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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-06-09
Reed Goes To Coneordia

Supt. W. W. Reed received tele.
gram this afternoon saying that he was
elected superintendent Of schools at
Concordia last evening at a salary of
$1,000. His many friends will con.
gratulate him.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-06-09

In view of the fact that the high
school will have over 100 students next
year the committee advised the elec-
tion of two assistants for that school, to
save the superintendent from so much
classroom work,
Mr.. Engle, the new high school prln-
cipal, is one of the best men in the
State University graduating class this
year. He ii 26 years old, has had ex.
perience in high school work, is mar
ried and comes with the highest
recommendations His election insures
high school work that is thorough and
strong.
The board has chosen good list Of
teachers and our schools will advance
steadily with the year 1923.
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Paint and whitewash brushes at
ARMITAGE's BAZAAR.

See the Randolph header and Plano
binder at John Hill & Sons before buy.
ing, They can save you money,
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Armitage's Bazaar for everything and
save money.
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dents. feel sure that Slavin will win. In
that case. there is no reason to believe
tnat he will put any obstacles in the way
OF tight with the future American cham.
pion, and that will decide the champion
ship Of the world.
Inc Fitzsimmons-H Hall fight does not in
voive championships. for if Fitz got the
worst OF it he would still be cham pion
middle-welght of America, because the
men are to fight at catch weights. The
middie-weight championship of Australia
IS In dispute. Hail claims the honor: so
does Fitz; SO does Micky Dooley. Eng
land has middle-weight champion whose
title is undisputed--Ted Prischard. ANY.
body, to be midde-weight champion Of
the world, must whip him. In the Fitz-
simmons-Hall night It is hard to prophesy.
HAL seems to be the better boxer, but Fitz
looks stronger in the breast and arms.
Hall is more supple, and he is good two
handed hitter. He will probably weigh
about i70, and Fitz will be only little
lighter
cannot regard the former meeting be-
tween Fitzsimmons and Hall as affordng
any indication of the result of the coming
battle. There are two stories about that
meeting, as everybody knows. One is that
Hall knocked Fitzsimmons out. the other
Is that Fitz lay down. l am inclined to
doubt this latter story. "Smiler," who
was referee. says that it was fake knock
out, and don't believe that man famll-
lar with boxing contests Is going to be de-
ceived by a sham finish. know that no
man could deceive me that way, if / was
referee. When man is knocked down he
falls with bang. He do ssn't let himself
go down easy. There is something in the
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Gos.ip About tho Boxers.

John L. Sullivan. champion OF the
world. who has had 10 ring encounters,
weighed 2i6 pounds while in Seattle last
January. Now he weighs 80. When he
fights Corbett, on September Z, he Will
weigh 2l5 pounds or a little over. lie
fought Kilrain at 2i7ls. so it will be seen
that he has not much flesh 10 train oil.
When John L. Sullivan was examined last
week bv DIR. George f. Shrady, editor OF
the Medical Record, the doctor said: y on
are in perfect health and in perfect phys
;cal condition" While Sullivan has been
q HARD drinker. he has not been guilty OF
other excuses. While in Victoria he con-
.rac,ed slight cold. and promptly con-
suited a doctor. He was fully grown be-
FIRE he commenced to drink, and the hrst
champsrne ne ever tasted was drunk on
the night after he had won the champion
ship of the world.
Joe Lannon was whipped by George
Godfrey in the hrst minute OF the hghi,
but Lannon fought Corbett tor three
rounds and came out unhurt. Coroett
spa-s well. but has puny arm. one Oh
SuIliyan's arms has greater grin thah
both OF Corbctt's.
Jim Daly. who SPARED IN Seattle Win
Jim uorbett. is third-rate man. Denny
Kelleher whipped him in fifteen ROUNDS,
and Ed Smith, OF Denver. put him out
easily. In San Francisco negro iroil, 'i,s
navy SPARED with Daily. who could 90
nothing with him, and who was Missed oy
the audience.
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were. One of the most touching pictures
/ have ever seen, | think, and one well
worthy of the brush of q Rembrandt or a
McDougall is that of Mrs. " Hoolihan on
Sabbath morning fusslng around among
Mr.. O'Hoolihan's John c. Calhoun whisk-
ers with a fine comb.
