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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

as write, and it was all that Senator
! Stewart and his friends could do to
! get him at his work. After he got
started, however he kept it up like a
steam engine. He wrote from noon till
midnight every day, and he finished the
book in two months. Every line of it
was penned with his own hand, and he
had no stenographer or typewriter to
help him along. This is the way he
does most of his work, and when he has
book on hand he makes it principle
to stick to it until he gets through,
writing a certain amount every day.
He was very particular in the compo-
sition of 1.-THE InnocentS Abroad" and
he tore up many a chapter before he
got the matter into the shape in which
it was published. He wrote the book
In a little back room on f street, in a
part of the city which has since been
given up to business, and man who
knew him at the time tells me that
Mark Twain had about the dirtiest
room he ever saw.
1T was heated" said he, "by little
drum stove, which was full of ashes,
and out of which great dust came
whenever bit of coal was thrown into
It, The air was sour with tobacco
smoke, and cigar ashes were scattered
over the carpet. The floor was Uttered
with newspaper clippings, and Mark
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
Copyright, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Eugene Field dead!
Mark Twain ruined!
Rill NNa nNarINnrlSAdi
Bill Nye overworked

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-These
are recent items of news about men
whose wit and paltIhos have made the
world laugh and cry during the past
decade. The story of the lives of
funny men is often full Of sadness.
1t requires hard knocks to develop
the genius of such souls, and behind
the poetry and the Ihumor may be
found the trouble and the heart
breaking which has enabled them to
know the human heart, and by their
pens to play the saddest and the mer
riest of strains upon its strings. How
few geniuses are appreciated when
they are young! Eugene Fields faith
er was a celebrated lawyer, butt he
evidently had no idea of the literary
ability of his son. The boy, almost
spoiled by the fortune left him, drift
ed into newspaper work, and thence,
step by step, climbed into the liter
ary niche which he will now hold in
American history. Mark Twain's
father and himself, according to his
own statements, were always on the
most distant terms when Mark was a
boy, and he says that "a sort of armed
neutrality existed between them. His
father had no appreciation of his hu-
morous antics, and the stories which
are related in Tom Sawyer are
largely based upon incidents of Mark
Twain's early life which had no
charm for his father. The old man
could not see the humor of jump
ing off a two-story stable, and when
Mark ait a circus gave the elephant
a plug of tobacco, the hubbub which
followed was by no means with the
approval of THE old man, who had
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
FROM THE HIGH BRIDGE.

Fancy yourself standing near the
center of bridge fully three-quarters
of mile long and looking down two
hundred feet into the river below. On
the right the bluff covered with foH-
age descends to the river road: and on
the left, the bare perpendicular lime
stone, without vestige of green. ter
inmates close to the lines of track
where a heavily laden freight train
is laboring up the slight grade.
Around in every direction lies the CITY,
always beautiful, but doubly so at
twilight. The lights on the bridge are
already lighted, needlessly it seems.
as the sun has left long bright stream
ers in the west, and the full moon is
just pushing her rim above the trees.
AS stand looking Sown into the water
boat glides from beneath the bridge,
and as the two pleasure seekers rest
their oars to look rs at the immense
iron structure, the lady, with true
Minnesota heartiness, waves her hand
kerchief at me. Near me is a small
boy with his hat half full of pebbles.
L wonder what he il soing to do with
them-Oh! 1 see. He &as dropped on
his kness over one of the open spaces.
and with evident anticipation and a
degree of satisfaction that the occasion
and his intention scarcely warrant
awaits the freight that is just about
to pass under, and carefully gauging
the distance prepares to drop aero
lltes on the heads of the unsuspecting
brakemen; while his dog, with SYM
pathetic viciousnesS, >Nrks frantically
at the dense clouds sS smoke now
pouring up through every crevice.
A carriage approaches from the other
side, and as they draw near the
gentlemanly driver, with evident
difference to my age and experience,
reluctantly removes his arm from the
back of the seat where it rested in
close proximity to the sweet-faced
girl beside him.
While 1 am watching and waiting
the color dies out of the west, and the
moon is pouring a flood of soft light
over the water. The lights from the
different bridges scintillate like stars
and an occasional moving light tells
me the fishing boats are out Off
at the left the tall electric mast flashes
like a huge diamond cluster; now an
other farther down, and from a
pleasure yacht floats up in clear tenor
the sweet strains of Schubert's Ser
enade." AS 1 reluctantly prepare to
return, 1 wonder If Venice can be
more beautiful than this. The same
blue sky bends above; the same COM
pany of stars keep watch and guard;
while the quiet beauty of hills and trees
smiles like a dear familiar face and
above all-it is home. ". S.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

