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

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Langhorne Clemens mark Twain) died
painlessly at $3.50 o'clock last night of
angina pectoris. He lapsed into coma
recovered consciousness. 1t was the
n OF q man worn out by grief and
acute agony of body.
There was no thought at the time
that the end was so near. At 5 o'clock
Dr.. Robert Halsey, who had been con
tinuously in attendance, said:
Mr.. Clemens iy not so strong at this
hour as he was at the corresponding
hour yesterday, but he has considerable
vitality, and he may rally again"
Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain,s
biographer and literary executor, said
to a caller who desired to inquire for
MI. Clemens: 1T think you will not
have to c. all often again"
Nevertheless, Mr.. and Mrs. E. E.
Loomis, who had come up from New
York to give their love in person, left
Stormfield, Mr.. Clemens house, with
out seeing him, and only heard of his
death as they were taking the train to
New York again. Mrs. LOOMS was Mr..
Clemens fayorite niece, and MI. Loom
Is Is vice president OF the Lackawanna
railroad. Similarly, Jarvis Langdon, a
nephew, who had run up for the day,
left earlier, wholly uniformed.
At the death bed were only Mrs.
NooAAho"ALoCl \Sldld SleIIlG1S), npT
husband; Dr.. Robert Halsey, DR..
Quintard, Albert Bigelow Paine, who
will write Mark Twain's biography, and
two trained nurses. Restoratives-dig-
tails, ~strycllnire and camphor-were
administered, but the patient failed to
respond.
Did Not Die in Pain.
Mark Twain lie not die in anguish.
sedatives soothed his pain, but his mo-
manfS. of COnSciO1Snacc q Dpra voted the
mental depression. On the way up
from Bermuda he said to Albert Bige-
low Paine, who had been his constant
companion in illness: This is a bad
JOB; Wen never pull through with it,
On shore once more, and longing for
he took heart and said to those who
noled his enfeeblement and sorrow:
Give me a breath of Reddding air
once more and this will pass"
But 1t did not pass, and, tired Of
BODY and weary of spirit, the old war
family to his nurses: why do you
fight to keep me alive? Two days of
life are as good to me as four"
1t Is certain to be recalled that Mark
Twain was for more than so years an
inveterate smoker, and the first con-
lecture OF the layman would be that he
had weakened his heart by over indul-
sence IN tobacco. Dr.. Halsey said to-
night that he was unable to predicate
that angina pectoris, from which Mark
Twain died, was In any way a SEQUEL
OF nicotine poisoning. Some constitu-
tons seem immune from the effects OF
tobacco. This Is one of them. Yet It
Is true that since his illness began the
doctors had cut down Mark Twain's
daily allowance Of 20 cigars and count
less pipes to Jour cigars a day. No
deprivation was a greater sorrow to
him. He tried to smoke on the steamer
while returning from Bermuda, and
only gave 1t up because he was too
feeble to draw on his pipe. Even on his
d~eathbed, when he had passed the point
or speech and 1t was no longer certain
hat his ideas were lucid, he would
make the motion Of waving a cigar,
and, smiling, expel empty air from un-
smoke.
His Country Home.
Where Mark Twain chose to spend
his declining years was the first out
post of Methodism in New England.
and 1t was among the hills Of Redding
that General Israel Putnam, of revo-
lut1onary fame, mustered his sparse
ranks. Putnam park now incloses the
memory Of the camp.
Mark Twain first heard of 1t at the
Inner given him on his 10th birthday,
when a fellow guest, who lives there,
mentioned Its beauties and added that
there was a vacant house adjoining his
own.
Il think you nay buy that old house
for me-" MARI Twain said.
Sherwood place was the delectable
name of that old house. and where It
stood Mari Twain reared the white
walls of the Italian villa he first named
innocent at Home" but the first ex-
perience Of what a New England win
ter storm can be in Its whitesf. fury
quickly caused him to christen it anew,
"Stormfieid."
The house has beer thus described
by Albert Bigelow Paine: set on a
fair hillside. with such a green slope
below, such a view outspread across
the valley as made one catch his breath
a little when he first turned to look
at it. A trout stream flows through
one of the meadows. There are apple
trees n gra stone walls. The en-
trance to that is a winding, leafy lane
Through these lanes the innocent at
home loved to wander in his white
hannels for homely gossip with the