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HOW MARK TWAIN WROTE

"INNOCENTS ABROAD.

Senator Stewart, in the course of some **Recollections," seems to be competing with Mark Twain on the humorist's own ground. Incidentally it might be that sa old sore is bere adjusted, or at least the narrative bears the implications of such s purpose. It looks like the botated opportunity of the Senator to get even with Mark Twain.

Along with some diverting accounts of the irresponsible fun-maker, we hear how the "Innocents Abroad came to be written. The story is told in "The Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia) and deals with the year 1867, Then Samuel Clemens was serving as private ecretary to the Nevado Senator. describes his renewed acquaintance later

Clemens in these werds;

The

"I was-coated at my window one morning when a man louched into the room. He was acrayed in a seedy suit, which hung upon his. lean frame in bunches, with no style worth mentioning A beaf of scraggly, black hair loaked cut of a battered, old, each hat, like stuffing from an soient Colonial sofa and su evil-smelling cigar-batt, very much frazeled, protruded from the corner of his mouth.

He

bsd a very sinister appearance. He was a man I had known around the Nevada mining-camps several years before, and his name was Samuel L. Clemens.".

INSPECTION INVITEL The Seaster pauses to resell that be first

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knew his visitor a reporter on "The Terri orial Enterprise" (Virginia City), "He went round patting things in the paper about people detiring upon trouble." His arcuse generally, s that the thing he wrote was humorous and t was why be wrote it-ant because it was Clemens had a great habit of making tan

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRIUS, FRÍDAË, APRIEŸ24TH. 1006

**Said I:

WORSE THAN WAR.

"She said Senator, that man will kill me. I can't stand it. If he doesa tigo T'il have to

It is a lamentable fact, but it in a fact, that sak you to give up, your rooms, and the Lord Babwa wbbiber I'll be able to rent then again." indigestion, that most commonplies of ailments, This filled me with alarm. I was ends more lives every year than war or pasti comfortable where I was. I sent her away once, or food or earthquake, or all combined kindly, and called Clemens.

Wo read of the horrors of war in some for country, and

shudder; but we forget the thousands who just sink out of life here in our People do not seem to realise the deadly own land, crashed by this relentless dissease. peril that lies hidden in auch an everyday complaint as indigestion. And yet it is 80 apparent, so real, to these who think. Digos tion is the bed-rock on which your very eristenes is built. If you cannot digest your food parlectig, you cannot be well. Tus alightest failure on the part of the stomach, fiver or futestines rants on the whole systems

You have got to stop this foolish. ness. If you don't stop annoying this little lady 11 amend my former rosolation and give you that turashing right bere and now. Then I'll send you to the hospital, and pay year expenses and bring you back, and you can finish your hook upholstered in bandages, Prema K

He saw that I meant business, Hosatd: `

All right, I'll give up my amusements; but I'll get even with you.

"He did. When he wrote Hongking It' he maid I had cheated him out out of some mining stock, or something like that, and that he had

given me a sound thrashing, and be printed a picture of me in the book with a patok over ons eye.

and reacts barmally.

STARVED AND POISONED, Not only is your body starved boodte you Clement remained with me for some time, cannot get the full mourishment, from what you He wrote his book in my room, and named it sat, but it is also poisoned: For indigestion I was confident that leads your blood with poisonous imparities, The Innocents Abroad."

abagnant mass of food which you cannot he would come to no good sad, bat I have heard self-fande in your own stomach from the of him from time to time since then, and I under-rid of, and the blood carries them to every pirt stand that he has settled down and become

respectable,"

SHIPBUILDING CRISIS. Towards the end of last month & Loaden contemporary reported as follows:

The engineers' strike on the North East Coast has entered on a new phase. The en having rejected the recent proposals made by Mr. Lloyd-George, the employers now revert to their attitude before the striku.

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of your system. Naturally your strength fails, you are pastored with wind, beadache, and that weary, dull feeling which makes the least exer- tion an effort.

Bit

Now is the time to take Mother Seigel's Syrup, and so prevent the threatened danger. If you do not, worss will follow. And apart from the usual tortures of indigestion and biliousness, your confitation will become so weakened that you will be able to resist the Mother Beiger's Syrup will save you. By dandlier diseases, should they strike, strengthening the stomach, licer, and digestiva your food system generally, it mises indigestion im nourishes you, and the vigour of in your veine.

York Building, Custer Radie young fellows and the girls, and wrote may be explained that twenty-two trades ont of possible Your blood becomes a tingles

Hongkong, 18th Novambor, 1907.

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THE CURE FOR NERVE WORRY.

