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Tim 0MAI1A DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. IPO?. The Omaha Daily. Del FOUNDRD BT EDWARD P.OSEWATEFl VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. tlntered al Omaha postofflce as second class matter. terms or rubct?iption: ' Pal F (without Hindjiy. en year. "0 Dady Bee and Bundsy, on war .W DKTUVKRKP BT CARRIER: PallT B (Including Sunday), per wek..ise ; Dally Be (without Sunday, per wwk...l' Evening Be witaou fiundayi. P" wek So ! Evening Bee twlth Sunday), per weak... 19c , Sunday Ben. ona year f-aturday Be, one year i'",1. Address all romplalnt of Irregularities In dellvary to Clly Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha The Be Bul!dtn. Pouth Omaha Twenty-fourth ana N. Council Bluff) Scott Street. Chicago U4S Marnu-tte Building. New York-Rooms 1101-1102. No. SI W est Thirty-third f-treot. , Wash.ngton-73 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. , Communications relating to news an ft editorial matter should b addressed: Omaha B, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. ' Remit hy draft, sxproas or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Onlv 2-eent stamps received In payment or mall account. Personal checks, except rn Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State, of Nebraska, Douglaa County. .! George B Tssobuok. treaauror of The Be Publishing company, being duly eworn. ays that the actual number of full and complete coplea of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed durlna the month of August. 1908. was as follows: 1... I... I... 4... se,iM as.eao 83.860 SSK 17... 19... 38,460 36,110 36.070 SS.SS0 JO. I 3S.7M t t.... 38,790 f 83,900 I 36,470 9., 83.T06 10 , ., 943 II 9)6,410 It M.010 It 1B.M0 14 S6T70 16 36,370 tl 88,860 ti.., 86,070 23 35,400 14 38,80 ti 30,940 28 .16,140 JT 38,010 2g 36,690 29 36,450 SO... 38,800 II 38,180 1 35,000 Total ....1,117.000 Less unsold and returned copies. . 11.646 Net total 1,108,484 Dally average 85,689 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of September. 1409. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public. WHE.V OtJT OP TOWN. becrlbera leaving tk city tern porarily shoald hay Tna Be mailed to them.. Address yvlll be chanaed aa of tea as requested. All ball to Ak-Sar-Den. It is always hazy weather about the opening of the, college season. The creditors of the tobasco sauce king are making it hot for him. The east still exhibits Its curiosity by turning out to see the human phon ograph. The man who is anxious to make his money fly can do so by experimenting with aeroplanes. Mr. Bryan admits that he Is worth llbO.OOO and he made It running for president. "Divorce is a burning question," eays Bishop Greer of New York. Yes, and It should be extinguished. Recent photographs make Mr. Bryan look like McKlnley. The resemblance ends there, a purely surface indication. Mr. Bryan Is said to be very fond of rnuslc.but h will have to drop "My Maryland" from his repertory this year. Democrats can hardly look for any cooler "weather until Hearst, Debs and Tom Watson withdraw from the cam paign. "Mr. Bryan does not patronize a garage," says an exchange. Certainly not. He patronizes a livery stable for hobbles. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has at tained bis majority. Someone should tell him that if he doesn't register he can't' vote. A Baltimore paper calls attention to the fact that the lady on the $20 coins wears s sheath gown. More hearsay testimony. A disiiatch from Fall River predicts a record-breaking output of yarn this 6800. . Naturally, as it Is a presi dential year. Mrv Bryan should not be blamed for getting a little peevloh. He always feels that way when not allowed to do all the talking. California fruit growers have de clared for Mr. Taft. Mr. Bryan will have to know them by their fruits, not by their votes. Mr. Wu Ting-fang says the secret of longevity lies In knowing what to eat. In Mr. WuV case the chief article of diet is Interrogation points. President Roosevelt has made hia political will and cut off the Nebraska heir presumptive with nothing but the memory of his misspent political youth. An experimental station reports that hogs wiU. not eat same of the new fangled foods prepared for them. It s a wise hog that knows its own fodder. Mr. Bryan proposes to give his trick mule ttj the county showing the great est, Increase In democratic votes. Many democrats would take pleasure in vot ing for the mule. Democrats and populists are finding considerable difficulty in digesting their legislative fusion In Nebraska, proving again that "the people rule" under U4 