The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-22

days. lie had received only $25 for
each installment and. when Tho Alta
was going To republlsh those letters
I'm book form. | intervened In his be-
half and persuaded the Atlas pub
fishers to release the copyright TO
Sam"
In the early and middle '70s Gle
mems was frequent visitor TO the
Bohemian club here. Wm Greer l1ar-
rIson recalls that Clemens was not
convlyal man at that time. He was
of very temperate habits" said Mr.
Harrison. and was rather quiet and
unobtrusiyc.'
IL was said of Clemens that as
reporter here he had not the slightest
conception OF the value of news He
would go to coroners inquest aud
report the proceedings after the man
per of a society wedding and he would
write up a wedding in the style OF
prize fight Only the ridiculous ap-
pealed to him and he warped all his
reportorial writings to strike that key,
REDDING. Conn, April 21-Samuel
Larghorne Clemens mark Twain)
died palnlessly at 30 o'clock tonight
coma at 8 O'Clock this afternoon and
never recovered consciousness. IL was
the end of man outworn by gllel
and acute agony OF body
Yesterday was a bad day Tor tho
little knot of anxious watchers at lhe
bedside. For long hours the grey
aouiline features lay moulded In the
inertia Of death. while toe pulse sank
steadily but late at night Mark Twain
passed from the stwpor into the nrst
| natural sleep he had known since IL"
! returned from Bermuda and TINS
morning he awoke refreshed oven
family cheerful and In full posses
sion of his faculties.
Writes Last Words.
He recognized his daughter Clara
(Mrs Ossip Gabrllowitsch. spoke a
| rational word or two and feeling him.
self unequal to conversation wrote ouC
In pencil
Give me my glasses"
These were his last words.
Laying them aside, he sank first
| into reyerle and later into final uncon-
| SciousneSS.
Mr.. and Mrs e e. Loomis, who hal
come up from New York 10 give their
| love in person, left Stormhe!d. Mr.
Clemens house without seeing him
and only heard OF his death as they
were taking the train to New York
| again Mrs. LoomiS was Mr. Clemens
favorite niece and Mr.. Loomis Is vice
president OF the Lackawanna railroad.
l. Longdon, nephew who bad run
up for the day. left even earlier and
wholly uniformed
At the deathbed were only Mrs
Gabrilowltsch (Clara Clemens) her
husband, DR. Robert Halsey. DR. Qulu-
tard. Albert Blgelow Paine. who Will
write Mark Twain's biography and the
two trained nurses. Restoratiyes-dig'-
tails. strycninc and camphor-were adj
ministered but the patient failed to
| respond
a tank of oxygen still stands. un.
called for. at Rcdding station. Oxygen
wac tried yesterday and the physicians
explained 1t was OF no value. because
the valvular action OF the heart was so
discardiac. There was only an extreme
and increasing debility, accompanied
by labored respiration
Mark Twain did not die I'm anguish
Sedatives soothed his pain. but In his
| moments OF consciousness the mental
depression persisted. On the way NJ
from Bermuda he said to Robert
Bgelow. who had been his constant
companion in Illness
This is a bad job. Wen never
rull through with II"
II Is certain 10 be recalled tha
Mark Twain was more than 30 years
an Inveterate smoker and the first con
lecture OF the laymen would be tina
he had weakened his heart by over
indulgence 10 tobacco. DR.. Halse!
said tonight he was unable to predl
cate that the angina pector Is from
which Mark Twain died WAS In an.
way a sequel to Nicotine poleoning
Some constitutions, he said. seem I'm
mune to the effects of tobacco Tbi
was one of them
Yet 1t is true since his illness begal
tho doctors had cut down Mar
Twain's daily allowance OF twent!
cigars and countless pipes, to fou
cigars day.
No priyation was a greater sorro'
to him. He tried TO smoke on tn
steamer while returning from Bermud
and only gave it up because he wa
too feeble to draw on his pipe. o
+ his death bed when nc had passe
the point OF speech and 1t was n
longer certain his ideas were lucid, h
would make the motion Of waving
Gag and smilingly eXpel the air fro,
4. under the mustasche stlll stained wit
: smoke.
, Through these lands the "lnnocer
at home loved to wander In h
) white fannels for homely gossip wit
|. his neighbors. They remember hi
best as one who above all thing
loved a good listener for Mark was
mighty talker, stored with fairy talC
for the little maids he adored, an
= racier. ruddler speech for more sta
}. wart. masculine ears. IL Is a legar
t. that he was vastly proud of his
J. NOUS mop OF white hair. and use
[. 10 spend the pains OF a court lac
s In getting 1t to just the proper stat
n OF artistic disarray
+ Last summer the walks began
falter. last fall they ceased for goo
The death Of II II. Rogers. clio
friend. was a severe blow. Tho dea
a of his laughter, Jeane. who was seiz'
Y with an attack of epilepsy last fl
while in her bath. was another bic
from which he never recovered
was then that the stabbing pains
the heart began. Mark Twain di
AS truly as any man did, OF brok
\ heart
y NEW YORK. April 2l.-The me
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