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The times., 1897-11-07
NanSen.

In the childhood days of the Saxon, while
yet the world was young,
And of wariike deeds and ventures the grim
Tipped nlinStTels sung,
With the beak of his open galley in the
sunsets scarlet flame,
Over the wild Atlantic The NorscIand Yik-
ing came.
Those were the days Of giants; great was
the world and wide,
With room for man and mammoth, and
goblin life beside,
Now we have slain The mammoth, we have
driven the ghosts away;
And we move with a calm conviction
through the light OF a rull-srown day.
We have throttled the forked lightning: we
have ridden the restless wave;
We have tracked the winds of the ocean
to the mouth OF their tabled cave;
But far to the icy NoTthward, with wierd
witcE-lights aglow,
Locked in death-white silence, stands the
Castle OF the Snow.
A secret lives in the. castle, in the heart OF
the silent cold;
In the waste OF the piled ice mountains
saga sleeps untold;
Armored with dauntIess courage, strong
with stubborn viii,
In tine mountain land OF Norway there
dwells a Viking still.
Welcome, o NorthIand Viking, With your
tiny flame of Thought,
You have melted the frozen barriers, by
countless winters wrought;
May you scape the Jaws of the ieebergs.
and shaIter the last stern bar,
And enter, the Envoy OF Science, to ths
Court of the Polar Start
l. LAMPREY.
The times., 1897-11-07
The Cash Value of Patriotism

Tie Indian famine is over and there
are gcsd reas rs for expecting bouaUeous
harvests in Russia and Argentina, hence
there wili be fewer reasons for cultivat-
ing the Mckinley breed Of pnusp srity than
happened soue In0Hths ago. Energetic
and industrious young Americans would
do I~.ter 70 seek some other field of
usefulness, and sumo of them have been
doing it by securing seats IN the Ohio
legislature. The political conditions in
tlleir state seem 10 illustrate their good
sense.
On the face Of the returns there is a
Rcpublic1u in2 jority Of five in the body.
This may be cut down to less, or 10
. nothing, before the final result is estab-
lished. Instead Of this amounting to q
depressing circumstance it ought to fill
the hearts Of new legislators with joy,
and for the folio wing reasons:
AIr. Hanna has not endeared himself to
his colleague ia the Senate by admitting
as alleged that Mr.. Foraker bad the
choice Of the stump in his interest -'or
going 10 sail with his friend Kurt as
companion-' IN fact, Nr. Hanna las been
rather irritable and careless about his
expressions regarding Senator Foraker,
Gov Bushnell and other Republicans
equally az good" 1t follows that, on a
close margin III the legislature, Mr.. Han
IA IS chances for election 70 the American
Senate are. by his enemies, not consid-
cred as good as they might be.
Gov. Bushnell wants TO 20 10 the Sen
ate. So perhaps do others None of them
wishes TO see Mr.. Hanna go there They
will t'y 70 keep him out cf it. Here is
where the opportunities and activities
o. the humble Legislators viii come in
6ushncll may get up a combination Of
anti Hanna Republicans and sodne Dem
ocrats, in an attempt to destroy the
business manager" and help himself TO
the Joo. Then there will be fun Mr.
The times., 1897-11-07

Lately there have been intense dissen-
sions in the Cabinet, Secretary Ga ge be-
ing most directly involved. Gage prepared
for the President long outline OF his
recommendations concerning the finances
OF the Government. 1t WAS for circulation
in th- Cabinet only, and copies enough
were made for this purpose. 1t WAS nOs
to be given to the papers until after being
digested BY the Cabinet, and antn long
after the ONO and other elections were
settled The fun text OF Cages sug-
gestions was preIlatGrely printed before
the elections
The Secretary OF the Treasury has been
very much annoyed and embarrassed, and
so deeply dc he eel IN this matter that
he set on foot u quiet inv estiga ton TO
find out bv whom the matter was given
to the papers Secretary Ga ge asceItained
this point to his own satisfaction, = nd tbs
discovery Cd not make more cordial the
relations OF three members of the Ca abiuet.
McReuna probably VIII be nominated for
the Supreme Court III December, and iU Is
quite probable that number OF Cabines
changes viii be made soon after ths new
Attorney General is decided upon In the
event or Gary being successful in his
campaign for Germans seat, II is thought
probable by some that First Assistant
Postmaster General Heath viii be made
his successor. Heath has 20 attend To
nearly all the important matters in the
department, and the President thinks very
highly OF him. There is little doubt that
he would staIsd an excellent chance TO bs
come the lead OF the postal service.
The times., 1897-11-07

