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doorway looking up the trail.

doorway looking up the trail, I'd
The Batwa are said to do service g VI
sort of frontier guard between negrl
states. Freely confessing the practict
OF cannibalsm, they say that a parrot
Is a man because he talks like mani
a monkey Is a man because he can use :
his hands and looks like man; and
parrots, monkeys and men are alb
good to eat. b"
The famous anthropologist Virchow'
has expressed the opinion that the
scattered tribes of pigmes in Africa
are survivors Of primitive and very
ancient race from which all the pres
ent-day negroes of the Dark Continent
were originally derived. once upon a
time, according to his theory. they
were the sole inhabitants of Africa.
In the neighborhood Of Mount Tay-
Tor, Arizona, are numerous blow
| holes" in volcanic lava which are i'm.
agined 10 have been long ago occupied
by pigmy people. Built within these
strange caverns are tiny, stone houses,
some OF them half filled with lava
! which has flowed in through the doors
and windows. This proves that there
has been at least one outbtrst of SUBJ
| terranean fire since the supposed
dwarfs took up residence in that To-
| cality.
All the region about Mount Taylor
is covered by sheets OF lava. AS the
| Plutonian vomit flowed over the land,
cooling as 1t went, great bubbles of
gas formed In it. leaving cavities tn,
the hardening material The land
scape is indescribably deso!ate much
resembling a scene on the moon. as
| viewed through a telescope. Some of
the "blow-holes" are big enough to
accommodate whole regiments of pig
mics.
Circus Dwarfs Are Different
The pigmies of Africa and Far East
ern archipelagoes are normal people
of an ancient and diminutive race.
Dwarfs such as are exhibited in circus
sideshows are freaks of nature. Within
recent years showmen's agents have
searched the world for tiny men and
women, picking up one here and an
other there. Troupes of them have
even been formed for theatrical tours,
giving with an accompanying giant
such plays as Jack the Giant Killer"
and Jack and the Beanstalk." -.
Very interesting are these little
folks: and most curious of all are the
so-called "midgets," which are in q
class by themselves--mere human
dolls, one might call them. The
midgets are always mentally defective
and they never live long.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04

New Guinea is the largest island In
the world with the exception OF Green
iand, ard most Of it has never been
explored. It is not surprising, then
to learn that it has its own pigmies--
little fellows so extremely black that
their complexion has been likened TO a
newly blackleaded stove. They have
extremely broad noses, and their hair
grows in scattered peppercorn tufts.
The same race Of dwarfs is found in
Madagascar, where they are called the
Hchosy They are monkcy-like not
only in appearance, but also in their
habits. living in donse woods and
jumping from tree to tree like apes.
50 tim.d arc they that, when captured.
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BN RENE BACIUI

