The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-30

IN that part OF the country
Assessments did the business for me
there. There were III assessments to one
di-idend and the proportion of income 10
outlay was little against me. My finan-
! cial thermometer went down to degrees
fahrenheit, and the subscriber was fro
zen cal. l took up extensions on the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that reached to
British America in one direction and 10
! the Isthmus of Panama in the other
and I verify believe / would have been
rich man if / ever found those internal
extensions. But / didn't. / ran TUNES
till l tapped the Arctic Ocean. and l sunk
shafts till 1 broke through the roof of
perdition. but those extensions turned up
missing every time.
l am willing to sell all that property
and throw in the improvements. Per
haps you remember the celebrated North
Ophir? / bought that mine. 1t was very
rich in pure silver. You could take II
out in Jumps as big as a flbert. But
when it was discovered that those Jumps
were melted half dollars and hardly melt
ed at that, a painful case of satin .
was apparent. and the undersigned ad-
journed to the poorhouse again.
I paid assessments on Hale and Nor
cross till they sold me out, and / had 10
take in washing for a livfng-and the
next month that infamous stock went up
TO $1,000 foot. / own millions and mill
ions of feet of affluent silver leads in
Nevada-in fact 1 own the entire under
crust of that country. nearly, and il Con-
gress would move that state of my prop
~ hat I oct IN ar 7 10
wealthy yet But no. there she squats-
and here l am. Failing health persuades
me to sell. If you know Of any one de-
string a permanent investment 1 can
furnish him one that will have the virtue
of being eternal.
! have been through the California mill,
with all it's dips. spurs and angles. varia-
tons and sinuosities." ] have worked
there at all the different trades and pro-
LESSONS known TO the catalogue. 1 have
been everything from a newspaper editor
down to a cowcatcher on a locomotive.
and I am encouraged to believe that IL
there had been more occupations to ex-
pertinent on I might have made a daz-
zling success at last and found out what
mysterious design Providence had in
view in creating me.
But you perceive that, although / am
not a pioneer, I have had sufficiently
variegsted time OF 1t to enable me to talk
pioneer like a native, and l feel like
Forty Miner. Therefore, ! cordially well
come you to your old remembered homes,
and ysur long deserted firesides. and
close this screed with the sincere hope
that your visit here WILL be happy one.
and unembittered by the sorrowful sur
prfses that absence and lapse Of years are
wont to prepart for wanderers; surprises
which would come In the form Of old
friends missed from their places; silence
where familiar voices should be: the
young grown old: change and decay
everywhere; home delusion and disap-
pointment; strangers at the hearthstone;
sorrow where gladness was; tears for
laughter; the melancholy pomp OF death
where the grace Of life has beenl
With all good wishes for the Returned
ProdigaIs. and regrets that 1 cannot par
take of a small piece Of the fatted calf
(rare and no gravy, ] am, yours cor
daily, MARK TWAIN.
Following the reading Of Mark Twains
letter and other from General Grant.
General Mcdowell, General Sherman and
statesmen of the day, Horace Greeley
responded to the toast New York and
California the two states whose posi-
tons, resources and energies have des-
tined them TO be the great centres OF
commerce and finance of the western
world
Among other things, Mr. Greeley said:
nfaN~ hfrher no Sic On he
gies of the people than on their positions
or their resources. The positions of the
two states were the same centuries ago
and their natural resources the same as
now. But II is the energy of the race
now inhabiting them that has given them
so great and rapid an advance to domino
ton in the present and to hopes of still
greater glory in the future
''In vain would have been the gold of
California In vain the commercial adj
vantages and central position of New
York, and these not been providentially
directed TO these shores and these re-
sources races of men with intelligence
and resolution to wrest from obstruction
and obstacle and every kind of disad-
vantage victory. where to inferior and
sluggish races would have been defeat.
California might have glittered with
gold. might have boosted the climate OF
Italy and the fertility of western prairie
for thousands of years or more, as she
mas done for thousands IN the past. had
it not been for the new INFUSION Of the
Anglo-Saxon and Irish blood which gives
her her present proud position.
Il recall these facts because. when we
speak of the present or the expected
greatness of these two remarkable cities.
New York and San Francisco, ] beg that
IL will ever be remembered that great
cities are the expression OF great ideas
that they grow out of the genius of Illus
trious men. Alexander gave his name
to the city that he founded, and that
city bears his name and is memorable
TO this oay.
Rome is mighty because Of the senate
and the people that made her high AM
proud position-made her the Eternal CITY
eternal because the genius that created
her still fingers over her hills. still is re-
hecte1 in the sunshine that CLEANS on her
palaces and --.us the shadows OF ancient
greatness recall 10 oiIr minds memories
and associations that make Us nohler
than we otherwise would be. II these
two cities are TO be great they will BE
great because OF The men who have still
the genius 10 preserve and extend the
advantages which they have won
Had there been no De Witt Clinton.
had there been or Erie Canal. in vain 4.