"HMMM!  RIDDLES ARE PERPLEXING, BUT DESIGNED TO STUMP YOU." (THE ANSWERS ARE WRITTEN IN ARTICLES ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEEKS BULLETIN."
 
1. I never was, am always to be,  No one ever saw me, nor ever will, and yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.  What am I?
 
2. What do people love more than life?  Fear more than death or mortal strife?  What do the poor have, what the rich require, And what contented people desire?  What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save, And all men carry to their graves/"  What am I?
 
3. You can have me but cannot hold me: Gain me and quickly lose me.  If treated with care I casn be great, and if betrayed I will break."  What am I?
 
4.  You do not want to have me, but when you have me, you do not want to lose me.  What am I?
 
5. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening?  What am I?