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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1909)
-iTiE OMAHA SUNDAY REE: JULY 4. 1909. OBSERVING ME NATAL DAY Changing Ideas About Celebrating Independence Day. CHECKING THE EIOT 0 KOBE Losses of I.lfe and Property oman Ml Methods ( Celebrating Some of the Deadly fireworks. Accord In it to the calendar, today Is the natal day. Tomorrow will be the awful day. During K4 days of the American year, frequent publication la made of the ray age of the Fourth of July on Ufa and property. Appeala for a safer and aaner celebration are Indulged In, and statistics of louses due to fireworks are printed to fortify the undisputed assertion that present methods of observing the day approaches the borderland of savagery. But appeals are forgotten and smothered by the tumult of young America, and his elder co-con-aplrator. Borne progress la being made toward safety and sanity. Seven states and scores of cities have passed laws prohibiting the use of fireworks on the Fourth of July This adverse legislation, which began as early as M01. has so swept over the country that the Fourth of July celebration this year will be a radical departure from the old time methods of honoring thla aua plcloua day. The terrible loss of life that has accompanied every Fourth of July cele bration in recent years is the cause ot this legislation. The piesent generation does not remember that during the latter part of the eighteenth century, and even during the greater part Of the nineteenth, there were no such fire works and explosives as are used today In celebrating the anniversary of lndepen dence. Our forefathers In knee breeches and powdered hair celebrated the day chiefly by patriotic speeches and dinners. Every club, every society and organisation met around the festive board and honored the day In song and story. The nature of the speeches and dinners varied with the locality, but In one respect all were the same. They agreed absolutely In the number toasts. It was the custom to have thirteen toasts representing, of course, the thirteen original states. With the admission of new states this oustoin died out, probably because the banqueters Wore unable to drink so much. Parades In -the larger towns were features of the celebration during the early years of the republlo, but the princi pal part of the celebration was the banquet and its oratory. In reoent years, however, there has been a great falling off In the exuberant qualities of patrlotio oratory and the day haa been celebrated with mere noise. The prophecy of John Adams baa come true; "The day la celebrated with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and Illuminations from one end of the country to the other." Ora tory, prayer and praise are forgotten and the old-time decorous celebration of the day haa seemingly passed away forever. It should not be taken from this that there was no noise connected with the early oelebratlons. Quit the contrary. Balutea of guns were fired, bell were rung and In the evening tar barrels were burned. ; but there was not the continuous succes sion of noises which mark the celebration today. Nor was there any list of dead and Injured on the day following. Early In the nineteenth century fireworks began to have a place In the celebration, ' These were harmless and simple compared with the nerve-shattering explosive which are ' put on the market today. Not only were they less dangerous and noisy, but their, use was restricted to a comparatively small number of people. Those who were unable to get fireworks got out their muskets and shot them off. Others fired Improvised cannons. Even blacksmiths got out their anvils and by placing powder in little holes were able to touch It oft so that it made a satisfactory amount of noise. With the Increase of the noise came the decrease In the patriotic orations and pray ers. Before the fiftieth celebration of the day had been observed noise had almost entirely supplanted oratory. ' Deadly Fireworks. The toy cannon Is a great Joy to a boy, but It kills far more than Its share of children. It is the wickedest of the fire wolks In which gunpowder Is the ex plosive. The hurts come from Its kicking, and the deaths from It bursting when fired. The toy balloon does no Injury to the one who send It - up. But the torch of ahavlnas and rosin, which makes the ga which raise It, blase for nine mln ute. The paper of the balloon often take fire from the wind doubling It up. Then the torch,' still burning, may fall and set - fire to a shingle roof. In Dayton, O., five building were set afire In one day by falling balloon torches. The very dangerous fireworks contain a mixture of chlorate of potash, sulphur and charcoal. Substances which explod with greater force than gunpowder are called "high explosives.' Chlorate is one of the. This Is the chlorate of potash so much used for sore throat. Not long ago a man put a losenge of It in a pocket In which were matches. It exploded, mak Ing a bole In his vest and Ijl his side. - too. , The "shooting" and "lighting" matches . have lumps of chlorate of potash In them WE ABE GOING TO DISCONTINUE THE TOIOTOGItArHIO DEPARTMENT AND OFFER Aaaco Camera. 