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SILVER Y8. GOLD COIN,
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$Why Silver Coin is Now as
rj Good as Gold Coin.
FROM R. G. HORR'S PEN.
What Would Make It About Half as
Good-The Money Question
Ably Discussed From a
Business Standpoint
Cold and Silver Coin.
I Roswell O. Ilorr lias heen en-
iJajfeU by the New York Tribune to
t discuss the leailiiiLT questions of the
day through liie column of that
paper. In this weeks issue the fol
lowing article is found:
Will Mr, llurr please answer the fnllnw
Inmiuontiiins ill the Wivkly Tribune:
Firnt Ix the t'nite.l States Kovermiient
obliged by law to e.eli;itie c"jn for
ailver certilleates or silver ilnllar?
Second Cull the I'nited States uovciu
iiient redeem coin ci'itilieates with silver
f ilollurs, or must the gold lit- paidr
Third Can a iierson legally ileinaiid
Kold coin fiir the t;n-enliai ks or treasury
' notes of the I'nited States noveriiineiit?
oris (i. Pakkkk.
Moravia, X. Y Dee. -'1.
Ouestions 1 ami 2 are so nearly
the same that I will answer them
together. The law does not oblige
the government to exchange gold
coin for silver certificates or silver
dollars. Indeed the silver certifi
cates are, by their very terms, pay
able in silver standard dollars.
The gold certificates, on their face,
are redeemable in gold coin. The
law permit the secretary of the
tieasury to redeem such certificates
in the kind of coin that he may
i
prefer, with this exception: The
holder of silver certificates would
have a right to demand silver dol
lars, and the holder of gold certifi
cates would have a right to de
mand gold dollars. In either case,
however, could the holder actually
compel the United States govern
ment to pay in any coin different
from that stated in the certificate.
Nor is the United Slates govern
ment compelled by law to exchange
gold coin for silver coin. Neither
does the law compel it to give sil
ver coin for gold coin.
As regards the thrid question:
The greenbacks ar; a promise of
the United States to pay their face
in "coin." It is entirely at the op
tion of the government to make
such payment in either gold or sil
ver coin, as the officers of the gov
ernment may prefer.
The foregoing answers to "the
-iertiestions of this correspondent
thwould seem to be complete; and
"yet, if I should leave these simple
statements of the law unexplained,
I fear that my answer would be
misleading as to the actual facts.
Up to date it has bee'.( the custom
of the treasury department to per
mit the holder of any government
certificates or government obliga
tions to select the kind of currency
he shall receive, either in the pay
ment of his claim or in the redemp
tion of his certificate. That prac
tice has enabled the holders of sil
ver coins into silver certificates;
and then, when desired, to convert
these silver certificates into gold
. coin at their pleasure. This easy
conversion of any one kind of mon
ey into any other, and the possibil
ity of receiving gold coin for any
and every kind of government mon
ey without expense to the holder
is the existing fact which has kept
all the money of the United States
of equal value so long to all the
people of the I'nited States. Just
so long as one can exchange a na
tional bank note for a greenback,
and then without expense convert
that greenback into its face in gold,
just so long greenbacks, national
bank notes and gold will remain of
equal value. Just so long as the
government will permit the holders
of gold and silver certificates to
make their own choice and to re
ceive the face of such certificates in
gold if they demand it, just so long
the silver dollar, the gold dollar,
the silver certificate and the gold
certificate will till remain of equal
value. Such has been the case now
for several years. The silver dollar,
which is not intrinsically worth
over seventy cents today, is kept at
par by the fact that the government
treats it as being worth its face in
gold.
It is proper to state at this point
that heretofore the confidence of
the people has been so complete in
all the different kinds of national
currency that very little demand
has been made for the redemption
of any of its paper currency or for
the exchange of one kind of coin
for another. Should there be an at
tempt on the part of the people to
convert their holdings of national
t money into gold, no doubt the sec
retary of the treasury would at once
avail himself of his legal rights. He
would refuse to payout the gold ex
change for gold certificates, and,
perhaps, for greenbacks, there be
ing, under the law, a large gold re
serve kept all the time in the treas
ury for the redemption of the green
backs. The moment that the
United States government should
refuse to pay out gold, except as
above, that moment gold and gold
certificates would be worth a
premium; they would, in a
a little while, disappear
from the currency of this country.
It is this fact which leads so many
careful business men to fear the re
sult of issuing monthly so large an
amount of the new silver treasury
notes as is required under the law
which provides for the large pur
chase of silver each month by the
United States government.