Mr. O'Hoolihan favors the election of
senators directly by the people. and also
urges that in this day of popular prices for
good entertainments that seats in the Sem
ate are too high. He would favor making
them ten. tN enty and thirty cents.
Mr.. O. Hoolihan also favors the free and
unrestricted coinage of silver, together
with more rigid rule regarding its alb
sorption By those who already have some.
His theory is that the government should
offer a certain percentage OF premium to
those who now have money, and by that
means ascertain truthfuiiy what amount
each citizen has. Then it should announce
that il had made a slight error as 10 the
meaning of the law, and turn right around
with what silver it has and what it can
coin by means of new brick and tile
machine which will make money as fast
as a big factory can make carpet tacks,
and even up the whole thing so that all
mankind may start in square again.
Mr.. O'Hoolihan favors also the appor-
tionment OF brains in the same way if pos
sibIe. otherwise the able men would fool
the other folks out of their money again in
a week, and all this apportionment would
have 10 be gone through with again. He
does not know vet very fully how he will
even up the gray matter business, but he
thinks it can be done. He claims that
when surgeons are able 10 open the skull
of a foolish person that has failed 20 grow,
thus giving room 70 the brain so that the
idiotic. BY having gore or a gusset put
into a skull, have been able TO almost
think inside of week, whereas they for
merly did not know enough to ache when
they got hurt, he thinks the day is not far
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iistant when the man whA Knows too

distant when the man whb knows too
much may be made TO ''whack up as y
were. with the mental pauper. Proper Of
ficials will go around with s. brain tester
for people TO think against, and BY means
OF graduated scale the official can tell
whether man knows more or less than
the law allows.
In this way the smart Aleck who knows
1t all, and who tells mis- parents how to
grow up to be good men and women, will
be compelled to fork over some of his abii-
ity to the poor fellow who has failed rs a
sand ponnder.
Mr.. O'Hoolihan favors more rigid mar
riage laws. especially requiring those who
marry to refrain from shooting each other
within the first year, and also restraining
them from publishing their divorce pro-
ceedings so that children are liable to get
hold of them. He believes in having suit
able places, with sanitary plumbing con-
nected with them, where people may go to
get their divorce business and soiied linen
attended to.
Asked his opinion regarding English
humor as compared with Irish and Ameri-
can humor, he said:
1.-THE English humor of today IS OF a
restful character and used mostly rs a
means of relaxation. In the days of
Thackeray and Dickens Englishmen
seemed to enjoy mirth provoking humor
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characteristics are such as breed criminals.
1t should forbid the marriage of habitual
criminals, of persons of insane heritage
and Of consumptives. Further than that,
habitual criminals should be prevented
from having children altogether.
'Of course it would be impossible for
the state to make use Of such measures
now, and it will probably be a long time
before men will see that they are neces-
sary. For if moral degeneracy gets well
started in family its progress cannot be
stopped IN any other way than by stop
ping the breeding of he family.
ITO q certain extent nature does that
herself, for the tendency of all monstrosi-
ties, moral as well as physical, is toward
sterility. Nature does her best toward
Kidding herself of such fouiness. but her
process is slow, and it is hindered by the
frequent introduction of fresh blood.
People of criminal families intermarry
with those of clean ancestry, and the
criminal stock gets new lease of life from
the strong and healthful addition. No.
nature needs great deal of help in the
wedding out process If society is to get
from it any appreciable benefit.
1.-THE cultivation of the criminal type
through the intermarriage and breeding of
criminals is shown. to a certain extent, by
the change in the character of crime
during the last century, Many crimes,
such as highway robbery, demanding per-
sonal courage, are not nearly 50 frequent,
while there has been great increase in
sneak thieving ard all manner of crimes
characterized by cunning and not requir-
ing much personal risk.
