Ligonier Banner., Volume 31, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 February 1897 — Page 4

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J.E,MocDONALD .Editor.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897.

Tae New York Sun is infayor of the goyernment issuing all the paper money required tor use in the business operations of this country. That paper maintains that goyernment paper money is infimitely-preferable to bank notes. :

IT 18 evident that Senator elect Fairbanks proposes to hold the official positions for his henchmen for he has notified the republicans of Madison that elections for postmaster will not be countenanced. This is a pointer to the local bosses, ,

Trw LaPorte Argus maintains that 34 is two-thirds of 50, and that the seating of Uriah Culbert gives the republicans the power to suspend the constitutional rules. A little “figgerin' neighbor, will dispel the delusion. It takes 35 votes to control things in the state senate. at least that is the way that we used to have it.

I'uE republican bosses and party managers are giving out instructions to stop-all political agitation and Ilet the country work out its own salyation. The orders come from none less in authority than Boss Hanna himself, and the word is being passed all along the line. It is safe to say that the people will not stop talking, however much it may be wanted, for they propose to keep tab upon the fulfillment of republican promises. .

At THE "last election in LaPorte county the republicans controlled forty-fiye ont of the forty-eight voting precincts, the county commissioners having appointed inspectors recommended by the republican central committee, but this did not keep the Honorable(?) Uriah Culbert for claiming that Senator Rogers was not elected, notwithstanding the fact that he had the most votes, nor the republican senate from stealing the seat, :

BrcAusE a big wood working factory that can no longer find material at Defiance, 0., is moying to Auburn w here less men will be employed than are now at work, the Auburn Dispatch closes its local notice of the change of base with ‘“lally one for the dawn of prosperity.”’ For what will the Defiance people who lose their po~ sitions or are compelled to leaye their homes tally one? The advance agent of prosperity may be able to arrange matters, however. '

- THE committée on beneyolent institutions of the two houses at a late session decided to favor the indefinite postponement of the bill introduced by Dr. Knepper which sought to oust Alexander Johnson from the superin< tendency of the school for feebleminded at Fort Wayne. This bill cloaked its real purpose under the guise of creating a new board, which would appoint a house physician for the institution. The killing of this measure in committee will, 1t is thought, end the partisan efforts aimed against the present efficient superintendent.

- TarE McKinley cabinet as selected so far is as follows: Secretary of state, Sherman, of Ohio; secretary of the treasury, Gage, of Illinois; secretary of war, Alger, of Michigan; secretary of the navy, Long, of Massachusetts; secretary of the interior,. McKenna, of California; secretary of - agriculture, Wilgon, of lowa. In the event ‘that Governor Bushnell of Ohio holds out - against the appointment of M. A. Ha;nna to the senatorship, it is pretty -safe to predict that he will be post~ master general, and the other portfolio will go to either a New Yorker or a gsouthern man.

IT 18 pretty well settled that Hon. Albert W. Wishard, of Indianapolis, will succeed Hon. Frank B. Burke as _United States attorney for the district of Indiana under the new. administra tion, as Senator-elect Fairbanks has signified his intention of recommend- . ing Mr. Wishard for the place, which ‘ will mean his appointment. Mr, Fairbanks could not have made a better “selection, as Mr. Wishard is an excellent lawyer, an all around good fellow nWht out working republican. if all of recommendations of the new senatorare as sensible and popular as the one under consideration, the people will have Rut little to criticise and the party can be congratulated. ~ I 18 now settled that an extra session of congress shall be held. Mr. ‘Hanna, who will run things, says in a ~ recent interview that the desire of the -administration is to get the tariff measure into operation as svon as . possible, so that the country may experience the relief of its increased . revenues. That, he said, is what the country needs, and until it is secured no substanlial improyement can be expected. He expects an era of pross _perity to immediately follow the enactment of the new tariff bill, and ‘ hopes for but little relief from the ~ present depression before that time. 8o we are not to have prosperity until _after the republican congress places . more burden upon the people. Ac- ~ cording to Hanna the way to make Wbl 'ﬁm”w’ﬁﬁgagw“m ek L AR i

