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The times., 1899-02-19

Gus ground. he knows also that one such
picture often brings in the means to paint
many things for arts sake alone; pictures
that must wait for the name to become
famous before buyers will care for them
What if they never do, The Kingdom OF
Heaven is not wrapped up in pecuniary sue
cess. The happiness OF studying nature
and reveling in art, pure and undefiled, is
more OF heaven than comes TO most mortalS
otherwise occupied.
An artists wealth consists not so much
in the extent of his possessions as in The
fewness of his wants. He may stir his oat-
meal with brush handle and have few
friends. He may spend six mQnths of the
year in the country, contented with 50 =
week board and be regarded by the farm
er's family as good company. but a harm
less lunatic. Still. Heaven will have few
surprises for such a man. Those artists
who are conspicuous at social functions
everywhere may come from France and get
their $1,000 for a single portrait painted in
two sittings. without provoking the envy
Of earnest men, who love art for its own
sake.
Society is not bad, and perhaps not so
insincere as some would have one believe,
but the secrets of art are not for them.
and too much familiarity with fashionable
society is not wholesome for the true ar
tist. Nature will tolerate no hali-heartei
worship. She is exacting.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved
her.
1t is her privilege to lead from, jov TO ioy:
For she inform the mind that is within her,
SO impress with quietneSs and beauty.
So sang Wordsworth, and Wordsworth
knew the truth.
JAMES HENRY MOSER.
The times., 1899-02-19
$1,000, 900 WILL CONTEST.
Caveat Filed to the Inst Testament
of Columbus Alexander.

Maurice B. Alexander filed a caveat yes
terday to the alleged last will and testa-
ment of the late Columbus Alexander.
The caveat states that the alleged will was
probated as TO personal property on the
25th day of February, 1895 and bears date
the 18th day of January OF the same year;
that letters testamentary were granted
thereon TO Rebecca Alexander, Walter o.
Alexander and Thomas W. Hay, who were
named as executors; that the caveato- is
grandson and one of the next Of kin Of the
decedent and proposes to contest the val
idity of such paper writing and the suf-
ficiency of said letters tsstamentary upon
the following grounds:
First-That the deceased was not at the
time of the making and subscribing by him
Of said paper of sound and disposing mind,
capable of making valid deed or contract.
Second-That the said paper writing was
obtained and its execution procured by
undue influence pTacticed against and upon
said decede2t by Rebecca Alexander and
Walter o. Alexander, or one of them or
some person or persons unknown to pa-
tit.oner Third-That said alleged will
was not the testators free and voluntary
act. but was procured from him by fraud
and coercion exercised upon him by the
above named parties or some other per-
which petitioner prays that the probate as
to personal property be set aside and such
refused as to real estate; ttat the letters
testamentary heretofore granted be re-
voked and issues be framed for trial before
a jury TO determine the allegations OF
fact.
Columbus Alexander was during his life
time a very prominent and wealthy citi-
zen of the District where he diel about a
year ago at his handsome residence on
West Washington Heights. Mr.. Alexan-
der achieved quite reputation in his suc-
cessfuI antagonism to the Cd Board OF
Public Works. AT the time OF his death
he was about S3 years OF age. and it Is
said that his estate is worth nearly sl.CO0,-
Oco. The will in question consists of about
fifteen typewritten pages. and contains
numerous bequests, all subject to a Life
estate of the testator's widow. Rebscca Al
eXander
The times., 1899-02-19
The Caverns of BELLA Mar.

Though fertile and beautiful beyond com
pare, Cuba ii not rich in natural curiosi-
ties; bat the caverns of Bella Mar. three
miles from MatanZas, are wonderful enough
to make up for other deficiencies in that
line. Hitherto the world has heard very
little of them. because they were acciden-
tally discovered only a few years ago, by
the sleepy Chinaman who owns the land
surrounding their only known entrance.
and during the war the Spanish authorities
kept it closed and guarded lest the caves
become an insurgs ut rendezvous. There
are tales, however, to the effect that in
spite OF Spanish sentries posted at the
mouth of the caverns, the rebels actually
did burrow tunnel into them from the sea
and used them as magazine for arms and
food supplies. 1t is also said that since
time out of mind smugglers and buccaneers
have hidden their plunder in the seaward
chambers, reached by passages known only
TO themselves. while the banditti OF the
The times., 1899-02-19
Things THAT OCCUPY
THE ENGLISH MIND
Frances Presidential Choice
Regarded as Wise.
The Irish Problem Again Holds the
Attention OF Parliament.
Afr. Redmond's Motion for an Inde-
pendent Irish LegisInture-The
Resignation of DIR. Garnett

