The Springdale news., 1912-10-18
A TRUE MISSOURIAN
Mark Twain Never Lost His Love
 for That State.

lidiHiDdi dDSOiute pIGOI that MdIh Twain was not only a Missourian by birth, but that he was Missou- rian at heart, no matter where his Joufneyings led him. The ineon- trovertible evidence has come from far-off Germany, where the dead writers daughter is She sent Mir. Geoge A Mahan, the man who bought and presented the Clemens homestead to Hannibal, her fath- CTS most highly prized pipe, and eonnoisseurs have agreed that it is a genuine Missouri meersehaum made from a Franklin County corn cob. The bowl is as tarry about the edges as the stack of St Lou is tug. and it has a strength Of character that could withstand an invading host.
 No Missourian who has attained the corneob and long-green degree in smoking ever cares for a lighter diet.
 It was Huck Finn who initiated Tom Sawyer and Joe Harper into the delights of surreptitious smoke, down on the island
 'Huck made the pipes and filled them. The smoke had an unpleas ant taste. and they gagged little, but Tom said.
 Why. it's just as easy. If I'd a knowed this was all, I'd a learnt long ago
 So would |, said Joe. Its jest nothing
 Many a time I've looked al people smoking. and thought, well Nish 1 could do that but ney- CT thought could. said Tom
 That just tte way with he hainst il, Huek? You've heard me talk just that way haven't you. luck? III leave il to =Huek if l haven't
 .Yes-heaps of times. said Huek.
 Well. have, too. said Tom Q hundreds of times, Once down by the slaughter house. Don't yor. remember, Huck9 Bob Tanner was shfse, and .Johnney Miller, and Jeff Thatcher, when said it. Don't YOU remember. Huek, bout me saying that?
 . Yes. that's so. said Huek. That was the day after l lost white alley. No, twas the day be- fore
 . Therel told you so. said Tom sHuek recollects it.
 I believe could smoke this pipe all day, said Joe. l don't feel sick
 : Neither do l., said Tom. | could smoke it all day. But bet you Jeff Thatcher couldn't.
 Jeff Thatcher Why, he'd keel over just with two draws Just iet him try fl once. He'd sec
 Presently the talk began to flag a trifle, and grow disjeinted The silences widened; the expeetoration maryelousIy increased Every pore inside the boys. cheeks became q spouting fountain; they could scarce ly bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent an inundation. Joe said feebly
 Eve lost my knife reckon l better go and find ii.
 Tom said with quivering lips and halting utterance:
 I'll help you You go oyer that way and I'll hunt around by the spring No. you needn't come, IIuek We can find it.
 So Huck sat down again and waited an hour Then he found it lonesome, and went 10 find his comrades They were wide apart III liie HOouS, DOIll StIN fdlfs b0liI fast asleep But something inform ed him that if they had had any trouble they had got rid of it.
 Smoking Chief Delight That was Mark Twain's descrip- ton of his own first smoke" He survived it and next time the floods were not so great Smok- ing became his chief delight and in spiration
 Joe Tisdale, who yet lives at Hannibal, claims 10 have been "Ci- gar Maker to Sam Clemens, when the latter was young printer.
 Are you the man who used to make those long three-for anickel stogies for Mark Twain2s Mr. lis dale was asked one day.
 T made cigers, sir-not stogies, . replied the old cigar maker, with dignity; began down there where Tom Foster kept drug store along side the printing office That was long before the war the big war, you know. l guess # was in 1852. Sam come in HON and then and bought smokers; ed 10 say they were the best he could get any where He was bit particular about what he smoked. even when 1 a youngStef
 About twenty years after sam 1 had left Us and wa5 climbing up the ladder he came back 10 Hanni= lbal to see how We Was all getting along l met him and said
 Hello, Sam
 Hello. Joe. says he still mak- ] ing them big eigars2
 Sure, says |, heard YOU Was coming and made box for you.
 He smiled like he Was pleased, because he always knew good ci- gar, sam did You couldn't put any cabbage leaf off on him. So i l got out box of The Old Fish erman' and gave it to him There were forty-six in it, and they was ali big. Sam took 'em out 10 John Garth's and John told me that be- fore he and Sam went to bed hey smoked every cigar in the box but two, which they saved for an eye opener in the morning
 T don't guess there are many fellows who could smoke like Sam.