and. he has great faith in travel. Not
long ago I called upon him at Hart
ford to get his advice as to a book Of
this kind. In answer, he drawled out
the following:
''There-is -only-one-kind- of-a-
k-that- will-sell- than "a
book-of-travels-a hat's-a-pious
book"
He then went on to tell me something
about his own experience in travel
work, and gave me a far different story
as to some of them than that generally
believed. He told me that the publish
ers. and not the authors, made, as a
rule. the most of the money out of a
book, and he said he got a royalty of
only per cent on 1.-THE Innocents
Abroad" or from fifteen to twenty-five
cents per volume. He will do better
with his Ground the World Travel
for he will probably publish it himself.
He told me that the company that pub
.usfed 1.-The Innocents Abroad made a
fortune out of it, and upon my asking
him if his royalty was not very small
one, he replied:
mo, not as such things usually go,
though l thought it was when l made
the contract. 1 was advised to accept
it. however, by my friend, A. D. Rich
ardson, who told me that he only got
per cent for writing Beyond the Mis-
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
RAID ON THE GUESTS,
Thieves Get Rich PIunder at
Paget-Whitney Wedding.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-The startling
fact was made known yesterday that
p1ckpocketS made a raid upon the
guests at the Paget-Whitney wedding
in st. Thomas church on Tuesday
How they succeeded in entering the
church the detectives cannot explain,
but it is known that already three rob-
berries have been reported to Acting
Chief Of Detectives O'Brien.
One gentleman, well-known in soci-
ETY., reported the loss of a gold watch
and chain to Capt. O'Brien Wednesday,
saying that he valued it at $780, He
said that he was wedged in the middle
OF crowd of persons in the center
aisle while passing out of the church,
and although he felt tug at his vest
pocket he thought nothing of it. When
he reached the sidewalk he discovered
that not only had his watch been taken,
but the chain fastening had been talk
en- from his vest buttonhole, and the
whole thing deftly removed. He said
that, seeing so many policemen about
the church, he had not guarded his
property with his usual care He
strongly urged the detectives to recov-
er his watch.
The matter was hardly relegated to
the archives of the detective bureau
when two other gentlemen called and
each reported the loss of a watch at the
wedding. Their experience was similar
to that recounted above, except that
the property was stolen while they
were in the vestibule of the church.
one before and one after the ceremony.
The property stolen from the two gen.
tlemen was very valuable.
An attache of the detective bureau
said today that while it was true that
several articles have been reported to
the bureau as having been stolen at
the Whitney-Paget wedding, it was pos
slble that they had been lost. He said
that the police arrangements were the
same as those which were put into
effect at the Marlborough-Vande
wedding of a few days before, and that
there had been no report Of loss of
property from that wedding.
He said that the church was guarded
inside and out. and no professional
thief could possibly have entered the
church. He said that the robberies, if
robberieS they were, might have been
committed by amateurs, who, through
their personal connections, might have
succeeded in securing invitations to the
wedding. All information as to the
identity of the victims of the pick
pockets was refused.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
ALMOST CRAzED.
THOUGHT HER CHILD WAS GO
ING TO DIE.
The Terrible Ordeal of n Mother
Her Little Girl Almost Faded
Away-Saved in the Nick of
Time. A Story That Will
Touch the Heart of Every
Mother.
From the Journal. Detroit Mich

