The Tortoise And The Bird

.SSsop has a fable, in which a tcrtoise, diseatiefied with his lowly Ufe because he saw so many of hia neighbors, the birds, disporting themselves in the air, thought he could thrive above also. So he offered a bird all the treasures of the ocean if he wculd take him into the air, let go of him, and thus teach him to fly. The bird assured the tortoise, on his honor as a bird, that the thing was ridiculous and dangerous, but the tortoise insisted, and so he was lifted as high in the air as the bird could take him, and he then feil upon a rock and was daslied to pieces. There is a man in the low and level country of the Saginaw valley, who longs to soarin the hijiher atmosphere surrounding the beauüful capitol at Lansing, and his name is Burt. The Republican birds whom he admired most, and who are most attractive, would not undertake the impossible and dangerous task of teaching him to fly: his pinions are not built that way. But he finally offered the Democratie birds all, - well, we will not teil how much ure, - and they.although they hesitated and feared the trial, could not resist the teniptation. They have consented to try to teach the Saginaw pine land man how to get Ihere in November, and the effort will begin in September. We think that the aspiring resident of the Saginaws makes a mistake in trying to get above pine lands. They have made him all he is ; and he isn't fitted to soar wilh free trade Democratie birds, anyway : he is too much of a protectionist Republican bird, and he can't possibly get along well out of his proper element. He certainly will be dashed to pieces politically against the roek of the people's wishes Nov. 6.