Ligonier Banner., Volume 38, Number 52, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 March 1904 — Page 4

AN OLD FAVORITE E WVVWWVWWVWVW"V“"V"VV"WYYV"VWVWVWVE THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS } - ; > " By William Cullen Bryant : . : mwmmeeny [T} melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, E %.J Of wailing winds,’ and naked woods,: and meadows » s -~ brown and sere. e s Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves b L | B deda; ' E "i}‘.‘“ { They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit’s > ﬁ‘ . tread; - - : The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs : ~ . the ey, - - F And from the wood-tpp calls the crow through all the gloomy day. | & Where are all the flowers, the fair ¥ 1g flowers, that lately sprang and E stood : : In brighter light and softer airs, & beauteous sisterhood? ' E Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their'lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling -where they- lie, but the cold November rain 5 Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. S . S o : e The wind-flower and the violet, .they perished long ago, : And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; > But on the,hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, : And the yéllow sun-flower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, ; Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, = And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen. » And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, E To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; : When the sound of dropping nuts is heard; though all the trees are still, p And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, o > The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, : And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more, - : And then I think of one who in her youthfiil beauty died, ~ : The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. 'S In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, : And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief: B Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young friend of ours, > So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. E AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL

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The Louisville Times points out the real character of the Mearst candidacy in this forceful paragraph: TFor the first time in the history of this co'untr)z an open and avowed effort is being made torpurchase the presidential nomination of a great political party. With a matter such as this, the secret vices or the commonplace virtues of the man offering the bribe have nothing to do.. Itis the party, not the man, that is en trial. : o . ®R B ORRR : . The supreme court decision in the merger case holds that the anti-trust ac& not only declares to be illegal contracts which necessarily operate in restf‘aint of trade between states, but that it is directed against all direct restraints, whether reasonable or-urnreasonable, imposed by any combination, conspiracy or monoply. It is decided that railroads engaged in interstate or international commerce are distinctly amenable to anti-trust laws, and that combinations, even among private manufacturers or dealers torestrain interstate commerce, are equally embraced by the act. ! £ o 2R R RRR Sae Hon. George Fred. Williams of Massachusetts has written a long letter espousing the cause of William Randolph Hearst. Seems to be & kind of a fellow 'feeling. Williams, beg pardon! George Fred. Williams, isablather skitg. : , . - i . R R R R R R ~ : - ‘ws The New York World, which gives the Republicans and the president fhll eredit for the anti-trust law and its enforcement in the Northern Securities case, insists that the administration cah notnow ‘‘quit” without stultification. Itsays: ; - < . : 2 -

Now, gentlemen, what are you going to do -next? Not, surely, to sit down complacently, as some have suggested, and ask the peopie to vote for you because you have proved that you can. do.something and do not do it. Naturally, you are looking about for other trusts to destroy. Why not bebegin with the paper trust and the beef trust? . But Washington dispatches have indicated that there is little likelihood that any further action will be taken just at present. As the New Orleans States says: o - s : The administration, however, has no idea of making a crusade against the trusts, in spite of the rfact that they are covered by the decision of the Supreme Court and operating in violation of the anti-trust law. The merger decision will be paraded as evidence that the administration is hostile to the combines whieh have been built up under republican legislation to plunder the publie, but the country will not be satistied with this. It will insist upon the government using the law against the meat trast, the sugar trust and all the other trusts that have succeeded in monopolizing the nec-: essaries of life and are now squeezing consumers for all they can stand. = ' : % R R R R R : - Ex-Senator David Turpie isB quoted on the Hearst movementin Indiana as follows: - o . ‘ ; ; : “The democratic party in Indiana is'competent to select its own delegates to the national convention, and the gentlemen seleted, * having the confidence of the people who are their. constitutents, can, at' the proper time, make the best choice of a candidacy for the president. . “There has been no former instance of a formal and organized effort by members of the national committee outside of the state toinfluence the voters or the delegatesto our party, and such interference is outside the prudence and propriety which should control those who are acting in matters of such moment.”’ . ; ! ; : RBPRORBR If ever a man and his paper was vindicated by the cbnrse of events that “vindication has come to Hon. C. G. Cénn and the Elkhart Truth. When -the failure of the Indiana National Bank at Elkhart was announced Mr. Conn took personal charge of the columns of the Truth .and he gave the readers to understand that as far as possible the truth should be known. He gave the affairs of the bank an airing and sliowed beyond question that the concern had been wrecked by Broderick and Brown and that all kinds of crocked work had been indulged in. The friends of Brown turned upon Col. Conn and all kinds of threats were indulged in and apologies and explanations were offered at every harfd. - As time passed, Broderick and Brown were placed under arrest and now the trial discloses a degree of -mendacity that is'appaling. The deliberate and successful looting of the bank’'is completely laid bare and the chief culprits are shown to be the men that Col. Conn first branded as responsible for the trouble. The Truth did not tell near all of the details of the robbery and the fellows who so frantically rushed to the defense of°Mr. Brown and so roundly abused Col. Conn can now reflect upon these course. : - : ; - . B R RRR _

