This Administration Should Be

ited with one thlng, at least. ïhere are no labor strikes now. Tlie priee of wheat keeps dropping as the senate appröaches the WÜson bilí. Freo tralie Uoesa't appear to i be wliat its authors have d&iined for it, as far as the farmer's are coneerned, at least. The in.íamous VVUson Bill, not being infaiuous enough in a tarifí way, proposes a tax apon Huilrting and Loan Associations. These little societies, bro-ught into existente as a philantUTopic measure, to akl poor people on siiKill Lncomes to secure homes for themsclvcs. must baxed. i-loven foot of the southern aristocrat, wlio believes im a l&nded arlstoeracy i and slave labor, i clearly slimvn in ! tli.-it out rancous provisión of Prof. AVMson's bill. Kill it. The .lourn ai thinks it kriovve an imposter when.i1 Bees o 1, and neither the threatn "' a MoKlñleylzed domoc-ratii' coesreeainan nor the tear o! ;':i "oifk-ial lnveetlgatipn" will deter U inii expoitog and rebukkig one, ■'.-- peciajly v, lien liis impost we is i d palpably assTimed ior th purpose of conir i , d ! ii i raytag I he demóferacy.- La.ut ing Jon rnal. The abore complimeni is pald to the ]]: .1 ;; ! ii r. V]i:i ing, di m ■ a1 ie oongresanan rom the 7th disti Mr. kowlcy nhould r. tnember his pi-immer leeson : "Thoee little hands were never made i o scratch each o( h(T's eyee ov ." Congressmau Gorman, when in Ann Lrbor last werk. falled bo oal] on the eourter, wr-hich pul - lt Is1 In il and murmura tha1 i; "has glven Jlnimie mor.' noticea than probably any ' i ■ 1 1 paper in the Qomgressional i itrkit." The rewards : ihis world Ere mi; certaSm. Woald we eould enrage the CSomrier tr expeci lietter tliiniis in the next.- Adrián Press. As far iis the Preaa i eoncerend, there ie no unoertatnty abont the rewardB for it in the next. It pemlnds ua oí a story Itev. F. W. (iunsauiiis, oí Chicago, told at a little (liimiT party here oaie day last week, aboat a deattet In a new town. He wtehed to do some advertislng, and Kont omt postal carda Biimply uith hin initial.s m : ".T. W. L., D. D. S." Everyone was gueesing wliat it meant. Tlven he bought a lot in the cemetery, put up a monument wi.h hta ríame John AV. Lons, D. D. S. As notnjng i morO lonesome in a cemetery than a monument wlthoait atiy frn vu, he eet about filling the vacaney by getttng married. After a time slie died. Whereupoti he hart thte inscription put on, "Sacred to the memory of Hepilbah, wife of John AV. Long, D. D. 8. One less on earth ; one more in heaven." After hls ri-cf had beoomnè less severe, he took anotlier wife, living happily togethcr a few years, wlicn she also was taken away. On another Blde oif the monument he had inscribed : "Eether, second wife oí John AV. I-ong, Iï. D. S. Two less ati earth; two more in Sieaven.." In about a year he thoiught he would again try his liu-k in the matrimonial line, but thte time he caught a Tartar. Under the laehinga of lier firey tongue he grew odid and th,m. AATien at last a kind Providence removed her, he added to monument just thie : "Ann, third wife oí Joibn AY. Long, I). D. S." A neiglibor coming atong and seelng the vacancy betow, thought he would ÍL11 it out, and added: "Thrée less on. eairtli ; no more. jn heaven." The Press man will have to hustle lest he will get an epitaph like the last.