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AIex;1n1ria Gazette,
WEDNESDAY EVENING. DEC. %, 1907.
CHARGED VITA POISONING HER
HUSBAND.

That Mrs. Peal Armstrong bad
administered doses Of poison to her hus-
band, George Armstrong, for four days,
and finally brought sboa. bis dealb,
was the charge formulated yesterday by
County Prosecutor Bullet of New AL
bany, Ind,, against her. She is 10 Jail.
Boxes that had contained rat poison
s1d strychuine and q psir of gloves
we're found yesterday By the police in
sinkhnle In the rear of the Armstrong
home. Flcrsnce Myrtle Harris, l6 years
old, who lived with the Arnstrongs, di.
recled the police whers to fad these
articles.
The girl told the prosecutor that Mrs
Armstrong said she 'coud have better
time if her husband was dead" He
was i'll aud she gave him last Thursday
afternoon, the girl alleged, dose of rat
poisop, pretending it vas nediei5e.
Armstrong went to bed and graT
worse. On Sunday aftsrnoop, accord
ing to the girls statement, Mrs. Arm.
s'roug, protecting her bands with gloves,
filed several capsules with carbclc acid,
and Armstrong took them.
81 begged Mrs. Armstrong not to
give her husband more poison, but she
answered tina! she had started to end hIs
life aud she might as veil finish it,"
the girl stated to the prosecutor, sand
on Sunday night she gave him dose of
strychniue."
Armstrong died Monday. Mr.. Arm
strong yesterday continued to maintain
that her husband bad taken poison With
intend TO commit suicide. She is rs
years old, and he was As. BE was
member OF the Modern Woodmen, and
held 81, 900 life insurance 10 that order.
Armstrong's stomach was yesterday
sent for suslVsis to Indiana University
chemical laboratory at Bloomington.
In continuance of her examination
late yesterday the Harris girl told Prose-
cutor Bnlleit tina! Mrs. Armstrong had
contemplated the murder Of Armstrong
for several months. The girl said that
t1o weeks ago Mrs. Armstrong gave him
under pretext of misunderstanding medicine,
a mixture of csIomel and vinegar. This
produced salvation sod Illness.
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CT"CKHnLDERS' MEETING OF THE
- American R"TILE COMPANY OF
NIRGINIA.-The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Ar erican Rutile Com
pany viii be held at the Office of ON pany No.
Ill south Fairf < street. Alexandra Va, on
M0NDA the 3rd of January, 1910, from IL
o'clock noon to o'clock p. IN. for the cleo.
ton of directors and for the transaction Of
such other business IS can be lawfully consd-
cred. The transfer books will be closed for
10 DAYS prior to the 3rd day of January.
w. NJ. SLA Err. President.
ALBERT HARPER, Secy. and Tressr.
lan2 Cr
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The first minute afte. FIRE ftarts is the
most critical time, and the Columbus" Ez.
tingaisher being always ready for use, make
yoq n1aseer of the situation. e. 8. LEAD
bE4TER & SONS
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w ashingtOn Southern kv
Schedule In effect Nov. Z, 1909

Schedule In effect Nov. Z, 1909,
Trains leave Union Station for Washiu gtor
and points north at 20, 8Cs, 8 % and s 3y
=. - IL Il, 80, OF, 8 IS, and II 33 D. M,
For Fredericksburg, Richmond and point,
,outa at 81, 43 (Iocal), and 10 90 8. M,
y 16, %. AZ, So and z 42p. "a,
accommodation for Fredericksburg at SIS
p. m. ally.
NeTE:-Hme Of arrivals and departure
ind connections not guaranteed.
". P. TAYLOR, Traffic Msrsger.
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POTOMAC & CHESAPEAKE
STEAMBOAT COMPANY,
FROM EIGHTH STREET WHARF,
WASHING TON

