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rcport only because lite friends requested
that the report be withheld.
Thus the existence Of the joint Commits
sion and the misdirected attempts to In
d,ca the United States Government to do
the work properly belonging to New York
and New Jersey, have served only to delay
action in quarters where effort might be
more effective. By raising false hopes and
turning energy into wrong channels the
Commission has been a positive injury to
a cause which all lovers Of the beautiful In
nature have at heart.
Let the friends Of the Palisades count no
moro upon the Commissioners appointed
two wears ago by Governor MORTON and
Governor GRrees. respectively, to promote
the ACQUISITION of the Palisades Of the Hud-
son River by the United States.
Albany and Trenton, and not Washing
ton, are the places wherein the fight to
save the Palisades must be prosecuted.
Trenton particularly, inasmuch as the fine
old rocks which brutal greed is now so
rapidly defacing belong to New Jersey in
the proportion Of about eleven miles Of
river front to two miles and q half in New
York's territory.
Turn your attention, therefore, to Tren-
ton first. We are glad to observe that At
torney. General GRAY is moving to do what
he can, under an inadequate law passed by
the New Jersey Legislature, to stay the
work OF destruction. But the whole SUBJ
ject must be taken up on new lines of leg
~islation II the Palisades are to be put be-
yond the reach Of ignorant and unfeeling
commercialism.
New Jersey is the principal trustee for
mankind of one of Natures masterpieces.
The responsibility should be made plain to
the gentlemen at Trenton, n q broad
scheme of protection should be evolved and
executed without waiting for q national
appropriation hat will never come.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Str: I see in your
paper q letter signed Cornell. 'o7." referring to
some statements I made in q letter which you were
good enough to print on Nov. 20. Will you give me
space for q few remarks?
May I ask "Corneli, '97." how It happens II the vivi-
sections at Cornell University be as rare Us he claims,
that q house for cats Is one of the buildings shown to
visitors? Ihavo not seen this house myself: but I
have often heard OF It, and Of the inscription, which
runs somewhat like the GLOWING:
Well housed, and well fed.
Happy living, and useful dead.
Not long ago q Cornell man told me Of this house
and said he had himself witnessed many vivisectious
during his course at Ithaca.
After all. is It not q question Of quality rather than
of quantity? A large number of vivisections may
hurt more animals than a small number Of these ex.
effect on man or woman. not on beast. Familiarity
might increase the brutal tendency which had been
produced by thoughtless cruelty; but probably one or
two vivisections would have pretty much hardened
any one.
WIN Cornell. 49," kindly explain how "dissec-
ton studies are executed by means Of ether P" These
things are so fresh in his mind. and during tho years
Of active practice which have elapsed since I took my
degree I fear I have grown rusty.
did not refer to animals operated upon at Ithaca
as "stolen pets, because THE Sun had already told
us that the animals there used a. were obtained
from q Virginia firm which furnishes all sorts of
laboratory supplies;' or were. in some instances,
caught by the girls themselves. I spoke of stolen pets
as the probable material for vivisection were these
girl vivisectors to become teachers.
LUIGI GALvAN DoANE. n. D.
NEW York. Dec. /.
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spain's Overtures Are Too Late.

The formal FORMULATION on Wednesday
Of the new DEGREES proposing to give
autonomy to Cuba shows that the summary
of them furnished Q few days earlier was
full and accurate. The only additional fea-
ture demanding attention Is the preamble,
which sets forth with noticeable frankness
tho need of reforms in the island and
answers objections to the plan proposed.
Perhaps specially significant Is the re.
Spouse to the objection that Cuba's legisla-
ture and the Cortes would often be at odds,
Sehor MoRET's reply being that this is
always the case with colonial homo rule,
the British imperial Government frequent
ly being compelled to set aside Canadian
legislation.
But the reflection remains that this work
Of the Sagasta Ministry is now labor lost.
Had the royal DEGREES just gazetted at
Madrid been issued three years ago there
would have existed, we make bold to
say, no revolt against Spanish dominion
in the island to-day. But, as was the
case with our own Revolution, proposals
that might have been welcomed before
the appeal to the sword, as q volun.
tary concession are rejected when patriots
in arms see independence almost within
their grasp.
