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Detroit Free Press.
You can't appreciate what may be en-
pooled in that term, bitter sweet" sighed
Limpton It'll you hear two society women
In conversation. each hating the other fer
Vently yet smiling, laughing and looking
angelic while they are stabbing each other
as cruelty and vigorously as though 1t were
q real duel to the death.
This IS between us, bur Just came away
from little scene confirming my view Of
the case Binckley's wife had called on
mine. Mrs. Buckley had said somewhere
that Mrs. Limpton looked prematurely old
and that she dressed in eXecrable taste, con-
sidering her appearance. OF course, some
good friend told Mrs. Lmpton. L expected
blue blazes when the two met, but the
event showed far more diplomacy than is
displayed in the management of internal
tional affairs When Mrs Buckley called
Mrs. Limpton kissed her, chung to her hand,
chided her for not coming oftener and then,
in the softest tones of solicitude asked her
If she was troubled with malaria, now prev
alent. You look so yellow, she went on,
and drawn. l always have you in mind as
plump and rosy. Do take treatment, dear
" It's nothing serious, laughed Mrs
Buckley The doctor tells me that per-
son with strong eyes and teeth always has
wonderful reCuperative powers. 1t Is only
a matter of short time and not at all as
though had stepped permanently from my
prime into old age.
This was hot shot, for my wife has worn
some of her prettiest teeth were supplied by
q dentist but she blandly told of how many
of her dearest friends who had misleading
appearance of health. had gone with quick
consumption. and they fell to talking about
hired girls. Woman is sphinx.
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NATIONAL BANK BRANCHES.
The New York Delegation Sets Out
Its Views.

The delegation from the Merchants AS
ISOLATION of New York yesterday prepared
the following statement which they may
seek to have the convention indorse:
Il The legal-tender note. commonly
called the greenback, and the treasury notes
should be retired by the use of money in
the treasury. and by the issue of longtime,
low interest-bearing bonds. Bullion here
tofore held as a basis for treasury notes
will, by their retirement. become available
as additional security for silver certificates
still outstanding.
80. National banks should be al
lowed to purchase these bonds and use
them at par the basis for circulating
notes. no notes to be issued of a less de-
nomination than $40. The features of the
present law relative 10 the tax on circula-
ton and the 5-per-cent. redemption fund to
remain unchanged, except that the tax be
reduced to one-half of l per cent, which
will be ample to provide for the expenses
of the Office of the controller of the cur
rency.
20. All national banks shall be required 70
redeem their notes at their own counters,
and at the office of the treasurer of the
United States, or any assistant treasurer, in
gold coin, and all deposits for the 5 per
cent redemption fund shall be in gold coin
"a. National banks shall be allowed to
establish branches i'm any part of the coun-
try. BY means Of these branches the sur
plus money now in many centers can be
utilized for the moving of crops and the
prosecution Of general business. This sys-
tenn has been tried for many years by the
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utter futility of the attempts TO give silver
essential and comprehensive monetary
value other than that given it in the world
of trade than these repeated attempts ana
failures and the present situation following
the last breakdown. Helpless and hopeless
1t is now to restore any fraction of the
silver dollars value it is now to be cram
med down the threats of public and private
creditors at it's cheap market value to which
IL would presently fall. The friends of silver
and its producers in the Senate stand to-day
as saying in effect to the world and buying
and selling, borrowing and lending men,
We have tried to create a legal artificial
value for our silver you should not lose
by its use. We have failed. The world
would not have it, and now you shall take
il no matter how little its value nor how
much you lose
THE greenback is a demand obligation of
the government, while the bank note is tied
into the time obligation of the government.
The so-called bank currency amounting to
the sum now of $780, COO 600 is but temper
airy affair. 1t Is not a currency bedded into
our commerce, rooted in and growing with
IL and responding to il. 1t rests upon the
government debt and must disappear as
a future so near that we cannot postpone
facing it. the entire basis of our bank cur
rency will disappear Yet we ought at once
to set about replacing greenbacks with a
proper bank currency. Three choices lie be-
fore us in this contingency Either we must
refuse to pay our Understanding debt in
order to continue the basis for the present
bank currency, CT the debt natures. and
the bank currency based on it, it is re-
ueeHieu thIOuSH payment VI the ueDt anu
the government must increase its demand
obligations sufficiently to take the place of
the bank currency entirely, or we must find
another basis than the government debt for
the bank currency, and one that shall be
permanent in it's character. automatic in it's
free action. adequate to every exigency of
its trade, ard always completely responsive
thereto. All of which means that a
thoroughly SAFE permanent and pseful bank
currency must be rooted and / i on all
those properties for the subsisten~ IF trade.
the credits of which are the as. Of the
banks and that such a currency can have
no other baSis'f
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TELEGRAMs POURING IN.
Business Men Want Commissions
Plan Adopted.


