Gumption Wanted

O'umplion.- Capacity, shrewdness, address. - ebster. Had tliis communlty a reasonab'.e supply of those puitieularly desirable qualities expressed in the word above delinecl, t would soon solve the tramp nuisance qnestion. Under plea of coming liere to oblain work on the water works job, this city is at present over-run with tramps. Andainonj; tlirin are buiglarsandtliieves. Tliey are getting so plentv tbat it is nol safe to leave a door ajar or a winctow open. It is becominj; unsafe also for the larlifg to be upon our streets eveninüs without escoit, something rcmarkable for Ann Arbor. There is one way and onc way only to solve the tramp nuisance. Establish a stone yard. The Coubier in 1881 ucjied upoa the Michigan legislature the neccssity of a general htw for tlie whnle state, eatabliliing in ach couiuy ¦ tramp lodging and work house. Hut the legishiture will do nothiiig, so why not let the city tiikc it in hand ? The expense would be slight to fit up a yard and a lodging house. Let every tramp who comes to the cily seekinjf alms be ri'quired to pound so nmch stone for hi lodging oud so much for every nieal fornithed liim. Let every man who is about onr sticcts without any visible me.ins of support be arrested and seutenced to the stone-y;ird. Let our justices, inste:id of Pending pi isoners to the county jail for 10, 20, 60, or 90 day., to be iilleness, gelid thcni stonf-yard. and coinpel tlum to earn their tood and shelter. This is do visionary scherne. Itis practical. It ought to be done. Stone is plenty- trauips are plenty. Manyof our streets neeil macadamizinr. We have tbe material, añil are continually supporting tlie woi kinen wlio should prepare tbe material, in idleness. As it is to-day, the people work bard to earn the money to pay the taxes to support tramps and crim fnals, who are asked to do notliing but eat, sleep and be merry. W by not reverse the order of things and let the tramps and crimináis earn theirown living and benefit the public? All it requires is soine one to take the lead and push this enterprise. Our city can have beautirul streets, our crimináis can be mude to work, and our city can be freeU from tramps and vagrants. Shall it be done? Tho Owosso Times oue of the levclheaded papers of Michigan, seldom taking auy stand but a broad and liberal one. In a. recent Issue we find the followiiiir paragraph: " The Times notices tliat the Tuscola County Ad vertiser comes to the defense of Mr. Campbell, of Branch County, in the matter of the appropriatioii8 for the University - but the advertisor i not well inforraed as to the facts, or it would not do it. Mr. Campbell's course in the house on the question of approprlations ponerally, and eapccially on tliüt of tlie University, has been mugwumpish to tlie last degree, and de.-i-rvedly ineets the condeniiiation of uien wiio are iiHereeted in the progresa and proaperlly of oor state, and its humanltarian and educational inteiests.'" The Washteiiaw Post bis an article in its last issue in relation to the grantingof f500 by the city conncll to the American Association of 6cience meeting, and askn tliat the council extend its liberality to the coming meeting of the Beethoven Gesangverein. It would seein as tliouh the request was a reasonable one, and that if the council had a rlght to give money for one purpose, it had a right to give for the other. Thcre U this difference, however. The council, by its invitaiioii in the first Instuncv, was under oblig.ition, in the other it bal never extended au invihttion. Thouih tlie idveitisinj; would be of as much v.ilnc in one instance as the otber, If the city is going into the advertisin business The Omega had its name changcd to Sub-tract and was sent forti last week. lts frontispiece is an artotype of Prof. J. Q Pattcugill, the favorite teacher of the H. 8. Theu folio w the class oratlon, poem, history, prophecy, essay, class song, presídenos address, other poems lists of i fflrers and "grinds." Many of these latter are good blU. The book was ahly edited by Messrs. Wyeth, Talley, Parfet, Gnddard and Mifses Bniley, Ballingt-r, Gairifiues and tSeaddln. It is a pleaeant feature of high school life, and its sucoesstul sale shows it to have been a prolitable one. Peace and qulet- extreme qulet- wil] soon relgn In Ann Arbor. Vacallou a.'ter the aiili. - öallne Observer. It is owing considerably in what sense the " quiet " is nieant. As far as business and bustle is concerned it will be one of the most active vacutions Unit the city has ever had. What witli the building of the water work?, the erectiou of mauy public and private building, the meeting of the American Associ.it ion of Science, the completion and detlicntion of the grand iniisonic temple, begides several contempluted excursions, Ann Arbor people wlll have little time for rest thls auiuiiicr.