Life — July 26, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Tue Editor of +The Lost Greek Lyre” thus describes & little Incident of everyday editurtal life In that Ilvely camp : When be tit inside our sanctum We most courteously thanked him For the honor be had paid us by the call. nd his hand shot ke # rocket yhis arsenal hip pocket passed a rude remark about our gall. J come prepared to ght us, werelfully sunlte us, On his mortuary fence to hang our hide. But our nerve was workin’ steady And our Gatling gun And be prematurely crossed the as ready, tdivide —Dencer Post, MARK TWAIN AS A PLAYWRIGHT Mark Twaln made « charactertatic speech at the Lang given in Loudon on June 9th, tn honor of Sir Henry Irving, Who had just returned to Eugland after his most successfal tour In the East, In proposing the toast, +The Drama,” the huinortst watd : “1 find my task # very eaxy one, ax I have been a dramatist for thirty years, 1 have had an ambition all that tine to overdo the work of the Spantard, who sald he left Lebind bim four hundred dramas when be died. 1 have Lehind me four hundred and fifteen, and fam not yet dead. The greatest of all arta Is to write dramas. It ix. most dimeult thing, It requires the highest talent posaible and the rarest gifts, No, there ix another talent that ranks tt, for anylody can write dramas [had four hundred of them, but to get one accepted requires real aliilty,and 1 have bever lind that fellcity yet. But human nature ts 80 cou- cted, we are so persistent, that when we know we aro born to @ thing we do not care what the world thiuks about it, we go on exploiting that talent year after year as 1 have done. 1 shall goon writing dnunas, aud some day the tmn- possthle may happen, but 1 am not looking for itin writing plays. The chlef thing ts novelty. ‘The world grows tired of solld formes tn all the arts. “I struck & new Iea myself years ago. 1 was not surprised at it. Twas always expecting It would happen. A person who bas suffered disappointment for many years loses confidence, and E thought 1 had better make Inquiries before Lexplolted my new {dew of doing a drama tn the form of a dream, “So J wrote to a great authority on knowledge of all kinds, and asked bim whether It was new. I could depe upon him, for he lived In my dear home tn Amertea. ‘That dear home—dearer to me through taxes. He sent tome a list of the plays in which that old device had been used, and sald there wus also a modern Ist. He traveled back to China and to play dated twenty-aIx hundred sears before the Christian ens, and sald he would follow It up with alist of previous plays of that kind. That was the most discouraging thing that ever happened to me iu my dramatic career. “Thave done & world of good in i silent, private way, and have furnished Sir Henry Irving with plays and plays and plays. And what has he achteved through that In See where he stands now—on the summit of his art in two worlds. Ils position is unchallenged, and it was I who put him there—that partly put him ther 1am to be followed by Mr, Pinero, stand at the hey! of the profession. He hax not written as many plays as Thave, but he bas had that God-given talent which I lack, of working them off on managers.”"— Exchange. uence | I conceive that we It I were to give you an orange," sald Judge Foote of Topeka, “1 would simply say, *1 give you the orange,’ but should the transaction be entrusted to a lawyer to put in writing he would adopt this form: ‘1 hereby give, grant and convey to you all my interest, right, title and advantage of and tn said orange, together with its rind, skin, fulce, pulp aud pits; and all rights and advantages thereta, with full power to bite, suck, or otherwise eat the same, or give away with or without the rind, skin, julce, pulp or pits ; any. thing hereinbefore or in any other deed or deeds, instruments of any nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary In any wise notwithstanding.’ "—Aansas City Journal. “Now, Willie, dear,” asked bis mother, not come when I called you the first time? "* “Because 1 did not bear you tll you called the third time," said little Wille, ‘The heart of the mother was pained at this evidence of depravity, For how, she reasoned, could he have distiz- gulsted the third call without hearing the second? “LT know It was the third time, mamma,” litte Willie hastened to explain, * ‘cause you sounded so mad.” She clasped him to her bosom. A Loy who could bolster Up ® poor story with a better oue was not doomed to remala 1n obscurity.—Jndianapolis Press, A LITTLE girl of five or slx years came into Belleree Hospital, New York, recently, with her eyes full of tears, acd her arms full‘of cat. To the doctors in charge she explained that pusay # foot had been crushed by an electric car. Tee physicians were for refusing the case at frst, but noting te distress of the little mald, they good-naturedly produced chloroform, {natruments and haudages and performed a pest operation, the child bravely assisting. 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