Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-22
Woke Refreshed Yesterday Morning in Full
 Possession of All His Faculties
UNCONSCIOUS FROM O'CLOCK P. M
Patient Failed to Respond to Re.toratves-Sank Into Stafe of Coma and Remained Until Death Came Painlessy 6 30 in the Evening--Mr. Clemens Died Nearly it Can be Said of Any Man of Grief.

Redding, Conn, April 21-Samut
 fanghofne Clemens, Mark Twain, died painIessly at his home here a
 6-30 o'clock tonight of angina pectori.
 He lapsed into coma at o'clock thi afternoon and never recovered con eciousness. It was the end of a ma worn out by grief and agony of body
 Recognized His Daughter Clara.
 Yesterday was bad day for tn little knot of anxious watchers at tn bedside. For hours the grey aquilin death, while the pulse sank lower an, lower, but late at night Mark Twail passed from stupor into the first nat ural sleep he had known since he re turned from Bermuda. and this morn ing he woke refreshed, even faintl. cheerful and fin full possession of al his faculties He recognized hi' daughter Clara. Mrs. Ossfp Gabrilc- witch, spoke a word or two and,, feel ing himself unequal to conversation wrote out in pencil: Give me my glasses They were his last words Laying them aside, he sank first into reverie and later into final uncon- eciousness.
 There was no thought at the time however, that the end was so near At 5 o'clock Dr. Robert Halsey, who had been continuously in attendance said: "Mr. Clemens is not so strong at this hour as he was at the corre-
 
 wonderful vitality and he may rally again"
 Albert Bigelow Paine. Mark Twain's biographer and literary executor, said to caller who desired to inquire for Mir Clemens: "I do not think you will have to call often.'' Nevertheless. Mir. and Mrs. E. E. Loomis, who had come up from New York to give their love in person. left Stormf1e1d, MT. Clemens house. without seeing him, and heard of his death just as they were taking the train to New York again.
 At the Deathbed.
 Mrs I.oernis was Mr. Clemens fa- vorite niece, and MT. Loodlis is vice Similarly Jarvis Eangdon, a nephew, who had run up for the day, left even earlier and wholly uniformed. At the deethbed were only Mrs. Gabrilowitch, ert Ha1sey. Dr. Quintar'd, Albert Bige- low Paine who will write Mark Twain'S biograp phy and is his literary executor. and the two trained nurses. Restora- tives-digifaiis. strychndne and cam pl1or-were dn1iufstered. but the pa- fient failed to respond
 Oxygen of No Value.
 Oxygen was tried yesterday and the physicians explained that it was Of no value because the vafvular action of the heart Was not disordered. There was only an extreme and increasing debility, accompanied by aalbored res- piration.
 Although angina, peetorfs is clarac- terized by severe pain and deep de- pressi on Of spirits, Mark Twain did not die in anguish Sedatiyes soothed his pain, but in his moments of con- sciousness the mental depression per sisted
 "Two Days of Life Are as Good to Me
 as Four"
 On the way up from Bermuda he id fn Vt n hcd constant companion in illness:
 This is a bad job; we'll never pull through with df.''
 On shore once more and longing for the senerity of the New England air, he took courage and said to those who noted his enfeeblement in sorrow: Give me a breath of Bedding air once more and this will pass" But it did not pass, and, tired Of body and weary of spirit, the old warrior against sham and snobbery said faintly to his nurses "Why do you fight to keep me alive? Two days of life are as good to me as four
 An inveterate Smoker for Over Fifty
 Mark Twain was for more than fifty years an inveterate smoker and the first conjecture of the layman will be that he weakened his heart by over said tonight that he was unable to predicate that the angina pectoris from which the -hunorist died was in any way a sequel of nicotine poisoning. Yet it is true that after his illness began the doctors cut down Mark Twain's daily allowance of twenty cigars and countless pipes to four cigars a day. comfort. He tried to smoke on the steamer while returning from Ber- mtIda and only gave it up because he was too feeble to draw on his pipe. n~s 1zr x-fx.~~ y~-- n>. passe1-eSle point of speech and it was no longer certain that his ideas were lucid, he would wave an imaginary cigar and, smiling. expel empty air stained with smoke. Why His Bedding Home Was Called |
 "Storn1field." Where Mark Twain chose to spend his declining years was the firEts out post of Methodism in New England l and it was among the hills of RedddnS that General Israel Putnam of ReyOlu- fame mustered his sparse | ranks. Putnam park now encloses the l m emory of his camp. Mark Twain first heard of it at the l dinner given him on his 10th birthday when a fellow guest who lived there | its beauties and added that | there was vacant house a1joininG f old house for me-" said MT. Clemens. Sherwood place was the de1ectafle | name of that old house and where it | stood Mark Twain reared the white | walls of the Italian villa he first | named Innocence at Home" but a | first experience of what a New Eng land winter storm can be in it's whitest | fury quickly caused him to cl1risten it | anew ''Stormfiead."
 The house had been thus described by Albert Bigefow Paine: 9Set on a f fair 3zd1lsfde, with such a green slope below, such . view outspread across the valley, as made one catch his breach httle when inc first turned to | look at it A trout stream flows of the meadows. There lre app1o trees and grey stone walls. The entrance to it ii a winding Ieafy Ane."
 .ThrsNEh these lanes ths Innocent at Iz6A64 z3g<ed te wander in hiS white + Hanneis 1Dr homely gossip with the 1aig1boFE. They remember him best le one who above all thinGs loved a ps0d listener. for Mark TwAin was a AiGhty taliesr. stored with fairy tales