- Republican politicians, your attention for a moment: Two years ago it was vzhemently declared that effective anti-trust legislation is impossible witheut an amendment to the federal constitution specifically authorizing such legislation. A resolution to that effect was introduced in congress. Shortly thereafter Attorney General Knox made mince meat of that contention. He contended that congress already had ample authority to curb the trusts. This contention is completely affirmed by the supreme court} decision in the merger case. The highest judicial tribunal has thus torn into a thousand shreds the republican sophistry that before the trusts could ‘ be proceeded against an amendment to the constitution was necessary. It is well enough to bear this in mind.—J. B. SToLL i South Bend Times. . e ® R R XRE ' | The postmaster at Elkhart had about $10;,000 of government funds in the Indiana National Bank at Elkhart when the crash came. Senator Beveridge at once introduced a bill 1n congress to release Mr. Anderson of his liability and now comes the report that postoffice authorities, after a careful examination of the case, will refuse to sanction such a course. The inspectors who examined the case are unanimous in their report against the government assuming the loss. It would certainly be a bad precedent. The loss will fall heavily upon Mr. Anderson but all public officers ‘who handle public funds must take their chances. _ | e o * e ® RER : Hon. Johnathan W. Crumpacker of LaPorte is dead at the age of 49. He first became prominent in northern Indiana politics in 1893 after his election as senator from LaPorte by the Republicans. McKinley appointed him to the Supreme Court in New Mexico but he was afterwards removed by President Roosevelt. ' = : | ' e RRRRR - | The svidence in the trial of Broderick, the president of the wrecked Elkhart bank shows a degree of rottenness that is appaling. The ways ang means of the robbery of the depositors has been fully explained by the witnesses and if somebody does not go to the penitentiary we miss our guess. No bank was ever more wantonly robbed by burglars. , -

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] Making A Hard Fight. - ! The first page of the Brooklyn Jlagle of last Sunday was devoted to ‘an expose of the recklessness of the ‘republican party in wasting government funds. Thesé lines appeared in big, black type: ‘Fads, Frauds and Follies Cripple Nation’s Finances. Deficit of $42,000,000 in Coming Fiscal Year shown by even the ‘most superficial examination, to be due to Reckless Wastefulness in the Government’s Expenditurés.””” The pictures of four men are given who ‘are exerting their utmost influence to put an end to the extrayagance, and the four men are James M. Robinson of the 12th Indiana district, J. A. Hemenway, Gilbert M. Hitchcock and Henry L. West. Down below the pictures of these men is a cartoon showing four government officials throwing money at the birds and dumping it onto a bon-fire by wheelbarrow loads. Mr. Hemenway says the total appropriations for the fiscal vear, as estimated at present,amount to $947,317,922, and it is his opinion that unless this sum is reduvced at least $42,000,000, there will be a shortage of that size at the end of the vear. It has only been a few years since the total appropriation for governmental purposes for a single year was far uhder the half-billion mark; now the figures reach the half-billion mark and bound beyond it by a quarterof abillion dollars. The expenses are rising mountain high and extravagance and reckless expenditures are everywhere in evidence.—€olumbia City Post. . V ; ‘Re—s_o_l—utions of Respect, * Hall of Crescent Rebekah Lodge; No. 569. Your committe appointed to draft fitting resolutions of respect to the memory of our departed sister, repogts as follows: ’ : WHEREAS, The Supreme Ruler of the universe has in his infinite wisdom removed from earth our beloved sister, Della Green, an endeared and | honored member of this Crescent Rebekah Lodge, No. 569. And - WHEREAS, In her untimely death we keenly feel our loss, therefore be ity . , RrsonLvED, That we sincerely condole with the bereaved family and extend to them-our heartfelt sympathy and prayer that the loving Father of all may comfort them in their loneliness and dark hour of affliction. REsOLVED, That our charter be draped in mouring for thirty days. REsSOLVED, That a copy of these resolutions be spread onour minutes, a copy be sent to the bereaved family, and also one to the city papers for publication. . | Fraternally submitted, . . Lizzie BELTS NETTIE SHOBE E Com.. MYRTLE BANTA

