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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-06-25

The Annual Meeting of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association was held in the Associations Building corner
Broadway Duane St. New York City, on Wednesday, Jan
uary 2Znd and attended by large and representative
gathering OF policy holders who listened with keen interest
the masterly Annual Report of President Burnham
Many policy holders evidently regarded this as favorable
opportunity meet face to face the chief executive officer
of the Association President Frederick Burnham the man
whose grasp OF life whose keen executive ability and
strong individuality have enabled him take up the work laid
down death by the founder of the institution the late Ed
ward b. Harper and make of the administration of his office
PRESIDENT not an echo copy of that Of his predecessor
piece OF nlshed work. characteristic of of independent
views and worthy to follow the work which had carried the
Association to position attained in the same length
time by any life insurance organization in the world 1t
rare indeed that great institution like this passes without
check to Its prosperity through change in the executive chief
for it is indeed that chief like the late Mr. Harper finds
so able a successor as President Burnham
The record of the year 1895 speaks for itself and shows the
following gratifying results:
The GROSS ASSETS have increased durns tho war
from $5, 1899 to $5,661, ,7O7S2
The NET SURPLUS over liabilities shows NET GAIN
for the of $306 32943 and now amounts
The INCOME from all sources shows gain for the year
OF S63l 54l97, and amounts to $5575 2S156
DEATH CLAIMS to the amount of $4O84O7492 were
paid during the year, increase the previous year
l$1,013, ,56091.
The BUSINESS IN FORCE shows a gain for the year
Iot Sl5,293,265, and now amounts to S308, ,659371
Counting three hundred working days in the year the
daily average income for 1895 S18 842 the daily average
payments for death claims $1365225 and the daily average
gain in business in force within fraction of S51 600
n fE e ASSOC Fly s5 5 a9e aSp @ " the "
f.. ID. AUD WIGs SEpt.s
So Downing Block, El2IE, PA.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-06-25

" Kin yo' read?'
Yes
" Kin yo' writer
i" Certainly
" Kin yo' figger?
i" OF course
" Air yo' married?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
FINANCIAL.
BON DIS.

Town of Yarmouth, Me-, As, due
1916.1926.
City Of Calais. Me-, As, due 1901
1911.
City of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, As, due 1915.
City OF Piqua, Ohio, IS, due 1908.
City Of Seattle, Wash, IS, due 1910.
Chicago Sanitary District, IS, due
1901.
Portland Water Co., As, due 1927.
Maine Central r. Re-. First MOrtg. 7s,
1898.
Maine Central z. R., Cons. Mort. As,
1912.
Maine central r. r., Cons. Mort. IS,
1912.
Duluth Street Railway, First Mortg.
IS, 1920.
FOR SAIL BY -
SWAN & BARRETT,
1856 Middle Street.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
THE CURRENCY ISSUE.

1t is becoming more evident every day
that the currency question is to play
more important p art in the coming cam
paign than the tariff There is little
chance that the line can be very sharply
drawn on the latter question between
the two parties, because the Democratic
declaration on the subject is likely to
take the form of an endorsement of the
existing tariff law, in whichIthe prinoi-
pie Of protection is recognizable Jas clearly
as it was in the Mckinley bill, though
the application is different. There will
be chance for a controversy about tariff
schedules, but about tariff principles
there will be very little, for the Demo
Gratis have practically abandoned their
free trade or tariff -for-reyenue only poll
oy Of four years ago
But as between the parties, on the cur
rency, the line is likely to be sharply
drawn The greatImajority of the Repub-
lican conventions SO far held have
adopted resolutions in favor of the re-
tention OF the present gold standard, I'M
less an international agreement for q
greater use of silver can be arrived at.
OF course q few distinctively silver states
have declared in favor of free coinage.
and the Ohio Republicans to enable their
candidate to better catch delegates have
straddled. EBut the silver states are not
powerful enough to exert any considg
cradle influence in the convention, while
the Ohio Republicans are undoubtedly
in favor of the geld standard. 1t is prac-
tiUally certain therefore that an over
ehelming majority of the Republican
delegates will go to ST. Louis committed
by the conventions. which send them to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
To the Editor Of the Press:

