White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-17

be 1t was, but IL 1t was 1t was a pity;
1t would have shown sc much more
presence of mind, had he embraced
some other woman
"A young man came down from
the fifth story of a house On Stockton
street and did not stop until he
reached the middle of the street. He
had on no clothing except a knit
undershirt which came about as
near c~oncealipg his person as the tin
foil does the champaign bottle.
Men yelled at him, small boys
shouted to him and ladies besought
him to take their aprons, their sun
bonnets, their hoop-skirts-anything
to cover himsef up and not stand
there "distracting peoples attention
from the earthquake. The young
man looked all around, then down at
himself, and then he went upstairs.
| am told he went up lively.
pete Hopkins-he weighs 43O
pounds-was shaken off of Telegraph
hill, and as he was going down
struck a three-story brick house.
The papers, always disappearing
things, ascribed the destruction of
the house to the earthquake
And SO the letter ran on through
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a column and a half of the old Enter
prise's long and wide columns. He
finally made a visit to the Hawaiian
islands; at his leisure prepared a
lecture and, returning to San Fran
cisco, drew a crowd by the advertise
ment which he put out that the doors
would be opened at 1880 and at 8
o'clock 1.-The trouble would begin"
Then he joined the excursion party
to the Mediterranean and its shores,
out of which grew his %"Innocents
Abroad"
He took the manuscript TO a port
ly New York publisher and laying the
mduuSCIlpI with Ills Caiu oieoehOu
before the publisher, and with his
drawl said: Il should like to get
that stuck into anthony" TYPES are
made of antimony.)
The publisher glanced at the man
uscript; hat looked all right-Mark
wrote a beautiful hand-then at the
card, and then gravely inquired:
who are your representatives, Mr..
Clemens?" Mark answered:
Haven't got any in the world. There
are only two men ! could apply to,
they are Joe Goodman and Jerry
Driscoll, and they wouldn't count, for
they would lie for me just as I'd lie
for them"
Since then the world has been
familiar with the history of Mark
Twain. On the Comstock he was
not always a refined gentleman.
There he was just. but not EXPIRE
ssiyely generous, and one thing he
was most sensitive about. He could
not bear a ~premeditated joke If he
was the subject of it. The boys
made him a formal present of an
imitation M~eerschaum pipe and
when he found that plenty more like
it could be bought for $3.50 each, his
thoughts were filled with murder for
three days.
II going to work on the Enterprise
was an era in his life; when he mar
ried the rare woman that he did, that
was an epoch. 1t redeemed him,
changed the whole tenor of his be-
fore hayward life. awakened new
and holy purposes in his soul and like
Moses and Elias, he was TRANSPORTED.
He put his old life behind him. In
this he was helped by the refined So
ciety in which he made his home, and
his wife held up his arms. He was
always given to moody fits and he
needed the gentle encouragement of
those who were dear to him.
Soon after his death quite an ex-
tended discussion was raised as to the
probable endurance of his fame as
a great humorist. There will be no
trouble about that, for compared
with other writer's, his place is dis
tinct.
Personally. l wish he had mingled
more eloquence and pathos in his
words at times. for men tire of quail
on toast if fed constantly upon it.
But he performed a marvellous work.
Most writer's have a passion for writ
ing in early youth. There is no
evidence that Mark Twain ever had,
or even a passion for reading and
deep study. He was more than
thirty years OF age before he ever
wrote anything that attracted atten-