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Show 1 1Analyzing i; ji ...YOU... j Witt the Hew Scieace tt Syllabic! ;; o By C J. COFFMAN ' Daa of AH the Enumerator , , Alice "0, don't you remember Sweet Alice, Ben Boltr sane the old song, end truly we find In this soft end gen-tle name all that Sweet Alice waa apposed to repre- - The Wld-Op- n iert Eyes of Alice. An ancient word, pronounced like Alice, had the mean-ing of joyousoess, with secondary meaning our present word, another. In childhood's classic, the wide-ope- n eyes of Alice In Wonderland, really conveyed both these Ideas. 1 know that you must represent a great deal of Joy to those about you, and that your reputation must have a way of spreading to others. This will never be because of any-body's right to call you a flapper. Even If you are not the girl," you certainly are a very quiet modern girl. Your character shows strength and firmness, coupled with kindness, and a really beautiful domestic ability. You have that broad view that ennbles you to regard crowds as your own family. This is especially true, also, of one of Washington's most gracious host-esses, Alice Koosevelt Longworth. Part of this reputation of our more famous Alice Is due to a combination of graclousncss and absolute Inde-pendence. With Mrs. Longworth, the rules of society are very nearly a farce, almost as much as the rules of life seem to be In Alice In Wonder-land. You can combine gracious attraction with sweet Independence yourself, daintily stepping all of them, without tipping over any of them. Alice White, motion picture star, successfully walks this pathway, as do most of the Alices who attain to social prominence. In your own case, the syllnble AL of your name, also begins the word Alliance and Allies, signifying com-radeship and trust. But we must not forget that the last syllable of your name, ICE, signifies coldness, dignity, and the ability to freeze out that which Is not acceptable to you. Amelia One might write the word "amia-ble," when beginning to write your name, and It would not be far wrong, as to your charac-ter. The ancient meaning of your first syllable, AM, was people or na-tion. The word AM has now come to mean me ursi per-Th- e Wlds-Sprsa- d ,on .., am , Fingers of Amelia. t genge (t putg yoo at the bead of the group of people. This amiability is typified by you in the wide-ope-n band, as tt Is easy for you to spread your fingers wide apart This amiability of yours continues even through bard labor approaching misery, as Is signified by the com-bination of the first two syllables of your name, AMEL, Going further Into your name, we find an ancient syllable MELA, mean-ing fullness. Now combining all these together, we find that your best occupation would be something In which yoo la-bor with and for the people, through the pioneering of s great cause, to the completion or fulfilment of the ldeaL Truly you are the salt of the earth, Amelia, as an ancient syllable used in your name would Indicate. People depend upon you a great deal, and you can easily assume leadership any time you get inspired with the reality of a great human need. Your chief injunction here would be not to allow yourself to be led into too much sacrifice for your own good. Always try to see that you are taking yourself along with the big Idea and receiving your own compensation as well. Amelia Earhart Is a good example of what I mean by connecting your labors with the reward of those labors. Amelia B. Barr, the novelist might also be cited as one who had suc-ceeded tn the eyes of the world. & 1IS. Western Newspaper Union.) Tyjo Familiar Signatures ' G ft f" 'S' Handiwork of President Hoover Indians Autographs g. I' VAjSfc, ' m mm 4l mSr TheHigJ.estlVicedAutmpKon.lcord AMVSv PM to further which object I send you a copy ot th. LfTf'it U JJ apeeili by this mail. p. T ; V J , , ' 1 .J Kor old acquaintance-- . If for nothln else, be fe, V!Jff- - I 'tf lure to write me on receiving thin. I wae very ," fVga t 'if "Ui1x3 to tell you that on my belnn. In- - I- f $ J ff Lduced'to Genl. Quitman and telling him 1 was Itt jj , A' & J from Bprinnllold. Illinois, he at one. remarked i ?UwiV & v J "Then you are acquainted with my valued friend I 7 kSTS Ml" t 21 Hewett of Natchea," and on being assured 1 waa, ht , a! 4 f L?1 he sild lust such things about you as 1 like to I 'vxT ' bear said about my own valued frli-nd- iW ,v" I, t Hrt'& tWv V rours as ever, k L?Ci K Joaephu. Hewett. E-- 0, A. LINCOLN. wTJgi j It Is doubtful If the "long, black fellow" who orfrz' writes thus modestly of himself realized at the and of this number not more than half a dosen have ever been available for purchase by collec-tors. The reason that there are not more Is due to the fact that he was killed in a duel In 177T. about a year after his signing the Declaration made him one of America's Immortals. Back In 1880, according to Mr. Madlgan, a But-ton Gwinnett autograph sold for only $185. But that was long before autograph collecting became so popuhir and took on a "big business" tinge. Forty years later, on January 19. 