Doings Of Seven Days

Space in a weekly paper is jiecessarily limited, and many things that ought to be treated more íully are often seemingly neglected ior that reason. The successful, beautiful and highly enjoyable leap year party at the gymnasium last Saturday, for instance, ought to be accorded more space than is alloted to it. The affair was something of a novelty from the fact that it reversed the usual position of the eexes. The ïadies did the inviting and conducted the entire arrangements. The music, however, was by a man's band, the ladies having never yet developed sufficient lip to successfully play the wind Instruments so necessary in a good orchestra. There were upwards of 500 couples upon the main Jloor of the symnasium, taking part in the giddy mazes of the round dances ; and the Tunning track above, which had been turned into a spectator's gallery, was filled with those who merely desired to look on and see the success succeed. Mrs. Angelí was probably the most generous of the ladies present, for she took plty on four young men who had been skipped in the inad rush for partners and escorted them all to the dance. Among the spectators of note present, were Miss Susan B. Anthony, who really looked youthful again, as the gazed admiringly upon the brave wqmen who liad dared to ta,ke this step forward in aseerting their equal rights, and by her side was the Rev. Anna Shaw, whoee eloquence in the pulpit is only equaled by her eloquence in behalf of the cause of equal rights. But alas ! They were unaccompanied by gentlemen partners, and did not engage in the dancing. Of course tlney had not asked unybody. Being strangere here will account for their accompanying each other instead of escorting some nlce young man. Hand-painted souvenir programs were given each lady attending the dance, and there were 20 regular and five extras indulged in, the dancing continuing to near 6 o'clock. The ladies were very modestly and plainly dressed, all but a very few being attired in shirt waists with skirts to match. The men were more elaborately gowned, many of them in full dress with coat tails that just missed touching the floor, and which swayed beautifully in the dusty mazes of the two steps and live steps. The occasion will dweil long and lovingly in the hearts and mlnds of the participante. In the meantime the ladies swelled thcir gymnasium fund eome $4:50 by the affair. A Letter From Capt. Granger - ■ Capt. Granger of Company A, writeB thafc "All companies of the Michigan National Guard are required by law to parade in uniform under arms, at their respective stations on the 22d of Feb. and on the 30th of May in each year. The boys are not required to hire a band or ïnake an elabórate parade, and as this year "Washington's birthday feil on Saturday, and the boys had been excued from work in many instances the week before, the full number was not out, but more turned out, as it was, than is usual on the 22d." The Captain sends the above explanation at the suggestion of nome of the boys because the Courier of the weeít" previous contained the following item : "The Light Infantry had a parade Saturday, but an elabórate affair." How it is possible for any one to torture the above item . into anything either critical or unkind, is past the comprehension of the wrlter. The Courier has always feit a pride In this oompany, has alwáys expressed itself in that way, and its proprietor has helped it in days past in other ways than througli the paper. Maay kind words have been said in tihese columns of and for this company, and the most excellent body of young men composing it. These words have been promoted by a klndly feeling held toward the eompany, and its membership, and not influenced by any oourteeles ignored or extended by the company to the paper. We feel very sure tJiat those who read this article, and see from what incipient mole hilla mountains are imagined, will thank their stars that they do not run a pape:-. Teachet's Association at Saline - The meeting of the Washtenaw County Teacher's Associ.ition held at Saline last Saturday was a most successful and iiiteresting one, over 100 teachers being present from all parts of the county. President Essery, of Manchester, ealled the meeting to order at 11 o'clock a. m., and the morningsession was mainly occupied with i paper on " The Fortune of English Syntax," by Prof. Austin, of Saline. This was followed by an extended discussion. The popular sentiment seemed to be in favor of a somewhat free construction of the sentence, regardless of the technical rules of grammar, as long as the meaning was clearly expressed. The afternoon session was opened with music at 1 :30 o'clock, and this was followed with papers on "The Teaching of Reading in the District School," by Mrs. F. Caldwell-Heller ; School Ethics by Miss Nettie Gillette : Teaching Drawing in the District School, by Miss Lena Mallory, of Ypsilanti ; and What Should a Course oí Study Embrace? by Supt. Whitney of Ypsilanti. The program was iuterspersed with imisic from the different choirs of the Saline schools, and the entire day was a most profitable one for the teachers. The next meeting will probably be held in Chelsea. School of Music Election - At the annual meeting of the skckholders of the University School of Music last evening the follöwing directors were chosen for the ensuing year: O. Eberbach, H. S. Dean, Moses Seabolt, H. J. Brown, John V. Sheehan, James L. Babcock, G. F. Allmendinger. At a subsequent meeting of these directors the follöwing officers were ehosen: President - II. J. Brown. Vice Pres. - Moses Seabolt. Secretary - John V. Sheehan. v Treasnrer - Oltmar Eberbach. A Wonderful Boom - On Thursday evening last Ann Arbor Lodge No. 27, A. O. U. TV,, did a remarkable feat, one not excelled by any lodge or order in