Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-22
MARK TWAIN IS DEAD
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a sequel to nicotine poisoning. Some constitutions, he said, seem immune to the effect of tobacco. This was one of them. Yet it is a fact that since his illness began the doctors cut down MT. Clemens daily allowance of twenty cigars and countless pipes to four cigars a day.
 No privation was of greater sorrow to him. He tried to smoke on the steam CT returning from Bermuda and only gave it up because too feeble to draw on the 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 the motion of waving cigar and smilingly expel air from under the mustache still stain ed with smoke.
 Through the Bedding hills and Inno- cent at home he loved to wander in white fannels for homely gossip with his neighbors. They remember him best as one who, above all things, loved good listener, for Mark Twain was mighty talker It is the legend that he was vastly proud of his famous mop of white hair and took the pains of court lady in getting it just to the proper stage of artistic disarray.
 Last summer his walks began to falter and last fall ceased for good. The death of H. II. Rogers, his close friend, was severe blow. The death of his daughter Jeane, who was seized with an attack of epilepsy last fall while in her bath, was another blow from which he never recovered. 1t was then that the stabbing pains in his heart began.
 Mark Twain died as truly as it can be said of any man, of a broken heart.
 The last bit of literary worK he did was chapter of unnished autobiOg- raphy describing his daughter Jeane s death He sought this diversion in Bermuda, where he was a guest Of American Vice Consul William II. AL len, whose young daughter, Helen, acted as amanuensis for what few letters he cared to dictate.
 Was Typesetter
 Samuel l.. Clemens was born in Flor ida, Mo-, November 30, 1885. Soon af- ter his birth his parents moved to Han nibal, Mo-, where Samuel and his brothers were brought up and where they received a grammar school educa- tion. The town, situated on the banks of the Mississippi river, brought Sam Gel in close and constant touch with the great river and the varied and fas- cinating life upon it and developed in him a great love for nature and adven- ture.
 At the age of thirteen Samuel learn ed typesetting and for three years he followed that occupation, wandering about from place to place, as was the custom then among the printers. St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New York were among the cities he visited in his wanderings. In 1851 his love of home and the river drew him westward again and he became pilot on the Mississippi, although only sixteen years old at that time. He followed that vo- cation for ten years, during that time collecting material which he was event ually to turn to literary account. The pen name which he selected at the be- hinder of his pilot days. Many time, under the glaring sun and under the starry sky "Mark Twain" called by the man making the soundings, came to Samuel ear, while he stood at his post in the little pilot house. That call, often repeated in the course of his countless trips, meant that the sound ing had shown depth of twelve feet, safe depth for the shallow river steamers.
 The outbreak of the war in 1861 de- stroyed the river business and Samuel Clemens found himself practically with out occupation. In the spring of that year the young pilot joined a Confeder ate volunteer squad, but he was not des tined to win laurels upon the battle field. In fact, he never saw active service. As his occupation was gone, he decided to go to Nevada, then ter ritory, of which his brother Orion was secretary, under appointment by Presi- dent Lincoln Samuel became the clerk of his brother, but soon drifted into newspaper work. For short time he was city editor of the Virginia City En- terprise, in which paper his first sketch es appeared. Afterward he went to San Francisco, where he worked as a reporter on the Morning Call. After a short time he tried placer mining for gold in Calaveras county, picking up a great deal of valuable experience, but little gold Clemens returned to news paper work and, in the spring of 1865 became interested with Bret Harte in the conduct of the Alta Californian. It was about that time that he wrote his first humorous sketches and became To- cally known as humorist.
 In 1866 Clemens sailed for Honolulu and wrote descriptions of the life and conditions there for the Sacramento | Union. On his return he travelled through the west, giving humorous lee lures on his experiences in Nevada and Honolulu. In March, 1867 he published in New York his first book "The Jump ing Frog of Calaveras County and 9th CT Sketches. '' The success of this book