I have two first editions of Lotos Leaves, published in 1875 when Twain was still in his 30s.
I got them because this book contains a publication of Henry Steel Olcott's article on John Brown, where Olcott admits he was a spy at the hanging in 1859.
I restored the first one a couple of years ago, but the second one has been sitting on my table awaiting restoration.
I picked it up today, studying the necessary repairs, when I saw that Twain also had an article inside, one I had failed to read previously.
Twain was a member of the Lotos Club, an organization we will study in a moment.
His addition to their book was entitled “An Encounter with an Interviewer”.
Curiously, it is not listed on his bibliography page at Wikipedia.
We may see why when we read it.
Like much else he wrote, it is satire, and obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
However, knowing what we now know, it leaps out at us for at least two reasons.
One, in jest Twain says he was present at the funeral of Aaron Burr.
Since Burr died when Twain was about ten months old, this is possible, but his memory of it is not possible.
However, what makes it interesting is that Twain says that Burr wasn't really dead at his own funeral.
Rather, he got out of the coffin and rode with the driver.
Is Twain giving us a clue here, disguised as jest?
Possibly.
But let's leave it as a question and move on.
The second thing Twain tells us is that he was a twin.
He tells us his twin was actually Mark Twain and that he is the one who died at birth.
That's a very strange thing to joke about, as I think you will admit, especially given what we have discovered about twins among these famous spooks.
It also reminds us that Twain wrote about twins many times.
Twain seems to be referring back to what I have shown was the seminal event for these hoaxing families in the US. Most later events point back to Salem, and involve the families involved there.
Curious, since Twain's Clements line goes back to. . . Essex County, MA.
Olivia's grandmother was a King, which family I also linked to both the Moores and Lewises previously. C. S. Lewis' fake mother was Jane King Moore, remember?
In 1951 he began working as a typesetter and contributor of articles.
But wait.
Twain was born in late 1835, so in 1851 he would have been only 15.
To be a typesetter you need to be a very good speller with a large vocabulary—not something you could say about a 15-year-old with a fifth-grade education.
And what 15-year-old kid would have his articles published?
Not even the little brother of the publisher could get that sort of treatment.
But Wiki's story doesn't match the appendix of Twain's Autobiography, where we are told Twain was an apprentice typesetter by age 11, working for Henry La Cossitt's Gazette.
Really, a typesetter at age 11?
At age 12, Twain was supposed to be apprenticed to and living with Joseph Ament, owner of the Missouri Courier.
Twain lived with him for three years, from 1848-50.
Very weird.
Only then did Twain move over to his brother's paper.
Plus, his brother Orion was only ten years older, making him 25.
We are supposed to believe he owned the local paper by age 25?
Hannibal wasn't a small town. It had over 2000 people in 1850, which wasn't small for the time, and it was growing very fast.
It tripled in size in the 1850s.
That is also a clue, because it means something was going on there to make it grow so fast.
One thing was the new railroad, which Twain's dad John Clemens organized in 1846.
Remember that for later, since railroads will come up again and again.
We are told John died the next year, but something doesn't add up here.
This John Clemens seems to exist in the dark.
We are told he was an attorney and judge on Twain's page and a general store owner on Orion's page, but he must have been much more than that.
He must have had a lot of money and contacts.
And he must have founded the paper as well, with his son Orion simply inheriting it.
Orion couldn't have started the newspaper in his early 20s.
We are told he purchased the newspaper at age 21 but aren't told how he managed that.
John Clemens' bio is just as spotty as Orion's.
He supposedly left school at age 11 (again, fifth grade) to become a clerk in an iron mine.
An eleven-year-old wouldn't be qualified to be a clerk.
Later he
“Studied law in a local law office”
Normally you study law in a law school.
He allegedly became a licensed attorney at the age of 21, despite having a fifth-grade education.
We are told he was very poor as a young man because he had to pay his stepfather back for raising him and his siblings.
Right.
There is no legal obligation there, and the story is absurd.
A man who marries a woman with children doesn't present a bill to those children when they reach maturity.
After working as a printer for a couple of years, at about age 21 Twain was suddenly taken on by a riverboat pilot as a “cub”, whatever that is.
We are told the fee for this pupillage was $500, payable out of Twain's first year's wages as a pilot.
Right.
How stupid do they think we are?
Life doesn't work like that.
What was Twain supposed to be living on for those two years of apprenticeship?
He couldn't have saved enough money at that age by working as a typesetter.
This pilot was Horace Bixby, and as it turns out he wasn't just a pilot.
He ended up owning several large steamboats and huge amounts of stock in the Anchor Line.
Most pilots couldn't say that, obviously.
Since Twain only worked as a pilot for a short time—if at all—Bixby looks like some sort of handler.
It may be that Twain was paid to promote these Riverboat lines.
But since he didn't publish Life on the Mississippi until years later, that doesn't add up either.
Maybe he was just getting his ears wet as a low-level spy, the way Charles Tex Watson was doing when he worked for Braniff in Dallas before the Manson event.
We are told Twain quit as a pilot in 1861 at the start of the Civil War, but since they don't give you any dates, you can't easily see how long he actually worked on the river.
