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of MORNING, THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. JANUARY 12, 1897. certain to be paid with a like honest dollar when due. There will be good times at an early day in the Northern States east of the Mississippi, and in the Northwestern States, for the reason that their credit is unimpaired; but how long will the far Western and Southern States permit themselves to be held in the chains of demagogues and their progress hindered solely by dishonoring their own faith? This question appeals directly to the Southern States, where untold millions of wealth sleeps in their mountains and valleys for want of capital and labor to develop it. They are specially blest, not only in climate and resources, but many of them with waterways which greatly aid them in reaching markets for their products; and the millions of money which are to-day unemployed in New York would gladly aid them in this development at very moderate interest, if there could only be absolute faith in the honest payment of debts.

There will be good times in the South and West when the South and West accept honest money as the jewel of their faith, and there can be no substantial increase in the prosperity of any State whose credit has been shadowed with doubt. Honest money, honest dealing and honest confidence would give the nation the good times the people want. In no place in the Union was Jackson's Day specially celebrated. Evidently it's not only in its office connections that it's a dead letter. Often, in politics, people vote for the side that's left, but it's the side their heart's on, all the same.

The Election of President. ELECTION for President and A took Vice place President yesterday. of the The United proceed- States ings at the capitals of the several States were generally quiet and attracted little attention, but they were not the less important. Though it has been assumed in current discussion that the election was held in November, yet there had not been a vote last for President until yesterday, when the actual election under the Constitution was held. People commonly talk of "the Electoral College" as though all the electors met in one assemblage.

In reality there are forty-five Electoral Colleges. They are appointed in each State in such manner as the Legislature may direct, but they meet in their respective States at a time fixed by act of Congress, and cast their ballots. This simultaneous meeting is intended to secure the untrammeled action of each Electoral College and the independence of its members, each of whom was expected to cast his vote for the candidate whom he individually believed most worthy. This theory has long disappeared, but the form remains. The electoral votes of each State are recorded and "distinct lists of all persons voted for as President and of all persons voted for as Vice President and of the number of votes for each," signed, sealed and certitied, are forwarded to the seat of government of the United States, where.

in due time and in manner prescribed, they are opened in the presence of both houses of Congress and the votes counted. The vote cast yesterday will not be counted and the result announced until the second Wednesday in February, but it is known that a majority of all the votes was given for William McKinley, of Ohio, for President, and for Garret A. Hobart, of New Jersey, for Vice President, and they will in due course be declared elected. Many people are so imaginative that they can never think of the watershed of the Schuylkill that coal sheds don't come into their mind. Improper use of money not their own is the first symptom of wanting to take life easy in some bankers.

Suicide is the last. Punitive Damages in Libel. HE Wilkesbarre Record, in an editorial reviewing the decision of the Supreme Court in the SmithTimes libel case that was obviously intended to be entirely candid and just, seriously misunderstands the attitude of the defendants in that case in presenting evidence to establish the undisputed fact that none of said defendants had either written, dictated or had knowledge of the alleged libel complained of until after its publication. The Record unjustly assumes that it was intended on the part of the defendants to escape responsibility. The defendants in the case made no effort whatever to escape any just responsibility for the publication.

To whatever extent the plaintiff was unlawfully injured he is entitled to full restitution, and he is equally entitled to it from the defendants in the case whether they had knowledge of the publication or not, as they are the responsible parties through whom the injury, if any, was inflicted; but they had a right to insist that there could be no malicious publication on their part when they had no knowledge of it, and that, therefore, there could be no just verdiet for punitive damages. Such damages are admittedly in excess of the damages actually suffered by the plaintiff, and are intended as a punishment for a malicious or wanton publication. There can be no malicious or wanton publication properly subject to punishment beyond actual injury inflicted, from any defendants who were not in any way responsible for the publication, beyond their just legal responsibility as proprietors of the newspaper that commits the wrong. Our Wilkesbarre contemporary has evidently studied the case imperfectly or it would not assume that the defendants had sought in any way to escape responsibility for any injury done to the plaintiff. Had they done so, the criticism of the Record would be just; but as they have not done so, nor done anything that has even the appearance of such a desire to escape responsibility, its reflections upon this journal are so obviously unjust that it will be likely to correct them.

The newspapers of Pennsylvania are strangely discriminated against in the libel laws of the State. There is, first and very properly, a criminal prosecution for malicious and defamatory libel with the penalty of fine and imprisonment, and even when thus punished criminally, under our present laws there may be punitive damages recovered in addition. This double punishment beyond just restitution to injured parties, is confined solely to the newspaper profession. No other citizen of the State could thus be punished, and in all actions for damages outside of libel, the law authorizes only restitution for actual injury sustained. This is one of the relics of the old 1 English common law worthy only of the dark ages of centuries ago which created it, and until it shall be effaced from our libel laws of Pennsylvania there can be no safety to newspaper property.

