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HE LOSTTHE RAGE Mark Twain's Futile Chase After a Tallyho Coach. MISSED A BIG CELEBRATION. Tha Way the Famous Humorist In Company With W. D. Howells Did Not Attend ths Centennial of the Battle of the Minutemen at Concord. In bis reminiscences of Mark Twain in Harper's Magazine W. D. Ilowells tells amusingly of tbe time when he and Mr. Clemens missed tbe anniver sary of the battle of Concord: ! "Mark Twain came on to Cambridge in April, 1875, to go with me to tbe centennial ceremonies at Concord in celebration of the battle of the minute men wltb tbe British troops a hundred years before. We both had special in vitations, including passage from Bos ton, but I said why bother to go to BoBton when we could Just as well toko the train for Concord at the Cam bridge station. He equally decided that it would be absurd, so we break fasted deliberately and then walked to the station, reasoning of many things, as usual. "When the train stopped we found it packed Inside and out People stood dense on the platforms of the cars. To our startled eyes they seemed to project from tbe windows, and unless memory betrays me they lay strewn upon the roofs like brakemen slain at the post of duty. We remounted the fame worn steps of Porter's station and began exploring North Cambridge for some means of transportation over land to Concord, for we were that far on the road by which the British went and came on the day of the battle. The liverymen whom we appealed to received us, some with compassion, some with derision, but in either mood convinced us that we could not have hired a cat to attempt our conveyance, much less a horse or vehicle of any description. "It was a raw, windy day, very un like the exceptionally hot April day when the routed redcoats, pursued by the Colonials, fled panting back to Bos ton, with 'their tongues hanging out like dogs,' but we could not take due comfort in the vision of their discom fiture. "We could almost envy them, for they had at least got to Concord. A swift procession of coaches, car riages and buggies, all going to Con cord, passed us, inert and helpless, on the ; sidewalk in the peculiarly cold mud of North Cambridge. We began to wonder if we might not stop one of them and bribe it to take us. "I ielt keenly the shame of defeat and the guilt of responsibility for our failure, aud when a gay party of stu dents came toward us on the top of a tallyho, luxuriantly empty inside, we felt that our chance had come and our last chance. lie said that if 1 would stop them and tell them who I was they would gladly, perhaps proudly, give us passage. I contended that if with his far vaster renown he would approach them our success would be assured. "While we stood, lost in this 'contest of civilities,' the coach passed us, with gay botes blown from the horns of the students, and then Clemens started in pursuit, encouraged with shouts from tho merry party, who could not im agine who was trying to run them down, to a rivalry of speed. The un equal match could end only in one way, and I am glad I cannot recall what ha said when be came back to me. Since then I have often wondered nt the grief which would have wrung those blithe young hearts if they could have known that they might have bad the company of Mark Twain to Con cord that day and did not. "We hung about unavalllngly in the bitter wind awhile longer and then slowly, very slowly, made our way 'home. We wished to pass as much time as possible in order to give prob ability to tho deceit we intended to practice, for we could not bear to own ourselves baffled in our boasted wis dom of taking the train at Porter's Btation and had agreed to say that we had been to Concord and got back. Even after coming home to my house we felt that our statement would be wanting in verisimilitude without fur ther delay, and we crept quietly into my library and mado up a roaring Are on the hearth and thawed ourselves out in the heat of it before we regained our courage for the undertaking. Wltb all these precautions we failed, for when our statement was imparted to the proposed victim she instantly pro nounced it unreliable, and we were left with it on our hands Intact. I think the humor of this situation was finally a greater pleasure to Clemens than nn actual visit to Concord would have been. Only a few weeks before his death he laughed our defeat over with on of my family in Bermuda and ex ulted in our prompt detection." On the Move. Ascum-Do you think it's true that Skinner has bought a place for him self in society T Wlse-Ou. no! I'll bet he's only leased it, for he's liable to have to skip out at a moment's notice-Catholic Standard and Times. ' , Insures Solitude. The Man in the Chair I enjoy a quiet smoke. The Other-Well, you'll never be troubled with crowds while you smoke cigars of that brand !-London Opinion. ' ' Po not make excuses to yourself for your failures, but look them squareiy in tho face and study now to avoiu their repetition. cAnnouncerhents. S. F. Wilson of the Law Firm of Peterson CB. Wilson, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATKJR , v JOINT SENATOR -for Umatilla, Union and Morrow Counties I Firmly Believe in: Direct Primary" Law. I Economy in use of Public Funds. , Good Roads. Better Schools. ' Strict and Prompt Law Enforcement The "Square Deal." The Eternal Progress of Man and his Institutions. Notice to Creditors. In tbe Suporior Court of the State of , Washington, for Walla Walla County. In the matter of tbe Estate of Henry G. Adams, deoeased. Notioe is hereby Riven that the undersigned was on Angnst 22nd, 1910, duly, appointed executor of tbe last will and testament of Hemy C. Adams, deceased, and all persons hav ing claims against said estate are notified to pieeeut the same either to tbe undersigned executor at bis office. 811 and 812 Drnmbeller Building, Walla Walla, Washington, or to John B. Adams, at Adams, Oregon, within six months from and after tbe date of tbe flrst publication of this notioe, to wit. August 26tb, 1010; and in case of a failure so to do snob claims will be forever barred by statnte of lith itations. ' Herbert C. Biyson, Exeoutor of,-the last will and-testament of Henry C. Adams, deoeased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the County Court of tbe State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the matter of tbe Estate of Emery LaHne, deoeased. Notioe is hereby given to all whom it may concern: That Sarah LaHue has been appointed administratrix of tbe estate of Emery Laflne, deoeased. All persons having claims against tbe estate are required to present them, with propor vouchers as required by law, to me at tbe law offices of Peter son & Wilson, at Athena, Oregon, or at Pendleton, Oregon, within six months from date hereof. Dated this the 12th day of August A. D.1910. Sarah La Hue, Administratrix, Peterson & Wilson, Attorneys. SUMMONS. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. Flora Stover, Plaintiff ) i vs. f Summons. Edward C, Stover Defen't To Edward 0. Stcver, the above named defendant: In the name of tbe State of Oregon, you aro hereby required to appear and answer tbe complaint filed against you in tbe above entitled snit within forty-two days from the date of the first publication of this summons upon yo. 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