A II AE ASD Powarralic falda, "Bellefonte, Pa., February 26, 1926. FIND DIRECTORY SET UP BY MARK TWAIN Author Listed Self as “Anti: quarian” in 1856. Keokuk, Iowa.—A rare plece of Americana—a copy of the Keokuk city directory of 1856, part of which was hand set by Mark Twain and in which he listed himself as an “antiquarian” —recently was found and subsequent- Iy lost in a curious manner. The Iowa State Insurance com- pany acquired and incorporated in its office building. an adjoining structure in which Orion Clemens, brother of the humorist, conducted a printing es- tablishment in Keokuk in the late ’50s. In making alterations a copy of the directory was found beneath the floor of the room in which the youthfu! Samuel Clemens worked. The find was made by a workman, who, not knowing of the book’s senti- mental and biblophilic value, exam- ined it casually, and then tossed it aside in a pile of rubbish. Later, news of the discovery became known, but by that time the book had dis- appeared. The only other known copy of the directory is in the Keokuk puh- tic Hbrary. Interesting Relics. Although the building that housed the old Clemens printing shop virtuaj- Iy has been rebuilt, the room in which Mark Twain worked has been left un- touched. It has been set aside as a museum and library for the display of his souvenirs, one of the most inter- esting being the old printing case. Other objects include an oil painting of the writer at twenty-one, a later portrait, first editions and auto- graphed copies of Twaln’s books. The Mark Twain tradition thrives lustily in this Mississippi river town, where he made his first after-¢ nner speech and received pay fer his first newspaper writing. In addition to the printing shop, the old Twain home- stead still stands. While still in his teens, Mark left Hannibal, Mo., where he had been working on Orion’s mewspaper, for a tour of the East, rejoining the family at Muscatine, Towa. There Orion had started a newspaper after his Pranni- bal enterprise had fafled. Samuel presently left Muscatine for St. Louis, where the printing trade offered bet- ter prospects. Orion moved to Keo- kuk, later to be visited by Samuel, who was prevailed upon to remain for a promised $5 a week. Starts for Brazil. Clemens was just approaching his majority, and with the urge of youth, he wanted to see the world. He thought a fortune was to be made in Brazil, so he prepared to depart. Dashing down to St. Louis to bid good-by to his mether, he rushed back here with an idea that apparently had much to do wi‘h his later career. The idea was to write travel letters of his journey for the Keokuk Daily Post. George Mees, editor, offered him $5 each for the articles. Samuel, much pleased, made a fresh start and got as far as «Cincinnati, which be- came the termminus of the projected South Americam trip. Clemens contributed three letters to the Post, couched in the exaggerated dialect considered humorous in that day, speaking in ome of them of a plan to write a book of his journey. Ten years or so later he did make a journey around the world, and from this came “The Innocents Abroad,” and a secure fame. Gold and Silver The value of gold compared with silver is said to have been -estimated in the time of the Greek ‘historian Herodotus, 450 B. C., about 10 to 1. At the time of the Greek philosopher, Plato, 880 B. C., it was 12 to 1; today it is about 30 to 1. Yew Came From Eurepe The yew is a large European tree with dark green foliage. The leaves are long and narrow and given off from all sides of the braneh. The fruit is in the form of a red fleshy <up nearly inclosing the bony seed. “Czar” of Latin Origin The Slavic word czar or tsar alti mately represents the Latin Caesar, but came, according to Miklosieh, through the medium of a Germanie language in which the word had the general sense emperor, Meat From Cottonseed Beefsteaks made from cottonseed are forecast by Dr. Davis Neeson, of London. “It is only a question of time,” says Neeson, “before chemists discover how to produce a meat sub- stitute from the seed.” Politeness Extraordinary A trained nurse in Touro infirmary eays the politest and most grateful man she ever met is a patient in her ward, who was eloquent and profuse In his thanks when she gave him a big dose of castor oil. Napoleon’s Wooden Horse Probably the most expensive toy ever bought was a broken-nosed wooden horse that had belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, and which was sold In Paris some years ago for $2,400, INSECTS STAR AS MOVIE ARTISTS Films of Plant Pests Rival Screen Thrillers Made by Humans. Washington. — When Uncle Sam wants to stage an