The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-22
MARK TWAIN
! PASSES AWAY
(continued from PAGE One. )

aye OtSst
s o'clock Or. Robert Halsey, who had
been continuously in attendance. said:
Mr.. Clemens is not so strong at this
hour as he was at the corresponding
hour yesterday, but he has wonderful
vitality and he may rally again"
Albert Bigelow Paine. Mark Twain's
hiographer and literary executor. said
TO caller who desired to inquire for
Mr.. Clemens: Il think you will not have
to call often again"
Nevertheless, MIR. and Mrs. E. E,
Loomis. who had come up from New
York to give their love in person, left
Stormfield, Mr.. Clemens house, without
seeing him, and only heard of his death
as they were taking the train to New
York again. Mrs. LOOMS was Mr..
Clemens favOrite niece and Mr.. LOomiS
is vise president of the Lackawanna
railroad
Similarly. Jarvis Langdon, nephew,
who had run up for the day, lett even
earlier and wholly uniformed.
At the deathbed were only Mrs. Cab
rilowitsch (Clara Clemens), her hus-
band. DIR. Robert Halsey. DIR. Quintard.
Albert BigeloW Paine, who will Write
Mark Twain's biography. and the two
trained nurses Restoratives-digi talis,
strychnine and camphor-were admin
istered, but the patient lailed TO re-
spond.
a tank of oxygen still stands, I'M
called for, at Redding station. oxygen
was tried yesterday and the physicians
explained it was of no value, because
the valvuiar action of the heart was SO
disordered. There was only an extreme
and Increasing debility, accompanied by
iabored respiration.
TIE Fatal Disease
Angina pectoris is a paroxysInal at
lection of the chest, battling and OBJ
scure of origin, characterized by Sc
we're pain, faintneSS and deep depres-
sion of spirit. The pain is severe ana
Il mo n fqhHfnU
character. The attacks progress IN ire
uueacy and severity with uncertain IN
termissions, sometimes of long dura-
ton, to a fatal termination.
Mark Twain did not die in anguish
Sedatives soOthed his pain, but In his
moments of consciousness the mental
depression persisted. On the way up
from Bermuda he said to Albert Blge-
low Paine, who had been MS cOhstaht
companion in illness:
'sThis is bad job. Wen never pull
through with II.
On shore once more ana longing Ior
the serenity of the New England hills,
he took heart and said to those VINO
noted his enfeeblement;
"Give me a breath of Redding air
once more and this viii pass
But il did not pass, and urea OF
body and weary OF spirit, the old war
rior against shan1s and snops saia
family to his nurses:
saWhv do YOU fight to keep me aiiVeF
Two days OF life ere as good 10 me as
four"
Tobacco Allowance Cut Down.
tt is certain to be recalled that
Mark Twain was for more than 1iIty
wears an iuveterate smoker and the
First coniactlIre of the laymen would
be that he had weakened his heart Dy
over-induIgence in tobacco Df; HAT
seV said tonight he was uh3Die 10
predicate that the angina pectOris from
died IN any
wav a sequel TO nicotine POISONING
Some constitutions, he said, seem lnl-
mune to the effects of tobacco. rms
was one of them.
the doctors had cut down Mark Twain 5
daiIv allowance of twenty cigars ana
countless pipes, TO four cigars day
No privation was a greater sorrow 10
him He tried to smoke on the steam
er while returning from Bermuda ana
only gave it up because he was 100
feeble TO draw on his pipe. On ms
death bed, 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 ana
-smilfngIv expel the air from under the
moustaehe still stained with smoke
Home in Historic Place.
Where Mark Twain chose to spend
his declining years was the first out
nosi of MethOdism in New England and
was among me Nils OF LNOuutAE thSSs
General Putnam of Revolutionary
fame, mustered his sparse ranks. Put
nam park now encloses the memory
of his camp.
Marx Twain first heard OF it at the
dinner given him on his seventeen
birthday waen a fellow guest who
lived there mentioned its beauties and
added there was a vacant house ad-
Joining his own
II think you may buy that mouse Tor
me-" said Mark Twain.
Sherwood Place was the delectable
name of that old house and where 1t
stood Mark Twain reared the white
of the Italian villa he first named IN
pOcents at Home" but a first expert
ence of what a New England winter
storm can be in its whitest fury quick
~ caused him to christen II anew
tStormfield."
The house has been thus described
DIV Albert BigelOw Paine:
"Set on a fair hillside with such q
green slope below, such a view out
spread across the valley as made one
catch his breath a little when he first
turned to look at il. trout stream
flows through one OF the meadows.