The Cairo bulletin., 1910-04-22

heuuinE, COHH.. April al,- -0diDUSl
LangEorn Clemens, Mark Twain"
died painlessly at 6:3o tonight of
angina pectoris. He lapsed into CO.
ma at s O'clock this afternoon; never
recovering consciousness. After a
had day yesterday but a good sleer
last night he awoke refreshed.
He recognized his daughter, Clara,
spoke rational word or two and
out; Give me my glasses" They
were his last words. Laying them
aside he sank slowly into final un-
consciousness.
At the death bed were only Mrs
Gabrlowitsch (Clara Clemens), her
husband, DR. Robert Falsey, Dir. Quin-
tard, Albert IBigelow Paine, who will
write Mark Twains Biography and Is
HIS literary executor and the two
trained nurses.
Observation-Disclosures strychnine
and eamphor, were administered, but
the patient failed to respond.
Had Been To Bermuda.
Twain had just returned from Ber-
muda, whence he had gone in Fearch
of health. On his return trip he said
to Paine his constant companion
"This is hard job; we will never
pull II through"
On shore once more he took heart, |
but when sinking said family to the
nurses:
"Why do you fight to keep me
alive? Two days of life are as good
to me as four"
Twain was for more than fiftyj
years an inveterate smoked. DR. |
Halsey said tonight he was unable to
predict that the fatal heart troub e !
was in any way sequel to nicotine
poisoning. Some constitutions, hel
said. seem to be immune from the
effects of tobacco This Is one of |
them. Yet it is true that since his
illness began the doctors had cut
down Twain's daily allowance of 20
cigars and countless pipes to four
cigars day
Craved For Tobacco.
No deprivation was a greater sor-
row. He tried to smoke on the !,
steamer while returning from Ber-
muda and only gave up because too
feeble to draw pipe. Even on his
death bed, and when he could no !,
longer speak, he would make a mo-
tion of waving a cigar and putting.
Twain lived at Buffalo, Tarrytown,l
and Hartford and then at Redding,
where he built fine country home.
He was a great fayorite here, and
many saw him on his walks In his !,
white flannels.
Last summer his walks began to
falter, and last fall they ceased The
death Of II. IA. Rogers a close friend
was severe blow, The death of !,
his daughter, Jean. who was seized
with an attack of epilepsy last fall
while In her BATH was. an added blow
from which he never recovered
Then that stabbing pain In the heart
began. Twain died, as truly as 1t |,
can be said Of any man, of broken
heart.
Close Friends Died.
When he heard of the successivel
deaths of his two friends, William
M. Laffan of the New York Sun, and
r. W. Gildor, editor of the Century,
he said sadly: How fortunate they
are; no good fortune Of that kind
ever comes to me-" !
Life had no further allurements for
him.
The burial will be made in the fam
lily plot at Elmira, N. Y. No date
has been set as yet.
Paine said Twain had put his af-
fairs in perfect order. and that he
died well off though by no means
rich man, is well known.
Twain was born In Florida, Mis-.
souri,, November 80, 1895. He was
educated only in the public schools,
was apprenticed to printer at 13,
and worked at the trade at st. Louis,
Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New
York. At eighteen be became a Mis-
sissippi river pilot. His knowledge Of
river life took form in Tom Sawyer,
Huckleberry Fin, and Life on the,
Mississippi. When the civil war broke /
vut and commerce was suspended ht
became a silver miner tn Nevada, a
gold miner III California. then rel