A Case Of Mistaken Identity

By accident the writer has just picked up a copy of the Grasa Lake News dated April 11, the following plaintive reproof meeting our eyes for the iirst time: We are doing our level best to get up an exchange with the Ypsilanti Sentinel, but so far have not succeeded. It is a little singular, too, as the editor of that paper and ourself spent our boyhood together in Ohio. M. T. is older than we, but it is conceded by our wide circle of acquaiutances that we knew the most and would make the smartest man. Time has proved that our judges were right, and yet our old friend, we alone excepted, has as much intellectual grasp and wields as trenchant a pen as any journalist in Michigan. As our dear old acquaintance recalls those farofl'years he will remember how we oft hied usaway tosomeshady grot and laid aside our plumage for a plunge into the crystal waters of the murmuring Wabash, and how, at such times, from promptings of pure mercy we would scrape the busy bugs oft' his back with cockleburs. As he would showerus with words of thankfulness for this service we never supposed there could be a favor on earjh which it was in his power to gram that he would not grant willingly and with grateful tears. Come, Woodruff, send your confounded old paper up this way, and come up yourself and try a little of our corn bread, and bacon! We have been cudgeling our brain to imagine which of our old-time playmates is fooi enough to run a country paper, especially at Grass Lake, and our perplexity deepens as we try to ügure out how in reason we could have resided in Ohio, when we were bom, weaned, licked- but not enough- and raised in Ypsilanti. Those "dear old days" would not take us quite back to the eighteenthcentury, and wearethunderstruck to think that our "chawing of beef" was done on the Wabash, when we can only remember of having laved our limbs in the limpid Huron. It is evidently a case of mistaken identity, or we have been living a dual Ufe, of one of which we have had no knowledge. However, we shall send the