So, in the same year, he became a Freemason, quit as a pilot, and joined and quit the Army?
The things they expect us to believe!
His brother Orion had by then been appointed by Lincoln to be the Secretary of the Nevada Territory, so he was probably in military intelligence as well.
Some places assert Twain had the title of Assistant Secretary of the Territory, but the position appears to have been some kind of a joke, since Twain spent almost no time there.
The brothers soon took a trip to Salt Lake City, although we aren't told why.
SLC is always a red flag.
They seemed to be testing Twain with various projects, since he then became a miner for a short time.
We will come back to that.
Another problem is the claim that Twain was Confederate.
Ken Burns admits in his PBS bio of Twain that Twain's brother Orion was a prominent supporter of Lincoln, and Union.
That is why he was appointed to the Nevada Territory.
Twain himself went with him, so how could Twain have been Confederate?
At any rate, he skipped the Civil War as if it didn't happen, although he was in his 20s and able-bodied.
In 1864 he was in San Francisco rubbing elbows with the elite, although we aren't told what his entrée was.
As is usual with the spooks, he just waltzed into town (at age 28) and was immediately introduced to all the top people, despite supposedly being a nobody.
We are told that Ina Coolbrith“romanced him”, which couldn't be a bigger red flag.
She was the daughter of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons.
I have shown in previous papers that Smith was a spook and the Mormons another Jewish project.
They don't even bother to tell you that on Daniel Boone's Wikipedia page.
Anyway, Joachin Miller was another big spook.
If you still don't believe me, try this:
Miller and Coolbrith's big dream was to visit the tomb of Lord Byron, which dream Miller apparently lived out— reporting back to Coolbrith, who was babysitting his daughter.
See my previous paper on Byron, outing him as yet another gay Jewish spook.
You will remember that Bob Dylan (Zimmerman) used the alias Elston Gunnn.
He was probably referencing this Gunn family, to which he was likely related.
And Eddie Vedder is probably descended from these Vedders, explaining his rise. *
Daisy Sheppard reminds us of Cybill Shepard and Sam Shepard.
Remember, Cybill married a Ford and an Oppenheim.
Sam Shepard was also a Rogers, but he descended from Shep(p)ards.
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century.
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They tell us they aren't related, but I assume they are.
Hard to prove, though, since this Sam Sheppard is a ghost— completely scrubbed in any and all genealogies.
He allegedly murdered his wife on July 4, spent nine years in jail for it, and then was released on a retrial.
This was a big hoax, and they give you many clues of that.
He was allegedly watching the movie Strange Holiday that night.
It was made in 1945.
Note the date.
It concerned fascists overtaking America. OK.
The trial began on October 18.
Aces and eights again.
Sheppard would allegedly die at age 46.
Although the jury was not properly sequestered and admitted to the judge, they had heard radio broadcasts prejudicial to the trial, the judge did not dismiss them.
We are told this influenced the decision but are not told what is even more obvious:
it was a sign of a fake trial.
More indication of that was the total ineptitude of Sheppard's alleged attorneys, who allowed ridiculous speculation on the murder weapon to go unchallenged, among many other things.
Upon his alleged release from prison, Sheppard married Marianne Tebbenjohanns, whose half-sister had been the wife of Joseph Goebbels.
This reminds us again of the movie Strange Holiday.
So, this trial was just a precursor and roadmap for the later fake Manson trial and fake O. J. Simpson trial.
In fact, F. Lee Bailey, one of Simpson's attorneys, was also Sheppard's attorney on his appeal.
More indication of a fake comes from the story that Johnny Carson told George Peppard that Sheppard had told him behind the curtain that if he had lost his appeal, he would have shot himself in court.
That would have been pretty difficult to do, seeing that guns are not allowed in court for just that reason.
More indication of a fake is that just two years out of jail, and at age 45, Sheppard became a professional wrestler.
Remember, professional wrestling is faked, just like the trial.
Plus, Sheppard was supposed to have been a neurosurgeon.
Do you really think a neurosurgeon is going to become a wrestler?
And do you think a 45-year-old ex-surgeon turned wrestler is going to drink two quarts of whiskey a day, as we are told?
That isn't a great way to keep in shape at any age, much less 45.
He supposedly died of liver failure a few months later.
What were they trying to keep your eyes off in 1954 with this fake trial?
The beginning of the Vietnam War, for which Congress had just budgeted about $800 million dollars—stolen from your grandparents as taxes.
But back to New York and Twain.
According to Thomas Gunn, the circulation of the Saturday Press was,
Furthermore, we find Charles Reed Bishop, whose mother was a Reed, marrying Bernice Paki, of the Royal family of Hawaii, and starting Hawaii's first successful bank in 1858—First Hawaiian Bank, which still exists.
As a Bishop, he descends from the Bishops and Goodyears of Stamford, CT.
In 1895, Bishop sold the bank to Samuel Mills Damon.
Once Hawaii became a US Territory, Charles Reed Bishop's assignment there was over, so he returned to California and became the Vice President of the Bank of California in San Francisco.