19?6, Col. James IL Manning offered at auction his complete set of autographs of the signers and his Button Gwin-nett signature (as a witness to a will), the first ever sold at a public sale, brought $22,500. The total collection realized the sum of $40,689. In May of the same year another Gwinnett from the Dr. George 0. V. William collection sold for $19,-00- 0 and a "cut out" signature brought $10,500. But that was just the beginning of the GInnett boom. Not long afterwards Mrs. Arthur W. Swann of New York, who had read of those prices, re-membered that she had inherited some old letters from her ancestors and had stored them care-lessly among some old sheet music and books tn a closet. She began to Investigate and fonnd among the letters the "third bond" mentioned In the records of the Gwinnett estate by Its executor. This signature sold for $28,500. But the end was not yet In March, 1927, a let-ter, signed by Button Gwinnett and five other signers of the Declaration, was sold for $51.0001 It was the first letter ever found bearing the Gwinnett signature, the other examples of his autograph being from official documents. This let-ter was found by John Cecil Clay of New York among a mass of old papers that had been stored In an outbuilding at Mamaroneck for many years. Hearing of the high prices being paid for Gwin-nett signatures, he remembered that there was one among the papers stored on his property. So be went through them until he discovered the precious document. And two days after the dis-covery the building in which the autograph had remained so long took fire and burned to the ground I But talk of such sky-hig- prices does not mean that tt is Impossible for the average person to obtain autographs of famous people If he so de-sires. The signatures of any number of celebr-itiesPresidents, generals, authors, poets, sctors. statesmen, sculptors, artists, singers. Inventors, explorers, etc. can be obtained anywhere from 50 cents each to $5.00 and it Is possible to buy , Utters which they have written from $1.50 up to $25 or $50, depending upon the historic Interest which the letters contain and the rarity of such letters, For those are the two factors which usu-ally determine the value of an autograph. Mere prominence or great popularity of the writer does not always give value to an autograph. Not long ago a manuscript written by Joseph Rodman Drake, a minor American poet of the Eighteenth By ELMO SCOTT WAT80N inn usiTORS at the White House, since V Herbert Hoover became President have often commented upon the fact mmmum that while the Chief Executive listens to whnt they have to say he busies ? himself with a pencil, drawing a series X, of various geometrical designs upon fiS scraps of paper. Usually, when the Interview Is concluded, he crumples up the paper and tosses It Into a J wastehasket Recently, however, one Visitor rescued such a puper from the basket and asked the President to autograph It which he smilingly did. He probably did not real-ize that this scrap of paper had any particular value, but the result was that the visitor sold It for whnt la described as "a fair portion of the Presidential salary." It now holds an honored ' place tn the collection of Thomas F. Madlgan of New York, an authority on autographs, who says It Is the most unusual signature ever to come out of the White House. But this Is only one of the many Interesting Items which have passed through Mr. Madlgan's hands during his long career as autograph col-lector and dealer. The fruit of that career Is a book, published recently by the Frederick A. Stokes company, to which he has given the appro-priate title of "Word Shadows of the Great" with a sub-titl- e which tells of "The Lure of Auto-graph Collecting." Autographs are truly "word shadows," reflecting the personalities of the men and women who wrote them and often revealing their very souls and for this reason autograph collecting Is one of the most fascinating hobbles known to mankind. What American would not be thrilled to have in his possession a letter written by George Washington, or by Thomas Jefferson, by Andrew Jackson or by Abraham Lincoln or somo other great man? Yet many such letters, often throw-ing new light on some Important event tn our history, have been In Mr. Madlgan's possession before they became Inshrined In the collection of some autograph enthusiast For Instance, there " is the letter written by Washington to Governor Clinton of New York from bis headquarters at Morrlstown, at a time when the dawn was