The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-03

Twain and Uncle joe Cannon have
developed mutual admiration soci-.
ETY. For two days they have been
much in each others COMPANY
Swapping lies. according TO "un-
Gle Joe. 1t started AT the Gridiron
dinner a week ago when they sat
side by side
Mark Twain spent an hour In the
speakers room at the capitol, where
there was q "gabfest, in the langu-
age OF the speaker, and ii CONVERSE
zione, according to Mr. Clemens. that
would live in history could every
thing that was said be told
The fact of the distinguished au-
thor's presence soon became noised
abroad. The crowd of members OF
the house who had important bust
ness with the speaker just a, that
time was sufficient TO call into play /
all the finesse OF the speakers sec
rotary, l.. White Busby, to keep the
room from being crowded 10 suffo-
cation
Colonel Pete Hepburn was one
of the favored whose presence was
desired inside Former insurgent
jim" Tawney was permitted, as
reward for his recent good behavior,
Others were there long enough to
be presented to the speakers dis
/ tinguished visitor and then made way
for still others.
early Days ON Al1ssissippl
All the time Mark Twain and !. Tn
Gle Joe and the colonel talked 81 til
early days on the Mississippi,
which each knew much from perso
al experience They talked about Il
great writer's, the great orators, Il
men great in other lines whom the
have known. Henry Ward Beeche
* was mentioned 4
X knew Cofoae1 Pond: ~aI'
Il Uncle joe. 6 and 1 went down tc
the old Willard to meet Beecher..
! Pond asked me to introduce Beecher
the next three nights at the Old Ma
tional III not do it, said l. Beech.
er was embarrassed. No, | said IN
not do it, | can get up and say,
[ aides and gentlemen. | introduce
to YOU Henry Ward Beecher,' but
everything in tbs crowd would be
saying, Who is this fool who mas the |
assumption TO introduce Beecher? |
SO | told Mr. Beecher the thing 10 /
90 vas for l4i,n to Introduce him. eff, |
ard he did
Twain told his story of the boys |
ought playing cards in the predcn-
er's room. They hid the cards in the |
sleeve of the minis er's robe \ lev |
days later when the preacher was en-
gagged in baptizing convert by the |
immersion method, full hand float (,
ed out upon the waters.
Heard II Before,
I've heard that before. said |
Uncle Joe.
II reckon you have, said Twain, !
Il invented that story forty years |
ago and the newspapers stole it, |
Why. about. ten years later | was /
lecturing in England and stopped At !
a country house What do YOU think |
! had to do Sit by quietly and hear |
one dude tell that story TO another
as "a personal experience. About
twenty wears later ] was down in
Australia on lecture tour ! told
that story and my English experience
with IT. 4 big strapping fellow from
the brush got up and corroborated
me in every detail He was the dude
who had told the story as his own.
Twain TOLD one OF Chinamau OF
much education and learning. toI
whom il was recommended THAI he
read Innocence RNiOdu Ao tH' tNH
nicSt thing ever written by an Ameri-
can Tine English edition OF this
work is published in TWO volumes.
the second being called The New
Pugrims Progress Not very long
after Twain met this Chinaman at
his home With characteristic celes-
, tial trankuess he fished boob out
of his library
n was yeTy much disappointed,
Nj Twain De- said ruunot mud
a Joke in fhf whole hooh lic had
gotten mold ,f Buuran- pilrrim's
pfagl.-s
"l wanted Iu scs how you Nrr' aa
la prv-IdiuL officer said Twain az
the pnUf. nfulr uu You 't nu dif
teronf u he rHpU Than rru Hrr in
real Ir. WyIhiut- BON Hr frHiy
great fu. uuI rg MAN eau sif"0i
ta De- natural
NJ tIemen. rl~u visited lAN .'n-
ate eaucp rbrfe hr listened rr o.
speech af 5ena.ur nunuit ou Forrest