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Show Meant the Other Way. Rear Admiral Sperry, commander-,'n-chief of the fleet returned from its triumphant sail around the world, sometimes has serious spells of absent mindedness. Several years ago he was . talking with a group of fellow officers at the Naval War college at Newport, when one of them remarked that he I nad been ordered for duty on the Asiatic station. "Are you going to' take your wife! with you?" Admiral Sperry inquired. "No," the office!' replied. "I think you are making a serious mistake," the admiral continued in positive terms. "I was out there in 1876 when an epidemic of cholera broke out, and hundreds of people died." Sunday Magazine. |