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Show KX-VlCE-PllESlDENT COLl'AX id fully through with public life. To somebody's some-body's letter asking him to "run" again for Congress, he indites the following fol-lowing sensible remarks: Alwr belonging to tho public tor twenty twen-ty yiifi'-s, I bulong now to my family, who caunot consent llml this ownership shull be changed. 1 have ibutnl, too, that the truest happiness in life ii in being out of ofliee, and master of one's own lime and movements. And, therefore, no poiaiblo inducement nor eonlingiTU'y. that I can , cither imagine or foreu,ouuiil tempt mo lo tit aire to a return to congressional life. We like that. It is plain, simple and easily understood. The wise man Solomon, after an extensive experience, experi-ence, uttered a similar sentiment about "all is vanity and vexation Of spirit." |