The Irish standard., 1895-11-23
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ate. Senator Stewart, the famous advO-
cate of the silver questi on, was the chair
man Of the COMMITTEES, and he gave Glenn
ems the Job in order that he might have
the leisure to write the book. There was
little work connected with the commit
tee and Senator Stewart hired man at
S1OO q 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 believed with him
that the book would be a success. How
ever hard a worker he may have be-
come afterward Mark Twain at this time
liked to loaf as we'll 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 type
writer to help him along. This is the
way he does most of his work, and when
he has a book on hand he makes it a.
principle to stick to it until he gets.
through, writing a certain amount every
day. He was very particular in the COM
position of "The Innocents Abroad, and
he tore up many chapter before he got
the matter into the shape in which 1t
was published. He wrote the book in a
little back room on r street, in a part
of the city which has since been given
pp to business, and man who knew
him at the time tells me that Mark
Twain had about the dirtiest room he
ever saw. sft's-.+= =. -
"It was heated" he said, Tby little
drum stove, witch was full Of ashes, and
out of which a great dust came when
ever a. bit of coal was thrown into it. The
air was sour with tobacco smoke, and
cigar ashes were scattered over the car
pet. The floor was Uttered with newspa-
perclipnjngs, and Mark Twain, with his
coat and vest off, worked away at the
hook in the midst of the muss. He sell
dom stopped work before midnight, and
would sit up until nearly morning read
ing. smoking and singing. The sue
cess of the work was a great surprise to
him, and he proudly wrote one of his
friends shortly after it was published
that it had taken thirty tons Of paper to
print it. I have been over most offthe
ground which is described in it, and it
was wonderfully true to the life. It is
far more accurate than many of the
guide books, and Mr.. Clemens must
have made very full notes in the midst
of the scenes which he describes.
The book which followed paid him
much better, as far as royalty was con-
cerned, and the royalties which he re-
ceived from the characterization OF his
stories have been considerable. The
Gilded Age" in which John T. Raymond
made an international reputation for
Colonel Mulberry Sellers, was especially
profitable. In connection with this I
saw the other day an oil painting with
Raymond and Twain standing together
shaking hands with each other. The
painting was framed in the refuse pulp
which comes from the grinding up of
the old greenbacks by the treasury. de-
partrnent On a brass plate below it
we're printed the words which so often
came from. Colonel Sellers mouth,
fsssMillions in It, z and as / looked could
mot help wishing that these words would
fteil the story Of the results of Mark
Twain's tour around the world. and that
there would ber mil lions IN it'' for him