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touched golden key In Washing
ton and out In the Middle West
I from a high1 bluff overlooking the
. fcHrilsslppl river, a white abaft of
light pierced the darkness.- For a
moment It streamed across.tbe
black waters of '.'Old Man Blver,"
then It swung around and flooded
the i statue of two - boys ' then
passed on to Illuminate an old two
y frame house "and a board fence near by
..aps the most famous board
fence, In the
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world. k.'J.li
Tpua was Inaugurated the beacon1' service of
a memorial- lighthouse which , win henceforth
s' 1 Its rays across the "Father of Waters" ev
e y night to guide rlvermen along Its. winding,
t heroua current past Hannibal, Mo. And thus
t m a year's celebration of the one hundredth
t Adversary of the birth of Samuel Langhorne
' -Dpns, known' to (he world as "Mark Twain,"
I r the duff on which the memorial lighthouse
s.ands fs Cardiff Hill, the scene of many ,yt Jhe
escapade of Tom Sawyer" and , "Huckleberry
Finn," and the statue which it first Illuminated
was the statue of those' two, Immortal character
wulch he created. The little house on which. Its
I ami next played -was his boyhood home and
t..e : fence was "Aunt Polly's".- board fence,' the
- whitewashing of which, was such an Inestimable
: ivtlcge that ."Tom Bawyera" friends were
. v '"'pg to give up such youthful treasures as
t ' a knives, apple cores and dead, rata for that
ionor.
red Id Hannibal for this celebration "were
i. and others besides president
1 , l participated In ' It from a distance,
I .i Detroit came the voice of Clara Glemena
C irilowltsch, daughter of the Missouri writer
and wife of a famous violinist Gov. Guy B.
Park of Missouri tried bis hand at' whitewashing
-tlitit famous fence, while several hundred school
c'.Hdren looked on, and speakers at the cere?
s nni'es dedicating the memorial lighthouse ei
, toiled the man whose beams of humor have
' L. iitened the burdens of people all over the world
even as the beams from the beacon on Cardiff
EiU will lighten the way for. boatmen on the
Mississippi
. , At various times during 4he year there will.
, be other celebrations In Hannibal and at other
places connected with the career of Mark Twain
to honor the centennla. of. his birth. They will
come to a' climax on November 80, his birthday,
at which time, on a lte yet to be Chosen, will
be unveiled the Mark Twain memorial, designed
' by Walter BusselL the sculptor (a part of which
' is shown above). This memorial perhaps, the
greatest ever erected to an American' author, la
to consist of seven groups of 21 bas-reliefs ex
tending around a circle 700 feet In diameter.
Seated In . the center of It la the figure of Mark
Twain surrounded by his "brain children" "Tom
wyer," "Huckleberry Finn," "Becky Thatcher,"
uint Polly," "The Prince and the Pauper,' "The
Connecticut Tankee."' Joan of Ape," and many
others. v "'iir,;,;-'i;;?:'ivr:,ri'Hi -f.Vs.'
In Hannibal they are collecting Mark Twain
relics for their museum In the house In which he
grew np and they have placed bronse tablets on
other places connected with his lUsftheae. At
the foot vt Cardiff H1U etanda the statue of
"Tom" and -"Buck" and on the highest point In
? their : BlVerview park stands a atatue of Mark
Twain himself, erected by the state of Missouri
In 101S . . . . '" ' : . I-".:'.--'.,''--i'l .:
' i ut the citizens of Hannibal who . Wit the
r- ir lighthouse as a guide to, river traffic feel
t ut of all their memorials to him it l'a perhaps
t' a most appropriate Tor Clemens waa once a
i ' t on the river (hla "Life on the Mississippi"
in essentially an autoblosrapby of this part of
1 a career) and frequency he heard ' the lead
ji aa calling out the depth of the water with the
r - ptlc cry of "Mark, twain 1", meaning two fath-
s, or 12 feet From that cry came the pen
i me which made Sam Clemena famous all ever
t o world Mark Twain. - .. . . . : a - -i i-y-Pilots
of today, seeing the flashing of the new
t. aeon on Cardiff Hill, will recall perhaps the
suitement of Mark Twain that In hla day there
t--., "neither light nor' buoy to be-found any
v i e In all this 8,000 or 4.000 milos of villainous
' i ,r." But that was changed not - long after
C uens retired from the river. He tells of
i unlng to the river after 21 years to And that
glamorous days, when the river was bustling
n activity, were gone. .; In a whole day only
a : n,.'e steamer passed by and "the spyglass
.-aied the fact that she was named for me"
(ins the first memorial to. the Hannibal boy
lad gone out Into the world to become
(Ilia. ' . - V H ''"'' ' :I . ;
i contrast to conditions on the river as: he
them, he tells how "the government has
1 the Mlfrffntppl Into a sort of 2,000-mile
lit procession . ; . there Is always a bea
; i sight, either behind you or before you,
list . . this UUstg has knocked the ro
out of 'piloting, to a Inrge extent." But
ni;;h anoliior boncon has been a!' 1 to
; (hnln of t , 1 1 d " t limit 1 i o,
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' But Hannibal Is. not the only Missouri town
that honors the memory of Mark Twain; For the
little town of Florida, Mo.; where he waa born
on November 80, 1835, has a monument, ur
tnounte by a bust of Its famoua son, itanding
In a square plot In the center of Je town. Neat
the town, too. Is the Mark. Twain Memorial park,
which waa dedicated as a state park In 1924.