Under all circumstances newspaper men arraigned for libel have a right to demand that the reparation shall be commensurate with the injury inflieted and there end, and we cannot conceive how our Wilkesbarre contemporary assumes it to be an unworthy act to show afirmatively the absence of malice in the publication, not for the purpose of escaping just responsibility, but to avoid excessive damages intended as a punishment in addition to restitution. The Wilkesbarre Record would justly complain if any such law were applied to itself, and it ought to be generous enough to admit that it wronged this journal in assuming that it sought to evade responsibility because it took away, by affirmative and undisputed evidence, the only excuse that could be given for punitive damages. The man who proposed that the number of Congressmen should be increased so that there shall be one to every 40,000 inhabitants displays a brilliancy of thought which would qualify him to be the searchlight of a lunatic asylum. Bargain hunting with the fair is based on the same instinct as hunting in general with the other sex. It's the delight in seeing something brought down.

Make the Channel Deep Enough. THE GROUNDING of the Allan Line steamer Buenos Ayrean, bound for Glasgow with a valuable cargo, on the Dan Baker shoal on Saturday night, presents some unusual features which indicate that it is not only important that this and the other shoals in the Delaware river and bay should be dredged quickly, but that when the work is done there should be a good margin allowed in the depth and width of the channel to allow for unexpected contingencies. The necessity for prompt dredging is obvious, for every time a large steamer like the Buenos Ayrean goes aground, the effect is to discourage large steamers from coming to this port. The unusual feature of the grounding of the Buenos Ayrean consists in the fact that while it drew not more than twentysix feet of water, it went aground at high tide, when, under ordinary conditions, it should have passed over the shoal without obstruction. The extraordinary condition that caused it to ground was that the continuous west winds had lowered the river, driving the water out to sea, so that the flood tide lacked five feet of reaching its usual height.

These fluctuations of the tides owing to strong winds blowing out to sea, are of frequent occurrence, and no known precautions can render them less frequent. The only remedy lies in dredging the channel deep enough and wide enough to allow the passage of the largest steamers at all stages of the tide, the extraordinary as well as the ordinary. If the unexpected grounding of the Buenos Ayrean shall lead to the adoption of this standard in the dredging of the channel through the several Delaware shoals, it will prove a public benefit, even though it was a serious misfortune to the owners a and managers of the steamer. It is well to know in advance, while the improvement is still in progress, all the contingencies that must be provided for, so that when the work is completed it will furnish a channel that can be used at all times by all sorts of craft, the largest as well as the smallest. England can be excused if it indulges in excessive jubilation over the Queen's sixty years on the throne, for that is a great time itself.

MONETARY convention composed of five hundred delegates, dA and representing commercial the various organizations financial of the country, will meet in Indianapolis today. It to be presided over by C. Stuart Patterson, of this city, and to spend several days evolving al plan for presentation to Congress for putting the country's finances upon a permanently sound basis. Nearly every important city from Portland to Tacoma and from Minneapolis to Galveston, with the exception of Denver, will be represented, and there will be nearly as many propositions before the convention as there will be delegates in it. If there is wisdom in a multitude of counselors, however, some practicable plan of putting our finances permanently on al sound money basis should be agreed upon, and acted upon as well.

The great sound money victory of last fall should not be frittered away by inaction, and it is to be hoped that the Indianapolis conference will not only recommend sound financial methods, but that they will succeed in creating a popular sentiment in their favor that will compel their adoption. It's a mystery why people go skating on thin ice pond, and doesn't really become any clearer when they get to the bottom of it. HILE VARIOUS interests are means clamoring committee before duties the for ways increased and or prohibitory upon competing imports, the committee will doubtless take notice of the fact that under the existing tariff the importations have been smaller and the exports of manufactured articles larger ever before. The latest bulletin of the Bureau of Statistics gives the value of exports of American manufactures for the eleven months ending with November at 915,546. The highest total in, any entire fiscal year previous 1894 was 927.315 in 1891: in 1895 it had risen to $183,595,743, and in 1896 to $228.489,893.

This was for the year ending June 30 last: the succeeding five months the exports of manufactures have been at the rate of least $250,000,000 a year. To be sure, the largest items of increase are in refined mineral oil products, copper ingots and other articles in which the amount of labor is not great, but the proportion of increase is largest in elaborate and finished manufactures. Thus the exports of machinery increased in value from $15,812,426 in the eleven months of 1895 to $23,115,396 in the corresponding eleven months of 1896. There were $3,403,612 worth of bicycles exported in the latter period. The exports of cotton cloths were nearly $15,000,000, against $9,000,000 in 1895.