the county, and seldom by any in tjie country. Ib initiated 170 new members in a body. The occasion was one of great olii'ication, and many of the notables of the order Were present to witness the feat. The chief workers in biiuging about tho great class, were John Baumgardner aaid Gottlob Luick, and after the initiation they were each presented with a beautiful P. M. W. gold badge. An additional surprise of the evening was the unveiling of three large photographs of Messrs. Hollings, Luick and Baumgardner, which will decórate the lodge room wall with this legend underneath : "170 new members Feb. 27, 1896." There were 222 applications received, and 185 have been examined and accepted, so that another large class will have to be taken in eoon. This is a great record for the oldest fraternal insurance organizatlon in fhe world, and shows that it is still popular and in the front rank. A Physician Evangelist- Commencing Sunday, March 22, there will be held in this city a series of meetings of wonderful interest. C. A. Dorman, M. U., of New Haven, Conn., a physieian, wlio has been meeting with astonishing success as an evangelist. Everywhere he has appeared there has been trouble to secure even standing room after the first meeting. He comes here uuder the ausbices of the Y. M. C. A. The first meeting will be on Sunday p. m., at 2:45 o'clock, for men only, illustrated, when The Secret Sins of Men will be talked about. The Effects of Alcohol Upon theMind and Body, illustrated by large oil paintings, foreverybody, will be next considered. Sunday evening, at the Congregational church. At the Y. M. C. A. rooms Monday evening, Secret Sins will be continued, as will also be done on Tuesday evening at the same place. The closing will be A Lecturefor Boys Only, illustrated. At the High School Chapel. Wednesday evening. No admission fee. Free Seats at St. Andrew's - We enter the church, and upon the wallsof the vestibule, we read the somewhat alluring notice, " All seats in this church are free." Is this a true reflection of the sauctuary, or is it a misnomer? Is it intended that people shall occupy their seats without compensation? Far frorn it. The church is not endowed and every individual not in regular attendance is expected to contribute to its support. This is accomplished by such personal solicitation that many give beyond their means, and others, who cannot, feel that the doors of the church are closed. It cannot be disguised that the primal object of the free system is increased revenue, and the system only needs full development to show that it rests upon quicksand. It is undeniable thatchurches can not thrive without generous pecuniary support, but the conception and ideal oí a church ought to repose upon a plañe somewhat more exalted than the channels of comtnerce. Let it not be forgotten that the edifice may be never so stately, the ceremonials of the church never so replete with measured magnificence ; the fluted columns and the vaulted ceiling never so resplendent with art; the chancel may glitter with its gorgeous pagentry ; and yet the spirit of the lowly Nazarene may never enter its portals. The poor, the meek, the devout, may come and hunger and thirst for spiritual food and water, and find only the burning sands of worldly pride and ambition. Humanity may be subdued and reverent while attending divine service, but the human impulses and sensibilities do not cease to exist, and the rational enioyment of religious services is materially dependent upon the individual environment. Where lies the necessity of separating friends and families when they enter the church ? Is this inharmonious confusión agreeable to any one? System and order, even in the church, can not be unsightly or unwholesome. Is it offensive to see friends and families, intruding upon no one, attracting no disagreeable attention, diverting none ip their worship, creating no confusión, quietly entering their allotted pews, and entering upon the solemnities of the day? Is it more gratifying to witness the halting at the door, the critical sm-vey of the whole auditorium, and the final discriminating selection of some spot not objectionable? There are parishoners who are social strangers and wish to be ; there are others whose relations are delicate and strained ; there are business and professional men who are not fraternal. Is it in the interest of religión to make a jumble of these incongruous elements? Why should not the church be so arranged that humanity may be at it's best, and the hour of worship hallowed by all those surroundiugs and tions which may tend to bring peace and joy to the troubled soul ? Will any honest Christian sneer at the sentiment that lmlds in sacred and reverent memory the " Family Pew?" Will the child ever forget the spot where it first kneeled and whispered to the world its proises of God ? YVhen, with father or niother, or wife or husband, life's battle is ended, does not the vacant seat draw closer the tie of the chiirch? ür does the spirit of "the end of the century" demand the banishment of those sentiment of mankind which hitherto have been the sword and the shield of the chnrch ? Countless thousands make pilgrimage to the little church at Alexandria, to look with eyes of love and patriotism upon the seat where Washington listened to the word of God. Is there any necessity for thifl revolution ? Is it spiritual conduct, or muscular christianity, that allows the officers of the church, who inaugurated the new movement, to rigidly and regularly retain and occupy their former sittings? The day is rapidly approaching when it will be discovered that the lies of the church are being relaxed ; that the nonattendance by parishioners who formerly were in regular attendance has become a marked eharacteristic ; that indifference has