The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-04-28

llSLcIlGEt lOT NldIh WdS d AktS lily tAlk0Is
stored with fairy tales for the little
maids he adored. int racier, ruder
speech for more stalwart masculine
It IS q legend that he was vastly
proud OF his famous mop OF white hair
and used to spend the palms OF q court
lady In getting it to just the proper
stage OF artistic disarray.
Affected by Rogers Death.
Last summer the walks began to
~falter: last fall they ceased for good.
The death OF H. Fl. Rogers, q close
friend, was q severe blow. The death
of his daughter, Jean, who was seized
with an attack Of epilepsy last fall
while In her bath. was an added blow
from which he recovered. 1t was
then that the stabbing pains In the
heart began. Mark Twain died. az
truly as 1t can be said of any man. OF
a broken heart.
The last bit Of literary work he did
was a chapter of his unfinished auto
biography describing his daughter
Jeans death. He sought diversion In
Bermuda, where he was the guest OF
n American vice consul, William H.
Allen. whose young daughter, Helen,
acted as amanuensis for what few let
tiers he cared to dictate.
His winter was gay, but not happy.
When he heard of the successive deaths
of his two friends. William M. Laf-
fan, Of the Sun, and p. ". Glider. edi-
How fortunate they are; no good for
tune of that kind ever comes to me-"
Burial at Elmira.
at Elmira, N. Y, where lie already his
wife, his two daughters, Susan and
Jean, and his infant son. L~anghorne.
No date has yet been set, as the fam
lily is still undecided whether or not
there shall be a public funeral first In
New York city. 1t is probable that
Stormfield will be kept as a hummer
very fond, both of the house and the
country, although her husbands mu-
steal engagements make 1t necessary
that she spend a part of each year
abroad.
Mr.. Paine said that Mark Twain had
put his affairs in perfect order and
that he died well off. though by no
means a rich man. He leaves a consid-
cradle number of manuscripts in all
stages OF completion and of all char
acters, many of them begun years ago
and put aside as unsatisfactory.
Mrs. Gabrilowitsch will aid Mr..
Paine in the final decision as to what
use shall be made of these.
Mark Twain's Career.
New York, April 22.-The mere
chronology Of Mark Twain's life is
soontold. Like most dwellers in the
imagination, his significance to pos
terity lies. not as with men of action,
IN how he wrought upon events, but
rather in how events wrought upon
him; for such reaction reached his
imaginative output-one of the most
considerable of his time and, as it now
seems, one of the most secure.
Briefly, then, Mark Twain was born
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in Flor
ida. Mo-, November 80, 1885. my par
ents," he writes in his own buriesuue
poor nor c~onspicuously honest. The
earliest ancestor the Twains have any
record Of was a friend of the family by
the name of Higgins. The county
chronicles have 1t that the elder
Clemens failed in business n died,
leaving his son the ample world to
make his fortune In"
Accordingly, Mark Twain's %acquaint-
ance with literature began in putting
words into type, not ideas into words.
Educated only in the public schools, he
worked at his trade in ST. Louis, Gin
cinnati, Philadelphia and New York
until at 1S he could crafty a boyish
ambition to become cub to a Missis-
sippi pilot. Both these happenings re-
acted profoundly on his later life.
Four children We're born to Mark
Twain, of whom two, a son and a
daughter, died early. One other daugh-
ter, Jean. who had been an invalid for
life, vas found dead In a bathtub last
fall in her home at Redding, Conn.
Her tragic death greatly saddened her
father, who declined in health FROM
that moment.