Show ANGEL OF DEATH ATH CALLS AND ANDIS D LAST SUMMONS IS ANSWERED r MARK TWAIN P ASSIS AWAY End nd Comes Peacefully to the Great American Humorist at His Summer Home After Months of Failing Health Y LIVING DAUGHTER PRESENT AT BEDSIDE Ruling Passion Was Strong in Death and When Beyond the Power of Speech Dying Man ManMade ManMade ManMade Made Motions as if Smoking SKETCH OF HIS CAREER I give i ve a cent to hear heart t Ingersoll on Moses Noses but Id give ten dollars to hear Moses on In Ingersoll Ingersoll 0 Be virtuous and you will be lonely George Washington tell a lie I can but I wont There were no hacks or omnibuses on the fhe pier I said it was like being in f heaven To the Indian soap and edu education education cation are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more 4 deadly in the long run nm When the musing spider steps stepson on to the shovel he first exhibits wild surprise then he lie shrivels They spell it Vinci and pro pronounce pronounce pronounce it Foreigners always spell letter pronounce Philosophical ex expressions expressions expressions of oC Mark Twain Redding Conn April 21 Samuel Clemens Mark Twain died painlessly at 63 tonight r of angina He lapsed Into coma at 3 this afternoon and never recovered consciousness It was va the end of oC a man outworn by grief and acute agony agon of body Yesterday was waa a bad day da for the lit little little littie tle tie knot of ot anxious watchers at the bedside For long hours the gray aqui aquiline aquiline line features lay in the iner inor inertia tia tiu o death while the th pulse sank steadily but late at night Mark Twain passed from stupor Into the first natural al sleep he had known since ho re ro returned returned turned from Bermuda and this morn mornIng mornIng mornIng Ing he woke refreshed even oven faintly cheerful and in full possession of his faculties He recognized his daughter Clara Mrs Mra Ossip spoke a rational word or two and feeling him himself himself self unequal to conversation wrote out In pencil Give mo my ray glasses These were hig hi last words Laying them aside he sank first Into reverie and later Into final unconsciousness There was sas no thought at the time however that the end was so near At Continued on Page Two I 4 I i I j I 5 I p 4 II I I I i I I 2 r ri C k i W I JP il I I 4 I I I IL i SAMUEL LANGHO RUE RNE CLEMENS Celebrated American Humorist Known to the World as Mark Twain MARK IN TWAIN PASSES ASSES AWAY I Continued from Page One 5 6 Dr Robert Halsey who had ben been be n continuously in attendance said Mr Clemens Is ia not BO so o strong at this hour bour as he was at the corresponding hour yesterday but he has bas wonderful vitality and h hn hl may rally again Albert Bigelow Paine Mark Twains biographer and literary executor sald said to a caller who desired to inquire for Mr Clemens I 1 think you will not have to call often otten again Nevertheless Mr and Mrs E E Loomis who had come up from New Now NewYork NewYork York to give their lovo in person left Mr Clemens seeing him and nd only heard of his death as they were taking the tho train to New NewYork York again Mrs Loomis was wa Mr Clemens lemens favorite niece and Mr LoomIs IB th vie president of ot the Lackawanna railroad railroadS v Similarly S Jarvis Langdon a who had run up for the day left even event t earlier and wholly uninformed At the deathbed were only Mrs Gab Clara Clemens her hus bus husband husband band Dr Robert flobert Halsey Dr Quintard lbert Ubert Bigelow Paine who will wUl write Mark MarI Twains biography and tho the two trained nurses Restoratives digitalis strychnine and camphor were admin administered but the patient i to re respond respond respond spond spondA 4 A tank ta k of oxygen still stands un uncalled uncalled called for tor at Redding Bedding station Oxygen was tried and the physicians explained it was of ot no value because the action of or the heart was wasso so disordered There was wa only an extreme and Increasing debility accompanied by labored respiration T Te e Fatal Disease i Angina pectoris Is a paroxysmal at af affection of ot tho the chest baffling and ob obscure cure sc ure of origin characterized by se sa severe savere s svere vere pain vain and an d deep depres depression sion Hion of ot spirit The pain is severe and of an oppressive crushing or stabbing character The attacks progress in ire fre frequency quency Quene and severity with uncertain in intermissions intermissions sometimes of ot long dura duration tion to a fatal termination Mark Twain did not die In anguish Sedatives soothed his pain but In his ills i moments of 01 consciousness the mental depression persisted On the way up I from Bermuda he ho said sald to Albert Bige Bigelow Bigelow Bigelow low Paine who had been his constant companion in illness This is I a bad ba d job Well Wen never pull through with It ItOn ItOn itOn On shore once onoe moro more and longing for lor forthe forthe the serenity of the New England hills blUs ho he took heart and said to those who noted his enfeeblement Give me a breath of or Redding Bedding air once more and this will wUl pass Rut But It did dill not pass and tired of body and weary of ot spirit the old war warrior warnor warnor nor against shams and snobs said saw faintly to his nurses Why do you fight to keep me inc aUvo alivo Two