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MARK TwAiN.s OLD PIPE.
The rrintrr~ Objected tO THE stsnnais-'
in the Virginia city Onscr.

The Printers Objected tn THE Remains"
In the Virginia CITY Onicr.
j. ". Stci,lbins.a AN old printer. gives the
New York World this unpublished rs.nnin-
i-ccncc Of Mark Twain:
at was when hc was known only as
sam Clemens. He was local reporter oi
printer on the same paInr. Clemens WAS
writing humorous sketches. hut his fame
az :, hunlorist was young yet. He was an
invet.ratc smoker and smoked No
smelling pipe. in Virginia City 10y all odds.
tlcm,ts' office was just owe the ON
posing-r"'m. and. although printers as q
r"v"In;ion. -msli.d so Infer
Of i a. TIL" Rcmain~.' there were
numerous plots suggested to get The RE-
mains out of the way. hut We hssitat.si
about putting them into execution when
we learned that il was a. pipe of consider
able value and one that he cherished on
recount of it's association ar something:
Ii was clear, however, that something had
to bc done. and We finally concluded tai
present Clements with ~ new pipe. We
IA thousand smells that we felt Justified in
making him the victim of ~ joke, IL we
could. and so we scoursd the town and
, Ss.,r" Would aid ''' Sa.. af Esn% % Night s"'' FOR I'm" a
good one. Think il cost u- 10 cents.
3 "% might after s,. we had s., ,hS '"p PEI,
into the lo..ai room and presented
Clemens with the pipe. We threw us
nltit'n ceremony mo tn. presentation as
possible. One at the boys made an adj
dress that was really affecting. He talked
about the toilers in the profession of
journalism. their long nights of labor
when all the rest of the world was wrapped
in peaceful siumhcr. Then he worked i'm
som" of IN" poetry about tobacco and "a"
soiac" il afforded The tired brain. He
spoke Of the warm friendship that existed
between the local department and the
composing-raonI, and hoped that nothing
ties. Then he handed him the 25~ccnt
fraud. wiped his fingers through his cycs
and sat down.
"t1cmcns was knocked completely ont
for !, time. bat he pulled himself together,
manner He said the pretty gifts from his
co~-workers an the paper touched him
deeply, and he would retain il long as ~
souvenir of pleasant days. The old pips,
had long been "a friend and companion.
bat this Handsome gift from friends he
loved made the parting easy, and, as ~
climax to his remarks. he threw the ILL
smelling old-timer out of the window. We
accepted his invitation to 40 down stairs
will him. and, knowing the miserable
swindlc VIZ had perpetratcd, every dollar
he spent gave us u IaanR.
1.-The very next night. while Clemens
the GUESSED thing split open from stem To
stern. We heard him Rrowling to him
self, and, looking out of u hole i'm the
wall through which he showed copy, we
saw him brushing the ashes of his desk
and .lotne. and swsarinE softly IN a very
word tai us about the. pipe ar it's fate. and
you bet we said nothing to him. Ii was
evident. however. that he had done some
=,.iHki nYsb, for co me nnpssrsd am a. The a .TS:.
Remains" He had gone down into the
back yard and hunted il mp"
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From the Merchant Traveller.
II admire gems 80 much," remarked a
young woman to Billy Bilvins. ~ wish 1
had n whole handful of diamonds.' ..why
don't you wish for four of u nd? re-
marked Billy. "There's mo use i'm rum
ming chances ON u diamond fiuAh when
you're only wishing.
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wAsaINGTON, Oct. n.-Among the call
ers received by tho president i'm his office
to-day were Senator Mitchell with Col.
CD. Montgomery of Oregon and Hon.
n. NJ. Shather and family Of Idaho. and
Representatives Tyler. kinsey and Rodgcr
and friends.
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BONDS N STOCKS.


NEW YORK. Oct. 1.-THE stock market
continued slow with y moderate volume
OF business to-day. hut the market WAS
comprised i'm about half "a dozcn stncks.
wiricl, Furnished about three-fourths of
the business and all the important huctua-
tions. The remainder Of the list were
quiet and bearish within narrow limits as
usual at late. The list IL almost invariably
lower Tonight. tho only marked exception
bein9 Atchison with an of IN
citc ~, New England and Tran.l omit.
mental ia each. Louisville 4 Nashville and
Big Four I per- rent. each.
GoYernmeuls Hcre dull hut steady.