Bryanita program. lanaiaat nern is to mate a Burn er of speeches In Georgia and Ala- a.' Still it Is not believed that any- .vr. Ksrn msy do will change the results U those states. TA FT 1J7 VEBRAtiKA. When Judge Taft cornel to Nebraska on his tour of the wmt he will be among friends. His former visit to the state have established him here and the people know him. Nebraska had th distinguished honor of being; the first state In the union to formally declare for William Howard Taft as a nominee for the office of president of the United States, and the example of Nebraska as a state unquestionably in the Roosevelt ranks was potent In shaping the course of events that cul minated In the triumph of Taft and the principles he stands for at the Chi cago convention. The conditions that surrounded the affairs of Nebraska at the time the republicans of the state through their convention declared themselves as being unanimously In favor of Taft's nomination still pre vail! It Is a militant spirit that domi nates the ' republican party in this state. The reforms that have been brought about in national affairs under the ad ministration of President Roosevelt, and which will be continued under the administration of President Taft, are dear to Nebraskans. They have con tended for them for years and have enacted state laws to bring them about and as pioneers in the general move ment they are not ready at this time to take a backward step by registering their vote in favor of a pretender. Mr. Bryan's party in Nebraska, while It was in power, undertook nothing and achieved nothing in the way of per manent reform. All the reform legis lation that is now crystallized on the statute books and upheld by the courts of the state has been achieved by the republican party solely and without the assistance, and often in the face of the opposition, of the elements that are aligned In the support of Bryan. Mr. Taft will find the republicans of Nebraska thoroughly In earnest In their determination to maintain their advanced stand on the great questions that arise between the people and the 'interests." He will find a cordial welcome In this state and may enter It and leave It assured of the popular vote of Nebraska in November and the vote of the state In the electoral college later. A SURPRISING TELEGRAM. Mr. J. F. Merrill of Kansas City has supplied the public with a real sensa tloa. Politicians elsewhere have been more or less active in citing the rec ord to show that Mr. Bryan, has changed front on many Important questions, abandoned paramounts to suit the place and occasion and left burning, living issues on the doorstep of the political poorhouse. but Mr. Merrill ls the only person to show that Mr. Bryan entertained the thought of abandoning the business of running for the presidency on the democratic ticket. Mr. Merrill was a devoted Bryan follower in 1896 and in 1900. When the returns were known, late on that November night In 1900 when Mr. McKlnley's election was assured, Mr. Merrill sent a telegram, filled with words of sympathy, hope and sorrow to William Jennings Bryan. He received a reply from Mr. Bryan In these sor rowing and sorrowful words: Thank you for your, telegram of condol ence. The defeat was a severe, one; you all did nobly. I cannot conscientiously ask the party to consider me again for the presidency. ' I led them to defeat four years aK' and that ought to be enough for any otic man. The country will be disposed to agree with Mr. Bryan that two defeats "ought to be enough for any one man," but that will not explain his appear ance for the third knockout, in face of hie telegram to Mr. Merrill. Still, Mr. Bryan has become something of an ex pert recently in Juggling with mere words and resorting to technicalities of language In explaining bis changed views and positions. In that way he can eabily explain that his third nomi nation does not in any manner conflict with his attitude as shown in the Mer rill telegram. It will be noticed that in the Merrill message Mr. Bryan said: "I can not conscientiously ask the party to consider me again for the presidency." He may explain that by showing that he did not ask the1 party 'conscientiously" to nominate him. That would let him put on one techni cality, and if that is not enough he may go further and show that he did not "ask" the party to nominate him. but ordered the party to do so. That would clear him on both counts of the indictment. Mr. Bryan has been on the range too long to be caught with a language lariat. 