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4 THE OMAHA" DAILY 11: MONDAY. JULY 3. 1003, The Omaha Daily Bee E. ROBE WATER, EDITOR. rt'WLlSUKlJ EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BlTiSCRirTION: pally Re (without Bundav), one year. Isily Bee and 8undy, one year Illustrated Bee. (,n year Punrlsy Hee, one year Saturday Bee, one year Twentieth Century Karnier. on year.. DELIVERED liV CARRIER. Pally Re (without Punday), per copy lailv lira (without Sundavl. ner week 00 I .VI i ; l.UO .. 2c ..i:o Dally Bee (Including Funelav). per week. .17c Evening He (without flundav), per week. 7o Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week- lie Sunday Bee, er copy 60 Complaints of lrregulnrltles in delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICRS. Omaha The Re Building. South Omaha tit y Hall building. Twenty fifth and M streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chlcaaro 1M() Cnlty building . New York 16o9 Home L Home Life Insurance Dunning. Washington 501 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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SBO t SH.BIO XM.40O to an. i o U ao.aoo 12 an.tpto 11 ao.juu U ai,.vao li as,Ta IT S,TO II IMMIltf It 2M.8.10 20 30.M4) a 81.TOO a. a,oao JW.MO U SM.ftlU X 3M.7SO 26 SW.O-W 17 SO.lftO zs 20,110 29 SU.KBO to 83,K0 11 tu.uao i lt,4JW Total ; t17,oo Leva unsold copies IQ.tWtf Net total aales .. IM7.M4 Daliy average St,- C. C. KOSE WATER. Secretary. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before mo this. 31rt uay of May, 1M. ttfeaU M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Publlo. WUKN OlT OF TOWN. mbacrlbera learing- the city ten. porarlly ahoultl kv Tho Bee walled to tbeiu. It la better tliau a dally letter from borne. Ad dreae will bo eaaaaed as often as renovated. , The next time Dr. Teal runs for the school board lie will luive the young iniUTlt'd women to reckon with. Fortunately for the success of Count Tolstoi's latent novel, the writer is lot expected to take bis heroes froia luiL tary life. The sultan of Turkey must be recog nized as a royal humorist since be con ferred upon Senator tfaeon the order of Che Tat. A Husslau olilcer who killed a soldier was burned . to . Sqflth by u, mob tit Kursk. Tbu-.Jlmeiiuui Idea" seems to be spreading. The toy pistol and cannon cracker wllr now proceed to demonstrate the ad vancement of antiseptic surgery la the last twelve months. If these peace commissioners do not start work soon the Russian delegates may face the danger of representing a government out of business. The United States' treasury deficit is not causing as much fear as it would have done had a democratic president been at the head of the government. The man who has found that radium will cure hydrophobia should discover a remedy for disease produced by radium before advertising his new method. With all of their criticism those who desire to Improve the condition of the Congo Free state must admit that King Leopold is governing that country as well as he did his family. Consumers of meat will look with lit tle pleasure upon any prosecution which will result in a fine being Imposed upon the packers. The opportunity for vlca rloua retaliation is too apparent. That United States gunboat protect ing a customs bouse la Han Domingo Is evidence that America's Insular prob lems are but waiting for Japan und Russia to retire from the lime light Now If Judge Munger Bhould betake himself to the Yellowstone park, Atlantic City or Alaska, bow could those railroad attorneys secure injunctions to prevent the collection of taxes from the over taxed clieuts? Tom Lawson's alleged fear that he will be kidnaped by the Standard Oil company is amusing, from the fact that the company has never been known to take bold of anything it couldn't make money out of. Bel lk-one Swedes say King Oscar must tight to bold Norway or lose Swo- den. In seeking another Gustavus Adolphus these warllkeScandlnaviaua may find another Charles XII. wbo ouce marched to Norway. It is to be hoped that Mr. Her will revise his plans for bis palatial hotel and cut it down to ten stories lu the air and extend it two more stories 011 the ground. Omaha's aspirations do not reach above tu stories. Inasmuch as the republican stato convention 1ms been called for a date prior to which no primary can be held in Douglas county under the new pri ruary election law, the republican couuty committee will have to devise some other way for the selection of 'delegates to Uie state convention, , 1XDICTMKXT OF THE FACKKBS The indictment by the feilornl grand Jury at Chicago of a nnniU-r of persona connected with the meat packing Indus try was not unexpected. It was under stood that when the charges were pre sented by the government alleging vio lation of the antitrust law by the puck ers that the federal authorities, who for aoine time before had lieeu prosecuting a careful Investigation, had ample