At the very time these new DEGREES are
issued news comes Of some of the ~f1ercest
fighting Of the war in Pinar del Rio, and
this is the province which WEYLER Ions
ago reported to be paci6ed; but the specia,
significance of the news is that, while the
merchants Of Catalonia are %grumbllng about
the tariff features of the new home rule
plan, and the Conservatives about its polit
ical features, those whom 1t is designed t.
reach. the patriots fighting in the field
respond to its PRONUNCIATION by increased
activity in their cause and renewed and
desperate combat.
Freedom from the Spanish yoke is, in
deed, the only condition of peace they car
to discuss, and the home rule they covet /
the home rule that our fathers wrung from
Great Britain by their constancy. Spain
overtures come too late.
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CLICK! THE KEYL Ess NIGHT LATCH.
A Newark Inventor Docs Away with the
Troublesome Keybole.

Troub1es0me hAeybote.
In those days of chainless wheels. smokeleso
powder, and other thingless things, 1t Is quite
natural that some genius should invent a key.
less night latch. Keyless locks have been com.
mon enough upon safos and cash drawers since
the day Of Butterworth's original invention,
but to this day all Of these Formulation locks
depend upon eyesight. For years 1t has been
the boast of safe-lock makers that their combi-
nations defy the finest sensibilities Of sand.
papered fingers. That would kill the koyless
night latch at the start. because 1t is a night
lock. and must necessarily be worked in the
dark. A Jerseyman is the inventor and patenteo
of the new device, and he 10 Just a little bit
afraid that 1t may add to tho volume of protan-
iy in the world. but he feels sure that 1t will be
home, or home STRAIGHT, and ordinarily have
half q. dozen. fiat keys on o ring. all OF which
feel alike in the dark.
His latch has no keyhole. and works with q
knob which looks like any ordinary. doorknobs
but Is arranged 80 that II makes q series OF sharp
as we'll as heard. 30 that a deaf and blind man
can read them as he turns the knob. Two clicks
to the left and three to the right will open a door
If the combination s set at %, or 1t may DO set
at any figure up to 500. with all Of the. advan:
tages of the terms involved In O short thousand
Of numerals.
1t is extremely simple in Its mechanical do
tails. but IL would take a stranger some weeks
to open tho door II he did not nave a tip on the
combination. If n rounder has any doubts OF
his ability. to remember the combination OF his
front door he can set the knob at his age. that OF
his wife or mother-in.law. or even the street
number. straight or transposed, and then there
will be little chance of his forgetting it.
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ELForR1o1rr oUrPo1xrs srrAsr.
RE Advantages Apparent In = couaparauv,
Test In Two Cotton Nul..

Hts AdvaptsE~s Apperent In q counparativs
Test in two Cotton MuIs.
At tho annual meeting OF the American So
cieJy OF Mechanical Engineers, which IL now
being held at the clubhouse, IL West Thirty
frat street, papers were read Yesterday by w.
b. T.. Whaley OF Columbia, $. C., on Electricity
in Cotton Mills" and by w. ]. Keep of Detroit
on Cast Iron Under Impact Mr.. whaloy
told of some comparative tests which were made
Of two mills OF nearly equal size. in one OF which
the spindles and looms were run by steam and
the other equipped with 100 horse power olec-
trio motors.
One notable advantage which the latter mill
had because of its electric equipment was that
itrequired only about 1919. 900 pounds Of shafting
to make its competitions. as against about 1885,.
600 pounds for tho stenm mill. The steam mill
required moro oil and other items Of runnin :
cost, while in six months the other mill did not
REQUIRE a cent for repairs TO tho motor. The
without running nil tho shatting. Tho test
showed that there was q saving In friction in the
elc trio mill of scventy.sevon horse power.
iron under impact, as described by Mr.. Keep.
Each test bar was subjected either TO blows by
light hammers, delivered on its ends or aides, by
On anvil. tumbiins them about in a tum6iina
barrel or by having them shaken up In
delivered on the sides and ends Of
Ten blows with a half-pound hammer on the
side of n test bar % inch square and a foot Iona
made the bar. shorter the .000l of an inch
ting the bars on the ends also shortened them
IF further experiment should show that the
casting becomes shorter. whom struck with 9
hsm n ,S: Mr.; Keep said; 1T will In part OK
ping of the gates"
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lation about those indirect taxes which
affect industrial production; money and
coinage railroads which concern the in
terests Of both halves OF the monarchy, and
the military system. In other federal gov.
ernments, most of these subjects fall within
the province Of the central legislature,
but, in the dual monarchy, as we have said,
they are regulated by concurrent statutes
OF the two p~arliaments.
