The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1906-01-26

Abroad were first given Co Us. On De-
cemlser 9Th he was the guest 81 honor
10 a dinner In New York. 10 celebrate
his seventieth birthday. The guests
were confined closely % writer's
~ imaginative literature. and about
lao authors were present. nearly haif
Of them women. Every guest rrC~ived
as a souvenir a bust Of Mark Twain.
half-llfe size. Naturally Mr.. Clemens
was the principal SPEAKER; BE- to"k as
his text. How 20 get 60 D. seventy
aud not mind it, lie said
~The seventeen birthday. IL j. the
time % life when you arrive az a new
and awful dignity; when you may
throw aside the decent reserves which
have oppressed you for a generation.
and stand unafraid and unabdshed
upon your seven-ierracsd summit and
look down and teach-unrebuk"l You
can tell the world how you got there.
II is what they all do. You shall never
get tlrrd Of telling 10y what dslicate
arts and deep moralIti"s y"d climbed
up 10 that great placr. You VIII ex-
plain the process and dwell un thc par
tlculars with scnil~ rapture. ] uave
IErn anxious e. explain my own ~ys-
tenn Tor hong time. aud now at last
have the f.ghL
Regularly Irregular.
Il have achieved my seventy years
IN the usual way 10y sticking strictly
g. a scheme q my life which would
Xii anylody else. IL sounds Like an ,N.
agerrat!on. hut that i really 90" con-.
mon rule for attaining a. old '-'
We have no permanent habits uu'l
we are forty. Thea they ls=in 10 bar
den. pre-entiy they petriy, then hU~.-
ness begins Slnre forty ] have lHvu
regular about going TO bad aud C.it.u-
m and that i one ~ the main things.
I have mad" = 90 rul. O." ~ % lSd
when th.r,. wasn't auE' ally lrft o. s.t
up with. and | ~" u..lu ~ rule 'o
get up WHEN I had Co. Ta.~ lis uli.
"a in On answering regularity 81 .r-
regularity.
In ihr matter 81 di,t-which T.
another main thing I have Nru i"r-
slstently strict On sticking to III" things
/ which didn't a-r,-e with me until ou"
or the other of us got the ls"Si 20 w..
| Until lately.I got the BEST 81 ~ nv self
Hut last spring I stopped fr"lirAius
with minc,. pie after midnight: up Ia
then I had always believed II wash
loaslsd. For thirty years hay" taken
roffer and brad az : In the morning
and NJ bite nor sup until T.5o In thu
evening.
Il have made II a rule never O.
smoke morp than one cigar az q time. !
have NO other rrStrictton as n-xards
smoking. ! do not know just when
trran 10 smoke; ! "nly know that "
was In nv fathers lifetime. ana tnat
I was indiscrcrt. Tie Tas-ed from tnis
NE early In iSl5. when ] vas . shade
mast eleveu: ever since then ! nave
SMOKED publicly. AZ an example 10
Others. and not that care for moder'
atIon myuelf. 4 has always been my
rule never 60 smske when aSlerp. ana
never 20 refrain when awake.
as for drinking. ! have ~ rule
,,.,us that. When the Others drin~ i
/ IKE 10 help: otherwise ! remain Dry
/ hy habit and preference. This dry.
ness dos not hurt me. l'at u could
| easily hurt you. becau~s You arr
Different. You 1T Il alone.
First STANDARD OIL Trust.
sSinc. 7 was seven years old ] have
s,llom taken a dnse II medicine and
have sin more seiiom needed Que.
Rut NJ 20 seven I lived exclusively on
aIlonathic medicines. Not that ] ned
"a them. for I don't think did; but IL
was for economy. Ny father took a
drug store for a debt. and u made cod
nvrr al cheaper than the other break.
fasf foods. was the arst STANDARD
| on Trust. had q an ny the tine
the drug store was exhausted my
health was established. and thew has
never been much the matter with me
i Glnca.
n have never taken any eKercise. En-
cent sleeping and resting. and ! never