This was the first commercial bank in the Western US, and at the time the second richest in the nation.
We just saw that name, because Samuel Mills Damon owned the First Hawaiian Bank.
So, you see the banking links between San Francisco and Hawaii.
These banks were also linked to Gold Hill, Nevada, and the Bank of California had its earliest branch there.
Why do I mention Nevada?
Because Twain is also linked to that town.
Remember, he was a miner for a short time in Nevada.
Where in Nevada?
The Comstock Lode.
And where was that?
In Gold Hill, where the Bank of California just happened to have its only branch.
When Twain returned from Hawaii in 1867, another paper (unnamed)☺ allegedly sent him to the Mediterranean, where he wrote Innocents Abroad (1869).
Again, this makes no sense.
Newspapers don't just send you on these extended vacations, in hopes you may write something interesting.
It is doubtful any newspaper paid for his trip, so either Twain paid for it himself or he was once again underwritten by Intel.
It is strange to find Twain taking a “side trip” to Odessa during this pilgrimage to the Holy Land, seeing that Odessa is not in the Holy Land or on the way to it.
As you know, Odessa is not on the northern coast of the Mediterranean, it is on the northern coast of the Black Sea.
Travelling to Jerusalem from Rome via Odessa is like travelling to Miami from Texas via Chicago.
That's a big clue, since—like Twain and all the rest—Richelieu was a crypto-Jew.
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (French: [aʁmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dy plɛsi]; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church. He became known as l'Éminence Rouge, or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the title "Eminence" applied to cardinals and from the red robes that they customarily wear.
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Like them, he had that signature nose, although I won't rest my case on that.
His maternal line is scrubbed, his mother being given as Suzanne de la Porte and grandmother as Claude Bochard.
That tells us nothing and appears made up.
His paternal line is also merde.
Like the Lord Chancellors in England of the same period we have studied, Richelieu basically came out of nowhere, being appointed by Marie de Medici to be the Bishop of Luçon in 1606.
He was only 20 at the time, so we have to be assured the Pope issued him a special dispensation.
Fortunately, the Pope was Paul V, a Borghese whom the Medicis owned, so he had no problem making a 20-year-old Jew a Bishop.
But I will have to return to that hoax another time.
I need to return to Twain.
Although we know the Richelieus were class-A bastards to the last man, Twain eulogizes the Duc as if he were Christ, telling us he,
“Labored with a fertile brain and a wise understanding for its best interests—spent his fortune freely to the same end—endowed it with a sound prosperity, and one which will yet make it one of the great cities of the Old World.”
Are you sick yet?
As we know, these people don't spend a dime unless they can be sure to make a tenner from it.
In the next chapter, Twain anchors at Yalta to meet the Czar [Alexander II].
Really?
A young reporter for an unnamed Westcoast newspaper, not yet famous, and he merits an audience with the Czar?
Just five years earlier he had been digging in the dirt in Nevada for nuggets of quartz.
This meeting with Russian royalty reminds us of Custer, who did the same thing.
To explain this, Twain tells us the US Consul was on board.
That's convenient.
OK, and was the Consul also sent over by the same unnamed Westcoast newspaper?
Not only did Twain and his party “idle” about the Czar's palace, making chitchat with the entire Imperial family, they were then invited to the Prince's palace, for more of the same.
They then went to the Grand Duke Michael's palace.
Again, the entire family met them and treated them as equals.
Twain describes it not as a diplomatic mission, but as personal visit.
Ungern-Sternberg in Irkutsk under interrogation at the headquarters of the 5th Red Army, 1921 - Nikolai Robert Maximilian Freiherr[a] von Ungern-Sternberg (Russian: Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг, romanized: Roman Fyodorovich fon Ungern-Shternberg; 10 January 1886 – 15 September 1921), often referred to as Roman von Ungern-Sternberg or Baron Ungern, was an anti-communist general in the Russian Civil War and then an independent warlord who intervened in Mongolia against China.
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This may bear on our question here, since in the timeline of Odessa we find that the Odessa-Balta Railway had just begun operating the year before.
It may be that Twain was acting as a representative of some US party to that operation.
In support of that, remember that Twain's father started the railway in Missouri.
So, the Clemen(t)s family may also have been involved in this railway in Odessa.
It is also interesting to note the name Dolgouruki.
It is now spelled Dolgorukov, if you wish to look it up.
The Czar's mistress (later morganatic wife) at the time was Yekaterina Dolgorukova, the daughter of this Prince.
So, it is curious to find such a person coming to the US just seven years later (1875) to start the Theosophy project with spook Henry Steel Olcott.
Remember, that is the same year Twain was published in Lotos Leaves.
This Prince Dolgouruki had a son named Nicholas, called “di Fonz”.
So, if you thought Happy Days made that up, you were wrong.
That's where they got it.
When he returned to the States, Twain married Olivia Langdon.
Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 – June 5, 1904) was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain.
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We don't know Twain's true wealth to this day, but they admit Olivia was from huge wealth.
Her father Jervis was a coal and railway tycoon.
Her great-nephew, also Jervis Langdon, lived until 2004.
That starts to explain Twain's mysterious connection to railroads, doesn't it?