To the Editor of the Press:
The Rev. Mr.. Wood of South Portland
says in your paper he would receive
money from any source to promote the
cause of God, and takes the position that
he would give man of bad repute posi-
tions in church institutions that he might
draw their money from them. And to de-
fend his position he quotes Scripture, and
says, tho man, no matter how vile he
may be, belongs to God, and the money
is Gods, and he (Mr. Wocd), would
dedicate it to God. Christ told certain
m en- they were of their father, the devil.
and the works of your father We will dc"
But Peter said unto Simon, thy
money perish with thee because thou
hast thought that the gift of God may
he purchased With money. Thou hast
neither part nor lot in this matter, for
thy heart is not right in the sight of
God" Acts s:20-21. According to Peter,
ceptable to God
When a man is elected to office in the
church or any church enterprise, interest
or institution, he is endorsed or adopted
by the church so eleoting him, and all
his well-knowh practices and all his
affiliations on the beer and rum ques-
tion as we'll as his moral and religious
opinions and practices are adopted also.
He is identified with the church and
will be SO considered by the world. The
church so adopting brewer, dlstlller,
keeper, of house of i'll fame, or liquor
dealer, what would her testimony be
worth against any of those iniquities?
What signify good opinions where our
practice is bad.
BE ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelieVers, for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteous-
ness, and what communion hath light
with darkness? and what concord hath
Christ with Belial.
. "Or what part hath he that believeth
an infidel? And what agreements hath
the temple of God with idols? :.
Wherefore came out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and
touch not the unclean thing, and I will
receive YOU" A man elected of the char
acter above described. and installed in
office by the church, or church interests,
knows he is there for the sake of his
money, and for no other reason. He will
acter (Which have tmoney), land will
wish to control matters, and il he can't,
he will withdraw, but the church inter-
est that elected him need his money as
much now as ever, and rather than loose
that they yield to his wishes, and be con-
tinues his demands till he drags the In
stitution or church down to where there
is not q vestige of christianity in it.
Ichabod may as well be written on the
church and all her enterprises first as
last if she must depend on such sources
for support.
Saul of Tarsus was not accepted while
prosecuting the church, or Zaccheus
while compelling men to pay their taxes
twice over, (simply because they neglected
to take receipt when they paid the first
time) but after they abandoned those
practices. If the church must be run by
such men, and can't be run by any other.
wa don't need her.
Il. f. A. PATTERSON.
Old Orchard, April 10, 1896.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20

the existing gold standard and bound to
vote against the tree coinage of silver.
AS regards the Democrats the indica-
tions now are that the opposite will be
the case. A majority Of the delegates
are going to Chicago virtually instructed
for free silver; and the Republican
declaration against it which will have
preceded, will undoubtedly tend to
strengthen thu inclination to do some
thing for the silver cause. A small num-
Der of delegates from the East will op-
pose this policy, but they will bs too
few to arrest it. They will probably be
as feeble in the Democratic convention
as the free siIyerites will be in the Re-
publican.
The re- is every prospect therefore that
when the two conventions shall have adj
journed, the Republicans will be found to
be committed to the gold standard and
the Democrats either to free coinage or
at least larger use of silver; and that
the campaign that follows will be fought
largely upon the issue thus made up.
The logical candidate of the Republi-
cans on this issue is Mr.. Reed, and not
Mr. Mckinley. Mr., Reed has never
wobbled on the question. He has always
opposed the free coinage of silver except
by interna tional agreement, and has al
ways spoke and voted in favor of the re-
tention of the present standard under
exist ng conditions. Furthermore, he
a In cto IL, iIota n
favor of that platform. The Maine reso-
buttons, which reflects his opinions, are
clear and unequivocal on this point
Mr.. MoKinley's record is far less clear.
In 1877 he voted to suspend the rules
and pass the Bland bill for the free coin
age of silver But what is worse. the
resolutions Of his own state, submitted
to him in advance and approved by him,
contain no definite and clear statement of
any policy whatever. While they do not
show that he is in favor of free silver
coinage they do not show that he is OPP
posed to it. Up to the present time he
has failed to commit himself definitely
upon the subject before the public. This
failure would not be entitled to much
significance il his record had been one
of consistent opposition to free coinage,
but as we have shown, it has not been;
and so definite and clear declaration
from the Ohio convention was needed
to inform the public, who have right
to know, just where he stands. The same
reasoning that makes Mr.. Mckinley the
ideal high protection candidate, because
his name is identified with definite and
clear policy as regards the tariff. makes
Mr.. Reed the ideal candidate on the cur
rency issue, because he has avowed a
clear and definite policy on that question.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20