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WICHITA, kas., Oct. Hilary Hill, one
of the original Oklahoma boomers and
known as "Oklahoma Harry became en-
gagged i'm q quarrel with George Morgan
yesterday and was struck on the head by
Morgan with "A paper weight. II is doubt
ful IL the injured man can recover.
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TIvERroN, Ont. n.-Satirlay morning
last Dan Mcleod, with his wife, son and
two hired men. all of lnvcrhuron. left
there with two fishing boats for Golden
Valley. IL is feared IA squall struck and
capsizcd their boats as both boats have
been found ON the shore badly damaged.
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Frnln IBfukek NnKzSxlibe.
Julip-"I say, Tulip, ! wouldn't let my
hoy call mc ~ liar as yours did % while
ago." Tulip-"Hed did nothing of the kind.
He merely said that I was "a colossal pre-
y,sricator, and the hoy learned 50 much
Latin at college hat ] thought he was
paying me u deserved compliment in that
tongue" Julip-'Come to think Of II. !
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The Correct indimm Name.

A gentleman who was once "a we'll
known figure i'm Boston, hut who has for
some. years resided in IL distant city i'm the.
west, where he has prospcred and laid up
IA gootily store of this worlds goods. p,Ir-
chased - year or two ago AZ piece OF land
in the suburbs of the city. which he now
calls home, and proceeded to- build him
self ~ house there. says the Boston Bnsfyef.
Thers. was "a tradition that the spot where
his house stood had been i'm former times
man, and that il possessed AN Indian
name. This he was anxious tn learn. and
tai that end he applied tn one of the old
not far oft there lived the last remnant of
the Indian tribe that once. roanicd the
forests tiercaho.ts, and that some of
them could doubtless give him the de-
sired information. Accordingly he sent
tn the town in question, and the result
was that i'm n few days an old Indian. ar
rayesl in stors. clothes of the secondhand
pcrs,IasiOn,c came tai his house. He was
was invited to- have "a seat on the piazza.
ably his host stated his object. Mr.. Lo
listened sttcntively, and when he heard
his F.;,S'ipn.r all tnr",,gn he Saih:
STRONG hint. sd u large amount of broker
food was brought and quickly dispatched.
again. aud le was urged to tell In" Indian
name of the place.
Ugh! ndian thirsty" he said.
FirS.water was brought in "a tim dippcr
and tossed of AT IA g,ilp, and again he was
pressed for informatinn.
u gil. lntli1l cold. hc eNcIntIllsu.
A blanket was brought. and, having
wrapp.d il about him with all the dignity
of "a Roman senator. he pointed tn the
ground and pronounced one word:
"Ouosss."
Great was the joy Of the proprietor. He
had found the name of his estate. Ii was
musical and sweet iu his ears. Al once
lac. had note paps,r engraved with the
.Onorrc." his wife had il inscribed upon
her cards. and on the great granite gate
post which stood AT the entrance. to his
grounds he had il cut i'm deep and lasting
LETTERS. Soon after he met AN old .sidcn
who. ia his early days. had learned some
thing Of the local Indian dialect. and
thanked him for having put him in Il way
tai rescue from oblivion the aboriginal
name of his estate.
"And what did he say il was p" asked
the old resident.
"He said 'DnOcce.'"
The venerable resident burst into "a fit
of laughter, which so annoyed the propric-
tor of 'tbnocee" that lac demanded am ex-
PLANTATION.
"Wl,at are you laughing at"'' he asked.
"Oh! nothing" hc replied.
means Il don't know that's all"
The note paper has been destroyed, and
so have the Lldy's cards and earsl-platc.
b't the gats-post remains, sacred tai the
memory of ~'tbnocCc."
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Trasnp,esi Acrs,~- the. Continent.

NEW Ioik, Oct. n Mary kchn. ~
native of California. twelve years old.
was brought into the. police station AT
New Brunswick, N -. to-day in "a ds,sti-
tute condition.. She was barefoot and
had hut scsait clothing. She said she had
left San Francisco two years ago. Sill"
wor,, boys clothes. and came across the
contin'nt, sometimes stealing a TIDE. niit
walking the mogt of tho way. She
had never been mole>tssl 10y trstrnps. Mary
Is very good looking. and appears very
brave. btt ains.s not seem to In ~ brsg-
gart. She can read and write well. Some
of the managers of th. Young W'nncn's
Mission have taken the pretty tramp i'm
in New Brunswick for the pr,.ssut. Mary
says her fathers name was kciin. "My
mother" said she. ''di'sl when WAS
~cvsu. Papa died "a year later. ! lived
with ncighbor~, from whom ] ran away.
slept in haystacks aud kept warm all
through the. winter" Ii il believed that
Mary ran away from some institution in
California.