Tug legislature has passed a iaw to continue the appellate court for four years and prolong the terms of the newly elected judges for that length of time, Many lawyers doubt the constitutional power of the legislature to prolong the terms beyond the date of a general election, For this reason most of the democratic legislators recorded their votes against the extengion,

Tae United States supreme court decided two important cases Monday last. The Western Union Telegraph Co., which appealed from the Ohiore~ yised law taxing that corporation on the basis of the capital stock 'instead of the property actually used in the state, and the Indiana law which imposes a penalty of 50 per cent. on. unpaid taxes‘ In both case the law was upheld.

ONE of Representative Babcock’s pet measures, his congressional apportionment bill has been knocked into a cocked hat, asit were, by the republican caucus which decided by an oyerwhelming vote not to change the present arrangement of congressional diss tricts. I'his was a disappointment to several statesmen from this immediate part of the state, but they had to take their medicine.

Tae LaPorte Argus probably states the case correctly when it says: ‘“The stealing of Senator Rogers’ seat 18 well calculated to prevent any Democrat in LaPorte county from voting for a Republican for anything for the next twenty years, All the democrats will have to do to prevent this, will be to suggest the mewmory of the RogersCulbert case. That will be enough. Nodemocrat will vote for a republican when he thinks of this outrage.’’

LyMAN J. GAGE, who has accepted the offer of the secretaryship of the treasury in President-elect McKinley’s cabinet, when asked as to what his course will be as secretary of the treasury, replied: ‘lt will be my chiet aim to see that the country is given a busi-ness-like administration so far as the duties that deyolye upon the secretary of the treasury are concerned. My appointments will be made with regard for merit and not political obligation.” This accounts in a measure for the marked disfayor with which the selection of Mr. Gage is received by so many republican politieians who are wedded to the spoils system. 2

SoME of our democratic contemporaries don't like it beccause it is proposed by the present legislature to amend the election law. The new amendments as agreed upon by the republican caucus: '&1) Authorizing the use of a pencil instead of a stamp; (2) providing that there shall be 8 circle instead of a square at the top of the ballot, and that the voter may vote a straight ballot by marking with the pencil within this circle; (3) providing that a candidate nominated for office shall not resign atter his name has been certified to the election board. And ought to pass especially the one ‘which discards the stamp and provides for the use of the pencil.

Urian CuLBErRT of Michigan City, did not get votes enough at the Noyember election to elect him senator trom LaPorte county so hé appealed to the state senate and asked to be voted in by that body. This was done last week and the democratic senators find the contest was one of the rankest farces ever perpetrated in Indiana and we should think that the fellows connected with it in LaPorte county would be remembered by the democratic voters., When it is taken into consideration that the election boards in the county and all ot the election machinery was in the hands of the Republicans the claim that Mr. Rogers wag unfairly elected sounds too fishy to belieye. It was a plain steal, nothing else. [

TrE Chicago Tribune in a recent number warns republican congress‘men that ‘‘the people do not want a wool schedule which will yield little revenue and which will give excessive protection to a few ranchmen and . the raisers of blooded rams, to the great barm of the rest of the community. Republican congressmen should bear this in mind, or they will hear from their constituents in 1898, as many of their predecessors did in 1894, It argues that the proposed duty of 15 or 20 cents a pound may enrich the ranchmen of the semi-arid regions, but will injure the sheep growers east .of thei Missourj_river, and there are 5,000 of the former and’l,ooo,ooo of the latter. Heayy daties on wool will enable the ranchmen on land that costs practically nothing with no winter fead or protection to make it lively for sheep raisers on land worth from $lO to $lOO an acre, with feed for half the year, It will make their wool sufficiently profitable for them to rush their sur. plus wethers into the eastern mutton markets and sell them at prices ruinous to eastern sheep raisers, while it will materially increase the ‘price of all clothing and wool gools the eastern people have to buy. The Tribune also notes the preparation now being made to combine the wholesale clothing trade to adyance prices as sgon as the new tariff goes into effect. . Farmers Attentio o ‘Do not sell your demaged wheat be-' fore seeing us. We\will{ guarantee to pay better prices thah yqu can get elsewhere. Bring us yody samples, ;&;“i’&*‘f& %t "}Zi Eﬁ“w:* ?iw b N

But Two Things Necessary.

