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But even as he wrote and the Some of the dirt he washed river he had to go some out in the random articles that world laughed-lecturod and the As written in an encyclopedia, where else. He couldn't join in punctuated his editorials-was audience roared, his mind was
stuff. His clear vision show. Fare
Here belongs his on other things. His deak was his life sounds like an orderly the war. and progressive triumph. In ed him that both sides were per- famous "Siege of Paris Map" always crammed with manu- reality it wasn't. He was just feetly rights they are in all (the year was 1870), for which scripts, meant as the beginning he whittled out a block. with a of "vast performances, huge moving round, thinking wint to grent wars.
satires on creation, elemental de- do next. When at last. he found He enlisted in some non- jack-knife, in his office. out what he wanted to be-a descript Confederate irregulars, These were the opening daya nunciations of the Old Testa- a passionate outery great social reformer-it was got somenin, in his own words, of his married life with Mark ment, too late.
to "hold his gun for a minute," trying hard to be respectable, to against the injustice of our and moved gn. He went west forget how to swear, and to join human lot.
Most of it never got published, because he couldn't go east, his beloved Livy in evening "roughing it" across the plains prayer.
Mark Twain was, in reality, a "minstrel." He spent his life in moving about from place to place, from occupation to ocen- pation, from dream to dream..
In his village home at Hanni- bal, Missouri, he learned the trade of a printer; not for print ing's sake, but because if you learn to print you don't have to stay in Hannibal, Missouri, wandered round for about five years (1853-57) in the cities of the Sintes, taking his job with him, quitting it in one place and taking it up in another.
He
Tumults.
toria, in his sermon on Sunday; navigated up and down the In the Nevada journalism-in American
accident.
the American journalism of the took the
But he couldn't stick He couldn't bear to hurt the old-
NOTES OF THE DAY Petroleum Nasoby something to the inheritance.
BACK TO SILVER?
do not
RO
11
Mark
Then came ruin; and with it, at sixty years of age, a renewed access of his California energy: a trip around the world, lectur- ing and writing-in imitation of what he once had been-and nobly done at that.
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poverty-stricken people the sequestration of the silver in new life-work-to go all round KELLY'S
as secretary to the Secretary of it." He wasn't a journalist fashioned piety of his wife, the Nevada-his brother.
not that kind, with a desk and austerity of his Now England He couldn't bear to Not liking official life, he quit a chair. And in any case he had friends,
Nor was this all. it to go into mining, and quit begun to discover that he didn't check the laughter of the public. mining, when the first frenzy need to be; it began to look as was over, to go into journalism. if he was to be a "literary man." Twain, inspired with that hatred This was Nevada journalism, all It was the English-the public of publishers which has dis- localised, heedless of the outer and the critics who first told figured the lives of so many world living on quips 'and gags, him so, who first really discover authors, determined to be'n pub- TUESDAY, DEC. 17, 1935.
punctuated with pistol shots, inte ed Mark Twain. The "boys" in lisher himself. He floated a STARK POVERTY
uppers and minor riots and California thought him "funny" company, made a fortune for his the professors in Boston thought dying friend General Grant and During the week-end, Hong-
It suited young Clemens to the him cheap. It was the English his heirs and brought, down Then he started for South kong has had some unpleasant
The financial wreck made by ground. There was in it just who first discovered that he was ruin on himself. America -- probably because reminders of the state of ex-
publishing was completed by ness that was the effort of his treme poverty in which so many there was no printing there to that mixture of effort and idle- an author.
the way he of its inhabitants live. The an- speak of. On
was the middle nineteenth ment" (he saw that his real life- nual meeting of the Society for "struck" New Oricans, stuck being. Sam Clemens he still THE English of that period-it what he thought "shrewd invest- was, but the "boys" were already the Protection of Children there, and then, attracted by the beginning to call him "Mark century-after despising every work should have been finance).
glamour of the Mississippi
flont a new and wonderful served to bring the issue once again to the fore, and the reveln-leamboat and by the call of the Twain", after the nom de phone thing American, from George and by a desperate attempt to
Great River to
one of its taken from the pilot's jargon) Washington down, had made a
sudden and cheerful discovery of machine that would set type for tions made by the Bishop of Vic-ildren, turned into a pilot, and that he signed to his articles,
humour. England printing. He foresaw that there frail and gentle were millions and millions in it. of what he saw in a, tenement
While his fortune was ebbing house in the city, vividly illus-Father of Waters. Of literature
It came by day-nobody used his own name. Artemus Ward to its heart like There were; but not for him.
little child from far away. trated the appalling conditions he never dreamed.
