Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 November 1908 — Page 4

H Poem fFor Today

LT 2LE GIFPFEN By Francis Orrery Ticknor

THE suthor of this pathetic war poem was a Georgia physician, who wrote several pieces which became popular in the south during the great civil conflict. After his death, which occurred in 1874, a volume of his poems was published under the editorial supervision of Paul Hamiiton Hayne. = » :

UT of the focal and foremost fire, . g Out of the hospital walls as dire; - e Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene I (Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen)! : \rf;e-'."{‘-'f,; Specter, such as you seldom see, i 4 Little Giffen of Tennessee! . “Take him and welcome!” the surgeons said; Little the doctors can help the dead! = So we took him, and brought him where Wi/ The balm was sweet in the summer air; = ?’// % And we laid him down on a wholesome bed— ¢ /‘@ Utter Lazarus, heel to head! - § i And we watched the war with abated breath— - ; Skeleton boy against skeleton death. ' N Months of torture, how many such? fi; Weary weeks of the stick and crutch; 4 - \And still a glint of the steel blue eye e Told of a spirit that wouldn’t die, ; B 'f And dfdn’t. Nay, more! In death’s respite : \{% The crippled skéleton “learned to write.” ? "'E" “Dear mother,” at first, of course, and then ~ “Dear &aptain,” inquiring about the men. ‘ . /Vs Captain's answer: “Of eighty-and-five | / Giffen and I are left alive.” A A Word of gloom from the war, one day; . ”) < Johnston pressed at the front, theysay. . : ' Little Giffen was up and away; \ /’ A tear—his first—as he bade goodby, & ' Dimmed the glint of his steel blue eye. . : “I'll write, if spared!” There was news of the fight; But none of Giffen—he did not write. I sometimes fancy that, were I king Of the princely knights of the golden ring, : e With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, , And the tender legend that trembles here, ) I'd give the best on his bended Knee, The whitest soul of my chivalry, ‘ For “Little Giffen” of Tennessee.

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The Chigago papers of last Monday gave municipal ownership a sad blow when they gave publicity to the report of the committee, appointed last summer to make a thorough examination of the plants, the books and the manageinent. It is shown beyond a shadow of doubt that the city has been losing not less than $200,000 a year, and that lights that could be purchased at $70.00 per annum of a private corporation have beép costing the city $82.50 and even more. The report advises the city authorities to dismantle the plants and to go out of ths business at once. The city council will make contracts with some of the private corporations and the lights will probably cost about $70.00 per annum. , ®®3 2@ Every taxpayer in Ligonier; who has any interest in the public schools, should vote against the proposed expenditure of $30.000 on a municipal lighting plant. This will put the city in debt even beyond the constitutional limit, and will stop other public improvements for years to come.’ We need better accommodations for our schools. The quarters are cramped and and accommodations inadequate. The school rooms are crowded far beyond their capacity, and the children in the primary gradés are compelled to travel to the city limits. A grade school building is badly needed but it maust wait for years if the people’s money is sunk in the lighting plant as proposed by the municipal ownership fadists. - We hope that the people of Ligonier will look at the situation from the right view point. ' TEE R Kendallville and Wayne township went democratic last week, the first time for many years, and this in the face of the fact that the Kendallville San, independent, declared for Jim Watson and the republican ticket. When the Sun came out for Watson we had our misgivings as to the final resalt, but it seems that our scare was unfounded. When Jge Conlogue was alive and well, things did not go that way in. Wayne township, candidates were sometimes defeated and party difference cut some figure, but be was generally able to bring the boys together. We Lope that the fellows who have been ranuing the G. O. P. party affairs down there will continue in the saddle. Sied » : e T RR® s ww Over in Allen county there are several republican politicians who some how got the idea into their heads that with the aid of Governor Hanly they could defeat Hon. Stephen B. Fleming, the democratic candidate for state senator. They cast about for a candidate and picked their most popular man,W. J. Veazey. With a big flourish of trumpets they put Veazey forward as the highly moral candidate, the temperance candidate - and the Hanly apostle. The Fort Wayne News made a disgraceful and dirty campaign against Mr, Fleming. Caricature and vituperation were over worked, and some of the party managers even concluded cthat they were going to put Mr. Fleming in a hole and joined in the fight. Imagine the chagrin and disappeintment of the News, and the joy and jubilance of ' Mr. Fleming’s friends when the returns made his election sure and by an overwhelming majority. He was one of the strongest candidates on the county ticket and carried the district by over 5,100. His election by such a big vote was a merited rebuke to the News and other republican papers of the district that thought to discredit Democracy by abusing Steve SR e ; » ; ' We were told that the election of Taft meant a great deal to the work- - ingmen, and that wages would advance. A few days after election the - _section men on the Lake Shore were shown that it did not mean anything ‘of the kind for they are now working at $1.12 per day, a big reduction. The ‘reduction was made in the face of the big profits announced in thg reports of the road, and the advance in freight rates of nearly ten per cent. e S 8 ® 298 : - The republican campaign was opened in Ligonier by Congressman Pollard of Nebraska. He was introduced by Congressman Gilhams-of this distriet, who in the course of his introduction said that Mr. Pollard was “frdm Bryan’s district.” Mr. Pollard immediately interposed an objection and wanted it distinetly understood that he was notfrom “Bryan's distriet,” and contended that the district belonged to him. Well, the other fellow captured it at the last election and Mr. Pollard will be an ex-con-gresman about the same time that Mr. Gilhams will draw his Mputfrom -the public treasury. Mr. Pollard might have been returned but he was so cock-sure of his election that he left his district to pose as a big man in * = ':’»7:?7—:‘: > : = ; A' : :)' ] ; . . saasres *i* B s A & At the beginning of the w‘tn Thomas R. Marshall, governor-elect. of Indiana, said he would aceept no contributions in financing his political m,—mwmaw has accepted none g s LIRS &DA DRIV pema RT B R e e wx.m%m o 4%Q£":“w et eLt e T- T e e Lik

