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m MARK TWAIN ESCAPED JAIL. W Twicc Arrested and Freed as Being W '' the Greatest Mian in the Country.'' "Yes," said Murk Twain, with an air of conscious importance. "I have ' been arrested. 1 was arrested twice, i so that there could be no doubt about & it. I have lived many years in the B sight of my country an apparently ^kuneaught and blameless life, a model the hoary-headed. Hut at hist the lavlt has laid its hand upon me," says an Annapolis dispatch to Philadelphia l.cdgeV. ' Minie was no ordinary offense. When l\jiffront the law, I choose to do so in\no obscure, insignificant, trivial manW. Mine was a crime against nothing less than the Federal L government. Tl:Je officers who arrcst? ed me were ihJ common or garden policemen; they/were clothed with the authority of tille Federal constitncharm. The minions of the law faltercigar within a government reservation. 1 was charged with smoking a ed. 1 came near setting a stone pile on five. "It ;.s true that the arrest was not made effective. One of the party whispered to the marines what Governor Warfield was going to say, and did say, in introducing me to the audience at my lecturc?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 minions of the law flaterod, hesitated, fpiailcd, and today I am a free man. Twice they laid hands upon me; twice were overcome by my deserved reputation. 1'Perhaps 1 ought not to say myself that it is deserved. Hut who am L to contradict the governor of Maryland? Worm that 1 am by what right should I traverse the declared opinion of that man of wisdom and judgment, whom I have learned to admire and trust? 1 never admired him nu.ve than T did when he ! tid my audience that they had with them the greatest man in the world. 1 believe that was his expression. 1 don't wish i'o undertake his sentiments, but will o no further than that?at present. iVhy, it fairly warmed my heart. It ilmost made me glad to bo there myeif. I like good company. Why Bishop Potter is Great. "Speaking of greatness, it is culous how many grounds there are ,or great reputations; how many different phases, that is to say, greatness may take on. There was Bishop Potter. lie was arrested a few months ago for a crime similar to mine; ihouvh iie lacked liio imagination to select United States government properly as the scene of the gjuilty deed. Now 'Bishop Potter is a great man. I am aware he is, because a street car motorman told me so. A mot' :man is not a governor of Maryland, out then Bishop Potter is not a humorist. lie* could hardly expect a "Certificate like mine. !?f,'I rode with the motorman one ^ day on the front seat of his car. There n blockade before we got very land the motorman, having nothdo, became talkative. 'Oh ves,' 'I have good many distinguished men on tliis trip. Hishop PotteV-oft|6n rides with me. lie likes the mKiH. V t! .? ! ; . -.rent man Bishop Put or." is true,' I responded. 'Doctor T^btl^iis indeed a mighty man of c,udite theologian, a wise a.li^itUS.tl'iitor of lii- ureal diocese, an 111 ''u> in"'orm:,n? bis f^c|Weaniing with pleasure as he reco^^P'the justice of my tribute and b^i^^ 1,1 a,5,,l ,,m' bis own. ' Ves, {lii? only man who rides with rail spil in the slot every ^Mfat 's ;j ... od story, isn't it? I. [v! 'dory well told. That is ' 5,1,1 sometimes foced to them myself. Mere is one, o 1 iif^cb I was reminded yesterday as I K investigating the naval acadcP? ^ny. I was much impressed with the ? lV^yal academy. I was all over it. and H it is all .?\'cr me, I am full of t ifeVhavy. I talk, think, eat, drink and dW^ilbtX navy. I wanted to march with (Ihem on parole, but they didn't think M ,fc.,,sk me; curious inallention on B their part, and I just ashore after a H celebrated cruise. H "While I was observing the navy Ion land," said Mr. Clemens, "I B thought of the navy at sea and of Bh Hit story, so pathetic, so sweet, so Rjroa touching. This is one of my Let', V'ies; something in its delicacy, Hrefinement and the elusivencss of its ^ humor fits my own quiet tastes. H[ "The time is 2 a. m., after a lively Hknight at the club. The scene in front M0f his house. The house is swaying ^Bind lurching to and fro. lie has suc[Bk'cded in navigating from the club, ^Byit how is he going to get aboard this HuMling, tossing thing? lie watches WS\w steps go back and forth, up and |Buown. Then he makes a desperato IroL ^ resolve, braces himself, and as the steps come round, he jumps, clutches the 1 landrail, gels aboard and pulls himself safely up on the piazza. With a like manoeuvre he yets through the door. \\ a telling his chance, he gains the lowest step of the inside staircase and pain hilly makes his way up the swaying and uncertain structure. He has almost reached the top when in a sudden lurch he catches his toe and la'Ms back, rolling to the bottom. At