Builders' hardware, locomotives, electrical apparatus, manufactures of wood and countless other articles show a large percentage of increase. All this has come about under the hated Wilson bill. There are evidently some American manufacturers, at least, who have found that the secret of prosperous trade does not lie in high duties. Can a buncombe fire-eating speech in the Senate or elsewhere be regarded as a sound blow for Cuba? RBITRATION having proved A to eific cheaper war in disputes and two or every between three way the notable preferable United speStates and Great Britain, the principle to be given general application for five years, the treaty to that effect having been signed at Washington yesterday by Sir Julian Pauncefote on the part of Great Britain and Secretary Olney on the part of the United States, and at once messaged to the Senate by the President. It is possible, of course, that the Senate may refuse to ratify the arbitration treaty, but this is hardly probable.

Even the tail-twisting jingo. Senators will hardly care to oppose a treaty which will enable them to twist the tail of the British lion for the delectation of ordinary constituents without involving anybody in any danger of war. A treaty that makes tailtwisting as safe, a pastime as shaking one's fist at opponent's attorney should be popular, even with jingo statesmen. One of the latest forms of the financial question seems to be, Who will take the Treasury portfolio? HE DEFEAT of the Pacific Railway funding bill in the House of Representatives by a decisive vote must be regretted, for, while the bill may have been defective in some of its details, it promised a final settlement of the amount owing and still unpaid to the United States Government by the several Pacific Railway corporations. The extension of the term of payment over a period of eighty years at two per cent.

interest may be freely constitutes the debt a slow ondmitted ultimatum presented by the defeat of the measure seems to be either a total loss of the debt or government ownership of the roads, with all the complications and 111- seen possibilities that may follow. Neither horn of this dilemma is a desirable one, and it would have been wise to have accepted the provisions of the bill defeated yesterday preference to either. The government should not lose the 000 involved in the Pacific Railway indebtedness, and it should not be compelled to own and manage the roads in order to get the money. MANUFACTURERS' BIG MEETING Sub-Committees Charged With the Preparations for the Gathering of the National Association Make Their Reports. The general committee which is preparing for the second annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, to be held in this city on January 26, 27 and 28, met yesterday afternoon at the Manufacturers' Club and heard reports from the various sub-committees appointed to arrange the details of the meeting.

John H. Converse presided. W. T. Tilden, chairman of the committee on menus and decorations, reported that the Bourse had been secured for Thursday evening, January 28, and that the annual banquet would be held there.

The main objection to this building has heretofore the poor acoustic quality hall. been, but this will be fixed by arranging canvas covers over the galleries and thus preventing the diffusion of sound. B. W. Fleischer, chairman of the committee on entertainment, reported that besides the clubs and theatres which the visiting manufacturers will visit on Wednesday evening.

Horticultural Hall, where the business sessions will be held. would be thrown open and short addresses made by members of the association. The committee on speakers reported through its chairman, James W. Dodge, that Senator Morgan had been secured to speak on the Nicaraguan Canal and Colonel J. F.

Hanson, of Macon, to speak on American Manufactures. Congressman John Dalzell has also been secured and Governor Hastings and Mayor Warwick will probably accept the invitation tendered them to speak at the banquet. Besides these committees the financial committee. through its chairman, Andrew Wheeler, and the committee on invitations, through James Rawle, both reported. Theodore C.

Search, president of the National Association, moved that on Thursday the city be asked to show colors and that all manufacturers and retailers be also asked to decorate their stores with bunting. The 1n0- tion was carried and the committee adjourned until next Monday. VOORHEES' SUCCESSOR The Indiana Senatorial Contest Will be Settled To-Night-Fairbanks' Friends Are Confident. INDIANAPOLIS, January Senatorial contest for the successor of Daniel W. Voorhees will be settled to-morrow night.

The "Held" has rallied for its last stand. William R. McKee returned last night. decompanied by the venerable Ex of the Navy Richard W. Thompson.

There are hints that it is the intention to support Judge Baker, notwithstanding his oftrepeated declaration he is not a candidate, and could not accept the nomination. The supporters of Charles W. Fairbanks are confident that their candidate has not less than seventy votes in the caucus, and they will not be surprised if it reaches seventy-five. WOLCOTT IN DEMAND English Bimetallists Anxious to See the Colorado Senator. LONDON, January Edward O.

