Show VETERANS OF THE LATE WAIl I Death is making frightful gaps in the I ranks of the veterans of the late war and but for the steady additions to the pension lists there would result a very appreciable falling off in pension expenditure expendi-ture It is doubtful however if any child now born will live to see the last pensioner pension-er paid off and the patriotic debt of tho nation discharged There are on the pension pen-sion rolls 12 surviving widows or daughters daugh-ters of the revolutionary soldiers The oldest revolutionary widow is Patty Richardson Rich-ardson aged 03 living in East Bethel Vt There are 45 surviving soldiers and sailors of the war of 1S12 on the pension rolls Of these 11 are 100 years old or more The whole number of pensioners on the rolls on June 30 1S94 was 969nil Minneapolis Times |