6TAXD1RD OIL POLITICS. While the source of Mr. Hearst's In formation concerning prominent pol iticians who have become more or less closely Identified with the Interests of the Standard OH company may not be clear, and while some of his inferences from known facts may be exaggerated, his exposures leave no doubt of the Standard's very keen concern in na tional politics or its apparent deter mination to punish the republican party for President Roosevelt's course in prosecuting the Oil trust cases in Illi nois and Missouri. Ever since the 29, 240,000 fine was imposed sgalnst the Standard OH trust by Judge Landls in the federal court at Chicago, the oil magnates have been busily engaged in making political warfare upon Mr. Roosevelt and the champions of Mr. Roosevelt's policies, but the effect of this fight has been polled, so far as the democrats are concerned, by the discovery that the men most deeply concerned In the ex posures ar democrats. It will be re membered that Senator Bailey, a shin ing light in the councils of the Bryan ites, got into trouble which threatened his political life through his connec tion with the Standard Oil company in Texas. In Pennsylvania. Cvlvuel Guf- fey is the recognized leader of the Standard Oil company's political ma chine. It Is true that Colonel Guffey was denounced by Mr. Bryan at Den ver, but the warfare against him in Pennsylvania has been stopped, at Mr. Bryan's direction, and Guffey is now a leading democrat again. Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, who has been made a sort of general man ager of the Bryan campaign In the west, appears to have been pretty thoroughly tarred with the Standard Oil stick, although he has answered the charges by calling Mr. Hearst a liar. In Illinois, Roger Sullivan has long been the head of the Gas trust and closely identified with Standard Oil Interests. He was read out of the party several times by Mr. Bryan but has been taken back, forgiven and placed at the head of the table once more. In New York, Tat McCarren, acknowledgedly the chosen manager of Standard Oil Interests In the politi cal affairs of the metropolis, has been made chief adviser of Mr. Bryan in the state campaign. These men are leaders In the fight that Is being made against Mr. Taft and against the republican adminis tration at Washington. It begins to look very much as though the Stand ard Oil trust was really taking the general management of the democratic campaign. OKLAHOMA '8 (REP1T MARK. Doubtless most of the criticism that has been directed ' at the Oklahoma constitution and the laws passed by the first session of the legislature of the new state was Justified, but the state has one law that might well be used as a model in older states. In a meas ure dealing with the regulation of the sale and use of firearms appears this wise and sane provision: It shall be unlawful for any person to point any pistol or any other deadly weapon, whether loaded or not, at any other person or persons, either In anger or otherwise. This, we believe, is the first case on record in which legislative punishment Is provided for the "dldn't-know-it-was-loaded" humorist who has been going through the world since the in vention of gunpowder, scattering hla Jokes and obituary notices. Poking a gun at a person Has never been looked upon as a Joke in Oklahoma, and the man who indulged In that pastime, un less his gun was loaded and bis trigger finger active, has seldom been Inter ested in the subsequent proceedings, but the new state has taken a long step toward reducing the number of deaths due to "accidental" shootings. FHYSICAL TESTS FOR EMPLOYES. One of the leading railroad com panies in the east has decided to es tablish a ruie for physical tests before employing men which will be as severe as that required for entering the army or navy. This decision is based on the new federal employers' liability act, passed by the last congress, the rail road taking the position that in order to avoid the payment of heavy dam ages it will be necessary to require a higher degree of efficiency among em ployes than heretofore. . The traveling public will be pleased to learn of the new rule. As a general proposition railroad men are a rugged lot, but the reports of the Interstate Commerce commission show that many accidents are traced to the physical in efficiency of railway trainmen. It will be better for mankind if employes charged with the transportation and care of human lives are required to show a dean bill of mental and moral health before they secure or are al lowed to retain their positions. "One of the greatest questions of this campaign," says James S. Sher man, "is what Mr. Bry&a would do If elected?" Mr. Sherman 1b needlessly alarmed. Colonel Watterson has as sured the American people that there would be no danger in electing