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A-Mir W w.,yj'llll'i''rtW"ffllW'l 7 4 ! I 3.-.' J 8 7 Arv: .'Wrtr"-n,.. - . ' x- - v. . :: THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. January 23, 1902, PLUCKY H PROTECTS HER ENTIRE EAMILY WITH PERUNA, AS H APPY: HOPE Will childreji ( J rHiJ - VII 1 p3che'1- (iTImJ ; This Beautiful Mother Says: "I Cannot Help But Praise Peruna. "I Am Never Without It. "As Soon as I Find the Children Have the Least Cold, I Give Them Peruna. A Few Doses Helps One of the greatest foes with Which every family has to contend is our changeable climate. To protect the family from colds and coughs is always a serious problem, and often impossible. Sooner or later it is the inevitable fate . of every one to catch cold. Care in avoiding exposure and the use of proper clothing will protect from the frequency and perhaps the severity of colds, but with the greatest of precautions they will come. This is a settled fact of human experience. Especially is this true during the stormy and unsettled weather of early' winter. Everybody must expect to be caught somewhere or somehow. Perhaps it will be wet feet, or cold draught, or damp clothes, or may be too , close confinement in hot rooms and then going out into the cold carelessly, or it may be one of a thousand other little mishaps, but no one is shroud enough to always avoid the . inevitable catching cold. " Sometimes colds come like an epi demic ; everybody seems to have one at once. The very air about us is poison to the head, throat and lungs. There is no fact of medical science better known than that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Thousands of families in ail parts of the United States are protected each winter by Peruna. Once in the family Peruna always stays. No home can spare Pe runa after the first trial of it. A splendid example of this fact is found in the beautiful home of Mrs. Paul Peschel, of 14 Quitman street, Newark, N. J. Read her letter. Newark, N. J., June 17, 1900. Dr. S. B. Hartman : Dear Sir "My three children were sick and my husband had an attack of la grippe. I gave the children Peruna, and now they look as if they hadn't been sick at ail. I also gave it to my husband until be was good and well. I do not know bow could have stood taking care of them and being up night and day, bad it not been for Peruna. "Last winter was the first winter in sixteen years that I did not have a cough. It is impossible to explain my thanks in words. I never looked as well as 1 do now. "Peruna is our family medicine and always will be. I do my own house' work and sewing, and get along lovely, now that I am so strong and well, thanks to Peruna and your good advice. '1 cannot help but praise Peruna. 1 am never without it, and as soon as 1 find the children have the least cold 1 give them Peruna. A few doses helps them, and I hope that every one who reads my testimony will try Peruna as It is a friend indeed.'' Thankfully yours, AIRS. PAUL PESCHEL, 14 Quitman St., Newark, N. J. A Safe Family Doctor. Peruna has been used in many other homes with the same results. The fol lowing are samples: Mrs. M. E. Sey mour, Dye, Ga., writes : " I am ready to speak a few words in favor of Peruna and Manalin. I have tried them for nearly every ill of life for myself and family, and find them to be all the doctor claims them to be. Peru na cured me of female trouble when my doctor could not. My advice to all suf fering women is, consult Dr. Hartman. What he has done for me he will do for you." Mrs. M. E. Seymour. Peruna Added 40 Pounds. Mrs. Maria Goertz, Cleo, Oklahoma, writes : "My husband, children and myself have used your medicines, and wo al ways keep them in the house in case of necessity." Mrs. Maria Goertz. Dr. Hartman's latest book on catarrh will be sent free upon request to any address. This book contains ninety-five pages of interesting reading matter, and will be found invaluable to mothers in aiding them to guard against and cure the many little catarrhal ailments of children that come with the severe weather of winter. v ; - STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE Scrape Off the Barnacles and pat In Some New Men Who are Fitted to Per form the Duties The following article from the Ne braska Farmer is commended to the attention of those who are interested in agriculture in this state. There are thousands of men in the state who will say amen to every word of it in private, but who will remain as dumb as oysters when speaking would tend to make a reorganization of the board effective. The Farmer, says: "It has become a habit of the State Board of Agriculture to keep in its employ, on sentimental grounds which are highly honorable in indi viduals, but which are out of place in an organization existing for