The K. O. T. M. At Saiine

Saline was as lively as a repubhcan convention, Wednesday. It is ordinarily quite active. It was much more so when the town became populated with the vast crowd of lady and gentlemen Maccabees who swooped down on it, like the ocusts upon Egypt, but with far better motives. The Ypsilanti Maccabee band was present and discoursed enchanting music; everybody was in an excellent frame of mind, and all would have been well, but for the non-arrival of the orator, Mr. Aitkin, who was doubtless detained by other very weighty matters. Mrs. Cook also failed to materialize on the festive scène; but, undaunted, the Maccabees marched to the park and listened to an address by Mrs. Emmett, of Howell. The afternoon was spent in visiting and a general social time; but the unsatisfied spirit of the assembly was bound to make the occasion blossom with eloquence; and Mr. J. Nelson Lewis, of this city, a man of ready oratory and instant adaptation to any emergency calling for the resources of thought and diction, was telephoned for and asked to deliver an evening address. Now, Mr. Lewis is not a member of the 'Bees, but he is no drone in the field of extemporaneous speaking, and he promptly consented to go. All who heard him were delighted with the address, and declare it to have been a model of eloquence. Miss Bower was also able to be present in the evening, and thus at last was supplied abundantly the talent so conspicuous during the day by its absence.