From the Journal, Detroit, Mich.
A very grateful mother is Mrs. A. l..
Hartness, of SIG Grandy Avenue, De-
tro1t, for the wonderful cure which
her daughter has received by the use
of DR.. Williams Pink Pills. Said Mrs.
Hartness: 'Yes, my daughters life
has been saved by using Pink Pills.
thanks to a kind friend who recon-
mended them to me.
Blanche was sick for over three
years. She had the care of the best
physicians procurable, and no expense
or trouble was spared to give her re-
lief. She was so thin that she was fair
ly skin and bones, her digestion was
out of order and she had the most aw-
full headaches. We gave up all hope
of her recovery. Her long, thin, list
less face made me nearly crazy, and
we did everything in our power to
give her strength and induce her to
take an interest in anything.
Zone day a friend told me about the
Pink Pills, and Mr.. Hartness went
down town and got three boxes. She
had taken about one box, when, to my
amazement, one morning 1 heard her
playing on the piano. 1 could hardly
a
since the piano had been opened.
Soon she began to take short rides
on her bicycle, and soon she went
singing around the house, our own
happy, hearty little daughter once
more.
''She thinks nothing of spin on her
wheel over to Mt. Clemens or Pontiac,
and is as well as she ever was.
Il had girl living at our house who
was a great sufferer from impov-
erished blood, and who received in
slant and permanent relief from the
use of one box of pills.
eff this information can be of any
use to help some poor sick one, it is
given with the greatest of pleasure"
The proprietors of Dr. Williams Pink
Pills state that they are not a patent
medicine, but a prescription used for
many years by an eminent practitioner
who produced the most wonderful re-
suits with them, curing all forms Of
weakness arising from a watery con-
dition of the blood or shattered nerves.
two fruitful causes of almost every i'll
to which flesh is heir. The pills are
also a specific for the troubles pecu-
liar to females, such as euppressions,
all forms of weakness, chronic consti-
patton, bearing down pains, ETC., and
in the case of men will give speedy re-
lief and effect a permanent cure in all
cases arising from mental worry, over
work, or excesses of whatever nature
They are entirely harmless and can be
given to weak and sickly children with
the greatest good and without the
slightest danger. Pink Pills are sold
by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid
on receipt of price go cents box, or
six boxes for S2.5O--they are never sold
in bulk or by the 1000, by addressing
Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Sche-
nectady N Y
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
Observation-Disclosures 7H7I!777H77N77H70777
THREE FAMOUS $:
FUNNY FELLOWS.
NEW STORIES ABOUT MARK TWAIN, BILL .NYE AND
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
s!llliIls!Ilc

verses where always cried. I knew
I couldn't read them before the class
without crying, and wasn't going to
way out of it. Just before the class
was called, and while the teachers
back was turned, 1 slipped out. II
had hardly left the school house bea
fore met my father. He asked me
whatI was doing away from schOoE
had just been reading the life of
George Washington, and 1 concludes
that would try the cherry-tree act
with him. I told the truth, saying:
Father I didn't want the boys to-
laugh at me, and 1 knew 1t would
make me cry
We'll, I'll see if I can't make you
cry said the old gentleman, and he
picked up a switch and gave me
one of the best whippings have ever
had. I don't blame him now. His
nature was such that he could not
appreciate the situation. He proba-
bly, Thought my answer was merely
an excuse to get out Of school, but
the injustice or ut was Sueh tnat 1t
was long time before 1 felt close to
my father again. After going away
from home I drifted about here and
there, and finally turned up ait In
dianapolis in the Journal office. I
began to write poetry, and in time
became rather notorious for that.
The people of indianapolis made a
good deal of me, and now and then
rumors of my reputation reached the
little country town where my father
was living. He couldn't see what the
people saw in those things of mine
to be worth so much money, and he
finally gave up trying to understand
it.
81 went down to see him frequently
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
sissippi,' and that per cent was a good

