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Show There are twenty-three widows and daughters of revolutionary soldiers who still draw pensions, though the last male survivor died long ago. This fact leads to some curious speculations as to the number of widows of veterans of the civil war who may be on the pension rolls a hundred years hence. Hut under proper legislation there need be no fear on that score. There is no justice in taxing the people to p;iy a pension for the remainder of her life to a 3'oung woman who married a veteran about to drop into his grave. A woman who marries a veteran after the war is over undergoes no hardships hard-ships that give her a claim to a pension, |