They never tell us where he got the name Langhorne, and now you know why.
I would say it is possible they have changed the name of his mother to hide this, and that she was not a Lampton, but a Langhorne.
In either case, his mother's family came from Virginia, and they admit that.
We find Chiswell Langhorne in the peerage, but with no parents listed.
Very strange.
But we may assume he comes from the Langhorne baronet, who hit the big time when he became the Agent of Madras, a top position in the East India Company, in 1670, allowing him to marry into the Manners of the Earls of Rutland.
This Langhorne, though from Newton Bromswold in Northamptonshire, was a cousin of George Washington through the Montagus, and they admit that at Wiki.
He was related to George more distantly through other lines, but through his wife the Manners he was very closely related, since her mother was a Montagu.
Langhorne's sister married the Baronet Conyers, and their daughter married a Stewart, of the Earls of Traquair.
This links us immediately to everyone, including the:
Maxwells
Gordons
Campbells
Douglases
Carnegies
Setons
Herberts
and Nevilles.
So, now you begin to understand where Mark Twain really came from. Twain was also an honorary member of Bohemian Grove, although we are told there is no record of him ever visiting.
That is meaningless, since records can be altered.
There is no record of him refusing membership, which is enough for me.
This son also married Mary Benjamin, the daughter of Jane Miller Seymour.
As with Jane Eyre, that name Jane Seymour just keeps coming up. The actress Jane Seymour changed her name, but she is Jewish.
Jane Seymour arrives for the "High Strung Free Dance" Los Angeles Premiere in Hollywood California on October 10, 2019 - Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is a British actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited extra in the 1969 musical comedy Oh! What a Lovely War, Seymour transitioned to leading roles in film and television, including a leading role in the television series The Onedin Line (1972–1973) and the role of psychic Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973).
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You may think finding a Jane Seymour here is a coincidence, but it isn't.
She was the daughter of George de Villers Seymour, and they hail back to Hartford, CT, and then Hertfordshire, England, and the Dukes of Somerset.
Henry Rogers Jr. married a third time, to Pauline van der Voort, whose mother was a Sherman.
His daughter was Millicent Rogers, the socialite and Taos icon.
Her brother married Virginia Lincoln, just so you know.
We have seen above that the actor Sam Shepard Rogers was related to the Chases, Lyons, etc.
Well, Henry Rogers was also from Massachusetts.
In around 1700, his 2g-grandfather Ebenezer married Sarah Dunham.
No genealogy of him exists online and his parents aren't given on his Wiki page, but New Trier is in Chicago and Sam Shepard's mother was “a native of Chicago”.
The first name links us to much skullduggery, as we have seen in my exposes of the Stanleys.
The third name confirms that Twain is not who we are told he was, since Sherman was no friend of the common man.
Just the reverse.
Although an “American” writer like Twain would seem to have no need to travel so much, he later took more very long trips, first to allegedly research the book A Tramp Abroad.
He spent three months in Heidelberg for that, although the book doesn't begin to tell us why he needed to be there for so long.
This is curious because Heidelberg was later a stronghold of the early Nazis.
Being that it was a university town, you wouldn't expect that. NSDAP was allegedly a workers' party.
Since I have shown you that Nazism was manufactured by these same families Twain was connected to, the link is again not a coincidence.
My guess is Twain was in Heidelberg on non-literary business.
A few years later, Twain was again in Europe, this time to “visit the baths”.
He and his family actually moved to Europe for several years.
We are told it was because of a loss of income due to bad investments, but you don't move to Europe and travel around to save money.
You buy a small house in the Midwest and settle down.
And if you are visiting the baths, you don't spend the winter in Berlin.
During those years (1891-1895), Twain returned to New York from Europe four times, which also isn't cheap.
We are told it was to deal with his bankruptcy, but all those travel expenses would have just made him that much more bankrupt.
It looks to me like Twain's money problems were invented to make him more palatable to the common man (and to explain his travels in Europe).
Most bios hide the fact that Twain from great wealth to begin with, lived in a mansion in Hartford in the richest part of town in the richest town in the country, and always hobnobbed freely with the super wealthy and connected—and no one else.
He married a filthy rich girl and was close friends with the richest people in the US—which gives his book The Gilded Age a different reading.
When in New York on these returns, Twain stayed at the Players Club, another huge red flag.
This was founded in 1888 (note the date) by Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes Booth) when he bought the 1847 (note the date) mansion located at 16 Gramercy Park.
At least it wasn't at 33 Gramercy Park.
And this is another reason Twain never outed the Lincoln assassination as a hoax.
This mansion had been the residence of Valentine G. Hall, grandfather of Eleanor Roosevelt.
That name Valentine also is a clue, since we have seen it before.
Do you remember where?
It was Henry Miller's middle name.
Any link?
You bet.
Before we get there, you should know that Valentine Hall's daughter Edith married William Forbes Morgan Jr. William's mother was Ellie Robinson.
Hall's mother-in-law was Elizabeth Livingston, whose grandfather Philip Livingston signed the Declaration of Independence, and whose 2great-uncle Robert Livingston swore in George Washington as first President.
