Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-22

steamer returning from Bermuda and
only gave it up because he was too
feeble to draw on his pipe. On his
death bed when he had passed the
point of speech and it was no longer
certain his ideas were lucid, he would
make the motion of waving a cigar
AID smilingly eXpel the air from un-
der the mustache still stained with
smoke
Where Mark Twain chose to spend
his declinig years was the first out
post of Methodism in New England
and it was among the hills Of Redding
tEat General Puntnam, of Revolution
ally fame, mustered his sparse ranks.
Putnam Park now encloses the mem
ory of his camp.
Mark Twain first heard of it at the
dinner given him on his SEVENTEEN
birthday when at fellow guest who liv.
ed there mentioned its beauties and
ladded there was vacant house adj
joining his own. ..----- -s..,-
! 81 think you may buy that old house
| for me-" he said.
lnnocents at Home.
Sherwood Place was the delectable
name of that old house, and where it
lstood Mark Twain reared the white
walls of the Italian villa he first
named "Innocents at Home" but a
first experience of what a New Eng
land winter storm can be in it's whit
est fury quickly caused him to christ
en- it anew, "Stromfield.
The house has been thus described
by Albert Bigelow Paine:
Set on a fair hillside, with such a
green slope below, such a view out
Ispread across the valley as made one
catch his breath a little when he
first turned to look at it. A trout
Istream flows through one of the
meadows. There are apple trees and
gray stone walls. The entrance to the
hill is a winding, leafy lane"
The Jester Dies of Broken eHart.
Through these lands the 'Tnnocents
at Home" loved to wander in his
white fiannels for homely gossip with
his neighbors. They remember him
best, as one, who above all things,
loved a good listener, for Mark was
a mighty talker, stored with fairy
tales for the little maids he adored,
and racier. ruddier speech for more
stalwart masculine ears. 1t is a legend
that he was vastly proud of his
famous mop of white hair and used
to spend the pains of court lady in
getting it to just the proper stage of
artistic disarray.
Last summer the walks began to
falter, last fall they ceased for good.
The death of H. H. Rogers, close
friend, was a severe blow. The death
of his daughter, Jane, who was seized
with an attack of epilepsy last fall
while in her bath, was a hard blow
from which he never recovered. 1t
was then that the stabbing pains in
his heart began.
Mark Twain died as truly as it can
be said of any man, of broken heart.
Mark Twain's Life.
The mere chronology of Mark
Twain's life is soon told Like most
dwellers in the imagination, his sig
nificance to posterity lies, not as with
men of action, in how he wrought
upon events, but rather in how events
wrought upon him, for from such ac-
tions of his time, and as it now seems.
one of the most secure.
Briefly, then, Mark Twain was born
Samuel Langhorn Clements, in Flori-
da Mo-, November 80, 1885.
my parents" he writes in his own
burlesque autobiography, "were neith-
er very poor nor conspicuously hon
est. The earliest ancestor the Twains
have any recollection of was a friend
of the family by the name of Higgins