public service, in the most important posi tion one whom the heavy hand of time and a life of , strenuous activity have rendered incapable of the new and difficult tasks a modern State Board of Agriculture must undertake, if it meets the opportunity open to it. "Nebraskans have for years pointed with admiration, even with envy, to what the Kansas state board of agri culture is doing for our sister state, and the entire west through its secre tary, , Hon. F. D. Coburn. But Mr. Coburn is not an alchemist making things out of nothing, nor is he a Columbus, capable of discovering new worlds where only vacuity is sup posed to exist. Quite the contrary, Mr. Coburn is a plain, self-made, un assuming man, who, as secretary of the board of agriculture of his state, gives all his time to the board's serv ice, and is gifted with ability as a , publisher. He astonishes and com- mands the admiration of the business world merely by calling attention -to what agriculture in Kansas is. Thus 1 it happens that 'with the most dis astrous failure of crops in 1901 that Kansas has ever known, and the hard est agricultural condition, Kansas has gained the past year rather than lost -in standing abroad. This creditable reputation' is due to the work of her state board of agriculture. ; 'There is open to the state board of agriculture in Nebraska a work as useful to the ; state as that done for . Kansas by. her . state board of agricul ture, and with far better resources for doing the work in Nebraska-inas-much as Nebraska presents newer and . more varied agricultural conditions than exist in Kansas. To, do this work is a 'duty of the Nebraska state board of agriculture. . - "In order that we may not be mis understood, even with the appearance of reiteration, we insist that it is the duty of the Nebraska state board of . agriculture, in reorganizing,' to select new members who - will be in touch . with and in a particular sense be rep resentative of the dominating agricul , tural industry of the state the live stock-business. ' "It Is the further duty of the state board of agriculture to. select for its officers men identified with large . in terests men who are known abroad ' and recognized everywhere as re- sourceful,; capable men men .who will be called Upon to take responsible or honorable positions in the great, agri cultural councils and expositions which are a feature of the agricultural industry of the times. "It is the further duty of the state board of agriculture to emply a young, ambitious, enterprising secretary who knows the agricultural resources of his state and is proud of them, and who can devise means for making them known to the world. Such strenuous work is not a side issue to be picked up at convenience by a man overtasked with private business. But it may be done effectively, even under present conditions, by an enterprising man who will work in harmony with existing departments of the state gov ernment, and who will avail himself to the full of their co-operation. will the twenty-nine men compos ing the Nebraska state board of agri culture recognize its opportunity and do its duty when -it meets on the 21st of January, 1902?" PENSIONERS INCREASE A Burden That Threatens to Increase as the Years go by Now by Far the Largest In the World The pension bill of the United States is attracting the attention of the whole world. There is nothing like it in all the history of the past. There; is one thing that begins to dawn upon the minds of the old soldiers who have been so active a factor in the republican party, and that is that if the war is kept up in the Philippines for. very many years the pensions of the soldiers of the civil war will be in danger. If there is any class of men in the whole United States more interested than another in getting rid of the Philippine islands it is the old soldiers. It is strange that so many of them were willing to desert the declaration of Independence for which they fought in their youth and sup port a party of imperialism and for eign wars. They were among the un thinking who were carried away by a mad partisanship. Many of the republican papers which have coddled the old soldiers for the last thirty years are now beginning to see what this enormous . increase in pensions means.