Arizona republican., 1910-04-22
HIS WAS | BROKEN HEART
Final Crushing Blow Tragic End ofHis Daughter-His Last Hope Was in the Bracing Air of the New England Hills.

fseUUlllS- conn. ApIll -l.-Sdlnuc Langhornc Clemens. CAIark Twain died painlessly at 6:30 tonight of angina pectoris He lapscd into a coma at three o'clock this after noon and never revived. It was the end of man outworn by grief and acute agony Of body.
 Yesterday was bad day for the little knot of anxious watchers. For
 long hours the gray. aquiline features
 lay moulded in the inertia of death.
 while the pulse sank steadily. but at
 night he passed from the stupor into
 the first natural sleep since he re-
 turned from Bermuda and awoke re-
 fresbed. even faintly cheerful and in
 full possession of his faculties.
 He recognized his daughter Clara
 CMrs Ossip Gabrilowiisch). spoke a rational word or two and feeling him. self unequal 10 conversation wrote out in pencil: Give me my glasses" These
 were his last words. Laying them aside he sank into . reverie and later into final inconsistencies.
 There was no thought at the time. however. that the end was so near. At five o'clock Dr. Robert Halsey said "Mr Clemens is not so strong at this hour as at the corresponding hour yesterday. but he has wonderful vital ity and he may rally again
 Albert BigcIow Paine. Mark TwaiD's bioGrapher and literary eSecutor. said iO caller who desired to inqui1 about Mir. Clemens: ''I think you will not have to call often again" At the death bed were Mrs. Ciabrilowitsch. her husband. Dr. Robert Hslsey. Dr. Quintard. Albert BiSelow Paine and two trained nurses. Eestoratives- digitalis strychninc and camphor-. were administered but the patient failed to respond. Angina pectoris. the cause of death. is 8 paroXysmal affection of the chest. bafflinS and ob- scurc of origin. characterized by Sc we're pain faintness and deep de- pression of spirit.
 Mark Twain did not die in anguish. Sedatives soothed his pain. but i'll moments of consciousness mental de- prcssion persisted On the way up from Bermuda he said to Albert Big elow Paine: This is bad job: we'll never pull through it On shore once more. and longing for the seren- ity of the New England hills he took heart and said: Give me a breath of Redding air once more and this will pass" But it did not.
 Mark Twain for more than fifty years was an inveterate smoker. Dr. Hslsey said tonight that he was un- able to predicate that angina pectoris from which Mark Twain died was in ta ing. Some constitutions. he said. seem immune to the effect of tobacco. This was one of them Yet it is q fact that since his illness began the doctors cut down Mir. Clemens daily allowance of twenty cigars and count less pipes, to four cigars q day. No privation was of greater sorrow to him.
 He tried to smoke on his steamer from Bermuda and only gave if up because he was too feeble to draw on his pipe. On his death bed, after he had passed the point of speech and it was no longer certain that his ideas were lucid. he would make motion of waving cigar and s.nilingly eXpel the air from under his still stained with smoke.
 Through the Bedding hills of his home he loved to wander in white flannel for homely gossip with his They remember him best as one. who. above all things. loved Il listener. for Mark was mighty talker.
 It is legend that he was vastly proud of his famous mop of white hair and that he took the pains of d court lady in getting it just to the proper stage Of artistic disarray. Last summer his walk began to falter. and last fall ceased for good. The death of H.. H. oscrs. close friend. was q severe blow. and the death of his daughter. Jrane. who was seized with an attack of epilepsy last fall while in her bath room was another blow from which he never. recovered. It was then that the pains in the heart began.
 Mark Twain. as truly as it can be said of any man, died of broken heart. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida. Missouri. Novcm- Der 30. 1885. County chronicles say his father failed in business. He became a printers apprentice at the age of thir- ish ambition and became a cub for Mississippi. river, pilot. In time he be- came a fuli-fledged pilot. Later he became silver miner and reporter in Nevada, q gold miner in California, next reporter in San Francisco. and fhcn a rowing correspondent in Eu- rope.