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Governments were dull but steady.
The closing quotation. were:

Money on call strong, bL.sI 1Hc.. CLOSES
offered at ID. Prime mercantile paper a
60Gtxc. Sterling exchange. strong: siNt
day bills. Si.s ~ demand $4.S1.
Mining niinus a. follows:
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The Way of the World.
From the New York sun.
"Well! weIl!" he exclaimed, as lc
halted while crossing Union sq,ar. the
other morning and shook hands with "a
nan sitting ON the bench, ''but I was
thinking of yotI that very second"
Yes"
at was just such "a morning as this
three years ago when we sat ON this very
same bench. DO You remember it,"
~ do"
~ was dead broke. discouraged. and
wondering If I hadn't better commit sui
eide. You spoke to me in a kindly way,
ber:"
~ told you l was ~ struggling young
actor and that circumstances had downctl
me. ! was pennilrss and without hope.
member:
"Oh. yes"
"And you spoke kind words. You bade
You predicted that l would yet climb
To the top of the ladder. R~eme,nber:"
"And You did not stop there. You put
your hand into your purse, handed me N
so bill, and old me l could have ii
rect
"You arc"
"Tha noble action Of yours encouraged
mn. I went away and made a last effort,
and il was n success. Three years ago l
sat here . beeRar. To-day 1 ann worth
all tn you. But for you I should now be
niouldering i'm q suicides grave. Yes, !
am worth $4,000, and have got q wad Of
$500 right here in my pocket. Think Of
the change i'm amy situation. This is our
first meeting since that memorable day,
although l have thought of you daily. Put
Il there, old mani"
"Hes."
~ haven't forgot you"
"No"
"And I never shall. God bless you
Good morning. Got am engagement M
sharp H."
He passed OH. and the other sat some
minutes i'm deep thought: All of n sudden
he rose MP and look after the vanished
man and exclaimed:
ayes. hut he didn't even offer to return
my SO, wilhou interest"
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IwRITTEN FOR THE DIsrArcH.,
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there was not q carriage in sight. The
crowd had thinned; no one in fact seemed
visible but those burden bearers, each with
short piece of rope, ana they stood at a
little distance staring at as helpless beyy
OF foreigners as ever graced Mexican soil.
An inquiry in fair English made to one and
then another of this gentry elected shake
OF the head. A policeman standing by, be-
ing appealed to, smiled and acknowledged
his incapacity BY shrug Of the shoulders.
Street cars were here, also duly labeled, but
where would they take one? The policeman
smiled again at this inquiry and we were
Just as firmly convinced as he that be was
lying. The ladies grew impatient and be-
came tired standing, so they sat on their
baggage like any other company of emil
grants became interested in man i'm
bibing pulque through the leg of very
flthy-looking hog skin; he evidently enjoyed
the draught and took a second one, then
wallowed the receptacle to a safe place on
his wagon, mounted and drove of, while the
Deacon drew the line at pulque from that
moment. The trees were attractive and
afforded as much sympathy as the swarthy
rascals staring at us.
"If we knew which way to go we could
walk" said the lady from New England.
But there were some who could not under
take the risk of walking an uncertain dis
tapce. and each felt, though we might never
meet again, that it was his duty 10 see every
other one started, at least, for his destina-
tion.
"would the hacks ever Gomez" inquired
another.
"Perhaps-on the arrival of the next
train"
A MEXICAN TELEPHONE.
We had whiled away nearly an hour when
a brisk Young man was noticed coming from
the lower end of the depot One or the 9TH
er of us had questioned dozen men not
dressed in cotton, but they each and all
shook their heads and passed on. No Mex
lean, however, could take the gait of the
young man approaching, and we collared
him, as it were.
"Hacks! hacks!" exclaimed the young
man, "Well, I'm -" but seeing lady
near by he choked off the adjective as If he
were making q sacrifice and clapped his
hands "There ought to be hundred here;
I'll telephone for some"
His oriental summons attracted to him
the whole gang of porters; he said some
thing to the first one that reached him, and
the fellow was off like shot out of a NOR
tar. We all wanted to fall on the young
mans neck, but as he did not start for the
transmitter we inquired if he would not
oblige us az once.
