It Took A Week

G-en. B. M. Cntcheon in an able address at the dedicatiou of the log oabin on the Adrián fair ground speaks of pioneer days in Washtenaw as follows: "Bnt we speak of sons and sons-inlaw," tbat is, sods by marriage. And I can say uneqnivocally that I am a "pioneer-in-law. " The "better half" of me was bom in a log cabin in the town of Lima, Washtenaw connty, before tjie beginning of theyear 1840, and was reared in all the snrroundings of a new settlement in a new state. "Mywife'sfater, Horaoe Warner.who passed away in my home 22 years ago, oame from Shoreham, Vt. , in 1832, and landed in Detroit. I have heard him teil how it took hiiM nearly a week, conveying his family and honsehold goods with an to make his way over tbe trail by way of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor to the site of the village of Dexter, and so ont to his 160 acre tract, abont tbree miles sonthwest of that village. "Now tbe same distance is made in the palace oars of the New York Central and Miobigan Central 'North Shore Limited' train, in about one honr, with all the ease and lnxnry of sitting in the most oomfortable parlor, with all the convenienoes of a firstclass hotel. This statement alone will perhaps suffloiently measure the distanoe we have progressed sinoe 1832."