Show suruj tilt Dh coTtry ber arly million ann dy it appears from alie last statistical returns abat there aro about more women thau men in england and that these aro nearly all widows this ia a very surprising discovery it may bo explained however in england as in all old countries women predominate numerically over men partly in consequence of the superior vitality of girl babeta babita ivr boy babies partly because of the lare number of young men who go abroad to seek their fortunes leaving sisters behind and partly because of the greater mortality among men owing to the hazardous nature of the employments they follow according to the tables more boys are borne in england than girla the figures being balei and females but at 10 years of age there are girls to every boys and the discrepancy inci eases regularly for twenty years afterward why however should the of females consist mainly of widows in anilia the widow may not marry it was probably to avoid the carowil ing of the market that the suttee was instituted hut ia england widows may and do marry in fad they are addicted to the practice how then does it come abat the number of widows so largely predominates over that of widowers the explanation h that there are more old men alio marry young women than there are young men who marry old women A largo class of men postpone matrimony until late in life they enjoy the desolate freedom of the bachelor they are afraid of manying on scanty means they dread the los of their freedom they have never met the liht girl thus they only resort to matrimony when they find they absolutely need female companionship panion ship buch middle aged men usually mary women of 25 or at any rato women under 30 it is obvious that all other things being equal the chances are that a woman of 25 will outlive a man of 45 the average life of men in easy circumstances is not over 60 years if tho husband dies at 10 the wife if she is married at 25 will be 40 at liia death and she will have a fair prospect ot twenty years more life hence the surplus of widows in a sagacious nation of antiquity it was held that women of 40 made the best wives and boys on matrimony bent were required to choose a helpmeet of that age or over A similar rule was adopted by the oneida community in new york but the practice is not popular despite such shining examples as george eliot and lord beacons field our modern fashion which induces young men to postpone marriage until they are in a position to give their wife a horse and a carriage naturally leads to an accumulation mu lation of widows girls complain that men do not marry the complaint h threadbare it was the pet grievance of the mothers of the present generation yet ft comfortable portion of the tair complainants became mothers of families when their turn came there are few girla in american society who cannot marry if they choose only they must not reckon on starting in life where their mothers left off if the daughter of a rich man proposes to enjoy as a married woman the comforts and luxuries she had in her maiden homo she must take a middle aged man for her apouse one who las drunk the cup of romance to the dregs and fur whom life has no illusions she will have her carriage and her servants and luxuries but a husband the may fairly expect some day to bo the widow if she wants a baitner in life with a libart as fresh as her own and a capacity for savoring the sweet stillness if young love she must take whose buttons she will have to hew on whose dinner she will have to oversee if not to cook and whose narrow income abo will have to eke out so as to make both ends meet in euch case she may possibly never wear a weed which alternative offers the fairest prospect of happiness girls must decide for themselves ellel by moccasins bite about a month ago curlia me burrows an eight child of william mcburrows colored grabbed with his left hand at a CA in a pool which he and others had muddled near As he did BO a stater moccasin which had been unseen struck its fanga into the fleshy part of his hand between the thumb and forefinger the child grabbed the snake with bis right hand and tore it loose but the instantly coiled around the left arm and inflicted several bites on it the childs arm was treated by hia parents who applied to it such remedies as they could think of but it steadily grew wore about a week ago they brought him to hawkinsville Haw kinsville to dr taylor the arm was dreadfully swollen and the body seemed to bo poisoned amputation was decided to be necessary and llie arm was taken of at the shoulder by dr G us taylor the child rallied after the operation and bade fair to get well but in allian of the bowels set in and he died tuesday morning |