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Show MAN IN THE MAJORITY. Latest Census Shows Large Proportion of Males Over Female. John G. Sare long ago wrote a po?ra setting forth the failure ot Its pre posed subject to wed because he wa a superfluous mau, says a writer In Harper's Weekly. Ho put Into rhym what tho United States census of 1900 shows to be a cold statistical fact except that Instead of a single superfluous super-fluous man thero are In this country, to bo exact, 2,531,333 of theso unfortunates. unfor-tunates. Here is reassurance for the disturbed who object to the recent order or-der of tho War Department that no married men can be commissioned as second lieutenants, but that It can bo equipped out of the supply of super fluous men with a full complement of line and staff, as well as with all the privates tho country will pay for. Even then material for a celibate navy will remain. To recur to the census figures, they show that In tho United States, Including so much of our new possessions as Hawaii, thero nre 0,720,-779 0,720,-779 bachelors of 20 years olil or more, while there aro 4,11)5, 440 spinsters. |