But this whole question is much COM
plicated by the strange contradictions to
be found in the moral natures, even of
men of marked criminal types i once
had unique experience with a number of
criminals. l met them in such a way that
l was able to study thoroughly their men,
tai and moral natures. Although in one
direction they might be entirely bereft of
moral sense, in another would lind it we'll
developed. Nearly all of them possessed
personal courage in high degree. In
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nearly all of them | found considerable
honor, of certain kind. 1t was not only
the honor that is found among thieves, but
certain sense of moral obligation toward
others. There were among them thieves,
burglars and swindlers of several varieties,
but not one of them ever attempted to de-
fraud me in the least-which is more than
l can say of some who are not recognized
as belonging to the criminal classes. One
of them was a noted bank burglar, a man
deep in criminal knowledge and experience
of that sort. And yet he was an individual
of much intelligence, of many admirable
qualities. and, if you could forget his GRIM
inal career. of as engaging personality as
any man ever met. !"
DIR. Graeme NJ. Hammond, professor Of
nervous and mental diseases in the Post
Graduate Medical college, has already, al
though young man. taken prominent
place among authorities on these subjects.
When the questions that had been put to
DR.. Hamilton were repeated to him he re-
piled:
1.-THE brains of criminals show a confor-
nation different from what is found in
normal brains. The convoIutions of gray
matter are different The assures between
the convolutions are shallow. and frequent
ly do not follow the directions which they
take in normal brains.
''Dr. Burt Wilder, of Cornell, has made
very thorough study of the criminal
brain, and do not doubt that if Deem
ing's brain and the brains of several
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as they have Mortified the general public.
The men who study nervous diseases and
trace the connection between them and
abnormal conduct are making the subject
OF moral insanity one of the most import
ant questions Of the time. Some of them
DIR. Henry Maudsley, for instance-in-
sist that there is such thing as the GRIM
inal neurosis-that is, such diseased, i'm
paired or defective condition of the nerv-
Gus tissue as results inevitably in crime,
just as certain conditions of the nervous
tissue result in insanity and others in
epilepsy.
The New York Academy of Medicine
lately passed resolutions against capital
punishment on the ground that it is i'm
possible to determine the moral response
bility Of criminals during the brief time of
a judicial trial.
DIR. Allan McLane Hamilton, who is one
OF the foremost authorities in the United
States on nervous diseases and medico-
legal subjects, was asked these questions
with reference to Deeming and his career:
"Can science prove the existence of the
criminal neurosis? and, if so, to what ex-
tent is the criminal afflicted with such
diseased nervous organization responsible
a for his crime?'
There is, certainly" replied DIR. Ham
ilton, "a strongly marked criminal type;
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some writer's on this subject 1t cannot
be said positively that such moral degen-
eracy is the result of functional disturb
ance in the nerve element. The subject is
a very broad one, of the greatest import
ance to society, and is receiving the atten-
ton of some of the foremost investigators
of nervous diseases and in their social re-
lations-such as Lambroso, in Italy; Have
lock, Ellis and others.
1.-THE criminal type is marked by pecu-
liarities in the shape of the head, which is
apt to be narrow and angular; by large
and prominent ears, an expression of low
cunning and the symmetrical head and
face. There are among such people all
degrees of moral responsibility l do not
believe myself in moral insanity that is
not accompanied by some degree Of men
tai disease or defect. True, there have
been great criminals who have possessed
keen intellects, but their mental qualities
have always been more or less peculiar
and developed mainly in the line of
cunning and scheming-the development
that would naturally result from the con-
slant use of their faculties in criminal
ways.
Persons marked by this moral degen-
eracy are apt to be the result of intermar-
riage among criminals and drunkards,
which, continued through generations, is
simply a cultivation of the criminal tyne.
The record of the Jukes family shows what
it leads to. But moral insanity. when it
breaks out in a family not previously
marked by criminal tendencies, may be
the result of some injury to the brain,
caused by disease. blow on the head or a
severe mental shock.