The democracy have had a very pleas
ant time for several weeks past showing
up alleged inconsistencies and weakeEess-
es of the Republican platforms. They
are now to have an unpleasant time
trying to conceal or explain away
defects of a most glaring character
in platforms of their own making. AL
ready Eastern Democratic papers are
striving to explain how it happened that
sound money only received five votes in
the Missouri Democratic state convention
against five hundred and thirty for the
other kind, and trying to reconcile that
with their whilom claim that the Demo-
craoy are sounder on the money question
than the Republicans. 1t is needless to
say that their efforts are throwing them
into very profuse perspiration.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20

Senator German conoeives that he can
put the Republicans in hole and make
political capital for his own party by pro-
longing the session of Congress beyond
the st. Louis convention, and he is
plotting to that end. Gorman's method
of reasoning is peculiar. He regards the
present Congress as incompetent and Its
continuance in session as menace to bus
mess, and yet he thinks he win in some
way endear himself and his party to the
country by keeping it in session as long
as possible.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20

While Carlisle and Eokels are out de-
monstrating the unsoundness of the free
silver idea and showing that Its realiza-
ton would throw business into confu-
sion from which it could not recover for
many years, Democratic conventions are
adopting the free silver idea with a
whoop and yell, and with practically
no opposition. Evidently the prophets
CT the administration are of little honor
amongst their own political kindred.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
THE VETO POWER.
Hartford Courant. J

Our Presidents are not infallible. They
sometimes make mistakes in the use Of
the veto power, as in the use of other
powers-the appointing power, for in
stance In the main, however, it has
been an instrument Of good in their
hands. IT has been used not only con-
scientiously but wisely and benefoially.
Congress is not any more infallible than
the President is. Congress sometimes
undertakes to do very foolish things and
very pernicious things Suppose a mere
majority CT Congress had been able to
override President Grants veto of the in
hation bill
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
THEl PRESS.
TUESDAY, APRIL 20.

We suppose that Boss Hanna differs
from Boss Quay and Boss Platt in being a
benevolent kind Of despot, always keenly
alive to the interests of the people and
working for their triumph without one
selfish idea ever passing through his
self-saerifcing and patriotic head.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
GRAND CONCFsys'g,

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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
II. IT. II. Z n 7 NIOlON
Old Orchard, April 10, 1896.

