Help It Along

Mrs. J. Willarü Babbitt oL Ypsilantl, ia engaged in the very laudable enterprise of endeavoring to secure sufficient fundís to erect a monument for Ex-Gov. Alpheus Felch, a man too possesess the esteem and. afi'ectiou oí the people of 'the entire state. He is the grand old man of Michigan, v ith no contestante for the honor, and the idea of erecting a monument during his life-time, though a somewhat unu.sual proceeding, is neverthelese a good one. It is a peeuliarity of rlie human famlly that v. e strew íowe-s our dead'íriendí and erect monuments to niemoij", and make great demonstrations o! affection after they have passed antay from us fpiever. "Wliy vould lt not be a proper and kind thing to show some of thafc affection uring their Iife-time ? "Why do we always walt unfcii the one Ave wish 1o honor has passed awny and tannot know or appreciate our motives and deeds ? By all meausshüiv to thifl fatlier of Michigan the place that he realy helde in the love of the great massea of our people, bjr precting through smal! contributions. a monument thai wil; bc an expression of our feeiings, and show to the generations yet ot come how honoreil he was in ais clay.