- Instead of advocat ing the stopping of wars of conquest and the making of thousands of addi tions to the- pension rolls, which would be in. the interest of the old soldiers, they are asking for a ; more stringent interpretation of the pension laws or an amendment that will. cut down the pensions. It is to such . men, such papers and such a party that the offi cials of the G. A. R. i have given- their votes and' their undivided support for the last thirty, years. . . The , Chicago Tribune, which has seasons of sanity between elections, comments on the increase of pensions as follows: : . "The house of -representatives has passed- the pension bill, carrying an apprppriation of $139,842,230 for the ensuing fiscal year. The number of pensioners : on. the, rolls Is 997,735, the largest number- ever there, ' and the number will.be still further increased es the Dnsion sharks, aided; by the acknowledged inefficiency' if - not in- competency of the examining board, get in their work among the 275,000 men who enlisted to serve in tho Spanish war, comparatively few of whom, however, ever saw an enemy or suffered any of the rear hardships of war. ' "In the course of the debate on this bill various interesting facts were brought out. For the fiscal year 1901 there was paid $1,175,225 on account of pensions growing out of that war,. Up to the close of 1901, 45,536 applica tions had been made and 5,604 al lowed. Since then something like 50.- 000 applications, or about 20 per cent of all who were in the Spanish war, have "been made. Seven years after the close of the civil war only 6 per cent of those engaged had made appli cations for pensions, although the number of those shot and mangled in various ways was vastly larger than in the Spanish war. Th close of the latter dates back but three years, and yet 20 per cent of the volunteers have been Spurred on by the pension sharks to apply to be put on the pension roils. Evidently these sharks are more active in their work than they were thirty-odd years ago, or it is easier to establish a claim to a pension now than it was then. "The sum paid on account of pen sions growing out of the Spanish war, i,Ui,zzb, is but the beginning. This represents 5.604 cases, but as the cases increase the sum will be increased rapidly and probably indefinitely. The cost of the war in a republic, though that war may be with a second-class power, though it may be comparatively of short duration, and the casualties comparatively " small, is terribly ex pensive. The United States must cul tivate peace if it wish to escape beggary. "Numerically the pension roll Is larger now than it ever was before, and it is growing and will continue to grow so long as there are pension sharks and a lax administration of liberal laws. It is well for the gov ernment to be generous to Its soldiers. It is better for it to be just to them, and it is not just to the deserving pensioners, particularly those of the civil war, that millions of dollars should be paid to enlisted men of 1898, many of whom never left .'the country and many of whom are still young and robust." Comparatively few were shot or wounded. The most suf fered: from hardship or exposure, or malaria. Many .who have applied for pensions have recovered from '. ail ments which were of malarial, origin. Few- of these ever saw any fighting. What they needed .was quinine, not a pension, and yet, as Representative Bell sald in the debate: "'The pension commissioner"" shows cdse after case where men " when ..discharged were thoroughly examined and shown to have no , ailment whatever were shown to be in perfect health; ; yet at the end of a single week, upon the instigation of these pension Agents, these very men came in and under took to show by affidavit that they had every disease almost that the race is heir to.' Such waste of money as this upon unfit and ineligible persons is scandalous in itself and unjust to deserving pensioners. How it is made possible will be told hereafter." THE NAKED -BOERS Efforts Still Being: Made to Send Them Clothing Kitchener Says the Camps '! are all Botha's Fault s Lord Kitchener is still making ex cuses for murdering the. Boer women and children in the camps in South Africa. He now says that it is all Botha's fault, that he offered to leave the women and children on the farms if Botha would let alone the farms of burghers .who had "voluntarily sur rendered or had accepted the English rule and Botha wouldn't do it. If Kitchener had furnished some writ ten document from Botha the story would be more generally believed. Meantime Dr. Everett , Edward Hale, who has been collecting clothing for the naked Boer prisoners in the Ber muda islands, is still active in the work. He recently sent his assistant, Rev. W. S. Key, to visit the prison camps and . report , on the conditions. Mr. Key, who has just returned, says he was permitted to visit all the camps on six islands and to talk at will with the prisoners.. There are now about 5,000 men and boys in the prison laagers. All the prisoners com plained of having no clothing except ing what they wore when ; captured. Some of them had not had a change of underwear for sixteen months. . During Mr. Key's visit, clothing was distributed, but hats, caps, socks, towels, handkerchiefs, underclothing, suspenders and