Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-29
BACH CLUB GOSSIP.

At our last meeting after the usual small
talk about a late season and the prospects
incident thereto the company present drfted
over to the corner where sat the "Titles, :"
for that was = generic name under which
came all members with q handle to their
nance Most of these old fellows were So
charged with different kinds of reminis-
cences regarding noted men that when they
came into social contact there was light
ming play of story, incident AMI wit that
tor the time being put all other smust-
ments the rooms afforded into the shade.
When we at our table gave up quite sn
interesting game of cards and wandert
over to the corner as listeners the Colonel
was relating a story told him by an old
printer that knew Mark Twain in his earl,
days and as We recollect it the old printers
story runs as follows:
at was when he was known only as Sam
Clemens. lie was local reporter on the
Virginia City Enterprise. and | was q
printer on the same paper. Clemens was
writing humorous sketches, but his fame
a. humorist WAS young yet He was an
invs,erate smoker. anc smoked the foulest
smelling pipe in Virginia City, by all odds.
Clemens office vas jast off the composing
room and. although printers, As a rule, are
rot squeamish about pipes and things, this
pipe was breeding srevolution. 1t smelled
90 internally bad that we always spoke of
it as The r. mains There were numer-
Gus plots suggested to get The Remains
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when all the rest of the world N. vr.nned
in peaceful slumber. Then he worked i I,
ONE of the poetry about tobacco and the
solsce it afforded the tired brain He
spoke of the warm frie dship that existed
between the local de apartment and the com.
posing room. and boped nothing ~onId
ever occur to sever these aiken ties
Then he handed him the 25.cept frsud
wiped his tiusers through his eve. and al
down.
"Clemeps was knocked COMPLETELY on.
for a time. but he pulled himself ,o1e,b.,
and returned his thanks in a very feeling
co-workers on the paper touched him
deeply, and he would retain it long a. .
souvenir of pleasant days. The old pipe
had long been friend and companion. 1t
hsd been = comforter in lonely hours, but
this handsom gift from friends he loved
made the parting easy, and, a. climax to
his remarks, he threw the i'll smelling old.
timer out of the window. We accepted his
invitation to go down stairs, and knowing
the miserable swindle We had perpetrated
every dollar he spent gave US 4 pang"
1.-The verv next NIGHT while Ciams,.
was smoking his new nine the howl Of IN.
Chased thing .nlit anon from .,.m d, ten
We heard him growing to himself And
looking out of 4 hole in the wall throuyh
xbich he showed copy. re ,.v him bru,h
ing the ashes of his desk and clothes. And
.ve.Y;ny softly in . very nictnre.ona man
pipe and il. fate and YOU bet We said nothing
70 him Twas evident, however, tina, b.
had some thinking, for he appeared at the
Office next night compl.ceptly smoking The
Remains, He had gone down into the back
vart And hunted il M.
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