The Clinton News-Record, 1910-04-28, Page 3AprIlitt8tb, 1910
A Canadian Governor Who Died
of Rabies.
That one Of Canada's Governor-
GeaeraIs once died from tho effeets
*et the bite of a Mad dog, is an his-
terical fact of whie1. few people are
nowadays aware. Yet tide was the
untimele end of Charles Lennox, Dula,
(if Richmond, .whis assumed the duties
o Govereor of Canada on the.29th of
July, 1818, and whose death occurred
at Rechinond me August 28, 1819.
The story of hie death is ;elated In
detail in May Busy Itfan's, It seems
that the Duke had been making ex-
plorations in Upper Canada ad after
parting with Lead William and Lady
May Lennox at Kingston, had gone
to dine with a detachment of officers
stationed not far from Richmond.
This was on August 23, and on the
25th the symptoms of that dreadful
disorder which terminated three days
later in hie death first presented
themselves.
Early that morning he alarmed his
. valet by insisting that same trees
- near his window were people loafing
in, and when, some water was brought
to him he evinced great abhorrence
at the sight of it. On several occa-
sions that day and on the 26th the
symptoms became .but too obvious.
So evident were they that a surgeon
was sent for, who bled him, and his
Grace found so math relief that he
arose early the next morning, the
27th, and proposed walking through
-eett—
Cliatoa 14civsuRceord
the woods of the new settlement of
Richmond,
During the progress of the walk, a
dog was heard to bark in the dist
twice, and his Excellency started to
rim et such a rate of speed that he
was with difficulty overtaken. Just
at the outskirts of the wood, at the
eight of some staenant water, his
Grace hastily leaped over a fence and
rushed into an adning barn, whith-
er his dismayed companions followed
hire. The paroxysm was at its
height, and they feared he would die.
It was only with great difficulty that
they succeeded in removing him te a
miserable hut in the neighborhood.
While in this log • hut, reason oc-
casionally resumed her empire, and,
his Grace availed himself of these
lucid intervals to write a letter to
Lady Mary Lennox.. In it he reeprees-
ea his t conviction that his disorder
was hydrophobia, and be reminded
her how he had been bitten by a
favorite dog at the Castle of St.
Louis, five months before. The eog
had subsequently gone •mad, and the
Duke felt irresistibly sconvineed of his
own approaching fate. He recom-
mended the line of conduct his chil-
dren were te purse°, in the painful
situatioe in which hi death would
place them, and requested that he be
buried like a, soldier me the raMparts
of Quebec.
The Battle is on in Chinatown.
For the past week or ten days
the eye of the New York police force*
has been focused on Chinatown, and
the usual number of officers has been
doubled and even quadrupled in
the Mott and Pell Street dis-
trict. War has broken out be-
tween the most powerful tongs, or
Chinese secret socities. Since last
August Chinamen have been falling
thick and fast, and on Sunday, April
10, three New York Chinamen and
two members of the same tong, in
Philadelphia were murdered, and two
more wounded. The assassins es-
caped. The police intervened only in
time to prevent the opposing tong
from taking vengeance. But every-
body in Chinatown knows that as
-soon as the police go back to their
regular beats, or even before, if a
favorable opportunityoccurs, the gun
men of the Four Brothers clan will
.get into action and the score with
the On Leong tong will be evened up,.•
Little Bow Kum.
The war between On Leong and
the See Sing, or four Brothers tong,
began last August, a pretty Chinese
slave girl was the cause of it. Bo*
Kum was her name, and she was im-
ported by a member of the Four
Brothere clan in San Francisco. Not
• ..eaaselemeater her varies.' the eves Wooed
and won by an unauthorized suitor,
who was a member of no particular
tong. They made a runaway match
of it, and were married by a mission-
ary. Realizing that to remain in San
Francisco would mean certain death,
they fled to New York and went in-
to hiding. But New York is the
headquarters of the Four Brothers.
tong, and it was not long before the
fugitives were discovered. Word
was sent to San Francisco, and the
message come back that both hus-
band and wife must die. NQW, Bow
Kum's husband had many friseds
among the members of the On Leong
tong, • a rival organization of the
Four Brothers, and they persuad-
ed him to become a member. Fron.
that moment the quarrel ceased to be
one between individuals, and became
a struggle between the leihge.