Wolcott, of Colorado, who is visiting Europe in the interest of bimetallism, called at the United States Embassy and had an hour's interview with Ambassador Bayard. Senator Wolcott will to-night: with Henry White, formerly First Secretary of the United States Embassy. The Bimetallic League has been besieged with callers anxious to see Senator Wolcott. Cabinet Makers' Chips If declinations continue President -elect McKinley may have to resort to the draft to fill his Cabinet. -Detroit Free Press.

Dingley declines, Allison isn't available. Sherman see-saws, and still the alliterative struggle goes on. -Cleveland Plain Dealer. Perhaps it would not be altogether amiss to consult Mr. McKinley before all the official appointments are parceled Post.

Mr. Reed's warnings that the McKinley administration is to be a fallure will not prevent the formation of a Cabinet. One could easily be filled by Ohio men, whom nothing has ever frightened away from anything with a salary -St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. Cabinet-making has come to a halt, it is announced, pending the decision of John Sherman as to whether he will accept the portfollo of State or not.

"Honest John' is probably trying to And whether or not there is any money in the portfolio. -Richmond Dispatch. The trouble about going to the United States Senate for a good man to put into the Cabinet is that it opens the way for a State Legislature to put a bad man into the Senate. President-elect McKinley might ponder on this proposition with propriety. -New York Advertiser.

Seen and Heard in Many Places Riding by the big but dreary looking building of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, at Seventeenth and Montgomery avenue, there came back pleasant memories of a man with long locks of snowy white hair, with rosy cheeks and bright eyes and with good will toward his fellowman beaming from the finger creases upon his face that Time with lenient touch had been nearly ninety years in making. That was the picture William Wagner presented twenty years ago. Wagner was graduated from both the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia College. It was his ambition in life to become either a physician or a chemist, but his father, whose instinets were entirely commercial, nipped such aspirations in the bud and sternly commanded him to turn his thoughts away from the learned professions, as the pursuit of any one of them was more apt to bring penury than prosperity. In those days young men going into business life were apprenticed and bound for a period of years.

All of Stephen Girard's clerks had passed through a term 1 of servitude, and William Wagner's father provided for his son a place with them in the counting room. That was a great honor. To become bound to Stephen Girard in those days was for a young man as great a lift in life as it is now for a young man to receive an appointment to West Point or Annapolis. Wagner came of German stock. His great-greatuncle--that is, the brother of his greatgrandfather, Tobias Wagner--had been an author in his day.

That was in the early years of the seventeenth century. He wrote lots of books-some in Latin, many of them in German. He died in his native land, honored, but poor. The branch of the family that was represented in America did not in the days of its early settlement here look back with reverence and respect to the learned Tobias. They looked upon worldly possessions with a kindlier eye, and despite young Wagner's earnest disclaimer, he became bound to Stephen Girard.

After making four voyages to China and six to Europe and doing service as a bookkeeper for great merchant, William Wagner went into the shipping business himself. He was fortunate in his operations and became rich. While at sea, having many leisure hours, he devoted himself to the study of science and natural history. he became so rich that he longer cared to pursue success in the mercantile line. he bought himself the house at Seventeenth street and Montgomery avenue.

He filled it with the collections he had made in foreign lands, and. making other and more extended journeys into the interior of the continents he had visited years before, he added to his treasures. Feeling the want of other employment than that of labeling his collections of specimens of rare and beautiful things, he set to work to perfect a plan by which a knowledge of science could be disseminated among the people free of charge. "Inspired," as he himself related. "by the example of my old master, the fruit of whose great plan I saw spring from the seed, I viewed the situation to see where I could do the most good.

I looked at my great private museum, and it occurred to how great the lesson that could be taught by it, and my plan me was formed. In 1855 I obtained an act of incorporation for the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and through the interest of some public-spirited men obtained from the city the free use of what was then known as Spring Garden Hall. at Thirteenth and Spring Garden streets. This place was inaugurated on the 21st of May, 1855, with addresses by James Pollock, then Governor of Pennsylvania, Robert T. Conrad, the Mayor of the city; the Right Rev.

Alonzo Potter, D. Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania: William H. Allen, LL. president of Girard College: Hon. Robert Foust and Professor John Millington, M.

D. The audience was only limited on that occasion capacity of the building." The lectures that followed on mineralogy, geology, anatomy. physiology, paleontology, ethnology, agriculture, chemistry, civil engineering, natural philosophy, botany and on kindred subjects, which were given without money and without price to all who chose to avail themselves of their teachings, were largely attended. Four years later the city, in an economical. fit.

withdrew the free use of the hall. and Professor Wagner had to move. Then he sought other quarters, and in 1859 adopted a plan for the building now used at Seventeenth and Montgomery avenue, the corner-stone of which was laid in June, 1859. Judge Kelley was one of the speakers 011 that occasion. and the stone was placed with great ceremony.

