An Editor's Faith In Sheep

a. uog mangieu ana janea twenty-one fine sheep owned by Col. E. J. March, ou the Thomsou farm near Osseo last Thmsday uight. The supposed culprit is íiow iu custody at Osseo and is awaiting au owner. - Hillsdale Standard. Well, wouldn't that elévate a man? Col. March owning fine sheep! And this too, under a democratie administration. And right after the repeal of the McKinley protectiou wool tariff bilí. Col. March owning fine sheep while wool is on the f ree list ! No wonder he didn't say a word about it this week when here. No wonder he keeps the sheep on a farm way down at Osseo. How he can have the gall to look a sheep in the face after his wooly editorials, eannot be understood easily. Perhaps it wou't be so comfortable to look a democrat in the eye uow. Certainly he's no kick coming for the killing of those sheep, except on hunianitarian grouuds. Bepublican editor. Prophet of disasters to the sheep industries. Spokesman for the "poor, wrouged fiirmer. " Howler for more protective tariff to éave the ram trade. Denouncer of the free wool theory as the ruin of the sheep and sheep industry. And on the sly the owner of a big floek of fine sheep, making more money out of mutton and wool than out of his newspaper, or any other business. Col. you're sly, deuced sly. But when yon andertake to wam the farmers that free wool is going to ruin them, and at the same time, you secretly gather up all the best sheep you can buy and plant them on a farm out where no one knows you own them, we don't know whether we have any further ewes for yon as a politician. Still, as a living testimony that your practice is not in accordauce with your preaching, we guess you had better continue to "lam" it to