Caesai had hia Brutüs, Charles I his Cr...

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell and Mathew Stanley Quay his "red book. " Does it mean political death?

Gen. Gomez declares that present thoughts of an independent government in Cuba are dreams. And that's no dream. - Detroit Tribune.

Now that the legislature is now through with most of its junketing and ought to be able to do some business. Why not therefore fix some time for adjournment and then work to it?

Germany has long been credited with the best public school system in Europe, if not in the world. According to recent carefully compiled statistics, however, there appears to be a radical and dangerous evil in the system. According to those statistics there were in Prussia alone in 1896, 410 suicides among the children of the elementary schools under 15 years of age. These suicides were traced directly to over work, or inability of the children to bear the strain of the course of study prescribed for them. In most cases they were the children of the poorer classes to whom a meat diet is unknown. Their nourishment was not sufficient to bear the rigor of the school discipline. In addition to these cases of suicide there were hundreds of cases of physical and mental breakdown This is a fearful indictment of an educational system. Education at such a cost is altogether too dear.

The legislative junketeers visited the Industrial Home for girls at Adrian Friday, the ways and means committee to examine into the needs of the institution in the way of appropriations and the joint committee on the home for the purpose of investigating rumors of cruelty set afloat by ex-employees who have been discharged.  Apparently there was found no basis for the rumors. The Argus would have been greatly surprised if there had been any. It has known Mrs. Sickles, the superintendent for many years, has seen her in public school work and the handling of children of all ages from those of the primary classes of the public schools to the more or less hardened girls of the industrial home. She is a capable, cultured, kindly, humane, womanly woman. Her work as principal of the Adrian training school was thoroughly successful as it has been at the head of the Industrial Home as is attested by her long service. She is a strong executive, kindly but firm. These traits are a necessity in the trying position she holds. But that she is capable of brutality the Argus does not believe.

The report of the commissioner of labor contains some interesting information relative to female employees in skilled and domestic labor. The information was obtained through a painstaking canvass in 25 cities and villages of the state. He interviewed 3,294 women and girls whose average age was 24 years. Of all those interviewed 74 per cent claimed to be American, 10 per cent were married women and 6 per cent widows. The 3,294 working women reported as having 4,249 to support, including themselves or an average of 1.36 to each worker, 1-2 only or 4 1/2 per cent own their own homes and but half of these were free from incumbrance. Twenty-two and a half per cent saved from their earnings and 61 per cent did not, the others failing to answer the question. Thirty-seven and a half thought times better than a year ago and 32 1/2 thought they were not. In Ann Arbor 18 were canvassed whose average age was 25 1/2 years. Of these 83 per cent were Americans; 2 were married and none owned their homes. They had had an average of 4 years at their work and their wages averaged 1.05 per day. The 18 have 19 to support including two children. They were employed as follows: Bookkeepers 2 at, $1.81 per day. saleswomen 4, at 91 cents per day. stenographers 4, at $1.22 per day. dressmakers 4, at $1.06 per day.  telephone operators 4, at 72 cents per day. A most interesting fact gleaned from these statistics is that the average wages paid in Ann Arbor are higher than in any other city of the state which was canvassed.

Senator Ward's bill to raise the tax for the university from a sixth to a fourth of a mill has been made a special or for next Wednesday. The measure would probably increase the university income sufficiently to make it unnecessary for special appropriations. Anyway, in as much as the state has embarked upon the plan of supporting the university by a mill tax, it should make this sufficiently liberal to sustain it in proper form. The institution is much less expensive than others of its class anyway, and there is no danger by increasing the mill tax to a fourth, that the institution will have too liberal a support.

We have been wont in this country to set great store by the so-called self-made man, to point with pride to the person of distinction who has "risen from the ranks" or "paddled his own canoe" or "hoed his own row," without the advantages of college training. That such people are deserving of great credit is unquestionably true. But in so far as this idea is held up to the rising generation as indicating that a college training is undesirable or not necessary, it is wrong. Other things being equal, the discipline of college life adds greatly to the chances of success in life. This belief is rapidly growing in our country to day and a larger percentage of college bred men are to be found and are demanded in every calling. In the earlier days of our history, with the wonderful opportunities offered in every line of endeavor, it was not so necessary. But now competition in every line is much keener and the man or woman who brings to his chosen work a sharply disciplined and trained mind is pretty sure to out strip the one who lacks that training. Again, the man or woman who spends several of the most impressionable years of his life under the broad, liberal, uplifting influences of college environment, is pretty sure to have them become a part of his character and to carry them into business and professional life and thus elevate the tone of affairs generally. Leadership in the time to come is pretty sure to be largely in the hands of college men and women.