Show the ANK ARBOR Hichi gans educational seat interestingly es written lip ann arbor is among the many pleasant little towns one meets with in michigan it is not a back woods tom nor is it a modern city in a certain sense it holds a happy station between these two extremes of course the great university with sixteen hundred pupils and the high school with six hundred raise it far above its sister towns in wealth and popularity but its pleasantness does not come from its popularity the climate the soil and general products and the location make it pleasant its eight thousand inhabitants are well to do the extremes of rich and poor are not seen in this respect it resembles our utah towns in architecture tec ture however a greater variety of styles is seen here than wo have in the west the houses are not more substantial but they have a nicer finish a fresher appearance of her lawns and evergreen trees ann arbor may also be proud for they are excelled only by the grandeur of the tropics her streets too and walks are well kept and wo notice a total absence of cow pens barns or piles of decaying manure in this respect could not some of our utah towns leam a valuable lesson the people as we have observed are all well to do but they have to work men women and children as a role are industrious if the farmers were cormons mormons Mor mons a great cry would go up over the land against them for slavishly working their women not that by any means the women are so worked but one occasionally sees the ender sex on the farm in the garden or at the wood pile this labor is honorable when necessity demands but occurring in utah gives the dis of truth sufficient occasion for long sensation als after the tribune style but one sees many things in these eastern cities and among the eastern people which if seen in utah would give our enemies rich morsels to talk and write about it altogether depends on whose ox is gored it is not my intention however to write about immorality in the east there are good people enough here to attend to the bad ones I 1 will however state it as my opinion arcil on observation and information obtained from others that admitting utah to be as immoral as her enemies claim she still has but little to be ashamed of when compared with many of these eastern cities but ann arbor is as free from the sins incident to our modem civilization as a small town with a great university can reasonably be of course we have business failures bank robberies some little swindling an occasional defaulting public officer some divorces and also other evils of a much greater nature but the moral tone of the people as a people is good the business men are quite energetic only last summer five thousand dollars were voted to boom the town like all other spasmodic booms however or spasmodic anything else as for that nothing of any real value was gained jant this failure does not argue stupidity rather misdirected energy among the most successful business men one class deserves special mention the grocery men they are a real study they are not all alike in stature tome are short and corpulent others tall and slim nor alike in complexion some are dark others light nor iu nationality for the nations are all represented but in the management of their shops in their methods of selling of weighing of measuring they are all alike they seem to be cou tooled by certain laws whether arbitrary or not I 1 do not know these laws too regulate their weights and measures their supply and demand A pound is seldom sixteen ounces fifteen fourteen and even thirteen ounces under certain conditions make a pound neither is a bushel four pecks a peck is not quite eight quarts a quart will not contain two pints and if I 1 am not mistaken tho pint is a little but those variations seem to bo controlled oled by certain laws the uniformity of which is interesting if ono patronize these shops to any extent with a little pains and by the application of a pair of balances a standard measure after every purchase hy can gain considerable sid erable information of the schools and workings we will write hereafter B CLUFF jr ANN jan |