Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-11
MARK TWAIN'S TWIN
Humorist Does the Siamese Act at a
 New Years Party

The last thing Mark Twain did in 1906 was to get drunk and deliver 8 lecture on temperance, and the first thing he did in 1907 was to glory in the fact that he would be able to rejoice over other dead people when he died in having been the first man to have telharmonium music turned on in his house. like gas.
 Of course, Mark Twain did not really get drunk any more than he delivered a real lecture on temperance. He initiated drunken man and a temperance lee. turer at one and the same time, and took all the glory for the lecture to himself while he blamed his Siamese brother for the jag.
 Those who have never heard that MT Clemens has a Siamese brother, must be told that he had such relative for one night only, and the occasion was a party given to few friends in honor of Miss Clemens at the author s home.
 The score or SC of guests who had passed the evening playing ehurades and oher games were surprised to see MT Clemens enter the drawing room on to the little stage at ll:30, dressed in the white suit he wore recently on Pennsyl vania avenue, Washington,
 With him, in a similar suit of white came a young gentleman whom the au thor introduced to the company as his Siamese brother. The two had theiI arms about each other, and their suits bon supposed to represent ligature Twain was rather short and broad and his hair was snow white. His brother was very tall and very slight and had black hair. It was easy to see that they were brothers. Mark remarked on the close resemblance almost as soon as he came into the room.
 "We come from afar,' said Mark "We come from very far; very far, in deed-as far as ew Jersey. We ars the Siamese twins, but we have been ir this country long enough to know some thing of your customs, and we have learned as much of your language as il is written and spoke as--well-as the newspapers.
 "We are so much to each other, my brother and I, that what eat nourishes him, and what he drinks-ahem!-nour ishes me. l often eat when I don It real ly want to because he is hungry, and of course, I need hardly tell you that he often drinks when I am not thirsty
 "'I am very sorry to say that he is confirmed consumer of liquor-liquor that awful, awful curse-while |, from principle, and also from the fact that l don't like the taste, never touch [ drop.
 Mark then went on to say that he had been asked to take up the temperanct cause and had done so with great sue cess, taking his brother along as . hor rible example.
 "It has often been source of coz siderable annoyance to me, when going about the country lecturing on temper ance, to find myself at the head of 2 procession of white ribboned people sC drunk l couldn t see, he said. Bu' am thankful to say that my brother has reformed"
 At this point the Siamese brother sur reptitiously took drink out of flask He hasn't touched drop in three years. "
 Another drink.
 "Thank God for that. " | Several drinks.
 "And if, by exhibiting my brother tt you I can save any of you people here | from the horrible curse of the demor rum, y Mark fairly howled, "I shall bt satisfied. {"
 Just then, apparently, some of th' rum, or the influence of it, got througl the pink ribbon. Mark hiccoughed sev eral times.