The Livingstons were originally Levinsons.
The Roosevelts were closely related to the Stewarts, since Teddy Roosevelt's maternal grandmother was Martha Stewart.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin were close cousins, since Eleanor was a Roosevelt even before she married Franklin.
The way to link Henry Miller to these people, despite being scrubbed, is via Joaquin Miller, above.
Both were Muellers, remember.
Joaquin was also related to Daniel Boone.
Well, so are the:
Roosevelts
Halls
Forbes
etc.
As we have seen, this is one big crypto-Jewish family, with members on both sides of the pond.
They recycle about 40 surnames, but they all come from the same lines.
So, back to Twain.
We were looking at the Players Club, founded by Booth at Valentine Hall's ex mansion.
At this link, we find it admitted that despite the fact he was the grandfather of Eleanor Roosevelt, almost nothing is known of this Valentine Hall.
Although he was the source of the family money, he is a ghost.
He has been scrubbed way beyond the normal levels of scrubbing.
His wife Susan Tonnelle is equally scrubbed.
Geni—following the FDR Presidential Library—misspells her name Tonrele.
Which is curious since it is known Hall's huge mercantile business was named Tonnelle and Hall.
This indicates Hall joined his father-in-law in the business.
Hall owned large amounts of real estate in New York City, and the Tonnelles owned large parts of northern New Jersey.
Although the above linked article assures us nothing can be found on the Tonnelles, a simple web search takes us to a book The Wetmore Family of America, which informs us that Julia Tonnelle, daughter of John of New Jersey, married in around 1850 Francis Gregory Wetmore, son of Commander William Chauncey Wetmore, grandson of Rev. Izrahiah Wetmore.
His grandmother was Sarah Hall, pulling the Halls back into this.
We found them linked with Tonnelle and Hall in about 1850, but they were linked at least a century earlier.
But the frosting is Izrahiah's mother, Sarah Wetmore, née Booth.
Aha!
So that's why Edwin Booth got the Hall mansion on Gramercy Park.
He might have even inherited it.
Valentine Hall was closely related to the Booths.
We also find that the son of this Izrahiah, Prosper Wetmore, was involved with his brothers in the China and West India trade, under the title Prosper, Wetmore, and Bros.
They owned more than a dozen large ships, including the 168-ton brig Prosper.
This of course links us to the East India Company.
Another brother was Dr. Charles Wetmore, and he married Eliza Rathbone, daughter of John Rathbone of New York City.
This links the Rathbones to the Booths again, confirming once again my genealogical analysis in my paper on Lincoln.
Remember, a Rathbone fought with a Booth in the Presidential box at Ford's Theater.
They never tell you they were closely related.
This may be why they scrubbed Valentine Hall from history, and his wife Tonnelle.
Any analysis shows they were closely related to:
Booths
Rathbones
Walkers
Waterburys
Wetmores
McEwens
and so on.
This would link the Roosevelts to the Lincoln event, as well as all the other major hoaxes of American history.
It also made it even more obvious the Roosevelts were Jewish.
Some have brought this up regarding Eleanor, since she did so much work with Jewish organizations.
At the link above, the author tries to misdirect you into thinking she might be Catholic or Italian.
But once you get into the Booths and Rathbones, it is very obvious you are dealing with Jewish families.
As I showed in my paper on Lincoln, this is now admitted by Jewish scholars regarding the Booths.
See Sharna and Shapell's recent book Lincoln and the Jews.
It is admitted the Booths davened and spoke Hebrew and went to synagogue.
Anyway, back to Twain.
At the end of his first European residence in 1895, Twain immediately began an around-the-world “lecture tour”, allegedly to raise cash.
However, he was best-known in the US: here is where any rational lecture tour for Twain would have been scheduled.
Nonetheless, Twain went to Hawaii again:
Fiji
New Zealand
Australia
Sri Lanka
India
South Africa
and Mauritius.
Again suspicious, since I doubt the largest Twain crowds could be gathered in Sri Lanka.
It would cost more to get there than you could make from lecturing.
At the end of this trip, he and his family lived for two years in Vienna, Austria.
Why?
We aren't told.
We are told he reported on the sittings of the Austrian House as the conservative government sought to push through a “compromise” against the will of the liberals.
He published a lengthy article entitled “Stirring Times in Austria”, which appeared in the spook rag Harper's in 1898.
From the first paragraph you can tell he is misdirecting and creating confusion:
“For no one really understands this political situation, or can tell you what is going to be the outcome of it.”
Really?
That's not very helpful commentary from anyone, is it?
I don't have time or inclination to analyze this article, but it looks to me like Twain is preparing us for the run-up to WW1, which would be just 15 years later, and which would allegedly start in Austria with the murder of the Archduke.
Twain looks to me like one of the American Jews' men-on-the-ground there, both sowing seeds and reporting back, while at the same time taking a few moments to spread confusion back home.
As with all the manufactured wars of history, the bankers and financiers were crouching behind this one, managing it for maximum profit.
But not only that, since they had a long-term plan as well.
That plan recently hit final fruition, so it is easier to see what it was with hindsight.