The building cost $41.000, the cabinets and collections $150,000, and other appointments enough more to swell the total to $200,000. Because of the war the instidid not open until May, 1865, when a deed of trust executed to the trustees, Robert. Cornelius, D. Rodney King, J. Vaughn Merrick, Charles J.

Stille, Provost of the University: Samuel Wagner, Henry Coppee and William Wagner, conveyed to them the land, the building and all its contents on the condition that they should be forever used for the instruction and improvement of the citizens of the United States in practical science. In addition to the lot on which the building stands, Professor Wagner gave also a lot on the opposite corner, worth $20,000, and four houses and lots of ground on Eleventh street, below Chestnut, worth $25,000, which, with 250.000 specimens of minerals, as many of geologic and organic remains, 200,000 specimens, of recent shells, 25.000 specimens of dried plants, a series of diagrams, library and apparatus, swelled the value. of his gifts to almost three-quarters of a million of dollars. After the opening the institute, there were two courses of lectures yearly, to which all who came were welcome. The lectures were given every night except Sunday from the first of March to the last of June and from the first of October to the last of December.

When Professor Wagner died twelve years ago, in his 90th year, his 1 remains were interred in the institute building in a burial vault which he had built for that purpose. His entire immense estate was found to be set apart for the maintenance of his life-work. The trustees named under his will were Samuel Wagner, J. Vaughn Merrick. Samuel Wilcox, Dr.

R. B. Westbrook, Dr. S. T.

Skidmore and Samuel Cramp. I don't believe any of us appreciate the institution at its true worth. In fact, I'll guarantee that a majority of the people of this city are not even aware of its existence. This, of course, is mainly owing to the building's remote position in the far northwestern portion of the town. But that part of Philadelphia is rapidly becoming very thickly populated, and before very long the Wagner Free Institute of Science will be the source of amusement and instruction to hundreds of thousands of people.

Could man have a greater monument to do honor to his memory? MEGARGEE. BALL PATRONESSES WITHDRAW Two Ladies Take Their Names Off the List of Those Responsible for Camden's Annual Social Event for Charity. Considerable talk has been occasioned in social circles in Camden during the past few days, owing to two ladies, who are active members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, withdrawing as patronesses of the Charity Ball. The ball is to be given early in February by Women's Park Association, composed entirely of ladies belonging to churches of different denominations, for the benefit of the Association and the Camden Day Nursery. The Temple Theatre has been engaged for the function, and the lady 1 managers and patronesses were announced last week.

The two ladies who have withdrawn their names from the list never indulge in the pleasure of dancing, but simply became patronesses in order that they could help the worthy cause as much as possible. In connection with their withdrawal it was reported that Rev. Dr. John Handley, pastor of the First M. E.

Church. had requested or suggested that they do so, and the withdrawals of other ladies, belonging to churches of the same denomination were looked for, it being expected that some of the other pastors might offer some opposition. When Dr. Handley was asked to give his version of the rumors that were current yesterday afternoon, he said that he was greatly surprised to hear that be had been dictating to the members of his congregation. He stated that he did speak to one of the ladies about the matter, not as her but simply as a friend.

He denies that he asked her to resign as a patroness, but says that, knowing she exercised much influence in the church, especially among a young class of people, whom both she and he hoped to see converted, he' merely called attention to the discipline of the church, and asked her what Impression her appearance at the ball would create among the other members. He did this merely. as a friend. and left her to reason the matter in her own mind. She reasoned, talked with the other patroness from the church, and they both withdrew their names.

SILVELA ON THE SITUATION The Spanish Statesman Forcibly Attacks Administrative Immoralities. -MADRID, January Silvela made exhaustive speech to-day to a meeting of his partisans, in which he severely criticised the existing political and administrative immorality. Senor Silvela considers that the government is powerless to cope with tional questions, to pacify the colonies and to organize the peninsular and colonial finances. He regards the return of the Liberals to power as impolitic and dangerous, and says that an intermediate ministry capable of solving the political and economical problems is urgently required, and also the assemblage of the Cortes. Senor Silvela extols the policy of Martinez Campos in Cuba, and affirms that the Washington Government is exercising pressure on the question of reforms.

