Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-04-29
MARK TWAIN CALLED
NOTED AUTHOR AND HuMoRIST
PASSES AWAY AFTER LIN
GERING ILLNESS.
Man Beloved by All the People, Who
Had Delighted Millions With His
Quaint Humor, is Worn Out by
Grief and Agony.

Redding, Conn.-Samuel Lang
horne Clemens MARK Twain) died
painlessly at $50 o'clock Thursday
night of angina pectoris. He lapsed
into coma at o'clock Thursday
afternoon and never recovered con-
seriousness. 1t was the end of a man
outworn by grief and acute agony of
body.
At the deathbed were Mrs. Gabrilo.
witsch (Clara Clemens), her husband,
DR.. Robert Halsey, DR.. Quintard, Al
bert Bigelow Paine, who will write
Mark Twain's biography, and the two
trained nurses.
Mark Twain was born Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, in Florida, Mo-,
November 80, 1885. my parents
he writes in his own burlesque auto
biography, were neither very poor,
nor conspicuously honest The ear
liest ancestor of the Twains have any
record Of was friend of the family
by the name of Higgins
The county chronicles have it that
the elder Clemens failed in business
and died, leaving his son the ample
world to make his fortune In.
Accordingly, Mark Twain's ac-
quaintance with literature began in
putting words into type, not ideas
into words. Educated only in public
schools, he was apprenticed to a
printer at 10. and worked at his trade
in st. Louis, Cincinnati. Philadelphia
and New York, until, at 16, he could
crafty a boyish ambition to become
cub to Mississippi river pilot.
Both these happenings reacted pro,
foundly in his later life His knowl-
edge of river life, acquired when he
was pilot, took form In TON Saw
yer" "Huckleberry Finn" and Life
on the Mississippi" regarded abroad
as his first title to fame. 1t even sug-
gested his pseudonym. for Mark
Twain" is leadsman's cry to the
pilot in shallow stages.
And his familiarity with printing
turned him naturally first into news
paper work, then into creative writ
ing, and finally into the publishing
business, wherein, like Sir Walter
Scott, he suffered a bankruptcy dis
astrous to everything but his honor,
and, Like Sir Walter again, paid off by
his Zen debts not of his own making.
Mark Twain has been, as described
in his own words, "a silver miner in
Nevada; a gold miner In California;
next reporter in San Francisco:
next special correspondent in the
Sandwich islands; next a rowing cor
respondent in Europe and the east;
next an Institutional torchbearer on
the lecture PLATFORM; and, finally, |
became a scribbler of books and an
immovable fixture among the other
rocks of New England"
He was married in 1872 to Olivia L.
Langden of E mira, N Y Four chill
dren were born, of whom two, a son
and daughter, died early One other
daughter, Jean, who had been an in
valid for life, was found dead in her
bath tub last fall in her home at Red.
ding. Conn. Her tragic death greatly
saddened her father, who declined in
health from chat moment. A third
daughter, Clara, is Mrs. Ossip Galbri-
lowitsch, wife of the pianist, whom she
married last year
Mark Twain's first book was THE
Jumping Frog" His best known in
this country possibly was Innocents
Abroad" His surest title to fame
generally is believed to be tom Saw
yer" and its companies volume, "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" In
all his books had a sale of more than
100000 copies and were translated
into six languages.