evi dence to Justify Indictments and since then they have undoubtedly secured ad ditional information. Some of them are also charged with illegal rebating t the railroads. The proceedings against the packers will of course be prolonged, since they will of course avnll tiiei,,seivon of all Uie means at their command In fight ing the government, but the public will see lu what has been done a Arm de termination on the part of the federal authorities to enforce the law. There has been shown recently In some quar ters a disposition to doubt whether President Roosevelt seriously Intended to fulfill the promise he had given to the country to bring to an accountability those wbo were charged with violating the laws. He has been' subjected to more or less criticism because there seemed to be a halt In the investigation of corporations believed to have violated the laws. The indictment of the pack ers ought to go a very long way toward correcting this view. It conclusively shows that the administration is still profoundly earnest In Its determination to arrange and If possible punish who ever is charged with unlawful conduct or practices. All such cannot be reached In a day, but the people can feel assured that all the machinery provided for the purpose of ascertaining who are offend ers against the law Is In full operation. The charges against the packers are of a nature which, if sustained, as there is reason to believe they will be, may send some of them to prison. THE JAPAMSE DKMAXDS. There are two political parties In Japan which are making themselves heard in connection with the question of making peace with Russia and it Is an Interesting fact that whatever may be their disagreements Jn regard to general policies they are practically agreed as to the terms which the government should Insist upon In making peace. Thus the constitutionalist party urges that In the interest of permanent se curity there must be a cession of terri tory and the repayment of the outlays caused by the war, as well as a definite settlement of the Corean and Manchu rian question. This is approved by the progressive party, which proposes in ad dition that Russia shall be forbidden to raise works for warlike use in localities where Japan's interests might be men aced and also that Russia be compelled to relinquish the privileges she has en- oyed in Manchuria, refrain from future Interference with the Manchurlan ques tion and pledge herself to undertake 110 measure deemed to be menacing peace or to the frontiers of China. It Is an easy Inference from these statements of the views of the two parties what will be the nature of the terms which Japan will projfose when the peace negotiations are entered upon. Just what cessions of territory the Jap anese government may ask can only be conjectured, but undoubtedly there will be something demanded In this direction and it is obviously essential to tho se curity for which that power went to war. The more Important considera tion, however, and the one as to which the Russian government is likely to make the most strenuous objectlou, is the demand for the repayment of the outlays caused by the war. Russia may be found quite willing to give up such territory aB Japan shall a:k, but when It comes to binding herself to repay to Japan the cost of the war, amounting to perhaps not less than a thousand million dollars, there is to be expected a firm refusal to accede to so hard a condition. Not only would this imposo upon the Russian government a ueavy b'irden, necessitating an increase lu taxation which would bear most severely upon the already over-taxed pooplo, but it would also be a source of almost intol erable humiliation. It is dlileuit to con ceive of anything that could be more crushing to Russian pride, as the icn- alty of defeat, than to be compelled to repay to the victor regarded at the out- Bet of the war as In all respects inferior the cost of the conflict. That such a demand would be en tirely Justifiable Is unquestionable, yet it Is the one thing that is likely to prove an insurmountable obstacle to tho suc cess of peace negotiations, assuming, as It is reasonable to do, that the Japanese government will follow the counsel of the parties which have ulready urged their views upon it How powerful or influential these parties in we are un able to say, but that they carry great weight with the government ns repre senting the popular opinion and will is not to be doubted. The report from fit. Petersburg regarding the poaltlon of the Russian government indicate the prob ability of radical dlaag'-cement, but this may be largely surmlso. Indeed the statement that Russia will refuse to pay any indemnity seems lmirobnM. Mean while the outlook for an early peace dofs not appear to be ns favorable as could be wished. Tbe Union Pacific, through John N. Baldwin and bis able assistants, has offered to pay a fraction less than $1,01)0 Into the city treasury to pay off a. tax levy of over $tl,000. Suppose all the other property owners and taxpayers should do the same thing. 