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The Indians Of Alaska.

1t is announced that Gen. SKATER will
send a company Of the Twenty-fourth In
fantry to Chilkat. 30 miles south OF
Skagway. on Lynn Canal, at the beginning
of tho Dalton trail, and eight miles from
Haynes. where we AVE now n temporary
post. This company will cooperate with
the portion OF the Fourteenth Infantry now
in Alaska.
The region in question was recently
the scene OF a clash between whites and
Indians. A party OF the former from
Haines Mission began to open a summer
trail up to Klukwan and thence to Boulder
Creek, but was driven back by the natives
to the mission. Capt. YEATMAN Of the Four
teenth Infantry, who was applied to for
assistance, arrested several Indians, who
were to be sent to Sitka for trial.
While this affair suggests the question
of reinforcing our small body OF troops, it
really illustrates afresh the extraordinary
good fortune we have had ever since ac-
quiring Alaska, in the generally peaceful
disposition Of the natives. The thirty-three
years together make up a remarkable pe-
'riod OF o4ietude. very yar elybroken byapx
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Three Breaths Before MsaI,.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Str While IN. sph.
ject of fool cures for various ailments IL under di..
cussion let me relate the following: Four or Ave
years ago I suffered from dyspepsia badly. Used to
have to get up nights and drink hot water. was
talking with a physician about it one day and he
said: For the next two or three weeks. before You
sit o to meals, take three very long breaths and
ietthe ar out OF the lungs slowly each time. Maybe
that will help you followed the suggestion. and
I have net been bothered with dyspepsia since
Maybe it wAsA silly proceeding. All that / know 4,
that the dyspepsia left soon after I began the s1psr.
ment, and that was the main point.
WAsHISGToN. Nay q. Coon DIGEsr,oS
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From the Minneapolis Tribune.

REEDsBURG. Wis. May 5.-Thcre was general
excitement at Lime Ridge recently when =
flock Of American. passenger pigeons passed
north oyer that place. the flock being a mile
long and so dense as to nearly obscure the sun.
Their appearance has created interest, as these
birds have not been seen for twenty years and
even specimen hunters could not secure a
single bird. They formerly roosted near Lime
nest and breed. The people made pigeon
hunting one Of the principal sources Of rev.
enue in those days. They we're slaughtered by
the hundreds Of pounds, but still seemed to
increase in number They suddenly disar-
peared and we're supposed to be extinct until
their recent appearance.
Several theories were advanced. as to their
disappea rance, some thinking they had all
been killed and others saving they had gath
cred on the eastern seashore in great numbers
and had been driven out and perlshed. Others
claimed an infectious disease had destroyed
them. However this may be. they areinot ex-
tinct. 1t is a great mystery where they have
been Tor so many years, as they have not fire.
quented their Southern feeding grounds dur
inG the winter i9r the same length OF time.
migrated 70 South America. The people will
do everything In their power to protect tho
birds from being needlessly slaughtered. and
1t Is hoped they may again become as numer.
Gus as formerly.
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hostnities. In it's earlier years there wal a

hoetilities. In It's earlier years there was a
little rioting In sitka, due mostly to drunk
enness among the Indians, for which the
whites were somewhat responsible but II is
surprising how few outbreaks have &C.
Cured and how few hostilities the tribes
have had with each other. There has been
nothing like the massacres which marked
the early colonial settlements on the At
lantic coast, or like those OF a later day,
when pioneers pushed out among the Sioux,
Apaches and other tribes OF the West.
There is, in fact, a radical difference be-
tween the Indians OF Alaska and those Of
other parts OF the country. The former
are noted fortheir industry and Willingness
to take part in the work OF white men. In the
Behring Sea region they are employed as
seal hunters, while along the mining trails
they have long made q speciality OF freight
ing. Their few quarrels with each other or
with whites lave been mostly due to at
tempts to get this business away from
them. The Chilkat and Sitka tribes nave
sometimes had trouble from this cause, INC
the real difficulty at Haines was that the
Indians saw in the proposed new trail the
ruin OF their profitable freighting by canoe
In that region. There seems to have been
no ~bloodshed, however, and the fact that
the chief OF the Chilkats, whose village Of
Klukwan is said to be the largest Indian
settlement in Alaska, set forth their side OF
the question In a letter to the agent Of the
Interior Department, shows the methods Of
the Indians in that territory.
The Alaska Indians, in fact, instead OF
waiting first to be civilized, and mean
while, like 80 many others, idling on reser-
v~ations, fed by the Governments r~ations,
with occasional m%urderous and thieving
raids upon white settlements, have taken
their full share in the development Of
the country. We found it possible to with
draw our garrison from Alaska a few years
after the territory was acquired, because
there was so little for it to do and 1t was
only a year or two ago, when the Yukon
mining had developed remarkably, that
1t was found necessary to restore it. Even
then the chief needs were not to guard
against Indian troubles, but to preserve
peace among the white miners and to pre-
vent international conflicts.
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A Successful Advertiser.