London, Feb. Is.-No one can doubt that
NJ. Emile Loubet is an excellent successor
TO N. Faure. He is a man above suspicion,
which the other was not. He has had, as
NJ Faure had not. long. dignifed, and
useful public life, and. as the last and
weightiest consideration, he is the candi-
date of NJ. C!emenceau as the ittest man
for the presidency.
With NJ. Loubet installed at the Elysee
General Zurlinden is less TO be feared in
the shape Of q military pretender than he
was under VI. Faure, and as for Prince
Victor and the Duke OF Orleans their op-
portunity. such as it was. will be gone
Indeed, Mrs. Crawford, one of the shrewd-
est and best informed OF the English Paris
correspondents. declares today that even
at this moment, unless these royal pre-
tenders attempted TO enter France with
burnt cork on their faces and guitars in
their hands. il is difficult TO imagine how
they could cross the frontier.
This week s events in Parliament Of
fered striking evidence in support of the
old truth that 1t is 4 pure delusion to i'm
agine that England can rid herself Of
Irish problems by English palliatives.
Thursday and Friday were both claimed for
Ireland in the House of Commons, and the
old farce ended last night as these farces
generally end. with a fresh dole 10 ireland
from the British Exchequer. Mr.. Gerald
Balfour, after hopelessly losing his tenn
per with Mr.. Davitt, blurted out that the
Chancellor OF the Exchequer would grant
$1,000 yearly TO the Congested Districts
Board TO assist them and to help the people
OF the congested regions TO migrate.
Here are two Healy gems from last
nights debate. You've got the power"
said he, TO the government. we haven't.
We're rats and cockroaches" The Of
hcials,' he added, ARE a mere taxing ma
chine. Ireland is the spring board off
which officials are shot into new Offices"
Result of the Irish Debates.
But the Irish debates Of the week have
done more than produce fresh dole. They
have produced an authoritative under
standing as 10 the future relations between
the Nationaiists OF Ireland and the Liberal
party In the eyes OF many Nationalists
the new Liberalism, under such leaders as
Lord Rosebery, Sir II. Campbell Banner
man, and Sir Edward Grey, is suspected
OF disioyaity TO home rule Sir William
Harcourt and Mr.. John Morley are 10 them
The times., 1899-02-19
Painted to Sell

Such pictures sell readily for they please
everybody and the dealers are glad to get
them. The intelligent critic who comes
upon 1t afterward recognizes its higher ar
tistic excellence, though he knows per-
fectly that it was painted to sell The
critic recognizes the painters position and
although he knows the artist is on danger
The times., 1899-02-19
FIRST CASE UNDER NEW LAW.
The Leach Will Contest TO BE Heard
by Jury.

The first contested case in the Orphans
Court under the recent law providing for
the trial by jury OF certain causes arising
in the probating of wills will be heard on
Monday next The contest arises out OF
the disposition of the estate Of the late
Ezra W. Leach, of AnacOstia who be-
queathed all his property to Samuel II.
Lucas and excluded his relatives.
The Will Of the deceased is dated Deem
ber 20. 1896. and was filed for probate in
December, 1898. On the 18th day of the
present month Cyrus +. and Gustavus L.
Reed. first and second cousins, respective
!y, Of the deceased. filed a caveat TO the
will, alleging that the deceased was not
Of sound mind when he made the testa-
ment. that it IS not the last will. and that
ii was made under threats. fraud, and mis-
representations.
The times., 1899-02-19
Dried Fruit in switzerland.

The Department of State has been in
formed by Mr.. Leishman. Minister to
Switzerland that the Swiss government
authorizes the Importation of American
dried fruits into S@itzerland, provided
consignments be examined By an expert
and found exempt from scales or other
parasites.
The times., 1899-02-19
The Awakening.