TIE WEIRD inter has always at
49, tached to pigmies. The ancients
~ had many stories about them,
- " derived from travellers tales
and more or less mixed with myth But
Herodotus and Pliny both wrote about
strange tribes of dwarfs that were said
10 dwell I'm the neighborhood of the
Mountains OF the Moon, toward the
source of the Nile; and this statement
of theirs was entirely correct, as
proved by modern explorers.
The pigmies are still a puzzle, in so
far as their origin is concerned. BIT
anthropologists are inclined to believe
that they represent the earliest sur
Viving human inhabitants of the earth.
Wherever found, they seem TO have
been first on the scene, antedating any
other race.
Exploration within the last century
has prove them to be rather widely
distribute They are found not only
IN Africa, )ut also in Far Eastern
archipelagoes. They arc inhabitants
of Madagascar and Ceylon. But al
ways they are of the same type
startngly monkey-likc, with fri2zly
hair that does not grow all over their
7ca!ps. but in scattered tufts.
When first we gained possession of
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which falls upon the prey.
Their villages, always temporary,
are located in the vicinity of areas
cultivated by negro tribes, in whose
behalf they collect ivory and palm
wine and do service as hunters of
game, receiving in payment grain to-
bacco, and other things they want.
They are not molested with impunity,
for they are ready enough to fight and
their poisoned arrows are deadly. Each
little warrior carries at his belt a
leather bottle containing poison Of
light yellow color which is said to be
made by macerating the bodies of
venomous ants. A mere prick of an
arrow dipped in it will cause death in
a minute.
Like the Little Nggers elsewhere,
I they wear no clothing except a string
with a flap of bark cloth. When one
of them dies, the body is placed inside
Of a hollow tree, which is thereupon
Tiled up with earth. or sometimes. If
| 1t be a chief who has passed away. a
/ stream is diverted from its course. a
grave is dug in It's bed, and the water
/ is turned back.
Dwarfs Met BY Stanley
Further to the west are found pig
mics of another tribe. who call them
selves Wambatti. It was these whom
the explorer Stanley came across. One
or them. ful-grown woman. was 8
/ inches less than 4 feet high, but as ne
describes her. perfectly formed and
of glistening sickness of body with
/ absurdly large eyes"
South of the Congo Is another tribe
of dwarfs. the Batwa, who build dome
/ shaped houses in circle, with the
chiefs residence in the center. At a
distance of 90 yards from the village
a sentry box big enough to hold two
little men is placed in every path. with
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Men" from the fact that in II the
W winsome Metro star plays the role
OF q baby vampire" She appears as
Eliza, an orphaned girl, who quickly
acquires a surprising knowledge of the
ways of men, until her sweetheart con-
cludes she is appallingly DANGEROUS
so dangerous that he marrles her 70
curb her.
Miss Dana's "vamping" procivitios,
however. are lightly treated in the pic
ture. She leaves no ruined adorers
in her wake. She's more Of a mis-
chievous cQquette than a home-wreck-
err And she does her part so we'll that
dangerous 20 Men" received only
words of highest praise from motion
picture reviewers in New York and
other large cities, who have seen the
production on the silver sheet.
The elderly gentleman who in the
accompanying photograph Is succumb-
ing to the wiles of THAT girl Eliza" is
James Barrows cast as Uncle Gregory
in Miss Dana's picture, which Is an
adaptation of ELIZA Comes to Stay"
the famous stage play by II. V. Es-
mond.
Constance Binney
Constance Binney Is a very busy
young lady these days. She is at the
studio from nine until six and is usual
ly SO tired when she gets home that
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04

EIOLA DANA'S new photoplay de- ,
n rives the title Dangerous to
X Men" from the fact that in II the
W. winsome Metro star plays the role
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Baby Vampire E. Parties and Late Hours Forbidden
Star With Several Hobbies-The Copperhead-
Treats Her Machine Kindly.

bed is the most inviting place. For
one of the most important things
when working before the camera is to
look bright and fresh. Parties and
late hours are forbidden.
Miss Binney is working in "39 East"
an adaptation of the successful play in
which she appeared. One of the re-
markable things about this production
is that almost the entire original cast,
who appeared in the stage production
are playing their same roles in the
picture. The only important change in
the cast is the leading man role Ma
poleon Gibbs, which was played by
Henry Hull 1t is interpreted on the
screen by Reginald Denny. Miss Bin
ney's first starring picture was "Erst-
while Susan"
Naomi Childcrs
Naomi Chiders was born in St
Louis, but began her stage career in
New York City. where she played un--
der the management of Henry w. Saw
age and II, II. Frazee. Her finest sue
cess was with II, b. Warner in among
Those Present" She was scheduled 10
| appear in a Belasco war play but the
| armistice prevented the production of
ii.
Miss Childers was educated in st.
Louis. and spent much OF her time
there, and at her mothers home at
Lake Champlain. She had been in
motion picture work for three years
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the daughter of Colonel and Mira
Frank Merrill Caldwell, of New YorA
Mr.. Barthelmess, who is twenty-fouf'l
Is a graduate of Trinity College. HaN
ford.
Eileen Percy
All movie stars have pets. Eileen
Percy. who is the heroine of Patht~
1.-THE Third Eye picked an autome,
bile for hers, and she is here seq
busting it up with hand embroideree
rose-scented dust cloth.
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field Mine o'clock Revue" Both Mr.,
and Mrs. Barthelmess will be seen in
II w. Grifith's forthcoming film
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-11-04

