The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-22

trade-besidcs being a practical printer
(he had been part owner of the Buffalo
Press before his marrlage)-drew him
into the firm of c. l.. Webster & Co.
memoirs OF General Grant and paid his
widow S350,000. but its prosperity was
shortlived. and IL failed with liabilities
OF s96,000 The failure had already taken
$50 900 of Mark Twain's cash, but he de-
termined also TO shoulder the debts. and
to pay them off undertook in 1865 a
lecture trip around the world.
Mark Twain was invetorate smoker
and one of the most Ielsurely mon IN the
world. An old pressman who was
printers devil" in an office where Mark
was an editorial writer, tells this anec-
dotc OF his habits OF work.
Quaint Tribute.
''One of my duties was to sweep the
Mark would give me a nickel to get away
from him. He would rather die in the
dust than uncross his legs. One day he
gave me a nickel TO dot an ~ in his
copy for him. He certainly did enjoy
life, that man did,
Yet this easy going dawdler acquitted
himself OF prodiSious deal of work in
his life. and bound himself voluntarily
TO pay off debts that he could have dis
charged without hurt to his good name
by passing through bankruptcy, He did
not practice as he preached. "lt don't
make no difference" no had Huck Finn
say, whether you do right or wrong, a
persons conscience amt got no sense
and Just goes for him anyway, II / had
yaller dog that didn't know no more
than a PERSONS conscience did, I'd pizen
him II takes up more room than all
the rest of a PERSONS insides, and yet
amt no good. nohow."
with Mark Twains lecture trip around
the world began his international cce
brity and his gradual rise into a figure
taken in some sense to typify the Amer
lean. From humorlst he became the
LII, 1fa-f rNi,I
Iosophcr OF "Puddin' Head Wilson" His
literature output became more occasional
and. although written with moro fincssc.
became more critical and less creative.
Ills public appearances grew more fire.
qucpt. his whimsical utterancos gained
greater currency and a whole literature
OF anecdotes grew up about him.
Yale gave him the doercc OF NJ, A., and
later LID. in 1901; the University OF
Missouri his native state, followed with
LID in 1902. and In 1907 the University
of oxford, with great ceremony, made his
LitcD.
Appreciated Abroad.
Indeed, serious appreciation of Mark
Twain as an artist and not a mere joke
smith began abroad. but his true worth
has long been recognized in this coun-
liam Dean Howclls. will live forever
lie portrays and interprcts real types.
not only with exquisite appreciation and
sympathy, but with force and truth
lie had the true humorlsC tender heart
and deep seriousness. Like Bret Harte.
with whom he worked. Hike the great
west that bred him, his most audacious
sallcs were terse and sternly grave. AS
Il moraist, love Of humanity. hatred OF
sham and the sense of duty formed his
most ironic and debonair preachmcnts."
-Four children were born to Mark
Twain, of whom two. son and daugho
ter died early. One other daughter,
Jean. who had been an Invalid for life.
was found dead in her bath tub last fall
in her home at Redding. Conn. Her
tragic death greatly saddoned her father.
who declined In health from that mo-
mcnt, A third daughter Clara, is Mrs.
OSsip GalbrilowitSch. wife of the pianist.
whom she married last year
Mark Twains first book was Tho
Frog" His best known in this
country possibly was "Innocents Abroad"
His suresC title To fame generally is be-
licvcd to be Tom Sawyer" and its com
panion volume. The Adventures OF
lIuckleberry Finn" In all. his books had
a sale of more than 100000 copies and
were translated into six languages.
Others among the better known are: "A
Tramp Abroad The Prince and the
Pauper," "a Yankee In King Arthur's
Court" "Puddiu Head Wilson" (drama-
tizcd). Joan of Are "a Double Bar
relied Detective Story and "Eve's
Diary" He left an unfinished autobi-
oeraphy, portions Of which have appeared