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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01
GENERAL IN P~ETTICOATS.
How Mrs. Joubert won the battle Of
aInjuba.


Since the days of Cleopatra the number
OF women to actually take part in the
conduct Of the wars of their respective
countries has been few. At the present
day there is only one lady who with any
justice can be termed "a general IN
petticoats," and that is Mrs. Joubert, the
wife Of General Joutert, commander IN
chief of the Transyaal forces. Mrs. Jou.
bert has accompanied her husband IN all
the wars he has undertaken.
1t is not generally known that it was to
Mrs. Joubert the great defeat Of the Eng
fish at Majuba was largely due. The
general considered the position unassaila-
Bile, but Mrs. Joubert, her eyes aire with
patriotism, urged the attack, eventually
~conquering the scruples Of her husband
and the other commandments. Thu result
is known.
Mrs. Joubert's last appearance at a
war occurred during the recent Magato-
land campaign, at the extreme north OF
the Transvaal. An artillery, burgher
and native force of nearly 10000 men
was dispatched to the from to subdue
the rebel chief M'Pefu, i~ntrenched in a
series of rocky businesses backed by the
Limpopo. Notwithstanding what was
feared would be the bloody nature OF the
war, the heat-over 100 degrees in the
shade-ard the fever, the plucky woman
Joined the general q week or two after
his arrival at the Hoofd Lager, accom-
panied only by two or three little katiir
maids.
Finding General Joubert in an any
thing but comfortable tent, she routed
him out, erected a tent of her own and
Installed him amid all the comforts Of
home. What was more, she reconstructed
the generals mess arrangements n
cooked his meals with her own hands.
The wife Of the commandment general
peeling potatoes was an ordinary sight
any day during the campaign.
On one occasion during the war the
news cam into camp that the general
had been taken i'll thirty miles away in
the midst OF a country full Of hostile ma
tives and deadly with malaria. Without
hesitation Mrs. Joubert made prepare
lions to go and join her husband, and
there is little doubt that she would have
accomplished her purpose had not more
reassuring news come to hand.
The war came to an early close, owing
to the military genius Of General Joubert,
and, it i not too much to say, his better
half.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01


tsrewing suspicion on another, and, cast
ing about, selected Alfred Dreyfus, cap
tain OF artillery, as the most logical cul-
prit upon whom to fasten their guilt.
Accordingly a bordereau was written
by Count l1sterhazy containing a mem
orand Of to be furnished
and was sent to Colonel Schwartzkoppen
Of the German embassy, 50 that It would
be intercepted by French secret employ
ees and brought to the foreign wal Office
It initiated the handwriting Of Dreyfus.
When received by Colonel Sandherr, the
departments head, specimens OF the
handwriting of the officers were called
for and secured and Dreyfus was sug-
gested by Colonel du Patty de Clam and
the Marquis de Mores as the culprit.
Commandment du Patty de Clam was
charged with the preliminary inquiry,
and on Oct. IA he wrote to Captain Drey-
fus, asking him to call at the Wal office
the next morning and receive a communi-
cation which concerned him.
In the meantime, on this same day of
Oct. IA, General MERCER. the minister Of
war-a violent anti-Semite-ordered a
cell to be prepared for Dreyfus in the
Cherche-Midi prison. He also ordered
that the prisoners name should not be
inscribed in the prison register, that he
should be put Eau secret" so that no one
should see him except the chief warden,
who was to take him his food. The chief
warden was also told to give the prisoner
the scant fare of condemned prisoners
and on no account to divulge to any one
the fact Of the captains arrest.
All this, be it noted, was done before
the preliminary inquiry, which by law
must precede a formal order to prosecute
in d military court. Dreyfus was treated
as a condemned mar before he had even
been informed of the charge against him
and ten weeks before the verdict Of the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

