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THE !SEM J-WEEKL Y ROBESONIAN 2 MARK TWAIN. The mere chronology of Mark Twain's life is soon told. Like most dwellers in the imagination, his significance to posterity iies not, as with men of action, in how he wrought upon events but rather in how events wrought upon him; for from such reac tions resulted his imaginative output one of the most consid erable of his time and, as it now seems, one of the securest. Briefly, then, Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida. Mo., on November 30, 1&35. "My parents," he writes, in his own Burlesque Autobiog raphy, ,,were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend of the family by the name of Higgins." The county chroni cles have it that the elder Clem ens failed in business and died, leaving his son the ample world to make his fortune in. m i m - J Accordingly, iviarK i wain s ac- Mark Twain was an inveterate quamtance with literature Degan smoker and one of the most leis WARREN TOPPAN, Lynn, Mass. Cured of severe compound cold and cough by From Dec. 20, '08, to March I, 09, I had three bad colds, one on top of the other. I got so weak 1 could hardly get around. Nothing seemed to help me until 1 began to take Vinol. The change was magic. Three bottles com pletely fixed that compound cold and stopped the terrible cough and what surprises me most, at the same time it cured me of a severe stomach trouble that has bothered me for 20 vears. Vinol is certainly a wonderful medicine." Mr.Toppan is one of Lynn's most prominent and highly respected merchants, whose word is as good as his bond. The reason Vinol is so successful in such cases is because it contains the two most world-famed tonics the medicinal, strength ening, body-building elements of Cod Liver Oil and Tonic Iron. Your Money Back 13 You Are Not Satisfied. Dr. J. D. McMillan & Son, Druggists, Lumberton. cannot be excelled, neither can all the good points which, characterize Columbus wagons be discovered in a year. The wheels, gears and boxes, in brief the entire wagon, is well made of good material and properly ironed throughout. Columbus wagons are built to withstand the rough usage encountered on the farm. Secure a Columbus wagon now and make your future pros perity secure. It will be much better for you to attend to this matter now than to wish you had when it is too late. Buy the Columbus today aldwell & Carlyle in rmttinff words into type, not ideas into words. Educated on ly in the public schools, he was apprenticed to a printer at thir teen and worked at his trade in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadel phia and New York, until at eighteen he could gratify a boy ish ambition to become cub to a Mississippi river pilot. Both these desperate happenings re acted profoundly on his later life. Varied and eventful as that life was. onlv two things happened to Mark Twain he learned the riv er and he learned to set type. His knowledge of river life, ac quired when he was a pilot took form in "Tom Sawyer," "Huck leberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi" regarded abroad as his surest title to fame. It even suggested his psuedonym for "Mark Twain" is a linesman.s cry to the pilot in shallow stages. And his familiarity with print ing turned him naturally first in to newspaper work, then into creative writing, and finally into the publishing business wherein, like Sir Walter Scott, he suffered a bankruptcy disastrous to every thing but his honor, and like Sir Walter again, paid off by his pen debts not of his own making. In due time Mark Twain be came a full-fledged pilot. He tells the rest himself, in a chap ter of "Life on the Mississippi." By and by the war came, commerce was suspended, my occupation was gone. "I had to seek another liveli hood. So I became a silver min er, in Nevada; next, a gold min er, in California; next, a report er in San Francisco; next, a spe cial correspondent in the Sand wich islands; next, a roving cor respondent in Europe and the East; next, an instructional torchbearer on the lecture plat form, and, finally, I became a scribbler of books, and an im movable fixture among the other rocks of New England." This was in 1872, a year after he had married Miss Olivia L. Langdon of Elmira, N. Y., who brought him an independent for tune. At that time, his writ ings were in growing demand, he had an assured income, his own home, and seemed indeed a fixture. But in 1885 his popular ity as an author and his acquaint . ance with the mechanics of the publishing trade besides being a practical printer he had been part owner of The Buffalo Ex press before his marriage drew him into the firm of C. L. Web ster & Co., publishers. The firm brought out the memoirs of Gen eral Grant and paid his widow $350,000, but its prosperity was shortlived, and it failed with lia bilities of $96,000. The failure had already sucked in $65,000 of Mark Twain's cash, but he deter mined also to shoulder the debts, and to pay them off undertook in 1895-6 a lecture trip around the world. Dealness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness , and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the Eus tachian Tube, When this tube is in flamed you bave a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entire ly closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can De taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed foreverjnine cases outof ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One M undred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Cattarh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co. .Toledo, Ohio. S )ld by allDruggista,75c. TakeHall's Family Pills for consti t ition. urelv men in the world. An old pressman who was once printer's devil in an office wheie Mark was editorial writer tells this an ecdote of his habits or work: "One of my duties was to sweep the room where editors worked. Every day Mark would give me a nickel to get away from him. He would rather die in the dust than uncross his legs. One day he gave me a nickel to dot an T in Viia rrrT fnr Viim TTo wrtnin. it might almost be said that hy did enjoy life that man did. Yet this easy-going dawdler acquited himself of a prodigious deal of work in his life, and bound himself voluntarily to pay off debts that he could have dis charged without hurt to his good name by passing through bank ruptcy. He did not practice as he preached. "It don't make no difference, " he had Huck Finn say, "whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yal ler dog that didn't know more than a person's conscience did, I'd pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a per sons insides, and yet ain't no good nohow." With Mark Twain's lecture trip around the world began his international celebrity, and his gradu A rise into a figure taken in some sense to typify the Amer ican spirit. From humorist he became the kindly but mocking moralist and philosopher of Pud dinhead Wilson. His literary output became more occasional and, though written with more finesse, more critical and less creative. His public appear ances grew more frequent, his j whimsical utterances gained greater currency, and a whole literature of anecdotes about him grew up. Yale gave him the degree of M. A. and later of L.H.D. in 19 01; the University of Missouri, his native State, followed with (Continued on page six.) Over 40 victims of worthless dogs are being treated at the new State Pasteur institute at Colum bia, S. C. 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