The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-22
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 .tedding, Conn. April 21.-Samuel Lang horn Clemens (Mark Twain) died pain lessly at 6:sO o'clock tonight of angina pectorls He Iapsed into coma at o'clock
 this afternoon and never recovered con- scousness. It was the end of a man out
 worn by grief and acute agony of body. | Yesterday was a bad day for the little knot of anxious watchers at the bedside.
 For long hours the gray, aquiline features | lay moulded in the inertia of death. while | the pulse sank lower and lower but late at night Mark Twain passed from the stupor into the first natural sleep he had known since he returned from Bermuda and this morning he woke refreshed, even | faintly cheerful, and in full possession of all his faculties.
 l He recognized his daughter. Clara Mrs
 ossip Gabriowitch). spoke word or two
 and feeling himself unequal 10 conyersa- l ton, wrote ont in pencil: l Give me my glasses
 They were his last words. Laying them
 aside he sank first into reverie and later | into final unconsciousness. | There was no thought at the time, how
 ever that the end was so near. | Dr. Robert Halsey. who had been con- tinuously in attendance, said today: MT.
 Clemens is not so strong at this hour as
 he was at this time yesterday. but he has
 wonderful vitality and may rally again | Albert Bigelow Paine. Mark Twain's biographer and literary executor, said to
 caller who desired to inquire for MT. Clemens:
 T do not think yop will have to call often again. Death Comes Suddenly | Nevertheless, Mir and Mrs. E. E. | Loomis. who had come up from New York to give their love in person, left stormfeld, Mr. Clemens house. without seeing him and only heard of his death | just as they were taking the train to New | York again. Mrs. Loornis was Mir. Clemens favorite niece. MT. Loomis is vice president of the Lackawanna rail- | road.
 | Similarly Jarvis Langdon, a nephew, who had run up for the day. left even earlier and wholly uniformed | At the deathbed were only Mrs. Gabrilo- witch (Clara Clemens). her husband, Dr. Robert Halsey, Dr. Quintard. Albert Big elow Paine. who will write Mark Twain's biography, and is his literary executor, and the two trained nurses. Restorativesf were administered, but the patient failed | to
 l A of oxygen still stands uncalled | for Bedding station. The valvular action of the heart was not disordered There was only an extreme and increas- ing debility, accompanied by labored respiration.
 Angina pectoris is a paroxysmal affec- | tion of the chest of baffling and obscure origin, characterized by severe pain, | faintness and deep depression of the spirits. The pain Is severe and or an op- | pressive, crushing or stabbing character: | The attacks progress in frequency ana | severity with uncertain intermissons, | sometimes of long duration. to fatal ter imitation.
 Mark Twain did not die in anguish. Sedatives relieved his pain, but Tn ms | moments of consciousness the mental de- l pression persisted. On the way up from | Bermuda he said to Albert Bigelow Paine, | who had been his constant companion in | illness:
 s'This Is Bad Job' | "This is a bad job; we'll never pull | through with it." On shore once more and longing for the serenity of the New England hills, he took heart and said to those who noted his enfeepiement m
 sorrow:
 Give me a breath of Bedding air once
 more and this will pass" But 1t did not
 rass and tired of body and weary Of spirit, the old warrior against shams and
 snobs said to his nurse:
 .Why do you fight 10 keep me alive?
 I've days of life are as good to me as four"
 | It is certain to be recalled that Mark Twain was for more than 5o years an in veterate smoker and the first conjecture of the laymen would be that he had weak oned his heart by over-indulgence in to-
 bacco. pr Hslsey said tonight that he
 was unable to predicate that the angina iron, which Mark Twain died was in any way d sequel of nicotine poisoning. Some | constitutions. he said. seem immune from 1 the effects of tobacco. This was one of
 them Yet it is true that since his ill- ness began the doctors had cut down Mark Twain's daily allowance of 20 cigars
 and countless pipes to four cigars day.
 Gives Up His Pipe | No deprivation was greater sorrow to | him He tried to smoke on the steamer >------>~~~-->-------~~--~-->--~ ---
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