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Les. Theory and More Praet,c.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir: Mr. Street Clean
ing Commissioner Warnings essays street cleaning
are unqucstionably admirable as academic produc.
tions, but far rs am concerned should like it
better II spent the time he devotes to their compo-
sition to cleaning my street.
have never seen the street in so bad condition as
It isnow, and II has been for several weeks past
Immediately after the last there was
excuse for not undertaking to clean IT, but nothing at
oil hiss been done since then get rid OF the sccum
lated dirt. ice and blackened snow though for two
weeks and more IL has presented rather an ordinary
streccleaning problem than required the removal OF
snow especially. The snow has melted almost wholly
and on some OF the the last two weeks
the accumulation could have been removed without
much difficulty. But nothing has been done The
street Is utterly unsighty.
not Commissioner who cleans the streets clearly
more valuable as public servant than one who
writes about the subject with the literary ability
and fecundty for which Col warng is dIsting
FEB 20. BRowSsToNE DISTRICT.
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Governor FRANK JACKSON of Iowa and a
whole bcvy of ex-Governors, including the
mammoth Oriental diplomatist. DICK HUBBARD
of Texas. have been wading in JOY at the New
Orleans carnival. but the figures which would
have best graced the gorgeous royal progresses
were not there to behold and be beheld of thou
sands. JACKSON Is a good, plain citizen, puts
his feet the table by his Chair of State in Des
Moines, with n noble courage smokes Iowa
cigars. but he Is not OF the splendidly decora-
tive and melodramatic sort of Governors. What
would not the South give to sec Governor
GREENHALGE of Massachusetts caracoling con-
versely along New Orleans streets on his unique
retrograde Narragansott hopper, Saltator? !?
Men who have seen the awful brow of Chamou-
nj prefer that of the owner OF Saltator. Ex-
perts in maple sugar say the Governors smilc is
sweeter. Backward, backward leaps Saltator
on his aft hoofs, his fore ones rowing the dazed
air. An equestrian statue backslding at the
rate of n mile in 2:24 would be but a faint pic
ture of tho Governor and his steed in martial
motion.
What would not the South give to see Gov
ernor URBAN ALFONSO WOODBURY. prancng
along New Orleans streets with mennder-
ing, sidewise motion on his Basque chest
nut, Don Alonzo? The Governors NOUS
taches do not permit him to 60 forward full
face on any street less than fifty feet wide. The
earliest birds Of spring carol in his moving for
est. On its remote tips and headlands eagles sit
and scream. The whole vast woodland mur-
murs deeply, but with a pleasant sound. To SEQ
Governor WOODBURY. is sight inspiring to
every lover of forestry and poetry.
But Governor ORPHEus VINCEsT COFFIN, the
bcst-dressed gentleman. the sweetest performer
on the German flute in Connecticut-why was
he not at New Orleans? He rides Chiron, n
powerful black, long in barry d. DE CANNES
circus The rcins hang idly. the Governors
hands are coaxing heavenly melody from the
flute. Chiron dances galliards and corantoes,
and sometimes the big tears are hot upon his
breast. COFFIN and Chiron would have GOT
more hands at the carnival than all the rest of
tho show.
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The Proper Attitude for the Chamber
of Commerce.

The Chamber of Commerce held a meet
ing on Wednesday to advise the Legislature
as to the performance of its duty, and the
exercise of it's discretion under the Consti-
tuition, in the enactment of laws. The spe-
cial bill whose passage was urged in the
resolutions adopted unanimously by the
meeting is the bill legislating out of Office
the Police Justices of this city
In the course of speech in favor of the
resolutions made by Mr.. FOSTER HIGGINS,
he declared that "when this Chamber asks
for a thing like this, it can be set down as
right, and those who oppose it are GER
tainly in the wrong" Obviously, that
being true, it is the moral duty
Of the Legislature to proceed forth
with to crafty the request of Wednesdays
meeting Moreover, Mr.. Higgins proposed
to take down the names OF the legislators
who refuse to follow the righteous advice
OF the preternaturally wise and good Cham
Der of Commerce, so that they may be pill
loried by the public for their conduct.
HENRY NHLARDs newspaper goes fur
ther, and says that "every member of the
State Senate" who is thus disobedient will
bo guilty OF downright perjury. Having
taken an oath "to faithfully discharge
tho duties of the office OF Senator accord
ing to the best Of my ability" he will have
forsworn himself before Con and man,
says the WILLARD organ, il he does not
discharge them according TO the best ability
OF the Chamber OF Commerce.
If, then, this rather commonplace lssoca-
tion OF merchants is under supernatural
guidance which makes opposition 10 its
judgment as 10 legislation sin against
Con, it ought to remain in permanent ses-
sion and take charge of the business OF State
legislation for itself OF course, under
the restrictions OF the State Consttu-
tion, a merely human production, it could
nog actually pass the laws, but it could
max" DEGREES to which the Legislature
would be under RELIGIOUS obligation 70 give
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Peace and Rest at Last.

