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Show The proposition to set aside a portion of Liberty Park for a free baseball ground for Salt Lake boys should make for good if it is carried out; and there should also be more places where the boys could be free to play their games. Their daytime amusements should be forwarded and encouraged in every practical way, and as many playgrounds as possible should be provided for them. But all this will be useless if tho boys are not kept out of the streets at night. In the night time is when tho school's of crime are at their worst, and tho special effort should be to suppress these schools of vice and degradation that are conducted by and for night-roving night-roving boys who delight to be free to attend them, under pretext of "having a little fun." Good strategy on tho part of the Japanese Ja-panese has cleared the Russians out of Korea, and tho formal congratulations havo been exchanged between Japan's officials and those of Korea over the happy event. That much was done without fighting; but anything further will have to be gained by hard knocks. Still, if tho Japanese should land a strong force some distance to the west ofs the Yalu, the Russians would havo to ovacuate fortificatlono erected with so much labor and at so much cost. The spring break-up is just coming on there, however, and not much activity in a military way is possible, save at enormous labor and cost. When the roads settle there, eomethlng decisive cannot be long delayed. The Mississippi at Memphis being reported as nearly fivo feet above the danger line at Memphis, means a dou-blo dou-blo destruction along the lower river this year. The present rise is the lesser one; it carries the water of the early meltings In the lower latitudes, where the snowfall was lightest. The big rlso is the June rise, which carries the floods from the melting of the snows in tho higher latitudes, where the snow Is deep and the melting of It fills tho streams bank full, and makes the peoplo along tho lower Mississippi fight t6r their lives and property. For all tho time , that the lower country has been settled, the effort has been to confine tho river by levees. These, however, overflow and break, carrying widespread devastation. devas-tation. The result of tho efforts thus far is to raise tho bed of the river and require tho constant raising of the embankments. em-bankments. How would It do to try another an-other policy for a while dredging the river bottom and convoying the rich muck so raised to fertilize tho lands along the banks? I |