The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-04-26

practice as he preached. 1t don't
i make no difference, he had Huck
! Finn say, whether you do right OF
wrong, a persons conscience amt
got no sense and just goes for him
anyway If I had yaller dog that
| didn't know no more than a persons
conscience did, I'd p'ison him. 1t
takes up more room than all the rest
Of persons insides, and yet amt no
good, no how"
Business reverses were encoun-
tered by Mr.. Clemens about seven
years ago, when his friend, Henry H.
Rogers, went to his aid His publish
ing affairs, managed by himself, new
er were a success, and at this time
other friends came forward to reha-
bilitate the authors fortunes. He
lectured and he wrote and again
emerged from his troubles At this
time he cruised with Mr.. Rogers on
the latteg's yacht and was often in
his company
With Mark Twain's lecture trip
around the world began his interna-
tional celebrity and his gradual rise
into q figure taken in some sense to
typify the American spirit. From
humorist he became the kindly but
hooking moralist and philosopher of
"Puddinhead Wilson" His literary
output became more occasional and,
though written with more finesse,
more critical and less creative. His
public appearances grew more FREE
quent, his whimsical utterances
gained greater currency, and a whole
literature of anecdotes about him
grew up.
Yale gave him the degree of M.
A., and later of l.. H. D., in 1901;
the University of Missouri, his native
State, followed with LII. D. in 1902.
and in 1907 the University of Oxford
with great ceremony made him
Lift. D.
Indeed, serious appreciation of
Mark Twain as an artist and not a
mere jokesmith began abroad, but
his true worth has long been recog-
nized in this country Mark Twain's
humor,' said William Dean Howells,
will live forever. He portrays and
interprets real types, not only with
exquisite appreciation and sympathy,
but with a force and truth of draw
ing that makes them permanent. He
had the true humorist's tender heart
and deep seriousness. Like Bret
Harte, with whom he worked, like
the great West that bred him, his
most audacious sallies were terse and
sternly grave. AS a moralist, love of
humanity, hatred of sham and the
sense of duty informed his most
ironic and debonair preachments."
Four children were born to Mark
Twain, of Awhom two, son and
daughter, died early. One other
daughter, Jean, who had been an in
valid for life, was found dead in her
bathtub last fall in her home at Red
ding, Conn. Her tragic death sad
dened hsr father, who declined in
health from that moment. A third
daughter, Clara, is Mrs. Ossip Gabri-
lowitsch, wife of the pianist, who
married her last year.
Mark Twain's first book was "The
Jumping Frog" His best known in
this country was possibly 'Innocents
Abroad" His surest title to fame is
generally believed to be tom Saw
yer" and its companion volume, "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
In all, his books had sale of more
than 100000 copies and were trans
lated into six languages. Others
among the better known are A
Tramp Abroad, 1.-The Prince and the
Pauper," "a Yankee at the Court of
King Arthur" 'Puddinhead Wilson
(dramatized), "Joan of Arc," "A
Double-Barreled Detective Story and
Ewes Diary"