'What would become of the municipal government? How could Omaha maintain its police uud fire department and Its public works. Kx-roKtmaster Joseph Crowe baa planted himself bodily across the right- of-way of the Great Northern-Ashland cut off extension, which, be claims, will prevent hlui from coiutructlng bis inter- urbaa Eioux City, Hosier and Omaha trolley line. Although Mr. Crowe Is not known to be possessed of sufficient capi tal to build and equip any considerable mileage of trolley line, his intervention nmy temporarily obstruct the Ashland cut off. There la danger, however, that Mr. Jim Hill's right-of-way man may be able to persuade Mr. Joe Crowe to come off before a collision. A KBRASKA S OltAlX EXPORT The statistics of Nebraska's expoii grain crop, Just published by the State IMireaii of l.altor. are suggestive, al though by no means anywhere near ac curate. According to the detailed ex hibit of the grain crop by counties, Ne braska's export of all varieties of grain for 11)04 aggregated in the neighborhood of 7.M00,RJ0 bushels, or 2,HK.,(XK) tons. Estimating the net value of all varieties of grain at 45 cents per bushel, the ag gregate value of Nebraska's grain export would be $32,850,000 on the farm. Com puting Uie transportation rates to one of the Missouri river grain markets at an average of 15 cents per bushel, the In come of tho railroads for hauling the grain to the Missouri river would ap proximate $11,000,000. Uufortunutely the labor bureau has failed to Include with this exhibit the amount of grain consumed in Nebraska or fed to live stock and converted into beef, pork or mutton, which certainly must have been in volume three times as great as the grain exported. The lowest estimute of Nebraska's corn crop lu 104 exceeded 200,000,000 bushels, the wheat crop did not fall be low 25,000,000 bushels, while the other small grain must have reached at least 15,000,000 bushels, or, all lu all. 240,000,- 000 bushels, which would be nearly three and a half times as much as the quantity of grain credited as export by the State Labor Bureau. ' It is almost Incredible to assume that the home con sumption of grain raised In Nebraska was 107,000,000 bushels, while the ex port was 73,000,000. Assuming that the home consumption, or rather the grain milled for the use of the farmer and the population of vil lages and towns In Nebraska, was equal to 07,000,000 bushels, there still would remain 100,000,000 bushels to be fed to the live stock and the price of live stock marketed would have to be equal to the cost of the grain, or $45,000,000, if it averaged 43 cents all round. Thnt Is hardly probable, however. Resides, It does not include the hay, alfalfa and grasses fed to the cattle. The truth of the matter Is that the statistics period ically published are in the main not much better than guess work. Assistant City Attorney Herdman sug gests that the city should do its own lighting. That suggestion reminds us of the fellow who locked the stable door after the horse was stolen. The oppor tunity for municipal lighting presented itself last fall when the proposition was up for voting bonds, the proceeds of which were to be expended for the erec tion of an electric light plant but the people .of Omaha allowed themselves to be bamboozled by demagogues and bought off with electric light boodle. As a natural sequence the electric light con tract was extended for five years. A South Omaha mechanical genius claims to have perfected a device that will make sure to stop rear end railroad train collisions. If be will now add to it a device to close open switches to whirlwind and thunderbolt trains bis fortune is made. A Necessary Evil. Baltimore American. Of course, . there are reports of trouble at Panama. That canal never did pro gress toward digging without a great scattering of mud. Where Trouble Camp. Philadelphia Press. If there Is any sort of trouble known to man. since the days of Job, that has not struck Russia within the past twelve months the czar would be mightily com forted to learn of It. A Part of tbe Game. Philadelphia Ledger. The cotton gamblers are much disturbed that there should be any leak In the gov ernment cotton reports. The rest of the world la not concerned, except for the morals of the government employe who sella the figures to one set of gamblers who get the better of another set. Bare Slcna of Prosperity. San Francisco Chronicle, The Increased earnings of corporations during the fiscal year Just ended show that it has been one of great prosperity, The Indications are that the record made In 190-4-06 will be beaten this year, as things are humming In every line of Industry throughout the whole land. Ghastly Kplsode In Black (lea. Bprlngrleld Republican. The mutiny of the crew of a Russian battleship In the Black sea, accompanied