the modification OF passing currents
When the tornado begins, it is tempo
rarily small, but it grows rapidly and
sucks air from farther and farther away.
A cyclone is an immense tornado. with
out the spiral, or rather with one'so enor-
nous that the diameter of it Is thousands
of miles. 1t has the popularity Of push
ing great masses Of heated air to the
southwest, and these air masses start the
tornado
A cyclone in itself is harmless. All the
cyclones one reads about are not cy-
clones, but tornadoes.
Tornadoes have been known<in Ameri-
ca for q century or more, and thousands
of persons have been killed and injured
by them. A record Of these visitations
since 1894 shows tremendous loss of life
and property. On Feb. s, 1884, the coun-
try from the Mississippi river to the At
lantic was the dancing ground for 90 ter
rible tornadoes, which killed so people
and injured nearly 5000, while they re-
duced to ruins 10000 buildings.
During the period from 1874 down to
the present time the most disastrous cy-
clone was that at st. Louis on May ~,
1896. The precise number Of persons
killed has never been known, but the
dead were several hundred and b In
jured many more.
One of the earliest cyclones on record
was on May Z, 1910, in Adams county,
Miss, when 317 people were killed. The
same place was revisited two years later,
when 500 were killed. The property loss
was very great.
Louisville was stricken in 1890, but the
same city was visited by q whirlwind as
long ago as Aug. 81, 1854. AT that time
25 persons were killed.
Savannah and its vicinity seem pecul-
iarly subject to destructive windstorIns.
That city was storm swept IN Sept. 80,
1856. and again in 1898, with much loss
Of life and property. On May 20 Of last
year a cyclone tore great holes IN Iowa,
Illinois and Wisconsin. Seventy people
were killed, and the loss to property was
very great. So far as property loss goes,
st. Louis thus far holds the record.
In speaking Of the marvellous success
of his plan for fighting ~tornadoes Captain
Hoades, the originator Of the scheme,
said:
Il can hardly claim to have invented
the plan, for I have twice seen water
spouts broken by the same method while
following my former ayoeation on the
sea. Indeed it was this that first sug-
gested the scheme to me.
after the cyclone of 1897 ! suggested
that Hennessey, which is directly in the
path of the south bound tornadoes, adopt
this apparently strange plan Of pEotec-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

The return OF Dreyfus to France and
the preparation to do him tardy justice
by a new court martial mark another
chapter ii this-celebrated which
has disgraced France.
1t has been almost five years since the
martyr Of DEVILS island was arrested,
secretly tried and railroaded off to a con-
Wet prison. During that time the eter-
nal verities have been under a cloud.
Blacker and blackcr have become the
fumes Of corruption. From time to time
there have occurred in the midst Of this
cloud explosions - sensational incidents
which might be lilscned to lightning
flashes. All the while there have been
mutterings and grumblings as OF thunder.
Now it looks as if the sun would shine
again.
Nothing less than a thick volume could
contain the whole history of the case,
with an its developments and ramiiica-
tions, but possibly a brief review of the
main incidents Is appropriate.
More than once the general public has
lost sight OF the original incident. It was
IN April. 1894. that the suspicion was
aroused j the French war Office that
some one In its employ was selling Sc
erets of the national defense to q foreign
power. An investigation was ordered
and begun, the most rigid surveillance
being exercised over all the officers Of the
general staff.
The guilty parties, believed to be Count
Walzin Estefhazy and Colonel du Patty
de Clam, sought to shield themselves BY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

The examining officers and asked to be
passed. For the fourth time he was re-
jected and told to give up his attempts to
break INTO the regiment.
Then young Miller sought out Colonel
Roosevelt and told his story. The com
mander listened attentively to the young
mans tale of following the regiment and
the exaeting rules which had four times
barred him. Then he gave Miller a note,
which read:
Examining Surgeon-Examine this man and
have him mustered in. ROOSEVELT.
Two hours later Miller had become a
member of Troop Il, First United States
volunteer cavalry, better known as the
rough riders. He participated in the
fights Of the regiment in Cuba, including
San juan hill. He was mustered out at
Camp Vvikof in September, 1898. Miller
went home, rested a month, and then
hurried to San Francisco, where he en-
listed Iii Funston's Twentieth Kansas,
which was then in San Francisco, on its
way to the Philippines. His weight and
height were overlooked by Funston's sur
geons, and he became a member of Conn
pany L..
Miller is still in the Philippines, swim
ming rivers and doing anything else that
his dashing leaders suggest. His father,
the Rev. J. X. Miller Of Junction City,
Kan, is a veteran of the civil war and
is proud of his boys record.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