The currency problem in this
country is at the present time a
setaous one. Just how long we can
continue to increase the volume of
paper money, based upon the pur
chase of such an enormous amount
of silver, while that metal is con
stantly depreciating in the markets
of the world, is hard to answer.
The monetary conference, which
has just adjourned in Kurope with
out reaching tiny valuable conclus
ion, shows what a complex and dif
ficult problem it was trying to
solve. That conference was com
posed of able financiers, selected
from all the leading nations of the
world. Its members were full of ex
pedients., proposed various plans,
and yet adjourned without agree
ing upon a single remedy. There
seemed to be no difference of opin
ion as to the gravity of the situa
tion. The members all agreed that
something ought to be done. Just
what to do, however, was a puzzle
they could not solve. Not only did
the leading nations differ among
themselves, but the members from
hardly a single nation could arrive
avmong themselves at a conclusion
which was satisfactory to all the
delegates from that single nation.
Yet one will run across many men
in the United States who will not
hesitate to settle this question at
once and forever. The flippancy
with which some of these American
financiers handle a problem which
staggers the best business brains
of the world is to me amusing.
I have been far two years, in sea
son and out of season, trying to im
press upon my readers the great
difficulty of the money problem
which today confronts the people
of this nation. Very many times I
have questioned my own ability to
reach any satisfactory solution,
Those statements were made not
because of lack of investigation on
my part, but because the more I
study the problem, the more com
plicated it becomes.
There is no one thing which en
ters more constantly into and con
tributes more to the prosperity of a
nation than a good sound currency
A measure of value which shall
fluctuate as little as possible is
certainly most desirable. The
business of the United States ag
gregates each year such an enorm
ous sum, the wages of the people
who work at daily toil for a living
have reached an aggregate so
wonderful, the product of shops
and farms and mines has come to
be so immense, that the money
used in all these almost infinite
transactions is a question of im
mense importance. It may be that
the fears of thoughtful men as to
the results which would follow the
adoption of the schemes of
our modern financial wonders
are not well grounded. To
hear these men talk one would
think the problem so easy as to de
serve hardly a passing notice. It
does not seem so to tne. Whenever
I hear a person claiming that the
whole thing can be settled by sim
ply passing a "free coinage act'
which, he tells me, will at once re
store silver to its former proud po
sition among the metals of the
world, the feeling creeps over me,
in spite of all that I can do, that he
has not the least conception of the
real merits of the question he find s
so easy of solution. It may be that
I magnify its difficulties and its
importance. It may be that this is
one of the questions which will
never be solved except through the
agency or blundering experience.
There have been many instances in
the world where glittering theories
failed whew put to the test of actual
results. Sometimes the world
learns its mistakes only through
the most fearful realities. The
problems of life are so complicated
and the powers of the infinite mind
so limited that we are compelled to
act part of the time in the dark. In
such cases the proper way Jor us
all is to use wisely and honestly the
best knowledge we possess, to
strike out cotirageouslfor the fu
fure and trust to the logic of events.
R. G. 1 1. IKK.
Try the"Crown" coukIi cure. Krnwti tc
flarret miaruntee it. J
A large number of the friend of
Mrs. Henry Weckbach gathered at
her home on the corner of Vine and
seventh street last evening to
remind her that she had arrived
at her lotthieth anniversary, A
pleasant time was had by those
who were present. In the evening
the Bohemian band played several
selections at the residence.
POISONED THE FAMILY. I
Joo Williams Wanted in Omaha
on a Serious Charge.
FORMERLY LIVED HERE.
Claimed Th at He Put olson In the
Coffee-His Father In-Law's
Famdy the Vlctims-Stlll
At Large.
Poisoned the Family.
Joe Williams, a young (colored)
man who is well known in this city
and who was in the employ of Jus.
Muir and afterwards tin employee
of the Hotel Kiley annex, has, so
the Omaha papers say, poisoned
the family of his father-in-law.
Williams was married in this city
last summer to a Miss Kwiug. He
has recently beet! an eufployeof the
M illard hotel at Omaha. The other
morning he went home, but found
his better half missing. After con
siderable search she was located in a
colored dive in the burnt district.
Williams proceeded to give her a
good sound thrashing and then
went up to his father-in-laws house.
The World Herald tells the rest of
the story: "There are two people
laying deadly sick and one dead in
the house of I Kwing.a policeman
living tit 3113 Franklin street. They
are Kwiug himself, his wife and
their 13-year-old son Albert. Poison
is the cause.