The new fish commissioner, Rev. Z. T, Sweeney, appointed last week by Gov. Mount says but two things are necessary to miake Indiana one of the best states in the Union for game fishes. : '

“1. Our laws so amended that they can be readily enforced, This can easgily be done by making it a punishable offense for any one to sell fish that haye been procured in yiolation of the laws; also make it a criminal offense for any one having in his possession nets or other unlawful means of procuring fish. I .am inclined to think a second conyiction for the illegal capture of fish should receive a penitentiary sentence. 2. The laws thus amended should be readily enforced. In order to do this, the commissioners should be clothed with police powers and have a power to appoiut & reasonable number of deputies similarly inyested. An adequate sum should be set apart by the legislature for this purpose of enforcing the laws. Hitherto the commissioner has been shut up to either making no attempt to enforce the laws or doing 8o at his own expense. : ~ “The commissioner should personally visit each county and organize lawful public sentiment and then keep in constant touch with such organization. In order to do this he should receiye a salary in keeping with other state officers. And now some are ready to say why all this for the benefit of a few sportsmen? It 13 not for their benefit. It they were the only class to be benefitted I would never lift my hands in the work. The sportsman is able to take care of himself. The farmer will be of the class most benefitted, His children need relaxation and rest. There is no place where a farmer lad can spend his Saturday half holiday—and every one should haye it— to better advantage than in fishing. If our laws uare properly enforced, eyery country breakfast table could be cheered two or three times a week with fine fresh fish, But while this class is hard at work or trying to obserye the laws, such reaction and refreshment is taken away from them by the lawless loafer and depredator. “There is an increasing demand for recreation in American life. Hence the many picnic and eamping parties, But all who have tried 1t know the meager results of a day’s fishing to any one but professionals. Hence, so much money is being spent in going to Michigan and Wisconsin or Canada that could be kept at home if we had good fishing. Incidentally every true sportsman will be benefitted and will assist in the good work, I shall try and get public sentiment aroused upon this question, and do all that I can for the people of the state.” : : Real Estate Transters, . The following sales are reported by the Noble County Democrat: Heirs of John F. Strater, deceased, to J. Martin Strater und. 13.36. of 40 A. Sec, 26 Orange township $lOO. : Heirs of John F. Strater, deceased, to Nettie Chamblin, 23.36 of 40 A sec. 26 Orauge township, $lOO. : J. Martin Strater et al. to heirs of John I, Strator, deceased, 40 A in sec. 26 Orange township. $100: Heirs of John F. Strater, deceased, to J. Martin Strator, 99 A in . sec. 35 Orange township, $lOO. Heirs of John F. Strater, deceased, to. Harvey Strater, Laura Sirater and Kate Lindsey, 80 A in sec. 25 Orange township, $l.OO. : Benjamin F. and Lydia Bowman to Frank Landgraft. Nathaniel Eagles and Edward P. Kagles, 44 ft. off south side lot 20 Harvey addition to Albion, $2,000.00. . Bertha Glatte Fisaer and husband to John Kaiser, part of lot 8 Mitchells addition to Kendallville: 86,500 00 - Vernon J. W. and Cora E. Riveir to Peter Winebrener, 82 A in sec. 24 Noble township, $3.500.00. ' Mary J. 'and Queena Boywer to Sam Hosler, 46 ft. oft west side lot 55, Rome City, $365.00. g Heirs of John F. Strater, deceased, to Albert E. Strater and Mollie Acton, 40 A in sec. 26 Urange fownship, $lOO. Sarah and Lewis Winebrener to Henry Winebrener, land in Noblesville, $150.00, fe Andrew and Isabel Kiester to Sarah Winebrener, land in Noblesville, $2OO. - Sophie Crull to August Crull, lot 20 Sylvan Point, $150.00. S Frank B. Park to Ephriam and Mollie Acton, 61 A in sec. 23 Wayne township, $2.800.00. - Ephriam and Mollie Acton to Frank B. Park, 61 A sec. 23 Wayne township, $2,400.00. o