Chairman Hanna, of the executive COM
mittee, yesterday received number of tele-
grams from the representatives of the COM
mercial bodies expressing their sympathy
with the movement for currency reform and
regretting that they could not send dele
gates to the convention.
John p. Irish. telegraphing from San
Francisco, said: Business men here want
the commissions plan entire and will sup
port it. Regard any attempt to amend it
as unnecessary and probably fatal"
Charles Parsons telegraphed from st.
Louis as follows: 1.-The finance and cur
rency committee of the National Board
of Trade approve the monetary committee
PAN
Newark Board of Trade expresses the re-
greet of that organization to be represented,
but adds that I'VE are practically unanimous
in favor of the purpose and main features
of the bill and will work for its enactment: "
The Board of Trade of New Brunswick,
N. j., heartily commends the commission 5
bill and assures the executive committee
that it will do all in its power to secure
the adoption of the commissions bill by
Congress.
w. G. Fenner president of the Paterson,
N. j.. Board of Trade. writes that the gem
eral sentiment of that body is entirely in
accord with the results so far obtained by
the commission. and his teleglAm closes
with a declaration that the sentiment for
monetary reform is, in his opinion, general
in New Jersey.
A number of kilograms expressing SYM
pathy with the conventions work were sent
by the representatives of the various COM
mercial bodies in the South. Mr.. r. A.
Tavel the superintendent of the Charleston
Is. CO Cotton Exchange, expresses regret
that the exchange cannot be represented at
the convention and hopes that the result of
the conventions deliberations will be
emnently satisfactory.
Strong expressions OF sympathy with the
movement for currency reform were sent
to the committee by the Board of Trade.
of Columbus, Ga, and by the Chamber of
Commerce, of Charleston, S. G.. Similar eX-
pressions of approval reached the committee
from number of other commercial centers
in the East and West.
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II. II. Kolhsaat, editor of the Times
Herald, of Chicago. is one of the members
of the Chicago delegation who is taking ali
active part in the discussion among the deli
egates to the reforms embraced in the
commissions report.
f. o. Stannard. of St. Louis who took q
prominent part in the last conference, is al
the head of delegation of half a dozen
from ST Louis. He said his delegation was
in favor of adopting the plan of the COM
mission without alteration.
O. Vincent Coffin. who was Governor of
Connecticut in 1896 and 1896, is one of the
delegates in the conference He says that
the convention surpasSes all his expecta-
tions, and that the cause of monetary re-
form is making very substantial progress
among the people.
George f. Lighton, of st. Louis, vice
chairman of the commission, is attending
the convention. While he says ii would be
perhaps assuming too much to say the re-
port would be adopted in all its details. he
believes that the report commendS itself in
its essentials. The more the report is studied
the more sound-money men will assent to it
as a wise, safe, efficient and conservative
means of correcting the monetary evils.
With proper attention given TO the subject
and proper efforts, he believes that the COM
missions report will pass the House and
that it can be passed in the Senate with
some notifications.
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AN INSURANCE. PRESIDENT.
speech Of jacob l.. Green, Presider
of the Connecticut Mutual.