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They may throw sparks into rubbish and other stuff which dikes fire easily, and into eyri. nutting them out. ' kootlss Canen. The shooting cane has an Iron boot. In the leg of which are put Intense, one of hlch explodes each time the end of the cane I struck against the pavement. The losnnges are two part chlorate of potash and one part sulphur, with a little sand. powdered gloa or coal, and gum enough hold them together. This makes a very dangerous explosive. One's foot Is likely to be hurt when a loienge Is ex ploded and half a dcen may . explode at once, tearing off a leg. A boy struck one of these canes near a passing lady. Ignit ing her drsa so she was burned to death In the street. The new toy pistol called Astonlrther" ha the same ammunition hV smaller else. A German noise maker named fix rohr Is a bras tube with a plunger In It. Cork. In the small end of which Is the same stuff that Is used In the canes, are put Into one end of the tube. Then a swing of the hand drives the ptunger Into the cork, which files out with great force and noise. The force Is great enough to drive the cork Into the body of a ehlld. box of the corks, when opened by Inspection officer on a wharf In Boston, exploded, killing three men and tearing out the floor timbers. Bomb should be used by trained ex hibitors only. The Cannon Cracker. The cannon cracker is a murderer. The largest ones have in them two-thirds of an ounce of chlorate of potash and one third of an ounce of sulphur with a little charcoal. Thoee etven Inches long have half that much. The shell Is a hollow roll of heavy paper smeared with paste, the inner layers being crimped to close the end. The charge fills, perhaps, one- eighth ot the chamber within the cracker, leaving room for the gas to expand be fore the shell burst. This Increase the noise. Cannon cracker makers complain that dealers are calling constantly for goods that will make a greater noise. In Columbus a cannon cracker went off while in a boy's hands and no part of either of them could subsequently be found except a pleoe of one little finger. Both hand, to the wrists, had been converted Into gases by the great heat. In Cincinnati on exploded while a man was holding It under his arm. He was so torn In pieces no one could tell who he was until his name was seen In his watch, which had to be dug out of a telegraph pole Into which It had been blown. Sometimes the fuse in one of these crack ers la choked by the crimping of the paper around It so it goes out. Such a cracker should be avoided for ten minutes, then well soaked In water and burled without sobs or ceremony. Dynamite is not used In fireworks. In battle scenes sticks of It are detonated to Indicate cannonading. Lockjaw. Following every Fourth more than 100 children die from lookjaw from wounds made by firework. After the celebration in 10$ there were m deaths from Uiis cause. Lockjaw is caused by one of the small est of germs. It is like a very small thread and Is so small It oannot be seen. It grows by the million In the bowel of horses.' So there are. always millions of them in the street dust. "The germ when It cornea into the. air drlea and so long a there Is air around ' it does no harm. These germs stay alive in ice. or boiling water. Doctors have kept them on sdI In ters for ten years and then riven lookjaw to mloe by pricking them with the splin ter. When they get into one' flesh, away from the air, they grow in number very fast by each thread-like germ ohoking it self In two in the middle. One ot them will have grandchildren In an hour. While they are multiplying under one' akin they give out a poisonous Juice. There I no evi dence whatever that these germ are at work In a wound for a week or two, until the poison ha traveled along a nerve from the wound to spine and brain. When the poison gets to the brain death la sure to follow after more day of nor rlble suffering than one would have from a mad dog bite, stryohnlne poisoning and cerebro spinal meningitis put together. Any small wound through the skin made by a firecracker should be taken to doctor at once, to be laid so air can get to the bottom of it, because a boy playing with fireworks nearly always baa street dust on his hands and It is full of these terrible germs. The greatest number of cases of lockjaw result from using the toy pistol for firing blank cartridges. Pieces ot the paper wads, which take the place of ball In these cartridges, are blown under the skin, carrying the germs of lockjaw. "Down In Maine." On the day before Memorial Day, In one of the smaller cities of Maine, a member of the school board visited a primary school. and, after addressing the pupils, asked "What 1 the holiday to-morrow," "Decoration Day!" came from all. "What do you do on Decoration DayT" "Iecorate the soldiers' graves," came In a chorus. "Why do you decorate their graves any more than thoee of others?" This was a poser, but finally on little fellow held up his hand. "Well, sir, why Is It?" he was asked. "Because they are dead and w ain't" Llpplncott'a. Cut Prices ON Photographic Goods $3.50 Utt.OO $0.00 . .40c . .80c . .10o . .15c . . 