Our Han About Tows

How pleaeant it ia to have a neighbor who has a rifle and who uses it too, partioularly mornings, when you are inolinod to sleep, having nothing to cali you up at an unseemly hour, to hear the bang, bang, bang, of the oíd rifle. A few minutes quiet and you tbink, " well, I can have another nap" when again comes the bang, bang of tbe revolver. It seems to me that thoee folks who don't know any better than to use flrearms or make other unneceaBary noises at unseemly houre, when other people are trying to rest, onght to be punished for disturbing the peace. Some persons hke to rise with the sun, but because they do is no reason that everybody likes to. I hope now, as the Lake Shore road desires to oome to Ann Arbor, that our business men will be up and doing. As our city now does much more business with two railroads centering here, how much more would she do if there were another. With inoreased railroad faoilities, would be, necessarily, an inorease of all kinds of business, then we might get some manufaotoriea here. Do not now let this " boom " for Ann Arbor drop as a thunderbolt. Every firm, man, woman, and ohild ought to be intereeted in this as it meana business for all olassea. In talkmg about thie road with one of our business men one day last week, he said, " I am af raid it will never be, our city has not enterprise enough to bring the railroad here." I was surprised to hear him say bo and so told him. He, a business man to eay, "our oity had not enterprise enough," and he one of our prominent men, doing nothiug himaelf for it, and tben condemning the citizens. I asked, how about youraelf, have you enterpriae enough to see what can be done about it, when he drew biiusclf up to bis f all hight saying, " I am always ready to boom Ann Arbor." I do not think be ib, when he talks in this way. Now go to work, business men's asaooiation and see if you can do something. I am told there are a number of good masons in this oity who will not work nine houra a day for 83.50 per day, bat wan't eight honra, and so they loat upon the st reets . How these men live through the summer without working is a oonundrum to many, but live they do, and from tbeir looka they seem to fare pretty well. Tbey are also geen to frequent the saloons whicb shows that they have money to spend in such placen, or elae some good friend stands treat; now this ia all very well, but when the oold weather oomea who supplies tbeae men? Some of them 1 know have hard working wivos, who give their lazy husbands every cent they have to spend muoh to their shame. The families of suoh men are to be pitied and must havo support fiom the oity, but I say it is an outrage to give a man one cent in the winter who haa lazed around all aummer. Let our officials send these good for notbings to the workbouSe, and then if necesaary support or look after the remainder of the family. I am sure every honest, hard-working man will agree witb me, and aay be ia not willing to be tnxed to support others in idleneaa. Now, Mr. Offioers, see to it that theae men who have been idling away the summer oiouths are not placed upon your penaion rolla, but wben winter oomes, if they will not work, let the state and not the city look after them. Sond them to the work house.