"Yonder he goes" pointing to the peon
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still on the dead run and about to disappear
at the corner of the plaza.
ooh, you call that a telephone?"
"The Mexican instruInent-you'n have
hacks enough shortly"
We burdened this young man with thanks
until he blushed and backed away without
giving anyone an opportunity to inquire
about his birthplace and ancestors-whether
he were married, how it came about that he
was here, and his business.
The hacks began to arrive, much after the
manner of the return from a well-attended
Irish funeral. They came singly, in pairs
and by the dozen, until the plaza was quite
full, each with little tin flag displayed,
either red, white or blue, an occasional
green one, and with one or more ragged at
tendants on the driver.
A PALACE, BUT NOT AN IDEAL ONE.
Across the street is palace $50 years old,
with history, and it appears quite as young
as the hotel. A new-looking house is an
impossibility in Mexico. 1 saw house in
course of erection and mistook it tor a ruin.
Palaces have always been associated in my
mind with marble, with a foreground of
grass, plots, flowers, fountains and trees,
statuary and broad stone steps. But palaces
here must make up in interiors what is
lacking in attractiveness outside. Now this
palace over the way stands flush to the mar
row sidewalk of a narrow street, it is three
stories in height with perfectly plain walls,
an iron balcony at each upper window,
where one may stand only. Whatever the
rooms on the street were originally used for
is past finding out; at present they are oc-
cupied as unsavory stores. The water
vents that relieve the roof in damp weather
are stone cannon, projecting far enough to
conveniently empty themselves on the
pauper pedestrians below.
The entrance to the palace is through an
arched portal fanked by futed stone col
umns. Intruders are barred by immense
doors elaborately carved. Inside the portal
one finds himself in q paved court, and
around the hollow square, at the secoud and
third stories, runs gallery, access to which
may be gained by stairs at the rear of the
court. Perhaps this gallery may be re-
lieved by pots Of flowers, perhaps not The
rooms having egress to the court may have
served as servants Offices, the upper floors
as the abode of royalty. The place would
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and fall under the cars, and in sheer ner-
vousness for her physical well-being, posi-
bly, the repose of her young soul, tossed
my last nickel toward her; she halted when
she saw it coming and her lips parted with
q smile. She picked up the coin, the smile
was gone, and the last saw was her tiny
brown fist cleaving the air impotently and
her unsandaled, still darker little feet,
playing an energetic tattoo upon the rock
covered roadside. The child was, began
to think, honestly convinced that she had
been swindled. wondered whether there
might be tenet in their civilization for
bidding the sharing ones purchases with
ones neighbor, at least in the presence Of
the vendor.
Possibly our American habit carried to
the merchant the impression that she had
made mistake and had given too much for
the purchase money, and the vendor, in
stead Of honestly returning the surplus, had
taken the liberty of bestowing it upon his
neighbor. Yet this child had her price
from the deacon and understood the capac-
tty of her little brown jug. Possibly she
was mad at not demanding more, and like
many another under a different Christian
civilization, while she bewailed her lack of
foresight, she cursed the man for her failure
to impose upon his generosity. Let the
solution be what it may, certainly the
demon of avarice, or the disposition to get
something for nothing, was at the bottom
and quite as dignifed in tatters under a
Mexican sky with copper in sight, as under
purple and linen further north with gold as
the inspiration.
APPROACHING THE CITY OF MEXICO.
But we are nearing the ancient city,
through a garden like country gladdening
one with higher state of cultivation, if
possible, than any we have yet seen. The
distant domes, rising ghostlike in the gray
mist, put on fantastic shapes, to be resolved
finally into time stained cupolas of monoto-
nous design. We skim along past hedges Of
cactus, or succeed walls, past grand trees
and banks of flowers; the verdure grows less
and the walls more abundant and finally
we halt, in the middle of bright forenoon,
on the edge of the strange city.
From the crowd and amidst the hustle
the sounds are all unfamiliar. Profanity,
OF course, is not to be commended, but pro-
tanity is an unknown language, inspires
neither admiration nor disgust An Amer
lean sentence in italics from this babel
would appeal at once to ones gratitude.
We were beset at once by an army of car
oadors, habited in cotton and duly labeled
with brass plates; failing to recognize us as
patrons, they stood around and stared at us
and our grips. If we carried those satchels
our social standing would be gauged imme-
diately at low level No doubt Mexican
porter would consider it beneath his dignity
90 carry his own bundle; he would engage
another duly licensed and labeled aristocrat.