Bryan, as he would be powerless to secure the enactment of any of his freak schemes into law so long as the United States Benate remains republican. Judge Howard talks like a man who Is dazed. He probably has not yet recovered thoroughly from the shock of his encounter with the check book. It Is hoped that he will soon return to hla ysual buoyancy of spirit, for the campaign will lose much of its merri ment if Judge Howard is not In his usual form. The Omaha school board shows wis dom in rejecting building plans that do not contemplate safety. Where a fireproof building costs so little more to construct than one that Is not fire proof it would be the height of folly to undertake to save a few dollars at the risk of children's lives. "Have you heard from Maine?" asks the New 'York Sun. Sure. The re port Is that the deer are plentiful and very wild, that the lobster supply is greater than ever before and that the cranberry crop threatens to be unus ually small. What more could you want to hear from Maine? The friendship of Bryan did not seem to avail Mayor Jim a great deal at the primaries and It may not help Shallenberger at the polls. What reason Is there for preferring Shallen berger to Sheldon today that did not exist two years ago? The Jimocrats are planning a neat little scalping party to be pulled off early In November, which function has great Interest In prospect for the con gressman from the Second Nebraska district. Mr. Brysn thinks he could be elected "If the election were held tomorrow." Mr. Bryan Is also certain of election Bryan and Bank Depositors Mr. Rryan'K sympathy as now expressed for the poor hank depositors exposed from his point of view to all manner of dlie disasters from bank managi rs. In very touching. To hear him talk as lie talked to a gath ering of bankers In Lincoln a few week ago was positively uffectlnc.. He be seeched these bankers under the spell of Ms oratory, for the sake of their own wives and children, not to refuse the guaranty, which he says Is so Imperatively needed by these depositors. Only a few years ago, however. Mr. Bryan advocated with all his might and main, a proposition, which If It had become effective, would have realired for these depositors under the best of circumstances, less than SO cents on the dollar of their hard earned money. To hear him talk one would naturally think that banks were falling daily and that the wall of the victimised depositors filled the air. No one sympathises more with depositors than the sound and hon est bankers. The many such who hsve made great personal sacrifices for the men who have trusted them is unwritten history, hut It would be a long account and would fill many pages. Thee have proved their sympathy by acts, not mere words, and especially words which carry with them a selfish motive. But as a fact, neither Mr. Bryan or any of his friends could probably name off-hand one national bank which tins fulled In recent years w ith loss to depositors and the loaej In the state bank system of Nebraska have been Insignificant compared with the number of banks and volume of deposits. In the report of the comptroller of the currency It Is shown that the losses to depositors from 18P8 to 1907 have been less than $760,000 for the entire period of ten years from a total of 6,500 banks with aggregate deposits of over 16.000,000,000. Mr. Fowler In reporting to congress hia currency bill, stated that since the beginning of the national bank system forty-three years ago the total losses to depositors by failed banks apportioned upon the deposits of the live banks has only amounted annually to 37-1000 of 1 per cent. There are over 600 state banks In Ne braska with deposits of over 4, 000,000, and yet during what Is called the panic year of 1907, the occurrence during which have occasioned all this bank guaranty talk, only one small failure occurred a, bank with $88,OOu deposits upon which 70 per cent dividends have already been paid. The showing for state and national sys tems is remarkable, and It is not generally understood by the public. It refutes com pletely the Idea that a startling and revo lutionary scheme Is demanded for the bet ter protection of bank depositors. Of course It would be greatly desired If ome plan can be put Into effect whluti would relieve the anxiety which prevails whenever there are bank runs, but the cure must not be open to question; It must not be one which may prove worse than the disease. Both state and national systems are be ing continually Improved and If no unwise legislation Impedes arid aome needed legis lation helps. It Is reasonable to believe that such a thing aa a bank failure with loss to depositors