sissippi,' and that per cent was good
royalty"
One hundred and twenty-five thou
sand copies of "The Innocents Abroad"
were sold within three years after it
was published, and the Hartford Pub
fishing company, which issued it, made
more than 100000 out of it. I doubt
whether Mark Twain got $4,000, and it
was probably through his desire to
remedy such an unjust division of the
profits that he went into the publishing
firm of Charles L. Webster & Co.,
through which he issued many of his
books, and in connection with which he
lost his fortune. I have heard it said
that Mr.. Clemens will issue new
volume of travels upon his return, and
there is no doubt but that, if he does so.
the publishing company will get the
smaller end of the profits.
"THE INNOCENTS ABROAD"
1t was here in Washington that "The
Innocents Abroad" was written. 1t
was away back in 1868, when Mark
Twain was thirty-two years old. He
was at the time writing letters for the
San Francisco newspapers and adding
. to his income by a salary of Sc a day as
clerk Of one of the committees of the
United States senate. Senator Stewart.
the famous advocate of the silver ques-
ton, was the chairman of the COM
mittee, and he gave Clemens the job
in order that he might have the leisure
to write the book. There was little
work connected with the committee,
and Senator Stewart hired man at
$1OO per month to do the work. He had
seen Clemens notes of his trip with
that party of pilgrims who went
through the Holy Land, and he be-
lieved with him that the book would be
a success However hard worker he
may have become afterward, Mark
Twain at this time liked to loaf as well
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
MORE TROUBLE IN THE EAST.
China Is Willing to Give Germany
an Island.

LONDON, Nov. ia dispatch from
Shanghai says it is positively stated
that China has agreed that Germany
shall occupy one of the islands near the
entrance to the seaport of Annoy for the
purpose of establishing a naval yard
and coal depot. 1t is feared this step
will be followed by International com
plications. as France and Russia are
certain to seek similar privileges.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

I see it stated that James Whitcomb
Riley is to go on the lecture platform
again this winter. If this is true, he
has changed his mind during the last
few months. At Indianapolis L was
told that the best way to make James
Whitcomb Riley angry was to mention
the word lecture" and that he had
given the work up for good. A close
friend of his, who has much to do with
his legal business, told me how Riley
recently received a big lecture offer
from New York. A manager there
wrote, offering him $1,000 for four lee
lures. Riley went to the telegraph Of
flee and promptly declined, and he said
at Sthe time that the knowledge that
he could afford to refuse an offer of
that kind made him happy. He has
been making a great deal of money
out of his books of late years, and his
income is now bigger than that of a
congressman. He is not an extrava-
giant man, and he lives quietly in In
dianapolis with his brother-in-law,
who, by the way, has a good deal to
i do in the management of his business.
( He reads a great deal, and during the
past two years has been devoting HIM
/ self to the English classics. He is very
fond of Longfellow, and one Of his
greatest favorites is Robert Burns.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
--s4113o----
n Great Eirst-Niyhter,

Felix Faure, president Of France, is
great first-nighter at the Partisan
theaters. He is a, well equipped critic,
and owns a library that is full of valu-
able editions of the classic French
drama
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17
MARK TWAIN'S TOUR.

The real secret of Mark Twain's tour
around the world is the publication of
a new book of travels. His lecturing
will pay his expenses and will net him
a small sum, but in all probability not
enough to pay his debts. A new book
of travels will bring him tens of thou
sands of dollars, and it will have a sale
all over the world. Mark Twain's ex-
perience in book publishing has given
him knowledge of what sells best,
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

port, who didn't know figures, and who
had to go West to make his fortune
RILEY ON LECTURING.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-17

81 went down to see him frequently
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-14
HAPPENINGS AT SANTA ANA
TreaSurers' Deposit Order Is Agitating
the Financiers
The Chamber of Commerce Gathers Up Ex-
hiblts-A Dwelling House Burned-Ce-
sar Day Exercises