version OF Way Down East" IT was
during the rehearsals for this produc-
ton that the romance between Miss
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Science Is Inclined To Re-
gard Them AS the Most
Ancient OF Human Beings
-IheLittle NIggerso Far
Eastern Archipelagoes-
Monkey-LlkeMen OF Mad
agascar-T The Akkas.
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when a rest became necessary, and she
retired from before the camera for a
time. Resuming, she played in a num-
Der of picture with Tom Moore. and
with Farrar in "The World and It's
Woman" Among the Tom Moore pic
lures in which she has appeared are
Lord and Lady AlFy," Cay Lord
QueX," "Duds," and still more recent
y, in the Goldwyn Picture, Earth
bound"
Mr. And Mrs. barrymore
Lionel Barrymore and Mrs. Barry
more, doris Rankin). as Milt and Ma
Shanks in the 1863 period of "The
Copperhead," the Paramount screen
version of the play by Augustus
Thomas, in which Mr., Barrymore also
played the leadifig role.
"Dick" Barthelmess Married
All the matinee gira can now take
out their handkerchiefs and have
good old-fashioned 'cry, for be It
known that Richard Barthelmess has
taken unto himself wife on June
18TH in New York, he married little
Mary Hay former dancer in the Zieg-
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-08-26

ERANKLIN PIERCE was the sec
Il ond dark horse and the third
New Engander TO enter the White
house. He was chosen not as a rep
resentative of New England, but rath-
er AZ an agent of the south and New
Hampshire debated half a century be-
fore ii grudgingly set up in the yari
of the capital at Concord a statue Of
her only president.
a member of the legislature at
twenty-nine, while his father was gov
ernor, and twice a member of congress.
he was senator of the United States
at thirty-three. Resigning when his
term had yet year TO run, he after
ward refused a second election TO the
senate and refused the governorship
The Mexican war tempted Pierce
from his retirement and, as brigadler
general, he served with Scott in the
advance on the city of Mexico. Re-
turning to his family and a first-class
law practice at Concord, General
Pierce, at forty-three, had no thought
that any further public distinction
awaited him.
Pierce was elected in a more sweep
ing victory than any other president
had had since Monroe. He had the man.
date and the opportunity to be presi-
dent of the whole Union. With all
his good qualities of head and heart,
he was not broad enough to be more
than the servant of a section, ''of
those who placed me here" as he ex-.
pressed it.
The new presidents appointment Of
identified his administration at the out
set with the aggressive faction in the
south. Under its counsels Pierce not
only surrendered to the ambitions Of
the slave power for expansion over
the north and west, but also for its
expansion into foreign lands.
Slavery was in it's last throes ev-
erywhere. Great Britain had abolished
1t in her West Indian islands, Mexico
had abolished ii next door to our own
slave states. Even Spain was tend
ing toward the freeing of the slaves In
Cuba when the American ministers to
Great Britain, France and Spain met
in Belgium and issued the "Ostend
manifesto" That shameful document
proclaimed the threat that If the SPAN
lsh government should refuse to sell
us Cuba we would take the island by
force.
At the same time congress at home
was repeating the Missouri compro-
mise and wiplng out the dead line
against slavery, which had been drawn
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-08-26
Ellen Richards. Chemist.

