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time was to be consumed by the members of the ways and means committee. “There is no such proposition,” called out Mr. Dalzell. but Mr. Johnson did not subside, and continued to protest, declaring loudly that he antagonized this rule if such was the intention. He had a wordy war with Mr. Dingley, but it was in a tone so low that it could not be heard in tlfe confusion. The speaker cut off further incident by putting the question and the rule was adopted—l 43 to 115—the Democrats restraining from demanding a roll call. Then followed a controversy over the division of time. To the suggestions that time should be divided between Democrats, Populists and Republicans. Mr. Dingley retorted: “I wasn’t aware that there was any distinction between the Populists and Democrats. as at present constituted.” He said that time would be equally divided between those for and agaiftst the resolution. MR. DINGLEY’S SPEECH. Mr. Dingley then opened the debate in opposition to the resolution. The pending resolution, he said, was not one which, if passed by both houses, would have force. If adopted it would be only an expression of the opinion of the two houses. "Its iml*ortance. therefore,” continued Mr, Dingley, "lies in the fact that if concurred in by the House it would legitimately and inevitably be regarded not only here, but by the world, ns an expression of the deliberate Judgment of a majority of the American people as to their standard of honor and good faith in the discharge not only of national hut also of private obligations. This resolution is not presented for the purj>ose of sen-ring an expression by Congress fi to the power of the government either as to the payment of its obligations or as to tvhat may be declared legal tender. No one denies that this or any other nation has the power to pay in gold or silver, or paper or copper, according to its pleasure. Payment cannot he enforced against a sovereign nation. Its obligations are measured by its own sense of honor and good faith. “The Intelligent selfishness of a nation which is to live not simply for a generation. but for centuries, ought to lead it—and whenever a nation is wisely governed does lead it—to scrupulously maintain its pledge in both letter and spirit as to preserve its credit untarnished and thereby not only make jt possible to borrow at the lowest rate.of interest, but also to make it easy to obtain loans in exigencies wiiich are sooner or later to come to every nation. “A nation's honor and credit are its title deed to permanence* and prosperity. The sting and dishonor of the trending resolution is in its tail. That sting, well nigh harmless twenty yearns ago, under conditions then existing, is made deadly by the c hanged conditions of to-day. The deadly tail of this resolution reads as follows: ‘That to restore to Its coinage such silver coins as a legal tender In the payment of said bonds (meaning practically all the bonds of the United State's now outstanding) is not in violation of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights of the public creditor.’ “The declarations of the movers and supporters of this resolution in 'he Senate during its recent consideration in that body throws a flood of light on what is meant now by the phrase, ‘to restore to its coinage such silver coins’—a phrase which, in 1878, was with good reason interpreted by many w ho supported a similar resolution to mean something vitally different from what it must mean now.” TRIFLING WITH HONOR. Continuing. Mr. Dingley said: .“This brings me to consideration of the vital question as to whether the government lias tile moral right, in other words, whether it would l*e an act which the moral sense of the world would regard as in accordance with honor and good faith, for the United States to pay its outstanding bonded Indebtedness in dollars of so materially less value than the dollar which has been the practical standard of value since 1834, barring the war and reconstruction period, andiwhich has been the legal and practical standard of value since 1879, and the dollar In which our bonded indebtedness has been paid thus far, paid bv every administration from Lincoln to McKinley, to wit, the dollar equal in value to 25.8 grains of standard gold. (Applause.) Bear in mind that w a are discussing this question from the point of honor and good faith and not from the point of power or technical legal right: for I have already said that the government can do as it pleases. More than three-fourths of the outstanding bonds were, as a matter of fact, issued and sold after IS7S, when the silver dollar dropped from the list of coins* Now. in view of these facts, would it be good faith for Congress, now that silver has so greatly depreciated. to restore its free and unlimited coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. by this country alone, when the market ratio is 33 to 1. and then use such dollars to pay the bonds which we bad sold for gold under such circumstances? I do not think it would. “I fear that many of you arc resting on tiie expectation which you have that nothing of this kind will bo done and are excusing your vote for it on the unworthy idea that you are ’playing politics.’ If so, I beg of you not to trifle with the honor and good faith of the nation for any such miserable ends; for. rest assured, such an expression of opinion as to the sense of honor of the peqjile of this country contemplated by this resolution under existing conditions would seriously injure the credit of the country and tend'to weaken reviving confidence. It is because f believe (as does every scientific bimetallist in the world outside of politics) that 18 to 1 free and unlimited silver by this country alone would make the United States stiver a monometallic country, like Mexico and China, and would give us a silver basis tint would obstruct our trade with gold standard countries that now take 90 per cent, of our exports. and prove a serious menace to our progress, and because I believe that |t, would seriously Injure our credit and standing as a nation, that I appeal to gentlemen on tills side of the House to maintain tile pledge whi h the Republican party made at St. Louis to keep all our currency, whether silver or paper, as good as gold and preserve inviolably the public faith of and credit, and to gentlemen on the other side of the House to maintain the standard of value which Jackson’s udmlnisi ration gave the country sixty-four years ago and the honor and good faith of the Nation so carefully preserved by the fathers of the Democratic party, and to take the opportunity offered by the resolution now before the House to show to ti)e centre and the world that the good name of the Nation is safe in our hands.” (Prolonged Republican applause.)