speech of Jacob l.. Green, President
of the Connecticut Mutual.
Governor Shaw introduced Jacob L. Green
in few brief words. In part Mr.. Green
said:
You and 1 just at this moment stand
something in the relation of the boys and
the frog in the fable. and i am the frog
Haughter) | was informed that l might
possibly at Il later stage of the proceedings
be called on TO make an imprOmptu speech.
desired to prepare myself. but that speech
was TO come in its due order and not at the
demand OF such u riotous assemblage as
this Is"
Colonel Greene at this point produced a
manuscript from his pocket. and as he had
been called out by the audience this pro-
ceeding was amusing. He proceeded as fol-
lows: We have pledged ourselves to keep
all our dollars Of various intrinsic values
equal to each other as far as lies in our
power; But we have not said to our credit
ors which value of the dollar they would
have TO take If we should not succeed in so
keeping down the number of 40 or 45-cent
dollars that we could keep them passing for
hundred cents Nor have we said TO them
that we would keep the cheap silver dollars
for our own domestic use only and not
force them upon our creditor. and who can
use them at only their bullion value and
this prime element in the situation has all
its malign possibilities brought unblushingly
to view, and Is put sharply at issue by the
resolutions now before the United States
Senate, having passed it's finance commit
tee, declaring our public debts to be honest
~ anu uoAoIdDiy QuC III SILVER uOlldfS worth
only 45 cents, which would not only mean
the upsetting of our present standard and
reduction of all our currencies 10 a silver
OASIS but which must be held TO precisely
intend the immediate and certain debase-
meht of all TO the present bullion value of
silver.
''While nation after nation has been in
the last two years recognizing the irresst-
lble force and contraction of the laws of
trade and seeking safety by adopting the
gold standard and adapting their transac-
ti0ns thereto we have been summoning the
world 70 repeated conferences with view
TO such agreement our own or even
on a cheaper coinage ratio. and we have as
repeatedly failed each time more definitely,
and at last completely that the leading
man Of the present bimetailic commission
suggests an approximation OF the legal to
the market ratio, a confession OF fatal sig
niAcance TO the whole l6-t0-1 bimetaliic
sion.
Nothing could more definitely and em-
&nhaticaliy mark the hoDegessness and the
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After coughs and colds
the germs of consumption
often gain a foothold.
SCOTS Emulsion of Cod
liver Oil with Hypophos-
phites will not cure every
case; but, if taken in time,
it will cure many.
Even when the disease is
farther advanced, some re-
markable cures are effected.
In the most advanced stages
it prolongs life, and makes
the days far more comfort
able. Everyone suffering
from consumption needs this
food tonic.
soc. and $I.oo, all druggists.
SCOTS BOVINE. Chemists, New York.
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An OId-Fashioned Winter.

Boston Transcript.
We are having an old-fashioned winter
this year. 1t is a mild, open winter. If we
were having a cold snowy, clustering, hor-
rible winter. we should be having an old
fashioned winter, too. All winters are old
fashioned Open a file Of an old newspaper,
and the chances are ten to one that you
find paragraph about pansies in bloom In
January. However, if you have the curi-
osity to look up the next winters weather
in that same old file you will find accounts
of snowbanks twenty feet deep. Very like
ly you will find them the same winter TAX
ing one year with another, the meteorologi-
cal interest never flags in this latitude.
Taking year with itself. it never flags
either. There is time enough on the call
endar to enable the present winter to pro-
cure for itself record of unusual violence.
unprecedented depth of snow, unheard-of
lowness of mercury and general extreme
old-fashionedness. Then the mild Decem-
Der and early January would be forgotten.
Few people ever remember season as 1t
actually was; they pick out the salient, the
extreme things, particularly the cold and
snow and forget the rest Just so the
average boy remembers his whippings and
forgets his caresses. In the piecemeal thing
that man calls his mind, severity i'm wealth
err and in manners becomes old-fashioned.
But gentle and indulgent parents are just
as old-fashioned as mild winter weather is.
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GOLD DEMOCRATS HERE.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Prominent
Over All.