WASHINGTON.
SUNDAY, TUESDAY, and THTrSDAY
at 7 q. N. for landings as far as Wirts, includ-
ing Grinders, Poseys. Brents Sunday and
Tuesday tripsl and Upper Machodo. Creek
landings.
MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY nt4p m.
for landing, as far as EDGEWATER and
PARHAhS POINT, including the Upper
Machodoc Creek, Wicomico river landings
and those in Nomini creek.
SATURDAY at 7 g. m. for landings az far
as NOMIN1, including Wicomico river land.
ings.
Schedule subject 10 tide and weather and to
change without notice.
For detailed informal ion call PhoUe 60
Bell oY Horne
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THE ANNUAL MEETING ,f the stock
holders of the FIRST NATIONAL
BANK will be held at tire banking house in
Ale1andria, Va. on TUESDAY,. January
II, 1910, at IL O'Clock, noon, for the election
Of directo for the ensuing year, for the p1r.
pose of amending its articles of association
and for the transaction of ,ch other business
as may properly come before the meeting
GEO, E. WAKEFIELD, Cashier.
decl0 I'd
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STEAMERS,

DI EAME ES,
SARYLAND, DELAWARE AND VIE
GINA RAILWAY COMPANY.
SPRING SCHEDULE.
steame1u Of This Line Leav. Ale, andna
On and after May Is, 1909,
Every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and
SATURDAY at 4:s0 D. m.
Oh BALTIMORE AND ALL TBs
USUAL River LANDINGS,
Cuihne and appointments une1called.
Freight for Baltimore, PhiladelphI. sre
asW YORK Roltcited and handled with care,
Through rates and bills Of lsding isared.
Single fare to Baltimore, So, 80; round tho
S. so. :tatercoras, one way, S1.5O, Meals. 300
REARDON & GRIMES, Agents,
Foot NJ Cameron street.
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MEETINGS.

THE ANNUAL MEETING Of the stock
holders of the ALEXANDRIA Ma
TIONAL BANK will be held at its Office, at
the corner of King snd Royal streets, in the
CITY OF Ale1audria. state of Virgini', on the
18th day of January, 1910, from l 90 a. m. to
LOO m f, for the election Of directors for the
ensuing year, and for the transaction Of ell
the said meeting. T. c. SMITH, Cashier.
dec1l I'd
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What is cold in the head? Nothing
10 worry about if you treat it with Ely's
Cream Balm Neglected. the cold may grow
into catarrh and the air.passages be SO TO-
famed that you have to fight for every
breath. 1t is true that Ely's Cream Balm
masters catarrh promptly. BIT you snow
t. old Saying about the ounce of prevention.
Therefore use Cream Balm when the cold in
the head shows itself All druggists. &c.,. or
mailed by Ely Bros. IS Warren Street, New
; York.
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CHRTsTMAS AND NEW YEAH Ex-
CIRSIONS 1QnQ.1 QIQ

Southern Railway will rel! retired fare
tickets from all peiDts Oh December Is IL,
IS, q, %. g, %. % ard II, 1902. aid january
!, 1910. Final limit Januarv q. 1910, account
Christmas ami New Year holidays.
For full Information in reference 10 fares.
dstas. schedules, etc app J to INV tirket
agsut. L.. =. Brown.
General Al gent Southern R.ilway.
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THE ANNHAI. meeting Of the stockbold-
ers of THE CITIZENS NATIONAL
BANK, of Alexandria Va, will he held at
1910, at - o'clock noon, for the purpose of the
election OF diref tors for the ensuing year, and
for the transaction of any other business that
may properly be brought before tho NETT ting.
RICHARD N. GREEN.
dnn11 ID e. uhiar
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GROCERIES.
W. A. JOHNSON & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
GROCERIES.

agNERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT
And Dealers In
ALL KINDS OF LIQUORs.
nd Pure Old Bye, Old Cabinet aud Ncre
.ram Whiskies; also Bakers and Thompson,
Pure Rye Whiskies, TO which they invise tbs
attention OF the trade,
O!6su from the country for nerchardir
shall receive prompt attention.
Jonhgnments OF Flour, Grain and Courtr,
Produce solicited, for which thsy guarantees
as highest market prices and prompt return
N, z corner Cameron and Royal Streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
The PENL Gus ART Or FOUNTAIN C. ne1Na

