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Show .w.vmwi,wvrwWWWV I i,r is srettinjr scarce. Some skirmishes I il the northern district between General Kuroki's j .!! (Jeneral Kuropatkin's advance guards are re-i re-i parted. The latter, at least for the present, cannot I direct his attention to the relief of Port Arthur. ' ! - : I Health Commissioner Darlington, before the house committee, favored the retirement of paper : j money on sanitary principles. One greenback ex- I a mined by him contained 13r,000 bacteria. Cop- I per, nickel and silver coins he found to be immune j against diphtheria baccilli. This scientific diseov- fr should serve as a warning1 to misers not to hug 1 or embrace too closely old, worn out, dirty green- becks. I A rt incident from the war center in the far past is interesting. A Japanese officer, who was 1 captured and sentenced to death by Russian of- I iicials, wanted spiritual consolation before he died j He was a Catholic, and as there was no Catholic I'riost Present, lie called for a Russian priest, whoso absolution, under the circumstances, would bo j vali(- He confessed and was absolved. The Japs know the science of religion as well as the science I of war. : j Samuel Gompers, the great labor leader, makes j the following report, of his recent investigation in u"f ,.f our newfr-acquired possessions: "The wages j paid in Torto Rico are, on an average, 50 percent j less in many instances at present than under the I v' sPanihl regime. Having witnessed poverty, I misery and absence of the possibility of delicacies j among the members of a family, millions of men , j and women d.viug from starvation, and knowing j that there is a death rate' there of 450 to 500 a : month from starvation, I can say that the condi- 1 tions obtaining in Porto Rico reflects" no credit on I our country." . . VUnle the Russian and Japanese governments are at "outs" and measuring their power and strengih on land and sea, the Socialists of both nations want to live in peace and harmony. The bitter write a pastoral letter to the Russian Socialist, So-cialist, As published in the Vormaerts it reads: "Hear comrades, your government and ours have recently plunged into war to carry out their imperialistic im-perialistic tenancies, but for us Socialists there are no boundaries, race, country or nationality. We are comrades, brothers and sisters, and have no reason to tight. Your enemies are not the Japanese Jap-anese people, but our militarism and so-called patriotism. pa-triotism. Patriotism and militarism are our mutual mu-tual enemies. We are neither Nihilists nor terrorist, terror-ist, but Socialists, and fight for peace. We cannot foresee? which of the two countries will win, but the result of the war will be the same general poverty, new and heavy taxes, the undermining of ! morality and the extension of militarism.' Very true, Socialism, like all erroneous; isms, gives some plain truths. , ; The Vatican council, which -was opened Dec. S, ISC, and prorogued Oct. 20, 1S70, because of the Franco-Prussian war, and possession of the Papal states by Victor Emmanuel, may be soon reconvened. recon-vened. This item of news ,thc Roman correspond-I correspond-I cut of the' Tablet says, has the endorsement of "in- ' fluential churchmen in Rome." The most' import ant and far-reaching worTT of the Vatican' council was the definition of Papal infallibility. In England Eng-land the dog-ma caused a scare, Glandstone wrote his famous pamphlet in' which lie tried to prdvre that it was a menace to the kingdom. His life-long . friends, Cardinals Manning and Newman rep Their logical arguments brought peace to the disturbed dis-turbed soul of the Grand Old. Man, and there was no rejoinder. 1 : |