Passed By The Judge

The light of the unreflecting optimist is apt to set in the shadow. ïo criticise the world witb jus tice one has but to look in the glass. It is oever necessary for nature to patent her methods or processes. The future is a dark room in which the liuman negative is developed. Nothing makes an eyil spirit so uncomfortable as to find itself ignored. It is when one is called apon to defend bis goda that he most firmly believe in them. A serpent is nol necessary to make Eden undesirable as a permanent t-.u-r of residence. A mosquito will do it as well. The point oí originality is nut to sav original things, but to say them in such a wav that .copie will think they are original. By lavi.-h and insisten! praise of chance favors toward themselvea do our friends hope to settle such tendenties into fixed and permanent virtues. If people were bound to silence upon subjecta concerning which they are ignorantor anqualified to speak, what a sudden, unexpected, and all-])revailinur husji there would be. One never knows huw many wavs there aro of being diaagreeable iintil he finds a petty enemy - may womankind forgive me if I say a petty female enemy - uuder the roof with him. As a relaxatlon Erom the unavoidable duties of our somewhat burdensome system of human intercourse, it is soraetimes a pleasure to meet a person wlio has no interest to serve, no ono to recommend, no axe to grind. The financia] editor of the Ann Arbor Courier has discovered that "the pumpkin which lias heretoforo been a stroiig ubacker, quietly changes and coinés out for gold."- Adrain Press. And dow the qaestion is: will the financial editor of the Press ever display the sense of the pumpkin? About the best and only way to revive public confidence is for the people to return rousing republican majorities wherever and whenever they have an opportunity. Athing they will no doubt do. The New York Tribune and the Ann Arbor Courier, both for $1.25 per year. The best way possible to secure the best kind of readJng matter. Yellow lever- "That burning for gold."