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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-16
LAW DECLARED VOID
Members of the Horse Thief De.
tect;ve Associations Can.
not Be Constables.
faosE OFFICERS MUST BE ELECTED

Stock Breeders Elect Ofcers-Governor
and Staff to Make a Visit South-where
Chicago's Terrapin supply Comes From
Proceedings of the Tax EquAlizers-
Desperate Killed by an Ofhcer-Five
Badly Burned by a Gasoline Explosion.
Springfield Ills, Nov 16 The attOr-
ney general yesterday rendered an
opinion that the law passed by the leg
islature in 1872. allowing the appoint
ment as special conStables, with all the
rights and privileges of constableS, of
members of anti-horSe thief aSSocia-
tions, is unconstitutional The opinion
applies particularly TO the Flint Thief
Detective association. of Pike county.
which was organized under the law for
the purpose of capturing and securing
the conV iction of horSethieYeS. The Opin-
ion holds that this enactment of the
legislature was Illegal because il is in
conflict with section 21 of article q of
the state constitution. which provides
that all cOnStableS shall be elected by
the people.
Illinois Live Stock Breeders.
Springfield, Ills, Nov. 16.-'rhe Illi-
nois Live Stock Breeders association
yesterday had practical lessons in stock
judging conducted by experts. Officers
of the various associations elected pres
identS and secretaries follows:
Horse Breeders association. president,
John H. Kincaid. Athens; secretary,
George Williams. Athens: Cattle Breed
ers' association, president, \. l.. Grout,
Winchester: secretary, j. II. Pickerell
Springfield: Sheep Breeders asSOcia-
ton. president. Jacob Zeigler. Clinton;
secretary and treasurer, John g.
Springer. Springfield: Swine Breeders
association, president. Fred II. Rankin.
Athens: secretary, Charles +. Mills,
Springfield
Governor and Staff VIII Travel.
Springfield, Ills. Nov. 16.-Governor
Tanner ana the other state officers.
and Governor Tanners military staff,
will leave Chicago Monday. Nov. 80.
na special train for Chattanooga,
Tenn, TO attend the dedication of the
monument to Illinois troops on the
Chickamauga battlefield, which will
occur Thursday. Nov. 23.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-16
BAD NEWS FOR BOERS
Report at Durham that Command.
! ent General Joubert Has
Been Killed.
FALLS IN THE LADYsMITH FIGHT

Only other News of the War Is from the
West Where Baden-Powell Is Holding
Mafeking-Night Attack on the Boer
bitches There-Surprise Complete and
Boer Loss Heavy-AlI-Night Fusillade
at a Red Lautern-Cronjs's Attack Terri
bly, Repulsed.
Durham, Sunday, Nov. 12.-It is ru
mored here that Commandant Gen
eral Joubert, of the Boer forces. is
dead. The Times of Natal publishes n
telegram from Lourenzo Marques say
ing that General Joubert WAS killed
in action on Thursday, Nov. ..
Durham, Nov. 12.-The Times, of
Natal, publishes telegram from
Lourenzo Marquee that Gen. Joubert
was killed in action Nov. 9.
London, Nov. 16.-A Pietermaritz-
burg dispatch dated Nov. II says it is
that Gen. Piet Joubert. COM
mander in chief of the Boer forces,
was kille in action.
London, Nov. 16.--The war office
has no confirmation of the death of
Gen Joubert.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-16

MAI. BLUNT TALKS OF ARSENAL.
Traces Its History and Tells of Its Needs
aud Opportunities
The prescribed order of the evening
was then resumed with the announce
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-16

Continued on Seventh page
The times., 1899-04-09
Morality md Manners.