II have not made close study of Deem
ing's case but, judging by the newspaper
reports, he seems TO belong to the extreme
criminal type. Just what is his degree of
moral responsibility could not be deter
termined without more accurate knowl-
edge OF the man and his history. HIS
crimes do not seem to be the result of
morbid sexual impulses. which are often
the cause of such murderS-as was proba-
bly, the case with Jack the Ripper. If
that man is ever caught he will be found,
/ believe, to be a man Of keen intelligence
Deeming on the other hand, appears to
possess inferior mental qualities, some
what OF the sneaking order. his sexual
vanity. shown by his boast1ng in the
courtroom that he could have his pick of
the women in the audience for a wife. was
not an evidence of morbid sexual i'm
pulses. 1t is one of the characteristics of
the criminal type.
but before ii would be possible to saw
anything very definite about the degree of
the mans moral insanity. and therefore of
his moral res possibility also, it would be
necessary to know what his antecedents
were. his inheritance or criminal tenden-
ces the life he has led and the crimes he
has committed heretofore. and his present
state of mind and feeling His case is
very interesting one, and one which will
probably throw some light on the question
of moral insanity If his history can be
made plain.
The question of what is to be done
with persons who show moral degeneracy
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0iong range and somewhat on the de-
ensive. But if two men are equally
matched in weight there is no such thing
as one holding the other off throughout
contest If two men are standing up and
willing to fight, the man who leads is at
oisadvantage, bur if one is retreating the
other can jump in and force an exchange
OF blows. Slavin is man who won't be
denied by anybody. Jackson has phe-
nomenaliy long arms, but the superior
sappeness of Slavin makes up for what
would otherwise bc an advantage of reach.
Some men who saw the Siavin- kilrain
nght formed wrong opinion of Slayin. /
Old a, first. He seemed careless, and il
was natural to say that if he gave such OPP
postunities to quick. hard hitter like
sullivan or Corbett he would be likely 10
!ose the fight. Really he had speedily
isormed his opinion OF kilrain and did not
,sar him. He was only trying TO draw
AAraln up 10 him and was willing 10 ac-
cept any exchange. Moreover, Slavin
Nasn'tin condition. He was sick and was
ssood deal below his weight. He weighed
ABOUT III. and now he is about i94 There
something in the English climate that
gives man weight. and this added mus
salar tissue, with his better general con-
saoh, Will make SlaVlu mucn more 1orn-
IIaole than when he defeated kiirain in
aoooken. think il will be quick tight.
Savln has the right idea in lighting with
o's gloves. In that sort Of q contest
man must hit very hard. It's. the jar
ing blow that counts. A man should
asat Tor vital points-for the jaw or the
llose. The old-;ime pugilisi. fighting with
SSafe Snuckles. made great point OF
ssahdlng his opponents. He couldn't al
.o.u 10 cut loose for general results. be-
.auSe his hands were not protected and he
JARED TO disable himself But with gloves
,e man who strikes the blow runs much
ss risk. and on the other hand, in CIV.
..s an opening 20 his opponent. he need
aSs 'ear light jab. The quick, hard
...ssr can afford 10 force the fighting ana
sIlsspt exchanges He wants TO be as
49,. Sse 70 has opponent as can be and have
'som 10 strike his blow. Barring acci-
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are thieves. alcoholists, vagabonds or sub
iect 10 vicious impulses, they are crini-
mails by nature, and their criminal tend
encjes will be strengthened by their prison
associations. When they come ouE. So
cietv has more TO fear from them than il
lad before All that their Imprisonment
has omplished has been 10 buy brief
immunity, followed afterward by greater
danger.
I'm my opinion, the best way TO deal
with the question Is TO approach II on the
side of prevention. The state should have
the right 10 forbid the marriage OF those
persons whose physical natures or mental
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II might be said, perhaps. that the Cor
bett-Sullivan match did not, strictly
speaking. include a champion, because of
the statements attributed to Sullivan to
the effect that he had retired from the
ring, but the great public refuse to regard
Sullivan as retired champion. Their be-
lief that he is still in the ring was not
. shaken by the interviews printed and
attributed to him previous to the Corbett-
Jackson match, wherein he admitted or
was said to have admitted, that the two
men were to fight for the championship,
that Savin could fight the winner, and
that, perhaps. he himself would give the
best man chance.