When the Kwings, who are
colored people of the well-to-do
sort, were at breakfast yesterday it
was noticed that the coffee served
had a peculiar llavor and the man
asked about it. No particular at
teution was paid to it for a few min
utes, when the little boy who had
drunk a cupful of the liquid was
taken sick. Ivwing anil his wife
had not swallowed nearly so much
of the coffee were still able to care
for thechild, but in a short time the
mother, too, was overcome. Kwing
was frightened by this time and re
alized that poison was the cause of
the trouble. He hurried to the
house of it neighbor and procured
some sweet milk, after which he
went down to Twenty-fourth street
to get a physician. On the way he
was taken sick and finding the of
fice of Drs. Wood and Alexander he
was by them treated for poison.
The doctors also went out to his
house and satisfied themselves by
examination that Mrs. Kwing and
the boy were suffering from poison.
The two were in a desperate strait
when medical assistance arrived
and the boy is still in a critical con
dition. Kwing was not slow to attach the
blame to Joe Williams, his son-in-law,
with whom the family has had
much trouble. He has, according
to the story of Kwing, threatened
the lives of the family several times
and only a few days ago, after an
especially serious quarrel, which
resulted in his dismissal from the
house, where he had been living a
note was found stuck to the door
warning them, and signed by Joe
Williams. Williams was at the
house yesterday afternoon and was
alone in the cellar where the colTee
is kept. 1 1 e has not been seen since
then by the Kwing family. He is
described as a young man about--'
years old, roughly dressed, and
with a highly developed antipathy
to work of any kind.
The physicians are not certain as
to the identity of the drug and are
not sure whether or not it may not
be something administered for the
purpose of simply sickening the
Kwings. Albert Kwing died yes
terday afternoon."
More About Williams.
Yesterday TlIK Hl-k-ALDcontained
an account of the poison of a
family in Omaha by Joe Williams
formerly of this city. This morn
ing's World-Herald has the follow
ing to say:
Albert Kwing, the U-year-old son
of Policeman Kwing of 3113 Frank
lin street, the posioning of whose
family was reported exclusively in
the World-Herald Wednesday even
ing, died Wednesday afternoon
from what ia believed by the physi
cians to be arsenic poison. The
body was removed yesterday to the
coroner's office. The coroner
ordered a post mortem examina
tion, to be held in the afternoon, to
determine the cause of death.
The sou in-law, Joe Williams, who
is suspected of having placed ar
senic in the family coffee, is still at
large. A warrant has been issued
for his arrest on the charge of lar
ceny, and the police have been
looking for him for several days on
this charge. It is probable that he
will be arrested today". The result
of the inquest in the Kwing child's
case will determine whether or not
he will be arraigned on another
and more serious charge, that of
murder. Williams has been in po
lice court a number of times for
petit larceny and is regarded as a
tough citizen.
Dr. O. S. Woods' the physician
who attended the Kwing family pro
nounces the symptoms surround
ing the death of Albert Kwing as
undoubtedly that of poison. The
surviving members of the family,
Mr. and Mrs. Kwing, tire still in a
critical condition, but the outlook
is favorable for their recovery. Mr.
Kwing is much worse than his wife,
he having drank more of the drug
ged colTee.
The collee pot was drained of its
contents yesterday and placed in a
bottle to be analyzed, in order to
ascertain whether the presence of
poison exists.
The case is attracting consider
able attention in view of the re
markable symptoms attending the
sulferers.
There is little reason to doubt thai
Williams not only poisoned the
whole family, but that it was pre
meditated. On the eve of the day
before the Kwings were taken sick,
when he was at the house, he dis
played a package of rough on rats
to two of the girls in the house, Ida
a ml Kdna Kwing, the sisters of his
wife. At the same time he threat
ened to "fix" the family, but prom
ised t!ie two girls that they should
not be harmed. He represented to
them that he would marry Kdna
and that he would take her ami Ida
to some other place and get em
ployment for the younger girl.
Nothing of this was said by the
girls until yesterday morning, when
they told of it. Kdna disclaimed
any intention of ever marrying
Williams. She said the reason she
did not warn the family was that
Williams had so frequently made
threats before that she paid no at
tention to them. Neither of these
girls were taken sick and all the
people in the house say that they
provided themselves with salt pep
per which was not poisoned, a sup
ply of these having been discovered
where it had been set aside.
All the rest of the salt and pep
per as well as the coffee was
poisoned. The girls say that Will
iams set this aside himself .ami
that they knew nothing of it. Will
Mains is reported as having been
seen on Twehty-fourth and Cuming
streets Wednesday. He has rela
tives in St. Louis, but is believed to
be iu.Omaha yet. According to his
statements to the Kwings, he was
last employed at the Jennings
hotel.
