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Prof. John B. Demotte Made A

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Day
2
Month
April
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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statement with reference to the manu facture of cigarettes, tliat should cause users of them to stop a moment and reflect, and parents to see that they are doing a serious wrong to their children in allowing them to use the cigarette under any circumstances. On going through a large factory with the proprietor, he saw a stream of black liquid flowing into a hopper of chopped to bacco, and asked the proprietor what that was. He replied tnat u was ram, glyoer.ine and opium. ïhink of that, you who see yoar neighbors' boys smoking them if you do not see your own, and never raise a hand to stop it Think of it, you who sell them directly or indirectly to the boys scarcely old enough to distinguish between right and wrong. Think of it, you who make the laws that regúlate the sale of these and other poisons. Rum, rjlycerine and opium, being drawn into the lungs and poisoning the nerves and minds of our bright boys. Rum, glycerine and opium, it is enough to make a man shudder, and vet the tratïïc in them is allowed to go on. The sale of them in the state should be absolutely prohibited, and the smoking of them made a misdemeanor. The Orange Judd Farmer, an autharity usually reckoned among the best on agricultural topics, estimates the amount of wheat in farmers' hands in this country, March 1, at 124,0 ,000 bushels. This is the smallest amount in farmers' hands at this period of the year since 1891, and commenting on the showing, the Orange Judd Farmer says: '■If the present estímate ot our correspondents is as reliable as such estimates have heretofore been, it indicates, in eonnection with rapidly decreasing supplies in visible quarters, that bef ore auother erop can be.harvested the grain bins of the country will be swept cleaner than in any year since 1891, when the price of wheat in Chicago reached as high as $1.13 per bushei bi'fore the new erop was available. Itdoes not indícate famine by any means, but it will require close economics in use and distribution and a reduction of supplies in all positions to a very low figure to supply domestic consumption, spring seeding and normil exports. VVhen the 1897 erop is harvested in this country, at least, it is evident that the aecumulated supplies of pasf. years will be gonn. and that con-umption will practically have overtaken production." As this view is concurred in by nearly all the closest students of the grain markets, the outlook for the farmer is not as gloomy as the professional calamities would have' him believe. There is every indioation that the coming ten years will witness a remarkable revival of agricultural prosperitv in the United States. The political situation in Ann Arbor this spring is an amusing one to say the least. The Democrats realizing that they liad an impossible task in attempting to defeat Messrs. Hiscock and Vlills, took their medicine with a great show of pleasure and endorsed them. These gentlemen therefore feel it rat her encumbent upon them to take no active part in the struggle. By this means the hands of two of the most active and efficiënt campaigners are tied up. By making a good nomination for president of the council they think they have a good chance of electng him, and secure thereby the control of the council committees. Also, these endorsements naturally produce a greater or less feeling of apathy among the Republicans,. and a good stiff fight in some of the wards may give them the council. ïhus by seeming to give up what they could not get anyhow, ihey stand a good chance of getting something just as good. President MoKinluy recognizes the power of the press by tendering a reo ption to the Washington correspondents, that was a most enjoyable atïair. Mr. Cleveland closed the doors of the White House against all newspaper men except a few, and the result was that he had no friends among the men w)io niake and uninake public officials. The president is a i'riend of the press. He is quoted as saying that f rom the time he entered on his presidential camp rign up to the present he has never hesitated to talk confldentially with newspaper men, and in but one case has his confidence been betrayed. He did not have the support of all the newspapers represented by the men whom he treated well, but he had the kindly feeling of the men representing newspapers of all shades of opinión and this brought fruit in its season. Three days to election. On Monday next you will be ealled upon to exercise the privilege of an American citizen and cast your ballot. In a booth where no one can molest you, you can mark your ticket and make your choice bekeen the candidates and principies at stake. It is your own f ault if your balot is not an expression of your own good judgment, if it does not represent you and your principies. Make it do so. Cast aside partisanship. Let your ballot represent you and your thoughts. Do not vote blindly or ignorantly, there is no excuse f or it. The Cretan insurgeuts will not listen to the proposition of the powers tor the autonomy of the island. Meanwhile England gives notice that she will take no part in the bloekade, and l'rance declares that she will oppose anything more hostile than the ' pacific blockade." The powers are not as unanimous as they might be on the subject of the coerción of (Jreece.

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