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The sun., 1898-03-31
PnonrnfrIoF IN lIlsKl.


nsd Aaspt rIIrh nacenae.
wAsHINaroN. March 3O.-The bin making
further provision for a civil government for
Alaska was taken up in the Senate to-day. The
pending amendment when tho bill was last un-
der consideration was one offered by Mr. Per-
kins usep., Call. requiring the payment Of
high licenses in Alaska, and an amendment to
IL offered by Mr. HansbrouRh, prohibiting the
manufacture or sale OF liquors thore. Mr.. Hans
broush said that high license provision was
simply a certificate Of partnership between the
Government and the saloon keepers and that
the people did not desire the Government to
engage in such an enterprise.
Mr. Carter Rep., Montl, In charge Of the bill,
favored tho amendment, although he said the
committee had not formally acted upon 1t. In
spite Of tho law prohibiting the solo OF liquors
in Alaska, tho liquor trafllc was now, and had
been continually, In operation. The question
was not ono OF n sentimental character, but Of n
practical character. Twenty years Of eX-
perienco had demonstrated the total inability
of the Government TO enforce the prohibitory
law In Alaska. Tho nature Of tho climate and
tho character Of the enterprises prosecuted
there seemed to prohibit fair trial there Of
Mr.. Perkins argued that the amendment which
he had offered was In tho interest OF temper.
ance, good morals, good citizenship, and good
government. Tho prohibitory law could not be
OnIOFCOu IN hlnbKh WltnOub tno probOnCo Oh IN
army. II tho Government wanted TO com
from North Dakota. this capital city was tho
place for it. The Government not only sold
internal revenue licenses in Washington, but 1t
took half OF the money which the saloon mon
paid to tho city for their licenses.
Mr. Gallinger utcp., N. H. questioned the
lnttor statement, but Mr. Perkins justihed,dt
by showing that one-hAlf Of tho revenues OF the
District went to pay Its expenditures.
Mr.. Perkins sent to the Clerks desk and had
read report fronl the Governor Of Alaska
showing the unpopularlty of enforcing the pro-
hibtion law and how its effect was only de-
moralizing. He recommended It's rercal, and
Perkinsswound up his argument by saying that
as the Government had made an iRnominious
failure in the attempt 10 prohibit the sale Of
liquor In Alaska, IL was the part Of wisdom to
see IL by:a high license law the traffic could
not be controlled.
Mr.. Gallinger, in the interest OF the advocates
of prohibition, argued against Mr.. Pcrkinss
amendment. He gave notice that he would
move to recommit the bill for the purpose Of
giving the churches, the Sabbath schools, and
the good people generally an opportunity to be
heard through their representatives, and to
present to the committee their side of the con.
not be incorporated into law,
Mr.. Wilson (Rep., Washl advocated Mr..
Perkins'B amendment, declaring at the same
time that he had never tasted any Intoxicating
Mr.. Gallinger then made tho motion to re-
commit the bill, whereupon Mr.. Perkins with
drew his amendment Tho bill was then
passed, and the Senate, after o short executive
session. adjourned.
The sun., 1898-03-31
Clearing the Road.

IL may be we'll that such views as those
which The Sun of yesterday quoted from
''one OF the Presidents closest friends and
ndvIsers" should be expressed 30 that they
may be cast aside and cleared from the
path now TO be taken by the United
States Government.
president MCKINLEY" said this ad.
wiser, by way OF excuslng the Admins
tration's deliberation in dealing with
Cuba, CLOCKS ahead to that result Of the
war which is bound to come from the final
and Inevitable success Of American arms.
II means a new foreign policy. 1t means a
sort of responsibility for Cuba that must
. end In protectorate or in annexation"
II any statesman in Washington is both
ering his Judgment with visions of what
may happen when Cuba is free, he had better
retire from office, IL he holds any, and
leave the United States to proceed on the
course Of its manifest destiny. Moreover,
q public man who looks upon intervention
for Cuba as "new policy" instead of the
inevitable corollary and second chapter of
the great American theory of JAMES Mon
ROE, is out of place in the present Govern
ment of the United States.
States we shall not stop to consider; but
fear that our intervention there must neces-
Barily lead to a protectorate or to annexa.
tion is laughed at by the facts. Thirty years
ago the United States removed European
Emperor from Mexico, and to-day Mexico
is neither annexed'nor protected by us. 1t
is q prosperous and independent republic,
marching forward in its own way to the
full blessings of American liberty.
II considering the arbitrary conventions
which make up international law, the schol-
ans in that study declare that there is a
radical distinction between our relations
to the Mexico dominated by an Austrian
interloper and to Cuba robbed and tor
tured by the archaic despotism of Spain,
then so much the worst for their precedents.
The sentiment of this republic is that there
is no difference between the Mexico of 1864
and the Cuba of 1893 in respect to the
United States to intervene.
We do not believe that advisers such as
the one we have quoted are really the
guides of the President. We take him to
be a more original statesman and a more
stalwart American. But such reactionary
and flimsy reasoning as this observers
1t is that has tended to discrsdit the Ad-
ministration with the American people
and, through that discredit, has led to mis-
understanding, impatience, and doubt as
to his Intentions, which have been calcu-
lated to sweep out of his hands any peaceful
plan of his for Cuba's liberation.
The sun., 1898-03-31
The Capture of shcndy.

