His Golden Wedding

"Oí course, every man who kas any appreciatlon oí woman Ujinks he has the best wife in the world," said aaejderly member of the Curbstorie club th other night, to a Detroit Free Press man, "but I'll take an oath my wife goes ahead of all the women you evei heard of. You all know that Tve been married four times; welj, thafs the point of this story. In a few months 1 shall have been a married man fifty years- counting all the yeara oí all my marriages, you know - and juna, my present wife, is determinad tbat I shall celébrate my golding wedding. She reckoned it all up the other night. kêt me see, there were twelve yeara I havfi lived wlth Ellza, ten years witli W&garet, fifteen year3 wlth Kate and thlrteen yeara with Julia- a round flfty years of respectable matrimonial life. Julia says it isn't my fault the othei wives died and that I couldn't live flfty years wlth one woman to earn my golden wedding; and so she intends to see that I am not cheated out of It. She has an idea, too, that in letting me have a golden wedding celebration in whlch she, ot course, cannot have any share, she will be sort of rounding up matters and be doing the sauaxa tblng by my three other wives. I told hei that public opinión would be agajnst ker- that everybody would talk like the mlscilef lí she got up a golden wedding íox me when she can't be ln it[ but she says she doesn't care a, cent- that when people talk about us somebody else Is getting a ao sue ia isv'"-. right anead, bakincake and getting ready'for the celebration -of my flftietb anniversary. She says slie knows Eliza and Margaret and Kate would think it was all rigbt. Now, isn't that a scheme, and isn't she the finest woman you ever heard oLï" .