Our Man About Town

I saw a yoiing man using the hose on Main street on Wedneeday and the water whloh carne from it waa like that from a mud hole. Think of drinking such water, or using it for culinary purpoBe?. I rather gueBS Chief Sipley aud some other of our officials will have to go out northeast of the city and wreetle with that army of trampa. They are not only nuisancfls but they are dangerous men. I notice in driving about the city, so niany of our beautitul shade trees are dying. It is a great pity and it seems as if aome of our agriculturists ought to seriously think if aomething cannot be done to prevent Ann Arbor from losing one of her chief beautiea. I wonder if l'rof. Baur could not Buggeat aomething? 1 wus told the other day that a cortain gentleman in town was watering his lawn onc evening when the stench from the water thrown became so unbearable he was obliged to turn it off, and the ladies of his family, with other frionds n his house, had to close the windows uutil the wind had bnniehed tha offensive sniell. He said you would have thought the slaughtor houses had been moved near bis dwelling. In passing a house one day last weck I notioed a bed filled with choice flowers, and around and over it were placed pieoes of brush. I inquired the cause of thus protecting it, and was told the dogs were an trnnhlARomf. thnt thev Boratch up M J V " " i ■■ J - V i arytlnng frora the beds unless protectod in some way. What ia the use of having so many miserable cura? They are perfect nuisances, and most of them do more linriu than good. I think it would be well if tho couucil. the health officer or some other official to investígate the alloys in the business portioa of the city. There is one that runs from Washington tbrough to Liberty etreet, whioh when you pase, greets you with tho odor of dish water and aundry other smells. Such alleys are decidedly unhealthful, let alone the untidy appearance they present. An alley should be looked after and kept, in my opinión, neat, clean, and healtuful. I was told by a gentleman that one day this week a father carne from nis store, armed with a good sized stick, and after calling one of his young children to him began to use the stick about the boy's shoulders. It ie all right to punish children and I presume the boy deserved it, but how niuch better it would have looked if the father had chastised his son in the privacy of his own home and not in public. Suoh treatment only tend-i to make a child dislikc a parent, and I do not wonder at that. I have been informed that a few milos from Ann Arbor a gang of from 25 to 50 trampa havo taken possession of part of a farm and have a regular camp. These trampa congrégate in largo numbers, coming up town in the day time, and begging from door to door for something to eat, and perhaps the very men you fed will come at night and rob you. From the description of one man feed on Thayer street last week I should imagine he was oue of the burglars who entered so many houses the same night. In talking witU a business man the other day in regard to advertising, he remarked: "I do not advertise, I am known throughout the county." Perhaps so, but your neighbor who advertises, does three times the business you do. Many think that during the months of July and August when business is dull that the flrst expense to reduce is to stop advertising. This is a great mistake. During, the dull months is the time to advertise. Farmera are busy with their work, but the papers are taken just the same and eagerly read, and does it not stand to reason that the man who advertisea what he hae to sell through the columna of the papers is the one who will do the business. Look at our large business houses all over the country, who would know of them if they did not advertise extensively. Some men say, "I did advertise once." What good does that do. You must advertise not once, nor twice, but all the time. Constantly keep your name and business before the people. The man who advertises is the one who is making the money. All you have to do is to pass a man's place of business and you can teil wbether he advertisea or not by the number of persons you will see in the store.