What with the struggle of Russia and
England in China and our own controversy
with Spain regarding Cuba, public atten-
tion has not been turned much of late
toward the Anglo-Egyptian campaign in
the Soudan. That campaign is steadily
progressing, and has just achieved a bril-
liant stroke in the seizure of Shendy, which
is about half way between the British
secondary base at Berber and the dervlsh
centre of operations at Omdurman, near
Khartoum.
This success was accomplished by sur
prise, in which gunboats moved up the
Nile to Shendy and shelled the town. land
ing battalion under cover of their fire. 1t
became possible because the dervishes, an
ticipating no such bold dash, had moved
far away from Shendy to threaten Sir HER
BERT KITCHENER'S main forces. leaving
only a small garrison at the Shendy base.
1t is possible that Shendy may not yet be
permanently held, because the dispatches
speak of destroying it's defcnces; but the
loss of the dervishes in grain, cattle, am.
munition and slaves is severe, and it would
not be surprising If this movement should
lead to their retreat south of Shendy. In
tudL Cdbc De
force by Gen. KITCHENER at once, and an.
other hundred miles to the good in the ad-
vance toward Khartoum would be set down
as permanently achieved.
1t should be said, however. that once
more, as hitherto in the entire advance
from Wady Halfa, there has been no dervish
resistance of great consequence. The main
army of the Khalifa has not yet been en-
countered in pitched battle during the
march up the river. At DongoIa, at Abou.
Hammed, at Berber, and now at Shendy,
there has been the same experience of meet.
ing no opposing force whatever, or else a
mere outpost garrison which has been dis
persed with ease by a force greatly superior.
The dispatches indicate that at Shendy the
Anglo. Egyptians suffered no loss at all,
and yet Shendy, or rather Metemmeh,
which is opposite, has often been spoken
OF as point where the dervishes would
be likely to make stand in force. But they
seem TO have thought that, by taking posi-.
tlon on the Atbara, an important river
which forms junction with the Nile fur
ther down, and just above Berber, they
would threaten any advance from the latter
point and 30 cover Metemmeh.
Thus far, then, Gen. KIToHENERs ad-
vance has been pushed with uniform sue
cess, and has been beyond doubt ably man
aged, mingling duly caution and boldneas,
and accomplishing great results with q re-
The sun., 1898-03-31

To THE EDIToR OF THE sUS-Sir: WIN you permit
me, In all coure5y to the writer kindness 10 the
cat to correct statement made In the article which
appeared IN last Sundays edition, TO the effect that
the diet Of cats, Angora and otherwise, should CON
sist OF raw meat bread and milk" This mIsAppre-
henson In regard to the food given to cats causes the
lingering suffering and death OF hundreds of the
feline race. From observation and experience
have come to know that bread and milk arc 70 the
cat well as to all the animals who come under the
misnomer "pets," daily poison Tho yeasty for.
mentations from the bread cause indigestion and ts
and the Tactic acid from the milk breeds In the cats
stomach as II does In cheese, myriads OF intestinal
parasites In short one teaspoonful OF milk viii pro.
duce % q generation OF vipers." Under these oond.
tons the cat soon becomes emacated, coughs has An
appetite which capricous loses its hRir and finally
dies victim TO It's owners iRnoranes OF physioogi.
cal chemistry.
The proper diet for an Angora cat s nsh fnesh and
u poSsble alive raw meat mutton preferably calves
head. beef kldneya and beef itself. They are very
fond OF raw liver, but this do not approve OF.
cat fed In this way will aoon become . thing OF
beauty and glory 20 the intelligence of Its owner
IT, however, tradition Is chung to and the cat Is given
milk II should be TO the exclusion OF all other food
seen genuine Angoras who ate bananas aud green
vegetables.
homeopathic AFSenIcum, gx, In tTituratIon given
four times day, and placed In the drinking water
will do wonders toward restoring . cat SUFFERING
from the "breAd and milk" diet 20 heGlth.
IN your columns you wIli. be doing an ineatiIGtlo
service to thousands ofsick and mssrable animals.
90 ELM sTHEET. NEW HAYES. cOnn. March 30.
The sun., 1898-03-31
suEEnAx WELCOMED HONE.
The DeDosed Tammany Leaders Friends IN the
Ninth Attest Their Fidelity to aim.

