Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-22
Outwom by Grief and Acute
Agony Dean Of American
Writers Passes Away at New
England Home,
END COMES PEACEFULLY
AFTER LONG SUFFERING
Venerable Warrior Against
Shans and SnobS in His
Seyenty-fif Year SuCcumbS
to Broken Heart.

Redding, Conn April 2l.-~Samue
Ianghorn Clemens CMark Twain
died painlessly at G:S0 tonight of an
gina pectoris. He lapsed into coma
at 9 O'Clock this afternoon. and nevel
recovered consciousness.
1t was the end OF man outworr
by grief and acute agony of body.
Yesterday was a bad day for the
little knot of anxious watchers at the
bedside For long hours the gray
aquiine features lay moulded in the
inertia Of death. while the pulse sank
steadily, but at night he passed from
stuDor into the first natural Slcp he
had known since he returned from
Bermuda, and then he woke refreshed,
even family cheerful and in full pos
session Of his faculties.
lie recognized his daughter Clara,
(A1rs Ossip GabriloWitschl spoke a
rational word or two and feeling him
self unequal To conversation, wrote
out in pencil.
Give me my glasses
These We're his last words. Laying
them aside, he sank first into reverie
and later into final Inconsistencies.
There was no thought at the time,
however. that he end was so near At
: ocioeA Ds. 2oDelf iiaiscS. wito n.tei
been continuously in attendance. sa d..
Mr.. Clemens Is not so strong at
this hour as he was at the correspond
ing hour yesterday hut he has Won
dcrfnl vitality and he may rally
again.
Albert Bieelow Paine, Mark Twain's
biographer and literary executor said
10 caller who desired to inquire for
Mr.. Clemens:
II think YOU will not have to cali
often again.
Nevertheless, Mr.. and Mrs E. p.
Loomls, who had come up from New
York to give their love in person. left
Stormneld M. Clemens house, with
out seeing him ana only heard of his
death as they were taking the train
to New York again. Mrs LOOMS was
Mr.. Clemens favorite niece. and Mr.
I.oOmis is vice prcsedinet OF the Lack
awanna railroad.
Similarity, Jarvis Langdon a neph-
ew, who had run up for the day. left
wholly uninformed
At the death bed were only Mrs
Gabrilowitsch, her husband, Or. Rob
EFT Halsey, Or. Quintard. Albert Bigc-
low Paine. who will write Mark
Twain's biography and two trained
nurses.
Restoratives - digitalis. strychnine
and camphor-were administered, but
the patient failed to respond.
A tank OF oxygen still stands. un-
called for, at Redding station Oxygen
was tried yesterday and the physic-
ians explained it was of no value, be-
cause the valvular action of the heart
was so disordercd. There was only an
extreme and increasing debility
accompanied by labored respiration.
Angina pectoris is a paroXysmal af-
fection Of the chest, battling ana OBJ
scure of origin, characterized by Sc
we're pain, faintncss and deep depres-
sion of spirit. The pain is severe and
of crushing, or stahbing character.
The attacks increase in frequency and
severity with uncertain intcrmissiOn.
sometimes of long duration. to a fatal
termination. Mark Twain did not die
in anguish. Sedatiyes soothed his
pain, but in his moments of conscious
ness the mental depression persisted.
on the way up from Bermuda he
said 10 Albert BigeloW Paine.
This is a bad job; Wen never pun
through with 1t.
on shore once more. and longing
for the serenity of the New England
hills. he took heart and said to those
who noted his enfecblement:
Give me a breath of Reddng sir
once more and this viii pass.
But It did not pass. and tired OF
fthN anu weary hl SIliiil, the tiN war
rior against shams and snohs said
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 To be recalled that Mark Twain
was for more than fifty years an in
veteratc smoker and the first conjec-
ture of the laymcn would be that he
had weakened his heart by over-in-
diligence in tobacco.
DR. Halsey said tonight he was un-
able to predicate that the angina pee
toris from which Mark Twain died
was in any WAY "a sequel to nicotine
poisoning. Some constitutions. he said,
seem immune to the effects of tobac-
co. This was one of them.
Yet it is fact that since his M
ness began the doctors had cut down
Mr. Clemens daily allowance OF
twenty cigars and countless pipes, to
-FOUR cigars q day.
No priVatiOn WAS a greater sorrow
to him. lie tried TO smoke ON the
steamer returning from bermuda and
only gave ii up because he was TOO
feeble to draw on his pipe. on his
death he'd when he had passed the
point OF speech and il was no longer
certain his ideas We're lucid. he would
make the motion of waving q cigar
and smilingly eNpel the air from un-
der the mustache still stained with
smoke
Where Mark Twain chose 10 spend