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The times., 1898-01-20
The Great Mystery.

In the excellent work of the late Mr.
John Bunyan-a work, by the way, so
religious in tone that it would be fit to
read On Sunday, if it We're not novel
there are two very important and no.
table characters. One is Pilgrim
with his burden Of sin on his back. ev-
er moving onward and hustling to find
a place to dump it, The other is Mr.
Facing Both Ways, an individual who
is sufficiently described in his name.
Ever since the interview with Mr..
Peabody, of Boston. in which that gem
tleman declares Mr.. Mckinley told him
that he was heartily in accord
with Secretary Cages views and rec
concentrations. and the speech of Sen
ator Wolcott. in which we are assured
that the President does nothing but lie
awake nights in the interests of in
ternational bimetallism. we have been
wondering whether we ought to com
pare our esteemed fellow-citizen in the
White House with Pilgrim or with Mr.
Facing Both Ways.
Worried by this dilemma, it is with
satisfaction that we regard the favor
able report of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, on Senator Teller's resolution
declaring the right of the Government
to pay its bonds, principal and inter-
est. in standard American silver dol
lars, at its own option. We are joy
ful, because the matter affords Mr.. Nc
Kinley an excellent opportunity to
emerge from the cave Of doubt on the
currency question, and show himself in
the true colors of his financial spectro-
scope for the study and admiration of
breathless world
If Mr.. Mckinley is the sturdy and
honest bimetallist So beautifully de-
scribed by Senator Wolcett. he will
lose no time in giving the country some
assurance that he regards the Teller
resolution as a splendid opening for
him TO do something for silver" If he
is, unfortunately, under the power and
The times., 1898-01-20

else which the people will so readily
revolt against its degradation.
And why not? The Postoffice Depart
ment never was intended to be reve-
nue-producing agency. For every dol
lar that it costs the public it brings a
hundred in return to the Union in the
maintenance and extension of profita-
BILE business relations. A nation which
can afford to spend l40,000.000 annu-'
ally in pensions, many of them conced-
ed to be fraudulent. and can endure
river and harbor appropriation of thir-
ty or forty million dollars annually,
mostly useless, corrupt and thieyish,
certainly can stand the cost Of an adj
equate, even a liberal, postal service.
If economy must be observed to meet
the deficit of the Dingley law, which
never was intended or expected to bring
revenue to anybody but the trusts and
monopolies for whose enrichment, at
the cost of the people. it was framed,
the cheese pairing might be practiced
on something less vital to the daily
life and activities of the land. Saw
ings might be effected by eXcising from
the pension list the sawmill, brickbat,
and Bright's disease victims of casu-
alties long post-dating the war, and
the noble army of martyrs who never
were in it, but draw pensions in the
names of deceased persons who We're.
Expenses of administration, too, might
be covered in part by allowing mud
creeks and swamps to remain in the
condition of nature, for which they are
alone fitted.
The Administration and the Repuo-
lican party do not take this view OF
the question. To them every perJured
pensioner is a holy vote for the party
in power. and every river and harbor
steal so much more good Republican
politics in the locality improved.
Does ii never occur to the people who
are in the saddle, and who are using
their temporary power over legislation
to loot the country. that death and the
Judgment. politically speaking, are
grave and inexorable facts, and that
they are tempting the fates ana the
furies in the course which they so cal
lously and impudently pursue?
1t is easy to blow down the barrel OF
a shotgun. Sometimes the result is
funeral. The Congressional elections OF
the present year may be depended upon
10 point the moral and adorn the tale.
The times., 1898-01-20
GOLD FINDS IN THE EAST.
Many Claims for Precious Metal
Filed in New York.

Albany, NJ Y, Jan. 19.-Some idea of
the virulence of the gold fever in the
northern. central. and eastern counties
of this State can be gained from the
records of the office of the secretary of
state. over 1000 claims Of the discOv-
cry of gold and silver in this Stale
have been fled in that department
during the past six months.
Most of them are located in Saratoga
county. and many others in Warren,
Albany, Herkimer, Washington, Essex,
Oswego, Fulton, Dutchess, Hamilton,
and ST Lawrence. For the last half
century the enormous banks OF yellow
sand in Fulton, Warren, and Saratoga
counties have attracted experimenters
and scientists to try to extract from
them paying quantities of gold and sill
yer. The sand. which is found in enor-
nous quantities on all sides, is first
dried in a rotary boiler, then run
through cone pulyerizers. and after
wards amalgamated through machines
invented by a GIens Falls man.
The nuggets are then reiterated and
refined. The first trial test resulted in
burning out a handsome gold nugget.
1t is in the possession of Saratoga
man.
The times., 1898-01-20
On Record +.