soap, needles, thread, buttons and knives are badly needed. Th.e short allowance of vegetables was complained of. , Rev. Dr. Hale asks for contributions of such food as oatmeal, cornmeal, condensed milk, all kinds of cereals, tea, coffee, peas, beans, rice, sago, evaporated apples,, canned corn, des sicated vegetables and tobacco for the old men. Money is also needed. The Lend-a-Hand society, No. 1 Beacon street, receives and ships all contributions. Very Much Pleased Editor Independent: Enclosed find postoffice order for $1,00 for which please send, me the paper. I am very much pleased with it. . GEORGE W. TAYLOR. Otsego, Mich. Waited Thirty Years Editor Independent: The Indepen dent suits' me all right. That is the kind of paper that I have been looking for for thirty years. A. YONKIN. Dubois, Neb. Don't Touch the Tariff "Don't: touch the tariff; it will dis turb business" this is the cry of all affected interests against every pro posal, to remedy the more glaring abuses? of the Dingley tariff law. It is what the beneficiaries of the raw hide duty are saying in the lobbies at Washington to the hide and leather dealers : and boot and shoe manufac turers i who seek the . removal of this wholly indefensible duty. These ben eficiaries are exclusively the dressed beef.monopolists, and they are so cle&rlyMn oio need of protection, that they dKKnot dare openly to antagonize the change. So they plead a general business interest against removing this tax which American protection for. 25 years iprior to 1897 never regarded as worthy of a place in its system. "Don't touch' the tariff it will disturb busi ness," is a cry that is being decidedly overworked on ..behalf of monopoly profit.-f-Springfield Republican. A BENEVOLENT ENTERPRISE Is the British Medical Institute at Cor. 11th - and N Sts., Sheldon Block. It Gives Three Months' Services Free to All Invalids Who Call Before Febru ary 4. A staff of eminent physicians and surgeons from the British Medical In stitute have, at the urgent solicitation of a large number of patients unajr their care in this country, established n nArmanent branch of the Institute ?n this city, in the Sheldon block, cor. of 11th and N sts. These eminent gentlemen have de- vfded to cive their services entirely free for three months (medicines ex cepted) to all invalids wno can on thPTn fnr treatment between now and February 4. These services consist not only of consultation, examination and . advice, but also of all minor sur gical operations. ' The object in pursuing this course Is to become rapidly and personally ac quainted with the sick and afflicted, and under no conditions will any charge whatever be made ior any ser vices rendered for three months to all who call before .February 4. Tho rinntnrs treat all forms of disease and deformities and guarantee a cure in every case they unaertaKe. At cne 1st intprviow a thorough examinaton is made, and, if incurable, you are frank ly and kindly told so; also aavisea against spending your money for use- less treatment. Male and female weakness, catarrh and catarrhal deafness, also rupture, goitre, cancer, all skin diseases and all diseases of the rectum, are positively cured by their new treatment. .', The Chief Associate Surgeon of the Institute is in personal charge. " Office hours, from 9 a. m. till 8 p. m. .No Sunday .hours. s Special Notice If you cannot call, send stamp for question blank for home treatment. many other things. Mr. Bryan says expansion or imperialism is the great er question and this may be the best road to take, I doa't know, it may be, to get the most recruits, but money and transportation is the true counter. C. J. JACKSON. Nolanville, Tex. ELASTIC CURRENCY Came Over the Trail - Editor independent: Enclosed find $1 for which send me The Indepen dent. I, am an old-timer. I have spent a host of time and some money for the reforms you advocate. I; was a dele gate . to the ever-to-be remembered Omaha convention, in '92. at Ocala, Fla., and St. Louis. So from a glance you see I have come over the trail. I really have just begun and expect to spend the balance of my days to gether withi what funds I can spare in this great1 work, that is, to tell the common: herd' ' just what their rights are in a country where they , claim to srovern themselves, i I I read The Commoner and a great The Old Peter Cooper Idea Revised and Improved It, Would Undoubtedly do What it Attempts The editor of The, Independent has written so mich about the bankers plans for "an elastic currency" that he is tired. It has always seemed to him that a man 1 who has intelligence enough to manage a bank must know that the plans they have set forth would result in producing a stringency just when more money was a neces sity to carry on the business of the country. The more national bank