Barnet Lahr to Kerwitz Bros,, 6 A in sec. 27 Wayne township, $300.00. - Mary A. Steckly et al. to Amelia Day, 10 Ain sec, 29 Wayne township, $2.700.00. : Geo. W. and Alcinda Kiester to Jes rome Hisson, land in secs. 30 and 33 Green township, $350.00, 3

! The Propoused Fish Law, " The fish law which passed the senate and is hkely to become a law reads as follows: v ' *lt shall not be lawful to take, catch or kill, or attempt to take, catch or kill, any fish in the waters of this state excepl Lake Michigan and the Ohio‘ river. and except also any private pond, by means of any spear, seiue,“ poundnet, gillnet, dipnet or any other kind of net, trap or set line, or to kill or destroy any fish by means of dynamite or other explosive compounds or substance, or by the use of Indian cockle, fish bevins or any other substance which has a tendency tostupefy. or poison the fish; or to take, catch, kill or destroy any fish in any manner whatever except with a hook and line, which line shall be held in the hand or adapted to a pole or rod which is held in the hand, and no line shall be used which has to exceed three hooks at~ tached thereto. The proyisions of this act shall not apply to the taking of. minnows for bait with a seine not to exceed twelve feet in length, the meshes of which seine shall not be less than three-eighths of an inch. It shallsbe unlawful tor any person or persons to sell or offer to sell any fish taken from any of the waters of this state except Lake Michigan, the Obio river and a private pond.” o : _ M. E, Supper. The Ladies Aid society of the M, E. church will serve a six o’clock dinner 1n their new, dining room, Thursday, Feb, 4, from 6 to 8 p. m. : ; : BILL 0f FARE, ¢ Roast Turkey with Dressing Mashed Potatoes Sweet Potatoes e - BEscalloped Oysters, : HotBlaw ~ Cramberry Sauce Mixed Pickles _Olives. Salmon SBalad Mixed Jellies Pihe Apple Sherbet e Tea Coffee . Assorted Cake Fruit .. 2 . Buppet 25 cents, Subscribers who have arranged to ;,}»‘gy;@'thein paper 1n wood are informed that we would like to receive a fwﬁd’ﬂ wood of good quality, for Mf’iﬁgt L N e £ D NP ) el (sl (Ve T A K G A R D ARG SR B VT

FTUNKET EXPENSES

WHY A PULLMAN WASN'T USED ~ BY ONE COMMITTEE,

Republicans Counting on a Successor to Senator Turpie Before Their Eggs Are Hatched—Nicholson Indifferent to Temperance LEegislation — “Jim” Watson's Little Scheme—Populist Members and the Bills They Have Offered — Other Legislative Gossip. . Special Correspondence.

INpIANAPOLIS, Feb. 8 — Junketing trips have been the order with the legislators during the last few days. These delightful outings have come to be a source of royal entertainment to the solons. They are out nothing finanoially, as the railroad corporations furnish passes and the overburdened people of the state pay for the cigars and other luxuries that go to make the trip a pleasant one. When the joint committee on benevolent institutions took its tour to the institutions at Logansport, Fort Wayne, Richmond and Knightstown they went in state. The arrangements for the occasion were left to an informally designated committee of which Senator - Collett, chairman of the senate committee on benevolent institutions, was chairman. The committee actually made arrangements for a Pullman palace car, which was to cost at the rate of $45 a day. The corporations would furnish passes but : they could not afford. to contribute Pullman palace cars, and this extra expense was, of course, to come off the state. The scheme would have gone through had not the lieutenant governor heard of it. According to the story, he sent for Senator Collett and said to him: 4