There is trouble among the German med-
ical students over the question OF admit
ting women to clinical lectures. The ether
day. on the bulletin boards of the Berlin
University. some of the youthful moraiists
posted this declaration:
Experience abundsntly shows that the presence
OF men and women together in clinical lectures
is detrimental to serious medical study and OPP
posed to the principles OF decorrim and morality.
1t is said that in some of the medical
schools the young men are acting with
such discourtesy as to make the position
of the women students intolerable. Four
hundred women are now attending medical
lectures at various colleges, three-fourths
of the number being over twenty-five
years of age.
OF course, 1t is the easiest thing in the
world for men so disposed to make the
life of woman student almost unbearaole
in any college, but 1t is particularly easy
in a medical school. At some time in the
future women may have colleges of their
own. but owing to the great expense neces-
sarily incurred in establishing a medical
institution. this is not now possible, and
the girl who wishes to study medicine must
study with men or not at all. To most
people it will seem that there is some
thing wrong with the principles of de-
corum and morality" which lead men to
insult defenceless women on any pretezt
The times., 1899-04-09
ENGLAND's REPRESENTATIVE.
e. \. f.. Eliot Selected for the sn-
moan Comm ssion.

Sir Julian Pauncefote called at the State
Department yesterday and officially notified
Secretary Hay that C. N. E. Eliot. of the
British Embassy at Washington. had been
selected by Her Majesty as the British
member of the Joint High Commission for
the settlement of the Samoan question. Mr..
Eliot has been attached 10 the embassy
since November l. but during that time has
ingratiated himself with the Government
officials. and his selection is looked upon
with general satisfaction. He Is regarded
as one Of the brightest lights Of the British
foreign service. and through years Of ex-
perience in dealing with the hais-ciyilized
races will make valuable member Of the
Samoan Commission. Mr. Eliot entered the
diplomatic service two years after his
graduation from Trinity College in 1881
During his collegiate career he dIstIn-
guishsd himself by winning the Syriac prize
and the Derby scholarship. He was ap-
pointed 10 the embassy at ST. Petersburg
as an attache June 90 1881 and was pro-
NOTED to third SECRETARY one year after
ward In 1892 he was transferred tempo
rarily TO Tangier. Morocco. where ne acted
! as charge d'affaires. He was again pro-
NOTED 10 be second secretary OF embassy
June l. 1899 and sent TO Constantinople
Mr.. Eliot was placed in charge of the
British agency at Sofia July ST. 1885. and
remained there four months. when he was
sent TO the legation at Beigraye, where he
remained two months before returning TO
his post at COnstsntinople. For his con-
spicuous services here the young diplomat
was made Commander of the Bath, an or
der which is bestowed only for excellent
service rendered the Crown Mr. Eliot WAS
transferred TO Washington November
last. and has been prominently connected
with the affairs OF the embassy since that
time
The selection of an American member of
the Samoan Commission has not been de
termined upon. However. this will prob
ably be done within very short time. Ac-
cording TO the statement OF Cabinet Of
ficer yesterday. the matter OF appointing a
Commissioner has not been seriously cor
sdered as vet by President Mckinley.
The times., 1899-04-09
\ Hint to Young Authors.

from the Detroit Frec fEe-s-y
The young man with the long hair turn
ed the last page OF the manuscript lying
on the table before him.
There" he exclaimed ''tis done,"
On the margin OF the sheet he wrote his
name and address. And now for a short
note" he said
Hastily he penned letter to the editor
of the "Oilstoye Companion. one of the
great periodicals of the country.
After he had folded the paper and slipped
it. with the tale he had written, into a
large envelope. not forgetting to afix a
stamp to the top of the first sheet, he ran
his long. slim fingers through his silky
hair and cried, '"Tis done at last And
now fame and fortune await met
That night he posted the manuscript and
the letter. The days came and went. The
young man marveled at the delay But
then ne consoled himself to saying, 1T
means nothing; simply that they are de
Gliding whether to make the check one
thousand or two" And the young man
dreamed sweet dreams
On the last day of the week fat letter
was handed him by the postman The pc
riodical's card was in the upper left-hand
corner. With a smile curving his lips, the
young man hastily tore open the envelopr
His manuscript dropped out together with
a printed slip. The youth read but a few
words on the latter. They we're: 'Reiec-
ton does not necessarily imply lack of
merit
"Fools.t he cried. and that night he re-
mailed the manuscript together with an
other note. this time to the "Housemaid's
Friend a week brought him a reply
Again the story he had toiled the hours
over had come back. He read: we regret
to inform you that We are overstocked with
fiction
More fooIs," cried the young man.
Again he sent out the story. BY and BY
1t returned this time battered and dog
cared. The slip this time said merely:
Declined with thanks
Again and again did the young man mail
his bit of burning fiction to the periodicals
of this country. The rejection slips began
TO pile up. At last his manuscript came
back to him illegible. Too many hands
had fumbled it. Disconsolately he seated
himself before his writing table. His eye
fell upon the bushel basket containing the
declined" slips that he had received. Sud
denly he started. A fendish grin suffused
his features. He seized block of paper
and wrote and wrote, now and then stop
ping to glance at the slips. that he had ar
ranged in little piles before him. II was
past midnight when his task was done II
have you now, you cursl! he cried with
| fine frinzy. He had completed an article
on Rejection Slips" to be illustrated with
fac-similes. He sent to a literary maga-
| zine and in five days received a check for
| $3.50. After that all was clear sailing.
The times., 1899-04-09