Murders Multiply.
Little Bow Kum was the first to,
all, and since then a dozen or more
on each side have been shot to death.
Not a murderer has been caught, and
a writer in the Philedephia Ledger
explains that the reason is that the
assassins are almost invariably stran-
gers, imported from distant cities to
do their work. There is also the
reason that , Chinamen, as a rule,
prefer to settle thoa feuds without
the assistance of the. white man's
law, and prove untrustworthy ' wit-
nesses in any prosecution. The cir-
cumstances in which the • murders
*usually take place tend to make de-
tection almost inmessible. In the
thronging streets, where moving
Chinamen are packed, ahnost solidly
from eide to side, the murderer
presses a revolver to the Fibs of his
victim and pulls the triger. Un-
less he is seizedon the spot his 'de-
tection is practically out of the ques-
tion. Even if arrested, the fact that
he is in possession of a weapon, is no
evidence, for practically all members
of the tongs - go armed. Moreover,
the absenee of a reasonable motive
would stagger a whitejury that has
not access to the secrets of the tongs
of Chinatown. .
The Truce of the Tongs.
The present outbreelt of hostilities
in New York is the first in five years.
The last feud was •between the On -
Leong and the Hep Sing tongs, which
cost a hundred ' lives, and might in
time have wiped out thousands more
had not a truce been effected. The
treaty of peace was drawn 'up by
Judge Warren Foster. It provided
, that Mott street should be the ex-
clusive territory of the On Leong
tong; Pell Street the headquarters of
the Hep Sing tong, an Doyers Street
neutral ground. .The pact was faith-
fully kept, and if the four Brothers
tonghad. been inclUded in the ar-
rangement, the present trouble might
not have ocoured, But . five years
ago the Four. Brothers was an in-
significant body that no one supposed;
capable of much Mischief.
Hee Sing Bankrupted.
Since then, however,, the Hee Sing
tong has been practically bankrupt-
ed by defending four lehilailephie
Chinanient en' a murder charge. Its
influence *as. almott destroyed when
three of the .four were exoeuterl and
the other sent to prison for life.
Hundreds of disgusted, brethern re-
signed when they -found that their
tong had not "pull" enough to save
its murdering members. In the mean-
time, the Four Brothers, through
- cunning management, was building
itself up, until to -day, under . the
chieftainship of old Sam Lock, Hee
almost as powerful as the On Lecing
tong, over which reigns Tom Lee,
called . the King • of Chinatown.
Branches of these organizations have
been 'established in • many cities, and
perhaps some of . the good Canadian
coin a Toronto citizen hands
over to his laundrynian goes down
to be put in the strongbox of a
tong, afterwards to be laid out in
the purchase of amenition fer Chin-
ese executioners.
• • •
Ontario's New Timber Policg.
One or the most important steps
ever taken by the Ontario Governmene
for the preservation of the fames of
the province was announced Friday
by the Hon. Frank Cochrane, Minister
of Lands, Forests and Mines. In adt
dition to preserving the forests the
change fin the Government policy will
affect the Mintier trade, and will
bring in a substentete increase in
timber re.. evenue seat it 'Will not p.rove
injurioiesalasea embarrass the inter-
' etra the lumber trade.
In brief ths new policy is stated as
follows :
After getting all possible informa-
tion, and listening to arguments of.
these interested, the Provincial Gov-
ernment has decided oe certain in.
creases, which, while they will bring
in a 'substantial increase in timber
dues, will not prove injurious to or
embarrasis the interests of the lumber
trade.
Dues on timber limits have been in -
'creased from $1.00 to $1.50 per thou-
sand feet board measure. Dues on
square timber have betn increased
from $20 to $50 per thousand cubic
feet. Hemlock dies have been in-
creased by 25 cents per thousand feet,
board measure. Other ianall, but un-
important, increases also have been
made.
Ground rent late been increased
from $3 to $5 a mile, making a uni-
form rate all over the, province.. Theta
rates will stand without change for
ten years.
The transfer fee has been intreased
trent one dollar to five dollars a
Owners of timber Ihnits Must in
future pay thelr otte ere rangers.