DEMOCRATIC VIEWS. tho outburst of applause which greeted the close of Mr. Dfngley’s speech had subsided Mr. Bailey was recognized for aft hour. Ho first yielded twenty minutes to Mr. Whaler (Deni., Ala.), a member of the ways and means committee, who submitted an argument in support of the resolution. Before closing Mr. Wheeler yielded a minute each to half a dozen members on Jthe Democratic side, each of whom, as Mr. CbWherd (Dem.. Mo.) said, erected a hook on which to hang a speech in the congressional record. •Mr. Dockery (Dent., Mo.) declared that the efforts of thu President and secretary of the treasury to more iinnly establish the gold standard would vacate many seats on the Republican side. The appearance of Mr. Bland, of Bland dollar fame, to whom Mr. Bailey yielded ten minutes, was greeted with applause. The course of the President and Secretary Gage, Mr. Bland said, in pressing the gold standard upon the country had driven the bimetallists In Congress to introduce and Insist upon the passage of this resolution. Yet. he said. Mr. Dingley charged the minority with playing politics. Every Republican who voted against this resolution violated the S;. Louis platform and voted against the coinage of silver In any form, free or limited. No one disputed the law, he said. No one denied it. Sliver was a full legal tender. But every Republiean vote against the resolution would declare that silver was not ttt to pay the public debt with. Silver would then In truth become subsidiary coin. Mr. Bland created great applause on the Democratic side by reading from the record the votes of Messrs. Hopkins. Grosvenor and other prominent Republicans against the bill to pay the bonds of the United States in gold, which was voted upon in the last Congress at the time the last administration negotiated the $260.(rd.OOO loan. Mr. Grosvenor on that occasion, he said, had stated on the floor that he was glad to pay $16,000,000 for the privilege of paying silver in redemption of the bonds. Mr. Hopkins (Rep., 111.) sold this resolution had clearly shown that the Senate was not a Republican body, but was controlled by the free-silver element. By a decisive vote ill the last election the people' had Spoken against free and unlimited coinage Os sliver. And yet the Senate, no longer representing the people, passed this resolution In denance and misrepresentation of the public will. Mr. Hopkins commented on the unequal Influence exerted by the ► untily populated State of Nevada and the gr*-at State of Illinois in shaping results in the Senate. Mr. Clayton (Dem.. Ala.) asserted that the defeat of this resolution was dictated by the masters of the Republican party, who gathered at a New Y’ork banquet table the Other night at SIOO a plate, which meant, at Alabama standards, that every man ate a bale of cotton and a couple of mules. Mr. Grosvenor (Rep., O.), in opposing the resolution, said that throughout all the rlianges and mutations of the money question in this country, the Republican parts

had maintained its varying devotion to what was denominated “honest money.” Mr. Wheeier (Dem., Ky.) follewed with a review' of the same history that Mr. Grosvenor had invoked to prove that the Republican party on the money question hud ’’somesaulted like a circus tumbler.” Mr. Grow (Rep.. Pa.) contended against the resolution, that the creditor had the right to demand the payment of his debt in whatever legal tender he elected. For the government to exercise the option would l>e dishonest and in bad faith. Otherwise the government could set its printing presses at work and soon turn out enough “legal tender” to discharge the government debt. Mr. Brumm (Rep., Pa.) said he would have voted for the resolution had It not erntained the latter clause declaring that the free coinage of silver was not Inconsistent with the public faith. Mr. Baird (Dem., La.) asserted that in voting against the pending resolution the Republicans would simply obey the commands of their masters in Wall street. Mr. Bailey yielded fourteen minutes to Mr. Bell (Pop., Col.), and that gentleman parcelled the time out to the Populist members, giving each of them a couple of minutes. Ail advocated the adoption of the resolution. H. U. JOHNSON HAS TEN MINUTES. Mr. Johnson (Rep., Ind.) got ten minutes from Mr. Steele (Rep., Ind.), with which to oppose the resolution. He said the resolution was adroitly worded. It was, in his opinion, nothing more nor less than a reaffirmation of the Chicago platform, a declaration for a free coinage of silver. While the advocates of free silver contended that under free coinage silver would be at a parity with gold, he declared that they knew otherwise, and charged that the purpose of this resolution was to enable the government to pay in a depreciated silver dollar after gold had been driven out of circulation. Mr. Evans (Rep., Ky.) said he construed the resolution as a declaration for free silver and as such he opposed it. Mr. Walker (Rep.. Mass.), chairman of the banking and currency committee, in opposing the resolution, asked if members had ever stopped to calculate the commercial value of undoubted honor, whether among nations; or individual. Mr. Bartlett ’(Dem.. Ga.) declared that the present attempt to vitiate the contract between the bondholders and the taxpayers was made In pursuance of the demand of the financial reformers, one of whom at Indianapolis declared tha# the business men would force the gold standard on the country', in spite of the law. if necessary. After some brief remarks in support of the resolution by Messrs. Brucker (Dem., Mich.), Norton (Dem.. O.), and Cochran (Dem., Mo.). Mr. Dolliver (Rep.. la.) made a stirring ten-minute speech against it. He said he was ready to agree witli Mr. MeLwan who, in describing the demoralization of the silver campaign, said the people were almost ready to endure all the horrors of the gold standard If by so doing they could get rid of the noise of the advocates of silver at 16 to 1.

