Show The Tribune Chicago 5iVfc3 atatls lIes which show how swiftly the Grand Army Is crossing the long divide With In the last five years In Illinois thc deathrate ha Increased I from 1 to 3 per cent and the AdjutantGeneral of the department holds as a logical con elusion that within the next five years the deathrate will be six Ume3 great aS It now 18 j < or that in every as 1000 veterans uo will die earl yearly The report says How grCat the percent age will be after five Years Is too I pathetic a question I tb contemplate l DurIng the last year CIO in tCll118 In I llllnol died and there are 7 IHCslnt 22815 veterans in the Stale In 18S there were 23503 and during the last thrco years 1SOO have died The posts themselves have been reduced by six The attendance at all tho posta dlmln Jsho3 The regular attendance at all tho meetings Is too great a task for many of the veterans And those arc the men that moved for seven hours a day during those two days at Washington before the reviewing review-ing stand and an English officer that watched the long lines when ho returned re-turned to his native country said that he had seen better dressed soldiers but he had never seen an army that compared com-pared wIth that The years are doing their work Taps are sounded oftencr and oftcncr and In a little while all that host will be hushed In the final sleep It Is necessarily so Anothr I generation Is In the ranks There Is noscarclty of soldiers When the country coun-try calls they are ready After alIt al-It Is for the young men to fight but with men as with the harvest all that awaits the ripened grain la I the sickle |