The Slayin-J Jackson fight on the GOTH in
London. includes the championship of
Australia. There has been some DISPUTE
as to whether it is Slavin or Jackson. but
the championship is certainly there any
way. The Melbourne Sportsman regards
Jackson as the champion, and the Sydney
Referee holds Slavin to be entitled to that
honor. 1 am inclined to think that Slavin
is champion. He has beaten Farnsworth.
who has beaten Jackson. Slavin was in
Australia when Jackson was in America.
At that time in the land of the kangaroo
Slavin was meeting all corners and heating
everybody. In order to be champion
Jackson shonld have returned and chal-
lenged the man who was making such a
record. or rather have accepted challenge
from him. However. they are matched
now. and if the fight comes to decisive
issue the question will be settled.
Slavin is really champion of England.
though they hesitate to recognize him
over there. They really have no heavy
weight who can go against him. But the
English have prejudice in favor of the
o'd.fashioned fight to q finish with bare
knuckles in the ring. That is nonsense
now. Championships are decided with
the gloves, and one must be up with the
times. You will get thousand men to a
glove fight for a hundred that you get to
shst fight. The day of the bare knuckle
battle has gone by and am glad of it.
After these two heavyweight battles the
winners can fight for the championship of
the world and no man is champiol of
the world till that time. When Kilrain
and Sullivan fought it was not for the
championship of the world, because Kill
rain had got no better than a draw out of
Smith, who was still regarded as champion
OF England, while Slavin was champion
Of Australia. The Sullivan-Corbett match,
IT 1t comes to finish, will leave one of
the men champion of America. The
Savin-Jackson tight will leave the winner
Champion OF England and Australia.
The Slavn-Jackson fight is close at
hand and is exciting deep interest. l
think Savin will win. My reasons are
these: AT close range Slavin is the better
man and the harder hitter. At long range
Jackson is the cleverer man, but still not
90 hard hitter. In seeing Jackson box it
seems TO me that he is little the slower
savin's muscles are more supple and
elastic. 1t makes him a better in-figh:er.
Jackson will probably fight by preference
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recognizable b "
physical peculiar
tiles, in which
moral responsible
ity is greatly less
ened, and in ex-
treme cases dis
appears as entire
ly as it does in ex-
IRENE cases IF
lunacy. l do not
think, however,
that C ri m i n a |
neurosis' is quite
the proper term
TO apply to such
cases, although it
has been used hy
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of such a degree
that they are near
" if not quite NOR
ally irresponsible
is one of the puzzl-
ing problems of So
GEOLOGY. The least
that can be said
upon 1t is that So
ciety has the right
TO protect itself
from mad dogs. |
do not believe that
any good IS accom-
pl,shed by sendiD z
hapitual criminals
of any sort to pris-
on for short peri
DDS whether thew
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THE BIG CONVENTION.
A Look at the Hall, and How
Guests Will Be Treated.
rs. 900 PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED.
Arrangements for the Newspaper Men
Things About Minneapolis That
VIII Astonish the Visitors.
MrNSEAroLrs. May 10.

a II tfOW0 nv t1C toiu-
ing national conven-
tion-can Minneapo-
lis take care of itY'
I asked n rather rough
looking Minneapolis
citizen who sat oppo-
site me in the sleeper
on my way from Chi
cago to Minneapolis.
Take care of the
convention !" WAS the
repIv "WeIl. L
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WHITE MAN WILL WIN.
Mike Donovan's Opinion of the
Slavin-Jackson Fight.
FiTz AND HALL COMPARED.
The McAulife-MyePs Contest--Georxe
Dixon, Feather Weight Champion,
end His Title IL Not Disputed.
New York, May Is.

PUPIL in boxing
asked me the
other day if I
could remember
a time W h Q n
there were so
many important
matches on as
there are now.
l couldn't. tits
certainly very
unusual to see
five contests in
prepar a ii on,
each one involv-
ing a champion.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
What Shall the World Do With
Men Like Deeming?
KILL THEM. THE DOCTORS SAY.
Many Criminals, Victims of Hercdity,
Are Morally irresponsible, but So.
ciety Must Protect Itself.

HE atrociou 8
murders a n d
the long GRIM
inal career of
the moral mon
strosity, Deem
ing, who is to
be hanged to-
morrow, have
attracted the
attention Of the
scientific world
unite "a much