Editorial Notes

W. W. Cu.mmbr, of Cadillac, has a coln 2,394 years old. The editor of the Holly Register oughl to have that coiu tor a oompanlon. Il is tliought that Miss C'ynthia Clevelantl would ïnake a remarkable effective solicitor for offlco. She would paralyze the president with her power of speech, and theu take advantage oi' his helplessness. The revisión of the Englisli versión of the Old Testament, af ter fourteeu years' of labor, is now corapleted, and will be published next spring by the University pressof Oxford and Cambridge in several cditions. At C'oldwater a vigorous kiek is belng madge against paylng $48 per year for a telephone. The kickers, 125 in number, think $25 would be more in keeping with the times, and have petitioned the company to that effect. Ik a republican paper speaks of the peculiar methods taken iu the south to iuake it solid, the cry comes up trom the northern democratie papers: "Oh! you, are wavtng the bloody shirt!" Then lt ought to be waved awhile. The Washington Star of a recent issue, has a long article positively asserting that St. John received thesum of $38,000 from the democratie managers for remaining in the canvass to defeat Mr. Blaine, and giyes souie convincing evidence tending to prove it, So the great Saint cared more for principal then principie after all. General Logan says he has two rebel bullets in his body, and when he sits in the senate presided over by Hendiïcks who was a copperhead and a rebel sympathizer, he will feel like having those leaden balls cul out and hand them over to the presifling ofllcer, saying, "Take them back, the purpose which the suffering they have cnused, served, has passed away.1' It seems that Mr. Vanderbilt did give that 150,000 to the democratie national oommittee, and it made him so hard up that he has commenced suit against Gen. Grant to secure payment of about $150,000 lent just before the terrible failure of Grant & Ward, and which the General at the time insisted upon securing, but which action was rejected. Poor Beecher. He begins to realize that to turn traitor to bis friends brings very many luipleasant things to him. He has always held the place of honor at the New England dlnner given by the Brooklyn society, untll this year, when he failed to receive an invitation. At the recent election of officers of Plymouth church, all the candidatea who sympathized with Mr. Beecher in Cleveland' cause were defeated. Perhaps the worthy divine may flnd that tl would have been the part of wisdom to havo stood by the friends who have alwaj's stood by him. It is asseited by those near the throne, and who ought to Unow, that Senators Thurman and Pendleton, of Ohio, are both to be sacriticed at the bid of Mr. Payne, the Standard oil monopolist. Senator Thurman, especially has more brains than any other man in the democratie part3' to-day, and Pendleton is close to his heels in that respect, but both are opposed by as corrupt and tricky a ring of dirly politieiuns as ever run a ward caucus, and a9 birds of a feather ilock together, of course they will be throwu overboard. lt was uot the people who triumphed in this last eleciion, but the monopolists, the Paynes, the Vanderbilts, the Jewetts, the McLeans, the Gormans, all representing immense monopolies and moneyed iuterests. We will see what they propose to do with the people in the next four years. We have evidently fallen upon dangerous times for the libertiesof this great nation. Our neighbor of the Eegister evidently had a bad spell last week. Besides pitching into all of his other neighbors, he picked up a little squib of the Codkier's and made quite a lively article for that paper. Keferring to a statement of the Couriek that as f ar as the original inteution of Thanksgiving was concerned the day might as well be abolished, he proceeds to say: "Evidently he (meaning us) was not at the Baptist church in the morning, for had he (that's us) been therehe(us again) would have seen a houseful of attentive and delighted people." Justso, neighbor. We are glad so many atlended, and very sorry we didn't see you there. But to the point. What is one church full of people compared to the 10,000 population of this city ? There are eleven cuurches in thia c.iiy, andcouldlhe original intention of the doy have been carried out every one of them should have been filled to overfiowing. The original intention was that the day shouid be observed as one of fasting, humiliation and prayer by the entire community. According to the Register's statement there were only about 400 of the 10,000 inhabitants who attempted its observance, even. And how mauy of them spent the day in fasling and prayer? Our "criticism" as our neighbor is pleased to term it, was not for those who did observe the day, but for the thoughtlessness or carelessness of the hirge inujority who paid no attentlon to it. In support of our assertion that the primary object of the day has been largely lost sight of, we quote the following from the last issue ot the Dexter Leader: We intended to notice last week the most excelleutTliunkssivmg sermón preaehed by Kev. A. B. Wood, uut it was oveiiooked aud lalled to get into type. It was well appreciated by the hiuall audience, aud it is tu be regretted tliatsuch services are uot more aenerally attended. It is our franöid opinión that the original intention bas been improved upon in a certain degree. Family reunions are happy aflairs, and the great smoking turkey with lts rich and palatable accoinpaniaments are far more conducive to thanksgiving than an empty platter or a great aching void in the slomach would be. It has been urged by many of Gov. Alger's warm supporters that the older members of the party who have been honored by place and power for a term of years. give way this time to m-w men ; that a new element i'i the party be tried for a time, and that the young men, who are called upon to do the work, be accorded some recoguition in the distribution of public favors. To listen to such words of advice would be wisdom on the part of Gov. Alger. The writer of this article has personal knowledge of one county in this state. Tuscola, where the " powers that were " not only refused to reeognize the younzer elements of the party, but insisted upon doling out the patronage to old fossils who would sit down and draw gnug salaries and let the boys do the work to keep them there. The reeult at the late election was what might have been expected. Tuscola county, that never before elected a democratie candidate, or failed to give the republican state and nation:l ticket a handsome mnjority- from 400 to l,.r00- has been substantially turned over to the demócrata. "Old men for counsel and . young men for action v' Is a wise old saw, but when you attempt to revvard old men' ïntlrely, for ihe work accomplished, then Kou make a mistake, and the republican i party would do well to remember lt. ;