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Show oo WHO SAID j "To be good Is noble but to teach others tn be good Is nobb-i and lcj3 trouble." The above remark is churacterlsti'' Of the man who uttered It. Samuel; 'Lagnhorno Clemens, better Known; I throughout the world as Mark, Twain." I i 'To be good is noble but to teach others to be good is nobler" sounds like excellent advice uttered In n, most rlous vein. Hut then "and lcs3, trouble" changes ihe aspect of the thing and the reader sees that Instead; Of preaching Samuel Clemens iK pok- ling fun at tho hypocrites who follow the maxim. "Do as I say, not as 1, do." The origin of Samuel Clemens' pen namo Ls of lnlerest An a young man i lemens saw a. gi '-al u'.uiui in .m..... Mississippi river. Tic worl.ed pn the river boats and the vernacular of the river became part of his vocabulary ' Because of the shallowness and urn u-Lalnty u-Lalnty of Its channel U was the custom cus-tom for the pilots to station a man tti , itho bow of the boats who wa-s cons-t inntly sounding the depth of tho river. J The lookout would drop his line overboard over-board and then sing out the reading, as. "By the mark twain." Tho worls! 'held a fa-sclnatlon for young Clemens 'ond he determined to use them when 1 1 he time came for him to publish his works. I Samuel riemens was born in Missouri Mis-souri In 1836. He worked for sometime as a compositor In Philadelphia and Now York and In lSul became a pilot on tho river, where aa a little lat li-had li-had worked. From there he went t" the mines In Nevada and from there to San Francisco, where he engaged In newspaper work. "Mark Twain's" death occurred In 191". Wayne D; Mac Murray- |