Thus. nearly everything In the nature of
positive law IL enacted separately In Aus
tria and Hungary. In substance, there.
fore, the whole Joint legislation Of the
monarchy 10 q series Of treaties, partly per.
manent and partly temporary, which ban.
not be changed or prolonged by any common
legislature, but only by the contracting
parties themselves.
or these agreements, or virtual treaties,
by far the most important is that which
fixes the respective contributions Of the
two Kingdoms to the common expenses of
the dual monarchy. In 1867 a pair of
statutes regulated for ten years Hungary's
share Of the common expenditures and
still another pair, enacted in the Same
year, established q tariff and trade union
for the same d~ecennial period. At this
time, Hungary's share was fxed at 80 per
cent. The two pairs Of laws Just men.
toned were renewed in 1873. They were
again renewed in 1887. but, this time,
Hungary's share Of the common expenses
was fixed at q trife over "a per cent. 1t Is
the extension Of this statute for another
period Of ten years which IL pending at
this moment.
What has rendered an agreement din.
cult, aside from the obstruction offered by
the German members of the Reichsrath, Is
the fact that, during the last decade, Hun.
gary has made a great advance In pros
perity, and ought, in the opinion of the
Austrians, to contribute q larger share Of
the money raised for common expenses. The
greater stress is laid by Austrians upon the
need of more equitable financial arrange
ments, because the Magyars. being able to
dominate the Trans-Leithan kingdom. have
exercised far more influence In the imperial
councils h have the Germans. who con-
stitute only a minority in the Cls.Leithan
kingdom. That Hungary yields a much
larger share Of power in the empire than
she could claim on the score Of popula-
tion or of wealth is evident from the
fact that, during twenty-one out Of the
thirty years that have elapsed since the
union was formed, the foreign affairs Of
the empire have been in the charge of the
Magyars.
Even IL Count BApEN1's successor shall
escape obstruction in the Reichsrath, he
will find 1t difficult to adjust the terms on
which the financial agreement between the
two Kingdoms can be renewed. If he fails,
the Magyars may revert to the aim which
they have never entirely lost sight of
since the days of KossUTH, that, namely,
of resstablishing the old kingdom of Hun.
gary. which shall have nothing in com
mon with the Cis.Lelthan monarchy, ex.
cept the tie Of allegiance to the House of
HAPsBURa.
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II President AND HIS PASTOR.
Mr.. Mckinley Will Not Give W His Pew Ne
cause or the Thanksgiving Sermon.

Mr.. Mckinley Will Not Give Up His Few NE
cause or the ThanksGivinE Sermon.
WARRINGTON, Dec. 2.-Secretary Porter says
there is no truth in the report that tho Presi-
dent will leave the Metropolitan Method list
Church, where he Is a pewholder and constant
attendant, because Of the remarkable sermon
delivered Thanksgiving Day by the pastor, the
Rev. Hugh Johnston. Secretary Porter says
that the President will occasionally attend the
Foundry Methodist Church. as he has already
done. and will probably be found occupying .
seat in Mr.. Porter's pew at st. Johns Episco-
pal Church onco in a while, but that there will
be no special significance in these visits.
The Metropolitan Church is u mil o away
from the White House. while the Foundry
Church is but three blocks away, and st. Johns
Is just across Lafayette Park. This is the m lost
fashionable church in Washington. and Presi-
dent Arthur held a pew there.
1t is positively known by the Presidents
friends that he was much surprised and not o
little offended by DR.. Johnston's Thanksgiving
Day sermon, which was in effect q rebuke to the
Administration for not inaugurating q more
vigorous foreign policy, but the President thinks
that it would be undfgnihed in him to notice
the incident 80 pointedly as to leave the church.
DR.. Johnston's Passionate will end, moreover, in
about three months. and he will be assigned
elsewhere.
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The Relation of Austria to Hungary

Inc ftol0t1on OF Austria to Hungary.
The cause of the recent violent disturb
ances in the Austrian Reichsrath and of
the riots In Vienna and Prague is sufi.
