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THE OLD STORY. They stood beside the fence that ran Between their fathers' farms. He leaned upon tho topmost rail His strong and brawny arms. Her shoulder just came up to them. A slender maid was she. Yet that she ruled that stalwart youth. Was very plain to see. Ah, earnestly he spoke to her. The burning words he said She seemed to hear and heed, and yet She lifted not her head. For on some daisies in her hand Her eyes were fixed, and these She plucked to pieces one by one And cast upon the breeze. ^ As tho last leaf she plucked and flung It on the wind, she'turned Her eyes to his and saw the love Within their depths that burned, And then at last she seemed to cast All doubt, all fear aside. Her love sho did confess and gavo Her troth to be bis bride. / .Over the fence he lightly leaped And clasped her to his breast. And to her cheek, that brightly burned, His glowing lips he pressed. Then, as tho sunset's rosy glow Brightened the peaceful land, With happy hearts toward her home . They wandered hand in hand. Her father in the doorway stood As they came up the walk, Indifferent to all around, Absorbed, in sweetest talk. He knew what suit his neighbor's son Would make to him and smiled. For ever had he wished that he Should wed his darling child. And when the young man, stammering, asked If he might wed the maid The old man in her lover's hand His daughter's gently laid. The kindly words he uttered filled With joy the lover's heart, And to each other pledged two lives That only death could part. -New York Ledger. THE SELECT'S FALL: "I do hope, my dear, that she is not one of those dreadful new wom en." "I trust not, indeed." The dean of Chirchester peppered his chop with a thoughtful air, and Mrs. Carberry poured out his tea with a hand which absolutely shook with apprehension. Chirchester was a cathedral town which had' not traveled apace with the rest of the world. It disapproved even of ten nis, except when played mildly on private grounds, and had played croquet steadily when croquet was dead, with a lordly disregard for the guests' amusement Now that it had come in again they played it i joyfully, but still with the old light mallets and wide hoops of their youth; The mothers of Chirchester read the new library books with horror stricken looks and little trickles of guilty enjoyment Crick et hunting and the new "biking" were things their daughters might not do. Riding gently along the roads was ladylike and permissible, but the archdeacon's wife actually blushed when a thoughtless person asked her what safety habit her daughter wore, for Louisa Holroy d's pretty figure was hidden in an am ple garment made by the local tai lor, the skirt of which came well below her deepest grievance, her tiny buttoned boots. The archdea con's wife was the sternest and most unbending of the "select," as the country people dubbed the church circle. i The bishop and his fat, merry wife had no children and were given to laughing leniently at the vagaries of the new woman. So it fell on the archdeacon and the dean to keep the select circle together, and, though there was a twinkle in the handsome dean's eye and a swing of his broad shoulders which hinted ie had sometimes played brighter games than croquet, that, as Rud yard Kipling would say, wat$"an other story," and, so far, hi and the archdeacon had been equal to j their task. Today the dean was disturbed as he looked at an open letter on the table. The letter was from a cousin who was obliged to go abroad for an indefinite time on business and had written asking the dean if he would give his only daughter a home during his absence. "A bright, pleasant girl ; I feel sure you would like her as a companion to your own girl, " and if the dean consented she j was to come in a week. How could j he say no? He was to be liberally j paid for his guest, and her father was an old friend; he must write to gay he should be delighted. i "lam glad," sadd Mrs. Carberry nervously, "that Cissie is away; very glad. Moretea, dear?" And in sheer absence of mind she watered the teapot from the hot milk jug and handed a cup of the strange liquid to the dean, who looked at it resignedly and rose, for he was an equably tempered man. "Yes," he said, "it is an excellent thing, for then, if the girl is at all advanced, there will be time to get her into our ways before Cissie re turns." A week later. The dean and Mrs. Carberry stepped nervously forward as the mail thundered in from Lon don and discharged its living freight on the platform ; then their eyes lit joyously on a girl clad in the quiet est of traveling costumes, who was evidently their gues?. "You are Helen Adair?" "Ah, yes, and you are Mrs. Car berry ?" The girl held out her hand, dexterously evading the affectionate peck which the elder lady would have bestowed on her. She was a tall, slim girl, with big, mischie vious gray eyes and peculiarly dainty hands and feet "Would you see to my things