He believed that the Queen Regent is alive to public opinion and will sanction the legislation of an intermediate conservative save the prestige of the throne and satisfy the erying needs of the country. This allusion to the throne from the lips of a statesman like Senor Silvela is regarded to be impossible unless he had a strong warranty, Senor Silvela having recently conferred with the Queen. Official dispatches from Havana state that the Spanish have been victorious and have inflicted heavy, losses on the rebels in series of fights in Pinar del Rio and Havana provinces. Twelve of principal instigators of the rebellion in the Philippines, including Rojas, were shot at Manila to-day. Numerous engagements have occurred in the Island of Luzon, the Spanish being vietorious and killing 100 rebels.

Captain General Polavieja is preparing to attack the insurgents in Cavite. A CLERGYMAN DISAPPEARS The Police Here Asked to Look for Rev. Josiah H. Price, of Quakertown. The police of this city were yesterday notifed of the mysterious disappearance of a well-known Baptist clergyman, of Quakertown, who has been missing since Jannary 7.

The missing man. is Rev. Josiah H. Price, who is also well acquainted in this city in ministerial and business circles. He is about 56 years of age.

5 feet 7 inches in height, weight about 155 pounds, reddish beard, 110 moustache, and when last seen Wits dressed in a black cutaway cont and vest, with striped trousers and a blue overcoat. His son, William H. Price, of Quakertown, was here in search of him on Saturday, and said that on Thursday last his father was seen in this city in company with several other men and that he cashed a check for $300 at a bank in the vicinity of Third and Chestnut streets. Mr. Price owns a large farm in' Quakertown and frequently came to this city purchase supplies.

On this occasion he made some purchases and had them sent to his home, where they were received. It. was also reported that Mr. Price was seen at Edgley Park, but no trace of him could be discovered. Mr.

Price enjoyed the best of health, and when he left home it was only to attend to some business matters. About two years ago, however, he was seized with a dizzy spell while away from home, and six months later was again stricken, but he seemed to have fully recovered from those attacks. The missing man's son visited Captain of Detectives Miller last evening, and reported that he had visited all the places at, which he wa's likely to find his father, unable to hear anything of his whereabouts. THE ARBITRATION TREATY The London Globe Says There is Nothing in It of Which Englishmen Should Feel Proud. LONDON, January Globe this afternoon says it sees no reason for Britons to rejoice at the conclusion of the arbitration treaty with the United States, adding: "Great Britain's experience in arbitration with America has always been futile and diculous.

It is no particular triumph for the Marquis of Salisbury's statesmanship. and most self-respecting Englishmen would like to forget the circumstances leading to it. The in our history beginning with the Venezuelan trouble. and President Cleveland's gross insult and ending with the conclusion of the treaty contains nothing to be proud of and a great deal which most of 11S would be glad to obliterate." Editorial Bonbons Senator Wolcott will probably confine himself to one song while abroad, "Silver Threads Among Post. Senator Hill thinks it just as profitable not to waste his breath talking now.

His suecessor will shortly be elected. -Baltimore American. So many Pennsylvanians are going to the McKinley inauguration that some of the Ohio office-seekers are feeling Louis Post-Dispatch. A physician says that insane people ought to ride bicycles, but it is to be hoped they won't. It is hard enough to dodge the riders who are merely Globe.

Mr. Choate's reported desire to get out of the Senatorial matter sounds strange. Just how a man can get out of something he is not in is rather difficult to understand. -New York Journal. Undoubtedly the effort to get John Sherman into the Cabinet has for its chief purpose the putting of Mark Hanna in his seat In the Senate.

That is the milk in that cocoa-Boston Herald. If the Business Men's Leagues of the various Eastern cities would follow the exampie of the St. Louis Business Men's League and keep out of politics, they would be more suecessful. -St. Louis Star.

Emperor William has now turned architect by designing for the German Protestant Church at Jerusalem. Well, as long as he doesn't try to play the flute let us not Leader. An adherence to and insistence upon principle in polities is but the simple embodiment of common decency and business honesty in getting done the necessary work of a progressive -Buffalo Express. Mr. Penrose will be the youngest Senator that Pennsylvania has ever elected, but he has had much political experience of one kind and another, and is a man of fine general ability.

-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It would not be advisable, under most eircumstances, for the United States to undertake the manufacture of armor: but if there is any Intention to "hold the Navy Department sooner a national armor plant is started the better. -New York Herald. 10-NIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS Oetoroons Weber and Fields' Company Continuous Performance in Repertoire Milk White Flag OPERA HOUSE.

Crane, in a Fool of Fortune ELEVENTH ST. OPERA HOUSE. Minstrelsy Wife's Honor New York Divorce GRAND OPERA Opera Sisters' Burlesque Run on the Bank NINTH AND Vaudeville, Curios Maria Fields' Minstrels The Tornado Gay New York Tete-a-Tete I care not how in reckless rout The rude winds blow the leaves about: Nor how in summer vales serene They toss the gray above the green. I have--here where no cold winds be A kindly cot that covereth me, And one whose smile can cheer and charm In the strong circle of my arm. Vain is the winter's icy art While her dear love doth warm my heart.