Hayemeyer and many other magnates,
monopolistie. financial or OF the common
carrier order. need the services of Marcus
Aurelius IN Capitol IIill They will put
him there ali right, and there viii be
more 5cy among score or two men.
bers Of the Ohio legislature than if their
respective but long-lost uncles had left
them Icgades of $50, 600 apiece.
What a nice thing it isto be "a member
OF the Ohio legislatures! TO such people
the genial side of our friend Senator
Hanna viii be shown in all it's gocd-
fellowship, diplomacy and several differ.
ent kinds OF charity during the ensuing
weeks. Aud he will get there! Oh, yes;
ne will get tUerei
The times., 1897-11-07

Mr.. Ricnard Croker, and several friends
with hin, are going South to rest after
the labors of the campaign in New York.
All reports that the magnate Of latter
sails and rammanyis Ill may be dismissed
as cmmerical. lie is only tired and has
bad cole. That at least is something
better than the bad frost from which
his Republican colleague is suffering
After what Mr.. Croker told the English
editor, Mr. stead, we suspect that he
has many excellent ideas and intentions
IN the line OF reform. 1t must be said
however, that the fact that Asa Bird
Gardiner is to be of the dunket CT vic
tory has rather "a bad lock. A reform
party travelling toward warmer cline
with Gardiner is suggestive, to say the
least.
The times., 1897-11-07

There is q new notion in London in re-
gard to hot water. Hot water is a very
good thing when the temperature is not
too high and you are not in it, and the lack
OF hot water in the right place is one OF
the chief causes of total depravty in this
world. When one considers the number
of oaths that have been sworn because hot
water for shaving did not arrive in time,
and the amount OF dyspepsia caused by
eating OF dishes which needed hot water
8nd very much OF it, and the condition
of the stairs ir some office buildings and of
municipal politics in some cities, one is
inclined tn thihk that a symbolic figure
OF hot water would do very well to repre-
sent TIE angel of health. And they have
devised plan to increase the hot water
supply il. London. Tie plan is this: Lon
don is lighted by gas, and although gas
always gives off heat this heat has hitherto
been wasted. spiral coil is now TO be
placed above the flame, and this coil
fed with v ater from the main. The water
is converted into steam, which passes
through an iror coil at the base of the
lamp-Iost, and lot water is the result. It
costs yvori:ingman aboGtthree fart hmgst0
light fire and boil a gallon of water
Will be of vast benefit TO the workingman
The times., 1897-11-07
A sufficient Req son.

tFrom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Ny dedh lady, 1 find that 1 must
wcally bwake off our engagement, don t
you know"
What's the trouble now, Marky?"
L was told by bweastly person that
your father once ran a wheelharrow, don I
you know -
''oh, that's al right, Marky. He onI ' ran
il for an election bet.
The times., 1897-11-07

Both Carlists aud Republicans in Spain
are preparing demonstrations in honor Of
Weyler On bis return TO his native country.
The e0veinmentia watching these proceed
ings with careful eye, and win discipline
tie cx-oaptain general for his insubordi
nate speech Oh leaving Havana, if u thinks
it safe 70 DO so. Very grave indications OF
a inGtinous spirit among the officers OF the
Spanish army have been seen, and there
are excellent prospects for an outbreak
against the dynasty. A pronunciamento
from bon Carlos is expected at any time.
The times., 1897-11-07

A Chicago man is catching microbes.
Not ia his system; that is not the idea;
the Chicago man has no more microbes in
his system than any other man who drinks
Chicago water. He catches them scien-
tificallg, with fly paper. He goes out and
hangs his fly paper on a lamppoSt, and then
stands at u safe distance and watches,
while the unsuspecting microbes ahght.
He has caught as many as 800 microbes
in three minutes while haunting Il bicycle
stand. Some Of them may have been moral
microbes; that is, microbes that feed IN the
moral faculties and make a man swear
when he discovers that some unprIncipled
person has gone off with his lamp, so
that he will have TO walk home or run
the risk Of Icing arrested, or shot, by
policeman. The policemen in Chicago are
empo wered to shoot people who evade the
lamp and bell laws. But whether these
microbes fed on mans soul or merely on
digestion, they were caught, and it was
very interesting. 1t would be Interesting
too, if he would hang his fly paper up in
the halls Of Congress some day; or in a
crowd Of disappointed officeseekers. He
might have more specimens than ne could
classify.
The times., 1897-11-07
Practical Christianity.
(From Pearsop's Weekly.) !

