Harrison "thanked."

The New York Sun. Chas. A. Dana's japer, says in regard bei er-President Sarrisou's reiusal to allow his name to be agaln used for the presideney : "The people of this country must ■Jkank Benjamin Harrison for elosing fiicially the efiorts of a facüon of ■& republican party to make liim again a candidato íor president. "We Brre no patience with any challenge of General Harrison's motives. Cer-tsin clrcumstances, oeeuning during ■tíb& past tour years, have made liis ifnsal to become a candidate again fter he liad once before been renomitetetl and retired from the White House, an act of unqualitied and time5jr patriotism. "Tlie return of Cleveland to the TThite House, after he had been in aud tout o; it. greedy for a tliird term sad Bcheming to overthrow the un-written law against it, was a mott tfcious precedent. The group o: thii d ■tKiners, like Secretary Morton, and Ambassador Bayard, right in the very aart of the democracy, the traditional defence of the American idea, are Sfcs iirst traite ; and the season of aaxvest is not yet over. All lionor 4s Beujamin Harrison íor resolutep refusing by any act of his to make -ftat precedent Btronger and more danjserous. All honor to him for stand3Hg, like a true patriot, by a vital gpinc'jpal of American politics at a -n-hen unholy ambition and self■eting sycophancy are biinging men S"ward to deny it and to threaten ik -Bith obliteration." There is a eudde noutbreak in Deïroit of t!hat class of villains who have tbten responsible for so many lynch■Jigs, especially in the couth. Prompt arrest nnd punlshment afford the eans to a sure cure.- Detroit Free Itess. : I -i [tij That is true. Very true. And Detroit líliould see to it that those irho.se busittess it is to dispense jusiite, even in a small ivay, should be ï&e Caesar'.s vi e, entirely above suspicion. Have not some of the recent wents iin the courts of Detroit, with Hb.e verdicts rendered, had a great ieal to do with the outbreak of that VQest of crimes in tliat city V "■WTiite as the driven snow" is no longer barred out when epeaking oí Chicago's reputation.- Itetroit Journal. Over at Cedar Springs, a lady, Mrs. Maud Wamsley, lias been appointcd truant otficer. She doesn't earry a club, but eme has a pair of slippers, and the truants understand what that means. Chicago had a etorni of mud recently. The resul t, no doubt, of convicting an editor of publishing an Indecent journal and sendlng him to pitean. Chicago must have mud koiuc way. Dr. J. L. Snyder is the new president of he Michigan Agricultural College. It is hoped ho ivill have sufficient executive ability and sand to run the institution right and govern the facalty and board of control. i The Century Dlctionary has uothing to say of cathode except that it is 'the negative pole of an electrlc current." The next definition will Ve longer, but probably no more enlightening as to tlie nature of the unknown force. The estímate oí the yield of gold in 1895 is $203.000.000, agaia-t $179,340,504 in 1894, and $105,000,000 in 18S7. If the great iinanou'rs of the world are bulling gold they are nat baring mach success in restricting production. "Democrats are for a western man or bust," remarked the St. Louis Iiepublic. An unkind republican eontemporary suggests that the Itepublic erred in the proper eonstruction of the sentence. Tliat 'and" sliould be substituted for "or." There is little doubt but that a large majority, and a very large majoriiy. of the repubüeans of this scction prefer Vm. McKlnley, of Ohio, for president, because they are protectianists, and believe in his views upon the tariff, especially as regarde wool. The Baptist church of Lansing, which has been under water with a debt, is afloat again. She was raisod with a $5,000 check from Eockefeller. S'he was under water sometime, but that was natural.- Monioe Democrat. Now she is under oil. Thought oil and water wouldn't mis. Jerry Simpson hos announced his iutention to run for congress agaln in Kansas. Jerry got so he could wear stockings wMle in Congress, and that took away all the charm there was about him. He had sprightly heels but his brains were decidedly logy. Jerry should not have destroyed the ladder by which he climbed up. As an evidence of the decadente of the times and the late republican victory in Kentucky, it is reported as a fact that a man in that state has been living for f orty days on buttermilk ! From almost any other state such a statement would create lifctle surprise, but from Kentucky! Perhaps it had leen fomented, though. At last, at last ! Telegraph tlispatches in Frlday's papers announced that President Faure, of France had signed a pardon and ordered the release of ex-Consul Jota M. Waller, wlio has lingered in a French military piison, and moest Americans think unjustly so, for over a year, on a charge of divulging infarmation to the Germán military authorities. Eugene V. Debs, the A. R. U man who came into notoriety by causing the strikes at Chicago a couple of years ago, and wlio served a terin in prison for the same, it is said wfll be the populistic nominee ior governor of Indiana. Any chance he might have had for the votes of that party were knocked out when he told his hearers in a recent speech, that the poor man ought to buy more booke and less beer. The republican banquet at Detroit last Friday night, called out a great many of the faithful from all parts of the state.' It was a succeesfuí affair, though not up to former banquets, eibher in attendance or wealth of ability in tspeakers. One iact was certainly demonstrated, and bhat was that McKinley is the favo-rlte of Michigan in tüie presidentiai race. He stands ahead of all other candidates with Senator Allison of Iowa a good second. Michigan will send a solld HcKinley delegation to Bt. Louis if the wishes of the majority are respected. Neithr Reed nor Morton have any following outsidö of a íew pollticians. I,incoln's birtlulay was celebrated tbis year in all sections of the country, and cltizens of all parties joined in doing honor to the memory of a man vhom a distinguished Hnglish wit er rccently characterized