THE IMES PUBLISHED EVERY DAY. PUBLICATION OFFICE THE TIMES BUILDING, Chestnut and Eighth Streets. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT THE TIMES NEW BUILDING, Sansom Street, above Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE 15 SPRUCE STREET. THE DAILY TIMES is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for Six Cents a week.

By mail, Three Dollars a year; per month, Thirty Cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES- Five Cents per copy; Two Dollars a year by mail. THE TIMES PHILADELPHIA. A The Times TWELVE PAGES PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 12, 1897 How to Make Good Times. will be al return of prosT of perity general whenever confidence there in is a our revival financial system and in business channels, and the present time is full of promise for the restoration of what is commonly called good times.

In this country good times means the employment of capital in all the various channels which invite it, resulting in the employment of labor at compensating wages, and all that we need to-day to accomplish that beneticent result is absolute confidence in financial and business circles. There is no want of money in the country. There is now in round numbers $1,600,000,000 of gold, silver and paper as a circulating medium, and all. of equal value in the business transactions of the country. Of this sum to-day more than one-third is on deposit in the sixty-five New York city banks which form the clearing house of that city, and which do not include the cash on hand held by the great savings banks, trust companies and other depositories of New York not embraced in the clearing house.

In addition to this enormous deposit of money in New York, the surplus reserve held by the banks of that city now amounts to 000,000, and only twice in the last fifteen years bas the bank reserve been so high. Money is cheaper in New York city today than in any of the other leading financial cities of the Demand loans are readily obtained in New York at to 2 per cent. per annum, while in London they now range from to in Berlin from to and in. Paris from to 3. In addition to these very favorable conditions for inaugurating good times, the merchandise exports of the United States.

during the last six months exceeded imports by over $200,000,000. Never before in the history of the country was the balance of trade so largely in favor of United States. Demagogues will tell the people that the Shylocks of New York have made a corner in money to oppress those who are compelled to borrow. They know it to be untrue if they know anything about it, but they mislead the honest people, and that accomplishes their chief aim. There is not a man in Kansas or in South Carolina, where the cheap money heresy is most rampant, who could not borrow any amount of money in New York city on call loans at from to 2 per cent.

per annum, when offering government securities or the securities of any State whose credit is unquestioned; but they cannot borrow this money on the securities of any State where there is uncertainty as to the maintenance of public and private credit and the payment in dollars as good as those which have been borrowed. This large accumulation of money in New York is as much deplored by the people who hold it as it is by the people of the country who need it. It is ready for safe investment at a low rate of interest in any State of the Union, for the development of industry and trade and the enlarged employment of labor, but it cannot be commanded in any State whose credit is in any degree doubtful, and never can be obtained for the improvement of such States until they re-establish their credit on a positive and enduring basis. There is general want of confidence among those who control capital solely because of the doubtful attitude of nearly one-half the States of the Union. Had Alabama, or Georgia, or North Carolina, or Tennessee, at the late election declared unequivocally in favor of honest money and thus established their credit beyond question, millions of capital would at once have flowed into any one of those States for the development of their boundless wealth, the increase of their population, the better requital of their labor and the general enrichment of the Commonwealth; but not one of the Southern States, with the single exception of West Virginia, has scrupulously maintained her credit and thus given notice that an honest dollar invested in the State would be Within are lights and shadows shed On sweet wee forms tucked up in bed.

Hath glory such alluring gleams As children smiling in their dreams? 0. world of waste and wintry snow. Give me but this--my fireside's glow, A shelter in the storm strife, With love of little ones and wife, And I shall yield all other art For that sweet love that warms my heart! Atlanta Constitution. The brilliant audience that greeted Mr. Crane last night in nis new society play, "A Fool of Fortune," included several box parties.

Two boxes were taken by Mrs. William H. Newbold, given for Miss Berwind and a party of friends, including a number of beauties, and Countess Pappenhiem also bad a box. McKinley will be the third Methodist President of the United States. Of the others, eight have been Episcopalians, six Presbyterians, two Unitarians, one Christian and one Free-Thinker.