by the murder of all the officers, adds to the ghastly episodes which make current Russian history so lurid. There have been mutinies In other fleets. A very notable one took place In the British navy Itself somewhat more than a century ago. But this one In the Black sea seems like the piling up of horrors. If the same mutinous aplrltand this la what every one will bear In mind should enter the Russian army what then? Thus far the army has seemed always under complete control. Tall Slarns of Prosperity. Springfield Republican. That material prosperity which Is lifting American travel abroad to unprecedented volume la alx reflected In the counter wave of Immigration. This fiscal year Is ap parently to see all records broken as to number of Immigrant arrivals. Singe June 1 the Inrush at New York has exceeded 72,000 persons, and the remaining days will carry It above S4.CX), to be compared with 61,730 In the month last year. Total im migration Into the I'nlted States this fiscal year will pass the 1.0i0,OiQ mark. The highest previous record was made In 1903, when the arrivals numbered 57,046. Suortra tho Glory. St. Louis Republic. A good many people with more nerves than patriotism wish that the Fourth of July was December 21. The day wouldn' seem to long to any of us If common sense were lven a little more beed In the cele bratlon. There is absolutely no reason why people Should lose their heads on the fourth yet a great nutny do, and their eyes, teetu and hair. It Is te bs bopsd this year that fewer deaths and malmlnKS will be counted at the end of the day. Let the police pay more attention to the rowdies and the parents pay more atten tion to the children, and we'll hnve a really glorious fourth. Com prom lee t at Unt. Baltimore American. The definition of a Pharisee, as made by President Hadley of Yale, la one which must cause a Itreat many people to tako thought. He Inys down the a-cneral propo sition that the man who makes his own prosperity the aim of his work la a Phari see, and that only the man who sacrifices himself for the betterment of his follows la a Christian. It will be observed that he completely sweeps away the compromises by which It haS often been assumed that a man may be a very good Christian and yet keep up S keen and strenuous hunt after the ends of his own personal ambition. PERSON Al XOTES. New York still hag a monopoly of those enthusiastic cltliens who Jump through car windows In order to get first choice of seats. i Ada Rehnn, the American actress, Is quite III in Ixtndon. Bhe has been com pelled to abandon her trip to the north coast of Ireland, where she has a cottage. An Englishman says that the people of the United States are nerve-racked, bald headed, gray-headed, catarrhal people. who do not know how to live. As the Kng- sh are disposed to tell the truth about s they cannot be our friends. Cy Perkins, the New Hampshire million aire who died the other day," never drove nythlng swifter than a pair of steers. People who have attended the New Eng land resorts as paying guests will wonder how In time Cy ever got a million out of those people. Charles M. Crandall, who Invented the pigs In clover" puzzle, nearly twenty ears ago, Is dead at Waverly, N. T. He in- ented several other toys, but the one named waa his greatest success. This puzzle became popular all over the country. , If wna tulfon Mn In' evprvnnnv. even In- I adlng the senate chamber at Washington. Senator Evarts became so fascinated with It that he took the elusive "pigs" and pen'' to the session one morning and soon had a half dozen senators trying their skill in a committee room. It waa probably the greatest selling puzzle ever produced. Crandall made a fortune In the business, but died comparatively poor. THE REAL FOl'RTH OP JIXY. Historic Episode Attending; the Birth of the Hepubllc. Harper's Magazine. On July 3. 1776. John Adams, then one of the representatives of Massachusetts In the Continental congress, wroto to his wife Abigail: "Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated In Amer ica, und a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among men." In a second letter, written the Bame day, he said: 'But the day Is past. The 2d of July TfclU be the most memorable epoch In the history of America, 1 am apt to believe that It wli be celebrated by suc ceeding generations as the great anniver sary festival. It ought to be commemor ated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells. bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, for evermore." When the resolution was taken up on the 2d, all the states, except New York, voted to ac cept it. Thus, on the 2d day of July, 1776, the Independence of the Thirteen United Colonies from the throne of Great Britain waa definitely decided upon. The 2d, and not the 4th,. may be called tha. true date of the separation. We could with propriety celebrate the "Fourth" two days earlier. That the