““‘Great Scott, man, this idea of a Pullman car must be abandoned. Don’t you know that if youfgo skylarking cver the state in a Pullman car there will be a howl from the people that will doom the party for years to come?”’ . He not only nipped this scheme in the bud, but he also issued strict orders to Doorkeeper Pelzer, who chaproned the party, that no drinks or needless lnxuries were to be bought on the trip, and that expenditures of that kind were to be confined to cigars. His calling down had some effect, as the total expenses of the trip were confined to $lB6.

Already the politicians are beginning to figure on a probable successor to David Turpie in the United States senate. The record that the present legislature is making, the periodical turn in public sentiment, which is' growing more and more every year to be a feature of eur state and national political life, and every other reliable indication points to the likelihoed that the legistature will be Democratic two years hence. In that event either Senator Turpie, ex-Governor Matthews, John G. Shanklin, John W. Kern or B. F. Shiveley will be the peoples’ representative. Senator Turpie has been a hard student all of hig life and his declining health is probably due in large measure to this fact. During the last year he has been inordinately afflicted with a nervous affectation which keeps him in continuous worry and precipitates at frequent intervals, especially while he is speechmaking, a shaking of the head that seems almost to border on St. Vitus dance. He is-still a student, and while in this city is rarely seen on the streets, spending most of his time in his pleasant but wunpretentious library, walking with quick, nervous step back and forth while he dictates to a stenographer or attempts to solve in his own mind some abstruse problem of government. If he is forced by failing health to quit the senate he will leave a record for scholarship and classic lore rarely equaled. The Republicans are talking of several candidates, notably J. Frank Hanley, F. B. Posey, Colonel R. S. Robertson, W. R. McKeen and H. H. Hanna of this city. The latter was the prime mover in the recent monetary conference. e ;

S. E. Nicholson, he of temperance law fame, is one of the rankest partisans in the legislature. He rode into fame two years ago as a temperance advocate, but he is shrewd enough to realize that he cannot win fame that way this year and he has dropped: temperance legislation like a hot cake. It is true that he introduced a bill abolishing quartshops, but this was nothing more nor less than a buncombe measure, and Nicholson admits that it is as much sought after by the saloonists as it is by the temperance people. There is no question that Nicholson this year is as foremost in smothering temperance bills, pradoxical as it may seem, as any other member of the famous temperance committee. The fact is, he is essentially a partisan. and he is a very shrewd one -at that. He was speaker pro tem a good portion of last week and he - “didn’t do a thing’’ to the Democrats. - On every viva voce vote he decided for the Republicans. He has been appointed chairman of the Republican steering committee, which is a sort of captainocy of the force designated to see that all Republicans are in their seats when political legislatipn comes wup. An instance illustrating his partisanship came up last week. Nicholson was at the reporter’s table talking to the newspaper men when a standing vote on a bill was called. He looked around and saw the Republicans standing. *“I don’t have any idea what the bill is, but I vote with the majority,”” he said, as he straightened up. Some of the reporters tried to make him believe that it was a bill extending the hour of closing saloons from 11 until 12, but he looked as if he didn’t care a whit if it was. g : o o o : There are always schemes in political legislation that the people wot not of, and if some sort of X-ray photographic process could be devised to detect the secret purposes behind some of the bills betore the legislature the result would be surprising. One of these, which attracted a good deal of attentiom during the week, was a bill which it is claimed was devisea to create a soft and accoms modating berth for *‘Jim’’ Watson of Rushville as soon as the latter’s congressional term expires. The bill was stacked up with a lot of others and it did not attract attention until the joint judiciary committee of the house and senate began to drag the bills through the meshes of investigation. The bill is to make o separato judicial' distriot of MWW% 7, which is now linked with | was to allow the mushroom stategman Ko g s e e R U TR e RS e

