Mark Twain's Home Robbed

Redding, Connecticut, 1908
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Mark Twain's residence at Redding, Conn., was robbed one night last week, and the only joke about it was, that both burglars were caught after an exciting chase, and some shooting.

--The Dothan Eagle, Dothan, Alabama, September 21, 1908, page 2.


Dothan, Alabama, 1908
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If Drift Armstrong would only come to Dothan, and see our charming beauties, he would cease to rave about those blond-dyed damsels, with made-to-order complexions, of Montgomery.

--The Dothan Eagle, Dothan, Alabama, September 22, 1908, page 2.


WORDS OF WISDOM

He who flatters you is your enemy.— Cardan.

In all things it is better to hope than despair.—Goethe.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.—Disraeli.

Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her.—Hunter.

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.—Bishop Horne.

Laughing cheerfulness throws sunlight on all the paths of life.—Richter.

There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.—Emerson.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. —George Sand.

He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed.—Lavater.

Experience is a keen knife that hurts; while it extracts the cataract that binds.—De Linod.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them.—A. B. Alcott.

Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.— J. P. Seun.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.—F. W. Robertson.

To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals, is courtesy; to inferiors, is nobleness; and to all, safety; it being a virtue that, for all its lowliness, commandeth those it stoops to.—Sir. T. Moore.

--Daily Vineyardist, Penn Yan, New York, September 23, 1903, page 2.


Mississippi River, 1903
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Mississippi Houseboats

There is an especial charm about life on a houseboat on the Mississippi. Unlike houseboats on most bodies of water, they can land whenever they will and enjoy any chance pleasure by the way. Cities are in easy reach, and even a theatre party can be indulged in at short notice. Between St. Paul and St. Louis seven magnificent rivers can be reached by boats passing through more than that number of States.

From Lacrosse to St. Louis houseboats meet the eye every few minutes. At every town along the river one sees boats lying on the shore. They are usually moored in little bays, with their launches alongside and shaded by the overhanging branches of trees. When a steamer passes the occupants appear at the doors and windows, and sometimes go to the upper deck to wave their greetings. The water is very high at present, and the boats fit in so perfectly that the lovely green foliage seems to have grown in anticipation of the coming of each particular boat. Many of the river islands are submerged and the trees seem to shoot up from the water.

Numerous houseboats are in course of construction along the rivers. Many are to be used by their owners to visit the St. Louis Exposition next year.— Minneapolis Journal.

--Daily Vineyardist, Penn Yan, New York, September 23, 1903, page 2.