participants In the work considered the 2d as the true date Is shown by the letters written by John Adams, quoted at the beginning of 'this article. The popular fancy, however, seized upon the Tth, the date of acceptance of JefTer son's more dramatic declaration of the rea sons for the separation, as the proper day to celebrate. The debate upon the docu ment was continued until the afternoon of the 4th, and, says Jefferson, might have run on Interminably at any other season of the year. But the weather waa oppres sively warm, and the hall in which tho deputies sat was close to a stable, "whence the hungry files swarmed thick and fierce, alighting on the legs of the delegates and biting hard through their thin silk stock ings. Treason was preferable to discom fort," and at last the delegates were brought to such a state of mind as 4o agree to the declaration without further amend ment. It Is a mistake to suppose that the document was signed by the delegates on that day. It la Improbable that any sign ing was done save by John Hancock, the president of the congress, and Charles Thomson, the secretary. THE EASY DOLLAR. Leads Ambitions Away from Scholar ship and tha Professions. Wall Street Journal. It la a sign of promise that some of our great lawyers, turning from the worship of the golden calf the "golden calf" In this age being the corporation are re suming their highest function, that of teaching the people not only what Is law, but what are the ethical principles under lying human affairs. The other day the Wall 6treet Journal welcomed as a new recruit In the ranks of corporation reform the well known cor poration lawyer, Mr. Vntermyer. James B. Dill Is not a new recruit, although Ills distinction as a lawyer rents chiefly upon his skill In the Incorporation of companies, yet he has for a number of years been ad vocating laws for the stricter regulation of corporations both in their promotion and operation. Mr. Dill's address before Oberlln college Is especially timely and it is an example. of the kind of public work which our lawyers may perform. There Is one paragraph in his address which seems to us particularly appropriate Just now. In this, he declures that not one- fifth of the young men and women whom he was addressing were meant to bo rich. They were meant perhaps to lie able phy sicians or lawyers or preachers or teach ers or painters, but while they might be successful lu these various professions they were not Intended, certainly most of them, to be rich. Yet when they go out into the world probably four-fifths of them will be tempted to seek wealth, to Join "In the chase for the easily acquired dollar" rather than to attain the limits of their capacity In the avocations for which they were by nature Intendtd. The great rewards of this generation and country lie in the field of money making. The result Is that business, with Its pos sibilities of Immense wealth and great in comes, with all the luxury and power be longing to wealth. Is alluring the vigorous and ambitious away from scholarship and the professions. A new standard has been created In this country, a standard of money so that a man is no longer Judged by what he may be In Intellect or char acter or scholarship, but more by the In come which he enjoys. There are Indeed a few notable exceptions to this rule, but these exceptions only prove the rule. It Is a good thing, therefore, that some of our leading thinkers, aroused to the danger of this condition, are beginning to lift their voices to call back the people from their mad chase after what Mr, pill aptly calls the "easy dollar." miv vt xr.n bi.k poiit. Odessa a City of Modern Ideas and Modern Development. Conditions are much more favorable at Odessa than many other cities In Russia for transforming a riot Into a rebellion, Odessa Is the most remarkable modern city In Russia. It Is aKRressivc and progressive. Rebellion may be crushed fur the time and revolution postponed, but the recent his tory of Odessa Is an object lesson, illus trating the central fact of Russian life, the fact that the growth of the country during the last twenty-flve years has not been paralleled In modern history, except by tho growth of the Vnlted States since the civil war. This Is a result of the modern movement all over the world, gaining headway lit Russia, in spite of Its antiquated and bar baric government. As a focus of the mod ern movement Odessa Is naturally one of the points of greatest strain against the system the czar Is attempting to sustain by resorting to coercion, which grows more and more stringent as the pressure against it grows stronger. What tho lakes have made Chlcneo In the last half century, says the St. Louis Qlobe Democrat, the Black sea has made Odessa during the same period, and by a develop ment almost as rapid. It is lust raaaln into the second century of its existence, and during thlr century It has been doub ling Rnd redoubling