50c . .10c . . 6)C $1.50 OMAHA. GOOD ROADS IN CANAL ZONE Work Begun Centuries Ago Resumed by Uncle Sam. FKE DBIVIS ARE PROJECTED Part ( Plan to Develop Farming n the Isthmos PoaslollMlea Raising; Fralta and Ve are tables In Panantn. PANAMA. June 19 How many people know that the United States Is building an elaborate system of roads In connection with the canal? The construction of these macadam roads In a land subject to sud den tropical floods is In Itself a big task, but this feature of Uncle Sam's undertak ing on the Isthmus Is so unimportant com pared with the fifty-mile canal that little has been heard of It. Yet when the work In the canal sone Is finished there will be open to the tourist one of the prettiest drives to be found in any tropical land. It will be possible to take a carriage at Colon, drive along the canal to the great Gatun lake, ferry across It and resume the journey in another car rlage on the south shore of the lake to Panama. The road will lie through a country shaded by broad palms and heavy with other tropical vegetation. It will be up hill and down and to the charm of the Jungle drive will be added now and then glimpses of the ships of many nations ply ing from one great ocean to the other. At one point on the road it will be possible to get a splendid view of the Culebra out. which to the layman will probably be the most Interesting feature of the canal. From the trunk roadway lateral branches will meander back into the coun try on both sides of the canal and connect with a system of roads that the Republic of Panama has projected Into the unde veloped interior of the country. Purpose of the Hlarhwar. The purpose of the road building by the United States, or, to be exact, by the son government, is first to connect the villages along the line of the canal, and, second, to Induce a permanent population In the sone by opening up the land to agriculture. The gone Is fifty miles long and ten miles wide, and the lands to which the pro jected highways will give access comprise about 290,000 acres, three-fourths of which are owned by the United . States. About one-half of this laad will be inundated by Oatun lake when the Chagres river haa been dammed or will be used for other canal purposes. Nearly all the remainder will have to be reclaimed from the jungle. The in tention of the government is to lease the land for agricultural purpose only and to limit the term of the lease to not more than twenty-five years. Work on the trunk roadway has already made good progress. The cost of the roads la being defrayed from funds collected by taxation in the Zone. Up to March 31, 1909, $94,742 had been expended on thla system of roads, but this, of course, does not In' elude the amounts expended by the com mission for highways that have been bunt to give access to commission quarters or buildings, From the Atlantlo aide the trunk road will run from Cristobal, the entrance to the canal, to Gatun, on the north shore of Gatun lake, a distance of eight miles. The macadam highway from Gorgona on the south shore of the lake to this city will be eighteen mile long. French Begas the Worse. This opening up of roads through the Isthmus waa undertaken by the French only on a very limited scale. The Amer leans upon their occupation In 1904 found only a few ill-kept trails leading from the more important villages of the interior, and these were Impassable in the rainy season. Then, a even now, about the only good avenue of travel wa the line of the Pan ama railroad. Today those living in the Interior village follow their unoertaln trail down to the railroad, and then strike out with their pack animals over the ties for either this city or Colon. The Canal Record, the oommumton's official organ, pointed out In a recent issue that practically the only systematic attempt at permanent road construction on the Isthmus until the Americana took hold waa that done by the Spaniards In the sixteenth century. Traces of the old pack roads built by the Spaniards from Nombre de Dlos, Porto Bello and Crucea to Panama 800 or 400 years ago are still to be found. In fact they are fairly well preserved In spot considering their age. These roads had a surface of cobble stone. In some places they have been washed out and In others they have been obliterated by the rank growth of trop leal vegetation, which has forced Its way up even between the cobbles of the road bed. The French built a road from Panama to Corosol, a dlstanoe of three miles, but It was so badly washed out when the Americans took hold that they will have to rebuild It. First A merlcan Road. The first roads built by the Americans were those