agricultural movie thriller he selects a nasty insect for a villain and puts the pest through re- hearsal. Some of the pests are natu- ral movie actors; others are as tem- peramental as any Hollywood star. The primary reason for this, Depart- ment of Agriculture officials explain, is that certain insects shun light, whereas others exult in the glare of the studio Kleigs. Consider the case of the common clothes moth. The department desired to make a picture showing the de- structive habits of this pest, but the Insects refused to work under the bright studio lights. Moths placed on an article of clothing flew =o rapsly into a seam of goods that the close- ups were a failure. The camera man then hit upon the novel idea of chloro- forming the insects to retard their speed, and the picture was a success. Cotton boll weevils, on the other hand, perform best under the intense lights. They are regarded as star ac- tors, only close-ups seeming to satisfy the vanity of the pest. Not content with flying close to the lens, the boll weevils fly into the machine so that it is necessary every now and then to |! stop cranking in order to clean out the camera. Bees Are Hard Subjects. Honey bees are catalogued as bad actors. In the midst of a picture one day last summer the bees descended en masse upon the unprotected camera man, who fled and hid in a cellar. The picture could be com- pleted only by erecting a canvas shel- ter over shade. places. Bees will not fly into shads the common house rat. The depart- ment wanted some pictures of the natural habits of the rodent, but the rat also shuns light. Some trained white rats were procured. Their coats were dyed brown, and they were then sprinkled with theatrical powder to give them the precise hue of the house rats. The pink noses were also dabbed with dark powder. But the rats rel- ished the taste of the powder and licked it off as fast as it was applied. Only by frequently stopping the camera and powdering the rats’ noses was it possible to finish the picture. The “Ox-Warble — A $50,000,690 Tune” is the title of a picture recently made by the department. Great diffi- culty was experienced in photograpn- ing the ox-warble, inasmuch as it had first to be squeezed from its refuge in a cow’s back to be “shot.” The ox- warble is a small fly that lays eggs in the hoofs of cows. The eggs hatch a grub, which works through the cow’s body and comes out upon the back, in- juring the hide and seriously curtail ing milk production. The department’s movie laboratory, located in Washington, D. C., has been in existence for nver ten years. Re- cently a new studio was built and equipped with thoroughly modern movie apparatus, such as slow motion cameras, a large glass-enclosed studio, rapid developer tanks and drying racks, and apparatus for making art titles and animated pictures. George R. Goergens, the originator of slow motion camera attachments, which have been perfected since then to de- pict muscular movements in sports, is chief cinematographer of the labora- i tory. the camera so as to make “Shooting” Plant Growth. A device recently developed by one of the department camera men is a so-called ‘time lapse” motion picture camera, which automatically photo- graphs the development of growing plants, from seed to final growth. The machine may be set to make single ex- posures from ten seconds to one min- ute apart and, thus set, produces an accurate pictorial record of the growth of plants. The hatching of insects may also be recorded pictorially through all | stages of development. More than 20 motion pictures fea- | made by the Department of Agricul- ; ture. such as the pink boll worm, which de- stroys cotton, the Mexican bean beetle, the European corn borer, stable fly, bedbug, poultry louse, cockroach, grasshopper and others. The pictures are distributed free to agricultural colleges, county agents, and other ag- They include pictures of pests | marketing. Confronted, however, ricultural agencies, some of the reele . being exhibited ali over the world Recently the department camera men made a special trip to Grasshop- per glacier in Montana to photograph ; ' large urban public as well as to rural some of the frozen prehistoric grass- hoppers. This glacier is famous. * It is believed that these pests were swept up the canyon, through the ages by : strong winds, which dashed against the precipitous walls, grasshoppers then falling into the glo cier and becoming frozen in the ice Grasshoppers hundreds of years old, ' but not unlike the grasshoppers of the the ! { thriller. They are: them The department’s educational films, turing insects in star roles have been officials say, have proved a valuable medium through which to teach im- proved agricultural production and with competition from commercial films, the camera men must make their pic- tures interesting as well as informative —a combination that is accomplished by weaving the educational material into an orthodox movie plot. Zhe department's success in doing chis has been such that many of the big city circuits of exhibitors show the films on their programs and thus get the department's message over to a people. Over 200 pictures have been made by the department. 