Address To Santa Claus

I Thorc have been e tmmbesc of letbers reoefyed at the post office, addereaed to Santa (.lans. Most of these are handed in without stamped or sealed. One of the latter pro vod to be from a little Northeide girl, ajid s1h i Santa for two dolls heads with hatr an, a doU's bed and if Santa Claus had any money left aiter getting tliose things, íílif! wanted a store. The letter was delivered to a well-known wealthy and generous gentleman. A nother letter tos addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole. Aun Arbor." it was properly stamped and sealed, md after beiraj displayed the proper lemgth of time in the "advertisiinig case," and unclalmed by any one, it was forwarded to the dead letter office, as the law requires. It is ieared tJiat this little one's plea for generosity on the part of the famous fabled giver of gifts will never reach its destiaiation., and its writer will begin to have doubts about the old fellow being as lclnd a personage as he is glven the credit of being. Perhaps some charitably inclined pwell to do person. may find a way to make eome of these little ones happy by calling for these letters and looking oier their contente. The letters are not written, but printed, the writers not havlng yet attained the art of writing. Tiiey are all earnest pleas íor a remembrance on tlie day that is g-enerally claimed that all good children are remembered on, but wMeh olas, is not true. For old Santa, is a very partial old fellow aoid remembei-s tlu; wealthy children with plenty, while the a.re often left without anything-. AVhen the Federatioin oí Iabor dropped Samuel Gompei amd elected Jolin McBrlde, in avowed socialist, as president, it made a niistake. At least tliat is the impre-ssion aniong the masses of the people who believe that socialism, if carried to any great exj tont. will ruin this nation. The readuig public will regret to leam of the death of the Scotch novelist, Kobert Ixjuis Stevenson, who died at hiis home in Apia, on the island of Samon, in the Pacific sea. He was buried on tlie suramit oí Pala mountaiai, 1,300 feet above the sea. II is book liavc liad wide eirculation and beee mucli admired. As was ajitiipatcd, Supervisor AVatkins, of Majichieetefr in his so-called teply to thO Courier article, paya no ;i!icntion to the subject in question, but launches out into a rirulcnt and bitter attack on the city editor of tJie Oourier, who was also a memter oí t-lie board of Bupervieors. He uses neither reason nor truth. His assertiooi tliat Ann Arbor assessors are ráscale i.s a pink from lus posey yard. Hi.s polo object appe&rfi to be to pose before the people of Maoic.he.( e r as a great reidmier and womderful man, whose only care, like the famous herdsman of the Grampian Hills, is to feed his flock- that is stuff 'ent witli liis cwb ideas oí his ora exceeding largeness. ■