The Price Of A Kick

Loulsville Commercial: The same papers which teil us that we must ■put lip with loeulte and wrongs from Chili beeause slie is little and we are big', turn around and in the same breatli lell Ufi what tivnbl.v brave ipéoplè 1 1 1 1 ■ Chiuians are, and what desperate fighters and what Wg ships they have and what a bis army they can put in the field and how dreadfuJJy expensive a war with them will be. The real spirit of the people w!io talk about how wTong it is for a big nation to fight witli a little nation. that it is eheaper to Butoiit qnietly ■Co be kicked than it is to fight about it. That is where they are mis taken. It is inucli eheaper in the long run to let it be understood that nobody can Kick us witlior.t a fight. Capt. Frank BaMwin, oí Gen. Miles' utaïf, hrothcr-in-law of Dr. Walline, of ihis place, has been awao-ded a eonun-ssiiiiial medal for gallant service rturing 1iit' war. The preseoatatlon was 'made by ('en. Miles at the Chicago headquarters last week in the preeence of a large nnmber oï prominent army officers and eivilians. Capt. Baldwln was the liero of more thaii onc wcll ïong'lit battlé in our bate war and later Indian troubles. The ono partdcularly mentioned by congress and whieh ivas cngraved on the medal was that of Peach Tree Oreek, Ga., July 20, 1861. Captain Baldwin was boa-n in Washtenaw county, 12 miles (rom Aim Arbor, in 1842. The Chicago ínter Ocean in speaking of the affair says: "It would aeem as though this gallant officer and gentleman deserves not one but twenty modal- Northville Record. We hear a great deal said on the corner tliis week about the way Dexter i "pickln gup." The "plck-ing ii]i" procesa fitas been going on for soine tdme, but strange to say some ■people aa-e just beginning to find it out. The nioi-e fecent defintte enterprises ar a newly organized firm for the purpose of doaling in produce, va cigar factory, wifch some talk of ■a. eavings bank in ie near future. These enterpriwes are good and cannot fail to benefit the village so far as their lines extend. Rut along wlth tliein should come enterprises that will not only employ capital, but lahor as -well. It is au established tact in villages where labor is cxtensively employed the conditions of society iire fetevated, and prosperity umiles apon all. 'Vithout employment for laboor, capital's lines are greatly shortened and its possibilities narrowed. By all lueans should our citizens be up and doing. - Newe. The latost inoney dodge is being ■played in Michigan. Circulara ure being snit to citizcns stating that f tliey -ivill eend $5 they would be made detectives for the coming World's Fair, and bc given a badge and comImtesion. ''lioso lio send the V get aken in. II you are nat a subscriber 'or your ïocal paper, and get taken