4 few of the-titles of the films will readily indicate the imagination of those competing with the commercial “Clean Herds—and { Hearts,” “Out of the Shadows,” “The present day, have been found there, | perfectly preserved. The melted ice | ' have been held by leading eritics to at the end of the glacier deposits the grasshoppers on both banks, tons of the insects having been piled up in this way. The department take their pictures. camera | 9 : . » men made an ascent of 12,000 feet t- fr enchman, in Flood, Live grasshoppers are difficult to | photograph. iy in making some movies of a female laying eggs it was necessary for the camera man to crawl along a road- side trench on his stomach and “shoot” close range, catching the insect un aware, Working Far Afield. Federal quarantines on pests, such as the European corn borer and the Japanese beetle, are strict and the department camera men are prohibited from bringing them into the District of Columbia so as to work on them In the studio. This results in eonsider- able expense, in that the movie force must sometimes go far afield to take pictures of the insects in their natural environment. The expense is, however, justified, gay the department movie men, who point out that it is much better to take authentic pictures than to “fake” insects in the laboratory. Faked in- sects are used occasionally, but only in animated cartoons. Aa amusing in- cident in this connection was the con- struction of a mechanical reproduction of a Mexican bean beetle, so life- like that it fooled even the department entomologists, who thought it real. The occasion for this deception was the bullding of an outline map on which it was desired to show graph- ically the spread of the pest since its introduction into the United States. The habits of the beetle were studied carefully by the movie men, and an imitation was made that bore a life- like resemblance to the original. It was made to crawl around the map at will, and the entomologists wanted to know how the photographers had contrived so perfectly to train the in- sect. Bedbugs, like the clothes moth, re- fuse to act under the glare of the studlo lights, or even in ordinary day- light. In order to make them perform it was necessary to build a miniature bed In which a ferret wearing a night- gown was placed. The ferret had to be chloroformed to insure its remain- ing stationary, and the bugs, scenting easy prey, readlly came out for a feast, despite the bright lights, Making Up the Rat. Outside the insect family, but among rhe pests that destroy millions of dol- rg’ worth of property annually, is The lady grasshoppers, | in particular, are camera shy. Recent- | Golden Fleece,” “The Charge of the Tick Brigade.” “She's Wild,” “Cloud- Busting,” “There's Magic in It,” “Weighed in the Balance.” The films be the best type of educational pic- tures ever produced.—New York Times. Saves Mattress First 2aris.—The recent floods have pro- duced abundant illustration of the fact that the first household article which the Frenchman rescues when his home is threatened with inundation is the mattress. Strangely enough, the bi cycle comes second. Hardly an exception to this order was noted by a correspondent who watched boatmen moving the inhabi- tants from one of the Paris suburbs. The women were dry eyed and stern visaged as they were taken from thelr flooded homes, but obviously were laboring under great emotional stress. “This is getting monotonous,” said one woman who was forced to move to escape the floods in 1910, 1920 and 1924. “This sort of thing might be bearable once in fifty wears, but four times in fifteen years is a little too much.” Lived Happily Until He Inherited Money Boston.