Our Presents

The Argus will make its ieaders for the coming year a present of a $35 India ink portrait with French cray on finish of themselves or some member of their family, a $25 suit f clothes, a Waltham silver watch and four large and elegent steel engravings, and this is the way the Argus proposes to do it. Two .thousand numbers will be taken and from these six numbers will be chosen by a disinterested party in whom we aresure our readers will have confidence, who will be blind folded, while making his choice of numbers, which will be sealed up in envelopes numbered and placed in a bank of this citv, not to be opened until February ïst. Each subscnber as he pays for the Argus for the coming year will have the privilege oí guesing a number not already chosen by some ether subscriber. In other words the first to pay has the largest choice of numbers. No two subscribere can in this way guess the same number. On tebruary ist, the envelopes in the bank will be opened and the subscriber having chosen the number found in envelope No. i will receive a fine Bust ,Por trait, 22 x 27 inches done in Ind' Ink with French Crayon finish wit! six inch bronze and plush frame o any person whom they may desig ate. The portrait is to be executec by I. M. Long & Co., the wei known portrait a tists of this city The portrait is to be finished in every particular as the one now on exhi bition in our window, with a dupli cate of the handsome frame. Thi portrait is listed at $35 by the artists who have established a reputatioi for doing the finest portrait work ever pioduced in Ann Arbor. A twenty-hve dollar sirt of clothes will be given to the subscriber who has chosen the number in envelope No. 2. A suit will be on exhibition t Blitz & Langsdorfs, such as the lucky subscriber may secure, but he has the choice of any twenty-five dollar buit of clothes in the store The Two Sams have one of the finest stocks of clothing in Michigan -and the subscriber will have plenty f suits to choose from. A Silvei winding W altham Watch will be given to the subscriber who is lucky enoughto have guessec the number contained in the third enyeiope. This watch is wxrranted a reliable time keeper by J. C. anc W. W. Watts, who are known to all our readers as a reliable jewelr) firm, and it will be on exhibition at their store. The subscribers who have guessed the numbers in the other three envelopes will have their choice in the order named oí three handsome teel engravings 30 x 40 inches in ize and appropriately framed, a decription of which will be given next week, when we will give a more extended description of the presents. These are the Argus' gifts to its readers, each and every one of whom we intend, during the coming year, hall receive the best paper we have ver given them. Those of our subscribtrs who have already paid for the coming year will please send in a number which they may guess is in one ot the envelopes, between one and 2,000 inclusive, Our subscriben, can teil how their subscriptions stand by the printed address on each paper which designates the time to which their subscnption is paid.