Yesterday afternoon the post
mortem was held on the body of
Albert Kwing by Dra. Wood and
Alxander. The examination resul
ted in finding the stomach and in
testines is an inflamed condition,
the indications showing conclu
sivly the presence of some sort of
poison. The other organs were in
a normal condition.
Free for all Fight.
About four o'clock yesterday
afternoon a free-for-all light
occurred in Speck's saloon, W. T.
Cunningham, who has beyn here
for several days managed to keep
a good jag on board in company
with Constable Krohler went to the
above named saloon. There Cun
ningham picked a quarrel with
an inoffensive looking boy named
Kli Hirdsall claiming that he stole
an over coat.
This young man denied and Con
stable Kroehler attempted to arrest
him without informing him that
he was an officer. The result was
the young man resisted and Kroeh
ler called upon Cunningham to
help, and together they came near
using the boy up,
Officer Fitzpatrick happened
along and the young fellow went
along peaceably with him, al
though Cunningham followed him
to the jail and attempted to strike
him several times.
At the jail Hirdsall and his broth
er came in contact with Cunning
ham and the latter came out sec
ond best.
Today Judge Archer discharged
Hirdsall with a reprimand, the evi
dence clearly showing Cunning
ham to be the aggressor.
Jaif and all in Jail.
There has been trouble in the
family of W. A. Ilartuess, a baker of
Nebraska City, which nearly ciilmi
nate in a tragedy, last night. Hart
ness got on a jag and his wife took
the children and left the house.
Hartmess followed and found her
at a neighbor. He attempted to
enter the house, but was driven
away by Mrs. Charles Dowuing
with a pitchfork. When Hartmess
reached the street he drew a re
volver aud fired at Mrs. Downing,
fortunately without elfect. The
police was called and Hartnias is
now in jail.
v Frank Pennington Dead... .
J?r a n!r W. Pen n i n gton , who . was
formerly in the employ of K. G.
Dovey & Son, died at his home in
Heatrice Thursday. Mr. Penning
ton leaves a young wife. The sad
news will be a surprise to the many
friends in this city.
For Abstracts of Title go to J. M.
Leyda, Union block.
THE WEEK OF PRAYER.
How It Will Be Observed
Throughout the Country.
THE RELIGIOUS TOPICS.
The Cood People Will Pray That the
Columtilan Exposition May He
Sanctified -The Betflnnlntf
of a New Year.
Week of Prayer
The coming week will be univers
ally observed by the churches in
the United States as the week of
prayer. The Presbyterian and
Methodist church will join together
and hold services during the week
and if the outlook is sufficiently
bright the meetings will be con
tinued after next week.
The general secretary of the
Kvangelienl alliance lor the United j
States, has issued the following
circular in regard to theobservance
of the week of prayer January I-S,
1S)3.
The churches of our Lord Jesus
Christ are again invited to unite in
prayer at the beginning of a new
year.
After this custom the Kvangelical
alliances of Christendom send out
the following topics suggested for
united supplication. The general
subjects for each day are the same
throughout the world, while the
subordinate topics are adopted to
the peculiar conditions of each
country. It -is hoped that all
churches which unite in the obser
vance of the week of prayer,
remembering its object, and the
special promises, given to united
prayer, will offer petitions in com
mon with the people of God every
where for the common interests of
the Redeemer's kingdom.
A large number of sub-topics are
given only by way of suggestion.
It is expected that each U nder will
make selections.
Sunday January 1st Sermons.
The Kxalted Saviour's "Gifts for
Men." Ps. Ixviii: IS, HI; John xvi: '23,
2 k Acts v: 31; Kph. iv: 7,8.
Monday January 2nd Humilia
tion and Thanksgiving. Confes
sion: Of selfishness and worldli
ness; of t.nfaithfulness to truth and
opportunity. Ps. xxxii; Dan. ix: 5;
Matt, xvi: 2(1. Prayer. For grace to
put away whatever hinders indivi
dual, family or national blessings.
Nell, ix: 1-3; Job xi: II; Acts xxvi:20.
Praise Thanksgiving: For God's
relation of himself; for an increas
ing apprehension of Christ's rela
tions to all human affairs. Jer. xxxi
0; K'zek. xi: 19,20.
Tuesday, January 3d The
Church Universal. Prayer: For
the manifestation of the spirit in
power for a more humble and deli
gent study of the world; for the in
crease of love and the spirit of
unity; for a larger upprehension of
the mission of the church; for a
more faithful witness against
error: for a more eager looking for
Christ's glorious appearing. Acta
i; 8; Acts iv: IS, p.: John v: 31); Tit: ii:
13.