Mr. Maguire (Dem., Cal.) said he agreed with Mr. Dingley that there were but two sides to this question—justice and extortion, the creditor and the debtor, concentrated wealth and manhood, and the bonholder and the people. It was, he said, the old story' of Shylock and Antonio over again, with Shylock demanding more than was nominated in the bond. Mr. Cannon (Rep., 111.), whose record had been attacked dining the debate, said, in speaking of his former votes for free coinage and for the Matthews resolution, tiiat the difference between silver and gold then was but a few' cents: it was now 50 cents. The Republican party had always been for honest, sound money; the Democratic party Since the war for cheap, unsound money. Mr. Hepburn (Rep. la.), in opposing the resolution which, he said, was equivalent to a free-coinage declaration, referred to exGovernor Boles's refusal to longer follow the standards of free silver. Mr. Rhea. (Dem., Ky.), created something of a sensation. In the course of his speech, while he was referring to the “crime of 1873,” he declared that if there was anv hole in hades hotter than any other it would be reserved especially for John Sherman. Many hisses from the Republican side greeted this statement. Later, speaking of the Republican cry of parity between gold and silver, Mr. Rhea said a man who hugged his chambermaid or cook had as well talk of maintaining the honor of his household as those who, debasing silver in every way, prated of preserving the parity of the two metals. BAILEY CLOSES FOR THE SILVER--ITES. After some further brief remarks by Messrs, Lacey and Hepburn, of lowa, against the resolution, Mr. Bailey closed for the Democrats, in a speech which stirred his followers to a high pitch of enthusiasm. Mr. Bailey*, owing to the great pressure for time, had only four minutes in which to close the debate for his side. The resolution under consideration, he said, contained two propositions, one moral and the other legal. One asserts, as a matter of law, that the bonds of the United States are redeemable at the option of the government in silver and the other, as a matter of morals, that to restore to Its coinage such silver coins as a legal tender in payment of the bonds, principal and interest, is not in violation of the public faith, nor in derogation of the rights of the public creditors. He would not dwell, he said, on the legal aspect of the question. There was not a lawyer in the United States, nor in any other country, who would venture, on his professional reputation, to deny that the bonds could be paid In silver. That went without saying. The Republicans in this matter must justify themselves. If at all. upon the proposition that in their consciences they believe that gold w r as the money of the contract. “Does one of you believe,” said he, addressing the Republicans, “that if the bondholder owed the government under a similar contract that ho would not exercise his option? If it is right that he should exercise his option, as he would, we believe the government has the same right with their positions reversed. (Democratic applause.) We are ready to meet you on this issue—the issue that the money which Is good enough for the people who produce the wealth is good enough for the idlers who spend it: that the money which is good enough for the poor is good enough for tne rich; that the money the laborer receives for his toil and the merchant for his wares is good enough for the bondholders and, by the eternal, he shall be compelled to take it.” At this point the hammer fell amid a burst of enthusiasm from the Democratic side. Mr. Henderson (Rep., la.), the one-legged veteran, and Mr. Dalzell (Rep., Pa.) closed the debate with five-minute speeches in opposition to the resolution. The former created intense enthusiasm as. with the stump of his leg resting on a bench at the right of the speaker's chair and his crutches by his side, he rallied his followers. This rt solution, he said, reminded him of one of the monograms he used to see on the Bryan banners. Here Mr. Bailey broke in with: “You will see it again in 1900.” (Democratic applause.) “THE OLD FAMILIAR HOWL.” Mr. Henderson replied: “Yes. and we will tear it down again. (Republican applause.) It was the three R's,” continued Mr. Henderson—" Radicalism. rascality and repudiation. This scene reminds me of a Popocratic convention. It is the old familiar howl against the bondholders. But gentlemen must remember that they cannot cut down the money of the bondholders without cutting in half the money that goes to the old soldier or his widow or orphan; or the money of the men who toil.” Jerry Simpson here asked: “How about the taxpayers?” Mr. henderson waved Mr. Simpson's interrogatory aside. The resolution, he resumed. was in reality part of the programme that sought to commit the country to the single-silver standard. He recalled the President's declaration in his New York speech. “God bless little Mae.” he exclaimed fervently. "His declaration means that the best money in the world shall be paid to the bondholder, the plowholder. the hodholder. the penholder, the pension holder and all who toil and all who sweat. (Republican applause.) Put that in your pipe and smoko it. On that issue we will meet you next fall and thrash you as we thrashed you in 1896.” (Prolonged Republican cheers.) Mr. Dalzell declared that the resolution was meaningless, unless its purpose was to open the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. It was a proposition that the United States stamp its legend on 44 cents’ of silver and declare that it was sl. It was a proposition if national repudiation and against it all the forces of national integrity and honor were arrayed. More sacred ilian the century of history, its tradition and its heroes, was its honor, and he thanked God that the party in power had been and always would be the protector of that honor. Then, at 5 o’clock, came the vote, which was followed witli great interest notwithstanding the defat of the resolution was a foregone conclusion. The speaker announced that the vote would be directly on tiie resolution, not In the adverse report. It was soon evident that party ranks were being belli intact. There were only three breaks— Messrs. Elliott (Dem., S. C.) and McAleer (Dem.. Penn.) voted against the resolution, and Mr. Linney (Rep.. N. C.) voted for it. Mr. White (Rep.. N. C.) did not vote. After the roll call was completed the speaker asked that his name be called, and on (he call responded with a vigorous "No.” He then announced the result—yeas. 182; nays. 132. The Republicans cheered long and loud over their victory and then, at 5:35 p. m., the House adjourned.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1898.

PENSION FRAUD CAUGHT a ATTORNEY WOODRUFF ADMITS HE ALTERED MANY AFFIDAVITS. Jlarber* Strike at Glvvond for ftO a \\ eek—Compulsory Education Working in Muneie. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 31.—Dr. Amos C. Woodruff, a leading physician and pension attorney of Oakland City, Ind., was arraigned in the United States Court here today on a charge of forging and altering pension affidavits. Out of some two hundred cases, lie is charged with having committed fraud in at least 125. The peculiar feature is that Dr. Woodruff admits the charges, alleging that the fraudr were committed with the consent of the parties whose names he forged to the affidavits. A delegation of prominent business men accompanied him here from Oakland City. He was held to the regular term or court, and gave a bond of $2,500. It ii*hville’* Commercial Club. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind., Jan. 31.—At an executive ineating of the Rushville Commercial Club, held this evening in the auditor’s office, the new organization was set in motion. Its officers are: J, L. Stone, president; Lot D. Guffin, first vice president; Charles S. Spritz, second vice president; R. F. Scudder, secretary; Leonidas Link, treasurer. Fifteen of the representative business men of the city compose the board of directors, as follows: W. M. Bliss, John P. Huffman, Leonidas Link, John P. Frazee, John F. Moses, William M. Frazee, Lot D. Guffin. Owen L. Carr, Fon Riggs. C. S. Spritz, Edwin Payne, J. L. Stone, Ab Denning, E. D. Pugh and Robert A. Innis. The club starts out with a riiembership of about 120. This city has long fait the want of a commercial club. The recent meeting of the State Board of Commerce at Indianapolis brought things to a focus. Mayor Armstrong and the City Council were invited to send representatives to the meeting of the State Board. The matter was referred to the mayor to ascertain the wishes of the business men in this connection. He waited upon every merchant and citizen in town w’ho had the city’s welfare at heart, and found a general feeling in favor of a commercial organization of some kind. A meeting was called by the mayor and (he result is that in due time the new commercial club has been brought forth. The new organization intends to at once make an effort to locate more factories here. Measles Close* the Schools. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FAIRMOUNT, Ind., Jan. 31.—The public schools in this city were closed indefinitely this morning’by order of the health officers on account of the epidemic of measles which has been raging for the past two weeks. As near as can be ascertained there is in the neighborhood of one hundred and fifty cases. School will not be resumed until there is a marked cessation of the disease. Bucher* Want fitlO a AVeek. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 31.—A complicated state of affairs exist among the barbers pf this city, brought about Saturday night by the Barbers’ Union presenting anew salary scale, calling for a salary of $lO per week and doing away with the percentage system. The employing barbers have a union also, and they refused to accept the new scale. A number of the barbers quit work, but several of them refused to do so.