days of life ere exe aa a good to roe tue as asfour asfour asfour four Tobacco Allowance Cut Down It Tt Is certain to be b recalled that Mark Twain was for more than fifty years an inveterate smoker and the first conjecture of ot the laymen would be that tie he had weakened his heart by overindulgence in tobacco Dr Hal Hali I Fey said tonight he was unable to i that the angina pectoris from nIch Mark Twain died was in any anyway anyay anyay way ay a sequel to nicotine poisoning Some constitutions he lie said seem Im mi Immune Immune mune to the effects of tobacco This was one of ot them Yet it is true since his Illness began the doctors had cut down Mark Twains daily dally allowance of ot twenty cigars and countless pipes to four cigars a day dayNo dayNo dayNo No privation was a greater sorrow to him He tried to smoke on the steam steamer er Cr while returning from Bermuda and lily culy save gave it up because he ho Was Wa too feeble to draw on his pipe On pa his deathbed d when he ho had passed d the th of f speech and it was lO o longer certain his ideas were lucid he would make the th motion mOlion of waving a cigar and smilingly expel the air from under the moustache still stUl stained with smoke Home Hone in Historic Place Where here Mrk Mt rk Twain chose to spend his ht hi declining years was the first out outpost outpost post of Methodism in New England and It was among the hills of Redding Bedding that General G Putnam of Revolutionary fame mustered his sparse ranks Put Putnam nam park now encloses the memory of ot his camp Mara MarK Twain first heard beard of ot it at the dinner given him on his seventieth birthday when a eo fellow guest who lived there mentioned Its beauties and added there was a vacant house ad adjoining adjoining joining his own I think you may buy that house for forme forme forme me said Mark Mak Twain Sherwood Place was the delectable rume nune of that old house and where it stood Mark Twain reared the white I of or the Italian villa he lie first named In Innocents Jents cents at Home H me but a first exper experience ence of what a New England winter storm can be ba In its whitest run fury quick quickly ly caused him to christen it anew The rhe house ha has been thus described oy Dy Albert Bigelow Paine Set on a fair hillside with such a agreen agreen agreen green slope below bolow such uch a view out outspread outspread outspread spread across the valley valle as made one catch his breath a little when ho he first turned to look at It A A trout stream flows flo s through one ne of the meadows There are apple trees ana anil grey stone stonewalls stonewalls stonewalls walls The entrance to the tho house is 15 a winding leafy lane Pleasant Chats With Neighbors Through these the Innocent at Home loved to wander In his white flannels for homely gossip with his neighbors They remember him best as asne asne one ne who above all things loved a good listener for Mark was a mighty talker stored with fairy tales for the tho little maids he adored and racier racer ruddier speech for tor more stalwart masculine ears It is a legend that he was vast vastly vastly vastly ly proud of his famous mop of at white whitehair whitehaIr whitehair hair and used to spend the pains of a acourt acourt acourt court lady In getting it to just the proper stage of artistic disarray Last summer the walks began to fal mi falter falter miter ter last fall they ceased for lor good The death of ot H lL H Rogers a close friend was Was a severe blow The death of his daughter Jeane Jenne who was seized with an attack of epilepsy last fall faU while in her bath was another blow from which he ho never novel recovered It was then that the stabbing pains In the heart began Mark MarIe Twain died as truly as any man ever did cUd of a broken heart His Last Work The last bit of literary work he had was a chapter of his unfinished auto autobiography autobiography autobiography biography describing his daughter Jeanes death He Ha sought Bought diversion in Bermuda Bermuth where he was the guest of the American vice consul consult Wm Vm H 11 Al Allen Allen Allen len whose young daughter Helen act acted acted acted ed as au amanuensis for what letters ho cared to dictate His llIs winter was gay but not happy When he heard of the successive deaths of his two friends Wm Vm M JoI Laffan Laffan Laffan fan of the Sun and R B W VT V Guilder edi edt editor editor tor of tho the Century he said sadly zaly How fortunate they are no such fortune of that kind ever comes to me Life had bad no further allurements for him Mr hIr Paine said tonight that the book Mark Twain took up from the coverlet beside him when he ho asked for his glasses was Carlyles history of the French revolution his Inseparable companion and greatest favorite The Tho burial will wilt be In ion the family plot at Elmira N Y where He lie already his wife his two daughters Susan and Jean and his infant son Langhorne No date has yet been set as the family are still undecided whether there shall be a public funeral in this city It Is said Will wiIl be kept as asa asI asa I a summer place by his daughter who is very fond both of the house and the country though her husbands musical engagements make it necessary that he spend part of ot each year abroad Mr Paine said tonight MarK Twain had put his affairs