this moment his wife, rushing out into the upper hall, hears coining up from ilie darkness below, from the discomfited 1 igure sprawled on the floor with his arms around the newel post, the fervent, appropriate and pious ejaculation, 'God help the poor sailors out at sea!' "1 trust this matter of my arrest will not cause my friends to turn from me. It is true that, no matter what may be said of American public morals, the private morals of Americans as a whole are exceptionally good. I do not mean to say that in their private lives all Americans are faultless. I hardly like to go that far, being a man of carefully weighed words and iinder ja (peculiarly vivid .sense of the necessity of moderation in statement. I should like to say that we arc ;i faultless people, but I am restrained by recollection. L know several persons who have erred and transgressed?to put it plainly, they have done wrong. I have heard of si ill others?of a number of persons, in fact, who arc not perfect. 1 am not perfect myself. I confess it. T would have confessed it before the lament-'able event of yesterday. For that was not the first lime I ever did wrong. No; 1 have done several things which fill my soul with regret and contrition. Story of a Watermelon. "I remember, 1 remember it so well, I remember it as if it were yesterday, the first time 1 ever stole a watermelon. Yes, the first time. At least J think it was the first time, or along about there. It was, it was, must i have been, about 1S4S, when 1 was | l.'5 or 14 years old. 1 remember that j watermelon well. 1 can almost taste it. | now. "Yes, I stole i;. Y , ; !i / use sol harsh a word? It was the biggest of the load on a farmer's wa-.-rn shimling in the gutter i i the old town of Hannibal, Mo. While the farmer was busy with another?another?customer, I withdrew this melon. Yes 'stole' it is too strong. 1 extracted it. 1 retired it from circulation. And 1 myself retired with it. "The place to which I lie watermelon and I retired was a lumber yard. I knew a nice (piiet alley between the sweet smelling planks, and to that sequestered spot 1 carried the melon. Indulging a few moments' contemplation of its freackled rind, 1 broke it open with a stone, a rock, a dornick, in boy's lsv.:;n:i'je. "It was g;i?en! Impossibly, hopelessly Lsreen! I do i- >. k.i why this circumstance should have affected me. bnt it did. It affected me deeply. It altered for me the moral values of the universe. It wrought in me a moral revolution. 1 began to reflect. Now, recollection is the beginning of reform. There* can be no reform without reflection. "I asked myself what course of conduct I should pursue. What would conscience dictate? What should a highniinded yoiuw man do after retiring a green watermelon'? What would (Jeorge Washington do? Now Wii>' the time for all the lessons incubated .at Sunday school to act. "And they did act. The word that came to me was 'restitution.' Obvious, v tii'ie way the pa!'i >1' dr.;,' I reasoned with myself. I labored. At last I was fully resolved. ' I '11 do it," said I. ' 1 'II take him back his old melon. Not many boys would have been so heroic, would so clearly have seen the right thing and so sternly have resolved to do it. The moment 1 reached that resolution I felt a strange uplift. One alw lys feels) an uplift when he turns from the wrong to righteousness. \ arose, spiritually strengthened, renewed and refreshed, and in the strength of Unit refreshment carried back the watermelon? that is, 1 carried back what was left of i! aad :u:ide him g!*e me ; rip? one. " 15ut I had a duty toward that farmer, as well as to myself. I was as severe on him as I he * rcunisi deserved, f did not spare him. I tedd him he ouulit '< be a.% I of self giving his?his customers green melons. And he was ashamed. He said he was. He said he felt as badly about it as I did. Tn this he was mistaken. He haden't eaten any of the melon. T told him that the one instance was bad enough, but asked him to consider what would become of him if this should become a habit with him. I pictured his future. And f saved him. lie wept and thanked me an 1 promised to do better. "We should always labor thus with those who have taken the wrong road. /' . m *" i? www uu Very likely (his was tho farmer's first 1 false step. He had not gone far, but ^ he had put his loot on the downward s incline. Happily, at this moment, a friend appeared, a friend who stretch- ' ed out a helping hand and held him ^ hack. Others might have hesitated, , have shrunk from speaking to him ot his error. I did not hesitate nor 11 shrink. And it is one of the gratifi- ' at ions of my life that I can look hack <>n what 1 did for that man in his hour: of need. " 1 he blessing came, lit: went home | J with a hi iv?lit lace to iiis rejoicing' ^ wife, and 1?I got a ripe melon. I trust it was with him as il was with 1 me. Reform with me was no transient 1 emotion, no passing episode, no l'hila- . dclphia uprising. 