will be made practically Impos sible. What has led to this satisfactory -situation In banking can be plainly seen. Pri marily It may be attributed to law and regulation, but these of themselves would not be sufficient to produce the results be ing achieved. The wisest tank examiner Is powerless to discern and- expose the fraud that may be practiced by a skilful manip ulator. The greatest protection today In the banking business are the difficulties which beset the manipulator and speculator In on "tomorrow," except the tomorrow following the day preceding "the first Tuesday after the first Monday in No vember." The police force is instructed to be exceptionally vigilant during the car nival week and, with the addition of a large number of special patrolmen, vis itors may come to Omaha fully assured of protection from the powers that prey. A Tainted Affinity. St. louls Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan's ardent affinity for Governor Haskell of Oklahoma will hardly take now the form of a promised cabinet position. Here. Too. Pittsburg Dispatch. The candidate who can prophesy and then verify a first-class, soaking rainy spell can carry the rural districts by the biggest majority on record. Enough and Some Over. Olevelumt leader. The world will have bread enough this crop year, but it cannoi carry over any great stock of wheat next summer. Amer ican farmers will find a fair price and a market that doesn't have to be coaxed. A Kecord. that Cflnuta. Brooklyn Eagle. The republican and the democratic par ties abound with able men. Very few of them, however, wanted to compete with Governor Hughes. He Is able, and, plus that, he has a record his opponents do not wish to antagonize. There Is no credit and there is some danger In antagonizing it. PKRSOXAI, XOTBS. Some of the spellbinders on the stump this season talk as though they maintain private graveyards for the burial of repu tations. The New York railroads killing 133 more people last year than in the preceding twelve months, on a greatly reductd vol ume of business. Igoks as if they were bound to make a record somehow. Justice Harlan of the fnlted Slates su preme court is the owner of perhaps one of the most valuable cats In this county, known aa the "sacred cat," which was secured In Burmah and Is said to be worth J1.C0O. 8ven Anders Hedln. the explorer, who started In 106 from Chinese Turkestan on a Journey through Tibet, and concerning whose whereabouts there was great anx iety for many months, has arrived at Simla He will be the guest of Lord Mtnio, the viceroy of India, for ten days, when he will proceed to hla home In fitockholm. Twenty members of the choir of the fashionable Woodlawn Park Methodist Episcopal church at Chicago left the choir loft last 8unday at the beginning of the service because Mrs. Alia Beach-fcldmondi, the new leader, wore a big hat, heavy with plumes, despite the objection of the other women singer to wearing hats at all. The oldest graduate of I'nion college. Dr. George W. Clarke of New York City. Is dead In hia ninety-second yesr. He was for i&Aay years a teacher, founding a pri vaU schaol la IMS that was attended by zaaoy boys wKb' became well known men In the big city. Dr. Clarke began teaching In a public school and one of hla early minlis a4 Kocoe Cvukliog. his operations and c!f.rt. to cl-'.!n bus, ness. The nv. rn forced i it ! now being enforced nc;ds greatly to these difficulties nd supplies ti e inens to cxjv.e nnd ex pel thvm from the l usiness. Hut the great est Impediment sirh men meet with comes from the deposit ors themselxes: to a large extent thi'ee make the nucresstji and safe t anker, by extending or wlthdi awing their onf xence. Their fears and apprehensions lead them to scrutinize closely the banks to whom they entrust their enrnlngs. The banker favored with this confidence does not dsre practice any grossly irregular bus iness methods or ofler unreasonable Induce ments to ohtnin deposits. He does not dsrc to enaHse In riut-stlonable or speculative cnterrtlses. All such things will become known In due tim and will lose him the confidence of 'hla depositors nnd without this confidence he cannot exist as a banker. Mr. Bryan's plan would change all this. Hanking upon the security of the guaranty which would give them a credit they could never acquire upon their own merits. It would be easy for adventurers to get bus iness and tt wotdd be Impossible to drive them out, until a catastrophe occurred which would destroy the business. Depos itors relying upon the guaranty would nat urally put their money In banks which of fered the greatest Ind icement they would ccaBe to si rutlnlze closely If