exhaustion. Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.;
then, less frequently, clergymen; still less often, lawyers; and,
more rarely, doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur
among the overschooled young of both sexes.

Here is a day's list:

Charles Page Bryan, former ambassador to Japan, died in Washington
of heart failure at the age of sixty-one.

Judge Arthur E. Burr, Judge of Probate for Suffolk County, dropped
dead in the court-house at the age of forty-eight.

Hiram Merrick Kirk, Municipal Court Justice, New York, died in the
forty-seventh year of his age.

Lieut. William T. Gleason dropped dead in the railroad station,
Salt Lake City, as he stepped from a railroad train, at the age of
forty.

Indeed, it is not only the men of military age who drop off under this
strain, but the very vital strong men behind the lines.


THE ROAD TO EFFICIENCY

It is an extraordinary thing that the people in this country, many of
them coming from the most vigorous ancestry, should be willing to
compress all their athletic enthusiasm into a very small period of their
school and college life, and then to forget to take any exercise (except