Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-30
MARK TWAINs FATHER.
He Was the Original of Colonel Sellers In
"The GIlded Age"

He was the Original OF Colonel Sellers In
"The GIlded Age"
Senator Bate, of Tennessee, gives me
interesting matter about Mark Twain's
father. Every one knows Colonel Sell
lePs and most people are aware that the
play is q dramatization of Mark Twains
book, THE Gilded Age" Few know
that the characters are taken from life,
and that Colonel Sellers is a representa-
ton Of Mark Twain's father, who was
fully as visionary as Marks fancy paint
ed him. The Clemens family came from
the mountains of Tennessee. Marks
father had put all the money he could
make and scrape into the rough lands of
the Tennessee mountains. He owned
thousands Of acres about him, and he
would look over these and say: 'These
lands are underlaid with the finest
coal and iron. There Is millions in
theml Millionsl Millionsl" At that
time, however, the lands were worth
nothing. Every one laughed at
Marks father, and Mrs. Clemens, who
was of a more practical and mbitious
turn than her husband, urged that they
sell the property and move into civiliza-
ton. She finally persuaded him to do
this The lands brought mere song
and the family went to Missouri, where
Mark Twain first saw the light of day.
The recent developments In Tennessee,
says Senator Bate, have made these
lands, which Colonel Sellers-Clemens
owned, immensely va liable. They con-
tain valuable deposits Of coal and iron,
as Clemens stated and did Mark Twain
b. T. % haU q hirnnr
business than in his book publishing and
book writing. He is now worth mill
ion. Had his father stuck to his lands
and to his theories he might have been
worth his tens of millions, Had the for
tune come, however, during Mark s
childhood the world would have lost
100, 900, 600 laughs. 'Innocents Abroad"
would never have been written and the
"Prince and the PaupeF" would probably
have remained unpenned.- q. Car
penter, in Philadelphia Press.
When fellow is in love with girl,
be can hardly believe that she returns
| his affection. But when he hears that
some girl he cares nothing for is in love
with him it does not surprise him in the
ieast-Terre Haute Express.
now TO GO Up stairs.
81 saw two girls with their escorts
walking up Corey Hill yesterday" says
an observer of girls. ''One of them
went up like rubber ball, bouncing
and bounding at every step, chattering
briskly to Der companion as she went
and stopping now and then to pant g
little and take fresh start, both with
her bounding way " walking and hel
chatter. Presently her friepa came
quietly along. She was letting the
young man beside her do the talking
and she was mounting the long hill
with short, elastic steps. She used hel
heels as we'll as her toes in going III
hill" 1t is good rule for hill climbing
and one to be remembered in COINS
upstairs. Women doctors say, and
many women prove it in practice, tina
by going apstairs slowly, with the foo
heel aud toe alike--pnt firmly on eacl
stair, one may arrive at the top OF fou
flights of sta rs'really rested, instead o
gasping for breath, IS when@one runs VI
stairs. Going upstairs Is good form
Of exercise if one goes at it in the RICH
way to get its benefits. Boston Trans
cTipt-