SANTA ANA, Dec. 13.--The reported ac-
tion of the bank commissioners ordering
that all city and county moneys be kept
and held rs special deposits has created
something of stir among the bankers
here.
The grand jury is supposed to be making
inquiries as to the deposits by our county
treasurer and it is not unlikely they may
take some decisive action as to the man
or of making county deposits.
The Chamber of Commerce yesterday
made a large shipment of of country pro-
duce to be placed on exhibition at the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The col
lection consists of some magnificent mel
ons, beets. pumpkins, apples ana percim-
mons.
Will G. Perry died at Hesperia yesterday
of consumption, aged 80 years. Mr.. Perry
was formerly a resident of Tustin City,
where his mother and sister now reside.
He leaves a large circle of relatives and
friends. The remains will be shipped here
for interment.
A house was burned last evening at the
corner of Stafford and G streets, caused by
the Overturning of a lamp. The house
was occupied by Mr.. Perry, who had only
moved in a few days before. Nothing of
value was saved, and Mr.. Perry loses
household goods, clothing and furniture 10
the value of $1,000, on which there is no
insurance. The house was valued at
about $500, fully covered by insurance,
and was owned by Fl. S. Pankey of Balso.
Yesterday was Caesar Day in the Latin
room at the High School. The participants
were the members of the class of '97. The
exercises consisted of songs, all in Latin,
and quotations. The chief interest center
ing in debate between Messrs. Gold
smith and Baker. Question: Resolved
that Cesar was better general than Ma
poleoD.
A circle of the order of the Companions
OF the Forest Was organized here last even
ing. Graud Chief Companion Mrs. A. b.
Andrews of Los Angeles instituted the
order. The circle here will bear her
name.
Tins officers elect are Mrs. Z. G.. Drury,
chief: Mrs. S. G. Lentrell, sub chief; E. W.
Harmon, secretary; Z. G. Drury, recording
secretary; Miss Best, r. e.. G. 4. Henry,
L. G.; G. +. Cumming, |. G.; G. Il. Willard,
y. e.: X. Best, organist; j. GImbach, Mrs.
II. Moesser, It. b. McGaffey, trustees.
Santa Ana lodge, Knights of Pythias,
will attend the church of the Messiah Sun
day, w. B. Burrows, pastor.
The wife and daughter of Captain John
A. Brown of Portland, Oregon, are visiting
the family of Major Nat Brown of Tustin.
The grand jury submitted its report in
the superior court at 3 p. IN. today. Judge
ToWner informed them he had carefully
considered the report and was satisfied
they had covered the ground submitted to
them and that he approved the same. The
Jury then adjourned to meet Tuesday at
40 q. III.
The case against Ira Woodman Of Gar
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EZETEA HAS His WEAPONS
The Barclay Golden Loaded at Santa
Barbara
The Equipment Was Received at More 5
Landing-No One Knows Where the
Cargo Came From

SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 13.-It has just
come to light that the tug Barclay Golden
stopped at More's Landing, eight miles
north of this city, Monday night and took
aboard a cargo of ammunition and guns.
AS is we'll known, the boat cleared for Aca-
pulco, and left San Francisco on the 9TH
inst, leaving the impression that General
Ezeta would be picked up at the Mexican
port and then proceed to Salvador. The
incident al More's Landing was we'll man.
aged. No one here knows how the war
like material reached the wharf. but it is
learned that the freight consisted in part
of eighty boxes of ammunition, each about
two feet square and twenty six by eight feet
boxes containing rifles. When the vessel
finished loading she disappeared as sud-
denly as she had come. There is no rev.
enue cutter at present in this channel. but
it is supposed that a cruiser has already
left San Francisco in quest of the craft.
and we look for a repetition of the ltata at
fair. A. J. Gonzales, G. l.. Ryan, Will
liam Featherstone and +. J. Thompson go
with the expedition, and it is rumorep that
remain to secretly superintend another
voyage of a similar character.
NOTES.
Frank Knight and Harvey Fillmore have
been arrested at Los Olivos on complaint
OF Pedro Montanaro, who charges the de"
PENDANTS with perjury. Mon anaro was
recently acquitted at his preliminary ex-
animation for grand larceny, during which
Fillmore and knight were the principal
witnesses against him.
War has again been declared between
Cyrus Marshall and Pat Kinevan, both of
whom reside on the summit of the Santa
Ynez mountains. Cyrus has caused Pats
arrest for malicious mischief, and the hear
ing will take place tomorrow in this city
before Township Justice Crane.
The Good Citizenship club is in posses
sion of evidence against persons selling
liquor without a license. Arrests will be
made.
Francisco Flores, the young Indian who
shot Jose GARLIC. another Indian, near
Santa Ynez, recently, has been held to
answer before the superior court on a
charge Of assault to commit murder.
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VENTURA

The Trustees Put High License on
Saloons
VENTURA, Dec. 13.-The board of town
trustees passed an ordinance last evening
fixing the saloon license at $500, payable
semi-annually in advance. The ordinance
also pravides that in case the ordinances
regulating the saloons are violated, the Ii
censee shall forfeit his license. A large
number of saloon men and other citizens
were present and discussed the matter be-
fore the board.
The funeral of Judge Wilde was largely
attended today. 1t was held from the
Epis opal church.