Just beginning to break for the great commander of the fmt!neiitnl army after five dark years of what seemed at times a hopeless struggle. It was glorious news which this letter bore, news that the aid from tha French was soon to come, and It Is easy to Imagine Washington's elation as he penned these lines: Morrlstown, May Uth. 17J0. Dear Sin I have tha happiness to Inform your Excellency, that th Marquis Da LaFayatta has brought th Intelligence of a French fleet A rmir which was to aall from Franc early In April for th Continent to with ua. He la on on to Congress, and meaaurea will. It la to b hoped, b Immediately taken by them to ut our. aelvea In a altuatlon to derlv th advantag from this auoeeur, which with proper exertion, w hav a right to expect Tou will be sensible thai ther will be a neces-sity for th concurrences of th Legislatures of th different Biatee In providing men and sup. plies. As I am Informed your Assembly Is now sitting, and may probably be about rising; aa th determination of Congress may not arrive In tlm to prevent Its adlournment I have thought It proper to give thla Intimation In confidence that you may keep them together. If they one sep-arate It will b Impossible to reassemble them In tlm to answer our purposes; and It la of In-finite Importance that they should be assembled. A thla antlclpatea CongreBS. It Is of cours only Intended for your private Information, and la not to b officially made us of to th Assembly. In th Intended to whatever point It may b directed, w ahall atand In need of all the Continental force we can collect On thla principle, I wish to hav th regiment at Fort Schuyler relieved: and ahall be glad your Excel-lency will b pleaeed to order two hundred and fifty men, of th 800 raised by permission of Con- - gress, aa speedily as possible, to that Post I pro-p- as to lesv Lieut Col. Van Dyck. and om good Sergeants Is th garrison to arrange th Nw Corps, ft perform th duties with vlgllaneed propriety. It Is my wish that the officer who oommanda th MO men ahould be Inferior In rank to Lt Colo. Van Dyck, aa he Is, I am told, an attentive diligent officer, and th command may be safely reposed In him. t am with th greatest respt. ft affection, Tr. Bxcelya Most Obed. ft Hble. Servt O. WASHINGTON. Bis Excel?. Govr. Clinton. "Had I never read the Inspiring story of Uo coin progress from the log. eabSa-t- e- Che vPhlte House, I believe 1 could still obtain a Just con-- v. ception of his Immortal character from his let- - ' ters." says Mr. Madlgan. Few letters of Lincoln are more reflective of his simple modesty and aound Judgment than the letter written during bis single term as member of congress." The letter to which be refers reads: Washington Feb. 13, 1141 Dear Hewett: Your Whig representative from Mississippi, P. W. Tompkins, haa Just ahown me a letter of youra to him. I am iealous because you did not write to me Perhaps you have forgotten me. Don't you remember a long black fellow who rod on horee-toto-with you from Tremont to 8prlngf)e!d nearly ten years ago. swimming your horses over the Mackanaw on the trip? Well. I am that same old fellow yet I waa one ot your opinion, xpressed In your letter, that presidential electora ahould b dis-pensed with; but a mors thorough knowledge of i th causes that first Introduced them haa mad m doubt These causea were briefly these The Convention that framed the Constitution had this difficulty: the small state wished to ao form the new Government aa that they might be equal to the large ones regardless of the Inequalltj of pop-ulation: the large ones Insisted on equality In to population They compromised It by basing th House of Representatives on popula-tion and th Senate on Statea regardlesa of popu-lation: and th executive on both principles, by electors In each atate equal in number to her sen-ator and representative. Now. throw away th. machinery of electora and th compromise Is brok-e- o to the principle of th. up end the whole yielded large Statea. There la one thing more. In the Slav states you have representatives, and con-sequently, electors, partly upon the basl of youi black population, which would be swept away bj th chang you think deairabl. Hav you vi reflected on these thingaT - But to com to the main point I wish you to know that 1 have made a speech In Congress and that I want you to be d by reading It; time that In less than twenty years he would be enshrined tn the hearts of his countrymen. Cer-tainly, he would have been the most surprised person In the world If some one had told him tbut three-quarte- of a century after he wrote " that letter, It would be sold for more than $300. Yet such was the case, for such letters as Wash-ington's and Lincoln's quoted Above command prices ranging from $500 upwards. As recently as 1807 autographs of