The Mena weekly star., 1910-04-28
MARK TWAIN IS DEAD
THE AGED AMERICAN HUMoRiST PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME
 IN CONNECTICUT.
WAS UNCONSCIOUS AT THE END
His End Believed to Have Been Has tended by the Death of His Daughter and Several Most Intimate Friends Last Words to His Child

Redding,. Conn.,. April. 23--Mark Twain. beloved the world over because he made 1t laugh, is dead.
 He passed away without pain in his country home "Stormheld," back in the wild Camarack Hills.
 For five hours he had been uncon. scIous and the end was almost un- noticeable It was simply a cessation of pulse and respiration.
 At his bedside were his only living child. Clara, who is the wife of Ossip GabrIlowitsch, the Russian pianist: Albert Bigelow Paine, his secretary and literary executor, who was almost son to him: Drs. Edward Quintard and Robert Halsey, the heart special ists who had kept him alive by stimu. lants for nearly 24 hours and his scr. wants, headed by "Old Katie" who for 30 years had been his housekeeper.
 Last Words to Daughter.
 His last words were spoken at one o'clock to his daughter. What they were she only heard, for they were faint and almost inarticulate. Unable tHCA " SHtdht nt iaSNNQ pau ah0 pencil-the instinct to write seeming dominant even in the face of approach ing senselessness. he traced the words, "Give me my glasses" and with the spectacles adjusted he gazed at the paper, placed his pencil to it as though to put down some farewell message. then his strength waned and the writ ing materials slipped from his grip.
 He smiled at his daughter and then his head sank back to the pillow and he passed in coma which death ended.
 Anginia Pectoris, the doctors have it, ended the life which everyone who had ever smiled with Samuel Lang horne Clemens hoped might be spared longer. That malady was coupled to some extent with asthma of the heart brought about by excessive smoking.
 Friendship for Rogers. But what laymen call a broken heart was more responsible than the world in general knew. When his ehum. Henry H. Rogers died last year those close to Mir Twain saw that his grief was intense The odd companion. ship--humorist and multi-millionaire- was nearer and dearer thing than any save they two alone realized.
 When his only unmarried daughter, Jean, was drowned in her bath during an attack of epilepsy just before | Christmas, his nearest remaining tie was severed He was lone, sorrow. stricken man. After the passing of his Siends, William Laffan of the Sun and Richard Watson Glider. editor of the Century he said: How fortunate kind comes to me"
 Mir. Clemons was native Missourian having been born in the village of Florida on November 30, 1885. His boyhood days, however. were spent in Hannibal, Mo, the scene of the ad ventures of rom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn"
 Grief at Hannibal, Mo.
 Hannibal, Mo, April 23.-Deepest grief was expressed here on all sides because of the death of Samuel Clem ems and the mayor issued a proclama l ton asking that business houses be closed during the funeral out of re spect to Mark Twain" Mrs. Laura Frazier, matron of the Home for the Friend1ess, first sweetheart and the original of 'Beckey Thatcher" was deeply moved. She said:
 T am deeply distressed to learn oi this. It ia sad to part with old friends, but these things have tt come