A lady mnchinterested III good works was
bewailing the loss of a somewhat ill-bred
but extremely wealthy neighbor, who had
been very liberal in Ibis help TO he- country
charities Mr.. Y. is dead, ,'-said she; ''he
was SO good and kind and helpful to me in
all sorts of ways. He was SO vulgar, poor
dear fellow, we could not know him in Lon
don; butwe shall meet him in heaven
The times., 1897-11-07
Ocular Demonstration.
Frorn the Chicago New

tFrom the chicago NeWs-l
Mr.. Burkley Here's d newspaper item
that says peoples heads have been known
TO grow, even after they were thirt y-flvs
years Of age. l wonder If that's so?
Mrs. Burkiey Well after that experience
OF yours at the club banquet last week
I'm surprised that you can have any doubs
about it,
The times., 1897-11-07
Prepared TO Die.

From the Chicago Tribune.l
Opiim-You are always predicting dis
aster fCreverybody and everything. GOesu's
tile plan OF creation suit you? What
would you do. II you had the power, 70
make mankind happier
PesSin Wen, ia have about nineteen
twenucths Of the human family made or
asbestos
The times., 1897-11-07

As tn" state OF Wyoming has discovered
a boulder containing $50, 900 worth OF
gold, it must be very evident 20 the
country that MT. McKinley's abandonment
Of his Wulcott bimetallic commission was
completely Justified. By the way, the old
stock or prosperity arguments IS consid-
erably exhausted The President has
stopped thanking himself for the Indian
fainine arG the Argentine drought, and
even the klondike is no longer popular
conversation with bin. We must have
some new gold discoveries or something.
The times., 1897-11-07

a German warship has gone 20 Port
au Prince, Haiti, for The purpose of col
lecting an indemnity for the arrest and
Imprisonment of Herr Lueders, German
subject. We are reminded 10 wonder
what the Kaiser would have dcne TO
Spain if the unfortunate American, DIR.
Ricardo Rniz, WHO was arrested without
.,ause or warrant, repeatedly tortured and
finally murdered in his cell, had been a
Germa;i? 1t takes the free government Of
America to put up with that sort of thngl
The times., 1897-11-07
Prodirnlitr in Ink.

Urom the Cincinnati IliqmrsT.l
''You have put too many rs in the word
very" said the tutor.
what or it, retorted the sci0n OF a
nevis rich house. Il guess pa is able to
pay Tor the Ink
The times., 1897-11-07
Circulation statement.

Communications intended for publication
Tie Times should be ;u'sely and plainly
ryitten and must Ia al cases Be accompanied
By the name and address Of the 1rriteT. Re-
iecsed communications lsiH not BE- preserved.
and onIy manuscripts Of obrio,S tatl ortance
,rIU be returned 10 their authors.
The times., 1897-11-07

Secretary Alger VIII ask for $4,000, 600
To complete our seacOast defehses ANA TO
Increase the heavy artillery arm of the
national military service. 1t is not j
good time for the Congress to be niggardly
about such matters While we are demand
hands of the Administration, the means
to maintain and defend it ought to bo
furnished
The times., 1897-11-07

The Cuban colony of New York occupied
Chckering Hall Friday night aud ratified
the declarations formulated at the Astoi
House meeting the other day. The gather
ing was enthusiastic for Cuban liberty and
pronounced against humbug autonomy.
The times., 1897-11-07

days, is q matter Of common gossip about
the Capital Gary never had any prepara-
ton for his duties as Postmaster General,
and his slbOrdinates have relieved him Of
all the actual work and details OF tho
department.
The President has taken most earnestly
to Gary's candidacy for the Senate, and
no DOUBT lis only regret Is that his Post
master General cannot be sworn in as =
solon before 1889.
The times., 1897-11-07

In the view of his friends Mr.. Seth
Low had almost enough names On his
original petition To eject him, II all the
minds US Of :. similar occurrence in con
neclion with the Chicago election last
spring. one of the candidates for mayer,
Mr.. Washington Hesing, received only one-
tenth as many votes as there We're names
on the petition calling for his nomina
tlon. Under such circumstances how IS
an aspirant going to tell where he is att"
The times., 1897-11-07

than lose his circulation and advertising
patronage. He admits the truth that the
party OF the people cannot be bought Of or
coerced into supporting the gold boilers
Very Well, lie is sorry, because there is
much ceDuibutory interest on that side OF
the question; hut, in place OF losing the
other and more locally important adyan
tages be viii attempt to promote the good
of cause which hehates, and contemplate
with equanimity the destruction Of one
that he worships
People who are not acquainted with Mr..
Henry watterson perchance might regard
this as queer. 1t is. SO is he Average
opinion would tend TO the conclusion that a
man who occupies the attitude toward
the Democratic party that he does is
'allenated'' either in his moral or else
in his mental elements.
With that supreme effort, to say it
pleasantly, we dismiss Mr.. Henry Waiter.
son forever from the columns Of The Times.
The times., 1897-11-07
wellington as a wit.
CFrom the London News.)