stealthily made its appearance ; that the revenues of the society come with relm-tance and diminutiou, and that sorrow and gloomimpend the parisli. A. Obskrveb. Every Little Helps- The closing entertainment in the Y. M. C. A. Lyceum course ior the seasoit was given last Thursday evening at the Presbyterian churcb. It was well attended. and very good, indeed. Mr. Grenville P. Ivleiser ranks well as an impersonator and should he appear here again would be greeted with a large house, ior lie pleased the audlence very much. This extra number malies slx entertainments given by the Y. M. C. A. course, tickets for which were BOld last fall for $1. biinging the price for each evening at only a trille over 16 cents. Considering the class of entortainments given, nearly all of them of the highest order, this has been a wonderful venture. The Y. M. C. A. of tliis city want a building and want it bad. In casting about for pome scheme by which to help euch a building fund along last fall, it was proposed to give a course of lectures and entertainments. The idea was not received with much enthusiasm by the older members of the board of directors, for the field was too well covered already. With the S. L. A., aud the Choral Union courses, and with a course by the TJnity Club and another by the Mand League, and others by nearly every church society in the city, there did not seem to be room for any more. But one gentleman said in effect : "I have attended nearly all of the entertainments given by the S. L. A. and Choral Union, and one thing has Btruck me as being peculiar. I see about the same faces at all of tiiem. There is one class of people who attend, but but there is another, and larger clans, in which the Y. M. C. A. is interested who do not attend. If we can give a popular course, one that is not so fine that it would be beyond the enjoyment of the general run oi people, I believe it would be made to pay." And so. working on that basis, a eommittee was appointed, and went to work. It was new business to each member of the eommittee, and as a consequence they made some mistakes, but none of very great Importance. They endeavored to eecuro a class of entertainments which would please the ordinary individual, and which were at the ea,e time refined and with the right eort of influence. One entertainment was advertlsed which it was found impossible to give, and another quite satisfactory, was snbstituted. Some. changes in date also had to be made. But tak[Continued on Sth pagel " OOINGS OF SEIfEH DAYS. (Contlnued from Ist Page.) en as a whole the course lias been very satisfactory, and the best ever given for the price in Aun Arbor. The committee having the course in charge have worked against many disadvantaged, chiefest among which has been a Buitable place for holding the entertainments. Through the kindness of the Presbyterian Society that church was eecured for the entire course, but if the entertainments could be given in a public hall the Bale of tickets would be i ar in excess of what they have been, lor strange as it may eeem, there are large numbers of epople who will Hot attend entertainments in a church, and for reasons diametrically opposite. At one time it looked pretty dark for the committee, but through the untlring efforts of the Y. M. C. A. management the course will come through all right, and about $100 t)O tumed over to the building fund of the association as net proiits. Xext year, now that the course has been bo successfully started, and hs people find that by patronizing it they secure a good class of entertainments at a nominal price, it is hioped that every one will rally to lts Bupport, and instead of $100 give the building fund a boost of $1,000. That could be easily done if the association had a hall of its own, in which to hold the entertainments. The T. M. C. A. Lyceum course has come to Btay. It is for the people, witfii the people, and the people will make it a great success. It is evident that with an organization in which the people have confidence, they will do eomething ior thO town boys. These boys have been sadly neglected in the past. It 19 time they received eome attention. The work of the committee lias teen entirely a labor of love on their part, for they have not onïy served without money and without price, 1?".t have contribufced of thelr jneans to the Bupport of the enterprise the same as other patrons. Her Departure Regretted - The New York Daily Tribune of Feb. 26, under the above lieading, had the following relative to the new dean of women in the U. of M.: The decisión oí Miss Eliza M. Mosher, of No. 196 Joralemon st., to leave Brooklyn and accept the cali of the University of Michigan to become professor of hygiëne and act as woman's dean in the University, will deprive the Brooklyn Young Woman's Christian Association of one of its valued workers. When Dr. Mosher's acceptance of the cali to Ann Arbor was announced, in the Tribune about a moartfh ago, Dr. Mosher was called upon by inany women connected with the Christian Aseociation who expressed their regret at her decisión. The association will give a formal expressiom to its sense of loss in a statement that will be published in the year book, Boon to be issued. This is what the book will say : "The medical report recalls the iact that it is the last we can have from the pen of Dr. Mosher. In accepting the cali to the University of Michigan as professor of hygiëne and as dean of the literary department, she must soon leave the city. Br. Mosher has {rom the outset of our lite as an association been a most loyal friend, giving freely of her time and medical advice without material reward. Who can teil of all she has been able to accomplish for the glrls who have come to her in her momings spent in counsel with them in our little medical department