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Intellect, Power and Wealth Of
the Land Pay Tribute to
the Humorist.
NOTHING FUNERAL ABOUT n
Composite Likeness Sought Which
Will Keep Unique Character
Real and Actual-Whxt
They Said.

New York, Nov. S.-The tNellect tina
power and the wealth Of the land gath
cred at Carnegie hall tonight to pay
tribute to the memory oe Mark Twain.
william Dean Howells presided. Cucls
Joe Cannon. tfe speaker that Is. and
Champ Clark, tho speaker that may be-
spoke from the same platform. Robert
Underwood Johnson, editor OF the Cen
tury Magazine, Dr. Heury Van Dyke Of
Princeton. Henry Watterson, George W.
Ctble- Daniel C. French. ]. P.erponc
Morgan. Edwin II. Blashfield. Booth
Harrington. Irving Bachelor John
Luther Long, Charles Dana Gibson and
many others were among those Invited
The meeting was held under the auspices
Of the Academy Of Arts and Letters.
Mr.. Howells. as chairman, spoke brief.
". II believe I can safely promise" he
said of the commemoration. that it will
rot be formal and Will not be funeraal
Tho man himself could no more be
formallzed than flame His vivid zentuf
ranged at will through all the ways OF
life. Now that II is freed to the path.
less amplitude Of the skies, it could
hardly offer tho pattern OF conven-
tional observance
'1f the mind and make of our COM
memoration could be left to him. ws
might imagine him saying:
NOTHING SOLEMN WANTED.
Why. of course you mustn't have II
that sort Of ohsequy. ! should want Won
to be serious about me-that is, sincere.
and YOU couldn't be sincere IL you ran to
eulogy But we don't object here to any
mans affection; We like to be liked as
we'll as ever, and II any OF you can re-
member some credltable thing about me
shouldn't mind his telling it. providing
always he didn't blink the palliating
circumstances. the mitigating motives.
the selfish Considerations that always
accompany every noble action. ! shouldn't
Ihe TO De made oHt a miracle Of humor
elther' and LETT stumbling block for any
man VINO was intending 10 oe moderately
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USED TO say ne kept two remedies for
sleeplessness at the head OF his bed.
the blhle and lnnocents Abroad.
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which he read the more continued
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