The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-04-22

Redding. Conn. April 21.- Samuel
Langhorne Clemens MARK Twain)
died painlessly at $50 O'Clock tonight
Of angina pectoris. He lapsed into
coma at o'clock this afternoon and
never recovered consciousness 1t was
/ the end Of man outworn 10y grief
ana acute agony Of body.
Yesterday was a bad day for the lit
tie knot of anxious watchers 1T the
bedside. For long hours the gray,
aquiline features hay moulded In the
inertia of DEATH while the pulse sank
steadily, but late at night Mark Twain
passed from stnpor into the first
natural sleep he had known since he
returned from Bermuda, and this
| morning he woke refreshed. even
family cheerful ana in fun possession
of his faculties.
He recognized his daughter. Clara.
(Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsh) spoke ra-
/ tiolal word or two and even wrote out
in pencil: Give me my glasses
! These were his last words.
| Laying them aside. he sank first into
reverlc and later into final uncon-
! seriousness
There was no thought at the time,
! however, that the end was so near.
At > o'clock Dr. Robert Halsey. who
has been continuously in attendance,
| said:
Mr.. Clemens Is not 40 strong Mt
this hour as he was at the correspond
| ing hour yesterday but he has won
derful vitality and he may rally
again
Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain's
bioerapher and literary executor. said
| to Il caller who desired To inquire for
Mr. Clemens. Il think you will not
have to call often again.
Hear Of Death.
Nevertheless Mr.. and Mrs T. T.
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 AZ they were taking the train
I To New York again. Mrs. Loomis was
/ Mr. Clemens favorite niece and Mr..
| Loom!s is vice president of the Lacka-
/ wanna railroad.
| Al The deathbed were only Mrs. CAB
rllowitsh. her husband. DIR. Bobcrt
Halsey, DR.. Quinard. Albert Bigelow
| Paine, who viii write Mark Twain's
! biograph. and the two trained nurses.
Observation-Disclosures strychnne and
camphor-wcre administered. but the
| patient failed to respond.
A tank Of oxygen still stands. un-
called for at Reddlng station. Oxy-
gen was tried yesterday and the ply
sicians explained IT was Of no value.
because the valvular action of the
heart was so dsordered. There was
only an extreme and increasing de-
bility. accompanied by labored rcspi-
| ration
Angina pectoris Is a paroxysmal ar
| lection of the chest. battling and OBJ
scure In origin. characterized by se-
we're pain. faintness and deep depres-
sion of spirit. The pain Is severe and
OF an oppressive crushing or stabbing
character. The attacks progress In
| frequency and severity with uncertain
! intermlssions. sometimes of long dur
! alton. to n fatal termination.
Pain SCOT. :.
Mark Twain did not die in anguish.
Sedatives sootbed his pain. but in his
moments OF consciousness the mental
! depression persisted. ON the way up
from Bermuda he said to Albert
Bigelow Paine. who had been Ills con-
stant companion In illness.
This Is bad job. Well never pull
through with it,
ON shore once more and longing for
the serenity of the New England hills
he took heart and said to those who
noted his enfeeblement.
Give me a breath of Redding air
once more and this will pass"
But II did not pass. and tired OF
body and weary Of spirit. the old war
rlor against shams and snobs said
family 10 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 more than 80 years
an inveterate smoker and the first
conjecture of the laymen would be
over Indulgence In tobacco DR.. Hal.
sey said tonight he was unable to
predicate that the angina pectoris from
which Mark Twain died was I'm any
way sequel to nicotine poisoning
i Some constitutions, he said, seem i'm,
mune TO the effects of tobacco This
was one of them, Yet, 1t Is true since
his illness began the doctors had cul
down Mark Twain's daily allowance
of 20 cigars and countless pipes, Il
four cigars day
4 No provision was a greater sorrow
to him. He tried to smoke on thu
steamer while returning from Ber.
muda and only gave it up because hs
was too feeble to draw on his pipe
on his deathbed when he had passed
the point OF speech and it WAS nj
! longer certain his ideas We're lucid
he would make the motion Of wavins
a cigar and smilingly expel the all