for me, Mr. Dean? Here is tho list." And she vanished in the crowd. The dean made his way to the luggage jompartment and bad just finished his task when Helen's voice sounded sweet and low at his elbow. "Everything's there, I see. Would you get a special messenger to wheel this up. or shall I rideit:" She had lier hand on a smart bicycle, wmen she was rolling tenderly through the crowd. If the box next to him had not been a wicker one, the dean would have sat on it and gasped. As it was he gasped standing. "My dear, a bicycle!" he said weakly. A bicycle in the innermost circle of the select 1 Helen Adair caught the stony de spair in Mrs. Carberry's eyes and saw the dean's flushed cheeks, and her eyes danced suddenly as sho took in the situation.' "Don't you ride one, [either of you?" she said sweetly. "Perhaps I'd better ride it up. I'm very proud of it." A girl on a bicycle following the deanery carriage! The dean gasped again and gave some hasty orders to a porter, and Helen was bundled into the wagonette, her eyes looking somewhat anxiously back at her precious wheel. Between her natural kindliness and her horror at receiving a new woman into her home Mrs. Carberry spent a restless evening, for they sopn gathered that Helen hunted and fished and shot, and yet she spoke of none of those things, but drew the dean into an animated dis cussion on the Transvaal question at dinner and told Mrs. Carberry of the latest things in chiffons after ward. The dean could not help thinking he had not spent such a pleasant evening for a long time, and Mrs. Carberry would have agreed with him had it not been for the metal steed reposing in the front hall. As it was she thought of the austere archdeacon and his wife, of Mrs. Green, the doctor's wife and others, and she sighed occasionally. Mrs. Holroyd hastened to call next day and came in with height ened color, having passed the wheel ed monster in the hall. "You must put your foot down," she said sternly, drowning some weak defense of Mrs. Carberry as to every one riding now. "Remem ber, my dear, no half measures. She must not use it here." Then Helen came in, and matters might have run smoothly bad they not begun to discuss with bated breath one of the newest books, and Helen joined in carelessly. "It's rather clever," she said. Mrs. Holroyd dropped her glasses with a clatter. You-have-read -that-book?" she said, dropping each word out slowly. "Oh, yes!" Helen smiled. "It is a very ordinary book, you know. 1 rather agree with the authoress." Mrs. Holroyd rose slowly. Sh? could only show how shocked she was by withdrawing her stately presence. "No, thank you, Mrs. Carberry," she said, "I cannot stay for tea this evening. Good after noon, Miss Adair. I cannot under stand what your father must hav? been thinking of to allow you even to hear that book's name." And, not without an.inkling that her last sentence was slightly overdrawn, she withdrew, leaving Helen to laugh greatly at her antiquated ideas. And cowardly Mrs. Carberry I forgot to defend her. There gradually came a rift from that time among the select ; the girls murmured openly because they w er a notaUowed to ride bicycles; they groaned enviously when they saw Helen's numerous tennis prizes. And Lomea Holroyd was said tc have wept bitterly when she saw Helen riding in a smart covert coat ing habit and caught a glimpse oi the neat "tops" which just showed below the skirt. The elders, tc quell the rebellion, were strictei even than usual to their daughters and prided themselves more than ever on their customs not being as other men's. Mrs. Carberry was "at home" tc the surrounding country and town; croquet was being played on the trimly kept lawn, archery, bowls, even Aunt Sally in a faraway cor ner, where shouts of unseemiy laughter were smothered by sur rounding shrubs. Every one had come, the day was cloudless, and Mrs. Carberry felt it was all a tre mendous success. Nearly every one had gone in to ?ea, ?al y Helen and two flannel clad young men were on the croquet lawn, aimlessly hitting the balls about They had voted the tearoom too hot to bear. "Stupid game, isn't it?" said one of the men, us he missed a hoop and hit the ball away in disgust. "Yes,isn'tit?"saidHelen. "And," regretfully, "what a lovely cricket ground it would makel I haven't played for ages-no one does here." "Oh, lots of the country girls do. Look here, I came on from a cricket practica I've bats and 'a ball stuck in the trees over there. Let's have up these hoops and I'll bowl to you." Helen was delighted and in a mo ment walking sticks and an umbrel la represented the wickets, and Hel en was hitting distinctly easy balls in all directions. The dean's portly figure appeared at the end of the walk. He stood still, amazed. "Cricket, Helen !" he exclaimed, laughing. "If Mrs. Holroyd saw you ! Have you seen a parasol any where? Old Lady Darner sent me to look for hers; it's all real lace, and she's anxious about it." "No, I haven't. I say, Uncle