The Berlin correspondent OF tho least
American Of newspapers published in
America rebukes his principal In these Sc
vero but well.mcrited terms:
1.-The most unfortunate circumstance as regard
American interests in the matter OF the Meat Inspec.
ton bill was the fact that there were insistent dec.
larations in tho United States that embalmed and
poisonous meats had been supplied 10 the troops in
Cuba. Representatives OF the German land-owning
interests loudly declared that II the Americans sent
poisonous meat 10 their own soldiers they would
certainly send 1t to Germany"
This despatch to tho Nep York Erening
Post appeared on tho same day rs the
verdict OF the honest and impartial mill
tary court which has found that the Evening
Posts persistent advertisement OF "em-
balmed beef" as an American product was
alying advertisement.
There are only three theories which sufi-
clently account for the extraordinary cir
cumstance that the editor Of the Evening
Post publishes In the columns of his own
newspaper this direct indictment Of him by
his own correspondent in Berlin. One Is
that Mr.. GoDKIN cares nothing whatever
about the esteem OF people in this country.
The second is that he failed to perceive tho
DhS "a nv HNclhoNh NV W.
have quoted the passage above. The third
superstition is that ho personally ~rejoices
at the evidence that his lying advertise
ment OF American embalmed beef has pro-
duced an effect somewhere, abroad in Ger
many II not at home in the United States.
The campaign OF the embalmed beef liars
has been successful in this solitary par
ticular. 1t has inflicted a positive injury
on American with Germany. 1t
has hampered the administration in its eff
forts to arrange with the German Govern
ment a reciprocity Of trade, mutually adj
v~antageous and likely to promote friendly
relations far reaching in their consequences.
Possibly it has defeated those efforts.
Possibly Mr.. GoDKIN and the other leading
advertisers Of American beef as "embalmed
and poisonous" have succeeded in closing
the German market to the honest article
which we have been exporting. 1t will be
a long time before the lying brand OF "em-
balmed" which they have put upon Ameri-
can beef in general is efraced in the view OF
foreign consumers.
To that extent Mr.. GoDKlN has been a
successful advertiser Of American beef.
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The Molineux Case.

Two persons, a man named BARNET and
a woman named ADAMS, are dead because
OF being poisoned, and the poisoner is and
probably ever will be unknown; that is the
history Of what is known as the Molineux
case. Probably it will never be changed.
Nothing either in the attack upon MoLINEux
or in the defence OF him has suggested a sus-
picion of guilt in connection with any other
person, so the mystery may reasonably be
regarded as closed to the law. The most
subtle agent Of murder, poison, has been
used successfully both in ~overpowering the
victim and in leaving no track Of the MUIR
der, and that is the whole OF it.
One Grand Jury indicted MoLINEUx,
to nave its indictment invalidated by
the Supreme Court, through Mr.. JUS
tice WILLIAMS, on the ground that
1t was based on improper evidence.
Another Grand Jury, acting upon the evil
dence that was left, has concluded that no
justification for an indictment exists. We
must surmise that their reasoning was in
effect this:
Was there sufficient evidence to sub
stantiate the motive ascribed to MoLINEUx
by the District Attorney? The answer
is, No.
1t was alleged that MoL1NEUx had
written letters to various patent med
iclne firms, asking for samples Of
preparations similar to that which
was sent to CORNISH, the intended
victim. and from his hands passed to
those OF Mrs. ADAMS, the actual victim,
and that he had been identified
by the proprietor OF a private letter
box establishment on Broadway as
the man who hired a letter box there
under an assumed name and received
packages from various patent medi-
elmo firms; and that a number Of
handwriting experts declared that a
comparison OF M]oLINEUx's handwriting
with the addresses on the various
poison wrappers and other documents in
the affair, showed that MoLINEUx was un-
doubtedly the sender Of the poison.
Against that it appeared that the proprie-
tor Of the letter box place had on previous
occasions, when confronted with MoLI-
NEUx. declared that he was not the man
who had rented the letter boxes, the propri-
etor explaining the contradiction OF his evil
dence by stating that he was "holding out u
for big terms for his disclosures from
certain sensational newspapers. To the
evidence OF the handwriting experts for the
prosecution was opposed the evidence,
that is to say the opinions. Of other ex-
perts equally eminent in their so-called
science, who declared that the grounds
on which the District Attorneys wit
nesses proceeded were entirely wrong,
-
addresses on the poison wrappers was
ridiculous.
In the public mind there must remain the
conclusion in support Of the Grand Jury's
action that even where there may be an
apparent motive, sustained by suspicion
more or less we'll grounded, it is unsafe to
indict for a capital offence chiefly upon ex-
pert testimony.
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Holding Up the Round Bale.

