El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-22

Clemen mss daily allowance of 20 cigars
and countless pipes, to four cigars a
day
No privation was a greater sorrow
to him. He tried to smoke on the
steamer while returning from Bermuda
and only gave il up because he was
| too feeble 10 draw on his pipe On
his deathbed. when he had passed the
point Of speech and il was no longer
certain his ideas were lucid he would
make the motion of waving a cigar and
smilingly expel the air from under the
mustache still stained with smoke.
Where Mark Twain chose TO spend
his declining years was the first out
post Of Methodism in New England and
1t was among the hills Of Redding that
Gen. Putnam, of revolutionary fame,
mustered his sparse ranks. Putnam
Park now encloses the memory of his
camp.
Mark Twain first heard of it at the
dinner given him on his 10th birthday,
when fellow guest who lived there
mentioned its beauties and added that
there was vaacnt house adjoining
his own.
L think you may buy that old house
for me- Mark Twain said.
Sherwood place was, the delectable
name of the old house, and where 1t
walls of the Italian villa he first named
Innocents at Home" His first ex-
perience with a New England winter
storm can be given as the cause for
his christening it anew. "Stormfield."
The House Described.
The house has been mus described
by Albert Bigelow Paine:
Set on fair hillside, with such
green slope below, such view out
spread across the valley as made one
catch his breath a little when he first
turned to look at it. a trout stream
flows through one of the meadows.
There are apple trees and gray stone
walls. The entrance TO the hill is a
winding. leafy lane"
Through these lands the Innocent a
Home loved to wander in his white
flannels for homely gossip with his
neighbors. They remember him best.
as one who above all things, loved a
good listener. for Mark was a might
talker, stored with fairy tales for the
little maids he, adored, and racier, rud-
der speech for the more stalwart mas
culine ears. 1t is a legend that ne was
vastly proud of his famous mop of
white hair and used to spend the pains
OF court lady to get il to just the !
proper stage of artistic disarray.
Last summer the walks began to fall !
ter, last fall they ceased for good. The |
death of II. II. Rogers, a close friend, !
was a severe blow. The death of his !
daughter Jeanne began to break him |
He went away TO Bermuda. /
his favorite winter resort, to recuperate, |
but failed. He returned last week dy- |
Ing.
Clemens started life on the Mississippi |
river That is where he got his nom
lie plume BY the Mark Twain" is |
eadsman's cry TO the pilot in shallow
stages.
In due time Mark Twain became a
'ull fledged pilot
Suffered Bankruptcy.
His familiarity with printing turned
lin later into newspaper work, then
nto creative writing. and finally into |
he publishing business. wherein. like |
Cir Walter Scott, he suffered a bank |
uptcy disastrous TO everything but his
lonor. and like Sir Walter again, paid
IF by his pen, debts not of his own
making.
He tells the rest or II himself In a
hapter of Life on the Mississippi:
BY and by the war came. commerce
vas suspended, my occupation was
zone [ had to seek another livelihood.
% l became a silver miner in Nevada,
gold miner in California: next re-
'orter in San Francisco, next 4 special
correspondent in the Sandwich Islands;
ext rowing correspondent in Europe
M the east; next an Institutional
orch bearer on the platform, and
inally ] became a scribbler of books |
nj an lmmovable fixture among the
Id rocks of New England"
Married Olivia Langdon.
In 1872. two years after he had mar |