We were placed below par by even walking
through the depot, bearing our luggage, in
search of hack
HACKLEss DEPOT.
Reaching the other side Of the building
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make an excellent haven of refuge in case
of riot; the inmates could barricade the
large doors, retreat to the roof and hurl
anathemas and other missiles over the para
pet upon the heads of the plebeians, or
douche them with bot water through the
stone cannon.
As for its being home for anyone even
in perpetual fear Of assault, is beyond MY
comprehension; still this is the type of the
home in the City of Mexico. Babies are
born, no doubt, grown to maturity here in
happiness or tears, and DRIFT out to hide in
some similar place, or die within the pre-
cincts as sacred to them. unquestionably, as
though they had been reared in hourly sight
of grass plots and under the shadows of
ancient trees. Not having been sent into
this world of trouble in this environment, 1
fail to appreciate its attractions. Every
breath in it comes cold to the lips and chills
one under the ribs, every thought of it is
suggestive Of strife, violence in the achieve
ment and turmoil in its maintenance. To
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an American it is dead failure, either as a
home or a stately mansion.
ryrcrr no rrrn rrrdA

an American it is dead failure, either as
home or a stately mansion.
A VISIT TO THE vIGA.
Our affable landlord advised us to dispose
of the afternoon by visiting the Viga. We
took a street car with legend upon it made
of KS and rs and moved off exultantly. We
rode and continued to ride, past palaces and
one-story buildings until the driver stopped
and hitched his mules to the other end OF
the car We inquired of him for the Viga;
we would have done as well had we asked to
be directed to Washington. The conductor
smiled pleasantly when he collected his fare
for the return trip, and attempted to in
struct us on the way to the mystery we were
in search of and returned with us to the
plaza. We were determined to accomplish
the Viga if we subsidized every car line in
the city and started on our mission. This
time we passed the portal of the hotel and
in about ten minutes the driver halted and
hitched his mules to the other end of the car
as his brother had done on the other road.
We exchanged some inquiries and, I pre-
sumo, the same answers as before, and re-
turned through different streets to the plaza.
We took another car going in an opposite
direction to our former journey, went out
into the country about four miles and en-
loved the ride, returning by different streets
as before. We tarried short time in this
Mecca of the street car system and pre-
vailed on calico covered damsel in an ad-
iacent booth to concoct us a lemonade.
She concocted something, not a lemonade,
and having refreshed ourselves by wonder
ing what it would taste like, we donated
her real, and sought another car. After
we had paid our fare we discovered that we
were going over the same road that wit
messed our second experiment.
NOT UP TO THE STANDARD.
"This is a rank swindle," insisted the
Deacon 10 me. 'This is the road to that
yillainously smelling ditch"
We persisted, however, to the end of the
track and were delighted to discover an
American and his wife going back. We In
quired of them if they could put US on the
road to the Viga.
"That is the Viga," and our American
brother pointed to the ditch.
We were to take boats at the Viga, be
poled out to the Floating Gardens and wit
ness scenes rivaling anything in Venice.
The odor of the Viga in quiescent state
was of density that left disagreeable taste
in the mouth; disturbed it would produce
malignant typhoid within five minutes, pre-
ceded by nausea. Our enthusiastic country
men, some of them, had revelled in this
Mexican attraction, while at home they
would have complained of something much
less offensive and procured its abatement as
a common nuisance.
We returned to the hotel to suffer under
the charge of eecentricity and the daily re-
proach of having missed marvel.
L. B. FRANCE.
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reputation. He purchased pint pitcher
full from an Indian damsel of 10 summers,
perhaps, faithfully paying the price, half
real therefor, in good Mexican coin. He
was to drink the potion from the little
brown jug and then return the vessel.
Would like to taste it? 1 would, and Sc
cured tumbler from the car, which he filled
and we drank glass OF fresh yeast, sweet
ened little, would have afforded the same
satisfaction.
But what did this little maiden do? She
demanded of me also compensation.
pointed to the deacon, and by signs and
plain English endeavored to satisfy her that
she had received the equivalent demanded
for her liquor. She could not so understand
it; had drunk and must pay. 1 feigned
to pay the deacon, but no, must pay her;
nv mercantile ethics did not accord with
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HACKLESs DEPOT.
Reaching the other side Of the building