Mr. Pierson Wronged by Enemies. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 31.—T. M. Pierson, first assistant grand chief of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, says the report telegraphed over the country that he had been relieved from duty is not true. He thinks the story was started by some one connected with the order. There has been friction, he says,' between him and seme of the other officers, and the story started from that fact. Dr. Arthur Injured* Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 31.—Dr. C. S. Arthur, one of the best-known physicians in eastern Indiana, was badly injured this morning by a rebellious calf which he was leading, throwing him on a grindstone in such a manner as to crush iii his breastbone and several ribs. The doctor is a veteran in the medical profession and the hurt comes at a time in life as to make it most serious. Overcome at a. Fnncral. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MORRISTOWN, Ind., Jan. 31.—At the funeral of his four-year-old granddaughter Gorge W. Hines, a wealthy farmer and exsoldier, experienced a serious attack of heart trouble. His condition is considered dangerous. His granddaughter was killed by a wagon bed, in which she and her six-year-old sister were playing, falling over on her, a bolt crushing her skull. Death was instantaneous. WuhuNh River liottnniN Flooded. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., Jan. 31.—The flood situation in the Wabash bottoms, west of this city, is becoming alarming. The waters of Wabash and White rivers are backing into tiie fertile lowland farms and unless the rivers come to a stand soon much suffering will result. Every school in Wabash township, this county, closed to-day because the pupiis could not Let to the schoolhouses because of the high water. InMiine from Potnon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 31.—Mrs. Sylvester Swift, residing three miles south of this city, who recently took "Rough on Rats” with suicidal intent, and whose life was saved by the stomach pump, has become violently insane trom the effects of tne poison, she is the young wife of one of the county’s most prosperous farmers. Tiie Father Sent to Jail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Ml NCIE, Ind., Jan. 31.—John Hillis was fined $lO and costs, in all S2O, this afternoon and went to jail in default on the charge of violating the compulsory education law by not sending his twelve-year-oid son to school. The proceeding is the first in eastern Indiana under the new law. Major Dosey Improving-. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind , Jan. 31.—Letters from Mrs, Doxey, at Miami, Fla., state that Major Doxey has improved a little since he was rioved from Hot Springs, two weeks ago, and that indications are favorable to a further convalescence. They are located at the Hotel Palms. Natural Gas Cause* il Fire. Sjiecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Ml NCIE, Ind., Jan. 31.—The new residence of Elmer Ramie, in the suburb of Riverside, was destroyed by fire to-night, causing a loss of $1,500; fully insured, with in the Northern and sioo in the Ohio }• armors’ companies. A natural gas jet caused the fire. Woman Fatally Sealdeil. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAI TE, Ind., Jan. SL—Mrs. William Stewart was fatally scalded to-day while her husband was helping her carry a wash boiler filled with boiling water. A handle came off and the water poured over her. Indiana. Obituary. GREENS BURG, Ind., Jan. 31.—Telegraphic news was received here to-day announcing the death of Rev. George S. Steigerwald at Vincennes. He was for many years pastor of St. Mary’s Church at this place, resigning his pastorate about a year ago on account of failing health, and took up the less arduous duty of teaching in the Catholic schools at Vincennes. Some months ago he deeded to the trustees of St. Mary’s Church his property here, to be used as a parsonage. Funeral services to-mor-ruw at Vincennes. COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. 31.—John R. Vinnedge, one of the wealthiest and most prominent farmers of Bartholomew county, fell dead on East Third street shortly before 5 o’clock this evening. Death was due to

heart disease. Mr. Vinnedge had been In Columbus attending to some business, and in hurrying to catch a train to his home at Hope he was overcome by heart disease and fell and expired. He was sixty-one years old. MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 31.-Mlss Rose Kennedy, who would have been twen-ty-five years of age to-morrow, died this evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Kennedy, of consumption. Miss Kennedy had been prominent in society circles. Indiana Note*. The new'ly elected Republican county central committee for Ohio county met Saturday afternoon and elected H> G. Matson chairman, A. B. Cooper secretary and H. S. Espey treasurer. The Fayette County Farmers’ Institute met in Connersville yesterday. The address of W’elcome was delivered by Mayor Hyatt L Frost. H. F. McMahon, of Union county, and Cal Husselman. of De Kalb county, are assisting the local speakers. The dwelling on the Elm farm, near Connersville, formerly owned and occupied as a residence by ex-United States Treasurer J. M. Huston, has been leased to Indianapolis people, who will convert the same into what will be known as the "E'm sanitarium.” a retreat for persons suffering from rheumatic and female troubles. OBITUARY. Baron Cnrlingford. Once President of the Hriti*li Board of Trade. MARSEILLES, Jan. 31.—Baron Catlingford (Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortes-cue). formerly president of the British Board of Trade and lord president of the council, is dead. He was born in 1823 and was chief secretary for Ireland in 1865-1866 and from 1868 to 1871, with a seat in the Cabinet. Mr*. Reuben S. Rauch. BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 31.-Mrs. Reuben S. Rauch, for many years Moravian missionary in the West Indies, and one of tho oldest and best-known deaconesses in the North America Moravian Church, died today, of a complication of diseases, aged eighty-seven years. Dr. C. A. Simmons. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 31.—Dr. C. A. Simmons, famous throughout the country as the originator of "Simmons Liver Regulator,” died In this city last night at an advanced age. He was a native Georgian and expired at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Thebaut. Air*. LmiiKe France* Hamilton. NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—Mrs. Louise Frances Hamilton, wife of General Schuyler Hamilton, died today at Roosevelt Hospital. She had been a private patient for a week. Bustne** Embarrassment*. ELGIN, 111., Jan. 31.—The failure of Oatman Brothers, dairymen, with headquarters at Dundee, seems very complete. Executions were issued by the First National Bank of Elgin and the Elgin Butter-tub Company for $38,000. The Oatmans conducted ten creameries in Illinois and seven in Wisconsin. and were among the largest operators on the Elgin Board of Trade. They also conducted a caramel business in Chicago and owned fruit ranches in California. As-, sets are estimated at $175,000, with liabilities exceeding this amount. LARIMORE, N. D., Jan. 31.—Tiie First National Bank of this city did not open its doors to-day’. It appears that the bank has not been in easy' condition for some time, owing to slow collections. During the last sixty days there have been withdrawals of deposits amounting to $60,000. The assets are said to be largely in excess of liabilities. The bank has a capital of $50,000. and on Dec. 16 last, it owed depositors $71,754. Bank Examiner Eriheir has been placed in charge. LEXINGTON. Ky., Jan. 31.—The Bluegrass Building and Loan Association made an assignment to-day to Bishop Clay, its secretary. Liabilities. $50,000; nominal assets the same. The failure is caused by the large withdrawals and the refusal of some of the directors to reorganize on a 6 per cent, basis. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 31.—The wholesale and retail hardware house of George M. Scott & Cos., one of the largest and oldest hardware houses in the intermountain country', made an assignment today. No statement has been made of the assets and liabilities. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 31.-William WoJstenrroft to-day’ issued execution on a judgment note for $96,247, executed by James Wolsteneroft. William H. Wolsteneroft and Isaac H. Wolsteneroft. trading as William Wolstencroft’s Sons, felt manufacturers.

