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Show SAVE WIDOWERB FROM 8NARE8. Elderly Colonel Advocates Passage of Moat Stringent Law. The crash of cannon turned tho old colonel's thoughts toward death. "I know ot throe millionaire septuagenarian septua-genarian widowers," he said, gloomily, "whoso sons killed them becauso they wero about to marry young girls of 20. or so. It Is a very dangerous thing for a rich old man to marry a young gin. "Were I a legislator, I'd propose a new law, a law to protect Gobsa Golde or Potter Roxo, with tholr 7G yewrs, tholr millions and tholr vigilant, middle-aged, grasping sons and daughters, from tho porll of wedding some beautiful beau-tiful creaturo of 18 or 19 summers. "This law should say simply that no man over 65, If ho married a woman moro than 15 yoara younger than himself, him-self, could leavo his wlfo a cent of bis property nor could ho lest In his lifetime life-time ho mako transfers to her handle after his marrlago any part of bis es-tato es-tato save only tho lncomo." Tho colonel chuckled rather sadly. "Such a law," ho said, "would do much to provent so many protty girls from falling In lovo with us grizzled, tottering capitalists." |