they scruti nized at ail. But If deposits did not come fast enough In the ordinary way, such men would find a way to increase their facili ties by the issue of credit Instruments such as promissory notes and certificates of deposits. There would be practically no limit to this kind of expansion and thous ands of banks doing the same thing would bring on an era of speculation whose end could only be ruin and desolation. The practical effect of the scheme and Its Injustice and Inequality can best be shown by an Illustration. The national hanks forming the Omaha Clearing House association, exclus ve of South Omaha, are nil very old Institutions. One of them was among the first to be or ganized under the national currency act, and all have existed from twenty-five to forty years. There has never been a national bank failure In Omaha or a suspension of any kind unless the affair of last fall can be so called. If a guaranty law similar to thnt of Oklahoma should become effective, these banks would be required to put up 38!.StA being 1 per cent on deposits of $3S, SGO.OfiO, and what for? Not to guarantee their own depositors, for these are already sufficiently guaranteed by the safe and conservative manner In which these banks transact their business. This large sum of money would be taken from these banks and from the business community depend ing upon them for the sole purpose of pay ing losses Incurred from another class of bankers operating in a community where some speculation has run wild, such for Instance as the stock speculation In New York last fall, and with which the Omaha bankers have had no connection whatever. Not only Is this scheme originating In a brain fertile In political expedients and is sues unnecessary In the present condition of banking, but it is full of dire potential ities for evil. And further than this it can I think be plainly shown that this, the lat est of Mr. Bryan's propositions, Is no more In the Interest of depositors than his 16 to 1 proposition was In the Interest of bl-metalllsm. He seeks only to persuade some depositors to believe in him to the extent of their votes, Just as he induced thousands under the pretense of bl-metalllsm to flock to his standard In 1896. The scheme he puts up to depositors has to the banker of experience the appear ance of a stupendous gold brick proposi tion which the law should stamp out. In stead of encouraging. HENRY XV. YATES. PHILADELPHIA WILL CK LIS BR AT 13 Lnrgest Affair Since the Centennial Exposition t uK'r Way. Philadelphia is preparing to get gay. When the Quaker City puts on that mood the result is the real thing. The provo cation for the coming outburst of civic hilarity is the 2oth anniversary of the founding of the city. It is calculated that a full week is needed to signalize the event properly, and from October 4 to 10 there will be a series of day and night festivi ties financed by the city which will eclipse any affair of the kind attempted on the western hemisphere. A large assertion surely, but Philadelphia's word is good for It. From the beginning of the celebration at sunrise on Sunday morning, when the bell of Independence hall, together with all the church chimes in the city, formally opens the celebration, to the closing of the celebration on the Saturday night fol lowing, Philadelphia will not witness an Idle, moment. On Monday, October 6, there will be a mobilization and parade of 30,000 United States soldiers, sailors and marines, with the entire National guard of Pennsylvania, and representatives from all the thirteen original colonies, sailors and marines from foreign war vessels, and numerous other military bodies. In the evening of that day there will be a celebration In the Academy c-f Music, at which the president of the United States and government officials, the governors of all the states, and the mayors vf all the leading cities, together with the representatives of foreign governments, who have ben Invited, are expected to be pres ent. Tuesday will witness what will probably be the most noted gatherings of Germans ever assembled. This feature of the pro gram will occupy the entire morning, and will commemorate the 225th anniversary of the founding of Germantown by Francis Daniel Pastnrlus, and representatives from all the states will take part. A parade of the German societies of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, numbering more than 15.000 people, will take place, and following It the cornerstone of a great monument, part of the cost of which will be defrayed by the United States government, will be laid. At 1 o'clock In the afternoon there will be a great pat ale of the polic e and fire