The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-04

that country never paid any attention
TO them7''
Not so much that they were ever
caught at it. The ranchers take them
away in sacksful and make fertilizers
out Of them
I suppose not. / wonder what these
scientists are for? 1 know, near Men
tone where there are two caves filled
with skclet, Tis n a row, two rooms &c
the care. and two rows of skeletons IA
each room. Not one OF those skeletons
is less than seven feet tall, and one OF
them is more than that. II would seem
the easiest thing in the world for few
scientists 10 fit over there from France
and take steps 10 protect them, but
they don L. Tourists come along, lS-
norant, wooden-headed tourists. and
carry them away bone by bone, and not
scientist to stop them
I don't know what these scientists
can be thinking about, anyway. Here's
John Eiske who wrote delightfully."-
about all sorts Of things, anything pre-
historic or -antedeluvian seeming TO in
terest him, but / cannot find that he
wrote q word about the evidences of
our ancestry reposing in caves around
the country"
The denOuncer Of scientists was still
thinking of the neglected skeletons in
the south OF France.
Those caves were right near that
gambling place. can't recall the name
OF it"
Monte Carlo?''
Yes, Monte Carlo. There. that re-
minds me of something I can make use
of. Monte Carlo. presided over by that
Prince of He'll, otherwise known as the
Prince of-of-Of-'
Monaco
Yes, the Prince Of Monaco. for 300
Z lhIR n RIVAL
family in Europe. simply because he
rules n ten-acre lot Of royal ground.
can use that. some time
Mr.. Twain asked Davenport, who
! had now finished his sketches. here
are two pictures and pipes and other
/ ornaments by Phil May. mighty fine
/ ones, too. Great, amt he?''
Yes. / am going to make use Of
/ those two as soon as I can think Of
/ some way to do 1t: in a book or story
/ of mine perhaps. He did them for me
/ 50 quickly that I did not realize for a
/ long time how really great they were.
/ He's a wonderful man.
/ One of the sketches was a picture of
/ a Chinaman, no art calendar Mon
gOlian, but a real inlpaSsive self-satis-
4 fed native of the land Of flowers. The
other was a girl. a street girl, but so
natural you could almost see her wink
\ ing at you
May is great artist" continued
/ the author. But here he had seen
{ Davenport carefully rolling up his
sheets of bristol board, Il must have q
look at those
] Davenport continued to roll them up.
/ oh Mr.. Twain, I guess you really
don't want TO see them. do your
Yes, indeed I do" He jumped out
of his chair with the agility of Jim
Smiiey's Danl Webster-Dan'l was the
/ frogs name-and the cartoOnist un-
rolled the sketches.
/ "WeI," said their subject. slowly
They're bully. but you've made me
! look 200 years old. I claim a good many
years, but not 2OO.'
We had started to go, observing that
he was looking WistfUlly at the door, as
if he yearned to know how one or both
/ of us would look framed in it. A pho
tograph Of Mr.. Twain tossed among
some other pictures on the mantel
! caught DavenpOTt's G/-
/ 4 don't think that does you justice,
/ Mr.. Twain he said.
p We'll, possibly not. Here is one !
drew of myself"
He f1shed from a drawer in the table
/ a copper plate with an astounding
sketch engraved upon it.
A line in his own chirOgraphy under
/ meath explained what was the matter
with it,
II never could draw a mouth" it
said. so in making this picture have
| left the mouth out.-Mark Twain
We shook hands and journeyed forth