Jos -she had long ago said Mr. Dean was too formal-bowl me a ball. Tliey can't get me out," nodding contemptuously at the two officers. A distinctly ungrateful speech, con sidering they had only been too grateful to leave her in. The dean's fingers closed mechan ically on the leather covered 1mlI which Captain Elton handed to The trim lawn faded away, ar heard again the triumphant ye] his side at Oxford, when, with victory apparently a certainty the others, he had bowled three for three balls and left his side ; tors by two runs. He stepped < fully up to the walking stick w marked the second wicket, flou: ed his arm once cr twice and b ed. It was a nasty, slow ball, bi ing in, and Helen's off stump i down with a crash. "What a splendid ball!" exe! ed the two men, and Helen clam j for more, "for practice. " The ( laughed triumphantly. Then H suddenly exclaimed: "Let's ha match, Uncle Jos Church ve i State. I'm sure we could beat tl two." And before the dean k where he was they had tossed going in, and he found himself bi iBg vigorously at Captain El who, armed with a rake handle, at the wickets. "It is very hot," he gasped, i looking round guiltily, he quic flung his coat on the grass and 1 to catch a ball which Captain E! had returned to him. Then he st appalled, for the bishop's vi came to his ears, and, turning, saw tho bishop and his wife sta ing close behind him. "Crick( The bishop's pale, intellectual i was full of laughter as he saw dean, coatless and breathless, fly for the ball. "I thought this i striotly forbidden. " "Oh. my lord, come and ump We want one badly," called Helen, quite unabashed, and dean, who had stood still, hor stricken, picked up the ball ag when he saw the lenient express on the episcopal face, and saw bishop move in to umpire, wi Mrs. Howard sat down on a bei and absolutely shook with me: ment Cricket in the dean's g den 1 It was too amusing, j By dint of what Helen called p ing, the two soldiers had made runs, and then Helen took her ph at the wiokets. She was really fair lady crioketer, and, as field* were scarce, she ran up the score ll in a few minutes, retiring wit] cry of disgust as Captain Ell caught her out cleverly with his 1 hand.. "Now, Mr. Dean," the bisho; wife called out impatiently, as t dean stood hesitating. "Go i there's no one else to see." i And the dean went in. A ra handle is not the best of bats, t the dean made a mighty smi caught the ball on the half voile and away it went over all thi heads into a clump of bushes. On< twice, thrice did the dean fly to t stick and ? back-his breath w gone, his face was scarlet-fo I times. \ "I can't go again, " he gasped pi eously. "You must!" Helen had set h heart on winning. "One more ai we win; run, Uncle Jos, run I" B the delay was almost fatal, for, the dean turned to run back, Ca tain Elton flung in tho ball. "Eun on 1" cried the bishop's wif "Oh Ido hurry." "Out!" cried Mr. Ely, bangii down a walking stick, j "Oh, no; in I" said Helen, j The dean had no breath to argi with. "In or out, my lord?" The riva appealed both together to the bishoj who was holding bis sides as l laughed; but, then what a sight mi their eyes ' as they turned. Ti whole of the dean's large part stood looking on, on the edge of tb ground, led by Mrs. Holroyd, an what had ' they seen as they cam up? The dean, their dean, flying coatless and hatless, up and dowi playing cricket in the sacred pr? cinctsof the deanery, and the bisho cheering him and laughing. Roy could the select ever hold tip thei heads again, and before all th country, too-the country whio they had so often lectured on its ad vanced ways ? Mrs. Holroyd look? round in stony despair, words tha were too bitter to utter trembled OJ her lips. I The dean hurriedly picked up hi coat and hid as much of his breath I less person inside it as was possible The bishop had decided he was fairly I in, so his triumph enabled him t< face without flinching the glare ii the eyes of his circle and his wife'i piteous face. "My parasol, Mr. Dean?" sah Lady Darner smiling; "you appen: to have forgotten it." "I am so sorry," stammered th? j dean. "It wasn't hore, and I" j Lady Darner put up her pince ne: doubtfully. "I really believe," shi said, "yes, indeed-why, you wen using it as a wicket, " and she fishec the middle stump, which was adorn ed with lace, out of the ground. j Mrs. Carberry groaned audibly. ! "It was my fault, " exclaimed Hel en. "I never looked at it." "Never mind, my dear," said'tin old lady, laughing, "you must corn? out and play cricket with my grand children. We'll get up a match Mrs. Carberry, as you don't obj ec to cricket now. Let me see, sha! we say next weok-Thursday ?" ant Mrs. Carberry said, "Yes." j The fall of the select was com pleto, for they picked sides ant played more cricket that samo after noon-minns tho dean-Mrs. Hol royd accepted her defeat and was silent even when Alicia Holroyd an I nounced openly that she must conn np tu try a ride <m Helen's bicycle. Only Louisa