The sun., 1900-11-24
TWAlN'S WITH TIL BONERS.
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Marx roa,n vo. d,.u Iu tlr l,r II No" will
nls"-sr"pks' 90 tho ir.ni'i '1fd announcing
tho annual meeting 'f ih" luhlr lil'ati'n
Association Va nc'Ao"v lyc"un yesterday
afternoon. md Whether ur not tlat was t'r
cou.". NJ" ndi"l n the n,'r'iltion turned out
IN great force 1u"rr Wbs q waiting audicnc"
that ncd .vcry scat ON M" ground noot and
tho greater part Il no gallery long before
Mr Coucn. srt there md be- was ton min
u'oS head u tiro ~ that
Nfs SCHUYLER NHn Nors,"lner, the President.
fret rcyiowod tho work done hy tho association
and outlined the reeds mud ambitions ~ tho
organization fur N" ensuing N"nr Among
other Interesting matters n minor dctail sho
mentioned was tho fl't hat bioTrarlic iictrres
of New iorl. school rooms. -hov ins ~" teachers
nt their work and tho scholars ~ owing about.
which we're sent 90 p1r1 lat summer. Lad
attracted much attention that various 'or-
eign countries had asked TO borrow them for
exhibition. and that they were now Ia Russia
Then she introduced Mark Twain with the
remark that he had requested TINT he ho not
presented rs In any way an oNrert on educa-
tion Mr. Clemens was greeted with great
enthusiasm by all the ladies' present. for. even
including Marh Twain himself. there we're not
moro Than eight or ten men IN the house
1T is true ~ your President has said Mr..
Clemens began. "tnlt am uu, an expert on
education. and vh'Ic thaYk vpu for the COM
pl,mrut IF your invitation wish 10 -av at the
OIt-"i that ann not hero Tor ~" purpose oi
Eiyiug iHl"inati"n am her" Tor Two t"a-ohs
First. tN7t may gather an r!rI from oh-orva-
ton and h" tl.ug r0 II disc l-,tNna oi the nature
of ronr sIctt WORK second, that may appear
hv wHr " contrast us an ldle and lazy person.
uses He may applaud .rius,ri'uS people wh?
nre engaged ~ n"uI" NuTk Tor society, ana
FN.4ftHH HlfsIf- I.al
hay" Of the objects oi y0nr H~~"C.1ilpn Enow
enough about i,Ip know that your w"rHiS Of 'hat
As "A representative ~ the idle and lazy
classes. Nr clemens. led by the Presidents
r"lGark 10 RuN>i went on To sLgG's i that
Eus - and with ier' he oti "r nations might get
out of China a. thnt Mryb" tie Chinese would
te rid oi n" for"Igro'- II Cr,igrois aIc
d" caus" of all the tl,.iie there. le said
want the chinese Thcv have a. much
night a. \ nation 20 eNolud" foreigners a. va
tRH foreigner % and 4 lie fS % We're s,na
the trouble would te all over Now my SYM
palhies are all with the Boxers The Boxers
a"e IN" only patriots China has got The
newspapers call them hard names, but all they
are after i- tu get tho foreigners out Of their
country and hope they may have all success
In doing 50. II | am opposed to the hnaman
belng here then ! am n Boxer and the only
difference between us Boxers here and the
China Boxer + that We carried our point and
the Chinese didn't.
When | ro,d cahlrcr,m headline in the
ran"r this afternoon thnI Russia wos going To
rnir"nch. and That that perhaps meant tho
end Of IN" war ouj ther" IN China and ~" lelv-
i.S Chi1n 70 the Chinese, why felt rc,oi'cd.
riff' about it It didn't seem quite possible
s,r."hpw. And then ! read down into the
,7lrrrrn and sag that Rnssia'- eyren]es
H'i b." one - gr"tt that She had decided -
r.nn'1 m wat u" wa she was ainr 70
r"lr"u,h "1-. bv "ni,iHs ~ t,e approp-inti9n
for % plu,.' sCnHol' Now | never "yNcct-d 70
90" o. humorous tHegrun come from Ru!SiC
Nrd II is iG>t ~ L,"i. 0- ~. 'h'-" Russi,1s
cont hnoT lnhi i'!'"nm i huI-?rnus. Here
Ni'u II. wh"r" We regard the huol~ a. the
ipunds'ipn Of IN him no id.u Of rr'rcnchirs
h{ o','mS "n H." duproI sion for N" public
If /. a ioke We know. but II T. a Joke that IN
is practical Application W. would not undei-
stand IL remind, H., - Mlat ] saw myself
was boy There was an OCCASION in tie Ii tie
COMMUNITY when IL" finance. were AT a low
eth There were "Ny'uses 81 oil kinds ,nd
little money 10 meet y On It was case when
the expenses had got 10 he cut down in some
wav and there was proposition made to say"
Tonsy Ry aan,iqs d"Tn hs hqsc s'hIS.
was one old farmer who got W. and said he
did not believe 4 would work II will he Just
sohocIhou7e. Won shr' ~. Won VIZ have to build
that the community drew its sust.narce The
saving would b" fiction rather than fact What
was saved atnn" .nd would be lost AZ the other
II would he like feeding a dog on Us own tail
You could never fa',en hat doc Well. he old
farmer convinced them and they did not shut
down the schools
"kui nov | -'at around - the compliment
which |. as n ren-esert1iiv" Of tho idle md
law clasSHs, said thlt Wi.ht be perm 'ted
80 .av voI II i that this association IS wiser
'l1n the Fmporor ut Russia and all the Rus
sir" Cove e~n'pent l. is Mt much of a COM
plineut. but il ls tho b'st have
he audience arDluiioi VIZ Clemens Wig
o-opslv and apnlauiod him again when soon
after lts close hc bowed and left tho stage
~ LGnrs u. Garfield hen -oad an address
on th" aims Of the society and on education
in general