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No Truth in It.

London, Feb. 1.-THE Hague cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph de-
clares that the rumor that the Dutch
minister of foreign affairs will be in
vited to arbitrate the Venezuela dis
pute is unfounded.
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The Car Men rlay Strike

Chicago, Feb. 11.-By action taken
by employees of the Chicago City Rail-
road company general strike on all
lines OF that system is made posi-
BILE. The union tonight formulated an
ultimatum to be presented tomorrow
to General Manager McCulloch and if
he shall decline to grant any of the
requests contained therein, the COM
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National Veterans Union.

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. 11.-Thirty-
four states were represented at the
of the National Veterans
union today General F. B. Hutchin.
son of Rochester, N. Y, was elected
commander-in-chief.
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ten drops of a 10 per cent solution
every three hours.
Thus far it has proved successful,
although it. is not known whether it
will sustain the patient sufficiently to
carry him on to recovery.
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DR.. ALEXANDER ON THE WIT.
NESS STAND.
HAD TO PRODUCE SUBJECTS
Was Employed to Lecture at COLLEGE
on Descriptive Anatomy-Used
10 or II Bodies.

Indianapolis, Feb. 11.-Today's ses-
sion of the trial of DR.. Alexander.
charged with grave robbery, opened
with the testimony of Jacob Kurtz, a
city detective, who was formerly the
turnkey at the county jail. He cor
roborated DR.. Alexanders testimony
that Cantrell telephoned, October Is,
from the Jail to DR.. Alexander's Of
fee.
Joseph A. Kepler, manager for the
local branch of r. G. Dun & Co.'s COM
mercial agency, was a character wit
ness. DR.. H. M. Lash, a specialist in
mental diseases, was asked for his
opinion as to Cantrell's sanity.
Il would consider the man as one
OF unsound mind" said DR.. Lash
AS the conviction of the other al
legged ghouls is said to depend large
ly on Cantrell's testimony, the ques-
ton as to his mental condition is
causing much comment.
DR.. Alexander took the witness
stand He appeared pale, but not Ill
at ease, and spoke in a low but clear
tone. He was graduated March 13,
1895, from the Indiana college and
opened an Office in this city. He
testified that he tended bar and kept
the books for time in his uncle's
saloon. He was arrested at one time
while in the saloon business, he said.
on the charge of selling liquor after
hours, but was acquitted.
| DR.. Alexander said he was employ.
ed to deliver 80 lectures at the Cen
trail college during the school term
of 1901-02 on descriptive anatomy of
skeletons. He admitted that his duty
was to procure dissecting material for
,he college.
1--WE used possibly 10 or 12 bodies
in season." he said. He received,
all told, $50 for each body.
81 paid for the material, the work
of preservation, and in addition de-
| livered 100 lectures" he testified. He
said it cost him in time, labor and
| money about $3.50 to preserve
body and place it in barrel of brine.
"When did you first meet Rufus
Cantrell?"
II met him in June, 1902. He told
me he had telephoned to DR.. Bretz
and came to see me- l did not know
what he wanted.
"We had "a lot of uncleaned skele-
tons in the old college building. Can
trell, who was alone, told me he had
worked about colleges and wanted en-
ployment. telephoned either to DR..
Banner or Dr. Eastman about the
matter and they referred me to DR..
lsAllen. I told Cantrell, whom l knew
then as William Rufus, to return in
few days"
DIR. Alexander testified that he had
made arrangements and employed
Cantrell to clean the skeletons for
s25 and advanced him $3.50 to buy
oyeralls and a meal ticket. He also
said that he made efforts to secure
dissecting material in different parts
of the state without avail. About this
time, he said, he took Cantrells
clothing out of pawnshop and stood
security. On one occasion in July.
1902, he said he talked with Cantrell
about procuring bodies.
"He told me he had procured bodies
for different colleges at times and
would like to do it again." the wit
ness said.
DIR. Alexander said he made ar
rangements with Cantrell to supply
the college with material at his own
expense for $50 body G. O. d. at the
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mittee which will wait upon him will
report back to the union in favor of
a strike on all lines of the company
Mr.. McCulloch Will be called upon
20 reinstate Thomas Daley, dis
charged cable splicer, to discharge
James Little, the man who took his
place. and to cease alleged discrimi-
nation in favor of non-union men.
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Can't Get the Money.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 11.-Word was
received in this city this week that
the Valdez & Copper River railway
will not be built this year. The rea-
son assigned is that the promoters
are unable to get the capital neces-
sary for. the project.
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On Trust Legislation.

