The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-22
HAD PASSED BIBLICAL
SCORE ALLOTTED TO MAN
End Of Man 0uiworn By Grief
and Acute Agony
Of Body
-(By Associated Press.)

VI Redding, Conn, April 22-Samuel
Langhorn Clemens ("Mark Twain
died painlessly at $50 o'clock last
night Of agina pectoris He lapsed
into coma at o'clock and never re.
covered consciousness.
II was the end of man outworn
by grief from acute agony of body.
\ He awoke yesterday morning, cheer
ful, and recognized his daughter
Clara, Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch and
spoke a rational word or two. Feel
ing himself unequal to conversa-
ton he wrote with pencil GIVE
me my glasses, which were his last
words. Laying them aside he sank
into revery, and later into final un-
consciousness.
At the death bed were Mrs. Gabril-
owitsch. CLARA Clemens her hus-
band, DR.. Robert Halsey, DR.. Quintard
Albert Bigelow Paine, who will write
Mark Twain's autobiography and two
trained nurses. Restoratives--dig
lis, strychnlne and camphor were nd
ministered, but the patient failed 10
respond. ~ ''-'~sss''.
Some weeks ago Twain remarked,
"This is bad job: will never pull
through with IT, Lately he remark
ed to the nurses: "Why fight 10 keep
ne alive?" 1.-TWO days of life look as
good to me as four"
Mark Twain was born Samuel Lang
borne Clemens in Florida, Mo, No.
vember 3, 1895.
My parents" he writes in his own
blulesque autobiography, were Meth.
or very poor, nor conspicuously hon
est. The earliest ancestor of the
Twains have any record of was a
friend of the family by the name of
higgins" The county chronicles
have It that the elder Clemens failed
IN business and died. leaving his son
The ample worl dto make his fortune
H.
Accordingly Mark Twaln's acquain-
tance with literature began in putting
words into type, not ideas into words.
Educated only in the public schools
he was apprenticed to printer at
10 and worked at his trade in ST.
Louis. Cincinnati. Philadelphia and
New York, until at Is he could graft
fy boyish ambition to become a cub
to a Mississippi river pilot. Both these
happenings reacted profoundly on his
later life. His knowledge OF river
lile, acquired when he was a pilot,
took form in Tom Sawyer, Huckleber-
r. Finn and Life on the Mississippi,
regarded broad as his first title to
flme. II even suggested his pseu-
donym for Mark Twain Is lines
mans cry TO the pilot in shallow
stages. And his familiarity with print
ng turned him naturally first into
newspaper work, then into creative
writing and finally into the publish.
ing business, wherein, like Sir Walter
Scott, he suffered a bankruptcy dis
astrous. TO everything but his honor
and like Sir Walter again paid off
BY his pen, debts not of his own max.
ing.
In due time, Mark Twain became q
full fledged pilot. He tells the rest
himself in chapter Of Life on the
Mississippi" BY and by the wal
came, commerce was suspended. my
occupation was gone
~ had 10 seek another livelihood
So became a silver miner, in Nevada
gold miner in California, next a re
porter In San Francisco: next. a spe
cial correspondent in the Sandwich
Islands: next, rowing correspond
cnt in Europe and the east; next, al
llstructional torch bearer on the lee
ture platform. and finally, became
a scribbler OF books, and an nnmoy
able fixnre among the other rocks o
New England"
This was In 1872, a year after h'
had married Miss olivia L. LangdoI
of Elmira, n. Y, who brought him al
independent fortune. At that time hi
writings were in great demand, h
an assured income, his own home
and seemed indeed fixture. But il
1885 his popularity as an author an
his acquaintance with the mechanic
Of the publishing trade-besides bf
ire practical printer he had bee
part owner Of the Buffalo Express be
fore his mafriage-drew him into n
J firm of c. T. Webster q Co. publish
ers The firm breusat out the men
oirs OF General Grant and paid hi
widow s350,00O but It's prosperity wa
short-liyed and II failed with liabi
tiles of s96gtl0 The failure had a
lieady taken sC5. 600 OF Mark Twain
cash. but he determined also to shon
i dor the debts and 70 nav them OF