"honor To Whom Honor."

If the venerable and good ex-Governor Alpheus Felch is spared to see the 28th of September, the span of his life will have reached the 90year mark. How few of all the teaming millions of human beings, hurrying to and fro in the busy activities of life, ever live to the age to which Gov. Felch has attained; and yet to all his friends - and who are not of the number? - this distinguished citizen seems as young, as active, as vigorous as if this day were 20 years ago. His step is firm, his manner is sprightly, his carriage erect and his mind, rich in experience and literature, is as luminous and his utterances as keen and incisive as ever. The years that have rolled over his stately head have whitened it but taken away none of the princely gif ts, God placed in the inner temple of the brain. In intelligence, goodness, scholarship, knowledge of men and matters; in all that made Gov. Felch the great citizen of Michigan that he is, he stands today, the same grand, noble and now venerable oak among men, as when, the companion of such sturdy statesmen as the late lamented Senator Stewart, Gen. Cass and others of that time, he was an equal counsellor and moulder of the policy of the nation. Deeming that it was fitting to take steps for the proper recognition of Gov. Felch's 9oth natal day, about thirty members of the Washtenaw bar assembled in the circuit court room last Saturday, with this purpose in view. The meeting was called to order by Judge Kinne, president of the bar association. and Arthur Brown was made secretary. Judge Kinne stated the purpose of the meeting in terms highly laudatory of Gov. Felch. After discussion it was the sense of the meeting that a banquet should be given in Gov. Felch's honor, leaving him at liberty to retire whenever he feit disposed to do so, for the protection of his health. Judge Cheever stated that Mrs. Cole, Gov. Felch's daughter, had been consulted, and that the family would be willing to leave arrangements to the bar. On motion a committee of five was appointed, with full power. to act in the matter. The committee consists of A. J. Sawyer, J. W. Babbitt, B. M. Thompson, J. F. Lawrence and T. D. Kearney. Rev. Mr. Cobern, of the First M. E. church, is absence at conference. Rev. F. A. Soul will fill the pulpit next Sunday morning.