It was nothing less than the total financial and psychological control of the world, via a massive campaign of:
lies
faked events
full-spectrum manipulation
This was only made possible by the rise and expansion of Intelligence on a global level.
In his article, Twain tells us Austria is fragmented, but he doesn't tell you the real reason why.
He wants you to think it is because there are several languages and peoples, but that isn't why.
The Empire was fragmented because the financiers wanted it to be fragmented.
If it hadn't been fragmented, they would have fragmented it.
Why?
Because these people thrive on exploiting divisions.
Harmony is not profitable, disharmony is.
This applies first to the big wars, but it applies to everything on down the line, even the smallest things in times of relative peace.
It applies to the male/female relationship, as we have seen, from which they figured out how to profit in the most efficient way only recently.
It applies to race relations.
It applies to the parent/child relationship. It applies to everything, large and small.
In short, the world isn't a complete and utter mess by accident.
Unlike me, these people do not enjoy solving problems.
They enjoy creating them.
Project Chaos, you know.
A manufactured chaos is far more profitable than any idyll.
Was Twain one of the best in creating chaos?
Or should I say worst?
Of course not.
In the 19th century, they hadn't yet become the masters of darkness they are now.
he will slip something by you in a heartbeat, and before you know it you will be thinking as they wish you to think.
Odds are, you already were.
Addendum July 23, 2019:
Our local library here has a special room near the front where donated books are sold for a nominal price to support the library.
Books retired from the shelves also find their way there.
Perhaps not surprisingly, one can find some vastly undervalued books there.
Just as one example, the library was donated a large section of the Harwood Collection, which it then unceremoniously dumped in this room.
I snagged up many old and semi-valuable books from it for a song.
I also grab expensive newer hardbacks, reselling them for a profit on Ebay.
One of these happened to be the Autobiography of Mark Twain, first published in its entirety in 2010 by the University of California (Berkeley) Press.
Volume I by itself is about 700 pages of small print and 2.5 inches thick.
Twain specified that it was not to be published until 100 years after his death, so much of the material was either unknown or unadmitted until recently.
I finally thought to check the early chapters for confirmation of my thesis here. . . and found it.
Twain admits he was from aristocratic lines.
The first thing we discover is that his Clemens line moved south in the previous century, and that they were closely associated with the Fairfax Earls.
Before that they had been pirates and slavers, and before that a Clemens of this line had been one of the judges who condemned Charles I Stuart.
The Hares later link him to the Spencer-Churchills in the 1930s.
The Hoares link us to Jennifer Aniston, and Hoare/Hare is the same name.
Aniston in 2012 - Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, which earned her Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. Since her career progressed in the 1990s, Aniston has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses, as of 2023.
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As for his father, we find that he owned 75,000 acres in Jamestown, Tennessee, a property that had:
coal
iron
copper
oil
and timber.
Twain also admits that Colonel Sellers in The Gilded Age was a real person, not exaggerated, and that this person was his cousin James Lampton.
Twain tells us that though the Tennessee land came to him and his siblings, they frittered it all away without profit by 1887.
His brother supposedly sold the last 10,000 acres for $250, despite knowing the land had:
coal
iron
copper
and timber.
Not believable.
But in these paragraphs, we find another clue:
Twain admits his father had told them that
“Railways would pierce to that region”
making it highly profitable.
We know that the Clemens did in fact become involved in railways—by the 1840s if not before—though Twain makes no connection here.
He tells us the land did become worth millions right after they sold it but wants us to believes the Clemens missed out on it.
Right.
Another uncle was John A. Quarles, a wealthy farmer with “twenty negroes”.
The next thing we learn is that the newspaper that hired Twain to report on his “round-the-world trip” that later became the book The Innocents Abroad paid him $1000 for the 50 letters, a pretty princely sum for 1867, especially considering the fact that he would end up making many times that for the same material from book sales.
Twain implies that they didn't also pay for the trip, however, leading us to believe he paid for it from the proceeds of his lectures on Hawaii.
But there is mystery there as well, since he only spent about four months in Hawaii, where he wrote about fifteen columns for the Sacramento Union.
Yet somehow, he was able to spin out that material into an even longer lecture tour, by which he tells us he became rich and famous.
I don't know about you, but if I were going to pay to hear a lecture on Hawaii, I would want to hear from someone who had done more than visit for four months.
I would also want to hear a wise old man lecture, not an unknown 30-year-old.
I could see paying to hear a 70-year-old Twain lecture, but not a 30-year-old Twain who hadn't done or written anything of importance.
Which reminds us that we could say the same about his world tour.
The book actually contains very little information about the places visited, as you would expect from someone visiting them for the first time and just passing through.
It is mostly fluff.
So why was the book “worth a fortune”?
It can only be because it was promoted to the hilt, like Oprah books now.
Which begs the question,
“Why was this young author being promoted to the hilt for fluff?”
We now know:
he was of the Families, and they are always promoted heavily, talented or not.
Yes, Twain had more talent than most of them, but he wasn't promoted for that reason.
He was promoted because he was an aristocrat.
The next thing we learn confirms it.