From a storm centre OF ~anti-monopoly,
the capital of Texas, we get this news,
through the New Orleans Times-D Democrat:
"A bill was introduced declaring the round. bale
combine . trust and absolutely forbidding them to
do business in this State. The contention was the
round bale people refuse to sell their press,s Q, and
their desire is to monopolize the entire cotton gin.
ming and COMPRISING business Of the State. The
bill is still pending"
The round bale is a great improvement
over the old bale, which was square. 1t
makes cheaper the progress Of cotton from
the plantation to the loom. It's inventor
obtained a patent for it from the United
States and n company has been organized
to reap the fruits Of his genius, giving all
other parties concerned the necessary share
in the profits which will induce them to use
it In their business. This company has gone
to Texas. but that imperial State is asked by
one OF its Legislative lights to bar it from
carrying on it's intended business, and to
compel it to sell machines to every one so
that all may make round bales.
II we were Texas, we should be so
ashamed Of the legislative light aforesaid
that we would Danish him from the State.
He would merely compel this company to
let everybody make round bales, when he
might just as we'll have kept on and pro-
posed that everybody be permitted to make
round bale machines; that 10, that the COM
pany be forced to surrender its patent.
Populism in Texas is but a feeble bud.
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More Courts Needed

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir These are the
days OF reform. Yet not an effort ia made to remedy
a long standing evil in our courts. | refer TO the
long time sometimes two or three y~ears-thAt II
takes before a case is reached on the calendar in ON
courts Of record. Why should a poor man, deprived
OF his property or rights or manned or disabled,
have to wait two and three years until justice is ac.
corded to him ? In many cases witnesses die orleaye
the country before the case comes to trial.
II to have 4 speedy trial more Judges are required.
more courts are required, let us have them. New
York. that spends millions for education. millions
for city government. and numerous other millions.
can certainly spend millions for justice. ]. P. F.
New YORK, May 2.
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dian railways should be pushed through
Afghanistan TO meet the Russian roads.

| dian railways should be pushed through
Afghanistan TO meet the Russian roads.
To this the NoUoe Vremyo Of Sc. Petersburg
| replies that q considerable time must elapse
before this scheme can DO realized, and
shows that its postponement will not be to
the disadvantage OF Russia. 1t also says:
"our railway system In Central Asia Ia being de.
veloped with objects In which the Advantages OF
commercial transit play but . secondary part. The
political situation renders IL more desirable for MS TO
see Afghanistan without means of communication.
and able. therefore. to repsl the British with yIaor.
than to SEQ 1t furroved with railways and thus
opened to the operation OF large military forces.
organized on the European system"
What the Russian Government aims Mt
now, according to the latest and most trust
worthy information on the subject, Is to
establish direct connection between its
European railway system at Orenburg, on
the river Ural. and the Central Asian road at
Tashkent. The distance Is about a thousand
miles, and the line, when completed, would
be, next to the ~trans-Siberian railway.
tho most important strategically OF the
Russian railways in Asia. 1t will be seen
on glancing at the map that, with the dis
lance between Orenburg and Tashkent
filled in, there would be an almost straight
continuous line OF communication between
st. Petersburg and Tashkent. The politi-
cal and military Significance Of this is at
once apparent.
As to what is going on in ~Afghanistan
there Is much uncertainty, and at the end
OF March news was received that great
preparations were being made at Kabul for
a journey the Amir was about to make to
Kohistan in the north, the object Of which
was unknown.
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A Strange Story Back of n Divorce.

