The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-15
Wards Words.

The drowsy Earth fast rousing from her sheep
Kissed by the warm breath of Springs de
licious air,
Battles her in showers that from the heavens
weep, .f
Clads her in deepest green and-bangs her
hair.
That is spring poetry with the foam on
and very little of it goes great ways.
My long idle pencil comes to the front
once more, with malice towards none and
good will to all, proposing also to pierce the
evil and uphold the right. Like the
man who got weary of kneeliDg by the bed
side to say his prayer on cold winter nights,
so he wrote down suitable prayer and
pinned it on the headboard, so that all he
had to do after undressing was to point to
the document and saying, Lord there's my
sentiments" jump into bed.
1.-The earlier settlers of thisyillage took the
Eeop ION Of seiting out shade. tress; and to
that fact and good road tiihcffiffe we >owe
the increasing beauty of our streets, which
is often remarked by the frequent stranger
who steps within our borders. / speak of it
as a cOntagiOn and it is. Once started it
spreads from home to home. l know of a
village in Oakland Co., this State, with q
population greater than ours, that hasn't
shade tree in the town. 1t just sits there in
the sunlight and sand and shines like a dis
carded oyster can, and its name it is Ok
ford.
Several of our people in the country here
abouts were induced, last winter, to trade
their farms, mortgaged or otherwise, for
Kansas lands, and now they are coming
back as fast as possible, with tears in their
eyes, dust OH their raiment and great west
ern oaths issuing from their working jaws.
They found that they had traded something
xyh thau oonII nf of
for land that was utterly worthless in the
market and that could be had by simply
paying the taxes. All, no, Michigan, the
brightest star in the United armament of
States, is the queen bee.
Charles Bush, one of our saloon men, was
arrested for selling liquor on election day
last by a trap set for him by a couple of vii
lage officers. Judge Gartner, however, who
presided at the last term of court, took the
Dutchman one side, and, beng Dutch
man himself, got the true inwardness of the
case fright away gwick off" and he told
Charle-whO is as honest as the day is long
to 60 home about his business as he took
no stock i'm those trap prosecutions. He
probably did right, but he must never do 1t
again in this county. We are not governed
by right, but by law and lawyers.
An article i'm recent issue of THE TINES
made center shot at very common but
henious social slang crime. allude to the
article entitled mo Thanks" Now, sub
init in all candor to the people who use the
vulgarity, what do you mean by it?
Thanks" is bad enough, for that may ap-
ply to Deity, or anybody else, but ''welcs"
instead of welcome would be equally proper
in that case. Words are not so dear but
what you could just as well say ''thank you
as applied to the individual. But "nO
thanks" is a stinger. Just analyze the eX-
preston and you will readily see that If it
means anything 1t means no thanks to the
tender, or for the supposed favor offered.
Think of it my savage or dear reader, and
you will see the absurdty of it at once. I'd
rather person would say to me, ''naw, l
don't want it," than to say ''no thanks" for
that would carry no implication with it, see?