running from the olty of Pan ama westward to La Boca, a distance of two and one-halt miles, and eastward to the boundary of the canal sone, a distanc of three and three-quarter mllea. They are of the beat macadam type, and Incidentally afford one of the prettiest evening drives that can be found anywhere. The building of macadam roads In Pan ama Is, however, a pretty expensive pro position, and after the construction of these first roads, experiments were made with cheaper classes of highways. Trails were cleared and surfaced with earth, but one rainy season showed the utter futility of attempting to construct roads of that type Most ot them were washed out of existence. and since then nothing but crushed stone roads has been constructed. The trunk road from Cristobal to Gatun baa been graded to a width of twenty-four feet and will be macadamised to a width of sixteen feet. It haa necessitated the construction of thirty-four culverts. The width of the road on the southern aide of the lake will vary. Most of the work on the sone roads has been don by prisoners. Thus far only two of the lateral roads have been projected. One of these will run west from the main highway at Era pire to the canal sone boundary, where It will connect with a road planned by the Panama government northeast from Chorrexa to the sons line. It will open up a desirable farming section. The other lateral road Is already In course of construction. It will run eaa from Empire to La Casoada plantation, a dlstanoe of about four mile, and it may ultimately be extended to Owes on the Chagres river. W han all of the lateral lines and the Panama government roads are opened up many a tourist will probably think It worth his while to tarry a few days on the Isthmus merely for the drive. The in durations are too that Panama ba souiu At the Omaha Theaters Boyd Open It Movinj Picture Seaion with a Free, Show Moving Pictures at the Burwood and Drama at the Airdome. HIS afternoon and evening the first of the moving picture ex hibitions at the Hoyd will be given. The show will be free to all who care to come, the Idea being to give as many people a T possible a deflntte Idea of the superiority of this exhibition over any other In Omaha. The films to be shown at the Boyd are the very best, and of a type but recently de signed, being non-inflammable, and there fore perfectly safe. The machine for pro jecting them Is also of the very latest model. In which the difficulties of the olrir tyle machines have ben entirely overcome The picture will be shown In clear, strong light, with no flicker or dim effects to hurt the eye. The theater Is cool and com fortable at all times, and with doors ami windows open on all side and plenty of fans moving, will always be a pleasant place to spend a few minutes or a few hours, resting and enjoying an entertain ment of high order. Only the most approved subjects will be shown, so that no ob jection can be lodged against It on this score. The Boyd moving picture show is sure to be s most popular undertaking. Tr. Jekyl andMrTHyde" will be the offering this week at the Air Dome Sum mer theater, at the corner of Eighteenth and Douglas streets. Few stories of fiction are aa widely known. In his story, Steven son depicts Dr. Jekyl as a kind and be nevolent physician, but hi desire to get out and mingle with degraded humanity and see the seamy side of life, leads him to dabble in transcendental medicines, by which means he has hopes to hide his Identity. Ills experiments at last are suc cessful, lie discovers a combination of drugs that would kill every spark of good in humanity and developes the evil side of a man's nature. Upon taking thla com pound he finds to his joy that It changes his outward form beyond recognition by his dearest friends, and when In this char acter or condition, he calls himself Mr. Hyde. He meets his old colleagues and as sociates and they shrink from him in hor ror, having no idea that thla shrunken, fiendish being is In fact their much loved and respected Dr. Jekyl. His first few trips to the. slum as Hyde are very suc cessful. On his return to his labratory, he has but to take the antidote and the re action is wonderful, for he is instantly transformed to his original self; but Dr. Jekyl soon wakes to the faot that these phenomenal changes to Hyde have not natural scenery In the Interior that will be well worth looking at. Fall In the Rivera. The canal commission's men have been working on a survey of the Chagres river watershed since last November and have disclosed some Interesting facts in regard to' the Interior of the land. They found that the Chagrea river above the mouth of the Esperansa contains an exceptional number ot high rapids, at one point rising seventy-five feet in a distance of 600 feet The rivers of the Boqueron region also were found to be very swift, rUlng at one point near their headwaters 8,000 feet in four miles. The greater part of this rise consists of sheer falls. On the Candaloso river two falls were