from Rush to don the ermine at a ras salary is a matter of conjecture, but the committee evidently smelled a mouse and it has been given out from inside sources &hat the bill will be killed as soon as (%e committee has a chance to report. Watson’s friends in the legislature say that he does not want a judgship and that he intends to make thé effort of his life to beat Henry U. Johnson for congress in the ¢‘Old Burnt” district next time. Watson is a politician and not a jurist. He is an adept as a lobbyist and he has been doing missionary work in this legislature. He has an office in Rushville that he never stays in and he is in constant demand as a spread eagle orator at fraternal and political banquets. | 4

The indications are that the Populists will not be able to get any legislation through this Kepublican legislature. In the house the third party is represented by five men and in the senate by Senator Gill. The Populists haveintroduced two important bills. The first is a fee and salary bill introduced in -the house by Mr. Haifley of Amboy. It is constituted along the line of a general reduction in the salaries of state and county officers, from the governor down to the lowest county office. Mr. Haifley says that public officers are public servants and that as such they should not expect to be paid large salaries in hard times like the present. His bill provides that the salary of the governor shall be cut down from $5,000 to $3,500, and the office of attorney general, which has .yielded fortunes that are almost fabulous in the past, is placed in the list at $5,000 a year. The bill provides for a reduction of one-third in all salaries down to $BOO, those at the latter figure and below remaining stable. In the senate Mr. Gill (Populist) has introtroduced a bill intended to correct the educational system of the state and abolishing the office of county superintendent among its other features. It has been referred to the committee on education, where it will probably remain. There i 8 every indication that Mr. Haifley’s bill has been smothered in the house committee on fees and salaries. The author of this bill is one of the most prosperous farmers in Miami county.

{ { oo o ! The political gossips in this city, or rather a few who are on the inside, have it from what they regard as a pipe line source that Alvin M. Higgins of Terre Haute will draw a consulate to Switzerland nnder the new administration. The information has not become generally public yet and it will doubtless create a good deal of surprise when it becomes thoroughiy known. It is all the more remarkable from the fact that the appointment will, it is said, come from an anti-McKeen source. Higgins was popularly supposed to be one of McKeen’s strongest lieutenants in the race for United States senate. He is a bright young lawyer and as ex-president of the state league of Lincoln clubs he had a wide influence. On the night of the senatorial caucus at a late hour an editorial was written in McKeen’s headquarters in this city charging Higgins with being a traitor to McKeen’s cause and attributes the latter’s downfall in a large measure to Higgins’® alleged machinations. The editorial created a great sensation when it appeared in print in Terre Haute the next day. Higgins has stoutly denied the charge of treachery all along, but the news of his probable appointment will be destined to set tongues wagging once more. . g ofo % .

Representative Babcock is willing to bring down upow himself the wrath of dog fanciers by his bill to curb the roaming prepensities of canines. Mr. Babcock is a farmer who raises more sheep than any other man in Lagrange county. During the spring he and his son, he declares, take it ‘‘turn about’ sleeping in the-sheep field in order to guard, the fold against viciously inclined dogs. Mr. Babcock says that there isn’t a canine on earth that cannot kill sheep’all night and be found the next morning on _the front porch lying curled up as innocent as a lamb. Mr. Babcock has already reaped some fame as the author of a legislative apportionment bill that is attracting a good deal of attention. He is a short man with a chin beard, which he is fond of caressing, and side whiskers of the muttonchop variety. He has an inordinate propensity to speak to about every question that is raised, but takes all tlLe drubbing that he gets good naturedly. Aside from his large landed interests, he owns one of the biggest grain elevators on the Lake Shore road. oge 0 o