Washington, Feb 1.-THE commit
tee on judiciary of the senate spent
several hours yesterday considering
the trust question with the view OF
the Recommendation of antitrust leg
islation.
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CARRIE AGAIN ARRESTED.
Forgotten Ordinance Enforced Against
Kansas Reformer.

Los Angeles, Cal. Feb. 11.-Mrs.
Carrie Nation, who is filling lecture
engagement at the Chutes theater in
this city, was arrested this afternoon
for violating city ordinance forbid
ding the advertisement of attractions
by the use of carriages decorated
with painted banners.
The ordinacnce has never been
made effective and infringement of
it's provisions has usually been over
looked in the past. Mrs. Nation was
released on bail.
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Whole Town Destroyed.

Columbus, O.. Feb. 11.-A fire is
reported to have almost destroyed
the town of Bremen, As miles south OF
Columbus late last night.
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slipped away to various nooks and corners
each one with her particular friend-and
were lost in an avalanche of gossip, while
in the middle of the room. fioundering about
helplessly, was the great army of the un-
acquainted. sadly in need of a feminine
Coxey to band its members together and
lead them out of their bewildering predica-
ment.
Across the large archway leading into
the dining room was stretched thick gar
land of evergreen, like the bar on a barn
yard gate or on low football goal. This
prevented more women coming into the re-
freshment room than could be seated.
Every chair in the apartment had an occu-
pant. while outside the bar seething jam
of tired-out receptionists fought for places
of vantage, so that when the bar was let
down they might get into the refreshment
room, eat their ices and candies and hurry
off TO their homes. Several determined ones,
who had enjoyed excellent training at other
affairs of the same kind, made a guards
back formation and then, through clever
series of end runs, swept past their oppo-
nents and got down the gridiron to the
five-yard line, all ready for touchdown.
Their opponents played a strong game,
manfuly striving to hold 'em back, but
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Vignettes of An Inland City