The dierctor of the mint has received
report from John Daggett, superinten-
dent of the San Francisco mint, of the
production of gold and silver in Californ-
la, Oregon, Washington and Alaska dur
ing the calendar year 1895. The produc-
tion of gold in California was $1b, 1874. 31S
and of silver, q coming valus of $685. 700.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20

Reserved seats, 35, 60 and Toe A,lnllssj u,
% cts. Now on sale at StockOridge's Hal
fare and late trains on NJ, c. Il. K. and e. Z.
Ry. to all holding Jerry" tickets. apI7HH
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20

Perhaps the rapidity with which the
Cuban bonds sell in this country will be
a pretty good indication of the amount
of confidence people here feel in the sue
cess of the rebel cause and the ability of
the insurgents to establish a permanent
and responsible government
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
CURRENT COMMENT.
HONoRS WE'LL DESERVED.
(Boston Journal. }

The traditional Maine policy of care
fully selecting the states public men
and then keeping them long in the pub
lie service has never given clearer de-
lnonstration of its practical wisdom than
in this very year of 1896. At Auburn on
Wednesday last the Republicans of the
Second Maine District renominated for
a ninth successive term in Congress the
Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Lewiston;
at Bangor the Republicans Of the Fourth
Maine District renominated for an
eighth term the Hon. Charles A. Boutelle.
EssBoth uf these gentlemen are exception
ally able men, and acknowledged leaders
in the House of Representatives. Mr..
Dingley hold the most important of all
the House chairnanships-tha of the
ways and means mmittee-and he is
we'll entitled to the distin otion, for there
is no more accurate and profound student
of finance and economy in Washington.
Mr.. Boutelle years ago won national
reputation as a ready and incisive debat-
or, and as chairman of the committee on
naval affairs has borne a conspicuous
part in the creation of the new navy-a
work for which he is most admirably
fitted through his brilliant service as a
United States sea officer in the Civil
War.
There can be no soothing at Maine as
n small state SO long as it sends such
men as these, with Reed and Frye and
Hale and Milliken, to Washington.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20
WILL GIVE A GREAT IMPETUS.
New York Post. }

We greatly mistake the temper of the
public mind if Mr.. Reeds declaration
against free coinage and in favor of
maintaining the gold standard does not
give greater impetus to the movement
for his nomination.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-20

Friendly Arabs report that Osman
Digna is retreating from Adarama and
that the friendly chief Omar has re-oc-
cupied Agatha.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-04
OPENING and Closing Of the Mails.

Northern mails close at 7 80 and 8 80 q. m
and 10 80, 40 and 8 80 p. N. Open at
8 90 q. m, - OC m. and 90 p. m.
Southern mails via Charlottesville close
at 7 so and 10 40 8. m. and 2 10 and
80 p. m. Open at 8 90 a. m. and 8 90
p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, close at
10 40 a. m. and 8 13 and 8 40 p. m.
Manassas Division mails close at 7 so q. m.
aud 8 80 p. m. Open at 10 40 3. m.
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close at
40 a. m. and 90 p. m. Open at 90 ar.
snd 8 OOp.m.
Chesapeake and Ohio mails close at 10
o. m. and 8 80 p. m. Open at 8 90 q. m. and
8 CO. m.
Washington mails close at z 80 and 45 q.
m. and 12 80, 4 80, As and 8 80 p. n.
Open at 90 and 10 90 a. m, ID 90 m. and
3 90 and SOP. m.
Office Hous-Open at 8 Ooa-m. Close at
OOp.m
Sunday Hours-Open at 9 90 3. m. Close
at 8 80 a. m.
Carriers Schedule Collections made on
inside routes 6 80 and 10 90 8. m. and
8 ,n ~. 80 Pc m. Full route-6 30 a. m.
and s 80 p N. Sunday collection 90 p,
m. Carriers window open Sunday 90 a. M.
and close 8 80 a m.
Deliveries made at 8 90 q. M, 10 90 N. and
500 p. m.
All mail should be in Office fifteen minutes
before hour indicated for closing,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-04
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