In the first chapters on the Villa di Quarto, the palace outside Florence where Twain lived in his later years, we find that it had previously been occupied by the King of Wurtemberg, and later by a “Russian daughter of the Imperial house.”
Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (27 September 1389 – 1 August 1464) was an Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers of Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance. His power derived from his wealth as a banker and intermarriage with other rich and powerful families. He was a patron of arts, learning, and architecture. He spent over 600,000 gold florins (approx. $500 million inflation adjusted) on art and culture, including Donatello's David, the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity.
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John Mackey of Whole Foods is John Powell Mackey, according to Findagrave also descended from:
Powell
Sturgis
Gould
McLaughlin
and Randolph and Dandridge of Norfolk, VA.
This links him to many blueblood and aristocratic lines, including the Mackeys of the peerage, who are related to the. . . Stuarts.
Anyway, Twain had been in Virginia City, NV, the site of the mines, in the 1860s, working as the editor of the Virginia City Enterprise, and knew Mackay then.
Twain admits that by 1874 Mackay was a “hundred millionaire”, which of course would be multi-billionaire now.
These were silver mines, if you don't know it.
Mackay and Fair bought the abandoned California mines there for $26,000, and they were worth $160,000,000 six years later.
Twain says he knows how that happened, starts to tell us, and then. . . doesn't tell us.
We are led to believe Mackay just lucked into it.
But things don't work like that and never did.
We also learn somewhat of how Twain got that job in Virginia City.
He was “old friends” with Joseph T. Goodman and Denis McCarthy, owners of the paper.
Note the surnames.
While whitewashing that whole enterprise as being a shoestring operation, he admits they were “disseminating intelligence”.
Curious wording, which does not fit the mood around it.
Twain does admit that these newspaper owners later made hundreds of thousands of dollars investing in the mines, with the insider help of US Senator Jones.
The further I got into this “autobiography”, the more I realized it is no such thing.
It is a mass and mess of disjointed and unedited recollections, with no form and no possibility of form.
No one has tried to edit it because it is uneditable.
And no doubt Twain required it wait a century for publication to keep the mess from tarnishing his reputation.
Beyond that, the stories have no ring of truth.
They taste like one part remembrance, one-part tall tale, and six parts bald lies.
I will give you one example of hundreds.
Twain repeats the story of the death of his brother Henry in a boat explosion.
But this time he adds the fact that he had foretold the death in a dream.
Afterwards he says he has told that story seventy or eighty times.
We know he told it in Life on the Mississippi.
Problem is, it is different every time he tells it.
They admit in footnotes that he had never told the part about the dream before— not eighty times, not even once.
And here he adds a part about Henry not dying from his injuries, but from an overdose of morphine given by young and inexperienced doctors.
Perhaps he realized his old stories weren't believable, so he came up with a second form.
But this form is just as transparently a lie as the other forms.
It is beyond belief that any trained doctors, young or not, would give a patient like Henry “a vast quantity heaped on a knife blade”.
Besides, why wouldn't Twain just match his dictation on this story to the story he told in one of his most famous books?
If he has told the story eighty times, he should know it by heart.
But no:
it is different not only in the details, but in the main lines, meaning it is fiction.
I never bought these stories about Henry before doing my research, but now I have to tell you I don't believe in Henry. . . at all.
Why not?
Well, because one, we know almost nothing about him; and two, in a later section where Twain is telling about his older brother Orion [p. 451], he lists all his siblings, including those who died young.
He forgets to mention Henry.
Henry was closest in age to Twain and being brothers (and Henry described as a sweetheart) they should have been close.
We should have a lot more stories about Henry than we do.
Instead, Henry dies at 21 in a cinematic explosion, and that is about all we know.
I also beg you to reread Twain's initial telling of the story in Life on the Mississippi and notice how detached he is in the telling.
There is no least swell of emotion in these pages.
In fact, Twain spends far more time selling us the heroics of George Ealer and the chief mate than in talking about his brother.
The character Henry is just a stub, far less fleshed out than those characters around him—which of course makes no sense.
It gives us the clue.
Also, strange that a priest is the one who gets a crowbar through his body, dying slowly and horribly:
a typical invention of Twain, who hated clergy of any kind.
A close reading will give you many other signs this is all invention.
I had written that and moved on but came back to it from a sense of obligation.
So, I reread the chapters leading up to Henry's death.
In the chapter just before the Pennsylvania blows up and Henry is killed, we are told the story about Twain beating the pilot Brown.
Twain hits him with a stool and then pummels him, but this tall and fierce pilot doesn't fight back.
Remember, Twain is just 23 here, and is not a big man.
He is about 5'5” at most, and probably about 130 pounds.
When Twain is brought before the captain for insubordination and assault, what does the captain do?
He laughs, congratulates Twain, and tells him to assault the pilot again onshore.
When the pilot demands that Twain be removed from the boat, the captain refuses.
When the pilot says, “it is either him or me,” the captain tells the pilot he can leave.
Does any of that sound believable?
Not in the least.
The captain wouldn't choose this temporary cub apprentice over his own pilot.
