The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-25
Invalid Daughter Is Drowned
 In Bath Tub
EPIltPTIc FIT IS CAUSE
Great Humorist Had Just Returned from Rermudas and Is Bereaved by Accidental Death of
 Daughter.

Bedding, Conn, December e4-Mark Twain's invalid daughter, Jean, met death tragically this morning while at the
 bath. bringing poignant grief at Christ
 mas time to Stormfield She was his youngest daughter. endeared to him not only by long companionship. but by her frail health. caused by recurrent attacks of epilepsy. Her death leaves pr. Clem- ents without kin in this country to share
 his sorrow.
 Jean Clemens died probably of strangu- lation. due to an attack of epilepsy or from heart failure. The body was found in the bath room with the head only partly submerged.
 Miss Clemens had evinced physical weariness of late, but yesterday afternoon she rode her favorite horse to the post
 office to get the early Christmas mail, and last night she cheerfully prepared & Christmas tree from which she had planned to distribute gifts tomorrow morning.
 When she arose this morning she went to the bathroom, where her lifeless body
 was found later. Her failure to respond
 to the maids knocking on the door re- vealed her death.
 With characteristic philosophy, Mark
 Twain is bearing up bravely. Hundreds
 of messages of condolence are arriving from throughout this country and abroad. Death has already taken from him his
 wife and his daughter Susan l Jean Clemens was about 90 years old
 and was her fathers close companion In
 his literary work. Since early woman- hood she had been subject to epilepsy but
 in recent years her health had improved.
 The body will be sent to Elmira. N r..
 for interment, where the funeral will he
 held on Saturday afternoon. l Speaking of his daughters death. Mir l Clemens said:
 1 My daughter, Jean Clemens, passed
 from this life suddenly this morning at 7;so o'clock.
 l 'All the last half of her life she was
 an epileptic. but she grew better latteriy. For the past two years we considered her
 practically well, but she was not allowed
 to be entirely free. Her maid. who has
 served us & years. was always with her | excursions and such things. She had very
 few convulsions in the past two years and 1 then she was violent.
 At 7;30 o'clock this morning a maid 1 went to her room to see why she did not l come down to her breakfast and found | her In her bath tub and drowned If
 means she had a convulsion and could
 not get out. She had been leading A very
 active life. She spent the greater part of
 her time looking after farm which I
 bought for her and she did much of my secretary work beside.
 l Last night she and chatted later than usual in the library. and she told me all
 her plans about the housekeeping for she 1 was also my housekeeper. I said every
 thing was going on smoothly; that I I thoug-t l would make another trip to
 Bermuda in February and she said to put
 1t on until March and she and her maid
 would go with me. So we made that ar | engagement.
 But she is gone, poor child She
 was all l had left except Clara, who | married Dr. Gabrilowitsch lately and has l just arrived in Europe"
 | Mark Twain Returns Home.
 New York, December 24-Samuel L. Clemens returned here last Monday from l his winter vacation in Bermuda and went | lE,
 The author complained of pain in his | lert breast. Since the death of his close 1 friend, Henry H. Rogers, a year ago l MT Clemens has felt much depressed l and the death of his daughter today
 his friends here fear will grove a serious l shock to the aged writer.
 1 Miss Jean Clemens was one of two l surviving daughters of Mark Twain and 1 was the one most intimately associated l with his recent literary work. The other | daughter. Clara. recently married tho
 Russian piaist, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. and ! only two weeks ago bade her father 1 goodbye and departed for Europe with 1 her husband. This left Miss Jean as
 the remaining member of the family with 1 Mir: Clemens at the family homestead at l Bedding Conn.
 The daughter was the constant com I panion of her father, acting to some
 extent as his assistant. secretary and
 literary amanuensis She was a young 1 woman of varied accomplishment hay ing travelled widely and lived for time l in Germany.
 Her literary tendencies followed those | Of her father and she had his vivacity :, of manner, and. to some extent, resem- bled him in personal appearance. Her 1 tastes were literary rather than social, | so that she did not often appear at social 1 gatherings in New York. Her devotion l to her father shown only yesterday | when she personally telephoned to the Associated Press a statement from her l father humorously disrnissing the report | that he was dying Miss Clemens at that | time spoke afrectionately of her fathers l good health and made cheery references
 to the happy family condition at the hol- | iday season.
 treasury is maintained always in an | empty condition.
 | Each governor or department ''provin- | cial,' has the exclusive privilege of trad 1 ing in cigars. cigarettes and tobacco, the local privilege of traffc in aguardiente and