James, being advanced in years, suffering from the debilities that attach to the encroachments of senility, and having suffered severe financial reverses, in a moment of dementia, precipitated his own demise.” Not understanding what all that gobbledygook meant, he took it to his postmaster and asked him to interpret it for him. “Well,” the postmaster said, “It says your Uncle Jim, got old, lost his wad, went nuts, and bumped himself off.” That would be like saying that “Elisha’s cranial extremity