The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-08

creator % most disrlugu -Hed ht"r"-
one Of IL
tsn1; Ii. passing the people Of the
., g:- militant and .d nst'a' ,sn
ioe's O aath5zing friend aud fearless
te, syihP''r or almost seventy five
c1anPlSS n lived, and for two score IN, ne
year. De his his admirers by figures tina. tna5
bpnDsI 'Se census OF the e"Nsntenso
world ,.ou his personal friends from
He drew w If life and held them
s ',resafsstIy by his ens@s a and
pe nI.soa+abed from the ooseurlt% OF ms MS
SDatf h;Ttb by fckle fortune and rear
sentle W.. W. university OF the W9rI1 90
ed IN Inc ne master Of wholesome humor'
become srs retained to the last MS
Marx Wa s..-,nrtions of light and shade,
isItate u'. .ba world It's dearest sm les
s'ln Saving from 1t IT'S most most VIM" vi b5s
sna ltf tears. For. with an bar LIS
;ynPa' +be public eye has seen no haRPE
hanoI n ,.g with deeper sorrows. ne
lie pane1rn" svprv travail of the soul,
had snow 'h,rs are whose spirit of sound
and te" Ia have survived 50 many
bumor TOust whimsical and cruel
fate. -.,eh+er's Death.
:. was the same man VINO VINO s 7.P,no ,n-s
II Wa "a an anxious world, Ii umots
message , ~ are largely exaggerated
Of ny t hs.ssonentlv described his health
who saps ',raiIv well, but not Ill enough
as''no' rug Undertaken, and who on
10 exciIs a. bermuda. two days Prior
Ee'l III sudden death OF ms 1aVo id.s
= ,,nr oIf Jean, the day PeLofe rs as
d sleas confirmed the belief OF tne
Clfls'm na4 reporters who met MN al
the gangplank' with '"'
statement :, This life and
" morI5 is done. / shall write
iH n ,ns books nor attempt new work
~ r r-s accompanying smile was one u
Inc me. .o7ness. His checks We're mol
AM and furrowed. and his gait "as
low an, sna e.d uncertain, a if tired II.
slu1iIAg
no ~, uI nsxt dav. twelve hours before
,sr uutimely death, his daughter 'ea"
made public this statement "' 'Ne III
dance Of her father: o,o
' ~ hear the newspapers say l an.
,-;rc The charge is not true. | would
y ne sueb thing at my time OF IRE. l
~ ~ \ hobaring as well as | can. Merry
Christmas to everybody.
Fate's Cruel Blow.
How merry was his Christmas Is
Known throughout a sympathlzlng UNI
verse. The hand of fate, always IN
s.ntahIe dealt its eruelest blow to the
hpdest. gentlest of men,
Tho hour hand had travelled but once
.,onpd the clock before the daughter
his eon6daut. companion and amanu-
s,.s-was found dead in her bath at
tbe, country home. "Stormheid'
Raddipg, Conn. Her last act had been
the PREPARATION of mammoth 'hrl''-
mas tree.
The shock which transformed the
\ Christmas SYMBOLS into a bler-the
shrine Of his last earthly idol-almost
completed the wreck made possible by
the ravages of time.
Recalling the statement Of the pre-
vious evening which Knocked the
rumors of his death. the author ven
tured. pitifullv. that "the punishment
is more than the act merL+ed, AMI
settled back into silent, stole conflict
with bis latest grief. 1nat his health
declined gradually from this cause ne
one doubts and Marx Twain himself
did not deny it,
In 1885 while there were les THAI
a million white inhabitants iu the
great empire west OF the NiN-iselpp
Samuel Langhorne Clemen, was born
It was November 80. and the scene ot
bis nativity was humble cabin
at Florida, No, which at that time
marked the extreme fringe OF fTonte'
settlement. His parents We're JohE
Marshall Clemens of Virginia and IA
good wife, who was Jane Lambton o
Kentucky.
Noted Ancestors.
Inc father was lineaI desccndan
Oh 6fegory Clemens, one Of the three
ndges who condemned to death Charlie:
/ tlemens, excepted from the genera
amnesty following the restoration, los
us mead in consequence.
zane hampton 5 torbcars stroye wit
Dda'el Boone on the dark and bloody
ground the scene Of her birth TWEEN
,Ehi1e years after the building Of tn,
us log cabin within the present con
Ales OF that cnmmnnu.arI.n Exon u