The DeDosed Tammany Leaders Friends IN the
Ninth Attest Their Fidelity to HIN.
John c. Sheehan, Tammany leader of the
Ninth Assembly district, and the deposed
Chairman of the Financial Committee of Tam.
many Hall, returned yesterday afternoon from
q trip to Palm Beach, Fla. During his absence
an unsuccessful effort was made to retire Mr..
Sheehan from the district leadership. and his
opponents in the District General Committee
are now circulating o petition asking the Tam
many Hall Executive Committee to supplant
him. .
The attack on Mr.. Sheehan called his friends
into activity, and when he stepped of tho train
in the Pennsylvania Railroad station yesterday
twenty-five OF his political supporters. repre-
senting the Pequod Club, were on hand
to meet him., The delegation was headed
Frank bowling. and other Ninth district poiiti.
clans They escorted Mr. Sheehan to his homo
in West Twenty-third street and invited him
over to the Peauod Club, telling him that his
friends would be there to shake hands with him
at 8 O'Clock.
Mr.. Sheehan found about $50 members of the
General Committee of the district awaiting him
at the club. They pressed around eager to
shake hands with him and express their
continued confidence in him. There were
no speeches. Mr.. sheshan said that he
TO learn that he had had friends even in his
absence. News that Mr.. Sheehan was home
spread through the district, and during the
evening at least two-third8 OF the General CON-
mittee, which numbers about 700, went to the
clubhouse and shook hands with him.
The sun., 1898-03-31
A Poor Bankrupt Nation.

The financial situation of certain nation
now perhaps on the edge of war is discussed
by the editor of the Eve,ting Post.
The financial outlook for that country is
gloomy, indeed. It's position is "precari-
ous." Its demand liabilities now outstand-
ing amount to sum about equal to four
and a half billions of pesetas. The gold in
its treasury would not carry on a war for
three months. The public receipts are in
sufficient to pay the expenses of admins
tration in time of peace, much less to
meet the extraordinary cost of military
and naval operations on a large scale. 1t
is face to face with the awful problem of
deficient revenues and war expenses. If
war comes, its Government will bo forced
to go still deeper into debt, and unless it
can promptly float large issue of bonds
ait will be bankrupt within thirty days" +"
Can it borrow the money it will need
Evidently the editor of the Evening Post
thinks not. He suggests the question
without answering it. 1--WE pause for a
reply" says he.
Inthe foregoing statement of the wretched
financial situation of the country in uues-
tion the word pesetas appears. 1t is proper
to explain that we have stated the sum in
pesetas instead of in dollars In order to
break as gently as possible to the mind of
the reader the fact that this poor, debt
ridden, panic threatened nation, without
revenue or credit. and with bankruptcy
staring it In the face II 1t goes to war, ac-
cording to the amazing GoDKIN, Is not
Spain but the United States!
The sun., 1898-03-31
To Revive CatapuIts.

