The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 09, 1907, Page SEVEN, Image 7
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.
/'
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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. !
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