After The Snow

fter the snow rile colci stars have a hrihtr r glow, l'hesky bends blner, mei we go W'iih merrier heart-beats to and fro - After the snow. A fter the snow The watpr-pipesno longerflow; The plumber inakes his rounds, and oh! )ur incorne pays not what we owe- After the snow. -Atlanta Constitution. Mrs. J. E. Field, of Alpena, arrived in the city Saturday night on her way south, for whieh clime she depai-ted yesiterday. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Van Auken, of Alpeina, amrived in the city Monday, and left yesterday fop the south, in company with Mrs. Field. That iïttle som at John J. Ferguso'n's up on Swnmi.t ut,., is 7 days old. Hio has already conimnced making his four older sisters hustle a-bout to attend to his wants. George Storms of E. Ann st., observed the 49th amniversary of his birth Saturday might by entertaining all of his friends in the city. They had a very pleasant time. Ira Beebe, of Commeirce 'iillage, ivas in town early Sunday mornlng on his way to Aran Arbor to visit his wife amd daughter who are spending the winter in that ,place. Miss Grace is ' attentliing ecliool at Ann Arbor.- NorUiville News. A slei'gh load oí hágh school seniora went out on a ride Saturday night and got enowed under somewhere. In the circuit co-urt Moaiday Walter McGurn was admitted to the bar, amd a judginent oí $442 awarded tiie Fa.rmers' & Meclianics' Bank ag-ainst Oscar Sweetla.nd. Oourt stands adjO'Uinned until TJiursday. Friday and Saturday, the two worst days of this winter, the mail carriers were overwhelmed with mail matter. One had to be assisted to the extent of 42 lbs. Friday and 28 lbs. Saturday, which were sent out by the mounted carriers, and all the other carriers had tnuch larger loads tlian usual. Mojiduy o. m. a wreek occurred at Dexte-r caused by a co-uple of freiglit traiiins running into eacíi other. No lives were lost, but the track was blocked for several hours before it could be cleared. Both of the conductors on tlie two freights wei-O Ann Arbor boys, George "Wolarer and Adelbert Keeler. Tlie accident was caused by tlie air brake on Wolaver's train refusing to respond when called upom. It is siingular Jio w some people, who haie no faculty or gift for either public speaking or ireading, insist upon gettimg theiimselvs upon programs and then imflict their rasping volees and tiresome presence upon a sufferimg audience for an indefinite length oí tiime, for when they once succeed iin getting upom the platform it is as dlificult to get tiiem to sit do'wa agaim, as it is to keep a small boy out of the preserves. Take a man foir ilnstance with a voice that sounds like a cross betweem an Arj-shire bovlme and a coirn st-alk fiddle, and1 just imagine wJiat a Oense oí relief comes to an audience m'hen Buch an one finally sits dwwn. Bilt someliow these sart of pieople ne-r realice their own positkm, and when the audience cheer out of eheer happiness that their torture te at an end", they take it unto themselves as a compliment to their matchlese eloquenee and iresistless oratory, and are as self-satisfie.d and pleased as a kiel with a new pair of slioes.