Vous pieces about parties and other social 10 which be was never invited." The 'r captiones:

To clear up any misconception as to the position of affairs before the strike began, it twenty five employed in the engine shops neo-pped-a reduction, and the trades with whom a sylliumont was not effected were the Amal-,

The 90-

gamated Society of Engineers, the Steam Engine Makers' Society, and the United Machine Workers' Association. ployers asked for a reduction of 2 per cent off And over, Ed per week off time rates of piece rates, ls per week off time rates of 26s 22 and under 26, men under 22 but over

Writing on August 29th, 1907, Mr. M Gilrich, 28, Oakfeld Road, Anfiel, Liverpool, says: I know of no remedy ter indigestion that equale fother Baigal's Byray. When I was quite broken down with pain in the chest whigh comes from constipation, I was quite after eating, headache, sansas, and the weakness restored to bolth by it?

Mother Seigel's Syrup cures indigas ios, headache, wind 20 to be reduced if they were advanced it February, 1986, and men at 20s and under not to bilionausss, countipation, be reduced. There were the terms offered to palpitation, oppression at the chest, loss of the engineers before going on strike, and whisha patte, pains after fod, nanes, dizzinagy, had to take effect on or before February 18th faintness, blood sod skin troubles aumenis, and The men must now either sovept the employers the many other ills that acies from a disorderad

terms or continue on strike.

er a while he went over to Carson City hed up the people over there and got y down on him, I thought he bed The incessant wear and tear of life is shared our midst forever, but he drifted as well by the woman in the home by theirginia City in a low weeks. The pagether and asid they would give a man at his shop or office. Having less than a feite Clemens to it, and make him man has to occupy the mind, without the ad. kind respectable, and decent, and routine of any material change in the daily feeligenerons, and considerato of the routine and surroundings, woman suffers great bal

there, I could have warned them, ly when loss of nerve tone manifests itself, Her instant help should to Hall's Coos Wine with thent to that party and danced, due to physics) prostration because it strikes then alelf, and mads a good meal, and It is plant, practical care for nerve worry and endet girls, and monopolised them. at the root of the trouble by enriching the and wrote to The Enterprise "office poverty-striken blood and the imparting tone that partyole thing up. He lambasted manicated with the employers with a view to the whole nervous system.

wllow, and he English language would to making terma for returning to work. Or enough to the guests were unfortunate Saturday arrangements were considered by the wart on the rd, or have big feet, or a men's committee for holding a mass meeting He fairly striemens did not forget it.to-day, when statements will be made as to the recommended resumption of work. The com. mities of the Newcastle and District Non- Society Engineere have since announced that their executive have definitely settled the teritis npon which the men who are members on the books of their organisation will return to work on Thursday next

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Of course, memory.

The non-society engiasers on strike have.com-

Mr. Gege N. Barnes, M P. (getieral secretary of the Algarated: Soviety of Engineers) made an important statement on Saturday at a meeting of the pattern-makers in London with

state of the digestive system.

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Amongst the improvements contemplated are TOTAL beautifying of the city. the pulling down of numerous old and in-

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Lhey decided fade the boys sogry, and that ran from en. Then was a etage Clemens was a pato Virginia City, and hoye lay in wait, on it one night. The by

a lonely spot on the stage lumbered and furued it opet oat, and upset Clemens out and tadewo, and dragged, broke up his portum into a osnon, and on top of him.

and threw that in He was the scarede sippi but the nart west of the Mine-regard to the dispate, when he strongly cri-sanitary quarters of the city, which are now so

tic sed the attitude of the members of the society back to town, and it when he crawied

fe, he began to swell, and light, and in the north-east district who had refuser to anggested. compromise avail themselves of the bo was bragging about hand pretty anon

The recent adverse and by he began to contro escape. By

then the settlement De believed that the man bad eat that he had been in all he mads of the strike,

the most de, been wrongly advised in voting as they did. sperato stage-robbaries in Wee, and it was a pretty story of the (Hear, hest.) The aberoes of muccess of a couldn't lag that one into story that he strike were far less than the chinuces of s successful issue of the dispute by arbitration, rape of the neek, sort of casually."

because the terms arrived at contained special After that Clemens "drifte," and the provision for the arbitrator to take a re- Senator records that he thong

erstwhile trospective view of the situation as well me a quetaco bad been hBD elected to comparative view of wages in the shipbuilding

What make the scheme 20 peculiarly Congress or something like that when and other engineering omtres. A settlement îu the perseculing newspaper repor into the Senator's room in Wisionohed" that event would therefore have been on consider attractive to the citizens is that, so far as extra dignitary-said: If you palton Chatations far more favourable than those which taxation is concerned, it will cost nothing. ToHE Undergued, having been appointed paper stout me I'll one yon for in the must deter ine the matter of a strike, which carry out this immense publio work, all the Roccamt proceeds in the writer's The would have the additional disadvantage of Prefect asks is that the sinking fand, instituted prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE

baving to he fought on a falling market. But for the redemption of the municipal loans of at Current Rate CARLOWITZ & O ords: He waved the suggestion ath easy | apart altogether from the bearing of the vote on 1865 and 1889. may be permitted to remain in familiarity. Said Clemeus come to see you on important bar, I've this particular dispute, it raised the question of existence until 1945. The loops themselves are

the effectiveness of trade unions as agencies on redeemable in 19.0 and 1929 respectively. just back from the Holy Land."