FROM the ST. Tdul Pioneer Pres.
GRAND FORKS. N. D.. May Bone OF the most
peculiar Divorce cases that has ever attracted
interest In this state came to a close yesterday.
when Judge Fisk granted an absolute divorce
TO oliver simmons from his wife. Eleanor Full
He. claimed that Sept. 1G. 1893. at l. Lebanon.
Pa. he was forced to marry. much against his
VII, the young lady being Miss Eleanor Fulton.
AZ that time no was Just 20 years OF age. while
The womap was nast39 He was attending the
Upon returning home one evening he was
in his room. when he asked what brought
her there she replied that she was. there
for the purpose Of compelling him 70
would Kill him apdl them commit suicide
herself; He refused, whereupon she got down
on her knees before him. threatening. coercing
and demanding for over two hours. Finally.
from simple fright. the youth consented and
the CEREMONY was performed. The girl was
turned immediately; The plaintiff AYERS that
he never lived with her a single hour, and that
he .afterward received a letter from her in
which she stated that she had acted crazy and
was not in the possession Of her senses on that
e%ventful day in his life's history.
On the above complaint a divorce was granted
and the boy departed for his home in the East.
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TREASON.
A Calm Statement Of the National sent,.
ment.
From ne Dorchs,tsr Beacon.

From ne Dorchsssr Beacon.
Treason againstthe United States Ia declared
by the Constitution TO consist only in '~levyinS
war against them or In adherinR to their eve.
mles-RivinR them aid and comfort"
Giving them aid and comfort constitutes. ac.
cording to the Constitution. adhering to their
enemies: and no person shall be convicted 4
treason unless on the testimony OF two witt
nesses to the same overt act or on confession
in open court.
Tito seek to excite mutiny among the of1cars
and men OF the army OF the United States. con-
fronted by the enemy with arms In their hands,
be giving them aid and comfort. be treason
within the meaning OF the Constitution. then
Edward Atkinson OF the city OF Boston is a
traitor to the Constitution and the nation. II,
from the security Of his Brookline home. to
seek to excite to mutinv officers or soldiers in
active service. who. upon conviction thereof
would be executed. be cowardly. then Edward
Atkinson OF the city OF Boston Is a coward.
The most charitable opinion that can be held
is that he Is not responsible for his utteranres
or his actions. He has certainly achieved ona
result: Throughout the length and breadth
OF this land he has made himself the centre OF
patriotic contempt and detestation.
The people OF this country love II. are loyalto
it. and. as q people. spurn Atkinsonian disloy.
atty. We believe. too. that they overwhelmingly
indorse the policy Of the administrator ani
approve OF each step and feature OF 1t. For our
navy and our army-the brave men behind the
guns and the brave men tramping through
tropical jungles with guns on their shoulders,
facing death in new and horrible forms. in
order that the rights OF our Government may
be maintained and the glory Of our flag adj
vanced-the people OF this country have adj
miration amounting almost to reverence. Ths
army and the navy are the right hand Of the
nation. at the present time put forth to subdus
disorder. violence and Instruction. and 10
establish order and a civilized and civilizing
form of governmentin our islands in the Pacific.
The purpose Of the Administrator will he
accomplished and history will do 1t all credit
and honor
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Religion Again F~ashionable in London
From n. London Critic.