Chilled feet and deep sense of cold
recalls me from my castle in Spain-breaks
at last long passionate reverie that l
must be content to record here with
line"
Two American painters have made repu-
tations with snow pictures The early
American painters were fond of winter
pictures and many OF them of great his
toric value are carefully preserved in mu-
seums and private collections First of
these and best known, was GignouX. who
was a prominent landscape painter in the
early part of the century; but like Nc
Kentee, who followed him and was much
truer, he did not penetrate to the inner
charm and beauty of winter There is a
conventional beauty about the work of
these men that the later art has out
grown. II remained for Bruce Crane and
Walter l.. Palmer to show what might b.
done with American winter for theme
These men have built up great reputa-
tions with winter pictures though they BY
no means contne themselves to this sea-
son.
Academic prizes have been awarded their
winter work and 1t has been highly prais-
ed by the critics at home and abroad Ii
is marvellous, the wide difference between
the point of view and method of these two
men. Crane paints a winter that is bleak
and dreary; but somehow he invests his
ieaden skies and unbroken fields of white
with poetry which fascnates the behold
The times., 1899-02-19

layman, whose vision is incomplete
merely exclaims How real that is" shud-
ders. and turns away, but the initiated lin
gers over the picture delighted and leaves
1t only to return and enjoy it again.
The Palmer point of view is very differ
ent. While Crane paints with great sug-
gestiveness and breadth. Palmer paints
with Photographic exactness and sense of
great detail; curling drifts, gurgling
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-20
FEARED SHE'D BE WIDOWED SOON
Mountain Lass Talks Freely About the
Marriage Question.


Marriage Question.
From the Washington Star.
One would scarcely go to the mountains
of West Virginia to find even so much as
a semblance to the story of 1.-THE Lady or
the Tiger but I came very nearly doing
it on one OCCASION 1 had been invited,
largely as recognition of my position as
the representative of the biggest timber
firm in the section, to attend mountain
dance, and ! was there having as good a
time as a man can have who doesn't
dance even the old-fashioned quadrilles
and that kind. At the moment in ques-
ton l was sitting out a dance" with the
prettiest mountain girl of the whole neigh
borhood, and l was madly jollying her
about not being married. She was "A,
which is old-maidhood in the mountains,
except in the case of very pretty girls,
of whom there are few among the noun
taineers.
81 could marry eff l wanted to, I reck
Oh, she said, with a shake of her head.
Yes. There's Jim Mullins. He wants
you. Why don't you marry him?"
asked with little more directness than
might have characterized my utterances
in more conventional atmosphere.
"Huh," she shifted. "Jin's red-headed
and freckliern a turkey aig.'
John Hrgan isn't. What's the matter
with John? I'm sure he would have you
quick enough if he could get you"
You're foolin', colonel she said.
blushing little. anyhow, I don't want
John. He walks bias like ez eff he was
cross-eyed in the feet
well, there's Sam Hodgkin. Sans a
good fellow and would make good hus-
band.''
"P'raps he would-fer some other lady,
but not fer me. Sans ugly enough to
make mule bray. I've seed him do it
by iist lookin over the fence
"How's the school teacher? He isn't so
bad looking, is he?''
What, that long. gangln', whopper-
jawed thing? Why, wouldn't marry him
if he was the last man on earth.''
Finding 1t rather difficult to satisfy this
fastidous mountain maid from the selec-
tions l was making I became a trifle more
personal
"Well" said with some effusion, "since
none of these will suit you, how do you
think I will do2
Goodness sakes, colonel" she exclaim-
ed with all the naivette of nature, ''ef
married as nice a lookin' man as you air.
leavin' all them others livin' round here
handy, I'd be a wilder before three
months. Shore
1t was compliment that + could not
do otherwise than recognize, and at the
same time it was very embarrassing, and
! don't know what would have happened
| if it had not been for the opportune ar
rival of her partner for the next dance.
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Republican Activity.