Its population, at a rate not equaled elsewhere beyond the bound. aries of the Vnlted States. It was nothing but a fort when Russia took It from Tur key, a little over a century ago. It Is now a great modern city, the most thoroughly modern In Russia, with a famous unlver.. ity, a library of over 150.000 volumes tech. nical schools, an Institute of bacteriology, electric street railroads and lighting plant, a system of parks and public grounds, a growing output of manufactures and the virtual control of the grain trade of all southern Russia, which makes it the great est grain exporting port of the empire and PUtS it above St. fef.rK,, .1.. M cUy of RuRsla - I . . ... ... pie in 1877. MMO In 1R97 and its estimated population In 19o3 is over 600,0m. The composite nature' of this vmniniinn illustrates the general proposition that, no matter how it mav i r... 1 breaking loose" in Russia from its rr'eent condition Is a matter of certalntv rti.rino- the present generation. Although the popu lation or the country to the north and the northeast Is largely Russian and ivnn Russian apathy, Poland and the great body of what was once Polish territory lies to mo nonnwest. In reach of the draught of its railroads. These railroads and the Im mense Increase In the activity of the Black aea trade have given It a population al most as varied as that of Chlcmrr, n, at Louis. Under Its present conditions only a little over half its population Is Russian For every eighteen Russians amon Its people there are eleven Jews, while Ger mans, Frenchmen, Polos, Greeks and others roreign to Russia, either by birth or sym pathy, make a total of something over 12 per cent of the whole. While the energies of the Russian gov ernment have been used In efforts to force the growth of the empire eastward Into Siberia and toward the Pacific coast, its natural development toward the south has Deen out of all proportion to the forced development Into Asia. The grain trade of southern Russia has grown with a cor responding development both of railroads and of the roast, and general trade of the Black sea. That sea, of which cablegrams lane note usually only as the location for one of Russia's fleets of men-of-war, now nas Z,lff7 sailing vessels and nearly 2,000 steam vessels reported annually by Odessa aa. Its coast trade fleet in the Black sea. Though these figures may be based on the number of cargoes loaded In the last year reported, rather than on the actual number of vessels making up the Odessa fleet in the wasting trade, they still show a coast trade comparable In Its activity to that of our own lake ports. In Its eeneral trade with Europe and Asia, through the Medit erranean and the Sues canal, Odessa re ports 1,200 steamers and seventy sailing vessels. These figures suggest the movement of population, which makes It one of the points of greatest strain when Russia Is attempting to coerce the modern commer cial movement Into Its middle-age Btralt Jacket. Another Important Item In that connection Is the great recent growth of the city as a manufacturing center. It Is still a commercial rather than a manufac turing town, but In Its sugar and oil re fineries. Iron wprks. Jute works and other factories, it employs over 12,000 factory workers, many of them foreigners, whose skill In such employments made them sought after by Russian- capitalists, with out regrrd to the fact that their coming brought with them the same spirit which prevails among the factory workers of Ger many, France and England. The valleys of the Dnieper, the Dnelster and the Don belong to the trade territory of Odessa as a Russian city, and as a commercial city, regardless of political boundaries, It has the mouth of the Danube In easy reach. Its rivers. Its railroads and the general lay of the land make It the natural port of a greater part of what was once Poland, where discontent with Russia as It Is represented at St. Peters burg Is stronger than It is elsewhere ex cept among Russian Jews, for whom also Odessa is the Russian metropolis. If the czar's policy of merely talking reform while he Is actually Increasing coercion results In a flnal revolution, free ing the most progressive part of Russia from Its present restrictions, the "split" would probably make Odessa the capital of a southern Russian empire extending from the Black sea to the head waiters of the Dnelper. Such a division seems to be the alterna tive of a general revolution In the next decade If the strfngent restriction the St. Petersburg bureaus put on the progressive spirit of ' Russia are not relaxed. The area of the "black earth district" of south ern Russia Is estimated at 867,000 square miles of land, said to be the most fertllo In Europe, and the southern "steppes" are developing a cattle Industry comparable to that of the American west. This de velopment, accompanied by thf great de velopment of Russian railroads o the south as feeders of the Black sea