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MARK TWAIN ESCAPED JAIL. Twice Arrested and Freed as Being "the Greatest Man in the Country." "Yes,'' said Mark Twain, with an air of conscious importance. "I have been arrested. I was arrested twice, so that there could be no doubt about it. I have lived many years in the sight of my country an apparently uneaught and blameless life, a model 1or tihe hoary-headed. But at last the law has laid its hand upon me.'' says an Annapolis dispatch to Philadelphia Ledgel. " ewa?f no ordinary offense. When I-iffront the law. I choose to do so in no obscure. insignificant, trivial manner. Mine was a crime a.zainst nothin less than the Federal government. TE-e officers who arrest- i ed m were no common or garden policemen: they were Clothed with the authority of the Federal constitu charm. The minions of the law falter cigar within a government reserva tion. I was charged with smoking a ed. I cam'e near setting a stone pile on fire. "It .s true that the arrest was not made effective. One of the party whispered to the marines what Gover nor Warfield was going to say, and did say, in introducing me to the aud ience at my lecture-that I was one of the greatest men of the world. I don't know who proposed to tell that to the marines, but it worked like a charm. The minons of the law flater ed, hesitated, quailed, and today I am a free man. Twice they laid hands upon me; twice were overcome by my deserved reputation. "Perhaps .I ought not to say my self that it is deserved. But who am I to contradict the governor of Mary laud? Worm that I am by what right shon!d I traverse the declared opin :on of that man of wisdom and judg ment, whom I have learned to ad mire and trust? I never admired him mc.re than I did when he fuid my aud ience that they had with them the greatest man in the world. I believe that was his expression. I don't wish to undertake his sentiments, but will go no further than that-at present. Why, it fairly warmed my heart. It almost made me glad to be there my . I like good company. Why Bishop Potter is Great. 'Speaking of greatness, it is cu r great reputations; how many dif 'rent phases, that is to say, great ess may take on.1There was Bishop Potter. He was arrested a few months ago for a crime similar to mine; th:oughi he lacked the imagin: tion to select United States govern ment property as the scene of the guilty deed. Now Bishop Potter is a great man. I am aware he is, because street car motorman told me so. A mot man is not a governor of Mary land, but then Bishop Potter is not a humorist. He could hardly expect a certificate like mine. "I rode with the motorman one day on the front seat of his car. There was a blockade before we got very far, and the motorman, having noth ing to do, became ta'lkative. 'Oh yes,' he said, 'I have a good many distin guished men on this trip. Bishop Pot ter often rides with me. He likes the fer yocu-Bishop Potter.'I 'It is true.' I responded. 'Doctor Potter is indeed a mighty man of God. an erudite theologian, a wise al 'ministrator of his great diocese, an exevete of-' '."Yes.' broke in the motorman, his face beaming with pleasure as he rec canized the justice of my tribute and1 hav:ened to ad~d one of his own. 'Yes, and hef's the1P. only man(h rides wi me who~ can spit in the slot every 'time.' *'That's a <.*od story'. isn't it'? I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes foeed to tell them myself. Here is one, of which I was reminded yesterday as I was investigating the naval acade my. I was much impressed with the naval academy. I was all over it, and now it is all over me, I am full of the navy. I talk. think, eat, drink and dream navy. I wanted to march wvith 'them on parole, but they didn't think thy-ask me: curious inattention on their part, and I just ashore after a celebrated cruise. "While I was observing the navy on land,'' said Mr. Clemens, "I thought of the navy at sea and of this story, so pathetic, so sweet, so reall1y touching. This is one of my pet stories; something in its delicacy, refinement and the elusiveness of its umor fits my own quiet tastes. "The time is 2 a. in., after a lively ight at the club. The scene in front f his house. The house is swaying nd lurehing to and fro. He has suc eded in navigating from the club, t how is he going to get aboard this lliing, tossing thing? He watehes nie steps go bac'k and forth. up~ an'l -on Then he makes a desperate llcs;Glve. !)Iaces 11niselft.ad th 4he handrail, ets abeom-M) and pull imelf