Lingers in Jail . | John Ansbaugh, who was arrested ‘ at Albion on a paternity charge filed by Mrs. Del Crone-Neely of Nappanee is in jail. Both parties are ready to marry, but Mrs.-Neely insists on a surety bond from Ansbaugh that he support his wife and child for two years. This he cannot furnish. } Ansbaugh and Mrs. Neely have been living together as man and wife in Huntington.and Albion for a year. Mrs. Neely came to Nappanee to visit her mother and it was ‘while there she concluded her common law husband was ‘about to desert her. The case will probably be ‘settled.— Goshen Democrat. beath of Jacob Long at Hecla. Jacob W. Long, one of the oldest residents of Hecla, finished the cares of life rather suddenly and unexpectedly Tuesday evening. He was gseated in a rocking chair at his home, when the breath of life passed from his body. The deceased was 82 years and 11 months of age and, while able to rest in his rocker, he was troubled with ailments common to aged people. . Mr. Long was well known, having long been a resident of this county, and for the past few years living aretired life in Hecla.—Columbia City Post. - A Will Not Withdraw. The story in circulation that Judge Penfield was thinking of withdrawing from the gubernatorial race lis ‘without foundation so he declares. It was started while he was sick at Washington wish lagrippe.—~Auburn Dispatch. .

A Sterling Democrat. While in this city Wednesday Judge Hench talked some politics. The judge gained considerable notoriety about a year ago by mentioning the present mayor of New York as a suitable man for the Democrats to nominate this year as their presidential candidate. At thattime McClellan was a member of congress and little was known of him by the average citizen. Since then, however, he has become known to every man who takes any interest in political affairs. His sweeping victory in. New York City for mayor last fall caused the newspapers tospeak of him as a presidential possibility, and his nomination is not altogether improbable althqugh just at 'present Judge Parker seems to be the coming man. In speaking of district politics the judge can see nothing but victory. At the present time the party is harmonious and the disposition among all Dgmoerats is to get together and work for democratic success all along the line. He says it matters not whom the Republicans nominate, Robinson “will easily defeat him. He also gives it as his opinion that Bryan will be loyal to the. democratic candidate for president and so will his friends.— Columbia City Post. |

Will Doubtless Go To Asylum. A dispatch from Bedford says the probabilities are that George E. Earnhart, the ‘‘mysterious stranger,” whose name has been so frequently connected with the Schafer murder, will be adjudged insane and transferred to the state hospital. Mayor Smith is in receipt of letters from Leroy Earnhart, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kreager, the brother, brother-in-law and sister of the prisoner, urging that he be transferred to the hospital, and from the tenor of the communications, it is apparent that they are in terror of him. The mayor has replied that if they will come here and testify to his impaired mental condition, an effort will be made during the present week to have him formally declared insane. o . Will Fix It Upj[— Elwooﬁeorge of Ft! Wayne, of the parties'who purchased Morrison’s Island in Lake Wawasee|, was in Albion Friday, trying to inf‘erest some of our business men in the development of the island as| a summer home. Mr. George states that che surface of the island will be leveled ; a complete sewerage system put in and an electric plant maintained; a play ground will be planned and kept in order in the center of the island for the benefit of the children; none but good cottages will be built; special attention will be given by the company to the stocking and care of game fish and if all this is done that he promises the old island will soon be a summer paradise.—Albion New Era. o

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Col. Straus Appointed Receiver, ‘ At Indianapolis last - Monday, Judge Anderson, of the federal court, appointed Col. S.. J. Straus, of this city, receiver for the Model Gas Engine cothpany, of Auburn, to supercede Howard Mountz, of Garrett. Mr. Mountz was appointed by Judge Rose, of the DeKalb circuit court, but some of the foreign creditors objected to him and made their application to the U. S. courts for relief. Mr. Straus at once gave bonds in the amount of $175,000, and, went to Auburn Tuesday to take charge of the plant, the invoice of which is nearly completed, putting the assets ai)5272,000 and the liabilities at $276,000. 1