To THE EDITOR OF The sUE-Sfr: Are We so entire.
ly the masters OF craft that with impunity
iRnore the OF defense and for offense In USE
among the ancients?
Since the propulsion Of dynamite and other high
explosives through the air by the OF cannon s at
tended with such great risks and dangers, why not
apply tho catapult system explosive proectes for
botn army and navy uBo2
It strikes me that modern mechanical ingenuity
should be able to build hurting machines OF sEe and
power suiicient to solve the problem OF how TO en-.
poy these explosives for purposes of
attack aud defence. There should be as little din.
cuIIy In adjusting them accurately as there 10 In nd.
Ing the range for modern long distance guns and II
mounted upon rotary platforms, with full play. their
usefulness and destructiveness would be apparent In
all directions
For skirmish and ned work light hurllng machines
mounted upon suitable carriages and throwing explo
sive protectles would oeF diSconcertinR check to
an enemy, while batteries equipped would send
:" to Kingdom come" all nations treGding closely
upon Uncle Sans coat tails
II the explosives were incsSed in aluminium Jack.
ets tho destructive forcs would gain by the
IN the weight OF the metal offer the suGEestion TO
the War and Navy departments through The SUN
NEW York, March 20. EDMUND 8. MoR0AH.
The sun., 1898-03-31
The End of British Bimeta1lism.

The British bimetallists have sustained
another, and, apparently, final defeat. AS
the outcome of q debate in Parliament
on Tuesday night, the Government, through
Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, Secretary of State
for India, formally announced that it would
make no further efforts to secure an inter
national bimetallic agreement, and con-
sented to the appointment of commission
to devise method for introducing the gold
standard in India. This ends, not only the
struggle for bimetallism for Great Britain,
but also that for the reopening to silver of
the India mints, and it establishes firmly
the supremacy of the single gold standard
throughout the British Empire.
This action of the British Government is
the more significant, because two of its
prominent members, the Hon. ARTHUR ].
BALFoUR,--nephew of Lord SALISBURY and
his possible successor in the Premiership
and the Hon. HENRY CHAPLIN, President
OF the Local Government Board. are ardent
bimetallists, and have labored earnestly
and increasingly for the restoration of silver
TO its former position as a money metal.
That these two influential men have been
made to surrender to their colleagues is con-
vincing proof of the weakness of the sup.
port bimetallism commands among the
British people. The bimetallists are in
the minority, not only in the Cabinet, but
In the country at large.
The same causes which have thus defeated
bimetallism in Great Britain are slowly ac-
complishing the defeat of free silver in this
country. The steady and sustained rise,
under the gold standard, in the price of
wheat and other agricultural products, has
effectually refuted the charge that the low
prices Of these articles were caused by the
closing of our mints to silver; the debts
which free silver was to reduce in value
one-half, are shrinking in volume under
liquidation by natural process, and the
swindling of creditors which the sllyerites
advocate, has been stripped of its disguise.
The sun., 1898-03-31

Hnvenfiom ~ q Coioraeo UIorfeu Inicn - NI4l.
rnntea rsr ms,ne pse nea Penal fastiiutienr'
romfhs Deaetr rInsA
warden Hoyt Of the Stats roformaiory hne
about completed bis idea Of tho "epnnklnE ma
chine" which promises 70 b universally used
ali over tho country, and shortly the "IIoYo
Consolidated Spanking Machine and JuvenIlo
Corrector Company, Limited" VIII b incorpo.
rated. OF which he and State Treasures Kephart
win be the main promoters.
Mr.. Hoyt 10 a man Of resources, and when ho
found that the situation at the rofoFmatory wee
about tho same as it had been since the estah-
llshment OF tho Institution, he tnade up hiD
mind that It was all because the proper meth
ods of INJECTING punishment haa not been dis.
covered. He made up his mind that the usual
methods OF confinement IN a dupgoon on hdigo
OF bread and water chainlng TO the coll and at
particular good and generally caused the Victim
TO DO regarded es q hero by his fellow eonvictq,
The first convict who overstepped the rules did
not know what was cominKI ana ye1 csoanetderes
BY surprised when tns h ven Srcp
chair and Q lusty guard applied paddle with
great energy to his anatomy.
punishment and was asked BY HE telIow con.
vicJs what had happened, no reluctantly en-
eonnected with this mode olpuniahment.. War
den Ho0t, after few example, h9d been madf,
punishment. Consequently at the State reform
atory thore has not been such punishment IN.
hictod for three months.
However when it became noisod about that
Warden Hoyt had taken this radical atop. there
came calls upon him from all over the country
to invent q method that could be used on women
as we'll as men. The trouble at the state Undue
trial School for Girls gave the general public an
IL Mr.. Hoyt could invent some way whereby ins
corrigible girls could bo corrected, and 90 no Uot
about inventing the spanking chair.
1t consists of an ordinary chair Win no
bottom and in It tho oulprlt can be placed ~
that he or sho can be so bound that there 10 nc
escape, Then a button 10 touched and o cylinder
beneath tho chair TO which 10 attached NUM-
like the paddles on q water wheel, and each, ao
IL passes by, inhicts smart alhp upon the per
son of the victim. Warden Hoyt intends TO ar
range Il so that about forty blows minute can
Mr.. Hoyt and Treasurer Kephart have not a.
yet agreed upon the details Of the now company
or tho kind OF goods they will manufactuTe. but
a.plant will probably be erected 90 that ~ kinda
OF articles can be turned out from the ma
hogany chair for use in families like the Van.
derbilts, Clevelands. Rockefellers. &c. 70 the
pine and spruce affairs that will bo sold TO the
Murphys, Keegans. and OBriena
The chairs will also be OF assorted si1eg, In.
tended for domestic use, and when child II
made acquainted with 1t from hts earliest daye,
an immense wear and tear on clippers. 60. will
be saved to his devoted mother. Mr.. Hoyt be'
dorstood the chair will be used IN not only ro-
formRtory and penal institutions. but In FAM
flies. schools. boys and girls homes, Boldiers'
and sailors homes, insane asylums, tho United
States Army, on board ships, and. IN fact. In
every place whero discipline 10 enforced.
The sun., 1898-03-31
rhe Russisns at Port Arthur.