—In the Suffolk Probate court Judge Dolan started to hear a separate support petition brought by Edith M. Piper against her husband, Fred W. Piper, whom she married in 1904, and with whom she claims she lived happily until 1920, when Piper inherited $180,494 on the death of his father. After their marriage the couple ifved in the height of fashion. When he received his inheritance she clalms her husband said to her: “Well, dear, we have now what we waited for all our lives. We'll go to California and take trips.” Instead, she claims, his love seemed to wane, and in 1922 he stopped" all her charge accounts and she found herself, after a time, in actual need. Winking Bandit Philadelphia. — A bobbed-haired winking bandit who threatens to shoot a victim full of lead is loose. Wink- ing and waving a pistol as she issued commands, she has robbed a woman grocer. Great for Barbers London.—Aamong the millions receiv: ing unemployment doles are no bar- bers, since English women are spend- ing $100,000,000 or more annually on shingling and bobbing. S_-" Of Freach Derivation The name “moire” is applied in the case of silk finished with a watered or clouded effect. It is from the French word meaning wave. The term “watered” and “moire” both are based upon the characteristic appearance, namely, bright and dull in variegated patches, like the wandering of spilled water. The fabric itseif sometimes is taffeta, but is usually of a ribbed type as poplin. Wind God a Snake In ancient Mexico the wind delty was’ represented by some form of a snake, a curious fact which archeolo- gists have not been able to under- stand. The snake usually took a fan- tastic shape, having feathers, others having two forelegs thrown in for good measure and a curious snout like a trumpet. The Mexican Indian name for the wind god was “Quetzalcoat.” Relativity The man who has a good job, and holds it down acceptably ; who supports a family, and pays taxes, has accom- plished a little good. The man who is devoted te public service, and is always out soliciting funds not need- ed, has accomplished a little harm; sometimes a good deal.—E. W. Howe's Monthly. : The Dumb One A husband telephoned to say that he could not get home to dinner. Late as it was, it would be much later be- fore he had finished his business. “You poor dear,’answered his wife sympa- thetically, “I wonder you can get any- thing done at all with that jazz band playing in your office.” Great Naval Figure John Paul was the real name of Paul Jones, the Scotch-American naval commander, who distinguished himself in the American Revolution. He assumed the name of Jones on his appointment as naval lieutenant in 1775 Married Men, Remember “What a pity,” says the Albany (Ga.) Herald, “we can't forget the slighting things which other people say about us as easily as a married man forgets to mail his wife’s impor- tant letter. (Note: All wives’ letters are important.) Early Fort in America Iberville, the French naval com- mander, erected the first post on the Mississippi, Fort Biloxi, at the head of Biloxi bay, in 1699, as part of his mission to establish direct intercourse between France and the Misslssippl. Poplar Favorite Wood Poplar, spruce and balsam are the chief woods used in the manufacture of paper in Canada. Soft maple and other woods are also used at times, but more poplar is consumed than any other wood. Tips “Imagination is a wonderful thing,” said Uncle Eben. “It's what makes you think a no ’count tip on a hoss race is entitled to as much thanks as an honest two bits.”—Washington Star. Fable Once upon a time there was an ac- tor who not only realized that his his- trionic abilities were enormously lim- ited, but llkewlse appreciated the fact hat hls salary was altogether too high. Despair Despair is the thought of the un- attainableness of any good, which works differently in men’s minds; sometimes producing uneasiness or pain, sometimes rest and indolency.— Locke. Giant Deer The largest member of the deer family that ever existed was the Irish elk; he stood six feet high at the shoulders, and his antlers weighed about one hundred pounds. Latest Stage Scenery Stage scenery now is made in which two scenes are combined in one com- posite drawing, one scene of which is visible under red light and the other under blue light. “Sight” of Angleworms Though angleworms cannot distin: guish objects, they are not blind. They have light-sensitive organs distributed along the whole length of their bodies. Obedience First We need only obey. There is guid- ance for each of us, and by lowly lis- tening we shall hear the right word. —Emerson. Give Him a Race, Anyway Don’t follow the leader even when he is on the right track, pass him, if you can.—N. N. in the Boston Tran- script. Gullets and Gullibility Nobody ever choked to death trying ta swallow rumors. They slip down too easily.—Toledo Blade. Catching, or Being Caught The early bird catches the worm, but how am I to know which I am.— The Third Link. 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