BY this time Alger must have grown
weary OF his West Indian junket on an
ocean steamer maintained at public cost
he longs for home. But the awful Beef
Court is still in session. and it would be
highly unpleasant for him TO appear within
speaking distance OF it. He declares that
he is not the man to resign under fire. He
only takes to the woods at the first cry
Of fire. His testimony at this particular
juncture would be highly interesting, but
his position in relation to the Court may
be expressed in the sherif's return in that
celebrated Mississippi case: I'm swampum
up stumpibus, non est inventibus.'
The times., 1899-04-09
One TYPE of rniIanthropi-t.

A lady in the West is blacking boots for
charity. She goes about in street costume.
carrying a shoebrush and box OF black
ing. and has earned several hundred dollars
during the past year. She generally gets
more than a nickel for shine.
This is a picturesque proceeding. but
what about the shoeblacks who lose their
nickels through this ladys industry? Their
incomes are small but five cents to them
means as much as FIVE dollars to a rich
man. 1t will seem to most people as if
this lady shoeblaek might have found some
way OF employing her energies which would
not take away employment from those who
need ii. But. after all. she probably does
not cause very great loss to the knights
OF the brush.
This philanthropist, however is a sort
of type Among the various way of help
ing the poor devised by eager benefactors,
there are several which. while they benefit
the class unable TO help themselves. tend
to take away work from the self-support-
ing. Those who wish to help their fellow
beings should take particular care not to
make this mistake There are a great
many helpless people. who must be given
food, clothing. and fuel because they have
no one TO provide for them; there are
others dependent upon relatives only partly
able 10 support them. If the burden of
these helpless classes we're lifted from the
workers. the latter would be less likely to
become paupers themselves. There is not
much danger of pauperizing anyone by this
sort OF philanthropy. When mans bur-
den is actually heavier than ne can bear, he
should be relieved OF it, for the sake OF
society. that he may not break down and
become helpless burden himself, or shift
Of bearing il. But when benevolent people
do the work for which ordinary wage
Garner should be paid, or employ a bad
workman instead of a good one, for the
sake OF helping him along, they cause a
certain amount of Generalization. There
is no benefit to society in paying a man
more than he is worth, or spending a
thousand dollars TO patch up wreck while
a seaworthy vessel goes to pieces for want
OF tenth OF the money. And there is a
great deal OF that sort OF thing in our
present hit-or-m miss system OF philanthropy
in which the care OF the poor is every
body's business and nobody's business.
One OF the flaws in our present social
system. which results in more or less pau
perism. is false idea of economy. When a
housekeeper exacts from her servant twice
the work that the girl ought to do. and
pays her. perhaps. Atty per cent more than
she really thinks a servants wages ought
TO be, she is doing harm in two ways:
First. she encourages a lack OF thorough
ness for no one overburdened with work
can do 1t all well. Second she sometimes
works faithful servant SO hard that a
fit of illness aud an impaired constitution
are the result, and there is no knowing
The times., 1899-04-09
THE CASE IN ENGLAND.
British Opinion Regards the Dreyfus
Developments With Coutempt

