The Washington herald., 1910-04-22

spring soon she had growing there All
lovely green things-onions. radlshes. cab
bageS. and other rare Injuries. From San
Francisco they imported sausages and
cheese. made riches selling beer, but were
unhappy because lonely-until the three q
chums discovered them. Clemens would
wheedle the good wife into bringing forth
cheese, sausages. sauerkraut and brown
bread: Dan de guile would talk German
TO the good man. and get stems Of the
best brew. while Mccarthy would gather
from the garden those rare delicacies. /
onions and so on. Each Sunday the pals,
dressed up in their very best. ceremOni-
ously called on the German couple. and
were RECALLED with the best meals l ever
ate in my life" Clemens used 10 say long /
sfterward. NO. not in going around the
world have I ever sat down to a meal }
Of such inexpressible delight as those at !
the mouth Of Seven Mile Canyon
Matter widely Copied.
Dan de guile induced Clemens TO sign /
some Of his broadly humorous matter. and F.
soon articles began 10 appear in the En- /
terprise over the name Mark Twain, and
these were widely copied by the papers Of
the Coast.
/ The san Francisco Call made an offer
Z 20 the writer OF the Mark Twain stories.
and Clemens in 1863 went on the Call STAFF.
/ but he remained there only six months.
for the mining camp called him again.
In Calaveras County. Cal. he found little
gold dust. but he did find material for
stories which gave him his first fame east
Of the Rockies, the stories In the book
The Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County"
In 1863 Clemens went 20 the Sandwich
Islands. and wrote from there some
sketches for the Sacramento Union. which
sketches were the basis for his first lee
lures delivered in san Francisco after his
return from Honolulu.
In the following year the stories OF the
Jumping Frog book were published and
Mark Twain became known in the East
ern States as a writer of exaggerated
. humor II was the reputation these
stories gained for him that prompted
some newspaper editors TO select Mr..
Clemens TO go with a party Of tourists
on a journey abroad and write for his
employers what would now be called a
syndicate letter This trip resulted
. QS69 IN the publication Of 'Tnnocents
Abroad" an extended revision of the
letters. and with the instant success OF
that book the writer became famous in
- This country and most OF the countries
II Of Europe.
: In spite OF the very profitable sales Of
. the book. which would have warranted
: the author in devoting all his time &c
= book writing. he soon after his return
I -, o1fr0,
q Of the Buffalo Express. This was prob
= ably in pursuance OF contract entered
; into before the trip 10 Europe. He re
= NAMED I'm Buffalo only two years, marry
> ing there Miss Olivia Langdon. who's
acquaintance he had made on the oceai
a voyage.
= NIr. Clemens went 70 Hartford 20 lv
a and at once began work with the materia
=, he had gathered while he was not gath
a erfnE other pay ore in the Sierra Neved
Mountains. and out of that material cam
70 the book "Roughins It." This fixed hi
d, reputation as a story teller and humoris'
70 and his work was urgently demanded b
- editors and publishers on both sides c
a the ocean. Contributing frequently
y magazines. he wrote also IN the followin
10 year. collaborating with Charles Dude
n Warner. THE GHded Age (which wa
10 soon successfully dramatized.
a Next came from his pen what man
d, American and nearly all English critic
Ia consider his best work Of fiction. TT
- Adventures Of Tom Sawyer GS6).
10 After writing several other books, NJ
20 Clemens in 1884 invested largely in Il
publishing enterprise of the Charles
% Webster Company. which had contracts
. TO pay Mrs. Grant $4,000 for the COP,
- right OF Gen. Grants autobiography. TIE
on years later the failure Of this firm lie
10 Mr.. Clemens in debt far beyond his T
,ts sources. It was believed by his frien'
and advisers that round tho world le
.or ture tour would help TO recoup NJ
nm Clemens and the tour was undertake
IA Its success was vastly beyond the mo
he hopeful expectations; the author was =
me ceived everywhere with high social al
70 sometimes with civic honors; his lectur
70 were everywhere attended by delight
ga crowds and frequently delivered und
-o~ the patronage" OF the most distinguis
,- ed people The profits OF the tour enaol
tas Mr.. Clemens to pay every cent he ow
de and left him considerable balance.
re Well Known Socially.
ON His literary activities became great
than ever before. and socially he was co
spicuous-as much so in Paris. Vienr
re- Berlin. and London as in New York.
New York he became the greatest pr
! for those who arranged public dime
M. and so many were his invitations TO su
,,o. affairs that it was said IN the years
81. tween 1904 and 1905, during the whit
"a he received an average of 100 dinner IN
- tations a month. The humor OF what
-. said was accentuated by his famous he
n tating drawI to such an extent that so
Oh, who read his speeches at which IN
~. dred seasoned diners had roared W
.o+o laughter wondered why. Perhaps the b
nd example Of his humorous talks was Il
tor which he made at a dinner in honor
MI. his sixty-seventh birthday. given by
~. publishers at the Metropolitan Club.
- Clemens had Just returned from a trip
"a the West Indies with Tom Reed and II.
r. Rogers in the latter's yacht. and Def
l l,,. the humorist was called upon TO spt
IAN Mr.. Reed had poked a great deal OF
VS. at him Here IN part 10 "'l"O MI lie
TORN ems said in reply:
] mink ought 10 " dhoNeu - e"AH ~ ~
I want TO- for the reason that have cancelled
ldg nv winters engagements Of every kind for
and and sufficient reasons and am making no new
a. gagemcnts for this winter. and therefore this is
" Only time the only chance shall have 20 d.
me bowel my skull for year. want TO offer thi
the and homage 10 the chairman for this innova
. - which he has introduced here. which Is impTuS
as I consider Il. on the Oldfashioned style Of
amer Quoting occasions like this. That bad
the was a bad. bad. bad arrangement Under that
Vir- custom the chairman got up ana maze speech
introduced the prisoner al the bar and covered
all over with compliments-ncthing but con
,inia ments not a thing but compments-never
more and sat down and left the man 20 get up ana