The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-31

twelve years. They attracted no par
of Florida take very little interest in
their former townsman. One old gen
tleman is reported to have said re-
Gently: He's left US, and what's the
good of us making a grand duke out of
him? If he thinks more of them peo-
| pie down East than his old friends in
! these parts, let them put on the taffy.''
| When Mark Twain was at Hannibal,
a few years ago, it is said not citizen
of Florida went over to see him. In
Mark TWain's case, the maxim of the
prophet being without honor save in
his own country is borne out. for the
people of Florida remember him as an
ordinary boy. with nothing about him
to hint at genius
The family residence on Hill Street,
and portion of Huck Firms residence,
are the only surviving architectural
landmarks of the humorists residence
in Missouri. Some people say Tom
Blankenship of Florida was the orig
inal of Huckleberry Finn, while at
Stoutsville they lay it upon Barney
Farthing of Paris. The latter, jolly,
goodnatured fellow of seventy, says
he is willing to stand for anything in
Tom Sawyer except Injun Joe.
Shortly before Thanksgiving Day,
while Mark Twain was in Washington,
where he lunched with President Roo
sevelt, he gave expression to the fol-
lowing Thanksgiving sentiments. Said
he:
Every year every person i'll Amer
lea concentrates all his thought upon
one thing-the cataloguing of his rea-
sons for being thankful to the Diety
for the blessings conferred upon him
and upon the human race during the
expiring twelve months. This is well
and as it should be; but it is too one
sided. No one ever seems to think of
the Diety's side of it. If He had a
voice how would He regard the years
results in Russia? The servants of
that government, in patriotic obedience
to is commands, have lately killed and
wounded fifty thousand Jews by I'M |
usual and unpleasant methods. Doubt !
less, the most that He can be thank |!
full for is that the carnage and the |
suffering are not as bad as they might |
be. He will have noticed that life in |
surance in New York has gone toler- |
ably rotten. He has noticed that the |
political smell ascending from New |
York, Philadelphia, and other munich |
palities has been modified a little. He |
has observed that King Leopold's de- |
struction of innocent life in the Congo |
is not as great this year as it was last
by as much as one hundred thousand |
victims, because of diminishing mate |
rial. He is himself thankful that mat
tiers in the Congo are not as irretriev-
ably bad as they might be, and that
some of the natives are still left alive. |
One is justified in fearing that the
Deity's Thanksgiving Day is not as
rosy as ours, and if He, now voiceless, |
should utter a sentiment, it would be |
tinged with a pathetic regret
This, surely, is humor Of the classic |
order; of a kind for which we should |
be thankful indeed. Mark Twain it |
is understood, is at work on two books, |
which will not be finished until next |
summer. One of them is to have the |
interesting title of THE Adventures of |
a Microbe,' which may be expected to |
deal with humors of the flesh as we'll |
as humor of the mind: a sort of COM
bination of the pathological and the
acknowledgement.