e'e'"phehts Nfth contempt.
London. April SIT would be difficult to
exaggerate the feeling OF quiet and su-
perior contempt with which Engiishmen
watch the unrayeling of the Dreyfus tan
gle. Upon the general staff is contumeIy
especially heaped, and there is a wide
spread belief that only a huge system of
peculation for the benefit of high officials
can explain this monumental lying and
forgery on the part OF the heads of the
army. and the most significant fact of all
Is that no one can believe in the desire OF
the French people to get at the truth. As
the Spectator" says today, NO one in
authority is intent upon obtaining the full
truth, while the body of the people so hate
the idea OF its coming out that they will
not even allow that II exists"
Meanwhile Colonel Piequart who is not
even accused OF relations with foreigner
Is kept in military prison month after
month without trial. simply because he in
sisted that the truth should come out In
deed, France is fast sinking. in msn'y
minds to the rank of a second-rate power.
Mrs. Crawford. the best-informed CT
Paris correspondents, puts the feet thus
French Ambassadors abb DAD will tel NJ
Deieasse. If he cares to inquire, that unit |
France probes this ubiquitous affair to the
bottom, she will never recover the respect
or foreign nations Russia. of course. in
ciudsd. What can stop the search for
truth VI. Faure is dead
The times., 1899-04-09
A CURIOUS OLD BOOK.
Rare Volume Antedatiuy American
Civilization
(From the indianapolis News. J

From the indianapolis News.)
David V. Baker. of Portland. Ind. has
a number OF rare volumes, and the reuort
OF the recent Ashburnham sale has caused
MIN to look them UP more particularly
one OF these books. which has bsen. under
ioch ana Key Tor years. is quaint little
volume which has been in the Baker fami-
ly since 1915. first coming into possession of
Mr.. Bakers grandfather in that year. The
title OF this book reads: Select and
Choyce Observations. Containing all the
Romano Emperours,, The first Eighteen
by Edward Leigh. VI. A. of Magialene-
Hall. in Oxford. The others added by his
son, Henry Leigh, NJ. A.. also of the fame
houfe. Certain Choyce French Proverbs
alphabetically difpofed and Englifh adde's
alfo by the fame Edward Leigh"
The name of the printer of the book and
the date are shown in a paragraph worded
as follows: London. Printed by Roger
Daniel. for John Williams at the fine of
the crown, in st. PauIs Church-Yard.
1857"
On the next page appears the dedication
To the Right WOrshipful and his loving
father. Henry Leigh. Efquire" The book
contains 217 pages. and despite the fact
that ii is now 242 years old. every word OF
the print is perfectly plain, and it is in a
good state Of preservation.
leather back some notations, which are of
interest. were made by Mr. Bakers father
during his life. These are here given:
Charles u born 2Ith of June 1882 be-
ing % years after this book was printed"
Blackstone, born, 1923. 66 years after"
Franklin, born January II, 1905. IS
years after"
Philadelphia began to be built 1888, %
years after
Electric fire. etc. discovered by Frank
lin in 1867. 100 years after"
First steamboat between New York and
ALBANY, by Fulton, in 1908, 151 years aft
er."
First periodical published in England.
The London Gazette in 1868, years
after"
First newspaper published in the United
States. the Boston News Letter, 1904, II
years after
Cromwell was protector of England
when this book was printed, refused the
crown the same year. and Parliament en-
powered him TO nominate a successor
This book was in London (printed S
years before the plague that carried off
$1,000 inhabitantsl; wonder what part of
the city this book was in when the great
fire of London destroyed 1900 houses Gt
was printed years before).'
Nine years before there was tea
drinker in England"
Twenty y-one years before the Habeas
Corpus act
This book was printed 20 years before
Russia was an empire; 10 years before
Washington was born; 119 years before
the Declaration of Independence; 136 years
before the first President OF the United
States"
Sir Isaac Newton was born December
%, l6i2: was IL years old when this book
was printed
The times., 1899-04-09
Slow to Learn.