safely up on the piazza. Witl like manoeuvre he gets through th< loor. Wateliing his chance, he gain: lie lowest step of the inside staircas( 1nd painfully makes his way up tli wtvaing and unee-;tain structure. H :ias almost reached the top when il A sudden lurch he eatches his toe an< a'ls back. rollin, to the bottom. A his imoment his wife, rushing out int< he upper hall. hears coming up fron he darkness below. from the discom rited figure sprawled on the floo: sith his arms around the newel post :ie fervent. appropriate and piouw .jaeulation, 'God help the poor sail rs out at sea!' "I trust this matter of my arres xill not cause my friends to turn fron mie. It is true that, no matter wha nay be said of American public mor fls. the private morals of American: is a whole are exceptionally good. I Jo not mean to say that in their pri rate lives all Americans are faultless [ hardly like to go that far, being s man of carefully weighed words an< ainder a ipecliarly vivid sense of -he necessity of moderation in state ment. I should like to say that wi ire a faultless people, but I am re trained by recollection. I know sev ral persons who have erred an< ransgressed-to put it plainly, the3 have done wronz. I have heard o: ;till others-of a number of persons n fact. who are not perfect. I am no >erfect myself. I confess it. I woul< iave confessed it before the lament ble event of vesterday. For that wa iot the first time I ever did wrong Ko; I have done several things whicl Hill my soul with regret and contri on. Story of a Watermelon. "I remember, I remember it s( vell, I remember it as if it were yes :erday, the first time I ever stole z vatermelon. Yes, the first time. A east I think it was the first time, o: ong about there. It was, it was, mus iave been, about 1S48, when I wa4 L3 or 14 years old. I remember tha atermelon well. I can almost taste i low. "Yes, I stole it. Yt '-1h; use s< iarsh a word? It was the biggest o: he load on a farmer's wagon stand ng in the gutter ia the old town o: EIannibal. Mo. While the farmer wa: busy with another-another-c.usto ier. I withdrew this melon. Ye: stole' it is too stronz. I extracted it retired it from circulation. .And yself retired with it. "The place-to which the watermel >n and I retired was a lumber yard. aew a nice quiet alley between thi sw.eet smelling planks, and to tha sequestered spot I carried the melon [ndulging a few moments' contempla tion of its freaekled rind, I broke i pen with a stone, a rock, a dornick in boy's la:zuage. "It was gveu! Imp)o;ibly, hope essly green! I do .;: ' k:u .: why thi' ircumstance should have affecte< me, but it did. It affected me deeply [t altered for me the moral values o: the universe. It wrought in me a mor l revolution. I began to reflect. Now recllection is the beginning of re form. There- can be no reform with ut reflection. "I asked myself what course o -ondut I should pursue. What woul onscience dictate? W.hat should bihminded~ young man do after re tiring a ;rreen watermelon? Wha would George Washington do?~ Nox was the time for all the lessons in euleated.at Sunday school, to act. "And they did act. The word tha eame to me was 'restitution.' Ob eiu toh' re way the path of du: easoned with myself. I labored. A last I was fu.lly resolved. 'I 'll d it,'' said I. 'I'll take him back his ch melon. Not many boys would hay been so heroic, would so clearly hav seen the right thing and so sterni: have resolved to do it. The momen [ reached that resolution I felt: strange uplift. One alwvays feels ai aplift when he turns from the. wron; to righteousness. I arose, spirituall; strengthened, renewed and refreshed3 and in the strength of that refresh ment carried back the watermelon that is. I carried back what was lef i 1 --a:n :n:ale uim g:'.e me a nip 'But I had a duty toward tha farmer. as well as to myself. I wa ais severe (on him as thle - remst c deserved. I did not spare him. I tolh him he ou.ht '' Y a~ :;...:of i self giving his--his customers greel melons. And he was ashamed. H said he was. He said he felt as badl; about it as I did. In this he was mis taken. He haden 't eaten any of th melon. I told him that the one in stance was bad enough, but asket him to consider what would becom of him if this should become a habi with him. I pictured his future. An! I saved him. He wept and thanke me ars 1 p)romfised to do better. "We should always labor thus wit: tos who have taken the wroniz roat Verv likel* this was the farmer's first false step. lie had not gone far. but he 'Id