Grahamites in 1892 placed the laurels for
'farthest up was Sir William Martin
Conway. the noted British explorer who
has traversed the Alps from end to end.
and has explored the interior of Spitz-
bergen, besides the Bolivian Andes and
the glaciers of Terra del Fuego. The
climb in which he was alleged to have
made the world record was 23.O00 feet up
Pioneer peak, I'm the Himalayas. Dur
ing that expedition he passed eighty-four
days Oh ice and snow. Sir Martin, as he
is called. in 1854 married a Miss Lam
bard of Maine. and with their one daug-
ter they now live at Arlington Castle,
Maidstone, England.
Sir Martins laurels were claimed in
1897 by members of the expedition led by
a young American cragsman, +. A. FitZ-
gerald to explore Mount Aconcagua.
giant of the Andes, which rises to 23.uS2
feet in Argentina. Fitzgerald was born
i'm Connecticut thirty-eight years ago, and
at the time of this expedition was but
twenty-six. Two years previously he had
explored some of the snowy mountains OF
New Zealand. But i'll luck would have
il he fell i'll before reaching this Andean
summit, which was conquered by two
members of his party, s. Vines. an Eng
lishman, and Mattias ZurbrigGen, an Al
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KIND OF MEN WHO ARE RUNNING CHINA.

and other, supplies will be ordered from
the establishments which they have
known in the United States.
In the meantime the Chinese feel &C
friendly TO us that there should be many
openings for young Americans. Foreign
ers will have to be employed i'm the reor-
ganization of the government and I'm the
building up of new industries. Within a
few years China must have a large force
OF civil, mechanical and mining engineers.
II will need metallurgists. chemists and
other specialists. Ii will probably estab-
lish national banks and a new system OF
coinage with mints in a half dozen PROV
inces. Its post ONCE system will be mod
ernized, and as for its railroads. thou
sands OF miles OF new lines are already
projected and much new track is being
laid i'm different parts OF the empire. There
will be government openings FOR school
teachers and college professors. and also
from private capital for spe-
cialists in all modern industries.
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
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an unknown art at the Close Oh OUT TeNU-
luton, for il did not have its birth until
1856. when Balmat and Paccard stirred
Europe by scaling the top of Mont Blanc.
the loftiest of the Alps. But this first
record ascent appears small alongside the
heights attained by later cragsmen. And
the extent to which interest in this class
OF exploration has spread may be meas
ured by the membership of the noun
tain -climbing clubs, which in Europe
alone amounts to over 100000 men and
women. In our own country there are
several thousand enrolled in similar or
CARNATIONS. notably the American Alpine
club, Philadelphia; the Appalachian Noun
tain Club, Boston; the Sierra Club, San
Francisco: the Mount Whitney Club OF
California, and the Mazamas of Portland,
Ore. Our northern neghbor also has its
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of Americanism in the dough of the old
Chinese empire. working for the interests
new.
Under the new constitution there will
be an enormous demand for machinery
and the other necessities of our western
civilization. and this should aid America
in its efforts to furnish them. There will
be a demand for teachers, engineers and
specialists of all kinds. and as far as
friendship is concerned Uncle Sam has
the call. Even now the Chinese students
who were sent to the United States in
1870 to be educated there are among the
leading officials Of the empire. They do
not hold the highest positions. but they
are close to the top and are really doing
the work of the new China. meet grad
yates of Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and
other eastern colleges here and there;
and 1 have found several Chinese officials
who were educated in California and
other parts OF the west. There were
about forty students taken over in 1870
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\NM Yrs FA1n1T bvILoc9e WoRTe11sY>>
YRS WORKMAN