notes that are issued, payable on de mand in gold, the greater and more disastrous a panic must be when once it sets in. Every government of Eu rope has a method, based somewhat upon the principles of the following bill, of checking the ravages of panics they have all been described at dif ferent times ia The Independent and this country Stands alone among them all as defenseless before a money crisis as would be a frame shack in a cy clone. ' The Independent has received the following letter and accompanying bill which is recommended to the. careful study of its readers: Editor Independent: I read your editorial of January 2 on "Elastie Currency" with hearty approval, and I respectfully call your attention to a, bill, a copy of which is enclosed here with, which will be presented in the house of representatives. It is intended to extend to all hold ers of government bonds a modification of the national bank note system, thereby supplying what is now most obviously deficient in our monetary legislation, namely, a provision for an elastic currency. Should there be a financial panic at the present time, accompanied as it would be by a currency famine, clearing house associations and others would again as in 1893, have to resort to the expedient of issuing clearing house certificates and other substitutes for lawful money, thus, in many cases, defying national law and rendering themselves liable to the 10 per cent tax imposed by the national govern ment. The very presence of these sub stitutes for money tends t-.i dnve law ful, money . from circulation and ag gravate the panicky condition But, in the absence of further legislation, there are but two very ineffectual wayo of securing money for circulation. One of these is provided by the art of 1900. Under this act the secretary of the treasury must maintain a redemption fund consisting of not more than $150, 000,006 and not less than $100,000,000 in gold coin and bullion. When thi fund, through the redemption of "greenbacks" and treasury notes, falls below $100,000,000 it must be restored to the maximum amount of $150,000, 000 by the sale of bonds for gold coin. When this is done there will be an amount of redeemed "greenbacks" and treasury notes equal to the proceeds from the? sale of bonds, in the treas ury, that the secretary of the treas ury may use with which to purchase or redeem bonds. But as the amount available ,for. the purchase of bonds must be procured by the sale of bonds, this act would not tend to lessen the money stringency, except in cases where the sale of bonds had taken place prior to the crisis, and the money thus obtained had not been exhausted. The other manner of securing cir culation would befor holders of gov ernment bonds to sell them to national banks, and depend upon these banks to secure national currency notes, commonly called national bank notes. But as the notes of each national bank must be printed from a separate set of plates, and as each note must be signed by two of the issuing bank's officers, this method, as was effectually proven in 1893, would be so cumber some that it would not begin to oper ate effectually until the crisis had passed. And another most serious ob jection to either of these methods is the fact that holders of United States bonds, in order to secure currency, must sell their bonds at panic prices, which would be 20 to 40 per cent lower than normal. But the national banks buying these bonds at the extremely low prices prevailing during a panic, would profit enormously at the ex pense of savings institutions and others from whom they bought, as the bonds would remain on deposit at. Washington, in trust for the national banks, until prices again became nor mal. Under the proposed act these objections would be removed. You will notice that 'the emergency notes provided for in the proposed act are not . payable on demand in coin, but instead are exchangeable at their face value for United States bonds at their market value. Therefore the objection continually made to "green backs" and treasury notes would not apply to these notes. And so long as United States bonds were salable these notes would remain at par with the unit of value, whatever it may be. The tax of 4 per centum per annum, payable by the depositors of the bonds under this act, on the amount of notes received by them, is sufficient, to make it unprofitable, "ordinarily, to Lsecure or hold currency in this man ner, and the proposed act would not, therefore, Increase the. amount of money in circulation, except in times of emergency," when currency could not be obtained from the usual sources. I have drawn this bill and have called it to your attention because I believe it would be a long step toward a solution of the currency question; because I believe it would