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It is theapotheosis of history. The article appeared in the North American Review for May,1902, and stirred up a good deal of a storm. This was from a burning heart and well deserved. It did not for the momentoccur to me that the stage would be filled with eminent citizens andvice-presidents, and I had a vision of myself sittin

Governor Francis spoke a few words, to the effect that they had gatheredhere to unveil a tablet to an American poet, and that it was fitting thatMark Twain should do this. So now I have seen the machine, operated by one individual, do the whole thing, and do it a deal better than any man at the case can do it. Well, once upon a time, onHolliday's Hill, they were blasting out rock, and a man was drilling fora blast. The time is up! Without a doubt the first shot in the war is being fired to-day in South Africa at this moment.