discovered within a few feet of each other with a total height of over WO feet. The members of the canal commission do not believe that there will be any diffi culty In renting the government lands for agricultural purposes after the coun try has been opened up by the roads. Th commission apparently looks for ward to American enterprise stepping in and making a real use of these lands. Panama Aa;rlonltnre. The Panamans and the West Indian negroes on the lathmus are slothful and unambitious as farmers. There Is to day a ready market tor all the fruit and vegetables they would raise, to say noth ing of eggs and chickens. Tet the com mission has to depend for it green stuffs largely on It own garden. Here is an instance of the enterprise of the average Panama farmer. A fresh egg i one of the hardest things to get on the Isthmus. In fact it's Just about Impossible. Over at the Tivoll hotel in Ancon, where they charge you T a day for a room and bath and meals, they think they are doing you a special favor if they give cold storage eggs that have been dipped In wax. Well, Colonel George W. Ooethals, the engineer in charge of the canal work. likes fresh eggs, and soon after he ar rived at Culebra he began looking around for a farmer who would satisfy his long ing. He looked and looked and looked, and hens there seemed to be none. Furthermore, none of the local farmers, so called, seemed to care whether they kept hens or not. But finally Colonel Ooethals found one farmer who after urging allowed the coolnel to build a hen house for him. After more urging he consented to have the colonel buy some hens for him and later agreed to let the colonel buy the feed for them. So after presenting the farmer with a hencoop, the hens and the feed for them the colonel now buys the eggs from him. The oommluslon has been conducting ex perimental gardens on the Isthmus since 1906 with a view to assisting In the devel opment of the land. The communion's ex perts have found that many tropical fruits and many vegetable of the temperate sone can be raised profitably on the Isth mus. Indeed the experiments have pro gressed so far that some men with a busi ness eye are already looking ahead to the time when the growers of fruit and vege tables on the Isthmus will find a good market for their products on the big ships that will pans through the canal. Commission Hans Its Gardens. The commission now has four gardens under cultivation at Ancon, Corosol, Em pire and Pedro Miguel. The one at Ancon Is devoted especially to the growing and cultivation of decorative plants, and the results attained there are reflected In landscape gardening at most of the vil lage along the line of the canal. Th soil on th lsthmu I worked the year round, different crops being planted in rotation; but the farmer Is kept guess ing by the eccentricities of the dry and the wet seasons. The excessive moisture and the tropical Insects, especially the ants, cause the most trouble. In the government gardens a regular campaign has been carried on against th ant until they have Just about been anni hilated In those spots. .The experts have gone to the attack with carbon bisulphide. Betting It on fire and exploding It sub- terraneously. The poisonous fumes suffo- cate the ants. They have also laid for the ants with flaming asbestos torches and swooped down upon them as they traveled In millions along their beaten paths by moonlight. The commission's gardeners haven't been able to get aa good results In the wet as In the drv season In rsslng truck, but with decorstlve gardening they have been been what I commonly termed lark or episode. In this character he omits some pulling crimes. It Is then that he desires to give up the drug and Its damning In fluence, but finds to his horror that his moral courage has been weakened. Temp tation becomes too great and after yielding from time to time, he becomes so per meated with the dreadful compound that the alternate restoration has no effect and he dies of poison In the despicable char acter of Hyde. "Summer Time Vaudeville" has caught on In a most satisfactory manner at the Burwood and the style of entertainment seems to fit In Just right with the hot weather. The bills offered are sufficiently strong to make one willingly forsake their front porch to spend an hour and a half In the cool and comfortable Burwood which, as Is well known. Is exposed on four sides to the breeies. The program which starts today and to continue, In cluding Wednesday, looks very attractive and for hot weather amusement. It In cludes Jlmmle Leonard, who sings a little, tells some funny stories and dances di vinely; Melsore Sk Ingram, musloal comedy singing duo and, by the way. It Is stated that Miss Melrose Is the possessor of a most remarkable vocal range. She makes several changes of very elaborate ward robe. Another act la "Busy" Bosworth, comedy juggler. Chaunoey Jesson will sing a patrlotio song In keeping with the time of year, there will be views of travel In foreign climes and then, best