The appointment of Professor WILLIAM
l.. WILSON of West Virginia to Cabinet
office is entirely proper and satisfactory. 1t
is satisfactory to Mr.. CLEVELAND, or it
would not have been made 1t Is salts
factory to the poor Professor, or it would not
be accepted. 1t is satisfactory to everybody
else, for everybody else has expected that
at the first opportunity the constancy and
humble, self-effacinG devotion of this not
unamiabe unfortunate would be suitably
rewarded.
And tho weak soul. within itself unbiest.
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast"
For the first time in his political career,
Professor WILSON finds the place suited to
his character and genius, and tho prospect
of happiness opens before his eyes.
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sTAEVING INDIANS.
The Nsscspees or Labrador Are In Danger
or EStinetion Uniess IHeip Comes.


OUEBEC Feb. 2S.--Dlstrcssihg intelligence la,
been received here from missionaries and OTHER,
upon the Labrador coast of the misery and
privation among the Nascapee Indians mum.
bers o whom will, II Is feared starve before the
spring unless some means are found for giving
them relief. Though Industrious, these aho.
riginrs are fearfully improvident, and it /,
largely owing 10 their wllfui destruction OF
game and fur-bearing animals In the summer
ths they are reduced to such dire extremity in
the winter. Hitherto these Indians have been
allowed to kill whatever they like, Irrespective
OF game laws. and the result is such falling OF
in late years IN tho number of furs coming from
this country that there IL n general outcry
against the exemptions In favor of these i'm.
provident people, and demand that they be
made amennble tn law and reason like every
body else They might make comfortable lv.
ing In summer without killing game and fur.
bearing animals out OF season, for the waters OF
the north shore swarm with Goldfish and salmon,
nearly all the streams. but these Nascapees
have great aversion to both fish and bahing,
ssEeS aGS III shsS sstsp
the trouble and wrap up their throats in n piece
q sh net TO proptistes the spirit of the FISH
he klled in the summer do they resort TO fishing
In order to sustain life and then only after their
ricd to two young girls OF the tribe. with cers-
mony far more formal than that observed in
the case OF nero human wedlock.
The fish, too, are propitiated, being addressed
for the function. who .exhorts them to take
courage and be caught assuring them that the
utmost respect will be shown TO their bones.
These Indians decline to believe themselves re-
sponsible for the present dearth OF game and
r-bearing animals, and affect to believe that
either some evil-disposed sorcerer has kept. the
game from them or that the spirits of the
animals themselves have taken, afront,
probably because dogs have been al
lowed to feed upon some of their bones,
or because some wounded representative
of their species has not been properly addressed
and propitiated by his slayer. Since reason.
therefore, is of no avail In inducing more pru-
Dental line of action among these people, IL Is
pretty certain that a few more years Will find
the tribe extinct. Even the elder duck, which
was formerly so plentiful in Labrador, Is fast
disappearing before the steady killing Of the
birds and robbery of the nests in Matching time
by the Nascapees,
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The Hon. 1GNATIus DoNNELLY of Min
niger has become sole editor OF the newspaper
which communicates him to an anxious public,
and piping coarso weather and q large area OF
storm may be looked for in Minnesota. II Mr..
DoNNELLY had given TO the task OF destroy
ing the cormorants and bloodsuckers one-half
the time which lie has given TO club
bng the Hon. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
where would the cormorants and blood
suckers be now, poor thlngsp He fingered
long among the crypts and cryptograms OF lit
craturo when he should have been saving his
country. Since he did start In to save he has
had to club so many populist brethren that
the country saving service has not been
properly manned. Now ho has whole
paper to himself, aud nothing to do but
to conduct it, Cormorants and blood
suckers are recommended to secrete them
selves Yet so many Minnesota Populists have
heads which invite the club that It will be hard
for the Sage to hold his nervous and heavy
hand. To prove that everybody in the Peoples
party except himself is n cipher is Mr.. DoN-
NELLy's recreation; and he is likely to recreate
himself to his flll
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The story from France that bark has
been burned TO the waters edge by sparks
evoked from the flint in her ballast imposes a
severe strain on cFedulity. Strange thiags hap
pen, however, and, given the flint. the metal. and
plenty OF motion on shpboArd, It is not for us to
say that blaze might not be kindlsd.
IL is safe to say that all our local mineraloGists
will discredit the story II were hard lines. in
deed. II the ship Captains should como TO look
upon flint as something inoendiAry, likely to vi
tiAte the insurance II admitted TO the ballast
Flint in limited quantities Is desirable as speci-
mems. IL is not indigenous in these parts. aud
costs little money to import. We know no
cheaper nor more enjoyable way 70 procure Il
The sun., 1895-03-01
TEMPERING ALUMINIUM.
A Discovery that May Greatly Increase
Its Usefulness.