General Simon Bolivar Buckner is one
ance on the conference. He was the candi-
date for Vice President on the gold Demo-
cratic ticket in 1896. having been nOmi-
mated by the Indianapolis convention. Al
though seventy-four years of age, General
Buckner is very erect of stature and agile
in his movements. He is typical South
ern gentleman. He said last night that
there was no wavering among the gold
Democrats of Kentucky and that their
strength was constantly being augmented
their vote at the last election having been
most prominent gold Democrat in the gath
ering, there are number of others from
various States. The Iowa delegation has
five, G. b. Mills of Sioux City; Ralph van
Vechden of Cedar Rapids; S. S. Sweet, of
Belle Plain; j. G. Cherry, of Cedar Rapids,
and Robert Palmer. of Cedar Rapids.
j. Lawrence Laughlin. of Chicago Uni.
verSity, who is a member of the commits
son said yesterday: II am quite surprised
at the very great unanimity with which the
in the country, and the speech of Mr.. Shaw
seems to show Enthusiastically a stronger
feeling of approval of the report in the
West than L anticipated. / think that If it is
an indication of the sentiment in the West,
the hopes of legislation are good. The num-
Der and quality of the delegates of this con-
vention surpasses any convention / have
ever known. Its conclusions ought to have
tremendous. weight with Congress and with
the country as a whole. | wish TO add en-
phatically that / heartily approve the re-
port of the commission as a whole. and
that the objection l raised to the reissue
of United States notes in purchase of
bonds is comparatively a trivial objection
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THE RESOLUTIONS.
Will Recommend Continuance of Ex-
ecutive Committee.