behalf of labour, Hitherto bargaining bad teen union representative. This vote had gone largely would be realised. possible, because of the confidence reposed in the the data suggested, the sum of £24,920,000 to destroy that feeling of confidence, and in future employers might well say that it would be weaines to make bargains even of a tentative character, with the representatives of the men, because, 88 it might be averred, the men would place no trust in such representatives. It and been said that intervention should have been declined, or that if accepted the Board of Trade should have been referred to the loal representatives. To both of these.

..

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thing to say of the Holy Land why isn't Said I, looking bim over: The mean here to defend itself. But, may be didn't get all the advantages. You ought back and take a postgraduate course. Did walk home P

ve a

"Said Clemens not at all rufflad proposition. There's saillions in it. Aeed is a little cash stake. I have been to thely Land with a party of innocent and esuls people who are fairly sching to be written and I think I could do the job neatly and with desh

if I were not troubled with other more pr.positions he demurred. (Haar, bear.) The

ing consideratione. I've started the

Hoard of Trade although tot armed with. already, and it is a wonder. I osh vouch fstatatory powers to enforce decisions, yet was

I said Let me see the manuscript. He pulled a dozen sheets or go from pocket and handed them to me. I read he had written and I saw that it was bully

Said I: I appoint you my clerk in Senate, and you can live on the salary. That a Bittle ball bedroom across the way where y can sleep and you can write your book in he Help yourself to the whisky and cigars at of the society it might be, was, after all, only a wado in.

section, and when involved is local trouble He accepted all of my invitations in the was dependent on other localities for the sinews modest and assssnming manner for which best was. (dear, hoar) He, along with the execu had been noted in Nevada, and became five of the fociety, represented all sections of the

armed with a great moral weapon, which Mr. Lloyd-George had courageonely used on behalf of the ormmunity. No anion either of em

ployers or employed could afford to flout the. Board of Trade. (Cheers.) He dissented from the view that the Board of Trade should have been referred to the locality, bacate nes matter of fact the locality, however important a section

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member of my family, and my olerk.” organisation--those not engaged in the dispute SCOTCH WHISKY.

The Senator's train of recollections deferrell'ss those who were engaged in the diapate. to the story of the persecution the new board they were the custodians of the interests subjested the landlady to.. She was Mis all those who contributed to the fande. They Virginis Wells, a prim Virginia spinster owe therefore the proper persons to treat with seventy who had lost everything in the war the board of Trade on belinif of any section of and as many of her fellow sufferers of the the city; but while they claimed-and, he South were doing, she wught to recony her subatted claimed with justice-(baar, hear) - fortunes in the boarding-house business in to lrt on behalf of a section, everything possible Washington. Her timid nature shrank from ad Ban doas to get information and advice Clemens and he found "amasement" in devising from representatives of the district at all ways of causing her fear and trepidation. For stages the negotiatione. Everything, he example, he would larch through the corridors, believedhad been dous which could have been "pretending to bb intoxicated, and would throw done on half of the men, and it now remained her into a fit sbout six times a day." Then he for tho sjely itself a hole to say what

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took to smoking in bed at night, and threw her the next bp should be. He, for his part, had For Demand Drafts on London on the day of into panic, The ladre came to Senator no hesitata in saying that it was an absurd

Stewart with complaintes, don't ask that nonin position for a section of the

She said Senator, του friend of yours to leave I shall have to give up my lodging-house, and what will become of me then? He smoke cigars in bed all night, and has ruined my best shoots, and I expect to be barted out any time. I've been on the alert now for three weeks, but I can't keep it up much longer, I used sleep.

"I told her to leave the room, and I called Clemene

"I said: 'If you don't stop annoying this little lady I'll give you a sound thrashing-I' wait till that book's flaisted I don't want to

and illogial

b able to draw at will, and without check, from funds of the society as a whole (bear, hear)d in spite of the caly sccredited

He representation of the society as a whole. appealed for th support of his hearers for the executive autheity in any steps which they might find.irnessary to lake. (Cheers.}

The next important basinges relative to the strike of shipeights, joiners, and others will be dispassed at Edinburgh on Wednesday, when there will be a conference between representives of the National Federation of Shipbuildors and he men's union With reference to the ship-

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it's finished.'

He blew some smoke in my face. Said he 'You are mighty unreasonable."

"I thought he would behave himself after that. But one day, a week later, Miss Virginia staggered into my room again, in a flood of tours.

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