European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mark Twain touring Europe with daughter in some of his busiest years is now a tourist ice and the spirits of the dead Hallow a toe for he As much As he loved the Hartford Twain spent most productive writing periods in a Small secluded Bop study in working five hours a Day funded by Ivy and the study is the Campus of Elmira tin Mark Turin in published by the Mark in society of Twain is quoted As having study is a snug Little octagonal with a Coal big one Little one and a wide Days i spread the study wide Anchor my Down with brickbats and write in the midst of Hur t be wrote Between and words each  one Page after another on the if memes the neighbourhood children hid in the the quiet zone around the and waited in to Call would gather around him As he read aloud Chest adventures of Tom Becky aunt the widow Douglas and Huckleberr the ragtag son of the town Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by All mothers of the because he was Idle and Lawless Elgar and bad and because All their children and and delighted in his forbidden society and Kai they dared to be like Twain told the Mes pm m loved the stories about Huckleberry then Fri term in Connecticut for a tramp i we writing that famous he 1 1 whether anybody else does or Book was banned in libraries across the nation inn outside to As far West As Denver and Huck was thought to be a bad exam but in Twain was easily recognizable smoking a Cigar and wearing a White Linen suit and Panama All his comings and goings were recorded in the local the Elmira the late Frank Tripp recalled being assigned As a cub reporter to go to the Elmira train station to meet when he returned to the he told his editor the author  talk and wrote a Story saying Only that Twain was Back in after the edition went to the editor asked Tipp exactly what he said to 1 told him that my editor sent me to see said said to see and what did he say asked that Nice of your run along and Tell him that y0thednext edition carried an account of the anecdote with the headline cub sees but not his but being famous had its at least in con thet Hartford mansion was equipped with a burglar alarm set up so an Annunciator in trains bathroom Rould indicate which room the intruder was the House burglarized anyway and the robber who was made Twain an elaborate carved ship while in Twain then put up this sign to the next is nothing but plated Ware in this House now and you will find it in that brass thing in the Over in the Comer by the Basket of w want the put the Kittens in in brass do ssi it disturbs the you will find rubbers in the front Hall by that thing which has the us i think they Call or or something like please close the door when you go away the author was Well aware of the disadvantages of he had Huck finn Tell Tom Sawr after the boys found the robbers Gold in the being Rich is just worry and and sweat and and Walsh Long you was dead All the i  Ever got into All this trouble it haunt a been for that Huck the same was True for he made he just didst know How to spend it he lost a Fortune investing heavily in a typesetting machine invented by James Paige in it had about parts and was the first machine to successfully justify and distribute foundry Type from a common Case manned by a single but its Only commercial appearance was a two month trial at the Chicago and during the 10 years it took to simpler machines were the investors lost trains second financial disaster was the Webster publishing firm which closed in april owing More than the next Twain and his wife embarked on a world lecture tour to pay off their of his Twain during the nine years we spent in poverty and debt she was always Able to reason me out Forny despairs and find a Bright Side to the Clouds and make me see after Livy died at age 59 in Twain i was Richer than any other person in the world and now i am that pauper without he sold the Hartford mansion Only months later and in 1908 built a palatial Hilltop House called Stormfield for himself and his daughters in then a Rural byway in Western the House has since burned on Christmas his youngest died at Stormfield from an epileptic seizure while taking her morning she was Twain predicted his own death in 1909 i came in with valleys Comet in it is coming again next and i expect to go out with he died at Stormfield of heart disease april the Day after the Comet reappeared on its 75year and was buried in Woodlawn cemetery in along Side his daughters and a son who died in his daughter Cara died in 1962 and is buried with the 3 in the Mark Tux in in a resident recalled a boyhood he said he watched trains burial service from behind a tree and that night he scaled the cemetery plucked several Flowers from the Graves Blanket of red and then dashed into the darkness with his Twain would have been 1 judged 1 had done it pretty said Huck i reckoned Tom Sawyer  a done it no neater 1 the 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