ecutive Committee.
The vice presidents and members of the
committee on resolutions as furnished to
Secretary Wooilen by the different state
delegations last night were as follows:
Vice Presidents
Arkansas-Charles E. Rosenbaum.
Connecticut-O. Vincent Coffin.
Georgia-R. j. Lowry.
lndiana-Charles McCulloch.
Illinois-Edward ]. Parker.
Iowa-Nathaniel French.
Kansas-E. Wilder.
kentucky-Harry Weissinger.
Maryland-C. c. Homer.
Michigan-George II. Russell.
Minnesota-W. II. Dunwoody.
Massachusetts-W. e. Adams.
Missouri-E. o. Stanard.
Montana-Henry Knippenberg.
Nebraska-C w. Lyman. Omaha.
New York;. Harsen Rhoades.
North Carolina--Henry c. McWueen.
Ohio-Herman Cooper.
Observation-Disclosures Miller
Rhode Island-John w. Vernon.
TennesSee-R. G. Graves.
Virginia-S w Travers.
Wisconsin-David Vance.
Committee on Resolutions
Arkansas-H. L. Remmel.
Connecticut-Joel A. Sperry
Georgia-Rufus b. Bullock.
Indiana-H. II. Hanna.
Illinois-Franklin MacVeagh.
Iowa-C. C. Nource.
Kansas-C. " Ferguson.
Neutrality-suspicious. w. Bullitt.
Maryland-John NJ. Nelson.
Michigan-William il. Anderson.
Minnesota-Joseph A. WheeIock.
Montana-H. b. Palmer.
observation-disclosures i. Higginson.
Missouri-C. j. Hubbard
Nebraska-C. Fl. Dietrich
New York-W. y. Dodge.
North Carolina-C. II. Fogle.
Ohio-Dennison 3. Smith.
Pennsylvania-John c. Bullitt
Rhode Jsland-Rowland G.. Hazard.
Texas-M. l.. Crawford.
Tennessee-A. S. Caldwell.
Virginia-Wiliam X. Trigg.
Wisconsin-F. II. Magdeburg
The committee on resolutions after the adj
journment of the night meeting met in the
Century Club rooms at the Denison and eff
fected an organization, electing Joseph A.
Wheelock, of St. Paul, Mimi, chairman.
After the meeting it was announced that
nothing definite had been accomplished and
that meeting for further elaboration
would be held to-day. The New York dele
CATION, through w. f. Dodge. it's repre-
sentative on the committee, presented a
resolution providing for the continuation of
the executive committee with power to re-
assemble the convention at a future date If
it is found desirable. lnasmuch as much re-
mains to be done toward monetary reform
in the way of keeping the subject properly
before Congress it is regarded as expedient
that the work of the executive committee
shall continue.
While there was no discussion of the re-
port of the commission, it is perfectly safe
to say that the committee on resolutions
will recommend its adoption. Other resolu-
tons We're presented, but what they were
was not announced
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Canadian banks and in very small towns
in the Dominion Fv means of these branch
banks the same financial advantages are
enjoyed by the business men OF the locality
this means also merchants and other bor-
rowerS in the interior are enabled to dis
count their paper at home instead of be-
States to send TO money centers and sell
through note brokers. This system of
branch banks Will inevitably cause specific
reduction of rates of interest throughout
the country and this is the scientific an
swer to the demands of the South and
West for more currency. II will also fur
nish facilities for borrowing money on
mortgages or otherwise, and will bring the
borrower and lender together at the bor-
roWer's home
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w B. Dean, of st. Paul, a large whole
sale dealer in hardware, who is a member
of the commission, said yesterday: THE
Minnesota delegation of ten members rep
resents a State that has never faltered in
it's devotion to the cause of sound money.
The year before the last presidential cleo
ton Governor Nelson. now United States
senator. made his campaign as a candi-
date for Governor solely upon the sound
money issue, disregarding the tariff and all
subordinate questions. He was elected by
the people by an overwhelming majority.
The Deople of the country are now fully
awake to the necessity of aggressive ac-
ton that will settle for all time to come
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the true standard OF value-gold. and place
world. If our political leaders in Congress
only had the courage they should have as
leaders of the people we would have this
money question very quickly settled and
with this settlement would come such an
era of prosperity this country never
knew before"
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through the formality of reading it to the
convention. The committee was called to
meet in the Century Club rooms Immediate
~ after adjournment Evans WOollen. on
behalf of the Commercial Club and Board
of Trade. invited all the delegates to at
tend the reception at Mannerchor Hall. The
convention adjourned to meet this morning
q l1tlllacIr
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BY Those who Are Enjoying the Re-
suits of Luxfer Prisms.

Indianapolis Jan. %, 1898.
American Luxfer Prism Company, Chica-
go. Ill:
Gentlemen--I take pleasure in stating that
the light you have given us in the secre-
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satisfactory. We do not have to use any
more artificial light in the daytime. The
room faces an alley and the English Hotel.
a four-story brick building, is opposite.
causing this room to be very dark Re-
specially, HENRY Russo,
President Board School Commissioners.
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indianapolis. Jan. %. 1898.
American Luxfer Prism Company, Indian
M. Ind.

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interested parties.
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NO CURE a GOLD IN one DAY

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'ERD L. AND CHAs. MAYER.
Indianapolis. Ind. Jan. 25. 1898.

u.
American Iuxfer Prism Company:
1t is quite against our rule to give testi-
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Indianapolis, Ind. Jan. %. 1898.
7 ,rxfar Dricuo CoUnnapU Indian

American Luxfer Prism Company, Indian
apolis. Ind.
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Our representative will give an exhibit
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The Journal, indianapolis. Ind.
The American Luxfer Prism Compal

The AMERICAN IIUAItT FIISIII OUIIpdIIyt TITO
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