Holroyd sat away alic spoke no rebellious words, but sin was deciding what color her new habil would bo and whether sin would buy brown top boots or black. A GERMAN HOUSEBOAT. The Views That Greet a Traveler on the Ki vcr Havel. Imagine a broad flat bottomed boat 100 feet long with a house upon it ! In the bow is a good sized saloon or sitting room, with ten windows five on each side-and a, door, half glass, leading to an awning shaded deck. From the saloon one looks down a corridor, so long and so nar row that one almost expects to see ninepins at the far end. The cabins are on each side. In the stern are a pantry and a tiny kitchen. One cabin is devoted to clothes, hanging on hooks and lying folded on the unused berths ; in another is a large bathtub, utilized only as a place in which to store wine and soda water bottles. The clear river water on all sides is so enticing to bathers that tubs are not wanted. The river Havel is full of lovely surprises. It widens out into quiet lakes fringed with rushes, whero water birds chirp and whistle, build their nests and rear their young. The shore is thickly wooded with alders, white birches, limes and towering fir trees, whose somber crowns even the sunlight can scarce ly brighten, though it reddens their slender boles till at sunset they gleam like copper. The acacias are in^ull bloom at this season. Their pure white blossoms hang high out of reaoh and fling such a wealth of fragrance on the air that one thinks of the lemon and orange groves of the south. Flat, sandy Brandenburg has no lovelier spot than the coun try surrounding Potsdam. The neighborhood is full of palaces Babelsberg, beloved by the old em peror; the marble palace, where William II lived as crown prince; Sans Souci, on which Frederick the Great lavished so much care and treasure; the new palace, whioh the same Frederick built to prove that the Seven Years' war had not ex hausted his resources; the house on the Pfauen insel (Peacock island), which Queen Louise loved, and Glie nicke, now inhabited by Prince Leo-, poid, the cousin of the emperor, who married the emperor's sister. Near all these interesting dwell ings, on a lakelike expanse in the midst of the charming balsamy woods, floats the anchored boat house, swinging in the breeze, until to the inhabitants it seems as if she had left her moorings and had start ed on a voyage of exploration. The quiet is broken only by the singing of birds, and the persistent croak of the frogs which hide in the rushes. - Harper's Bazar. The Many Bibles. It is "estimated that at the begin ning of the present century not more than 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 copies of the Scriptures were in ex istence in the whole world. I have seen no estimate as to the number of copies probably in existence at the present time, but in one year, 1888, alone, the statistics for which happen to be at hand, the number .of copies issued considerably exceed ed the ff,OOftOOQ which were possibly in existence in the" whole world in 1800. In the decade preceding this year, 1878-88, the number pub lished in various languages is given as having been about 34,000,000 some six times-'the whole number in existence when the century began. It is certain that the number of copies now existing must be num bere?\_ by the hundred millions. ?*r?m the rooms of the British and Foreign Bible society in London alone are sent forth daily from 5,000 to 7,000 copies, to which must be added the copies issued from all their subordinate depots in various lands, and the issues of the Ameri can Bible society, and of several other lesser bodies; so that there cent statement is quite credible which puts the whole number of copies of the Scriptures issued since the century began as over 404,000, 000.-Church at Home and Abroad. The Power of Cannon La Nature contains a short note in which the horsepower of a cannon is calculated. An Italian cannon of 100 tons, with a charge of 560 pounds of powder and a shot weighing about 2,000 pounds, will give an in itial velocity of 523 meters per sec ond. The length of time during which the power acts is less than one-hundredth of a second, from which it follows that the horsepower developed is about 17,0,00,000. The writer adds that after about 100 shots the cannon is put out of serv ice, and its total actiVe life is there fore only one second. In large modern cannon the horsepower runs as high as 24,000,000. If the writer had carried out these calculations still further, he would have found that, after all, this 24,000,000 horse power does not represent a large amount of energy, as it would be just sufficient to run 31 incandescent lamps for only one day. Bis Money's Worth. "What ever induced you to marry such a big man?" "Well, he married me for my money, so I wanted to get my mon ey's worth. "-Detroit Freo Press. A Ringer* She had no bell. At the crosswalk a stalwart police man awaited her coming. What could she doi As the full measure of her peril dawned upon her slio let go of the handle bar and wrung her hands. Then the policeman smiled and passed on.