From The London Critic.
| was informed OIL the best authority the other
day that 1t was now the smart thing " to be religious.
"A year or two ago. my informant. a most modish
lady. assured me. I'VE had to be agnostic aud all
that sort Of thing-to pretend to know something
about RenAn and Huxley; but now an orthodox AT.
titude is necessary at all good houses you know.
assure you a serious attitude will be 'the thing
this season. There will be quite a run on the Bishops
and clergy generally. Some OF the p~rettiest women
are trying to look like st, Cecilias; others are max.
ing up like Botticelli's Virgins The May meet.
inGs are to be extremely smart functions. We all Of
us gave up something this Lent. Lady A"-she
named a %sprightly dame of high social status-"sur.
rendered cigarettes; and l didn't taste green Char.
treuso once"
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A word from. Mr.. Hard ot ths Hin roun.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: There ia ono
thing | am not going to stand. The Sun may launch
editorial colamns against my tender years. it may
ridicule my literary style, it may malign my char.
acter. 1t may even accuse me Of intending 10 write a
sociological novel. But the moment TIE Sun reprs.
sents me as desiring to found an Anti. Impertalist
League in a decAdent New England hill town this
worm VIII turn. Nonsense! You might as well talk
OF converting Edward Atkinson to instrumentation
The hill town 10 already composed OF nothing but
Edward Atkinsons. That Ia why 1t is called decadent
And what is Edward Atklnsonr A hill town in
trousers RoILlS LYSpE HARTT.
Boston, May g..
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In Asia.

h renewed unrest among the tribes
men on the northwest frontier Of India,
and the latest development OF Russian
railway policy in Central Asia, have given
rise to much discussion in the Indian press
and have been the subject OF frequent
consultations between the Viceroy, Lord
CURZoN, and the frontier officers. Since
the beginning Of the year an unusual
amount OF lawlessness has existed in the
districts near the frontier, notably in
Pcshawur, the principal military station,
and neighborhood. Attempts on the lives
Of British officers and soldiers have been
frequent, in two recent instances success
fully, the Colonel Of one OF the regiments
and Il soldier having been shot dead.
With regard to tho Russian railways in
Central Asia, the Anglo-Indian papers are
inclined to be pessimistic. The Times of
India says hat the British Government
cannot regard with indifference the i'm
pending extension of Russian influence
in Persia" The Pioneer OF Allahabad.
the organ OF tho forward party, goes
further and insists that the time
has come "for England to declare the
limits OF her endurance" and that she
should demand her share Of territory on
tho breaking up OF the Turkish, Persian,
Chinese and Siamese empires" That share
to be, first Egypt and then Arabia south
OF latitude 80 degrees; then Persia south
Of a line drawn from a point north OF Blu
shire to the northern point of the Afghan
Persian frontier; Thibet the river basin of
the Yangtse, and Siam" And Mr.. MAcLEAN,
formerly of India and now a member OF the
British Parliament. proposesfthat the, In,
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According to the Daily Telegraph of Lon.
don there is some desire to have a representa-
ton OF American soldiers at the Hyde Park
review Of British and colonial volunteers to be
held in July. and the Seventh and Seventy first
regiments OF New York are spoken OF. How
would FUNsToN's Kansas men or the gallant
Nebraskans do? We should be satisfied to
have them represent us in London In their
fighting rig II their work in Luzon should be
finished by that time.
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Shot a Bullet Through n FIatiron.

Fort SCoTT, Kan. May ga public exhibi-
tioL, OF the force OF a common Mauser rifle
given here to-day with wonderful results. The
rifle was brought, home by Capt. A. N. Wilson
1t against the fiat side OF a common fatirGn
penetrated the Iron. leaving q hole as smooth
as II 1t were a pine board. The pail. in going
ordinary bullet would a board. Then three
shots were fired against a steel axe blade. Two
OF them .gouRed deep holes into the steel and
the third bulged 1t on the opposite side.
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While keeping tab on the fortunes and misfortuncs
OF the short grass boys. nothing which has happened
among them is hailed by us with more satisfaction
than the appointment OF our old friend, George
Wiley OF Meade county. Fish Commissioner. II a big
white whale should come up Sand Creek and get his
tail full of cookie burrS while crossing a cornAeld. il
would be Georges duty to board the first train
headed In this direction and come up and pick ON
out. he gets 81 900 a year for Just such hnsiness
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A Roman CATHOLIC View.

Vicar General KELLEY Of he Sdvdnnah Diocei, in IA,
Atlanta ConEituHon.
Where inhdelity harms one soul. the so.called
higher criticism destroys tho faith OF a thousand.
II was had enough, God knows, to prostitute the pull.
pit by making 1t a place for political discussion or
sensationAlisn, but it is Infinitely worse when from
1t one hears covert or open attacks on the ;fundA,
mental doctrines OF ChristAnitn. -