"alabama."

(From Wednesday's Times). Fashionable society of Ypsüanti is preparing itself for the production of "Alabama" to be given at the opera house in this city on April 14 by the Detroit Comedy club. The Free Press ot March 25 has the following to say of the club: "Once more has the Comedy club scored a brilliant success. Society lilled the Empire theater last night when this worthy organization presented that admirable southern drama, "Alabama," written by Augustus Thomas. It was, perhaps, the most pretentio is undertaking that this club has attempted since its organization iive years ago. Seldom, if ever, have local amateurs acquitted themselves as creditably as did those who particpated in last night's production. The play was appropriately mounted, the parts well acted, and the large and fashionable audience showed its appreeiaüon by frequent and spontaneous applause. "Alabama" is a drama in four acts. The scènes are laid among the beautiful bayous, magnolia groves and plantation flelds of Alabama. The stern conditions of the civil war as they affected aristocratie southern families form a somewhat somber background for the genuine love sentiment that ik rvades the whole play, like the anima of the flowers of that sunny southland. But none of the smoki or noise or actual scènes of war are represented. Only the memories, th-a subtler effects of that internecine strife pass in brief review before the audience. Indeed, this drama is a beautiful scuthern idyl, replete witïi delicate sentiment and satisfying transformation scènes and lncidents." A milk train, painted white, will be one of the features of the proposed Lansing, Dexter & Ann Arbor electric railway. Regular trains will run every hour and a half, equipped with doubletrucked, vestibuled cars that will be daisies. Every other car will be an all passenger coach and the altérnate coach a combination passenger, mail and express. Open excursión cars will be run for the excursión business. Even the freight cars will be "beants." Farmers can have a side track run right to their barn doors and can have a steam car from any part of the steam railway system of the country switched off into their barnyards. Farmers' homes and premises lighted by electrlcity is one of the many conveniences made possible and contemplated by the directora of the southern electric line.