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turning into sra street ana passing
the Ola IdNey f1oleI we came upon the
Marx IWa'n Rouse uhy oo* OF
I cottage lts Sdsslhs lroht no taher up
WIN I'VE WINDOWS ana door th"t mere
IS hareIF room Tor the niue bronze
plaque "hleh MARKS the pace, Az one
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sa,E ooy ha".ea ,. IN n, ,a,n.
and in mat alley stood the historic fence
which young Sam Clemens caJoled the
other boys into whitewashing for him.
AS related in "Tom Saver"
Inside the house there is little to he
seen. II is occupied now by custodian
who sells souvenir post cards, and has
but few Mark Twain relics 10 show
some photographs and autographs
nothing of importance. But. despite
that, | got real sensation rs 4! stood
in the little parlor, hardly larger than
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WHAT A RAMBLER FOUND IN THE
PICTURESQUE CORNERS OF OUR COUNTRY

his biography "tho cave had fascina-
ton that never faded. other localities
and diversions might pail. but any mem
tion of the cave found him always eager
and ready for the three mile walk or
pull that brought them to the mystic
door"
| suggested TO my companion that,
for the sake OF sentiment, We too ap-
proach the cave by rowing down the
river. And. having suggested the pla1,
offered to take upon myself the
heaviest responsibility connected with II
that of plotting the boat In these un-
familiar waters. All 1 required Of him
was the mere manual act Of working
the oars. To my amazement he refused
/ fear that he not only lacks sentiment
but that he Is becoming lazy.
We drove out to the cave In Ford
ca
DO you remember when Tom Sawyer
took the boys to the cave Mt night, IN
"Huckleh,rry Finn?
We went to n clump of bushes, SAYS
IIuck. "and Tom made everybody
swear to keep the secret. and then
showed them a hole in the hill, right In
the thickest part Of the bushes. Then
we lit candles and Crawled In on
our hands and knees. We went about
two hundred yards and then the cave
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opened up. Tom pok-d about amoug
tho passages, and pretty soon ducked
under a wall where you wouldn't "a
noticed there was hole. We went
along narrow place and got, into q
kind OF room. all damp and sweaty and
cold. and there We stopped. Tom says:
Now Wen start this band If robbers
md call il Tom Sawyers Gang Every
body that wants T. Join has got 20 take
an oath and write his name IN blood %
That IL the sort of cave Il is--a Won
derful, mysterious place, black as India
ink; maze Of passageways and vaultcd
rooms. eaten by tho waters Of long ago
through the limestone cliffs: a seem
ingly endless cavern full Of stalHct.tes
and stalagmites. looking ike great
conica masses Of candle grease.
damp, oppressive labyrinth Of eer.e
rock formations, TO k.udle the most
bioodcurdl,ns lmas!n!ngS.
As W. moved IN. away from the day.
light Illuminating orr way. feehlv. with
such matches aS We happened 10 have
with Ms. and with newspaper torches,
the man who had driven rs out there
tod rs about the cave
They amt no one ever explored H.
he said 5 too hR. WY. they's p
lake IN her quite u big lake. with fish
in II. And they's an arm of the cave
that goes away down underneath the
river They say thcy's wc2s too.-ho.cs
with no bottoms 90 'em. prahly that -
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that place Wh!I" considering the tablet.
the back yard gave me- real delight.
There were The ODD outhouses. the old
back star. the Old back fence ana the
little window looking down on .hem--
the window OF Tom Sawyer beneath
which IN the gioaming. Nuck,cherry
Finn made Catcall- To summon forth
his fellow buo'aneer. And here, be
low the window. was The place wher"
Pamela Clemens. Sans sister. the orig
inal OF Cousin Mary In Tom Sawyer. 4"
had her candy pull on that evening
when a boy, in his undershirt, came
tumbling from above.
And TO think that, Hrctch,d as this
place was. the Clemens family We're
forced To- leave il for q time because
they Were too poor % i've "a re- ~ a
certainty Mark TWtln's yarly II, was
as squal.d as his later lie Was rich.
However. 1t was always coiurTul he saw
20 that. straight through from the bare
foot days - those OF The white suits,
the oxford gown and the Eurppeal
courts,
Not far back Of Tho hous" rises tho
"Cardff H.N" Of thc stories. in reality
Holidays I'm. So called because long
agn Their. lived. mp AZ no :op. Old Mrs
Holiday who burned a lamp IN h~r win
dow every night a. a mark for river
that the boys rolled tho stones which
startled churchgoers, and that final cnor
nous rock which, by a fortunate freak
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Julian Street Tells What He Saw in the "N1arktwanve
and Pike County of To-day, Where All Is Dominated
by the Memory Of the Great Story Teller