Also convenient for Twain's narrative is that despite that, he is put on a following boat, Henry remaining with Brown on the Pennsylvania.
So, within days of Twain's assault on Brown, Brown is dead, Henry is dead, and Twain miraculously avoids the explosion.
Meaning, not only is Henry's story not believable, but none of the surrounding story is also believable, either.
It all reads like bad fiction.
Also interesting is the name of the captain killed on the Pennsylvania:
Kleinfelter.
You may wish to look that up.
In support of my reading here, we can look at the other boat explosion in Life on the Mississippi.
On page 397, we are told a similar story of boilers exploding on the Gold Dust, killing the pilot Lem S. Gray.
Although only two pages long, Twain's account of this disaster is filled with numerology markers.
The preceding page has an illustration of a poker hand with four aces.
The date is August 8, which gives us two 8s to go with our aces.
47 persons were scalded and 17 were missing.
These missing are then declared dead, which, with the captain, gives us 18.
Aces and eights again.
So, this Lemuel Gray probably faked his death, and Twain was hired to back up the story.
Was Lemuel's middle name Stanley?
Then I noticed something exceedingly strange about the book Life on the Mississippi, which I had not read since I was a teenager.
After the story about Henry dying, it suddenly switches gears.
On page 246, chapter XXI, Twain moves ahead 21 years all at once, jetting past his time as an actual pilot.
He simply states that he got his license at last, but he doesn't tell us any stories about that.
He says his time as a pilot was uneventful, with “no misfortunes resulting”.
Except the coming of the Civil War, which soon ended his time as a pilot.
So, although you might expect Life on the Mississippi to tell us something about Twain's time as a pilot, it actually tells us. . . nothing.
We are supposed to believe that all these interesting things happened to him as a cub, but nothing happened in his 18 months or so as an actual pilot?
Very, very weird.
But back to the Autobiography.
There Twain gives up some interesting information about Orion's early years.
From the age of 15, Orion was the protégé of Edward Bates in St. Louis.
Bates was already a distinguished lawyer and would become Lincoln's Attorney General.
Twain says Orion was a terrible dilettante, studying law for a week, studying oration for a week, but sticking to nothing.
So, we have to ask why Bates put up with it.
We also have to ask why Orion's parents agreed to let him connect with this man so far away, while still in his teens.
Frankly, it stinks of the usual thing.
But even if it was above board, it proves the Clemens were moving in high circles from the beginning.
Besides, Orion was supposed to be a printer's apprentice in St. Louis, not a lawyer's apprentice.
In those years, one didn't commonly apprentice a trade like printing during the day and then study oration with a prominent local attorney in the evenings.
The story has no continuity.
On p. 398 of the Autobiography, we get yet another connection to the railways.
Twain's niece Julie Langdon married Edward Loomis, who just happened to be the Vice President of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad.
Remember, Twain's father-in-law Jervis Langdon was a railroad tycoon and coal merchant:
it may have been he who set up Loomis in the business.
Our connection to Life on the Mississippi is this:
at the end of chapter XV, Twain admits the riverboats were driven out of business almost overnight by the railroads.
So, although I have never seen comment on it, it has to be somewhat obscene to find Twain—a scion and son-in-law of railroad men—writing the most famous account of riverboats.
Now that we have spotted at last this irony, we have to ask if it is really ironic.
In other words, is it really just a coincidence?
Life on the Mississippi came out in 1883, so it was too late to be railroad-paid propaganda against riverboats.
Or was it?
It is curious that so much of the book is given over to wrecks, sinkings, and other tragedies.
A naïve reader would quickly come to the conclusion that riverboats were unsafe and that relying on them as freighters was foolhardy.
Twain ends chapter XV by telling us that one tug could pull a dozen steamer cargoes:
why have steamers?
So, was the question still up for debate as late as the 1880s?
My guess is yes.
My guess is that someone prominent was arguing that river transport was far more economical in many instances than rail transport.
Especially down river, where little fuel was required.
The railmen needed to bury this argument, and they hired Twain to do it.
It appears to me that Twain may have invented a brother and killed him off in order to do it.
In the appendix of the Autobiography, we learn that Twain's daughter Clara married the Russian pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Jewish of course.
Studying that appendix, we notice something else strange:
Henry Clemens is again not listed as a sibling of Twain.
As a tack-on, I wish to mention an outing in a film I just watched.
It was the 2006 movie The Fall, directed by Tarsem and starring Lee Pace.
It grossed just 3.7 million, and since it must have cost far more than that, I suspect it is one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.
Eddie also descends from Zimmermans, possibly linking him to Bob Dylan. ** You have to go back to Lieutenant Anthony Morse, take his brother William, and his wife was Elizabeth. † Miller is scrubbed at Wikitree and Geni, but at the latter source you can find him hidden as Henry Francis Miller instead of Henry Valentine Miller.
You will tell me he wasn't aware of that, but I assume he was. ‡ Jersey City and its Historic Sites, Harriet Phillips Eaton, 1899. ☺ I later discovered it was the Daily Alta California.
Twain was paid $1000 for the 50 letters back to the US. ☼ A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City Bridgeport ..., Volume 2, p. 1331.