JUST at present the principal occu-
{ patton of the republican politici-
ans and the goldbug press is the
selection of the candidate for demo-
crazy in 1900. For one reason or an
other, these republicans are, with one
accord, opposed to the nomination of
Mr.. Bryan, even while claiming that he
would be a weak candidate and easily
defeated.
Mark Hanna was recently reported
as saying that Bryan was losing
ground, and would probably not be
nominated. He gave no reason for the
belief, and we are left wholly In the
dark as to the weight that should be
attached to his Judgment Probably the
opinion was based upon his desire in
the matter, although why he should
object to the nomination of a man
whom he regards as very weak it is not
easy to see. Perhaps Mr.. Hanna wants
the democrats to name strong man so
| as to give him a run for his money"
Or, possibly Mr.. Hanna has been
reading some of the so-called silver
|
| learned from them that Bryan is no
| longer true to the silver cause" 1t is
evident that these papers and the few
scattering voters whom they represent
do not intend to vote for the democratic
| candidate in 1900 and are looking fol
a justification however flimsy. AstNr
Bryan is the only man who has thus
far been seriously mentioned by thu
democracy as a probable candidate, O
course they are flying their darts q
| him. Hence Mr.. Hanna concludes tina
| Bryan has lost strength.
Senator Carter, who has at intervals
| been classed as a silver-republican, i
| reported as being strongly opposed {,
| Bryan and in favor of the democrat
naming Arthur P. German as thei
| standard bearer. He takes occasion t
| point out how strong and popular Nj
| German is. Why he is anxious for III
| democrats to nominate a strong man,
! he fails to state. Can 1t be that he i
| looking for an excuse to get out of tn
republican party? Or is he. like hi
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-20
SONGS OF THE PRESSES.
" whir and clash through the nights

They whir and clash through the nights
and days.
The magical looms of thought;
And in and out through thousand ways,
The flashing threads are brought.
Their swift purveyors part and meet
On rail and ship, on mart and street,
With tireess brain, with hurrying feet
AS the endless web is wrought.
They may not pause when the sun is
high,
Nor rest when the sun is low
For while men live, and act, and die,
The word flies to and fro.
1t leaps the sea, it spans the plain;
On throbbing wire and mighty chain.
1t runs like fire from main to main,
That the world may see and know,
While all men sleep they whir ana ciash,
The terrible looms of light:
On eyes that wake shall the message nash,
From far beyond the night;
And songs in the under world begun
Shall touch our lips ere the day is done;
For space is naught and the earth's at
one
Linked by the worlds swift flight.
Man calls to man, and not in vain
The cry to his ear is brought;
All love, and labor, and hope, and pam
Into each soul Is wrought.
Work on. We presses, at life's behest,
For light far spread and for wrong re-
dressed,
Till time is ended we may not rest,
Ye marvellous looms of thought!
The Argosy.
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Give Otis All the Troops He Needs.

From the Philadelphia Times.
The first duty of our brave soldiers in
the Philippines and to the country is to
give General Otis a force sufficient to
overwhelm the insurgents at every point
and hold every vantage ground that we
gain The war to be successful must be
sharp and decisive, and 1t is not so solely
because General Otis has not anything
like an adequate force to solve the grave
problem that confronts him. Our military
leaders have not lacked a single attribute
of heroism, but they cannot do Impossible
things, and it must now be evident to the
president and the cabinet that the war in
the Philippines can be closed during the
present year only by a large and prompt
increase of the army. A vast saving of
life and treasure will be gained by giving
General Otis all the troops he needs. Let
it be done promptly as possible.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-20
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
More Treason.

<rY Il seems TO US, however, that our
own war news from the Philip
pines is beginning to take on a
great many features of resemblance to
those fietions which we treated with
such contempt as coming from the Gu
ban junta and the yellow correspon-
dents in 1885, 1896 and 1897
So spoke the Washington Post. an
ardent admirer and friend of the Nc
Kinley administration, one day last
week This fling at the admfnistra-
tions war-news bureau will instantly
be denounced by the Butte Inter Noun
tain as rank treason; but the Posts
comment is in type, just the same
What started up the Posts editorial
talk was the report of last Tuesdays
battle ...
In that report it was told that, last
Tuesday, General Lawton had a tre-
mendously hard engagement. 1t lasted
all day. The fight occurred within
seven or eight miles of Manila The
fleet was brought into service. Our
troops were under a whitening fire for
hours and at grave disadvantage
throughout" AS described in the Wash
ington news, which the Post quotes,
General Lawton had to send for bat
talon after battalion of fresh troops
until she was compelled to desist, fear
ing that the enemy would enter Ma
Mia" In fact, the conclusion of the
Post is that "a careful reading of the
report, as diluted and filtered by the
censor at Manila makes it difficult to
believe that we were not surprised,
ambushed and outgeneraled in the bat
tie Of Tuesday" The curious part of
1t is that the news discussed by the
Post came not forty-eight hours later
than dispatch, which said that Gen.
eral Lawton had driven the Filpinos
had escaped utter destruction only by
what would pass for miracle"
Nobody will presume to question the
Washington Posts ardent loyalty to
the administrations Filipino pro-
gramme. But in the comment we quote
this morning that newspaper remarks:
Now. we submit that one or the other
emu OIL lHlS story is rlQlCulOuSly false,
If our army fought all day, under the
circumstances alleged in the press re-
ports; surrounded, outnumbered, SUBJ
jected to calling fire on all sides. and
so hardly and fiercely pressed that
they had to fall back more than once
and General Lawton found it necessary
to send for heavy reinforcements, then
we lost many more than five killed
and twenty wounded. General Lawtor
is not an opera bouffe soldier He doe.
mot abandon his position and scream
for help in the face of a list of casual
ties that can be furnished almost an,
Sunday night in almost any fghtins
alley of Washington"
In conclusion, the Post remarks tina
the American public will not fail t
note that, after all the fighting W
have done during the past few months
we found the Filipinos on Tuesday il
larger force than ever before, With
ten miles of Manila. That may be; blu
it remains for the Washington Post t
face, in Granite street, Butte, tn
charge of moral treason" if not tn
real, physical article itself
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woman,s Education in India.