taking degrees at Yale and Harvard, nsd
also studied abroad at Vienna. Heidei-
berg and Munich. The extensive travels
of this interesting couple commenced in
1877, when they set out upon bicycle
tour of Europe and Algeria. lasting four
years. Then they cycled LOO miles In
Ceylon. 1.:J00 miles in Java and 1900
in India. In the IIimalaya country alone
they covered 400 miles in 1S9S. and. re-
manning until the following year. climbed
the Siegfried Horn uS600 feet, koser
Gunge t21.Nso feetD, and another RreaS
peak. which they named Mount Bull
lock Workman" n94Jo feep. I'm the
Eoser Gunge climb Mrs. Workman made
the woman's record for first ascents.
After exploring some OF the great Hima-
layan glaciers i'm 1902 and 1900. this in
defatigable couple made first ascents
of Mount Chogo FL 800 feet. Mount Lung
ma Go. SIS feet. and gave the world the
first knowledge of the Nun Kun range or
the Himalayas, wherein il was. In 1906.
that Mrs. Workman made her great climb
of 23,300 feet to the summit OF Pinnacle
peak.
For those exploits she has been deco
rated by the French government and by
the Italian king, who has given her the
Order of the Golden Eagle. DIR. Work
man, who now holds the Americas alti-
tude record for men, has received
grand medal from France. and he and
Mrs. Workman together have written q
number of books.
DR.. Cook will rank next after the
Workmans and Miss Peck on the list OF
American alpinists If his claims to hav
ing won the North American highest
up be substantiated.
After the Mount Mckinley and Mount
st. Elias climbs rank-upon the list
of American first ascents'-the con-
quest of the summit of Mount Whit
ney n4,i99 feet in 1878 by Bengole.
Lucas and Johnson: Of Mount Rainier
u4.394 feeD by Gen. Hazard Stevens, in
1876: OF Pixies Peak 04.147 feet b. r.
James. in 1920; of the Grand Teuton
13,SO0 feet by Langford and Stevenson.
in 1872: of Mount Abbott Q3, 700 feet BY
j. y. lie Conte, only last year. and OF
Mount Ritter. in the early seventies. by
John Muir. the sage OF Martinez, Cal.
who discovered the Muir glacier, in
Alaska. and who recently piloted Presi
dent Taft through the Yosemite valley.
Our initial first ascent record was
made when Darby Field climbed Mount
Washington I'm 1912. He reached 629S
feet, or scarcely more than quarter OF
AbruZZis new 'farthest up
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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ed.ctS 10 TINS ef1ect We're sent ioItl Hioic
tnan a year ago by the great empress dow
ager. Before that Yuan Shih Kai was
brought to Picking 10 aid in the move
Inent, and Tuan Fang and other eminent
Chinese officials were sent TO Europe to
study modern methods OF government ana
To prepare an up-to-date scheme for
china. In August, l.H'S. upon the basis of
tneir report. an edict was published out
Inning the plan by which China might
nave a new constitution aud national
parliament eight years from now.
since then the Chinese have been study
ing parliamentary law and preparing
themselves for self-government. They
have organized debating societies in every
part Of the empire. and they are now dis
GUESSING the chief features or western civil
ization Many of the governors have es-
tabIished schools for this purpose and are
educating their subjects along constitu-
tional lines. The viceroy OF Marking. who
rtiles about lD.WDODD on the lower
Yangtse Kiang, has appointed lecturers.
Who are giving nightly talks on modern
constitutional government, and many OF
the cities OF his dominion have assemblies
v here the people come together every
week TO discuss what they shall do when
allowed TO vote.
The same movement is going on here IN
north China Tientsin has its constitG-
Tonal debating societies. 1t has organ
lied municipal councils and the city
fathers are attending night schools. The
same is true OF HankOv and other places
ia rther west, well of Canton and
the other big centeTs Of the south. Indeed
this whole nation il in the throes of an in
telleCt Ual and social revolution: and that
mighty body polite which We know a.
the celestial kingdom is rejuvenating its
soul.
But let me tell you about this constitu-
tional movement. There is nothing like
IL in history. The rulers OF one-fourth
OF the world suddenly resolve TO give mp
their power and allow their subjects TO
govern themselves. They lay out the
scheme in cold blood and inaugurate il
without a revolution. Ii is not a spas
nodic effort. but progressive movement
which will take almost decade. II Is To
be started III once in every part OF the
empire, and is Systematically planned
that il will TT these 400 Acknowledged MIL
lions to make their own laws and to prac-
ticaily control their own government.
The story of the movement IL interest
ing. IL began during the war with Japan.
when the giant of modern progress, i'm
tho person of the mikado drew back his
mailed fist and swatted ;he sleeping ma
ton i'm the eye. Ii grew as the European
bowers stole piece after piece of Chinese
property along the seacoast, and II was
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and has sprung from her couch with her
almond eyes open. She Is thoroughly
aroused, and. with her great soul-for
great the soul of China really is-she Is
casting about to find where she is at.
and how she snail take her mighty part
in the work OF the world.
The plan for the reorganization of