three OF four days in preparing list of
guests and i'm investigating the various ca
terers of the city to find out which one will
serve the best things to eat For a fort
night she works and worries until she is
almost a physical wreck. She finds that
the entire house must be overhauled and
puts in many anxious hours experimenting
the job All of this time she is going about
with sinking heart, feeling that perhaps
she has forgotten to invite somebody that
she should have remembered, or remembered
somebody that she should have forgotten.
Or perhaps her wretchedness is due to
the fact that Mrs. Blinks has offended
her by refusing to assist" because
Mrs. Winks is to be present (Mrs.
Blinks and Mrs. Winks are not on
speaking terms. you know) Added
to all of her other troubles she has just
discovered that the cost of the function is
going to be far in excess of what she had
lima gined it would be, and she doesn't know
exactly how John. dear, will receive this
supplementary drop in his cup of sor-
row.
Anc the invited guests! Well, when they
receive the invitational cards they make
believe to themselves that il is their duty
to go TO the thing. but as the dreaded day
draws near they think of hundred other
matters that are calling for their urgent
attention. There is a matinee performance
of good play, ard this will be their only
opportunity to see the piece, or maybe they
had prepared for a warm fall afternoon
and have no suitable clothes to wear be-
cause the day has turned out cold and raw,
or perhaps the situation is just the reverse
and their summer togs have been perma-
nently discarded. They feel that, out of
respect to their old friend who has gone
TO the trouble (and the unhappness) of
giving the function, they should attend it
anyway. And so they are very much dis
tressed.
And then there are the acquaintance of
the hostess who We're not invited, They
are in very disconsolate state of mind
because they have been left out of an
important society event. 1t is dreadful for
them to be Obliged to acknowledge that
they were not considered eligible to par
ticipate in it. They are so heart-broken
over the matter (goeSness knows their
names are in the Blue BookD that they
refuse to be consoled with the cheering
thought that they would have been far
more wretched had they been invited. So
what's the use of receptions-and why do
people have them?
The other day a man found himself at a
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following morning, but there was a long
days drive ahead of us to the top of
Smoky where we saw the ocean washing
the steep shore a thousand feet below, and
then descended down TO the Bay of Ingo-
nish and skirted the shores of deep cave,
taking our lunch in green field at the up
per end. The streams hereabouts are filed
with a great abundance of large trout and
fine salmon, and half of our party, who
stop to try their luck at one of the most at
tractive of the streams, are caught in a
heavy shower and come late and drenched
with the rain TO the house at lngonish
where we pass the night.
Here our host, who runs the postofhce.
telegraph Office, store codfsh-drying es-
tablishment and everything else in the little
hamlet of score of dwellings, tried to send
a message for us to another station. but
informed me he could make no ineligible
connection with the operator at the other
end until he had directed the man to take
off his boots, which seemed, in some occult
manner, to complete the insulation of the
wire.
Such is this smple-minded people, and
yet they have their fun with the greenhorns
from the city. and there is a tradition here
of young man who came TO Baddeck one
, Saturday evening on the boat with shiny
stove-pipe hat, a pair of gloves and COM
plete suit of store clothes" On Sunday,
thus arrayed. he set forth for walk in the
woods, but, seeing something among the
trees which he took for a wildcat he put
off for the town on full run, losing his
hat, plunging head foremost into a pool of
mud and never stopping until. spattered,
breathless and terrified, he reached the
house where he was staying. 1t is further
believed in the community that the animal
which frightened him was nothing more
dangerous than a large rabbit. The fur
ther stay of the young man in the neighbor-
hood was very short, and the natives of the
place are more than ever convinced that
store clothes do not always cover a
courageous heart. VIM. ID. FOCLkE.
Baddeck, Cape Breton Island. Sept. Is.
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experience and strategy will win out every
time
And whGs was all of this struggle and
strife for? Surely not for the little dabs
of melting ices (pink and the tiny round
bits of peppermint candies (white) that
were being served by the two busy walters
(black). only to ruin their appetites for
good honest dinners later in the day. And
yet the people who had come to the func-
tion did not dare go away peacefully with
out paying a visit to the refreshment room,
for to remain away from the refreshment
room was to forever offend the hostess.
The air was becoming very warm in the
gas-lit rooms and the odor of dying flow
ers was almost suffocating. Far away, at
the end of "a little hall and concealed be-
hind a bank of palms and ferns, a couple
of swarthy musicians played popular melo-
dies a violin and harp-played just as
earnestly as if their music was not almost
completely drowned out by the continuous
babblc of frothy conversation. This chat
ter, taken as a whole, resembled the hum
of an enormous swarm of bees, and, judg-
ing from the little snatches of talk heard
here and there, the chatterers, like the
bees knew how TO inflict occasional stings.
A sweet-faced little woman in a modest
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pink tea. He had been given to understand
that several other human beings of mascu-
line persuasion were to be present; and so
he went just for the experience. Expe-
rience has been defined by some deep-think
ing philosopher as wanting something you
can't get and getting something you don't
want. None of the other men came. They
had all been called out of town on impor-
tant business matters, it seemed. When
the man made the appalling discovery that
he was the only representative of his sex
present, aside from the members of the
orchestra and the walters, he hid behind
a screen of palms and awaited favorable
opportunity to make his escape. What he
saw and heard during his incarceration
convinced him that for genuine discomfort
a pink tea is in class all by itself.
The hostess was stationed near the draw
ing room door. BY her side stood some
particular victims whom she wished to
show to her creditors, just as the grocery
man displays special assortment of choice
vegetables The hostess wore, besides other
necessary things, a CHASTITY smile that
wouldn't come off. She fancied that this
smile expressed great joy, but it didn't.
The young women who were supposed to
act as her assistants" had by this time
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THE QUEEREST THING EVER SAW
IN A HOLE IN CHIN
By John Foster Fraser