-Cycling Gazette. Sume author tells us that "much is said about the tongue." True, thc thing is in everybody's mouth? MODERN ARMIES. Their Largeneas Has a Tendency to Make Them Immobile. We are by no means sure that ar mies at the end of the nineteenth century are not to some extent in j the condition of the armies of the last few years of the eighteenth cen tury. No doubt the modern generals are, or, shall we say seem, less sleepy headed than the old bewig ged Austrians and Prussians, though they, it must be remembered, were in their day reckoned men of science. But at the same time we suspect that a good deal of our modern military organization has become stiff arid unpractical. We shall be told, no doubt, that the Prussian army went like clockwork in lo'?0, but we must be allowed to doubt whether the clockwork is quite as good now as it was then, in spite of appearances. 1 Besides, Prussia had just the very ? force opposed to her in 1870 against ? which good clockwork would be sure to prevail-a piece of bogus military mechanism. Whether Prus sia would have had as easy a victory . if some Frenchman had arisen capa ble of organizing and using a really mobile force of 60,000 men is anoth er question. It is possible that such a spearhead stuck into the clock I work might have done a great deal I of damage. That, however, is spec I ulation. What we do know is that j the Prussian army was a splendid ; fighting organism at the end of the Seven Years1 war, and that at Jena, some 40 years after, it proved utter ? ly unable to meet Napoleon's quick, fierce assault. In spite, then, of the magnificent organization of the present Euro I pean armies and of their vast size, , i we believe it to be quite possible ? that some new Alexander may arise j who will organize a new method of . fighting which, for a time, at any rate, may bring all their far stretch ed greatness to ruin. Of course such a genius in the art of war may nev er get to the front, but that his op- ? portunity exists in the present bloat ed armaments we have no sort of doubt. Yet, it will be said, how about the big battalions? All military au I thorities agree that in the end, and j considering that the European na I tions are practically equal in cour I age and morale, the way to win a battle is to confront five men of the I enemy with eight, or, if possible, j . ten, men of your own. That proves ' that the big armies will always beat the small? By no means. It is be cause we entirely and absolutely ac quiesce in the big battalions theory -"Providence is on the side of the big battalions," was Napoleon's dic tum-that we hold that small and properly organized mobile armies will beat the huge, unwieldy armies I that the modern European strate gists contemplate putting into,the field. Remember, your big battal ; ions must confront the little battal ion not on paper, but on the ground ; hence, if a body of 20,000 men can be swiftly and suddenly confronted with a body of 40,000, the big bat talions rule is on the side of the 40,000. The fact that the 20,000 be long to an organization which has a couple of hundred thousand men behind it does not matter. Unless the 200,000 men are available at the moment they do not count. An extremely mobile army, ready ' to spring first in one direction and then in another, is quite capable of i beating an army three or four times its size and beating it always by having a substantial majority of combatants in every actual engage ment. Of course the big army may be so splendidly organized that it will be quite as mobile, if not more mobile, than the small army. In that case the small army will be swallowed whole. All we contend is that the hugeness of the European armies tends to make them immo bile and that, therefore, it is always possible that some clever invention i in the direction of intense mobility j may give victory to a small aud ap I parentlynot particularly well found army in other respects.-London Spectator. - Th? Bravest of the Brave. Holding the baby in his left arm while he grasped his saber with his right, Captain Highuchi marched to ! tue capture of the next fort, receiv ing at one time a bullet through his I cap. The fort was taken in gallant style, the baby meanwhile looking j on in wondering surprise at the din and uproar of the battle, perfectly content to rest on the kind hearted , captain's shoulder. When all was j over this gallant officer gave his tiny charge to some of his troopers, who bore the child in safety to a Chinese house in a village hard by. -"Heroic Japan." Before Jenner. For inoculating the Russian em press and her son Paul against smallpox in 1768 Baron Dimsdale received $50,000 as a fee, $10,000 for expenses and an annuity of $2,500, while, in addition to all this, he was granted the title of baron. This was just 30 years before Jenner's discovery of vaccination, for which parliament granted him $150,000 al together. What Saves lt. . Mr. Snaggs-Rainmaking would be a lost art but for one thing. Mrs. Snaggs-What is that? Mr. Snaggs-It never had been found. - Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. His Speech Betrayed lliui. He_My friend is opposed to every thing English. She-Yes. 1 noticed that in his conversation.