Intuition Is the headlight put in
woman's forehead uniquely for her
when woman lost common sense in
Eden. Just few females have been
able to clutch at the skirts Of common
sense, and to retain its hard pan use
fulness. These have plunged into hard
pan studies. and In the crucible have
evolved some good things for the
world Among the number stands Ellen
n. s. Richards, chemist. born In 1912,
died in 1911. skilled instructor in the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology.
Not only was Ellen Richards a chem
ist. but she was a pure food expert.
Her hooks and pamphlets are valuable.
Among their titles are these: 1.-THE
Chemistry Of Cooking" Conservation
by Sanitation" "The Cost of Clean
ness" and "Home Economics" All
honor to you. Ellen Richards, who pur-
sued the hard paths Of practical out
nut unadorned by the jessamInes Of
romance.
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ular yarn; ''but how would it do for
the president of the United States
TO ride around in a secondhand car
riage?"
But, sure" argued "Old Edward"
"Your Ixellency is only secondhand
prisident!"
In Fillmore we have another from
tier president. For western New York
was an outpost when he was born
there of New England parents. After
receiving about the same kind of
schooling as our other log-cabin presi
dents, he was bound out to learn the
trade of wool carder.
The one enduring act Of the Fill
more administration was taken when
1t sent Commodore Perry to knock at
the long-closed gate Of Japan, and,
with the gift Of toy railroad and q
toy telegraph, to tempt the japanese
to come out Of their hermit seclusion.
The rest is politics.
As American men struggled to rise
from the bottom in the more primitive
days of the country their women Of
ten failed to keep up with them. BY
the time half of Fillmore's predeces-
sors gained the presidency, their
wives were either dead, worn out or
tagging behind.
Mrs. Fillmore, finding herself with
out strength or ambition to reign with
her husband, her place was taken by
a daughter. This girl Of eighteen,
Miss Mary Abigail, was enough Of
new woman to have insisted on fitting
herself by course In a normal school
to earn an independent living. Being
obligated TO teach a certain length of
time after graduating, she went on
teaching school even after her father
became vice president. She kept at Ii
until her mother summoned her to
preside over the White House, Where
she promptly induced congress to in
stall a library, the mansion having
been until then bookless desert.
A month after the end Of her hus-
bands term Mrs Fillmore was dead.
Next Miss Mary died Of cholera. and
then, after tour Of Europe, the
pathetic loneliness Of a retired presi-
dent was relieved by a marriage with
a wealthy widow.
Fillmore had tried to avert this re-
tlrement by an unsuccessful effort to
be nominated to succeed himself.
-Four years afterward he attempted
10 break the retirement and return
to the presidency. Although he had
both the Knownothirg and Wing nom
nations he ran third In the election
He lived on In his Buffalo home until
the very year when another Buffalo
nian, Grover Cleveland. started for
the White House by way OF the
shrievalty of Erie county.
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quarter of a century before. This
threw open Kansas TO a wild scramble
between settlers who wished the new
territory to be free and those who
wished II to be slave.
Then and there the Civil war began.
Border rufiians," as the north called
the settlers, who rushed In from Mis-
souri, and other slave states, and set
tiers no less rough I'm their fighting
who poured In from the free states
quickly turned that prlmeval into
BLEEDING Kansas" Rival territorial
governments were set up by the two
factions, and Pierce threw the weight
of the federal power on the side Of
those who were desperately striving to
create another slave state.
The whole country was drawn into
the struggle, and the Republican party
sprang into life. At the election In the
middle of his term, Pierce saw the
Democratic representation In the house
cut down one-half and the opposition
sweep In with a big majority.
Copyright. 1920. by James Morganl
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-08-26
Honey Yields Hiuher.