GENTLY we'll known. The disorders are due
to the decree secured from the Badeni Min
istry, whereby in the Kingdom of Bohe-
mia, the Czech as well as the German Ian
gnage is to be used in the courts and in all
official business.
The precise aim of the obstructionists,
however, has been, In some measure, over
looked. They intended to put pressure on
the Badeni Ministry and to extort from it
o. resembling Of the obnoxious decree, by
preventing 1t from performing q vital
public act, namely, the renewal of
the financial and commercial agreements
between the two halves of the dual
monarchy. The Importance of conclud-
ing such arrangements will be appre-
ciated when we note that the Prime Minis.
ter Of Hungary has announced that, II no
agreement is reached by Dec. @. the COM
plete separation of the Trans Lothian mon-
Archy from the Cis-Leithan monarchy will
be definitely proposed.
1t is well known that the Hungarian or
Lutt VI Uuc I1dDSOuTR HOn-
archy has a separate Parliament, which sits
ut Budapest, while the Parliament of the
Austrian or Cis-Leithan moiety meets in
Vienna. The joint affairs of the two king.
doms are managed, from an administrative
point Of view, by Ministers for Foreign
Affairs, for War, and for Finance. So far
as Joint legislation Is concerned, this IL
committed to delegations. one from each
Parliament. These delegations, however
do not sit together, except In case of dis
agreement.
Practically the delegations possess yer,
little Legislative power. TIL organic com
pact between the Kingdoms provides, in
deed, that the competence of the delega
tions shall extend to ell matters touching
common affairs; but, on inquirinS wha,
these are. We find them grouped undc,
three heads, and 80 qualified as to BIZ
minimized. These heads comprehend, first
foreign relations of all kinds, but the rati
fcation of treaties, as far as 1t is con
s~titutionally required, is reserved to tn,
tWo separate ~parliaments; secondly, mil
itary matters, from which, however. ar,
excepted the regulation of the number o
recruits, the liability to military servic,
and the civil rights and duties of soldiers
thirdly, the finances, so far as the common
expenses are concerned, in short, appropri
ations, including fixing the conditions TO
raising, applying and paying loans, bu
only after the Parliaments of Austria an,
Hungary have determined by parallel law
that u loan shall be raised.
There Is very little room for Legislation
here. Other matters of joint concern whicl
are dealt with, not by the delegations, bu
by the Parliaments separately, are CONNER
oial affairs. and especially the tariff; legil
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Aristophanes's 1.-THE Wasps' was performed recently
in Greek at Cambridge University, England.
Coupons for chromos are now offered by the staid
London Standard to increase its circulation.
Artesian wells have proved successful in New South
Wales. the area within which underground water IN
found extending over 49, square miles.
At the Duchesse d'Uzes's last hunting party ono
sportsman followed the chase ind was in at the death
on n motor pheton. while another used a petroleum
tricycle..
Preparations are being made to celebrate the thou.
sandth anniversary of the death OF King Alfred I'm
1901. A national memorial at Winchester, where
Alfred was educated and buried. Is in project.
King Leopold Of Belgium has established a nav
de Grafton for thu Congo Free State. the i" order Of
the Crowr." divided into SIX classes. to be awarded
to those who distinguish themselves in Congo liter
ature or science.
Dinah saiifou, the senegalese prince. who was one
OF the sights Of the Paris 1889 exhibition. has Iust
died In the fort Mt st, Louis In Senegal. on leaving
France he found that he was a prisoner; no explana.
ton was over given to him and lie was kept in con.
hnement TIL mis- death.
Adtvison OF the Greek and Ruthonlan colleges has
b On mad Mt Rome, Emperor francis Joseph Of
Austria having furnished funt Is to estab ish an indie
pend Mt RTthenian Institution. Part OF the money H.
the "ndow ment of the Rutheuian coI!e.c mt Lnmbsra
Will h WAS suppressed by the Austrian Government.
'NSA NNNN Ah huIK vi u
J"6uits, willie the Greek coli re is managed by the
B"n-dirtin's OF the swiss Monastery OF Elnsledeln, a.
tn" benedictln"s are popular Ia the Orient.
fierahtohi. the painter. who some time ago MUIR
dered his mistress. the "CoHles,a Lara" the au.,
thoress. at Rome. has been coud mined 10 eleven yeara
aud eight months Imprisonment at hard labor. 10
was shown At the trial that tn" crime vas m
not through jealousy. but because the women refused
to supply him with money. She was the divorced
wife OF the sou OF Sipnor Mancini. NJ mister of For
eiGn Affairs when the Triple Ailianc. WAS formed.