-Yonkers Statesman. A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA. The Keveline of the June Fish on the Blanket Fish Was Complete. "Speaking about fish," said the retired angler, who, sated with a long and varied experience, told odd and wonderful tales of fish and fish ermen when seated in some friend ly cafe, "one of the oddest things that ever came within my ken hap pened several years ago on the south Texas coast, in Corpus Christi bay, and since that time I firmly believe that even fish are actuated at times by the most commendable senti ments of friendliness and conserva tism. "One day, when I was fishing from a small boat some miles from the shore and near an old wreck in the bay, I found that the water was so clear that the fish were able to trace the line to the boat, and they persistently refused to take the bait, realizing the yank at the end of it. Getting tired at last of fishing and catching nothing, I bent my head over the side of the dory and watch ed the fish as they played about the sandy bottom. The water was about 12 feet deep, yet the bottom was as clearly visible as if it had been but two. While I watched the antics of the fish I saw an immense bulk slowly paddle within the radius of my vision. It was a great june fish, one of the sort that equals in bulk a Louisiana cow. "The fish settled upon the sand directly under the boat, and then, to my amazement, it opened its cav ernous mouth, and ont came several score of small fishes, which began to frolic in evident enjoyment. While they thus amused themselves a shadow grew upon the bottom, and I made out the form of a very large blanket fish stealthily slipping toward the unsuspecting small fry. Suddenly they saw the enemy, and with a mad rush the lot made for the mouth of the big june fish. The latter, however, happened to be closed upon a too venturesome crab and did not open to receive them quick enough, and the blanket fish swallowed about a dozen before the crab disappeared within the maw of the june fish. The depleted school sought refuge in the mouth of its, elephantine protector, and, with a sluggish flap of its basslike tail, the hulk swam out of sight, and the blanket fish proceeded sweetly to slumber upon the brown sands. "This is where it made a mistake. Possibly not five minutes had elaps ed before I saw the june fish peep from behind the wreck, and then, as it saw the blanket fish sleeping, it slowly made its way toward the devourer of its small friends. As it halted above the blanket fish, and almost directly beneath my boat, I saw that it held in its tremendous mouth a large rock. Just as I made this discovery tlhe june fish let the rock roll from its mouth, and it fell with a dull thud, which I could dis tinctly hear, directly upon the liver colored back o? its enemy. The stone must have weighed 50 pounds, and it must have severed the verte bras of the blanket fish, for the latte! gave a fearful jerk, and then for a little while its long tail wiggled des perately and its horned brow dug up the sand iii clouds. When its struggles ended, I saw that it was dead and almost covered with the sand it had disturbed in its efforts to escape the rook. "When the water had cleared, the big june fish came creeping again from behind the wreck and follow ing it the residue of the school of small fry that had apparently been taken in charge of by their big pro tector. Ascertaining beyond a doubt that the blanket fish had passed in its fishy checks, the june tish and the small fry merrily gamboled above the corpse of their antagonist, and there I left them. "-St. Louis Globe-Democrat Bad Facts For Bachelor?. Some curious figures have lately been made public by a celebrated Berlin physician which seem to point to the fact that if a man wants to live long and preserve his health and strength he ought to marry. Among unmarried men between the ages of 30 and 45 the death rate is 27 percent Among married men between the same ages it is only 18 per cent For 41 bachelors who live to be 40 years of age 78 married men triumphantly arrive at the same period. The difference gets all the more marked as time goes on. At 60 years of age there are only 22 bachelors to 48 married men, at 70 there are ll bachelors to 27 who are married, and by the time they reach 90 the married men are three to one, for there are nine of them to every three bachelors. Enough to Bouse the Sphinx. "They are playing golf within sight of the pyramids. " "Say, if that doesn't make the sphinx talk, 1 don't know what will !"-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Postoffices. 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