The evening times., 1895-09-06
SANE CHEEKY MARX TWAIN
With Gray Hair and Broken Health BE
Starts Anew.
viii Take Care of His Own Troubles
and Not InfiiCt Them on
The Public.
(New York World. ,

Vancouver, B. c.. Aug. 2S.-Samuel l.
Clemens sailed yesterday for Sydney with
his wife and daughter and Mr. and Mrs.
Pond, on his way around the world. He
is in very poor health, and the voyage is
undertaken in the hope that change of air
and freedom from worry may avert the
collapse which appears to threaten him.
After aiong period Of overwork came
the shock of the acutest financial disaster
possible for man to encounter-that is, he
lost every thing, and is compelled at time
when he should be resting as a reward for
his years of labor tn start afresh the battle
OF life. Before sailing, the invalid received
a party of newspaper men.
Il am glad TO see you." said Marx
Twain Il am somewhat of a news
paper man myself, and We are a hard
up, happy, care-free lot, take us alto
setiier do not wa MT to tell you OF my
business troubles. 1 have never wanted
to do that to any one since one day years
anu years ago. The forema n of the horse
bill department of a publishing house with
which l WAS connected, printed 4 card
with the legend: Il have trouble OF my
own, don't tell yours and hung it up
where those who ran might read. That
card was a corrosion to my soul. a nd seemed
to eat into me, nd the impression it made
has never been effaced The whole world
knows that 1 have been in financial diff
culties L have given my newspaper
friends for publication a personal state
ment OF how l sta nd and what l intend
to do, SO that need not weary you with
any further reference to tales of foreclo-
sures or creditors.
Just what to talk to you about is a
difficult thing to decide" he said. If
were before an audience 1 could size
them up and now what to say, but you
will talk to audiences larger and more
diversified than ever was gathered in a
hall to listen to me-
Speaking of audiences" he continued,
"a small audience is almost sure to be-
come tainted with a feeling of sympathy
for the man on the platform. Let that
man become ratified, lose his nerve, OF in
any way show that he Is affected by the
absence of large audience, and that
feeling is apt to turn to something akin
10 contempt that is fatal to the enter
tainer or lecturer, and talk he ever so
wisely he cannot overcome it.
1T is necessary III such case that
the speaker should at onse disabuse the
minds of his audience Of the idea that
he is at all i'll the need of sympathy. but
should let them know that he kept a
man to do the worrying over business
features, and that he himself is utterly
oblivious of the condition of things in the
box office
But about audiences remember
very well. indeed, giving an address in
the Exchange Building in the city of st
Louis. The Exchange Building was some
thing like a barn that had gone TO seed
one of those great. big, hollow, broad, ex-
pansive buildings all on 4 level. The
whole would seat something like 1,50O
people.
''The night that spoke in that hall-it
was in 1865, think-there were twenty
people gathered to hear me. am not sure
about their being gathered. have kind
of an idea that they were people, the kind
that lived in the hall-were fixtures, as it
were, like the benches. But. any way,
determined that, fixtures or not, was GO
ing to give them that lecture; so 1 asked
them all to come and sit on the front bench,
and then. getting over as near the front of
the platform as could, talked right into
their faces.
Behind them stretched that fearful row
of barren benches. 1t was like talking to
people on the edge of the desert of Sahara,
but we had a good time. The lecture was
timed for an hour and q quarter, but got
along so well together and were having
such good time that talked to those peo-
pie over two hours, and they were this
most enthusiastio audience 1 have ever
had the pleasure of holding conversation
with"
Mark Twain here put his hand behind
his head and in doing SO knocked down
the candle set at the foot Of the bed.
BY the way, it may be said that with
that charming manner that has always
marked his actions, be had his feet in the
bed where other people would have their
heads. He said that II '.kinder" felt
more comfortable that way. "There goes
that coDfounded candle again." said he.
II look Oh that candle as a sort OF link
between gloom and da.kness; tt il not
very closely connected IN my mind with
tho idea OF light. remember very well
when most OF the hotels were lighted with
cual-oii Ampa TAey were not bad, and II
yox could get the hall porter to let you have