very ma terially lessen the - effect and dura tion of financial panics; and because it is the best argument that I can put forth in opposition 'to a currency based solely on bank assets, or to a subsidized corporation . known as a United States bank, both of which propositions are now being advocated, and the reinauguration of either of which . would be, in my estimation,' detrimental to the public welfare. I hope you will dQ me the honor to "IrtBiliiiinm i ii n i rra I b CURED IN .5 DAYS TO STAY CURED. DR.F.L.SEARLES SPECIALIST. NO CUTTING OR PAIN V? want every man afflicted with VAKICOCELir, BLOOD POISONING. NERVOUS DEBILITY or allte i troubles to come to our offlce.where we will explain to our method of curing these diseases. We invito In part ular all men who have become dissatisfied with treatme:., elsewhere. Vfe will explain to yon why you have not b- cured, and will demonstrate to your entire satisfaction wh? we can euro you safely, quickly and penranentlT- Our counsel will coat you nothin. and our charges for a prf e cure will be reasonable and not more than you will b willing to pay for benefits conferred. CERJAISMTV OF CURE. is what you want "We frive a written LEGAL GUARANTEE to cure you. VS en: and will cite you by permission when satisfied that informaticn is desired by mincer people, to cases that wo have cured to stay eured which have been abandoned by family physicians and so-called experts. What we have done for others we can do for you. 1 1 ' you oannot call, write u$ a full and truthful statement of your symptoms. One person! visit is preferred, but if it Is impossible for you to call at our ofilce write u a drscrip tlori'etf vour case as you understand it. plainly statini your symptoms, your Kenert,: physical condition, your occupation, etc., and you will receive la plain envelope a. scientific and honest opinion of your case free of charge. ' v Treatment by mail a specialty. Call on or address with atanap.I)ox 231. flDQ OICADI CQ P. Cm Dl Wain Office: Rooms 217-220 Richards Block Uho.oLAnLto&gEAnLCtfi Lincoln, Nebraska. How Are Tour Kidneys r Dr. Hobbs' Sparatrns Pills care all kidney Ills. Saul fi.9 free. Add- Sterling RemedyjCo .Chicago or M. Clarence L. Gerrard, Irrigation grown seeds w III grow the BEST CROPS. WHY? feed lour cents for samples. I-" Columbus , Nebr, IT TilEfFS FIWE OATiilllftll!PS i printed In Ave lfr.Tent Innoruare to tell the people of the many points of K K'vC-.t' ..w superiority ennnFeerriii . L.l n J hlf.v of our t-iuuubssr us.' incuoiiiors a orouasrs One 200 ec-c machine will hati'h more chicks than aOsteady old hens each time it is tilled with eyrge. They wil 1 be xtronger, more healthy chicks, too. These dii- cnines will do ior you just wnat tney nave aone lortnoueanas or otners. rite fnr IrA niLf-A rv. tn rtrr Ann lrtalmf An to nofltACA. We h1n mnchlnpa Anri handle correspondent for the Eat from our new hoiine In Buffalo. Write nearest oflice. H race nniiucc iuiiinaTna nnmnnuv i If IllUlllt-ki iiiuuuhiuii uumrMHiy Box 33, Des Moines, Iowa, or Box 33, Buffalo, N. Y. ' iirs-. TR I U M PHI N CU BATOR 1. 14 Low in price, superior in construction, f Certain in results. . f Awarded First Fremiun at Nebra' State Fair, 1901, in competition inc : bators at work. . A marvel of siaiphett ? Built on new scientific principle. : tirely new features. It satiiSes i-uf chaser became it hatches all fertile?: under any conditions. Built on Honor and Sold on Merit A reliable, business, every day IneuK tor, that will do all the work required it, do it well, and leave no diappoin: hopes. DON'T BUV an Incubator til you investigate the merits of .' one. Catalogue and testimonial? f-. ''home folks" who use the machine free on request. Ask for them. Address TRIUMPH INCUBATOR CO 103 South llth St., LINCOLN, NEB. S3 give this bill your consideration, and, should it meet with your approval, I trust, you will give it your valuable support. CLARENC EV. TIERS. Dollar Savings Bank, Pittsburg, Pa. The i bill which accompanies ,.the above letter is as follows: Be it enacted by the senate and 'house of representatives of the United - States of America-in congress as sembled, . ' - ' ' That the secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized and; required, ' as rapidly as practicable, to cause to ba provided and kept, in readiness for is suing upon' such demand or demands as may be made according to the pro, visions ' of this act, :a supply of cir culating notes to be known as United States currency notes. Said notes, ?v the payment of debts, either . public or private, shall be legal tender and the equivalent of a dollar of twenty five and eight-tenths (25,8) -grains of gold, nine-tenths (.9) fine,, for each dollar they represent, and they shall be exchangeable for gold bearing bonds of the "United