For Representative

Let us vote for the man most competent to look after our interests. No lccality in the Btate is more directly concerned in doingthe correct thing in this matter. We should be represented by a man of ability and tact, and experience in legislation would be material assistance. We are all too well acquainted with Mr. Sawyer not to know that he would be, as our representativo, the right man in the right place. It is not often that one of his strengtb can be induced to act for us in this capacity. We ought to show our appreciation by giving him a large majority. What lie did for us in the session of 1877 has not been forgotten. The appropriations for the University were then assailed in earnest and with some bitterness,and it was through his efforts that the University secured $10,000 more in appropriations than the regenta asked for. The strike of street-car men in Chicago is a serions inconvenience to the citizens, but the sympathy is still with the Btrikers. Yerkes' treatment of the employees was brutal. He once said : "The men have not enough ambitionto strike. Their spirit is broken. Did you ever notice one of our conductora or grip-men? They will stand anything. They are used to it.:' This would-be potentate seems to regard the employees as no better than cattle. The arbitrary conduct of snch men as he may forcé cities in self-defense to opérate the street car lines for themselves, instead of leaving them in the hands of selfish masters. Under such asystem there would be no strikes in the street-car service. A few cases of typhoid fever have occasionally occnrred in the state prison at Jackson. The state board of health and the prison anthorities have spent much time in searching for the cause of the outbreaks, and the result is a recent thorough overhauling of the prison sewerage system. This eagerness to better the sanitary condition of our prisons is in fine contrast to the Russian prison system, and the civilizations represented by the two countries are well brought, out by the comparison. In the Tomsk forwarding prison in Siberia in 1882, 1268 prisoners were treated for typhus fever and 1311 for diphtheria, measles, and small-pox. The terrible condition of the prison is well known to the Russian officials, but they make no effort to better it. The prison was designed to hold 1400 prisoners, but has been made to do service for 3500 at one time. The three hottest days in Detroit during the summer were June 17, 94.2; July 11, 91.5; and Ang. 26, 91. One man guessed two of these days in competition for the Detroit Evening Journal prize of $500; but no one of the 6,000 gueBsers won the prize. Gen. Greely, who is at the head of the signal office, hit upon three of the coldest days of the snmmerin his predictions. It is mere guessing, of course, as meteorological Bcience is too young to make such predictions; but the appearance of the chief signal officer in such a game of chance is apt to injiire the meteorological service, as itleads the unlearned to suppose that there is data upon which 6uch predictions can be founded. The excellent Journal gets plenty of good advertising out of it and is in little danger of having to pay the prize. It now offers $1000 in gold for the guesser of the four coldest days of the coming winter. Thb Repnblieans have again shown themselves eqnal to the occasion. To have adjourned Congress without an attempt to do something with the surplus in the National treasury would have been a confession of weakness. On Wednesday of last week Senator Allison, from the committee on finance, reported back the Mills bilí with a substituto. This bilí has the advantage over the Mills bill of providing for a reduction of 875,000,000 annually in receipte, without disturbing the great industries of the country. The income from sugar, if this bilí should become a law, wonld be $27,759,000 less each year. The rest of the reduction is divided as follows: free list, $6,500,000; tobáceo, (internal revenue), $24,500,000 ; alcohol in the arts, $7,000,000; miscellaneous customs, $8,000,000. Thus the issue between the two parties is more clearly drawn, and it is certain that the Demócrata care more for getting a start in the direction of free trade than they do about decreasing the revenue. A Dktboit girl, near to the "old maid" period of Ufe, has married a Russian military officer. If it was from pure affection, it is all right and proper. Whether it is so or not is probably none of our business. There are one or two considerations, however, connected with it, that are of public interest. The Russian officer speaks not a word of English ; but he speaks French. The ?irl probably has a boarding school smattering of French, and in that polite tongue the courtship was carried on. What a good understanding; what a mingiing of souls must have taken place! The Kussian officer, if he has liberal political views, may drag his wifo to Siberia in the course of time ; if he ardently believes in the estabüshed order in Russia, his wife, born in the pure air of comparativo freedom, will learn to be an aristocrat and a hater of liberty, if she already is not far on the road. She wül have to repress every generous sigh for the upliftment of the Russian people, and uphold all the hateful and cruel institutions which keep Rueeia for the enjoyment of the few.