Knights Templar, Old Dominion Command.
CRY meets every third Friday Of each month
ut Masonic Temple.
Royal Arch Chapter: Mount Vernon Royal
Arch Chapter meets every first Friday OF each
month at Masonic Temple.
Washington Lodge OF Ma
sons meets on the second and fourth Thurs
days of each month.
Andrew Jackson Lodge Of Masons meets CD
the first and third Thursdays Of each month.
Potomac Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 80,
meets in their hall, on north Columbus street
every Friday night.
Sarepta Lodge I. o. o. F., No. 46, meets in
their hall, on King street, every Tue-day
night.
Marley Encampment, No. 6, meets every
econd and fourth Monday at Odd Fellows
Hall, north Columbus street.
Mechanics Lodge Knights Of Pythiss, No.
8, meets every Thursday night In Pythlan
Hall north Pitt street.
Oriental Lodge knights Of Pythias meets
syery Friday night on north Pitt street.
Alexandria Lodge Z. of P, No. 70, meets
Wednesday nights st Sarepta Hall, King
street.
Golden Light Lodge Of Good Tomplar
meets in their hall, on south Fairfax street,
every Tuesday evening.
Talisman Lodge Good Templars meets every
Monday night in Pythian Hall, north Pitt
street.
Refuge Council, Sons Of Jonadsb No. 10,
meets every Monday night at Ssrepta Hall.
Juvenile Templars meets every Saturday
afternoon at Good Templars' Hall south Fair
fax street.
Champion Castle, No. 5, Knights Of Golden
Eagle meets every Wednesday night at So.
repta Hall, King street.
Alexandria Council Royal Arcanum mee1
In Potomac Hall room, north Columbus street,
second and fourth Tuesday.
Belle Haven Lodge Knights Of Honor meets
every first and third Tuesday In Potomac
Lodge room, north Columbus street.
Robert Andrews Division Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers meets first and third
Sunday in Potomac Lodge room.
Osceola Tribe of Red Men, No. 1, lmeets
avery Thursday night in Sarepta Hall.
Alexandria Catholic Beneficial Society meets
svery Sunday night in st. Mary's Hall, corner
Royal and Wolfe streets.
Young MeI's Sodality Lyceum meets every
Tuesday night in their hall on Duke street.
O'Kane Council, No. 434, Catholic Benevo-
emit Legion, meets on the LIST and Ord Monday
In each month OF st. Mary's Hall.
Lafayette Lodge, No. II, 1ndependen Mt Or
der Mechanics meets Wednesday night At
Pythian Hall, north Pitt street
Alexandria Council, No. 33, Jr. o. q. A. ID.
msets Thursdays at Odd Fellow Hall, on
north Columbus street.
Belle Haven Council, No. 81, Jr. o. Q. A.
M. meets in Sarepta Hall every Monday
night.
q. A NJ, meets every Wednesday night in
Sarepta Hall.
Rsthbone Division, Uniform Rank Z. Of P,
meets every other Wednesday at Pythian
Castle, Pitt street.
Alexandria Light Infantry meet every Mon
Day night at their Armory, south Royal street.
Confederate Veterans meet first Monday
night in each month at Columbia Engine
House.
Sons Of Confederate Veterans meet frst
Wednesday in each month.
Mount Vernon Court, No. 7713, A. o. F
Of A. meet every End and 4th Tuesday at
Sarepta Hall, King street.
I. o. B. B. meets first Monday in esch
month.
Bethel Congregation meets frst Sunday Of
avery nuartAr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-04
ROBERT SCHWEl

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flannel dampened with Chamberlain
Pain Balm and bound on over the seat
of the pain. and another on the back
between the shoulders, will afford
prompt relief. This is especially
valuable in cases where the pain is
caused by cold and there is ten
dency toward pneumonia. For sale by
L. Stabler & Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-04
A False Diagnosis.

La Grippe is COMPOUNDED by many persons
with a severe attack of catarrh, which in some
respects resembles the former. These indi-
viduals suffer severely with pain about the
forehead eyes and ears. with soreness IN
throat and stoppsge of the nasal passages, and
in fact, are incapacitsted for work of any
kind for days at time These are catarrhal
sufferers Ely's Cream Balm has been used
with the best results in such cases. The
remedy will give instant relief.