Harry Askin and Manilla Mason. SAVANNAH. Ga., Jan. 31.—Marion Manola Mason, the operatic star, wired to the police authorities in New York to-day, asking them to arrest Harry' Askin, late manager of the Manola Mason Theatrical Company, and to hold him until she could come on to New York. Askin and his wife left here Saturday night on the*’steamship City of Augusta of the Ocean steampship line, and should arrive in New York tonight or to-morrow morning. Mrs. Mason claims Askin has abducted her daughter, obtaining her consent to go with him by making her believe she was a talented actress and promising her he would make a star of her. For the past three years Adeline Mason has been her mother’s understudy. She is engaged to Charles Dana Burrows, of Boston, a. nephew of Thomas B. Reed, the speaker of the National House of Representatives. She is seventeen years old. Mrs. Mason is prostrated witli grief and lies ill at the Desoto Hotel. $25,000 Worth of A'aluableN Recovered BOSTON. Mass.. Jan. 31.—Chief Inspector Watts to-day received a telegram from the police of Regina, N. W. TANARUS., who have in custody Abraham Tebitt, the alleged defaulting leather commission merchant of this city, and his wife, stating that bonds, money and jewelry amounting to nearly $25,000 have been recovered. When tiie officers searched Mrs. Tebitt $20,000 in United States bonds and $3,500 in casli and several diamond rings, brooches and other jewelrv were found. About SI,OOO in cash was found on Tebitt, together with a gold watch, a diamond, jewelry and two tickets for Vancouver. Both prisoners will be held in Regina until Boston officers arrive. Probable Doable Suicide. PLATTSBURG, Mo.. Jan. 31.-J. W. Ward, employed as a bookkeeper by the track-laying department of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad, and a young woman who passed as his wife, were found dead in a boarding car near Braley, eight miles north of here this morning, it is supposedly a ease of double suicide by poisoning. Ward had been in the employ of the company for four years and was formerly. station agent at Savannah, Mo. Nothing is known as to the woman’s antecedents. St. Paul Globe Changes Ownership. ST. PAUL. Jan. 31.-The St. Paul Globe has changed hands and the paper came into the possession of its new owner. George F. Spinney, to-day. The published announcement that Mr. Spinney is supposed to be the representative of an Eastern syndicate of which ex-Seeretary of the Navy William C. Whitney is a member, is without foundation. Mr. Spinney, after some months of labor among the former stockholders of the property, was able to consummate arrangements for relieving them of their interests. Victim of Alcoholic Alania. NEW YORK. Jan. 31.—0n board the steamer Alexandria, which arrived last night from London, was Lieut. Henry Thomas Walsh, U. S. A., who ) as been sent home in the care of Captain Marshall on account of alcoholic mania. After arriving at quarantine Walsh became violent and attempted to jump overboard. He was secured before he could accomplish his design and locked up in his stateroom, where he will be kept until turned over to the care of friends. Old Couple Alurdere'd. GRAYSON, Ky., Jan. 31.—" Virginia Bill” Friley, an old citizen of Elliot county, aged eighty years, and his wife, about seventy years of age, were murdered to-night at their home in Elliot county. Kentucky, and robbed of from *Bw to $1,290. There is no clew to the murderers. A maul was the instrument used. No one was at home except the old couple. The crime is shrouded in ■mystery. Intense excitement prevails in the neighborhood. Fought Fifteen Round*. TOLEDO. 0.. Jan. 31.—Kid Kerwin and Eddie Young fought a fifteen-round battle to-night before the Champion Athletic Club. The contest was fast and furious. Kerwin had the advantage in weight (125 pounds to 118 pounds) and in reach, but his opponent put up a game fight. Both men were on their feet at the end of the battle, but the referee gave Kerwin the decision, as he had landed oftener and showed up better. The Cause of So Alnny Deaths. Recent examinations of various Boards of Health show 15 per cent, of deaths caused by Impure milk. Tuberculosis found in milk causes consumption, affecting heart, liver and brain. Eminent physicians advise the use of St. Charles Evaporated Cream. Preferable to fresh milk. Will you trv —2

ABE STORM CONFESSES SIVS HE KILLED MRS. FAN NY RATH. BIN AND DAUGHTER. Guard* About the Jail to Prevent a Mob from Lynching the Mur-derer-Other Crime*. V ♦ BURLINGTON. la., Jan. 31.—Abe Storms has confessed the murder of Mrs. Fanny Rathbun and her daughter Mary. The confession was made to Chief of Police Grenier and the county attorney. Storms says he committed the deed Sunday night. Jan. 23. He killed the mother first in the cellar. Then he enticed the little girl into the bedroom above and, after a terrible struggle to criminally assault her, cut her throat. The confession was obtained after a long siege of sweet-box examination. Then Storms was taken to the morgue, although he begged not to see the bodies of his victims. He turned sickly pale and trembled violently when he gazed on his victims. Storms and Cox, an alleged accomplice, are now locked up in the county jail and strongly guarded by deputies armed with Winchester rifles. Sheriff Smith has issued a proclamation to the effect that any attempt to break into he jail and lynch Storms will be met with summary treatment by the deputies, who will not hesitate to shoot. All is quiet to-night, though threats of lynching were made during the afternoon. Storm’s mother was in Burlington to-day. She is a fine looking, intelligent woman and was much horrified by her son s predicament. She exclaimed when first hearing of the murder: "The man who did that deed ought to be hung, no matter if he is my son.” Cox is held as an accessory to the crime, although he has not confessed. His preliminary hearing is set for Wednesday. Liietgert Case Oratory To-Day. CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Oratory In the I.uetfi'ert case is scheduled to begin to-morrow afternoon, when Assistant State’s Attorney McEwen expects to open for the prosecution. He will probably speak until late tomorrow, and will be followed by Attorney Kehoe, who will talk for a day. Then will come Attorney Reese, who is to argue that the state has utterly failed to prove the death of Mrs. Luetgert. Attorney Harmon will talk for three or four days in behalf of Luetgert. State’s Attorney Deneen will close the argument, but his speech will not require more than a day for delivery. The case will go to the jury next week. When court convenes to-morrow morning a few witnesses will be introduced by the defense in surrebuttal. To-night Attorney Harmon announced that he would put Luetgert, on the stand again to-morrow. To-day a dozen witnesses were called by the defense to testify as to the good character of William Charles. Train Wrecker Commits Suicide. ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., Jan. 31.—Henry Goettel, a young German baker, after making a confession to the sheriff to the effect that Herman Breetz and himself wrecked a passenger train near Rivera, on the Florida East Coast last Tuesday night, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel in the jail early this morning. Goettel made an attempt to hang himself on Saturday night. Yesterday he swallowed a quantity of broken glass. Breetz, his associate, occupied the same cell, but made no effort to save the man’s life. After wrecking the train the amateur wreckers lost their nerve and ran. It was their purpose to hold up the passengers. In a note to friends Goettel asked that he be buried by the side of Breetz, a fellow prisoner. He stated that the two men made an agreement to die together, but Breetz fooled his companion, although cuts on his head indicate that lie attempted to butt out his brains.

