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Day
3
Month
February
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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gesfblTe facts m current politics is ttte rem&rkable growth oí the proteo t ion sentiment In th-e s mth. Tlie people of Umi siM-ihci are finally begluning to sne th t the democratie fcfaeory oí the tariff is not eomduclve tio their welfare and prospertty. In makin.iï the sefecition of T.yman .T. Gage, of Chicago, as secn&tary of the treasury, Mr. McKimliey Iris made a wise cholee. And all Michigan rejo ices over the chotee of Russell A. Alger for secretary of war. It ia very o v hl that the new eabinei wlll be a sfcrong on-. The prohibitiomlsts in convention at Detroit last week paesed reaolutiona agninst fusión. The hypocrite who last fall preached one thdng and pract.iced aniother - stamping for one party and vo-Ung for another, and yet clainmig to be a pröhübltlonlst is now shnt out of hiis two-i'aced doubledealing- doublé headed campaign occupation. - C-edar Sprfngs C'.ipper. Mr. Bryam, the gentleman whx) siüne months sisnee was anticiipating occupanoy of the Whitte House, but who susíia&ned a vude awakoning early in November, declares that '-tí we were i-l'-ilit bef pre election, we are right now." That Is true, but we are at a loss to see how that is going to help Mr. Bryan. Th peopte, by au overwhelminií? vwte, decreed that he was aot right. The New York Tribune last Satnr(tay publfehed a remarkable number ei lied "Tlie GreaJter New Vork Edir i-i:m." It had 76 ];t.:vs. ciHit.-iining as much reading matter is would be in fire Yi.liiint's, eacli aelarge as (has. Ii?kens' "Nicholae Nickléby." The mat: edil ton o? ii welg'hed elght tons. Ir wbb all sold so qufckly that iu the aiternoon the putriishers were unable to ïill orders for 10,000 copies, iherefore large 3new issues bsBüö. to be gotten out. It is a perfect encyciopedia of the city past and present, ivith 200 ilhistrations. Thoge who are olid enough to remember the financial conditl-on of the country at the close of the Buchanan a.dniinistration will notice the strikimg parallel 5m many respecte wiit-h the close of the Cleveljimd admdnibtratlion. An extract f rom Buchanan's last message enumeratdng the mfeforturkes that had befallen the business interests of the country is as applicable to the present as to the time for which it was wiitten. In fact, Mr. Cleveland mijíht have (ii(itod Pu-liaiiaii's message for his twn, and no one would have 'ïoticed the quiotation marks. OoloneJ J. Oourtney Hixson, CTnited States Coomsul at Foochow. China, now in "Washing-ton, eays : "'China is the best market in the world for the sale of American machinery. The Chinese are thoroughly aroused on the subject of manufacturing, and are keen to copy aftér Amerioa in all industrial branches. They are ready to buy all kinds of tools, implements and roacliines from us, and if our people only appreoiated what splendid customers they are the volume of trade between the two countries could be laTgely iocreased. It would certainly pay the makers of machiniin the United States to make special effo-ts to capture tliis traide." State Game Warden Chase S. Osborne, of Sault Ste. Marie, says that the county clerks throughout Michigan, have pocketed $7,500 that rightfully belonped to the fund for lacreasing the fitreugth and efficiency of the staff of depnty wardens. The law of '95 fixed the license fee for resident deer huinte:-s at 50 cents, one-half of which was fao -?o to the couanty clerk who issued a license, and the other liialf to the state fund for the game warden's depai tment. About $15.000 wae collected, but not a of it was turnod luto the fund. The ciiunty c.lerks kept it all. What the g'ame warden wants done tiiis year is to inrrea.se the licen.se feo to $1, clerk to keep 25 cents for laimseli ;ind to pay the balance to the state breasurer for the warden's departinent.- Daily Times. A scherae to prevent contestlng ol wills hias been evolved by an eastera liMiUlalior. Jjn viiew of the many altacks oin wills because of tho alii lnoapaclity of tlm persons mak(ing' thera, a Goraiecticút lieglslabor proposes a law to tlie effect that every person wtoo makes a will may de■piosit It wtbh a lesal offlcer who shall glve public jiotice thiat a will has i vr, offered, iind that all who wisü to questiom tlue bestator's capacity sba'.l liave a certwiiin time in wlüch to do so ; and If no objectlon is made, then tlie wlll 8liall nofc be subject to attack on tliat ground after death. The passat?e of sucb. a law i.n all the statea would materially reduce the uumber Of wlll eontestSi and promote tho distribntion of propcrly ace. reling to the real desires of testato"s, besides lessening the fees of iawyers who now often get large sliairs oï cstates throngh controversis of that kind.

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