trade, make the territory for which the Black sea Is the outlet the Tnost Important In the fu ture of Russian politics. It Is here that the greatest strain Is always likely to be developed by Russian reactionary policies. Because Its Impulses of growth are stronger than they are elsewhere In Russia, what may be a riot In Moscow, Warsaw or St. Petersburg may develop Odessa Into what will be successful revolution when Russian despotism has reached Its final climax. Test of Western Patriotism. Chicago Chronicle. Patriotism Is strongest In the middle and western states, according to a naval officer who bases his conclusion on the fact that those states furnish the largest propor. tlon of recruits ror the navy. Tha con clusion Is flattering, but It Is in the nature of a non-sequitur. Love of adventure and excitement Is a motive wh'.ch is probably a good deal more powerful tliun patriotism In causing young men to enlist. The test of patriotism does not apply, with tnucA (ores la thus ox per.c. Baking" Powder A perfectly healthful powder made by improved chemical methods and of accu rately proportioned materials. THE It AII.HO ADS AXP THE PF.OPI.E Custer County Republican: Judging from the proceedings of the state board In the railroad assessment matter, some of the board are Influenced more from local Interests than from the general Inter est of the public. Tills -sjhould not be A man's location should not influence his judgment on the valuation of property. York Democrat: United ' States Judge McPherson has granted a temporary In junction restraining the state of Missouri from enforcing Its lately enacted maximum freight rate bill on the ground that It is confiscatory. Thus it is we have govern ment by courts. One little Judge sitting on the bench knows better what Is reasonable and Just than the assembled representatives of a sovereign state and with the stroke of a pen brings tho work of months to naught. Beatrice Sun: Mr. Rosewater has closed a series of Interesting articles upon "The Railroads and the People," and a perusal of them shows that The Bee editor has the correct solution of the problem. It Is sense less to assert that the railroads may not le governed by the same laws that apply to private Individuals. While the railroads are a necessity for the people, the people aro something of a necessity to the railroads. There Is certainly a necessity for both. The people have lived and can live without the railroads. The railroads cannot exist with out the people. A "square deal" is all that Is demanded. Central City Nonpareil: The Nonpareil Is receiving a dose of anti-railway regulation argument every twenty-four hours from Messrs. Rathom and Crawford of Omaha. Who theso gentlemen are we have no means of knowing, but that they are tremen dously Interested In preventing tho dear railroads from being subjected to some wholesome regulation is obvious from the 'expense" to which they are putting them selves In supplying us with this literature. If they can offer no better reasons against government supervision than they have ad vanced so far they would Just as well save their breath, for ths "treatment" has so far failed to "take." Columbus Journal: What we need In Nebraska Is not sentiment against rail roads, nor sentiment for them, but a dei termlned demand for equality and Justice before the law. When the law says "tax property at its full value" the public should demand the application of that law to all the property whether It belongs to a railroad or an Individual. And both the railroad and the individual should be stopped from setting up as an excuse for their own lawlessness the lawlessness of another. A good way to begin getting at the tax-dodging rallsoads Is to begin get ting at our tax-dodging neighbors. Re form, like charity, should begin at home. Beatrice Sun: There Is no person that wants the railroads to pay more than a fair share of the tax burden. This they should be willing to do. The private in dividual has to leave the matter of val uation to the assessor. He is permitted to make his showing and the assessor and board of equalization fixes the value. The railroads are given the same show. They resent all sort, of arguments and sta v.stlca to show what their property is worth, and should then be willing to abide the decision of the board without trying to unduly Influence the members. When the corporations submit to the same laws which govern Individuals and give cheerful compliance to the same there will be a better feeling between the people and the corporations. SAFE AND SA.NE DAY. Move to Make Tomorrow's Celebra tion Leas Explosive. Indianapolis News. The press of the country seems even more generally and strongly than usual to urge that we have a "safe and sane" Fourth this year. Many cities, like Chi cago, have undertaken special care In the way of laws and In announced determina tion to enforce them. The noise making- It Is a misnomer to call It "celebration" will be confined strictly to the Fourth and will not be allowed to Include the third and the fifth. It will also on the Fourth be confined to small and harmless explosives, the toy pistol, the blank cartridge firearm. the bombcracker and all preparations of dynamite being rigidly excluded. Last year the day was not so marked by fatalities Sixty years of experience with Ayer's Sarsa parilla! Think of that! Think of the millions of people who have been cured by this medicine! If despondent, down-hearted, discouraged, and almost ready to give up, this splendid old family medicine will prove the silver lining to. your dark and dismal cloud. Ask your doctor. M4 br tfe ?