Smith's Advice To Candidates

The ïlonroe Democrat reads some p-eopte a little adrice ia the following. it' they wiU only take it in a kindly spirit : '■The removal of President Uorton of the Agricultural College has starled up a lot of old fellows who sat (lozing by their backwoods and sagebrus-h firsides, put oü in their joints and elasticity In their muscles and set them on a full run from the frontiers toward Lansing. Tlie number oi reminiscences that have been jarred out of the crypts of antiquity by Gorton's summary dismissal is astonishing. They come lorth Hke Lazarus, iai their burial clothes, bearing a graveyard smell which they hope wili pass in the' nostrils of the agricultural board, for the aroma of stable manure or 'Homestead phospliate ; ' and on this 'Letter of credit' they hope to lay truth in the lie ; for truth potnts to them as mo;s gro-nix mummies of the 'buil plow' period. Kansas, Nebraska and even Xew Mexico has -eaclx a candidate. They come írom their wiatering (juartors with the ground owl and tlie coyote and think they know liow to run the Michigan Agricultural College. Oul upon the herd ! Can such catt!e come to this state and receive lionor and preference over our native unive:-.sity breed ? Out on them ! Iet them be started south-west in charge oi a cow-boy or railroaded back by a stock train ! Avaunt, brindles!"