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UNION MCOMMM, MILLCDGEVILL1, CA., AML M, It vivid' youth, dull ace. making THE M1SSIPPI SAFE. df.pew wise man. COULD COOLIDGE SAY NO? In youth iiupreMiona nre vivid. Therefore, tht- manuscript of “Alice in Won- der land“ sMU for $75,269, a record rife , more than would have been L,i for the manuscript of Dante’s •Jr.fcrno,” or of Voltaire’s “Zadig,” rach word worth a thousand “Alice in Wonderland" manuscripts. Years dull imagination. Millions that remember “Robinson Crusoe, Swum Family Robinson,’’ “Gulliver's Travels” vividly have faint impres sion of more important books* read later. Washington reporters say, prob ably inccaurately, that President Coolidge is “shocked” at the sugges tion of $750,000,00 to make Mississippi River safe A country that could give TEN THOUSAND MILLIONS TO EU ROPE, add half a billion a year to railroad receipts, and plan, wisely, to cut $200,000,000 a year from corpo ration taxes, need not shudder at the thought of spending part of a billion to make the Mississippi safe. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, dead m his ninety-fourth year, older than the Republican party, which he ed long and faithfully, said: “I have lived long because I could laugh at anything.” Of Napoleon, it was said that his youth “no one ever saw him laugh.” He didn’t live ninety-three years, but he did live day than amiable Mr. Dcpew in all his ninety-four years. Chauncey Depew attended.8,000 banquets and never let boredom drive him into eating too much. Thai.’ wisdom. He campaigned for Lincoln,, got $1.75 for his first legbl services, lived under twenty-four Presidents, front Andrew Jackson to Calvin Coolidge, and knew thirteen of them l»T£»nally. How many can name the twenty-four from Jackson on? Mr. Darrow of the House Naval Affairs Committee told President Coolidge his friends “still hoped he would be a candidate.” The Presi dent replied: “I am afraid they will have to be disappointed.” Ihe-hard Coolidge enthusiasts will find SOME comfort in that word “afraid.” A man cannot help being persuaded if arguments are good. Suppose the President were con vinced, as he may be, that his re- J nomination and re-election, a second : time, would boom business, increase employment, stabilize prosperity, and fre? his party from oil stain dagger, could he continue ;o say no? Aviation '.j a reality, soys General Atterbury, and railroads should know it. He is Miid to plan '‘or the Penn sylvania a part rail: ad, part-flying machine service from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The traveler would spend daylight in the flying machine, night hours the train, cross the continent in forty-eight hours, avoiding mountain flying. This rumor is not guaran teed. New York merchants report busi ness excellent in women’s apparel. They buy more of it and less of it more garments, less material in them. Paper underwear for ladies makes ANYBODY (NTFRESTED In Monumental Work See J. W. IVEY, Sexton. He RepreienU The McNeil Marble Co., The Largest In The South, One of The Oldest and Largest in America. it. appearance in eevpr.1 store. Silk of wood, underwear of paper —not pleasant news for cotton grotv- Old British builders of wooden ships who said ships made of steel would nlnk in heavy storms would be inter*.-ted in thej Leviathan’s lat est trip. She reached New York with her forecastle deck smashed, deck struc tures budly twisted by a wave said to be 150 feet high, that dropped 1,000,000 pounds of water on her deck at once. Men build ships that the ocean cannot sink. Water waves heavier than air waves. Airships will soon be built that no air wave will worry. In Seattle u tiny Pomeranian barked too'much. Its owner wanted the vocal chords removed, reducing tho bark to a gesture, but humane societies said “No.” Dog Trainer Sanderlin removed ELECTION WORRIES WIFE OF the bark in two weeks by training. J CANDIDATE 'Obedience is the n?crct,” says he. I taught Darkie (the Pomeranian) tho meaning of the words ‘Shut up.” That trainer might make a fortune in politics. GOVERNOR SMITH VETOES DOGS’ CROPPER EAR BILL Albany, N. Y., April 16. (Auto- castcr)—Governor Smith has vetoed the Shonk bill, which would have prohibited the exhibition of a dog with cropped ears at a dog show after next September. “It is no more immoral to show a dog at a dog show' because its ears have been cropped that it would be to show it at Fifth avenue or any other place of public assemblage,” the Gov ernor wrote in his veto memorandum. He said he would have approved the bill had it prohibited the posses sion of dogs with cropped ears. Berlin, April 16.—(Autocaster)— Frau Marie Fischer, whose husband is in the running for the Mayoralty of the little town of Pfaeffinger in Wurttemberg, got so excited by the suspense of waiting for the election that she attempted suicide by jump ing into the River Ammer. She was aaved and suffered only a slight chill. ODD is a Pretcriptiaa for CM, Grippe, Fh, Bilious Fever «ai Meletta. ll hill. 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