FRENCH POSTER DkPtCtlNa The EVILS VI
BsIN
powered, and be was led away a raying
maniac. 1t was found he was an abb
smith drinker in secret and had got up
to eight glasses a day. Such is the effect
Of this insidious craze upon those who
follow it far enough.
In the last stages Of this form OF sui
eide the victim sometimes drinks Is
glasses OF absinth in a day and is the most
pitiable of all the types of d~runkards.
In the better cafes absinth costs 80
eenfimes, or 10 cents, but IN the dives
it IS only 8 sous a glass As such It Is
little less than a deadly poison, especially
when d dash Of vitriol is added to give It
an extra "bite.' vitrioi Is regularly used
Ii many Of the cheap drinks and even In
the better ones.
Last week I had an interesting talk
with Senateur Jules lie Jeune, secretary
OF state In the Belgian cabinet. who Is
pushing a bill to prohibit the saleSof abb
smith in Belgium.
1T IS doing much the same for US as Il
is here in France, : he said- Il also hav
4 bill before our parliament to gradually
decrease the number Of public drinking
houses through the country in the next
ten years. AT present we have xS.000
of these 10 a population OF but 100000
of people, III one to every "a persons.
M plan ii to make the proportion q
drinking place Il every 200 people but
the proposal Is TOO radical to carry with
out material amendment.
Some 81 the continental governments
are porting temperance Autographs i1
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

He was Just starting for the Klondike
when he heard that his younger brother
had enlisted in the volunteer army. So
Dom went to San Francisco, joined his
brothers regiment and sailed with him
for Manila.
The two Musser boys served through
the Spanish-American war and when
peace was declared secured an honorable
discharge. Instead Of returning home
they started their newspaper, which has
been a great success. It is published in
the interest Of the American soldiers in
the Philippines, and both volunteers q
regulars seem to appreciate it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01
SQBBDEATH IN DRINKS
France IS frightened Over the
Consumption Of Absinth.
ssKILLINe THE LITTLE WORM. =

wood Alcohol and Petroleum Have
BECOME Popular stimu1ants-vftri-
oi Used In Making Cheap Drinks
Forthe Poor.
France is getting frightened pre- the
evils of absinth drinking, and a system
attic crusade has been organized against
the consumption of the deceptive liquor.
Drinking shops IN the poorer quarters
morning, and even then there are shiver-
ing men and women who have brayed the
nipping mir to kill the little worm,'' as
they call their thirst for drink. In the
poor quarters, writes Eduard Page Gas
ton, / hare seen BY night little groups Of
women put their drink money n q conn
mon fund so the amount OF alcohol ma
be a bit larger than If they had bought
separately, and they drink it oftentimes
in its full strength. This use Of neat
drinks Is steadily growing. So fierce is
the appetite-for the strongest Installations
that the law eompels chemists to sell
methylated spirits only in colored form,
which means that they are poisoned. Al
cohol from wood is deadly, but popular
with them. In Paris they drink ether, In
the north of France turpentine is grow
ing in popularity, and here and there q
case is found where kerosene oil is taken.
although this is generally lone secretly.
Petroleum especially has a terrible effect
and causes severe vomiting and other
sickness until the stomach becomes in
ured to the horrible practice.
N cV~.oAI so <ha most 1r1n1-1z2 - al
the departments in the republic. While
the fishermen and peasantry Of the north
coast are bad enough as men, the mn
are worse So besotted lave many Of
these people become that they work but
6ve.hours a week, earning but enough for
the barest necessities Of life and to keep
themselves in drink. So keen is the de-
sire for liquor that on the farms, after
the apples have been pressed for cider
making, they are put through a fermenta-
tion and another milling to gain d further
intoxicant from the rancid mass. Much
the same is done with grapes in some
sections.
II absinthism is not checked, France
may go insane as q nation. It is only a
few years since two old women living in
a secluded mountain valley in ISwitzer-
land gave out their secret for brewing
drink OF rare quality from the little abb
smith plants growing only in that local
ity, but now absinth is known around
the world. Nowhere has its sale grown
to SO great or threatening proportion as
in France, where its excessive use int
ally drives thousands to wild insanity. A
friend Of mine here in Paris had an Eng
ish coachman who was a model servant
for years, but who was noticed as be-
coming a trife erratic. One day he was
driving out with two of the children
when a sudden frenzy seized him, and he
attacked them to do murder. 1t was only
by help being at hand that he was over
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