On Sunday last the convention by which
China ceded to Russia Port Arthur, Talien-
wan and the territories adjacent in usu.
fruct for twenty-five years, was signed at
Pekin, and the Russian flag now flies at
Port Arthur and Talienwan. With these
two ports goes the right to construct the
railway which will bring them into direct
communication with the great Trans. Man
ghurlan and Siberian trunk line. 1t is also
officially announced that the concessions
now made may be extended later by COM
mon accord.
BY this agreement, obtained by diplomatic
methods only and without disturbing the
peace aud commerce of the world, Russia
has gained very great advantages for her
self, and created many for the trade of
otlier countries. The terms in which the
Russian Government makes it's formal an
nouncement of the transaction make 1t
apparent that Port Arthur and Talienwan
stand on a different footing. 1t is the lat
ter that is to be open to foreign trade and
In which the largest measure of hospital
fly will be extended to the ships OF all
friendly nations" Port Arthur evidently
is to be purely a military port, which its
position and natural features peculiarly
ht IL for; and which, according to the
testimony Of q writer who visited 1t dur
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mnrhably small loss OF life xetit must
bs remembered that thus sfarit has nowhers
encountered desperate dervish onslaughts
like those Of Abu Klea and Gubat, in
WoLsELBY's campaign. Sometimes Il has
been surmised, from the feeble show Of the
Khalifa thus far. that he has no such fol.
lowing as the Mahdi possessed, and is an
overrated potentate. But even should he
he forced by the virtual loss Of his base at
Shendy to retreat from his recent position
ON the line of tho Atbara, thore Is still a
hundred miles or 30 to be contested before
reaching the goal at Kbartoum.
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CAN SUPPRESS CARS, BUT BEES
Health Inspector BenJamin or jersey City Has
Work on Hand.

Health Inspector Benjamin or jersey City Has
work Hand.
Two petitions asking for tho abatement of al
legged nuisances were presented to the Jersey
City Board of Health yesterday and were re-
ferred to Health Inspector benjamin. One of
the nuisances consists of bees and the other OF
cats. The complaint against tho bees is as fol.
lows:
We. the undersigned. are greatly annoyed through
the spring and summer months by bees owned by
Mr.. Nicodemus. living in EEe avenue. Just in the
rear OF our homes They soil clothes wash
days. while the llne to such extent that IL is
always necessary for US to wash them over. Then
our children cannot play In the yards. several
times already they were stung by them. We have
done us no good. We, therefore, ask you to help
The petition is signed by Mrs. Philip Weber.
80 Kearny avenue, and eight women, neighbors
on the same block. The petition in reference to
the cats read:
We. the undersigned. do hereby respectfully com.
plain to your honorable board OF the number OF cas
owned by Mr.. and mrs. Mulford of 81 Belmont
avenue nuisance and detriment to the health of
the people in the above neighborhood.
This petition had twelve signatures Inspector
BENJAMIN ie In a quandary. He has no doubt of
his ability to suppress the cats but how he Is to
abate tho bees Is what puzzles him.