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Show Some things can be cured only by death. The government has for weeks been sending out boats loaded with the necessaries of life to the people made destitute by the floods of the lower Mississippi. Missis-sippi. A dispatch to the Hearst papers gives this incident: "In front of old Colonel Peasley's house a government gov-ernment boat discharged bacon and flour. "What is this lor?" the old Colonel inquired of the Captain of the vessel. "For you," the Captain answered. "Who sent it?" "The government." "Well you take it away from here and tell the government to mind its own business." The Colonel might starve, but he would accept no paternalism trom the government. |