STRANGE WORK or A WESTERN TORNADO.
ton. 1t is only fair to state that at first
/ was the laughing stock of the town,
and it was only by persistent argument
that / finally interested Mr.. Thomas Of
the Chicasan Coal corspany in my plan
Backed by so influential a citizen, we
finally gathered together enough money
by popular subscription to purchase four
out of date guns that SOW service around
New Orleans during the civil war and
mounted them in the place selected. The
most singular feature of the whole mat
ter is that the one dwelling destroyed by
today's storm was occupied BY the most
persistent doubter in the town."
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01
SOLDIER EDITORS.
Two Idaho Volunteers Who Publish
q Paper In aniIa

One of the most successful American
publications in the Philippines is Free
dom. a lively soldiers paper which Is
published By two Idaho boys who went
out as v 5lunteers. The editor is C. w.
Musser, better known to his friends as
"Den." His brother Barr is associated
with him in the enterprise.
Don Musser IS the son Of Hon. A.. NJ.
Musser Of Salt Lake City and is 81
years old. He studied for awhile in the
public schools, but for the most part he
is self educated. He has Travelled
through Germany. Palestine and Turkey.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01
ATTACHING 4 rosaApo WITH CANNON.

ATTACKING A TORNADO WITH CANNoN.
cannon, purchased By popular subscrip-
mfrom the condemned stock at the
Orleans arsenal, on the four sides
town.. each gun under the care of
kchful attendant during the cyclone
ason. The cannon were designed to be
ed into the face of an approaching hur-
eane In the hope of breaking its force.
when the news reached Hennessy that
tornado was sweeping southwark over
be prairies east of the Rockies, it was
cared that when it reached the CHINA
non river it would swerve from its track
and follow the course of the stream, as
was done by the hurricane that killed sew
en- people there in the autumn of 1897, a
sharp bend in the stream then throwing
the storm over the peninsula upon which
Hennessy is situated.
The cannon to the west, where the
town is partly protected by the Wichita
mountains. was accordingly withdrawn
and placed on the northern border as an
additional protection. Unfortunately,
however, or the approach of the funnel
shaped cloud the western gun was fired
a couple OF seconds too soon, swinging
the storm toward the east, so that the
shot from the other gun did not take full
effect The combined effort so changed
the tornado's course, however, that only
the extreme eastern edge Of the town
was touched, but there the one house
fully in its path was completely demol-
ished. and the cannon which guarded that
end OF the peninsula was blown from it's
carriage, carried fully 500 feet n bur-
led in a SAND bank. The attendant at the
gun and the inhabitants of the solitary
dwelling demolished were warned in time
to escape with their lives.
The tornado district proper lies be-
tween meridians so degrees and 101 de-
prees and includes parts of Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Iowa, Illinois and the eastern edge
of Indiana. In an official paper on this
subject Lieutenant Finley of the wealth
er bureau says: "a mar prepared to show
the entire topography OF that portion Of
the United States included within the
meridians of 50 degrees and 101 degrees
would plainly illustrate an important
: truth IN the tornado problem-yiz, that
there is not another section of our vast
domain wherein there exist opportuni-
ties so unlimited for the unobstructed
mingling and opposition of warm and
cold currents and currents highly con-
trasted in humidity. AS an area Of low
barometer-not necessarily a storm area
advances to the lower Mississippi val
ley warm and cold currents set in toward
h from the north and south respectively,
which, il the low pressure continues
about stationary for some time, ultimate
" emanafe from the warm and moist re-
gions Of the gulf and the cold and COM
parativel5 dry regions Of the British pos
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