stepped across and read IL. This i
what ii said:
Mark Twan's life teaches that poverty
Is an incentive rather than bar; and
that any boy, however humble his birth
and surroundings, may by honesty and
Industry accomplish great things. -
G.oRGE a. MAHAN
That inscription made me- think of
many things. II made mo think OF
Napoleon's inscription on the statue Of
Henry ~, and Of Judge Thatcher's
talk with Tom Sawyer. Ia the Sunday
school. and OF Mr. Walters. the sun
day school superintendent. In the same
book, and of certain moral lessons
drawn 10y Andrew Carnegie. And not
the least thing OF which II made mc
think was the mischievous. shlftless.
troublesome. sandy haired young rascal
who hated school and Sunday school
and yet became the more than honest,
more than industrious man commem-
GRATED there.
II did not feel the inspiration n
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have said that the Commercial Club
honored Mark Twain's memory. That
is true. But the Commercial Club would
not he n Commercial Club II 1t did not
also wish the visitor to take into con-
sidcration certain other matters. In
effect it says of him: Yes, indeed,
Mark Twain spent the most important
part Of his boyhood here. But we wish
you to understand that Hannibal Ia a
busy, growing town. We have the
cheapest electric power In the Missis-
sippi Valley. We offer free factory
sites We
yes" YOU say but where is the
Mark Twain house,"
"Oh -" says Hannibal. catching its
breath. Go right on up Main to Hin
street: you'u find il just around the
corner. Any one will point It out to you.
There's "A bronze tablet in the wall. But
put this little pamphlet in your pocket.
IL tells all about our city. You can
read IL at your leisure"
You take the pamphlet and move
along up Main street. And IL there is
a sympathetic native with you he Will
stop you at the corner of Main and
Bird-thcy call it Wildcat Coruer--and
point out a ,it..o wooden shanty adJoin-
iug nearby alley whore, II Is said,
Mark 1'wain's father John Marshall
Clemens. had his office when he was
justice 81 the peaCe---tne same office in
which samuel Clemens In his boyhood
saw the corpse lying on the floor by
moonlight. as rcCounted in The In
uocents Abroad"
1t was at Wildcat Corner. too. that the
boys conducted that famous piece OF
high finance trading of the green
Watermelon. which they had stolen, for
a rip" one. on the allegation that the
former had been purchased
Also near the corner STANDS The build
ing IN which Joseph Anent had the
Office Of his newspaper the Missouri
courier. where young Sam Clemens
first went to work ~ an apprentice, do
ing crrards and learning To- set type;
and there are many other old buildings
having some bearing on the history OF
the Clemens family. including one al
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ut chance. hurdled a negro ana ing
wagon instead Of striking and de-
stroying them. An, how rich in
racy memories ars those streets
Somewhere among them. in that
part OF town which mas come 10
be called "Mark-Twainville," is tho
very spot unmarked and unknown
where young sam Clemens picked up A
scrap OF newspaper upon which was
printed portion of the tale Of Joan II
Area scrap Of paper which. Paine
says. gave him his first literary stlmu-
lus And somewhere else. not far from
the house. is the place where Orion
Cle lens, Sans elder brother. ran the u
starred newspaper on which sam
worked. setting type and doing his first
writing. Vt was indeed IN Orion's paper
that SANS famous verse, ITO Mary in
Hannibal" was publishcd--the title con-
densed. because of the narrow column,
to read. ITO Mary In HI"
Along the crest of the BLUFFS, over
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TELEPHONE MANNERS
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IS !mpnlite over the phone" -
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mentioned in the book" And what
monuments 10 Washington irving
could touch quite the note that Is
touched by that ola house in Tarry-
town, n Z. or that other old house in
irving place. in the city Of New York,
where the Authors League Of America
now has it, headquarters?
with the exception Of Stratford- on
Avon do not know Of a community 50
completely dominated by the M mory Of
q great man of letters as is the city
Of Hannibal by the memory Of Mark
Twain. There il, indeed. y curious re-
Semblance to be- traced between the two
towns. I don't mean a physical resem-
elance, for no places could be less alike
than the garden town where Shake
apeare lived and the pathetic wooden
village NJ the early west IN which nine
years OF Mark Twa.n's boyhood were
spent The resemblance is only in the
majestic shadows cast over them by
their great men.
Thus the hotel in Stratford 4. called
the Shakespeare Hotel. while that in
Hannibal is the Mark Twain. STRAIT
ford has the house in which Shake
speare was born. Hannibal the house in
which Mark Twain lived-the house Of
