He Wants A Change

To the Editor : The above heading indicates the principal subject of thought and convereation in our city during the hot month of July. There bas been and is dissatiefaction and irritation, and there is reason for the game. Uan we find a remedy that will be practicable, and just to all ? When a city is large enougb, and does business through the postoffice to reach a certain point, it is entitled to free delivery. Ann Arbor having reached that point, free delivery was announced from and after the first day of July. Not for those merely living within a limited circle around the postoffice building, but for the whole citj. Free delivery continued through the city for about a week, when it was found impracticable without additional carriers. Tbough much criticism has been expended on the postmaster of thii city, I do not fee what else he could do than to cut off a part of its people from free delivery, so long as the postoffice department refuses to give him a tufficient nutnber of carriers for the whole. The simple fact is, that Ann Arbor covers an uncommonly large territory for a city of its number of inhabitants. Frobably the government now furniehes as many carriers as is usual for our number of inhabitnt8, and the remedy for our present unsatisfactory condition, if we are to hare any, must come in part from our own action. The present number oL carriers, and even an additional one, might prore entirely insufficient after the first of October, when we have an addition of some 2,000 students, who write and receive more letters than doublé the number of our ordinary adult population. What the city needs more than anything else is uniformity and certainty. One of the supervisors who happens to have the miífortune to reside a few feet outside of the charmed circle of the present free delivery, told me that he had lost for the city, in his official capacity, $120 00, in consequence of the late sudden changes in relation to the delivery of letters. I see no other way to obtain this uniformity and certainty, except free delivery once per day only, to every resident within the city limiU. If free delivery is a boon to any one, it is especially so to those living at a distance from the poitoffice. The business man whose store, office, or shop is on or near Main street cares Hule about it. He likes a little walk to the postoffice to vary the monotony for himself or clerk. In fact it has been charged that the business men in the central part of the city opposed free delivery on the ground that it would diminish their trade from outsiders going to and from the postofflce. I cannot believe our respectable business men would from guch an unworthy motive now oppose free delirery once per day to all Uring within the city limits. We are all equally taxed for the privileges of the city. And should we not all have equal privileges ? That was the principie for which our fathers fought in the revolution. Nohing is really settled till it is rightly settled. The poorest man or woman living on the outskirt8 of the city, and paying their proportion of taxes, is, on every principie of equity and justice, as fully entitled to free delivery as those living in palatial resideoces near the postQffice. Lei üs place óürselves on the solid and equitable foundation of one delivery per day to every resident within the city limits. Let us unitedly petition for this to the postoffice department, and then, after we have obtained it, get from this or a succeeding administration free ddivery in its full extent as soon as ïve are fairly able to do so. P. L. Page. In all probability the next cODgre-9 will pass an Bppropriation for an industrial school in Michigan for the education of Iridian children. From the Flint Globe we clip the following on the subject: "Indian Agent Mark W. Stevens says there are 1,000 Indian children of proper school age in Michigaa. He thinks 500 of them would go to an industrial school and learn trades iL such a school were established in the State. The superintendent of this bureau of the Interior department at Washington wa3 in Flint a few days ago and had a conference with Mr. S:evens inreferencsto the matter, and will strongly urge the establishment of a training school and farm in Michigan. He thinks the farm ought to consist of nol less than 250 acres of good land, with as much variety of soil as cae well be found on such an area. The school should teach farming, carpentry, blaeksmithiD'', and other manual trades to the boy?, and household arts to the girls, and the elements of a good English education to both sexes. Mr. Stevens thioks that thé president will recommend such a school for Michigan, and that congres will mako the necessary appropiiation. He further says that the" school will be located near gome large town, like Flint, which will offer tbe greatest inducements in the way of lands, railroad facilities, etc." Any girl who will ask a youcg man to write in her autograph album when the thermometer is registering 102 above zero in the shade, and mosquitos are presenting their bilis, and flies are pestiferous, is lacki&g of eveiy kindly feelmer that should