The Register Is Glad To Learn That

Cel. LeLand, of Jackson, is to be apgutóited State Statistician. He is in way competent to fill the office .ï-bly and is deserving oí such ogaiAJon. ' Tjie íariners of America, who were isd in 1890 and 1892 by the Free'ínjar s cry, ''Liverpool fixes the Tpricewf lïheat," now have painful leiszsre-in -hich to discern that Liverpool toi'-price in aceord with the Arnerand. When our factories are .ra tu) ing' iull time and when wages are the prlce of wheat is high in Chim tk -consequontly in Liverpool. 'i ir factories are not busy and ure low the i)rice of wheat ,w'in Chicago, and consequently in rpooL "The buyer lixes the price" ne.tutie-of trade. No one can sell at .üiiigberprioe than another is able to b Ohicago is the greatest wheat '■.v-er. It buys for 65,000,000 American .fieopie. fLiverpool is a lesser buyer; it r 3á.O00,000 of Englishmen. 'Xh,ecefí?-e Liverpool does not fix the tabsa, 'The price is determined in the "eaior jmarket. Protection makes the . icai-ket brisk; low Tariff makos Au 11. - Inter-Ocean. Wf ñ& to cali the attention of our raadcfs to the advertisement in juiother column concerning oppor■íáes 'for investment in the famous Peces 'Tatíey in New Mexico. Kastra capitalists have had enou gh faith ■■-. u tb# future of this valley to already MMt airar $1,000,000 in construction jf the geettaat reservoirs in the world ?te siihply water for irrigation. The y'jLoM ie rery fertile while the climate nonot be surpassed. The water supply extuhable and the cost meref nominal. Then, too, the water sup'vholly under control, something i Kriners can especially appreiatte. The railraad facilities are unuccelled. This valley is 1200 miles aearer the eastern market than is California. The price of land, now low, will a eertainly ad vanee in the very near future to inany timos what it now uosts. Jand in California commands mdi ■■ïi.nii 3 $300 por acre. There are uaaadstíl dollars loeked up in Ann .;twr 'toiiiging but little income. If it ■were investeö in land in the Pecos ValÈ) .-,ould doublé in a few years. 'Ihe ' iustöhj-ewd capitalists have investrSSoqs there íb a pretty sure indiAtion tiiat-the place has a great future re it. . HE people.-most all in fact, seom to iliged to Indulge in some sort of :alion. The habit of smoking U e muanso;ie of the worst. To some :'eople, howover, it ,- Bffensive. There is no gentleman who sraokes but wbo realizes this, and who wül not therefore indulired his lovt; for the weed in the presence of those who do not use it. Nor will a rjcvtlenman go so far even as to ask the permission of ladies tosmoke in their presence, and thus, in a measure, compel them to acquiesoe rather then seem ineonsiderate, even when smoking is decidedly disagreeable to them. Not a few people were deeply chagrined at the conduct of a larjre number of those who attended the banquet of the Alumni association last week. What lady was willing to rise in her place on that occasion and enter a protest against smoking there when it had been proposod by such a man a ex-senator Thomas Palmer, even if the senator in doing so did sacrifice his self respect? People naturally expect at a gathering of university graduates that besides briliancy in speech making some of the simplest rules of polite society will bo observed. Unfortunately such was not the case on this occasion Be it said to the credit of the society, however, that, aftor having time to come to its senses, it adopted by a good majority, a resolutiou not to allow smoking at the future banquets of the association. We are indeed glad that on such occasions in the future the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan will be free from such scènes, even if it is neecssary to pass resolutions to compel some of our great men to act the part of gentlemen.