Tom Sawyer. Stratford has the cottage
OF Anne Hathaway; Hannibal that Of
Becky Thatcher And Hannibal has,
furthermore, one possession which
lovers of the delightful Becky will hope
may be spared to tit possesses, IN the
person Of Mrs. Laura Hawkins Frazer,
who is now matron Of the Home for the
Friendless. the original Of Becky.
ID that IDtAtpprial fallAt in =
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n Tot as tourist with a return
nj ticket, but ~ Il fancy free
i traveller. Julian Street rambled
around the United states last
year and has nov set forth In book
his impre ssions Of what he saw and
heard The book is called Abroad Mt
Home" and is published by the Com
tury Company.
Mr.. Street visited. among many other
places, Hannibal. No. and writes about
Mark Twalnis HON, as follows.
IF black slaves nro No longer bought
and sold there, e the river trade has
dwindled. IL the railroad and the factory
have come. bringing a larger population
with them. II the town now has
a hundred thousand dollar city hail. a
country cub AMI 1ifty-six passenger
trains daily 1t l.. az all events. q
pleasure to record tn" fact that Hanni-
bal, Mo. retains to-day that look ~:
soft and shamn.ina picturesque ncss
suitable to an o,d river town and cs-
sential to the st. Petersburg Of fc-
tion--the perpctua, dwelling pace NJ
those immortal boys. Tom sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn
Should this ChlroD teriZatiun of the
town fail To moo, with the approval Of
the Hannibal Commercial cub. | regret
1t. for | honor he commercial cub be-
cause of its action toward the prcserva-
tion of thing 90 UncommerCial "a tho
hoyhood home oc Mark Twain. But
after all. tho club must remember that
in It's creditable effort to build mp Il
newer and finer ilnrninpl Hannibal
OF brick and granite. i u running coun-
Ter tn the sentimental, interests. " iE-
Vulnerable persons who though most
II them have never seen thc old town
and never viii. Ne' think Of 1t ~ given
10 them 10y Marx Twain with a
peculiar tenderness. 49, t&uugh II were a
Tom Sawyer or iIuck Finn among the
citics-a ragged happy hoy " a town.
which ought never. never to grow mp.
There L. no more charming way of
preserving the m"mur" % an ar..-t thin
through the preservation ~ the house
in which he lived. and that L. ey3c-
Clally true whcr" tN' artist was a
literary man and wh,r, the huus"
has figured in his writings. What
memorial Ia Thomas Bailey ..ldriCh, for
example, could equal the on. in Ports
mouth, y. H.. where is preserved the
house in which the Bad Boy OF the
Diary used To- live. even to the fur
niiure and the bedroom wall paper
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where them people went TO thats so'
lost in the cave
Have people gotten lost IN hereY' l
asked.
"Oh. yes" he said cheerfully. They
say there's some that's gone IN anu
never come ont again. she's quite
cave"
| began 20 walk more Ringory into
the blackrcss
II suppose" ! said TO him presently.
"thnr, are toads and snakes and such
things here
lie hastcned 20 set my mind al rest
on that.
ooh. Lord bless YOU yes" h. declared
bats too
and ] suppose soma Of those holes
you speak Of are full Of snakes?'
Mos; likely" His voice reverherated
IN the darkness. "BIt can't be- sure.
Nobody chats ever been in them holes
ain't lived To- tell the tale"
ny this time We had reached a point
at which no glimmer Of light from tn"
mouth OF the cave was visible. We
were feeling our way along. running our
hands over the damp rocks and putting
our feet before US with the utmost eau
ton. knew. OF course. that IT would
add good deal - my story Il one II
our party fol- into hole and was never
again heard from, but the more |
thought ahou: II the more advisable ii
seemed - mo that should not ne that
one. had IN engaEemen' for dinner
that evening ana besides If I eeA Ill.,
who would write the story? Certainly
the driver Of the nuto-hack. for a.! his
good Will could hardly 90 1t justice;
whereas II h" fell in could At pinch
drive the little Ford back to the city.
droppe-I behind. But when did
that he stop d.
Il Just stopped for breath ! said.
"You can keep on and III follow IN
minute
NO. me answered, IN wai' for you.
I'm ont of breath, too. Besides, l
don't want You % get lost In here"
At th.s juucture my companion, who
had moved II ttt.e way of. gave n
trirh'tu yell. which echoed horribly
throurh III" cavern.
could not see him. did not know
what was the matter. Never mind My
one thought VAS Of him. Perhaps
he had been attacked los wildcat or
"a serpent Wei b" was my fellow
traveller and would Stand by HIM
Even d." 'N1.rcur OF the hack SCENE d
ID I"rl tur s'me way. Together we
turned ami ran toward the pace whence
"" though, the voice Nigh; have come
that Is 'o say, toward the mouth OF
the cave. But when We reached Il ne
wasn't tA'r".
He must b" hack IN tho cave after
ALL ! said To the driver,
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
FAvoRs AMsioExTERITY.