States in the manner provided for in section four of this act, and when exchanged . they may be reissued. Said notes shall be pro vided in sufficient quantity , to insure there being in the treasury,, at all times, ready for issue, an amount of them equivalent to one hundred mil lions of, dollars, and. they shall be is-, sued only when secured by deposits of United States bonds as provided for in section three of this act. ( Section 2. In order to furnish suit able notes for circulation, the secre tary ,qf the treasury shall cause plates and dies to be, engraved in the. best manner to guard . against couhterf eit ing and 'i fraudulent alterations,1 and shall ? have printed' therefrom and numbered, such, quantity of circulating notes of the denominations of one dol lar, two dollars, five dollars,' ten dol lars, twenty dollars, fifty-dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars and ten thousand dollars, as may be required to supply the demands of those entitled to receive the same. Such notes shall express upon their face or back: First That they are . secured - by United States bonds, deposited .with the treasure of the United States. 4 Second That in the payment of all debts. either public or private,, they are legal tender and the equivalent of aV dollar of twenty-five and. v eight tenths (25.S) grains of gold nine-tenths (.9) fine,, for each dollar they repre sent. .' :. . .v. ' - Third That United States currency notes, if . p resented to the treasurer of the. United States, in amounts of one hundred dollars or multiples thereof, will be exchanged at their face value for gold bearing bonds of the United States at;: their market value, which market Value ' shall - be . determined - by the secretary, of the treasury. Fourth The engraved signatures of the treasurer and register, and the Imprint of the seal of the treasury. Fifth Such devices and such other statements, not inconsistent with' the provisions of this act. as the secretary of the treasury shall, by regulation, direct, ' -:-V - '." J , V ' Section 3. Any and all savings In stltutions,1 state banks, national-banks, trust companies or other corpora: firms or individuals, so desirins deposit with the treasurer re united States, any bonds of United States now outstanding or may be issued hereafter, an i depositor under this act shall r in exchange, for the bonds der United States currency notes, are provided for by this a- " amounts equal to the par value . bonds deposited; provided, ho that the treasurer of the Unit-tt . is hereby authorized to requi: addition, deposits, of lawful ir.o: the United States, in case the n value of the bonds deposited ; to secure the circulating notos, fall below the par value of the lating notes demanded or outs tar. And each depositor shall pay terly, to the treasurer of the States, a tax equal to four I centum per annum on the anin said notes, during the time saM remain on deposit; and each dt; shall receive or be credited : treasurer with all interest on bonds, the same as though tlu- in his own possession, except t':. the case of the non-payment ' tax, the treasurer shall wlthho: interest on said bonds. The Xm of the United States shall hoi . bonds in trust for said depositor; shall keep a complete account such transactions. Any deposit his representative or assignee, at any time prior to the date on said bonds become due, demar. receive the same upon the ret;, an amount of United States cu notes, or other notes or coin is': the United States, equal to th value of the bonds, less the a -. of any additional deposit of money which the depositor ma? been required t to make. Section 4. The secretary o treasury is hereby authorized a i quired to have prepared, from t: time, and in sufficient quantii. meet the provisions of this act. c: the United States, in denoriin of one -hundred dollars or r.v.;' thereof.' the interest and pricci; which shall be payable in gold . the. United States If demanded bonds shall be payable five year they are issued, and they shai: interest at not more than thr per centum per annum, payable -terly. Said bonds shall be free taxation. And the secretary -treasury shall issue said bonds a market value, which shall lx mined by the secretary of th1 ury, to any and all persons den' them, who present to the tre the. United States, in exchang. iorn United States currency n amounts of one hundred doll.: multiples thereof. Provided, ho that when the market value bonds exceeds the face value t:. the amount in excess may be p . in other notes or coin of the I States. And provided also, that the market value of said bonds : than the face value thereof, the t urer of the United States may i difference in any notes or cto United States. . Section 6. All acts or parte vt Inconsistent with this act are . repealed.