Js E. McDONALD, Editor

A Pertinent Letter EpITOR BANNER—I want to use a small part of your paper to tell the public why I am going to vote against municipal ownership of the electric light plant this time. Last December I voted with Thompson and his side for I thought that they knew what they were talking about.

Mr. Thompson told me, as he told everybody else, that the plant would not cost over $16,000 complete, and that an up-to-date and modern plant could be put up for thatamount. lam told upon good authority by another member of the city council that the plant contracted tor, when installed, will have cost $32,000 and more. I was told that the incandescent gervice would be much cheaper than the rates offered by Mrs. Draper and that the service would be better. Now I am told by the very best authority that this can not be done, that the city will lose ‘money unless they keep the rates as high as they are at this time. It is a factthatMr. Olds told the council when they were considering the formation of a stock company that the rates could not be cut,and that $70.00 would have to be charged for the street lights.

I was told that if I voted for municipal lights the streets would be lighted in a few weeks and that the lights would be properly, fairly and equitably distributed. It is now nearly a year since that election and we have no lights. A study of the so-called distribution of lamps leads me to the conclusion that I as well as other taxpayvers, who voted for the scheme, have gotten decidedly the worst of the bargain. ' ‘ I am going to oppose the proposition next Wednesday both by my vote and my influence, and I know of several othes who have expressed the same opinion. : The taxpayers should open their eyes. They can not afford to be parties to this scheme to force a debt of such proportions upon the peoplse, $15,000 was bad enough but $32,000 is too big a load. . TAXPAYER. The Editor in Politics : The editor’s job is like an endless chain. The office holder, the candidate, the merchant, farmer and laborer, whose prosperity is affected by the tide of polities and election results, can contribute their mites toward the success of their ticket and are then prepared to vote, enjoy the result or abide its consequences, but the newspaper man finds no surcease. It 18 his business to whoop-’er-up for the boys all the timg from one year’s end to another, spend his money for paper. ink, composition, throw in space, time, labor, patience and perseverance, and after it is all over must be armored to take the bitter with the sweet, accept criticism rather than credit and be growled at because he could do no ‘more. [Great is the lot of the editor in politics, but he is an indespensable quantity in party affairs, whose shadow ne’er grows less nor pocketbook plethoric, and when he comes to turn his toes to the roots of the daisies his reward must come from within his breast, while his name and his services are soon forgotten and politics takes up another willing pen.—Rochester Republican. A Mixed Result According to figures given out by the Secretary of State the pluralities given candidates in the state election held last week were as follows: ; Governor, Mar5ha11............14,809 Liet, Gova o HMER . ............. 1672 Secretary, Sims, r.............. 492 Auditor, 8i11beimer,r.......... 228 Treasurey, Hadley, r........... 837 Attorney General, Bingham,r. 788 Superintendent, A1ey,d........ 780