sort of political fiction has been
propagated throughout the country
during the past year. to the effect that
while the Mckinley Administration was
compelled to aid Spain in the attempt
to subjugate Cuba, because or cam
paign debts due TO the Spanish-Cuban
bondholders and the Sugar Trust, yet,
nevertheless, the grand old Republican
party was for the cause of liberty ana
national honor, and would so SNOW
itself at an early date.
On Tuesday the Republican patriots
i'm the House of Representative had
most gorgeous opportunity to place
themselves on record in connection
with this subject, and what did they
do? By a strict party vote they
killed a proposition 10 grant belligerent
rights to the young republic. This
places them hopelessly upon record,
and makes the cause of human liberty
i'm the Western Hemisphere party
question, which we have hoped against
hope that it might not become.
In our view, country, national dignity
and duty are above partisan consider
ations. 1t would have been happiness
to US to forego any Democratic adyan-
tage. such as the Spanish action of
the House majority in this instance
gives us. and to have been able TO say
that, in a matter involving the high
ideals and the sacred duties OF our
people, all parties were upon COM
mon basis and adhered to common
standard of Americanism.
But the Republican party, true to
nothing else, is true to the gold and
bond syndicates, the trusts and mo-
nopolies which bought its temporary
lease Of power, that bribery and cor
ruption might reign supreme within,
and national disgrace appear in our ex-
ternal relations. Ii is almost improper
TO blame the creatures of such a crea-
ton for normal adherence to the wor-
ship of their great irst cause.
That they are the willing slaves of
the detestable power which has made
them is but too sadly apparent. A
majority in the House of Representa-
tives will not be ruled by the will and
purposes of one man against its con-
victions and principles unless it wishes
so to be ruled. That the Republican
majority now in the House elects to
act only at the beck and call of its
autocrat is proof positive that it is
consenting body.
If there is any one thing more than
another that the American people con-
tenn ard despise IT is = lot of towards,
Ii is equally true that all the towards
in America appear to have gotten into
the House of Representatives in the
guise OF Republican Congressmen.
The times., 1898-01-20
Columbia .

The Empress of France" Mile.
Rhea's new play. Will be presentef at
the Columbia next Monday night.
Washington has not seen this play. and
il is an interesting one from every
point of view. The scenes are laid in
France during ne gei2n of the first
Napoleon. and Mile. Rhea takes the
title role. that of the Empress Jose
phine The plot in no way resembles
Josephine" produced here by this ac-
tress years ago. but is quite original n
plot and dialogue. historically corr eCt
in costumes. and acted by i competent
company. Among the characters are
such notable historical perS3nlges as
Bonaparte. Talleyrand. ard the co;Ir-
tiers who took part in the fortunes of
the First Empire. These roles are
skillfully interpreted by William Har-
ris, Frederick Vroom. Walter Lennox.
Fred. C. Hoey, Z. c.. Gillespie, Robert
Whittier, James Dunn. Miss Jane Len
nox. Rachel Crothers, MignOn Fulton.
Ellen Fulton. and Catherine Sheridan.
THE Empress of France" Will be pre-
snnteG every evening ani at the sat
urday matinee. On Thursday a special
matinee will be given, at which Mile.
Rhea will play Camille in which she
made one of the greatest successes of
her career.
The times., 1898-01-20
PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS.

