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Show I S, And now wo can all sco what blamed ( fools those people were who made l those before election estimates. But what a spoil sport the man would.be j 4 who should say that nobody should ' make ante-election estimates! Half 1 .1 the pleasure of the campaign would bo ! , gone If the respective experts were not Jj allowed to show how their parties were H bound to win. II m H British stockholders in the South Af- ' rlcan mines are complaining of their ! hard lot; they are obliged to pay a double tax on helr Incomes. Thus, a shareholder in tho diamond mines at i Kimborlv received recently a warrant j for a four per cent dividend; the local if Income tax of one shilling on the pound j) had been deducted, and he would have still to. pay the home income tax of the ; I ! Fame amount That is to say. he would ' k ! be taxed on the dividend two shillings I ' j In the pound. But what is the use of 1 t complaining about a thing like that? The tax is only tithing, and the man ( J ho is unwilling to pay tithing, es- , '! pecially ono on dividends from dia- j , monds, must be hard to sulL If; .' . The llare-up made by the Panamans ! rn account of their misapprehension of 1 ! the treaty with this country for the i t ! building of the canal, draws attention I ' anew to the impossibility of dealing on .!,' a reasonable basis with the excitable people of the Isthmus. It is also a dl- I i icct and anxious cloud upon the bulld- I Ing .of the canal itself. For if that i.J great enterprise, with the tremendous j i money value involved, is to be nagged j at every little while by a jealous and . half-demented lot of political flre-brands, flre-brands, then the situation would qulck- ''i ly become Intolerable. The only real ' solution of the question Is what was proposed some time ago by The Trl- t bune to take In the canal strip, or tho j . whole of Panama, and make It U. S. l territory. . j A good many figures have been given ; of the losses of- the Russians and the 1 I' Japanese respectively, at the battles V below Mukden. The latest figures show that the Russian loss was 14.000 killed L and -10.000 to 50,000 wounded, while the Japanese loss is given at but 15.000 In I jt all. This Is an enormous disparity, J F( but it must be recalled that the Rus- ! ; slans made the1 attack, and were badly ' routed at many places, suffering enormously enor-mously both in the advance and the J' retreat. But In the battle of Llao 1 ,lj Yang, the losses were more equal, the i Japanese making the attack, but ln- Mj! fllctlng severe loss on the Russians in t! ' their retreaL No doubt the losses all told, Including Port Arthur, will be j substantially even", and scores of thou-sands thou-sands will be the figure. All this be- Sj2 cau?e the Czar refused to keep his "'j word to get out of Manchuria, but on i 4 'I'll the contrary kept advancing all the jii time, and intriguing In Korea until I ,j) Japan could stand it no more, ii , It is apparent from all the reports I'ij on the subject, that Insanity is incrcas- , ing in the United States. Tills is often Hl 'l cited in proof of the claim that life 1 5 ' In this country Is growing too strenu- K.;1 ous; that the human muke-up Is not H) able to stand the pace. But that this j,' Is so, cannot be maintained as pecu- Hjj 1 liar to this country. Thus the increase ( f c't persons ccrllficd as Insane in Eng- ' land and Wales was 323o in 1003, the Hlj j total number at the close of that year y in those countries having been 117,109. j l The increase of tho year before was tj a little greater, 3251. A singular fea- j J ture of the returns was the enormous death rate of tho insane, 119 in the thousand for males, and 91.3 for fe- j males, while that (for the whole popu- 'A 1 latlon was 17.4 per thousand for males, Hj : j and 15.2 for females. The chief cause ',j of Insanity Is given as heredity, which 1 accounts for 1S.G per cent of the male B ,l and 24.4 per cent of the female cases. " Intemperance Is a close second, with H l 22.S per cent of the males and 9,5 per H !M cent of the females. Domestic troubles Hj I are charged with S.C per cent of the Hj female cases, and 3.8 per cent among B j the males, vhlle business and money fl 'i troubles arc almost exactly the rc- ij verse, being 5.7 per cent for the men ; I and 3.5 per cent for the women. Re- H if liglous excitement Is often claimed as H a great cause Of Insanity; but in I2ng- '1 land and "Wales but 1.2 per cent of the H , male and l.G per cent of tho female cases aro charged to that cause. Suicidal Sui-cidal tendencies are more common among women than among men, the ratio being 55.2 and 44.8 per cent respectively. |