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Show Fvt! For Shame! General Maxwell Max-well cays that is, our Mutual Friend I tells Us this, as 'another secret that I two thousand ladies, under twenty-one years of age voted for Hon. W. H. Hooper at the last election. Now, General, we can't defend you in this, at all. The very idea of a gay and gallant young fellow li ke you running around the country, poking iuto family registers to find out the ages of the girls is too bad, decidedly too bad. Strong as our desire is to fight for you, we must back down here. But what an amount of trouble you must have had? For it is a settled fact in fiction and a settled fiction in fact, that it is itLpo-sible to ascertain a lady's age from herself. Tbe census returns, it is alleged, make it plain that no unmarried unmar-ried lady has ever reached beyond tbe age of twenty-six; and we have seen it stated of a lively widow that she was just two years older than her married daughter that is, by her own statement. state-ment. You must have hunted over an immense number of family legis-ters legis-ters to compare names, dates and ages. Never talk of "Mormon exclusive-ness" exclusive-ness" after this, for when you could get access to such mysterious mys-terious secrets, and so - many of them, concerning the ages of the young ladies supposed to bave voted, you must have been taken into the very bosom of confidence. We fear you are a sly dog, Genera, with most insinuating and winning ways, despite your assumed gruff and military manner. man-ner. But what a favorite Capt. Hooper must be with the young ladies, la-dies, when so many of them rushed forth on election day to record their votes in his" favor '! He ought to look out for February, 1872, "which it is leap year," for the numerous "proposals" he may receive might frighten him. But, probably, there is another mistake in the figures, and it all arises from adding ad-ding nothing and multiplying it. Was it 2 with three cyphers added ? That .would do it to a charm. Mixed again, somehow ! v |