- Ay' C:t teOwU( Mm. AiM sMBsilMturftr of ITIR'I UlIK YIU'-JM- VUr tnt Mil. Trust Baking Powders sell for 43 of SO cents per pound and may be iden tified by this exorbitant price. They are a menace to publio health, aa food prepared from them con tains largo quantities of Rochelle a dangerous cathartic drug. as the year before, although the dlfferenca wos not great. In 1003 the records, as afterward compiled, showed that fifty-two lives were lost and 3.6-i people Injured, and the records doubtless were not com plete. This ghastly total had a great Influence both on legislatures and city councils, cnuslng lows to be passed against the usj of dangerous things. But the Improvement In the following year was not great. Thers seems to be n soberer sense this year and It will be encouraging Indeed If the event prove It. "Making a Joyful noise unto ths Ixrd." as the Boston Herald observes, does not Imply the use of llf-destroylng meth ods. It Is a clear survival of barbarism that cannot "celebrate" without tho use of such methods, and not a very advanced sense that must make a Doise to express its feelings. But discounting this and con ceding that noise Is to a degree necessary to the "children of an older growth," ws certainly should have sense of responsibility enough and mercy enough for the young children to confine the noise making within reason and In any event .to make it by something else than means that risk life. PASHIXG PLEASANTRIES. "Is there much profit In raising beef?" said the farmer. "Not as much as there Is In raisins; prices." answered the trust magnate. Washington Star. "Why did she refuse him?" "She thought she could do better." "How strange! Olrls seldom think that until after the ceremony." Town Topics. "Arid you never saw any sea serpents?" "No; there was a hlg party of us and on barrel didn't go far." Atlanta Constitution. "Say," demanded the lazy grasshopper, "why don't you take things easy? Why do you work so hard?" "Because I like It," replied the busy hen. "You must have observed that usually when I'm at work I'm in clover. Phila delphia Press. "Will It he possible for Wodlelgh to re cover from that railroad accident?" "Well, the doctors say no, but the lawyers say yes." Milwaukee Sentinel. Teacher Now, Johnny, what Is the per fect tense of the verb "to Invest?" Johnny To Investigate. New York Sun. Mother I'm glad you're playing with good little boys now. Tommy Yes m; they ain't like the other kind. I kin lick any one o' dose kids if I wanter. Philadelphia Ledger. Dlngiiss What's that string tied around your finger for? Shadbolt I am glad you called my atten tion to it. I put it there to remind me. if I saw you, to mention the fact that vou haven't paid thut last $10 you borrowed of me. Chicago Tribune. Goodman Oonrong (reading scrap of news paper) Here's a feller advertlsln' twenty year old whisky fur sale. Tuffold Knutt (in a husky voice) Ther hain't no twenty-year old whisky. No buddy could stand the temptation o havla It around 'lm that long. Chicago Tribune. A POEM AND A WARNING. John Kendrlck Bangs In Harper's Weekly. Spread you bunting, hang your wreath" Let your banners be unfurled. Shout until the welkin seethes All about the deafened world. Get vour old-time speeches out, Cheer until you split the skies. But be careful, while you spout, Of your eyes. Drag the ancient cannon forth. Load it to the muzzle s brim; Let the east, south, west and north Echo with Its bllm-blam-bllm! Let the crackers hiss and spit. Rocket-sticks come down kerplunk. But bo careful how you Bit On the punk. Let the Roman candles flare All the darkened heavens through! Let the mortars fill tha air Full of stars red, white and blue. Let the fluent red lights flow. Dimming both the moon and sun. But be careful how you blow Down your gun! Roar, rejoice and speechify! Go through all the bag of tricks With which now we glorify Heroes of old Seventy-six! But no matter what your glee 'Mid the roar of bursting bombs Careful, O most careful bo Of your thumbs! Liberty a blessing Is Worthy to be glorified: i Worthy of the fiery whiz Of a nation full of pride; But it seems a bauble vain, Ktnptv, usless thing of chanra, . When there follows In Its train An ambulance! xdk 9 riHrn wumiym iv-ss. 11