The Globe says :—The adopter; of
Ontario's netv timber policy, as an-
nounced by Hon. Fronk Cochrane,
Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines,
on Saturday, will result, it is thought
in Government • eireles in early re-
version to the Prostuce of many mil-
es of territory now held under licens-
es, and active opetation on the lim-
its long held idle.
The policy hits the speculator hard,
heart distiects eave been held as in -
talents for years without opera-
tion the value of timber constantly
increasing, and young saplings detel-
°ping into merchantable trees. Nota
few of the laree licenses are held by
Ainericans. . Under the increase in
ground rent the Province shares in
the profits of the holdings to an ex-
tent which will probably mean the
immediate operation of meet of them,
and the possible relinquishment of
others. It is, The Globe understends,
the intention of the ISIinist r te ut-
ilize such territory as reverts to the
Crowe, either cleared or otherwise
for the purpose of eettlement where
the country is favorable, and for re-
forestation where deemed advisable.
GOOD REASON Fort ITS
SUCCESS.
Without doubt the largest selling
Wrath medicine in Ameifice is Ca-
tarrhozone. Not advertising but hon-
est inerit late made the fame of "Ca-
tarrhozone" which is guaranteed to
cure catarrh in aty part of the sys-
tem; try it yourself.
Sir Douglas Neale of London is ill
Of pneemonia at Chicago.
St. George's Dag.
Last Saturday was St. George'e
Day, a festival which has possessed a
distinctly English Character since the
decree of the Oxford Council in 1222.
But not until 1349, during the reign
*ef Edward III. was St. George de-
finitely recognized as the patron saint
of Engeand, an honor sharedtwith Ar-
agon and Portugal. However nation-
al . the celebration M more ancient
times, ite observance in England has
not been generally marked by the
patriotic, sentiment associated with
the saint days of Ireland and Scot-
lgnd, even Tho, in the latter ease.,
St. Andrew has had to give place to •
Robert Burns. No doubt small come I
tries that have found it difficult to ,
maintain their independence and nae'
tonality against the pressure of
more powerful neighbors., are apt to
develop a pronounced patriotiene, but
making every allow-ance for the posi-
tion of England, as the predominant,
partner in the United• Kingdom, it can
' scarcely be denied that Englishmen
at home have not for a long time dis-
played any marked enthusiasm over
their national festival..
the democratic north, remains to be
F.een, but certaiuly the gulf is not so
great as that which existed between
the highlands and lowlands of Se
land only only a century and a half ago.
At least Englishmen who have found
new homes beyond the seas, have
managed to keep alive the festival of
. their patron saint. eTo-day, the St.
, George's Society of Upper Canada
will celebrate the seventy-fifth anni-
versary of its foundation in 1835 by
Lieut. -Colonel the Hon. Joseph
Wells. 4In early provincial days, • St.
George's Day wes kept as a. general
holiday, a circumstance testifying to
strong English proclivities. The so-
ciety has always been favorably not-
ed for its generous "contributions for
charetable purposes, one of the most
conspicuoust examples being its gift ef
$250,000 to relieve the distress in
Manchester during the cotton famine,
consequent oe the United States civil
war. Canada has no reason to dis-
parage the English element in her
population, because in a few install,-
ces there may be lack of adaptabil-
ity. -Englishmen, like every other
race, have the defects of their quali-
ties, and. these are pre-eminently the
,qualities which, modified to suit their
new environments, are of the utmost
importance in creating a strong law-
abiding and self-reliant nation.
In a recent article, 'rank T. Didier
pled for a stronger assertion of Eng -
Bah nationalism. Whether this in
possible just now, looking to the con-
trast between the feudal south teal
Death of Timothy"
• • Carhert.
Lucknow Sentinel t—The -mortal
'othy Carbert 'closed, with mournful
life of Timothy Carbert clos-
ed with mournful seddennees on
Monday last, the 18th inst.
He died in his residence, the
Cain House, here at 6 o'clock in the
morning, in the presence of his wife,
his" physician and others who had
been Nestle summoned to his bed-
side.
Timothy Carbert was born, one of a
family of hine, in the township of
Hullett, Huron County, 43 years ago
His parents lived on the farm, and on
the farm he spent his early . years.