Gen. Sir II. Baden Powell showed
= marked artistic skill when vet a
child. His family treasures spirit
ed drawing which he made of some
Arabs, leading camels through the
desert. The leader WAS represented
leaving pieces of paper to mark his
track for those who were following.
Thus early the head of the Boy
Scout movement showed his scout
ing intuition. As boy OF twelve
he had made collection of excellent
sketches which his mother showed
to Ruskin, expressing concern. how
ever, that her son drew with his left
hand. The master, after examining
the sketches with evident pleasure,
said: Madam, let your boy draw
with which hand he likes" The gen
eral has remained ambidextrous and
encourages scouts to cultivate this
useful faculty
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
6o0f9d and lighted; It q SYso slDpIfsd

noOr6d and lighted; It e also supplied
with comfortable seats ON the grand.
stand order. whers several thousand
spectators may witness the ball II
reader has not seen one OF these an.
nual balls at Confederate reunion
he has but limited idea of its size and
brilliancy Nothing to equal 1t In
splendor can be seen in the United
States, unless it be the Inauguration
ball at the nationa. capital, now fallen
into social desuetude. II the inaugu.
ration bailds put out of the contest,
the annual ball Of the Confederate re-
union. at which the maids and spon-
sors hold sway, is the greatest social
function of the United States.
The social side of the Jacksonville
reunion will be participated In by rep.
resentatives of all Southern States,
the border states and a few western
commonwealths. There are sixteen
state divisions Of the United Confed-
crate Veterans Association, as fol-
lows: South Carolina, North Carolina.
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland.
Louisiana. Tennessee. Florida, Ala.
bama. Mississippi. Georgia, Kentucky.
kansas. Each state sends large dele
cations OF young women to the re-
union. selected with regard to their
social standing At home. In addition
to the state delegations, the com.
mander-in-chief has his own official
ladies, chosen from the South at large.
There are three departments, known
as the Army OF Northern Virginia de-
partmeIt Army Of Tennessee depart.
ment and Trans-Mississippi depart.
ment. Each department appolnts
maids and sponsors and sends them to
all reunions. The scope of country
covered by these many organizations
has about half the population OF the
United States; hence, the interest in
\ Confederate reunion is always wide.
spread. Society circles In all of this
territory are interested in the Jack.
sonville reunion, and the event will
bring here one OF the largest crowds
or young people ever assembled in
the South. Florida appeals TO the
young. because OF its flowers and its
@onders-its poetry. its songs and its
attractive history. Rivers and ocean.
gulf and bays have interest all their
own. The palm and the pine, liveoak
and holly. and 4 hundred other forest
trees that abound throughout the
state as nowhere else ON the CONT.
nent. invest Florida with an interest
as wide AS the nation. Greater inter.
est attaches to the Jacksonville rs.
union than 10 any recent meeting OF
the Confederates. and preparations are
being made TO entertain large
crowd OF people in May.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
VENTILATION MUCH NEEDED.

