CLEMENCEAU 



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CLEMENS 



an "old man's beard," or like "smoky clusters" 

 rising 



"as from fires of sacrifice, 

 Sacred incense to the dead !" 



CLEMATIS 



CLEMENCEAU, klamahnso', GEORGES BEN- 

 JAMIN EUGENE (1841- ), teacher, physician, 

 editor, statesman the "tiger of France," the 

 outstanding character in his country during the 

 War of the Nations, and before that time for a 

 third of a century a powerful influence in French 

 affairs. 



He married an American woman while in the 

 United States in his early years. Here he 

 taught a girls' school and practiced medicine. 

 Returning to France in time to witness the 

 Franco-German War and exercise a certain in- 

 fluence as a mayor, he swore that thereafter he 

 should live only to avenge his country's loss of 

 Alsace-Lorraine. He became editor of La Jus- 

 tice and of other papers; the thunder of his 

 editorials was heard throughout Europe and led 

 in time to a seat in the national Senate, then to 

 the post of Premier of France. In 1909 his 

 Ministry was defeated, but in 1917, in the dark- 

 est period of the war, he agam became Premier. 

 The fiery old man was thenceforth the inspira- 

 tion of all France. He was shot by a foreign 

 fanatic in 1918, but quickly recovered, and at 

 the end of the war was presiding officer at the 

 peace conference and head of the French dele- 

 gation. 



CLEMENS, klem'enz, SAMUEL LANGHORNE 

 (1835-1910), the most popular American 

 humorist, whose books, written under the name 

 of MARK TWAIN, have made him loved 

 wherever English is spoken and have brought 

 good-natured laughter into millions of homes. 

 What boy does not count among his treasures 

 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckle- 

 berry Finn? What man does not look back 

 with real delight to the time when he first 

 read them, and, re-reading them now, finds new 

 sources of humor? And even the serious his- 

 torian finds them of value; for they give very 

 clear, lifelike pictures of life in a bygone day. 



Clemens was born in the town of Florida, 

 Mo., on November 30, 1835, and received only 

 the meager education which a little western 

 town of those days afforded. At the age of 

 thirteen he was at work in a printing office, and 

 there, with characteristic zeal, he soon became 

 an expert type-setter. He worked for a time 

 in Saint Louis, New York and Philadelphia, 

 but the life of the river held a strong fascina- 

 tion for him and in 1851 he became a steam- 

 boat pilot. Every reader of his Life on the 







SAMUEL L. CLEMENS 

 Better known to the world as "Mark Twain." 



Mississippi has followed with keen interest his 

 experiences while in this position. It must 

 have been during this time that he chose his 

 pen name, for "Mark Twain 1" was a frequent 

 call of the sounder to indicate that the water 

 was two fathoms deep. 