After his marriage, in 1894, to Mar-
garet Hefferon, of Blyth, lie moved
to Kinloss, better known then and
so-metimes since as the "Black Horse"
and commenced business in his
chosen line, After three years'
stay ire that place, he removed to
Teesvvatet; purchased, enlarged and
renovated the old Commercial Hotel
there; and quickly became one of the
most prominent and Popular men
catering to the demands of the
travelling public.
"Tim," as he was usually
was loeg a familiar figure in Teee-
water. His position' there was such
as to most prominently display his
native characteristics. Jovial and
witty, by virtue' of his Irish blood—
open-hearted -- hospitable —unusally
liberal -in his views—conscientious in
many hings forgotten' by the average
man—he Was almost an ideal host ;
and these (Mantles remained withhim
to the very end. - •
Selling his Teeswater, property a
few years ago, he removed to Staforth
and purchased a livery business in
that place s But May, of 1909,
found him established once mord, this
thee in the Cain House, Lucknow, in
partnership .with. A: H. Camethe
partnershipwas recently disoived;
and he then hecame.soleeptoprietee of
Lueknow's largest Hetet. There he
• remained until his death. Of. his
brothers and sisters, six .are still tee-
ing: Mary Ann, Mre. J. J, MCCaughy,
and Jane, Mrs. J. F. McCaughy, both
of Morris; Sarah, Mrs...McInnes, of
Stratford,: Joan, Mathew- and George -
all of Hulled township; Three
:brothers, are, now dead: Patrick,
Thomas and Timothy. ' --
The last named, the Subjeot of the
present' sketth, -was the second young -
eat of the family. Since the early
portion of the year he had not been
in his usual health; but his death was
to the general public, Ainexpeeted;
.To his wife who has been made a
widow, and • his three children who
haye been left fatherless by his death
deep synieathy is exterided in their
bereavertent.
The erinains were taken by early
train on Wednesday morning to Sea -
forth. In St. James Church; Requiem
High Mass was -held by Father Cor_:
coran ; and the funeral proceeded
'thence te St. James' Cemetery.
• : WARNING. •
Sine() its introduction into Canada
the sales of Parisian. Sage hav,s been
phenomenal. This success . hasled
to maty imitations similar in name.
Look out for them, they ace not the
genuine. See that the girl with the
auburn hair is on every package. You
,can "always get the .genuine at W. S.-
R. Holmes,'
Parisian Sage is the quickest act-
ing and most- efficient hair tonic in
the world.
It is made to conform to Dr. San-
gerbond's (of Pate) proven theory,
tliat dandruie falling hair, - baldness
and itching scalp are caused by germ's.
Parisien Sage kills these dandruff
germs and removes nil trace of dan-
druff ;n two weeks; or money back :
it stops falling lair and itching
sealp and prevents baldness.
And remember that baldness ie
onus( d by dandruff germs, those little
hard worleng, persisting devils that
day and night do nothing but dig
into the roots of the hair and .destroy
its vitality.
Parisian Sege is a daintily per-
fumed hair dressing, not. sticky or
greasy, and any women who desires
luseriant and bewitching hair cart
- pet it in two weeks hy tieing it. 50.
cents a largo bottle.
•
A little Bath boy named Detlor has
hte n bitten by a dog supposed tci be
mad.
Miss Nellie Priestland, the missing
Jarvis girl, he turnea up at 'Chars
lottetosint
The number killed by the Ceocoo-
cache landslide was six, and. forty
men Were injurtd. •
Soldier With a Deadly Aim.
The real origin of the greatest fake
hero story ever told has come to light
in a scrapbook owned by a resident
of Washington, says the Poet of that
city.
A group of revolutionary heroes
were standing in front ef an old bar
Iin Washington and from the lip of.
each there fell wondrous stories of
what • he had 'done in the shock of
betel.° or the frenzy of the charge.
Finally an old fellow with long, white
whiskers remarked.
t "I was.personally acquainted with
George Washington.
"1 wee lying behind the breast-
works one day pumping lead into the
13ritishers, when I heard the patter
of a horse's hoofs behind me, Then
came a voice. ,
" 'Hi, their you with the' deadly
aim; Look here a mon-lent.' "
"I lcoked around and saluted, . rec-
ognizing George Washington, and 4
said : . .