tucked away in the basement? Our congratulations, therefore, to Ann Arbor University in securing Dr. Mosher are tempered by a sense of the loss we sustain in saying goodby to such a warm friend and valued iellow-worker." In the report of her work for the association, Dr. Mosher will merely say that the number of patients enrolled in the year ending February 1. was 162, that the number of pre6criptions given was 240 and that thO amount received was $131.89. Sh will also add in explanation : "The medical office has been open tour toours each week during the year, escept in July and August, when both attending physieians were absent fvom the city. The patients have not all been new ones, but it was necessary to present some of those in attendance with new cards, henee their names had to be re-enlisted. A number of those in attendance were not members of the association, but most of them were introduced by members or friends. The service rendered has in most cases seemed to be especially needed, and it has also been received with grateful appreciation." Electric Roads are Coming - As a general thing the business men of Ann Arbor do not take kindly to the proposed electric line to Detroit, the idea being that it will work a great injury to their business. Whether this would prove to be a fact or not, remains to be demonstrated. It might injure business in some ways, and then again it might better it. There is a certain class of people who will trade in Detroit any way. We have known women to step to a telophone here and 'order gaods from Detroit, pay the texpress charges and the telephone message, when they could have bought the Bame article they ordered, in the store from which they telepnomed, at the Bame price, or perhaps a trille less than they paid the Detroit merchant, not counting telephone and express charges. That class oí people are no benefit to Ann Arbor business men anyway. Tlxe electric road may add to that class somewliat. But it must be remembered that this road will bring people to Ann Arbor as well as take tliem away, and there are hundreds living along the line of the road who will be glád to come to Ann Arbor to trade, whose means nor ilesires neither onc. will take them to Detroit. "VVhere Ann Arbor will lose a few she will gain many. At least that is the view of a prominent and practical gentleman. The fact that Ann Arbor is thO county seat and many people will be obliged to come liere to transact business, adds to that viw of the matter. Tiien again, he says that with this road niaking hourly or bi-hourly trips to Detroit, there are many wealthy people there who would come out here and build themselves fine homes and live here, for the benefit it would bO to ttoeiir families. This would become a beautiful and wealthy suburb, as it were, to the great metropolis of Michigan. But whether this proposed road will help or injure Ann Arbor business men will nat be considered. The capital invested will not come from Ann Arbor or its vicinity, and the right of way has all been secured, it is uaderstood. The right to use the streets of the city would not be denied, and even if it should, the city street railway company would be glad to eell its franchise and plant at a modreate eum. lts owners having never been surfeited with profIts from its earnings. It will not be more than a decade henee when the entire state will be honeycombed with electric roads. We should not bO eurprised to see the Adrián, Clinton, Tecumseh & Ann Arbor line yet revived and built. And the smaller towns that are not now connected with the outer world will In the near future be given electric connection. It is only a questlon of time when cars will be running to all the towns and cities of the state, and three cent per mile railway passenger rates relegated to the past, no matter if the state did make a foolish bargain in its early and impecunious days. The children of Michigan believe that their fathers had no right to mortgage their interests for such an unreasonable length of time, and tliey will find a way to work out of the weary and heavy load placed on their shoulders without their consent. Electric roads will be the death knell of three cent per mile passenger rates. Another Pioneer Passes Away - On the night of the 25th of l-'ebruary, at her home in Augusta, the spirit of Mrs. Hannah Froet Beniiss Childs, widow of the late Hon. Aaron Childs, passed away, after an illness, from paralysis, of something more than nine years. Durall that time ehe had been a most patiënt and uncomplaining sufferer. The deceased was bom in Windham, Vt., and at the time of her death was nearly 82 years of age. She came to Michigan with her husband In 1832, and settled on the farm where she died, which her husband took up irom the government. There were nine children in her lamily, five of whom survive her : Col. J. "W. Childs, of Washington, 1. C, (the first bom) ; Mrs. Robert Campbell, and W.. K. Childs of Ann Arbor ; E. SI. Childs and Miss Alma C. Childs of Augusta. Funeral services were held at the family residence on Saturday Feb. 29, Itev. ffm. E. Caldwell, of tliis city, preaching the sermón, and the burial was in. tSh lst Cangregational church cemetery of Augusta. The funeral was attended by a large concourse, a great many being old friends who had known lier since the pioneer days. In the death of this aged pioneer, one of tihe salt of the earth has passed away. She was a no-ble woman In the days of her prime, and she did wliat she found to do as a Christian, and with the spirit of Him who suffered for others on the cross. 6he lived to ibe ripe in years, and although called upon to pass through excrutiating suffering in her later years, yet the patiënt and uncomplaining spirit proved how thoroughly her soul had been moulded to that of her Saviour's. i