of all, a fine display of the Burwood's own distinctive moving pictures, the equal of which does not exist In Omaha for clearness, size and cleanliness. During the usual half bout pipe organ recital tomorrow evening from 9 until 9:80, Herr Urbach will render "Cava Una" by Foaahlm Raff and "Offertory for Christmas Season", by Reginald Barret. During the recital Mr. Jesson will sing "Scotch Mary", by Richardson; "Could I", by Tostl, and by request, "The Palms", by Faure. The regular program will then be resumed. Today the entertainment la clntlnuoua from 1 to U p. m. Week days it Is given from 1 to t and 7 to 11, with change of program every Sunday and Thursday. One may go at any tlm and stay aa long as desired as the performance Is always "Just starting." When you have seen It all you may leave or you are wel come to stay and see It all over again. able to acoompllah more In th rainy season. Many vegetables and fruits from the temperate son have been introduced Into the Isthmus sine the American occupa tion. They are growing Nlcaraguan strawberries with good results, also aspar agus, California navel and Florida oranges, California mission and cluster figs. Muscadine grapes, cucumber, aweet potatoes, tomatoes and beans. Breeding; Up Native Vegetables. Uncle 6am' gardener have taken sev eral of the native vegetables In hand and Improved them. A little cultivation of the native spinach under their hands haa im proved it. They have crossed the native tomato with about forty-five American varieties and have produced speclmena that are able to atand the excessive Panama moisture without getting aoft and watery. They found that the American eggplant was sub ject to fungus, but thrived when grafted with the native Panama variety. The commission's .men have been experi menting with vanilla, East India bamboo, Mexican hemp and rubber plants. The na tive fruits in the commission's gardens In clude mangoes (several East Indian va rieties), papaya, avocados and the better varietlea of bananas. , In the landscape garden large numbers of native and exotlo plants with brilliant foliage have been grown. These tnolude crotons, grown from plants left by the French, tree ferns which grow to a height of nine feet, balsam apples, Florida crepe myrtle and Dame del Noche, a native flowering bush that takes Its. name from the strong perfume that It exhales at night. Roses, espeblally of the tea varieties, ars cultivated with success. They bloom throughout the year, luxuriantly In May and June. Lepers Do Good Work. Among the places that have been beau tified and Improved by the commission's gardens la Palo Seco, the leper colony. Through th efforta of th commission's experts fruit and vegetables are now be ing raised by the lepers themselves In suf flclent quantities to go a good ways to ward their support. Th leper alio hav their own chicken and hen yard, Just a they do their garden. There are now about seventeen of these unfortunate in Palo Beoo. When th American entered the Isthmus eleven lepers were Isolated In an old building on the outskirts of Panama City and there were others In Colon and other parts ot the canal sone. Under a concession the commission took charge of all the lepers in the sone at an agreed per diem payment by the Panama government. Those within the sone who preferred to return to their native ooun tries were sent back. The remainder were Isolated at Palo Seco, a beautiful spot about six miles from Panama City. It Is separated from the city by the bay and the Rio Grande and another' small river and Is accessible only by boat. There are now eight buildings of the most mod ern types In the colony four leper houses, hospital, a residence for the supervisor of the colony and a chapel. There Is an abundance of fruit at the place aDd under the Initiative of the commission's garden' ers It will undoubtedly develop within a few years Into one of the most beautiful spots on the isthmus. RRNUM & BAILEY C0MINQ (lresiteat Show on Earth to Visit Thla CHr on Taesday, July Thirteenth. Final arrangements have been completed for the visit to our elty on Tuesday, July 1,' of the Barnum Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Added glory attaches to this, circus this season because of th won derful impression It has made since Its opening early In April. One of the reasons of the added interest Is an absolutely new equipment throughout and the most expensive it haa ever had Then the performance has been Increased In strength, a great company of European performers new to America has besn en gaged, and, better still, the street parade Is again given at the customary tlm In th forenoon and on a scale more elaborate than ever. For several generations th Barnnm at Bailey circus ha expressed to the minds of all th superlative degree of everything that pertains to the amusement buslnesa. It has moved steadily onward and upward, year by year,' and no other circus haa ever advanced to within eight of it Though aa Aatorioan Institution, it la of lb world AMI'S BMBNTS. GrandCei -AX COUMTLMHH KM Sunday and Monday consisting of Fire works and Free Vaudeville Acts, Bathing, Boating and Dancing and other Amusements. Monday Afternoon and Evening V ! T i V T- J ft J Til 1 A 1 ixiowing ixegeiia, Ltaunca naoes aua vrra.ua xuuuuuaieu Water Carnival. 