as -'the marvel of history and, everytMng considered, the best product oï the c.ivilization f the New World." The Taber Grand Opera House at Denver, Colorado, is in the hands of a receiver, and consequently in charge o[ the court. As a .loasequencc Juidge Johnson has Ussucd an order requiring all persons att endino plajs or performances therein to remove their hats or nonnets. Kow lor a storm. Judge Johnson ! The farmers of the United Si ates were just beglnnlug to iindan enlarged foreign market lor their producís under the reciprocity pollcy whcn a democratie congress came along and smashed it. Of course that great wrong will be recti[ied as soon as republican rule is restored. If it ■ not done the republican party will be smashed. Europe still possesses considerable land in America. England owna 3,034,782 square miles, Prance 18,040, Denmark 86.614, and Holland 46,463. with an aggregate population of 7,000,000. Spain aleo has ome real estáte left in the Western world. but would find it difficult to give possesskra except in the immediate viclnity of Havana. The Michigan supreme court lias decided that "havLng the jaw bone fractured while getting a tooth drawn is not an accident ;" the Perinsylvania supreme oourt has ruled that "beef stew is hot soup;" the United States supreme court has handed down a decisión that "the tomato is a vegetable." One by one all the great questiows .of the age are being settled by the judiciary.- Ypsilanti Commercial. Jasan E. Hammond, the present diputy state superintendent of public instructicm, has shied his castor in the ring for the state superintendeney, Mr. Pattengill having declined a ienomination. He is a Hillsdale man, and at his home is very much thought of. He is a Hillsdale College and Normal School student, and Agricultural College gradúate, and is 34 years of age. He is one of the soit who has worked his way up by perseverance. Alter a fight lasting over his entire presence in congress, some three years, Oongressman Linton, of the Saginaw district,, has succeeded in having congress pass a bilí discontinumg; all appropriations of noney vor tne support of Indian Educational Institutions conducted under denominational auspices. The voie stood 93 to C4. Hereafter each teligious denomination will be obliged to carry on ite own missionary work, unaided by the government. The Scientiiic American says that "the phenomenal fall in barometric pressure was made memorable in the o.'flce of the Scientiüc American by the collapse of lts selï'-recording barometer," on Feb. 6th last, the Instrument at the time of lts collapse showing a pressure of 28-57, being the lowest ever known eince a record has been kept. At" the same time the wind varied between G4 and 72 miles per hour. That was a great day, atmosphericully peaking, ior New York. _________ President Eliot, of Harvard Joilege is incubating a plan to run the ordinary student through that educational mili in three years instead of tour, as all colleges now require. That action would have a great tendency to Increase the attendance at Harvard, at tlie expense of all other universities, unless they all did likewise. The tendency in all other institutions of the kind has been to Increase instead of decrease the requlrements for a degreee. What effect this radical backward movement will have if adopted, it is hard to teil. The regente of the University have employed a professor in Scotland, to teach memtal philosophy at the University. The question arlses whether the alien contract labor law has not been violated. Whether it liae or not, the law of good sense has been disregarded. If this country has not a man able to fill the chair of mental philosophy in the University, we better take in our educational sign and go out of business. Let it be borne in mlnd tihat It is a repuibllcan board of regenta that goes into a foreign country to import educators.- Adrián Press. Don't suppose that Brother Stearns would hire a man to work In hls office who learned hls trade outslde of Adrián, would he ? Same principie. , : i The Morgan syndieate secured most o! the bonds recently issued by tliis government to pay its current expenses in times of proround peace. It is said that this aggregaticm of capitalista received a quiet tip of wtoat the principal foids were to be, and in tiuif ivay secured thé greater Bh&té Of the bonds and made another great fortune. And the deer people pay the price. England's conree dnring ih' last year towanls the guvornniiMits of Central and South America, la not ealeulated to increase Briti.sh trade In that part of the world. As far as it lias been developed, the Salisbury ioreign policy is an illustration of the act oí makiog enemlee. Now is the 'ime for cowgress to strike for reclproclty, whlle the iron is hot. No greater opportunity haa ever been ofïered to iniiugurate once again the policy of reciprocity. Will congress act ? By voting agaiiist the consideratdon of the tariff mea.sure, whlch is a vital tenen; o the republican faitli, Senators Carter, Teller, Mantle and DuBois liave nofc only done uu injuiy to this nation, but they liave also injured the silver cause whieh they de-ired to help. Tliey appear to be silverltes lirst and patrióte next. SVTiat the nation wants in her senate is patriotUm [lrst, thcn let party and the various isms that aiise take thcir chances. Tlie people of this nation demand the restoration of a protective tari;f, and it is ths first duty of congress ito restore ir. Judge Ruesell of Muskegon has refused to grant the mandamus compeV ling the school board oi that city to collect the institute íeeá oi tl. teadiers in the city schools. The judge holds that the law is unconstistitutional in that it has one fee for ladies and another ior gentlemen. The case will now go to the' supreme court of the state. Should this tribunal affirm Judge Russell's decisión, the summer series of institutes will be the last till the state does what it ishould have done in the first place, and ios it has done for the farmers' institutes, provide for the institute's fund by a general tax on the property of the Bta te.- School Moderator.