A Dastardly Deed

Sodio miscroamts, wlhlöBe bodies voaild 1e properly clothed Jid tar and featJiers take llie place oí tlie sual g-ai-ments wcwn liy fho human amlly, took a chlsel a.nd deíaced the oMier's monumrut at Yp.-ilanti recntiy. oL the affair the ent inel paid : "Tlio defaci ment oí tlic soldiere' lonument in Highland Cemetei'y was grave crime, nob against tho laiies whose ñames are partly cliisled out, lut against tho jjatriotic sentiment of the community. It does at matter whether or not the lies't ! taste was obsen-ed in the inscripions upon tho stone, nor if tho deign is ot te aob the best that coulO le eecured. Nor is it of importaace -i-hother it cost foo much. Tlie Boilers' monument representa the feelïg of those Tvlio contributed to it or tlie men who wore the blue, and Sis meant for the living (as well as ïor ho dead. Tluat Teteran who condonies tlie vandal's crime has but mail appreelattoo of tie meaning 'I he eshaft and süeut standard beart keeping Tigil over his comrades' leep ; he deserves no part in the rayera or thanks of a nation." Als wo undcretand it, the names cttiiseled off the monument are those of the committee. Whether it was good taste or not, those ladies liad xcellent precedent. All the monuments erected at Gettystourg and Chickamauga Uy the state of Mich igan, have the names of the commis.sian upon them, when all tfhey did wals to select a design ''and order the monuments. Tlie people oí the state paiJ tor them. In thiis imstancO the ladies fwliose imnies were upoin the monument, raised the niomey by their own eftaxté, and did all the'Hvork, and ii there ever was gotod taste display'etí, it was iin giving them credit, in tbat manher, for the noble -worfc thiey did.