The Light Brigade

It uras announced that there would be a public hearing befbre the City Council on the proposition cif the local Electric Light Company to considerably'increase their rates, and the citizens had turned out in large numbers to protest.

In beginning the hearing, the attorney for the Electric Light Cornpany, who was a very eloquent gentleman, began a very strong plea for his clionts, and their demands, and worded 'it as follows:

"I desire to call your attention to the fact that this Electric Light Com,pany has worked hand in hand with the citizens of, this beautiful city in their every effort toward civic betterrnent and supremacy, has been actively associated with every movem€nt ever made for the good o{ this com-

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monwealth, and has left no stone unturned to help make this city bigger and better. It has not been sirnply a service station ,in the city, but has bcen an ardent and active worker of a most unselfish character, intermingling its own efforts at success with those of this city in such a rrninner as to make it o,ne of the strongest factors in our civic hTc. So miuch has this Electric Light Cornpany done for the good of this city od ours, that I might in all justice point to its works, and quote the most famous words of the great Lord Tennyson, and say:

"Honor the IJight Brigade."

And just then a booming baritone from the citizen's corner intenjected:..AND OH ! WHAT A CHARGE THEY MADE !''