Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27


correspondent of Washington, Jeffer-
son and Adams, and commended BY
| them for his friendly conduct of the
| I.eidsche Courant, which influenced
| France and Spain, as well as the Meth
| erlands. to recognize American inde-
| pendence The tablet at Amerster-
dam will commemorate the stay OF the
Pilgrims there, and viii be set in the
church where they worshipped. while
the Nijkerk memorial will be in hon
or of the colonist Arendt Van Curler,
who founded Schenectady, N. Y.
Most interesting, perhaps, is the Leeu-
| warden memorial. This will CONF
memorate the initial vote which led
| to the reception by the Netherlands
states-general of our national inds-
| pcndence.
'Is Mark Twain Dead?" by Eugene
H. Angert, in the September number
of the North American Review, is q
parody on the recent Bacon Shake
speare writings. not excepting Mark
(! Twain's own book, rs Shakespeare
Dead?" Mr.. Angert proves that Marh
| Twain is utterly and irrevocably dead.
| He proves, Furthermore, by means OF
| cipher that Ebert Hubbard is the
author Of Mark Twain's recent works.
| He observes:
about five years ago Mark Twain
| announced that he was writing his au-
| photography, which would not be pub
| lished until 100 years after his death.
| This latter statement was so fire.
| quently and so emphatically made by
| the author that it will be readily re-
| called. Mark Twain was q truthful
| man; he would not resort to n gross
deception for the purpose Of advertise
! ing forthcoming book. We can safe
| ly assume that he would never permit
| the autobiography to be given to the
public during his lifetime. But about
| two years ago the first instalment of
this very work appeared in a magazine
and further instruments followed for
over q year. What more conclusive
evidence could there be that Mark
| Twain is dead: He always kept faith
with the public. and If we believe him
| alive at the time the autobiography
| was published we must hold him
guilty of deception and trickery. And
| to this thousands of friends and ad-
| mirers, who We're SO deeply panied at
| the premature publication of the au-
| photography, my discovery of his death
prior to its appearance will come as
glad tidings and welcome relief"
| 1t may be argued for the defendant
| that the magazine articles of which
Mr.. Angert speaks did not keep to
one subject long enough to constitute
an autobiography.
| S. r. Crockett, whose new novel,
| ''The Men of the Mountain the Har-
pers have Just published, was educated
| at three of the most famous of all uni
Observation-Disclosures Heidelberg, and
| OXford-and carries the degree of M.
A. Mr.. Crockett. whose initials mean
| Samuel Rutherford, is a native of
| Duchrae, Galloway, and has served as
minister in the Free Church of Scot
land which he entered as a young man
of twentysix. With the lealty of the
Scot, Mr.. Crockett has laid most of
his novels including 1.-THE Sticket Min
ister,' "The Gray Man" "Lochinvar."
| and 1.-THE Dark o. the Moon" in Scot
lands country, but the precedent is
| broken by "The Men of the Mountain"
which has its scene in Switzerland at
the time of the Franco-Prussian war.
| YAH tillHh VI dHytIlnS lndI l.
| could do without easier than the mo-
squito." writes Albert Bigelow Paine.
| HE seems to me a creature wholly
devoid of virtue. He is glutton,
poisoner, a spreader of disease, q dis
penser of disturbing music. That last
| is the hardest to forgive If he would
only be still, could overlook the other
| things. I wonder if he will take his
voice with him into the next world.
l should like to know, too, which place
he is bound for. / should like to
know. so 1 could take the other road"
When this chapter was written for
'"The Tent-Dwellers." Mr.. Pane's
story just issued by the Harpcrs, Of
camping and rout-fishing in Nova
Scotia, Frederic Remington, the artist,
wrote as follows: my dear Paine
Just read your speculation OF why
mosquitoes were made etc. l know
the answer. They were created to aid
civilization-otherwis no man not an
idiot would live anywhere else than in
the woods