The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-17

In his heart he cherishes every virtue
on the list of virtues and he practices
them all-secretly Qaughter) always Sc
cretly. Uaughter) You all know him so
we'll that there is no need for him to lie
introduced here. Gentlemen, Col Brown"
Col Brown rose and somewhat breath
lessly said that he understood a pro
gramme had been prepared, and he wish
ed some one would come forward with it,
Then the colonel said he wished to COM
pIment Mr.. Twain on his ability as a
reader of character. The programme
was then produced and a card manipu,
lator did some tricks. Mr.. Clemens guy
ed him until he dropped most of his
cards.
]. 1. c. Clarke, the playwright, said
that he once went out to California a
great many years ago, and found Mark
Twain was very unpopular at Suffers
Creek because of the way in which he
had maligned the inhabitants Mr.
Clarke also said that he hoped Mark
Twain would live as long as the nation,
and compared his heroism in meeting
and overcoming the debts of Webster &
Co. to the heroism of Dewey and Hob
son.
Mr.. Clemens rose again. as he said,
not because he was asked to- but be-
cause he was afraid that if he waited
he would not be asked. He said that ii
'SNS llOb Tic SIcLuGES llaJ nurt a
out the truths that were told about him
If the world knew half as much about
us as we know about ourselves we could
never face 1t. When a man aWoke at ,
CLOCK IN the morning with a feeling of
utter loneliness, a feeling that he had
done nothing worth doing and was
worth nothing, it wasn't on account of
the hes that had been told about him;
II was on account of the infanies which
nobody knew. The ISLANDERS according
~ about Suffers Creek did not w~rrv
MIN at all They were simply the effer-
NeScences of inefficient intellects. Mr.
Clemens went on to eXpatiate on his
theory of the genius of humOr. SAVING
that no humOr that was worth having
came from any place but from the tear
Iul places of life When ne had talked
in this strain for twenty minutes or so
ne turned to Mr.. Clarke and said: ..Bv
the way, did not live in Suffers Creek
= never did You were thinking of
Bret Harte.''
MI. Clarke curled up in his chair and
10 cover his embarrassment, Mr.. Glenn
G TI tola story to explain why Bret
fiafte lett the neighborhood of Suffers
John A. Hennessy chairman of the
BOARD of trustees of the club. said tbqt
ne nad never read any of Mark Twain's
works though he had heard they were
Ts'Ilutipie Mr.. HenneSSy said he be-
HeVed that Mr.. Clemens lack of never
ehce for truth had been the Inspiration
Ior yellow journalism. Charities Com
missioner Keller made a brief address.
After a short vaudeville entertainment
MI Clemens rose to say good night
lie SAID that there was a time when he
4lo not go home early. I'm old now"
he said. I've reformed I'm lust as
competent to stay all night as I ever
was It's to save my reputation that
go. Years ago [ didn't have any repu-
tauon--We We're all alike then When
you get old and respectable you will IN
derstand. There is one thing that still
ranklcs about this reception. It's about
tfat nice young mas who said he had
never read anything [ wrote He look
ed 50 Intelligent too. Looks doesn' t
mean anything, after all. 1t was only
a sham intelligence. He had not the
basis of an ordinary education. Good
Col. Abe Gruber nominated Mr. Glenn
ems to be the anti-Tammany candidate
for mayor OF New York.