The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

ReddinE, Conn. April c1.-samuel
LRnshorne Clemens, .Mark Twain"
died painlessIy ut 6.3O O'Clock Tonight
OF angina nectoris. He Inpscd into
coma at 3 o'clock this afternoon and
never recovered consciousness. II was
the end of II Innn outworn by grief and
acute agony of body
For long hours yesterday the gray
aquilinc features lay nodded in the
inertia of death, while the pulse sank
lower and lower. but late at night
Mark Twain passed from stupor into
the first natural sleep he had known
since he returned from Bermuda. and
this morning he woke refreshed. even
faintly cheerful. and in full possession
OF all his faculties He recognized his
daughter Clara, Mrs. ossip Gabrilo-
witch, spol.e a rational word or two.
ard, feslir .Iiinsei. unequal 10 con.
versation. wrote out in pencil:
Give me my glasses.
They We're his last words. Laying
his glasses aside he sank first into
reverie and later into final uncon-.
sciousness.
End Not Expected 40 Soon.
There was no thought at the time,
however, that the end was so near. At
o'clock DR. Robert FIalses, who had
been continuously in attendance, said
Mr.. Clemens is not strong at this
hour as he was at the corresponding
hour yesterday, 5ut he has wonderful
vitality, and he may rally again.
Albert Bigelow Paine. Mark Twain's
biographer and literary executor. said
to a caller, II do not think you Will
have to call often again"
Nevertheless. Mr.. ard Mrs. u. r.
York to give tneir love in person, left
Stormiicld, Mr.. Clemens's house. with
out seeing him, and only heard of
his death just as they were taking
the train to New York. Mrs. Loomis
was Mr.. Clemenss favorite niece.
At the death bed We're only Mrs.
Gabrilowitch (Clara Clemens), her
husband, DR.. Robert Halsey, Dr.. Quin-
tard. Mr., Paine and the two trained
nurses.
Angina pectoris is paroxysmal af-
lection OF the chest, of battling and
obscure origin, characterized by Sc
we're pain, faintness and deep depres-
sion OF the spirits But Mark Twain
did not die in anguish. Sedatives had
soothed his pain. but in his moments
of consciousness the mental depres-
sion persisted. On the way UP from
Bermuda he said to Albert Bigelow
Paine, who had been his constant COM
panion in illness:
"This is a bad job; we'll never pull
through with it"
On shore once more and longing for
.he serenity of the New England hills.
he took heart and said to those who
noted his enfeeblement in sorrow:
Give me breath Of Redding air
onCa moro. and this will naSab
But it did not pass and tired of
body and weary OF spirit the old war
rior against shams and snobs, said
family to his nurses:
why do you fight to keep me
alive? Two days Of lie are as good |
to me as four
Tobacco Not to Blame.
Mark Twain was for more than fifty
years an inyeterate smoker. Dr. Hal
sey said tonight that he was unable
to predicate that the angina pectoris
from which Mark Twain died was In /
any way a sequel of nicotine poison-
ing. Some constitutions, he said, |
seem immune from the effect of to- !
bacco, and his was one of them, Since |
Ills illness began, however. the doc
tors had cut down Mark Twan's daily |
allowance of twenty cigars and count
less pipes, to four cigars day.
No deprivation was a greater sor-
row to him He tried to smoke on
the steamer while returning from Fer
muda. and only gave 1t up because |
he was too feeble to draw on his
pipe Even on his death bed, when |
ne had passed the point of speech and
ii was no longer certain that his
IDEAS were lucid, he would make the |
motion OF waving a cigar and. smiling,
expel empty air from under the mus
tache still stained with smoke,
Where Mark Twain chose to spend |
his declining years was the first out
post OF Methodism in New England,
nd 1t wes among the hills OF Redding
that General Israel Putnam of Revo- |
lutionary fame, mustered his sparse |
ranks. Putnam Fark, now incloses the
his camp.
Mark Twain first heard Of it at the |
dinner given him on his seventieth
birthday when fellow guest who
lived there mentioned2its beauties, and
n Continued on ghAyd Pagos