China was discussed in connection with
Lii Hung Chang before his death. Ii was
finally laid out by the great dOwager, as
sisted by Yuan Shin Kai. Chang Chi
Tung and other leading officials. WI
Ting-fang. the Chinese minister at Wash
ington had to do with it, and nearly
every governor and viceroy sent in sug-
gestions and advice In the form of me
MORALS. The plans brought back by
Tuan Fang and his associates from En-
rope We're thoroughly studied, and n
scheme OF local. provincial and national
government was laid out. This was first
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pine guide. who had made his debut with
Conway.
1t is remarka BILE fact that two wom-
Ell would have to pass on DR.. Cook s
Mount Mckinley claims il that exploit
of his should have to be sifted out by
his American peers in the fine art of
alpinism. For the two most successful
mountain climbers of the United States
belong TO what has hitherto been called
the weaker sex
But whether our ranking alpinist is
Miss Peck or not remains to be deter
mined. If the previous measurement OF
22.O51 feet must stand as the altitude OF
Mount Huascaran, then Miss Peck must
be content with second place, and the
American laureis must remain with her
sister cragswoman, Mrs. Fanny Bull
lock Workman. of Worcester, Mass, who
gained them by reaching $1,000 feet up
Pinnacle peak of the Himalayas.
Mrs. Workman is the daughter of eX-
Gov. Bullock of Massachusetts. and
after having been educated in France and
Germany she married DR.. William Hunt
er Workman of Worcester, who. after
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and others have gone from time TO time
since then. In addition to the two hun
dred paid for by the indemnity fund.
many others will follow by force Of ex-
ample. so that the number will probably
be 800 or more. In 1907, before this fund
began TO work. We had 200 Chinese stu
dents registered at the embassy In Wash
mgton. OF these only forty-nine had been
sent over by the imperial government,
and the others were private students, fur
nished with money by their parents. II
the same ratio be preserved, China should
have SOD students when the indemnity
fund is I'm full force
This means that during the next gener-
alton thousands of Chinese will be edu-
Gated i'm the United States and that they
will form force in our favor so strong
that no other government or trade ele-
ment of Europe can compete with il.
They will learn to be engineers. railroad
managers and manufacturers; and when
they 60 back to China their machinery
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nine years. Tie first year is devoted TO
the preparation of the people for the pro-
vncial assemblies by the Tceroys and
governors, including the opening OF
schools for the studying Of self-govern-
nent in the cities. market towns and viii
lagos.
During the second year members are
and in the third they are to be organized
and in working order.
BY the fourth year there will be new
code OF laws and new courts and in the
fifth new system OF taxation will be
enforced.
The sixth year continues the prepare
ton OF the people for the national parlia -
ment. and during the seventh the re-
organization of the government revenues
and expenditures will he taken up.
The year following the officials will be-
gin to consider the imperial household eX-
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large number Of Chinese students going
abroad. The most of these will be sent
to either Japan or the United States.
Hundreds will come TO our country. es
peciaiy as by the scheme adopted for
the use of the Boxer indemnity which we
returned to China q large sum Is to be
continuously spent i'm educating Chinese
boys I'm America. Tang Shao vi
took over the first installment of
students last year. One hundred more are
to be sent over in 1910. and fifty more
each year for thirty years therea fter
This means that for the next generation
China will always have DO of its bright
est young men in the States. They will
be studying American institutions max
ing American friends and coming back
here 10 favor America for China in its
foreign relations.
Talk about a Chinese alliance, The re-
turn OF that indemnity was the most
profitable work Uncle Sam ever did. From
now on it will serve as steady leaven
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strong when the Boxers rose in
rebellion, and the armies of the west
caused the flight of the empress dowager
from Picking. The humiliation of China
in being forced to kotow to Germany for
the killing of Baron ketteler was a
strong push toward its modernization.
The victory OF the Japanese over the
Russians was another. and now the COM
mon people. the gentry and the officials
are awake to the need of change. The
yellow giantesS is sleeping no longer.
She has pulled her dry bones together
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put forth in the edcts of the empress
dOwager in August. 1905. and the people
at once began 10 put them into action
The work was proceeding in every prov
ince at the time of the deaths of the
great dowager and emperor last NOvenl-
Der. and one of the first proclamations Of
the new administration was that these
constitutional reforms should be still car
ried on The prince regent has an
nounced himself in favor of them. and
is most active III their support.
The program now III force extends over