QUEBEC. Feb. 2s.-The successful temperine
iron is the latest triumph of F. Allard, the Lewis
blacksmith, whose rediscovery Of the lost
Egyptian art Of hardening copper startled the
mechanical world some three four years ago.
and only failed to mako the fortune of its au-
thor because of the expensiveness of the process.
A recent trial of Allards tempered aluminium
has proved the success of his new method and
the practical purposes to which it can be ap-
piled. He has made and hard ened cannon. which
hos just been tested in presence of Col. Spence.
the American Consul here. with the greatest
SUCCESS This cannon is 26 inches long and
five inches in diameter, the metal Of tho gun
outside the bore being only quarter Of an inch
thick. A charge. consisting of a pound of pow
der. has been successfully fired out OF this little
piece of ordnance without having any apprecia-
bic effect upon it. A. new and more scientific
trial Of the cannon has been ordered by the Cana
dian military authorities to he held immed lately
Mt the Quebec Citadel by the artillery experts
there, and the United States Consul, in view OF
this move, is understood to have encouraged
Mr.. Allard to manufacture. as speedily as possi-
BILE. a cannon twelve feet in length for shipment
to Washington, but whether this Is to be at AL
lards risk or by instructions from the United
learned here.
Tho great advantage Of cannons made of
aluminium, everything else being equal lies OF
course in the lghtness of the metal. Tho cam
II 1t were of iron and the same dimensions it
would weigh $50 pounds. Allards friends here.
and military enthusiasts over the project, assert
that IL the tempered aluminium supersedes iron
for the making of big guns field artillerymen,
instead of being dependent upon horses and gun
carriages for dragging their weapons oyer rough
muskets. In appearance the finished specimen
looks as though 1t was made of FURNISHED silver.
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expenses Of the city, and the balance, $780,
| 600. Is distributed among charitable and elee-
mosynary institutions which care for those
who would otherwise be public charges.
BY the terms of the RAINEs bill onehalf
Of the proceeds Of the excise fees, $3.50, 900,
would be paid TO the State Government In
Albany and the balance. s750,000, would
be applied TO city expenses. This would
have the effect OF disabling more than two
score of our most deserving city charities,
Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and non-sec-
tartan, and their present charges would be
turned back upon the Department Of Chari-
ties and Correction, or would I've left to want
and privation. This feature OF the proposed
new bill, rs IL comes to be understood, will
meet a full measure of opposition; for, as
every one knows. New York city, rs the port
OF landing for the whole United States, has
always an unduly large number of INDECENT
and suffering persons who are not actually
residents Of the city, but for whose care New
York is necessarily held responsible.
The rank injustice OF the proposed law is
shown in this provision OK 1t: The license
fee here Is to be $500; in the rural districts
1t Is to he 5000 One thousand saloons In
this city will pay 100000 license fee, Of
which s250,00O will 90 to the State. One
thousand saloons in the rural districts will
pay $500, ,0OO OF which 100000 will go
to the State. For every thousand saloons,
New York will pay the State $25o,OOO and
the rural districts will pay only 100000.
a disparity rs against New York of $780,
600 for every thousand saloons. Why should
this city be compelled to remit clear half
OF its excise collections to Albany to helpre-
duce taxation in other counties? Why
should there be one fee for q metropolitan
county and different and smaller fee for a
rural county?
From whatever point it is considered, the
RAISEs or Dow bill is fraud. 1t is an I'M
just, discriminating, unwise, and dangerous
measure. 1t is n roundabout device to
compel New York to pay n large share
of the expenses of other counties. 1t is not
in the interest of good order or abstemious-
ness. 1t aims a cruel and indefensiblc blow
at some of the most important and admira-
BILE charities of New York, the city Of char
tiles; and it would cripple their usefulness
seriously by taking away their present
means of supporting those persons com
mtted to their care by the courts.
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Cuba's Enslavement Is Americas
Shame