de partments, showing their evolution from earliest times. In tiie same parade there will participate the state police of Pennsyl vania, details of departments from other ' lending ciiles. and the volunteer firemen of I Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. In the 'evening the Germans will hold a c.lebratlon ; ill the Academy of Music, and at the same j time there will be a great assemblage of ! clergymen of all denominations In I't lends' Meeting House to dtscu&s William Penn as a statesman and first champion of religious liberty. On Wednesday will come the industrial parade. It will show the birth and develop ment of all Philadelphia's Industrie. The feature of this parade will be the evolution of every Industry from the crudest and earliest form of the seventeenth- century up to the processes of the present day. All ad vertising will be eliminated. In the evening of this day there will be a parade or labor organization of Philadelphia. Thursday will be known as children's and nval day. In the forenoon school children will assemble at Independence hall for ex ercises and will visit points of historic in terest. At 1 p. m. will t.otne a review of the Baked in White Tile Ovens Compare auy ordinary biscuit made in dark, damp, dungeon bakeries with these TAKOMA BISCUIT, which are baked in white tile ovens, on the fop floor of a bakery that is flooded with sunlight. Remember that from the flour to the ovens, . no human hand ever touches them. Takoma Biscuit-5c Think of the vVAv. bound United States and foreign war vessela in the harbor and the great river pageant, In which more than 50ft vessels will partici pate. The evening feature will be a parade of 15.000 uniformed members of the Order of Red Men, with historical floats, and a dis play of fireworks on the Delaware river. On Friday the Italians of Philadelphia will unveil a monument to the memory of Verdi In West Fairmont park. The aft ernoon will see the climax of the week's celebration In the historical pageant, de scriptive of the history of the city from the time of the first Swedish and Dutch settlements. About forty floats and 5.000 characters will be shown. This pageant will be the first of Its kind presented In any American clly. Saturday will be athletic day; Interna tional automobile races, foot ball, horse racing and contests of strength, skill and endurance In sports will take up the fore noon. In the afternoon the Knights Tem plar will parade. The Knights Templar also will parade late In the evening and formally close the celebration by extin guishing the illuminations on the city hall. On the six evenings of the week there will be a magnificent drama or pageant on Franklin field. University of Pennsyl vania, which will show the history of Philadelphia acted. Plans for this drama, which will be known as "Philadelphia," have been in the course of preparation for five months and tt will show In minute de tail the history and growth of the city. It will be presented In four acts. The first will show Philadelphia from the time of the settlement by the Indians, the Dutch and the Swedes to the arrival of William Penn and the laying out of the city. About ten scenes will be necessary to portray this. The second act will show the colonial and revolutionary periods, and about fourteen scenes will be necessary to fully portray the history of those times. In these various scenes will be shown the part Franklin took In the early revolu tionary arrangements, Washington taking command of the patriots, the occupation of Philadelphia by the British, the woik of the Continental congress, and terminating with the meeting of congress on July 4. 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was agreed to. The third act will portray all the leading events of the nineteenth century, and the fourth and last act will show for the first time the part Phila delphia, took with the United States and the several states' troops In the close of the Spanish-American war. Fully 1,000 characters and 200 musicians have been engaged for this great perform ance, and it Is safe to say that between 25,000 and 30,000 people will witness It every night. The entire field will be used for the production, while on three stages will be various tableaux depicting leading events of each period. A number of grand opera stars and numerous societies will participate in all the performances. Philadelphia will be lavishly decorated for the great celebration, nnd on the city hall, the largest municipal building In thef world, will be the moat extensive Illumina tions ever attempted on any single building. No less than 300.000 incandescent lights, forming set figures, etc., will