From the Kathiawar Times.
Sir T. Madhavrao, the greatest and most
considerate and tolerant reformer lays
down the following rules as regards the
education of a girl: First don't teach the
girl any language useless to her life; sec
ond, don't teach her work which she will
have no occasion to do; third, don't ere
ate taste for pleasures which she can
not command; fourth, don't waste her
precious time in imparting knowledge
which she will have no occasion whatever
to use: fifth, don't prefer in her education
the ornamental to the necessary; sixth.
don't denationallze her so as to unfit her
for the position she must fill: seventh,
don't try to teach her at school what she
can better and more naturally learn at
home.
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The Down-East's Ignorance.

u s often at least as once a day
4 the western newspaper could
find in eastern newspaper COM
Easts dense ignorance respecting
things in the West. The talk of some
of the Atlantic-slope editors about the
tornado that lately swept New Rich
mond is in evidence; the Philadelphia
Record uses that unfortunate visitation
wherewth to show the astounding
carelessness of the West in the matter
of security in dwellings and CONNER
cial' buildings.
The Record remarks that if this tor
nado had extended its march thirty
five miles farther it would have hit st.
Paul and Minneapolis; and the Phila-
delphia ignoramus in the Record office
adds: Every locality hopes to escape
through some stroke Of good fortune;
and SO f1imsy buildings are erected
and the busy communities take chances
of swift humiliation. Year after year
of the whirlwind, and only few beg
carly cyclone pits and special policies
of insurance denote the annual recur-
renee of a scourge which, were it an
epidemic, would be guarded against by
every means that human ingenuity
could devise"
OF course, this talk found its way
into the st. Paul and Minneapolis
newspaper offices. The ST. Paul Dis
patch directs attention to the salient
fact that, in this particular instance,
if the recent tornado had kept right
on the way it was going it would have
been obliged to travel just about
twenty-five thousand miles before it
could hit ST. Paul. AS for the Phila-
delphia babble about cheap buildings
in the Minneapolis region--it needs
nothing more than mention to be made
ridiculous; no northwest city has build
ings to match, in shabby construction,
those that string their monotonous
length mile after mile in suburban
Philadelphia.
Be that as it may, and speaking of
epidemics and things of that sort, the
death rate in Philadelphia, as the
direct result of drinking the vile water
forced upon patrons in that city, is a
far larger percentage to population
than it is anywhere in the West, as
the result of tornado visitations; with
this difference that public money hon
estly spent would have given the Rec
ord's neighbors pure water, while
against tornadoes there's no defense
once turned loose they would brush
away the staunchest structures man
could build. The place to get the right
combination--pure water and security
against the tornado--is out here in the
real West, in this favored Rocky moun-
tain region.
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close political friends in the West, play
ing a game of policy?
The Standard does not profess to
know who the democratic candidate
will be. 1t looks very much like
BRYAN: but as we have not the inside
sources of information, with which
some of our silver republican con-
temporaries are favored, we shall await
further developments before being too
positive. But of one thing we are sure
the democrats will name their own
candidate and formulate their own plat
form without the help of Mr.. Hanna,
Mr.. Carter or any of their allies, by
whatever political title they may seek
to dignity themselves.