, 1910-06-01

N%AAH HNAl4 -1AEE1tACI d. LE.'
worlds greatest ~humorist, passed away on
Thursday (AprIl ~ at his home at Rodding.
Connecticut U.S.A His fortune OF E20O,O0
10 left to his daughter, Mime. Gabriloviesch.
Not only was he dooply loved by the
whole Englsh-spcakiug race. but MS books
and lectures brought merrjmeut TO countless
thousands OF people of othor tongues iato
whose languages his works hBve been trans
Lifted.
Perhaps no finer ouIogy hos been uttered
on Mark Twain and has work than that Elk
pressed by Mr.. Birrell ut q luncheon giyen
TO the author by the Pilgrims on the occa-
SION OF his last visit to England in 1907
Mark Twain, said Mr.. Birrell, "is q man
whom Englishmon and Americans do well
10 honour. lie IS a true consolidation of
nations His delightful humor IS Of the
and which dissipates and destroys natural
proJudlces. His love Of truth and his love
OF honour overflow all boundaries. He has
made the world better by his presence.
Long may ne live to reap a plentiful harvest
OF hearty honest human affection.
Life on the Mississippi.
Born seVenty-fOur years ago III Florida.
Mark Twain had a career which was char
acteristically American. la describing the
out of the way types and local detail which
appear in such books as ''Huckleberrv Finn"
and 'TOm Sawyer" be was describing his
own life and youth. BY the time he was
ol8htoon he had tried life as printer, report
or and river pilot. For seven years he was
pilot IN a steamboat plying on the Mississip-
pl, between St. Louis and New Orleans
lie found time, however, to write for the
newspapers, and has left IA lively account of
this period in his "Piloting on the Mississip-
pl"
1t was daring that time that he got hIs
nom de guerre. He had been siguing his
sketches "Iosh,' u name which came to hun
ne knows not how, but which he never cared
TOR. One day while in the pilot house pom
dorlng as to what name lie could substitute
for 'Iosh,' he hoard a big buck uigger,"
who was taking soundings of the river. call
out MARK Twain!" The phrase caught the
young writer's fancy.
Leaving the pilot house, he edited a news
paper in Virginia City, Nevada. acting at
the same time rs clerk to his brother. whom
President Lincoln had appointed secretary
OF thas territory Thence he won't to San
Francisco, and joined Bret Harto III produc-
ln8 the GdIlforh{02. But this was a short
llyod venture, and Mark Twain tried a short
porod ut the mines. He was soon back IN
journalism, however and went to Hawaii us
spocltl correspondent for d San Francisco
paper.
''Hhe jumping Frog" appeared in 1867,
and Its author was almost Immediately q
man OF mark Then came "a European tour,
followed by The Iuuoconts Abroad. Tho
Tramp Abroad, tom Sawyer" "HuGAle-
berry Finn" Life Oh the Mississippi" and
other works.
of the quaint turns That Mark TwaiD's
humour has taken none WIS quaintor than
that ot his appearing IN tle House Of Re-
Personalities IN Washington il December
1906 clad entirely n wnito Asked why he
wore a white ilan "a SUIT in shvering
weather, Marx SAIL he had on plenty OF
undertaking, and proietrol brilliaut, strik-
ing colours TO the da,b, sombre, clothes mon
usually wear, winch had a melancholy,
depressing effect upon HIM.
Luncheon with the King.
A constant succession OF honours was paid
Mark Twain when he visited England three
years ago. Tho King specially honoured
HIM rs a guest at a Windsor Castle party:
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, the American Amhassa-
dior tr.lra ID, l.,,4t,1T -, -. 10000. ~ .