! Tung-Pa mud Breathless and rather angry.
we forced our way into the presence of the
official, demanded protection, aud warned
him his head would not long remain upon
his shoulders if anything happened to US
The old gentleman was in a great fright.
for he knew there would be trouble IL any
thing happened to us, and yet he was afraid
of the Yamen being wrecked by the mob.
The place was being fusilladed with stones.
We asked for guard Of soldiers TO see us
out of the town. He put in the customary
plea that he had no soldiers. He implored.
with tears in his little wizened eyes. wring
ing his hands all the while. that we leave
the town before there was more trouble.
We said would leave If he would accom-
pany us outside the city
l suppose we We're rather bullying In our
, manner; but there was nothing else for It
However. he produced three soldiers. and
all went out and faced the bowling.
screaming maniacs. We kept the Governor
between US. that IL there was mud
throwing or stone throwing he would get
his share. The Chinese recognize authority.
and the ardor to kill us subsided- AS we adj
vanced, along the crooked. evil-odored
streets the soldiers were kept busy whack-
head with the scabbards of their swords.
They drove back the people and by the time
we had got a mile beyond Tung-pa our fol-
lowers had dwindled. and were no longer
aggressive. We apoIogized TO the old
gentleman for all the trouble we had Civ
en- him. shook hands with ourselves, ex-
changed obsequious bows and bade him
goodbye.
SO we pushed. i'm the fan OF the cold, grey
afternoon, over anything but pretty coua-
try, eyed rather affrightedly by the poor
shivering natives. and occasionally taking
our rest alongside a crumbling. though
| quaint memorial arch. of which there are
hundreds of thousands about China. The
news OF our coming had preceded us On
the outskirts OF Sha-pa we were met by
flock of noisy Chinese. Exaggerated
stories of what had been taking place at
Tung-pa had probably been told. for al
though at first there was no hostile demon
stration. We could tell by a glance at the
sallow. passionate features that we were
greeted in no friendly mood.
1t was just getting dark when we found
ourselves i'm long. narrow. winding Chi
nese alley. Patience and go d humor are
the most necessary qualities 10 travellers.
and the crowding. struggling and general
hullo- -baloo. we treated as a joke. The
Chinese are as ready anybody TO enjoy
fun; but when angry they are the most
| fearsone people on the face OF the earth.
| In the scrimmage some got knocked over.
| or oRrse we were blamed.
? dark aeW- and the fantastic aaA
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for the festival of the birth of our Lord
The blush tint of the spruce sets off the
lighter green of the fir tree at its side and
contrasts admirably with the reddening
leaves of the naples just beginning TO
turn and with the light tawny trunks Of
the birch trees and the thickets of alders
just below. Herds OF sheep with soft
clean wool are visible through some of the
openings grazing on the sod. The great
ocean glistens hundred feet below the
cliff and behind rises lay of rugged hills
clad with forest indisputably primeval.
mountains that become bluer and bluer as
they recede in both directions north and
south and seem at last to dip into the
sea. There are not many such comblna-
tions as this. and although i have just
come from Sicily, where Aetna slopes to the
Ionian sea and where have been drinking
the music of the idylls of Theocritus, L
must confess that there is no place even
among the pastures and vineyards of that
beautiful island better fitted than this for
the shepherds pipe or for the joy of the
rural swain who would
Sport with Amaryilis in the shade
Or with the tangles of Neraea's hair
On the way back to Sandy McDonald's
notice in the green meadows a little patch
of potatoes, perhaps fifty feet square, with
what seems TO me a very disproportionate
number of scarecrows in variegated apparel,
standing and sitting in various attitudes,
but all apparently facing in one direction.
If i were not close enough to tell what they
were ! should say it was a rather shabby
looking congregation just assembling for
camp meeting or for some other out-of door
service and "waitin for the meenister"
tell Sandy my views on the subject and he
answers: I'VE cud ma keep the potatoes
frae the craws in ony ither way but 1
notice as | pass the patch in the morning
that the crows are flying around the heads
of the congregation with very little fear.
| have just finished reading for the third
time Dante's narrowing account of the tor