Cane of JiiMtifinhle Homicide. M’MINNVTLLE, Ore., Jan. 31. Fred Clemens and Paul Duclo were out hunting and met by accident near the Willamette river. Duclo saw Clemens and changed his course to meet him. When within ten feet Duclo told Clemens he intended to kill him and brought his gun to his shoulder. Clemens warned him to lower his weapon and as the warning was not heeded, Clemens quickly raised his gun and fired at Duclo’s face and killed him instantly. Duclo was found dead with the cocked gun by liis side. The coroner’s verdict was justifiable homicide. A feud had existed between the men. Moli After u Negro. GALENA, Kan., Jan. 31.—A mob of fifty masked men were at the Memphis depot here early this morning, when Constable Lase Luo arrived from Columbus with Richard Ward, a negro, who, without serious provocation, fatally stabbed Dennis Brown last week. The mob demanded that Ward be handed over to them, but the officer quickly drew his prisoner Into the car and started for Columbus. He had not reached there late to-night and there are reports that the negro had been lynched. Four Murderer* to Be Executed. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 31.—Governor Hastings to-day fixed the dates for the execution of four murderers as follows: Frederick C. Rockwell, Erie, April 26; John R. Lamb, Allegheny, April 21; Patrick Banya, Elk, April 26; Walter E. Goodwin, Tioga, March 31. WHAT THE CHINESE THINK. They Regard Europeans as Offensive Barbarian*. Literary Digest. As instances of the wonderment with which the average Chinese watch the doings of Europeans, the Frankfurter Zeitung, Frankfort, gives the opinions of a Chinaman who lives near Shanghai, and from which w r e take the following extracts: "We are always told that the countries of the foreign devils are grand and rich, but that Cannot be true, else what do they all come here for? It is here that they grew rich. But you cur.not civilize them; they are beyond redemption. They will live weeks and months without touching a mt uthful of rice, but they eat the flesh of bullocks and sheep in enormous quantities. That is why they smell so badly; they smell like sheep themselves. Every day they take a bath to rid themselves of their disagreeable odors, but they do not succeed. Nor do they eat their meat cooked in small pieces. It is carried into the room in large chinks, often half raw, and then they cut and slash and tear it apart. They eat with knives and prongs; it makes a civilized being perfectly' nervois. One fancies himself in the presence of sword-swallowers. The opium poison, which they have brought us, they do not use themselves. But they take enormous quantity sos weskiehu and shang-ping-chu (whisky and champagne.) The latter is very good They know what is good, the rascals. It is because they eat and drink so much that they never rest. A sensible civilized person does nothing without due consideration, but the barbarians hurry with everything. Their anger, .however, is only a fire of straw; if you wait long enough they get tired of being angry. I worked for two of them. The one we used to call the ’Crazy Flea’ because he was always jumping about; the other we named the ‘Wooden Gun,’ because he never went off, though he was always at full cock. "They certainly do not know’ how to amuse themselves. You never see them enjoy themselves by sitting quietly on their ancestor’s grave. They jump around and kick balls as if they were paid to do it. Again, you will find them making long tramps into the country, but that is probably a religious duty, for when they tramp they wave sticks in the air, nobody knows why. They have no sense of dignity, for they may be found walking with women. They even sit down at the same table with women, and the latter are served tirst. Yet the women are to be pitied, too. On festive occasions they arc* compelled to appear almost naked before every man who likes to look at them, and then they are dragged around a room to the accompaniment of the most hellish music.” _ Father Ge**uer Flees to it foil vent. NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—Rev. Martin Gessner. the pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Elizabeth, N. J., who disappeared on Friday, lias not yet returned. H<* is known to lie in a convent in Canada and ho undoubtedly left Elizabeth to avoid receiving a purse containing $2,500 in gold in honor of his twenty-fifth anniversary as priest. In the interest of Weaver*. BOSTON, Jan. 3L—ln the House to-day, Representative Ross, of New Bedford, introduced a bili to prohibit the imposition of tines for impel .ections in weavings, and -~ deductions trom wages on ac-

count of Imperfections, except with a written notice of the imperfections and an exhibit of the same to the workman. A fine of 1100 for violations of this luw is proposed. DUE TO PELAGIC KILLING. Prof. Jordan Reiterate* Hi* Henson* for Diniination of the Sent Herd. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Jan. 31.—The second preliminary report of the Bering sea fur sealing investigation conducted by the commission, of which David Stair Jordan was president, was issued today. In his letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Dr. Jordan says: "I have the honor to submit herewith a second brief preliminary report on the work of the Bering sea fur s al investigation commission for the season of 1897. This will be followed in the course of the coming year by a final report, monographic in character, which will take up in detail all phases of the fur seal question. The most important part of this work of 1897 has been ascertained by a duplication of the census of 1896, the changes which have taken place on tne • rooktries of St. Lain and St. George island, and to trace their causes. “The sole cause of tiie decline of the fur seal herd.” says the report, “is found in pelagic, sealing. This conclusion was readjped last year, and after consideration of all the questions involved no reason is found to alter or modify it. The investigation of the season of 1897 omy strengthens it. Pelagic sealing involves the indiscriminate killing of males and females, the latter forming at all times the greater part, of the pelagic catch. When we take into account the loss of the herd through old age. and the small percentage of the young which survive to breeding age, we find the margin of increase in the herd to be very small.” OMAHA SELECTED. Will He Eighth Member of the We*tern Ball League. CHICAGO. Jan. 31.