Points From Grass Lake

John V. Sheehan, the well known gold democrat, says he does not approve of President McKinley's stand on the Phillipine Islands. He says never before has he felt so ashamed of his American citizenship as at this time. –Ann Arbor Times. Well, we'll keep the islands all the same, and if John doesn't like it he can get out He isn't running Uncle Sam's ranche.

The Lehman family reunion in Waterloo wiped the turkey crop there off the face of the earth. Of course, Christmas will have no chance in that township this year. There were 74 Lehmans present. Mike, of Ann Arbor, got away with the white meat and drumsticks of three gobblers, one hen turkey and a shanghai rooster, not to mention oysters and other edible environments. But he left his vest buttons on the field of battle, and a badly ruptured pair of waistbands were also among the casualties.

The Ann Arbor Register continues to pound Judson's face out of shape. lts last issue gives sundry reasons why its half eviscerated foe should not be appointed to the wardenship of the Jackson penitentiary. If Jud has tact enough to ache when he's hurt, he'd smile up, go over to Moran and take it all back, playfully pat the editor on the bread basket, invite him to come round and write up his Poland-Chinas and Plymouth Rocks to the tune of $10.00, and try to re-establish that old time feeling when they always kissed when they met. Sel is game and his newspaper club keeps Jud dodging and on the run half the time. It better be settled and that suit discontinued.

Cramer, city editor of the Ann Arbor Times, went up to Chicago to boss the U. of M. football team last week and while away 'Gene Freauff did the local grinding. 'Gene's first lunge was to prove by higher mathematics that $2.50 is enough to buy a Thanksgiving dinner for four persons, with a sufficient margin left for all the cats and dogs on the place. He starts in with an 80 cent turkey the amount to include cranberries, and invoices the balance of the grub as follows : Blue points, 20 cents; soup, 30 cents; fish, 18 cents; celery, 5 cents; olives, 5 cents; potatoes, 10 cents; peas, 12 cents; lettuce, 20 cents; pudding, 20 cents; coffee, 10 cents; cake, 20 cents. If the people, after getting into condition for the great feast day by fasting a week, were to be pinched down to 'Gene's limits, Thanksgiving would go to the wall inside of two years.