Washington and Lincoln could be obtained for $10 or $12. But In the Inst quarter of a century the Increasing popularity of autograph collecting and the entrance of wealthy men into the field has materially Increased prices generally and now the simple "G. Washington" and "A, Lincoln" signatures sell in the hundreds ot dollars. More than that the discovery of a new letter or document signed by such men as Washington, Jef-ferson and Lincoln Is halied as an Item of Impor-tant news, as witness the following news story printed only recently: Richmond, Vs. Th autograph of George Wash-ington, who adopted and endowed Augusta Acad-emy, which became Waahlngton and Le Unlvr-att- y. Is Inscribed In on of four old book recently turned over to be catalogued tn th university li-brary at Lexington, Va. Washington's autograph Is found on th first page of Small's "The Beauties ot Johnson." "Th Lord's Supper." the bound orders Issued th gen-eral division brtgad by Ua commander tn the War of 1811, and a bound volume of a year" copies from August 1S0S, to August H07 of th Vir-ginia Telegraph, an early Lexington newspaper d-- tu and printed by Samuel Walkup, ar th other books turned over to th library. Th copy of 'Th Beautlea of Johnaon," published In London In 1782, now In th unlvralty library ther, is a collection of maxims and observatlona. Beaidea Washington's autograph. It alao bears that of Mary La Cuatia, Mrs. Robert K. Le's mother. This book was In 1894 presented th university by O. W. Custis Le, who succeeded his father as president ot Washington College. Considerable space was devoted In New York newspapers recently to the fact that a New York collector of Americana had acquired an extensive collection of letters by John Adams, Thomas Jef-ferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Qulncy Adams and others. The most Important were sixteen Jsffetson letters, only four of which had ever been published. The concluding para-graphs of the n newspaper story about these letters reads s follows: On of th letters which haa been published Is one of the most Interesting that haa ever passed through th hands of Mr. Madlgan during his twenty-fiv- e years In th autograph business, he said In a tew aentences Mr. Jefferson clarified whatever doubt may hav been In the mind of his correspondent about th authorship of th Declara-tio- n of Independence. In part Jefferson wrot: "Tour statements of th corrections of th Dec-laration of Independence by Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams ar neither of them at all exact I should think It better to say generally that th rough draught waa communicated to thes two gentle-men, who. each, mad I or I short verbal altera-tlon- s only, but even thla Is laying mors stress on mere composition than It merits; for that alon was mine; the sentiment were of all America. While lt" would seem that the autograph letters " v of the earlier Presidents would bring higher prices than those of the later executives, such is ' not always the case. For the typewriter has had Its Influence on autograph bunting. Washington's and Lincoln's voluminous correspondence was all handwritten, but the letters of the last three or tour Presidents have been dictated to stenogra-phers, written on the typewriter and one cannot always be sure whether the slgnnture at the bot-tom of the letter Is by the President himself or by some secretary or clerk. One of the rarest of all autograph collector's Items, it Is mid. Is a letter written In long hand by Warren G. Hard-ing, and a similar one by Calvin Coolldge Is near ly as rare. Being rare, they therefore command a price which will equal that asked for the let-ters of some of the earlier Presidents and com-pare favorably with the prices of Washington and Lincoln letters. At a recent sale a Washing ton letter brought $150. the same price that was paid for a Harding letter In the President's own handwriting. But when the matter of price In connection with autographs Is mentioned, there is one classic example which overshadows all other valuable signatures. The man himself was comparatively unknown to most Americans until the signature broke all autograph price records. True, he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but It might be possible to get a complete set of auto-- ' graphs of the signers (with the exception of this , one man) If you were willing to pay from $500 to $2,000 for It Hut If you wish to make It com-plete by adding the name of Button Gwinnett of Georgia to the names of the other 55. It may cost you from $30,000 to $50,000 more. For the slguature of Button Gwinnett Is one of ' the rarest of all known autographs, there being not more than twemy known to be tn existence century, sold for $086, whereas an original manu-script of the famous English poet, Swinburne, brought