Her father had been British Consul al Florence. r
Monte Carlos gamiling Lank took In II, sbc. 900
francs during the year ending Oct. 81, 5000, 600
francs less than the year before. Among Its expenses
were. for Prince Albert OF Monaco. 1000. 900 francs,
for police. education. and other public ,harRes.
l'ooo'OoO francs; to the directors and ~onicials. 1, OOO,.
600 franco for the theatre, music. sports, and charity.
100000 francs; advertising. 900. 900 france. A hun.
dred thousand francs was spent TO get unlucky
gamblers out OF town. and another hundred thousanf
to keep them from committing suicide. Aeysrtha
less. thirty-nye persons killed themselves on soooua1
] q gambling Losses during thsJssE.
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Commissioner WARING explains that he didn't
mean to he understood as saying that he should quit
street cleaning In New York on the lst OF January
whether he was invited to do so or not. He viii
await the p easure of the new Administration.
ton Herald.
1t remains to be seen whether Col. WARINo 10
to stand alongside of tho stimabl and now i'm
mortal MULvANEY as one OF w holdovers from
the Strong Administration. Tammany undoubt-
eddy wants clean streets In tho Greater New
York. That organization. however. may have
an idea that 1t can produce from within itself
somebody capable Of keeping the streets as clean
us they are now. at the present rate of expendi.
ture.
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Tho President Has Pointed the Way,

The inaugural address of President Nc
KrNLBY contained some excellent remarks
on the supreme necessity Of providing
adequate revenue. They are as true at the
beginning Of December as they were at the
beginning of March:
..Tho present must not become the permanent con-
aition Of the Government. II has been our uniform
,r.o,,c, TO retire, not increase our outstanding obi.
rssiop,. and this policy must again b renewed and
vigorously enforced.
.our revenues should always bo large enough TO
meet with ease and promptnefs not only our current
needs, and tho principal and interest Of the public
aebt, but TO make proper provision for that most do
serving body Of public credisors. the soldiers and
saiIor and the widows and orphans who arc tho pen.
sioners Of the United States.
..rhe Government should not DO permitted 70 run
behind or increase its debt in times like the present.
Suitably to provide against this 10 the mandate of
duty, the certain and easy remedy for most Of our
financial dinlculties.
"a deficiency 10 inevitable 90 long - the expondi.
turss Of the Government exceed its receipts. II oan
only be met by loans or increased revenue. While .
large annual surplus of revenue may invite waste or
oxtravasanos. inadequate revenue creates distrust
and undermines public and private credit. Neither
should bs encouraged.
.Bstween moro loans and more revenue there
ourht to be but one opinion. We should have moro
revenue. and that without delay. hindranoo or post
ponement."
The reason why these remarks arc as
true in December as they were in March is
that they are automatic, and consequently
true for all the time.
Some newspapers which are ~unfriendly
to the present tariff, and likewise unfriend-
ly to the present Administration, assume
that the Hon. NELSON DINeLEv will be
loath to admit that the act as It now
stands Is not all that was expected
of It az q revenue producer. This is an
affront to Mr.. DINGLEY's intelligence and
patriotism. The pride of authorship and the
stubbornness that adheres to predictions
and estimates recorded beforehand influ-
ence that Industrious and conscientious
leglslator about as little as they can in.
fiuence any man.
To the best Of his ability, and on tho
best information then available, he shaped
ameasure of trial and experiment., founded
on the principles SO clearly enunciated in
President MoKrNLEY's inaugural. Con-
gress enacted that measure of trial and
experiment. It has not proved to be per-
feet. 1t can be perfected, In the light Of
experience, by simple supplementary legis.
latlon, without any general unsettlement
Of the tariff question or any disturbance
to business. It is o poor compliment to
NJ. 49, y.v - r,,,,~ 49, ~,,.l~
as he exerts officially as Chairman of the
Committee IN Ways and Means, and in.
d%ividually as q Justly esteemed and re-
spected tariff expert, will be used to resist
any attempt by Congress to improve the
work of last summer.
Az for what President Mckinley thinks,
we know already. His admirable senti.
ments are quoted above.