" 'What's your name ?'
e"Hogan', I said.
" 'Your first name? .
" 'Pat, sir—Pat Hogan.' .
" 'Well, Pat' he said, to home.
You're killing too many men.' •
" 'I tank I'd better get a few
more. general,' I said kind, of apolo-
getic. • •
""No,' he said, 'you've killed too
many. And, Pat, don't call me gen-
eral ; call ine"Geoege.' "—Exchange.
WHAT CAUSES' APPENDICITIS.
The commonest cause 01 appendici-
tis is constipation. When you require
physic don't use cheap drastic pills—
get Dr. Hamilton's Pills which
strengthen the stomach, regulate the
,bowels and prevent any tendency te
appendicitis. Li- one day you'll feel
the tremendous .benefit of Dr, Hamil-
ton's Pills. By purifying the blood
and eleansing . the system they pre-
vent headaches, lift depression and
drive' away weariness, •No medicine
so succeseful as Dr. Hamilton's Pills,
sold everywhere in 25c boxes. with
• yellow' cover; get the genuine.
' •
The London & Lake Erie RailwayCoMpany will 'run Sunday cars be-
tween 'London and Port Stanley, be-
ginning text Sunday. •
At a meeting of the congregatiot of
St. James' Presbyterian chureh, Dart-
mouth, Rev. Dr. D. S. Dix announced
his decision to accept the call to
Chalmers' church, Guelph. •
The Canadian Bank statement for
breach shows a very heavy increase in
note circulation and commercial loans,
indicating a general' broadening in
business. Deposits also show a con-
siderable increase. The total depos-
•its in Canada now =omit to $762,
000,000.
Marls Twain is very. ill at his, home
at Redding, Cont.
The naval bfll passed its third
reading in the House of Commons,
the Government majority being 41.
. STOMACH AGONY.
Abolish' the Cause, and Itfieery and
Distress of Indigestion will Vanish.
Can indigestion be tilted . Hun-
dreds of thousands of people who
sutler from belching of gas, bilious-
ness; spur stomAch, fullness, nausea,
stottness- of breath, bad taste in
mouth, foul breath, nervoueness end
other distressing symptoms, are ask-
ing themselves that question daily.
And if these same doubting aye -
peptics could only read the thousands
of sincere letters from people who
suffered as badly as they do now, but
who have. been quickly and pennant-
ly cured 'by the use of Mi-o-na the
mighty dyspepsia remedy that cures
by removing the cause, they would
go to W. S. R. Holmes this very day
and get a large box of Mi-o-na tab-
lets, and start thernselves on the
road to health at once.
The price of Mi-o-na tablets is on-
ly 50 cents, and W. S. R. Holases
guarantees them to cure indigestion,
or money back.
Thin or lean, scrawney People win
find in Mi-o-na a maker of flesh and
blood, because it causes the stomach
to extract more nutritious matter
from the food, which quickly enriches
the blood.
(Aftwoinw ifisibovsti9
0 1
CURB CATARRII, ASTHMA,
titlitilith, Creep, Cougia and Co* or
intney hack. Sold Ind guaranteed by
A hall pint can of Canipbell's stain
will restore the finish of four ordin-
ary chairs. Any lady can Use it,
When applied it flows out under the
brush, and dries Without showing
laps. A quart -can ef Campbell's
Floor Finish will do an ordinary
floor one coat. Ask Harland Bros,
for color 'card.
Lord Kitchener sailed frees. New
York for Liverpool yesterday.
A bill to prevent oral bookmaking
has passed the New York State
Assembly.
Between thirty and forty men were
entombed by an explosion in an Al-
bania coal mine.
Repeat it :—Shiloh's Cure will al-
ways Mire ray coughs and colds."
During the last three months of
1909 , 1,099 lives were lost on the
railroads of the United States.,
William R. Hearst bas issued a
statement endoreing President Taft
and warning the American people
ageinst permittibg a renewal ' of
Roosevelt rule.
CHILLS PROVE FATAL!
If warmth and circulation are not
promptly restored, chills result in fa-
tal pneumonia. This necessitates
keeping Nerviline on. hand. Taken in
hot Water it breaks up a chill in two
mitutes.. By. rubbing freely over
throat and chest it prevents colds.
