El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-22
DEATH CLAIMS MARK TWAIN, THE
BELOVED AMERICAN AND HUMOR|ST
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(Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch). spoke 8
rational word or two and feeling him.
self unequal to the conversation, wrote
| out in pencil:
Give me my glasses
These were his last words.
Laying them aside, he sank first into
reverie and later into final unconscious
ness.
however, that the end was so near.
At 5 o'clock DR.. Robert Halsey. who
has 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
biographer and literary executor. saio
to a caller who desired to inquire for
Mr. Clemens:
Il think you will not have to ca
often again
Nevertheless, Mr.. and Mrs. E. E
Loomis. who had come up from New
York to give their love in person, lett
Stormfeld, Mr.. Clemenss home, without
seeing him and only heard Of his dedth
as they were taking the train to New
York again Mrs. Loomis was Mr.. Glenn
ens's favorite niece and Mr.. LOOMS Is
vice president of tne Lackawanna rail-
road. -
Family at Bedside.
Similarly Jarvis Langdon, nephew,
who had run up for the day, le1t
wholly uniformed.
At the death bed were only Mrs Ga.
brilowitsch, her husband, DR.. Robert
Halsey, Dr. Quintard, Albert Bigelow
Paine, who will write Mark Twain's
biography. and two trained nurses.
Restoratives digitalis, strychnine
and camphor-were administered, but
the patient failed to respond.
A tank of oxygen still stands, I'M
called for, at Redding station. Oxygen
was tried yesterday and the physicians
explained 1t was of no value, because
the valvular action OF the heart was so
disordered. There was only an extreme
and increasing debility, accompanied by
labored respiration.
Angina pectoris Is a paroxysmal af-
lection of the chest. battling and OBJ
scure Of origin. characterized by Sc
vereness Of pain, fainting and deep de-
preston Of spirit The pain is severe
and Of a crushing or stabbing char
acter. The attacks increase in fire.
Quency and severity with uncertain in 7,
termissions sometimes of long duration, |
to 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 Ber- |
muda he said to Albert Bigelow Paine.
who had been his constant companion |
in Illness:
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 enfeeblement: Give me a
breath of Redding air once more and
this viii pass"
But 1t did not pass. and tired of
oooy and weary of spirit, the old war
rlor against spasms and sobs said to his
nurses family: WHY do Won fight TO
keep me alive? Two days Of life are as
good TO me as four"
Did Smoking Weaken Heart,
mark Twain was for more than so
years an inveterate smoker and the !
irst conjecture Of the layman would be
nat he had weakened his heart by over |
Indulgence in tobacco.
Dr. Halsey said he was unable TO
predicate that the angina pectoris from
Thich Mark Twain died was in any way
sequel TO nicotine poisoning. Some
constitutions, he said, seem immune to
he erect of tobacco. This was one of
hem.
Yet it is fact that since his illness
'egan the doctors had cut down Mr..