The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-04-28
TWAIN IS DEAD:
MIND CLEAR TO
HIS LAST SLEEP
LAYS ASIDE HIS GLASSES, SINKS
INTO REVERE AND THEN
COMES END.
WAS HEART BROKEN BY GRIEF.
Nation Nouns for Humorist Who Has
Made World Laugh with His
Odd Stories.
WAS HEART BROKEN BY GRIEF
SKETCH OF HIS EVENTFUL LIFE.

NEW YORK, April 22.-A simple
funeral service over the body of Samuel
l.. Clemens will be held in this city to-
morrow afternoon. The body will then
be taken to Elmira, \. Y, where it will
be buried beside those OF his wife and
children.
f. \. Duneka of Harper and Brothers,
.,lr. Clemens publishers, who is making
the arrangements for the funeral, said
that it was the wish of the family that
the service be as brief as possible. Later
on IA public memorial service will be held
IN some large hail.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke of princeSgn
university Will preach the funeral ser
mon at the service tomorrow, which will
be held at the brick Presbyterian church,
Thirty seventh street ana Fifth avenue,
at > o'clock
The funeral, Mr.. Duueka said, will be
of scmi-public nature and will be
attended by only relatives and close
friends of the dead author. There will
be no pallbcarcrs, and although final ar
engagements have not been made, the
service probably will consist of merely
a short address by DIR. Van Dyke There
probably will be no music. Mr.. Duueka
said. The body will be brought to New
York from Reddins, Conn, tomorrow,
Oh a special car.
After the funeral the body will be
taken to Elmira, where another service,
as simple as the one here viii Toe held.
This service probably will be- at the
home of Gen. Langdon, Il relative 10y
marriage of DIR. Clemens, and, so far
as known, Will consist simply of a short
address by Joseph Twitchell of Hartford,
Conn. who is one of Mr. Clemens old
est friends From the Iaugdon home,
the body will be removed to the Gene
terry TO be laid to rest
No arrangements have been made for
the public memorial service. Mr., Duneka
said it probably would be held in a week
or ten days, in some large hail i'll this
city. and that ii would he open TO the
public. On account of the almost pr
vate nature OF the funeral service, it is
felt by Mr.. Clemens relatives that some
such services should be held at which the
public may gather in expression of its
affection for the dead humorist
Death Is Painless.
Samuel Langborne Clemens, "Mark
Twain is dead at "Stormheld,' his
home in Redding. Conn, after II com
pralatiyeIy brief illness, of angina pee
torlS.
Death called Americas most famous
nuLloIlSt III b.pD . ClOCh IiiNlNNbN ulEHl'
two hours and a half after he had hpscd
which at intervals during the last two
days of his illness had been precursor
of the end.
Apparently Mr.. Clemens death was
painless, but ii was the end of a man
outworn 10y grief and acute agony OF
body. He was II years old.
lie recognized his daughter Clara, Mrs
H.. tt.t
word or two and feeling himself unequal
TO conversation wrote out i'll pencil
Give me my glasses These were his
last words. Laying the glasses aside h,
sank first into revere and later into
final Inconsistencies.
At the drathbcd were only Mrs Ga.
brilowitsch and her husband, Or. Rob.
ert IiaIscy, DR.. Quintard, Albert Bjgo
low Paine, who will write Mari, TWaIu's
biography and is his literary executor
and the two trained nurses. Rr~tou
tives-digitaliS. strychuine and ruuphOI
were administered, but the patient
failed to respond.
1t is certain to he recalled that Mark
Twain was for more than fifty year, am
invctcratc smoker, and the first con.
lecture of the laWmcu would bo that be-
had weakened his heart by uycriudulg
enCe in tobacco.
Doctor VIII Not Blame Tobacco.
Dr. IIascy said that he was unable IN
predicate that the angina pcctoris from
which Mark Twain died was in any
way sequel of nicotine poisoning. Some
constitutions, he said, seemed immune
from the effects of tobacco. THIS was
one of them. Yet it is true that since
his illness began the doctors had cut
down Mark Twain's daily allowance of
twenty cigars and countless pipes TO -four
cigars day.
No deprivation was a greater sorrow
TO him. He tried to smoke on the steam
er while returning from Bermuda. and
only gave it up because he was toe
feeble to draw on his pipe. Even on his
deathbed, when he had passed the point
Of speech and it was no longer certain
that his ideas were lucid, he would make
the motion Of waving a cigar and, smil
ing. would cXpcl empty air from under
the mustachc still stained with smoke.
The death of IL. II. Rogers. n close
friend, was a severe blow. The death
of his daughter Jean, who was seized
with an attack of epilepsy last fail while
In her bath, was an added blow from
which he never recovered. II was Their
that the stabhing pains III the heart be
gan. Mark Twain died as truly as il
can be said Of any man of ii broken
heart.
Mr.. Clemens was born November 80
lS3J, at Florida, Mo, and after n br.c
period Of common schooling given +,
boys of that city he learned the printer
trade ut Hannibal in that state, whcr,
the family had moved. After serving a
the case in Hannibal he adopted Cor Z
time the life of rowing compositor, visit
ing many cities in the middle west ano
east; But returning home, called back
he has told us, by the lure of the Mis-
sisSippL in which he had fished. swan
ana rowcd, he determined to become ,
river pilot.
Soldier Only for Two Weeks.
For five years he followed this calm!
and of his eXupripnccs on tho 200 tor