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Show Topics of tke Day DUSTLESS STREETS. Milvrautes Wisconsin. Mllwaukeeans who aro advocates of better street pavements, and of road Improvement Im-provement generally, will rake Interest In a report to tho Mayor of Boston by the superintendent of tho parks of that city. The report deals with park road sprinkling with crude petroleum and with a trade preparation which probably embraces the same natural product. The experiments with crude petroleum demonstrated that roads cau be troatod with It and kept free from dust at about half the expense of sprinkling, with the advantage favorable to oil in the fact that tho roads sprayed with it are dust-less dust-less both day and night. With tho trade preparation the cost of dustlessnesB is about double the cost of sprinkling with water, but tho preparation Js far more effective than water, and Its color gives a pleasing appearance 'to the roads. The use of both of thcBo dust-layers Is objected ob-jected to by somo frequenters of the Boston parks, who dislike their odor. To obviate complaint on this score, and also for tho purpose of discovering If poBslblo a way In which petroleum can be used without giving offense, Superintendent Super-intendent Pettlgrew is now experimenting experiment-ing with a crude petroleum emulsion, a small percentage of which 1b placed In each application of water. EMIGRATION PROBLEM. Boston Transcript. The CommlBsloner-Goneral of Immigration Immigra-tion has made It apparent In hla reports that the numbers and quality of the newcomers new-comers to our shores do not exhaust tho problems of Immigration. One of these which causes much trouble and embarrassment embar-rassment Is the matter of distribution, It being claimed that tho new swarms show a disposition to cling to the congested con-gested life of the .cities Prof. Wilcox of Cornell university and a special agent of tho United States census bureau whom we have recently quoted, employed statistics sta-tistics to show that there is a general movement among Immigrants away from the cities. On the basis of his figures it appears that nearly one-half of those who have arrived within tho last five years aro to bofound outside the cities of 25,000 and over. Evon without disputing dis-puting his figures and statements, they hardly strike at the root of the matter. With a foreign incremeut at the rate of about 1,000,000 a year it Is becoming Increasingly In-creasingly difficult each year to obtain help to gather the fruits of tho earth. Whatever may become of these new recruits re-cruits when they leave the large cities, they appear to studiously avoid the fun- J damental Industry of the country. TOO MUCH LAWMAKING. Chicago Tribune. Two men, wide apart in experiences, la temperament, and In political principles have coincided in the views tbey havo presented to the American Bar association. associa-tion. George R. Peck of Chicago and Alton Al-ton B, Parker of Esopus both decry the tendency to trust overmuch In legislation as a cure for the evils of the day. Mr. Peck emphasizes more the tendency of the Legislature to Interfere Ja matters of detail, and Mr. Parker more tho call for legislation of a sympathetic or sentimental senti-mental nature. The one sees a tendency to do violence to established Institutions because of hysteria. The remedy In either caso is to hold less frequent sessions ses-sions of the lawmaking body and to enforce en-force mora vigorously existing laws, |