No liniment so strong, so penetrat-
ing, so swift to kill pain and inflate-
mation. Nearly fifty years' reeord
has proved the value of Poison's Ner-
viline. You should get a bottle to-
day.
It is stated in Montreal that Mr.
R. Forget, M.P. may take the 65th
Regiment for a M.P.,
to England and
France. .
Twenty men were buried under a
mass of earth and rock in railway
work at St. Alphonse, Quebec. Ten
are hnosvn to be deed and a number
seriously injured.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Campbell, a na-
tive of Embro, Ont., died • at Balti-
more.
•
HENNA LEAVES AND SAGE
WILL GROW HAIR. '
It has only recently been discover-
ed that Henna leaves contain the in-
gredient to grow new hair. Eng-
land and Paris have become flooded
with preparations containing, -the ex-
tract of Henna to grow hair,. and
every one of these preparations haVe
an enormous sale. All other hair
tonics are,practically, at a stand-
still, and the ones containing the
Heinle , are found in every home.
Society ladies purchase them by the
dozen bottles. •On the streets of
London and Paris can be seen • wo-
men with beautiful, luxuriant heads
of real, fluffy hair. The same women
only a few months ago, had their
heads decorated with artificial hair.
The first, one of these preparations
to reach Canada is called SALVIA,
and is sold and guaranteed by W.
A. McConnell. SALVIA will grow
hair in abundance and. Cpre Dand-
ruff M ten days, or your money
back. A large "bottle, 50c.
Eva Suter was acquitted at Braec-,
bridge en the charge of murdering
her two-year-oidaon. .
James Parker had his head jammed
in an eleyator at London, Ont., and
wae fatally injured, •
The report that the C.P.R. will add
two new• steamere to its. Atlantie
fleet is revived at St. john.
The Coroner's jury in, the Maeters
shooting cate: at Tweed returned a
verdict of shot by shine person un-
knOwn. •
' The Marconi Company will on Mon-
day accept Messages- at Montreal for
British points. at twelve cents per
word.
Mr. C. M. elays, President of the•
Grand Trunk, was the guest of the
London, Ont., Board of .Trade at the
annual banquet. '
• Jones and 131ackbuiri, the. Camel's
Back Lake prospectors, gave these
selves up at Helleybury to answer a
charge of perjety. -
At Shawville, Que., Miehael Murphy
sbot and pilled. Harry Hawes and
William Dale, , two of a crowd el
young ince who wereannoying him.
Nathan Bolton was killed by Albert
Holmes near. Cardinal, hie head being
smashed with an axe: Beta men were
respected residents of the locality.
The lockout in the building trades
at Berlin will probably be at ttled in
the near future, •
o IDe Ladle
Vacuumcleaning is eonceded tv
be the only efficient and sanitary,
method for extracting dust and dirt
from carpets, rugs, floors, upholster-
ed furniture draperies, pillows, mat-
tresses, and in fact everything that
contains tliCse enemies ef the home
—because it gets all the dirt
without moving anything from , its
place, or injuring the most delicate
fabrics or stirring up a particle. of
dust.
It repteees the broom, the carpet
sweeper and the dreaded old-fashion-
ed house cleaning days.
Brooms scatter the dust—the. Au-
tomatic Cacuum Cleaner eats it up.
The Automatic will take /Isere
dust from your earpet M halt an hour
than you could beat out M half a day
and you don't 'haste to lift the carpet.
I am agent for the Automatic Va-
cuum Cleaner and have theta for sale
or to rent. Let me show you how
they work.
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.1 'I -
TITHER.,
Mark Twain, the Great Humorist,
Died Last Week.
If Mark Twain as not the great
Arthe
erigearenantoAyemlieertielie wnoasvetibl
e an.ut.hyoof
o :
macerate Abroad" he tells the story of a
couple of touriste who arose while- it,
was yet dark, in order that they might
witness that unparalleled sight, sun-
rise in Switzerland. They shivered
for an hour ors° in the dawn, their
eyes rivieed on the horizon to catch
the fleet glimpse of the glory of the
coming day. Gradually the light
grew and grew, but no sun appeared,
though their eyes ached in thew sock-
ets. ehey wondered what cast the
long shadows in front of them but
not till broad daylight did they dis
cover that they had been looking
west instead of east. So to the eager
welchers for the "great American
novels' we might suggest that they
take "TOM Sawvet" and eklacaleberry
Pam," consider them as one hook, and
whether the greet American novel was
not written 30 or 40 years ago.