George Remark has been arrested at
oxford charged with forgery.
One of the best bowlers in Safe Har-
Dor is Adam Focht. an octogenarian
DR.. J. ". Roop has been elected
president of the Dauphin County Med
ical Association.
A warm local fight is waging at
South Chester on the subject of an
nexation To Chester
Henry Francis. one of the most
prominent citizens of Spring City, is
dead, at the age of seventy-eight.
j. S. Saunders, of WilkesDarre, has
been elected president of the Penn
syIvania State Editorial Association.
Edward z, Price. of Media. has re-
covered s1.670.4S from the Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Company for
personal injuries sustained in a wreck.
The postmaster at Wflkesbarre has
received orders that in order that
Wilkesbarre may help in taking care
of the deficiency in the free delivery
service the two carriers allowed dur
ing the current year. taking effect
October / last, be cut off and that the
arrangement be carried out by Feb
ruary l.
A mill to employ 1000 hands is to be
erected at Ivy Rock Station. three
miles from Norristown. Joseph Pot
ter, of Pawtucket, Il. l.. has pur-
chased the farm of the estate of
Theodore Carey. and he intends erect
ing a large building for the manu-
facture of textile machinery 4 large
number of houses for the use of the
employees of the mill VIII also De erect
ed.
Swarthmore has had more than its
share of the tramp nuisance of late
There are many doors from which no
tramp is ever turned away hungry.
The tramps for miles around know
tended them. The citizens have been
talking for some time of making an
effort to put a check to the tramp.
The robbery of Mrs. Van Hagen two
weeks ago has led them to take
prompt action.
One hundred merchants of Williams
port have formed what is to be known
as the Williamsport Merchants Nut
ual Protective Association. The or
ganization is the outcome of the re-
cent trouble had with the trading
stamp scheme. The members of the
association agree not to indulge in any
such trade getting devices Hereafter
The association, too, will lend its en-
ergies to improve the industrial con6i-
tion of the city. Officers We're elected
as follows: President, James M. Kline;
vice president Abe Hart; secretary,
Joseph H. McMinn; treasurer, W. F.
Thompson.
The times., 1898-01-20
SOusa &.

A noteworthy and unusual occurrence
in Washington musical circles will be
the Sousa Band concert at the Lafay-
cite Square Opera House this afternoon
at . o'clock. For the past five years it
has been Sousa's custom 70 give only
Sunday concerts. and those whose reli-
giOus scruples have prevented them
from attending these will find the an
nouncement Of a weekday matinee
pleasant one The program TO be pre-
sented is an attractive one, and is as
follows:
Overture. I'll Guarney" (new) Gomez
Ballet suite, 1.-THE Rose of
Shiras' new go. .....--- EilenberS
Rhapsody Hungrois". Hauser
Soprano solo. SHADOW
Song ...--..-.. .-.-...--. Msyerbeer
Miss Maud Reese Davies.
Wedding music. "Lohengrin' Wagner
Intermission ten minutes
Fanfare Militaire ................As .Ascher
Night scene, Tristan and
Isolde ........ .......-.....M W aSner
q Dance of the Syiphs s.........- Wagner
b March The Bride Elect"
new .---.-.--. ..-.-..-.: BeFlioz
Violin solo. GYPSY Dances Nachez
Miss Jennie Hoyle.
The times., 1898-01-20
THURsDAY, JANUARY 90, 1898.
The congressional committee.

The Democratic Congressional Com
rnittee is to meet tonight for organiZa-
ton The meeting may possibly have
important bearings upon the future of
the party. and the results of its action
may become factors in the struggle
Tor the people in 1898 and 1900 that
the national organization is committed
to.
Although the Presidential cam
paign of 1896 is bat a little more than a
year behind us; although its lessons
teach US that more than ever We
should make the two great fights OF
the immediate future upon the solid
foundations OF bfmetallism and the
Chicago platform, already the forces
OF disintegration and treason are
working to defeat our purpose.
Members of the Congressional Com
mittee would be foolish to ignore the
fact that a great conspiracy has been
formed TO capture the national organ
ization in the interests of the gold
power They should take notice that
unless they watch every loophole, a
syndicated political combination, os-
tensibly within the party, Will capture
The Democratic forces in New York
and Illinois and use that leverage to
dictate the action of the next national
convention in the line of retreat
from straight bimetallism and the de-
struction OF everything else honestly
Democratic in the Chicago platform.
Hence the able Democrats who
form units OF the committee should
not allow personal or sectional con-
siderations to affect their action TO-
night No man who has shown sub
seryiency to Republican influence in
The House. ne man susceptible Of sus-
picion that he is coquetting with the
gold conspiracy, no man who is not to
be depended upon for silver and the
Chicago platform, should be allowed
to occupy any position of trust or
prominence
The times., 1898-01-20
COMING TO THE THEATERS.
National