It wasn't good enough. They 4
De And when the little child grow out, Mark Twain, perpetually with which the poorest of the
signed themselves "Dan Bishop
Does tired and died on English soil, going back and forth from "Philander Q. poor have to put up.
Quille," ticks." Hall's statement, which parallels
Artemus Ward and his friend Mark Twain fell heir America to England, was writ- ing his "Joan of Arc"-a book facts disclosed in the annual re-
Within a few years Mark that was the pride of his heart. with all the colour of the morn- port of the S.P.C., is worth em-
ing in it..
Twain became for them the but heavy as lead if it had not
his name to float it. |phasising in condensed form.
American humorist-unrivalled, In ane cock-loft in a cubicle
with a place all his own, not as there were no fewer than seven We who try to follow the tortu-
clown, but as
મા an artist, families accommodated on separous paths of exchange, sometimes CHASED out of Nevada-by a
duck-"Mark" went to San genius. From then till the end ate bed-spaces. nccupied by hoping, sometimes east down, have fifteen people. These bed-spaces wondered for some time just how Francisco-into real journalism, England never lost its apprecia-
the Government, or the "Govern- are all that the occupants can ment banks," proposed to control and couldn't stand it. From tion.
Once indeed, when he publish afford to rent, and they have to the Colony's dollar value; or if first to last he hated taking do duty for the accommodation they intended to control it. We orders from anybody. There is ed "Connecticut Yankee in the of-the-families day and night. have asked where we should not no interest in just doing what Court of King Arthur," there Of the fifteen occupants in these ve asked, possibly; but since you have to do. So he went back was a brief hurricane of anger. E last ten years of his life were just an episode, 8 cramped and unhealthy sur- there is no official explanation of to mining, got sick of it again' But it easily passed. After life of wandering with only roundings it was discovered that the details of the Government's and took a wind-fall trip to the all, the book is funny, roaringly four were children supporting intentions, we have inquired in Sandwich Islands, which were funny: what does it matter if it an empty home to come to -vagaries about Christian is false as history, and ridiculous Science, attacks on missionaries. their parents by what they could unofficial quarters. Opinions are then really islands. pick up; three were daughters to be had in plenty. Exchange
as social theory?
a voice lifted up against Im- brokers and speculators
In all of this there was of a woman who was undergoing
perialism, American Expansion, a term of imprisonment for no hesitate to air their views, with the thought of a literary career, no more serious offence than that forlorn hope, perhaps, that they background of education
of that sedulous BUT all that came later. Mark and European Conquest."
Twain left Buffalo to live in But the world would not have will get into print and influence college, none of hawking without a licencel the market in the right direction. preparation for a career which Hartford, Connecticut, and turn. it so. They took it as just the No-one with a spark of human-The exchange speculator has been is supposed to be the means of ed into an author that is, a peevish talk of a beloved old ity in his or her make-up can greatly handicapped by the Govern- obtaining one. Mark Twain's man with no definite means of man, against whom one could read facts like these without ment's action in sequestering silver life came by accident. No doubt support. There followed the not take offence. They still feeling that there is something and the banks' refusal to do forward it was better so. A college books which, after the first passed round the books with the sadly lacking in the social ser.business, or any business at all
"Innocent," picture on the cover of "Mark" vices of the Colony. The So- without a large margin coverage. course would have stifled him. triumph of the
spread his name round the with his Missouri corn-cob pipe. ciety for the Protection of Chil- Exchange brokers are a little "Ted His queer genius for what is
they still have called "humour" grew best by it- world — "Tom Sawyer" and When he said he was a Chinese dren, and other bodies as well, P. However,
their views and shreds of their self, like the beautiful flowers "Roughing It," and "Huckle "boxer" (and he meant it) they are doing what they can to hopes. One of these views, which for which the bulbs must first berry Finn"-the greatest book laughed and said, "Have you ameliorate the lot of these poor apparently enjoys considerable sprout in the dark,
ever written in America. Mark heard Mark's latest?" people, but, at best, their efforts popularity, is that the Government When Mark got back from the Twain found that to write They gave him college degrees, only touch the fringe of a big is as much embarrassed by its social problem. As Bishop Hall recently promulgated policy as the islands, he "wrote the island up" book he had only to recall his pretended that he was a doctor was at pains to point out, these brokers themselves: The Govern--a huge local success, and then Mississippi days or to look back of laws-and so, crowned with people are our fellow-citizens; ment took over the banks allver, the "boys" put him up to give a to where the sunsets fell on the honours, he was gently escorted the islands in San Nevada mountains, It was a out of life-not yet having start- well might he ask what kind of paying a reasonable price for it. lecture on training for future fatherhood we believe, with the intention of Francisco and all of a sudden a gold mine indeed.
