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FIREWORKS AND PATRIOTISM.
Police Commissioner Gordon and members of the
city council have in view the enactment of an ordi
nance restricting the use -of firecrackers as a means
of celebrating a certain historical occasion of con
siderable moment and other, occasions of less im
portance. At the next meeting of the council, if the
city attorney finds time to prepare the measure, it
will be brought up for action, and doubtless passed.
If the council happens to enact this propased bill,
it will not have labored thus long in vain.
It is somewhat singular but nevertheless true,
that the ordinary man wants to make noise when he
feels good. The average drunkard, for instance,
wants to exercise his vocal organs in a vigorous man
ner, and if your candidate happens to be elected the
desire to shout comes over you, and you will seldom
be satisfied untiLthis desire has been appeased. The
conservative element smiles quietly at victory, but
the proposed ordinance is not intended for this class
of people. It aims to keep within proper bounds
the enthusiastic throng that lets its enthusiasm in
terfere with the rights and liberties of those whose
sentiment, while perhaps quite as deeply-rooted, does
not manifest itself so boisterously.
These vigorous celebrants of ours have operated
under the license which patriotism affords on most
occasions. 'On the Fourt hof July the man with a lik
ing for pistol practice may march up and down the
busy street with a revolver in each hand and to his
heart's content tear holes in the atmosphere. At
any other time of the year, except, perhaps, New
Year's mora, the police would swoop down upon him
and throw' him into jail. On the somewhat ridicu
lous hypothesis that he is showing his patriotism,
this man with the acute desire for use of firearms
is permitted to run at large, notwithstanding the fact
that he occasionally shoots out the eye of some near
and dear friend, or frieghtens a team of horses that,
dashing through crowded thoroughfares, runs down
and kills some hapless child.
A moment's reflection will probably convince most
right-minded people that a patriotic demonstration
ought not to convert this nation into a land of howl
ing lunities. Just because the Fourth of July rolls
around once a year it ought not of necessity follow
that the small boy shall be permitted to throw a
bursting firecracker into the face of some passerby,
or that the enthusiastic adult shall be licensed to ex
plode a bomb at the feet of some unthinking person
who has stopped on the corner to wait for his car.
Even on the glorious Fourth, when the eagle is
screaming and the lad of lads is devising ways and
means of acquiring a bountiful supply of gunpow
der tightly wrapped in paper, the well-balanced man
ought to be allowed to walk down the street with his
little girl without having to run the gauntlet of ex
ploding firecrackers hurled at his head by the en
thusiasts who have been carried away with the gen
eral lunacy of the occasion.
Now, we would not discourage patriotism, but did
you ever enjoy the delightful sensation of exploding
firecrackers in your coat pocket! Did the nape of
your neck ever provide the resistance necessary to
the explosion of a torpedo f Did some acquaintance
ever set off quite near to you a giant cracker or a
miniature cannon, injuring the drum of your ear
to such extent that you were unable to hear properly
for months! Was your little girl ever burned to
death as the result of a firecracker carelessly thrown
or was your son's eye put out or his hand blown off
on the nation's natal day! .
If anything of this sort has ever happened you,
or come under your observation, you may have some
little appreciation of the ridiculous extent to which
a patriotic demonstration may be, and usually is,
carried. In all reason, we submit that the occasion
does not warrant it. Patriotism, we agree, is a mighty
good thing;' but there is a place for lunatics. The
temporarily insane individual who promiscumisly
hurls his firecrackers at sane people V(;ry greatly re
sembles theowdy who throws water-soaked showballs
at everyone who chances to pass. "' ;
If the council can enact some measure which will
have a tendency to restrain such persons, it is to be
hoped the law will be provided without delay.
' JAPAN'S CHANCES ON LAND.
, The pro-Russian element'in the United States, con
fessedly discouraged because of the repeated defeats
which have been administered to the czar's, fleets by
the Japauese.Jias found consolation in the thought
that Russia would even matters when operations on
land were begun. It expresses confidence that the
Russian soldiers will annihilate the Japanese forces,
and readily figures that the advantage thus far
gained by Japan will be conveniently overthrown.
There is no theoretical occasion for a belief of this
kind. Modern, military exports calculate that one
20th century soldier, acting on the , defeusive, is
equal to five soldiers on the offensive. This compari
son of fighting strength is made with due regard for
the entrenchment of the soldier on the defensive. Be
hind his modern military breastworks he is able to
successfully contend against five adversaries. It was
different 50 or 100 years ago, when armies battled
man for man and the bravest and best fighters won.
Then numbers counted; now the offensive party hiu
all the worst of matters. ' 11
It will thus be seen that, if the Japanese are abh
to land 250,000 men in Corea a military accomplish
ment of comparative ease the services of more than
1,000,000 Russian soldiers will be" required to suc
cessfully oppose them. From what little we have
been able to observe of the Jap soldier, ho is quick
witted and brave. He is reared to die for his coun
try, and courts so glorious a death. He is, to be sure,
more or less, an unknown quantity, but there is no
reason to doubt that he will prove qujje as proficieut
on land as his brothers have at sea. .
With the 5-to-l advantage which modern warfare
affords him, the Japanese soldier ought to give a
very credititable account of himself in the land en
gagement to follow in the far east, and prove a very
formidable opponent for the valorious Russian soldiery.
