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Show "No use. Burin' tlio first session the dam went with a freshet During Du-ring the second, the mill went on a mortgage. During the third, Wolf River dried up until it wouldn't turn a pin-wheel, and I want the Legislature of Michigan to understand that I'm a free-born American citzen and ask no favors of anybody!" Detroit Free Press. nbisgixsstoca.. ' The Michigan Man Who Asked No Favors of the '' . ' . tegisluture. Some twelve or fourteen years ago a queerly-dressed eccentric-acting eccentric-acting individual appeared at Lansing Lan-sing during the session of the Legislature Leg-islature and asked various members to introduce a bill to enable him to build a dam on Wolf River somewhere some-where in the northern counties. The matter was allowed to go by ' default, and at the next session the old man showed up again. This time a bill was introduced, but before be-fore it cama up he got tired, and " went home. When a third session opened he was on hand, but only to be tired out again by delays. Last fall a Detroiter who was a member of the House and romem- . bered tho case, met the old man up the lake shore and said to him: "I ' shall go to the Legislature again this year and you come to mo with . your bill and Til push it for you." Thank ye, but it's no use," replied the old man. "Don't you want the dam?" "Fact is, I built the dam before I asked permission of the law." "Well, you'd better have things in legal shape." |