The republican joint committee on political legislation is scheming in every way to reapportion the state for legislative purposes so as to give republicans a majority in both houses. It is said that they had their bill prepared at one time but were compelled to do. their work over again, as in their eagerness to get an advantage of the democrats they had created districts for 101 representatives instead of 100. The democratic minority in the house is so large and so able that it will block any radical changes in the apportionment, and this may induce the republicans to play reasonably fair, They are very anxious to amend the election law, and here again the large democratic minority will stand as a bulwark for the people as against any republican juggling. Lours L. LupLow. He Was At Church. : s The night police were very indignant last night and threatened dire things to an individual who permitted his horse to stand for over one hour hitched to a trolley pole. “What a shame!”” said a business man as he hurried along shivering with the cold and observed the poor horse. ; “He ought to be arrested,” indignantly said another man. And so the expression went, but the owner ot the equine could not be found. Of course he was supposed to be in some saloon drinking hot whiskey and toasting his ungrateful shins. The police made the round of the saloons but no man could be found to confess the ownership of the freezing animal. Just as the police had decideg to stable the horse the owner came up, He had been attending a church service.— Goshen Times. Don’t Tobacco 8”3 ;:qy; Smoke ¥our Life If you want to quit tobacco using easil and fyorevqr bétxgn%_e%gn?:ggon mg m tig: full of new ilfg and vigor, take %o-mac, the wondﬁtworker that makes weak men strong. ny gain hﬁ g)pugds in ten days. Over 400,000 cured. Buy No-To-Bac from your owni&:n gist, who will guarantee g cure. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad. Storiing Remedy Co., Cpicago or New York. Aot T e A P A it et et S s T B R STY R R TR e A R R

The Noble County Hog. s ““A man in Noble county,” says the Kendallvilla Sun, ‘not only sued a person for 18 cents, but tendered a bill for $1 to his sister for flour and lard used while neighbors were sitting up with the corpse of his father at his houge,”’” Thisis no worse than a ease that recently occurred in this county,” says the LaPorte Argus, ‘where a wealthy man several miles in the country, buried a member of his family He fixed the funeral on Sunday at 1 o’clock and then came to town to arrange for a preacher to conduct the seryices at the home and at the cemetery. He also ordered him to bring a quartet of singers with him and said he wanted 1t all done in good style. Of course the preacher and the singers had no time to get their dinner at home, but hurried away from the regular forenoon service and supposed dinner would await their arrival. They had to hire two liyery teams and pay for them out of their own jockets, because there was no other way to go. To their surprise and chagrin the question of dinner or horse feed was not mentioned when they arrived. The preacher delivered an eloquent sermon, the choir sang and everybody said the services were highly satisfactory, They all went to the cemetery acd returned home through a big storm just in time for evening seryice, - bhungry, tired and disgusted beyond expression. But this is not all. The preacher was not offered a cent. for his work, but the choir held him responsible for their pay, and he also, had to pay the livery bill, Strange to say, the man does not appear to real: ize that he did anything boorish or wrong, but it is a mystery how he thinks preachers live. There-are good reasons for the belief that almost any preacher could give like experience, Indeed, it is to be feared they occur frequently. If this funeral -had occurred in town the preacher would have been given not less than $lO for his work, the choir would have been ’paid the same. and all the liyery bills paid. Twenty-five dollsrs would have been considered a small sum to pay for the trouble and work. and thankfulness for the favors would have-gone freely with the little pay. It onlyillu<trates the different ways people have of looking at things.” \ i

High Authority on a PFPertinent Queétlon

The following from the pen of exPresident Harrison lately appeared in the Ladies Home .ourpal and we commend 1t to the carcful consideration of Repretentative Babcock and others who are fixing things so as to make them politically satisfactory. Mr. Harrison says: ‘The use ot what is called the ‘‘gerrymander’” in order to obtain an undue party advantage in the election of members of the house of representatives has become a public reproach. [t is the making of unfair congressional districts,, not having relation primarily to population and to the geographical relations of the counties. composing them, as they should, but party majorities in the counties, with the object of giying to the party making the apportionment a fraudulent advantage. The districts are made up to berepublican or democratic, as the case may be, and the voters of the minority party are cheated out of a fair representation in the congressional delegation This is a grave evil. but it may be doubted whether it would be cured, or even much ameliorated, in the long run, if congress were to take into its hands the making of congressional districts. Lor Sale or Trade. ' The brick building .at the foot of Cayin street known as the Valley hotel and the lot will be sold or traded upon terms to suit the purchaser. A big bargain for some one who wants this property. Enquire at this oftice for particulars.