From the st. Paul Dispatch)
The Cubans who have been given a share in
the Cuban Government are making poor rec
ord. General Brooke finds that the Judges and
civil officers generally corrupt, that the Span
ish system OF imPrisoning incomunicado is
followed by the Cubans and that in general the
natives, when left to themselves, are quick to
adopt all the methods OF tyranny and oppression
taught them by the Spanards
imprisonment iucomuncado for an indefinite
period is especially shocking to Americans with
their ideas of personal liberty as enjoyed by
them and their forcfathcrs for hundreds of years
1t has been the practice OF Cuban Judges to im-
prison personal enemies and keep them so CON
fined, without trial. without knowledge of the
offence charged against them nor of their accuser.
Such doins5 are the worst work OF tyrants, for
there is lttle material difference between taking
mans life and imprisonins him for life in
noisome dungeon, wherein he must lie without
means OF informing his friends as to his where
abOuts.
The times., 1899-04-09
AN ETERNAL SCANDAL.
me Partisan Press Aagrily Dis
cussing Dreyfus

Paris, April S.-The Figaro" continues
the publication OF the depositions in the
Dreyfus affair. The ensuing press eontro-
versy increases in bitterness. but there is
no popular agitation. The interest now
centres in the absolutely contradictory
statements OF General Roget and the exam
ming judge. Bertulus.
To the question. who is the liar?H Paul
de Cassagnac answers, Il do not believe
il is the general"
Resentment is felt at the English press
Tor making light of General Roget's tes-
timony. 1t is undeniaoly clever and i'm
presses public opinion
The anti-revisionists, while violently
blaming the Figaro hold fast to the
point which it is thought the Dupuy Min
istry expects the Court of Cessation to
maintain, namely, that no proof of a new
fact has been found technically compelling
the revision or the annulment of the SEN
tence already pronounced.
The fifteen proofs of Yves Guyot seem
moral presumptions, or merely negative
ana hearsay evidence. and not the material
and direct proof at first hand technically
demanded by the French law of a fact un-
known to the former judges, happening be-
lore their sentences, and which. if known,
would have changed their sentence
Before the 'Figaro's'' publication the
anti-reyisionfsts demanded a supplement-
ary investigation to correct the imputed
partlaiity OF the Criminal Chambers work.
The revisionists now demand the same to
answer General Roget and to force direct
evidence. at least of irregularity of pro-
cedure, from the military judges OF the
hrst trial II is said that the latter will
answer only if permitted by their military
superiors.
Meanwhile, in the midst of contradictory
assertions and presumptive reasoning. un-
supported by direct testimony. the funda-
mental mystery remains as dark as ever
The times., 1899-04-09
A RncuIinr Decision.

Chicago judge has expressed the some
what curious opinion that when there is
such proyocation on the part of wife as
to create emotional insanity on the part
of her husband, the husband may strike
the wife without being amenable for the
act.
This is a new application of an cd
theory. The idea seems to be that when
a man is very much provoked he is not
responsible for his acts. Perhaps he is
not-people have been known to be uttelly
obiivious of what they did and said while
in fit of temper-but this decision will
strike most people as giving rather too
much latitude to human weakness. Sup
pose mans employer. or fellow-work-
man, taunts and jeers at him until the in
suits become unbearable, and the victim
is reused to a degree of emotional insan-
ity" which results in the death of the tor
mentor is such a fact to excuse the
murderer? Then, again. the woman her
self may have a touch of this malady. She
may be prey to jealous suspicious, and
there is nothing which can make a human
being so nearly insane for the time being
as Jealousy. 1t warps or paralyZes the
reasoning powers, and reduces the human
being to the level of the brute. And one
of its peculiarities is that it does not re
quire proof Sometimes this passion seems
TO grow stronger by starvation, and i'm
aginary proofs of guilt are coniured up
which have all the force of real evidence.
Is person suffering from jealousy emo
tionally insane? And if so. is he or she TO
be allowed to proceed to any lengths with
perfect impunity?
On the whole, it seems as il a society
governed on the principle suggested by this
Chicago judge would be composed largely
of emotional lunatics, fighting their differ
ences out with tooth and claw. 1t has
been generally understood that the penal
ties of the law are intended to deter pso-
pie from allowing themselves to get into a
state of temporary insanity, through the
indulgence of evil passions. In most cases
where there is violent disagreement in a
family, the person who wishes to retain
self-eontrol can do SO by leaving the ROOM
or the house. if necessary, and If worst
comes to worst, and the man cannoc posi-
bly, live with his wife, perhaps it would be
better for him to leave her altogether
than to live witff her3on such terms as
those suggested :