An Austrian princess once asked the Duke
OF Wellington, How is it that we in Vienna
speak French SO much better than you Eng
lish?" To which the duke replied: Well,
princess, if Napoleop had twice visited Lon
don with his armies, as he has Vienna,
have no doubt we should be much more IA
miliar with the French language
Louis Philippe OF France introduced TO
the Duke Of Wellington one OF the French
marshals whom he had beaten in the
peninsula. The marshal partly turned
his back to the duke, which greatly dis
pleased Louis Philippe, who apologized
to the duke for the marshal's rudeness.
Forgive him, SIRE said the duke, 81
taught him to do that in the Peninsula" :"
The times., 1897-11-07

There are people who, Ike the small boy
who lad Just begun 10 study Latin, are very
fond of dragging in foreign words in their
con yersation. Sometimes the unfortunate
foreign phrase isnarsha1ed on the scene by
the scruff of its neck, so to speak, and the
effect is painful. Sometimes it is merely
employed in place of an English express
sion, W hich means exactly the same thing
Why should we not say man has So 900
year instead Of $4,000 per annum? There
is no reason except that the Latin sounds
fine. Why should hymn book be called
'Iaudes u oRlini'' when Praise God"
pieans precisely the same thing? And al
though ''Au revoir'' or "A uf wiedersehen''
does sound little more elegant than the
genial American See you later" there is
no foreign Farewell more beautiful tf;.n our
English ''Good-by'
AnG there are people, too, who seem to
think that they prove that they are edu.
rated by using Ia tin derivatives. They viii!
say, The matter viii receive my consid-
eration," when they simply mean I'm
think about it" they say, Il anticipate
that 1ny daughter will Complete her course
az instruction when they mean that she
win finish her year at school. Such Ian
clothes en- la figure; You may if you are
preoccupied and the figure i 5 very lifelike,
beg its pardon for brushing against its
Clothes; but you do not do that thing on
purpose Let us respect our Anglo-Saxon
AS the small boy proud of his Latin said:
''Bonus ego cervus"-''good idear'
The times., 1897-11-07

They have a new idea in st. Louis. and
it is called bonded young men. This does
not mean. as two innocent young ladies
gazing into an insurance eonpany's win
dow once thought, that the young men are
insured as husbands; it means that there
are a good many young men holding re-
sponsible positions in st. Louis, as in any
big town, and it has been thought well to
insure their good habits. So the employer
makes IN arra ngeInent with the iusurau uce
The times., 1897-11-07

he Superior Sense OF Cats.
(From the Chicago Reeord.l
"Cats have more sense than dogs
"what makes you think so2''
t'You neyei see a cat hanging around
man who has kicked it,
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
THE DAVIS MILLION.
The Win Found In the Mortuarv
 Urn Pronounced Valid
CONTESTANTS DECLARED TIA FORGERY.
If Finally Admitted to Probate tl.e Vast Estate of Jacob z. Davis Will be Divided Between Mrs. Belle Cur
 us and Lizzie Muir.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.s-The jury In the Davis will contest returned a verdict finding that the disputed testa- mentary document was genuine.
 If the will is now admitted to probate by Judge Coffey an estate valued at over S1, GOO, 900 will be divided between Mrs. Belle Curtis and her sister, Lizzie Muir. Mrs. Curtis is the wife of ex- Assemblyman John Curtis. The case was stubbornly fought by eastern rela- tives of Davis, who claimed that the will offered for probate was a forgery.
 Jacob z. Davis arrived here in early days, formed co-partnership with Alex Boyd, and by judicious investment of his money soon became million aire. When he died in the Continental hotel, Philadelphia, last October, he was in the act of dictating will dis posing of his property. It was then believed that he had died intes- tate. A search of his personal effects in this city resulted in the find- ing of two wills leaving all of his property to his wife, but as she had died several years before him the wills were not of any value. Some four or five weeks after his death paper pur- porting to be his will was filed for probate in Judge Coffey's court The will was brief. and dis posed of the vast estate in few words. Mrs. Belle Curtis and Miss Lizzie Muir were named as the legatees. A contest was at once begun by relatives of Davis who live in the east. They claimed that the paper off, fered for probate was a forgery, and they asked in theIr petition that it be denied probate.
 The will was found in an urn con- taining the ashes of Mrs. Davis. The contestants claimed that the paper had been slipped into the urn by the forgers, and that it had been drawn several weeks after the death of Davis. The urn containing the ashes was brought in court and made an exhibit in the case. When the verdict was announced, Att torney Heggerty at once moved that the will be not admitted to probate, notwithstanding the finding of the jury that the paper was genuine. He claimed that there was no evidence to prove that it had been legally exc cuted.
 Judge Coffey said that he would lis ten to the argument and pass on the question of admitting the will to pro- bate. If he decides to admit and ac- cept the disputed paper the estate will be divided between Mrs. Curtis and Miss Muir, as they are the only ones named in the paper that the jury de- clared is genuine.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
THREE YEARS WORK,
The Time Required to Realize Returns In
 the KIondike.