Never Again which comes to the
National next week, is one of the most
exacting pieces Of it's kind. Ii exacts
laughter, which it always gets. but the
individuality of each one of the dozen
or more characters is so distinct. the
action SO brisk, and the incidents SO
numerous and so surprising that the
company are continually on the qui
vive, and the very best of acting is
required to make the play a success.
That it has been a success, the critics
of New York, Chicago, Bostou, PhiIa-
delphia and Baltimore have testified
in their several columns. They all
said that the company was TIE best
for unity of action, careful work and
brilliancy of performance that had
been seen in a comedy Never
Again" is a character comedy, pure
and simple. constructed upon legiti-
mate lines, and dependent on nothing
foreign to the story for it's effect
Most of the characters are of a de-
cldediy Gaelic type, the play being
adapted from French comedy which
Charles Frohman came across during
one of his trips to Europa, and which
he Immediately secured for his busi-
ness. 1t is a worthy successor to
''Charley's Aunt" Too Much john
son." and the other laughing successes
of the last decade. The original
French play. known as lie True de
Seraphin.' is still running at the
Vaudeville, in Paris. An American
company under Frohman manage
ment is running in Never Again in
London, at the Vaudeville. and the
American edition is now on the road.
When il is stated that the company is
headed by Il. NJ. Holland and in
cludes such actors as Hugo Tolland,
Samuel Reed, George Marion, James
Kearney, Maggie Holloway Fisher,
Maria Devickson, Anita Rothe, and
several others of well known merit,
there is no particular need of feeling
sorry that one is not IN London or
Paris. The American company seems
to be good enough.
The times., 1898-01-20
So 900 to Buy Indiana!

Il. j. Chapman in the February Atiantic.l
The question of boss rule is of national l.
not merely local, import. The future OF
the country is at stake. Until this ques-
ton is settled, all others in abeya nee
The fight gainst money is fight for per-
mission to settle the question on its merits.
The last Presidential election furnishes an
illustration of this. At private meeting
OF capitalists held in, New York city 10
raise money for the Mckinley campaign
a very important man fervidly declared
that he had already subscribed $4,000 to
''buy India na," nd that If called on to dO
so lie would subscribe $1,000 more, Kc
was greeted with cheers for his patriotism.
Many of our best citizens believe not
only that money bought that election, but
that the money was well spent. because
it averted panic. These men do not
believe in Republican institutions; they
have found something better.
This is precisely the situation in New
York city The men who subscribed to
the Mckinley campaign fund are the SAME
men who support Tammany Hall.
The times., 1898-01-20
second knelseI Quartet Concert.

Tie policy Of allowing the general
public to attend the concerts OF the
KneisaI Quartet is a good one, as was
shown by the much larger audience at
the Washington Club. yesterday afternoon,
than at their last appearance The pro
gram was admirably chosen to show the
apacity of the pIaye and was warmly
applauded. The first number, Quartet
in c ma ior, Op. 90. No 3 Beethoven. was
from his second set, written in 1908 or
1906, and dedicated to Prince Rasoumoif-
sky It was written a comparatively short
time after be had become comple teiy deaf.
and shows mis- intense feeling at Bis ter
ribIe affIiction. and his desire To be freed
from its chains The mInuet with which
1T closes is more after the style OF his
ca rlieT compositions, light and graceful
The contra sting movements were beautt-
fully given. especially the working out of
the figures and the shadngS. The second
number. Haydn's Variations on the Aus
trian National Hymn was played faster
than it is usually given, and Mr.. kneISel'S
intefpFeta tiDn of some Of the passages was
different from any previously heard here.
especially the closing with forte. usually
given pianissimo. The laSt number. hy
Smeta ma. Quartz in EminoT. Aus Meinsm
Leten,'' was entirely new to this city. aud
is modern in its constTGc tioH. which is OH
very broad lines. The second movement
is full OF national color. Hungarian. The
quartet shows the pTesentnents of the
composer. who feels insanity coming on,
and is especially well worked up. Mr..
Schroeder IN this number had an excel
lent opportunity of showing his skill as
'caIIist. MS tcnes being as rich and
fun as an organ.
The times., 1898-01-20
.THE DARK SIDE.
Rev. DR.. Strickland's Lecture an In
teresting One.