Wednesday, January 4 -Nations
and their rulers. Prayer. That all
in authority may recognize their
responsibility of God; that laws
maybe enforced; that class ami
race antipathies and prosecutions
may cease; that the liquor ami
opium and slave traffic may be
abolished; that drunkenness, and
gambling may cease; that the re
lations of capital, and labor may
be brought under the law of Christ;
that the "making haste to be rich"
and the love of luxury may be
arrested; that all needed reforms
may be advanced; that the Colum
bian exposition may be sanctified to
the promotion of the .kingdom of
Christ. 1. Tim. ii: I t; Gal. iii: '.N;
Rom. xiii: 1 7; Mai. iii: 13 IS.
Thursday, January Sth Foreign
missions. Praise: For missonary
process; lor the "volunteers m in
stitutions of learning. Ps. lxvii;
Matt, xxviii; !'., 20; Rom. i: 11 17.
Prayer: For missionary societies;
for increased missionary spirit, co
operation and coutribtttations; for
missionaries and their helpers: lor
native churches and. their pastors;
for secret believers; for the conver
sion of Jews, Mohammedans and
heathen; for increased recognitiou
of the oneness of the race. Ps.
xxii:27; 2S;Mal. i: 11; Kph. iii: (J.
Friday, January Gth Home mis
sions. Praise: For increasing ap
preciatiou of need and obligation.
Acts ii: 41-47. Prayer: For pas
tors, missionaries aud other labor
ers; for the heathen at our doors;
for ' defected rural districts and
negelected city populations, that a
devitic' urgency, may, iinpeal to ef
fort thereof; for increased Christian
comity. Acts iv: 13 31; 1. cor. x:' 17
eph. i; 10; iv: 13.
Saturday, January 7th Families
and schools, Prayer: For increas
ed eancity of the married relation;
for sytemntic religious instruction
in the home.and for a more general
observance of family worship; for
parents, children and servants, that
in their mutual relations they may
obey the teaching of Chri.-t; for
the preservation and increased
efficiency of (,ur public schools;
for the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit upon teachers and learners
in allschooN, colleges, seminariert
and uuiver-'ities, and upon Sunday
schools, and religious societies of
young men nnd young women.
Dent. vi:4 7; Mark x: 13 22; Prov. vi:
13 27; Dent, xi: In 21.
Sunday, January "th - Sermons.
The promise outpouring. Joel ii:
lN 32. The Plan Command. "Ack
ye ol the Lord." Zech. x: 1,
On Printers' Proofs.
Now proof sheet, a none but
their slaves and victims know,
easily take high rank in that clas
of inanimate things which pos
sessed of the evil. The essentially
modern imagination might call
them the electric ears of the liter.
iry profession. Without regard to
life or limb they r"II crashing into
that margin of existence which is
reserved for other human exactions.
They lie in wait for one's hour of
ijiaddeuing pro engagement. They
lurk, watching for one's direst cuicr
gency. They select (he confusing
occasions ot public amusement.
and are well known to prefer a
houseful of company. They de
light to hit the eve of a journey.
greet the exhausted traveller at the
door of his hold. In the house of
his friend he becometh a hermit
and sitteth solitary, correcting his
galleys in the face of the od'eilded
host, who is a recent acquaintance
and impressed with the bad man
ners of the literary class.
The proof sheet delights to detain
one from (he reception given in
honor of the author. It pursues
one to thi! lecture platform aud to
the foot of the pulpit stairs. It
loveth Christmas eve and house
cleaning. It aims even at tha wed
ding day. It haunts the sick room.
It shows a ghoulish interest in thu
crises of bereavement. I have re
peatedly known it to pursue funer
als aud to call mourners from the
coffin or meet him as he returns
from the grave. On such timely
and welcome eccasions the printer's
brief cominiind, "Return immedi
ately," stares in the face of the un
fortunate who has vainly hoped for
the freedom of an hour of sorrow or
of joy. From "The Rejected Man
uscript," a story by Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps Ward, in Harper's
Magazine for January.
Miss Dora Swearigen returned to
her home in Weeping Water after
a short visit with her brother and
family.
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Unhealthy Live?' than any
liivt cr.'.-e-Inestiononsti-uuon,
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; :u! Malaria usually attend it.
j )r. Sanford's Livcrlnvigorator
in a vegetable specific for Liver
Disorders and their accompany,
ing evils. It cires thousands
ivhy not be one of them ? Take
Dr.'Sanford's Liver Invigorator.
Your Druggist will supply you.
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