1t may be that the desperate attempt of a
few hundred Cuban patriots to liberate
their country will be stamped out by the
thousands of regular soldiers which Spain
maintains in the unhappy island. But
whose fault is it that the struggle is so
glaringly unequal, Whose fault is it that
the means needed to organize n vigorous
uprising against the enslavers of Cuba have
to be sought almost exclusively from poor
cigarmakers living here in exile, but willing
to dedicate their scanty savings to the re-
demption Of their native land' The fact
that Cuba in the closing years of the nine
teenth century still writhes under the heel
Of the worst OF European oppressors, is q
foul blot upon the fair name of America
The responsibility for her pitiful condition
is shared by all the free and happy common
wealths that cover the mainland OF the
Western hemisphere from the Straits Of
Magellan to the Arctic Ocean.
1t does not become the citizens of the
United States or OF any other American re-
public to button up their pockets and put
on the Cuban patriots with lip sympathy
and frigid citation Of the adage, "Who
would be free, themselves must strike the
blow" Not one country on the American
continent would enjoy its present liberties
had 1t been left to fight for them single
handed and alone. Every student of our
Revolutionary war knows that but for the
munitions and money sent from France, the
Continental army must have been disband-
cd before the siege of Yorktown; and the
Nlrrender OF CORVALLIS could never have
been compelled without the cooperation of
French army under RoCHAMBIAU and a
French feet under De GRAssE. The
spanish-AmeTican colonies could never
have attained their independence had
each Of them been forced 10 cope,
unaided, with the whole power of the
mother country. 1t was SAN MARTIN, at
the head of force collected in Ia Plata,
~hO rescued the Chilians when they had
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"Nsw journalism" In tho Commercial A d.
yertiscr.


Prom thf SdH hunciSco BULleiin
Tho Now York Sun says that Stillnlhn 4 Hubbard,
New York lawyers, have purchased tho Commercial
OF that city Tho law nrIn mentioned Is ilentincd
with the management ~ the SeRrles nteres 4 In the
Southern Pacific Railroad properties and Il was by
their influence that e, H. Huntington became Prcsi.
dent OF the southern Pacific Company. The pronl.
nence on the Plclhc coast which Stillman Hubbard
have by reason Of their railroad connections natu
rally causes the tongue OF gossip wag and specua.
tion concerning the motives which Lave PROMPTED
them 20 become newspaper pr0prietOTs Is Tlie.
They are wealthy men, 50 that one supposes that
they are seeking additional income by emharklng In
the publication OF newspaper They STJ also men
OF fashion, and business aud pleasure demand their
attention most OF the time The motive which may
bo attributed is ambition OF some sort
hAny prominent lawyers have passed from the prac.
tice OF law Co the presidency Of large railroad cor
pOraOn In his connection with the Southern Pacific
Company Mr.. Hubbard has undoubtedly acquired a
great amount OF information corning the possible
profitable development OF the transportation bus
west OF ogden and ~ PasO and south NJ Portland,
Or, and the prospect OF SOME time welding the
power which Is implied may Lo alluring.
The sun., 1895-03-01

Yale men will see with regret the de-
parture of the Hon. WILSON SHANNON BIssELL
from the stamp shop. He was good to all Yalen-
SLAMS seeking office. They must be sorry that
FRANK JONES, the melodious First Assistant,
was not selected to be the head of the depart
ment, but as n harmon!zer and consoler
Mr. JONES may be most helpful to Mr..
WILSON. To hear the sweet-voiced First
Assistant carol out, at the end OF a hard days
work, MY Old Cabin Home" or "Linger
Longer. Lucy" or Tho Sidewalks of New
York." or some other of his vast collection OF
popular ballads is to feel that care has lost its
mucilage.
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Was it for this the Hon. SUMNER TEALL
carried the election2

The clock ticks half mournfully, half sar-
castically. The hands seem to make strange
faces on the dial at the Hon. WILLIAM MUDD
SPRINGER, looking at them with horror in his
eyes. The confounded hands are sprinting for
all they worth. The numerals on the dial
form themselves into seeming combinations
that burn into his brain. "WILLIAM," they
seem to say. you are left" "Where are your
oats, War Stecd of Sangamon ?" "DENNIs,
SPRINGER, MCGINTY, Mud"
Cheer up. faint heart. Something may turn
up before Monday. Your name may be in the
next batch OF nominations. Courage, War
Steed of the Sangamon!
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Better Translation. OF Wagner. Lubrs.to..