11 was permanent. ^ Since thai' day 1 have never stolen a ' water never stolen a green watermelon." TILLMAN'S CHALLENGE A MYTH ( ,( He is Reported to Have Invited Sen-1 .ator DoiQiver to Fight a " Duel. Jackson, Mich, July ."5.?A story sent out from this city to a number of Eastern papers, stating that Sen- 4 ator Tillman, while in this city, diallenued Ser.ator Dolliver to a duel, is regarded her as a pure fabrication. , Senator Tillman lectured here Wed nesday evening and left f ir the South ' before Senator Dolliver arrived to de- . liver a lecture Thursday eveniirg. The duel story hangs upon a severe i criticism Senator Dolliver made of the South Carolina Senator in his lecture last night. Senator Dolliver i< 1 quoted as saying: "Men (if such type as Senator Till- j man. who opecly boast of violating, the law. who are instrumental in the j murder of* hundreds of black men and !who preach anarchv. should be behind the prison walls.' The duel s'ory was to the effect that the two Senators met in this city and | became engaged in a heated convor- | sation over Senator Dolliver's re- ! < marks. Senator TiUnta* finally dial- ; 1 lenuim the Iowa Senator to a duel. !l Why He Came Tlien. l?ishoi? Prewster of Connecticut, is j j noted for his funny storm--, and his ( j !r.*:. *-1 v :;:d ! ' " about an old re- 1 prosaic v'-o repent and! aiinm-iM-'d fo cv(>.y i?. > 11? whatever! wrii:i; ! " '. i-ii <! >.>." ^hnuld be made right. So ?r.in whom he had cheat-1 j ed out of a lar.?e sum of money went i aro'o< i at mhh'i'hl lo demand it. ! "But what did you come at this i | A Rational Treatment* for Catarrh ! is one that soothes the inflamed and j congested membranes and heals and { ' cleanses without "drugging" the affec- t , gives quick and permanent relief from i 1 Catarrh, Colds?all affections of the 1 i membranes of the nose and throat. Wo Guarantee Satisfaction, | Buy a so-cent tube of NoSEna from ! 1 j . C. 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Our other lines compl and as usual you will find ou New Drop Head Domestic Ma Machine, Drop Head, 20 years People say Moseleys can't make piofit. What difference pie say as long as you get the gc Mosele^ PROSPERI i f"" CALL Bfotidiiis I AT '1 J HERALD S Box Paper, 1 Tablets, Per I Pens and 1 Soaps, I Fin< I I n fact anything you i I CIGARS AND 1 Don't forget to call I They are also agent I Laundry. ^Iimiiiniiiininnii iiMiiwut m mms ^ <$> <& ^ ? 4<q \ /rescripiior ''f g Which we use are without e $ We believe in PURITY. We constantly preach PU ,' We always practice PUR X cl:,esPURITY counts, and coui J Ask vour doctor. J MAYES' DRI VERY LO\ . . . T< NORFOLK A Account Jamestown Ter ... VI SOUTHERN Season, Sixty Day and Fifl< daily, commencing April 19 vember 30th, 1907. Very low rates will also be BRASS BANDS in uniforrr STOP OVERS will be alloi and Fifteen Day Tickets, sa 1st Tickets. For full and complete ini Agents Southern Railway, c R u XlliWB, lour l??r ami wake me up? Why not vait lill tomorrow?" said the old 'inner crossly. "1 cauii' now," replied the man, 'to avoid the rush.'"?Harper's iVeekly. E. SHEEHAN Augusta, Ga. 3ottler of Imperial Ginger \le, Root Beer, Champagne Cider, Wiseola and Oomestic Lager Beer in pints, 10 dozen to the cask, [>7.50 per cask. Write for complete price ist. Wholesale and retail lealer in Wines and Lijuors. NOTICE. Before letting the contract, for your new building see W.T. Livingston. Best 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 31ub rates to offer, hut we Pledge letter Instruments for 'he same or ess money, liir.n those at club raie >tTers. Write Malu-ies Music House, C'oumhia, S. C., for special prices and erms. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. Rates from Newberry S. C., as folows: Season Ticket $10.55. Sold daily \pril 1 J)th to November 30th. (id Day ticket $10.30. Sold daily \pril 10th to November 30th. .15 day ticket $14.30. Sold daily \pril 10th to November 30th. Coach Excursion $8.55. Sold each fuesday; limit 10 days. Endorsed. 'Xot good in parlor or sleeping ars." Through Pullman sleeping ears, via \lla::iic Cost Lino Railroad company. Write for a beautiful illustrated Folder containing maps, descriptive na!iT, list of Hotel, etc. ?' or reservations or any informaio:?. Address, T. C. White, General Passenger Agt. ^V. J. Craig, Passenger Trliflie Manager, Wilmington, N. C. B3MB?B??? ? MBBIWBBH?BB3 iale College. >t water beat, Klectric lights and other Is last war. High standard of s-eholaradvantages iu Music. Advance course ible, and normal courses. rsonal attention tr? the health and social on all public occasions em he i' iStb, 1907 For catalogue address VI. RHODES, President, Littleton, X. 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