You Can Have - A Carboneet Picture, “ . A Platino i - - A Bromide b | A Solio Platino “ Or any kind of a picture made, in ‘the latest style and finish, . [ - °;e ’ . Kinnison’s Gallery, | - LIGONIER, IND. &5~ Agent for Eastman Kodaks and Supplies. SaW e Planing Il ' Having leased the McCCONNELL MILL just south - ,of the Lake Shore Ry., we are prepared to furnish Native Building Material Of all kinds including Finishing Lumber, Mouldings, Etc., and pay highest price in cash for Logs. Custom Work a Specialty. ~ * Custom Sawing $2 per.'Thqusand. | ' Examine Stock and Prices" bef.bre'; goipg Elseéyhe;g. 2 . ebDeR D i s N e

. . -Circuit Court Notes. - The action of the state of Indiana vs. Wm. - Fisher for burglary was dismigsed. SiErg : The case of Marion Edwards et al va. Simon T, Ward et al for partition. Sale made to N. P. Ragles, Frank Landgraft and E. P. Eagles and approved. : The action of thestate of Indiana on relation of Eliza Jarett vs. Henry Magnuson, was dismissed for want of prosecution. The partition case of Ehzabeth Flowers et al vs.. John. McLean et al ‘was ‘settled out of court and action was dismissed. i

The. petition for drainage by Geo. W. Brown et al was approved, there being no -objections filed and the assessments were approved as made. Merritt C. Skinner was appointed commissioner to construct the same.

The following judgements were rendered on notes: Joseph .Calbeck vB. Irving White et. al. for $296.98; Herman Krueger vs. Jacob H. Shauck on note for $225.29; Martha J. Kreager vs. Samuel Mcßuchtel on note for $449.22; Wm. Backus ys. Charles E. Pearce on note for $497.39.

The following judgements were rendered on notes and mortgages and sale ordered: The State of Indiana on the relation of James R. Bunyan, auditor.of Noble county, vs. Lewis R. Whitman et al; same plaintiff vs. Henry Wilson et al; same plaintiff vs. Wilber Birch et al; Isaac Rose vs. C. C. Kilgore et al; Nathan Wertheimer vs. John H. Bause et al; M. C. Smith vs Mormas S. Byram et al; and K. K. Wheelock vs. Daniel Myers et al Julia Taylor was granted a divorce from William Taylor. In the matter of the application of Sanford J. Miller to sell intoxicating liquors at Wolflake appealed from the commissioners court, the auditor was ordered to Issue to saad Miller a license to,sell liquors for a term of one year, Peter St. Mary, of Rome City, also appealed from the commissioners court, but his action was dismissed for want of prosecution. In the assignment of Geo. E. Bliss the real estate was ordered sold. -~

In the matter of the petition for drainage by Omar Stangland et al, Frank K. Eaton, Merritt C. Skinner. and Fred B. Moore were appointed commissioners. : 4

The plaintiffs in each of the following actions to quiet title to real estate were declared the owner: Geo, W. Gunder vs. Geo. C. King et - al; Albert E. Bausghman vs. Elisha Eddy. .

Sarah C. Warner vs. Jesse Warner et al, for petition, James T. Johnston, M. H. Kimmell and Robert Bonar appointed commissioners to divide land if such can be done without injury to the respective interests. .

The following actions were dis‘missed: Frank Saltzgaber vs. Daniel Jerraid et al, and same plaintiff ys. Geo. M. Webster and Ira Webster; Cyrus M. Stanley ys. Albert F. Williams. ‘

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