William H. Taft’s official plurality in Indiana has not yet been made kEnown.

Stokes Jackson, chairman of the democratic state central committee, announces that he will contest the election of all the state officers. Mr. Jackson is convinced that with a fair count all of the Democrats will be elected. In this contention he is supported by Tom Taggart and other prominent Democrats: It is asserted that hundreds of illegal republican votes were. cast in St. Joseph and Lake counties.

Served Him Just Right

The people of Boone county did the right thing when they defeated Judge Artman forre-election. Judge Artman will be remembered af the distinguished jurist who declared that the supreme court did not know its business when it ruled that'a sa-loon-keeper could be licensed constitutionally. With all due respects to the good motives of Judge Artman, it must be contended that his ruling was nothing short of incendiary. ~ As a lower court he was bound to aceept the law as laid down by the supreme court and his refusal to do so was nothing to his credit. He was not elected to make laws, but to pass on those already made. and when ‘he departed from his province and ‘arrogated to himself the funtcions of ‘the absolute ruler he demonstrated ‘his unfitness for his position as judge in an American court. It is to be ‘hoped that his activities hereafter ‘will be confined to the Chautauqua circuit.—Fort Wayne News. | : May $e Good Reason ‘ Cromwell]ya’opl’b, as reported by the Cromwell News, are getting out of bed by three or four o'clock to ‘have a gaze at ‘‘Venus, the morning star, which mang out of ignorance, believe to be the Star of Bethiehem, supposed to appear once in three hundred years.” A saloon license 'vn granted at Oromwell lately ‘which mux account for cebm “&:{ly risers snd thelr desire to take s glimpee ot Venus.—Goahen News. E@o Cromwell saloons do not open gf‘ til five 10 that cauno: be L»- TRE ek e we,;*‘r : (‘\ o e Lhae e st e et ee R

The Chicago Failure EpiToß BANNER —I am a reader of the Chicago Tribune and on last Monday I noticed an article of especial interest to the people and taxpayers of Ligonier. Ido notsuppose that you have room for the whole article, but the gist of the matter lies in the following paragraphs, which I will ask you to reproduce so that the people can see what municipal ownership will do when it has had a trial.

Chicago’s municipally owned and operated electrical street lighting system is practically a financi% failure, according to a report made to Mayor Busse by Engineer Blon J. Arnold and Auditor Arthur Young. The report indicates that the city would save from $200,000 to $300,000 a year by abandoning the manufacture of electricity and purchasing current entirely from the sanitary district or from private companies. The mayor made the report public yesterday and will transmit it tonight to. the city council for such action as the aldermen may deem nggeasaty. - The report shows that the taxpayers have sunk $3,639,031 in the plant and equipment, which now have a book value of $2.602,144, or an actual value of $2,353,869. It cost the city last year $Bl 64 to maintain each of the 7,647 street lamgs. At the same time the city is renting lights from the Commonwealth-Edison company at $75 per lamp per year. The reports of the department of electricity under Mayors Harrison and Dunne always showed that the city was making its own current and lighting the streets at a fraction of the figure at which the same service could be supplied by a private concern. In order to make this showing the- department omitted from its scheme of bookkeeping such items as depreciation, interest on investment, taxes, insurance, real estate rentals, maintenance and repairs, departmental salaries, office rent and the cost of water consumed. !