selling the metal on the London or crown of laurel fell on his head, and motherhood is possible under the conditions in which other markets, the unofficial story amid the roaring laughter of a these
goes. But within a few days of California audience. Here was exist. It is no answer to the stocks, the silver market cracked: the world and "write it up" and problem to say that there are Tho laws against overcrowding, and the principal buyer, if not the lecture about it. A local news- that if these laws were strictly only buyer in any quantity, the paper put up the money and off NOTICED in yesterday's Tele- All the white squares are next the black squares, and all the black graph that our old friend Doe. squares are next the white squares. enforced, such hovels would United States Treasury, refused to went Mark Twain as an "Inno- automatically disappear. The take more than a fraction of the cent Abroad" in 1867 and came Alekhine was defeated in the This is to keep them separate,
of back to find he had exchangeil a world's chess championship by rooks (not the kind you know) and Then you are given a handful of problem is an economic one, and offerings. The the dominant fact about it is Hongkong, having more silver than Californian notoriety for
Euwe. That's what comes of pawns, and kings, and queens, and It knew that the people affected could not itself in much the same position
what to do with, found internation: `, reputation.
bishops, and castles which you spread having names like that.
out on the board Indiscriminately. possibly afford to rent betier
as any speculator, with the market
We did not play in the cham-You then go to sleep. The first to quarters they would merely be going quite the wrong way. And E lectured in New York pionships this year. We had board, and then it is the other player's wake up moves something on the forced into the ranks of the this is the climax of the un-
before he went, and in a lot street sleepers. Admittedly, official story-the Government's
We were playing at Geneva and the much of the slum property in dream of obtaining a substantial of places after he got back. enough trouble last year.
Henceforth lecturing was wish- this Colony is of a type which
ed by fate upon his life. But he continual brawling among the players upset the League of Nations to much would not for one moment be
disliked it, as does everybody an extent that they applied sanctions tolerated in England, where such houses are being compul- time, however, it has to be who can do it well. More than to us.
And once you get a sanction on you come that, he didn't like the notion of Borily demolished, with no com- faced. The time may pensation paid to the owners, when the Government will be just being a "funny man"; like it's very hard to get off. We tried But to enforce demolition here, able to provide something in the 80 many of us, he despised his potrol and ammonia, and even sand- paper, but you can still see signs of and be unable to provide alterna- nature of a poor law institution; own trade.
It on us now, tive nccommodation within the until then, the task fails on such {. Still looking for a life-work,
You see, it was this way. rent-paying capacity of the pre-organisations ng the S.P.C., Mark Twain, with the "Inno- Our grandfather had just beaten sent tenants, would not solve the cloquent appeals for the support cents" money, bought a share in the Yugoslavian welterweight, Katz wo lent him two years ago, and he question. Again we are thrust of which were made last night. the Buffalo Express, and sat at nitao, and was standing behind our said we'd never had a fishing rod
chair
while we played Upsa Daxle, the Our grandfather in the meantime back to the economic aspect. In Wo cannot believe that these an editor's desk hour by hour Turkish Tiger. We led off using the had pinched Dazlo's rook, and hid it the long run, when standards of appeals will fall on deaf ears, and day by day, as cager at first Alsatian gambit, and living are raised beyond the The responsibility is a communal as a Californian miner washing queen in the first haired Daxie's behind the clock. Then someone tipped Perhaps we'd better explain the the tablo over and we had to start all
[over again mere subsistence level, the pro- one; it should be freely dia-out pay-dirt, and presently a game before we go any farther. Chess We were lucky to got out of the blem will solve itself. Menn, charged..
Is played on a black and white board. place alive.
price
fell
away
Government
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Well stop shuffling your feet!) we say, we pawned Dazle's queen with a clever feint with the roolt, and a right-crons with the king behind the touch-lines. Daxle was furious, and said that if we did it again he was going home. and taking his board with him be enuse it was his board, and he was only letting us play on it as a favour.
We said what about the fishing rod