Ventilation of motion picture tho
aters urgently demands attention in
most OF our cities. In Chicago, which
has about 600 Of these institutions,
with daily attendance of about
100000. the department of health
has adopted the plan of issuing Ger
tificates to all theaters having venti-
lation systems of proved efficiency,
and urging the public to patronize
no theaters where these certificates
are not displayed. Let US hope, says
the Scientific American, the next
object of attack will be the hermet-
icaliy sealed street car.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
BELLIES OF DIXIE
VIE AT REUNION
Brilliant Fetes Planned For
Jacksonville Meeting
May s, 7 and To Be Memorable
Dates In fiorida's Metropolls--
Large Crowd Assured the Reunion
City.

Jacksonville, Fla.-Southern social
circles are again taking an interest
in the great social, military and sen
rimental annual meeting that brings
together q crowd Of from $1,000 to
100000 people to do honor to the ex-
Confederate soldier-the reunion Of
the survivors OF the Confederate arm
les
The reunion Is to be held this year
at Jacksonville. Fla, May s, Z. 8 in
elusive. 1t is the first time that the
ex-Confederates have selected Florida
a. the reunion state, and uncommon
interest attaches to- the meeting here
and throughout the South. Owing -
the comparatively early date of the
reunion, the divisions, brigades and
camps made their appointments OF
sponsors and maids early. and these
ladies' compose the social side OF the
reunion. They are known as the OFF,
cial ladies OF the meeting, entertained
as such, and courted by the entire So
ciai fabric OF the South.
The SONS OF Confederate Veterans,
following in the footsteps OF their IA
theirs, maintain organizations in ev-
cry Southern state. and hold their re-
unions on the same dates. They ap-
point sponsors and maids OF honor.
The two organizations, closely allied.
therefore, send to each Confederate
reunion several hundred officiaf ladies'.
selected from the best families OF the
South, that stand high In the social
scale in their communities.
Mapping out u social program,
therefore, for q Confederate reunion
is task that demands the best OF
talent in the entertainment line.
There must be dinners, receptions.
balls. trips to points OF interest around
the reunion cities and anything else
in the line Of social entertainment the
committee may devise. The crown
ing event OF the week In society,
however. Is the annual ball for maids
and sponsors. IL the reunion Is held
In city where hall large enough
to accommodate several hundred dane
ing couples at once can not be Sc
cured. \ dancing pavilion is construct.
ed for the occasion. This pavilion
consists OF large canvas tent, we'll
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
Coins OF email Value.

Doubtless the sroallest coin I'm the
"orid circulstes In the Malay PENN
ria. simply thin wafer made from
he resinous juice OF a tree. and has
:urrent value OF about lilo. .000th OF a
cent. In the southern parts OF Rus.
sia the peasants use a coin OF such
small value that quarter OF a mil.
ion OF them are worth no more than
Sl.2S. The old japanese mouseng was
worth l-112th OF an American cent.
In Portugal the reis Is the lowest
standard OF value. but no l.reis
pieces are coined. A S,reis piece In
eastvaasst - saRetAa q q oNaf.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23
Many Like Solomon.

Il amt never heard tell that the
Lord pays taxes. or cuts the tirewooL.
or mends the roof when 1t leaks. or
gets shoes for the children, and all
them things has got to be done. Sol
oEon Hatch leaves things he don't
like to do to the Lord He gets me
and the Lord mixed up."-kate
LangIy Kosher in The House OF Han.
piness."
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-04-23

MY sweetheart il coming to call
tonight"
well, | want you to go to bed by
the first of March; that is late
enough to sit up with any fellow"
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1914-04-25
Building Bigger

The Floersheim Mercantile Co.
has continued the extension OF
their warehouse on the lots ad-
joining the store on the north un-
til now it fronts the house-track
the entirh length of the old cor
raj. 1t includes a warehouse
18x74 feet, a coal house and 9th
er storage room nearly as large
and sheds are being erected for
lumber to occupy the rest o I the
space. The stables will be re-
moved to the old warehouse cor
raj and the old warehouse will be
used for storing feed and wool SO
that they will no longer be oblig-
ed to rent space in the big Rail
road warehouse. It lisa valuble
improvement to the property as
well as a great convenience to
sales-people and customers alike.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1914-04-25

The Baccalaureate Sermon BY
Rev, Russell Sunday evening, I'LL
ed the new Church to its full seat
ing capacity, Many people were
In from far out in the country
and the sermon was one well
worth coming to hear not alone
for the graduating class but for
older people as well, A double
quartet rendered two anthems
and other appropriate music and
altogether it was an enjoyable as
we'll as a profitable service.