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Daily Mishaps
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MARK TWAIN'S POTATO. SHOCKED KAISER AT ** PRIVATE FEED."
STORIES FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
The Daily News is able to publish ex- tracts from the remarkable autobiography of Mark Twain (Harpers, two vols.)..
Mark Twain relates that in 1891 Kaiser Winein I. cenumanded his presence at a private leed."
A potato appeared on the table so we dertuny cooked that when he saw tit surprised me out of my discretion and made me compit the untergivable sin, ber fore I could get a grip on my discretion agap-that to say. I made a joy exclamation of welcome over the potato, addressing my remark to the Emperor at my side without waiting for bin to take
the first innings.
G,B,S. ON CLERGYMEN. VOICES LIKE GRAMOPHONES
WITH SORE THROATS."
Mr. George Bernard Shaw lectured for over an hour at Eccleston Guild- house recently on "Churches. Amateur and Professional." Mr. Shaw, said that the great difference between a Roman Catholic priest at an English clergy- man was that the former was unmistak ably professional ned the latter an amateur. professional cleric always wore a tall hat, long black coal, and had a certain expression of voice which sunaded like a gramaphone with a sore throat. There was no greater authority or inspiration in a religions" assembly than in, to take an extreme" example. the flouse of Commons.
write.
There might be a perfectly genuine psychological reality about what เ called the descent of the Holy Ghost, but "I think he honestly tried to pretend it descended where it listed in a Ro- man Catholic or Protestant church, or that he was not shocked and outraged.
Eccleston Guildhouse, or Parliament, or but he plainly was; and so were the the Fabian Society. Sometimes it des other half-dozen grandees who were precended on very humble individuals who sent. They were all petrified, and not have not had a university education. body could have said a word if he had perhaps could not even read or "tried:
and sometimes it quite frankly scandaliz ed the Church by descending on a wo man.
The clergy
4 professionalizerl class, because many of them only wert into the Church because they were the If this country sons of their fathers. had a reasonable social system and every body had the same opportunity of training and education, there would be no lack of suitable candidates for the
*BEER MELTS THE 12.
The ghastly silence endured for as much as half a minute, and would have lasted until now, of course, if the Emper or hadn't broken it himself for no one else there would bave ventured it
It was at half-past six in the evening and the frost did not get out of the at mosphere entirely until close upon mid night, when, it did Snally melt away-or
were
trash away-under generous floods Deferring to the Athanasian Creed,
beer."
whito Mark Twain was roused to a" heat of anger by the killing of six hun- dred Moros by American soldiers in Philippine Islands in 1908,
has a
Staw said that people have an in- the corrigible habit of saying that if a mar good heart it does not matter how big a Tool he is. But the Creed made With six hundred engaged on each n
för intellectual inferiority, side, we lost 15 mea killed our right and a starting assertion that people will be
The They ought to
be made to think. and we bad thirty-two wounded. enemy numbered six hundred including the Creed merely meant that a ma women and children--and we aholished who did not use his brains was a damn them utterly leaving not even a baby alive to cry for its dead mother."
This is incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States." MASSACRED SAVAGES.
age
rondments Mark
President Roosevelt sent a formal mess
of congratulation to the command-" wg olicer. His whole pterince is merely a, convention. Twali Not a word of what he said came out of his heart. He knew perfect ly well that to pen six hundred helpless and weaponless savages in a bele like rats a trap and massacre them in detail during a stretch of a day and a half from a safe position on the heights alwe was na brilliant feat of arms, and would not bave been a brilliant feat of arms even if Christian America represented by its salaried soldiers, had shot them down with Bibles and (iiden Rules instead of bullets
in
fool.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND'S SERVIC
He thought that only a very generaliz ed form of religion should be taught to children. It ought to be a crime to proselytize them in any way, iVhea they grew up they should be shown the different forms of religion and churches and told to take their choice.
Bir. Shaw mentioned that when his mother died. being a reliciously minded woman she was indifferent about the funeral ceremony, But he had the Church of England service read over hee While there were some beautiful passages in it he felt he did not wish to hear it again. When his sister was cremated at Golders Green no arrange ment was made for a service, but feeling that something was lacking he conducted a service him I
He said he liked to go to church, but act on Sundays, because then there was something always going on that inter- When he went fered with his religion.
Of one of his schoolmates he writes that in the summer-time (when he wore no shoes) he was a bitterness to us. Heto a church it was because be wanted was an envy, for he could double back to he alone with God. on his big toe and let it fly, and you could hear.. it Anap 30 yards. There was not test another boy in the school that could ap proach this feat. He had not a rival.as regards a physical distinction-except in Theodore Eddy, who could work his cars like a horse.'
"AUNT POLLY."
His mother, who lived to nearly 90, was the original of Aunt Polly in Tom Sav- yer. She was capable with her tongue to the last-especially when meanńss or an injustice reused her #pirit."
She was slender and small in body. but indomitable in spirit.
One day in our village. I saw a vicious devil of a Corsican, a common terror in the town. chasing his grown daughter past cautious male citizens with a heavy rope in his hand.
My mother spread her door wide to
and then, in- to the refugee, udor stead
of closing and locking it after her. stood in it and stretched ber across it, barring the way
arins
cursed, threatened
The man swort she did not finch her with its
is rope but or show any sign of fear; she only stood straight and fine, and lashed him, shamei him derided him, deled him in senes, not audible to the middle of the street, bur audible to the man's conscience and dormant manhood; and he asked her pardon and gave her his rope and said. with a most great and blasphemous oath that she was the rarest woman he ever
SILW
He tells a good story of Joe Twichell. the famous American pastory Odr Saturday night he noticed a bottle ou his wife's dressing bureau He thought the Label said Hair Hestorer, and he took it in his room and gave his heal good drenching and
sousing with it. Next morning. when he got up, his head
a bright green. He sent round every
and couldn't
get
a substitute
Wan a
et so he had to go to his church
and
prachi
The gravity of the sermon did ao: harmonise with of his head, and the people But all through it with handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths-any way to try
the gaiety of
to keep down their joy.
And Twichell told me that he never had seen his congregation absorbed in interest in bis sermon, from beginning to end, before."
The Fortnightly - Review · writer who discusses The Prince of Wales at Thirty touches delicately on the inevit able question, "Yes, he needs to settle down. Above all, he needs wife." It is not too late. Though it is unusual for a Prince of Wales to reach. 30 aa a Benedicts there have been cases. One was George IV, who evaded the altar till he was 23. and had bet or have missed it altogether. (For this purpose we must ignore the
with ceremony Fitzherbert when be was 20). Charles II. was 34, before he married, having waited,
The lecture closed with a strong pro-
the division against
between scientific and religious thought.
•
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