The average yield Of surplus honey
in 1919 was 80 pounds to colony of
honey bees, as estimated by the bureau
OF crop estimates, United States de-
partment of agriculture. This is con-
siderably above the average Of As
pounds in 1918. and of 416 pounds for
the Ave years 1913-1917. The relative
proportions In which the honey of the
last two years was marked are in
dictated by so for extracted honey. 81
for comb honey. and 10 for bulk
honey. About one-third OF the product
goes to Outside" markets.
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FILLMORE, the second

RTILLARD FILLMORE, the second
wi vice president TO be promoted by
death, was the most commonplace
president even in twenty-year period
when the presidency remained at low
water mark. Tall and with magisterial
front, but cold and hollow, he looked
the part which he played-the dummy
of northern trimmers in politics and
of southern traffickers in slaves.
A fable of the day hit off the truth.
The new president must have car
riage, and "Old Edward" Moran,
White House attendant in many adj
ministrations, took him TO see hand
some outfit, whose owner was leaving
Washington and would sell 1t at o
bargain.
"This is all very well, Edward
Fillmore unused, according TO the pop
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-08-26
Five-Minute Chats About
Our Presidents
By JAMES MORGAN
FRANKLIN PIERCE

1so4-November %, Franklin
Pierce born at Hillsboro.
NJ. n.
1S29-33-Member of New Hamp-
shire legislature.
1S33-37-Member of congress.
1837-42-United States senator.
1e47-49-Brigadier general in the
Mexican war.
1S52-June, nominated by the
Democrats.
18S3-March q, inaugurated
fourteenth president, aged
sixty-four.
1854-The Missouri compromise
repealed.
1856-Pierce defeated TOR re-
nomination.
1869-October 8, died, aged six.
ty-four.
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Salisbury Cathedral, From the Nearby Lake.

a PEIL %, 1920, Richard Poore,
IA bishop of Old Sarum, took off
4 his shoes, and, attended by
The Washington times., 1920-11-29
Jerusalem Still a Mighty City of the World

drama and tugs at the heartstrings
Of an audience as enacted by that
talented screen artist.
She will b. recalled as 1.-The %.
Henry girl" which title was asso-
ciated with her name after she had
played In a series OF pictures from
the short stories OF that famous
author.
She has since played in numerous
big special productions and her
work has proven what she really is
one OF the genuine artists OF the
shadow screen. Others in the cast
are Jerome Patrick Theodore Rob
srts' Helen Dunbar Betty Francisco.
Milton Sills. etc.
The scenario was written by Julia
Crawford Ivers from the new Eng.
lish novel. "The Furnace" by pan"
The extra added attractions Of
the Palace program this week are
wholly delightful. The Pathe News
pictures. a Mutt and Jen cartoon.
Topical Tips" and other screen
features are seen. The Palace SYM
phony Orchestra contributes a splen-
did overture selection.
The Washington times., 1920-11-29
MOORE'S RIALTO-
"kismet."

"Kismet." with the inimitable Otis
skinner in the leading role of Hail,
the beggar. and presented in film
form as Robertson-Cole special
production, opened ITS second con-
secutive week at Moore's Rialto
Theataer yesterday. Audiences which
taxed the capacity or the house were
in attendance at every performan nee.
AS a cinema version OF Edward
knoblock's famous drama. the play
has lost none OF its essential appeal.
One may trace his memory care
fully back to the beginning of ar
tistic motion picture production. and
he will fail to find one work so
thoroughly satisfying. so gripping
in story. so magnificent in staging,
SO perfectly enacted as this.
The combination of Otis Skinner
and "Kismet' assured in advance Of
something worth while, and to have
ones greatest expectations more
than fulfilled makes IL doubly inter-
esting. Here is real story, written
by an American dramstist. in. which
one Of the greatest American actors
appears.
Those who have seen this produc-
tion have been privileged to see Mr..
skinner in his first venture on the
screen and at his best. An artist of
the semi-old school, the star liter
ally had 10 be dragged into the realm
OF the camera. Ills appearance has
been heralded with unstinted praise
by all lovers OF tn" photodrama in
Washington.
For three consecutive seasons
Mr.. skinner played the part Of Hail
on the Legitimate stage. with him
during this time was Hamilton Re-
velle, who. in the picture. plays
his old role. that OF the Mansur.
Rosemary Theby as Kut-al-Kult
and Elinor Fair az Marsinah. give
excellent performances. 1t should