Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-31


for dissolution of the marriage tie,
These figures show that one married
couple in every fifty in the state is
seeking separation by law.
Similar conditions exist In several
other states. worse conditions in sonn
There Is no part of the country free
from the evil The states wheIc Ii
yorce is more difficult to obtain thrn
others have large numbers Of persons
within their bounds divorce else
where one state only, South Caro-
lima. refuses to authorize divorce, b 1t
South Carolina is a small state. IT -
co,rpellei to acknowledge the legality
of divorces granted elsewhere, US ~ell
ms that of the marriages of divorce
persons effected in other states, or eV-
on in the state OF South Carolint it,
SELF.
| How Mark Twain Located onags.
! The Waterways Journai prints llt-
tie interesting gossip aDout Sam
I Clemens, or Mark IVAN, that VIII De
readable In the river cities, OF which
Mark told in his first notable work,
his story of early life plotting on the
| Mississippi river.
about the only man that ever
I knew to- leave the river and go to
writing books" said the man at the
wheel. directing his observations to
: the usual crowd that gathered about
him in the pilot house, was Sam
Clemens. They say he's pretty rich
now, but ] understand he never runs
across an old chum without swapping
a few lies with him and paying for
all the drinks. Sam never got to be
much OF a pilot himself, but he used
| to know all of them, and write them
up In the papers better than anybody
ever could. He was about as green
!, looking creature as ever came from
/, Pike county, when he was on the old
Blue Bird, way back in the 'fifties,
and to look at him you would have
| thought he wasn't worth sweeping up
but he could write then till You
couldn't rest, and some of the funniest
| things that ever was printed about
the river, We're gotten UP by Sam.
1.-THE first thing that I remember
Of his that set everybody talking and
wondering who the boss yarn teller,
| Mark Twain, was that account about
| the great flood of the Mississippi, in
| early times, when the water was over
| everything and Vicksburg and
Natchez were the only dry spots be-
| tween Cairo and the Gulf. At Or
leans the boats landed alongside of
the top story Of the st. Charles hotei.
Well Of course that was the boss
flood, and nobody could talk of old
time boating like that; and so Glenn
ems got to be too big a man to stay
on the river, and, as I said, he quit,
and went to writing books.
But he wasn't much of pilot any
how. His mind didn't run that way,
and when he was at the wheel he was
always running over something and
getting the boat into trouble. He
would just as like as not go sound to
sleep on watch and run the boat into
the bank, head on. if you didn't keep
a watch on him, and If there was a
snag to be found, he would go miles
out Of his way to get whack at
it, and he was never happy unless he
was bouncing something. Why, you
would think he was getting the big
gest kind of wages from the govern
ment to just clear the river OF snage,
| If you'd see how he hustled them out
of the way.
but that wasn't the worst Of it, for
|
and get lost in the side streams.
remember one day the old Blue Bird
was lust flying through the woods,
and Sam. he was sweating like
bound boy at husking. And the
wheel! You just ought to have seen
/ It spin; you'd have thought to look
at Sam. that he was at least doing
some diamond breastpin plotting. And
! 1 reckon for a spell he thought ne
! was. but in about two hours. the mate,
he comes on deck, for, as 1t was the
! second watch, the captain was asleep
and says to Sam as how he thought
the Bird was going to Memphis that
trip.
1 "'Thats where we're going says
! Sam. as soon as could gather wind
! enough to speak.
"'Taking a side run to Jackson
port. eh?' says the mate.
"Haven't heard of it, says Sam.
I Haven't eh?' said the mate, looking
at him curious like.
Ono says Sam, pulling the wheel
hard down. sa as to bring the boat
round short turn.
".Then what on earth are you doing
4 in White river?" says the mate.
1 "1n White river? says Sam, turn
Ing white about the gills, and shaking
like he had a chill.
""Thslts where we are says the
mate, and you are twenty miles from
the mouth at that
"oh. N.Y. says Sam. thought I
was in chute
".well.' says the mate, you'd bet
ter turn this boat around and shoot
out of here before the old man gets
up. or you'll be looking for skiff TO
get back to the Mississippi. DO you
/ hear meg?
"Then Sam, he turns the Bird
around and holIers down to the engi-
neer. Jack, if you love me, give her
steam
"Well. the, mate kind of liked Sam
for his funny yarns, so he kept 1T all
from the old man till the boat got
back to Orleans. when Sam Quit. ana
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