be used in this one rlece of decoration. All the lead fng stores, manufacturing plants and build ings of the city will be decorated for the week. A MAX WHO CA.KOT BU MKiV, Admirable Display of Judge Taft's !Hanlr Quality. Kansas City Star. "If It would win me every state In the Virlted 8tates I cannot hit a man when he Is down." In these three lines we have a demon strate of the breadth snd the n.uailty of William Howard Taft that ought to make everybody In the country proud of h'.m. ,et us, as Americans, all be thankful 111 luoionn :V Commendation or condemnation of your goods may depend upon the character of your printed matter A. I. Root, Incorporate, 1210-1212 Howard Street, Onaaa ! AK-SAR-BEN PWMO SALE . A. HOSPE CO.. Omaha 1513 Douss Street purity, the cleanliness, the daintiness, such a bakery is to inspire! TAKOMA PISCL'IT at ronr grocer's in moisture-proof, 'triple-sealed packages 3 cents. Simply risk a nickel to try them. Then let the biscuits, them reives, by tbeir taste, tbeif crispness, their daintiness, de ride whether or not they are better than all other biscuits. See how many you get for S cents. IopSErWlLED OMAHA. HIM. for the sort of an acquaintance with s man who cannot be mean and little, as the candidacy of William Howard Taft for president has given us an opportunity to make. It Is splendid to see that sort of mag nanlmlty asserting Itself In opposition tr the small, mean doctrine that everythln Is fair In politics, and It ti doubly fini and admirable as coming from a man whn has displayed not a hint of toleration foi or sympathy with the tendencies In &n ator Foraker that have wrought his un doing. Mr. THft, wholly on the ground of prin ciple and public policy, has made a fair, open fight on Foraker. He came out vic tor In a battle that Involved not s single ingredient of personal opposition on his side. It was known quite as certainly when Hearst disclosed the correspondence be tween Senator Foraker and Mr. Archbold of the Standard Oil company, aa It Is known now, that the humiliation of the Ohio sen ator would cause no gratification to Mr. Taft. It is not in Mm to feel any satisfac tion over the disgrace of an adversary. He Is not cast In that mold. He Is too big and fine to harbor suoh a petty sentiment. LAIH1NO GAS. "Has your order been takenT" asked one Of the waiters. "Yes," said Mr. Welbroke.- "fifteen min utes ago. If tt Isn't too late though, I'd like to change It." "To change your order, sir?" "Yes. If you don't mind I'll change it tu an entreaty." Chicago Tribune. "Is this Dr. Smith?" "yes." Well, this Is Mrs. Jones. I wish you would come over as soon as convenient; my cuckoo clock has. a little throat trouble." Harper's Weekly. "I know what I say of you is true." she hissed. "But how do you know?" gasped the un happy man. Your face betrays you!" "He could not deny It then. "Yes. he murmured, "it is true, I shave myself." Cleveland Leader. Rural Barber Who cut your hair last time, Bill? Farmer's Bov Maw, but she couldn t find the sclsaora, an' the sickle was kinder dull." Puck. Adam Zawfox Jevver work on a farm? Job flturkey Wunst, when I was about half growed up. I lasted three days. The farmer said I had a hired man's appe tite all right, but he didn't think I'd ever learn to work up to It Chicago Tribune. "Do you know that nature and scholar ship both agree In one thing?" "Vhat Is that?" "In the fall both begin to turn the leaves." Baltimore American. ""comfortable. J. M. Lewis in Houston Post. There's so much to be thankful for That we are bound to be Plum' thankful when Thanksgiving comes, Thankful that you and me Are llvln'; leastwise you will be Plum' thankful you are, and I'll be thankful for my ownself That 1 am still on hand. I got ketched out when night come on The other night, I did. And the old rr.oon was tig around As any kettle lid; 'Twas the first time I had been out By moonlight for so long I felt hke hoppln' on the fence , An' trlllln' forth a song. I did, yes. sir! the moon looked down', And branches gently stirred Till all of tt got In my blood And I felt like a bird! Felt plum' romantic, It's a fact; 1 may be git tin' old But I just wished, an' wished I had Some sweet girl's hand to hold. An' I am thankful I could feel A touch of that old Joy That I felt In the long ago, A glrl-be-JIggered boy, I tell ye they ain't notMn' in The world so good to do As to feel you're lovln' some girl An' she's a-lovla' yu. And so whoever whips the figut 1 think that I'll survive; The world will still be full Of lovs And I'll still be alive; There'll still be greens and bacon and Corn pone, potlicker, too, And babies to hide by the gala At night an' holler "Boo!" ill