It would seem, in the face of such experience in Chicago and everywhere else that this scheme has been tried, that the people would be backward in voting to spend $30,000 of their good money on something that must be a failure ora load upon the taxpa}ers. Think it over before you vote. “WwW”

Ligonier, Ind., Nov. 11, 1908. Hanly Gets Full Credit There were many causes of dissatisfaction with conditions, and there were many factional disturbances. These were not unusual in character or number, however, and they would have been harmonized or neutralized by counter-conditions, if the question of local option had not been forced for immediate . settlement by the legislature after the two parties had pronounced upon it, and after it had been put up to the people for the election just closed. . But fanaticism and personal ambition prevailed against good sense and good politics as well as against the judgement of the better citizenship. J. Frank Hanly demanded that a county local option plank be put into the platform and forced his party to his will. Then he demanded the law before the platform could be voted upon. and as he has often boasted he ‘“‘passed it,”’ by bulldozing a legislature and a party. He did it, and the party pays the penalty in defeat brought about by his precigitancy and insistance. But for contumacy the state would have been republican, the legislature would have been republican, the local option law would have been passed in January and a beginning would have been made in wide restriction of the liquor trade.—Ellk hart Review (Rep.) ’

A Fine Monument C. V. Inks & Son, of Ligonier, erected a very- fine granite monument in the Syracuse Cemetery last week on the lot of Jonathan Sloan. The base of the monument weighed five tons and required six horses to convey it to the cemetery, This firm does a very extensive business in this part of the country as well as. adjoining states. They recently returned from Orrville, Ohio, where they have been doing work along that line and they have placed monuments as far south as Tennessee and as far west as Colorado, Kansas and Illinois. Mr. Inks, senior member of the oldest monument dealer in this part of the county having been engaged in the business at Ligonier for a great many years.—Syracuse Register. ; . Tom Will Make Good Governor-elect Thomas R. Marshall has won a signal victory. He won it by his strong personal charm, his striking individuality, and the belief that there was no preteuse or false show about him. He brings inte public life a new element of the independent, and if we mistake not you will hear much of Thomas R. Marshall, As‘chiefexecutive of this great state, he will be that chief executive in fact as well as in name, and it will be unnecessary to pay a dollar to a chautauqua course to find it out,—Decatur Democrat.. - Setryice Announcement Christian church, Ligonier, Nov. 16. Bible school, 9:80 a. m.; preaching, 10:80. a. m. and 7:00 p. m. The morning theme — *“Witnessing for Christ,”” the evening theme — A Vision and What it Means to Us” Bev. 1:20. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening, Nov. 19, at 7:30, and teachers training at 8:00. We most cordially invite every one to these services, I W. Smirsr, : Minister.

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" Obituary ~ ; Charles Seymour Wolfe, son of Leonard aud Letitia Wolf. was born in Lagrange county, Ind., April 10th, 1845 and died at Kendallville, Ind., Oct. 24, 1808, aged 65 years, 6 months and 14 days. ; The deceassd was united in marriage with Martha Ramsby,June 13th 1867. To this union was born ten children, all of whom, with the widow, remain to mourn the loss of a kind and devoted father and husband.

In 1861 Mr. Wolfe enlisted in Com. pany 30th, Ind., Vol. Inf., and served three years under General Lawton. Exposure and hardships brought on his untimely death. i In early manhood Mr. Wolfe became a member of the Methodist Protestant churech and until his death remained a sincere and consistant christian.

Being of ((;uite an unassuming nature he was most ' content and bappy at home with his family. Much of his leisure time was spent in extensive reading. All who came in contact with him were impressed with his wide knowledge of affairs, both local and national.

After an illness covering nearly four months, through which he was patient and uncomplaining sufferer, he quitely passed to rest: In the loss of “Seam” Wolfe as he was familiarly known, the commurity has lost a noble citizen and a good christian man. %

CARD QF THANKS The family wlsh in this conneection to express their thanks to friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted in their hour of ‘trial. : M=rs. C. S. WoLFE AND FAMILY. The People Chose Well This newspaper said much about the honesty and business ability of Thomas R. Marshall during his campaign. We believe fully in him. We know from their expression of confidence at the polls that the people algo believe in him.