only $170. The prince of Wales is one of the most popular figures In the world today bnt his letters sell for only $25. , It Is not often that a celebrity "cashes In" on the value of his autograph while he Is still liv-ing. Yet that was true of two fnmous Indian chiefs, Sitting Bull of the Sioux and Oeronlmo of the Apaches. After Sitting Bull had returned from his exile tn Canada In the "808 he learned to write his name and upon Joining Buffalo Bill s Wild West show did a thriving business selling his autographs for $1.50 nplece. Gnronlmo. the Apache lender, also learned to print his name after his davs on the warpath were over, and t the World's fair In St Louis In 1004 he was kept nusy printing his signature fr"25 cents cash. Capt Jack Crawford, the "Poet Scout." who guided some of tha soldiers when they were try-ing to round np the Apaches In the old doys. tells with some amusement of visiting Oeronlmo at and how the old chief, upon seeing Craw-ford In the crowd, promptly suggested that the price to him would be 50 cents. The autograph of the third Indian (shown above) Is of specinl Interest because of his Insist-ence upon prefixing the word "Christian" to his name whenever he wrote It Nnlche (or Natchez) was the hereditary chief of the Chlrlcuhua Apaches and a lieutenant of Geronlmo In the long series of Apnohe wars In the Southwest. But after he surrendered and was settled down as a prisoner of war at Fort Sill. Okln.. he accepted the Christian religion and took great pride In this evidence that he was "traveling the white man's road." In that connection It Is Interesting to note that just a short time before he wrote the auto-graph reproduced above he discovered that the elder of his two wives was Jealous of the younger So to cure her he shot her through the knees a somewhat curious manifestation of Chrlstlas spirit I ... lift IfLi The lliltt : --r - : IBB : H "lv AH children re subjed fo littld rTSyStw'ceU.r.erio eofe or diarrhea, yield, to tK. fate deaSof night But there's soothing influence of Castoria. Sparltion can't farm thorniest whose tongue is coated or whose . infant mild as it is, it soothes breath is bad. Continue wiin ess? Castoria until the child is grown I arestf frrt ul baby 1 Lke nothing tha de Its quick relief soon sees the Every drugstc has Castor; comfortable once more, genuine has Chas. "-- J gto sleep. Even an attack signature on the wrapper. I DR. CLAIRE M. GOULEY Specializing In tmlmenl of diseases by electricity diathermy, leotro-mneU- o ribralioa. Outline end lufra Red ray. 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It just isn't donel I would like to urge any one, whether they think I I IRobertO.Dem.n III they are in good health or not, to give Nujol a try-ou- t. It certainly can't do any harm, and I'll bet it would make them feel a hundred per cent better. It's worth trying!" Mr. Deming has just about told dollars. Do you know how many thousands of people keep themselves well and bappy just by using Nujol? Why shouldn't you feel well all tha time? You can! Get yourself a botti of Nujol today 1 Sentenced for Life , "Gosh, Smith was certainly unlucky In his divorce suit" "How's that?" "Why, he got the custody of the mother-ln-law.- " Both Singular and Plural Mr. Longwed There's something singular about the Turks. His Wile What's that? Mr. Longwed They practice plural marriages. Detroit News. Dogs' Teeth Money Perhaps the strangest system of cur-rency yet discovered among primitive peoples I that used by the Solomon islanders late In the last century. Dogs' teeth were the gold of the system, and only two teeth from any one dog were acceptable as legal tender. These were drilled through for stringing, and the more wealthy natives sometimes owned long necklaces of them. Ten teeth paid for a good quality wife, while a mod-erately fine young man could be bought at a slightly cheaper rate. Inventor Honored In the public square at Bardstown, Ky., Is a monument to Lieut John Fitcn as the inventor of the steam-boat By a unanimous vote the United States senate and house approved on February 12, 1026. an appropriation of $15,000 for a suitable monument to Lieutenant Fitch. This memorial was unveiled with Impressive ceremonies on May 25. 1027. Man Is a pretty worthy biped. He must be, to Inspire such whole-hearte- d affection In the dog. s Mush and milk parties should be ... L given to popularize that neglected dlsb. . , Bear as Climbers Most species of bear climb trees, al-though they do It in a slow, lumbering fashion. When they descend they usually come down hindquarters first Their chief object In climbing trees is to obtain fruit or honey. Evens Up "The law of averages provides." said HI Ha the sage of Chinatown, "that be who speaks with anger may be compiled to listen tn humility." Washington Star. |