Oh, hush thee! The leaves do shiver sore That tree whereon they grow, I see it hewn, and bound, to bear Mother, I am thy little Son The Night comes on apace When all God's waiting stars shall smile On me in thy embrace. Oh, hush thee! I see black, starless night! Oh, could'st thou slip away Now, by the hawthorn hedge of Death, And get to God by Day! -From The Atlantic Monthly. PERSONAL. Twain on How to Reach Seventy.--At a dinaer given at Delmonico's in New York to celebrate bis seventieth birthday, on Tuesday of last week, Mr. Clemens delivered an address in which he harked back to other birthdays. Of his first he says: Whenever I think of it, it is with indignation. Everything was so crude, so unæsthetic. Nothing was really ready. I was born, you know, with a high and delicate æsthetic taste. And then think of it-I had no hair, no teeth, no clothes. And I had to go to my first banquet like that. And everybody came swarming in. It was the merest little hamlet in the backwoods of Missouri, where never anything happened at all. All interest centered In me that day. They came with that peculiar provincial curiosity to look me over aud to see if I had brought anything fresh in my particular line. Why, I was the only thing that had happened in the last three months-and I came very near being the only thing that happened there in two whole years. They gave their opinions. No one had asked them, but they gave them, and they were all just green with prejudice. I stood it as long as-well, you know, I was born courteous. I stood it for about an hour. Then the worm turned. I was the worm. It was my turn to turn, and I did turn. I knew the strength of my position. I knew that I was the only spotlessly pure person in that camp, and I just came out and told them so. It was so true that they could make no answer at all. They merely blushed and went away. Well, that was my cradle song, and now I am singing my swan song. It is a far stretch from that first birthday to this, the seventieth. Just think of it! Twain then gives his recipe for a long life. "I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way," he declares: "by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else." Of his habits, we read: We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular! about going to bed and getting up-and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. In the matter of diet-which is another main thing -I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it, Until lately I got the best of it myself. 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