It is our honest opinion that Mr. Marshall will make one of the best governors that Indiana has ever known. We know that he will be absolutely free to do the best that is in him. That he will not in any. degree be swerved or moved oy any of the undesirable influences,in or out of the party, that work to.the undoing of so many ambitious men. He is a man with a mind of his own and with a purpose to serve all the people well and faithfully. During his campaign he has found his way into the hearts of the people as few men or candidates ever have done. The people were impressed with his absolute honesty. He would rather have gone down in . defeat than to have sacrificed one iota of principle or manhood.

He emerges from as clean a campaign as any man ever waged, with not a blot on his record and with n¢ promises of any sort save those to all the people that he will give a business administration that’ the state can be proud of. " He believes in practice as well as theory that government is business and that he has been elected as the business head of the great state of Indiana and that hé represents all the people first, last and all the time in the discharge of his duties. . We believe:he is the right man in the right place.—lndianapolis Sun.

Responsibility on Beveridge

After March 4, Senator Beveridge will baye the distribution of all the federal patronage in Indiana with the exception of the presidential postmasters in the Sixth and Tenth districts. Among the places which the new president is to fill on the recommendation of the one republican senator from the state are United States district attorney, United States marshal, collectors -of internal revenue for the two districts, collector of customs and the United States pension

agent. The office of United States attorney will be vacant soon after the new president comes into office if not before that time, and the terms of the other federal officers in the state expire at intervals during the next two years. Still The Idol of Millions Today, crowned with defeat, a plain American citizen, William Jennings Bryan is still the idol of nearly half of the sovereign voters of this union, Men who know him love him. Untarnished, uncorrupted and uncorruptible, a Christian gentleman, a student and a scholar, he has: made his place in history and set an example and helped a cause for humanity. Still in the prime of life, vigorous and unafraid, Mr, Bryan will continue to warm the hearts of his fellow men, preaching the doctrine of hope, encouraging men to to live holier lives, warring upon special privileges and pleading for the weak as against the injustices of of the strong.—Dayton News. Don’t Shoot The Pheasants The Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese and ring-necked pheasants which have been turned loose in this county within the past year or two are multiplying and hunters are warned not to shoot them, : They are all larger than the ordinary Indiana pheasant and are of a reddish color. Game commiu!onerli are notifled to prosecute in cases where they are shot. Reports from various parts of the county state that the coveys have grown and thar they will be protected until they have had a chance to propagate. They will be protected for three years yet. A good seven room dwelling on McLean Stree! *%l@?@‘ provements. Call at Miler : g e *':;f fi%%

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Commendable Work by Ligonier High School Students Out of an enrollment of ninety in the Ligonier High School, six students received general averages of 90 per cent. or jmore in all their school work for the month ending October 30. Esther Greider heads the list with the following grades:

Algebra, 97, German, 96, Latin, 94, English, 93, musiec, 90, and drawing, 90, making a general average of 9314 per cent. The second highest grade was obtained by Celestia Prough, whose general average was 9114 per cent. The four best grades were Helen Harsh, 91 1-6; Irene Wirthlin, 91; Leonard Moore, 9024; and Alice Keehn, 90. ‘ ; O. N. HORNER, Prin. One Vote A Faqtor ; In Montgomery township one township trustee was elected by a majority of one, and as a consequence & republican county superintendent will take the place of the gresent democratic superintendent n this county democratic trustees were elected 1n Etna by two majority and in Troy by three. Had either of these townships gone republican it would have meant a republican sngerintendent for this county.— Columbia City Post.

The same thing happened in this county. In Elkhart township the Democrats elccted their trustee by a majority of one vote which gives them seven out of thirteen trustees. The Democrats lost trustees in Sparta and Swan townships but gained‘ one in Wayne, which gives them the necessary votes to elect a democratic county superintendent of schools. ‘ Farm for Sale Seventy-filve acres excellent farming land within two miles of Ligonier. Terms reasonable. Inquireat this office. : 83-8 t Stove And Harness For Sale I have a good set of double harness a set of single harness and a good heating stove that I want to sell. Call and see them. Bt e B RN

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