Sheriff Judson's Portrait

The G-rass Lake News contains the following on our sheriff and nis portrait, whieh recently appeared iu the Detroit Tribune: "While in Detroit attending the state convention Sheriff Judson, of Ann Arbor, was nieasured ïor his portrait by a Tribune artist. Jud told the fellow over and over agaiu to depict him in a pair of blue overalls, with a big patch od the neutral gronnd jusfc below the lef t hip pocket, balanced by a hole eiglit inches to the right stuffed with straw, and enjomed him by no means to omit a pair of feit boots reachiug to the kuee. He explained that if loaned this aspect of Jefferaonian siruplicity it would give his electioneering scnerues a shoot ahead uext fall in the rural districts at home. He then handed a ture nena a nity cent tip ana ieit gooa. Bat judge of his horror next day on beholding himself in the above named paper dressed in a high toned olaw hammer coat, a white vest with half an acre of shirt bosom in sight, his head crowned with a silk tile, a gold headed ane rmder his arm and between his lips a twenty-five cent Havana! Having a gmdge against him the scoundrels oL the Tribune took this nnderhanded way of relegating him to obliviou. Jud informed us next day by telephone that he was a ruined man adding, as his deep, rich tones faltered, "Thus is the Eilïel Tower of old Washtenaw brought crashiug to the ground I"