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as slovv gaited as the little major's prosperity. The man who wants the earth and the man who owns it met on Main st. theotherday. Trouble? Oh no. Congressman Spaulding still has a few lucrative postoliices upon his bargain counter. Come early and avoid the rush. If you hear or see anything unusual tomorrow don't get alarmed, just reínember that Capt. Schuh is celebrating the Fourth of July. The board of regents have a novel and eiïective way of getting rid of an obnoxious employee. They kick his job from in under him. Grover Cleveland went fiishing last week and not more than three papers in all this broad land noted the fact. And such is fame. Tomobkow is the date of Ann Arbor's big show. We don't celébrate at home very often, but wben we do, keep out of the way of the band wagon. On this pleasant July morning The Democrat pauses in its career of uselulness to remark that to morrow's celebrationwill wake things up in these parts. Mayor Maybühy has just approved the action of the Detroit school board making a sweeping reduction in the salaries of the teachers in the Detroit schools. The Senate don't seem to be in any hürry to conlirin McKinleys bargain for jurisdictions over 80,000 Kanakee's and Clans Sprekel's sugar plantation at a cost of $4,000,000. Ypsilanti people have put aside their celebration this year in order to give Ann Arbor f all swing. Xext yeur Ann Arbor will remember this eourtesy and go " Ypsi " one better. Hoeaoe L. Chapín, a strong silver man, was nominated on a silver platform, for the office of governor by the Democrats of Ohio, AVednesday. The Democracy of Ohio is in line and it will win. The price for riding wheels upon the sidewalks in Dexter is higher than it is in Ann Arbcr. The rate could be raised and the law enforced with more strictness here to the advantage of pe.lestrians. People who think that we siiould gobble Hawaii or any other territory that we do not need simply because some other country would do it if we don't remind one of the proverbial dog in the manger. Allöw us to suggest to the Lansing Republican that its abuse of the silverites would come with better grace if it would first show what the country has gained by choosing a gold standard administration. The board of public works is taking good care of the city parks. That is right. A park without trees and grass is only a park in name and worse than no park at all. The parks should be caref ully cared for. In another column will be found a communication upon the question of free text books for th's school district, which those interested il educational matters will do well to reíd and ponder upon. The new state Uw compels us to say yes or no upon ths question. Bryanism may be a dead as some of our gold bug contenporaries would have us believe but 'he people of this country slill take a .'ery lively interest in Mr. Bryan for tie leader of a lost cause. At Lansinfburg, N. Y. Friday 3,200 people paid 0 cents a pieee to hear him talk upon the money question and the Xevv Yok papers teil us that his trip to the sceie of his lecture was an ovation all aloug the way. Ture gold bug press is twisting a recent letter of Gov. Boies into an ex pression hostile to silver which is not the. cuse. The governor is as deeply impressed as ever with the evife of a single standard. But he is gisting weak kneed and fears the silver men can'twin. Hefavorscompromise. TVe man who has principie at stake has iV use for eompromise. Either the priil ciple of bi metallism is right or it i wrong. Kight or wrong the people ar! fast awakening to the evils of monoj metallism.