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Just before leaving, Clemens received an offer from Pond offifty thousand dollars for one hundred and twenty-five nights on theplatform in America. th-flagswhich represent two kindred nations, each great and strong by itself,competent sureties for the peace of the world when they stand together. Once, however, when his sympathy was awakened by the victimof a frightful trolley and train collision in Newark, New Jersey, hewrote a letter which promptly found its way into print. There is something essentially dramatic in official recognition by one'snative State--the return of the l

We keep onturning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the sameold pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages. I wonder why they all go to so much trouble for me, he said, softly. We are now trying to make plans--we: we who have never made a plan before, nor ever needed to. The London Standard said of it: So brilliant and so interesting was the list of those who had been select