The Forrest City times., 1912-03-15

Speaker Clark has been a great stu dent of Aaron Burr's life. In a way and perhaps heartily, MT. Clark Is something of a champion Of Aaron Burr, sincere champion because the speaker, 1t is said. thinks that Burr was accused of a good many things Of which he was not guilty and that he was man too much abused for faults which he had not committed.
 There are men who think that If Aaron Burr had not killed Alexander Hamilton many of the animosities against him would not be in existence today. There are other men who say that the dislike of Hamilton's ideas ot government, held hereditarily by pol itieians of today. are responsible in a measure for the championship of Burr by men who otherwise would not have loved his memory so much if they did not hate the memory of Hamiltons DO litical and governmental views more.
 Many Descendants of Edwards.
 As for the matter of Aaron Burr 8 AA4aAJ AOA04Lop iNL II JIG co4d AbAb A 0A was grandson of Jonathan Edwards. the great theologian, and one of the first presidents of Princeton college. Jonathan Edwards had ten sisters, all of whom married ana had large fam files. The descendants of Jonathan Edwards direct and collateral, today are numbered by the thousands and everyone of these descendants, of course. is a cousin of Aaron Burr who was Jonathan Edwards grandson.
 Some one not long ago wrote a story about the Edwards descendants direct and collateral Six of these descend ants, either grandchildren or grand nephews, were at one time presidents of colleges. It Is possible that more men of the Edwards blood hold promi- nent positions in the world today than men of the blood of any other one American family. The name Is not al ways Edwards, of course, for in fact the Edwards of the female line out haps twenty to one, but the descend ants of Jonathan Edwards sisters and of his daughters are just as much Of the Edwards blood as are the people who bear the name.
 Mrs Theodore Roosevelt is a direct descendant of Jonathan Edwards and so it Is said Is former President Eliot of Harvard. The Dwights have the Edwards blood in them and compara- lively recent president of Yale unl- yersity who held the office for many years was a Dwi-ht and an Edwards. He. however. Is not included in the six college presidents who at one time held offica and were of the Edwards kin The most recent Yale Dwight Tas of course of a younger generation,
 Army Worried About Horses.
 Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staf. United States army. who a cavalry regiment in the south over the growing difficulty of securing good horses for the service. General Wood and some other officers with him say that the laws against betting on horse races in many of the states ing scarcity of good horses for tho service.
 It must not be understood that General Wood either personally or in his capacity as the ranking officer of the army upholds betting He sim ply states what he thinks is fact and deplores the effect if not the cause. When American cavalry of flcers recently went to England to en. gage In contest of horsemanship, In cluding high jumping. with the officers of cavalry regiments of European countries. they lost most of the events because it is said their horses were not the equals of those used by the foreign officers.
 August Belmont, who is chairman o1 the American Jockey club, at a dinner in New York a night or two ago, point ed to the serious menace which threat ened the cavalry and field artillery branches of the United States army in the depletion of thoroughbred horses by reason of a cessation o racing" MT. Belmont has suggested the formation of a nationwide asso citation to be known as the Nauona Cavalry and Artillery Remount asso citation, to be created from all rank: of sports and agrlcuitural life witt the center of the organization a Washington. to keep a register O. mares inspected and found suitable for breeding remounts and artillery horses. Gen. Leonard Wood and Coi Theodore Roosevelt have expressed { willingness to become vice-president. of the association It is expected tha Inducements will be held out to hors, breeders in all parts of the countr, to make a speciality of animals suit able for the army service.
 American Record Rides.
 There has been a general belle through the years that the foreigr cavalry horses were better than thos. of America. and yet there are records in the United States service of long hard rides. the horses coming througt