Can tornadoes be conquered with can
non? This is the question which inter-
esfs the people of the middle west, n
there are indications that there may pc
something in the scheme. The inhabIt-
ants Of Hennessy, @. T., declare that
their town would not now be on the map
.except for the inventive genius Of n Of
her citizens, Captain John r. Hoades, a
retired sea captain, who, though hitherto
generally regarded as a visionary RANK,
IS now hailed as the savior of hundreds
of lives.
Mr.. Hoades' scheme consisted IN post
ing a large Is inch smoothbore Parrot
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

The first year of tho reign Of Queen
Wilhe3mina of Holland has been cels-
brated bS the striking Of souvenirs at
Hague. fhe ffst 81 which are 70 be
distributed among the delesates Of the
Powers of The Fence Conference ,Ihe
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

It is said that If the rubber made from
the ficus elastic could be placed In LON
don as free from impurities as Para It
would be preferred by cah1e-cover manu-
~facturers, and a movement is on foot to
cultivate fl
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

Will give gold. silver and bronze medals
10 the three best exhibits JIM the coal
smoke abatement Secffon Of the forth
coming BuildIns Trades Exflibit1on, at
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-01

SuH1 X T17@1V IIVHI FIEFITIC III IEfIIE d.
count 70 general ciairas account Ms
cal year ls5c-l5ss
4Estsffs4 70 Iommttee on ~t1nance2
sioners:-
I resolution. (passed May "A, 1887 re-
quesllnE Board Of ~E1nanes 20 purchase
the aaoltlonal ground consisting OF 5x25
feet on Garrison avenue, adjoining Engine
Rouse NOD.
sfeeIelred 70 the COMMITTEES OF the
snoie3
commencing to the Board OF Finance the
pnrcnase q the plot Of ground z5xiu4
LINCOLN street. for the new engine house
n lWeIItl ward
3iee[erfeQ 70 special Committee3
81 Board OF Finance as to unused real
estate owned by the city.
, u9 9hSIerrea 70 the % me
from the BOARD OF Educations-
i Resolution passed May p. 1881 re-
a atsanrs IA manager q yiSg from g
2. Resolution lpassed May 2, 1899) re-
guessing transfer of $50 from Teachers,
account.
sHersrrsa t. the COMMITTEES on F1nancs1
4. resolution tpassed May u 15Ss, re-
he salary Of engineer Of School No
q November. 1875.
Resolutions)
From His Honor the Mayor
Jersey city. N. j.. June 1. 1854
HoH6rapte board OF ~tinance:-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES full wen how
difticutL II Is Tor your Honorable Board
70 meet all demands. particularly when
priations to maintain the ~sarieus muni-
eipaI departments curing the c0HIH8
fiscal year and at the same time do your
duty toward our overbur3ena taxpayers
SO far as their tax bills are concerned.
II 10 with soE1e reluctance that 4 call
your attention to a certain matter.
Wnen we consider the tact that Ct
to inequitable tax laws which favor th6N
corporations at the expense Of the city.
the giving away Of valuable franchises
s Maasr fponfs ana ia fa the st paat. a amay Eh e eur eur
croachments of the many railroads upon
much OF our valuable property and many
otner shortcomings 70 say
tne least 70 the neglect Of former pubic
officials in guarding the cltyss interests
while they were IN power we nave ths
main causes OF our nigh tax rate and the
reasons Mny yelr honorable 5oara mus1s
cunstances as We find them, and makes
the best OF It. At this particular timed
! would call your attention TO the lows
scale pf salaries which we pay our public
departments Promises have been made
from year 70 year 70 increase their
cause q the the increase snsy asd It y Would 1g ff haTe made
- tax lns oil moi obsaet ~ sbe sn 6o,,ss4
and ddf iss T exnendIfnres IF money Far eJnN
cationsi ni1rnases' orr cify pros,d5yt
$500 ~ 3 ccrns ~ fsacbers SeeonS *
nons M uSsiie for meritorfo,1s worisi
aoas NJ ~ taseif camnarsate fnr worf1
we'll dane ana faifhfnljr narformed Goaa
work always ofnmands 3 good price and
II elt9 9rd which 81 pr oas4s bur aarg sa nelgaOG }rom
taLinr mr. eachers awav from "a II Il
n mara ssbsts mai w sSa Sn e9vine 40 ven 51H rs mers
nfferances If Draise. "a number Of good