The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-22
DEATH CLAIMS MARK TWAIN
NATIONS GREAT HUMORIsT
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die in the dust than uncross his legs
One day he gave me a nickel to dot
an Il in his copy for him. He certain
ly did enjoy life, that man did"
Yet this easy going dawdler acquit-
ted himself of a prodigious deal of
work in his life, and bound himself
voluntarily to pay off debts that he
could have discharged without hurt to
his good name by passing through
bankruptcy. He did not practice as he
preached 1T don't make no differ
ence," he had Huck Finn say, ''wheth-
er you do right or wrong, persons
conscience amt go no sense, and just
goes Tor him anyway. If l had a
yaller dog that didn't know no more
than persons conscience did, I'd
pisen him. It takes up more room
than all the rest of a persons insides,
and yet amt no good nohow."
With Mark Twain's lecture trip
around the world began his interna-
tional celebrity, and his gradual rise
into a figure taken in some sense to
Itypify the American spirit. From
humorist he became the kindly but
Imocking moralist and philosopher Of
Puddinhead Wilson His literary out
put became more occasional and,
though written with more finesse.
more critical and less creative. His
public appearances grew more FIRE
quent, his whimsical utterances gain
ed greater currency, and whole liter
ature of anecdotes about him grew
up.
Yale gave him the degree of NJ. A.
and later of L. H. D. in 1901, the uni
versity Of Missouri, his native state,
followed with Ill. 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
mere jokesmith began abroad, but his
true worth has long been recognized in
this country. Mark Twain's humor,"
said William Dean Howells. will live
forever. He portrays and interprets
real types. not only with exquisite ap-
probation and sympathy, but with
force and truth of drawing that makes
them permanent He had the true
tender heart and deep SER
iousness. 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
love of humanity, hatred of
sham, and the sense of duty informed
his most ironic and debonaire preach.
ments.
-Four children were born to Mark
Twain, of whom two, son and
died early. One other daugh-
ter, Jean, who had been an invalid for
life, was found dead in her bath tub
last fall In her home at Redding, Con-
necticut Her tragic death greatly
saddened her father who declined in
health from that moment. A third
laughter, Clara, is Mrs. Ossin Gabrilo-
Vitch, wife of the pianist. whom she
married last year.
Mark Twain's first book was the
Jumping Frog His best known in this
country were possibly Tnnocents
Abroad His surest title to fame is
believed to be Tom Sawyer
ind its companion volume, HThe Ad-
'entures of Huckleberry Finn. In all,
lis books had sale of more than 500,-
100 copies and were translated into six
anguages. Others among the better
Known are: A Tramp Abroad, The
Prince and the Pauper, A Yankee at
he Court of King Arthur, Puddinhead
wilson, (dramatized), Joan of Arc, A
)oublebarrelled Detective Story and
1ye's Diary He left an unfinished
autobiography. portions of which had
serially.