1 ADMISSION .... IOC J ADMISSION BOYD'S THE COOL GRAND OPENING TODAY Performance? 1 O'clock to S; Tonight 7 O'clock to 11. The Silent Drama Positively the Best Moving Picture Exhibition in the City. THEATER COOL AND ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF Non-lnflammabla Films Usad. Price, 10c; Children Accompanied by Parents, 5c 983 PHONES- Bell, The Originator of Moving Hotorea la Beal moviito rxoTTTmss, Best Anywhere. "I LOVE MY FKONT TOUCH, HUT OH, YOU BURWOOD." JTantlS Z.EOVABD, Singing and Danolng Comedian. T&ATXLOOUXS, Boene in Strang Lands. 1i Hoar's Shaw BUST" BOSWOBTH, Oomedy Jaggler. Tedav. Cestlaooaf, Vnqnestlonably and Undeniably Omaha's Performance week days, 1 to 6; 7 to 11 p. m. Bn.-j.-nva. special Organ Bdtal Monday Evening, to t :30. Brand Hew Show Thursday. The Event of the Season. The Marathon Race Vinton Street Park Monday, July 5 General Admission 25c. Base Oall Prioes. Al Dome HILLM1AN STOCK CO. IN Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Admission, loo and BOo, XHXT WW K 'TOora Thome." and of all times. It Is known and has been enjoyed by millions in every land on earth, crowned heads, royalty, potentates, the middle classes and the peasantry, and Its magnitude and brilliancy have never ceased to be a source of wonder. The organisation of this year numbers 1.500 people, TOO horses and thousands of other animals. The canvas covers fourteen acre of ground, and the main tent seats 15,000 people. To haul the vast equipment from town to town requires five long trains of double length cars that cover nearly two miles of track. The circus performance Is introduced by a new and more than usually brilliant spectacle, the various acts that follow are given In three rings, on two stages, In the dome of the tent, and on the Immense hippodrome track, and for a climax the program end with the sensational art of Desperado, who leaps from the dome of the tent, landing on his chest on a chute three feet above the ground. A second later and the man Is stumling on his feet bowing to the audience. As a thriller noth ing has ever approached this act. For a second thriller there Is the aot of Jupiter, a magnificent horss, which, ridden by a beautiful girl, goes up In a balloon and descends amid a shower ot fireworks. The big circus Is full of thrills, and in every respect It la the greatewt olrcus or ganlsatlon In the world's history. TOO LITTLE RAIN IN CUSTER Only Half Wheat (roy on Average in Conaty, Declares C. W. Calvin of Broken Bow. "Wheat will yield, on the average, only half a crop In Custer county," said C. W. Calvin, a real estate dealer of Broken Bow at the Paxton. "Some parts of the county will produce thirty bushels to the acre, but others will yield only six to ten bushels Corn, however, promises to be Just as gour as in any other part of the state. "In Custer county we have not had our share of rain this season and that ac counts for the small wheat crop. For three weeks prior to June 30, we did not have a good fall. As a result, all small grain, and especially wheat, was injured. A good soaking rain fell on the last day of June and freshened things up. "At Broken Bow we are planning to have one of the biggest oelebratlons of the Fourth that ever occurred In norwestern Nebraska. The cltlsena have raised large sum of money and are going after the day In the right way. Monday la to be observed." AMt'KKMRMT. Gbraiion .... THEATER Doud. 1506 ;ind. A-1506 Theaters la Omaha During lummir Months MOSS nOTUBJES. Biggest, Clear, Cleanest. MCI. BOSS ft XBOBAJC, Musical Comedy Bulg ing Sao. CKATlfOXT JXSSBB and K1b notorial Ballads Cathedral rip Organ, U 11 1 1 1 lnuttlrlmr flnnlhltttf 10c Sect It 1 to II F. M. Melody. Coolest Theater Opa oa Tour Side. Come any time; stay aa long aa you like. See Them Run. KC BEAUTIFUL LAKE I AM Li UUeiiU TODAY Sunday, July kt and Tomorrow Monday, July 5. OMAHA, SOUTH OMAHA and COUNCIL BLUFFS WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE TWO BIQ INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS, THE BIG MAIN EVENTS FOR THE THREE CITIES. Two Magnificent Exhibitions of , PAIN'S FIREWORKS Ordered Wrect from Pain Factory by jos. . luic Patriotic Program by MAHAWA CONCERT BAND Balloon Ascension liy Dare Devil Andrews. And Other Special Events. Thousands Are Coming from Surrounding Towns. START EARLY AND AVOID THE BIQ RUSH. Pack Your Lunch Basket and Go to Manawa Early in the Forenoon. A. 0. U. W. Fair Ciiven By Patton Lodge Ho. 173 ug. 30 to Sept 4 Chicago Film Exchange America's Foremost Film Renters Omaha Office 14th and Douglas St. Our Exclusive Film Bervtoe can hs sua St the KKI'd Theater every afternoon and evening, daily Uiabge of prograia. gwa thousand ft of filwa eUi day.