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Show ,Meant the Other Way. Rear Admiral Sperry, cominander-,'n cominander-,'n chlef of tho llect returned from Its triumphant sail around the world, some times hns serious spells of, absent mlndcdncss. Several yenrs ago ho was talking with n group of fellow oiucers at tho Naval War college at Newport, when ono of them remarked that ho ftad been ordered for duty on tho Asiatic station. "Aro you going to take "your wife with you?" Admiral Sperry Inquired. "No," tho officer roplled. "I think you are making a serious mistake," tho admiral continued In positive terms. "I was out there In 18JG whon an epidemic of cholera broko otjf, and hundreds of pcoplo j died." Sundny Magazine. |