lf Later the cabin in .which he-was born was
moved from tne village to una para ana a per
manent shelter bouse waa built for It Restored
to Its original condition, .It contains furniture of
an early day and other mementoes of the time
when It waa occupied by the Clemens ramuy.
Another reminder of Mark Twain in Florida la
the old cemetery which containa the graves of
two of his sister and of John Quarles, Us ancle,
at. hoseiarnl Homen few miles from the tvll-
mers.
- When young am was twelve years old, his
rawer uieu. wuuu uwww unmu
vldent storekeeper and lawyer, a dreamer and a
chaser of rainbows- whA had drifted from bis
birthplace in Virginia .to Kentucky where" he
mrrW Jan lAmnton.' then U Tennessee 'and
finally to Missouri where he was a failure to the
end of his days. Bo the boy had to go to wort
to help support the family of eight brothers and
sisters. He started, to work In a tainting office
where he stayed for two years. Then he worked
for bis brother, Orion Clemens,' who waa editing
the Hannibal Journal, for seyeral years. ."
Seeing no future In Journalism, young Clemens
at the age of nineteen left home to seek his for
tune elsewhen He first went to Ne jork and
then to Philadelphia, but, becoming homesick he
Started west, again. Be went to Keokuk, Iowa,
where his brother, Orion; was then living and
stayed for a while' with him. There he read a
bookwblch fired him with desire to visit South
America. The only drawback was that he bad no
money. By some strange chance a vagrant wind
dropped a 150 bill at his feet He advertised In
the paper for Its owner. But no one claimed It
so. three days later, be left town, as he said, "to
take, that money out of danger."
V Clemens next drifted to Cincinnati and, travel
ing on a boat down the Ohio, be persuaded the
pilot to teach him how to steer it Continuing
oa to New Orleans, still with the Idea of going
to South America, he found that the next boat
would not be leaving for that continent for sev
eral years. So he decided to make piloting nia
life work, an Idea which had taken root in ma
mind when, as a boy th Hannibal, he had played
along the banks of the Mississippi and watched
the steamers go up and down that stream, j
. Hla pilot's license, which Is still preserved In
the files of the steamboat Inspection service of
the United States Department of Commerce, was
Issuedto him on April 8, 1859. On an April day
two years later occurred an event which was' des
tined to end bis career as a pilot Fort Sumter
waa fired upon and the War Between the States
began, Clemens Is said to "have been the last
pilot to bring his boat np the river after the
opening of hostilities. Be was shot at and hauled
In for examination at St Louis, -after which he
went on to Hannibal where he Joined a Confed
erate ' home ' guard ' company whose ' members
called themselves by the Imposing name of the
Salt BlveT Tigers," .The story of Mark Twain's
brief military career as a member of this' organ
ization, as told In the book 'Absalom Grimes :
Confederate Mail Bunner" (Tale University
Press) Is almost as funny a story as any whlcn
Clemeps himself ever, wrote.
After three or four weeks' service with. the
-Titers." Clemens went on to Keokuk to visit
his brother again. Orion bad just been appointed
secretary of Nevada territory an wa starting
tor hie new post He took Sam along with mm
to be his secretary and this trip overland from
Hannibal to Nevada furnished the material for
one of Twaln'a most famous books, ."Roughing
it," Offered a Job as city editor of the Daily
Territorial Enterprise In Virginia City, Mark
Twain again took up. the .pen which be was not
aCTin to lay down for long. ' . " ,i
From Nevada Mark went on to Sari Francisco
I b "nn writing for the newspapers there. Tbf
i i '!", which had. been noted in his boy
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in i, i ' im? ph. b a liar that ma rnmny couv
I j said," -was turned to telling
(ft 1 j ) v iiii h tfce West and West
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erners could appreciate. So Ills writings were
soon attracting wide attention on the Pacific
coast ThenN be wrote an article and sent It to
an eastern magaalne. Watching anxiously to see
lf it was printed, be was mightily disgusted when
It appeared over the signature of "Mike Swain."