ments of hell, and l could not help COM
pairing il with that congregation of varie-
gated scarecrows and rejecting that how
ever great may have been its effect upon
mediaeval creduity it does very little to-
day TO keep the human bird away from the
potato patch of worldly delight
L betakc myself now to Sandy's little par
lor. where. upon the low wall, were hung
colored prints of 'Our Blessed Saviour, :"
Our Gracious Queen and 1.-The Beauty of
the Mississippi" Three heads portrayed
with primeval simplicity and containing
about as much expression as the counte-
nances. seen upon our ordinary fashion
plates. Then ] go into his little store, where
he keeps stoves and Goldfish hooks and all
sorts of odds and ends, and Sandy enter
tains me with an account of the beauties,
as well as the difficulties, of the Gaelic
tongue. 1t was very hard language to
learn. he thought. but not near so hard as
Chinese. Why. sailor came there once
who tried to teach him the Chinese alpha
bet. but he couldn't learn il at all. The
letters were like the tracks Of hen walk
| ing in the snow, and sometimes single
letter stood for three or four words.
J We were sorry to leave Sandy on the
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times looking volumes into the eyes Of her
friend
well. I never, never, neveri' calculated
the astonished pink tea guest in so genuine
fashion that her old friend conceived
new liking for her op the spot and doubtless
regretted the episode of the hat
What do you suppose it all means2''
asked the recipient of the startling news
when she had recovered from the tremen-
dous shock.
The other shrugged her shoulders.
We'll I'll just go and for myself.
/ simply can't get over it." And away tod
died the short, fat woman as fast as she
could wedge her way through the crowded
room.
After a while the rooms began to thin
out. The front hall was filled with de-
parting women, who were anxiously asking
each other if their hats were on straight
AS the last one trailed out the man who had
been hiding behind the palm seized a favor
able opportunity and escaped unobserved.
And there you are-there's your pink tea!
What follows the departure of the guest
may be easily imagined. The hostess sinks
down upon sofa completely exhausted
thanking a kind heaven that the whole af-
fair is over at last. The children creep down
from the garret, where they have been
shelved for the afternoon, and the husband
sneaks up from the cellar. TO which retreat
he softly glided when he found that he had
come home from business little bit too
early.
''Was il a success?" he asks, brushing the
coal dust from his new fall trousers.
''Oh, suppose so answers the erstwhle
hostess wearily. THE ices held out and
several of my friends told me that my dress
was simply stunning. But'-she pauses for
a moment with a little frown-'there were
some women here that shall never invite
again. LOUIS W. JONES.
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but as these social debts are usually con-
tracted at other receptions, the logic
doesn't appear 10 be sound-to the mascu-
line mind. at least. The subject is quite an
interesting one for sober reflection. Upon
close research the following facts have
been scientifically deduced: An Indianapo-
lis woman, at this season of the year-a
woman of many friends Cfor the Hoosier
} capital is pre-eminently social city, brings
forth from quiet resting places all of the
old visiting cards and invitations that she
has received during the preceding year and
after much thought decides that the only
way she can repay such a heap of ''indebt-
edness," as she calls it, will be to give
tea of some kind.
Here is the recipe for giving a tea. First
catch your husband in merry frame of
mind and salt him down before he can get
away. He will have TO be in very mer-
ry mood indeed when the prospective tea
eiver breaks the news to him of the forth
coming function, or else. like Maldonado
I'm Iris he may lose his equilibrium and
smash the new parlor vases. But if he is
of a gentle disposition he will merely be
-stsrt-broken over the news. especially as
his wife's face is such a picture of woe.
.we'H have an evening reception. dear"
she adds. soothingly, as If they were dis
clissing the death of relative. "ana
YOU can then invite all your old friends,
you know"
Evening reception. thunder groans the
afflicted one. IF it is impossible to get
out of this ordeal you may go ahead and
give it some afterIIOon. But, by Jings
don't have to come to it-and I'm not going
TO rope all OF those good fellows into it,
either
And so the wife decides to have after
noon tea-a pink one. She spends the next