To THE EDITOR or nEsUS-Sir: When the immortal
Wagner is as masterfully interpreted In last nights
performance OF Tristan and Isolde" and by such IA
nous artists as an Alvary and SGchcr. the least
English audience can expect Is fairly true transla
ton OF the "pire," and not bc compelled To digest
khch rnntlng and devaOns from the German original
as the only authorized and correct % edition OF
:" Tristan and Isolde contained
FOR the bcnett and pleasure of future OperaEoers
haN" the kindness to name MS n wortler and better
translation than the above correct n one one that
viii at least attempt tn do justice to the original
ARNERSk, L. l., Feb. 2b. RUFUS.
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The Hon. WILLIAM MAHoNE's illustrious
white slouch hat is pulled over his eyos He is
not talking through 1t. Hisdelicate little hands
tug nervously at his beard. He sits by that
"MAHoNE lot" and thinks. There is weeping
and there is swearing =" by the banks Of the old
Al
The sun., 1895-03-01

We will ask the Mayor to tell us frankly
whether his direction 10 Col wARiNo to clean
the tenement house streets first, and let the
great business thorouGhfare OF Broadway slide,
was merely impulsive bunconbe, or n sober and
sincere admonitlon to an important city officer
The sun., 1895-03-01
The Two Nos, ramous Colored Men.

To tn: EDITOR or THE srN-Sir' You speak OF Alex.
andre Dumas p>re having only "a tiage" OF negro
blood Yet you say his grandmother was negresS
and the same statement is made In the encyclopedias
THIS would MAKE him quai,ropu lt Il not generally
known that PuSkln, the national poet of Russia wa
dqundroun, but such Is the tact His grandfather
pure negro brought Ia 81, Petersburg Dy onr az the
Grand Dukes ON his retGrn from, n tour in westeTn
Europe. GEORGE W. Blows
The sun., 1895-03-01
THE SUN. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1895.

than to visit the coasts Of Hoboken and grub
among the stone heaps where vessels from Eng
land have dumped their ballast. IL would be a
great pity II any needless over the destruc-
tive potentiallties Of flint should in future de-
prive our scientific amateurs of this Innocent
The sun., 1895-03-01
Western man on Missouri platfOrm.-St

The Missouri platform, par erccllence and
unum pluriIlS, is School Reform. and the ca n
didate is ABE SLUPsKY, Republican heart and
heels. What nonsense TO talk Of trying Dem
ocratic candidate from East or West OH the
Missouri platform!
The sun., 1895-03-01
Committeeman George. Coasy, and Deb.,

To TTE TDrog on TuR suN-ST; Here is a propo.
slon the acceptance OF which will reduc, the arbl
trnton ldea 10 its truo position Let Henry George
Grn CoScy, and pebs he appolnted 10y act OF Conares
never mhd the SonstiIutlonl committee 10 rix
Hli deternur All wages {" he paid in tile United
states question; Why 4 this mot the iorI.aI re-
suit OF the arbitration idea 2 $50 'NTf, 80 =" ~
The sun., 1895-03-01

The Excise Commissioners have begun to
excise Democratic ofIiceholders, while Reform
and Non-Partisanship weep upon each others
neck, and the unregcnerato remark Ha, ha!
The sun., 1895-03-01
various Capacities for sumerlng.

from the ST. louis RepvbIte.
The Democrats spollsmnn Is sGlways hungry. The
HepNbi'ah spokesman Is always hungrlcr. But the
cl'il service reform spokesman Is always the hunEest
OF the lot.
The sun., 1895-03-01

Cabling GEORGE FITHIAN's eulogy of JOHN
PARDON ALTGELD will be new reminder to
that person that he is dead. RAMEsEs is live
man compared with ALTGELD and can get more
votes,
The sun., 1895-03-01

There has been more lying by the reporters
OF some of our contemporaries about the GOULD
CAsTELLANE wedding than on any other recent
subject, incredible AS II may seem.
The sun., 1895-03-01
The AIatutIn.l Varl.,,o.

Prom Br9rning Kiag q Co.'S MonihIy
What dlnefehce In the morning,n saI1 ChoIlv
I h5shs thS WINS was extra dry Thls moTnlng
The sun., 1895-03-01
Three Lies Ia Oas slort seat,.e..

Iron ths KhorriHs SenfihsL
Editor Dana vilinod newspaper rival and new he
has . ibsl suit on hahd
The sun., 1895-03-01

Aluminium, aluminium bronze, Tobin
bronze. steel. coppered wood, or what not be our
new boats substance, what is the betting?