ributions is a tribute to Anson
Burlingame, who died February 23, 1870, at St. Petersburg, on his trip
around the world as special ambassador for the Chinese Empire. In this
editorial Clemens endeavored to pay something of his debt to the noble
statesman. He reviewed Burlingame's astonishing career--the career
which had closed at forty-seven, and read like a fairy-tale-and he dwelt
lovingly on his hero's nobility of character. At the close he said:

"He was a good man, and a very, very great man. America, lost a son, and
all the world a servant, when he died."

Among those early contributions to the Express is a series called
"Around the World," an attempt at collaboration with Prof. D. R. Ford,
who did the actual traveling, while Mark Twain, writing in the first
person, gave the letters his literary stamp. At least some of the
contributions were written in this way, such as "Adventures in Hayti,"
"The Pacific," and "Japan." These letters exist to-day only in the old
files of the Express, and indeed this is the case with most of Clemens's
work for that paper. It was mainly ephemeral or timely work, and
its larger value has disappeared. Here and there is a sentence worth
remembering. Of two practical jokers who sent in a marriage notice of
persons not even contemplating matrimony, he said: "This deceit has been
practised maliciously by a couple of men whose small souls will escape
through their pores some day if they do not varnish their hides."

Some of the sketches have been preserved. "Journalism in Tennessee,"
one of the best of his wilder burlesques, is as enjoyable to-day as
when written. "A Curious Dream" made a lasting impression on his Buffalo
readers, and you are pretty certain to hear of it when you mention Mark
Twain in that city to-day. It vividly called attention to the neglect
of the old North Street graveyard. The gruesome vision of the ancestors
deserting with their coffins on their backs was even more humiliating
than amusing, and inspired a movement for reform. It has been
effective elsewhere since then, and may still be read with profit--or
satisfaction--for in a note at the end the reader is assured that if the
cemeteries of his town are kept in good order the dream is not leveled
at his town at all, but "particularly and venomously at the next town."

LXXVII. THE "GALAXY"

Mark Twain's work on the Express represented only a portion of his
literary activities during his Buffalo residence. T