Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-11-03

Telling the Truth-Message to Sec.
! rotary Gngc.
Samuel l.. Clemens, ruddy, but com
| posed. as always, walked down the
gangway from the Atlantic Transport
lnc steamship Mnnellaha the other
evening after a ten day trip from Lon
| don and made such Roadway as he
could across the pier between friends
and crowd of newspaper reporters
who were there awaiting him. says the
! New York Sun. Never ruilled, Mr.
Clemens quietly but cheerily greeted
his friends and as quietly put in such
sentences as he could between times tC
the waiting newspaper men.
| Mr.. Clemens innocently frightened
| one of the reporters by telling him that
he was just getting ready to swear
but the appearance Of customs officer
| restored confidence. Another reporter
| coniided to the author that his city edi-
tor had sent positively the worst equip
| ped man in his office to interview a hui
| morist. "My boy" said Mark Twain,
81 don't know about that. IIumor is so
serious. When You sit down to write
| humor. go at it seriously. If the hui
NOR doesn't come. don't write it,
What approximations moved the as
tute Mark to this adiuration his smooth
Mississippi eye did not give away.
Pressed to talk, he said that lie was
not loaded He had come home in
pretty good health, he said, and practi-
cally without any plans except that he
should remain In New York this winter
and in the spring go to Hartford, his
home. His writings while in New
York would probably be only some
magazine work. He said that he had
two or three works under way, some
having already been written two or
three times, and that when he had
written them over again to his salts
faction he would publish them. He
had picked UP the material for various
stories on his travels and during his
foreign residence which he should be
able to locate most anywhere.
"Tcll us some of the incidents of
your tour of the world"
There aren't any except what | put
in my book, and there weren't enough
of them to go round" he answered.
1t had been Mr.. Clemens plan when
he went away to make final lecturing
tour of this country when he came
back, but this has been abandoned.
Mr.. Clemens was lecturing in Aus
tralasia at the time of Cleveland's Ven
ezuclan message, but that message
made no difference he said in the feel
ings Of the people out there, who turn
ed out to hear him and show their
friendship. He remarked that when
friendship could reach as far as that it
must be sincere. He went on to Cal
cutta, Ccylon, Mauritlls, Delagoa Bay
and Pretoria among other places. IL
had heard about Paul Kruger" he
said, "about his beard and long pipe
and all that, and he corroborated my
impression of him.
At Pretoria the redoubtahle humorist
took it into his head to visit the i'm
prisoned jameson raiders. Il made n
little speech to them during my call"
he said. II told them that | thought |
could comfort them some. | told them
that they were as well off there as
they would be in any Jail in any coun-
try. | assured them that they did not
realize their advantages as they ought
to do. why, the "Pilgrim's Progress
and Don QuiXotc" would never have
been produced if their writer's had not
been in jail | said to them, and |
dwelt upon how many people had to go
through life without the advantages
that they enjoyed. Some Of them
laughed, but they didn't seem alto
gether to like it somehow"
After reaching England Mr. Clemens
staid at Guildford and London for ten
months and then in July, 1897, went to
Vienna, where he staid until May, 1895 !
He said that he had the most fun at
Vienna, having more time to have it in.
His humorous reichsrath speech will be
remembered. My daughter had a music
teacher at Vienna" Mr. Clemens said |
His name was spelled L-e-t-s-c-h-e
t-i-t-z-k-y. but he was a good music |
teacher. | believe he was a Russian
Since leaving Vienna Mr.. Clemens
and his family have spent heir time in
London and in Sweden mostly. AS ev
erybody knows, Mr.. Clemens wrote
Secretary Gage that he was coming
home, that the big 10000 ton Mime
haha was being loaded with his bag
gage, Il told the secretary" he said,
that I had quite a good many things,
but that there was nothing good
enough to pay duty on, while it was all
too good to throw away"
Mr.. Clemens book in manuscript to
be opened "a hundred years hence" so
that all the people mentioned in it will
be dead before it's contents are given
to the public, which has been announc-
ed from time to time as in progress
and has been regarded by some per-
sons as very likely one of Mark
Twain's jokes, was mentioned to him
on the pier inquiringly, and he respond
ed that that was all right.
at has been suggested that the
whole tbing was one of your jokes on
the public" said the reporter Il new
ar vet told the truth that | was not ac
eused of lying" was the solemn au.
swer, land every time | lie some one
believes it. SO l have adopted the plan
when | want people to believe what |
say of putting it In the form of a lie.
That is the difference between my tic-
ton and other peoples Everybody
knows mine is true"
Mr.. Clemens and his family went to
the Hotel darlington.