Mr. Mountz, the receiver appointed by the circuit court, refused to turn over the plant to Col. Straus, and at once left for Indianapolis to get a change in the order of the court or a modification. Jndge Rose informed Mr. Mountz and the interested parties that should the U. S. court hold to his ruling that he would dissolve the receivership. It is safe to say that if Col. Straus is given charge of the concern and free hand to run it he will bring it out of its financial troubles. : 1 The Democratic Ca:i:us. Quite a goodly number of Democrats met at the council rooms last Friday evening to form the preliminary organization for the spring. municipal campaign. 'l'he meeting was called to order by J. B. Smith who acted as chairman with W. H. Wigton as secretary. The following committeemen were selected by the vetérs of the several wards: Ist, Nim-mon-Smith; 2nd, C. C. Buchtel; 3rd, W. N. Showalter. I

- Mayor Fred Green was present and he said that he would be a candidate for renomination mnotwithstanding the reports to the contrary. He said that he proposed to stand by his record and beyond that had no promises to make. He said that he would go before the democratic city caucus and would abide by its dictation. ‘Several other short talks were in‘dulged in. The utmost good feeling prevailed. . A Pretty Party. Misses Fannie Fishér and Alba Bales were the hostesses at a very delightful party given at the home of ‘Mr. and -Mrs. Lee Zern, on State street, Saturday evening, the guests being the other member of the K. M. club, and a few other friends. The pleasant affair was in honor of Mrs. ‘Charles Stansbury: of Ligonier and Miss Ella Baughman of Albion, who were in the city for a visit with the Misses Fisher and Bales. Twenty young ladies were present. The early portion of the evening was spent with Military Flinch, in \vl]ich;l four tables of players were engaged. Music and other diversions entertained the party later in the evening, and a charming luncheon wasserved, the party being seated at the large round dining table and at smaller ‘ tables. The occasion was one of the ‘ most pleasant.—Kendallville Sun.

Will Open Bank at Auburn. ¢ Tuesday; Col. S. J. Straus was at Auburn where he purchased the bank building and property of rthe late Farmers’ Baok, paying $16,010 cash for the property. It is understood that a state bank is to be organized, and that the principal stockholders will be Straus Bros. & Co., of this city, J. Keller & Co., and Jonas Schloss of Albion, formerly of this city. Itis understood that quite a number of Auburn peeple will take stock in the new bank,and it will be under the management of Mr. Jonas Schloss, who will soon take up his residence at Auburn. This will assure the people of afirst class banking institution, conservative in its management and substantial. The capital stock will be at least $75,000 and may be put at. $lOO,OOO.

That Bad Man Brown, How fortunate-it is for the democratic party that Walter Brown was not chairman of their district- committee in place of the republican organization. If Brown were a Demoerat every republican paper printed in Indiana would contain scathing articles attacking him from a political point of view and impressing upon the people what type of an individual had been furnished by the political leaders to manage affairs. Brown was not only the head of the republican party in the district, but he virtually owned the party in Elkhart county and dictated with a power equal to that of a czar. No wonder republican newspapers have been overly"anxious to consign Brown to oblivion.—Goshen Democrat.

% A Fish Story. ! : While watching the ice gorge above thedam of the Elkhart river Wednesday afternoon Jack Stack, a Lake Shore engineer, and Gus Butler, a-switchman, saw a fine large small-mouthed bass swim upon it when the ice raised leaying the fish entirely out of water. Stack and Butler procured poles and shoved the ice out to the river bank. They were then able to procure the fish' which when weighed shortly after, tipped the scales at five pounds and a quarter.—Elkhart Truth. i Should be Recognized by Rosevelt. Mrs. August Blondy, who lives three miles southwest of White Pigeon, recently gave birth to her twenty-fourth child. Mrs.:Blondy is a small wonien about 50 years old. Thirteen of her .children are alive and well, and some of those who have died were 20 years old.at death. Mr. and Mrs. Blondy moved from Canada to White Pigeon about 30 years ago and are prosperous farmers. Mrs. Blondy looks as young as some of her daughters. |

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