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Show I , Reports from Port Arthur lndlcato renewed activity In the mining buElness ', there. ( ' 1 Our weather authorities should sco . that early May is moving time, and i make tho clouds roll away. ' k ' New York haa found that about the only way to prevents, school teachers j from marrying is not to ask them. I "Why not play ball on wet grounds, j i so that each team may do Its best try- ' ing to wipe up the earth with the other? ' ! - ! 1 But what difference can it make in i ' the end to a Democrat whether he runs ti for the Governorship or tho Senator- ;j ship? ' I When he hears that Illinois and Iowa ! have gone for Hearst, Judge Parker J may say something, but not for publl- I cation. J But will the Methodists who now en- joy playing cards care so much for a H' game If the general conference takes off tho ban? H,, St. Louis invites you in the most cor-dial cor-dial manner to attend the Fair, but might not be so insistent if it knew j of any other way to get your money. ? ' ' Notwithstanding the things that have ! i? been said agajnst the Board of Educa- tion, Superintendent Chrlstensen knows 1 i i It is all right, as it has increased his j ' j ' salary. - j j 1 On- Sundays the World's Fair will be Hi i 1 closed, and thousands who would like f' , to enter will have to observe the Sab- ' , i , bath, going to ball grounds and like , ; ' restful places. H Russians report that they havo rc- Bi ' 1 tired from the Yalu to an imprcgna- fl , ' I blc position. Here they, will undoubtcd- ly be invincible until the Japs are ready to drive them out. h 1 1 t , TIie stoppage by the Russians and H" their search of the British steamer H" ( Osiris, of the Peninsular & Oriental f. j j j Steam Navigation company's line, in Hj , j J tne Mediterranean, is a very serious H' 'J 1 matter, and unless disavowal and apol- 1 1 ogized for, will cause serious compli- 1 I cations. It will not be suffered that i j I steamers on the high seas are to be in- Hl 1 terfered with in thl3 manner. Russia ; ( has evidently overstepped her prlvl-leges, prlvl-leges, and the British Government will ''i, no doubt lose no timo in making i j 1 "strong representations." The act is , j In direct line with the way In which H'j Russia is bullying China, but to try Hr' " ' tne same tactics with Great Britain ' j j; will be found a wholly different matter. It makes a difference whose ox Is ' i gored. Here, for instance, are the Rus- HT Elans In northern Korea, urging the na- j 1 1 1 tive population to come under Russian H'j ! protection, claiming that Russia is their H,j truest friend, and asking the people to , ' , aid the Russian troops with food and ' ( j guides. That, of course, Is all in the Hj ! . game, and is allowable. But right on ( ; the other side of Korea, tho Russian j I organ, the Novlkral, Eets up an outcry , j I because an active propaganda Is being ; carried on against Russia, "traveling Hll j I orators spreading false reports of the H! ' , 1; ' strength of the Japanese, and the mag- H. nitude of their victories.', and are telling Hl J '! malignant stories of Ruesian designs I j i throughout the Chinese towns and vil- Hj 1 ; , lages with the object .of inciting the ' V masses against Rutsla." it Ih a case, H. - t i ! I i evidently, where what Is eauce for the ( r ! Korean is bitter poison for the Chinese. ';'; ) II H! jf j ,3 p Dr. Austin Flint. In a recent public H) ' Jill letter, warns investigators against as- '" : ' suming that broken boneajand dlscol- Hl j , ored skin apparently as from the bruise I 1 of a blow, are necessarily evidence of H't ' JJ abuse of an insane patient. He sayo it is H'j ', i wel1 known tQ physicians skilled In the Hl i' treatment of the Insane, that the chronic Hj J ' ! insane, especialy tliose of advanced age, Hlj $ I I arc subject to dlscoloratlons of the skin, ji j i without violence, that simulate severe H. ' I? bruises, also, that they frequently de- khV velop what he calls "bone degeneration ! ',! of the insane," especially in the ribs, wh,ch leads to irom very slight causes In no way connected with violence. Such breakage or discoloration, discolora-tion, Is'therofore not properly proof that tho patients have been 111 treated. At the same time It Is certainly true that the attendants In an Insane asylum who have patients of that sort, would do well to have tho utmost publicity, in order to vindicate Dr. Flint's proposition, proposi-tion, and clear themselves from any possible pos-sible Imputation that severity has been used. It is a theory which may be, as ho says, well known to tho alienists, but certainly It Ib new to the public, which will bo loth to believe that a patient who has broken bones and a discolored skin has not come by them through 111 treatment. |