The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-22

eye has seen no happy life punctuated
with deeper sorrows He had known
every travail 81 the son, and few there
are whose spirit Of sound hnmor would
have survived 80 many 0nslaugits Of .
whimsical and cruel fate.
II was the same man who gave this
message to an anxious world. Rumors
81 my death afe largely exaggerated !;
who subsequently described Bis health az
mot rugeedly we'll but not III enough
q eXrite an undertaken and who on
return from Bermuda two days prior To
The sudden death o. his iaxodte dangh-
ter, lean. The day before last Christmas,
confirmed the belief Of the newspaper
reporters who met him 1T the gan9plank.
with This disoouragina statements
MY active work IN this life and for
The world Is done shall write no more
books nor sttempt new work.
The accompanying smile was one of
aniable sadness HIS checks were hollow
and furr0wed and bis gait was Shutting
and uncertain. as Il tired almost unto
death.
The next dav. Il hours before her
untimelY death, his daughter, lean made
public this statement at The instance e
lei fathers
Il bear TIE new spspera say an dying
The charge f not trae. / would 10 no
such thing 4 my time Of life, Jam he
having 81 well Is ] can. Merry Christ
mas to everybody
How merry aas his Christmas =
known throughout sympatlazina mil
..A Ffs4a &a~A - e&#m s4.vaxss -
sefHtable dealt rs crneiest blow to Tie
kiHdest gentlest of men,
The llolH hand bad travelled but once
around The clock before tie daughter
Its e0nadslt, companion and amanuen-
sisw as found dead ii ben bath d their
teuntry home. ast8rm6eldH Reading.
Conn. Her last acf bah beer the prepare
tiaa of mammoth Christmas tree.
The shaek which transformed The
Christmas symbols into bier lhe
shrine II Ills last earthIy IDOL FHs
completed wreck made possible Ay the
raYaae Of time
Recalling tle statement As Ne previ-
outs eseBng which moelkeS the rumors
of hig death Cha author veyfured pitt
fulv, that sthe Ami bment more Than
tha aet maqited saa setf4rd hack into
& silent. stole eaas7jri with hia latest
grief That his health declined gradually
from this cause M one doubts and Mark
Twain himself did net derry Ii
III 1895 while there were less than
million white inhahitauts ii tile gfeat
empire west II The Mississippi, Samuel
Langh6rne Clemens was born IT WAS
November 40. and The scene NJ his natiY
ity was i humble cabin at Florida, Mo.
which AT that time marked the extreme
fringe IF frontier settlement His par
ents were John Marshall Clemens of VIII.
ginia and IT'S good wife. who was Jane
Lambtan Of Kentucky
The father was lneal descendant Of
Gregory Clement one At the three Judges
who condemned II death Charles I.
Clement. excepted from the general ann
nestV following The restoration, lost his
head ii consequences
lane Fambton's forhaars stfoye with
Daniel Boone on tile dark and bloody
ground fhe scene Of her birth % wears
after The building of the first log cabin
within the present confines of that eom-
monwealth Even IN the state famous
As 4 dollhouse Of feminine beauty, Jane
Lambton became known as one of the
most beautiful and brilliant bellies of her
time IN the Bluegrass state
Clemens parents, victims al the wan
derlnst lett Their small property ii Lex.