Rev. Dr. w. r. Strickland. pastor OF
Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church,
lectured at that church last night on
THE Dark Side.''
He introduced his subject by telling
OF the discovery of the Roentgen rays
which made hitherto Opaque matter
transparent. 1t enabled people to look
under the surface. That was what he
desired his audience to do. This was
a magnificent country, but there was q
world beneath the surface which most
Americans had either no conception Of,
or at most. very faint one But be-
fore going below the surface, DR..
Strickland showed his audience, with
the aid of a stereopticon, the surface
of America. He made a pictorial tran
sit of the continent in twenty minutes,
Beginning at the beach at Ocean
Grove, his lantern showed up the famil-
lar scenes around Washington, followed
the windinSs of the Potomac, and car
ried his hearers over the hlleghenieS,
the Rockies and down the Pacific slope,
closing the Journey at the Cliff House,
Frisco.
Then he showed groups of American
types of men. First were the indians,
and then the Puritans. TO whom. said
indebted for whatever of conscience
they have. Groups Of negroes were
displayed, and the portrait of n cowboy
in range riding outfit was thrown on
the screen. AS probably the most rep
resentatiye Americans, DIR. Strickland
chose the portraits Of clay, Calhoun,
and Webster.
Finally the lecturer proceeded to
show what he called the underside.
The pictures We're taken in the tene-
ment districts of the East Side of New
York. Familiar scenes from Hester,
Houston, Mulberry, Mott, and Baxter
streets We're shown, as We're also
sketches made around the Bowery at
Chatham Square. DR.. Strickland said
that three-fourths of the people in New
York had no sunlight in their rooms.
He related some incidents which struck
him forcibly, and recited a few of the
schemes employed by East Siders to
v ring money from strangers.
The times., 1898-01-20

dominion of the Chicago homogeneous
ger, who entered the Republican par
ty and the Cabinet on the same day.
we shall know that and say prayers
for him. If he is equally friendly to
the views and purposes both Of Mr..
Gage and of the bimetallists, we would
better find that out as quickly as pos
Sible.
We do not like the suspense necessi-
tated by doubt as to where Mr.. Nc
Kinley really stands. If we were ac-
quainted with Mr.. Hanna we might
solve the mystery by ascertaining his
views, but we do not know him, and,
therefore, grieve to think that up to
this present writing Ne are unable to
satisfy ourselves as to whether our IL
lustrious friend "at the other end OF the
Avenue is Pilgrim or Mr.. Facing
Both Ways.
The times., 1898-01-20
MARYLAND NEWS.

Mrs Catharine Wolfinger, wife of
John Wolfinger. Of Mount Union,
Washington county. is dead.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burkhart, widow
of DR.. F. NJ. Burkhart, MartinSburg,
died on Monday afternoon, of pneu-
monia-
OF the ninety-six monuments and
smaller stones thrown down and brok-
en- at Williamsport by vandals. eleven
of the former and thirty-three of the
latter are still lying where they fell.
Marble cutters are busy restoring them
to their normal condition.
Some boys found out the other day
that there was electricity in the
waterspout at Groh & Doub's hard
ware store in Hagerstown, and there
was soon congregated a crowd who
watched for the fluid to come out. As
there was no contact of the spout
with the wires in the vicinity, there
was speculation as TO how and why
it went up the spout.
The times., 1898-01-20
vIRGINIA STATE NEWS.

Norfolk is in the throes of a FIRE in
surance war.
Norfolk expects to have some impor
tant new business enterprises shortly
Mr.. Charles Owen. a vell-knGwI
merchant of Lynchburg. has gone in
sane.
Rev Preston Nash. a pr9miuen
Richmond Episcopal clergyman. while
suffering with cold the other day
saturated a handkerchief with chIorO-
form. He inhaled it and soon lost con
sciousness. Physicians saved his life.
Saunders Wood. a negro, who at
tempted to hold up and rob \. Frank,
Richmond drummer, has been caught
Frank was crossing Green Mountain
when stopped by the highwayman. He
succeeded in beating him without the
loss of his jewelry samples.
1t has been found that the TSeddy bin
now before the legislature. providing
for the choice of United States Senators
by primaries does not contain a coiOy
clause. This Will be serious draw
back to its passage. The Democratic
primaries are only for white voters whG
take a pledge that they voted the
Democratic ticket at the preceding elec-
ton. Mr.. Reddy will probably fix the
bill so it will be more acceptable.
Politics is beginning TO be matter OF
of much interest to the ROckbridge
people again. as they have Two can
didates i'm the field for the nomination
to Congress from the Tenth distinct.
Both candidates are Lexington men
MIR. Frank 7. Glasgow. prominent
LAWYER. and MIR. Elihu II. Barclay
editor of the Gazette. The fight prOmi-
ses to be an interesting one. owing TO
the many candidates in the district.
Augusta county has two, Fluvanna
county two. AppOmattox one. and other
counties will probably be heard from
before the convention.