—Omaha lias been selected as the eighth member of the Western Baseball League. The franchise for the club has been purchased by H. J. Sc human and W. J. O’Brien, of Chicago. The manager of the club will be George Cusick. Among the players already secured are Tucker, of the National League, for first base, and Ganzel, at one time catcher of the Bostons. An effort is to be made to secure the release of Frank Houseman, of St. Louis. Aiinou W ill Prchnhly Retire. CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—James A. Hart, secretary of the Chicago Baseball Club, said tonight that he would to-morrow evening make a formal statement covering the relations that are to exist hereafter between the club and Captain Anson. It is generally regarded as a certainty that Anson will have nothing to do with the club in any capacity and that Tom Burns will be made manager. Neither Harrnor Anson will say one word on the matter to-night. THE BATTLE SHIP INDIANA. Minor Defect* Reported to Have Been Found in the Big Ve**el. Washington Special to Chicago Tribune. While the officials of the Navy Department seek to minimize the minor accidents which befell the battle ship Indiana durin'g its voyage from Hampton roads to the Dry Tortugas, the fact remains that for a period of at least six hours the ship was not in a condition to be effective from an offensive or defensive standpoint. The bond's of the battle ship unexpectedly began to leak and w T ere rendered useless. The flag ship was signaled for assistance and look the battle ship in tow. At the expiration of six hours the reserve boilers were ready for use, and the Indiana proceeded under its own steam. The officials claim this was an unimportant accident. The Indiana has two complete sets of boilers to guard against such contingencies. The towing was only necessary while steam was being generated in the second set. The vessel was in no danger, the officials say, and no damage could have resulted. No explanation is given as to w hat would have been the method of procedure if the Indiana had been going into battle with some powerful antagonist at the time its boilers failed. The Indiana did not touch ground while drilling off the Dry Tortugas. It was the lowa that encountered the danger, and Admiral Sieard lias requested the department to have these heretofore unknown shallow places marked by buoys. In his official report to the Navy Department describing the voyage of his squadron from Hampton roads Admiral Sieard devotes but a brief paragraph to the Indiana. He refers to the boiler accident, but mentions no other mishaps. The Indiana has twice been in great danger at sea because of alleged structural defects. While bound from Norfolk to participate in the summer evolutions of 1896 off the New England coast its big guns shifted and hung over the deck. The turrets narrowly escaped demolition. The turrets also shifted position. The guns were lashed and the vessel brought into port, and several weeks were devoted to remedying these defects. Last February, while proceeding to Charleston, the Indiana encountered a storm off Cape Hatteras. The guns and turrets threatened to become unmanageable and the vessel returned to Hampton roads. The officials then said the shifting was entirely due to the fact the Indiana was not fitted with bilge keels. They were afterward added, and no complaint has since been made of the guns and turrets. There are those among the officials, however, who do not agree with the proposition that bilge keels are a cure for shifting guns and turrets. These declare that radical changes must be made in the structure of the Indiana before it becomes of reliable service in the navy. It is the largest of United States war ships.

I.OMwe* by Fire. NEW YORK. Jan. 31.—Fire to-day practically ruined the live-story business building at 65 Cortlandt street, causing a property loss of about $50,000. The building was occupied on the four upper floors by Robert H. Ingersoll & Bros., and on the tirst floor by P. L. Bear & Son, clothing dealers, and Sherer’s confectionery store. ASHBURN, Ga., Jan. 31.—A dozen stores one warehouse aiul two dwellings were destroyed by fire here to-day. The loss is estimated at $50,000; insurance about S3O 000 It was thought at one time the whole town would be destroyed. Two Side* to <on*idcr. Puck. City Nephew—l suppose that you will pay your hired man higher wages next year new that you are getting higher prices for your produce? Uncle Hiram—No. sir; I’ll not \'\ty Nephew—But the time that he works will be more valuable. Uncle Hiram-So will the time that he loses when he don t work. Victim* of Trolley Car Collision. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., Jan. 31—Two cars on the People’s Railway, operated between this city and Haverhill, collided near the foot of Pipe Stave hill. West Newbury, to-day Motorman John Hudson was killed and Motorman John l -Jacket t. Conductor Elmer Mitchell and Thomas Smith, a Boston liquor dealer, injured. Mitchell may die, New Cable to the West Indie*. KINGSTON. Jamaica, via Bermuda. Jan. 3L—The opening of the new- cable via Turks island and Bermuda was celebrated to-dav. It gives the United States and Canada a competitive route for cablegrams to the West Indies, connecting, as it does, with the service of the Commercial Cable and Postal Telegraph companies. An Interruption. Puck. “For twelve long years ” roared fipurtacus, “I have met every form of man or beast the broad empire of Rome could furnish. The Numidian lion ” (A voice: “How about the Welsh rabbit?” Cheers and catcalls and much confusion in the rear of the arena.) New Social Purity Promoter. NEW YORK. Jan. 31.—Dr. Mary Wood Allen, of Ann Arbor, Mich,, for some years superintendent of the purity work in the National W. C. T. L T ., has been chosen by the general officers as successor to Mrs. Josephine Butler in the department of work for the promotion of social purity in the World’s W. C. T. U. Took u Done <tf Anenie. IOLA, Kan., Jai. 31.—W. L. McNall. claiming to be a son of Webb McNall. state insurance commissioner, is lying at the point of death in this city, from the effects of a dose of arsenic, taken with suicidal intent. Saturday night the man applied to the city marshal for a place to sleen, saving he was penniless. Shoemaker* on Strike. NEW' YORK. Jan. 31.—Two hundred and fifty shoemakers went on strike to-day in the shops of Thomas & Cos., Brooklyn, for an advance in wages of 3 cents per case, of shoes. There are seventy-two pairs in a case.

