The Argus For The New Year

The Ann Arbor Argus is three score and one years of age, and i will enter upon the new year pre pared to give its readers all th benefits of a long experience in th field of a live, reliable, newsy loca family paper. During the year to come it will not only maintain it position at the front among newspa pers of its class, but will strive to b better than ever before. Notwith standing the eclipse of democracy on the ides of last November, th Argus will continue democratie a of yore. All issues discussed in it columns shall have honest treat ment, however, and matters of new will be impartially given. While it already has the larges circulation of any Washtenaw paper it will try to deserve a more extend ed patronage by being conductec in such a manner as to make itsel a necessity in every household. At the beginning of the presen year it was changed to two papers week instead of one - one hundrec and four papers a year - but th price remained the same, one dollar thus giving its readers more matte for the money than any other loca paper. For the coming year a clubbinj arrangement has been made witl several other valuable periodical whereby the cost to paid subscriber may be still farther reduced. The Argus will be furnished with the Semi-Weekly Free Press orthe Semi Weekly World, Michigan Farmer American Gardening, each of which costs a dollar, for $1.65. The Ar -gus will also be furnished with any two of the above for $2.30, with a year's subscription to the Farmer's Friend thrown in. The Argus will also be furnished together with the American Farmer, the oldest agricultural journal in America, for L1.10. All the papers mentioned above are strictly first class in their respective lines. American Gardening is an illustrated journal of horticulture, devoted to the work of the garden, fruits, flowers and vegetables, trees and shrubs, the conservatory and the care of the home grounds. Any other leading home or foreign journals will also be furnished Argus subscribers at the lowest rates. You cannot get better rates anywhere than those the Argus will give you. Cali and see. So far as the Argus is informed up to date every republican circuit judge in Michigan, Lañe of Adrain excepted, is a candidate for the nomination of justice of the supreme court. The republican success in the legislative election last fall seems to have impressed these brethren, with the single exception mentioned, that they can all be elected to the supreme bench. Well, gentlemen, have the scrap out among yourselves. The dems. don't expect to be in it even to the extent they are now in the legislature. We bless you one and all. The Philadelphia Press of high protective proclivities has figured out that at the recent election the democrats lost through the entire country 1,500,000 votes, while the republicans gained 500,000. If the figures of the Press are correct, they prove that there are still more democrats in the country than republicans, and yet our friends, the enemy, claim that the democratie party is dead. Just about as dead and no "deader" than the g. o. p. was two years ago. It will probably prove just as lively a corpse two years henee as the republican party did last November. The follovving intercsting excerpt s taken from an article in the December Arena, by Prof. Max Muller, of Oxford University: "If England and America were to say once for all that there shall be no war without previous arbitration, and that whiitever country objects to this artiof international faith, sliall for the time be excluded trom all international amenities, shall be tabooed politically and financially, the world might breathe again more freely, the poor would be allowed again to eat their bread in peace, we should have peace on earth, good will toward men; we should have what the flrst parliament of the worlds religions proclaimed as the 'true glory of God.' We are all members of the gieat parliament of the world; let us show that we can be above party, above country, above creed, and that we owe allegiance to truth only, and to that voice of conscienee which is the real presence in universal communion of mankind." In view of the fact that many farmers on account of its low price have been feeding wheat to stock the Kansas state board of agricul ture undertook an investigation into the merits of wheat as a food fo farm stock. The board has now published the results of its investi gations in a pamphlet of 500 pages The conclusión reached should be of value to all interested in the question. It is to the effect tha wheat is superior to corn, pounc for pound, in developing power and that when mixed with corn i is better than either alone, fo working animáis; better as a mili producer and for hogs as a fa maker; is a superior food for al fowls and unsurpassed in egg pro duction. The investigations seem to thoroughly establish the fact tha it should be mixed with bran, oi cake, or other albuminous foods, to produce the best results, as itisof too carbonacious a nature to be used to best advantage alone. It is also claimed that in all cases where con venient it should be coarsly grounc or crushed and when this cannot be done it should be soaked in water twenty-four to thirty-six hours.