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Harbor Springs Hepublican : The demócrata made a blunder wlien they defaced the tombst'oiie of Mr Blalne's flrst Ijorn son and were lixing to swear it up to Mr. Blaine. It would have been a neater job liad they stolen it. Tuey need one very much, and it is doubtful if the .idministrators will find assets enough in November to buy even a pine shingle and a lead pendí, with which to inscribe the epitaph. The Grand Haven Herald warns its friends as follows : Make the best of your vote at this elec:ion. Afterwards do what is best then. Iiyou want effective blows stnick in the next legislatura for temperance, vote for a man who can get there and do it- not tor a man who has no chance of getting ;here. Tiue refoimers want men ready for action in the next legislature. Let your vote do its full duty now, rather khan waste In vain hope that it may arnount to soinethiiig in an unknown and uncertain future. Next November is no ;ime for wasting votes. The Hillsdalc Standard remarks: The doinocrats undcr Ihc dircctiou of "Mulé" Barmnn, chairman of the democratie natiunal committee, have been ;aking photopraphs oí Blaine's house in Washington, which they willshortly dis:ribute by the millions. They will serve thc people to better purpose if they will distribute photograha uf the White House, where Blaine will reside for four years, after tlie ith of Maren. And to make the thingextremely interesting, how would it do to give in addition a view of the insane asylum into which Cleveland forced Maria Halpin "after he got through with herí" The consisteney of some people is shown up by the Latising Republican in the following : Many of our Methodist bretheren who attended the late conference argued that the proper -way to bring about prohibition was to defeat the republican party and let the freewhisky democracy have full sway for two or three years. Then republicana would be ready to join the prohibition party and go in for the annihilation of the great curse. If that is a good way to ret rid of evil why do not these same ministerial friends abandon the Lord's business and let old Satan loose until the people of the whole world are ready to embrace christianity? It is a poor rule that won't work both ways. Then, too, " consisteney is a jewel." The Manistee Times believes that the women of the nation are on the upgiade : What we have needed tor matiy, many years is educated intelligence ap]lied to every-day Ufa and work of women, and at last we seem to be getting it. Women are losing the absurd idea that they ought not - that it is infringing on their dignity - to work lor pay. The man's dignity is worn on the other toot - he is hurt if he works without pay. Women now act in almost ever oapaclty. They are superintendents of shops, they are forewomen, they are proprietors, thej'are doctors, they are lawyers, tliey are preachers, they are lecturers, they are artists, they are editors, they are engineers, they are rnasters of ships, and they are justices of the peace. The Aparta Scntinel prefers to to take its politics on week days : The temperance question has been discussed at our moiithly Sabbath evening temperance meetings from almost every conceivable standpoint and all pliases of it nresented to tlie people of Öparta. Last Sunday evening the speaker, Hon. M. O. Heath, among many othcr good things sfiid, that to Urn, " tliis was no time nor place to diseuss this questiou írom a political standpoint." The Bentinel believes that Mr. Heath s right in thia matter and tliat it is a little out of place to invite an audience to a Sunday temperance meeting at a chureli and then treat it to a red hot political speech. We have six days every week in which to labor for the conversión of men to our way of thinking politieally, and ought to be willing toiet it rest ou the Loid's Day. The democratie niovement under the guise of prohibition, is rapidly getting through tlie heads of the people. ilere is an instance, from the Th ree Rivers Tribune : A Centreville apostle of the third party movement met a Park township temperance man on St. Jo. Street tlns villuge, Tuesday, when the following dialogue was overlieard. Apostle - Good tnornlng, old fiiend. Farmer - Good morning. A- Did you receive my letter? F- Yes , sir. A - I believe I have received no reply? F - No. I had no answer to make. A - Aren't you a prohibitionist '! F - I used to be. But I woke up one morniug to the fact tliat a vote for St. John would be at least a half vote for Cleveland. I don't propose to vote any for Cleveland and have made up my mind to go for Blaine and Logan. I'm a temperance man. So, good morning. The apostle, to conceal his confusión, had urgent business in another diiection. The St. Joseph Republican grows pathetic over the poor tramp : Away back in the dim and chilly past of last winter, we are carried when we gaze, as we do now, on a printer"s stick íínd rule that wasleft with us as security for a loan by u poor half-starved tramp printer, wlio, one day as the thermometer was monkeying around the zero mark, carne into our office, and asked for work, and we wonder where this poor unfortunate now is. He is probably still plodding wearily from town to town, seeking a " sit " for a few hours, getting kicks and ciiÖV, and that is about all, sleeping wheresoever night overtakes him, with tlie cold sod for a pillow and the blue star-lightened canopy of lieaven for a coverlet. Thus it will ever be uutil some night be will lay him down to rest, and when the sun sliines out, and the birds sing their glad, sweet songs in the morning, he will not awaken - he will be past that, for the poor, tired soul will have crossed the river, and found a permanent "sif in eternity. Strangers will iind tlie cokl clay. and uumourned they will bury hiin, for they will say : " Care not. He was ouly a poor, tramp printer."