A Desirable Hid Book on the WorU't
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perhaps the- best . Jivatl on the
Wwld fair at St. Loul I that pub
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road. In hd Illuminated. foMrr of elijhty-
four pug, setting forth th uttrno
tlonn of tho itrtt ftr In a moat ad
mirable and complete manner. It con
trtlns ipiiw nlxty-Muht view of butM
Ing. Imludlmt mnj of ft. liouln. tlii
original Louisiana I'lm-hase, and the
World' fair around. It I ft rrsumo
of whnt may be ! nt the cxpoNlllon,
gavlng Interesting d valuable Infor
mation In a way, that one who alarm
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don -With thre Huge iar.i. " "
arrived her from Newport Ihl morn
tag m badly battered condition U
tow' of tho navy tug rorta, Tbr I
connlderaWe mystery a to th her.
buU of tit target during tho win
ter month and their errlval tier to
tiny was wholly unexpected by th
yard oltVlrtl. They wore uwd In th
naval maneuver oft tho Main
laat aummer, and were, after Miif
badly damaged by tho bl un t th
. ..,,1111, Iron, ordered to
t., brmitiht to the lirooklyn navy yard
to rw-lvo repnli that would put them
In nood uondltloit again.
For some r.iiun then order were
not curried out. and th ordinance do
iwirtinent -XtV'er were conwjuenUy
down until he ha read ttentlr. AhUIa ,vwl,y nuK,n urj,rliieJ when th valu
hu tameta wore convoyed In thl
mnmlnif. They will bw repaired her
now and th part that were hot away
during practice will be replaced.
front It content. It artlatio appear
ance In the atandard colora of tho
"Royal Hlue and Sepia" make It a
thing to be dcalred. It may b had
free on application to any of the Haiti
more ft Ohio ticket agent a, or by ad
dressing H- N. AUHtln. general pwuwn
Ker ng.'nt, Chicago, or I. It. Martin,
manager passenger traffic, Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad. Baltimore,
Mytriou Target in Yard.
New- York, March 22. Tho ordl
nance department t the lirooklyn
navy yard la wondering what I to be
. Child Found Ded.
New York. Murcn It Frlond of
laaao Zarowlt. 5 year old. of HI
Madlon tmt. Manhattan, early UK
morning found him dead In th rear
f nn.l ndtolnhtt ' building. After
school hour ho had gone to play wtlh
hi coinimnton. Heart dlea t up
powd to have caused hi death.
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BLACKSMITH I NG.
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OABKIAtiE AND WAtiU.N lU'll.DlKU. FIK9TCLAKS II0IW
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Louulnu Ctitup Work,
All kinds of wagon niateriul in atock for Ie. We guaratittHi th lt
work doulu Hie city. Price right, ,--.
ANDREW ASP.
Corner Twelfth ami Dun Strwtn. 'Phono 201,
A corn-fed philosopher, who probably gets paid
for such work, figures out that com stands first on the
list of cereals. He reckons as follows: Where the corn
of seven corn states loaded on wagons, forty bushels
to the load, and placed so that the heads of the horses
would come just to. the rear endboard of the proced
ing wagon, and it were possible for this line of march
to cover the land and sea, an average year's crop
from these'seven corn-growing states would make a
complete belt of corn wagons six times around the
world. Place the crop of 1902 in cars holding 500
bushels each, and allow forty feet for car and coup
ling, and we would have a continuous freight train
38,378 miles long. After considering these figures
one really believes that, in the list of cereals, corn
stands first in point of acreage, yiell and value. 1
William R. Hearst now operates a daily paper in
"Boston, the Boston American and .New York Jour
rial, as the new paper is called. Mr. Hearst owns
seven daily newspapers the New York Morning
American, the New York Evening Journal, the Chi
cago Moraing American, the Chicago Evening Ex
aminer, the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Ange
les Examiner, and the Boston American. He is
about to launch a newspaper enterprise at St. Louis,
The number of soldiers engaged in the war of the
revolution was 184,08; in the war with France, 3,-
216; in the war of 1812, with Great Britain, 286,
730; in the Seminole war in Florida, 22,795; in the
Mexican war, 78,718; in the rebellion, 2,213,363; in
the Spanish war, 312,000; in the Philippines, 149,
438. '
William R. Grace, who is dead at New York at the
age of 72, was a multi-millionaire who turned his
riches to good account. His was a life of charity, and
for his kindly deeds his name will live. He was twice
mayor of the American metropolis, having been elect
ed in 1881 and 1886. i '
The coincidence is noted that the date selected for
holding the democratic national convention in St.
Louis, July 6, k also the date on which the 50th an
niversary of the birth of the republican party will
be celebrated in Jackson, Mich. .
The crew of the 12-inch gun on the battleship Wis
consin, at target practice in the Philippines, fired
10 shots in 10 minutes, hitting he target, 10x16 feet,
nine times at 2000 yards. It estbalishes another
world's record.
Those who regard Booker Washington as a noble
example of what an educated negro might be over
look the fact that Washington's mother was a mul-
latto a quarter-breed and that' his father was a
white man. -
The bear has a Rhort tail, buj it doesn't interfere
with his roaring when the appendage is twisted.
Man wants but little here below but he's mighty
fastidous about the qdality of it, usually. .
. ; ' ,
Buffalo Bill is up against the greatest adventure
of his career, ne is getting a divorce.
i
Vity the poor Russian baby who is named "Alex-,
ieff Knropatkfn Skybeloffskyvitch."
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