THE GREAT HUMORIST, •
If it is not exactly the sun, it is the
roosapowerful beam of light that has
illumined American literature in our
day. Thefactthata man is famous
as a humorist is almost as fatal to hie
chances of being recognized as a great
novelist as would be his equal notor-
iety. as an imbecile. Mark Twain
Was incomparably the greatest humor.
ist of his generation, although he was
the author of sonte poor jokes, too,
especially in his later years, and bie
cause he loved. to joke the public
found it difficult to believe he could
talk seriously. Once he delivered a
serious, even a eolernn and grisly ad-
dress on the horrors of vivisection,
of which he was a strenuous opponent.
The gloomiest paragraph went the
round of the papers under "The Laugh
Line," *Tunny Anecdotes," and other
suitable. headings. •A lot of people
who bad supposed that Mark Twaina
vein of humor was failing chenged
their opinion after reading the side-
splitting effort on vivisection, and
concluded that he was just reaching
ripetperfection.
"A JUMPING FROG."
no:cv he worked as a deekhand 00 ts
Mississippi steamer, and chose his
nom de plume from the monotonous
cry of . the leadsmen,. sounding the
depths of the river froth the bow of
the boat, is an old story, and has been
repeated a thousand times. Young
Clemens began low enough down in
the social scale, but we never heard
that he had any particular struggle to
find newspapet editore or book pub-
lishers who perceived that he was a
man of genius.. At one thee he was a
printer, and then, somewheie • °et
West, he drifted into newspaper work.
For a few years he divided his time
between writing and mining but•he
struck it rich With a "Jumping :Frog."
and thenceforth he devoted himself to
writing and etesueuie.
•
Abroad" was his first Wok, and thew
canoe "Roughing It," which wee it
senteautoblogrephicalaccount of bat
adventures while secretary to hat
brother, who was Territorial Secretary.
of Nevada. "Tone Sawyer" aprieerect
in 1867, when the author was 41 years
old, and "Huckleberry Finn," its
sequel, ten years later.
HIS BEST STORY:.
More than a score of hooka beeides,
innumerable short stories, magazine
articles and lectures, were the fruit%
of his later yeare. As for the jokes, it
Was a dull day that he didn't tura
outseveral worth repeating. Perhaes
the one that will live longest and is
at the same time about the best pose
siege illustration of his peculiar butisor,
was his remark On One occasion where
a premature report of his death bad,
been spread abroad. Mark Twain
said thee the report was "grossly ex.-
aggerated." The writer lacks the
aseurance necessary for a dogmatic'
judgment as to Mark Twain's best
store, but yvill submit the private
opinion that his "Cannibalism in the
Oars" deserves the title.
A GREAT AMERICAN.
•
Le'aving exuerts to finally locate his
niche in the Valhalla of literature, let
US take a final view of Mark Twain ate
one of the greatest Americans oe hia
time, He 'night well stand as the
Ideal American in time of peace as
Lincoln represents the ideal in time of
war. In 1881, with a substantial fortune -
at his conenand, he became interested.
in a publishing house, which failed af-
ter swallovsing his capital. Though
his connection with the then had
ceased some time before the final ca-
tastropheeand Mark Twain was res.
ponsible neither morally nor legally'
for the debts of the then, be chival-
rously shouldered the burden. He set
out on a lecture tour that girdled the
world, and with the proceeds of the
trip -and "Following the &meter ,
paid every dollar of Webster and. •.'
Co.'s indebtedness. A man of shrewd •
but kindly judgment, he befriended
and started on paths of success many '
a struggling author. In New York
there were few more public spirited,
citizens, and good cause could count ort
his support. In England his death
will be mourned by almost as mane -
friends asin his own country.
Repeat it :-eShiloles Cure will :a
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TleS lawleieneris of the natives in
Hunan province, China, is spreading.
Mrs. Jane Mapson of St, Thomast
wandered out ema the M.C.R.' high, .
bridge and was cut to pitces by a
train.
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