amazing"
did he resemble your"
al do not know hope and believe that
he did not. Parties whom l have since
been inclined to regard as my enemies had
the indecency to say that he did"
1.-The same thing happened in Boston
and several other cities. 1t was not pleas
ant To have bills coming in for money lent
to me in Albany, Charleston, Mexico
Honolulu, and other places, and my calm
explanation that l Was not there bringing
sarcastic letters in reply with oh, OF
course not didn't see you with my own
eyes did ! 2 etc, and resolved that would
follow up the next swindler heard Of ]
had not long 10 wait. A dispatch cams
from Des Moines, Iowa.
"'Is Mark Twain at homer"
"'Yes, l am here and have not been
away Ianswered."
MAN personated you-got ESQ from
audience-shall l catch himY came back
bearing the signature of a lawyer
Yes telegraphed in reply, have sent
you check for expenses'
'He was good while catching him
some weeks-perhaps months, and then b,
made me an elaborate report giving tn,
route OF his labyrinthine and serpentins
chase OF the swindler, the money he had
expended, and the information that he die
not entirely and completely catch him
though he got near him several times J
was oot some hundreds of dollars.
81 WAS disgusted; and when got anothe,
dispatch-from New Orleans, | think if
was
"'Man swindled audience with pretended
lecture here last nigh. claiming to be you
What shall we doT | telegraphed back
unanimously Let him gol Let him gov
"I'd give 500 though to see one of these
doppel- CANCERS who personate me before
an audience, just TO See what they look
| like"
Mark Twain goes TO Washington to
work for the passage OF an international
! copyright law in conjunction with Edward
Eggleston, Glider and other suthors Sen
| ator Reagan, of Texas, n friend OF Mark.
| but an opponent of his pet measure. greeted
! him cordially last Winter with How are
you, Mark How are you, Right glad tc
see youl Glad TO see youl Hope TO see you
here every session as long as you liver
One of Mark TwaSn's favorite amuse
| ments in Washington is turning himself
into an amateur guide and explaining e
/ his friends the various objects of Interest
in the Capitol. He il particularly face
tious over the pictures In the rotunda and
the stone people in 'Statuary Hall" Ar
| riying opposite the marble statue OF Ful
ton, seated, and intently examining tn,
model Of a steamboat in his hands. he in
dulges I'm a wide-sweeping gesture and e1
| claims: This ladies and gentlemen. il
| Pennsylvania favorite son. Robert Full
ton. Observe his easy and unconventional
attitude. Notice his serene and contented
! expression, caught by the artist at the mo-
| ment when he made up his mind TO steal
[ John Fitch's steamboat"
The humOrist dresses good deal more
/ carefully than formerly. this j. made nee
essary 10y his increasing amplitude. by hi,
vast shock Of grey hair, by his boisterou.
/ aud ungovernable m0ustache. and by hi,
turbulent eyebrows that cover his grey
eyes like dissolute thatch And wher
he talks he tslks slowly and extracts each
Of his vowels with a cork-crewtwist thai
would make even the announcement of
funeral sound like joke
"