in perfect order and died well off though by no means a rich man He leaves a considerable number of unfinished manuscripts In all stages of ot completion many of at them begun years ago and put aside as unsatisfactory Mrs will aid Mr Paine Jn In the final decision as to what use itse shall be made of these Biographical Sketch Tho The mere chronology of Mark Twains life Is soon told Like most dwellers in the imagination his sig significance significance to posterity lies not as with men of action in how he wrought upon events but rather in how events wrought upon him for from such reactions reactions reactions resulted his imaginative output one of the most considerable of his time and as it now seems one of the most secure Briefly then Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Flor Florida FlorIda FlorIda ida Mo November 30 1835 My par ests he writes in his own burlesque autobiography were neither very poor nor conspicuously con honest Tho The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend of the family by the name of Higgins The county chr chrles eles les have it that the elder Clemens failed tailed in business and died leaving his son the ample world to tomake tomake tomake make his fortune In Sn InI I Accordingly A Mark Twains acquaint acquaintance I ance with literature began in n words Into type not Ideas into words Educated only in public schools he ho was apprenticed to a printer at 13 and andI worked at his trade in St Louis Cin Cia Cincinnati Cincinnati I Philadelphia and New York until at 18 he could gratify a boyish ambition to become a cub to a Mississippi sippi river pilot Profitable Knowledge Gained Both these happenings reacted pro profoundly profoundly profoundly in his later life His Ills knowl knowledge knowledge edge of river life acquired when he was a pilot took form in Tom Torn Saw Sawyer Sawyer Sawyer yer Huckleberry Finn ana an Life on the Mississippi regarded abroad as his first title to fame It even suggested his pseudonym for tor Mark Twain Is a cry to the pilot In shallow stages And his familiarity with printing f turned him naturally first Into news newspaper newspaper paper work then Into creative writing and finally into the publishing business wherein like Sir Walter Scott ho he suf suffered suffered suffered n r I bankruptcy disastrous to every everything everything everything thing lIaf his honor and like Sil sn Wal Walter Walter Walter ter again paid off by his pen pM debts not of Ills llis own making In fri due time Mark Twain became a pilot t He tells the rest himself in a chapter of at Life Lite on the Mississippi By and by the war came commerce was suspended my occupation occupation occupation tion was gone goneI I 1 had to seek another livelihood So fio SoI I became a silver miner in Nevada a agold agold agold gold miner in California next nert ne t a report reporter er In San an Francisco next a special cor correspondent correspondent correspondent respondent in the Sandwich islands next a roving correspondent In Europe and the east enst next an instructional torchbearer on the lecture platform and finally I became a scribbler of books and an Immovable fixture among the other rocks of New England Disastrous Business Career This was In 1872 two years after atter he heh had hd h d married Olivia L Langdon of El Elmira Elmira Elmira mira N Y who brought him an inde independent Independent pendent fortune At that time his writ writings writIngs ings were in great demand he had an assured income his own home and seemed indeed a fixture But in 1885 his popularity as an author and his ac acquaintance with the Ule mechanics of the publishing trade besides being a practical practical practical printer aa no had been part owner of the Buffalo Press Fress before his mar marriage drew him into the firm of C CL CL CL L Webster Co publishers The firm brought out the memoirs of General Grant and paid his widow but its prosperity was and it failed with liabilities of oi The failure had already taken of or Mark Twains cash but he determined also allio to shoulder the debts and to pay them off oft undertook In a lecture tout tour around the world Mark Twain was an Inveterate smoker and one of the most leisurely men In the world An old pressman who was printers devil In an office where Mark was an editorial writer tells this anecdote of his ills habits of work One of my duties was to sweep the room where the editors worked Every Even Everyday Everyday day Mark would give me a nickel to get away from him He would rather die in the dust than uncross his legs One day he gave me a nickel to dot dotan dotan dotan an i in his copy for him He lie certainly certainly did enjoy life that man did EasyGoing But Hard Worker Yet this easygoing dawdler acquit acquitted acquitted acquitted ted himself of a prodigious deal of work In his life and bound himself voluntarily to pay off oft debts that he could have discharged without hurt to his good name by passing through bankruptcy He did not practice what he preached preach ell It dont make no dif difference difference difference ference he had Huck Finn say whether you do right or wrong a persons conscience aint got no sense sensa and just goes for him anyway If J t thad had a 0 dog that know no nomore nomore nomore more than a persons conscience did Id him It |