Show MARK TWAIN CAL ED t ta it NOTED AUTHOR AND HUMORIST PASSES AWAY APTER AFTER tjan GERING ILLNESS man beloved by all AH the People e Who N he had delighted millions to quaint humor Is I 1 worn out by grief and agony I 1 redding conn sa samuel latiol xang borne clemens clemena marlc mark painlessly Oain lessly at 30 thursday night ot of angina lectoria pectoris pec toria toris ile he lapsed into coma at 3 I 1 a afternoon and never recovered consciousness ness it was the end of a man outworn by arle griel t and acute abut aa leooy 6 ay ot 0 i body at the deathbed wore were mrs girolo gaballo Gabr 1 llo clara clemens clemena her ber huis hui baud dr robert 11 halsey alsey dr quintar albert bigelow balne who will write mark twains kwains biography and tha thi two trained nurses mark twain was born sa samuel anuel LanB horiTO clemens in florida Flor lda mo november 30 1836 1835 my part P ta ho he writes in hla his own burlesque burle aqua auto biography blo graphy were neither very poor 1 MARK TWAIN nor conspicuously honest bonest the car earliest ancestor of the kwains twains have any record of was vaa a friend of the family by the name of higgins the county chronicles have it that the elder clemens failed in ili business and died leaving his son the ample world to make hla his fortune in ili accordingly mark kwains twains acquaintance with literature began in putting words into type not ideas into words educated only in public schools he ha was apprenticed to a printer at 13 and worked at his trade in ill st louis Cin cincinato cinatl philadelphia and ad new york until at 16 he could gratify a boyish ambition to become a cu cub b to a mississippi river pilot doth both these happenings reacted pro roundly in his later life ills knowl edge of river life acquired when he was a pilot took form in tom sawyer Ilu huckleberry ckleberry man finn and life on the mississippi regarded abroad as tits his first title to fame it oven even suggested his pseudonym tor for mark twain Is 13 a leads mans cry to the pilot in shallow stages and hla his familiarity with printing turned him naturally first into n newspaper 0 wil work then into creative w writing alt and finally into the publishing business wherein like sir walter scott he suffered a bankruptcy disastrous to everything but ills his honor and ilk like sir walter again paid oft off by his big pen debts not of his bis own making mark twain has been as described in his big own words A bliver miner in nevada a gold miner in california next a reporter in san francisco next a special correspondent in the sandwich islands next a roving correspondent in europe and the east cast next an instructional torchbearer oil OB the lecture platform and finally I 1 became a P scribbler of books and am aa immovable fixture among the other rocks of new england lie ile was married in 1872 to olivia L I 1 1 langdon langden of B alra N Y four children were born of whom two a son and a daughter died early one other daughter jean who had been an invalid for life was found dealt dead in her bath tub last fall in her home at red lied ding conn her tragic death greatly sadde laddered Ead dered ried her father who declined in health from that moment A third daughter clra clara Is mrs ossip galbol wile of at ie pianist whom she married man led last yeat mark kwains twains first book was waa the jumping frog frag ills best known in this country possibly was innocenti abroad ills his surest title to tarns fame generally lc believed to be tom saw sav yet yer mud and itu it companion volume th adventures of huckleberry fitin finn in all his books had a sido of more than copt copies e a and were translated translate into six languages |