 WASHINGTON, Aug. s-Postmaster General Gary has received a copy of the Alaska Mining Record of Juneau of August 4, in which is an interesting sketch of the gold mining regions. The valley of the Yukon and it's tributaries constitute, it says, one vast gold field, where scarce- ly shovelful of earth can be found that will not show color of the precious metal. But it also calls attention to the difficulties which lie in the path of the gold seekers.
 Tn the first place, whoever comes to Alaska must be prepared to support himself for at least two years. In the field of industrial labor every position is filled. The professions are fully represented; the labor market is glutted. Mining and prospecting alone remain open to the newcomer He can not depend on his own labor for support in any direction. Little can be accomplished in less than three years stay. A good part of the first season will be consumed in reaching the mines; then even if claim be at once located only preliminary work can be done; the second year the claim can be well opened up and probably some money made; the third year gen. orally renders the promised returns.o
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
AN ARRAY OF TALENT,
Prominent Men Who VIII Speak at the
 G. A. K. Camp-Fires at Buffalo

BUFFALO, NY, Aug 1S.-Gen. Curtis, chairman of the committee having charge of the speeches to be made at the camp-fires and reunions at the c. A. k. encampment has received letters of acceptance from the following promi- nent men who had been asked to speak:
 President Mckinley; Gov. Frank $. Black of New York; Russell A. Alger, secretary of war; Gov. Bradley of Ken lucky; Gov. Hazen S. Pingree of Mich- igan; Gen. Daniel Buttertield, of Cold Springs, N. Y.; Mai Gen. o. o. How ard, U. $. A. (retired), Burlington, Vt; Gen. B. II. Ericsson, Jacksonville, ILL L;Representatives Warren B. Hooker, Philip E. Low, Wallace T. Foote, Jr., James R. Howe and Wm. Sulzer. of New York; ex-Governors George ". Peck, w. H. Upham and W. D. How ard, Of Wisconsin; A. T. Bliss, depart ment commander c. A. R., department of Michigan; q. Washington Aldridge, state superintendent of public works; James E OGrady, speaker of the as- sembly; J. Warren Keller ex- speaker of the house of representa- tives, Ohio; Wm. E. Werner, justice of the supreme court Rochester; Patrick J. Gleason, mayor of Long Island City; Gen. Horatio c. King, Brooklyn; Mai. Julius H.. Stahl, New York; Addition k. Colvin, state treasurer, Great Falls; Col. Wm. Lamb. Norfolk, Va; Rev. K. H. Bowling, Norfolk, Va., and Hon. F. Buckner, member of congress, Sagi- nav, Mich.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
BANKERS IN COUNCIL.
Annual Meeting of the American Bank
 CTS Association.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 1s.-Every seat in the Detroit opera house was occu- pied when, at little after 10 a. m, President Robert J. Lowrey called to order the twenty-th ird annual con- vention of the American Bankers as- sociation.
 The presence of many ladies testified to the great interest taken by Detroit in the proceedings of the convention, and the elaborate decorations of the opera house gave further evidence of Detroit's hospitality.
 Prayer was offered by Rev. Father Henry A. Schapman, president of De- troit college. Mayor Maybury then welcomed the delegates to Detroit in an address more than usually happy and felicitous.
 Gov. Pingree was late in arriving, but when he came forward he was re- ceived with generous round of ap- plause, and he welcomed the delegates to Michigan.
 The last address of welcome came from George II. Russell, member of the executive council for Michigan.
 Then President Lowrey arose to re. spond to the greetings of Michigan and to give his annual address.
 The annual report of the secretary. James R. Branch. of New York city. followed.