put his foot on the downward inIline. Happily, at this monietit, a friend appeared, a friend who stretch ed out a helpin' hand and held him back. Others mizht have hesitated, have shrunk from speaking to him of his error. I did not hesitate nor shrink. And it is one of the gratifi a tions of my life that I can look back on wh",at I did for that man in his hour of need. I"The blessingo came. He went home with a b h face to ins rejoicing wife. and --I -ot a ripe melon. I trust it w.,s with him as it was with me. Reform with me was no transient emotion, no passing episode, no Phila delphia uprising. It was permanent. Since that day I have never stolen a water-never stolen a green water melon." TILLMAN'S CHALLENGE A MYTH He is Reported to Have Invited Sen ,ator DolRliver to Fight a Duel. Jackson. Mich, July 5.-A story sent out from this city to a number of Eastern papers, stating that Sen ator Tillman, while in this city. chal lenzed Se::ator Dolliver to a duel. is regarded her as a pure fabrication. Senator Tillman lectured here Wed nesday evening and left for the South before Senator Dolliver arrived to de liver a lecture Thursday evening. The duel story han-s upon a severe criticism Senator Dolliver made of the Sbuth Carolina .Senator in his lec ture last niht. Senator Dolliver is quoted as saying: "Men of such tyne as Senator Till man. who opei:lv boast of violating the law, who are instrumental in the murder of hundreds of black men and wh,o preach anarehv should be be hind the prison walls.' The duel s*ory was to the effect that the two Senators met in this city and became engaed in a heated conver sation over Senator Dolliver's re marks. Senator Tillma:! finally chal lenginf the Iowa Senator to a duel. Why He Came Then. Bishon Brfwster of Connecticut, is noted for his funny stories, and his ~~ -'d t 'M about an old re probha:e who qreided to- repent and I l ."'l to c'r:: "K th-.t schatever wrom. " 0d con' ;hould he made Irizht. So -' ron whom lie had cheat ed out of a larne sum of money went aronel at mid"i -ht to demand it. "But what did you come at this A Lational Treatunent. ror Catarrh a oe that soothes the ifamed and conesedmembranes and heals and eises without "drugging" the af fec gives quick and permanent relief from -Catarr, Colds-all affections of the -membranes of the nose and throat. We Guarantee Satisfa.etion. BaDy a so-cent tube of NOSENA from W\. C. Mi-e & l'ios) erity Drug Co -andgetyourmbney backifnotsatisfied. Sample tube and Booklet by mail roc. BROWN MTeG CO.. St. LgoleMo. Greenville'd.em. Littleton Fe1 in Art and Elocution. Business 'i ollege, Health record got surpassed Close Sdevelopmnt of tach pupil Uniform wc CHARGES VERY .0W. 26th Annual session winl begin on. Se REV. 3 We Want to como~ andsoth hand, In looking eve good many things th~a -a sacrifice. Everyone Come and juds Mre t hour for and wake me up? Why not wait till t&hnorrow?'' said the old sinner crossly. "I came now.'' replied the man, "to avoid the rush.'-Harper's Weekly. E. SHEEHAN Augusta, Ga. Bottler of Imperial Ginger ,Ale, Root Beer, Cham pagne Cider, Wiseola and Domestic Lager Beer in pints, 10 dozen to the cask, $7.50 per cask. Write for complete price list. Wholesale and retail dealer in Wines and Li quors. NOTICE. Before letting the contract for your new build ing see W. T. Liv ingston. BesLt Work. Lowest prices. Lock Box No. 59., Newberry, S. C WANTED OLD PIANOS AND ORGANS for which we will allow the highest prices towards now Instruments. No Club rates to offer, but we Pledge, better Instruments for the same or less money. !ilan those at club rate offers. Write Maloues Music House, Co lumbia, S. C., for special prices and terms. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. IRates from Newberry S. C., as fol lows: Season Ticket $19.55. Sold daily April 19th to November 30th. 60 Day ticket $16.30. Sold daily April 19th to November 30th. I15 day ticket $14.30. Sold daily April 19th to November 30th. Coach Excursion $8.55. Sold each Tuesday; limit 10 days. Endorsed. "Not good in' parlor or sleeping ears. Through Pullman sleeping cars, via Atlantic Cost Line Railroad company. Write for a beautiful illustrated folder containing maps, descriptive mater, list of Hotel, etc. F or reservations or any informa tion. Address. T. C. White, W. J. 'Craig, Passenger Traffie Manager, Wilmington, N. C. Liale College. lot water heat. Electric lights and other ps last year. High standard of scholar rv advantages in Music. 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