November 15 Tuesday – In Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote an aphorism postcard to an unidentified person: “Never put off till to-morrow what can be done day after to-morrow just as well. / Truly Yours/ Mark Twain / Nov. 15/98” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Louise Yates Waring (Mrs. George E. Waring, Jr.)

Dear Madam: / That was the way for Waring to die; it was in character. He had always lived for the race of men, regardless of creed & nationality, & it was his earned right to die for it. He lived a great life, & died a great death. You will allow me the privilege of saying my reverent word of homage to his character, for I new him a quarter of a century; & we were not mere acquaintances, but friends [MTP] . Note: Sam added his “deepest sympathies.” George E. Waring, Jr. (1833-1898), sanitary engineer and civic reformer, died on Oct. 29 from yellow fever contracted while studying sanitary conditions there at the close of the Spanish war. The earliest notation of Waring in Sam’s life may be found in Vol. I, under July 14 entry. See several listings in Vols. I & II.