The gossipy New York Sun, in its "Topics About Town" column, gives this description of Count Pappenheim as seen at Ober-Ammergau on the occasion of the last Passion Play there: "Count Pappenheim had been married to Miss Wheeler only a short time before, and had taken his wife to his home In Southern situated only a short distance from the little village that was then thronged with strangers, among whom the Americans and English predominated. The excitement of existence in the little town was the almost daily appearance of the count, and the dreary hours not occupied by the play were diverted instead almost exclusively by the visits of the count and his wife. The particularly striking feature of his appearance was the Bavarian peasant costume which, seated in an extremely smart London mail phaeton. he invariably wore, to the astonishment of the people who saw him for the first time and were ignorant of his identity. He wore the short, light-colored cloth breeches, embroidered on the side, and SO short that they stopped several inches above his knees.

According to the custom of the region, his legs were quite bare for several inches below the knee, and the queer stockings that covered them as far down as the ankle were all that concealed the count from the public gaze. On his head was one of the broad-brimmed felt hats of the country, and he wore one of the gaily -colored embroidered belts that the peasants affect. It was his particular pleasure to divulge himsel. in this rig to the Americans at Ober-Ammergau, and the contrast between his appearance and the well-kept, modish equipage he drove was striking enough to attract as much attention as he seemed to desire." Mrs. Clarke Merchant, 1615 Walunt street, will give a dance in honor of her daughter, Miss Estelle I.

Merchant, on the evening of January 27. Singing boys have made their appearance on Chestnut and other streets. They are common enough in Europe, but it is novelty here. They should be encouraged. Several well-known ladies are laid up with injuries received from being knocked down by reckless bicycle riders.

There are more of such accidents than anybody knows anything about. Mrs. Blanchard. wife of Rev. Dr.

Blanchard, is mourning the death of a sister who was knocked down and killed by a bicycle, but that happened in another city. this city, daughter of Edward Coles, one The wedding of Miss Virginia Coles, of Philadelphia's most prominent citizens, will take place to-day. The gentleman she is to marry is George S. Robbins, of New York. and a large number of New Yorkers have come en to attend the wedding, including the Misses Morgan, daughters of J.

Pierpont Morgan, and Miss Rhett, who are at the Stratford; and Van Rensselaer Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy, Sir. and Mrs. Thatcher, Mr.

Adams, Mrs. George A. Robbins, Allan A. Robbins. Mr.

and Mrs. Julian W. Robbins, Mrs. Robert Wordsworth and Miss Wordsworth, Mrs. George Cabot Ward and Miss Abby W.

Stevens. All of the latter are at the Bellevue. It will be a home wedding. William Tell stuffs birds for a living now in Berlin: Tannhauser is butler, Goethe a barber, Kant keeps all employment bureau, and Richard Lowenherz (Coeur de Lion) is a chemist amid 30,000 Schulzes. So says the Berlin Directory.

A large theatre party and supper will be given by Mrs. Brinton this evening. The preachers have taken up the dreadful Seeley dinner and even Moody made it the subject of a discourse. One of the sermons preached on it was from the text: "It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for these." If it goes on that Sherry banquet will become as famous as Belshazzar's feast. Care does not seem to shorten the lives of British Premiers.

Mr. Gladstone, by completing his 87th year, has broken the record of modern times which had been held by Addington, Lord Sidmouth, who died at over 86. Earl Russell died at 86. the Duke of Wellington at 82, Lord Palmerston and Earl Grey at 81. Of the other Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria who are dead the Earl of Beaconstield's age was 77, the Earl of Aberdeen's 76, the Earl of Derby's 80, Viscount Melbourne's 69, and Sir Robert Peel's 62.

Mr. Gladstone and Sir Robert are the only two Premiers who were not peers or did not accept a peerage from the Queen. Miss Lottie Lebach, from York, who was visiting Mrs. E. W.

Hanauer, of 1422 Franklin street, has left for Baltimore. A stag dinner was given last night by H. W. Dearborn, late of New York, at the Walton, where the centre of big round table was filled in with flowering plants to give a touch of decoration to the occasion. The festive assemblage included Ex-Governor Bunn and Benton S.

Bunn. E. B. Campion and W. Harry Campion, H.

B. McClellan and Edgar G. Murphy, of New York; Harry Nunez, W. A. Powell, W.

Hampden Johnstone, G. Morris Dorrance, Harry B. Gross, Frank Howe, Claud S. Jarvis, J. E.

Jetfords, Samuel J. Keeeh, H. Gittus Lonsdale, James S. McCartney and Louis N. Megargee.

A tea will be given this afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Shipley, at their home in Germantown, in honor of Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred C. Garrett and Mr. and Mrs. Walter T.

Moore. Many fashionable people yesterday attended the beautiful tea given by Edmund D. Lewis at his artistic home on South Twentysecond street. Miss Poe, a Baltimore belle, is visiting in Philadelphia. One of the very largely attended teas the past week was that of Miss Malin, of 2124 Pine street..