His handwriting had 4een so poor In the signa
ture that ' the editor bad translated "Mark
Twaln' -0?.$f1iit&$4!$,-"'But
an omen of his future was given and a
landmark (n literary Tilstory was established a
little later when he visited the San Francisco
mint and there told a young writer named Bret
Harte a story "in a slow rather satirical drawl
which was Irresistible, so says Harte. That
story, which appeared later In a New York news
paper, was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras Cmea: f .-
While In San Francisco Twain had a chance to
go to Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich is
lands, and he went, sending back such vivid dis
patches that the world for the first time realized
that . a new literary genius bad appearedabove
the western horizon. Soon afterwards Jie, came
back to visit bis mother In Keokuk and, .later
going on to the scene of bis boyhood days In
Hannibal, be was made; to realize that for once
the old' saying about a prophet being without
honor In his own country waa far from true.
' Hearing of an -excursion to the Holy Land,
Mark decided to go If be could do it as the
correspondent tor, some paper. The Alta Cali
fornia of San Francisco was the lucky Journal
that secured, his services and its publication of
his travel sketches met with-Instantaneous suc
cess, , v' ' - : - " ; '
Later his stories of, this i trip were published
In v book fonnand, according to one biographer,
a abort time later "salesmen might have' been
seen offering a .book with the recommendation
that It was as funny as Artemus Ward.' It was,
but It was mors serious, ; too. ; The Innocents
Abroad' was akin to The Jumping Frog' in sol
emn sincerity of manner, but In this book, the
Quick-eyed, blnnt-speaklng westerner had a sub
ject. No on bad aver written about Europe in
this way. No one bad Inquired of the stunned
guide: Is Columbus (deadr Or wept at Ahe tomb
of Adam. Mark Twain had donned his 'suit of
motley. From now on be turned out' page after
page of thia nonsense. Thus . , . the, beginning
of his long career as a prominent Journalist lec
turer, humorist and. It may be added, philoso
pher. Oxford conferred upon him the degree
of D. C. L. strange largesse to the boy who
bad thrilled i to r 'S-t-e-a-m-boat a-comln' r and
whose 'permanent ambition' had been to stride
ita deck ss captain." r,y:Wi :",' ;.-';:;- -'
Another the 'European tour, which
nrodnced "Innocents Abroad" waa that It won
him a wife as well as literary fame.,'' On the trip
Clemens met Charles X Langdon of Elmlra, N.
I, who showed him a picture of his sister, Olivia
Langdom Twain promptly fen in love, with the
pictured face. Later he eagerly accepted an In
vitation to visit ,the Langdon home and the flame
of -romance Ignited by the picture burned higher
when he looked upon the girl herself. ' V 1 "
Love bad passed Mark Twain by during hla
bachelorhood and there waa but one romance In
his whole life that with Olivia Langdon. , They
were married In l70. and went to Hartford,
Conn,' to live. On the morning of bis wedding
Twain received a check for $4,000 from hla pub-
Ushers promising beginning for a young mar
ried couple. After his marriage be began to
write steadily. "Tom Sawyer" was published
when be was forty, and seven years later
Huckleberry Finn" appeared.-Both were, finan
cially very successful, ss were all of bis later
books. ' ..!-. ' i n
His career ended April 21, 1910. and wben the
wprd was" flashed from Bedding, Conn., that 8am
Clemens had left this "d-Hl human race" to
struggle along as best It could without having
his flashing' wit to help It bear Its burden, mil
lions of Its. members felt as -did Bobert Under-,
wopd Johnson "The world has seemed to me
very strange without Mark' Twain m It" That la
why the stories of the various Centennlul cele
brations which, will ' be held this year will Je
tiews that Is certain to win a place In the col
umns of our newspapers, even In these times
when history-making events are taking place al
most dally. . For, it is somehow reassuring to fee)
that although Mark Twain Is gone from our
midst,, something of him still remains with us.
t'he memory of solemn men may grow dim, but
v cannot so easily forget a man who makes it
asy for us tol laugh. ; ' ; ?".'.''',,,
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