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CITY NEWS NOTES. Bert B. Dildine will spend the next two weeks in New York and other Eastern points. The Meridian W. C. T. f. will meet this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Silvias, No. 2031 Broadway. O. \V. Williams, formerly a well-known singer of this city, is at the Bates House. Mr. Williams is now a resident of Cincinnati and has not been in Indianapolis for several years. The first of a series of organ recitals under the auspices of the ladies of Memorial Church will be given this evening. Mr. W. H. Donley, the organist of the church, will include in his programme, which is of a popular nature,- the "Euryunthe” overture, by Weber; "A Dream of Mozart” (new), by Shaw ; “Caprice in B flat,” by Guilinant; “My Love Dwelt in a Northern Lund" (new), by Elgar: “Hungarian Dance” (new), by Brahms; "Serenade,” by Schubert; “L’Aragonaise ’Le Cid,” by Massenet, and “Marche Pontificale” (new), by Hagg. Humane Society’* Work. David Baumann, a baker on Indiana avenue, was arrested yesterday on a warrant from Justice Lockman’s court on complaint of Officer Elster. of the Humane Society, for driving a lame horse. The humane officer’s report for the week ending Jan. 29 was as follows: reprimanded for driving horses in poor condition, 13; same, lame horses, 4; horses needing shoes, 5> harness out of repair, 3: horses ordered out of service, 3: horses with sore back, i; horses killed, 2; dogs killed, 5: children looked after. 6; stables ordered cleaned and repaired, 3; horses blanketed on the market. 7: dogs and cats cared for, 3; reported cases investigated but no cruelty found. •: affidavit filed for cruelty, 1. Total for week, 59. An Automatic Telephone Exchange. It is said that, the New Telephone Company intends to adopt the automatic telephone system,- by which one patron can call up another without tin; interposition of the telephone girl at the exchange. A model of this ingenious Invention is now on exhibition in the Denison lobby and is attracting much attention. “Well, lam against this thing,” said one of the gentlemen of the lobby yesterday. “I am for the girls every time. Without the ‘hollo’ the telephone would lose all its romance. It won’t do.” Question for Congress to Settle. Washington Post. And speaking of birthdays and the flight of time, I wish the wise men of Congress would settle for us once and for all the date on which the twentieth century is to begin. I have had it conclusively proved to me that the twentieth century will begin on the Ist day of January. 1900. I have heard it shown so plainly that no room for doubt is left that Jan. I, 1901. is to be the first day of the twentieth century. It is a question Congress will have to settle, and the sooner the better., for it is leading to much discoid. There has actually been an engagement broken—the young woman lives in M street, and the man is in the State Department—because two young persons differed in the matter. Tho young woman declares she can’t marry a man who is too obstinate to admit himself in the wrong. The young man aver* that he can’t have a wife who will not listen to reason. Os course, they’re both miserably unhappy, and T think Congress ought to drop all these trivial discussions of finance and foreign policy and devote itself to the settlement of this burning question—that is, provided Congress itself is not of two opinions in the matter. Cnu*e (or Doubt. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A half-pint demijohn once owned by George Washington has turned up in Ohio. The only dubious thing about it is the size.

STARTS THAT WAY Hut This Article In .Not u Potent Medicine Ail. A certain grocer of Evanston. 111., had a curious experience lately, and one that he will not readily forget. Mr. P. H. Kies, of 614 Dempster street, was compelled to call in Dr. Dakin, a well-known physician of Evanston, in order to find, if possible, why he was becoming, day by day, more dangerously ill, nd there seemed to be no way to stop the progress of the trouble. He reached the point where it was a critical question whether he could recover or not, when Dr. Dakin advised him that the symptoms indicated that he was being slowly poisoned by the use of coffee. If a bombshell had been exploded in Mr. Kies’s front room, it would not have created any more, surprise and consternation. Willing to do anything, the doctor advised. in order to regain health, he agreed to leave off common coffee and take a cereal coffee, it seems that Mr. Kies had on his shelves the original Postum Cereal Coffee and four brands of imitations of Postum. At the doctor’s suggestion, a, sample of each were given to him, which were taken home for analysis. After careful trial of each and thorough analysis, the doctor recommended Postum as the one cereal coffee that contained the elements of nutrition needed, and thereupon Mr. Kies at once left off the use of common coffee and took on Postum. llis return to health was rapid, and it is needless to say the customers of that grocery store frequently hear a good word from the grocer or his clerks in regard to the famous Postum Food Coffee. There are hundreds of cases, somewhat similar to this one. in which people hav been running down in health for varying lengths of time and have been unable to determine the cause of the trouble. It ia a trouble that does not seem to yield to medicines or to treatment of any kind. The true remedy fur a generally run down coir* dltlon is to abandon coffee drinking and take on Posturn Cereal Food Coffee, which goes directly to work to rebuild broken down nerve tissues throughout the human body.